Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-04
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LATEST ME WIS.
Ford's ThehIer.

NEW 1ORK, August - ne limee epeclai
says Ford's Tbeater was, to-day, cleared of
theatrical furniture, scenery, &c, aud the
floors are being torn up, The entire
interior Of the building is to be remod
eled, under the directiou OF the Secretary Of
War prepatory 10 the uses Of the Bnreau OF
Rebel Archives and Relics.
FEDERAL OFFICERS OFFERING TO 90 TO WAR.
The Worlds Washington special says there
are severalWeslern officers, who distinguished
themselves 10 the late rebellion, offering their
services to the Liberal Government of Mexico
throsgh Senior Romero.the Mexican Minis er.
They pledge themselves, ifshy encourage
lnent is given, to carry With them 1000
emigrants each
AN ORDER FROM BISHOP
Rev Green the Episcopal Bishop of Mis-.
sissip 10 mn ecclesiaslic order issued by
him Or the g ult, insiructing the clergy
under his charge that 30 soon as the military
rule pt the Government in the State shall be
wthdrawe, they shall resume regular prayer
for the President of the United States and
those in authority and not before. He also
expresses himself opposed to reunion with
the churches Of the North. .u ..u's
AFFAIRS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
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is in very encouraging slate, new stores
being opened daily. Tri-weekly communica-
| ton has been opened with Columbia and
Augusta via S c X r, and with Florence
| Court House aud othei aces on the north
eastern coast. Merchants are disposing of
large quantities of goods TO traders from the
interior. The Adams Express Company are
taking immense lreights into the country
During the fret two weeks in July nearly l.
600 bales Of Cotton were brought to Charles
ton on the South Carolina Railroad.
DETAILS OF THE ESCAPE OF JUDAH p BENJAMIN
The World'B Havana correspondent gives
an account OF Judah p. Benjamins escape
| from the ruins OF the CoDiederacy. He says
Benjamin separated from Davis early in May,
near Washington, Georgia, for the purpose
of making his way 10 Nassau and Havana
from some point on the Florida coast He
was to attend I. some public business at these
points, aud then rejoin the President in his
snsmssion ola Matamoras and Texas. He
travelled directly south through Georgia and
Florida, on horseback disguised as farmer,
in search of land, without exciting aoy at
traction, till he reached the lower side Of the
Peninsula of Florida. He was informed that
no boats could be found on the eastern coast,
anu went 10 bu6 RulfsnOTe, "ueTe, hlter
months delay, he succeeded in getting ships
yawl boat and two men, who were willing to
risk their lives upon the sea in it. The boat
was about fifteen feet long, in which they
ooasied the Peninsula, until they reached one
of the keys Of Florida Reef, where they sue
ceeded in procuring a boat somewhat larger
in which they put to sea to cross the gulf
stream, and fortunately reached upon the
banks after a passage Of sixty hours
On the 10th of July, after .sn unsuccessful
attempt 10 reach Nassau, in which he was
bafled by head winds and heavy weather, be
put back 10 Birenies, and on Friday, l4lb, the
sloop foundered thirty miles from the nearest
land, The vessel went down 30 rapidly that
he, with the crew, had barely time to jump
into a skif, in tow of the sloop, before she
sank, In this boat, with ligot mast, sail and
compass, and only provision OF boiled rice,
which the negroes had cooked for breakfast,
and having but one oar, they made for land,
and as the weather was calm aud the vessel
in sight, by dint of energetic skulling they
reached the lighthouse, and in a vessel from |
that poin,, Benjamin reached Nassau and
Havana. His whole trip has occupied the best
part of three months, out of which thirty days
have been passed at sea, in miserable open
boats,