Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-09-15
NEWS GLEANINGs.

morning says tnat lew Gays ago thirteen
rebel prisoners, Of Morgan's command,
were transferred from the Seminary Hos
pital, in that city, to Camp Chase, Ohio.
Shortly after their departure a number of
ropes and other contrivances for escape,
were found secreted in the bedding ofsome
of the prisoners They had, no doubt,
made arrangements to lower themselves
with the ropes from the third-story rooms,
where they were confined, to the ground,
but being very closely watched, did not
succeed in putting their plans into execu-
ton
The first vessel built on this continent,
says the Historical Nqgizine was the Vir-
ginia, of Sagadoc, which made its first
voyage in 1903, from the mouth of the
Kennebec to Europe.
A late number of the st. Joseph Mis-
souri) Herald says: We learned that
about 5000 refugees from General Ew-
ing's doomed district, crossed the river at
Kansas City yesterday. About 200 also
came up on the Atchinson train last night,
going East
1t is reported by way of Memphis that
the Confederate General Joe Johnston, is
marching to reinforce General Bragg and
that all the troops the rebels can spare
from other quarters are to be concentrated
in the same direction.
A special dispatch from Washington
to the Cincinnati Gazette says that the reb-
els have, besides the Yorktown, James
town, and Richmond, three iron-clads like
the Merrimac on James river; the Sanga-
man, a monitor, and the triple-turret Roam
oke are quietly waiting for them to come
down. 1t is supposed they Were built to
aid in the attack on Norfolk.
The rebels at Charleston, it is said, have
two immense guns, imported from Eng
land, which throw balls weighing 600
pounds, which, they say, viii demolish
anything they have yet heard of in naval
architecture.
A special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Gazette, from Memphis, dated l1th inst,
says that the Coniederates are fortifying at
Bayou Metre with great skill and assidui-
ty. Their forces there are estimated at
2S,000 to $4,000. Dobbins command an
other party forty miles west of the Missis-
sippi.
Brigadier General Jesse Sullivan, of
Indiana, has recently married daughter
of General Kelly, of Western Virginia.
1t is said that General Rosecrans and
his little son made narrow escape from
sharpshooters, while wishing Bridgeport,
where the extension bridge over the Ten
nessee was destroyed. He was fired at
from distance of five OF six hundred
yards, across the river, one ball striking
the body of a tree little higher than his
head, and another within two feet of the
boy.
Mrs. PARTrNGToN ON THE DRAFT,-
1--WE, all of us, should be ready to make
sacraments, said Mrs, Partington, SOL
emnly, as she heard that a neighbor's son
had been drafted; "if had hundred
sons, l should be willing that every one of
them should be exemptp What a pa
triotic glow her cheed assumed How
her eyes flashed through her glasses |
What meaning there was in her tone
1t is reported, says the Chicago Times,
that the rebels have plan on foot for the
capture of Norfolk, Va, Feints are 10 be
made at Suffolk and Sewell's Point, while
the attack will be made by body advanc-
ing through Princess Anne County. Cen
eral LOngstreet is have charge of the ope-
ration.
A cotemporary very pertinent remarks
that since the beginning of the war great
majority of the Wide Awakes have be-
come Fast Asleep, and cannot hear the
call TO arms
The Ohio State Fair will open at Cleve-
land tomorrow. 1t promises to be a
GRAND affair