Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-27
NEWS OF TIlE DAY.

disrs and greenbacks were not used.
The Abolitionists are constantly "resolv-
ing in their public meetings that the war
shall be vigorously prosecuted" and the
rebellion Crushed" Why don't they
join the army?
"Soldiers must be fearfully dishonest"
says Mrs. Phrtington, cas- it is a nightly
occurrence for a sentry to be relieved of
his watch
A new member arose to make his first
speech, and, in his embarrassment began
to scratch his head "Well, really" ex-
claimed Sheridan, "he has got something
in his head, after ALL"
Mission Ridge, recently made famous by
the seven battles in Georgia, is also called
missionary Ridge-the latter name being
nsed in the rebel dispatches--th former
by the Federals.
Vice President Hamlin, ut the New
York meeting, said he had no party to
serve. He always had one to sell Dos
ton Post.
The crsw of the pirate Florida have
made $4,000 each. A contemporary
thinks privateering almost as good as con-
tracing. of
Dartmouth College is evidently "going
in" The new class is only half as large
us usual--since the removal of the venera-
ble
A lady on separating from her husband
changed her religion being determined,
she said. to avoid his company in this
world and the next.
Over thirty thousand conscripts from
Virginia have been set to the rebel army
during the past twelve months.
In Australia the heat comes from the
north, the cold from the south, and it is
hottest on the mountain tops.
The Sultan of Turkey has recently won
a great deal of money in horse racing, after
he European style.
Edwin Booths "Ruy Bias" pleases the
theater-goers in New York. They think
he is really young man of "parts."
The Presidents is said to be hugely de-
lighted at the Ohio election, and it has in
'pired several of the drollest stories of
lis reign.
Mr.. d. A. Mahony was thrown out of
his carriage in Dubuque, last Saturday,
With such violence that his collar bone was 8
'roken. The Herald says that his injuries {
IRE not very serious. G
The Abolition struggles and caucusses in
for places in the next Con- /
,ress and elsewhere are said to be anima- I
ed. Ii
Governor Tod has gone to Lancaster to a
Inswer the charge made in the Fairfield
Jounty Court, by DIR. Olds. Hc will pro-
'ably move, through his attorney, change !
# venue TO the United States Court, it '
vas done in the case of Col. Bliss. I
Thomas Kane, a citizen of Washing a
on City, has been tried before Military '
Commission for procuring pay, bounty ,.
nd allowance as soldier, upon forged
'apers. He has been found guilty, and i.
entenced to the Albany penitentiary for
i've years. a
Most persons will recollect how much b
xercised the Jacobin papers were a while u
go, because some "copperhead" called il
his "cruel war" The vocabulary OF u
pithets was exhausted in describing the Y
eep, damning treason of those who dared :
0 call it by that name. But we suppose /,
is quite loyal now since Abraham has d
sed the term. Let it be understood, T
enceforth, that "cruel war; is not an ex- N
ression taboOed to loyalists. c.
The New York Post thinks there is no NJ
'ar of any stringency in the money mar =
ct while SO much capital is ''sloshing y '
rouhd.''
The "Moral Club" uses playing cards a,
18th hymn printed on the back of each ST
Ard-blending morality with amuse- oI
lent. Ii
They tell OF ditch on recent battle h'
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