Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-06-09
Current News Items.

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The invasion of Kentucky seems from
our latest accounts to be serious bust
ness. See afternoon dispatches.
All was quiet on the Peninsula yesterday,
according to Stanton's bulletin
Gen Hunter is reported to have gained n
victory over Gen Jones in the Shenandoah
Valley How much of victory is not stated.
Gold having taken an advanced position,
now holds it with quite as much tenacity as
General Grant. 1t is now at 95s
A United States Marshal in New York, has
been mulcted in $4,000 damages by an indi-
vidual whom he had imprisoned without war
rant
The people Of Chicago are making vast
preparations for the Democratic Convention.
1t is expected that the masses will be in at
tendance, as well as the Delegates Arrange
ments are making to prepare camping
grounds out of the city.
The nomination of Lincoln md johnson
will be received by the people at large, Re
publican and Democratic, much as they hear
of a calamity which they knew to be impend-
ing and inevitable 1t will 90 far to excite
forebodiug of evil, and will extinguish hope
Just in proportion as ts success is considered
probable.
Lincoln intends to be elected not by the
free ballots Of the people, but by the force Of
his armies He intends to disperse his bayo.
nets over the whole North Even his soldiers
will be allowed no freedom of discussion, but
constrained to vote in accordance with hi.
despotic will, Is this to be submitted to2
Ben Buffers rhinoceros hide has at last
been pierced by the hatred and contempt in
which he is held by every decent man in the
world. He is writing letters in selEdefence
Out upon the Beast
The Hindoo mother used to hush her chill
dren with lullaby in which she mingled tht
terrible name Of Warren Hastings The tint
10 coming when American mothers will employ
the name of Abraham the Bloody for tn,
same purpose
Look back at the condition of this country
when Lincoln and the Abolitionists came int,
power. Look at it now, and then vote for tn
cruel usurper if you can
The news from Grant is not particularl,
favorable by our mornings dispatches Tn
talk of en6lading ERE, whichicannot be avoid
ed, looks like change of position would b
indispensable
Official dispatches from General sherma
are up to 6 o'clock Tuesday evening
Headquarters we're still at Acworth. The ent
my was not in our immediate front Ou
position is reported to be favorable for futur
aggressive movements.
No army has suffered more severely tha
that Of the Danes in the war in the duchie
1t did not exceed 35, 900 men in the con
mencement Of the struggle and the losses ar
officially reported at l6,437 men, iueludin
800 officers.
The explosion of an engine boiler on th
New York Central Railroad near Syracus,
yesterday, destroyed the engine, tender, bag
gage and smoking cars, killed three person.
and injured twenty-five or thirty others, som
Of them seriously
Judge John A. Bryan, formerly Auditor
the State of Ohio, and Assistant Postmaste
General under Tyler, died at MenashA, Wis
short time since
Jewels to the value eff e5 600 we're latel
sold in England for the benefit of the Polls
reyolution. They belonged to Polish ladie
who sacrificed them for the public cause
The siamese Twins are still living in Mort
Carolina. One has nine, and the other hi
eight children. One ofthe latter is in the reb
army, bnt the others are either girls or bo!
too young TO fight.
negro was arrested in Cincinnati yeste
day for terribly beating his wife--a viii
woman.
1t is said that Queen Victoria is spiri
uAlist, and that shs believes heFself posses
cd of the power Of holding conmunieAtio
with her deceased husband