The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-22
News by Telegraph and Mails.

The Internal Revenue receipts are aver
aging less than half million dollars per
day, and show a general depression of bus
mess throughout the country.
President RoBERTs called a convention
of the Fenian Brotherhood of New Yorl;
State for the 29th inst. to meet at Utica;
also, one of the Brotherhood of Illinois, on
the 10Th of March, at Chicago.
a disastrous fire at Warsaw, New York,
commenced OH Tuesday night Fourteen
stores were destroyed in the business por-
ton of the village
The statutes of New York make WASH
INGToN's birthday legal holiday. 1t will
be so observed to-day.
In the recent encounter between the
miners and troops in Belgium, three work
men were killed and fifteen soldiers
wounded.
Official news from Vera Cruz to the 18th
inst. state thar the Mexican legation con-
firms the reported defeat of MIRAMoN by
EsooBEDo near the city of Zacatecas.
Toledo was visited on Tuesday by the
most violent storm of wind and rain that
has been experienced in that region fol.
years. The Madmee River commenced
rising, and at last accounts was again out
of its banks.
A private dispatch from New York an
nounces the death Of H. d. STRATToN, one
of the proprietors OF BRYANT q STATIONS
chain of Commercial Colleges.
The chair of JOHN HANCOCK, and the ia
BILE upon which the Declaration of fIndepend-
ence was signed, arrived atPhiladelphia yes
terday, and will be placed in Independence
Hall.
A Vincennes, Ind, dispatch says the river
there, yesterday afternoon, was higher than
il has been known since 1928, and still ris-
ing. The levees below the town are broken,
and heavy damage is ensuing. Many fam
lilies are in peril, and efforts are making to
save them. Eight miles of water stretch
ling westward.
A bill donating all the Government prop
erty at Camp Chase, Ohio, for the erection
OF an asylum for disabled soldiers, was
passed
The Louisville Courier says that in three
papers before us are recorded five attempts
at rape by negroes upon white girls.
The st. LouisS Republican says that Cen
eral JOHN A. LOGAN is interested in an
eighteen thousand bale of cotton claim, out
of which he expects to make fortune. Lo-
GAN, like BUTLER, and BANKS, was heavy
on the Rebels, when there was cotton about.
A movement is on foot to lay pipes from
Titusville, Pennsylvania, to New York, for
the purpose of transporting oil, in compe-
tition with the railroads. The estimated
capital is $5,000,0OO.
The Lake Superior Railroad Company
has completed arrangements by which it Is
certain that the road will not only be
promptly built, but, that when built, it will
be operated under auspices in the highest
4 degree advantageous to the commerce of
the State. Heavy English capitalists are
concerned in the contract.
The Senate yesterday confirmed General
FULLERTON as Postmaster at st. Louis
Also, C. B. WHITE as Internal Revenue As
SCISSOR of the Twenty fourth Ohio District
JAMES DAVIS, of the Ninth Ohio District
JAMES G. HoTCHALL, Postmaster at Frank
. llOItY htuluChlf anu iAbkAo Il In iLNA III
ternal Revenue Collector of the Fourteenth
Ohio District.
The rumor of Hon. CHARLES SUMNER's
retirement from public life at the close OF
his present Senatorial term is generally
credited in Washington, where, it is said
he has made the statement to number o.
his friends. His intention, 1t is added, is tC
visit Europe in December, 1859. May We
not, without wishing any evil TO European
people, hope that he will stay there for
ever
Mrs. f. f. W. HARPER, lady Of charac
ter and talent, who has addressed thousand
>, of as cultivated people as can be found il
/ Boston, was refused a carriage in that city
Al the other day, to take herself and child Il
a railroad station, even after the driver haC
driven TO her house, because he discovered
3; she was cOlored. Boston should be recon
o.