The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-26
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
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G#..r stHPSSIh sS1fkEdul W Tue DHpdICQ.i
WASHINGTON, March 25.
Probable Adjournment or the Senate.
The chances ara very much In favor of an
adjournment of the Senate tomorrow. ana
as consequence parties who have bean
nominated are rushing around with some
activity to secure their combinations. As
soon after the adjournment as possible the
President will take his intended leave of abb
sence from Washington, and cabinet off,
cere will follow suit when the warm weather
commences.
Applications for Pardon.
Three hundred and seyenty-one appIca-
tons for pardon have been filed in the De-
partulent Of Justice during the past twelve
months, and about one-haIf of these have
been granted. A large number were cases
Of violation Of the revenue laws where fines
were RENTED on account of the inability of
the convicted persons to pay them. The
Attorney General has now on his desk q
large number of kukIux cases for which APP
peals for pardon have been made, and it is
probable that every one Of them will be
faVorably considered. TINoS.
ASSOCIATED Press Teegrams]
Nominations.
=. 3. Eggleston as Collector of the Second
District of Mississippi; Fl. Nj. Tyler, for the
Third District of Texas Cheney X. Prouty
as Collector Of Customs at Saluria, Texas;
James A. SomeryilIe as Receiver Of Public
Moneys at Mobile.
Combinations.
The Senate has confirmed Stilley as Colec-
tor of the First District of North Carolina,
and Stearns as Register Of Public Lands at
Mobile.
Startling NcIs from tho Lava Beds.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-Rev. E. Thomas,
the ncwly-appointed peace commissioner to
the Modocs, has gone to Vanbremer's.
Captain Jack has sent squaw to the Kla-
math Indians inviting them to join him. He
says that rs soon as the grass grows he will
leave the lava beds to burn the ranches and
to kill the settlers. The message to the Ella
mah Indians causes fears Of trouble with the
Indians on the lower klamath river, who bc-
long to quite u formidable tribe.
Railroad Ticket Agents Convention.
WASHINGTON. March 25.-The General
Railroad Ticket Agents Convention will adj
journ tomorrow. The rates which they arc
arranging Will 60 into effect in May next.
The changes are trifling, and do not affect
five per cent. of the points to which tickets
are sold from the Atlantic cities.
Various Items.
WASHINGTON, March GA full Cabinet
meeting was held to-day, at which was dis
cussed the threat Of the railroad companies
to withdraw the poStal-cars.
General John r. Gordon, senator from
Georgia, was called to the chair and presided
over the Senate for short time to-day. This
courtesy was extended to him by Vice-Presi-
dent Wilson. 1t was the first time an eX-
Confederate had been called to preside over
the Senate.
Several leading lawyers think that the
Postmaster General has authority to compel
the railroad trains to continue the postal
cars.
In the Senate resolution was passed con-
graduating Spain upon the abolition OF
slavery in Porto Rico. The Committee on
Privileges and Elections were excused from
the further consideration Of the charges OF
bribery against Senator Bogy, of Missouri.
The Clayton case was discussed. A reSolu-
ton passed by vote of 80 to q that the
charges were not sustained.
General Whttlesey, formerly Of the Freed
Dlan's Bureau, WAS to-day taken to the insane
asylum. He las been a sufferer from paraly.
sis. and goes by advice Of his physician and
friends.
weather ProbabiIitics.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The storm-centrt
now in Kentucky will probably move cast
ward as weil-developed cyclone over tie
Middle Atlantic coast, where second storm.
centre is now apparently about to form.
For the Middle and East Atlantic coast
brisk and possibly nigh north and east winds,
with rain and SHOW, will prevail Oh We'd
nesdav morning.
From West Virginia and the lower lakes
westward TO the Mississippi brisk north and
west winds with rain and snow, followed
Wednesday night by clearing weather.
Northcrly winds continue In the Western
Gull States, with falling temperature.
Winds veer to northwest with falling tenn
peraturc i'll the Eastern Gulf States and to
! southwest and west. with rain in tue South
Atlantic States during Wednesday morning.
Cautionary signals continue on the Middle
and East Ati1niic coasts, and are ordered for
Charleston. Savannah ,j;IctSuDy Vile and Mo.