Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-06
mIsoELLANEoUs NEWS.

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is II ,452-a Democratic gain of 22.OOO.
In the purchase of a site for an arsenal a
Indianapolis, OIL Aboli'iopist pocketed prof
of $3.50 per acre on sixty-eight acres. Govern
ment is rich.
FIFTY ONE business firms OF Lafayette, Ind.
publish q card, pledging themselves not to re
ceive or countenance individual shioplssters
as they "open the door for the most veTatiou
frauds "
The Cincinnati Commereiai Gays II is author
lied TO contradict the rumor that Bishop Nc
Ilyaino expects again to 70 abroad.
THR rumor, taken from Southern papers, tina
Mobile has been taken. la not credited a.
Washington by those who ought to know
THREE HUNDRED psroled prisoners loft Louis
Vile on the 4th inst for Vicksburg.
GEN. GRASoER's army has left Lexington
Kentucky, proceeding South.
IT ia understood that Gen Jeff G.. Davis is
ordered TO take command under RosecrsDs. He
10 Ou u Nibit W hls III Oloih SpuhsJ
Indiana, 10 the vicinity Of Louisville.
GEN BUELL. has been ordered to Annapolis,
Maryland, and was to leave Indianapolis on the
5Ih inst.
Contractors to supply Grants army with
beef, who reside in Louisville, furnish two
hundred cattle daily for the armies in Tennes.
sec, Arkansas and Mississippi
A LIEUTENANT at Louisvllle. deserteE from
Bragg, says Bfagg's army isgolng Immediately
to Chattanooga, aud has probably arrived there
Gro this They went by way OF Knoxville.
A FgoucsohE husband Ia Syracuse, few
nights sinee, hid under his bed, and when his
wife, unconscious Of his conceslmen;, came in,
took her suddenly by the lfg. she shrieked,
fell senseless, and Is nos ravlng mabihc,
TIE ChArleston pspers claim that the battle
Of Pocota!igo was second S.cessionville affair.
They Say that the rebel loss was only tweaty
killed and about sixty wounded, and that their
troops buried forty of the Northern dead
The Georgia soldiers gathered quite a stock
OF overcosts .bd other artclea found on the
road.
IR Boston the operations OF the draft have
been reduced to perfect farce. Every day
Sundays excepted--the Commissioners meet
q. the State House, attended by an individual
born blind, who under the supervision Of the
aforesaid commissioners, draws from the wheel
one name, the unlucky bearer Of which is fore
ed TO fall in as conscript. After that is per-
formed the Commission sdjourns, and the
members rest from their lHbors until the
following day, when the same act Ia perform
cd. Thia has been going on for about two
weeks
ACCORDING to rebel accounts, the work of de-
stroying the Baltimore e. Ohio railroad is be-
ing carried out pretty thoroughly. A Win
chester correspondent Of Richmond paper,
writing. on the 25sh, says that every few days q
brigade or division is sent forward to destroy
some part Of the railroad. Mos. Of it within
reach of the army has been destroyed. They
tear up the rails aud ties, pile them together in
large heaps along the road, and when some
eight or ten miles have been thus piled togeth-
er the whole is fsed at once. The Cumber-
land tunnel has also been destroyed in Ghe last
few days
A WASHINGTON dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial says the Investigations into the
Quartermaster Bureau have disclosed frauds
and caused arrests. In one instance the Gov
ernment is found to be charged with double the
amount Of grain received, the brother of the
contractor being In the Department. Col. In
golls, Chief Quartermsster Of the Army of the
Potomac, drives a thousand dollar pair Of
horses, which, with an elegant carriage, were
presented by q contractor.