The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-06
News by Telegraph and Mails.

New YORK, February GA fire at Wells
vile, on Friday, destroyed press, printing
Office and large number of sto res and
dwellings. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $70,-
900.
! The lard oil refinery of COOKE BROTHERS
q Co., in Henry street, was destroyed by
fire last night. Loss, $4,000.
An engine and three freight cars of the
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne road yesterday
ran off the track when about twenty miles
south of Valparaiso, Indiana, damaging the
engine and cars The accident was caused
by broken rail. No one was hurt.
There is proposition before the Illinois
Legislature looking TO the removal of the
State Capital from Springfield to Decatur
Eighteen thousand prairie chickens were
shipped from Cedar Rapids to Liverpool,
England, last week, and on Thursday last,
six tons were shipped East from Des
Mones
The Bankrupt Bill will certainly pass the
Senate on the motion of Mr.. WILSON to re-
consider. The vote stood iginally twenty
one to twenty Mr.. HARRIS then
changed his vote to negative for the pur-
pose of reconsidering, which left it twenty
| yeas to tweuty-two nays.
| Mr.. Commissioner WELLEs, yesterday,
urged upon the Committee of Ways and
Means the reduction of the tax on distilled
spirits to one dollar per gallon. He con-
tended that there would be less fraud with
a reduced tax, and a consequently increased
revenue. The Commissioner of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau, Mr.. ROLLINS, was OF
hand, and replied to Mr.. WELLS arg ument
and maintained that the frauds in the man
ufacture of whisky at one dollar per gallor
would be as great as they are at present
He declared that as low as fifty cents pc
gallon there would be very great induce
ment for fraud. He was utterly opposed Il
any reduction, and the committee are un
doubtedly of that view.
Yesterday JIM. ASHLEY, of Ohio, refuse
to eat dinner with ANDY JOHNSON. Har
on ANDYl ,f.....
Both Houses of the Maryland Ii 'Sisla
ture have passed a bill repeating tn e &C
providing for new municipal electi, On i
F.Baltimore tomorrow. This removes tn
cause for serious troubles in that city.
The author of the European letter wL,ic
has kicked up such fuss between Minis
ter MOTLEY and Secretary SEWARD, is JOIN
McCRACKEN, a step-son of CHAs. O'CoNoR
of New York. He declares that nearly al
of the American diplomatic corps abroad
denOunce the President and applaud SUM
NER, BUTLER and STEVENS, and that especi-
ally HALE, at Madrid, MURPHY, at Frank
fort, and MOTLEY, at Vienna, indulge in
this line of remarks. He adds, that in his
opinion all of our representatives abroad
are more or less filled with the Puritanica
=. influence of Massachusetts.
Yesterday, at Columbus, the Supreme
Court room was crowded to hear the argu'
ments of counsel on cases involving the
right of the State to tax stocks in Nationa
Banks. Judge HoADLY appeared for the
State, and A. f. PERRY, Esq, for the banks
The argument will be continued.
The negroes have established an "OhiC
Equal Rights League" Their Vice Presi
dent-as black as the heart of Beast BUT
LER-was in Columbus yesterday, urging
the Radicals in the Legislature not to haz
ard the submission OF the proposed consti
tutional amendment regarding suffrage
this year, but to wait until the time wheT
the question of a general revision of thu
Constitution is to be submitted to vote o
the people Sensible nigger, that!
EDWARD ii. w. ToLAND, the Erie Rail
road clerk who absconded from JERSEY
City with $4,000, was arrested in Rich
mond, Virginia, last night.
The towboat Sam. Brown, belonging {
w. II. BRowN, of Pittsburgh, together will
five barges, containing fifteen hundred
tuns of iron ore, was swept away by tn,
ice, from her moorings, twelve miles abov'
Wheeling. All were lost and none insured
The value of Quartermasters' supplies il
store at New Albany, Ind, is stated a
S54, 100000. The Government furnishes TIVE
steam fire engines, fully manned and equip
ped, to protect this immense amount o
property.
The statue of HENRY CLAY, by HART, ha
arrived in New York from Italy, and viii
be received in Louisville, in a few days. l
is to be placed in the Courthouse there.
A Georgia merchant was swindled out o
$2500 at a faro bank in Louisville, the
} other day. Two of the parties have beer
, arrested.
The Democrats of the Second District o
} Kentucky have nominated Hon. JON
YOUNG BROWN, of Henderson, for Con
gress. He is promising young man, o