The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-16

4
PRESSES HIS OPINION ON THE CIv1L-sER-
VICE BLACKBOARD SYST EM-FAh1oUs
ITEMS OF INTEREST, FROM WARRINGTON
TYNER ACCEPTS TIE ASSISTANT POST
= GOV. HAMPTON
avs THE NEW ELECTION SCHEME IS AN
INSULT TO HIS pEoPLE--THE NEW HAhP-
SHIRE ELECTIoN-JoNEst DEMOCRAT, DE-
rr.TEp-pEATH OF A LADY ONE HUN
pREp AND FIVE YEARS oLD--MuRpER
AND F1RE-TI1E REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AT
COLUMBUS, OHIO, &C., &C.
from Our Regular Correspondent
rYSER AND FRED. poUoLAss-HATEs's START
LING EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL EQUALITY.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The appoint.
ment of Tyner as First Assistant Postmaster
G eneral was withheld to-day, probably be-
cause the changes it will necessitate la the
Department were not adjusted. Fred.
Douglass was nominated rs marshal OF
the District of Columbia, though the
appointment was a great surprise even
to the Republicans. II he should de-
cline to be relieved Of that part OF
his duties which makes him the
official medium Of introduction OF callers ut
official receptions Mt the White House, Mr..
Hayes will have set startling example OF
social equality that not many OF his Repub-
licsn admirers will care to follow. Demo
Gratis say there is scarcely an Office within
the gift OF the President in which colored
man would be more Objectionable; but that
is putting the case rather too strong.
Among the members Of the bar there Is
much dissatisfaction with the appointment
OF Douglass, and it is said that Colonel
Phillips, who has been deputy marshal for
TWENTY-FIVE years, has declined to remain,
though requested by Douglass. AS it is
good, fat place, Phillips will no doubt re-
consider his refusal.
D. @. POTTS AS POSTMASTER OF PETERSBURG.
DR.. Jorgensen says the President has ap.
pointed D. q. Potts, q Democratic friend OF
General Fey, to the postmastership at Pc
tersburg, and will send in the nomination
tomorrow. This may be presumed to be
correct, as the Doctor has expended much
valuable time in behalf Of his friends REILLY
and Young, and the latter had once the office
almost within his grasp through the inter-
vention OF Tyner. Jorgensen appears some
what disguised, and says he presumes your
correspondent likes Hayes's administration
as well as il Tilden were President. A
well.known Virginian tells me that when
Jorgensen. as the only Republican Con-
gresham from Virginia, called on his Ex-
cellcncy and demanded the Petersburg Office
for his friend, Hayes heard him respectfully,
but significantly remarked that be "would
give his and every other congressman's re-
commentator Just as much consideration
as he would that Of any other respectable
gentleman" / understood the Doctor to
deny this story as he abruptly left me to
join his friend Morgan, of Petersburg.
MosBY WANTS THE BEST HAYES CAN GIVE HIM.
Yesterday letter from Judge Bond laud-
ing Colonel J. s. Mosby in high terms, and
commencing him to the grateful attention
OF the President, was picked up in the Sen
ate lobby and banded to senator; so it is
not worth while for me to keep secret any
longer the fact that the Colonel now asks Of
the Government full recognition OF the
sacrifices he has made for the Republican
party. He would prefer to be one Of the
legal assistants Of the new Attorney-Gene-
raj. ... ... ..:
The few southern Democratic senators
who met at Senator Gordon's room last
night did not make any formal resolution.
Sundry propositions were made as to the
best course to pursue in view OF the new at
titude OF the Administration towards the
South, but it was generally agreed that the
best thing to do was to let the President
pursue his own course without formal sug-
gestion from them, and they should get
home as soon as practicable. They think
it would be indiscreet to press Dir.
Hayes to early action in regard to Nichols
or Packard, as every days delay improves
more or less the hold they have upon pow
er in their States, and the President can act
with more freedom when the Senate shall
have adjourned and left out in the cold
Kellogg and Corbin, the representatives OF
whatever claim Packard and Chamberlain
may have.
SCHURZ IN TROUBLE.
Secretary Schurz is in trouble. He wants
a lawyer or two, such as Chandler had, to
attend to the routine business Of his De.
partment; but Chambers lawyer declines
to play second fiddle any longer for $4,000
per annum, as he can make more than that
at his profession, and says he only served
old lack as personal favor. Schurz
has failed to find any other legal
luminary to supply his place at that
paltry price, and has naturally concluded
that the first civil-service reform in the In
terror Department should be an increase Of
salary to his first assistant, as he (Schurz,
is signing away large sums Of money with.
out knowing whether he is doing right OF
wrong. Chandler left all this to Gaylord
and had time to manage the details of Q
great national political campaign and to see
to it that the votes of three States away
down in Dixie were "fairly counted"
LOOKING AFTER THEIR INTERESTS.
Otis II. Russell, G. S. Mills, and some
other Republicans from Virginia, who have
been here looking after their Interests, went
home to-day, but leave many more behind
1t is rumored that Dauville and Lynchburg
Democrats will soon storm the Administra.
ton. From the best information ] can get
it appears that Mr.. Starke will get. the Rich.
mond post-ofiice il Miss Van Lew is not re-
commissioned. I'D $3.50. s... ~.
Father Taft left the city in anger against