The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-01
xx.sn,,r,ou News and Gossip


Thu nersonaI property OF Captain III. w.
How cate has also been attached In addiiioo
n the real estate, in the civil suit against
him nv the Government. The amount,
however. over the exemptions Is very
small.
Paymaster. General Cutter, OF the navy,
was. according TO law, placed on tne I"lIIeu
he, Yesterday. and will leave at once Win
h1s family for his home in Massachusetts,,
where no will remain for vacation oil two
or three weeks. His retirement creates seii
ous embarrassment. No one Is authorized 10
appoint his successor except the PRESIDENT
Who is TOO in to consider the subject. Gen.
oral Cutter, under the law, cannot continue
IN act. no matter how much he might be
disposed to do so. The case presents the
first real embarrassment IN the matter OF
t6e official business OF the department
which has come up since the unfortunate
shooting OF the President.
A dIsnute is progressing between District
Attorney CorkhIll and Major BROCK, OF the
Police Department, as to who snail nave
custody OF Guiteau's pistol Till the lrlal OF
the latter.
THE FIRST KIND WORDS FOR GUITEAU,
received In his mail, arrived this morning.
being a letter from relative IN LOulsVlIle,
Ky., signing herself "Cousin Ellen" She
saSs: q" am panied to hear that YOU acted
so unwseIy by shooting our President. But
YOU have our sympathy and REGARDS. your
Cousin Mary says she VIII DO an IN her
mower for YOU. II you want any books
or narers let us know, and we
will send to you"
YORKTOWN NOTES.
The reports from Virginia indicate large
attendance Of distinguished guests and mill
tary. The militia has been brigaded under
the command OF Brigadier. General Fitz'
hugh Lee, and consists Of The First, Second,
and Third regiments. The First will be
commanded By Colonel j. Il. Purcell, OF
Richmond, Va: the Second by. Colonel
Bumgardner, OF StauntOn, Va; and the
Third by Colonel WerteDbaker, OF Char
lottesyille. Besides these there Will be
eight independent unattached companies,
from go to 20 men each; two battallons oil
coored troops, five companies OF 4O men
each; and other companies (unattached)
and batteries, aggregating over 5000 men.
There will also be post OF the Grand Army
OF the Republic of New Jersey.
Among The many organizations OF revo-
lutionary origin expected at the yorktown
celebration is the Chatham artillery, OF
Savannah, Ga, which dates its life from
1856 10 the present time without break or
change OF name. The members will bring
with them two pieces OF ordinance OF great
historical interest, they having been surreD'
dered By the British at Yorktown to WASH
ington October 10, 1881. They were pre-
senteCi by Washington to the Chatham artil-
lery, OF Savannah, Ga, during bis visit to
that city in 1901, and they have been 10 the
possession OF that organization to the pre-
sent time. One Of these pieces was evil
IDENTIFY Of French manufacture, having on
the base the following name and date: "a.
Strssbourg, Par. l Berrenger, 1885," with
the name OF the piece, ola Populalre."
This piece, it seems, was captured by the
British from the French some time pre-
vious to the siege OF Yorktown. Upon the
other piece is the name and date, OR.
Gilpin, Fecit, 1856 -; also the letters G. X.
George Rex) In monogram, and then the
British crown with the Maltese cross.
| 10 connection with arrangements FOR the
! yorktown celebration 1t has been discov-
cred that at present there is an orgsniZ:tion
in the UHited States army that has preserved
intact its continuity since 1776. This organi-
cation, now Battery F, Fourth artillery, was
first organaniZed by the New York Pro-
vincial Convention on the 9th OF January,
1776. and was commanded By Captain Alex
ander Hamilton, who was subsequently,
/ first Secretary OF the Treasury.