The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-20
News by Telegraph and Mails.

Gold advanced in New York yesterday
to 130iI.
a fire occurred at Paris, Illinois, on
Thursday night, destroying three stores.
Loss, $4,000; insured for SG,SOO.
League Island, opposite Philadelphia,
has been accepted finally by the Govern
ment as site for Il nayy-yard and depot
for iron-clads.
Illinois is to build new State House at
Springfield, and $4,000 premium is offered
to architects for the best design for Capt.
tol building.
DIR. Benjamin b. Colt, the pioneer physi
clan Of San Francisco, dropped dead in the
streets of that city, on Thursday night.
Cause-heart disease.
The Hartford Courdm says as soon as
Maximlian is out of Mexico strong pres
sure will be brought to bear upon the
Juarez Government for the cession of
Lower California to the United States.
Fourteen millions of brick were made in
Nashville last year. Calculations based on
the demand for the past three months esti-
mate that seventy-five millions will be re-
quired this season.
Archbishop Spalding, of Baltimore, II
very distinguished Catholic prelate, is very
dangerously ILL.,.
The case of the blockade steamer Syren,
captured at the surrender of Charleston,
has been decided at Boston. 1t was held
she was the prize of the Government, and
not of the blockading fleet.
Gen. F. j. Heron was lately confirmed by
the Senate for Marshal of Louisiana, after a
long debate.
The Russian Government has made a re-
ductiOn to the amount of twelve millions
roubles in the annual military and naval
Expenditures of the Empire.
| Anna Metzger, one of the sisters captured
| by the Comanchcs, near san Antonio, Tex
as, some months ago, has been raHsomed,
and returned safely home. Her sister was
murdered by the sayages when attempting
to escape
Correspondence dated Mexico City,
March II, has been received in New York.
1t is reported that Juarez would provide
safe escort to the coast for Max.
The liquor law is now strictly enforced
in Maine. A grocer ofAugusta was arrest
ed on Wednesday, for selling one glass new
cider After the first OF June all similar
onenses will be punished by imprisonment.
The agitation caused by the Eight Hour
Law has not yet subsidized in Chicago. All
the railroad companies and publishers will
probably offer their worbmen the privilege
of working eight hours day, at cores
pondingly reduced pay.
The Hamburg Germany American
Steam Navigation Company have divided
twenty per cent, of profits last year. They
will run regular steamers from Hamburg
to New Orleans during the present season.
1t is understood that the Governor Of
Illinois has determined to call an extra
session of the Legislature, though the exact
/ time has not yet been designated.
The flood at st. Joseph, Missouri and
Des Moines, Iowa, continues,
The Tuscumbia AlaJamiaR learns that
farming operations in North Alabama are
seriously Interrupted by recruiting officers,
who carry off able bodied negroes without
regard to theircontracts.
Mount Whitney, California, $4,000 feet
high, was regarded as the highest noun
tain in the United States, till Professor
Wood, last August, calculated the hight of
Mount Hood, in Oregon, and reported it
1900 feet.
Colonel Charles Farnsworth was drowned
at Savannah, Georgia, ON the evening of the
18TH inst, together with man named
Wilder, who was with him in a sailboat
Colonel Farnsworth was born i'm Hartford,
Connecticut, and entered the service in 1861
as Adjutant of the First Connecticut Cav
airy. He was engaged in business at
Savannah at the time of his death.