The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-13

no reference whatever 10 your state Exc
cutlve Committee or anybody connected
with either Of your State committees, as
some OF your readers, regret, supposed.
repeat that yirginians here believe that
Mr.. Barbour Is eminenfly fitted to be the
head Of the Congressional Executive Com
mittee.
Charles A. Carson, W. A. Mills, Miles
withers, J. l.. Rutledge. and J. G. Clonin-
ger have been appointed storekeepers and
gaugers for the Sixth North Carolina dis
! trict.
The presidential party, which went TO
Hampton to-day, expect to return to Wash
ington Friday.
George VI. Cbileott, the new senator from
Colorado, was born in Pennsylvania In
1923. He was Territorial delegate In the
Fortieth Congress.
W. w. Ker has been sent by the Attor-
ney-Gencral TO South Carolina 10 take part
in the election trials.
The opinion prevails that the President
will recommend 10 Congress the retirement
OF Fitz John Porter with the rank Of colo
rel, and also that he be allowed the pay Of
maior-general from his dismissal TO the end
Of the war.
Senator Teller will not enter upon his
duties as Secretary Of the Interior until
Monday.
Senator Ransom has returned from North
Carolina, and was in his seat to-day.
Government receipts to-day Customs,
S1.OSj,9sl internal revenue, S337,ss9;
naiional-bank notes for redemption, $751;
600.
Mr.. Rounds, the new Public Printer,
visited the printing-ofiice to-day. He will
have an inventory taken at once, and
while this is being done win 90 TO Chicago
and wind up his private business.
John Boyle O'Reilley, editor Of the
Boston Pilot, and Hugh G.. Hastings,
editor Of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, are here attending the National
Land-League Convention.
The House Committee on Education will
soon report bill giving immediate aid by
Congress to the public schools of the
country. 1t will not, however, appropriate
over ter or twelve millions.
Associated Press Reports to the Dispatch.I
WASHINGTON, April 12.-The House Com
mittee on Commerce has concurred in the
plan submitted by the MiSSisslppi-Riyer
Commission for this work, and the sum Of
S4.123, 600 has been agreed upon, 100000
Of which is 10 be used above the mouth OF
the Ohio river. This action OF the commit
tee is incorporated in the riycr-and-harbor
appropriation bill.
The Senate confirmed William Z. Chand-
Ter a Secretary Of the Navy by vote Of 2S
against lG. The Senate also confirmed eX-
Secretary William II. Hunt as Minister 10
Russia.
The President nominated George Nancy,
Of Tennessee, TO be Minister Resident and
Consul-General TO Bolivia: William J..
Scruggs, Of Georgia. Minister Resident to
the United States Of Colombia; J. II. Part
ridge, OF Maryland, Minister to Peru;
John II. Smyth, Of North Carolina, Minis
ter to Liberia: William Williams. OF In
dians. Charge d'Affaires TO Paraguay and
Uruguay; John Jay Knox, Of Minnesota,
a. Comptroller Of the Currency; CommO-
d0re Pierce Crosby rs Rear-Admiral, and
Captain A. A. Semmcs as Commodore;
also. Miss Josephine Hopkins rs pOstmas-
ter at Glen Allen, Virginia.
4 delegation OF ministers of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church. headed by
Bishop Brown, and accompanied by Frede-
rick Douglass, waited upon Attorner-Gen-
eral Brewster to-day and made complaint
against the United States attorney for the
Northern District OF Florida for his failure
10 enforce the provisions Of the ciyil-rights
bill. The particular case referred to was
that Of Bishop Payne, who was put of q
railroad train at midnight several miles
from the nearest station after having pur-
chased a first-cass ticket. II was repre-
,euted that all applications to the district
attorney for legal redress were OF no avail.
The Acknowledgement promised the dele
cation that the matter should be investi-
gated.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, April l2.-The President,
Secretary Of War, and Board Of Managers
~ the Soldiers Home left here this morning
for visit TO the Soldiers Home, Hampton.
Va