The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-03-25

pleasant dilemma, from which we cannot escape.
and we m INST sustain the officers on the spot who
must do the best you can in each instance. and
t,nst to the sound judgment OF the country After
all, the truth Is revealed.
II am, truly Yours,
A resolution directing the Secretary of
the Navy to court-mertial Commander
Upshur for buying his sons admission to
Annapolis was passed.
The tariff bill was resumed, and argued
until adjournment.
China Mail Notwithstanding Line
from California to Australia.
The Senate Postal Committee matured
bill increasing the China mail service to
two trips per month instead of one, and
doubling their subsidy to one million in
stead of FIVE hundred thousand dollars
year. Believing the service ought to be
increased in order to enhance the importance
of trade with China, the committee
instructs Senator Cole to report the
hill to the Senate and urge its passage.
The same committee is preparing bill to
establish steamship line from California
to Australia, touching at the Sandwich and
Fejee islands and Sydney. Both of these
measures are prepared in accordance with
the views of the Administration in estab-
fishing American steamship lines with
view Of reviving American commerce.
New Mexico.
Mr.. Cheaves, delegate from New Mexico,
made an argument before the House Com
mittee on Territories in favor of admitting
New Mexico as n State, and gave data to
prove that the Territory has the requisite
| number of inhabitants-one hundred and
twenty-five thousand-to entitle to admis-
sion as @ State.
The Seizure of the Aspinwnll.
| Secretary Fish has had further corre-
spondence with the Spanish authorities in
reference to the seizure of the steamer AS
pinwall. The Spanish Minister states that
his Government is making judicial inves-
tigation of the matter, while the Secretary
OF State has insisted that the invest igation,
| let it be what it may, shall be speedily
brought to close and satisfactory e1plana-
ton made this Government.
The Inter.Oceanie Canal.
| The Government has made q treaty with
the Republic Of Colombia for the right of
way for the inter-occanic canal across the
isthmus of Darien, the route for which is
now being surveyed.
The Secretary of State informed the
President that the official copy Of the
treaty was expected at the State Depart
ment in day or two.
| The Texas Bill.
1t is understood that the Texas bill will
he called up in the Senate tomorrow and
be passed without opposition.
General Banks's yvife-Blacque hey.
General Banks stated to-day that his
wife would return from Paris during the
coming month. Mrs. Banks has been sew
eral times received by the Emperor and
Empress, and has made quite IN impress
sion upon Paris society generally.
Blacque Bev, Turkish Minister, will
leave this city for Turkey in the early part
OF May next. His family will accompany
him. He has received six months leave OF
absence from his post here, and merely re-
turns to Turkey On u private, social visit.
Mr.. Balhazer, the Secretary of Legation.
will be Charge d'AHaires during the Minis
ter's absence.
The San Domingo Treaty-Agaan.
| The IreSlucHI was uluCn exercised tO-uhy
as to what the Senate would 10 with the
San Domingo treaty, and had a conference
with the Secretary Of State on the subject.
What General Sherman Thinks of
the Army Bill.
General Sherman has addressed Il letter
to Senator Wilson, chairman Of the Senate
Military Committee, opposing the army
bin recently passed in the House and now
before the Senate, and is quite severe on
General Logan. lie gives figures to slow
that instead of reducing the army ey-
penscs, IL General Logan asserted, the
bill increases expenses over four hun
dred thousand dollars. He dcnounces the
attempt to cut off any Of the Major-Gene-
rails, and farors the continuance of rank Of
General and Northumberland. He says
the President is opposed to the bill, and
told him lie could not live in Washington
as General Of the Army and pay house
rent. He says his house was given him,
and if he is net able to entertain the COIN
trv's representatives he will not visit them,
FOR he will not accept hospitality i he can't
recprocate. The letter is very lengthy.
Summers Speech on the San Domingo
Treaty.
No legislative business was done in the
Senate to-day, and none attempted. As
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