Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-01-04

was made to burn the bridge across Pettet's
Creek, on the State road, ~ miles above Car
tersville, on Monday night, the 23d inst, by
man-Whose name we did not learn--from East
Tennessee. He had been about there several
days, and had excited considerable suspicion
80 much 20 that be was watched. They saw
him pour alcohol on the bridge, and was in the
act Of Getting fire to it when caught He had
lit a match for that purpose. He owned up,
and was hung on Tuesday in Csssville. 7
THE ARKANsAs coNsPIRAToRs. e.
We learn from the Little Rock Journal OF
the 18th Dec, that the 78 prisoners, whose ar.
rest In Scarey county We have noticed, were
brought before the Military Board, and after an
investigation were all released They protest
ed their devotion to the Confederacy, and claim
ed that the organization contemplated no more
criminal intent than to insure them against the
hostilities Of on invading army. The leaders,
Il was evident, contemplated criminal ulteIior
designs, but their followers were in the dark as
to what was proposed. They forthwith formed
themselves into q company, elected their off,
GERS from those who had arrested and escorted
them as guard from their native county, and
we're sworn into the service Of the Confederate
States "for and during the war;" The Journal
says that the scene which followed their re-
lease, the touching remarks of the Governor,
and their solemn enlistment into the Confeder-
ate service, was very affectionate and i'm
pressive one.
SECRET ORGANIZATION IN TENNESSEE
We copy the following from the Memphis
AuaIaneke Of the 18th ult.: .s.|
Lieut., Flynne, just from Knoxville, commu.
nicates TO us some interesting intelligence. 1t
has been ascertained that q secret sworn or
ganizatlon Of Union traitors exists in East Ten
nessee, which is extended throughout that Sec
ton. II Is, doubtless, similar TO that which has
been discovered In Northern Arkansas. Some
of the bridge burners who have been hung, sig-
ni6ed before their execution that they had been
detailed by this secret organization to burn the
bridges, under penalty Of death. They said
that they were doomed to die by the hands of
their associates, IL they refused to perform the
task to which they were assigned by lot, and
therefore, having made up their minds to suffer
the death penalty, were Indifferent to their fate
DEAD LOCK-.
The Legislature Of Florida is at q dead lock
on the Senatorial question. We learn from the
Tallahassee NsDs of Dec. 5th that that body
meets in joint convention every afternoon, and
ballots from three to five times, but are now,
after several days trial, apparently as far from
an election as they were on the first ballot.
POSTAGE sTAMPs AND TREASURY NoTEs
While the postage stamps now In use have an
swered their purpose very well, and have re.
lieved the community of q serious inconveni-
ence, Il is desirable to have them engraved in
such style as to defy any attempt at Imitation.
We are therefore gratihed to learn that q con.
tract has been made by the Postmaster General
with an accomplished steel engraver, who has
located in this city, by which the public will
soon be supplied with stamps of different de-
nominations, executed In the best style of art.
They will bear the likenesses Of different
statesmen of the South, and thus each denomi-
nation will be readily distinguished from the
other. The same engraver is preparing the
plates for. q new issue Of Confederate Treasury
notes, to be printed on fine paper, which will
supply the place Of those now in circulation
Richmond Dispatch, 2Sh.
ooNoREssMAN ELY AT THE PASSPORT OFFICE.
When Mr.. Ely Exchanged for Mr.. Faulk.
ner) called at the Office for his passport, O
hearty laugh occurred over the brown paper on
which II was printed, and which had been con-
tracted for by the superintendent of public
printing. He asked If It was Southern manu-
facture. The passport officer replied in the
affirmative, and suggested that he should exhibit
the specimen in the North, and say that al
thocgh crude In its origin we would refine upon
1t, and never cease striving for Independence
until we could make as good paper as the
Yankees. The Yankee M. C. said he had no
doubt we would arrive at the dignity of white
paper.-RiehmoHd Dispatch, Dec. %. +s
STRAY CUR in THE FEDERAL KENNEL.
We take pleasure in announcing that the
claim of "Mr. Foster of North Carolina" 10 q
seat in the Federal House of Representatives
has been rejected by that incompatible body of
Yankee sneaks and negro stealers. The North
ern papers inform US that IL is regarded as
just rebuke of an attempt to gain seat by tax
ing advantage Of the peculiar condition Of pub,
lie affairs, without having been chosen by any
number of citizens anywhere to represent
them" This is q plain instance Of Satan re.
buking sin; but i hits the nail on the head,
nevertheless. = Richmond Dispatch, Dec. %. q.
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