Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-11
LATE FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June THE advices
from Mexico to the Austrian minister q
few days ago, are reiterated to-day by
the reception of dispatches Of an unOffi-
cial, but trustworthy nature, showing
tina Maximilian will be allowed to leave
that country.
Gen. Grant was at The headquarters Of
the army to-day, having returned from
West Point. His next visit will be to
Gettysburg, on the 10th inst.
THY council here will organize on
Monday next, and it is contemplated to
make well known colored man secre-
tary of one of the boards.
The usual instructions have been furn-
ished to Hon. Geo. Bancroft, our new
minister to Berlin, and he writes the
state department that he leaves direct
for the scene of his mission next week. &
The state department has telegraphic
advices that at last all of the Fenians,
under sentence of death, have been
commuted to imprisonment for life at
hard labor. None of them have been
sentenced as yet to be transported, as
intimated in the newspapers.
The internal revenue receipts yester-
day and to-day exceed q million Of dol
lars, and the amount does not include
any returns from the recently assessed
income tax. The new law required this
tax to be levied in March, but the long
delay in assessing and collecting it viii
put most Of it into the next fiscal year,
though the annual reports will probably
place 1t TO the credit of the year ending
July 1st.
The ex-Confederate Gen. Jos. Z. John
ston was at the war department to-day,
attending to business connected with the
railroad of which he is president. 1t is
his first visit to the department since
he left it as quartermaster general Of the
army in 1861.
The counsel for the government in the
Surratt case are on hand and are ready
for the commencement of the trial on
Monday. Ex-Judge PierpOnt arrived to-
day. Ex-COngressman Riddle, of Ohio,
has completed, in connection with the
assistant district attorney, the prelimi-
naries of the evidence. The defense are
also ready, and the only delay will be in
obtaining Jury, which, it Is thought,
will take several days. There are four
attorneys for the government, and two
for the defense.
The former are confident of conviction
and will present evidence for the prose-
cution far more important than that pro-
duced ON the military trial of the con-
spirators, and which will, it is believed,
clear up the hidden details Of the assas-
sinatiOn plot.
Ex-Mayor Withers, Of Mobile, re-
turned to the city to-day, together with
other displaced officials of that city, and
will on Monday present their case to the
president. They have the evidence taken
at a coroner's inquest in Mobile on one
of the victims of the riot there, and
claim that it not only relieves the mayor
and the police from completely in the
riot, but that it shows that they had made |
to avoid it. EX-MayOr |
Withers, at the breaking out of the war,
was an assistant adjutant general in the |
war department.
The treasury department, in the next |
ten days, will pay out about twenty mil |
lions of currency in redeeming COM |
pound interest notes of the same issue. |
As the latter will be destroyed when re-
deemed, that amount will go toward the |
reduction of the public debt.