Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-07
Current News Items.

cost one dollar selling At six'ySevsn ana q
half cenls.
Fifteen youpg lady physicians we're grad
uated and received diplomas at the Female
Medical College in New York few weeks
ago. q,
There Is to be race on the Ohio river be-
tween the steamers Indiana and Msgen's' on
bet of $50 900 side The time has not
been set when the race /, to come on.
Those who have mutilated currency IN Or
der to get it redeemed, must send tim letters
to the treasury department. The letters wan
20 free OF postage That department Is s'one
authorized to redeem.
The Abolition Legislature of Maryland
which was frauduleply elected, or rather ap-
pointed to that body, are setting about do'ng
the clean thing to retain power. They nave
adopted registration act--a piece OF ma
cbinery calculated and intended to ailo" no
one to vote who is not sound on the goose
In Illinois genius advertses on behalf OF
A certain famous accidental railway, that IAN
experienced coroner and six practical Jurors
will follow each regular train in special care
together withs few surgeons and reporters.
Collector Draper, of New York, says there
is no loyalty in Savannah. Itwould be strange
if there we're after he has stripped those VINO
have been loyal Of all their property, and who
have been treated worse by the Federal Gov
ernment than they were by the Confederate
The failure Of J. H Lyon Co, bankers
of New York, falls heavily upon several gen
tlemen Of Indiana Ex-Governor Hammond
and Jesse D. Bright are mentioned among the
sufferers.
Prussia, Austria and Russia are quarreliog
like house. breakers over the Denmark spolIs.
There is rumor that the Duke de Morny
was poisoned by Jealous woman,
The New York canals are to be opened on
the lst of May.
Parson Brownlow has been inaugurated
Governor of Tennessee. A it succession to
Aney johnson. .. .J4
Mr. John L. Agnew, Of East Wheeling, in
attempting to remove his revolver from
belt, which was buekled about his person
discharged the pistol, the discharge taking
fatal effect 10 his side, causing death in few
hours.
Joseph G. Bell, charged with obtaining mo
ney under false pretenses at Rising Sun, Ind
was last week arrested in St. Louis, aud upon
the requisitiou Of Governor Morton, brought
back to Indiana for trial
In view of the rapidty with which the ne
groes are dying during this revolution in theil
condition in the South, paper says that il
the mortality goes on for ten years at the rat'
Of the leet two or three, there will not b
enough left for BARRIERS. ..
Had the Savannah cotton been placed =
once upon the market when the first heav!
instalment arrived, it would be worth ninet.
cents per pound, and to-day it is forty-6y,
cents, or equal to loss of 100 per cent, Oh
the round lot Of cotton such loss is equal Il
$1,000, 900. .5.
Genera! Dodge, Of St. Louis, has received
a dispatch from Fort Kesrney announcing
that General Mitchell had bad battle viii
the Indians one hundred and 6fty miles nortl
of Fort Laramie, aud had captured on hun
dred and fifty lodges Of Sioux and ninet
lodges of Arrapahoes. A "lodge" comprise
ak red skins, big and little so that Genera
Mitchell must have gobbled about ! ,4iO Of tn
natives.
One hundred and sixty-thFee prisoners O
war were sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, on Thurs
day, from the military prison in Louisville.
1t is said the final decision TO evaeut
Richmond was not made until Sunday after
noon, when Lee telegraphed Davis that Gran
had rendered the holding of the city imposs
BILE JEFF Davis left at eight o'clock tbs
night for Danville, aud the Government al
chivea we're removed to Milton, North Carol
ma. .a
The distance from Richmond to Danvill'
Va, is lao miles; from Riehmond to Raleig
is 262 miles, aud from Richmond to Lynch
burg is l26 miles 1t is S6 miles from Riel
mond to Amelia, where Lee was reported {
last accounts.
In Sundays battle, the I'd New York Csvs
ry dismounted and went into the sngagemsr
600 strong. They came out 300 strong an
only one commissioned officer
By the recent explosions in Richmont
there has been a fearful loss Of life. 9 a Il
A dispatch from New orleaus, via Cairo
states that on the 3lst the Federal forces wer
within Eve miles of Mobile, and the siege gun
we're in position to.shell the city.