From the New York Tribune, 5/21/1877, p. 1, c. 6

The long contest over the Post-Office at Richmond, Va., has been settled, and Miss Van Lew, appointed by Gen. Grant, is to be superseded by W. W. Forbes. Mr. Forbes was a Whig before the war, and has since been a Republican. He holds a high social position in Richmond, and seems not to have gained the personal enmity of the Democrats by his association with the Republican party. It is understood that he has already offered the most important subordinate appointments in the office to Conservative Democrats, one of whom was a candidate, and upon whose appointment the President at one time looked with some favor.

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