The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-06-19
Especial Correspondence Of the Dispatch. !

WASHINGTON, juno II, 1871.
President Grant has taken his departure
from the seat of Government once more.
He left as silently as he came, and made no
sign as to when he would vouchsafe another
visit but it can hardly be expected that he
will be here in less than month. No
politicians bothered the President dur
ing his stay, and he seemed to enjoy per-
feet freedom from annoyanccs Of every
description. 1t was thought that he would
make at least one or two important ap-
pointments now under consideration, but
it appears that they have been postponed
business seems to have been confined to
the commissioning of one or two postmas-
ters and assessors of internal revenue and
few pardons of parties who had been con-
victed Of swindling the revenue by illicit
dlstillation III various parts Of the country.
There were no discussions of any signifi-
canoe INDUCED in while the Government
was here respecting the political condition
of affairs. The general verdict concerning
this matter among Republicans was in fa-
yor Of letting the KukIuX Committee reg
ulate affairs for the present.
The politicians are watching with fear
the progressive Democracy" and have
laid on their oars for that purpose. The
main hope Of the Radical party-iudgine
from what the many representatives OF that
feeling in different sections of the country
here SAYS that the eanti-progressionists in
the Democratic party will have strength
enough to prevent the adoption of plat.
form based upon the new popular theory,
or what is nearly the same thing, conveying
expressions substantiating those asserted
in the Virginia platform when that State led
off, and taught Democrats and Conserva-
tivcs throughout the country statesman
ship and proper party policy. 1t has been
admitted by leading Republican politicians
that unless the Democratic party etuses to
acquiesce in the platforms recently adopt
ed. which show immense majorities in their
support, the hopes (Radical hopes) of sue
cess In the next campaign are based upon
very small foundation. It seems that the
President is the most complacent man now
in the Radical party. He says nothing re-
garding the turn in the political tide, but
will leave all to his particular advisers. AS
none of these gentlemen are now in Wash
ington, there was no opportunity for an ali-
thoritaliyc expression of sentiment by the
Administration on the present situation.
The kukluX Committee, still hard at
work, is making no capital. The aSsevera-
tons which disreputable men, who have
squattcd in certain portions of the South,
make about armed organizations against
order, are Immediately denied by responsi.
| bic men belonging to their own party. The
| indictment which the committee intend to
bring against the South, or certain locali-
| ties of That portion of country, will not be
able to stand; Congress will be obliged to
start off on 4 new tack when l. meets, and
party are unable to devise q plan to effect
what is desired.
There are curses louder and deeper than
ever showered upon the head of Horace
Greeley. The carpet-baggcrs and their
friends, finding that i'll so many instances he
has measured them in their proper proper
tions, have no good word whatever for the
original aboltionist. His evident intentions
to accept nomination for the Presidency,
if offered Oh platform to suit hls views,
are having startling effect in some quar-
ters.
The Southern Claims Commission, in
session here, has now heard about twenty
four hundred cases, and about four hun
drcd of that number probably stand q
chance of being remuueI atcd tor the losses
they sustained to the extent Of perhaps
onG-half of the claim they make.
General Spinner, who Is negotiating the
loan in London, seems, from letters re-
ceiyed here, to have been giving eXhibi-
tions of Republican sentiment with q
decided vengeance. The story goes that
he was allowed to wait ut the entrance OF
the Rothschilds' office by the servant (who
probably never heard of the great auto
srapher of the United States Treasury for
the space OF about three minutes ana 4
quarter, when, becoming incensed at the
delay in receiving him, he left instanter for
the new clearinghouse orJay Cooke, ,McCul-
loch IL Co. Upon arriving there, pcrspir-
ing and irate, he was met at the threshold
OF the bank by a confidential attdcM OF the
Rothchilds, who, expressing many apollo
pies for the DELAY, invited hun to return.
This was rejected, it is stated, in language
far more forcIble than polite. The fact car
rics it, own comment, and proves likewise
that stern Republican like Spinner can
not brook to cool his heels in the ante
chamber Of tinancier who could take the
whole loan be (Spinner) Is advertising, and
give check for it in less than live seconds.
Another story is on the tapis provocative
of some mirth. 1t seems that Grant and
Belknap, while at West Point week ago
indulgin. in saunter anda partdga, broke
in upon the scene Of the negro cadet No. z
undergoing drill practice through the In.
structlons of negro cadet No 1 yclept
Smith), already renowned in the modern
history of West Point. The domineering
style of Smith, it is said, commended itscIl
rather unpleasantly to the President and
his Cabinet minister, and it must have sug.
gested forcibly to them the tyranny which
will exist in the regular army when negro
officers become reality-if they eger do
TIAoN.
Especial dispatch to the Baltimore sun.]
CUSTOMS, COMMERCIAL PEEs, AND RRGULA
TIoNS-REPORTED CoUHTERPEITs.
WASHINGTON. June l7.-The collector O.