Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-10
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| Special Dispatch to st Louis Republican,
/ WASHINGTON, May The japanese
| commissioners to-day had a confidential
/ interview with Secretary Seward, during
which they informed him Of the object
/ of their mission to this country. They
| afterwards visited the secretary of the
navy and conversed with him relative to
| ironclads and to light drsught vessels
which they desire to purchase for use in
japanese waters. They received cordial
invitation to visit the navy yard and
vessels of war, and tomorrow leave for
Annapolis to examine the naval school.
The state department has detailed one OF
its officers to accompany the commits
oners N their visits. They have de-
rided to make their headquarters in
Washington for two months.
The examination Of witnesses in the
impeachment investigation, by the house
judiciary committee, was not protraeted
to-day. AS the witnesses are not required
by the committee to keep secret the evil
deHce which they give, there is no diff
Guilty in ascertaining its general tenor.
Since the committee Assem- bled, the
bulk of the testimony has related to the
pardon business and the restoring of
property by the president to persons
whom he has pardoned.
Parties who are pushing the investi-
CATION, in the assumed character Of pros
ecuting attorneys, are about to call the
committees attention to the alleged
spoliation Of Booths diary. Col. Con-
ger, who took the diary from Booths
body, is here to testify in that particular /;
it is intimated that the eighteen pages
which appear to be missing from the
book were cut out while Booth was at
DR.. Mudd's house, in lower Maryland.
State Senator Weatherly, Of South
Carolina, was examined to-day relative
to his interview with the president last
fall.
The Washington agent of Adams ex-
press company testified that the COM
pany forwarded pardOns to Alabama,
from pss5ies here, marked three hun
dred .. lars, cash on delivery" to the
prisoners to whom they were granted.
The attorney generals opinion on the
disfranchising clauses of the reconstruc-
ton act, which was delayed by business
before the supreme court, will be fin.
ished at once. Both Gems. Sherwood
and Sheridan, Especially the former
desire to be governed by it at the earliest
practical moment.
The registration of voters under the
universal suffrage act, is completed in
this district, and the whites have a ma
jority Of 969. About Is, 500 have been
registered. This leaves the result Of the
municipal election in June in doubt, both
parties claiming the victory. 1t is esti-
mated that at least 1900 white voters de-
elined to register.
Advices from New Orleans have been
received here TO the effect that all dis
tinctiOn, on account Of race or color, has
been abolished on the street railways.
The registration Of voters in the CITY
has reached ten thousand.
One Of the judges Of the state courts of
Louisiana has decided that a man dis
iranenised by the reconstruction act from
voting is disqualified from being iuror
on the ground that jurors are taken from
the list Of voters.
To-day being cabinet day, no visitors
were admitted at the executive mansion.
All the members of the cabinet were
present tSeeretary Browning. The
session was protrscted beyond the usual
limit.
The registration of voters in Virginia,
under the reconstruction act, is about to
commence. In the eastern tier of coun-
ties the board Of registers have already
been qualified, and will go at once to
work.
The state convention, to remodel the
constitution of Maryland, meets at An
napolis tomorrow. 1t will set two OF
three months.
The commissioner of the general land
Office has received returns, showing
0,s19 acres Of public lands were dis
posed Of during the month OF March at
the Springfield, Missouri, Office, 3d. ,O9l
acres Of which were taken for actual set
tlement and cultivation.
The returns show that Missouri is ex-
ceeding sill the western states in immi-
grafton