The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-29

II. LYON, OF BROOKLYN, APPOINTED IN
DIAN CoMnIIssIONER-FoRTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS LOST BY THE EXPLOSION OF
THE BOSTON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
AND FEDERAL OFFICERS VOLUNTEERING
TO SERVE IN THE MEXICAN REvOLU-
TIoN-AN IMMENSE CONFERENCE.-THE
PRACTICED UPON A NEW YoRKER-HOW
A VALUABLE LOT OF DIAMONDS WERE
LosT-FOREIGN AFFAIRS, &C.
XLIvTH CONGRESS--SecondSe Session.
WASHINGTON, January q, 1877.
At 1926 a second message was received
from the House of Representatives an
nouncing that the Speaker OF that body had
signed and enrolled the bill. 1t was then
Immediately signed by the president pro
tenn. of the Senate and given to The Com
mittee on Enrolled Bills to be delivered to
the President OF the United States.
Messrs. Dorsey and Clayton presented n
joint resolution regarding legislation to pre-
vent the removal OF settlers from the Hot
Springs reservation.
Mr.. Wright called up the bill to extend
the Southern Claims Commission two years;
which was passed.
The bill ratifyng the Sioux treaty for the
Black Hills was passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.
The House passed the Indian appropria-
ton bill to-day.
The members of the Louisiana Returning
Board appeared at the bar Of the House to-
day in the custody Of the rgeant-at-Arms,
and requested further time in order to
frame an answer. They were allowed half
an hour, and at that time they returned, and
submitted a lengthy answer in writing,
basng their refusal to produce certain pa
pers before the Committee on Louisiana
Affairs on the law OF Louisiana, and on the
fact OF the papers being in charge OF the
Secretary of State.
Mr.. Lynde offered resolution adiudgin
the members of the Returning Board in
contempt OF the authority of the House,
which was adopted-ayes, 145; noes, Sc.
Also, resolution ordering the witnesses to
appear before the special committee, OF
which William r. Morrison is chairman,
and remandng them to the custody OF
the Sergeant-at-Arms. Adopted.
Mr.. Holman, OF Indiana, from the Appro-
priations Committee, reported bill author
izing the Secretary Of the Treasury to pay
James b. Fades 100000 for the ietties at
the Mississippi river.
Mr.. Buckncr offered an amendment pro-
viding for the payment to be made in
United States bonds. Without action on
the bill the House adjourned.
AN IMMENSE NFIDENCE-GAME-HoW AN
UNSUSPECTING NEW YORKER LOST yALU-
ABLE LOT OF DIAMONDS.
NEW YORK, January 21.-One OF the
heaviest confdence-Sames ever played in
this city has just been successfully accom-
plished. 1t appears that man named HEM,
finding himself in want OF 4 large sum OF
money, but having q valuable set Of dia-
monds, estimated at $4,000, applied to man
whom he met downtown for loan. This
person purported to be a broker, and
steered Mr.. HEM to Belmont Hotel, in
Fulton street, where, under the pretence OF
taking the diamonds to an expert stopping
in the hotel, placed the confiding Hem at
the bar and walked out the rear door.
THE METROPOLITAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
IN The HANDS OF A RECEIVER.
NEW YORK, January 27.-Thc announce
ment made here yesterday that the Metro
politan Insurance Company was in the
hands OF receiver referred to the Metro
politan Fire Insurance Company, and not
the Metropolitan Life, between which
there is no connection. The two should
not be confused to the detriment OF the
last-named institution.
Personal.
NEW YORK, January 27.-William II.
Lyon, OF Brooklyn, has been appointed one
OF the Indian commissioners.
HELP FOR IGLESIAS-FEDERAL AND CoNFEDE-
RATE OFFICERS VOLUNTEERING.
NEW YORK, January 27.-The papers here
publish a statement that numbers OF officers
of the late war-some Of whom served on
one side and some on the other--haye deter
mined to offer Iglesias their services. A
conference was held in Washington ycster-
day afternoon, and one Of their number was
deputed to wait upon IgleSias and formally
tender him their services. This gentleman,
who graduated at West Point, and was in
the regular army when the war broke out,
and later one of the principal cavalry off.
GERS OF the Confederacy, will leave here i'm
mediately for st. Louis, where he hopes to
meet the eX-President and his Cabinet, and
lay the scheme before them. They say they
can easily raise ten or fifteen thousand men
in Louisiana and Texas.
MR.. GLADsTONE'S SPEECH AT TAUNTON sATUR-
DAY.
LONDON, January 27.-Mr. Gladstone
made a speech at Taunton to-day. In the
course of his remarks he said: eve ought
to mind our own business, and why we
should mind the Eastern question is beyond
me. We have chosen to make it'our own
question. It was made our business under
circumstances which no true-hearted Eng
lishman will disown. The people Of Eng
land are bound to resist the seductive Ian
guage OF those who tell them, now the con-
ference has met and failed, there is no
more to be done. IT is you, the people Of
England, whose resources and whose ac-
tions have maintained Turkey in the posi-
ton OF power she has so abominably mis-
used. In conclusion, Mr.. Gladstone said
the good fame Of England was never more
completely at stake. If the incessant din
ming into our ears OF the maintenance of
British interests; ii the infusion OF every
word of suspicion against the policy OF
Russia; If the abuse Of those unhappy
Turkish Christians who, having been en-
shaved people, are necessarily in such re-
spects open to the demoralizing influence
of slavery If the recent invention of the
Turkish Constitution, made to order. in
tended to act as bar to the propositions of
the conference; if by these or any other
like device-for I must say the Imagination
of the Turkish press Of this country is fer
tile byond anything in manufacturing
them-if by these things you are going
to be drawn aside from the great purpose
you have in view, then we shall leave to
Dosterity the melancholy lesson that