Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A WAsHINoroN correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Commercial ssys;
There being much discussion as to the failure
of our army TO pursue the retreating rebels
after the battle OF Antetam, am able to state,
upon reliable authority, that In not following
them, General Mcclellan acted under positive
orders.
GENERAL LEWIS CAss entered upon his eighty
first year on the 9ih inst.
FiTrY.NiNE men are all that remain Of the
Second Wisconsin regiment, that left the State
but little over year ago nearly eleven hun
dred strong.
The Richmond Wing demands that Rich
mond be released from martial law, and the
Provost Marshal dismissed, on the ground
that there is no longer any necessity TOR
either.
LATE Richmond papers announce that Judge
Of The Georgia Supreme Court has decided the
Confederate Conscriptisn act unconstitutional,
aud declared oil its provisions and require
men,s void, and the conscrpis illegally restrain
ed Of their liberty.
The United States sloop. ot-war Jamesto"n is
under sailing orders for the East India station.
She will sail from Phiialelphia during the pres
ent week.
The New York authorities have decided that
the draft 10 that State could not take place on
the lO.h inst, as the enrolment is not COM
pleted, abd no Commission era to hear claims OF
exemption, or to euperinteud the drawing, have
yet been appointed.
GEN SlDLEY, who is after 'he indians 10 Min
neso.a, writes from mouth OF Crow Wing river,
September 90, that be lad met patty OF FREUD
ly Indians who we're bringing back nineIy-one
white prisoners, mostly sOuog women, whom
they bad rescued from Little CroW's party On
the 23i there was fight OF Wood Lake, in
which tie Indians we're defeated.
The following is on extract. from General
Order No. l35, issued by the War Department
"By direction OF the Ptesident, the States Of
Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, ard the bordering
Indian Territory, will constitute the Depart
ment of the Missouri, and will be commanded
BY Major-G eneIal S. R. Curtis Headquarters
at St, LonIs Alton, Illinois, Is attached to the
Department OF the Missouri
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE occurred in Syracuse, New
York, on the morning Of the 65h ins. A mum.
ber OF stores aud offices we're burned. The
loss was over Que hundred thousand aollars.
The Baltimore American ooup plains that pris
ouers on the eve Of departure for Fortress Mon-
roe to be exchanged. are frat fitted out 10 that
city with everything necessary 10 their comfort,
aud drs-snter the rebel army completely equipped
80 far as clothing can do it-for service the
coming winter In the rebel camps. Baltimore
Is thus made the depot for rebel supplies, to q
considerable extent,
THERE were one hundred and seventeen deaths
10 New Orleans during the week ending on the
2lst uls and one of the persons deceased was
one hundred and seventeen years old.
MEwrOsIA, from which place Gea, SeHonELD
dispersed q rebel army Of fifteen thousand
day or Two ago, in Newton county. the weet
county but one from the Arkansas bordes, 10
the southwest corner Of Missouri. 1t is email
post town on the road from Mount Vernon to
Neosho, and eleven miles east Of the latter
place
MasE, it appears. has not flied both quotas
by volunteering. Al least i've thousand men
were drafted, bat they wcrO permitted to vol
unteer and receive bounty.
ACCORDING to an official report just published,
Massachusetts, is stll nineteen thousand and
eighty short. although fully half of those re-
crulted were for only nine months. Boston is
three or four thousand behind it's quota, and
the city bounty, which is additional to the State
bounty, has been raised to two hundred dollars.
A MERCHANT of New York who has spen.
about two years in Savannah, Ca, and left
there about two weeks ago, says:
The population of the town, usually about |
twenty-five thousand, Is now les, than fifteen
thousand, and business almost OF q atand. .stiIl,
TWO out Of Eve stores being closed. The block
,de is almost perfect, boots being $50 pair,
and $40 Is charged for footing old once. Tea is
worth $40, and coffee IS cents pound. Flour
o worth $42 barrel, with limited supply on
hand, ss the wheat cfop Of that region has
proved almost failure. Corn is, however,
abundant at fifty cents bushel.
The same gentleman says that She second
'onscription Of men between the ages Of thirty
i've and forty FIVE will add about one-third to
be fighting force Of the Confederscy.