Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-06-21
By Telegraph.
LATEST NE Ws.
EVENING REPORT.
AddttionrI For, iEn WIS.

HALIFAX June l0.--Tbe Asia from Liver.
pool 10 via Queenstown lltn arrived here
this morning with Two days later news
CHINA dates o. May 7ih state that American
Mislsters at Pekn and Japan are returning
home ThA cause not stated
The Arny ana Navy g zptte referring to
the surrender Of the last Confederate Genera,
says hat since this event the Federal troops
have been brought face to face with French
troops on the RIO Grande The came paper
denounces What it terms the bloodhirsty design
Of President johnson, but links he viii shrink
from The horrible prescription he threatens to
carry out when the lists Of Southern men are
made out The punishment OF the Southern
Headers is already terrible enough, with failure,
ruin, and exile.
Sir Joseph Paxton died on the sth after a
prolonged illness
W II Russell goes ont on the Great East
ern, to write an sccout of the laying OF the
Atlantic telegraph cable The work will be
richly illustrated by Mr.. Robert Dudley, aud
published By Day & Son, OF London Cyrus
W Field has returned 10 London, after visiting
Valencia, to arrange for the laying of the
shore end OF the cable
MIR. Sundy is a passen ger on board the Asia,
en- route Tor Hearts Content, New Foundand,
to get oil ready at that point for the landing
of the cable.
The Paris correspondent OF the London
Times, writing under date Of the 9Th, says /:
II ia certain the Mexican Agent, who arrived
in Paris, was sent by Msxmilian for the
express purpose of explaining the critical
state Of affairs in Mexico
The mensciug attitude Of the Americans
and the fears Of His Majesty that war would
be declared with the Uhited Ststes, was that
the war with the South was over
The French Government has given the
Washing tou Cabinetto understand very plain
y that Mexico is under the protection of
France and will not allow any po yer to attack
il; that 6l!busters aud adventures entering
Mexican territory With hostile designs, will, If
taken in arms be hanged or shot without loss
Of time or mercy, and that the United States
Government, whose good faith France of
course does not doubt, is doing all in ts DOW
er to keep her subjects from injury to her
policy. The Washington Cabinet probably
has no disire at this time TO be on war terms
with this country, and will no doubt act pru-
IDENTIFY in this affair. The language and tone
Of France is what may be called decidedly
enough. II may not be literary correct as
intimated, but il substantial
On the 8th inst, in the Corps Legislatif
M Jules Faverett made q speech strongly
condemninR the Mexico expedition. He
maintained that the position Of Macmillan
was precarious, and spprehebded conflict
with America.
NJ. T. EstanR demonstrated in reply that
the position Of Macmillan was in no way pre-
carious aud pointed out the progress which
had been made in Mexico The effective
iorce Of the expeditionary corps, he said, did
not exceed 26, 900 men In expressing hun.
self relative to the spprehensions OF a COZ q ct
with America. the latter quoted the dispatch
o President Lincoln just before his melsn-
choly death, to show they need not b. alarmed
The United States, continued the speaker
now only thinks Of "onsoIing the widows and
orphans of their civil war and do not coptem
plate the shedding on more blood of their
frontier