The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-04

NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
SPECIAL Ts1rsaAxs TO TEE DISPATCH.
WASHINGTON, March 8, 1859.
THE INAUGURATION -ARRIyAL OF
VISITORS

| WASHINGTON March 3, 1859.
THE INAUGURATION OF
| VISITORS.
| The city is alive with excitement tonight.
| Professions of firemen, soldiers, and other or
| CARNATIONS, headed by bands, are arriving
from the cities in the North, and several
| torchlight professions are moving in the
streets, and transparencies are here and there
displayed. Flags are flying from hotels and
other buildings. The pavements are literally
| crowded with persons passing to and fro.
| Almost twenty per cent. of them are stran-
gers, who have arrived here during the past
| ten hours. It Ia estimated that already there
| Is n greater number Of strangers in the city
| than was ever known to be present at an in
anguration, and information has been received
| of the coming of ten or twelve thousand ad-
ditional visitors on the various railroads lead.
| Ing to this city tonight and Tomorrow morn
| ing.
The inauguration committee have decided
| to raise the number to two thousand tickets,
and the prospect Is they will all be sold; and
rs each ticket admits three persons-one gen.
tleman and two ladies-the expectation is that
| there will be about six thousand persons pre-
sent at the ball tomorrow night.
RUSH OF VISITORS TO ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS.
The rush of visitors to army headquarters
to day was much greater than ever before,
| but with the exceptions of Governor Geary, of
Pennsylvania, Senators Cameron and Wilson,
and delegation of gen tlemen from New " rk,
none were admitted TO General Grants room.
The General gave orders that no cards should
be brought to him, rs he would be very closely
engaged the whole day. The business which
excluded all visitors was that of transferring
to Lietenant- General Sherman the command
of the army and the discussion of affairs ap-
pertaining thereto.
GENERAL GRANTS HOUSE AND FUR
NITURE TRANSFERRED TO GENE
RAJ SHERMAN.
At half-past II o'clock the committee Of
New York citizens which conducted the nego-
tiations for the purchase of General Grants
house and furniture called, in accordance
with q previous appoin tment to pay for the
property and close the business part of the
| transaction. None were admitted to the
Generals room but the members of the COM
mittee. General Sherman was in the room
| when the committee entered, and he there re-
ceiyed the d eeds from their hands
THE CABINET.
The eagerness to learn who are to consti-
tute Grants Cabinet grows more intense as
| the time for their nomination draws near.
Yet none has this information but General
| Grant himself; and it will be given to those
| nominated and to the country when the &C.
| ton of the Senate upon their nominations
| shall be made known. General Grant has
| the nominations already prepared, and will
| send them to the Senate on the 9Th instant, it
being understood that the two Houses of Con-
gress will transact no business on the 4th after
! the organization.
Friends of Governor Dennison, of Ohio, in
| sist that ne will receive the nomination for
| Postmaster General, and it is claimed with
| equal positiyeness that Ex-Governor Pollock,
| of Pennsylvania, will receive Cabinet ap-
pointment.
LEATE-TAKING.
| The secretaries of the several departm en- Is
| received visits from their heads of bureaus
| and clerks this afternoon, during which they
| took a final leave of them.
All the members of the foreign diplomatic
corps called this afternoon at the residence OF
Secretary Seward and took leave of him.
| The Executive mansion was literally throng-
| ed with visitors all day. Most of them were
| there simply to pay their respects and adiens
| to the President.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE SUPREME
| COURT.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has adjourned until next Monday, when II
will resume the hearing of cases, commenc-
| ing with the call of the docket from No. !.
| PETITION FOR THE PARDON OF
CALLICOTT.
| A nun Der of New Workers are here, and n
| this late hour, urging the President to par
don Callicott, convicted of defrauding the
| revenue.
MIR. JOHNSON AND HIS CABINET, &c.
The President and his Cabinet meet at 9
| o'clock to morrow morning TO consider whe-
Their it be necessary TO repair TO the capitol for
examining and signing bills or not. If Con-
gress shall 90 on with legislation through the
forenoon it will be regarded as necessary that
| President johnson be present in the capitol
| building.
The only appropriation bill that will proba-
bly, fail at this session is the Indian appropria-
ton bill, which embraces large subsidies.
The galleries in both Houses to-day, and the
halls leading through the capitol, were crowd
| cd to excess, and the hum and confusion was
! so great as to materially interfere with the
transaction of business. Senator'S and repre-.
sentatives whose terms expire to borrow were
busily engaged in clearing out their desks and
| packing up their personal effects for removal
WALLACE.
ASSOCIATED PRESS TRLEGEAMs.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
Q Tha
caucus nominated James G. Blaine of Maine
and the Democratic caucus nominated hi
chael @. Kerr, of Indiana, for Speaker of the
| House.
An attempt last night, in the Senate, tt
ride the repeal of the tenure of office bill
through as an amendment TO the appropra
ton bill failed by 4 vote of % to &c.
President Johnson is out in q two columns
address TO the people of the United States il
defence of his course Us President. He in
yokes the consideration of the people in be
half of his successor, and adds that he John
SOM would have achieved more present popu
larity had he consented to cooperate with
parties who desired to carry on the Govern
ment outside the Constitution. He does not
regret any of his acts, having in all of then
had in view the restraint of Congress within
the limits of the Constitution.
The closing paragraphs of the address say
"Calmly reviewing my administration OF
the Government, I feel that, with n sense o.
accoun liability TO God, having conscientiously
endeayored to discharge my whole duty,
have nothing TO regret. Events have proved
the correctness of the policy set forth in my
first and subsequent messages The woes
which have followed the rejection of forbear
ance, magnanimity, and constitutional rule
are known and deplored by the nation. L
is matter of pride and gratihcatlor
in retiring from the most exalted position II
the gift of free people 10 feel and know tina
in long, arduous, and eventful public lift
my action has never been Influenced by de
cira for o,ip hat in all sincerity