The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-30
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
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Secretary Boutwell, goes north to-mor-
row, leaving the Treasury Department in
charge Of Judge Richardson. who has been
| designated acting secretary. Mr.. Boutwell,
will remain absent about six weeks; but
will hardly be found fitting about at the
sea-ShorcS and Watering-places. He has
other business to attract his attention,
which the Qud nuncS assert has reference 10
| the next Presidency, and that impression
is really so widespread that we shall see
movement among those who are enthuslas,,
| tic for the denomination Of President CRAM
| toward having MIR. Boutwell, removed rom
office on the ground that he Is Worklng III
opposition to the interests OF the fresluen ~
Now, Grant himself seems to care very H. IL
tie about all this, although it has been re-
presented to him more than once that nj.
boutwell, is tenderly and earnestly fostering
asprations for the next PRESIDENCY. ieI-
haps II ;s tr1,e. ms has before been suggested,
that Grant does not want to be re-nomln tied,
nreferring to retire to private life ; or it
NAV he that, in order to preserve a con-
sistent record, he does not intend TO :. dab
HE in politics." Both these dignitaries
Keen well their own counsel, and give the
nuIlic nothing concerning their views of
| future political elevation. 1t seems to be
the opinion that if both are looking towards
the succession, that. so far as deep-laid
plans and earnest political scheming are
concerned, BoutwelPs chances for the
| nomination by the Radical party, as COM
pared with Grants, are a little ahead.
When the President started for Long
Branch he intimated that once in fort
night he would visit the unhappy capital
and attend to whatever business might ac-
cumulate during his absence; but as he has
his private secretary with him, and the
public at large are aware of that fact, they
prefer to visit and write to the President
at the sea-shore rather than Washington
and he may not come home ottener than
once in month. When he does get back
permanently the politicians from Pennsyl
Yania will make an effort to have that State
represented in the Cabinet before the ides
of October. Unless this is done they assure
Grant Tor rather they will assure him When
the combined attack for that purpose il
made) that it will be impossible to carry the
State. And the question which will soor
attract attention will be, Who in the Cabi
net is to be inundated on the shrine OF
Pennsylvania demand, and who will be
the new appolntees?
The weather here continues intensely
} hot, and renders outdoor locomotion nj
most as dangerous as it Is uncomfortable
The rays Of the sun beam with an intensity
not known within the memory Of the Oldest
inhabitant.
The pathetic appeal of the finance com
mittee of the "Union Republican Con.
gressional Executive Committee" of which
Representative Plat, Of the Petersburg
district, is secretary, for cash to carry on
the campaign, is another of the evidences
that the party expect an uphill work to
carry the fall elections. This tax, in addi
ton to the heavy ones persistentiy kept
upon the people by the present Adminlstra
ton, will hardly be responded to with al
hearty alacrity as the committee wish.
| TIMoN.