The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-08


s 81, CAROLINA NOT RECEIVABLE FOR
,ss-TUr YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL--MR.
-uovx-PERsoNAi., &C, &C.
f,--om our Regular CorTcspondentl
WASHINGTON. March 6.-The supreme
o,rr, stood four 10 four In the case OF
n,rrla,s and others rs. =. {. Gai'iard,
ooys,r treasurer for Charleston county, ).
r and hence the decision of the court
holow was affirmed. II Judge Hunt had
,.en well enough TO sit a decision OF the
o,csi,op would have been reached by ma
,on,y either for or against. The plaintiffs,
q will be remembered, held bills Of the
p,pk Of the State which bore upon their
,.ce that they were receivable in payment
o,,,ves due the State. The treasurer refused
% receive them. and the court below de-
c;ded in favor OF him and against Douglass
and others. As soon rs Judge Hunt re-
s,gn. or dies aud a successor is appointed
the ouesiion involved in this case will OF
eonrse be brought up again. When the
Sspreme Court OF the United States is di.
vided there is no opinion, Of course, read
rHg VIRGINIA NOMINEES FOR OFFICE.
Mr.. Robert Boiling has gone to New York
10 procure testimony with which to answer
The charge made against him OF embezzle-
ment. Leading Democrats Of Norfolk write
in confirmation OF what Judge Hughes says
in support Of Mr.. Francis Richardson, nomi-
pa,edfor supervisor ofthe First district. The
Indications are, therefore, that il no.
thing TO his discredit is brought be-
fore The committee that he will be
fayorably reported and confirmed. The
friend, OF Mr.. Epson, nominated for
collector at Tappahannock. declare that no.
thing can be said TO his discredit, but the
letter OF an old Democrat OF Essex, who
says be can prove he is not fit for the place,
causes his nomination to hang in the Com
meIce Committee. Some OF bis friends have
called on Senator Johnston, and would have
seen Senator Wnhers to-day, but he has
gone 10 Wytheyille on account OF the sick
ness Of bis wife.
GENERAL BURNSIDE AND TIE YORKTOWN BILL.
Senator Johnston called on General Burn
side to-day, who has charge OF the bill in
the Military Committee making an appro-
priaiiOn for the Yorktown monument and
centennial. General Burnside said the
trouble With the committee is that the Con-
tinenisl Congress- passed resolutions for
numerous monuments on revolutionary
baitle-ields besides Yorktown. He, how
ever, did not believe the number was as
great as the committee supposed, but
he had written TO Assistant-Secretary
John Hay, OF the State Department,
for full list OF the batle-ields
in question. General Burnside is a
friend Of the Yorktown bill. and assured
General Johnston that he would do all in
his power for il. He is frank, honest man,
and does what he thinks is right, even II it
be in the face of his party. The Republic
cans, however, are not at ali opposed to the
appropriation for Yorktown, so far as has
yet been developed in Congress.
WHAT is SAID OF Mr.. TILDEN NOW At WASH
INGT0N.
asked Democrat to-day, who has often
been at Gramarcy Park, what be thought of
the position Of Mr.. TIden. Why, said he,
from all ] heard during February from
those know are intimate with Mr.. Tilden,
concluded, even before seeing Watterson's
editorial, that he had about abandoned the
contest. What do you think now l asked.
Why, that Mr.. Tilden lets very few know
the thirty.tbird degree secrets OF his
heart. 1t looks to me now, I've said, that
he has changed his mind il he ever
really intended 10 abandon the fight
Why, II this be not so, have bis friends Sc
cured 240 roOns at Cincinnati! viii he get
the nomination if be wants it! asked.
There IS no telling, be replied. what be can
or cannot do. In 1876 came from the far
South TO Washington, said he, and found
nobody IN Congress hardly for him, and
politicians noted for sbrewdness hooted at
The idea OF his carrying the South at st.
LOUIS; and yet You remember that he
swept the States south Of the Potomac. So
II viii not do 10 conclude just because
Speaker Randall and q small squad in the
House now about constitute bis active
friends In Congress, that therefore he has
no chance Of nomination at Cincin-
natl. What do you think, asked,
OF the hurried postponement OF The
hentneky Democratic Convention /? 1t
means, said he, that Messrs. Watterson &
20. want TO give Mr.. Tilden all the chance
possible to increase bis strength, so as 10
make Kentucky unit for him. i see in
'bis, be said, a greet deal TO convince me
lnat from this out Mr.. Tilden's candidacy is
10 be active and pronounced. He is New
1ofk politician OF the Van Buren, type,
you must remember. la fact, he was pro-
ege oil the Sage OF Undertook. He knows
IS much about the way TO manage a canvass
's any NAN living, be added, aud those who
expect to beat him have no easy or ordinary
AK before them. Do YOU think, | asked,
nat be has PLAYED the part of the sbrewd
you say he is since 1875? Not by
10y means, be replied, with emphasis. II
ae mad planted bimself upon the fact that
ue was the victim Of stupendous fraud
'sAl cheated hlm out OF the pres idency, and
I'VE Whole people out Of a President legally
'"u enthusiastically elected, and done and
,,'a nothing el.e, he wonld to-day by ac-
''a'ns'ion be the choice Of united Demo-
: e pity; for IL ever q man was
'"sea be was. But be could not
IN. the promptings OF bis ma
'"e and you know what has oc-