The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-13
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From Our Regular Correspondent
THE SECRETS ABOUT THE MATTHEws-EyARTs
800 LETTER. ~
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE secrets
about the Matthew'S varts letter.to Cham
berlain, with which Blame created such
sensation in the Senate the other day. are
now coming out, and the Senator from
Maine seems to have jumped before he came
to the stile, SO far as any connection Of
Hayes with the writing Of it is concerned
The day before Grant went out OF office
Senator Gordon went to him and begged
him TO write letter to Chamberlain, in an
unofficial capacity, advising him to with
draw from the contest in South Carolina,
and disembarrass the party and the new
President coming in. Grant, although he
liked the idea, was afraid that he would be
doing too pronounced an act II he wrote
such letter, and suggested that one OF
Hayes's. friends who were out Of office
should write it. Gordon then approached
Matthews and told him OF Grants views;
and Matthews, who has ali along been urg-
ing this ssouthern policy" Of Hayes's to
the party, consented to write
! VERY CAUTIOUS LETTER,
and agreed to get Mr.. Evart's endorsement
of it. This was done, and before Grant
went out of Office, or Hayes had knowledge
OF the circumstance, the letters published
on Sunday were given to Haskell, the Demo
cratic chairman of South Carolina, who at
once took it to Chamberlain and endeavored
to make the cautious expressions in it q
basis for Chamberlain's withdrawal. Sen
ator Gordon has had the telcgraphed copy
OF the letters in his possession for several
days, but has never had permission to use
them. 1t is thought that he will read them
in the Senate tomorrow. Hayes has in nc
express way given assent to the more sig
nifcant expressions in the letters, but
thinks that ga few weeks" will arrange
matters satisfactorily.
Some OF ChamberIain's friends who are
here pushing his cause with the President
got themselves into quite predicament
after midnight on Saturday by being among
the participants in ,., ......s
AFARO GAME At THE "CLUB,"
one OF the most notorio Gus of Washington'>
many gaming houses. The police made &
well-directed descent, and captured, among
others, what may be called South Caroline
delegation There were ex-senator Will
liam E. Sawyer, who was the Assistant Sec
rotary Of the Treasury under Richardson
and whom Bristow SO unceremoniously dis
missed; Judge Carpenter, the "iron man ,
OF South Carolina; one congressman an6
two ex-congressmen from the same State
The police were even harder than usual or
these distinguished captives, for they were
kept all night in the station-house.
THE PRESIDENT IGNORES THE OLD ADNINIsTRA
TON RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Sunday the new President and his family
initiated another reform by ignoring thu
old Administration religious services under
DR.. Newman, and bending their steps to thu
i Foundry Methodist church. Here it 81
happened that the preacher who made tn,
sermon was the Rev. DR.. Duncan, pro
fessor IN Macon College, Georgia
which college is under the control o
the Methodist Church South, and DR.
Duncan was one OF the commissioners wht
ACCOMPLISHED the reconciliation OF the two
! branches Of this Church few years ago
=: This fact may have been mere coincidence
but it is regarded as almost Of political sig
! niticance, now that the South's recon
Citation is the most prominent feature il
i, politics.
TIE NEWS OF THE DAY
is the resignation of Mr.. Cameron, OF Penn
sylvania, from the Senate, and the probable
election tomorrow in the Pennsylvania LIE
gislature Of his son Don Cameron, late Sec
rotary Of War, to his place for the remain
ing two years of his term. ~ .rs...-..
The ex-Secretary left town for Harrisburg
on Saturday with his fathers resignation
addressed to the Governor, and tonight TIT
Republican members of the Legislature art
caucusing, and will doubtless elect the sol
tomorrow. 80. 49,.
The old gentleman gave his reasons to
night for this action as follows! / am sew
enty-eight years old, and have been in pub
lie life enough, and am tired. have medi
tated this step for a year, and now do no
resign in any. spirit Of anger toward the
Administration. shall give the President
my cordial support. Ihope he may sue
coed, but fear hewiIl not, with his southern
. policy. My son Don gave the President the
assurance Of his continued support three
days ago. ~. ~. -. :"