Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-09-22
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ment the sum of three hundred dollars Tor
each able-bodied man A commission, it
is added, will be organized in Washing
ton in few days to hear aud adjudicate
all such claims that may be presented.
General Wright, commanding the De-
partment of the Pacific, has forwarded a
report from General Uonnor to the militia
ry authorities, from which it appears that
the different tribes Of Indians living with
in the district of Utah are anxious for
peace. Most of them have already made
treaties with General Connor, and Gener-
al Wright is sure that with the reinforce
ments he has sent forward, the overland
mail route will be perfectly safe
The Cleveland (O.) Plain Dealer states
that at the late Abolition mass meeting in
CuyahOga County, which gave 1900 40
oHtion majority last fall, only five hundred
attended. 1t was addressed by John
Brough, and was complete fzzle.
The Cincinnati GaseHe of to-day says :
We regret to learn, by private dispatch
es received in this city yesterday, that Col
oncl Jones, son of J. d. Jones, Esq. of
this city, was killed on Saturday last, in
one of the furious struggles of the battle
fought on that 'lay, between the armies of
Rosecraus and Bragg. The same dispatch
also states that Colonel anderson was Sc
verely wounded. Colonel Anderson was
n well known citizen OF this place, and
was II son of Larz Anderson, Esq, and
brother of Captain w. p. Anderson, A.
A. G. of the Department of the Ohio
We sincerely hope that his wounds may
not prove so serious as the dispatches
would lead us to believe.
The Warren County Annual Fair will
be held in the Fair Grounds at Lebanon,
during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
of this week Several handsome premi-
ums will be awarded and it is more than
probable that the fair will be one Of the
finest which has been held in many years
Cyrus l.. Dunham, Colonel of the 50th
Indiana Regiment having shown good
cause for his absence, has been reinstated
in his regiment, from which he had been
dismissed.
General jeff. Thompson and fifteen
other Confederate prisoners have been sent
to Johnsons Island.
General Grant has approved the finding
Of the court martial in the case of Colonel
Avneke of Wisconsin. The sentence is,
that the Colonel be cashiered from the
date of the order in June last. Colonel
Aveneke passed through Cairo last week
en- route for his home.
The twenty one hundred prisoners who
were recently captured at Cumberland
Gap arrived in Lexington. Kentucky, on
yesterday on their way to Camp Morton,
indianapolis
The Cincinnati Commercial of to-day
says we regret to announce that Captain
James f. Murdoch, of Van Cleve's staff,
and son of James Il. Murdoch, Esq, was
killed, instead of wounded, as at first an
nounced, in the battle of Saturday. A
dispatch to this effect was received yester-
day.
The Richmond Wig announces the
death of General Sam Houston who
departed this life at his residence in Hum
terville, Texas, on the 25th Of July. He
was seventy years of age But few men
of more remarkable character have lived
in this country than Sam Houston aud but
few have been SO long identified with the
public service.
An exchange states that the young city
of Virginia, Nevada Territory. was nearly
destroyed by fire on the 2Sth of August.
All the business portion Of the city is in
ruins. The loss is estimated at over
100000. Thieves carried off what was
left by the fire, and, adding to the horrors
of the oonaagration, the iremen got into a
terrible row, in which one man was shot
dead, another fatally injured, and score
or more badly hurt