Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-04-29
News Items.

atl demand % W per uAy' @A'o' NV
of May.
be Red River campaign has put an
to the pretensions of Banks. he is
for, and out Of the way. Lincoln
ad oft, as he was formidable claim
Of the Republican nomination.
he New York German Radicals are
in an appeal to their Western breth-
to abide by the Baltimore nomination,
not split the Republican party. Green
b have done the work for the mana
of the New York Radicals.
Washington dispatch says Much
is hoped from Grant but if he fails, he
viii throw the Treasury Department into
the most dreadful confusion.
Two hundred mechanics have banished
from Kentucky during the war, for the
great crime of refusing to work for the
Government at wages prescribed by militia
~ authority. What glorious thing # is
to live in free country
The requirement of the service of the
militia, is as severely rigorous as it
can be made. There is little chance to
have a substitute accepted, and still
less for exemption because of disability.
General Banks, in his Red River fight,
it is now ascertained lost at least six thou
sand, in killed, wounded and prisoners,
Some place the loss even higher.
Notwithstanding all the telegraph and
Republican papers may say, there is no
reason to believe the force of Lee to be in
fsrior to that of Grant. Nothing. however
is certainly known.
A correspondent of the New York NslOI
says A week or two will develop the
plans of Generals Grant and Lee, and
such contest will commence as history
has seldom recorded, and God grant never
may again after the present one is ended
General Garfield has done nothing as
yet to relieve himself from the odium Of
reading forged letters, maliciously designed
to iniure Messrs. Eckels and Davis of Indi-
ana.
1t is understood that if Lincoln is re-
elected, the rasoally Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, will go back into the cabinet.
Summer and Wade are both understood
10 Be hostile to Old Abe's reelection,
We learn from Harrisburg, that there
is no likelihood of call being made for
the militia Of PennsylvsniR. 1t is not
likely that any call would have been made
for the militia of Ohio, if it had not been
for Brough.
The report that Newbern. North Caro-
lima was captured by the rebels. is denied.
The Cincinnati Gazette, which found
grave fault with Lincoln for his conduct in
the Blair matter, pays high compliment
to schenck, who sought to explain and
justify. The Gazette says he only made
the matter worse. II
General Burnside went to the front on
Wednesday.
The rebels are rapidly concentrating
their forces in Virginia to resist the sIpec.
ted attack of Grant.
The rumor that Banks is to be removed
is denied. n
Orders are said to be issued to begin
the draft immediately in Ohio. Psnnsylya,
mia, and Massachusetts
The message If Lincoln, explanatory
Of the Blair appointment. was received by
the House with derisive laughter
The Confederates made an unsuccess-
full attempt to destroy the frigate Pulaski
of Charleston lately by torpedo.
ItiS thought that the ConfsdersteS will
commence offensive operations as soon
as the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers
subSids, which are very high.
Mosby's Guerrillas are swsrming in our
front. .q1