The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-28
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Hnmpton's friends say that II any COM
promise is suggested by which Chamber
lain, through the consolidation of the Lee
gislature, offers. like "J. NJ" to martyr
himself for the senatorship. that he will re-
fuse to entertain any proposition looking to
that end.
If the conference between the rival Elk
ecutivc claimants does not result In the I'M
conditional abdication OF Chamberlain,
Hampton proposes to have him elected I'M
der existing State laws, and all he will ask
is TINT the United States allow the civil
process OF the courts to be served upon
him. ~.
THE MATTHEws-FosTER LETTERs-LoUIsIANA.
The southern gentlemen who have the let
tiers of Matthews and Foster decline to
take any. steps towards their publication
unless the request comes directly from the
writer's OF the letters. They consider that
4 request from them for consent to publish
them might embarrass the gentlemen most
interested.
1t appears that Packard understood that
the order given to General AHgur yesterday
involved the restoration Of the status quo
at the time OF the Inauguration.
The proceedings to-day comprise letter
from the Louisiana delegation to Governor
Nichols, submitted to the President and
Secretary OF War, in which Governor
Nichols is informed that the order to Gene
raj Augur was for the purpose OF obtaining
information. and involves no action on his
part in the way of undoing anything that
has been done since the Inauguration.
ACTING PosTMAsTER-GENERAL,& &C.
First Assistant Postmaster-General Ty-
ner is acting IS Postmaster-GeneraI, and
has been acting as such since Judge Keys
appointment. Judge Keys time has been
and still is fully occupied in aiding to solve
the southern question and in the tranSac-
ton OF other important public business.
Fifteen thousand applications for office
have been received since Keys appoint
ment.
In the Cabinet to-day communications
were received from Packard, the purport OF
which it is not deemed proper to make pub
lie.
The President regrets tonight that he
has nothing for the press regarding the
Louisiana commission or other affairs.
THE CABINET AND THE LOUISIANA CoNMIs-
SION.
The Cabinet considered the Louisiana
commission to-day, but the result is I'M
known.
Gibson: Levy, and Ellis visited the White
House and War Department with satisfac-
tory results, it is supposed. Yesterdays
orders to Augur were modified in some
way.
THE ROCKAWAY.
The Rockaway is the first vessel OF her
kind that ever left Norfolk while caution
airy signals were displayed:
VARIOUS ITEMS.
No southern appointments were reported
to-day.
Blaine had an interview with the Prcsi-
dent after the Cabinet meeting.
Mr.. Harlan, OF Kentucky, is now men.
toned as a commissioner to Louisiana, and
WhceIer's name is revived. 1t is claimed
that four OF the five are selected, but the
names are carefully withheld.
1t appears that Packard claimed that his
recruiting officers were imprisoned by the
Nichols government under Augur's orders
OF Yesterday. The orders were amplifed
by an explanation that no such meaning
should attach to them.