Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-24


be preserved"
The Secretary of the Navy is assigning to
active service the best available talent of the
navy. Mexican, Goldsborough, Dupont,
Marston, Lardner, Davis, Drayton and Tur-
ner are placed in important commands.
A large gun, cast at West Point Foundry,
weighing six tuns, and capable of throwing
a ball weighing two hundred and fifty pounds
was recently shipped to Washington.
The S. E. Indiana Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is in session at
Jeffersonville, Ind.
Colonel Crafts Regiment of Indiana Vol
unteers, of Terre Haute, has been sent to
Evansville as protection to that city from
any possible marauding visit of rebels by
way of Green River section Of Kentucky.
The Military Commission convened at st.
Louis Arsenal have found two rebel prison.
ers guilty of taking up arms against the Fed
eTal Government. Sentence to be carried
into immediate effect under charge of the
proper officers is: confinement at hard labor
during the war, and to have in each case his
property conhscated for the benefit of the
General Government"
A daily register at General Fremont's
Head. quarters, as published in the St Louis
papers, contains the following selfregistered
addresses:
Capt. A. G.. A. CONSTABLE, Cincinnati.
Col. W. g. SHERwlN, Cincinnati"
So much for rank.
A general order from General Fremonts
Head quarters announces the names of his
staff, one of which is Major Richard Morti-
mer Corwin, ofthis city, Judge Advocate
One of the members of Congress of this
county, Hon. John A. Gurley, is an Aid de-
Camp, with the rank Of Colonel.
John NJ. Locke, of Ohio has recently been
appointed Captain U uited States Army, and
assigned to the Fourteenth Infantry.
The Kentucky Conference of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church South, will meet at
Paris, Kentucky, on Wednesday, 25th Sep
tember.
1t is reported that the Confederate forces
have evacuated Columbus, Kentucky, to con-
centrate at Bowling Green.
Candidates for admission into the Naval
Academy must report to Newport, Rhode
Island-not to Annapolis-before the Both
inst.
A detachment of troops from Camp Dick
Robinson, under Colonel Bramlette have es-
tablished an encampment atthe Fair Grounds
near Lexington.
A Home Guard camp is established near
Louisville.
A force of Home Guards, under Captain
Gibson, have taken position at West Point,
at the mouth of Salt River, twenty-five miles
below the Falls.
The Navy Department is educating sailors
to man the guns of the Fremont flotilla. 1t
has already sent him number of officers,
ard heartily seconds all his preparations for
the campaign down the Mississippi.
Steamboat engineers, who are.loyal to the
| Union, and competent, from four years ex
perience, are needed at st. Louis for the gun.
boats, soon to be placed in service.
British residents in the United States who
have not taken oath of allegiance to this
Government, but are domesticated in this
country, may not expect the British Consul
TO furnish such with means to leave this
country and return to British province.
The British Consul at Chicago has written
letter, in which he expresses q hope that
British residents, especially those called on
to labor for hire for the Government of the
United States, will recollect that it is their
| duty, by the most cautious and discreet con
| duct on their parts, to respond to the efforts
which mey be made by the authorities to
mitigate the inconvenience and necessary
painful results of the proclamation of martial
| law in any city, and that they as law abiding
| subjects of Great Britain will give their la
bor and satisfy the authorities of fidelity to
demands for loyalty.
The Pittsburg Female College has a de.
| partment of instruction by which young
ladies are qualified for employment in tele.
| graph offices. If ladies oust young men now
filling the position of operators it will test
the ability of women to keep secrets.
General Kelly, the Western Virginia of
fcer, has been recently relieved of the ball
in his shoulder, from which he has been suf
feling at Grafton ever since the affair al
Philippi.
General Scott can never more take the
field. He can not mount horse, he can
scarcely ride in a carriage, but his mind is
clear and vigorous, and his opinions are
eagerly sought for. Still in his ashes glow
their wonted fires.
Major Tanner, who, it may be remembered
spoke for Indiana, at Pixies Opera-house,
when Ohio received her visitors from Ken
lucky and Tennessee, was seriously wounded
in an affair where friends were mistaken for
enemies, and lies in hazardous condition al
Jefferson City, Mo.
The New York dailies protest against the
refusal of the Postoffice Department to re-
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calls for a modification OF the order, and that
faith be kept with public creditors, even in
so small matter as three-cent piece.
The Students and Literary Societies o.
Kenyon College, also the citizens of Column
bus, have in public meetings passed sorrow
resolutions in reference to the decease o.
Lorin Andrews, late President Of that Col.
lege, and a popular Colonel of Volunteers.
Past Grand Masters of Masons in the sew.
eral States are called to meet in Louisville
Ky, on the third Tuesday of October next
to consult "upon the most feasible plan of q
fraternal and honorable adjustment" of the
present difficulties in our country.
When the rebels seized the railroad al
Bowling Green, KY, they obtained sixteen O.
the thirty. eight locomotives belonging to the
road. twenty-five remaining ones were al
the Louisville end of the track.
The Mayor of Leavenworth, Kansas, hal
issued proclamation calling upon all citi'
Zens to close theif places of business at four p
NJ, for drill. IOne company is to be armed
with double barrel shot guns.
The First Indiana Regiment has routed {
rebel camp NEAR Pilot Knob, and a forcl
under Adjutant Godfrey killed twenty-seveI
rebels in skirmish in Brook6eld County
Missouri, last week.
The Government shipped on Friday, from
Indianapolis to Padueah, for the use of tn,
Eleventh and Twelfth Indiana regiments
ono hundred and sixty-three thousand round
of cartridges, two million percussion caps AMI