The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-05

BtSl S@lleu tIlfS UtcfIfakHu Iflb AnCb bflaL ul0f
last Friday evening, when we were voting on
the amendment of the senator, from Massa
ehasetts Eafr. sunner] to the ADJOURNMENT
resolution, In reply to question Of the sena
tor from New York Mr.. ConklingI am re
! ported to lave said that was paired with
the senator from Kentucky [Mr. Davisl; that
If he were here he would vote yen, and
| would vote nay. / simply said that / did MOI
know how the senator from Kentucky would
| vote, and that If had not been paired
should have voted yea. i nm always ready
and always have. been, to accord all the rights
to the colored. people Ia my State. and in al
the other States that the senator from Massa.
chusetts or any one else proposes. Itshould
| have voted for his amendment had I not been
paired with the senator from Kentucky.
A Virginia Negro Writes to Sumner.
The following is one Of the MANY foolish
letters which Sumner read to influence the
Senate to pass his supplementary civil rights
bill: VII s,.a -, ata,,.s ;..iss
10. HALL OF TIE HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
- RICnMoND, VA. January 90, 1872.
Dear Sir,--No doubt you are pressed al
most to death with petitions, all hoping to
aid in the passage of your 'FbiI of justice"
wish that could say to you that am an
honorable member Of this body. cannot
only Oh ostracised one. ,aass
/ could get thousands of signatures and
petitions for the support of the supplementary
civil rights bill had the time to go to my
constituents. We all want it to pass. We
need it. Our success rests upon the passage
Of it. We understand about social equality
it is not that we want. We want our com
mon rights, like all men. ~. ~.
Here in Richmond we are prescribed on
all sides. A colored senator and myself were
prevented from going to look at deceased
Catholic bishop while lying in state by po-
liceman on account Of our color. We can
ride only in certain street-cars, and they are
more or less flledswith whites. We cannot
so into decent place at the theatre. We
could not go to Theodore Thomas's concert
because there was no separate place in the
hall for "niggers." f.f
We, the representatives, sir, of thousands,
feel this very keenly, and some Of us, al
though in our native State, have seen better
days in Massachusetts.
We all, sir, the whole colored population
Of Virginia, make this appeal through YOU to
generous Senate, and pray, for the sake of
humanity, justice, and all that is good and
great, that equal common rights may be be-
slowed to grateful and loyal people before
disabilities shall have been stricken from
those who struck at the very heartstrings of
the Government.
Yours, very respectfully, &C., ,
Z. G. L. PAIGE,
Member House Of Delegates of Virginia.
Senator Sumner.
A Washington Pension Agent This
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Army Journal the Defaulter.
Another defalcation has been developed in
connection with the Pension Bureau. involy.
ing the abstraction of sum variously esti-
mated, but which will probably reach fully
| SO, 900, if not more.
Mr.. William T. Collins, the United States
pension agent for the District Of Columbia.
and editor of the Grand Army Journal, is the
principal in the transaction, and it is sup
posed that the money for which he has been
brought to book has been sunk in that paper
| 1t seems that recently the Secretary OF the
Interior adopted a new rule for the making
of returns Of pension agents, requiring each
return to be accomplished by an OATH On
Friday last Mr.. Collins made his usual re-
turn, and when required to make oath to it
refused to do so. This circumstance was al
once reported to the Secretary Of the Int.
rior, and was regarded as sufficiently suspi.
cious to Justify the closing of Coins's Office
and the transfer of a clerk thereto to inycSti
gate his affairs A brief examination de
veIopcd enough Of suspicion to warrant tho
Secretary in requiring the instant resignation
of Collins, which WAS at once rendered ant
accepted.
The Secretary of the Treasury was re
auested to make a special case Of the matter
and push the investigation through withou
delay, with view to bringing suit on Col
linss criminal bond. 1t is understood tina
the doialcation involves no loss to the Gov
eminent. the bond Of Collins being amp!,
sufficient TO cover it.
Collins is one-leggcd soldier-one Of fv
or six soldiers who, during the war, survived
amputation at the hip joint. 1t is stated tia
the arrangement Of his system from the pain
of this old wound at times incapacitatcd hin
for proper attention to his duties. -PdiriOi
Redemption OF Currency.
A correspondent having inquired whethe
the holders of fractional currency must pre-
sent one hundred or more pieces of any dc
nomination Of fractional currency to assist
ant treasurcrs and repositories i'll order to o.
tain redemption thereof, or whether tn
same will be exchanged for United State
notes in sums of So and upwards, in accorc
ance with the terms printed on the back O
the notes, the Treasurer replies that assist
amt treasllrcrs and repositories must recciY
and redeem such currency in accordanc
with the terms printed thereon, whether on
hundred pieces are presented or not, bu
that when the size of the deposit will &C
NIT, the currency must be assorted by til
, holders into parcels containing one hundre
notes of each denomination.