The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-12
News by Telegraph and Mails.

ARrEMUs WARD has directed ia his will
chat his property. after the death of his
mother, shall go toward the erection of an
asylum for printers.
Good news for especially those who are
on "strike" and incapable Of managing
c ither their own or employers affairs.
Cases of Asiatic cholera are said TO have
appeared at New Haven and Hartford, Ct..
with fatal results.
Mrs. JEFF DAVIS. in letter to friend,
announces that she has been blessed with
another son and heir.
The Salt Lake VtdeHe notices that oc-
cassional orders are still issued by the Nor
mons for obnoxious Gentiles to leave.
The Western Union line has cut of its
free telcgrams, and even charges the press
for private dispatches relating to tcIe-
graphic news.
| The schooner NJ. II. Narnum, from Bucks
port, Maine, for Pensacola, Florida, was lost
at sea on the 29th ofJanuary last. The cap
tain and crew remained twenty-threc days
on board after the vessel was wrecked
when they were all rescued.
The nomination of Colonel A. E.JoNEs as
Postmaster of Cincinnati has been deter
mined upon, and his name wilt be sent to
| the Senate Tomorrow.
Since the lst of January six thousand
seven hundred and nineteen Germans have
landed at the port of New York.
At Louisville, yesterday, the Ohio was
| t, oh Int 10
ffty-eight feet in the channel at the foot
of the falls.
Governor BULLOCK, of Massachusetts,
with consent of Council, has appointed
GEORGE J.. RUFFIN (colored) Justice of the
Peace for the county of Suffolk. The nigger,
like the Ohio liver, is stlll on the rise.
A severe shock of an earthquake was felt
in Mariposa County, California. on the 9TH.
The oscillations were from the northwest
to the southeast, and lasted fifteen seconds.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has sent instructions to Collector SHOoN, of
New York, to seize all distilled spirits sold
in that city at less that Government tax.
Mrs. john {. FREMONT continues TO be
very active, in New York, in procuring
money and supplies for the suffering South.
There was heavy fall of snow in west
ern Wisconsin and through Iowa, yester-
day. At Desmones four inches OF snow
fell during the day.
On Wednesday, by order of the town
council of Clifton, Canada, the sole remain
ing portion of the Table Rock will be
blown from its present dangerous position
The New York 1riJune OF yesterday
morning says the latest cable dispatches
scnt,.strongly show that the disturbances
in Ireland amount to the dignity of re-
bellion. The rising is general enough 10
give employment to Il considerable number
of British troops.
The old frigate Brandywinc, burned and
sunk off the Norfolk Navy Yard early in
the rebellion, has been successfully raised,
storeship.
A great fire is raging in Jones County,
Ga, Six or seven miles have been burned
over.
Another large fire lately occurred in
Texas, near Bolton, which did immense
damage to the fine range and farms along
| its pathway. The extent of the country
burned was about sixty miles in length,
and varied in width from three TO eighth
miles. A large number of cattle were de
stroyed In some few cases the entire
premises were consumed-houses mrni-
ture, and everything.
A Memphis dispatch says; The whole
lower country is oyerhowed. Cattle, hogs,
and mules are drowning and perishing,
fences are being swept away, and planta-
tions destroyed. Above here the inhab-
itants say the river Is higher than was
ever known before
NASHVILLE, March 1.-THE river IS ris-
ing one-half inch per hour, and is within
four feet ten and one-hali inches of the
rise of 1916 A rise OF fifteen feet reported