The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-04-07
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special te,cHrams 10 TIE Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 6, 1870.

Special te.carams 20 the Dispatch.
WAsHlSGroS, D. c., April 6, 1870.
The Presidents Amnesty Proclama.
tl0n.
\ telegram from the Associated Press de-
MES the truthfulness Of paragraph in
these dispatches relative 10 the Presidents
proposed amnesty message: Your corrc-
spondent has taken the trouble to get from
The best authority the truth on this subject,
and finds that what has heretofore been
stated in these dispatches is correct. AS
was stated before, the President informed
Senator'S Johnston, of Virginia, and Boar
man, of West Virginia, that he had pre-
pared q message to Congress recommending
Universal amnesty, and that lie would
transmit it to that body after the admis-
sion Of Texas and Georgia; taat; in his
opinion, the time for general amnesty had
arrived, land he thought Congress should
pass bill enabling all political offenders
70 become enfranchised by going to the
nearest court, registering. and taking o
proper cath. The publication Of these
facts aroused the opponents to general am
nesty-among them a few senators and re-
prcscntatives--who have been since that
time exerting tLcir influences with the
President to have the message delayed or
| set aside altogether,
Notwithstanding the unqualified denial
by the Associated Press Of the real facts, it
is nevertheless true that the subject of an
nesty has been several times talked over by
the President and bis Cabinet, and General
| Grant adheres 10 his original purpose and
| the draft of message to Congress on the
subject is now lying upon his table. Mean
time accounts of outrages, alleged to have
been committed recently in North and South
Carolina and Alabama upon colored per-
sons, have been brought to the notice of tho
President by Senator Warner and others,
us q reason why the amnesty proclamation
should not now be issued.
Senator Warner youches for, the relia-
| bility Of scmD Of these accounts, whilst
others ere not credited. Secretary Fish
had an interview with the President on the
subject to-day. and approves the course
proposed by the President. General Sher-
man also approves the amnesty message,
and to-day remarked that amnesty would
tend to soothe the two or three hundred
thousand persons disfranchised in the
South, and cause them to assist in putting
down lawlessness and this class of people
would no longer be found saying owe are
not citizens, and don't careeif the laws are
violated" Admiral Porter also remarked
that general amnesty ought to be granted
| at once.
The Underwater Connection.
Senator Johnston, of Virginia, with Mr..
Charles G. Darlington, president of the
James River and Kanawha canal, and Mr..
John A. Gano, of Cincinnati, members Of
the National Board of Trade, called on the
President to-day in reference to the water
line from the tide-water of the James to
the Ohio river. They desired the Presi-
dents influence and assistance in forward
ing congressional legislation in the matter.
The President said it was subject in which
he felt deep interest, and desired to have
a full Interchange of views with the gen.
tlemcn in relation thereto; and it was ar
ranged that they call on the President at
an carly day next week to resume the
matter.
| Change OF Candidates.
The President has withdrawn the nomi-
nation of Judge Pearre, to be United States
district judge for the fourth circuit, in
which are included Maryland and Virginia,
and has sent to the Senate the nomination
Of Judge Bond, Of Baltimore, for that Of