The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1865-11-25


President johnson has abolished the De-
tectiye Bureau of the War, Department.
Now let him make clean work of It, and
abolish the Secretary.
To the above, from the New York Herald,
every good citizen win say, Amenl We
protest, however, against the cruelty of
turning the brave Stanton out into the pub
lie highways without his body-guard,
Mrs Mumford, reliet of Mumford, who
was hung by Butler, and her three children,
have arrived in New Orleans in a most dis
ltressetl and helpless condition. tyt
The magnificent steamer, Ben Stickney,
lately sunk in the Mississippi, and worth
100000, is total loss, and not cent in
mred.
A young man, named Lack, clerk in Har-
rison's Bank, indianapolis, was garroted on
Sunday night, by two fellows, and robbed
of his watch and eight dollars.
a store In williamsburg, Clermont county,
was broken into on Tuesday morning, the
safe blown open, and $4,000 distracted.
The proprietors. Sinks Il White, lost
part of it, the balance had been deposited
there for safe keeping by different farmers
and others, Powder was used. No doubt
the burglars belonged to Cincinnati, as they
were traced some distance in that direction.
On Wednesday morning the office of the
Clerk Of the. Court of Appeals, at Frankfort,
Ky, was destroyed by fire with all the
valuable records it contained Id r.le.
Davis Steam Saw Mill, near Shelby, H.,
of boiler, Three men We're Killed and
five badly injured. t-sH ,ak fAlfI .
Hon. Robert c.. winthrop of Boston, was
married in Brookline last week. to Mrs
Adele G. Thayer. Thepresent is Mr.. Win
tbrop's third wife. She is very healthy.
A young man named Borene, working in
a piano factory in New York, slipped into
a box in the establishment few days since,
in which piano had been placed, ready for
shipment, and fell asleep. When the hands
returned from dinner to screw ON the lid,
they did not discover him, aud he only
awoke to find himself going down the hatch
way head foremost, to be shipped off to
Wilmington, n, c. That was,a narrow es-
cape. io
Judge Steele, of the Chancery Court, sit
ting at Lebanon, Tennessee, has delivered
an opinion in which he takes the ground
that an obligation contracted to aid the le-
he dismissed suit brought to enforce such
contract. The Nashville Dispatch thinks
that If the position taken by. Chancellor
Steele shall be held to be law lthroughout
the Southern States, an immense amount of
Indebtedness win be discharged quite easily.
They are getting up subscriptions in some
parts of Mississippi for the benefit of Mrs.
JEFF. Davis and family. They are very
needy, no doubt raH arv,gts.sI
The late news from Mexico is of more
than usual importance. The Emperor is
Withdrawing all his forces from the out
posts, ami concentrating them lati Vera
Cruz City of Mexico and San Luis Potosi.
He has abandoned histrip to Yucatan, and
his Empress is about returning to Europe
This will give new impulse to the Liberal
cause. ' '''.7 "'4 tttiE i'e
p The Washington authorities have officially
protested against the passage Of any bih in
Congress looking to negro sutferage in the
District Of Columbia. r,rl,-r.sI
The friends of President johnson con-
denim Speaker OolfaX's late speech, and
says that Mr.. Johnson is in favor of admit
ting the Southern representatives to Con-
gress without the test oath.
A committee of the Tennessee Legisla-
tureis. having a most perplexing time -of
it in trying TO trace the whereabouts of be-
tween five and six millions, of dollars of
the notes Of their State Bank, which dis-
appeared when that institution packed up
Its tYaps IN 1sel and vamosed South, a4o,T
The Houseof. Representatives of the Ten
nessee Legislature has passed am amend
mept to the exemption laws of that State,
exeinpting from execution quarter see
tion Of land without regard 10 It's value,
with mules and implements necessary to
work the same.
The robbers FYhobroke inte the safe of
the Rockport, Ia, Bank, on the 10Th, and
robbed 1t Of some $4,000 win have solne
trouble in getting OF the $4,000 in 7-3O u.
s. Bonds, as they are all marked, ah,l an,
save one $780, dated on the 10th June,
1865.
BY the death Of the Earl of Strathmore,
the life Insurance companies have to meet
claim amounting to e2OO,OOO, or about
81, 100000. The Scotch insurance offices are
those principally concerned.