The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-17


Cabinet--And Another Quick Dcpar-
lure, etc.
WASHINGTON, August Is, 1872 %
The President, as the telegraph has al
ready made known. came TO time this morn
ing, and will hold Cabinet meeting to-mor-
row. No one in Washington was aware OF
his intentions, aF there was, he probably
thought, no necessity for advising the officials
ing. 1t is Il way the President has to come
down upon the stay-It-homes uncXpcct dly.
The less notice the American public have of
his intentions to revisit the place Of his Off
cill duties the less will be the number OF
visitors who will bore him with petitions
and appeals, or suggestions on political
topics, and so on. 1t is not very GER
tain that the President is indifferent to his
success in this election. Some of his friends
| who interviewed him to-day felt very much
rejoiced ut the interest he expresses, and
particularly at the predictions he felt dis
posed to make that he would he elected
Perhaps it is the very confident feeling OF
success that Is the father Of the indifference
several have discovered in the President !;
but, nevertheless, it is apparent that many OF
his political friends and adherents entertain
dissimilar views on the topic OF his rcclec-
ton. They are making in several Of the
States-and Indiana is to be looked upon in
particuar-the hardest fight ever known in
the history OF the party. Senator Morton,
whose interests are even more at stake than
are those Of the President, is making the
most earnest defence Of himself that proba-
bly, ever occurred in his political history.
With the chances against him, and the up
hill work before him, such industry certainly
is no indication either OF indifference OF GER
tainty oil success.
1t is not likely that there will be any mat
ters of political or of extraordinary official
Importance transacted in this brief stay Of
the President The last six or eight Cabi-
net meetings have been devoted almost en-
tirely to affairs of department routine, and
the conference tomorrow vii! be of the same
character 1t may be that several pardons of
kuklllN prisoners will be determined in addi-
ton to Il few already decided upon. The
Attorney General had 4 long conference with
the Executive upon that matter to-day. From
all that can be learned here there is nothing to
call for a consultation ut the Cabinet session.
No question outside of politics engrOsses
the attention OF the Government, and what
is necessary TO be done in that line is
engineered in other places shan Washington
ut this season. When the Government be-
comes stationary again, something may EN-.
anate from here TO create a sensation, but
not until then.
The oyations to Horace Greeley still pro-
duce unpleasant mental feelings among his
opponents here, as doubtless they do else
where. At least one good result has come
from them. They show that in addition to
the kindly feeling the people have for him
he is fully competent to address them in
simple though eloquent and forcible speeches.
No one can misinterpret or misconStrue
them, and every one can fully understand
them.
The hearty yigor with which General
Banks is about to enter the campaign is re-
garded by the renominationists with no plea
sure. The hopes of the Grant party that the
Republicans who felt forced to decline their
support TO the Radical Republican party
would maintain q mastery inactivity in the
future of the campaign have gradually be-
come dissipated. Events to transpire in
Pennsylvania next month viii show how
wen the battle Is being fought on the Con-
serYatiye side. A Republican official resid-
ing in that Srate wrote to friend here the
letter was received today that atfairs were
still very much mixed This admission
|of bad fortune for the Radical ticket has
been received from several of Its supporters
recently, and no late reports are different to