The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-25
From Washington.
PRESIDENTIAL APPoINTMENTs-THE HILL I,
VESTIGATION.

PRESIDENTIAL APPoINTMENTs-THE HILL IN
vEST1GATIoN.
WASHINGTON. April 24.-The President
has appointed to be postmasters David
T. Dunn. Brunswick, Ga; David L..
Loung, Winona, Miss; 4. :. Asberry,
Roanoke, Va: James ii. G0Ss, Union
Courthouse, :. {.
EX-CongreSsman Murch has written to
the Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury, the
new chairman OF the committee to inyesti-
gate the charges against Superyising-Ar
tcct Hill, raising several objections TO the
management OF the investigation. The
letter is withheld from the public, but it
has been learned that Murch'S principal
objection is that ASsistant-Solicitor Robin
son. who Murch asserts is partial TO Hill.
is allowed to sit as 4 member OF the COM
mittee. Robinson has expressed his will
ingness to withdraw, and Secretary Folger
will appoint substitute. not because he
believes there Is any ground for such ac-
ton, but to make impossible any charge OF
favoritism in creating the committee.
There was received at the Post-Office De-
partment to-day an internal-revenue-return
blank on which was printed an advertise
ment of 4 well-known business enterprise.
The matter was called 10 the attention OF
Secretary FOlger.
CABINET MEETING YESTERDAY.
WASHINGTON, April 2i.-The meeting OF
the Cabinet to-day lasted about an hour
and half. All OF the heads Of the depart
ments were present, including the new
Postmaster-G General. There was some dis
ussion OF the question whether the Ma
tional Board OF Health or the Marine-Hos-
pital service should direct and control the
expenditure OF the 100000 appropriated
for the prevention and suppression Of cpl
demic diseases, but no conclusion was
reached. The Marine-Ilospital service had
control Of the epidemic fund last year, but
their authority to disburSe 10 is now dis
puted by the National Board OF Health,
and the question has been referred 10 the
President for decision.
There was also some informal converse
ton at the meeting to-day with regard 10
evidence furnished by newspapers that
persons i'm the United States are actively
engaged in aiding and directing the opera
tions OF the dynamite plotters in England.
This conversation did not grow out Of any
Official correspondence upon the subject,
for no document OF any kind relating 10 il
was presented, but there is reason to be-
lieve that n hypothetical question was
framed and discussed, and that the MEM
bers OF the Cabinet generally expressed
their views rs to what the policy OF this
Government should be in various suggested
contingencies which might arise out Of the
manifest disposition Of certain Irish leaders
to use this country rs n basis for attacks by
means Of dynamite and trC-glycerine upon
the English Government and English peO-
pie.
RICH .'FIND" OF INDIAN RELICS IL NORTH
CAROLINA.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. April 24.-The party
engaged in making surveys and arch9OlO-
gical investigations in North Carolina, I'M
der the direction OF the Bureau OF EthnO-
logv, has Just discovered near Mount Pts
gah, in that State, two prehistoric aborigi-
nal mounds. containing an unusually rich
and valuable collection OF polished stone,
axes. ccltS, and other Indian implements.
The mounds had apparently served as bu-
rial-paces. and also contained the remains
OF human bodies. The cOllection.of imple-
ments, which constitutes one OF the richest
and most valuable &" finds recently made
in the eastern States, will be brought to
Washington and added to the collection in
the National Museum.