Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-26
mlsoELLANEoUs NEWS.

THE rebel force at Fredericksburg Is aaid TO
be twenty thousand. II is under the command
Of General Longssreet.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has thuafar
made l54 appointments of physicians to ex-
anime applicants for pensions. About 1000 In
oil will be appointed.
GENERAL PATTERSON, Of Philadelphia, Ia dead.
His death was caused by the accidental dis
charge Of pistol.
CHARLEs ]. JENKINS, Of Ca, has been chosen
Senator to the rebel Congress. He eis the Jadge
who, 10 opposition to another Judge OF the same
State, sustained the constitutionality OF the
Conacript law.
GENERAL PorE is to take the command Of the
Army of the West, at st. Louis, relieving Gen.
Curtis Of the command.
The total expense Of the draft 10 Indiana is
said to be seventy-two thousand dollars, being
an average of seven hundred and fifty dollars
TO each county. The general Government foots
the bill.
The Boston Post thinks it singular that,
while al kinds of printing and writing paper
should be going up in price, Chaee's green
back paper should be depr recisliug,
In the United States Supreme Court, at
Washington, the black silk robes are abolish
cd, the new members being averse to them, and
the mex. session the Judges will cit in simple
broadcloth.
| "InTELLeENr contrabands" are focking to
she army at fredericksburg and Port Royal
and giving the enemy's plans 10 detail--
Something, We are assured, will be done short
y.
ANEw ORLEANS correspondent Of the New
York Erprsss writes that Gen Butler has cent
the three remaining Episcopal clergymen OF
that city to durance vile-two to Fort Laiay
cite, and one 10 Fort Pickens--for emitting the
prayers for the President.
The United States Court In Westmoreland
county, Pennsylvanis, has made decision
which is of interest to q numerous class
James Anderson, who became forty five years
old subsequent to the enrolment, wss drafted
and before he was sworn into the service
claimed exemption on the ground of age. His
plea was held to be valid.
A REBEL paper states that one hundred aud
sixty officers and men Of the 54th PennsylvaDia
regiment are being held as hostages at Rich
mond for the safe return Of number OF Con-
federates held by the enemy, because they be-
lopged to partisan ranger corps.
AN insurance company against tornadoes has
been started in Ffeepor., Illinois. The Repub
lcan party would do we'll to take some stock In
that concern in view Of what ia likely to hap
pen to them In the coming national elections.
A. c. SANDS, United States Marshal, who has
Just returned to Cincinnati from the battlefield
of Perryville, reports that numbers OF the bod
les of the rebel soldiery still lie exposed there
They we're buried 10 such shallow graves that
the rains have uncovered them and the swine
are now making meals Of many Of them.
The receipts Of revenue stamps at the Office
of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for
the week ending November 2lat, amounted to
more than $9,3OO.OOO. The Collector of the
San Francisco distric. reports as his total re-
csipts for the month Of October nearly ninety
Thousand dollars, Of which over thirty Eve hun
dred accrued to him as Commissioner.
GOVERNOR PloKENs, Of South Carolina, has
issued proclamation in reference to the mill
tsry defense Of that State, in which he says
that he trusts every man will be prepared forth"
with to guard and protect the helpless and in
nocent from the consequences which their bru-
tai enemies seem determined to inaugurate on
or before the lst Of January He urges all the
males between the ages Of sixteen and sixty
FIVE to enroll themselves, and orders that oil
persons, whether commissioned officers Of the
United States or not, who shall be caught at
tempting to produce disturbance among the
slaves shall be handed over to the State author
tiles to be dealt with as felons.