Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-12-13
mIsCELLANEOUs NEWS.

TIE Minnesota Indian executions viii tek'
place on tho 18th inst.
The Buffalo Postmaster gives notice tnat n'
will begin tofedeem postage stamps on the losn
inst .i.a
IT is reported that JAGos Gordon Bennett
will retire from business on the Let Of January
leaving the New York Herald to his son.
James G. Bennett, Jr.
TsE Associated Press of New York adverti-
ses for proposals for supply Of paper to the
amount Of three hundred thousand pounds per
week for the mex. Eve years
FRoM Rosecrans's Department wc have the
news that on the 10Th the whole army under
Joe Johnston, with Bragg aud his other subordi-
nate Generals, appeared in front Of our forces,
and q battle was believed impending at Harris
Vile.
An Evansville, Iodians, correspondent reports
strong rebel force, under Adam johnson and
Wood ward, 10 be moving on HopkinsVilie, Ky
Colonel Shsckleiord, the Union commander,
has fallen back OIL Russellville.
The Alabama has again been unpleassnsly
heard from in the capture and burning OF two
more merchantmen. She afterward went 10
Martinique, outside 6hioh haEhoE The San ia
cinto was keeping watch. The rebel crats'
however, succeeded in escaping from the port
to recommence no doubt the work Of depreda
ton Ft H 4+H
TIE MurfreesbOro Rsbel, says that Bfagg lie
assigned to the DspassneltOf Missiaaippi, with
headquarters at vioksburg. Joe Johnston Is
sumed the chief command of sbe sou.hwest
Department on the 6!h inst N.
GovERNoR Johnson has issued proclamation
providing for an election Of Representatives
for the Ninth and Tenth Congressional Districts
Of Tennessee. He says 1t is believed that
large majority Of the voters In these districts
have given evidence Of loyalty and allegiance
to the Constitution and laws; but no dsloyal
person is to be permitted to yose. II
A VERY full report of the great phzs fight be
tween Mace and King for the championship of
England, has been published Mace was
" knocked out of time" by what Is termed In
the account an "Armstrong gun" blow deliver
ed by King In the twenty-Hs round. Heenan
aud Ssyers we're both on the ground. Heenan,
Il appears, did NOS think very much of either Of
the men, and II was said that he bad challenged
King to 6ghs him for the "bslt y
TIE official dispatches OF Generals Blunt
and Heron concerning the battle at Prairie
Grove, Arkansas, which was fought on Sunday,
the 9th inst, state that the rebel force number
cd fully twenty. eigh. thousand men, and their
wounded alone exceed two thousand. Generals
Blunt and Heron had arranged for renewal
of the battle which night had brought to an
end. but the enemy, having mufled the wheels
of their cannon, retreated in the night, leaving
their dead and most of their wounded behind
them. General Heron pute the rebel loss at
from six to seven hundred killed and twenty
Ave hundred wounded, and our loss at probably
two hundred and Fifty killed and seven hundred
wounded.
The army Of General Burnside, according to
our dispatches, on the l2!h inst, occupied Fred
ericksburg after fierce csnnonsde for several
hours, frat with one hundred and forty-.hree
and afterSard with one hundred aud seventy
elk guns. The euemy's artillery was silent but
their sharpshooters picked of our engineers
who were endeavoring to build bridges in front
of the town The cannonsde lasted from early
In the morning until the middle Of the afteI-,
noon. Between thirty and forty buildings we're
destroyed. General Ffanklin's division built
bridges three miles below the city with little
opposition, and crossed as soon as the news of
the crossing of the main force was received.