Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-07-07
southern Items.

In the Seeded States:
AFFAIRS AT PORTSMOUTH, VA.
A letter dated Portsmouth, June 81, says:
i At two O'Clock yesterday, the sioop OF war
Germantown was successfully raised The
damages to this fine vessel are, 1t is said, much
less than to either the Merrimac or the Plym-
outh. Since these three ships adorn the sur
face Of the river, matters begin to look very
much as in the days of yore. The brig Dol
phin is still under water. II 10 not yet ascer.
tained with precision what the repairs will cost,
or the length Of time requisite to effect them;
but employees Of government intimate that
both the Germantown and Plymouth will be In
readiness for service all too soon for those who
sought to destroy them
len large guns were recovered from the
river yesterday, part of the battery Of the Ger
mantown. They were perfect, though little
rusty. rtf.r
| For q week past, nothing Of special interest
has been reported by the Virginia lookouts
at CAPE Henry beach. The blockaders have
overhauled several small vessels and taken
them into Old Point; other ships approaching
the fort are ordered to head away, and others,
again, are appropriated for transportation pur-
poses.
HOSPITALS FOR THE SICK.
| The Culpeper Court House has been selected
for the location Of the division hospital of the
Alexandra department. e. B. Hills farm,
Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church, Court
House, F. G. Rixey's house, Piedmont Institute,
and X. s. Jeffries' shop, are used for hospital
purposes. Some 300 disabled soldiers are now
In hospital receiving attention.
DEMAND FOR vIRGINIAN TOBACCO.
Tobacco is going up higher every day. Mr..
Luel, the agent Of the Messrs. Huffer & Co.,
who are the French contractors, is now In Rich.
mond experimenting the purchase of tobacco
for the French Empire, and this, of itself, Is
sufficient to give great stimulus to trade. We
may. state that tobacco ranged higher on
Wednesday and Thursday than at any time this
year, and as high as at any time last 1t
ranged in prices on Wednesday from So 5O TO
$40 so.
THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION
In the Virginia Convention, on Thursday
last, an ordinance was passed providing that
the acceptance or holding of Office by any cih.
zen of Virginia under the Federal Government
Of the old United States, after the first day Of
next August, shall be evidence Of treason to
the State, except in cases of officers out of the
United States, who shall have until July lst,
1862.
| resolution was also adopted on the same
day determining that when the Convention
shall have made suitable arrangements for the
election of members of Congress and for the
choice of President and Vice President, and
disposed Of other measures of public necessity,
1t will adjourn to meet on the second Wednes-
day of November next, to consider the amend
ments to the Constitution, and such other mat
ters as may be required by the public interests.
ARREST ON SUSPICION.
Mr.. E. H. Craige, agent of Messrs. Wheeler
| d Wilson, of New York, was arrested at Rich
mond on Thursday last on the charge of being q
suspicious person. He was committed for an
examination the next day.
THE ATTACK ON THE CONFEDERATE STEAMER
The Savannah N,aos of the Gath ult. gives
the following account of the firing into the
Confederate steamer Huntress by 2 U. s. wal
vessel:
The Confederate steamer Huntress, Capt
N. Mafltt, arrived yesterday afternoon from ar
engineering trip up North and East On Sat
urday Col. Traper decided on all his points oi
defense, and at 10 O'Clock P. NJ. Saturday tn,
Huntress was anchored by Captain Mafitt a
the northwest entrance Of Calabogs Sound
After an inspection, early on Sunday morning
Capt. Mafitt ordered the Huntress to be pu
across the Sound. When abreast of Stoddard'l
man-of-war was seen of the harbor. Capt
M. headed for the intruder, and we ran within
long range, when the gentleman opened with
his ll-inch guns. His fires were direct, bu
his fuses were too short. Having taken care
fal look, and stood FIVE heavy shells, Captain
Mafitt returned, vowing that on the next o,ca
sion he'll give Capt. Goldsburgh as much as ht
sends. The Huntress was unsrmed.
AFFAIRS LoUIsIANA.
From letter dated Baton Rouge, June I5, W,
take the following:
Our crops are teeming with promise. Louis
lana can spare one-hslf Of her corn crop. M
one can account for it-but, with the exception
of pork, and other products of the swine, every
article Of food is cheaper than for years past.
This little city, with FIVE hundred voters, hat
sent over five hundred men-two hundred OF
whom, the Baton Rouge Fencibles and Creole
Guards-are now in Virginia, the remainder in
Arkansas and Mississippi Our little Creole
neighbor, West Baton Rouge, has sent near two
hundred Of her three hundred and fifty planters
leaving eight thousand negroes to mako the
crops.
THE CONFEDERATE LINES CLOSED.
The Richmond papers of Thursday contain
the following order from Gen. Beauregard for.
bidding any person hereafter TO enter his lines;
Manassas Junction, June 25, 1861.
On and after Sunday, the 3Oth inst, no per.
son whatsoever. with or without passports lex.
cept from the War Department., will be per.
mitted to enter the lines occupied by the army
of the Potomac with the intention to pass
thence or thereafter into the United States or
the lines Of the enemy.
BRio. GEN. BEAuREokRD.
THos. JORDAN, A. A. Adjt. Gen.
EPISCOPAL ACTION.
The Diocesan Convention of the Protestant
| Episcopal Church of South Carolina last week
passed unanimously preamble and resolutions
approving the secession Of the Southern Church,
which the people of the North have forced up
on US. 'i.
THE LATE INDIANA VICTORY.
HAoRRsrowN, June 3O.-The following dis
patch is officials
'fa HEADouARTERs DIRT OF PENNA,l
Hsgerstown, June 30.
General Order No. 29.-The Commanding
General has the satisfaction 10 announce to the
troops q second victory over the insurgents by
small party Of Indiana volunteers under Col.
Wallace, on the 26th inst. Thirteen mounted
men attached to the regiment attacked forty -one
insurgents, killing eight, and chasing the rest
two miles. On their return, with seventeen
captured horses, they were attacked by seventy
sition, which they held till dark, when they re.
turned to the camp, with the loss of one man
killed and one wounded. In the last skirmish,
a captain, two lieutenants, and q large number
were wounded.
The Commanding General desires to bring
10 the attention of the officers and men Of his
com nand the courare and conduot with whioh