The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-15
TELEGRAPHIG NEWS.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
SPECIAL TELEaRAx TO TIE D1spAToH.
WASHINGTON, March13, 1869.

WASHINGTON, Marchl3, 1869.
President johnson and family leave here
| next Tuesday for Greenville, Tenn. -f
The pressure in the White House and
departments to-day By ofice-seekers was
unprecedented. Neither the President nor
the heads Of departments we're ION account
of this pressure) able to give attention to
many important official matters demanding
immediate attention. ). - =
Murmurs and complaints have become
| frequent among the ofice-seekers, who
charge that the President is disposing Of all
the Offices, where he can do so, to the rela-
tives of the Grant family, his Wife's family,
and their remote relatives and personal
friends. They say that when they ask the
President for an Office, Grant gives the
prompt reply, CT want that for my friend
so-and-so, my wife's Cousin So-snd-so. or
my brothers. neighbor so-and-so." Nepo.
tism controls in the disposition Of official
patronage, and the Grant and Dent fami-
lies turn out to be an exceeding prolific
generation,
General Jefries, Register Of the Trea-
sury, has resigned, and the Office is to be
given to Mr.. Allison, of Beaver county,
Penn, and former partner Of one Of Mr..
Washburne's relatives.
A good Republican, the present post
master at Cincinnati, is to be turned out
and the Office to be given to gentleman
| residing in Covington, next-door neighbor
| to Grants sister.
The policy of the present Administration
in filing Offices is to be the reverse of john
sons administration. Grant rewards his
friends and relatives and Furnishes his enc
mics; Johnson surro unded himself by his
enemies, maintained them in Office, and let
his friends take care Of themselves.
General Longstreet, who has been nomi-
mated for surveyor at New Orleans, is dis
tant relative of Grants wife. 1t is re-
ported that Longstreet will decline the
Office, because he does not want it to be be-
lievea that his adhesion to Radicalism was
due to any hope or expectation Of official
| patronage, and he does not want his fire.
ouent consultations with Radical politicians
here to be construed as the efforts Of an
office-seeker to obtain place. He therefore
proposes to decline the surveyorship. ~@
Commissioner Delsno says he is deter
mined to act deliberately and conscien-
tiously in making or recommending ap-
pointme nts and removals Of officials, and
that he will exert his best energies and
abilities for the breaking up of cliques and
rings for defrauding the Government, and
that he will root out every vestige Of the
whiskey and other fraud combinations in
Louisiana, New York, and Ohio, and he
will bring to trial all delinquents. ,
The late collector of internal revenue at
New Orleans is reported to be defaulter
to the Government in about 100000.
The receipts from internal revenue and
customs for tie twelve days Of this month
come we'll up to the estimates of Treasury
officials. The internal revenue receipts
since the last public debt statement are
s. 5000. The receipts from customs are
s6,476 900. There are 10 heavy payments
to be made from the Treasury until the first
day of May, when s3O,OOO,OOO interest on
the f7e-twenties will be due. The Trea'
surer has now on hand $4,000, 900, and the
estimate is that this will be increased te
sol, 900, 900 by the LIST Of May.
Notwithstanding statements to the con-
trary, General Sheridan is assigned to duty
in, and will take command Of, the Depart
ment of Louisiana.
The knowing ones assert that General
Sickles will be nominated to the Mexican
mission in place of Rosecraus but the
sportsman George Wilkes turns up for the
Office, and says he is sure he will get it.
Among other nominations predicted are
General Palmer, Of New York, as Minister
to Sweden; Horace Rublee, Of Wisconsin
Minister to Switzerland and ]. Lathror
Motley or Horace Greeley, Minister t.
England. WALLACE.