Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-26
NEWS OETIIE nAY.

The Washington correspondent Of a
Republican cotemporary recently wrote {:
"Mr, Chase each day can make certif-
Gates Of Indebtedness for a million of dol
lars, and thus avoid borrowing
When this wor ends--aud the longer
it lasts the worse will be the consequence
there will be the greatest revulsion, the
most terrific financial crash ever expert
enced in the country. Business men will
go down like rows of brick. The people
of the North have terrible days in store
fer them. Every day the war lasts makes
the calamity more terrible.
A.young man at St. Servan, who was
engaged to ride as jockey at the races of
Oman, subjected himself to so severe a
course of training in order to reduce his
weight, that he was found dead in the sta
bic, apparently from starvation.
The Dublin Post reports the harvest
prospects IN Ireland as unusually good.
Wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and tunips
all promise abundance. This is the first
year since the famine of 1916 that there
have not been rumors about the potato
blight
Under the revenue law, merchants have
to purchase four cent stamps for all five
cent bottles ofink they sell The country
is financially prosperous, therefore, we in
fer.
A cotemporory says, "that eternal Wig
lance is the price of Liberty" No, sir
three hundred dollars is the price of Lib
erty
The English are heavy people, and the
most like stone of all Others. The
French are lively people, and more like
feather.
Seven Thousand private carriages
mostly shoddy-appeared in Central Park,
New York, a few days ago.
Coal-oil lamps are made to burn with
clear, bright light, without chimney, by
means of a current of air propelled from
the lower part of the lamp by clock
work.
A man in Washington went to sleep on
Saturday wrapped up in u tent cloth,
there bsing dead body near him similar
ly wrapped up. The undertalSer's men
took him up by mistake, and would have
buried him if he had not entered an en-
phatic protest against it.
Tue guerrllas in the country surround
ing Vicksburg are said to be very trouble
some.
Governor Tod has issued proclama-
ton appointing November 26th as day
of Thanksgiving.
A portion ofthe rebel army again cross
ed the Rappahannock, and several severe
fights with our troops.
Reuben Stout, company X, Goth Indi-
ana regiment, convicted of desertion and .
the murder of Solomon Hoffman, at Mad /
son, Carroll county, Indiana, on the 9Th of 7
March last, was shot at Johnson's Island
last Friday.
Lorenzo Dow used to say that sinners
who never repent until they come upon
their death beds, "bun out the candle of
life in the service of the devil, ann then at-
tempt to throw the snuff in the face of the
The steamer Advance belonging to the
State of North Carolina, has Just made
her third trip into Wilmington from Ber-
muda. Her cargo consists Of clothes.
blankets and shoes for North Caroline
troops, and cotton and wool goods to Ls
furnished the.people at cost. u
Petitions are in circulation asking st.
Paul to subscribe stock to aid in building
a railroad direct to Lake Superior. A
grant ofland has already been
made for this purpose. The road will
bring all that rich country as near East
ern markets as Illinois and Iowa. No
road projected in the State offers such in
ducemsnts to capitalist.
The patterns have been made and tie