The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-02
News by telegraph and NTaiis,

BROWN, was Waylatd at DuValls Blum, Ar
kansas, on the night Of the 10th, shot
through the Jaw. and robbed of watch
and $4,000. His condition Is critical. lie
had drawn the money In Memphis aud it
is supposed was followed by robbers.
The late Peruvian Minister to England is
charged with gigantic frauds on Govern
mcnt guano contracts, amounting TO nine
million dollars. It Is intimated that he
acquired his financial education Ia the
Butler school.
The House Committee OF Ways and
Means have agreed to recommend mod-
fication of the income tax by decreasing
the amount Of exemption from income tax
to $1,000 year.
An inspector of revenue has been spec
tally dcputcsi to examine the bonds OF dis
tillers, and increase the amount where IL Is
insufficient, or require new sureties, II the
interests Of the Government demand it.
The receipts for internal revenue on
Monday were sl,352,793.
Mr.. CHmcorr Republican) has brought
an action for damages against Governor
CUNNING, of Colorado, in the sum or $50
900, for refusing him certificate OF election
rs delegate to Congress,
An assessor of Internal revenue In Phila-
delphia has been criminally arrested in
Philadelphia for attempting to swindlc q
whisky dealer by an eXtOrtion game.
Indian Commission BoGY thinks that the
Indians engaged in the late massacre. did
not start with any hostile intent; but the
commander mistaking their purpose a con-
diet ensued which terminated so tragically.
A large box, marked edward MASON.
Portland, Me-" was accidentally broken
open at Boston the other day. and found to
contain three dead bodies, two men and
woman, apparently aged about thirty-five
years. The throats of the woman and one
Of the men had been cut.
The crockcry warehouse OF NO. FANS
LER, in Cleveland, was burned Monday
evening; loss about $4,000.
A fire at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on
Sunday, burned nine buildings, including
the Chronicle office. Loss 100000.
ALLEN CHURCH was murdered by WILLIAM
j. Horror, Middleburg, Clay County
Indiana, few days since-the result of an
old feud
WM. VANDEwENTER and his wife, living
near Florida Station, on the Hannibal and
ST. Joseph Railroad, were murdered on
Sunday night.
A young lady in Brooklyn, New York,
poured kerosene from can upon fire, on
Sunday, and was killed by the explosion
which followed.
There is an ice-gorge in the Muskingum
river, from the Taylorsville dam up to
Zanesville ten miles. 1t is unprecedented.
The will of the late CHARLES MINor, of
Boston, gives Harvard College the income
from 100000 worth of Buffalo. Bradford
and Pittsburg railroad bonds. II win
amount TO $4,000 per annum.
THE FREEDMkN's BUREAU.
According to the Washington HerdM oil
this morning the appropriation for the
Freedmen's Bureau, contained in one of
the appropriation bills already prepared
amounts to S3s,000,000. The appropriation
made last summer amounted to about Sl2,-
mO,OOO. But that was cut down in order
TO benefit the party in the late campaign
Now, that the elections are over for aw hile.
the Bureau VIII be literally treated.
THE NEW ORLEANS INVESTIGATING COM
MTTEE.
Private adyices received here last even
ing from New Orleans represent that the
Congressional Investigating Committee on
the late riot in that city, experience con-
siderable difficulty in procuring reliable
testimony sufficient to establish the charges
that have been made against the authori- |
ties Of the state and city. They are ran
saeking every part of the town for wit
nesses, and examine all they can get, with
out distinction of race or color. aud with |
out any regard To reputation.
LOAN TO JUAREZ.
The proposition for a loan of S5O,OOOOOO |
to the JUAREz party in Mexico, which was
introduced in the House last session. has
not been finally acted upon by the Foreign
Affairs Committee, to whom II was re-
ferred. 1t will scarcely carry.
An Investigation Sadly Needed.
A correspondent having lately written
from Lagos, on the African coast, that the
King of Dahomey was preparing to go to
war with the Ashantees, and to propitiate
fortune, had ordered two hundred men to
be sacrificed to the Genii, the third time
within year that he has INDUCED in this
horrible barbarity, the incident has been