The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-05-09
News rs by Telegraph and Mails.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at

Gold closed in New York, yesterday at
1885, sri itltH ilalassa an. ...a..
The receipts ID the SQB5tyeasury, yester-
dayf we're s46JliS56 paid out s2,3s5139
"A a severe gale Is reported along the entire
AtlaatiG coast, The damage to commerce
is efIolmous.. ~ % .4A
Senator Wilson made IA haraugue, yes
terday, in Augusta Gas 10 some poor
-white,traSh2 and Il considerable crowd of
elevated Riggers. The chaElntan. is in his
glory. a' dAssaor"" ns" s''"" 80
The Boston Tract Society, last year, is
sued 6256,0OO pages Of tracts. What vol
ume of Purinnism. si s.a..
d, The Republican Candidate for Mayor of
indianapolis, Gen, Dan Macauley, was
elected on TpesaaN by 4so majority TIL e
City Council stands a Unionist and DEM
ocrat5sA.eU to roaEsaL sM e., a,.s,b .
Bishop McIlyalne, President, and the en-
tire old board ofofficers Of the American
TfaSe Sdcietyt were Yesterday reelected,
in NewiYQrk, The Society wants ssOOOOO
annually to carry on its work in the South.
A convention of manufacturers in favor
of high tariff, met at New York yesterday
| The i@tfement Isl designeditoJ Jinaugurate
an organized effort .inaoppositioBi TO free
trade. Horace Greeleyfand Gov. Pierpont
of Virginia ,lmade speeches. Ln4 s5tlsH
The Yicksburg Weekly Republican, the
only Radical paper In Mississippi, has sus.
pended publication. ,-
An oil tank at Fairview, nine miles from,
Pittsburg, was struck by lightning, OIL
Tuesday evening and $1,000 barrels ofcrudt
oil, worth, with the tank, 100000, de-
stroyed.'
The National Railroad Convention met
in New York yesterday. Representative
of the leading roads in the country wert
present,
| The Registrars at New Orleans have beer
Obliged to refuse colored man his certill.
cate on the ground that he is native o.
Guinea! and has never taken out nsturali
zation papers. 4s..a-.--a.e.s--~.-.s-
Alta meetng of the AmerieRn, Tract so
ciety or Boston the annual report was read
shaving that six yapd a quarter milliol
ptges oftracts were printed during tn,
year. The receipts were sl6O,5G9, and tn,
expenditures Sl57,02G.
A vrecking firm of Norfolk, Va, hav,
commenced preparations for raising thi
hnlks of the two seyenty-iour gun ship
Delaware aud Columbus, which were sunl
by the rebels at the Gosport Navy Yard il
1861.
It is testimated that in the counties o
Halifax, Spottsylyania, Franklin and Hen
ry tVirginia,) and Rockingham and Cass
well, North Carolna,) the tobacco now Of
hands. is worth sl2OOO,OOO. The crop o
Spottsylvania alone is placed of sS,O0O,OOC
The liabilities of Watts, Crone & Co, @
New York, whose Failure was announce,
on Tussdsy, are said to be kcryheavy, esti
mated at from sS,0OOO0Q to s7OOO,OOO. 9th
er houses are involved, and it Is said tina
J New Orleans and Kentucky banks will los
heavily by this failure. buH r.gC
Suicide iOf an Eminent Congress
man.
LOUISVILLE May S.--A special to tn
Courier, from Russelyile Kentucky, say
Hon. Elijah Hise, just eiected 10 Congress
from the1lird District, by an almost unau
imous vote over his radical opponents
committed suicide this Afternoon, by blow
) ing out his brains with pistol. He left
note saying that. in the present conditiSl
I of the country, his advanced age preclude
I his doing his country any good, and h
sought relief in death. '.
.a- The EigIt-hOur Failure,