From Washington

Herald’s Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, May 19.

It is stated that Gov. Stanley is greatly grieved at the course of Gen. Hunter, and until the prompt and emphatic proclamation of the President, to-day, was unwilling to undertake the office assigned to him in North Carolina.  It is clear that what rebels there are this side of the Blue Ridge, are between McDowell’s Corps and Fredericksburg and Richmond.

Mr. Spaulding, an active business man of Washington has returned from a brief visit to Norfolk.  The citizens there are not on bad terms with our soldiers, but they are confident that Gen. McClellan cannot reach Richmond.

The Senate committee on commerce gave Mr. Lathrop, the newly nominated collector for New Orleans, a hearing to-day. – His statement, however, in his own behalf, did not alter the unfavorable decision previously arrived at by the committee.  Mr. Lathrop requested an opportunity to have his name withdrawn, which was granted.  The President will probably send in the name of Cuthbert Bullitt to-morrow, for the same position.  Mr. Bullitt has been a merchant and resident of New Orleans over twenty years, and left [there] last year for reason of his loyalty.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 21, 1862, p. 2