The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-08
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washington News and Gossip.


WASHINGTON, May Ut is not true, as
given out that Chief Justice Chase will be
In Richmond next week to preside st the
trial of Mr.. jefferson Davis. He viii not
leave the Bench of the Supreme Court un-
til the close of the present term, on the 20th
OF May. He will then be occupied for sew
eral days in concluding nominations for
Registers in Bankruptcy.
The Times special says General Grant,
having ordered an Investigation of the re-
ports of the i'll treatment of soldiers and
prisoners at the Dry Tortugas they were
found to be sheer fabrications.
Gen. Hooker has been granted leave of
absence for one year from the first of June,
owing to III health. Gen. John G. Robin
son succeeds him In command Of the De-
partmentof the Lakes.
The President, this afternoon, directed
the Secretary of War to issue an order on
the Commandant at Fortress Monroe, to
surrender Jefferson Davis to the United
States Marshal of Virginia, when the proper
! legal process shall be Issued by the United
States Circuit Court.
! The receipts at the United States Treas
ury to-day were S3,63l,34j; payments, 81,
2i2,303
Among the young men selected by the
President as Midshipmen, TO enter the
Naval Academy, was Duncan Converse, OF
Ohio.
The Impeachment Committee will open
up the Booth diary affair Colonel Conger
who took the diary from Booths body, is
here to testify in that particular, and It is
intimated that the eighteen pages which
! appear to be missing from the book, were
cut out while Booth was at DIR. Mudd's
| house, in lower Maryland.
! The Washington agent of the Adams Ex-
| press Company testified that the company
| forwarded pardons to Alabama, from par
| ties here, marked $500 cash, on delivery to
the person to whom they were granted.
The registration of voters under the Uni
versal Suffrage Act is completed in this Dis
trict, and the whites have majority of S45.
This leaves the result of the municipal cleo
tion in June in doubt, both parties claim
| ing the victory. 1t 1t estimated that at
least three thousand white voters declined
to register.
| In the Court of Claims, yesterday, Opln-
| ions in favor of claimants were rendered
| In five eases. some of them of twenty and
thirty years standing, and awarded the
claimants in the aggregate one hundred
and eighty-four thousand dollars.
! VIRGINIA VS.. WEST VIRGINIA.
The case of the State of Virginia vers us
West Virginia, involving the right of the
latter State to the counties of Jefferson and
Berkley, through which the Baltimore and
| OllO INhllTUdu Tuus, CdlllG UP Ill llC Dll-
preme Court yesterday, and was argued by
MIR. Hunter for the old, and Mr.. Ben. Stan
ton for the new, State.
There Is involved in this issue the validity
of Governor Pierpoint's Alexandria Gov
ernment, and its right to act for the State
of Virginia during the rebellion, and con-
sequently the legality of its action ceding
these counties, as also the question whether
Virginia is sufficiently State in the Union
to bring such suit.
Among the passengers to California from
New York last week, was party of young
men on an important surveying expedition
to section of the Rocky Mountains ant
the great basin westward. The work is tc
be prosecuted subject to an order of Con
gress, under the direction of the Secretary
of War, acting through Gen. Humphreys
the Chief of the United States Engineers
The party consists of number of scienti
tic young men.
When the party reaches California, they
? viii ne joined by detachment of 20 or 81
cavalry men detailed to act as their escort
to the remote mountainous and desert re
gion TO which they are going. The section
to be surveyed is a belt of land about ion
miles wide, near the 10th parallel of lati
tude, between the l20th and 105th degree o
longitude, or in other words, from Virgins
City to Denver City, a stretch of 300 or 9O
miles in length.