The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-06
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial telegram to the Dispa.ch.l
WASHINGTON, .Iay 5, 1873.

The Back-Pay steal.
Treasurer Spinner to-day received the
check of George c. Gorham secretary of the
Senate, for the amount Of congressional
back pay due Mr.. Sumner, and which the
latter requested be corcrcd into the Treasury.
Up 10 this date twcniy-scven representatives
and senators have turned their swas toto the
Treasury. The total amount thus far turned
IN Il :I11,222 81. :.
Four Rcar-AdmiraIS
arc to lie retired from active service this year
under the new law of Congress placing them
on the retired list ut the age Of Sixty-;wo.
They arc: George +. Emmons, in August !:
Charles Stcadman. in September; William
Rodgers Taylor, in November Thornton
\. jenkins, in Decembcr. The retirement
of these officers promotes Commodores John
j. Amy, j. Ii. Strong, +. G.. Parrot, and
William Reynolds to the grade of rear-ad-
mral.
Expected Return Of the President.
The President is expedited to return on
Saturday next at the funniest, and there
| will be Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, at
whlc5, rs Indian matters will be discussed, IL
is very otab,e General Sherman will attend.
Secretary Bcknap will will not he here by
| that date. TlMON.
| ASSOCIATED Press telegrams.l
The James River and Kanawha Canal.
| WASHINGTON, May 5.-Senators CaSscrlr
and Bayard will leave Washington to-mor.
row for Richmond, where they will start out
on tour of inspection Of the line of the
proposed James River aud kanawha i'm
provement for connecting hy great water
course the Chesapeake bay with the Ohio
river. Senator Casserly is a member of the
Senate Committee on Transportation, OF
which n subcommittee will sit during the
summer in San Francisco, and perhaps Port.
land, Oregon. He and Senator Bayard will
he accompanied by the United States Ell.
-inccrs who have surveyed the proposed
line. and by Colonel Darlington. president
of the James River and Kanawha Company
and other citizens of Virginia.
| Court Of Claims.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-Thc Court Of Claims
to-day rendered only one .iudgmcnt-amcly
in favor Of Charles Wilson and others, Of
savannah, for twcnty-thrce bales OF upland
cotton taken 10y the agents of the United
States, amounting to St,032.
4 motion WAS allowed for Il new trial r
tic rase Of Marshall O. Roberts and others
OF New York, against the United States
The claim is for over million nf dollars OF
a steamship contract for carrying the mails
An argument was commenced on the Gov
ernmcnt's plea TO the jurisdiction in til,
case Of L. ]. Kelley, involving the question
whether parties relieved BY President John
soiT'S amnesty proclamation from liability t,
seizure Of property under the captured ani
/ abandoned property act can bring suit ate
the expiration Of the two years limitation
prc. crihcd By said act. This proclamation
Of amnesty was not made until the tw,
years lroln the date Of said act had expired
The mandate Of the Supreme Court wa
filed affirming the judgment Of this court i
favor Of \. Henry, rendered May GO, 1871
for Sl3.oI6.
Eoyai Virginia Claimants Paid.
| WASHINGTON. Nav 5.-Thc Treasury DE-
prtmcnt tn-Ga: raid the last Of the claim
Of the lnyal citizens of Loldoun county 70
i've stock seized for the Use ni the army b
the military authorities of I'll" United state
in conformity with an order Of Ilajor-Gcnt
raj Sheridan Of November -, 1861. Their
were 1871 ciiinis, amounting in the a"grcga
to &G.lS2.l Isl. Tie payment of these claim
was made III accordance with the act Of JAM
airy %, 1873.
Who Bu:nrti a'0:u:nhin, s.. e.. Enrin
.nc s,a:c Ssas?
i WASHINGTON. May 5.-tinnriais Shcrma
=. and Howard both testify before IL" Amir
,,an and British mixed commission th1t &C
| - ~ l,,. I',,ln ny m
or hT Federal troops during the late war.
Iscas,t @. = Grands0ls Of Patrick Henry
WasuxGroN, May Captain p. \
: Henry. ii grandson Of Patrick Henry, of n
yolutionary fame. died at his residence j
bis city yesterday III the tilty-ciSlltl! year (
hi, a--".
ITh$u.>Grov, May 5.-Captain Tengcr hG
been detached from the command Of tn
revenue cutter Delaware, ii Mobile, and %
dcred 10 Philadelphia 10 report to the D,
partmen!.
weather Probabilities.
WAsnlSGToN, May j.--For the Gulf state
: Tennessee, ard the South Atlantic State:
| falling barometer. sou,hca>tcrly and ca>tcrl
winds. ii.li"r temperature. cloudy weather
and rain.
For the lower lakes and thence to the Obi
valley. northei,tcrly winds, increasing pre-:
, sure, ana partly cloudy aud cooler weather
For the Middle States, higher barometer
low temperature, partly cloudy weather
an; >oulhwes:erly winds vcerDs TO nortl
Ca:tery.
The Modoc Wax.
=, San FRANCISCO, May 5.-No demonstr;
ton has Eccn made on either side. Genera
Davis, IIarGic, and Scholield are in the tielt
Nothing will be done until the arrival OF th
; E,u,th infantry from Little Rock and fix