The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-17
News by Telegraph and Mails.

There are one hundred and three millions |
of gold In the National Treasury.
The export of gold yesterday from New
York was 81, 1874, ,sGl.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has given 5000
to the Association for the Relief of Colored
Women.
Texas papers contain accounts of the de-
vastating storms Of the I'd and I'D inst. by
which many lives and much property were
destroyed.
The brlck-layers at work on the Treasury
extension struck yesterday for the eight
hour system, but the Government refused
to accede to their demands.
Advces from New Orleans show that
the new Governor finds the Treasury of
Louisiana so bankrupt that there is not
money enough on hand to pay the State
officers.
A telegram from New Orleans says that
letter from Queretaro, published In Mata-
moras on the I'd, says Macmillan will be
banished.
Ex-PresIdent Buchanan contributed $500
to the-Southern relief fund recently raised
in Philadelphia. -aa "I
The Columbus Statesman of Friday says;
"We heard yesterday that General Henry
Wilson had been found, and that n dispatch
announcing his return to this city on Tues
day next, had been received by his friends"
A dangerous counterfeit, a well-executed
" ten" on the Third National Bank of
Philadelphia, has been extensively circula-
ted.
The Treasurer Of Upton county is de-
faulter for $4,000. The Treasurer of Har-
rison county is also deficient $4,000.
One thousand nine hundred aud seventy
four emigrants passed through Columbus
last week, of whom 491 will remain in this
State.
The Louisville Board OF Trade have pre-
pared memorial to Congress, praying for
the removal OF the tax on cotton, and set
ting forth its injustice and injurious influ-
ence upon commercial affairs.
In the collision at Waterford, In Ireland,
consequent upon an attempt at the rescue
of the Fenian prisoners, the military, who
were called to the aid of the police, used
their bayonets, wounding great many of
the mob, two of whom have died.
Over thirty brides were at the Niagara
Falls hotel one day last week.
A special from Wyandotte says the mob
that killed two negroes last Friday were al
most entirely non-residents Of the State,
and that the citizens of Wyandotte were
not responsible for the deed.
Apntha- .,.ao.., ,,,os b,,,,. -
town, johnson County, Kansas, yesterday,
for raping an emigrant girl.
The Indians have taken almost entire
possession of Brown County, Texas, driv-
ing out the settlers.
A diamond weighing between twenty
one and twenty-five karats, It is reported,
has been found in the Orange River, in
Southern Africa.
Governor Bullock, of achusetts, has
appointed Festus Campbell, who was re-
Gently rejected from the jury list in Pitts
field, because he was black, Justice Of the
Peace.
Dispatches from Constantinople state
that Omar Pacha has gained victory over
the Cretans, routing them from a strong
po9tloh' anu kllllHB anu WOuhulhB HNc
with loss of ten men,
The last sensation is contained in the
Oswego Palladium, which says that a ser
pent forty feet long has been discovered in
Lake Ontario. A party Of excurslonists
sailing on the lake, the other evening, arc
reported TO have been scared nearly out Of
| their wits.
| General Sherman sent a telegraph dis
patch to the War Department Wednesday,
saying that hostile Indians had destroyed
some of his telegraph lines. From Fort
Laramie the Interior Department has in
formation that the representatives of two
hundred lodges came there and wanted to
make peace.
The citizens of Wyandotte, Kansas deny
that the mob which killed the two negroes
in the jail, while Senator wade's party was
there, was composed of residents. A pub
lie meeting had been held 70 denounce the
act. f't
Judge Sanborn has adjourned his special
court at Sanborn, North Carolina, In con-
sequence ofnegroes having been summoned
to act as jurors. He deems that allowing
them so to act will be in violation of his
oath to support the state. .tt