The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-26

ton during the summer. The place Of
meeting Is not yst named. l:..,
The Pres1dent Nesotaatins for Q
-. - Farm. n
President Grant 70 said to be negotiating
Cor the purchase Of the Bartholow farm, In
Prince Georges county, near the District
Lire. It Is one or the finest country places
In Maryland. II he buys 1t, the President
will occupy It as summer resort.
sz.,. RulIoclk's Corruption
Ithas been discovered to-day thet twenty
thousand dollars were brought here recently
from Georgia by Bullock TO be used in at
fecting congressional legislation for Georgia.
The draft was drawn upon the State Road
fund Of Georgia in the firm name of Sykes,
Chadwick & Co., proprietors Of Wizards
Hotel, where Bullock puts up, and was
payable to the order Of Riggs & Co.,
bankers, of this city.
The school System tn the South.
The Secretary OF War has ordered here
from Florida Captain George B. Cross,
United States army, to give to the COM
mittee on Education and Labor his know
ledge and experience as to the school sys-
TENS in the South.
Contractors and their Surefies.
The Second Comptroller to-day ruled
that the sureties OF contractor can con-
tinue contracts after the decease Of the prin-
cipal and be held as the original con-
tractors,
Judgment Obtained ssaint General
Dodge for SEEKING Horses.
During the war General Dodge, and others
in the military service, seized number Of
horses, amounting In value to about three
thousand dollars, under orders Of the War
Department. These horses were seized in
Kansas under the belief that they had been
stolen from an Indian reservation, and
turned over to the superintendent Of Indian
Affairs Of that district.
The owner of the horses has now sued
General Dodge, he being the only person
of the party prematurely responsible, and
obtained Judgment in the county court.
Being about to levy on the property of Ge-
neral Dodge, the Secretary of War has adj
dressed letter to Congress asking an APP
preparation sufficient to discharge the
obligation. The action which Congress
will take is in grave doubt, owing TO
| the importance of the case as precedent.
There are millions Of dollars involved in
just such cases, and it is thought that If
Congress pay in one case It will have to pay
In all. The usual practice has been for
claimants to apply to the Court of Claims or
to Congress direct, but no such cases have
thus far been allowed.
| Amnesty.
Senator Robertson, chairman of the Sc
nate Committee on Political Disabilities,
| will in day or two report bill which In
effect will be a general amnesty bill which
the President Is understood to favor. II
excludes from amnesty only three classes
namely: first, those who withdrew them.
selves from Congress at the beginning of the
rebellion to engage in the secession move
ment second, those who withdrew from
the United States Army and Navy for the
same purpose; and, third, those who
signed the original ordinance Of secession
in the various States in 1851. 1t is the
belief that such bill will pass both Houses
| without material opposition.
Bribery Charges.
The Senate Judiciary Committee con
tinues to-day it's investigation into the
bribery charges. One witness, a banker in
this city, was examined regarding certain
checks and drafts which had passed through
his hands.
| No Fun.
In expectation of q scene OF excitement
and fun, large crowd assembled in the
House to-day to hear the trial Of absentees
on Friday night last. The performance
was failure as an entertainment. There
was but little of the funny, and when sum
med up nothing of importance transpired
Mr.. Dawes got little out Of temper at Mr
Lynch's suggestion that he had shirket
congressional labor, but the session wa:
only remarkable for its confusion and aci
Of profit to the public.
Theatrical Entertainment.
| General Grant and most of the leading
officials, members of the diplomatic corps
and fashionable society generally, attended
theatrical performance at the Theatre to
night, in which the characters in the play
were performed by amateurs, among then
Miss Schennk, daughter of General Schenck
Miss Eastman, and Mrs. General Ricketts,
all in respectable society here. The per
Torrance, which was very creditable, wa
| for the benefit Of the Soldiers and Sailors
Benevolent Society. WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms.
| Congressional.
WASHINGTON, April 25.- Senate. =
committee Of conference was appointed OF
the non-concurrence of the two Houses OF
the income tax bill, 49,
The Senate is ROW going through the re
gular calendar. Most of the bills are OF
private nature.
The Judiciary Committee reported as 1
substitute for all propositions on the sub
lment; setting forth that ali citizens Of thu
United States otherwise qualified by law t
vote in any State, Territory; District; etc:
shall be entitled to vote ct al such election
without distinction of race, color, or pre-
vious condition of servitude, any law, Gus
tom, usage, or regulation, of any State o.
Territory to the contrary not outstanding
also, that if the laws Of any State or Terri
tory shall. require any act IA be done ss !!
prerequisite 70 Voting 1t shall be the duti
Of the officers Of the law in said State o.
/ Territory to give equal opportunity to al
citizeiis Of the: United States to perform
such prerequisite, and atty such otieia
failing 50 to do shall forfeit and pay 500 :!
the person aggrieyed thereby; to be recoF
cred By ati action at. law; and In case Q
conviction shall also be lined NOS less thai
i $500 and imprisoned from one month to on
wear. The offer of any citizen for whom