The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-31
LOCAL MATTERS.

RrMrUs IN THE CUsToM-IIoUsE-DU
VS.. BAYNE-CRoCKETT BACKS BURGESS OUT.
Our Radical friends seem to he in Il very
unhappy state OF mind at the present time.
Not content with being at cnmity with the
conservatives and the decent Republicans,
tilcy must needs fall out amongst them
| selves. Scarcely had we announced in our
| issue OF saturday the grand row between
the Wells and Walker men of the Grant
ColiaX Club ere we heard of blow-up
amongst the simon-purc black and white
Radical leaders.
1t seems that about II o'clock on Satur-
day 4 nice party of them (of both colors)
mad gathered in the room Of Collector Hum
phreys, in the custom-house, to talk over
the gloomy prospects of Wells, the row in
the Grant-ColfaX Club, the bankruptcy of
their great financial mainstay, the detection
OF the Walker white Republicans, and the
unmanascablc independent colored candi-
dates for ConSrcsS-Baync, Cook, Norton,
and company. They were all very blue,
(thc white ones wcre,) and the blacks were
Sulky, determined to assert their rights.
While they were talking over the sad state
of their affairs, Rush Burgess, internal re-
venue collector and late mayor of Peters
burg, took Il seat most lovingly by the side
of his dear brother the celebrated irrcprcs-
Slblc DR.. Thomas Bayne, of Norfolk, to re-
monStratc with him for his course towards
Captain Platt, Of Petersburg, the regular
white nominee of the party for Congress
from the Norfolk district. He begged Baync
to cease his opposition, portrayinS most
fcclingly the disastrous consequences Of d-
viding the Radical vote. Old Bayne listened,
protested that he had been badly treated by
Platt and his friends, that he was rs good rs
any of them. had as much right to run for
, Congress as Platt or any other white man,
and wouldn't hc driven from the field nor
/ into the support Of Platt, declaring that he
would support IN out-and-out rebel five
times sooner than such political trickStcr
and carpct-baggcr as platt. Burgess began
to burn and fumc. and finally boiled over in
uncomfortable rage, and denounced Baync
aS ScOundrcl.
BY this time the attention Of the whole
crowd had been drawn to these two
worthless. and wlien the word 'Escoundrcl"
passed from BURGESS lips very great cN-
citcmcnt cnSucd, whichwas not quietcd till
Burgess had been gotten out of the room.
Meantime, w. +. Crockett, Il prominent
colorcd Radical from Caroline, had taken
up the quarrel of Baync, and was loudly
drnolncing Burgess. The crowd had now
passed into the hall of the building. Bur
CESS returned. and wanted to know OF
Crockett what he had TO do with the mat
ter. He told Burgess that ii hc had called
him scoundrcl he wouldn't have gotten
off so easy as he did from Baync. Some
other words passed, when Crockett called
Burgess II scoundrci, and squared himself
oft fora fight and invited Burgess TO pitch
in. But Burgess "couldn't sec it" and
turning on his heels, left the untcrrliicd
Crockett master of the field.
An article in the Petersburg Times
of Friday platt's organ) had something to
do with the quarrel. We could not learn
exactly what, but the following extract from
it is we'll calculated to mollily the intense
hatred of Bayne for Patt
"Our go0d Union Republicans arc firmly
united in their opposition to the few noisy
bcltcrs and disorganizcrs under thc manage
mcnt of Baync and Walker, both of whom,
it is asserted, are under the control of the
famous little Railroad General, who is run.
ming this 'combinatiuc political machine
with no prospects of success. What say
the stockholders of the railroad, or Con
seryativc' party, if they please, to the III
vestmcnt Of 500 per month and expenses OF
tie Doctor, with IN extra bonus OF S2,O0O II
he Baync) succeeds in splitting the Rcpuh-
lican party, which is here understood rs ne
bargain the General has made with his
dear and hishly-accompishcd friend DR..
Thomas BaynC?" ..t t....