Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-08
Current News Items.

rency we're issued 10 the Nauoue' Na"@e'
The whole amount furnished them to Aprh
lstissIll,6 $40.
Cotton is quoted very dull at Memphis 't
Twenty-Five cents pound, and 1t is said that
there are heavy losers there.
Mr. Phillip Tomppert, Democrat, has been
elected Mayor Of Louisville lie was elected
BY one hundred plurality over the Republican
candidate.
The Post ohcs Department has appointed
Mr.. vassal 8 special agent to proceed imme'
diateiy and reopen the Wilmington (N' C.)
post office.
L. expected that at the next session oi
Congress the President will send message
recommending special appropriation Tor
Andy Johpson's bust.
Mortimer Thompson 'Doesticks') IS en-
gagged in an editorial capacity on tho Ssvan-
nah Herald.
DR. Murry, an eminent English convert to
Catholicism is mentioned as the probable sue
cessor of the late Cardinal Wiseman.
England and Ind, 4, are now within six hours
telegraphic communication
The columns of Sherman are again in mo-
ton. 1t is thought Johnston will fall back
from Raleigh into the interior.
An order will soon be issued from Wash
ineton authorizing the toxatOn of all tobacco
brought from a Southern to a Northern
port .,...oa
from Fort Lafayette, was again taken prs
onsr OF the late battle at Petersburg.
One thousand buildings are said 10 have
been DESTROYED in Richmond by the eonha-
grafton.
The Tribune announces that the rebs lion
ia at an end, the Republic is saved, and the
duration Of the war is but question OF
days. ~.
4 dozen wealthy negroes from Boston, New
York. Philadelphia, Washington and el'e'
where, one Of them having $4,000 invested
in government stocks, have applied for au'
thority to start bank in Washington to be
called the "Frsedmeu's National Bank, with
capital of sS)0,OOO
The Democratic Press OF San Francisco
which claims TO have special aud exclusive
sources Of information, says that ex-senator
Gvip has gone to France, but will very soor
return with force OF French troops undel
Marshal BAzlue, and take possession OF Sono
RI The Press does not credit the report
GRin's elevation 10 the ducal station, nor tha
Macmillan had ceded any portion ofthe Mex
lean Teroitory to the French Emperor.
General Weitzel, who is the General report
ed to have captured Richmond, is Cincln
natian by birth, aud his corps is composed o
colored troops.
Michigan now yields about S7,OOO,OOC
worth of copper and S2,OOO,O 900 worth OF iror
annually.
Miss Marion Mccarthy, an actress, died II
the Lunatic Asylum at Indianapolis, on Sat
urday last, Of congestion Of the brain.
The recent freshets throughout the coun
try have greatly delayed the transportation o
freights by railroads.
The Republicans of Fairfield, Connecticut
at the late election, chose the humbug show
man, P. T. Baruum, to the Legislature. Bar
mum is good representative OF humou(
age and humbug party.
The cost OF the new operA-house at Chica
90, now approaching completion, is estimated
at $4,000 1t will comfortably seat 3,OO'
persons,
The interest on our public debt on the BIS
Of March was SlO2 1886 ,53l, Of which S64
Ols,ssl was in gold, and s3e,sl9s99 in cur
reney.
HAncock's forces are moving up the Shen
andoah Valley, toward Lynchburg in order
cut of the retreat of Lee in that direction.
The State officers to be chosen this IA
are Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasu
or, Judge of Supreme Court, Member OF th
Board Of Pnblie Works, and Clerk Of the 81
preme Court.
Members Of the Legislature, in both Senat
and House, are to be chosen, who are in tur
to elect United States Senator
The New York Herald claims to have al
vices that Lincoln has had u conference wit
Judge Campbell aud others, in Richmond,
the advice and consent of Davis for peace
- o%
A "leyal" exchange editor says the ne
fifty cent shin-plaster looks so much like
quack medicine label that he "invOluntar
ly turns It over to see il it cures corn
bunions and whooping cough" He say
further, that it contains as many colors {
the bandana turban of q showy negres