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

had determined to enlist five hundred
thousand negroes in the Confederate army.
The latest pa ers received within our lines
from Richmond contain no reference to
the matter, and the whole story seems to
have been manufactured by newspaper
sensationalists
The Republican press claim great vic
tory in the Vermont elections. What is
it? Last year the whole Democratic vote
was 300. This year it is four times as
large. or about l4,000 This is doing
well for the Democrats OF Vermont, and
gives us hopes of a corresponding gain in
Maine, which State votes next Monday.
This is wonderfully progressive age
A cotemporary says that Mrs. Harriet N.
Austin, of Danvile, New York, has come
out IN favor Of ladies riding on horseback
astride. The present style of riding, she
says is unsafe, unglaceful, unhealthful
and unnatural,
The st. Louis Republican says that there
is perfect hegira of citizens of Western
Missouri into the interior OF that State.
Those passing through Lexington are rep
resented as pale-faced and haggard. The
spectacle was most e-begone, many of
the melancholy crowd had not even shoes
to their feet. A few had some miserable
vehicles, in which they were transporting
what little they could save from the wrecks
of the homes from which they have been
driven.
A dispatch from Washington City says:
can impudent schemr is reported on foot
to throw the Lower Mississippi trade, dur
ing the period of military occupation into
tue hands OF monopoly. Several prom
inent western politicians of both parties
have been laboring to this end lately,
claiming to represent capital in New
York and elsewhere, of i've millions. We
understand that the project has met with
but small encouragement thus far, but
those interested in its success feel them
selvee justified in persevering, Under the
Presidents proclamation of the 3lst March
last, the regulation of this trade rests ex-
clusively with the Treasury Department.
General Robert Anderson of Fort Sum-
ter fame will soon take command of Fort
Adams near New Port, Rhode Island.
+ General John II. Logan is now III at
home in Carbondale, Illinois,
The farmers in the Connecticut Valley
are cutting their tobacco. The crop is
good one on an average. The best Tobacco
for wrappers, north Of Virginia, is raised !
in Hartford County, where the crop the
present year is probably worth half mil
lion dollars. Already the farmers are of.
fered twenty-five cents per pound for their
crops.
The Democratic State Convention which |
assembled at Worcester Massachusetts, ON
the Bird inst, was very large and enthusi-
astic. Hon. Henry w. Paine was NOM
mated for Governor and Thomas +. Plum
kett for Lieutenant Governor. The De-
mocracy Of Massachusetts. though greatly
in the minority, yet never tire in their pa
triotic work. May God speed them.
The Albany EUeaing Journal declares
its disbelief in Jim Lane as universal
panacea, and says "This immensely puff
fed individual proves to be nothing better
than humbug, blatant in the Senate and
quarrelsome in the field, rendering preei-
o@s little service in either position, for the
double pay he receives"
Mr., b. H. Welman, a German, is the
Oldest man in Covington. Kentucky, he
having reached the advanced age of eigh-
ty-nine years He is still hearty and ac-
tive. He is the father of nine children,
and the great-grand father and grand faith.
er OF seveny-six children. making his
whole family number eighty seven per-
sons, -
Governor GoOdwine, Secretary McCor-
mick and Judge Allen, the newly appoint.
ed officers for Arizona Territory, have ar.
rived at ST. Louis, and will leave this