Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-28

| The bill TO secure 10 the officers and men &C
tually employed in the Western Department,
Departments Of Missouri their pay, bounty ami
pensions, ID now Jaw. -
News has been received at tho Navy Depart
ment confirming tho statement that the Morri
mac is again ready for sea. Lieut.. Jeffries ol
the Monitor sent word ny this morning to Capt
DahlgreD, that he had no fears Of the result Of
the next contest.
The House Of Representatives will strike of
the tariff on liquors manufactured previous 10
May lst.
The committee Of Ways aud Means agree
TO modify the taxes on leather made from hides
imported from the east Of the~Cape Of Good
Hope, and on all damaged Leather, to q half
cent per pound. All other hemlock, sole
and rough leather is to pay three.fourths Of q
cent per pound. All leather tanned In part or
In whole with oak to pay one cent.
The Republican to-day has positive infotma-
tion thar the Democratic caucus night before
last agreed to oppose the President's emancl-
p tion plan, and favor McClellsns war policy,
which Is for a war short and desperate, and for
our glorious Union as whole. This Ia EN-
phatically Mr.. Lincoln's war policy. l.
AS soon as the bill making appropriations FOR
the navy comes up In the Senate, amendment.
will be adopted to complete the Stevens battery
and for the construction Of a.. number OF iron
clad vessels Of war.
Secretary Welles is asklng Congress for
thirty million dollars to make ironclad shipS
and heavy ordnance.
Gen. Abram DuryeA has arrived here from
baltimore, and will act under orders OF the
Military Governor, Gen. WadsWor.h. l
The Senate to day confirmed the nomination
OF LeWis s. Ely, Of California, as Coneul at
Acapulco. lit ..
The bill reported by Senator Pearce to-day,
from the committee on Finance, provides that
the authority given to the Secretary of the
Treasury to refund and remit the duties and
impostS on all arms imported into. the United
States BY or for the account OF any State, shall
extend only TO arms for which orders or CON
tracts were made prior to January lst, l662t
provided, the Secretary shall have satisfactory
proof exhibited to him that the arms were actu.
ally purchased in foreign country for the ac-
count Of State, and that the price paid for
the same wac only the fret coat, and the usual
and customary charges attending the purchase
OF the same, exclusive Of duties.
The attempts that are made to connect the
present supervision of the telegraph with the
censorship lately reported upon BY committee
OF Congress, render IL proper to state that the
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theSeoretary Of War on taking military pos
session of the telegraph, and military super
vision of the telegraphs throughout the United
States established. The duty Of the supervisor
Is to prevent the trAusmission by telegraph Of
information concerning late, present or contem.
plated movements OF the srmies of the United
States, and alEether information which is OF
military character, that ought to be concealed
from the enemy. In oil that relates 10 political
or private affairs, the telegraph is as completely
unobstruc!ed as 1t was before the commence
ment Of the war.
Hon, Emerson Elheridge wrote q lettes from
Nashville, stating that w, II. Polk, brother of
the late President Polk, is In Nashville. and
that Hon. W. II. Stokes 10 shortly expected
both strong Unionisls, and will cooperate with
Gov. johnson in putting tbe State Government
in operation, -.-
The following dispatch was received this
afternoon from Cherry Stone, Va via Fortrese
Monroe: There was q reconnaissance this
morning to Big Bethel, which was occupied by
fifteen hnn0red rebels, who fed at our ap-
proach. We now occupy the place. ~
The surgeons Of regiments engaged at Win.
chester have not reported the list Of killed as
yet II will be forwarded coon as received -
Eight wagon loads OF the enemy's dead were
carried into Strasburg on Monday. II is be-
lieved the enemy's killed and wounded amount
ed to one thousand s.