The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-29
BY TELEGRAPH.
Wnshington NeMs and Gnssin.


WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The receipts of
customs and internal revenue for the month
are about S29,O00,000, one-half of which be-
ing customs. In the coin statement will
probably be shown Sl0O,000,0O0 coin, and
Sl4,O00,O00 or more gold certificates In the
treasury.
The disbursements of the treasury for the
past week were $5,229,094; receipts of in
ternal revenue for the week, S2,60S, 206; re-
ceipts of customs for the week, S3,045,-
761 4G.
The Treasury Department las been off,
cially Informed that within seven days Just
passed, no less than 10000 bushel of wheat
have been shipped from Liverpool to New
York
A letter is received at the office of Indian
Affairs from the agent at Leavenworth,
dated the 9TH inst, IN the neighborhOod of
Fort Larned, in which it is stated that
General Custer, who was in pursuit of
fifteen hundred fleeing Indians, did not
overtake any of them.
General Spinner, Treasurer, yesterday
received $3,500 from Cincinnati, which he
has credited to the conscience fund. No
explanation accompanied It; S2500 were
in one envelope, and $1,000 in another. 1t
| is generally not supposed that any Radical
members of Congress have refunded.
DR.. Blackburn, who attempted to intro
duce yellow fever by means of infected
clothing into the United States during the
war, has petitioned the Attorney General
for permission to return from Canada to his
native land and take his trial in January.
The Attorney General is understood to
have answered he had no power to grant
the request.
Advices received at the State Depart
ment report that the Emperor Napoleon
has been engaged for several months in
making gigantic naval and military prep
arations, and it is alleged that the feeling
is so universal among the French people
for n collision that it has past beyond the
Emperors control.
For the midshipmen to be nominated
by the President to the Naval Academy
this year, there are over three hundred
candidates.
The number of midshipmen allowed at
the Academy is one to every member and
delegate of the House of Representatives,
and one to the District of Columbia. Ten
are appointed annually at large, and ten
selected each year from boys enlisted in the
navy. who have been at'least one year in
the service on board naval vessel.
The nomination of candidate from any
Congressional District, or Territory, is
made on the recommendation of the mem
Der or delegate, from actual residents of
his district or territory.
Thad. Stevens publishes letter to-day
in the Chronicle, complaining of and pro-
testing against Senator Wilson's speeches
in the South. He says he has no right to
make promises for the party, and intimates
that it will lead to trouble. The letter
causes good deal Of comment.
Advices from Queretaro to the Secretary
of State, say that the Imperialists made
another sortie on the 9Th inst but was re-
pulsed, and General Miramon was mortally
wounded.
Georgetown, District of Columbia, has
been enlivened by the wedding of DIR. Pc
ters to Miss Kennon, a grand daughter Of
Washington's adopted daughter, who fig
ures in pictures of Mount Vernon as one of
the Custis children. Miss Kennon's father,
who was in the navy, waskilled by the eX-
plosion of cannon on board of the Prince
ton She inherited the fine villa on George
ipAu iTights known as Tudor Place"
Wn-r" the wedding ceremony was per-
formed.
The President will be accompanied in his
trip next month to Raleigh, by Mr.. Seward
and one or two other members of the Cabi-
net. He visits Richmond and other South
ern cities, and will not fail to give his views
upon vital questions of the hour OCCASION
ally to the people who assemble to greet
him.
That mountebanll statesman, Wilson,
alias Colbaith, will not swing round the
circle alone.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that wagons, carts, and drays,
made to be used by farmers for farming or
numbering purposes, and baggage or ex-
press wagons, made for carrying freight
exclusively, and not to be used as pleasure
carriages, are by act of March 2, 1867 ex-
empt from taxation.