The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-30
From. Our Regular Correspondent
WORK ON THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

WASHINGTON, May Unsatisfactory ar
Secretary Of War and the contractors for
continuing the work on the new State, War,
and Navy building. 1t will hereafter be
done by the piece at fixed prices instead Of
under the fiiteen-per-cent. system, as here
toiore. Work will be resumed at Richmond
as soon as the drawings for the north wing
can be prepared. 1t is understood that
100000 out OF the existing appropriation
will be allotted to the work at Richmond.
PETERSBURG oFFICE-sEEKERs.
George Doggett, Esq, late Common
wealth's attorney for Petersburg, came to
this city few days ago in company with
Dick Young, Of the same town. Doggett
came with an application for the pension
agency, made out in due form, and signed
by good many. citizens. Young wanted
the post-office at Petersburg, so the happy
pair came along costly, and freely talked
over their plans and prospects OF grasping
the public teat.
After arriving here Doggett found his
chances for the pension agency were so
poor, and fell so completely under the Sc
ductiye influence of the eloquence OF Raj
ston, that he abandoned the contest against
Ralston, and, changing the head OF his APP
plication, filed it for the Petersburg post
office. Young Indignantly denounced this
as the worst piece Of political trickery he
had ever known. But Doggett was logged,
and took care to let it be known that mis-
opponent Young did not support DR.. Jor-
gensen for Congress; yet, singularly
enough, Jorgensen is now Young's most
ardent hacker. Naturally, Doggett wants
to know why this is thus.
PERSONAL.
Judge Hughes arrived here to-day, and it
is understood he came to press the suit OF
Yankee Allan for the consulship at Brad
ford, England, in place OF Dr. Douglass,
who has resigned.
James l.. Capston. formerly iailer Of Rich
mond, and now gauger in Collector
Whites office, is Al applicant for the con-
suate at Belfast, Ireland, which is now held
by James NJ. Donnan, of Petersburg. Cap
ston is supported by Colonel Brady.
Parson Phelps, Of Staunton, late r epub-
lican elector, has planted himself here, and
means to get something out OF the Admin
istration if perseverance counts for any
thing.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph to the
Dispatch.l
INTO TEXAS TO RE STOPPED
The Cabinet to-day instructed Mr.. Eyarts
to address q letter to Minister Foster, AT
Mexico, to communicate the determination
OF this Government to stop the predatory
incursions into Texas. Mexico must re-
strain her people, or General Ord will be
instructed to follow and punish the ma.
rauders on Mexican soil. Among the causes
OF delay in reaching an understanding be.
tween the two Governments will be the
translation OF Mr.. Evarts's English into
Spanish, and mean time General Ord is to
be yigilant under the old system.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
The revenue-raiders in West Virginia re.
port having destroyed fourteen distilleries
and nine copper-stills. They had several
conflicts with the party, and travelled five
hundred and twenty-four miles in nineteen
QaVS on nOrSeOaCk. r...
Governor Hartranft nas signed seventeen
death-warrants within four weeks. Petit
tons are circulating to commute the SEN
tence of the Molly Maguires to imprison-
ment for life.
A Port Royal dispatch says the corvettes
Ossippee and Essex and the monitors Ajax
and Lehigh received orders yesterday to
prepare for sea. The Ossippee and Essex
will convey the monitors to the Norfolk
navy-yard, where they are to be locked and
cleaned. It is understood that all the mon
itors will proceed to the same port as soon
as conveys can be furnished.
General Meredith Read, Charge d. A!ta1res
at Athens, writes the State Department con-
firming the report that the arms OF the Venus
of Milo have been found within thirty feet
of the place where the statue itself was found
in 1920. He says the arms are exqulsltely
modelled.
Over a million legal-tenders have been
destroyed this month, being eighty per cent.
OF the amount OF national-bank notes issued.
Mr.. Dodge, statistieian OF the Agricultural
Department., reports the loss of swine from
disease during the past twelve months at
four million animals of all ages, or twenty
million dollars. Florida, Alabama, Missls.
sippi, and Louisiana, lose half; West V1r-
ginia and the Atlantic Coast States stand
better than the alluvial districts.
... South Carolina.
THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE STATE.
COLUMBIA, May 90 The Senate, after
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