Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-05
mYscELLANEOUs NEWS.

IT IL understood that the Government Will
order a different and much better wearing pa
per for the postal currency, as that now 10 use
Is found to be unsuitable
AprLrs are among the few things that arc
plenty and cheap. They ore selling in Albany
N. Y, as 6s@lO0c per barrel, the outside hg-
ure for the best qualities.
The decision Of the Court OF Inquiry in Gen.
Marsindale's case has been placed On file In the
Adiutan.. G eneral's Office, and is to the effect
that the charges Of Gen. Porter are not only
not proven, but are absolutely disproven.
GEN BUELL. has been ordered 10 report at
Indianapolis, aud not at Annapolis, as previ'
ouely stated.
GEN. JEFF. C. DAVIS arrived in Louisville
on the lat inst aud delivered himself up 70 the
civil authorities, to be tried for mansiaughter'
in killing Gen. VIM. Nelson. He was admit
ted 10 ball, and left for his command with the
Army OF the Cumberland.
WASHINGTON dispatch of the Sd inst to the
Cincinnati Commercial says:
Six slaves we're captured to-day and confined
in p-ieou. A thousand dollars was found on
their persons, which they declared was for the
purpose of purchasing goods to carry South 10
their masters.
A DWARF elephant, twenty years old and only
thirty inches bigh--a perfect Tom Thumb OF
the elephant tribe-hss just been added to
Wombwell's (nOw EdmondD menagerie in
England. 1t was imported from Malacca.
TIE Police of Vienna, considering that poiit'
ical and immoral songs are sung BY itinerant
sDgers in the streets, has put all such persons
under strict surveillance. In future no verses
will be allowed 10 be sung unless they have
been previously submitted to the censorship,
Ar banquet recently given at TrOniSos, 10
Norway, dish of fresh beef was served which
was found last summer In some tin cases buried
at Spiizoergen. According to indisputable in
dcations shese cases were placed there by
the Parry expedition in 1926. The meat was
perfectly fresh, and bad not contracted any bad
odor.
The Prince Of Austria, heir to the spanish
crown, has just been formally received into the
Spanish army as "6rst soldier in the frat regi-
ment," the Kings Own. Ris age Ia four years
and ten months. After the parade the young
gentleman handed purse full of gold coins to
the sergeant sjor, In order shat hls new CON-
rades might drink his health.
CALHOUN. the man who was killed by Major
Rhest in recent duel, was Secretary OF the
United States Legation in Paris from 1857 to
1860, a portion of which period he acted al
Charge d'Affaircs, until the appointment Of
Charles James Faulkner, to succeed Mr. Ma
son, who died suddenly In Paris In the fall Of
1859.
The editor OF the Hartford COuyaat has seen
what hs calls a "eommon box turtle" caught
on the farm of Mr.. Loomis, in Bloomfield
which Is known to be over fifty years old. In
1911 the father Of Mr.. LOomis caught this tur'
!ule and marked him. Again In 1888 he was
caught and marked By Rev. Reuben Loomis,
and now the old fellow has turned up again,
alive and kicking.
SMOKERS GAP, which was occupied by the
Federal forces on Sunday, the I'd Inst, after a
sharp engagement, ia about twenty miles south
west of Hsrper's Ferry. and fisy-two miles
from Washington. The main road from Win
chester to Washington, via Bsrryville, Aldie
and Fairfax C. H., passes through the Gap
There is another important Gap through the
Ridge, about ten miles further South A turn
pike from Winchester crosses the Shenandoah
at Berry's Ford, thence through this Gap to
Psrls, Upperville and Middleburg, and on to
Aldie, where 1t merges into the road running
through snicker's Gap.