Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-20
NEWS OF TllE DAY.

iniies OF chattanooga. 1nat VIII be, per-
haps, during the next week.
The Atlanta Georgia. Inteliigencer re-
cords the feat of a young man named
Frank A. Reynolds Of South Carolina, a
Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate SER
vice, who, with two hundred and thirty
eight men charged brigade of Federal
troops, and, after o desperate fight Of fifty
minutes, succeeded in routing the enemy
capturing ten pieces of artillery and three
stands of colors, and losing only half of his
men. He is agraduate Of West Point
and a son If General Reynolds who was
taken prisoner at Vicksburg, Il
The Californians are watching the pro-
gress oi French Intervention in Mexico
with great interest and California papers
say war with France would bring down
from fifty thousand to sixty thousand min
ers, ready to dispute with that country the
possession of the Mexican mines. The
Californians think that if the Mexican
mines need development they are just the
boys to do it, and the Frenchmen will
not carry off the prize without desperate
struggle. r.i.. ie
The negotiations of Senator Ramsey. of
Minnesota, with the Indian tribes of that
State have been successful. He has sue
oeeded in purchasing tract of land of the
indians one. hundred and eighty miles in
length, and from one hundred and twenty
to one hundred and twenty-five in breadth.
This comprises the land on both sides Of
Red river. The treaty was signed by
every chief but one, and he was satisfied
with it, but having said he would never
sign treaty, thought it would iniure his
reputation. Twenty thousand dollars a
year, for twenty years, is the principal
payment that is to be made. The treaty
made is IN important one, as regards Sc
curing the trade of the Red river valley.
ES-A piece Of Mahomet's shirt was
burnt at the late fire in Constantinople.
The city is in great distress about It.
The cost Of the conscription in New
York city is estimated at $12,000,OOO by
the New York San. ...
Hay is selling in the streets of Indi-
annapolis at twenty dollars tun.
The price of passage from San Francis
co to New York is now s265, 1856 and
S135.
Coal is selling at eleven dollars a tun
in Boston, Massachusetts,, with prospect
of rise. No U Ni ~ W aH
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has decided that cigarettes are liable to
tax Of three per cent 0d valorem, as
manufacture not otherwise provided for.
A Connecticut young man, while ''see-
ing the elephant in New York, was rob
bed of a 81, 900 bill, 5000 in small bills,
a diamond ring, and about S13, 900 in
drafts. Some beautiful ladies are sus-
peeted. 3ll ,nEa a. .,aI
Eighteen colored walters of the Deleyan |
House, in Albany, were drafted Sixteen
Of them took the "skedaddlers'" railroad
for Canada, and the other two have ex-
emption marks. qol.t 500 HtlI
Three of the negroes who assisted in the
brutal murder Of family at Island No.
10. have had the sentence of death which
they so richly merited commuted to five
years imprisonment Who would not be
negro these times. Dow
Mr.. Slidell (according to the New York
HerGld's correspondence remains at Blar-
ritz, where, it is said, he Is in daily person
al communication with the Emperor. In
deed, it has been stated that the relations
between His Majesty and the rebel ON
bassador are Of such an intimate natme
that the latter has taught the former new
way of Willing away the few daily hours
which he steals from the cares of empire.
"In short" that he and the Emperor in-
dulge in an occasional game OF "draw
power
n, Somebody said when Meade was ap-
pointed, that the next change would be to
small 6Isy Ihe,a h tsllr ~ so,,a s,al,