Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-05-16
Fton, WaehInrtOll. .

NEW YoRK, May H---The Tribune's Wash
ington dispatch says: The French Minister he
received intelligence from his Consul at Rich
mond, TO the effect that the rebel G0vernmen
had notified him that should 10 be necessary Il
oyaouate the city the French tobacco must b,
destroyed with the rest AT the same time th,
rebels offer 10 pay for it-a proposition not mucl
relished by the Frenchmen.
The French Minister discredits the rumors Of
European Intervention In our affairs, and 1t IL
generally thought here that whatever purposes
may have been entertained by EDgland and
France, the news from New Orleans will cause
their indefinite postponement.
The eight hundred and eighty-fve prisoners
recently released from Richmond prisons, will
arrive here by way Of the Potomac tomorrow.
A few who came through Baltimore arrived TO-
day. They say the rebels are as determined as
ever, and believe that after the two great i'm.
pending battles they will, II whipped bad, herd
together In small guerrilla parties, and fight to
the very last. They represent the treatment Of
our prisoners as barbarous In the extreme; that
our officers, who alone remain in the prisons,
all the privRtes being set free, will not be re-
leased 1T all. Colonel Corcoran's health is
good; he Is anxious TO be released, and contra
diets the statement made some time since that
he said he would prefer remaining where he is,
believing that he could be Of more service there,
and adds that the only way In which he wishes
to serve his country Is on the battlefield. Col.
Bowman's health 10 failing rapidly, and his eye
sight nearly lost. He can survive his present
treatment but few weeks longer. His long
confinement has affected his mind 80 much
that he is at times looked upon as insane.
The rebels offered every inducement 10 pris
oners to join their army, but only two have done
80, namely, John A. Wicks, Quartermaster Of
the Congress, and a private Of the Seventh
Ohio, named Wilson. As soon as it became
known TO the prisoners that Wilson intended to
desert them, they proceeded to hang him. The
guard, however, entered in time TO cut him
down before lie was extinct. In punishment
OF this act, tho prisoners were put upon bread
and water for ten days
The House committee on foreign affairs hav-
ing authorized Mr.. Gooch to report the Senate
bill establishing diplomatic relations with Haytl
and Liberia, 1t will doubtless be pressed TO
vote at an early day.
The Herald's dispatch says The steamer
Kennebec arrived here this afternoon, with two
hundred and thirteen wounded rebels and twen-
ty-four wounded Union soldiers, from Williams
burg. Among the latter Is Colonel Dwight
His wounds are less dangerous than OF first
supposed. The rebels receive precisely the
same treatment as our wounded, and are sent
to the same hospitals.
The report that Gen. Mccall had resigned
the command Of the Pennsylvania reserve corps,
is unfounded. He has no intention to reSign
until the army of the Union has accomplished
it's mission-to suppress the rebellion.
Tho Times dispatch says: Gen. Sprague
says our losses at Williamsburg, in killed,
wounded and missing, will amount 70 about
Two thousand, and that the rebel loss was not
less, He says the battle at West Point, under
franklin was much seVerer than reported; that
1t least five hundred OF our men were taken
the enemy taking advantage of the
andiDg Of our troops. The gunboats came up
IN good time, and saved Franklin from suffer-
ing severe disaster.
Gen Burnside has very quietly put an extin- |
Suisher on G, H. Foster, the gentleman who has
ong been trying to get recognized as q member
,f Congress from North Carolina. He adVer-
'lsed himself to address the citizens of New
bern few evenings since, thing which, aa
zen. Burnside put II, he thought would be very
oolish for him to do, or the General to permit. |
The military Governor appointed by the Presi
lent was to shape the policy of the government
n the State, and he could not permit anything |
% be done which might hereafter prove to be a |
ource of embarrassment.
WASHINGTON, May l5.-In addition to the |
steamers Hero and Kent, which brought hither
he released Union prisoners last night, the Ken
lebec hos arrived with upward of four hundred |
md fifty wounded rebels from williamsburg
The steamer State of Maine has also arrived |
yith about three hundred and thirty the ]. P. |
Warner, with four hundred, and the Elm City, |
With four hundIed and fifty sick and wounded
prisoners from different Union regiments. They
ire being removed to the various hospitals to-
lay.