Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-12
NEWS OF TIIE nAY.


Judgeship. 1t has been given to Hon.
Horace Wilder, of Ashtabula county.
The Office of tho North Missorri Rail.
road was robbed on Wednesday night of
1876 900.
The emigrants who have arrived at New
York since January lst number I46, ,529.
The number last year to the corresponding
date was 69.499.
The first fifty miles of the Pacific Rail
road in California will be completed with
in the time required by Congress.
Hons Caleb Cushing and Benjamin f.
Thomas are in Washington to argue the
validity of the "Floyd acceptances" be-
fore the Court of Claims.
The number of Methodist churches in
New York seems to be decreasing rather
than increasing 7
Cornell Jewett is invited to deliver n
lecture before the Southern Independence
Association, of Manchester.
The Legislature of California is in ses-
sion, and has received the message of the
Governor.
a contemporary Of ours, noticing the
marriage Of deaf and dumb couple, as
wittily as gallantly wishes them aaspeah-
able bliss.
Mr.. Spence, a Southern partisan, has
been addressing large meetings in Glas-
gov, in favor of Southern independence.
The receipts of the Baptist Home Mis-
s!onary Board are $40, 900 in advance of
the corresponding period of last year.
1t was reported in Madrid that two
American ships which had arms for
the San Domingo insurgents were
destroyed by a a-Spanish vessel off that Is
land
Thirty-thrce petitions for divorce have
been filed in the District of Columbia since
the passage of the law in 1860, giving
power to the local court so release the
bonds Of matrimony.
A lecturer was dilating upon the power
OF the magnet, delying any one to show or
name anything surprising it. A hearer
demurred and instanced young lady who
used to draw him thirteen miles every
Sunday.
A firm in Augusta, Georgia, advertise
for sale piano, which they state cost one
thousand in gold, and describe, as without
the least in the Southern Con
federacy.
1t is said that Secretary Stanton will
ask Congress to adopt scheme such as
was passed by France to replenish her
armies-a levy en- m,asse of all unmarried
men from eighteen to twenty-five, to whom
no exemption shall be allowed, except for
Hear disability, while those between
twenty-five ana thirty be held in reserve.
According to appearances, writes a
correspondent of the New
ork Iribane, the Confederates will at
empt to apply to Georgia the system of
actics which has for the last three years
in Virginia and if they do not
'ome nearer to Chattanooga than they are
low, it is not expected that they win keep
urther away from it than Gen. Lee does
rom Washington. |,
The Presidents message is intensely
adical. Poor man that must have been
very severe case Of the varioloid.
Brutus Clay voted for the Republican
andidate for Speaker, and Kentucky may
veil exclaim, Ettu, Brafei"
The New York Herald calls the Army
II the Potomac ''the graveyard of Gen
rails" Alas il is worse. 1t is the
of soldiers.
Virginia is certain to remain histori. /
al State. She has been known as the
lother of Presidents; she will bo hereaf- !
er known as the "Great Battle Field,
every portion of her soil has been soaked
With blood. In all parts of the State boot ,
ess battles have been fought l.
Russia denies that she requires Bro. ,
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