Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-04
Current News Items,

Jay Cooke reports the sale OF 1'zO BONDS
10 the amount Of 81, Al G 500 on Saturday, and
of Sl4,2 $50 for the week
Nearly all the civil officers in New Orleans
have been removed by order of Gen. Candy.
The Provost Marshal of New Orleans has
been sentenced for life for smuggling arms
and ammunition to the Coufederates.
All non-combatants have been ordered to
leave Mobile. It is stated that the defenses
Of Mobile are impreFnable
The Democracy elected their candidate for
Mayor in Louisville.
The strong temperance law which the
House of Representatives has passed at Co.
lum6us is creating not little sensation
among the liquor dealers.
Miss Laura Keene, the actress, has pur'
chased fine farm Of 1870 acres Of fine land
with a valuable orchard of apple, cherry, and
other fruit trees, about two miles north OF
New Bedford, Massachusetts.
All letters mailed in the United States for
the Northwest coast of Mexico, embracing
the States of Sinaloa, Sonora and Lower
California, should be ndorsed 'via San Fran
CISCO" as letters for those States, forwarded
bv way of San Francisco, reach their desti-
nation much earlier than by our routes.
The War Department orders that hereafter
no person will be permitted to embaIm or re-
move the bodies of deceased officers or sol
diers unless under the special license OF the
Provost Marshal of the Army department or
district in which the bodies may be. Provost
Marshals are to regulate the business, aud see
th.t embalmers are competent and honest.
Forneys Press SAYS that the number OF oi-
6cers engaged in collecting the Internal
Revenue is immensely greater than neces'
sary.
The trial of Miss Harris for the homicide
of Burroughs is set down for the 10th,
There was a considerable depression in
the wholesale mai ket in New York on Sat
urday,
Gentlemen connected with the Police De
partment of St. Louis have gone East for
for the purpose Of examining into the different
police systems in New York, Boston and 9th
er Eastern cities.
General Garfield, at the request of the Sec
retary Of War, will soon make tour OF inspec
ton overland to California He will visit th'
Departments and frontier posts, and repor
their actual condition to Headquarters.
The salaries of the city officials of Memphis
no. including the police, amount in mint
months to over $2l 900
General Washburn has issued an order t.
the United States Police to conhne their at
tention entirely to military offenders.
1t is now stated that the preliminary prac
tical steps for the establishment of an over
land telegraph to Russia and Europe, to con
meet America have been fairly taken.
The rebel sympathizers in Canada are great
ly excited over report that the Provincial
authorities are determined to secure the rem
dltion of the s.. Albans raiders, and have is
sued an infammatory statement
Cincinnati paid last year for cleaning, pa
wing and repairing streets, erecting gasPost
and gas lighting, &C., S364,O72 10. The cit,
has 2,76l public lamps and eighty two ant
one-ffth miles of gas pipe now laid. During
the past twelve years the city has paid $780,
900 for building and repairing culverts ant
sewers