Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-05
NEWS OFTlIE DAY.


Miss Bateman's success in London has
been prodigious. The critics of the Lon
don Times and Post eulogize her beauty
and talent and the public endorses the
praise.
Tho Washington Star says Paymaster
Fletcher was dismissed from the service
for mcompetency to discharge the d.ties,
the allegation being that he had made
more or less improper payments. The
investigation into the state of his accounts,
so for ma 10, has not resulted in throwing
doubts upon his personal integrity, though
| they are believed TO have demonstrated
his unftness to deal with sharpers dis
posed to trump up accounts which he
could not lawfully pay.
In recent number of the Inder, the
rebel organ in London. it is reported from
Richmond that General Lee had left Yir-
ginia to take part in operations further
south.
The Secretary of the Treasury has made
ample provisions for the prompt payment
of all the troops on the LIST of Novem-
ber ss
What did Lot do when his wife turned
to salt ? He got fresh one.
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Heenan and King are paying up the
stakes for their little social science meet
ing, and are being trained up in the way
they should go.
The English fleet of gunboats built
during the Crimean war are fast docaying,
and many have been declared useless, and
are broken up.
Some clever fellow estimates that two
hundred and forty millions of matches are
used in England every day.
At factory in Portland, Maine, nearly
one thousand bushels of potatoes are "con-
centrated" for the army every day. All
the water is absorbed, leaving about five
pounds of ofnutriment from the sixty pounds
which bushels of potatoes averages, and
this concentration is ground up, giving it
the appearance of Indian meal. 1t is !
cooked by returning the water to it in a
boiling state, and keep it hot from ten to
fifteen minutes, when it swells like starch
and assumes the appearance of potatoes
prepared for the table. a4 49..s.
Some Of the Republican papers are
vindicsting General Rosecrans from what
they term the "false and infamous charges 4
of his enemies" itmust not be forgot
ten that those "false and infamous charges"
came from Republicans.
The moral and political issue to be pre-
sented to the people in the next campaign
is whether the negro race is, equal to the
white race for self-government, or whether
it is beneath and dependent upon the white
race The Republicans assume the first
proposition-the Democrats the latter.
This is the positive and direct issue invol- /
we'd. Reader, choose ye
A man Of one idea would certainly
make capital fghter--unless that idea
should happen to be to run away.
Why was Adam the best runner that
ever lived Because he was the first in
the human race. /
The whole number of soldiers called
for in Massachusetts under the late draft
was seven thousand of which 1880 were
obtained. The highways and roads do
not seem to be thronged as predicted by
Greely and Andrew.
OF the noisy Radicals General Frank
Blair says he "has never seen one of them
bear arms in favor of the Federal Govern
ment."
The cup and chest of Alexander Sell
kirk, the world-famed Robinson Crusoe,
of Defoe, has now become the property of
a gentleman in London. These interest
ing relics have up to this time remained
in the possession of Selkirk's descendants,
in Largo Fire, where he was born. The
cup was mounted with silver by Sir Wal
ter Scott 1t was made out Of the Cocoa
nut, and rudely carved The chest is very
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