Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-08-27
NEWS GLEANINGs.

Brough was great mistake. His name
inspires no enthusiasm---the people won't
take "hold''-nothing can be said in his
favor. His nomination was made for poll
icy, while the freemen of Ohio are battling
for principle Policy men sink into
insignifcance in such contest. 4
On Saturday afternoon, as some labor
ers were demolishmg an old stone house in
Houston street, erected in revol tionary
times, they came across box, secreted
under the hearth, containing some $4,000
in silver and gold Of an ancient date.
A man in st. Hons put his head in
pail of water and drowned himself to
avoid conscription. He avoided it
A private letter ftom Philadelphia says.
''0ur city is drunk.-not all at once, hut
ward at time We draft by wards, and
those who are drafted have 10 stand treat
on account of their misfortune, and those
who escape have to stand treat on account
Of their good loitnne. The result is we
get inebriated by wards. and Philadelphia
goes to bed drunk.
! Howell Cobb, Of Georgia, has united
himself in wedlockMith Mrs, Mary Rumph
widow of the late President OF the Female
College in Macon, Georgia. They reside
at present at Perry, in Macon County.
HON. A. R. Wooten, Attorney General
of Delaware, aud Rev, Dr.. Vallandigham,
of the same State, have been drafted The
Doctor is brother to Hon Clement L.,
Vallandigham
A new disease has made its appearance
among horses in the Federal camps in
Virginia The horses are well in the
morning, refuse portion of THEN oats at
midday, at evening cannot swallow at I'll,
and in a few hours after they die Exam
ination goes to show that their trouble is
very much like the diphtheria.
A government contractor in Philadel-
phia was arrested lately and tried loi
swindling a hundred poor girls ont Of theiI
wages, He had put them of every SAT-
urday night for many weeks, and finally
closed his office, and fed with the plumber
lie had secured; but he was caught, tried,
and put under 81 900 bail. His name is
Benjamin James Warden, and he is, OF
course, furious advocate for the "yigOr-
Gus prosecution of the war" and de-
nouncer Of democrats as "copperheads and
traitors
The Washington correspondent Of the
81. Louis Democrat says new draft is
thought likely TO be ordered before long,
to make up ior the deficiency in the amount
of troops sought to be realized by the first
draft 1t viii probably be made again
from the first class, and according to tile
estimates Of the numbers likely to be Sc
cured by the first draft, will be apt TO call
for about hall as many more,
The Portland papers are jubilant over
the discovery Of "a corporation with a
soul" despite OF the legal saw, 1t seems
that when the Collector OF that port called
on the officers aud agents of the steamer
Forest City, to charter her for the purpose
of pursuing the revenue cutter Caleb Cush-
ing, he agreed to pay them proper sum
for her charter, but the company very gen
erously declined TO demand any compensa-
ton for the steamers service. The Sec
retary Of the Treasury, on being advised
Of this lberality, directed the collector to
tender the thanks OF the Department,
which he dil in a very neat letter,
Somebody in Germany has mvgnted d
bed which has musical inside; il hills
You TO sleep with soft music. and wake,
you up with a strain with anything but q
dying fall" to
In the fourth (BostonJ district, The
whole number of conscips examined lasl
week l,l35, of whom 937 were exempted
seventy paid three hundred dollars, whiel
4 makes 1907 that got clear, los Ofiere,
substitutes, and ten were passed as III fo
duty. At this rate it will require ninei,
= million of conseripts 10 obtain the 'nin,