Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-15
Current News Items.


Harrington is charged with being defaulter
70 The amount Of $4,000, and also As guilty
4 of frauds in connection with wood contracts
The charges are to be investigated
q General Grants medal contains seven hum
dred dollars worth Of gold, and cost, work aud
dall seven thousand dollars.
y Large numbers Of destitute women and
children are constantly arriving in New York
hom the South
t-Ths oil excitement in Southern Illinois is
son the increase. Large fortunes are antici-
gpated during the next six months.
The government has seized fifteen hundred
4barrels Of whisky in st. Louis, upon which the
Sreyenue tax had been ovsded. The liquor
8beonged 10 distillers in Illinois
y The Navy Department has issued an order
that all merchant vessels shall be sold al
Sonce, or as soon as the armament can be re.
3moved from them.
\ 1t is understood that General Lee has sent
! IA request to General Johnston to surrender,
lon the same terms agreed upon between Grant
sand himself
y General Grant is in Washington, where
3hs headquarters will be established here.
saaer.
4 The re:renchment process, inaugurRted in
sWashington yesterday, will curtail the ex
penses of the Government, il is estimated
one milioa per day.
Z 1t is stated that information has been re.
sceived at the French Embassy of the danger
Gus illness of the Emperor Napoleon.
4 A clergyman just deceased in New York,
united, during his life, four thousand couples
{ in marriage, aud christened ten thousand in
Iians.
! The Worlds Fair for 1867 will be at Paris,
7 gand the building for it will cost from S6,000,.
.'OOO to S., 100000 The building will be made
to hold 100000 people, and everything will
be on the grandest scale possible.
I A terrible boiler explosion occurred at the
K Missouri Iron Works. in North Wheeling, on
: Monday afternoon, by which four men were
dangerously and two seriously injured, be-
f,sides six or seven others who we're more or
!, less injured.
By a Law OF the last Congress, copy Of
tsyery book, musical composition, engraving;
!; photograph, etc, which has been copyrighted,
must be SENT free of expense, to the Library
of Congress at Washington.
The people of Oberlin, Ohio, have pre-
scented O sword to a negro in consideration Of
his being the first of his color to receive a
commission as Captain in the army
j JedediRh Huntington, I'd, of Norwich, Con
necticut, is the possessor of the original letter
7 sent by Major Andre, of the British army, to
General Washington, asking that he might be
shot rather than hanged The letter has
come down from General Jsdediah Hunting.
(, ton, OF New London, the grandfather of the
ipresent owner, and an aid TO General Wash
lngton.
One hundred and seventeen national banks
were authorized to commence operations du.
ring the month OF March, 1865. The amount
: of national bank currency issued during the
4 same period was sl3, $4,000
n The Railway superintendents are to have
Z convention in New York on the 18th, to ar.
s Arange the summer time table. 1t is thou ght
sby some that the winter table will be subse
Equently continued.
a The rabid press is abusing the New York
y Tribune for exhibiting some sign of Chris
giian sentiment, civilization and humanity.
gMr Greeley says--'Let not the victory Of
the republic be stained by single act of ven,
< geauee--by one wanton inAietion of pain,
Let not the national ensign be stained by one
drop of bloodshed to punish rather than to
save"
4 An old gentleman in Indianapolis, who
had not tasted of the ardent for twenty years
was so rejoiced over the news Of Lees sur.
render that he inaugurated excessively, and
4, lady was so excited that she took herself tc
be another lady and tried to shake hands
:, M with herself
IL The charge tnat Governor Morton credited
Indiana troopsto Massachusetts is being in.
Investigated.