Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Four men are reported killed, including
Mr. Smith, of the firm of Hull, Corlins q
Co., of Philadelphia. Troops had been
telegraphed for to put down the riot
The situation at Chattanooga is not
materially changed. The rebels keep up
a fire on our lines from twenty-pounder
gun on the crest of Lookout Mountain
Longstreets' headquarters are established
on Lookout Mountain, and held by
strong force. lis thought Bragg is about
to make some movement, the object of
which isnot yet revealed,
By the late election returns, we discover
that there are several thousands ''Iebels' in
our army, fighting our battles. Strange,
isn't it +? 1t is also proposed to draft the
"Home Traitors" A wonderful man,
"Old Abe" is
"No political DREAMER" said Chief JUS
tice Marshall, sever wrs wild enough to
to think of breaking down State lines and
compounding the American people into
one mass"
A Vermont clergyman is in Jail for fog
ging his wife. lie claimed the right as
patriarch or his family. This same clergy
man breaches about the "horrors of
slavery" and the 'tratorous Democracy"
Opening the Mississippi, "restoring the
Union," &C., do not seem to bring back
lost commerce, business and prosperity at
New Orleans. The Picayune says :
''Hrade and commerce are stagnant. the
people are impoverished, industrial en-
ployments are precariOus, and necessity
is felt that something mnst soon be done
to avert the intense suffering which threat
ems in the coming winter"
A correspondent of the Chicago Times
says, "Stadton respect nobody in Wash
ington." And nobody respects Stanton
out of it.
Russia is now engaged, as she has been
for long years, in crushing out the lib
critics of Poland. Does the present Adj
ministration propose to form an alliance
offensive and defensive with Russia, in or
der to aid her in her attempts to deprive
the poles of their right, in return for her
services in helping to deprive the people of
these States of their Constitutional rights
and liberties President indications seem
to favor the idea that something of that
sort is in the wind.
Our national debt is increasing so fast
that large number ofsteam engines, from
ten to forty horse power each, are used in
the Treasury building in the manufactory
of paper-bonds, notes, and other evil
dences of Indebtedness. We are certainly
travelling the road to ruin with magni6-
cent velocity when so many steam engines
are employed to acceleratenonr speed.
There will be an awful reclStBng when
payday comes.
The Army of the Potomac is said to be
on the move again-this time for winter
quarters.
The rebel cavalry are swarning around
and about, on flank and in rear of the Pc
tomac army. They inAict immense dan
= ger.
"Resist with care the spirit of innovation
upon the principles of your Government
however speciouS the pretext," said Wash
ington. 1t is the specious pretext an(
that brings to life every abuse that creepi
> into the legislation of a free people. His
tory win show that no great abuse wal
ever hardened into legislation withou
r some plausible pretoxt for it at the time
Ben. Butler, who perpetually sneers a
women and virtue, says, ''there are tine
degrees of comparison, man, woman, anC
:, the devil" We think, then, that ther
are lour degrees-woman, man, the devil
and Ben. Butler
(. Beecher is praising the Puritans in Eng
!, land. But he will find that the Englisl
are not ignorant of the character of tn
= n Puritans. Sir Thomas Overbury says
&c "The Puritan is diseased piece Of apocra
: pha; bind him to the Bible and he cor
rupts the whole text; ignorance and ia