The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-11


can in this State whose facilities for OBJ
tanning information in Washington entitlc
his opinion to much consideration:
WASHINGTON, January E, 1870.
" Editor NortoM Joarnal:
"Though the prospect is not so bright as
it hos heretofore seemed, you may rest as
sured that the admission of Virginia is in
dubitahly certain at an early day, and with
out any hard conditions. Put it down with
out fear that the test-oath will not be ap-
piled to the Legislature.
"The exhibitions and the developments
here are not only on the side of early re-
construction, hut many OF the ablcst and
best men Of Congress are most decided adj
yocatcs Of early and unconditional aamis-
sion; among them Mr.. Trumbull, MIR. NJ.
Morton, Mr.. Stewart, and Mr.. Wilson, of
the Senate, and General Farnsworth, Gene
ral Paine, and Mr.. Bingham, Of the House
all of them Radicals. To these, l think,
may be added another-onc who is among
the most distine dished in Congress or out
of it-who is q power in Congress and IN
the nation-I mean General Butler. have
good reason for believing that this distin-
guished gentleman has watched closely the
whole movement of the opponents of the
enemies of admission, and scanned tho
roughly the motives that govern them in
opposing the readmission of the State. No
one possesses the faculty in greater de-
gree of seeing into men and things, and |
am very confident not only that he under
stands the matter in oil its aspects, but that,
on satisfactory data, he has arrived at the
conclusion that the State ought st once TO
be restored to her place in the Union. If l
am not greatly mistaken, he will be found
our friend in this our great need, and if so,
we shall have On easy time of it. My OPT
Mon is that before the end Of next week
Virginia will be State of the Union"
Another delegation from Virginia are said
to be on the way to Washington to protest
against the admission of the State. This
deputation is composed of some local judges
appointed to Office By the military COM
mander.
PROSPECTS, OF F1RGINIA.-Thc game Of
Virginia earpet-baggcrs is beginning to be
we'll understood in Congress, and there is
q reluctance to modify the reconstruction
acts in order to give them the Offices they
failed to secure by popular election. There
is ground for the belief that the President
regards the unconditional admission of Vir
ginia as IN Administration measure, and
his influence with members of Congress
will be used to effect it. The State, it is
thought, will be admitted; but there
will be serious division on the
question in the Republican ranks. A
gentleman who conversed the other day
with Senator Morton reports him as say
ing that Virginia would be admitted prompt
ly and without any further conditions. The
Cabinet are said to be unit on the ques-
ton. The course of General Butler is I'M
certain it is believed he win oppose the I'D
mission of the State If he feels sure of sue
cess, but that if he finds that he cannot con-
troll the Reconstruction Committee he will
then make virtue of necessity, and as
sumo the paternity of the bill authorizing
the admission. In any event the Adj
ministration is committed to admitting
the State, and Butler cannot openly
oppose it without precipitating the rupture
with Grant, for which some think he is
making preparation. These last assert that