The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-08
WASHINGTON "a NEWS.
congressman ut Leisure specnlations upon the
Adjournment Washington Territorial Poll
sics-None of the Promised Cabinet Changes
Mt Hand etc.. etc. .-.-.s

| rspecIaI Correspondence OF the Dispatch1
WASHINGTON, March 6.
The new members of Congress and the
old, or more properly the ex-membeIs VINO
are in Washington, made use of to-day by
thronging the different Departments and
the Executive mansion, the new members
in becoming acquainted with the President
and the Secretaries, and the old members
were "looking after their interests" in =
GREAT many instances, while In other cases
thev were bidding adieu to places which
shall know them no more for long time, If
ever.
The general topic Of speculation to-day
has been the length Of time in which the
ADD Congress will remain In session. That
may be decided to-morrow-just now it is
bound bv CAUCUS resolution to vote per-
| sistently for all motions to adjourn and
| the protective tariff men will be anxious to
get away lest that great question should he
| sprung upon the House. 1t has been kept
! very quiet until now but the time has Dr.
rived when discussions upon the tariff must
| take rank to the exclusion of many of the
subjects which have received ovations Mt
| the hands of Radical debaters in both
| Houses.
Considerable interest already exists over
the election Of delegate to Congress from
| this Territory, and fine prospects exist for
field full of candidates. Some Of the CO.
| lored people think they should have rep.
resentatiye of their race in Congress from
this city, inasmuch as their recognition by
the President has been very slight thus far.
| many of them claiming that the colored
man appointed on the Board Of Health Is
not acceptable to the mass of colored voters
here, and that his interests are not in Wash.
| ineton. The "ReGrm Republicans" will
have candidate. and there may be an In.
| dependent andidate-perhaps two oil
| them-while it is morally certain that the
long-suffering Democracy will bring out
| one Of their own men-one who has been
weighed in the genuine Democratic balance
and not found wanting. 1t is not altogether
uncertain that he will not be elected.
None of the promised Cabinet changes
show any signs of occurring and the way i:
open for new speculations. 1t does moi
seem that even Alderman will 90. His
health which was assigned as the reason fol
his retirement, when it was hoped thai
Georgia would go radical, seems SOUND
enough now to endure the strain imposed
lupon it by his official position. AS the
President does not desire to have Mr. Aker
imam resign, it is not considered probable
that he will do so. ,
1 The allusiOn to Georgia forces remind
!er to the very able gentleman who repre-
ssents the seventh district in that State
3(Gen. P. NJ. B. Young.) His course in the
House in defending, not only his own sec
ton, but the South generally, from the on
s!aught of Butler and others, gave re-
neved evidences to bis friends that he pos
spsses all the confidence and stamina neces
Isarv to defend the trusts assigned to repre-
isentatives from the South. 49,,
! The weather to-day has been exceedingly
disagreeable, and the clouds of dust, that
were hurled adown the wooden-payed ave
nue. was caution to the army of officials
who are solicitous about their summer
comforts at Long Branch and Saratoga
with the thermometer in the nineties, anC
the dust rolling in clouds down the popu
lar thoroughfare, there will come genera,
desire for quick exodus from the capital
TIHOS