The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-22
BY TELEGRAPH.
washington News ana Gossip.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 2l,--The inpeach-
ment testimony has all been arranged, and
will be submitted to the House In July,
without any report accompanying it.
The President has requested General
Sheridan by telegraph to extend the time
for registration in Louisiana to the lst of
August. General Sheridan had proposed
to close it on the 10th of July. Sixty-nine
thousand black and white voters had been
registered In the State at last advices
The trip of the President and party,
through TO New York, was made a very
pleasant affair, by the cheerful crowds Of
the people, at all the stopping points and
along the lines of travel. Nospeeches. At
New York his arrival was not made an
occasion of any especial ceremony. The
reception was of formal character. At
nine o'clock the President and suite sat
down to supper and all retired early. Eff
forts made to obtain a speech from the
President were unavailing.
The last official act of the President this
morning, before leaving for Boston, was to
appoint Marcus Otterberg, of Wisconsin.
Minister to Mexico. lie Is now United
States Consul to the City of Mexico, and is
an earnest Radical in politics, of the Carl
Schurz type of Adventures.
Chief Justice Chase was engaged to-day
in appointing new Registers in Bankruptcy
to supply the places of those whom the
District Judges have refused to confirm.
THE TRIAL OF sURRATT.
This was the eleventh day, and yet there
is no sight of the end.
Judge Fisher decided that the Court will
follow the common practice as 10 the matter
of recalling witnesses, viz: That witness
should consider himself discharged after
examination, unless told to remain.
Miss Honora Fitzpatrick, who lived at
Mrs. Surratt's, testified that Surratt was
intimate with Payne, Booth, Atzerodt aud
the other conspirators, and that they had
interviews at Mrs. Surratt's house, on ID
street
B.W, Vanderpool, of New York, was in
Washington on the day of the assassina-
tion, and saw Surratt with Booth and two
or three others, in a saloon; they were sit
ting around table with glasses on. / had
been to the paymaster, and on coming
down, heard music at the place referred to,
and went In and ballet dancer was per-
forming.
By MIR. Pierpont-Witness has a great
faculty of reCollecting faces he has once
seen, and hes been subjected to test of the
matter. .
Question by Mr.. Merrick-Would you
recollect the face of the woman who was
dancing?
Answer-Did not pay much attention to
nST ldCt my dIlcIlllOu WIS ulIGClGu W ilSl
legs. Laughter
The strike among the bricklayers upon
the Treasury extension continues. Nonew
employees have yet been engaged. A few
arrived to-day, from Richmond and An
napolis, but were persuaded by the strikers
not to commence work.
The United States steamer Juniata ar
rived at Guadaloupe Island en- route for
Philadelphia. Rear Admiral Goldsbor-
ough reports from Rio Janeiro, May %, the
return of the Kansas from the coast of
Africa. The slave traffic has virtually
ceased.
Congressman Sehenck has just sont out
to all his Radical associates circular let
ter, as he says to them, ito remind you of
the very great importance of your being
punctually in your place to answer to
your name when the two houses assemble,
at ~ o'clock, on the Both of July next. 1t
is thought essential to secure quorums II
it should only be long enough to pass some
declaratory acts on the subject of recon-
struction."