The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-28
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News by Telegraph and Mails.
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An eminent member Of the House Is said
TO be preparing artlclesof impeachment for
several Judges ofthe Supreme Court. They
are understood 10 be tho number who are
In favor of keeping the old constltntionI
intact.
A Quebec tCanada) dispatch says that on
Christmas night q canoe. with five mons
crossing to Point Levi was upset by ic'
and three men drowned.
There are now, nj Mound city. above
Cairo, eight monitors-elcphants which the
Government doesn't know what to Ito with.
They have Government boarlers. such ~
seaman, mechanics, TO the number OF 32t,
and all engaged solely in eating their
ratons.
vicroR ENANVEL's Minister of Finance
reports deficiency IN his budget of two
hundred million francs, or say forty million
dollars for the year.
The Commissioner OF Indian Affairs does
not credit the report Of q terrible massacre
at Fort Laramie, ON the nd inst, near Fort
Phil Kearncy.
The accounts Of Ex-Governor LYON. who
asserts that he lost s4OOO0 In a railroad car,
the other day, have been made up, and
placed in the hands of the solicitor of the
Treasury for the purpose of commencing
suit to force settlement.
Mr. McCULLocH's opinion is that gold
will remain stable at from 100 TO l3j for
some time TO come lie has no intention
OF forcing the market and is content with
merely avoiding panics, and operating to
secure stability.
A conhagration ut saltwater, Minnesota,
Yesterday. consumed twelve business build
ings. I,oss 2j.0OO.
Mr. CULVER, wife, visiting friend, from
Michigan, and blind man, were all poiS-
oned, at their home. near Ripon, Wiscon-
sin. on Christmas Eve, by taking stryGh-
nine In their tea. No hope OF their re-
covery.
Nearly the half of FimR's Block, at Wi
mona, Minnesota, was destroyed by fire
Yesterday. Loss heavy.
Colonel II. NJ. LAWYER. Assistant Ndju-
tant General OH General SHERMAN's statl,
died last night at the Iindell Hotel. St.
Louis, aiter an illness OF ten days. lie was.
about thirty years of age.
A fire occurred in saltwater, Minnesota,
Yesterday Twelve buildings were de-
stroyed. Loss, s2O,OOO. Little insurance.
At Pittsburg responsible party pub
licly offers 10000 barrels of crude oil in
bulk, deliverable any time during 1867 and
Tba -nllnr huNp
thirty days notice. Price twenty-five cents
per gallon.
\ Philadelphia dispatch says SAMUEL
PATTERSON, u young man. followed his Sis
Ter LAURA to the house, and cntreated her
TO leave the prosecution of u calling so Vilo
and horrible, but LAURA said she liked the
life of loreite and would not quit IT,,
whercupon SAMUEL drew pistol and shot
her In the head, breast, arm and abdomen. I
At Philadelphia, yesterday, RonREr &.
GALLAdHER had his pocket picked, on Third
street. near Chestnut, this afternoon, Of
5000 In new United States $40 bonds. lie
had just purchased them at DmNEL n
COS.
Yesterday, at Philadelphia. C.P. BAYAGD
& Company, bankers. We're robbed of a
quarter of million OF Government bonds
and securities, in manner similar tn the
LORD Bond robbery. It. is supposed 10
have been done by two men who were in
the Office asking questions.
great storm was raging in NeN York
and all over the East, last night
A telegram from Rome, of the llth inste
states that the Pope will establish four
more dioceses in the United States, which
will require bishop for each, increasing
the number to twenty-five.
4 man, styling himself Colonel BRANTLY,
by real estate operations, negotiating notes.
procuring Endorsements on others, recently
Nlctimized some of the citizens of st. JOS
eph ont of about $4,000 and dccamped
lie was arrested ut Chicago. ..I.I
Mr.. !. W. HARRIS, of Carroll county,
Ohio, was chloroformed, gagged, tied and
robbed Of $3.50 IN his house, few days
since, by q gang of rufiians, for whose cap
ture reward of $4,000 is offered.
The clipper ship David Crockett brought
to Philadelphia, yesterday, sixty-siX thou
sand bushels of wheat from California, the
Iirst direct cargo Of California wheat even
brought to that port.
Gen. SHERMAN and his Secretary passed
through Cairo yesterday, the former "a
route for st. Louis; the latter for Phila-
delphia.
JOHNSON NOBLE, of Kentucky, an EX-
Congressman, has been pardoned by the
President.
The County Convention.
rn-morroM the Democracy of MOntgOm-