The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-07
Washington News aud Gossip.

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| military and naval academies are 20 be se-
lected this week by the President assisted
| bythe Secretarys Of War and the Navy.
| The War Department, in accordance
with the advice Of the Attorney General.
has ordered the commander of Fortress
Monroe to obey the writ of habeas corpus for
| the production of the body of jefferson
Davis in the United States Circuit Court at
| Richmond on Monday next.
dispatch from Richmond SAYS the
Grand Jury of the United States District
Court of that city, impaneled this morning.
has three colored men from Alexandria
| among its members.
An investigation into the affairs Of the
Louisville and Portland Steamboat Canal Is
| in progress IN the Treasury Department.
The investigation thus far developes the
fact that the corporators have pocketed the
profits or receipts. and the Government has
been footing the bills. and IL turns out that
notwithstanding Il was supposed The canal
had passed from the control and interest of
the Government, yet there have been ap-
propriations for the improvement and re-
pair Of the canal TO the amount of about
half a million dollars, the disbursements of
which are not accounted for.
10 is now understood that the japanese
Commissioners came to this country for the
purpose of obtaining advice as to the best
means of defense against iron-clads. 1t is
also reported that they wish to settle with
contractors for several ships. Ihey have
failed to receive any information so lar.
In the Supreme Court this afternoon
Attorney General Stanbery closed the ar
gument on the Georgia and Mississippi in
junction cases. He spoke as TO the general
principles involved, and denied, as hereto
fore, that these cases had any place in court:
they were not within the Jurisdiction of
court of equity, such as the Constitution
provides; there was in them no basis of
property on which relief could be given.
Georgia and Mississippi, according to bills
filed, undertook to speak for the people of
these States. Where was evidence of this
factP Besides, of the ten Southern States
over which reconstruction acts were to op-
crate, only two were here. 1t was not known
TO the contrary that the remaining States
were dissatisfied, for they had not presented
any bill of grievances.
No further proceedings took place on the
question before the Court, which adjourned
Immediately after the conclusion of Mr..
! Stanbery's argument.
Tn the Supreme Court to-day, a yery i'm
: pnrrH case was decided:
J ]'r United States Us. Louis Pauline de
Rengcntigny; judgment reversed, leaving
the Government possessed of six square
leagues of land in Michigan valued at from
$3,000,000 to $5,000.000, and which the
Court below had held to belong to the heirs
of Count Regentigny, a former soldier in
the French army.
In the Iowa liquor cases judgments were
affirmed on the same grounds assigned in
the Massachusetts cases.
In the Criminal Court to-day, an appeal
of the counsel for Sanford Conover was al
lowed, and the Court granted stay of the
sentence until the LIST of June. This move
was made so that vdlud6le testimony NAV
be made available before the Impeachment
Committee on the JEFF. Davis trial.
Information received here indicates the
wheat crop to be the finest for many
years.
The receipts from internal revenue to-
day amounted to $73S572.
The 1rtbune's special says we have con-
elusive evidence that no offer to release Mr..
Davis has been made, and no communica-
tion of any kind on the subject has passed
between him and the Executive.
The President is being petitiOned by citi-
zens of Tennessee, 10 disarm the militia in
that State, by directing that the ten thou
sand stand of arms furnished by resolu-
tion of Congress be placed in arsenals, in
lieu of being kept in what they term active
service. Unless this is done, 1t is declared
that there will be civil war in that State.