Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-21
NEWS OFTlIE DAY.

There are now only seventy-one thousand
deserters, all told, absent from their post !;
or rather more than the entire British
army. laDm1' 7elH
Albert Pike, the renegade poet, is in
obscurity in Texas, and is classed as rather
friendly to the old Union. ...... N. I.
The new style of postal currency is said
to be miserably engraved, and disgrace
to our currency. A.. iHu ID
1t is ominous to the nation that Demo
cratic defeats occur in the fall. ia,q
Secretary Chase it is said mouths
most, but Secretary Stewards nose most.
Gold rose four per cent. on the news of
an Abolition victory in Ohie, Is it q
wonder, when Secretary Chase proclaimed
that he would persist in his paper policy
even if it should cost man 81 900 to buy
a breakfast. s.e POO b.
Ex-Governor Joseph A. Wright, of
Indiana, was married on the 1lth instant,
to Mrs Caroline r. DeneI, of New York
City. ed ri
Mrs. Glenn White, of Selma, sister of
Mrs. Abraham Lincolu, recently present.
cd Confederate Jack to the gunboat
Huntsville, Of Mobile.
The Africa struck just where Great Bri-
tain refused to allow Daboll's fog whistle
to be placed-on one of the outer rocks off
Cape Race. She is there still. w..
The Russiun sailors, it is said, can put
under their jackets stifier glass of grog
th.n ordinary people. a bottle of whis-
ky at sitting, to each man, and tumbler
brimming full of old Bourbon whisky
innocent of water--is common dose.
A new trouble has overtaken the land
ed proprietors in the south of France. In
addition to the disease which has damaged
the vine crop, a similar malady has attack
ed the olive trees. They have become
covered with black dust resembling pow
dered charcoal, supposed to be caused by
the ravages of an insect of the cochineal
tribe. .r es
Three hundred and fifty thousand white
fathers and sons have been killed and
wounded since the war broke out--a war
in which Lincoln predicted that "nobody
would be hurt" And the end is not yet.
A method of oftelegraphing by flashes of
sunlight has just been invented and ecured
at Washington by Oliver Lane of Con-
nectieut. 1t is effected by common look
Ing glass rejecting the suns rays, and the
time between flashes indicates the letters of
the alphabet. For army purposes this is
believed to be useful invention.
The Columbia Guardian, of South Ca
rolina, says an important movement, the
details of which it does not mention, is in
progress to capture Washington.
The Richmond Why says six hundred
rebel deserters, tories rather, have been
captured in North Carolina.
General Joe Johnston telsgraphs to
Richmond of a raid near Meridian, Mis-
sissippi, on the Memphis and Charleston
railroad. The dispatch is dated Meridian.
| The telegraph reports that General Lee
moved the bulk of his army back to Gull
pepper, where an immense train of cars
was waiting for them by which to qnickly
transfer them South.
The Berlin Faculty of Medicine has
condemned Bavarian (lager) beer as
the cause of innumerable cases of apo
plexy.
Lake Superior mines have furnished
10000 tuns of copper ore this year, and
have plenty more on hand,
The new army Register is completed,
aad shows that in April l, 1868, there
were 2,423 commissioned officers Of the
Regular Army, and 10000, enlisted men
total 1882.
The high cost of labor at the coal
mines in Pennsylvania has suggested the
necessity of machines for digging it. 1t
is wonder that one was not long ago in
vented. tUIH .sb
A green 'un who had never before seen
q steamboat, going on board of one of
| thnnn fall into tho hnlh nnl hnirr. -.