Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

market during the past week has been
more severe and stringent than for many
years; indeed, the pressure has been greater
than since 1857, the best Of houses paying
seven per cent. At the stock exchange
three to four per cent. month has been
paid for accommodation The subscrip
tions to the Five-twenty loan have been
greatly affected thereby, and have fallen
off five hundred thousand dollars in New
York city. The Government has stopped
redeeming certificates of indebtedness, and
now refuse to receive them and the loan
certificates in payment of the loan. Gov
eminent stocks have generally declined
Five-twenty bonds selling at discount of
three-fourths per cent
A large number of New York working
men, representing several branches Of in
dustry, still stand out for higher rates of
wages, and seem determined to withhold
their work until their demand is granted,
even though positive want be the penalty
of their resolute determination. The ma
chinists, cigar-makers, confectioners, iron
mongers, stage-drivers, shoemakers, black
smiths, tinsmiths, carpenters, and repre-
sentatives Of other trades have held public
meetings exciting more OF less sympathy.
The meeting of the working girls revealed
to great extent the destitution and suffer-
ing occasioned by the low rate of wages
and the high cost of living. The car
drivers have returned to work, an advance
having been given them. A strike has
has also commenced among some of the
trades in Philadelphia.
The New York Herald boldly advises
the President to knock his Radical tor
mentors in the head and no long er try TO
soothe them
Railroad men consider the trip of the
Russians frem Albany to Niagara Falls
the greatest achievement known in Ameri-
can railroading. They were drawn the
entire distance, three hundred and six
miles, in nine hours and twenty minutes
at least one hour of that time being ex-
pended in stops.
At the meeting of the Democratic State
Central Committee, in Columbus, yesSer-
day, it was decided to hold the next Dem
ocratic State Convention on the third Mon
day in March.
Intelligence has been received in Wash
iDgton to the effect that General Long
streets corps, or portion of it, is moving
in the direction between Chattanooga and
London, as if intending a demonstration
on General Burnside's forces at Knoxville.
1t is astonishing to those familiar with
centuries of animosity between France and
England, to see the close alliance now ex-
isting between them Cressy, Poicters,
Agincourt, Blenhem, Families and Wa
terloo, all seem forgotten, and it is now
our very good brother and chosen ally be-
tween them. There is no more peyJfds
Albion, and Napoleon and st. Helena are
forgotten. We no moro expected to see
the lion lie down with the lamb in our day,
unless the lamb was inside of the lion, than
we did to see the ancient enemies so lock-
cd together. But it is pleasant to look on,
SO they don't serve us la Crimea.
Since the war commenced twenty-nine
Union and thirty-eight Rebel generals have
been killed in battle or died of wounds,
eleven Union and thirteen Rebel died of
disease, eighteen Union and thirteen Rebel
resigned, and two Union and one Rebel
dismissed from the service.
Some of the English peasantry took the
recent earthquake for a sign that the world
was coming to an end, and packed up to
elnigrate to America, to avoid the calami-
ty,
General Henry A, Wise has been as-
signed by the rebel government to the com
mand of the Sixth District of the Depart
ment of South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida.
The election of B. Gratz Brown, the
uncompromising radical of the regular
John Brown, fire and sword school, to the
Senate of the United States from Missouri