Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-02-26

q vieted, fined 81 600, and sentenced to I'M
!, prisonment until the fine is paid.
b 1t is probable, according to the latest
t advices, that all spirits on hand will be
taxed twenty per cent. ~ WV !
Z General Sigel has been appointed to
: command the department Of Western Vir-
& ginia. and will at once enter ON the per-
= formAnce Of his duties.
T There has been sharp fight at Tunnel
. Hill, as we learn from Chattanooga dates
9 Of February 25. The Federals captured
i 800 prisoners, and lost seventy-tivo in
killed and wounded. .,.
The report that Selma. Alabama, had
. been captured by General Sherman does
! not receive much credit.
i Farragut's feet win comprise forty
J vessels.
The Vanderbilt has been ordered to
4 China.
OF thirty thousan veteran troops whose
term expires, twenty-five thousand have
already re-enlisted.
! 1t is stated that seven thousand OF Lees
cavalry are hanging OF Sherman's flank.
4 1t is stated that the Lieutenant General
Bill will pass the House, as agreed upon IN
the Senate, and that the President will
J confer the honor on Grant.
r, The House, on yesterday, not agreeing
TO the Senate's amendment in the Lieuten-
ant General Bill, to strike out the recon-
5 mendation that General Grant be appoint
ed. ordered Committee of Conference.
Colonel Connell, Of the Ohio Senate,
declares that Sanitary Commissions are
inflated humbugs, absorbent as sponges,
the greatest popular humbug of this day.
This NAV be set down as the testimony OF
a soldier.
Mr.. Charles Ormes. farmer near In
dianapolis, has on hand twenty-five thou
sand bushels Of wheat, all of his own
raising.
1t is thought the Military COMMITTEES in
the House OF Representative will report in
favor of increasing the pay of soldiers to
twenty dollars a month. ...
Governor johnson and others, from Ten
nessee, have had a pleasant interview with
the President, in Washington, about the
policy to be pursued to restore the s'ate tC
the Union. They do not favor the Presi
dents plan to that end "t
The United States Senate is considering
the appointments of Major Generals sen
in by the President General Schofeld'
nomination is again postponed by tn
radicals.
A deserter estimates the force OF Genera
Lee at $4,000. Lee expects to have 60.
900 by the middle of March.
w. w. Busby. one of Mosby's cavalry
has been arrested in Washington.
There is a rumor that Chase has re
signed, and a Massachusetts, man by tn
name of Hooper appointed in his place
Discredited. .., ....
All enlistments in Pennsylvania by II
cruiting agents from other States, are fol-
hidden by late proclamation of Coy
ID Curtin. .... ....|
George Thompson, the notorious BIRTHS
emissary, is over seventy years OF ag
indifferent in appearance, but good le'
turer on his favorite topic Of Abolition.
VIM. B. Astor, Of New York, has AT
vanced the price of rents thirty per cen
Poor people are scattering out Of the cit
One of the Abolition speakers at Loui
Vile, said the Crittenden Compromi
would have restored the Union. but
would have been crime which ages
repentance could not have wiped out.
Through the influence of the whisl
lobby at Washington. forty-three men
bers were made to change their votes.
We learn from New York that volu
teering was never more brisk than now.
A private of the Ninth Indiana delibe
ately shot citizen Of indianapolis, la
evening, who was endeavoring to quell
disturbance among soldiers, There is j
tense excitement in the city concerning
portion of the military.
The Ynl;ca hava Laan max mo a degcp,