The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-26
News BY telegraph and Mails.
A man named oAsFrR yASAr was arrest

ed In Newark, Nd. few days ago lot sci
ling horse meat TO the manufacturers Of
bologna sausages In that city. lie confess
ed his guilt.
The steamer w. II. Osborne, was burned
at New Orleans on Sunday morning. She was
built and owned by her commander Capt.
Thomas RouERs, aud others in Pittsburgh ::
is in her third season. and cost about SGO,-
600. She was insured in Pittsburgh for
$4,000
4 special from Malta, Dec, 23d' says
vessel had Just sailed, direct for the United
States, with JOIN II. SURRATr as the dis
tinguished passenger.
At eight o'clock on Sunday night fire
broke out on the corner Of Clay and Front
streets, Vicksburg, and ragged till daylight
consuming about hundred buildings,
thirty-eight Of which were brick stores.
Two white children and four negroes were
burned to death, and six negroes were ae-
cidentally killed. Tho loss is estimated At
about two million dollars.
At Louisville. KY, on Saturday night, au
old man of about fifty years of age named
JOHN MENDEL, was brutally assassinated
as he lay asleep in his bed, by some villain
or villains, who coveted his money apd
beat out his brains with an ax in order to
obtain IT, They got about $1,000.
There Is salt well, inTuscarawas County,
which yields coo barrels of water in
twenty-four hours, thirty-five barrels Of
water making a bushel Of salt.
An old negress is still living with BLAN-
TON DUNCAN, in Kentucky. who is one hun
dred and eight years old. She was another
with an infant in her arms ut the surrender
of CoRNwAIIIs was raised in Culpeppcr
county, Virginia Several years ago she
lost her sight entirely, and within the last
four years has quite recovered it, aud can
now see as well as in the days of her youth.
1t is stated that strong effort is making
to secure the removal of Isaac NEwToN,
the Commissioner of Agriculture. 1t is
said that in the event of the Presidents
falling to remove him, Congress viii legis-
late him out. He is generally regarded as
an expensive humbug.
Three hundred emgrants from st. Louis
for Venezuela passed Cairo yesterday en-
route for New Orleans, their port OF de-
pature.
Gov. OGLEsBY, Of Illinois, has declined
to pardon MOLLY TRUssEL, the woman
sentenced to one years Imprisonment in the
penitentlary of that State for killing her
husband, or paramour, at Chicago.
The Captain of the T. :. steamer Mo-
higan reports to the Navy Department
that that vessel was stopped and the ma
chinery somewhat damaged, by big fish
getting entangled in the wheel, The mon
ster shed some blood, but managed to es-
cape.
Accounts from various points of Califor-
MIA say the streams are overflowed, houses
are unroofed, trees are blown down. and
roads are obstructed, but no great damage
is reported.
The Democratic State Convention.
The time for the assembling of this body
is near at hand. The appointment of dele
gates from many of the counties have al
ready been made, and we sincerely trust
that those men who have been selected, and
those yet to be selected, are of such a class
as to not only give character to the Con-
vention, but truly and fearlessly repre-
sent the true Democracy of the State.
The result of the late elections should not
to impress us with the necessity of cut
ling loose from all "entangling alliances
Sith any and every political organization
or faction, which has no fixed and we'll
defined principles, such rs have always
heretofore been the basis upon which the
Democratic party rested its organization
and secured its victories.
The Convention about to assemble will
WELD 4 powerful influence for good or
evil being, as 1t viii be, among the first
to take position in the ranks for the cam
paign of 1867; and its action in the con
struction of platform should be of such a
nature as to leave no doubt upon the mind,
of the people as to the character of tho
principles we profess and intend to carry
out, if successful. The Convention should
assume an affirmative position upon d
strictly Democratic basis select tried and
traSty leaders. and go into the campaign
with determination to avoid and ignore
all action that would tend to lessen tn,
standard bearers in their own estimation
or sacrifice principle to the hopes of t
questionable success.