The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-05-21
From New York.

| .1-t Ll.-A NEW ORK. May ~.
Washington specials TO the morning pa
pers have the following: -oall.l
The Committee on Banking and Currency
had another meeting this morning, and Il
/ Is reported, have nearly perfected a plan
for the prevention. in future, of such affairs
as the Merchants National Bank, ofthis city.
| The total Internal Revenue receipts for
the week are S3,566.l41.
The following disbursements were made
last week by the Treasury for the respec-
tive Departments War, ell, l,347: Navy.
81 100 2SS; Interior, $235,256, Total, ST.
a56.S9l.
Fity clerks were discharged from the
Treasury Department to-day, for incompe-
tency and lack of employment.
Advices from Jamaica to May7, state that
the Island was healthy, but the weather was
not very .propitious, though good crops
were hoped for. -
A large meeting of citizens of Carroll.
Maryland, was held at Westminster yes
terday, for the purpose ofindorsing the pol
icy Of President Johnson. Speeches were
made By Montgomery Blair. Senator Hen
bricks, Of Maryland, General Rousseau and
others, in favor of the Presidents plan OF
reconstruction. ,a taaIHq p
The Times Fortress Monroe correspon-
deut expresses surprise at the reports of
Jefferson Davis failing health, and esti-
mates that his condition Is as good as ever.
and that he is being treated very kindly,
even luxuriously. rf.n -T
George Peabody Is suffering from illness.
at the residence of his sister In George
town, Massachusetts,. 1t is mot deemed
serious. ~ ffetI sAei@ t"a
The city was very quiet to-day, but
thousands of persons visited surrounding
cities and places where excise law was not
in force. Forty or fifty thousand people
crossed over to Jersey. There was little
disturbance. though a number of men and
women were robbed of their purses.
The Mexican Club Of this city has passed
a series of resolutions denouncing Santa
Anna as an enemy to liberty, and entirely
unworthy OF the confidence and sympathy
OF the friends of the Liberal cause. The
club charges him with being an accomplice
of Louis Napoleon and Macmillan. He Is
expected TO propose. this week, a manifesto
stating his views and desires on the Mexican
question. y stt ti1ttIr
BY Mr.. Stevens account. 1t appears that
the Fenian Brotherhood in this country
sent to Ireland f2B,0l4. The Union Square
palace has been handed over to the Man
haitian Committee for disposal; the COM
mittee met at q conference of the Long
Island Centers, In Brooklyn, last evening.
The Lierdlds correspondence from Paris,
Madrid and Berlin gives resume of the
LuIoptdu i,oitlcaI hlIuhtlOn up 10 the OIn
inst. Napoleon's declaration TO the French
Legislature, through NJ. Rodher, Minister
of State as 10 the pacific and neutral course
of France toward Germany and Italy, had
not assured the minds OF the French people,
and they remained keenly alive to the dam
ger Of their country being plunged into q
bloody war. ~ .tssy y III
On either side of the German question,
whenever 1t suited the Emperor TO inter-
fere under his very dubious reservations
Of perfect freedom Of action. Indeed. 1t
was more generally conceded, since the de-
livery of the official statement. that France
Is contentedly governed by a one-man
power, and enjoys little will Of her own.