The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-08
News by Telegraph and Mails.

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
instructions to Collectors to permit the en-
try Of wool and hair as heretofore, until
they receive distinctive samples of the va
rious kinds provided for under the recent
Tariff Law. This Is supposed TO he the
legalzation of the late Freedmen's election
in the District of Columbia
Hon. c. d. HUBBARD, member of Con-
gress from West Virginia, has returned TO
the Treasury of the United States 1881 ~,
the balance of his increased pay as Con-
gresham.
Colonel c. f. SMITH, in command at Fort
Laramie, denies that he has been either
captured or scalped by the Indians. He
arrived safely at the Fort yesterday.
Among the appointments made by the
President yesterday, were the following for
| Ohio: EDWARD NJ. PHELPS, Assessor of the
Fifth District; ELIAS NYE, of the Eleventh
and w w. WILSON, Collector of the
| Fourth.
The Indiana State Board of Agriculture
by a vote of ten to four, decided to hold the
next exhibition ut the city OF Terre Haute
! In his speech upon "Impeachment" yes
terday, ASHLEY darkly insinuates that Pres
ident JOHNSON was a party to LINcoLNt
assassination.
A fire at Shreveport La, on the 29th ul
timo, destroyed the stores ofCHARLEs KAHN
L. NEwBERdER, BERTRAND h ENDERs ant
f. L. FRANK, with their stocks of goods
| 7 10. 90, t,riIJinoa SSn nnn nm onode G100
600.
1t was officially stated in Parliament OF
Wednesday, that there were from one tC
four thousand Insurgents around Dublin
The railroad between that city and Corl
had been torn up, and all communication
between the two places stopped. AT Drog
heda, on Wednesday, an attack was mad'
on the barracks, which was repulsed, will
considerable loss in killed and Wounded.
In Henrco county, near Richmond, Vir
! ginia, few days ago, the dead body of I
J young woman was found In the woods
about a hundred yards from the road. Sh
, was neatly dressed. Her bonnet had beer
, perforated by bullet but she had beel
: choked to death.
: Disastrous floods are prevailing upon tn
= Lower Mississippi. portion of the tow
of Helena has been washed away, ant
a many of the levees are breaking away.
GEORGE PEABODY has recently giveI
$l40,0O0 to trustees for the promotion o
the knowledge of the natural and physlca
sciences among the people Of his natlv,
: county of Essex, Massachusetts,.
The Suez Canal is practically open, on
hundred bales of goods from Siam for Pari
T having taken the route Of this canal to tn
Mediterranean.
GEORGE B. JONES, colored, was chOseI
constable of Blackstone Massachusetts, ol
Monday. "Thc day of jubilee is coming
in a Radical sense.
The London markets this winter hav
- been abundantly stocked with American
grouse, or prairie fowl. They were sold a
from three shillings to four shilling an,
siXpence.
intelligence has been received from ia
pan that the Tycoon has requested an In
= terview with the ambassadors of the Unite,
: States and the European powers.
A cable dispatch says the Fenians hav
torn up the railroad and blocked the road
between Cork and Dublin, completely sus
pending railway travel between thos
i cities.
Advices from the Cape Of Good Hop
bring the sad intelligence that DR., LIVING
STONE, the celebrated African explorer, ha
been killed by Caffres.
A Columbus dispatch says
"The lessees of the Public Works eXpec
TO open the Ohio Canal TO navigation ab0u
the lst of April. On the Miami and Fri
Canal large dam, seventeen hundred fee
In length, thirty miles south of Toledo, wa
seriously damaged by the recent freshets
so that about one-third of the dam mus
) be reconstructed"
:, DR.. HIRAM Cox, long resident of Gin
, cinnati, father of now Judge Cox, Of tn
Common Pleas, died In Mlamitown, on III
9Th.
In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. WILsol
offered joint resolution making II pena
D. ofiense TO sell spirituous liquors In tn
Capitol building, or bring them into t. Thi
is supposed TO make radical hit at thos
paragon Radicals, Senators CHANDLER an
SPRAGUE, who bring them" into the cham
Der in their own SkiRs.