The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-17


A bill introduced by Senator Sargent to
restrict the immigration OF Chinese to the
United States provides that no vessel shall
take on board at any foreign port any num-
Der OF Chinese passengers exceeding ten
whether male or female) with the intent to
bring them to the United States, or shall
bring any greater number than ten on one
voyage within the jurisdiction Of the United
States. The master of any vessel violating
these prohibitions is to be fined $500 for
each Chinese passenger exceeding the num-
Der of ten that is SO taken on board or
brought to this country, and also be impri-
soned for period not exceeding SIX
months.
Mr.. Faulkner, Of West Virginia, was not
in favor of admitting Minnie Fitch's jew
elry duty free. He called the attention OF
the Foreign Affairs Committee to the sub
iect, and urged them to resist the passage OF
the bill on the ground that 1t was disgrace
full for an American lady to accept such u
costly present from an impoverished mon
arch.
A provision transferring the Indian Bu-
reau to the War Department will be tackled
to the Indian appropriation bill by the Com
mittee on Appropriations, and rs the point
of order made against it in the legislative,
executive, and judicial bill will not hold
against it in the Indian bill, it Will un-
doubleday pass the House.
The steamship Isaac Bell, belonging to
the Old Dominion Steamship Company, Is
to be chartered by party of New Workers,
who intend to 60 to the Centennial on July
]. and who will use the vessel as hotel
during their stay in Philadelphia, addi-
tional sleeping apartments having been Mt
ted up on board for the purpose. 1t IS eX-
pected that other steamers will be used IN
this way during the summer by parties who
expect that their travelling expenses and
the cost Of their lodging and meals While
visiting the Centennial will be considerably
less in this way than those OF other visitors.
It is to be hoped that the successor to Mr..
Fitzhugh, the doorkeeper OF the House OF
Representatives, may be selected from a
northern State, and from among those APP
plicants who were soldiers in the Federal
army during the late war. The object now
| is to defeat Radicalism in the next presiden-
tial contest, and to secure that desirable end
all minor purposes should be made to sub
serye.-Ale1andria Gazette.
The Radical Convention, which met in
Alexandria Monday, endorsed Colonel M.
D. Ball as its candidate for the House OF
Delegates. The Conservative Convention
to nominate a candidate for the same posi-
ton will be held next Monday.
Colonel Fl. Coalter Cabell is spoken Of as
" Citizens candidate for Mayo" i'll opposi-
ton to Colonel Darlington. l understand
he will be called, but whether he has con-
scented to run I cannot say R1Chmond TEL
ter-Petersburg Post.
The reporter was misinformed in regard
to the language used by General Pryor:
He said that MIR. Moulton had been damaged
in person, property, and character, but did
not say he had been financially ruined or
compelled to part with his property or any
part OF it. -ar
Alfred Rush (colored), a member OF the
South Carolina Legislature, was shot and
killed Saturday evening while on his way
home in a buggy He was accompanied by
his wife. The perpetrator OF this cowardly
murder is unknown. IT,
A chalice of solid gold studded with dia-
monds, worth $4,000, is to be presented to
Archbishop Purcell, Of Cincinnati, on the
fiftieth anniversary OF his elevation to the
priesthood-May 81.
The New York authorities have reached
the conclusion that weiss beer is not lntoXl-
eating, and therefore that it does not come
within the meaning Of the State act prohlb-
ting the sale Of beer on Sunday.
Mr.. Winans, OF Baltimore, it is stated, Is
building large cdifce on Castle Hill, New
port, in which will be placed steam-organ
that can be heard at a distance OF several
miles.
A girl named Frances Anne Jones hung
herself the other day in Liverpool, from a
bedpost, because her mother had repriman-
ded her for burning table-cloth with fiat
iron. .s.. .,i;.
Cotton is above ground and corn Is foot
high OH nearly all the farms in North Mis-
sissippi, where they are high enough above
overflow to save them from the river flood.
Nearly all the newspapers OF Philadelphia
and many OF the clergy are in favor OF open
ine. the Centennial Exhibition on Sunday.
There are already thirteen candidates in
the Third Indiana district fort the succession
to Speaker Kerr. ~ 20 tllsf5z5. 1s.,7ss
X Lord Lytton; as iceroy OF India receives
q salary, with "a loWances, OF 1856, 600 IN