The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-04
News by Telegraph and Mails.


The Connecticut Mutual Insurance Com
pauy, OF Hartford. holds mortgage of
Sl50,000 on the CROSBY Opera House, which
has two years to run. The company has
agreed to receive payment and raise the
mortgage.
The London telegraph publishes a state
ment of its daily circulation, which loots
up l3s,705, the largest circulation Of any
daily paper in the world.
The internal revenue collected in New
York city, Tor 1866 was S35700.OOO and for
four years nearly SlO0,OO0,O00.
Eighteed thousand prairie chickens We're
shipped from Cedar Rapids to Liverpool,
England, last week.
a test vote was taken in the Legislative
Assembly at Nashville, yesterday, upon the
negro suffrage bill, which resulted in thirty
six for and twenty-eighG against it. The
Radicals were iubilant.
1t is rumored that JOHN H. SURRATT has
arrived IN this country, and is privately in
confinement at Annapolis Maryland
The Ohio Senate, on Saturday, voted
against the Oberlm negro. LANGsroN. hay
ing the privilege oflecturiug in its Hall {;
seven for it, seventeen against. 10, the
poor nigger!
The Committee on New Orleans riots
have concluded the Investigation, and are
preparing their report, which, il is under
stood. will be very severe upon the New
/ Orleans authorities, buj substantially cN-
onerates Mr.. JOHNSON from gully com
plcity in the affair.
! The Baptist Church in Lexington. Ky.
a large, elegant structure, valued at $50
600, insured for $1,000 was destroyed by
fire on Sunday.
| The Herald's Washington special says: 4
council of general officers Of the armyhas
| been called by General GI:ANr to be held in
Washington to confer uron matters con-
cerning the army, and particularly in ref
erence to maintaining garrisOns in the
Southern States.
Three blocks were destroyed by fire yes
terday in Oswego. n. y. Loss &jO00O. In
surance from $4,000 to 100000.
The six men who attacked and robbed
the wagon of the Hope Express, between
Kingston aud Wilkesbarre, on the 9th of
January last, of$l0,000 have been sen
fenced to the penitentiGry for five years
each. The money was recovered.
The Toronto correspondent Of the Irib-
une, of Friday, states that huge rock in
the Richardson gold mine at Medoc was
blasted that morning which revealed a rich
vein of gold far beyond the most sanguine
expectation. The rock taken out win yield
not less than $4,000 to the ton, and the
dirt, which miners call dirt crevice," not
less than 100000.
The receipts of Internal Revenue on Sat
urday, were Sl,622, 255 45-making total
for the week of S5,s2S5s7 80.
The Mexican Consul at San Francisco,
telegraphs that the reported execution of
the United States Consul at Mazatlan is
false.
Major II. II. DUNCAN, of Lexington, has
sold his large Bourbon farm, together with
the stock, to a company of Englishmen, for
S25OOOO.
Half bushel Of counterfeit postal cur
rency was picked up on Woodward ave
nue., Detroit, few mornings ago. 1t was
supposed to have been dropped or thrown
there, by some dealer in the stuff,
a Canadian, named GONYEAUx, with his
wife and three children, in a sleigh, at
tempted to drive across the river on the ice
from Detroit to the Canada side, ON Thurs
day night. When near the shore the ice
gave way, and the whole party were
drowned, except a little girl.
At Pittsburg the riyeris rising, with six
teen feet in the channel. The Monongahela
is open to its head, while the Allegheny is
open to Oil City Theice gorges at Wheel
ing Steubenville and Marietta broke up on
Saturday. The steamers c. Il. Hillman aud
New State, together with the Wheeling
wharf-boat, swept Off from Wheeling on
Saturday, by the ice, loated past Marietta
last evening at five o'clock.
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