The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-21
News by Telegraph and Mails.


The Broadway Flour Mills of SAMUEL A.
MILLER at Louisville. were entirely con
sumed by IRE yesterday morning, with
their entire contents. The loss is about
$4,000.
GEORGE STRAND q Co, Of sterling, Eng
land, engaged in the petroleum trade, have
suspended. Their liabilities are over
eiO0,OOO but their assets are largely IN eN-
cess.
Advices per Java state that STEPHEN J.
MEANY, the Fenian senator, has been COM
initted for trial at Dublin. The Dublin
Orangemen have called on the maiu body
Of the orangemen to support the authori-
ties.
The Three Rivers, Canada, Journal on
authority Of the clergy Of the district says
no Catholic priest there either knew orsaw
SuRRATr.
The London Post urges inquiry into the
loyalty of Irisnmen in large towns IN Eng
land. Slight symptoms OF alarm are felt
In Liverpool, where large numbers of Irish
iaborers were out Of employment. Armed
guards are placed on all depots Of arms
\ New York dispatch says: "The reso-
luton of the Common Council authorizing
the conveyance to the General Govern
ment Of the lower part Of City Hall PARK.
for postofce, for s5OO0OO, has been APP
proved by Mayor HOFFMAN.
The "bears" had it all their own way.
yesterday. in New York. Gold fell to l34fs
A member of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture, convicted of selling his vote, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for one year,
and forever precludcd from holding public
office.
In the Senate yesterday, REvERDN JONI
soN called attention TO an article in FoR-
NEY's C1ronicie, in which the Supreme
Court is denounced as a nest of treason.
A fire in No. 33S Broadway, New York,
yesterday morning, destroyed property
worth $ll0000.
During the past yearthe GovernmenthGs
paid great attention to soldiers graves and
cemeteries Every thing that a patriotic
respect for the dead could suggest has been
done. Every grave has been carefully
tended and its occupants name and rank
put at the head as well rs on the records Of
the cemetery The whole number of bodies
of Union soldiers reported as buried is 81
CO. at an expense of 81, l,l4A79l 81.
/ Paris dispatch says it is reported there
that NAPOLEON has received the abdication
of MAMMALIAN to the Mexican throne.
The Tallahassee Fioridiaa has been IN
formed by the United States Assessor of
Internal Revenue in that region that "more
gold watches have been returned in the
city of Tallahassee than were returned in
all New England
\ Washington Dispatch says: The APP
prehension that very generally prevails
among Radicals hereabouts, that SURRATT
will not be convicted before a jury of this
District, has caused Mr.. Representative
WILLIAMS. of Pennsylvania. to prepare a
bill to change our jury system. so as to
give his party friends better chance to get
on District juries The bill will pass as a
matter of course.
Thirty eight veteran medals for the Fif-
teenth Ohio Battery and Forty-third In
fantry were received at the Adjutant Cen
erals Onlce, Columbus, yesterday. They
had been omitted at the former distribu-
ton.
NJ. J. THOMAS, the American Express
messenger who was killed on the Lafayette
Railroad near Stockwell, by cars running
off the track, had an insurance in the Acct
dental and Columbus Company for $4,000,
for the benefit of his mother. THOMAS was
unmarried.
ANNA DICKINSON has congested her right
lung, and reduced her voice TO whisper
by riding on the prairie and lccturing
afterward.