Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-24

ing price of one Of the California silver
mines.
The Rocky Mountain News publishes
astonishing stories about the Arizona gold
mines. 1t says men are picking out from
fifteen to twenty-seven hundred dollars
day each, with iack-l1nife. They do
not pretend to save the dust" only look
ing for big Jumps.
A man by the name of Samuel Holmes,
has been tried by court martial, at st.
Louis, on the charge of harboring guerril-
las, found guilty, and fined five thousand
dollars.
1t seems that fainting is profession in
Paris. A stylishly dressed young lady
recently testified before court in that gay
city that she was we'll paid for fainting
away ut the theater, ont of pure emotion,
at the tragical moment pointed ont be-
forehand by the author of the play.
The New York Tribune says: "The
whole number of soldiers obtained under
the late draft in Massachusetts was 1880,
all of whom were sent to the Army Of the
Potomac. The quota called for was l.
0O0
When Reholais was on his death bed
consultation of physicians was called.
"Dear gentlemen" said the wit to the doc
tors, raising his languid head, 'let me die
a natural death"
In the vineyards and the markets Of
California are over one hundred and sixty
well defined and separate varieties of
grapes.
General Cass is said to be so feeble that
he cannot live much longer. lie is 10 his
eighty-lirst year.
The marble front of Stewards down
town store in New York will, it is
stated, cost two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars,
The total Pennsylvania coal trade
for 1868 is 3, l16, ,2l2 tuns, against 1906
4S0 tuns last year for the same time.
Coal ought to be cheaper next year than
it was this.
In Pekin is issued-we can scarcely say
published-a newspaper, printed on large
sheets of silk. 1t is said to have appeared
with great regularity every week during
the last thousand years.
Partridges are selling in the Boston mar
ket at fifty cents a pair, and wild ducks at
seventy cents pair.
One ounce ofpulverized borax put in
one quart of boiling water, and bottled
for use, will found invaluable for removing
grease spots from woolen goods.
In regard to the situation, at Knoxville
TIE Cincinnati GaseHe's special Washing
ton dispatch under date of November %,
says: at may, perhaps, be properly
added that news has been received here,
through official sources, from General
Burnside down to as late an hour as eleven
o'clock yesterday forenoon. At that time
the rebel attack on his Notifications at
Knoxville was still going on, and General
Burnside had confidence that he would be
able to hold his position without serious
difficulty till relief should come, From
the knowledge here of the disposition made
for his relief, much less anxious solicitude
is now felt than has been entertained for
the last day or two. A current report here
that General Grant has moved from
Chattanooga does not receive credit in the
best informed circles, but enough move
ment in that region has been made to re-
move the main apprehension for General
Burnside, and to render Longstreet's posi-
tion exceedingly precarious."
We have the highly important informa-
ton, through the 'loyar' papers that
President Lincoln's Proclamation has been
arranged in meter, after the style Of the
Psalms of David, with the request that it
be sung in all the churches on Thanks
giving Day, as the Presidents Hymn
By all means let it be sung in the churches,
and after that we would suggest that diff