Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-03-21

/ Wnlcn naQ Deen ueclOeuly ulbioyhi, met IL somu
meeting recently aud were addressed by Bailie
Peyton, loyal man, and voted 70 petition Tor q
postoffice there, and expressed their willingness
to return to their allegiance A poatofice will
be established there in few days, according to
their petition. - @ 4zs.,a
John Lillyett has been appointed postmaster
at Nashville He wrote some OF the best arti-
cles against secession during the agitation OF
that subject in Tennessee. He was one OF the
refugees from that State, but now returns in an
official capacity aii<ss & ,Israaoo
A special agent of the Postoflice Department,
aoting on the Tennessee and Kentucky borders,
reports as follows: II 10 gratifying, wherever
have been, to find there is q strong desire for
the re-establishment of the malls, and will
lingness among the people to return to their al;
legiancs. ,s 49, % aesaa9 .-tal. I.gt.s
The House committee on the Judiciary, in
their report made to-day, examines at length
into the censorship Of the press. While they
say that from want of qualification or proper
discrimination on the part of the censor, has
sprung much of the complaint made by the
press, they remark that the censorship seems
to have been without any clearly defined lin
its. .s...is 't
After the departure from the general agree
ment between General Mcclellan and the rep.
resentstiyes of the press, the committee give
numerous examples to show that dispatches OF
a harmless nature have been excluded from
transmission, No adequate measure seems to
have been adopted to prevent the transmission
of what the censor denominated contraband in
tellgence, through the telegraph offices at Bal
tmore, Philadelphia, New York and other i'm
portant points, while Information on almost
every subject was excluded from the wires in
this city.
% he h0 hou
testified before the committee, have manifested
no disposition to complain Of the suppression
Of dispatches of military character, which
could in any manner be tortured into disclo-
sures Of information 10 the enemy, and might
In the slightest degree embarrass the govern.
Eent. They have uniformly expressed them
selves as willing to submit to the rules estab.
lished by the government between them and
Gen, Mcclellan. The correspondents general
ly eeem to have the same understanding of the
rule by which the censor determined what may,
and what may not, be sent over the wires, to
their respective papers. t
Very few dispatches rejecting on members of
the Cabinet or other civil officers were found
among those suppressed by the censor. The
witnesses examined by the committee explain
this by stating that they seldom prepared such
dispatches as they understood would not be per-
tee therefore recommend the adoption Of the
following resolution by the House; 49,
Rssalued, That the Government should not
interfere with the free transmission Of In
telligence by telegraph when the same will not
aid the enemy In his military or naval opera
tions, or give him information concerning such
operations on the part of the Government, ex-
oept when 1t may become necessary for the
Government, under the authority of Congress,
to assume exclusive control of the telegraph
for its own legitimate purposes, or to assert the
right Of priority in the transmission Of lite own
dispatches, @
The bills and resolutions against which the
House committee on Judiciary reported ad'
yersely to-day, are fourteen in number, provid-
ing for the confscation, ETC., of rebel property.
and had been referred to them from time to
time. tt,,.q 81.
Mr.. Hickman made repoSs, proposing to
substitute for the bills and resolutions the fol-
lowing: ao, ts7 ~ t-esge % s'l--
WHEREAS, The power of Congress, under the
Constitution, to authorize the confscation of
the property OF persons engaged in armed re-
rebellion, Is doubtful, and the powers of the
Executive to act in the premises'are ample;
therefore, ..e...l t..1r4s o. o. .1ls.1 sla gls
Be Il enacted By the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiUss, That the President should use all
means not inconsistent with the laws of war
which in his Judgment may be deemed necesss-
~ to arrest rebellion, including the seizure and
final disposition of all the property, real and
personal, of those engaged in armed rebellion
against the Government, or aiding in such re-
bellion, including slaves; and that in the opin-
ion of Congress decided measures on the part
of The Executive have already become neces-
sary. o iroi gfg5 ~ ~
The Senate to-day in executive session con.
frmed the following nominations; Alfred
Guthrie, OF nChicago, Superintendent and
Steamboat Inspector, in place Of Isaac Lewis,
removed; John SellJett, Postmaster Of Nash
Vile, in place of McMich, removed; John P.
Upshut, of Indiana, Assistant Secretary Of the
Interior; Charles Eaton, Marshal for Mime
sofa. & f7a1 ssttts
The following dispatches were received in
Washington this evening, dated ST. Louis.
March 90 ftr
On the 10Th inst, Lieut.. ]. D Joak, of the
First Iowa cavalry, with thirty men, encounter
ed band of maraudere, posted in log house
and barn in Lebanon county, Mo. The enemy
was defeated after short engagement, In which
they had nine killed and three wounded, and
our loss was one killed and four wounded.
| The following dispatch was also received
here tonight; s el
Kansas CRY, March 10.--Gen J. Besle, bear
er of dispatches to Washington, brings advices
from Santa Fe to the Sd inst. He confirms
previous accounts of the battle near Fort Craig
on the 2lst ult. The Federal loss was sixty.
two killed and one hundred and forty wounded.
The Texans captured ak Of our field pieces -
Col. Steele was in command Of the Texans.SS
The Texans were at soceres, thirty-eight
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