The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-25

CORRESPONDENCE Of tho iiclilnonu Dlsla'eIi
A wild Sensatiou Oh the FaEus-- i''is.
about Grant Wearing The LaHfeis Oh
GaIE.g nrtvrI0p.--Ehc Treaty Shes-
''o"' UAsuNGroS, April %, 1872.
Thetbeory--confessedly notrcry plausible
hoe Gained some circulation here to the effect
that Should the Cincinnati Convention, "nch
II Is admitted by all parties will be composed
of elements of very great strength through
ant the country. nominate ticket for Prcsl-
danf and Viee-president which in the l!itg-
| mont of the managers of the Philadeiplila
Convention cannot be beaten Ivy Grant, that
| then the Philadelphia meeting VIII holiliiiite
Grant. who will formally decline on inc
| ground of desire to harmonlze the hepuo-
| Iican factions, and recommend that tue l.lia'
delphia Convention endorse the nonii'la-
ton made ut Cincinnati, and thereby pre-
serve the party organization. inns may
he considered the widest OF oil the Wlla
speculatioDs which have lioatea on tiie
current of political gossip, put having
| gained some character by its discussion, IL
cannot be undeseTing OF mehtlon. uiaht
| is very silent man, and keeps his motives
altogether to himself in very many respects )
but the scheme alluded to mere IS salu 10
meet the approval of several OF bis irlehaS, III
and out of Congress, and Is spoken oil as il
shrewd move on his part 10 escape tne a us :"
Grace of an overwhelming defeat. Such a
movement could only be accounted for by
fine rule that desperate diseases call for des-
nr1pte remedies and even il it Is to occur 1t
would hardly happen without full consrlta-
tim before the meeting of The CINCINNATI
Convention, so that Il mutual understand
ING would be had between those who
would originate such bar9:llIl-and-sal2
nroposition, 4 circumstance which i'll.
pels disereGt upon the delightful theory
alluded to is the fact that with Grant
ont of the field war immediately COM
mences as to who shall be the favored man.
The Senate is full Of asplants, and the sec
tions would present their available statesmen
in prompt array to the Convention. The
time to do that is extremely short; so that if
the leaders of the Cincinnati movement have
not already been advised Of the reported i'll
tended immolation Of Grant, there will be no
chance of success, as one might be nominated
who would not be acceptable to Morton,
Conkling & Co., and thus nip the whole
scheme in the opening of the bud.
rye publish the foregoing as mere will
speculation. We should not lIaye deemed it
worthy of place ii it had not come from
our own correspondent.-Dispdtch.]
It is understood from trustworthy source
that the tenor of the correspondence which
has passed between Secretary Fish and Earl
Granville has not been Of a character to pre-
clude the possibility Of this Government
withdrawing its claim for consequential
damages. The various notes from Mr..
Fish to Earl Granville have been mere
ly argumentiye. This Government has
never informed Great Britain that ii
would not for any consideration modify
its case or rccede from it as originally pre-
scented, nor has point been reached Where
such contingency becomes Il necessity. -As
the case now stands, this Government can
modify its case to the expulsion OF the couse-
quential-damage claim without compromising
its dignity in the least, as the correspondence,
when published, will fully prove.
When the President shall become fully sat
isfied that public opinion in this country is
against the claim there is no doubt that it
will be withdrawn. TlMGS.