The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-19
News by Telegraph and Mails.


Gold closed, on yesterday, in New York
at 1875, ... Ft
Thesbakery and candy factory of Frank
Field & Co., at Peoria, Illinois, was burned
yesterday. Loss $4,000 fully insured.
Four persons were bitten by.mad dogs in
Chicago, on Wednesday,
Archbishop Spauldng, of Baltimore, was
reported, last night, beyond recovery.
The earnings of the Michigan Southern
Railroad, for the year ending 2sth ult.
amounted to sI6731O3.
The ice in Lake Superior has commenced
to break up, and indications, therefore, fa-
vor an earlier resumption of navigation
than usual. The ice in the straits of Macki-
nae, on the 9th, was still strong and firm.
The festival (Tombola) held at Columbus,
Ga. resulted I'm net profit of between three
and four thousand dollars, all OF (which will
be forwarded to Mrs. jefferson Davis.
Mr.. Wm. Townsend, clerk ofthe Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, fell un-
der car at the Relay House, Wednesday
afternoon, and was killed.
The Republican majority in the State of
Michigan at the recent judicial election is
2l,S74.
The Platte and Missouri rivers are re-
ported higher than at any time since 1874.
The track of the Union Pacific Railroad,
near Wyandotte, is overhowed to a depth
sufficient to eXtinguish fires in the locomo-
tives.
The Senate yesterday refused to pass the
resolution declaring that the Austrian en-
bassy is not vacant. The nomination of Mr..
Raymond for the place has not yet been
finally acted upon.
Troops are moving out upon the plains
In numbers that indicate n decisive cam
paign. Twenty thousand troops are to 90
to the country north of the Platte and east
of the mountains.
Madame Celeste has arrived in Australia,
having travelled eighteen thousand miles in
| fifty-nine days.
Chang and Eng are back home in North
Carolina, with finances well replenished by
their late Northern tour.
Robert Toombs, who is called the Danton
of the late rebellion, is now in quiet at his
home in Washington, Wilkes County, Ga.
lie writes In private letter that he prefers
the political advantages of America to liv-
| ing any where else in the world.
Ten years ago Richmond Va. produced
547,363 barrels of flour in one year; since
April, 1863 up to the present time, only
10000 barrels have been inspected there.
The constitutionality of the Metropoll-
tan Police Law is to be tested by. the CO.
lumbus City Council. Where the Commits
sioners and Council do not act in accord,
the law will amount to nothing.
| Further Investigations concerning the
coin and bullion captured on the downfall
of the Confederacy, shows conclusively that
( it belonged to the Rebel Government, not
withstanding 1t was claimed by the Rich
mond and New Orleans banks.
Parties concerned in the robbery of the
Paymaster of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
some two years ago, have been arrested and
are now in confinement at Washington.
| A Washington special to the New York
World, gives extracts from the testimony
given before the Judiciary Committee of
the House Of Representatives relative to the
arrest of John II. Surratt whose trial is eX-
pected to take place next June. 1t would
appear from the evidence given by DR..
Mcmillan, that Surratt was ignorant of the
conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln,
though party to the plot to abduct him.
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