The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-16
TELEGRAPH1C NEWS.
NEWS FRoM THE CAPITAL.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.

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THE ALTA vELA QUESTION,
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The President
has received official notification of the
passage of resolution by the New Jer.
sey Legislature recommending the AID.
mlnistration to. protect the rights of Anne.
rlcan claimants to the island of Alta Vela
Mr.. johnson replied by calling atten-
ton to Secretary Stewards report on the
subject and enclosing copy of the report
to the Speaker Of the New Jersey House
of Representatives.
The merits Of the controversy between
Judge Blacks clients and adverse claim.
ants and Mr.. Seward have been set forth
IN newspapers by the parties respectively,
put, In addition to the efforts mentioned to
induce the Executive to comply with the
petition to send around vessel to take the
island, it may be stated paper was filed
with the President day or two before
Judge Blacks withdrawal as counsel in
the impeachment case, signed by Generals
Butler, Schenck, Logan, Garfield, and
Messrs. Stevens and Bingham, in substance
setting forth the right of Judge Blacks
clients to the possession of the island,
giving the opinions of the signers that the
Executive should send an armed vessel
and forcibly seize the island. The paper
is dated March 9th-the day the writ of
summons in the Impeachment was served
on Mr.. Johnson.
The paper was fled with Mr.. Johnson
on March 18th, three days after the ar
ticles of impeachment were read in the
Senate. On the 10Th of March, four days
before the trial regularly commenced,
Judge Black wrote letter to the Presi-
dent declining to serve as counsel.
THE LINCOLN MONUMENT IS UNVEILED.
All the Government Departments were
closed to-day to give the clerks an oppor-
tunity to attond the ceremony of unveil-
ing the Lincoln Monument. This monu-
ment is pronounced by competent critics
an excellent work of art-a success on the
part of the sculptor, Mr.. Flannery.
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL-GENERAL SHER-
MANTLE MANAGERS WILL NOT CALL HIM
AS A WITNESS.
General Sherman left this afternoon for
Fort Laramie. The Impeachment Man
ayers have had him before them, and tho
roughly examined him Under oath, and
obtained a detailed account of all his in
terviews with the President, but have con-
cluded that they will not call the General
as witness.
The illness of Mr.. Stanbery has disturb
ed the order of proceeding with the testi-
mony, as he has had the entire manage
ment of this branch of the case for the de-
fence.
LOUISIANA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
A letter received here to-day from New
Orleans relative to the elections to take
place in Louisiana this week states that it
is admitted on all sides that the reconstruc-
tion acts will be strictly carried out in the
elections, and the main controversy will be
as to the offices.
There are already three tickets out
viz, the Yarmouth or so-called Black
Republican ticket, the Taliaferro or White
Republican, and the R. King Cutler or
nobodys ticket, styling itself the Union
Republican. The policy of the Democrats
will be. 80 far as known, to vote for the
Taliaferro ticket, the Democrats giving up
the State to the Republicans, and the lat
ter giving the city of New Orleans to the
| Damocrats. WALLACE.