Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-09-03
rTIscolIanoous News

Tax number Of men who have gone from
Chicago, since the beginning of the war, 1t Il
said, cannot be less than FIVE thousand, and
probably exceeds that number. Yet the in
crease OF names in the directory for the present
year shove a gain of three thousand six hund'
red and forty. If the war continues long en-
ough, remarks au exchange, Chicago will be
come prosperous city. From all we can see
at present, the prospect is that the war will last
long enough to give her fair chance.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the N. Y. Post, after an
interview with Gov. ANDREW, of Msssachu-
sets, writes:
Like almost every official in whom Is invest.
ed the painful privilege Of dispensing place and
power, the Governor has nervous fdgety way
with bin; something like Fly buzzlng against
a window pane, who tries to get out, moment
ariy expecting to be traus6Xed by the pin OF
some heariless urchin.
The Boston Post adds that 1t is proposed to
opeu window for tho Governor this fall
IT Is illegal to sell the postage stamp curren-
cy for more than the face Of 1t.
OsE Of the chaps at New Fsirhaven, c., who
cut of fuger to escape the draft, has died oil
the lockjaw.
A LITTER from Montreal, Canada, says that
the number of persons who came there to es
cape the CONSUMPTION In the United States has
been very much overrated, the number not ex-
ceedine FIVE hundred men in all
Two establishments in Austria employ six
thousand work.peOple in the manufacture OF
lucfer matches. The annual production is
fof,y-four millions of matches. One OF these
concerns Ia in Vienna ard the other in Bohe-
mia.
THERE Ia deficient crop in oil parts Of Rus
sia. Even the hay harvest has failed, and the
landed proprietOrs are already offering their
cattle for sale.
The rebels have recovered their old ground
in Virginia, and have resped an immense har-
vest In arms, ammunition, equipments and sup
plies, and the two armies in Virginia are in al.
most precisely the same position they were one
year ago!
IT is said that a contractor for guns for the
English Government is making three quarters
OF million dollars year clear profit. This,
says Republican paper, almost equals CAME
RON.
IRELAND has been called q pauper country;
but it does not now deserve the title as much as
England herself. The Journal of the Statisti-
cal Society of London gives the following com.
parative statement of the paupers of the three
kingdoms for 1860:
England and Wales. .s9267l or AZ per cent.
scotland 624 or 40 per cent.
Ireland observation-disclosures, 95, $50 or LIS per cent.
CoNTRABLnDs are focking to Washington in
great numbers-in wagons, on horseback, and
on foo. About half the number are little
children Most OF the rest are women and old
men.
GENERAL TUTTLE, commanding at Cairo, ad-
dressed dispatch to the War Department. on
;he 29th ult stating that a large number Of
negroes had arrived at the; point from General
CUsTIs's army; that they would starve unless
somebody fed chem; aud asking what should
,e done in the matter Secretary STANTON, in
epIy, directed Gen. T0TTLr to Issue the neces-
ary supplies for these negroes, and to put them
o work, such Of them as are capable.