The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-11
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washington News and Cossip.

WASHINGTON, May l0.-Attorney General
Stanberry holds the removal Ofcivil officers,
by the military commanders in the South
ern States, to be Illegal, except In cases
where such officers attempt to obstruct the
execution of the law.
Orders have been sent TO the United
States Armory, at Springfield, Mass, for a
large immediate increase In the production
of reechloaders of the latest model The
| force of workmen will be greatly enlarged.
and the old muskets remodeled at the rate
of five or six hundred per day.
There Will be no reduction, but probably
an apparent increase, of the public debt,
during the next two or three months. The
semi-annual interest falling due in May,
June and July, will absorb all the receipts
OF the Treasury, 1t Is expected, and proba-
! bly, something more.
Judge Underwood announced in court,
on Wednesday, that Chief Justice Chase
would come to Richmond on the adjourn
ment of the Supreme Court, and take his
| place on the bench of the Circuit Court.
! This Judge be IL not forgotten, Is the same
immaculate and honorable Judge who once
declared to Congressional committee that
he could pack jury in Virginia that would
convict Mr.. Davis of treason.
dispatch from Fortress Monroe to-day:
says: Davis and family, General Burtof
and the Marshals will take the steamer to-
morrow for Richmond. General Burton
on Monday will personally produce the
prisoner In Court. In the event of DAVIS
being released by Judge Underwood under
the writ he will be Immediately re-arrest-
ed and placed on trial under the indictment
for..treason.
Ihlve reason to infer, from an authentic
source, that Senator Doolittle's visit to
Europe is principally in the interest of the
railroad men of this country, and that Mr..
Seward, learning of the Senator's intended
visit, has given him official authority to
treat with Denmark for the purchase OF the
Island of St. Thomas.
Ben. BEtler having made the charge that
Andy, on the recommendation of Mr..
Adams, late Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in West Va, had corruptly pardoned
one hundred and ninety deserters from the
Union army,upOn promise that they would
vote for MIR. Adams, that gentleman was
before the lmpeachers to-day. The result
is that the proof is utterly false to sustain
General Buffers charge. the facts being
that 1t turned out that the supposed de-
serters were not deserters but good Union
soldiers, and that they did not get certih-
Gates to enable them to vote until one
month after the election took place In
West Virginia.
The walls of the Treasury building have
settled several inches within the past year.
anu. lhe neaNy Rrhnlte ulOcks are many OF
them cracked, while a portion of the brick
walls are crumbling away. Last Tuesday
some of this wall gave way, and yester-
day a large portion fell. The danger seems
imminent. The cause of this weakness Is
the immense weight ofmachinery employed
in the Printing Bureau of the Treasury.
More than five hundred tuns of machinery,
engines, presses, &C., rest on the second
and third floors. On the fourth floor, even,
tl,a,sn l,rl,
weighing four tuns each, besides four steam
engines, and other machinery.
On the second floor are also the Immense
cash vaults of the Treasury, which alone
weigh many tuns, and the strain is alto
gether more than the building can bear.