The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-09
News by TeIegraph ahd Mails.


There is deficiency in the City Treas
ury of Philadelphia of three millions of
dollars. The city is powerfully Radical.
The news from ireland, by Atlantic Ca
BILE, is of exciting interest. The rising ap-
pears to be general throughout the island,
but the insurgents seem wofully lacking
in organization and competent leaders.
Rev. GEORGE T. WILLIAMS, arrested some
time ago on charge of picking lady's
pocket, in New York, is in Annapolis,
Maryland, hopeIessly insane.
The new Internal Revenue Law requires
all Inspectors to give bonds in the sum of
$1,000. Any Inspector, except those west
of the Mississippi, who does not file sat
isfactory bond with the Commissioner, by
April l, will be deemed to have vacated his
office. ...... .LI.l.
The statement of the public debt for
February shows the total to be S2,s26, $685.
$50, which, in comparison with the total
last year, shows a reduction in the debt of
$l57, ,2sl, $50.
1t is understood that Captain JOHN
SEBASTIAN will be nominated for Post
master at Cincinnati. DR.. MENzIEs Is being
urged for the place by Senator GARRETT
DAVIS and GEORGE II. PENDLETON.
Yesterday Presiding Justice LEONARD,
of the Supreme Court of New York, de-
cided that United States legal tenders are
in law money, and as such are liable to
taxation. No
Two thousand five hundred working
woman held meeting to discuss the re-
duction of the hours of labor, in Lowell,
Massachusetts,, on Thursday week.
New Mexican advices say that Indian
hostilities have taken n new start in the
southern part of that Territory, and the
militia have been ordered under arms.
The Minnesota Legislature adjourned
sine die to-day. One of its last acts was
that of taxing National Banks. Pa.
The Idaho Avalanche, of February l6,
says that General CROOK is prosecuting the
Indian war with great vigor, notwith-
standing the winter season. At Battlesteen
Mountain sixty Indians were killed, and
thirty prisoners captured. The Boise In
dians render material assistance.
FAIRMAN's National Bank, of Medina,
went under on Friday last. Its liabilities,
aside from its circulation-which is OF
course secured at Washington-amount to
about $4,000. Its assets would probably
not bring a tenth part of that sum. ..
A dispatch from Springfield, ILL.,, under
date of February 2sth, to the Chicago Ad-
UOcdte, announces the passage through the
Illinois Legislature the Eight Hour bill,
and that it only awaits the signature of the
Governor to become law.
| We regret to announce the death OF
CHARLES +. Brown, so well known to the
American people by the appellatiOn OF
"ARTEMUs WARD" which he assumed in
his lectures aud in his writings in this
country. This event occurred on Wednes-
! day, in Southampton, England, where he
went few months ago on lecture tour.
As soon as the wool tariff became a GER
tainty, all the proprietors of woOlen factor
les in Rhode Island united in giving notice
to their operatives that the wages of the
latter would be re1uced ten per cent. The
men, women and children who work in
these factories will accordingly have just
one-tenth less money hereafter with which
| to paw their living expenses.