The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-16

The Fever Tor Making sI5incts-.A
ss Charge OF Administrations Policy
Talked Abont-Profecfion Of tho Conn
znupffy Against Crisne-WRshangton
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Correspondence OF the Richmond DispatchI
WAsnryGTos, November Il, 1872.
The propensity to change Cabinets lin
gers notwithstanding the many thousands
Of failures that within the past four years
have met every prediction of this nature !;
and that the disposition to concoct new
Cabinet upon the very slightest provocation
is not destined to become extinct Will most
assuredly be proved by comments and specu-
lations without stint between now and the
4th OF March. Now, most of these intlnia-
tons are drawn from parties altogether re-
moved from the fouutain-head OF knoWl-
edge on the special topic. 1t is den
nitcly and positively known anu admlttea
officially that there will be one change.
The DEPARTMENT of State is to have new IN
cumbent, and il Mr.. Boutwell, succeeds IN
his aspirations for the succession inthe Uni
ted States Sensta to the seat of Mr.. Wilson,
as an absolute matter Of course there will be
q new Secretary OF the Treasury, although,
as some are inclined to believe, Judge Rich
ardson, who Is great favorte with the Pre-
sident and the author of recent book OF
financial information, besides having per-
formed the office Of Secretary Of the Urea
surv for several months, may be appointed.
and then the secretaryship would not be en-.
t;rely new. 1t Is conceded on all sides
outside of quarters authorized to speak
on the matter that Pennsylvania will be
represented in the Cabinet under the new
Administration. 1t is good iGea 10 await
results before making up ones mind posi-
lively as to who will form the new Cabinet.
We all know how wofuly mistaken all were
who made up the states of President Grants
first Cabinet, and it il almost certain that
similar mistakes will happen this time. And
upon another subject there have been many
hints and expressions Of opinion OF late.
The reference here is to the probability of 4
change of policy by the Administration, TO
he enunciated either in his forthcoming an.
nual message or else in the inaugural all
dress. The talk has been that there will be
anew and more conservative tone dignlfyin5
the action of the Administration, with par
ticular meaning as to its course towards tho
South, than heretofore. Where such notions
spring from is eusily enough OWNED, as
several earnest friends of the President, who
have ably supported him in the CANVASS,
have vented such sentiments. There Is Il
doubt that can he appreciated very readily
az to the men who were the mouth-picces OF
the Administration in the Senate last winter
conforming to such conservatism, and 1t APP
pears that Graut, if he intends to fall into
line with less ultra Republicans than the
men who have been regarded as leaders OF
the party, must display very remarkable de-
cree ofmoral fortitudc. However, what there
is in this may be known in very little over
two weeks from this date, as at that time
Congress will reassembe and the message will
be sent ina.
The sixth trial for murder before this
term of the Criminal Court Of this District
was concluded to-day in the conviction OF
the prisoner, an ex-policeman named
UBrien, who killed man named Gun
ningham at a picnic, near Georgetown, in
August last. One man has already followed
the victim. of his brutality into eternity
two are eXpiating their crimes in the AL
bany penitentiary; two others remain i'll
the jail awaiting the imperative demand to
prepare for the scatfold, and the conviction
of this man to-day does not complete the
record of the awful crime scored up with.
in q limit of six months. The community
sickens at the details of bloodshed, but, in
the face of the rampant malice which per-
mitted no man to consider himself safe, does
not deem it just that any should so un-
punished. All cases for Executive clemency
which have been presented have, after q
thorough discrimination by the proper ofli-
cial, been acted upon unfavolably to the petit
TONERS. Murderers and rrffians have been
taught wholesome lesson, and it seems that
for season at least their ravageS in this Sec
ton have been stopped.
There is some show Of animation about
Washington notwithstanding the persistent
raids Of the horse malady. Members Of Con-
gress are beginning to arrive, and are getting
their houses and rooms in order previous TO
the meeting OF Congress. Next week quite
a number Of the members of both Houses
will put in an appearance, and after congrl-
tulating the President and completing bust
ness arrangements with landlords and hotel
keepers will return home. As usual, there
will not he much done until after the New
Year, though the chairmen Of the important
committees are endeavoring TO push business
through as rapidly as possible. The fashion.
able world expects short, lively, sensational
season, and festivities in honor of Grants
reelection will be features OF the entertain
ments his friends will give during the win
ter.
There have been great expectations in
Wall street and in financial quarters gene
rally during all this week that Mr.. Boutwell,
will make some additions to bis "policy" in
u very few days. These ideas originate alto.
getber without influence from officials OF the
Department. The indications at this time
are that no change whatever will be made
before the end of the month, though it is
always impossible to say with absolute GER
tainty what the Treasury will do until the
deed is accomplished. The tiananciers here
consider the situation very favorable at pre-
sent, and with this view it is not likely that
the Secretary would make any change in his
policy for the month in advance of the usual
time for promulgating the programme.
TMoN.
Secretary Boutwell, and the Financial
Question-PrOposed RefuniinE the
Bonded Six Per Cents.
Correspondence Baltimore SUM-
WASHINGTON. November 14.-Thcre seems
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