The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-11
GLEANINGs FROM THE MAILS.

OlncinnAtt. was burned 10 ueaLn ana tne
dwelling fired, on Friday last, by her
clothes taking fire, while size was prepar-
ing dinner.
Mrs. Sprague wife of Senator Sprague,
and her sister, Miss Chase, sailed for Europe,
on Wednesday last, In the Cunard mail
steamer.
A. NJ. O'Connor has reached Panama on
route for Barbados gold mines with hun
drcd pounds weight Of gold, the result of
six months personal labor with most prim
tive instruments. lie comes To New York
TO obtain machinery. r..
1t is estimated, says the Chicago Times,
that one hundred persons were killed or
wounded by the late tornado In Pope and
johnson counties, In Illinois.
A general reduction of prices is contem-
plated by the New York hotels and restau-
rants.
AN IRISH COMPLIMENT. = When "Beast
Butler" was about to take his leave of New
Orleans, quite crowd gathered to bid him
good-byc. Ono Irish woman handed her
baby for a kiss, and taking the General by
the hand, addressed him:
"Good-byc. General I'll say this for yes
that yes nyer stole any thing from me.
Goodbye General"
AS an illustration of the success which In
some cases attend manufacturers, it Is an
nounced that the ''Sprague' firm. of which
Senator Sprague is a member, Is making
over 100000 week.
The London Times suggests to Stephens
the Feuian leader. to keep diary, wher-
ever he may be in hiding, assuring him
that the details of the manner in which he
eludes the detectives will one day be an in
teresting and profitable publication.
Raw mutton, or beef given In diluted al
cOhol, In small doses, Is now used for the
treatment of consumption in France.
An experienced loafer says that alcohol,
given in large doses, in diluted beef or NUT
ton, always saved him!
eB-A new feauture has been added to
the peculiar circumstances and imagined
causes of the late Opera-IIouse fire in
Cincinnati. The Commercial says
5. N. Pike, Esq, believes that the Opera
House fire was the work of an incendiary,
and offers reward Of five thousand dol
lars for the detection and conviction of the
guilty party.
The value of stolen money and property
of every description, reported to the police
VI NlnClnIl'iIl, IOT Ille year Gnu
ing April /. was $l57,6T IL, of which up
ward of Sl29,000 were recovered by the po-
lice.
While party of five men were attempt
ing to cross Canon River at Dundas. Mimi,
last Friday night, the ice forced their little
boat down stream, carrying it over dam.
Two of the party, Mr.. Taylor and Mr..
Hardy, who lived mt Dundas were drowned.
The Others escaped by getting ashore over
the broken ice.
Waldo p. johnson, who was elected to
the United States Senate from Missouri, in
1861 as the successor of Hon. James Green,
and who seeded and took his seat in the
Senate of the so-called Confederate States
In the spring of that year, arrived in st.
Louis.
A young man named Peters, who killed
the Confederate General, Van Dorm, during
the war, committed suicide in st. Paul,
Minn., OH the 9th inst.
The large mercantile block of p. It.
Hughes, in st. Paul, value, SG0,000, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th.
The decapitated body ofan unknown wo-
man was found buried at Evansville, day
before yesterday. 1t is thought TO be n ease
of murder.
John ii. Reagan, exPostmaster General
of the rebel States, IN a private letter from
Palestine, Texas, March l3, to a friend in
New York, says he has quietly settled
down to farming, and that he employs nine
freedmen.
One hundred and fifty negroes attempted
revolution at Panama, March 2i. They
were surrounded by troops and shot down
like sheep. Twenty-Five or thirty were
killed, and one hundred made prisoners.
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL BURNsIDE.-Gen.
A. Il. Burnside lately elected Governor of
Rhode Island, is now in our city on a busl-
ness visit. Circumstances of his arrival
and sojOurn are widely different from what
they were in 1868, when in all the panOply
of war he arrived and took command of the
Department of the Ohio. His word was
then law and his slightest nod sufficient to
order the most distinguished OF our citizens
to imprisonment and exile Cincinnati
Enquirer 10.
The miserable shoulder-strap despot of
time-ago manifests no little degree of au-
dacity, In thus visiting the scenes of his
cowardly outrages and Internal crimes. 1t
is to be wondered at that he dares to travel
from his home without--as is the won't of
the brave and chivalrous SrANToN--a
breast-platod gang OF mercenaries, loaded
down with nuskets, bayonets and revol-
vers
An Immense Institution.
IL appears, from communication pre-
pared at the War Department, in reply to
the resolution of the House, that the Illl-
nois Central Railroad Company received
from the United States for transportation
of troops and supplies, from March 1862 to
April, 1866, $2,592,l56, and from other