The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-09-25
BY TELEGRAPH.

WAsnNdroN, September "a.


Secretary Seward was at the State De-
partment to-day, attending to his official
The President has appointed Theodore
y. ,. Dwight of Nebraska, Indian Suner-
intendent for Nevada; John II. Humphreys,
Of Tennessee, Agent for the Shawnees,
Kansas.
Among the many who to-day sought the
presence of the President were TRurlow
weed and Major General Custer, who, with
several members of Congress were sucoesa-
ful in obtaining interviews.
General Custer has been ordered to report
for duty to Lieutenant General sherman
at st. Louis. II is understood that he will
be assigned TO a command In Kansas, in 40
cordance with his brevet rank of Major
General, the commission of which was
given him to-day.
CHICAGO September "a.
The Directors of the Chicago Driving
Park held q meeting this morning, and
offer reward of 81 900 for the arrest of the
murderer of youg McKeever, the driver of
the horse Butler" who met his death at
the race on Saturday. All bets have been
declared ''off.'
LOUISVILLE, September "a.
Major-genernl JEFF. G. Davis will send to-
morrow commission of officers to Gala
tin County, Kentucky, to investigate the
facts relative to the recent arrest of DIR.
Ferris, and the detention of the mail steam.
er General Buell..
NEW ORLEANS, September "a.
Brownsville dates to the 10th and Mata-
moras the 10th have been received. Gen
eIal Tampin sent byJuarez to Matamoras "a
Governor has been imprisoned.
MaXimilian was in San Luis Potosl.
where Vidaurri and Mejia have 5000 men,
There was great CONSERVATION among the
Liberals at Monterey, who were expecting
them there.
At Matameras the Liberals had declared
the forced loans permanent, and merchants
ana men Of property were all moving into
Brownsville.
ST.. LOUIS, September "A.
The tobacco crop in the upper part of
this State Is said by persons from there to
have been entirely destroyed by the ffost
OF last Thursday night. The chief tobacco
ulstrlct OF Missouri Is in the central por-
ton. We have not heard from there yet.
.flgures show that the people of Califor-
ma paid assessments on twelve mines i'm
Nevada, and one in Mexico; amount,
$4,250,000.;
THE PITTsDURG CONVENTION.
PTTsBURG, September q.
There Is great excitement manifested in the
city tonight. Delegates are arriving in
large numbers on every train. The dele
gates up to this hour are said to number
five thousand
MEMPHIS, September "a.
Adolph Bernard, Ticket Agent of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company,
absconded with $1,000 of the Company's
fnnd. He was followed to Chicago by de-
tectives and brought back to-day. ~.
BosToN, September "a.
Wendell Phillips has declined the nomin-
alton OF the workingmen for Congress- In
the letter announcing this decision, he
says:
1t seems to me that can, in the present
serve our cause better out
ofCongress than In IL.
COLUMBUS, September "a.
In addition to the damages heretofore re-
ported by the recent floods, 1t is said that
lhe canal between this city and Portsmouth
has suffered to an extent that will make II
very expensive for the lessees to place IL
again in good repair.
NASHVILLE, September "a.
Seventy cholera deaths are reported by
ihe Mortuary Committee for twenty-fou
hours ending at O'Clock this evening, and
'iX deaths from other diseases.