The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-22
BY TELEGRAPH.
Wnshington Nows and Gossip.


WASHINGTON, April 2l.-It is admitted,
on all sides, that we shall not have a quo
rum here, In either branch ofCongress, In
July, rs no one expects that body TO con-
vene until December The Chronicle, this
morning, admits this, and mentions, as a
reason, the want ofharmony existing be-
tween the Executive and Senate.
1t is understood from an authoritative
source that the nomination ofGeneral ThOs.
kilby Smith, for Consul at Havana, was
not acted upon by the Senate The nomi-
nation arrived but fifteen minntes before
the Adjournment aud too late for action in
the case.
The ilual adjournment by the Senate has
left about forty offices vacant They are
mostly confined to Collectors, Assessors and
small POstmasters, and are also mostly in
the Western States. The only important
offices untitled are those of Naval officer
! for New York, and the Consul General of
Havana. The President claims the right
to fill these by appointment. during the re
cess, rs well as the Mission to Austria.
There are ten candidates for the Vienna
Mission.
| The Radical Senators, on the other hand,
claim that, under the tenure of Office law,
| the President has no power to appoint,
/ until the Senate conCurs hereafter, in cases
where vacancy has occurred since the
| act took effect, and where nominations
/ were made and the Senate failed to confirm.
| There is no truth in the report that Sec
retary Seward has made bid for British
! Columbia.
! The proposition Of Senator Cole of Cali
| tornia that this Government ought to offer
| its services as mediator between Prussia
aud France, to avoid if possible another
| European war was received with consider
| able laughter in the Senate, and without
any debate was promptly laid on the table.
The Alexander Cummings confirmed as
Collector ofthe Fourth Pennsylvania Dis
trict, is the present Governor of Colorado.
Representative Kelley of that district is
very much iHcensed at the appointment.
The Mexican Minister to-day received
dispatches showing that the published es-
cape of MaXimilian to the City of Mexico
is untrue. lie is still at QuCrctaro, and
completely hemmed in by the Liberal for
ccs.
President johnson has accepted an invi-
tatiun from the citizens of Raleigh, North
Carolina, to be present at that place, about
the middle of May, at the laying Of the
cornerstone ola monument in memory Of
the Presidents father. lie will be accom-
panied by Mr. Seward and one or two 9TH
crs of the Cabinet.
General Ben. LcFever, of Ohio, has been
confirmed as Consul to Nuremberg, and
Marshal f. Moore, of Ohio, Governor of
| washington territory.
Many applications for pardOns are daily
received by the President, and some of them
are granted-mostly to persons coming un-
der the petty officer and S2OOOeslauscs of
| the amnesty proclamation.
The greatest interest of Saturday, In the
Senate, centered in the Philadelphia city
| appointments. They were finally arranged,
in IA manner, satisfactory to the Republican
Representatives from that city, but much
TO the disgust of Cameron. The Republi-
cans get the Collector and Naval Officer,
and the Democrats get the Suveyorship.
| The IHteUtgeRcer has received adviCCs
from various Conservative sources in Nir-
.ir'r. ll!r CarOlihas and Georgia, to the
r.l"r, lIat there is much less difficulty as
tu T. construction than was anticipated
The Congressional plan is generally acqui-
csccd in.
General Marshal Moore was confirmed to-
i day Governor of Washington Territory
His former rejection for Secretary OF Colo
RADIO occurred because his name was sent
in, by mistake, when there was no vacan-
cy.
The japanese who called on the Presi-
dent, and who have been dignlied by tele-
graph into ambassadors and commission
ers, are simply company of performing
IjugglCrS.
The organ of the Administration. in its
issues of Sunday, had an article severely
ccnsuring the Government for not bring
ing Surratt to trial, in which it says that
failure to do this argues to the whole world
fear to enter upon the prosecution. 1t adds
that he must be tried, and with him the
Commission that tried the conSpirators.
Gen. COmmagcr of Toledo. has been APP
pointed Special Treasury Agent.