The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-05
News by Telegraph and Mails.


The bank at Bahia, South America, has
been robbed of S2GGOOO.
Brazil is still continuing her preparations
for vigorous prosecution of the war
against Paraguay.
The first iron-clad man-of-war ordered
by the japanese Government is now being
CONSTRUCTED ut Toulon
The new bridge at GAINESVILLE, which late
ly broke and precipitated part of train in
the river, with loss Of life, is now not used
for passing trains, HH
A statement of the Sun Mutual Marine
Insurance Company, of New York, shows
d a balance of unimpaired capital of S637,OOO,
and of stock 100000 more.
The high duty of five cents a pound on
cofieewould have beenreduced in the United
i States Senate but for the vote of Senator
WADE, of Ohio. who was the only Western
Senator not for the reduction.
J A resolution was yesterday presented to
the Senate by the Vice-President, from the
Radical Legislature of Wisconsin, instruct
ing Senator DooLTrTLE 20 resign his seat.
He will dod-tttLe to crafty them in that
line.
Itis reported in Washington that Gen
,eral SHERIDAN will go to the Plains to di-
rect the campaign against the hostile In
dians.
! A New York special says it is definitely
settled that articles Of impeachment will
. | be presented to the House at an early day,
but the Senate will not take them up till
the next session.
: The Owensboro, Kentucky, Monitor states
that a negro attempted to commit rape
on young lady in ClOverport last week,
! and 1t ''supposesr he was hung by moi
! for the crime.
= The trestle-work at Piqua, on the Column
bus and indianapolis Central Railway, gave
way on Saturday, just after the passage Of
the express train west rta .t.
: Seven Fenian prisoners, LYNCH, Rev
erend MCMAHON, QUINN, WHALEN, HAY
DEN, HAVEN and ScHooT were sent on Sat
urday ffom Kingston to the Penitentiary
The steamer Hillman, which was swep
: of from Wheeling by the ice was caugh
g at Pomeroy yesterday, considerably dam
= aged, together with the steamer New State
The Wheeling wharf-boat passed Pomero.
last night.
= The gunboat Gettysburg, with Admira
PORTER and FREDERICK SEWARD, from tn
West Indies, returning from a secret mis-
sion, arrived in Chesapeake Bay, yesterda!
morning, bound to Annapolis.
A fellow calling himself w. b. LEWIS
and claiming to be junior partner in tn
y firm of LEWIS, NAUsEN e. Co.. Of st. Louis
swindled G. w. WIcKs out of $3000 on
bogus check, in Louisville, last Wednes
day. He was overtaken and arrested il
Bowling Green.
LONDON, February 3.-Advices are re
: ceived that terrible explosion, accompa
MED with great loss of life, recently oc
: Cured in Paraguay.
y A leading feature of the Presidents neN
plan OF restoration is a provision disquali
flying rebels from holding Federal oilice
: but leaving them eligible to positions un
Ill der the State Governments.
The New York Heraldsays that rumor /
Wall street has it that a crisis of a threat
= ening nature hangs over many of the in
! surance corporations of that city, owing t
unprecedented losses by fires and marin
disasters during the year just passed.
d. d. The public debt was increased, Las
he month, over four millions.
ag CHARLOTTE HOUGH has brought su
against the firm of JORDAN, MARSH & Co
he Boston, for money due her from cotto
L" speculations during the war. She claim
h, she wns employed by the firm during til
II. war, to buy cotton in the Southern State
and manipulate Government employees fC
passing it through the lines, and that til
firm made hundred thousand dollars b
her agency, and refuse to divide. Generi
nS' BUTLER and A. II. SwEITzER are employe
by her as counsel