The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-01
News by Telegraph and Mails.

A heavy money transaction took place i'll
Rochester the other day. One man paid
another one hundred and ten thousand
pennies.
Prince SALM SALu, a German officer, VINO
served in the United Estates army during
the recent war is now in command of
MAXGNunN's forces garrisoning the city
Of Orizaba.
Washington specials, just received, say
General GRANT has unqucstionably en-
dcayored to persuade President JOHNSON to
sign the Military Government Bill.
Noses have been counted in the Senate'
and it is found that BEN WADE will receive
% votes for the Presidency of that body,
FEssENDEN l3, and DooLTrLE 9.
Thirty thousand bushels of corn were
Yesterday shipped from New York, in ald
of the suffering poor of the South. Another
cargo will speedily follow.
a big gold swindle, amounting to $780,
600. was perpetrated about year and
half ago, by an individual named JOHN
Ross, upon various New York banks tie
is now in Brazil
Five dead bodies were found yesterday
at the Grand Trunk Railroad Depot, packed
in barrels, directed to a party in Ann
| Arbor, Mich. The bodies were those OF
two men, two women and one child, and
\ had apparently not been dead over a week
or ten days.
1t seems to be settled that the Radical
/ Legislature in Ohio will not submit the
question of negro suffrage to the people, to
be voted on at the next election. Thus we
are placed directly in the attitude of trying
to force upon the Southern States the
Territories and the District Of Columbia
! that which we will not adopt ourselves.
Messrs. EdGLEsToN and HAYES were
among the Republican members of the
House, whose votes, yesterday, virtually
slaughtered the new Tariff Bill
! 1t is stated that the Medical and Quarter
masters Departments have received IN
structions relative to the coming campaign
to be inaugurated against the Indians, from
the Department of Missouri, about the 10Th
of March.
General SHERIDAN, during his recent visit
to his home in Perry County, Ohio, left as
surances that he would return for long
furlough next June, and he arranged for
fishing excursion with some OF his old
friends.
The collectorof the st. Louis. Times news
paper. N. G. GLEEsoN, has absquatulated
with $4,000 belonging to that paper.
The person who endeavored to obtain an
interview with SURRATr, the other day,
proves to be his brother, who went to Tex
as in 1859. Failing to see his brother he
has left the city.
A shooting aflray in Knoxville, Tennes-
see. on Friday night, between MARTIN v
BRIDwELL, Chief of Police, and JOE. WILL
ILIAMs. formerly of Ohio, resulted in dan
gerous, and probably fatal, wounds to both
A skif with eleven persons in it, cross
ing the river from Memphis to Hopelield
last Saturday afternoon, was upset by a
sucking eddy, about one hundred yards
from the Memphis shore, and Mrs. VANCE
Mrs. MENGALL and Mr.. BUrrERwoRrH, OF
the party, were drowned.
boiler in saw mill near Jonesboro
Illinois, exploded on Wednesday, killing
the engineer and severely scaldng several
other persons.
JACOB WIsEMAN, farmer in Iowa, being
: Jealous of his wife, drove her from his
house last Saturday night, set fire to ms
house, and then cut his throat
There are thousands of people in Ala
bama starving. The destitution is more
general than our people suppose. In
siHgle county (Cherokee) with population
of not over 1900 persons, white and black
there are over 5000 without food to eat anC
nine-tenths of those able to work have NJ
supplies of corn or grain to plant for tn
coming year.