The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-13
News by Telegraph and Mails.

The river was so blockaded with ice at
West Hartford, Vermont, yesterday, that
the water rose as high as the second story
windows Of WILLIAMsoN's Hotel. His
oldest daughter was drowned while trying
to escape.
The number of barrels of mackerel in
spected in the State of Maine in 1866, was
40,6Os, showing a falling Off from the pre-
vious year of about 5000 barrels.
Game is plenty and cheap at San Fran
cisco venison six cents pound, quails 81
dozen, geese 81 a dozen, chicke ms Sc 90, a
dozen, rabbits 81 q dozen, mallard ducks
- 90 a dozen, others 81 so a dozen.
The Bankrupt Bill passed the Senate
yesterday. It goes to the House for con-
currence in the amendment.
A Frankfort, KY, dhpatch says: There
is a gloomy feeling pervading the ranks OF
the Democrats here, the result of the state
ment that JOHNSON was about to join the
Radicals. They have hitherto declared so
strongly for the support of the President
that they are Il little at loss how to act il
the new order of things is developed as they
fear.
The tariff bill still hangs fire, The meas
ure has but one week in which TO pass and
reach the President 50 as to compel his sig
nature or his veto. After Wednesday next
he eau pocket any bill. The New York
Chamber of Commerce sent on an eiahor-
ately gotten up memorial against the pas
sage of the Bill, which was presented.
There are eighty-flve vacancies of Asses
sors and Collectors of Internal Revenue t.
be filled before the 4th of March.
Yesterday, in the Senate, Mr. CHANDL FL
gave notice that he should, to-day intro
duce bill to repeal all existing tariff laws
and enact i'm their stead tariff of fifty pc
cent dd gdlorem on all imported goods.
splendid meteor was generally observed
at San Francisco and other points in Cal
ifornia on Monday evening. In one regior
it made a tremendous noise.
On the lst instant, tornado swep
across the Mississippi at Island 97, destroy
ing houses and large amount of property
and killing Mrs. L. II. NELSON. At Mill
ken's Bend, also, serious injury was done
the unfinished Catholic Church there beins
leveled to the ground.
The marble bust of President LINCOLN
made by A. p. HENRY, was unvailed in tht
Louisville Academy of Music yesterday
Ex-Attorney General SPEED delivered tb
inaugural address. The bust is to be per
manently located in the library of TIN
United States Court Room, in the Postofiic
Building.
I Yesterday, in the Senate, the blatan
SUMNER made half a dozen speeches to sfIov
or rather to assert-that Union men, blacl
and white, were being prosecuted and klle,
throughout the South. When asked for hi
authority he fell back on a bundle of let
ters, and when asked for the names of tn
writers, he declined to give them o
course. He is still labOring' under the dis
ease called BROoKs'-cane,
The freshet about Norwich, Conn, on tn
llth and 18th, has caused a ! oss of S200,0O
worth of property. Yesterd ay n new pa
per mill, at Greenville, was di lmaged in $50,
OO0
A western river improve ment conven
tion is in session ut St. Louis, well ATTENDED
and having harmonious tim e.
The Commissioner of India Affairs ha
written letter severely criti cising the po
sitions taken by Generals $ HERMAN anC
GRANT in their letters on the subject.
Thirty fires, each involving a loss o
$4,000 and upward, are repo rted as hav
ing occurred in the United tates during
the month of January. TIE aggregate
value of the property destroyed was 81,
04S,0OO.
A bill is now before the w est Virgins
Legislature which proposes to relieve tn,
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company iron
all liability of State, county ant local take
heretofore assessed by paying the sum o
S25, 900, and to commute all future taxes b!
paying capitation of one mill mile TO
each passenger transported tn rough tn
State. The Wheeling htelitgeRcer de
nounces the measure in the stron gest terms