The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-18
News by Telegraph and Mails.


Gold closed In New York yesterday
at ls716
The President was reported quite Ill last
night.
Three Illicit distilerIes were seized in
New York on Thursday.
The amount of specie to be shipped to-
day will, it is said amount to two millions
and a half of dollars.
Madame Ristori made her last appear
auce in America last night, in New York,
as Medea. She made brief farewell ad-
dress in English.
The Commercial Bank of New Orleans
suspended payment yesterday.
Sheridan has prohibited the carrying of
iire-arms la New Orleans.
Jefferson Davis and his family are domi-
ciled at the New York Hotel, New York.
He will leave for Canada to-day or on Mon
day.
large wild cat was captured, yester-
day, In lumber yard, in Chicago. 1t had
probably been brought in the hold of some
vessel from the lumber regions of Mich
igan. ''''
The United States District Court of Iowa
has decided adversely to the liquor sellers
in that State, who claimed that because the
United States Internal Revenue Law pro-
yides for liquor licenses, the State Prohib-
itory Liquor Law is of no effect.
The subscriptions in Boston for the
South amount to $47,507.
Geo. Andrews, charged with embezzling
several thousand dollars belonging to the
Merchants Union Express Co., OF New
York, was yesterday arrested in Chicago.
Mrs. Belinda Films, the heroine of the
story of the shipbuilder of Boston and his
breach of promise of marriage, has re-
covered $1,000 for the injury done to her
affections.
1t appears that Payner, the "inoffensive
young man who made murderous assault
upon his cousin, Miss Holcraft, In Philadel-
phia, on Thursday, had attempted to ravish
her, and, irritated by her resistance, cut her
throat, and then his own. His wounds are
supposed to be fatal. The girl, who is only
fifteen years old, is recovering.
Warner, Chcever g. Co., of st. Louis, yes
terday received large order for supplies
from Brevet Colonel Rankin, Captain of
Company c, Thirty-first Infantry, U. s. A.,
now located at Fort Buford, Dacotah Ter
ritory, the scene of the reported Indian
massacre in January last. The letter con-
tains no account Of scalpings or Indian
troubles. aa
The other day dog got into the sheep
fold Of General Singleton, near Quincy,
Illinois and destroyed four hundred dol
lars worth of his valuable South Down
sheep.
New York has adopted a new rule of
testimony, which enables husband and
wife, or either of them, TO be a witness for
or against the other, or on behalf Of any
party, In certain cases.
Two young girls belonging to Fall River,
Mass, ran away with some OF the circns
companies that performed there on Tues
day, 90th ult. They have been tracked to
Providence, but have not yet been found.
A cable dispatch announces that the En-
peror of Austria has issued a decree favor
ing the Protestant inhabitants Of Hungary.
The nature of the decree is not stated, but
we suppose that 1t grants what the Hun
garian Protestants have long deslred-the
liberty to manage their own church af-
fairs.
A sturgeon nearly feet long, and weigh
ing 306 pounds was caught at Berkeley, In
Taunton 'Great River" Mass, last Thurs
day, and at Taunton on the same day, a
sucker was sened which measued three
feet two inches.