The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-23
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BAEKsDALE'S SWORD
RESTORED TO HIS gkNILY.

CONFEDERATE GENERAL BAsKsDALE's SWORD
RESTORED TO HIS gkN1LY.
WASHINGTON, February 22.-The sword
worn by the Confederate General William
BarksGale, taken from his body after he fell
mortalEy wounded in the bassIe of Gettys-
burg and deposited in the Ordnance Mu-
scum here, was delivered to-day to his
brother, Hon. E. Barksdale, to be conveyed
to his friends in Mississippi. .
VARIOUS ITEMS. ia ..a-
The Mexican war veterans mes to-day
General Denver in the chair. ghe Presi-
dent will receive them at 10 O'Clock to-mor-
row.
The Senate bas confirmed Warfie5d as col
lector of customs at Alexandria,. and DR..
Charles s. Mills collector at Richmond. J
President Grant has pardoned Ezekiel
Myers, of Petersburg, Va, imprisoned at
Richmond for defrauding the Government Of
whiskey tax. ........ .,,,. & .--.~...s
IXLIvTH CONGRESS- Session.
WASHINGTON, February %, 1877.
.- u SENATE.
The Senate during. the morning hour
briefly discussed the bill amending the act
granting the right Of way through the put
tine Railroad Company, and it was then
laid over until tomorrow. ... .,.g
The deficiency appropriation bill was
passed with amendments, which carry it to
conference committee. .....
Mr.. Edmunds, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, reported adversely on bills to remove
the political disabilities OF John A. L. Tat
nall. NJ. NJ. KENNEL, Lloyd j. Beale, Hen
nv Myers, F. Armistead, John Fl. Forney,
and j. S. Conrad, and they were indefinitely
postponed He said the committee reported
adversely on these bills for the reason that
the persons named, who were formerly
United States officers, had not settled their
accounts at the Treasury.
He also reported adversely on bills to re-
move the political disabilities of F. G. Shep-
\ pard, Fl. w. Washington, Charles L. Acott,
William Sharp, H. II. Lewis, D. B. Coward,
We. .Wisham, C. H., Williamson, John
johnson, c. Fl. Kennedy, and Oscar Her.
mitz, and they were indefinitely postponed.
He said these persons, formerly officers of
the United States, had been dismissed, and
under the rule heretofore followed by the
\ Judiciary Committee bills for their relief
could not be reported. At the next session,
however, their cases could be brought uI
again, and the rule could be so changed as
to pass bills to relieve their political disabili
\ ties. He also reported, from the same com.
mittee, fayorably on bills to remove the pc.
4 litical disabilities of C. NJ. Wilcox and O.
C. Myers, OF Maryland; John S. Marina.
duke, S. b. Moore, w. +. Darlington, j. P
Major, r. S. Kinney; S. 3. Turner and W
A. Webb, of Virginia; George s. Hawkins
OF Florida; A. II: Gibbs and William But
Ter, Of South Carolina; C. A. r. Jones, o.
Alabama; L. S. Baker and D. 81. Hill, O
North Carolina; R. c. Gaskin, Of Arkansas
Henry B. Kelly, OF Louisiana; and William
r. Jones, Of Texas; all of which were
placed on the calendar.
=: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES r. y :
The House was occupied to-day in con
sidering the civil sundry appropriation bill
in Committee OF the Whole. The prlnci
pal appropriations in behalf OF the South
are $4,000 for the continuance Of work or
the Atlanta (Ga.) post-ofice<; $1,000 for the
same object in Raleigh, N. c.; $4,000 FOL
the same object in Nashville, Tenn. Also
that the sum OF S3T5,000, OF so much thereof
as may be necessary, be appropriated opaJ
the amount due to mail-contractors for mai
service performed in the States OF Alabama
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nortt
Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee
and Virginia In the years 1859, 1850, 1861
and before said States respectively engaged
} In: war against the United States; and TIT
provisions OF the 34th section Of the Re
Yised Statutes, of the United States shall no
be applicable to the payment herein author
lied: Provided that any such claims which
have been paid by the Confederate State
, Government shall not be again paid. .5,, )
Without disposlng of the bill the Hous
took a.recess until tomorrow. - 4,