Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-10-10


dred cavalry were reviewed to day. A reb,
mall carrier. was arrested to-day in one of th
Potomac counties. A large number Of letter
were seized. Three of our surgeons release
from Richmond, arrived here.
The Government, which has had control q
the Washington branch of the Baltimore an
Ohio Railroad, have restored 1t to the control 0
the company.
The report of a large rebel force, dispatche,
from thePotomac army westward, +, Is unfounded
Detachments from the Sickles brigade, whicl
have been securing lower Maryland, report thu
dominant sentiment as violently rebellous
Not more than three Union flags were seen.
Gen. Scott's order, issued Tuesday evening
for the release Of Col. Blair, is not yet carried
into effect. He is still confined in the barraek
at ST. Louis.
G. w. Cole, type founder, formerly Of Brook
yn, lately Of Richmond, left the latter city two
weeks since, under JEFF. DAvis's proclamation
ordering off Foreigners, and has arrived here
He left seven thousand troops ia Richmond, but
only three guns mounted Three or four hun
dred negroes were building numerous forts.
Twenty one hospitals were full. Out OF FloYi-
da Regiment, Gne thousand one hundred strong,
only three hundred and twenty answered at roll
call.
There are no regular mails to and from Bal
timore, New York and other places north.
Three hundred pounds of agate type had tjust
arrived from the North aud passed as stereotype
plates fIom the Methodist Book Concern.
J. II. Lester, a native of Connecticut, recent
ly citizen OF Brooklyn, one Sloat, and other
Northerners, were engaged in altering four
hundred muskets week, and manufacturing
sewing machines.
A number of internal machines had been
placed on the James river. There is q company
manufacturing them in Richmond.
Joseph E Streeter has been appointed Asso-
ciste Judge of the Superior Court of Nebras.
ka.
Doctors Hamiston and Swain, of the I4!h
Brooklyn regiment, who were taken prisoners
at Bull Kun, arrived here this evening via Fort
Monroe, from Richmond They we're released
on parole, aud came with the ffty-seven wound
ed prisoners. They give most deplorable &C.
count OF the condition of our wounded, and the
manner they have been treated by the rebels.
According to their account, our prisoners have
suffered the torments OF the damned, and the
wonder is that any OF them are now alive. IL
now appears that the ffty-seven wounded whom
they released, were cases the rebel doctors could
not cure, aud therefore were permitted to return
nome The rebel government had learned
something regarding the probable expedition
south, and it produced the greatest excitement
throughout the Cult aud Cotton S q e., Il was
believed that vast numbers of the troops now
In Virginia would be called to the respective
states where these attacks we're apprehended,
Ihefe was great scarcity of provisions and
also Of medicines. Our wounded frequently
had to go without In many critical cases. Tea,
coffee and sugar were almost impossible to pro.
,ure for love or money.
The question of successor to Jeff Davis
was being agitited throughout the South, and
general belief wac that Alex. Stephens would
Dc agreed upan. The feeble state of Davis's
health was used rs an argument against him.
ln the event, however, OF a permanent restora-
lion 1t is the Intention of the rebel government
10 make him Lieutenant General.
The heavy rains OF the last twenty-four hours
have swollen the river to such an extent as TO
preclude its passage by the rebel force. IL can
now be crossed only by the bridges, all which
are IN possession of'our army.
The official record of charges against Fre
mont have not yet reached adquarters, and
the case remains In stitu QUO. r
On Saturday last, by order of the Commis.
sioner, Lieut. Cashier U. s. ~, with detach-
ment OF ten men, accompanied by two detective
officers, proceeded 10 Sc. Mary's river on the
icob Bell, and on Sunday arrested John Thonl
as Traverse, of st. Mary's county, who was
charged with aiding the transportation of men
and provisions from the secessieniits in Mary
land 10 the rebels in Virginia. While on the
expedition landing was made at Great Mills,
eleven miles from Piney Point, and fifteen miles
from LeonardioWn, rendezvous of St. Mary's
county rebels, the mails were seized, as well as
the mail just arrived from Baltimote. The
Postmaster stated that there was q number of
letters in the mail from Virginia. The party
arrived here to night, coming up the river this
morning. No signs of rebels in camp or bat
teres were discoYerable at Matthias Point
At Evansport, ct the mouth of the Quontice,
camp fires Of the rebels we're seen three miles
along the shore.