Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-01-26
Current News Items.

Hudson Quincy lately died in England
aged ninety, and worth $40, 100000.
Pos,masters are obliged 70 receive and
exchange stamps for fractional currency,
nomatter how much delaeed,providcd one
twentieth part be not missing
The Crisis says truly The object Of
the formation Of the Federal Government
was to mako more secure those rights
which the States possessed, not to grant
rights. E.Iu
A female anaconda, in St Louis, re-
Gently gave birth to litter Of thirty-thres
young ones 1t would give spectator
dslirium tremens to look at them,
T. &.J. Renick, Of Pickaway county,
lately sold pair of oxen for s475.
There was a large auction sale Of wool
in New York this week. Ohio fleece
brought 96Ai New York State "a; and tub
washed fleece $l.l5.
Forty eight families, and one hundred
men and women beside, have been Danish
ed from their homes in Missouri, by order
of Gen. Sanborne, on the charge of har-
boring guerrillas.
There was a slight decline in gold yes
terday, as compared with the advanced
prices Of the morning. Ii closed at 2O5s.
The fire in Buffalo proved quite disss-
treus. The loss is estimated at $500 900.
A number of dry goods stores, bakeries,
restaurants, DC, together with the Ameri'
can Hotel, were destroyed
What are known as the Black Laws of
Illinois, with the exception of the law
forbidding marriage between whites and
blacks, will probably be repealed. A bill
for this purpose has passed the Senate of
that State. ...,.
Our morning dispatches are more than
usually interesting, and the reader is re-
ferred to our telegraphic columns.
Peace rumors stu prevail in Washing
ton, The report to which the Herald
gives publicity is absurd; but still it shows
that the direction of the public mind is to-
ward cessation Of this horrible war
Peace will come, on some terms, and that
before many months We confidently hope.
The Commercial still adheres to its
bloody instincts, and it is with great re-
luctance that its correspondents give eur
rency to the rumors of peace which thick
en- the air in every section Of the country.
"Macll" writes from Washington, under
date Of Jan. oath 'Peace rumors are still
flying in every direction, and there are not
a few here, even in official circles, who lay
the dangerously fiattering unction to their
souls. that the end of the war, through
the restoration of the Union, is immedi-
ately at hand A few days will dispel
this illusion, and then will come an I'M
healthy reaction, full of despondency, and
calculated to work great mischief" 1t is
from the reaction that we hope great
good.
Republican editors just now have DIFF
fcult task to perform. 1t is incumbent
upon them to prove first That the Con-
iederacy is broken down, destroyed, and
unable to make longer resistance to the
Federal army. Aud, second, they have
to establish tho fact, that the Confederacy
is still so strong and vigorous, as to pre-
scribe its own terms of settlement, and
that nothing but separation and independ-
ence will be accepted by it.
The Washington correspondent of the
Commercial, says that the debate in Con-
gress is but faint indication of the ami
mostly which exists against Stanton. The
numberless cases of cruel and malignant
and lawless prosecutions Of which this
man is the author, are being investigated,
and it is TO be hoped, will cost him his
official head The correspondent speaks
of him, as 'lhO dietatoriAl gentleman who
bulhes and brow beats the county through
the war 0ficss'' A woman recently made
deposition that her husband had been
chained to tie floor of the Ola Capitol
prison for eight months, aud that neither
he nor she knew the offense with which he
was charged. glasai
The correspondent Of the Commercial
says that Secretary Stanton ought to b'
tried by court martial and shot The
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