The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-19
Washington Correspondence.
he Conspiracy of the JacObins.

WAsHINGToN, December 10.
The holidays will be availed Of by the
Jacobiu lcaders--the "Oid he0ds,n who have
Outlived the desire for sensual pleasures
TO perfect the several schemes-sOme five
IN numbcr--tO change the character Of the
Government; so that when, after New
Years, Congress gets fairly under sail, the
evil work may be done up speedily.
What this Congress tails to do In thecon-
splracy plot, before the expiration Of its
Constitutional eNistence--at twelve, mid
night, March ,, the merit will proceed to fin
isli without delay and as only a few hours
will be suffered to clapse, between the gO-
ing out Of the one and the coming in Of the
other, it will not be long before the Ameri-
can people win find themselves transferred
from the Government of Republic to that
of an Oligarchy.
ONE or THE CHANGES
Is, to vest all the powers of Government
In the present rump Congress, for cstab-
fishing territorial Governments over the
Southern States, and for excluding the
people of the Southern States from all par
ticipation In the next Presidential election.
Every one of the five measures In that
Radical programme Is fagrantly unconsti-
tutional. But il the President can be pre-
vented from appointing judge TO fill the
vacancy on the supreme bench, (and this
has been donc,) and IL one of the five
Judges can be made to change his mind,
and so decision be obtained In favor of
the cOnstitutionality OF the test oath act
cannot means be found to get all of these
five measures pronounced constitutional
alsoY This question, no doubt, has been
lpondcred deeply by the Radical leaders.
TnE MONEY POWER TO BE CRASHED.
The machinery by which the internal
revenue bureau Is carried on requires the
employment of a vast army of men, some
OF high rank and marked position. All Of
these, from the highest to the lowest, are
under the absolute control of the commits
sioncr ofiuternal revenue; and, If they do
not act in every respect as he wishes, he
can cause their dismissal, and have others,
more subservient to himself appointed In
their places. ID is believed here by the
shrewdest Republican politicians that the
man who can control the commissioner of
internal revenue will be able to make him
self the next President, so powerful and
widespread are the ramificatiOns OF the bu
reau.
CHASE IS THE MONEY RING.
Chase is after the Presidency, and know
ing how potent is the control of money
patronage, he and his friends are striving
TO get this vast power into his hands. As
this Is matter about which there are
rival interests between prominent Repub-
licans, the measure, of course, meets with
vehement opposition from Republican
politicians. IL will, in the course of the
session, take definite shape In the form of II
bill. If such n bill should come before the
House now, the first part of 1t, taking away
the power from the President, would be
carried by 4 vote of about one hundred and
twenty to forty. On the second part of the
bill, vesting the power in the Chief Justice.
the Republicans would be about equally
divided, (for Mr.. Chase, rs a candidate for
the Presidency, has not more than fifty or
sixty adhercnts in the House,) and the
balance of power.
PISTOLS AND CoFFEE-A BLooDLEss EXCITE
MENr.
The other day our city dullness was con-
siderably disturbed by the reports of a
contemplated duel between two Mississip-
plans, one loyal and the other alleged to be
otherwise. The facts are these: Judge
Able, who holds an official position in Mis-
| sissippi, met DR.. Sidney, of the same State,
in Capitol Square this afternoon. The doe
tor remarked to a friend who was with him
that rs he had once fought him in duel he
did not wish to notice him. The Judge,
however, came up and addressed the Doc
tor rs follows: "lou are a renegade South
erner. What are you doing here? 2" The
response was n knock down blow. A chal-
| lenge from Judge Able followed. They
were to fight with rifles on the Virginia
shore to-day ut noon, but the matter was
subsequently amicably arranged, and no
! fight came of. much to the disappointment
of friends on both sides. Judge Able is n
| Johnson man, and DIR. Sidney isa Southern
/ Radical,