The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-02
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THE DEATH 2oFs Ex-PREsTDEET BUcHaSAS.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.
=sss WASHINGTON, June 1.-P President Johnson
receir ed this evening from . member OF de-
sceaseds family "a telegram announcing the
death of'es President buchanan at Wheat.
land at $3.50 this morning. p ssgg'sts1 z .ldf
The Prssid win to morrow advise with
his MS Cabinet ste the proper mode, OF taking
official notice of athed death Of MIR. Buchanan.
It is probable an order VIII be issued fdi-
recting that, as mark of respect to the
memory. Of the deceased Preside the
Governmentrd departments be closed upon q
sday tobe'named. 54ti bt.leses 9;e1g sbzssi 81
GENERAL sroSEMAs, ASSIGNED TO THE CON-
~ = aAND OF THE FIRST sfILITARY DISTRICT.
:. LAS indicated in these dispatched last
night, ,tthe President has assigned General
Stoneman to the command Of stheif First
~ Military District, in place Of General scho-
field. 3. ~. II g - 80 !
ss,e VISITORS ,To THE I1sl1 HOUSE: : e
f4 The White House has been thronged with
visitors to-day,gand lis well filed tonight
with visitors to the President, many of
whom are of q class who suspended their
calls during the impeachment trial upon
the beliefs that Mr.. Johnson would be re-
moved Thesesare now the most obsequous
and apparently most stsympathetie Of friends,
who congratulate the President upon his
"acauittal and the triumph Of. the Consti-
tuition. They pronouneethis with q I" didn't
f-tell-you-so y tone and prescient air. .:ea.a
ItIis suggested by parties wellposted that
these gushing sympathisers had already
made. their peace with Mr.. Wade, and to
him had tscreoked the pregnant hinges Of
tho knee" up to the final vote on impeach-
ment. ofcourse they were ofhce-seekers.
TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES BEFORE THE I'M :
'>."a 81, PEAcHMENT COMMITTEE. IL SRI
Among the witnesses before the House
Impeachment Committee to-day were So
called General Adams and E. II. Webster,
Esq, both Of whom ore mentioned in the
testimony Of. Mr.. Weed. as present OF an in q;
terview when, as is allegeds it was. proposed
to raise funds to buy votes Of senators.
Mr.. Webster's testimony to-day shows
that the interview was m accidental oneso
far as he was concerned, and 80 far as he
knows as to all. That the subject Of raising
funds, &C., was an incidental and merely
casual statement of one.of: the parties that
some such proposition had been made, or
that somebody had asserted that such a
thing could be done !. I; i. 80 ~: r ,s
Mr.. Webster Withdrew, leaving the par
ties there, attaching no special Importance
to- what transpired, and neither himself nor
anybody else, so far as the witness knows,
ever entered into any agreement or arrange arr
ment whatever TO procure acquittaal by the ne
purchase of votes Of senators. {. 'eisr<si
MIR. Webster's explanation Of his tele-
grams from this city to New York entirely
removes the idea of their come ton with
impeachment. In brief, the testimony of
this witness lis to the effect that no funds
were raised nor efforts made. to- purchase
votes for acqnittal. The character Of So So
called General Adams's testimony has not not;
transpired. fs.E alaa as WALLACE. LACE,