The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-09
From Our Regular Correspondent
PRIZE-MoSEY.

WASHINGTON, April 7.-To-day was tn,
time set for the return to be made befor,
Judge Cartier on the application for wr
OF mandamuS commanding the Secretary o.
the Navy to revise the action Of the Depart
ment in the distribution OF prize-money or
account of the capture of the rebel ram AL
| bemarle. In this case it is alleged that in
| consequence OF certain OF the officers hav.
ing been paid in proportion to their saa
ries rs officers in advanced grades (and moi
in proportion to their salaries at the time oil
capture) the appropriation run short, and
several officers and men by this action failed
| to receive i fair proportion. s,....
Mr.. James Fullerton represents the petit
TONERS, who claim that there is due them
nearly $4,000, and the District Attorney
represents the Government. To-day Dis
trict- Attorney Wells asked that the hearing
go over until the Dist, stating that he had
been informed that the Navy Department
was looking into this matter. The court
granted this request.
BALTIMORE P0ST-OFFICE.
President Hayes has promised to settle
the Baltimore post-otfice squabble next
week. This will be gratifying news to the
railroad officials who have been supplying
the applicants with dcad-head tickets to
come here and look after the place.
Associated Press Reports by telegraph to the
Dispatch.I
THE LOUISIANA COMMISSION.
The Times has the following editorial :
"The Louisiana commissioners have en-
tered upon the task Of Cancellation and
compromise, and already begin to find it
uphill work. Governor Packard exhibits
a disposition as far removed from compro-
mise as could we'll be imagined, and will
hear no proposals whatever which do not
proceed upon the presumption that he is
the legallv-elected Executive Of the State.
II the commission can point out a flaw in
his title he is willing to have the LeSisla-
ture reconvened in order TO recanvass the
vote, but not otherwise.
"If the United States troops are removed
Packard proposes to test his ability to keep
his place by force OF arms, and he happens
to be man who, in Il matter OF this kind,
can be trusted to keep his word. As 1t is
equally certain that the President will leave
the contestants to themselves as soon as all
possible means OF bringing about Il settle
ment have been exhausted, the dangers of
civil conflict in Louisiana are by no means
at an end. That consideration will lead the
country to regard the labors OF the COM
mission with some additional soicitude."
Specials from New Orleans to northern
papers represent the Nichols showing be-
fore the commission as fatally superior to
Packard's in yesterdays proceedings. 1t
is thought the inevitable result will be
reached much earlier than was expected.
Packard himself has forced the fight to
his own discontinue.
VARIOUS ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON.
Hubert Z. Paine declines the Assistant
Secretaryshlp Of the Interior.
Ex-Governor Gilbert c. Walker, Of Vir-
ginia, is becoming prominent for Speaker.
His friends claim for. him sixty pledged
votes. .-@.
Attorney General Devens has issued in
structions to his subordinates throughout
the country to curtail their expenses.
The Republicans are centring on Gar
field for Speaker, and they have slight hope
that the Texas Pacific influences may elect
him. Randall is still the most prominent
among Democratic contestants.
There are several gentlemen here with n
few thousand spare dollars talking seriously
OF putting it in South Carolina.