The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-08
WASHINGTON, Nav 6, 1866

WASHINGTON, May 6, 1866.
II has been animated to-day by parties
whose reliability in safe predictions Is ge-
morally OF safe character that the report
Of the Stevens committee, which is des-
tined to create . stir throughout the coun-
try before the present week is over, will
not be adopted by the House. Notwith.
standing the tremendous efforts Of various
parties to make it appear as If the pro-
posed constitutional amendment is just the
thing wanted, there are manifestations OF
fear among them for its success which does
not accord well with their assertions. This
Is not all that is annoying TO the majority
party-for so the radicals in Congress dis
tinguish themselves at present. The ques-
ton Of adjournment Is having its merits
agitatcd quite seriously. The House OF
Representatives Is anxious to close up bu-
sincss, so that. the members can leave.
There is work to be done at home in
the way Of engineering for new nomi-
nations and campaigning; but as neither
House can adjourn for three days without
the consent of the other, and the Senate re-
fuses to leave the President, the members
Of the lower body are rather in q quandary
They would 60 home if they could, but
the Senators avow their determination to
stay, and resist nominations by the Prcsi-
dent. The constitutional provision which
prevents an adjournment without mutual
consent is one which cannot be we'll tor
tured into different meaning, rs others
relating TO more important subjects have
been and unless the Senators agree to go
home, the members of the House must
brave the summer heats of the capital and
fight il out on the line chalkcd down. AZ
fairs about Congress are complicated any
way, and the Radicals are finding it very
difficult business to bring order ont OF
chaos. They have had IA long rope to ma
nipulate matters with, and the inevitable
result is to be their own downfall.
The secret of the severe and bitter de-
nunciations of the President which peri
odically present themselves in Congress
generally consists in disappointments in
matters relating to official appointments.
Several of the gentlemen who have thus
ventilated their dissatisfaction of late have
had their radical friends decapitated for
bitter opposition to the Administration
policy, whilst others have been i'll vain
attempting to secure Office for their con-
stituents of the same political hue.
William NJ. Gwin, late Senator from the
State of California, and subsequently Duke
of Sonora under Maximilian, has been re-
leased from imprisonment in the forts
below New Orleans, and placed on parole.
Prominent Republican Senators interceded
i'm his behalf, his feeble health being a
strong incentive to their intercession.
The score of American citizens of Afri-
can descent whopetitioned Congress for the
expulsion of Senator Davis, OF Kentucky,
will hardly have their ardent desires
gratified, though several of their white
friends have been assiduous in the effort to
obtain such action. Prominent Radicals,
last week, however, asserted that Davis
would be ousted. Should it prove so, II is
thought ex-senator Dowell will be his
successor.
The recent bank failures in this city
continue to be theme of considerable
excitement. A third, in addition to the
two mentioned in yesterdays papers, is re-
ported to have failed yesterday. The
losses Of the Government by the failure of
the Merchants National Bank will reach,
II is said, over three quarters of million.
The failures have affected business OF all
kinds very much in this city, besides Gre
ating CONSERVATION in the New York
stock market of Saturday. The Treasury
Department proper is not the loser on the
part Of the Government, as an officer con-
nected with the War Office, by imputed
disobedence of orders, has caused the eX-
penditures of that Department to be in
creased by depositing its moneys i'll the
unsound banking institution. TIMoN.