Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-09-07
NEWS GLEANINGs.


to the injury done the corn crop by the re-
cent frost, concludes that the frost has been
more severe in Central Illinois than in
Iowa or Wisconsin that the corn planted
early on high ground has escaped with but
! little injury; but that all late planted corn,
and especially that ON low ground, is near
Ily destroyed for commercial purposes.
There will be, it is true plenty Of corn; but
in quality it will probably not bear any
romparison with the crop of 1862. 1t
will be dangerous to handle large por-
ton of the crop, and will consequently be
less valuable. We advise farmers who
have frosted corn TO feed it to hogs and
cattle as fast as they can.
Any number of newspapers can be sent
by mail under a two cent stamp, provided
they do not exceed four ounces in weight.
This fact has not been generally known.
1t is stated that re-inlorcements have
been sent from the rebel army in Virgin
ia TO General Bragg who now occopies the
city of Chattanooga East Tennessee.
James g. Hall has been nominated for
Senator in the Toledo District by the Re-
pubIicans. He was Post Master in Gin
cinnati under President Fillmore, and
l..
President OF the Chamber of Commerce
and of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
The Cincinnati Gazette of this morning
Informs us that on last Thursday morning
the Right Rev. Archbishop Purcell left
that city for the purpose Of visiting the
Southern Conlederacy. He will pass
through Rosecrans' lines and go to Mo-
bile first, and will propably be absent sew
months.
Bngadier General Duford has been Off
cially notified of his appointment to the
command of Helena, Arkansas. He goes
hither Immediately.
Miss Adelaide Proctor the accomplish
ed English poetess is in decline. Her
father Barry Cornwall, now in his seven
ty-sixth year, has commenced writing his
memoirs. He has been personally ac-
quainted with more literary men than any
one now living in England.
Mr. Bayard Taylor, who has lately been
the guest of the Grand Duke of SAKE CO.
burg Gotha, is expected in London on the
Oath of August He is to leave, with his
family, for America on the 29th instant,
in the Scotia.
An editor acknowledges the receipt of
bottle of brcndy, forty-eight years old,
and says: This baandp is so old that we
very much fear it cannot live much lon
ger.
Senator Rice, of Minnesota, lies serious
i'll at his home in St. Paul
Among the property confscated and Of
fered for sale by the United States Mar-
shal Of New Orleans, is one lot of ground
belonging to General G. #. Beauregard.
Eight or ten columns of the Era are filled
with advertisement of confscated pro-
perty.
The Mobile (Ala Telegraph says that
Charleston may be burned, but never sur
rendered.
A despatch from Memphis to the Gin
cinnati Commercial of this morning says
that it is rumored that General Banks is
going 10 Texas, and that General Grant
will command all the Mississippi River,
and capture Mobile.
A despatch from Columbus, Kentucky,
dated the 4th instant, says that three ne
groes tried before Military Commission,
for the murder of the Beckman family
near that pace, were hung that day early
in the morning. The punishment was
richly deserved as a more atrocious deed
than the murder was never committed.
Mr.. Paul MOrphy the celebrated chess
player, now in Europe, intends, it is said,
to return to the United States shortly.
The Cambridge (ohio) Jcgsrsonian
says "If Yallandigham at this hour
could be induced to desert the Democratic