Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-10
NEWS or THE DAY.

deceased peer, was of the most simple
character.
The ASening Post foots up the majority
for Depew, abolition candidate for Secre.
tary of State in New York, as 2S.644.
1t claims the election of twenty-three
abolition Senators to nine Democrats. and
ghty.eight Abolitionists and forty Dem
ocrats to the Assembly.
| e. The National Convention of brewers
offer premium of five hundred dollars
for suitable substitute for rosin.
The Louisville Journal asks "Why
should those who supported the Admins
tration when its measures were right be
denounced for Inconsistency for not sup
porting it when it has repudiated those
measures and adopted contrary ones ? II
| you are true to man when he is true,
does it follow that you should be true to
to him when he is false ?"
The strange green scum on the
Ohio river it is thought is coal oil from
the oil wells of Pennsylvania, which has
somehow escaped into the neghboring
streams, and thence poured down the
Ohio. 1t is greasy and gathers on the
wheels OF steamers to the depth of a quar-
ter OF an inch, interfering with their
speed
The colored male population of Detroit
and the surrounding country has become
so thinned out that hardly an able bodied
negro can be met within days travel.
They have all skeladdled to Canada to
evade the draft.
A number ofpaymasters, with a large
amount Of grecnbOcks, arrived at Nash
vile on Thursday. They will commence
paying olfthe army in few days.
A journal in Paris has the following
advertisements "Hot, cold and shower
bats on the premmisscs'
One Of the leuiletonists of Paris an.
nounces that among the fashions to be
adopted by the fair lex in Paris during the
coming season, is that of feminine whisll-
ers.
When clergyman breaches against the
love of money, he, generally wants his
salary increased and when he rebukes his
congregation for their lack of courage, is,
usually, the biggest sheep in the flock.
The New York Independent accuses
President Lincoln of laundering in Mis-
souri, and speaks of the Charcoals as the
"iinest fibre in the State" 1t is "fbre"
that ought to be stretched-Jim Lane
particularly.
A Berlin merchant, returning from a
long journey, saw a funeral proceeding
from his own house, snd was informed ON
inquiry that il was that Of his wife. He
leaned back in his carriage and died in
stantly,
A distinguished California divine, after
a trip to silver land, thinks there are but
three things at Washoe, viz big mines,
and whiskey shops--in other words,
ophir holes, gopher holes and loafer holes.
Washington pickpockets strew the
floors Of the concert saloons with cay
enne pepper, and when the audience ap.
plaud there is some sneezing, and when
handkerchiefs are pulled out the pickpock-
cts hands are inserted,
The fund for the Stonewall Jackson
in England amounts to seven
five hundred dollars. Mr. Foley,
the English sculptor, is to execute it.
In one of the townships of Belmont
county, Ohio, there was sixty more votes
polled than there were men returned by
the assessors, including soldiers in the ar
my and negroes at home This is l,iling
up agony for BrOugh pretty steep.
The rebels still refuse to recognize Off ,
GERS Of colored regiments in the system of {
exchange, and as consequence all ex- {
change of prisoners has been stopped. In
Lhe meantime, reports Of great suffering
among our prisoners at Richmond reach
rs Tally.
Careful estimates give the whole rebel !
'orce in all their armies east of the Missis- /