Associated press Dispatches.
from Washington — Reconstruction — the collectorship of New York--Pennsylvania asks for nearly a million dollars to pay the expense of repelling Confederate invasions of that State--the Mexican Ministry--Hon. John Bigelow--Isaiah Pascoe pardoned — the United States Treasurer at Washington is prepared to pay the interest on the registered bonds. Washington, December 22.
--Raymond's friends to-day assert that the attempt on yesterday on the part of the radicals to break him down is a signal for open war. They threaten retaliation.
The President is gradually drawing to his policy all persons who have not fixed political principles.
Senator Stewart, Colonel Forney and other Republicans of this kind are out for immediate admission.
The prospects are, that Van Dyke will eventually be appointed Collector of New York.
Raymond backs him up, and he is the President's favorite from the city of New York.
Pennsylvania asks Congress for nearly a million dollars to pay the expense of repelling Confederate invasions of that State.
An attempt will be made to refer it to a committee.
There is no doubt of the fact that the President yesterday nominated to the Senate ex-Congressman L. D. Campbell, of Ohio, to be Minister Extraordinary to the Republic of Mexico, in place of General Logan, declined.
The nomination was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Hon. John Bigelow, who was appointed, ad interim, Minister to France, has been nominated by the President for confirmation.
Secretary Stanton is at the War Department to-day.
Isaiah Pascoe, formerly plumber at the Philadelphia navy-yard, recently convicted and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment, has been pardoned by the President.
The United States Treasurer here is prepared to pay the interest on the registered bonds. 