Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-18
Current News Items.

Secretary Seward is reported by the New
York Times special from Washington to be
decidedly better.
The name Of tho assassin who tried to kill
Mr. Seward is said to be Thompson.
In consequence Of the funeral Of the Pres
idsnt, all the Post Offices in the country will
be closed from eleven to twelve p M
Secretary Stanton inclines to the belief
that the murderer Booth Is secreted in the
city, but, If be and his accomplices have es-
caped. it is across the Eastern Branch,
1t seems that Booth sent note to Vice
President Johnson last Friday, desiring an
interview with him He being out, did not
get it.
The members of the diplomatic body in
Washington have held meeting at the Rus
sian Legion, and resolved 10 join in the luner
al solemnites OF Mr. Lincoln
Governor Btamlet,e, OF Kentucky, has Is
sued proclamation for an observance OF Mr
Linoolns funeral on the 18th.
The branch of the Bank of the State Of
Indiana in New Albany has changed its or.
eanizatiou to that Of national bank aud we
understand that all the other branches in the
State will do the same.
Miles, Murphy Co Of Chicago, dealers 10
wool, wheat aud higbwiues, have failed fora
large amount.
The Internal Revenue Commissioner de
cides that contracts to which the government
is a party are exempt from stamp duty
The Commissioners OF Emigration IA New
York are going to build a hospital, at cost
of 1925 900, for the two hundred and twenty
thousand emigrants who annually laud
there.
1t is thought that the United States Senate
will refuse scat to John P Stockton, assum-
ed TO be elected Senator from New jersey
He had only forty votes, while there were
fort7-one against him. Such q case has never
arisen before
Information is said 10 have been received
at the French Embassy of the dangerous
illness of the Emperor Napoleon.
The table upon which lee signed the arti'
cles of capituIaton was purchased by Gener'
al Ord from its owner, Mr Mclean, for fifty
dollars. The chairs which the two Generals
occupied were also purchased.
Three thousand nine hundred and twenty
four persons we're landed at the port OF New
York by steamships and sailing vessels IRON
the lst to the 18th of April
The st. Louis papers continue to supply
evidences of the exodus Of residents from the
State Of Missouri The local papers have
long lists Of sheriff. sales Of real estate.
Good farms are selling in Sullivan county at
from tive to ten dollars per acre.
The venerable Jeremiah Day, ex-presdent
of Yale College, and luew ninety.three years
old. is the oldest citizen in New Haven.
There are twenty-seven others il the city
over eighty years ofage.
The Haverhill Mass Gazette says the
shoe business is compsratvelyiat stand stil
Manufacturers are discharging many OF theiI
men, and until there is some stability not
many goods will be manufactured.
General Ortega, Of the Mexican army, has
arrived in the United States. He is said to
be on q special mission.
General Bragg's house was burned in the
conAagration at Richmond, and little or none
of its contents saved,
The Mystic, Ct, shipbuilders, during the
past year, launched seventeen new steamers
two slOOps and one barque, with On aggregate
burthen of l0,640 tons
The I Torvn.I siatoa tbst
Bramette has furnished all of his slaves with
free papers,
Three thousand workmen at Brooklyn navy
yard are ON a strike, owing to a reduction o.
6fty cents ner day ON their Wagea