Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-12-14
Current News Items,

A correspondent OF The Cincinnati Gazette
tells with great elee, tie story Of Quaker
iu Warren county, who peGured himself 10
prevent Democrat from voting.
In Kentucky, the Government is nova
days displaying its power With An oppression
which, at this distance, seems intolerable.--
Aside from trade restrictions, which forbid ell
traffic, except by those who have permit
every horse in the State 10 liable TO seizure
by the Government, and voucher given for
Just such price as the olilisl who takes the
property chooses to give
Il is said that as soon as It was known that
Chase was made Chief Justic, large number
OF radicals met in Washington and nominated
Lincoln for third time
The Cleveland Pandeaer makes good
reply to those who denounce Governor Brown
OF Georgia for releasing peniteutiafy eonviets,
and making soldiers Of them Tue Dealer
says, truly that in unumerable cases, Grimm
ais in the North have been relieved from pun
ishmeut, on condition that they enter the
service This is outrageous 1t is disgrace
to the honest men who volunteered 10 the
army, to hays felons forced into their ranks
and it ought not 20 have beon done in any
case.
There was a rumor 10 New York yesterday
that Butler had been defeated. 1t was not
credited to any great extent
Much complaint is made OF severely cold
weather at Nashville
The iourneymen shoemakers Of Ashland,
Ohio have struck for an advance OF twenty
per cent to their wages
The Ashtabula Sentinel estimates that 1t
costs 50 Is to publish that paper for one year
and that it losses Is cents on each copy Mo-
weekly should be pobIished for less than three
dollars year,
1t is thought that Ex-Governor Yates. Of
Illinois, will he made Senator from that
State.
The Federal loss in the battle Of Franklin,
turns ont to have been much larger than at
first reported We lost as many prisoners as
we took from the enemy
The 10th Ohio Regiment stationed at
Jacksohville Florida gave ll2 votes for Lin
coin and 1873 for Mcclellan. Probable rea
son--too far away to be manipulated by Abe's
agents.
The soldiers of Grants army, in order to
supply themselves with water, have dug wells
from twenty to thirty feet deep. The num-
Der Of wells about Petersburg is said to be at
least FIVE hundred,
Our dispatches give an account Of a severe
battle between General Sherman and the Con
federa,es, commanded by Hardee, Cobb, and
others.
The Republicans of Indiana, under Nor
toms lead, seem much disaA'ected with the
nomination of Chase, They say his friends
acted in a very indelicale aud unbecomng
manner while urging his pretensons,
The Sentinel says game is wonderfully
abundant in that market, though very dear
Wild turkey 80 cents per pound
The snow was SO deep ir Indianapolis,
aud so much dritted, that the street ears
could not run.
During the late cold spell, two persons,
mau and wife, were smothered to death in
Putnam county, Indiana, by going to sleep
with pan of live Goals in the room,
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio will have to pay !
more for the support of the Government
under Republican, rule, than the whole of the
thirty-four States paid when tue Democracy
was in power.