The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-10
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washington News and Gossip.

WAsHNGToN, May 9.-ACter the first of
July the interest on the registered Govern
ment bonds will be paid ut New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, CHI
cago, New Orleans, Charleston, st. Louis,
San Francisco Buffalo and Pittsburg.
1t has leaked out, from reliable chan
mel, that work is in preparation by an
officer on the staff of the Imperial Mexican
army, recently employed as a secret agent
of the Government in this country. III we
are well Informed. the work In question
win reveal some amusing negotiations with
leading members of the Republican party,
and will give interesting details of Mexico
and Its late Government.
The report of the massacre of officers
and soldiers at Fort Buford, by the Indians,
was q Chicago invention.
A dispatch from Texas, received by the
President tonight, says that Gen. Gftthn'S
order eQuiriug the test oath TO be applied
TO Jurors has closed the courts Of that state,
and an order Is requested revoldng Gen.
Griihn's proceeding.
The highhanded doings Of General Sher-
idan, in Louisiana, is making some stir In
civil government circles here. His arbi-
trary acts are passing under strict Depart
ment criticism. 1t is impossible for the
President to withhold his interference. His
last act was to remove the Levee COmmis-
sloners. 1t is held that IL he can find justi-
flcation for this and kindred acts, he can as
well invade the domestic circle, and by Z
military order or circular divorce husband
and wife who happen to have had quarrel
over the tea table; assume the functions OF
the Chancellor and the Marshal; take liens
upon real estate, sell the land, distribute
the proceeds of sale, and give the purchaser
title by virtue of the all-patent military
order.
!. Senator Doollttle has been appointed by
the President a special agent to visit the
Russian Government on secret service
mission. 1t Is generally supposed that it
refers to the recently ratified Russian treaty.
Stanton and Holt's special friend. Como
yer, the perjurer, who was sentenced to ten
years service in the penitentiary at Albany,
is still kept here, through the lnstrnmen-
talitv of Ashley, the great impeacher.
They have had several lengthy interviews.
What Ashley wants with SO willing wit
ness Is only onjectural.
The Indian Bureau has just Issued for the
Senate a long tabular statement of the app
prOximate number of persons belonging to
each tribe of Indians in the United States.
The total number is 3OG465. The Chero-
KEGS, Apaches, Choctaws and Creek tribes
average about l4,000 each.
jeff. Davis counsel are averse to his trial
before such shallow pate and grounding
as Judge Underwood, They intend to state
| in court, ON Monday next when the pris-
oner IS brought in, that they are not ready
! for trial and will move in the meantime to
admit the prisoner to bail. Tue counsel OF
| Davis are eudeavoring to have their client
tried before Chief Justice Chase.
This evening serious negro riot occurred
in Richmond upon the occasion OF trial OF
fire engines. The negroe screated the dis
turbance, stoned the police, and were only
subdued by charge from General Scho-
| fields boys in blue" The General pre-
viously addressed them. and exhortedthen
to remain orderly, but nothing short of the
e, argument of cold steel proved effective.
The amount of Government freight to bC
transported to the military posts of th'
plains and mountains this year exceeds by
millions of pounds that of any other year
There is CONSERVATION abroad among th
manipulators of the finances. 1t is givel
out to-day that the expense of the Wa
Department alone, for the present fisca
year, will be from $l2O, 100000 to $4,000,
900, 1t is stated that the Secretary may re
commend the suspension of bountles.
The infamous Baker-Lincoln's Detecto
|, General-has been testifying before tn
impeachment Committee about the sale o
pardons. The general belief is that tn
villain is perjurer.