Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-16

| and II naval officers. The total number ef
exchanges to be oftset by the delivery OF rebel
prisoners at Vicksburg is lO.a6s.
The Paris correspondent Of the London Ianss
states that report Is current in political circles
that the British Government Is no longer so en-
tirsly averse to the recognition Of the Southern
Confederacy as 1t has heretofore been, and that
there 10 probability of the question soon be-
coming the subject Of deliboration In Ministe-
rial councils.
EMiNENT men, Of almost every European
nation. assembled at the Social Science Con-
vention at Brussels, are said to have signed an
address to President Lincoln In favor of truce
preliminary to negotiations for peace.
The marriage of the King Of Portugal with
Princess Pis, by proxy, was celebrated on tho
2sth of September with great rejoicing.
The U. 8. s,eam.frigate st. Louis is reported
to have left Lisbon, supposed in search Of the
rebel steamer Alabama, or 1890" before re-
ported to be destroying American whaling ves-
sols of the Azores. The reports OF her depre-
dations are fully confirmed by an arrival in
England.
IT is said to be the expectation in France that
the French troops will be in possession of the
city of Mexico by the first Of November.
The Philadelphia Ledger of the llth inst 4,
has the following, iu regard to General McClel-
lan's recent flying visit to that city:
Msjor.G Gen. Mcclellan arrived In this city on
Thur0dGy night, in company with bis father.in-
law, Gen. Marcy, having, it'is said, come here
on urgent private business. He met Mrs. Nc
Clellan 10 this city, she having come on to see
him, bringing her infant daughter with her
The General left for his headquarters, on the
Potomac, yesterday morning. At the depot,
Broad and Washington streets, he Was recog-
nized, and in q few minutes q crowd bad gath
cred, anxious to eec him, When no had taken
bis seat in the car, cheer after cheer was Civ
en-. Upon leaving bis brothers. house, short
time previously, he was noticed by the work.
men Of neighboriDg establishment aud heart
lily checred. The General was plainly dressed,
and the only thing to mark him as military
man was his cap.
The rebel General Anderson was decisively
defeated about fifteen miles from Nashville, on
the 7th, BY the national forces under General
Palmer and Colonel Miller. OF his three thous-
and five hundred men FIVE hundred were taken
prisoners and large amount OF stores aud arms
captured besides.
DEPATcHEs from Minnesota soy that the
principal band of the Sioux have surrendered
to General Sibley, and the others are in flight.
General Sibley has two thousand red skin pris-
oDers. The war ia considered at an end.
OVER two thousand able bodied black refu-
gees, says Washington dispatch, are employ.
ed in the Quartermasters Department there,
aud upon the defenses of the Capital, at re-
duced wages, and the amount saved on the
difference between their pay and that Of white
laborers is much more than sufficient to support
the five or elk hundred colored women and
children in Government quarters. Thus, in the
Capital of the Nation, negroes are throwing
white laborers out OF employment by working
at reduced wages. Such is the economy of the
present AboltiOnized Administration.
A LOUISVILLE dispatch Of the l4th inst. says:
Gen. JEFF. c. Davis to-day received an order
from the War Department, releasing him from
the arrest under which he has hitherto been
confined since killing Nelson, and In military
phrase "enlarging his limits" There are good
reasons for believing that Gen. Davis will be at
the head OF hia command in the field again be
fore long. He appeared on the streets this af-
ternoon for the frat time since Nelson'e death.
ANOTHER hippopotamus was born last month
at the Jd,din dss Plantes, in Paris, but, like oil
other infant hippopotomi born in captivity
there, it died immediately.
The everlasting Forrest divorce case is again |
before the New York courts. II commenced
fourteen years ago, and the costs alone alrerdy
exceed $40 600.
THos. ], TowNsEND, Surveyor-General for
Wisconsin and Iowa, died at his residence in |
Dubuque on the 7th inst. Mr.. Townsend was |
an old resident of Wisconsin--has been a mem
Der Of the Assembly, was at one time State
Emigrant Agent, and has always been prom
inent, active and efficient man.
The Minister at Washington from Nicaragua
the other day officially communicated to the
Government paper issued by the President of
bis State, whose object in the main is to pre-
vent the iDgress of free negroes. One para
graph states, "Neither are freed negroes, or
other degraded and cast-Off people, unless they
have special permission for themselves, on
account of others, to 60 into the Interior
Fourth, that in case of coming with design to
,olonize, they must have a permit from the
ratified by the Chambers, and |
must in no wise be under the protection of an
,ther Government