Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-11
NEWS OFTlIE DAY.

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al Morgan, and five ofhis officers, were
in Cumberland county on the 7th, pro-
ceeding to Dixie.
General Leo occupies his old position
at Orange Court House, and his advanced |
line guards the Rapidan fords.
Twenty-Five vessels in Now York har-
Dor were destroyed yesterday byfire.
Horse thieves throughout kentucky are
reported to be very numerous.
signor Brignoli's fast and fayorite trot-
ting mare Laura, !" died in Boston last
week. She was valued at one thousand
dollars.
A Mobile dispatch claims that the Fed
erals were defeated by General Green,
near Plaqncmine, Louisianan, on Novem-
ber 27. with the loss of two thousand pri-
soners.
The Louisville Journal is very severe
upon and reads out of the Union party
of Kentucky, Green Clay Smith, Brutus
j. Clay, William II. Randall and Lucious
Anderson, members of Congress, who
voted for Colfax for Speaker.
BY the agricultural report for Novem-
Der, just made, itappears that the def
cheney in the corn crop, for the present
year, is nearly one hundred and thirty
millions of bushels below what is re-
quired for home consumption. As the
wants of the Government for the army arc
so very large, it is a question whether the
late military orders stopping the distilla-
ton Of grain in Kentucky and Tennessee,
will not be extended to the great disiilling
States Of Ohio and Illinois.
A Russian Count at New York is
under arrest for stealing diamond ring
worth $1 600. Itosi y"
There is now camor for the removal
Of General Meade. He has not taken
Richmond, or won any great advantage
but he has not met the disasters suffered
by Burnside and Asoker lie was too
good General to undertake an impossi-
bility and insure defeat.
At an Abolition consultation held in
Philadelphia on Friday, Senator Wilson
and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (white
mon) figured on the platform along with
Fred Douglass and Robert Purvis (eolor'
ed. Miss Anne Dickinson and William
Lloyd Garrison were likewise present. A
nice party.
The Boston Courier truly says that prin-
ciples arc worth nothing which have to b.
abandoned intimes of trial That is just
I the time they ought TO be held with 9
death. grip but the weak knees and hearts
of little faith are sure to he manifested in
4 the times when mems souls are tried
They are those that now fall away from
: the great and noble DOCTRINES of the Con
stitution, suocumb to the "tyrant's plea,
necessity--military necessity ! and sur
render up their birthrights. The day o
their shame will come.
The telegraph brings synopsis Of tn
Secretary of Treasury's report. lie rec
:, ommends that no further issue of currenc!
j be made. He says that the volum Of onr
a rency cannot be inscreased without conse
Z quences which are TO be avoided. The to
% % tai debt on the Both of June, 1864, Is esti
: : mated at 81 Csc. .956,64l, and on the 80h
{ Of June, 1865, at ~, 2S1, 1885. 100. Tn
internal revenue has fallen far below tn
estimates, and it is recommends that a
increased duty be put upon distilled u
quors, tobacco and petroleum.
Queen Victoria has forbidden thc use {
tobacco in Windsor Oastle-eyen in ii
Prince of Wales apartments.
Ip one column the New York TIM
says nothing is more absurd than war. |
another it urges enlistments.
The well-known stallion Henry Cla
was recently sold at Chicago for, so i
reported, $4,000. rn
We see Il stated that, there is Aosti,
% nian in Washington who has piled u
w tl,a emma, Ettla e,,,,, of e,a hn,J,ol y II,