The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-04
John S. Mosby and the Stale Department.
This Is said to be highly interesting, and
will be read all over the country with avid
INDIANA mo- mn coI,oN1zEp.

intend to settle. Is this the beginning OF
| the proposed scheme to increase the col
ored Republican vote Of the staIwart Dem
ocratic State of the West In time for the
next pI residential e!ections Messrs. Hen
bricks, Voorhees,, and Mcdonald should in
quire into it.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
1t is asserted tonight that Mr.. Sherman
told Mr. Price, Republican, OF Iowa, to-day
that he does not want any change in regard
to greenbacks. Then why did he recon-
mend it:
Mr.. Wood, chairman Of Ways and Means,
says he will vote against the recommended
lions Of the Secretary OF the Treasury and
President in regard to greenbacks, but may
go for discontinuance OF the coinage Of
the silver dollar.
The rumor tonight is that Mr. Seward,
Minister to China, is to be recalled. He
ought to be tried, convicted, and severely
punished.
Mr.. Laid, Greenbacker, of Maine, says
the Democrats only ask that the law be
Sll lCLly Cu1OlCCu III tlhu ehee sSCiuS
fair.
There was warm talk, hear, in the Com
mittee ON Rules, and Mr.. Blackburn put in
some tart remarks.
The House Committee on Appropriations
was in session to-day, and will meet again
tomorrow. The marshals' deficiency bill
will be considered right away.
Dispatches to-day state that the crooked
whiskey people continue to make it warm
for the pubIicans in Townes county, Ga.
ASSOCIATED Press Report by telegraph to the Dis
patcb.l
CONTESTED SEATS.
WASHINGTON, December 3.-The House
Committee on Elections met to-day to con-
slider the cases OF members whose seats are
contested. Of which cases there are sixteen
on the committees docket. Four OF these
are ready TO be heard, including that of Bis
bee Republican, Us. Hull (Democrat), Of
Florida, and that Of Bradley (Republican)
Us. SlemenS (Democrat), Of Arkansas. In the
cases OF Haral son Republican) Us. Shelley
(Dcmocrat), OF Alabama, and Herbert and
Merchant Us. Acklen Dcmocrat), Of Louisi-
ana, no briefs have been filed by the con-
testants, and they will probably be dropped
by the committee.
CoLoRED EMIGRANTs EN- ROUTE FOR INDIANA.
WASHINGTON, December 3.-Two hum
dred and fifty colored emigrants from
North Carolina reached this city to-day. on
their way to Indiana. Fifty OF them were
furnished with through tickets, and the
National Emigrant Aid Society is en-
deavoring to raise funds TO pay for the
! transportation of the remainder to their
| destination.
HEAVY SALVAGE CLAIM.
ST. JOHN's, n. b., December 3.-The
| Gt0be says the steamer Circassia has claimed
$4,000 salvage for towing the disabled
steamship City Of Richmond into Halifax.
The Inman people decline TO pay more than
$4,000, and the case has gone into the ad-
miralty courts.
NOMINATIONS.
WASHINGTON, December 3.-Thc follow
ing were among the nominations OF post
masters sent to the Senate to-day: Robert
NJ. Orrell, at Fayetteville, n. c.; David L.
Bringe at Salisbury, N. c.; and Benjamin
N. Cox at Farmvile, Va.
Forty.sIxth ConGress--secOnd Session..
WASHINGTON, December 3, 1879.
SENATE.
Mr.. Ferry presented the credentials Of
Hon. Henry z. Baldwin, vino was aD-
pointed senator from Michigan uice Hon. 4.
Chandler, deceased, and Mr.. Baldwin was
thereupon sworn in and took his seat.
Mr.. Beck introduced 4 bill to authorize
the payment OF customs duties in legal
tender notes also, bill to amend the title
of the 18th Revised Statutes so as to au-
thorize the purchase of foreign-buiIt ships
by citizens Of the United States for use in
| foreign waters.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
! BY unanimous consent States were called
as Of Monday for the introduction Of bills /;
under which call the following were intro
duced and referred:
By Mr.. Wood OF New York: Respecting
the reIundng OF the national debt. The bill
is astollows:
Be II enacted. That so much OF the all.
thority conferred on the Secretary Of the
Treasury by the acts Of July II, 1870, and
January 20, 1871, to refund the public debt
to the extent OF $1,000, 100000 as has not
been exhausted and executed, be here
by modified so as to limit the rate OF
interest on bonds yet to be issued, as all.
thorzed by these acts, to a rate OF interest
DIR. Goode, OF Virginia, offered a resolu-
ton for the appointment of select COM
mttee OF thirteen members to consider the
eypediency Of greetings monument at York.
town, Va, in accordance with the resolution
OF the Continental Congress adopted De-
tober, 1881, and to make the necessary al
engagements for an appropriate celebration
by the American PEOPLE OF the centennial
anniversary OF the surrender or Lord Corn
wallis. Adopted.
Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio, introduced bill
to facilitate the refunding Of the national
debt. Referred. 1t provides that all eX'
listing provisions OF law shall apply to any
United States bonds bearing a higher rate
of interest than 4 per cent. which may
hereafter become redeemable, and it au.
tboriZes the Secretary OF the Treasury tt
exchange directly at par 4 per cent
bonds Of the description authorized by the
act OF July IA, 1870, for any such bonds
lIt is understood that this bill was prepared
at the Treasury Department by Secretary
Sherman, and contains all the provision:
which he deems necessary TO enable him t
carry out successfully the work OF refund
ing the and per cent. bonds which raj
due in 1881, amounting TO nearly SS0o,OO0,
000.]
Adjourned.
Church Burned.
! 4 PHILADELPHIA CHURCH DESTROYED BY FRI
WHILE A FAIR WAS BEING HELD.
PHILADELPHIA, December ga fair wa
| b.Id faut nipht at the PRESBYTERIAN church