The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-16
NEWS.
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.

Special kilograms, 10 the D~isp,g':',
W~AsaISGroy. December Il, 1869,
Gl,e &tat::c OF General Rat. Green
Presented Ia the United states.
Sometime since the Legislature OF Rhode
Island appropriated a sum ofmoncy toraiujl,
Ine-.iZc statue ofGeneral Nathaniel Green, OF
Revolutionary fame. II. Il. Browne, sculp-
tor. modelled the statue 1T his studio IN
Newbury, New York, and sent il TO Italy
10 be executed in marble. The statue
reached New York several days since, and
was shipped on board steamer for George
town. Upon its arrival, General Wichlcr
will take charge of and have it removed
TO the old hall Of the House of Repre-
-cntativcs. the State of Rhode Island having
presented the statue to the United States as
one OF her contributions to the statllary
gallery of the Government. The work Is
said TO have cost ten thousand dollars.
Applicants for tiic Third Authorship
of t!,e Treasury.
For some reason not satisfactorily ac-
counted for IL the small salary, the Office OF
Third Auditor OF the Treasury Is sought
with unusual avidity. Several eX-members
Of Congress turn up in the contest, II
military heroes want the office. The names
mentioned as likely 10 90 to the Senate are
Ey-N. G.. Loan, Of Missouri; Briggs, Of
New York; Petit, Of Indiana General
Whittlesev, OF Michigan; and the pre-
sent chief clerk OF the office, GAngeWer.
From i good source it is learned Tonight
nat the President will take refuge III some
one not prominently put forward.
Acknowledgement Hoar's Nomination
for the SuDreEne Bench Sent TO the
senat
Attorney General Hoar's nomination for
the vacancy on the Supreme bench went 10
the Senate this afternoon. His nomination
was anticipated in these dispatches some
weeks ago, and creates no surprise, there
fore. Tonight it is rumored That there Is
some opposition among Republican sena-
tors to Judge IEoar's contrmatlon, the
causes assigned for such objection being
founded on disappointment in the dlstrlDu-
ton of the official patronage OF the Attor-
n~cv-GcneraI's Office. 1t Is not doubted,
however, that Judge Hoar will be con
tirmed.
Who VIII Succeed Judge G7oar:
Knowing ones positively assert that Judge
strong. of Pennsylvania, will succeed Judge
Uoar in the Cabinet. A southern nomlna-
ton for the position in the Cabinet is liz
sisted upon AS the tit thing to be done bythc
President. New York. nevertheless, turns
up and demands the promotion OF Pierre
point. The general sentiment is thai Penn
>~ylyania must have the Attorney-General-
ship If the South shall not get it.
The vacancy OH the supreme bench was
occasioned by the death of the southern
member Of the court. Massachusetts, gets
his place.
As an equitable disposition OF the pa
tronage, therefore, it is claimed hat the
South shall have the place to be made vacant
| by the Massachusetts, member OF the Caoi-
net (Hoar).
The Cuban Question.
The Cuban question had its nrst regular
development in Congress to-day upon a
motion to consider the detention OF the
| Spanish gunboats.
Senator Carpenter made a very strong
argument in support OF the proposition TO
detaiu the vessels. He arrested the unul-
vided attention of senators, and the unre-
| corded indications were unlnistakitbIe that
the Senate AS a body is in sympathy with
| the Cuban insurgents. There Is reason 10