The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-25
News by Telegraph and Mails.

A woman in Hudson City, N, D., whose
child had been hogged in school, went to
the school-house the other day and cow
hided both the male and female teachers in
the most severe manner. ''lt's poor rule
that will not work both ways"
A cable dispatch says The trial of the
Fenian prisoners for high treason will
commence on tho 9th of April next in Dub
lin.
A New York dispatch says: JAMES f.
CUMMINGS, an eX-rebel commissary has
been arrested on Il chargS of having USED
the power ofthe so-caled Confederate Gov
ernment to take from resident of Ten
nessee property valued at six hundred
thousand dollars, and fraudulently convert
| it to his own use. He is now in Ludlow
street jail
! The Orange Furnace Company, near jack
son, Ohio, has failed. Liabilities, $4,000;
assets. 100000. Cause of the failure-out-
side speculations of JAMES WATSON, its
business manager. with the funds of the
company. So says the Jackson Standard,
The extent of the failure of ROBINSON q
OGDEN in New York was exaggerated. The
belief is now that the losses will not exceed
S25O,OOO, instead of S2,OOO,000 as first re-
ported.
A statue of HENRY CLAY is to be inaugu-
rated in the courthouse at Louisville on
the 18th of April. RoBERT c. WINTHROP
will deliver the address. MILLARD FILL
MORE and A. II. STEPHENS are expected to
be present.
Parties who have recently conversed with
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, say he advises
that the wisest course for the South is to re-
main quiet, and wait the issue of events.
Robson, Rea & Co.'S machine works,
South Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were
burned yesterday. Loss $4,000; fully in
sured.
Daniel Gutshall, a workman in a mill in
Springfield, Mass, was caught by shaft
on Wednesday, and whirled round at the
rate of eighty revolutions minute, until
he was literally beaten to pieces.
The Democratic Executive Committee, on
Saturday evening, nominated Judge JAMES
SAFFIN for Mayor of Cincinnati, in place of
S. n. PIKE, who declined.
The night express train going east ran
into a freight train near Woodstock, Cana
da West, on Saturday morning. Mr.. Rog-
ers, mail agent, was killed, Mr.. Farrell, the
conductor, seriously scalded, and Mr.. GILL
man, express messenger, slightly hurt
The express and baggage cars took nre'
and everything inside was burned. The
express safe was supposed to contain
100000.
The Rochester, New York, papers report
a breakdown in the butter market there
abouts. Farmers are selling at twenty-five
and retailers at twenty-five cents per
pound.
The registration of voters in the First
Ward ofWashington is complete for the
, present, and foots up: Colored voters, LAG
white voters, 698.
Two white girls, MARY GLOVER and MAR
TIA LONG, eloped from East Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, the other day, in males cloth
ing, with couple of negroes-PETER EDEs
) and BEN. LYONS. They were arrested in
New Orleans. MARY GLOVER, on examin-
alton, protested that shes "love PETER as
she does her life" The other girl had a
child by her sooty charmer in August last
Z An election has been held for State Sena-
. tor at Newbern, North Carolina. The
negroes voted on the occasion for the first
time, and the election resulted in an almost
unanimous vote for Major JOHN HUGHEs'
the Southern candidate.
The people ofChattanooga say the waters
are fifteen feet higher than in ls47, the
highest before known. The suffering Is
very great. Houses, furniture, provisions
and people have been washed away. The
number of persons drowned is said to be
over fifty.
!. The Houston Telegraph says: "The man
Z who shall attempt to murder citizens OF
Il Texas by military commissions, in viola
tion of the laws Of the land, will have q
sweet time of it, or we are no prophet"
=. The accumulation of bullion for the last
three weeks in the State OF Nevada has
. begun to arrive in San Francisco. The
quantity is enormous, amounting to great
many tons. Military escort has been de-
tailed for the purpose of protecting the
treasure during its passage across thu
mountains,