Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-10-08
NEWS ITEMS.

The Nashville Patriot says that Wheat is sell
ling on the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail
road at GU per bushel.
A statue of the death of Teeumseh, of mars
Bile, executed in the Palace of the Emperor Of
Brazil, is on exhibition in New York,
The shipments of specie from New York on
Saturday will amonnt to from $780, to
81 ,OOO,OOO
For the three days ending Monday at noon,
the receipts of wheat at Buffalo amounted to
seven hundred and thirty>six thousand five
hundred and ninety six bushels.
A man named stearns killed himself in Chi.
cago few days since by an over exertion in a
gymnasium. There can be too much of good
thing.
1t is well known that the Queen Of England
is in the habit of taking precautions against The
opening of her private letters by her own min,
isters.
Hon. Samuel A. Smith, Of Tennessee, has
accepted the appointment of Commissioner OF
the General Land office, recently rendered h: i,
by the President.
The papers of Prussia complain that great
numbers ofyoung men leave that country clan
destinely for the United States to avoid mill.
tary service.
On the 18th of August the corner stone Of the
First Wesleyan Methodist Church was laid Al
Victoria, iu British Columbia, by Governor
Douglass.
The Grand Trunk Railroad Of Canada is dis
carding all wooden bridges and substituting
iron ones Of the most durable character.
The Cambridge City Bulletin says that tn,
Whitewater Canal is now in excellent bOatinI
condition. and the boats running are receiving
a good supply Of freight,
Mr., George Vandenhoff has volume in pres
entitled Leaves from an Actors Note Book
with "reminiscences and Chit. Chat Ofthe Greer
Room and the Stage in England and Ameri
ca"
The New Haven Register relates that an &C
tor at one Of the theaters was called out fou
times in one evening, not long agO-twies by
sheriff, once by tailor. and once by an ire
sstible desire to imbibe.
Estimating the present population Of oincin
natl at two hundred and thirty Thousand th
annual increase at ten per cent. IN ten years Ii
population will be fve hundred and ninety>sil
thousand. five hundred an d fiftyNnine. DurinI
the last ten years, the ratio Of increase wa
eleven per cent.
The trade carried on between the Territory @
New Mexico, and tho Northern States Of th
Mexican Republic, sSnd the United States
through Kansas, is now very large, amountin
to nearly ten millions annually and is year
Increasing. Formerly that trade was exclu
siyely confined to Independence, Missouri.
The Russian Government has just commence
a railroad to connect Kiev to Odessa IL vii
take fifteen years to build il, and will involy
more difficulties and heavier outlay tha
would a road from ST. Louis to San Francisco
The Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, who is still
in Vermont, was 50 unwell, last week. as to b
compelled TO fOregO an appointment To leotur
in ST Albans. He has for some years past beel
subject to sudden attacks, which his physician
suppose TO be alroPhy the heart
The socialists Of New York carry their de;
Of equality to a singular extreme. Al meet
ing which they lately held they refused to elec
a president, because they would thus recognize
At least for an hour the superiority Of one maj
over another. IL was with some difficulty tina
thsy sueceeded In choosing secretary