Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-03-04
Current News Items.

The beatoes Of Cincinnati, have taxable
property valued a, s5OOOOO
The wisdom Of emancipation by war is
manifest, when Il is considered that we have
already spent more money than II would have
required TO purchase every slave in the United
States. ffFf..
Henry ward Beecher receives $4,000 for
every sermon be breaches
There was no blood shed in taking Fort
ssmter, aud there has been none shed in re-
taking it
The Government owes the army one hun
dred and ihirty.eight millions Of dollars.
Butter is selling at twenty FIVE cents per
pound in Tifin.
The Chicago people think the tunnel under
Lake Michigan will be complete and ready
for use by the lst Of JuAe.
Two sons Of Hubbel Republican Congress
man from the Delaware District, have enlist
ed in the army That's right
General Lee is SAID to have determined to
hold Kingston and Goldsboro, North Caro-
lima, at all hazards.
General Candy has left for Mobile, and a
combined naval and land attack is soon to be
made on that city.
The Worlds Potomac correspondence says
the exchange of prisoners has been inter
rupted by another fresbet in the James, ren
deriug it dangerous to pass the obstructions.
Dr. Gwynn denies emphatically that the
from thu
Sonora colonization scheme, He (Dr. Gwynn)
has sailed for Europe, He will have con-
troll over Sonora aud the adjacent provinces
A battle is expected any moment 10 North
Carolina between Sherman and Johnston
There is some reason to think the former will
make q flank movement
Everything is quiet in the armies before
the rebel capital, but it is thought the quiet
ude will not last long, Indications of rebel
designs 10 essay another raid on the James
River are daily manifested in the Richmond
papers; General Grant is daily massing his
troaps on the left, and all things indicate a
desperate battle at an early day,
John c. Heenan, the noted American pugil-
ist, is now in reduced state Of health and is
but shadow Of his former self. One of his
lungs is almost if not entirely gone, and the
man that stood six feet two in his boots, and
weighed two hundred and thirty pounds, now
weighs but one hundred and sixty FIVE pounds.
While mother and her three children we're
seated round table, with lighted lamp, last
Monday evening, in North Collins, Erie coun.
ty, New York, a little girl was filing the lamp
with Kerosene, when the fame communicated
with the oil, exploding both the lamp and the
can, and firing the clothes of all the party.
The mother was so burned that she could not
be recognized, and died Tuesday morning. A
daughter thirteen years old, and son six
years old, were not expected to survive, while
a fourth, son sixteen years old, was burned
on one side of his head, on his shoulder and
arm, but it was thought he would recover.
A soldier named Goldkeller, was made
drunk in Cincinnati yesterday, and robbed.
The Ohio river is very high near Cairo, and
the lowlands are over flowed
The Ohio Senate yesterday passed bill
authorizing free banks to wind up their bust
ness, for the purpose of organizing under the
National Banking law.
Recruiting, during the last week, has been
falling off in Cincinnati and elsewhere. The
Provost Marshal General says it must be more
brisk, or draft will be ordered on the 10th
The negroes of Cincinnati will meet this
evening for the purpose of expressing their
scentimsnts in regard to Lincoln's Admins
tration. That they will endorse it fully we
do oLdOubt.