The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-29

| Sn0ut0 not DC over SSue l'SA '>N'~''
The distance between Buffalo and Ne"
York is about fvo hundred miles. This
new fact, OF course, has to enter into the
merits OF the discu ssion rs to the compare
tive cheapness OF transportation upon rail-
roads and canals. 1t is very remarkable.
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We did not receive the Petersburg Post
yesterday.
Don Cameron and Governor Vance.
WASHINGTON. March &c, 1S77.-The fol.
lowing peppery bit of correspondence be.
tween Don Cameron, the eX-Sccretary OF
War. and Governor Vance, OF North Caro-
lima, throws some light on the presidentlal
campaign rs it was conducted in the latter
State: 49,.
@ f.,- WAR DEPARTMENT,
! WASHINGTON, January &c. 1877. )
To the Governor of the State of North Caro-
lima:
! Sir,-I respectfully request that you will
| furnish this Department with complete set
! OF the reports of the Acknowledgement OF
| YOUR State for the years 1S6l-'GG inclusive,
| for use in come ctlon with the official re-
| cords OF the war OF the rebellion for publ
cation. Express charges for the same will
be paid Nv the Department. I am your ohc-
! dent servant, j. ID. CAMERON.
! Secretary Of War.
! EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
RALEIGH, February 5, 1877.
To the Hon. y. d Cameron, Secretary Of
! Var:
| Sir,-Your letter asking me to furnish
! YOU with complete set Of the reports OF
! the Acknowledgement OF this State for the
years 1861. '66, inclusive, has been received.
1t would afford me great pleasure to coin
| ply with the request if any mutually could
| be infused into the transaction. In 1860,
one month after General Sherman had issued
his proclamation announcing the cessation
OF hostilties, and forbidding the further
seizure OF property in North Carolina, the
letter-books OF the Executive OF this State
were seized Mt Greensboro and placed in
the War Department ut Washington, where
they now remain.
Permission has been asked again and again
to return them or to obtain copies for the
State archives, which has been persistcntlY
refused. NY predecessor, Governor Worth,
on one occasion sent I special messenger to
Washington with IN urgent request to be
permitted to make copy OF letter from
those books, to be used in a lawsuit pending
in our courts wherein the State was inter
ested; which reasonable request was re-
: fused. In 1871, while was in Washington
seeking admission to my seat in the United
States Senate, n slanderous article appeared
in the Ddtlv Chronicle charging me with
cruelty toward the Federal prisoners con.
fined at Salisbury. The refutaton OF this
: caiumny was contained in certain official
. letters recorded in those books. went in
> person to the War Department, stated my
:, object, and asked permission to copy two
: letters which contained my full vindication
. and was refused on the ground. as was as
{. signed. that no copies would be given with
. out the authority of Congress.
And yet last spring, when I met my com.
. petitor, Judge Settle, who was the Republi'
can candidate for Governor, 1 found hin
r supplied with an armful OF CARRIED anG
s mutilated copies OF these same official let
! tiers, certified us true copies by yourself a,
% Secretary Of War, with the great seal duly
attached.
&C Iapplied to Congress, believing that body
= would feel it beneath the dignity of a great
e republic to suppress the truth in order tc
q Cypress so humble an individual as myself
- A resolution which would have effected my
4 object was promptly passed by the House
u -of Representatives., and was as promptly
C laid on the table In the Senate.
@ Under this state of things, therefore,
q should deem myself wanting both in self
respect and in appreciation OF the office
;! which have the honor to fllwere to com
q ply with your request
Il Pc. Were it otherwise l should most gladly
:, furnish you the required documents-frst
because it would afford me real pleasure to
4. extend this or any other official courtesy
IL and secondly, because would be proud fol
e the world to know how faithfully and nobly
Y the people OF North Carolina struggled tx
maintain the cause, whether right or wrong
y in which they considered their rights anC
!. honor to be involved. ... -.......-
N am, sir, very respectfully, your obedien
n servant, eZ. B. VANCE.
"a GENERAL SHERMAN AND Don CAMERo.
=, MUST RISE AND EXPLAIN.-WaShinqto
u March 27.-Attention having been drawn tt
the curious circumstances attending The
transmission OF the order of March Cd t.
General Augur, at New Orleans, inquire:
h. are made in all directions as to the party re
!, sponsible for the delay in the Transmission
40 OF the order, and for the ambiguous language
r Ill which 1t was couched. 1t Is now a fac
Ii known to all parties concerned that but fol
8. the tamperiaS with this order, by which tht
= purpose Of General Grant was defeated, tbt
=. troops protecting Packard would have beer
IL withdrawn in the early morning Of the 81
It OF March, and Packard's government would
have gone to pieces before President Haye
;. took possession OF the White House, OF
;, Monday the 5th instant.
General Grant agreed to issue the orde
e at the solicitation OF Stanley Matthews ane
0 other friends OF Governor Hayes. to save
:, him all embarrassment in the matter. The
= belief OF many of those interested is tina
? the defeat OF General Grants intentions
was due entirely to Don Cameron, who, az
the Secretary Of War, would be the me
s digm through whom the Presidents orders
D would be communicated. But it is alleged
= by some that the order went through Gen.
eral Sherman without the Intervention oil
the Secretary OF War. The matter ls OF
sufficient Importance to demand an expla-
nation from both General Sherman and
, Don Cameron.
1t is understood that an order will be
ISSUED asasoon US the southern difficulties
arc settled rearranging the geographical
limits of the military divisions OF the At
lantic and OF the Missouri-the former
commanded by General Hancock and the
latter by General Sheridan. The rearrange-
ment WIZ consist in restoring to the former
the States OF Louisiana, Mississlppi; Ala