The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-03
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington Letter.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, August l. 1860.

WASHINGTON, August /, 1869.
The Radicals are intensely anxious abou!
The result of the election in Tennessee next
Thursday, and place great reliance of bene-
fetal results to the Stokes party upon the
recent letters Of Postmaster General Cres-
we'll and Secretary Boutwell,. II they lose
Tennessee, all hopes of carrying Missis-
sippi and Texas will fade, and the party
Xsutegration in the North will follow much
more speedily than otherwise. They claim
THAI at the Cabinet meeting on Friday last
Il was determined to enter into thorough
prescription of all officials who do not work
in the ultra Radical harness; but other
han the assertions to this effect, and
the changes in all the departments
which have already been made, there
docs not seem to have been any effort
of the President in the way of Furnishing
Conservative Republicans. The Tennessee
Radicals are not represented very strongly
here, though three or four self-styled re-
prescntativcs of the Mississippi and Texas
extreme Republican parties have been
lowering around for some time endeavoring
90 effect various removals OF good men
from office on the ground that the Republi-
can party demands it. They forget that the
tcnurc-of-office bill is not entirely abolished,
even II the President was disposed to listen
70 them.
Nobody seems to know when Grant will
return, but it is thought he viii be in Wash
incv>a in about ten days. He is doubtless
very tired of the representations which
these industrious southern Radicals have
been making concerning what the party in
the South requires. 1t is possible that
there will be some distinct manifestation Of
the regard the President has for the situa-
ton South in advance of tho message to
Congress. # TIA0N.
SOUTHERN RECoNsTRUCT1oN-THE DENT
MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI PRESIDENT
GRANT AND THE Washington,
August /, 1865. The status of the Prcsi-
dent in respect to the new party movement
ig not definitely settled Notwithstanding
the positive assertions of the Radical press.
lie is fully committed in writing to the
Walker party in Virginia. l have no doubt,
however, he has permitted the members of
his Cabinet to pursue what course each may
see proper to mark out for himself indi-
yidually. The best evidence that the Cabi-
net is not unit upon this all=important
point is that the Secretaries of State, War,
and Interior, cannot be prevailed upon to
endorse the renegade Stokes.
General Dents father, learn, goes lit
lie beyond the platform tjf the Mississippi
"Republican Conservatives" The Gene
raj himself significantly approves of the
latitude granted by the President TO the ex-
trenists, and ii is limited that the Boutwell,
men haze been furnished rope aCith de-
sian. No one here believes that General
Grant is inimical to the election of his bro
thcr-in-law to the Governor ship of Missis-
sippi. The latter's success is beyond per-
adventure, Us is also that Of Senter in Ten
nCssee.
4 deep incentive il therefore attributed
to our excellent Chief Magistrate. BY COM
hitting the extremists TO the proscrptlye
docmas Of Butler and the carpet-baggcrs,
and planting hAmSet firmly upon the libe-
raj ideas of his fathcrin-law and brother
in-law in Mississippi, and recognizing the
ran OF the t'Conservatires in Virginia, he
viii he enabled TO subject to lgnominious
defeat all the trickstcrs who threaten his
Administration with disaster III the future.
1t is n splendid fneSSc, and worthy Tai
lcyrand IN his palmiest days. Greeley sees
where. al this will cnd and hos laid an an
chor t60wlndw2rd
tGLeral pGuul mas Dccu LHuCu hhuSlAGtSu
rs Il politician: Boutwell, was put upon
MIN ayainSi his uiil, under threat Of re-
iccting other nominations. The dismissal
Of the impudcnt financial minister now
would merely anticipate events, without
dcmoishing the Yankee wire-pullers who
intruded him upon al assumed unsophis-
ticated soldier 4 wedge is now being
driven through the very heart of the party,
and the adroit director Of the process does
it in a manner that forces cncomiums from
the very men who have the greatest reason
to dcplore the catastrophe. Is blood thicker
than water
The President left town abruptly. While
here he was uncommonly taeiturn. Nothing
of importance was even mooted in Cabinet
council. Virginia politicians interested in
the late movement give Ominous mods OF
congratulation. Judge Sharkey is nightly
pleased, and altogether the millennium
seems TO be nigh.
In very few weeks lit may be days.
political news Of more decided character
may be expected. At this mGmtnt every
thing is remarkably dull.-Special cores
Jondence Baltimore Gazette.
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