Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-15

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The world may not have improved
much since it was first made, yet every
Spring it turns over great many leaves.
The New York Times Charleston corr
respondent gives somewhat desponding
view of the situation of affairs around that
city. He says that the Ironsides was so
damaged by the rebel torpedoes as to ne
cessitate being withdrawn for repairs.
This puts worse case on the matter than
our afternoon dispatches, or the statement
in the rebel papers quoted in another col
umn, and is, we trust, exaggerated. lie
also expresses Opprehensions that, in the
absence of some of the Monitors, the reb-
els will ottaclS- our fleet with their rams
Advices from Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas,
to the 10th instant, donot confirm the ru-
mors that Price was planning an attack
on Little Rock. His force is too much re-
duced for such an enterprise. General
Grant is convalescent and held a review
on the 9Th Northern and Central Mis-
sissippi are desolated by guerrilla gangs,
who hunt conscripts with bloodhounds and
plumber the people under every pretext.
Joe Johnston, it is rumored, contemplates
an advance into West Tennessee.
The possession of wit often gives keen
courage to play the fool.
Some one has beautifully sold "The
water that flows from spring does not
CONCEAL in winter, and those sentimental Of
friendship which flow from the heart can
not be frozen in university"
The Governors vote of Maine is about
all in, and shove majority for the Abo-
lition candidate of 1850. .aaaa
Dick Taylor, who commands the rebel
troops in Louisiana, lie son of General
Zachary Taylor, Ex-President of the Uni
ted States.
DIWDESD,--The Directors of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
have declared semi-annual dividend of
five per cent. payable ON demand, by the
Secretary, at their depot in Cincinnati.
The rebel salt works at Nag's Head, N.
O., were destroyed few days since by a
detachment of New York troops under Col
Schaffer.
The Forrest divorce case is up again on
an action by Mrs. Forrest to recover. on a
bond for $35, 900, given to secure alimony,
costs, &c. The bondsmen are Charles
Got Hayens and Joseph Hi Goodwin. The
jury gave Mrs. Forrest verdict Of $45,-
200 So.
Charles Putnam, great grandson of
Israel Putnam dtsd short time since at
Marietta, Ohio.
The British navy have at preaent in our
waters eighteen vessels Of various rates,
from a fifty gun irigate to four gun dis
patch boat.
During the month of September 7l49
deserters were arrested so far as known.
When the reports of all the Deputy Pro
vost Marshals arc in, this number, it is es-
tlmated will be swelled to nearly nine
thousand.
A man in New Hampshire had the mis-
fortune to lose his wife. Over her grave
he caused stone to be placed, on which,
in the depth al his grief he had ordered to
be inscribed, clears cannot restore her
therefore weep"
the Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledge, writes that within
day or two, rumors have been current of
of the existence of secret treaty between
England and France upon the Mexican
question. rf
The tyrantto the man beneath him, is
sycophant to the man above him.
The New York World says that Mr..
Seward in his late circular makes blunders
in history, We should care very little
how much the administration blundered in
quoting history if it wouldn't blunder in
making it.
Russia has taken the responsibility in
the Polish affair. and an her renIy 10 the