The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-02-15

/ Carolina s's-hid i8t new, 25s, South Carolina
| 6's-Old, 81 !; new. 81.
Ere'fng.--Money easy at aga per cent. ster-
ling dull at 100. Gold stronger at llol@llpf. Go.
| vernments steady. Southern securities active and
| weaker on new Tennessee s's and strong on the
| balance OF the list.
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special kilograms to the Dis .asch.
WASHINGTON, February II, 1870.
| Georgia Affairs. w
A telegram received from Atlanta an
nounces that the Legislature Of that State
will meet tomorrow and elect United States
senators irrespective of the former election
of Messrs. Hill and Miller. The persons
named rs prominent for the positions are
Messrs. Mott, Rice, Blodgett, and Alderman.
The latter is here, and is, one of those who
have given opinions that the election of
Senators Hill and Miller is legal and valid.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has be-
fore them the credentials of the last-named
gentlemen. Governor Bullock's certificate
is dated September 10th, 1869, and certifes
that Hill and Miller have been elected in
pursuance of the Constitution and the re-
construction acts. They were elected on
July 29th previous, and the negro mem
bers of the Legislature were expelled Sep
TENDER Sd. In the memorial of the negro
members it is recited that Hill and Miller
were elected, but their election will be lille
gal unless the expelled negro members
shall be seated. They have been seated
since, and it is held that Hill and Miller
are, therefore, entitled to their seats in the
Senate. s....
Mississippi.
Senators are repeating themselves in
their arguments upon the Mississippi bill
for the points they have made in the pre-
sent debate. See the Globe in the Virginia
case. Substitute Mississippi for the name
of Virginia, and you have it all in the de-
bate now progressing. There is no novelty
of proposition, the argument being but
an elaboration upon what constitutes re-
publican form of government. Senator
Carpenter made very able speech on this
subject to-day. which arrested the close at-
tention Of the Senate. He opposed the
idea that it is essential to have educational
clauses and the like in our constitutions in
order to have republican form of govern
ment. He characterized this as heresy-
a dangerous fallacy. 1t was enough to
cause Webster to turn in his grave, to bring
tears from the spirits of our fathers in the
bone of our father. He said he could hear
the mutterings Of gathering storm, and
he implored New England senators to con-
slider. New England may sustain this
heresy, but the West and South will not.
Mr.. Carpenter indicated that he did not
recognize the right of any senator to rule
him out of the party for sentiments and as
for the charge that he affiliated with Demo
cratic senators, he repealed the charges.
Here Mr.. salisbury broke in with on alb
rupt declaration that he, too, repealed the
utilization, which caused laugh.
i Mr.. Drake wanted to know if Mr.. Car
penter referred to him as the reader-out.
MIR. Carpenter replied that he was fol
! lowing Mr.. brakes example the other day
when he said that was day Of degradation
to the Senate, but explained that he didn
mean anybody in particular. He (Carpen
teri would now say that he had spoken il
rem, and in person EN-. This provoked 9
general litter, at which the Missouri Sena
: tor was much annoyed. 1t is probable the
vote will be taken tomorrow.
Military Affairs.
There have been number of application:
to the Secretary of War to rescind hi!
order, approved by the President, trans
ferring certain military officers from
this city to duty at other points, but the
Secretary refuses to make any change il
the order, and is sustained by the Presi
dent. These applicants are generally the
feather-bed soldiers, heretofore mentioned
in these dispatches, who never smelt gun
powder in the field. nor have they had
any experience of the hardships of SOL
diers life. They have been for years en-
joying easy-chairs in the departments to the
exclusion of officers who have (won) their
titles upon the field of battle.
The House Military Committee.
The House Military Committee to-day
examined MIR. Cathcart, of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, concerning the sale o.
cadetships by members of Congress. L
appears he knows nothing of his own know
ledge of the sales, but gave the name of {
. gentleman in New York who, he said, tol(
him about the sale of a cadetship by {
southern member of Congress. The Com
/, mittce will send for the person indicated.
Thus far the committee has been unabl,
to get single well-authenticated fact OF
this charge of sale Of cadetships. All TIT
evidence is mere hearsay.
: In addition. it has transpired that the
witness before the Military Committee to-
! day testified that he had seen and taken Q
! copy Of letter from Mr.. Ehittemore
member of Congress from South Carolina
| addressed to q person in business On Wal
street, New York, proposing to sell Yves
Point cadetship for five hundred dollars
that the middle man, or broker, in th
case is w. S. Shaw, of Boston, whom thu
committee has summoned.