Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-22
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

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CHAaIrs A DANA has been appointed As
si.tant Secretary of War, vice Woolcot, re-
signed
TIE Marine Hospital at Psducih, Ky, was
destroyed by FIRE on Monday, the l7th inst
The inmates escaped.
GEN. MCCLELLAN declines public reception
rendered him in New York.
TgREr manufacturing establishments and
sir dwellings we're burned at Memphis Sa'uf
day night, the 18th inst.-the work OF an IN
cendiary:
| AN auction sale OF prizs cotton was held In
Philadelphia on the l7lh inst 1t brought
from 60 to SO cents per pound.
THE newspaper publishers of Chicago have
advanced the prices Of subscription twenty tiVe
per cent. on daily and fifty per cent on weekly
oSE of the latgest paper mills in Maine has
stopped on account Of the want of stock,
The authorities have settled on general
plan Of defense of Atlantic cities against 6
supposed feet Of rebel rams, which the Navy
Department regards as merely imaginary
TIE advertisements for large quantities of
old postage stamps, under the pretext that they
are used to make papier mache, Ii Is pretty
clearly settled, have fraudulent object in view
Those who buy them only do SO with the lnten-
tion Of cleaning and using them IS currency.
The Springfield (Mass) Republican charges
shat this work has been prosecuted to great
extent in Connecticut.
UP to the Let Of the present month, 2l9,Oo0l
men, for long aud short terms Of service, have
taken the field from New York. Upto the same
period, over $4,000 volunteers have been sent
for ward under the recent calls, and 10, 600 have
been enrolled and sncamped. For the two
quotas OF 100, 600 men, the rolls show that Ill,
900 enlistmenis have been made,
ApvIcEs from Corinth give particulars Of
twenty four soldiers sent out by General Mitch
ell from Huntsville, Alabama; last SUMNER
Seven of them were hung, including five be-
longing to the % Ohio; the rest were confined
at Atlanta, from which place they escaped three
weeks since, and two Of the party had arrived
at Corinth.
A WAsHINaToE dispatch states that i. is said
on high authority that the President on being |
recently shown By the Secretary of War and
General in. Chief the immense lists of deser.ers
and roll calls Of absentees, sternly pledged him
self hereafter to pursue the most rigorous poll
cy With these offenders, and that by executions,
dismissals, ball and chain labor for the whole
term of their enlistment, and other oi the Sc
verest penalties. -.e.t
A DIAMOND weighing twelve oarats, and
worth between $40 600 and 5000, is nov, on
exhibition in Boston. It is reported to have
been found year since, in Stoke county, in |
the Northern part Of North Carolins, on the
Virginia border, near the Blue Ridge. In size
i. approaches large plum stone In length, but
is deeper and broader, almost square on the
face, with founded corners. Ia the rough 1t
was about tquare Each of the numerous facets
had to be ground down separately, IL being I'm
safe to chip of corners for fear Of cracking the
stone. The coat of the fine sand used for this
purpose was over hundred dolsfs, and the TO-
tai charge for the work will be fifteen hundred
dollars, more or less.
A SPECIAL meeting Of the New Jersey Edito- |
rial Association IL to be held at Lower Temper
aucs Hall, Trenton, on Thursday, December 4,
at ii o'clock, A. M. The call says: The late
extraordinary rise OF seventy-fvo per cent. In
the price Of printing paper. and q heavy advance
in the price Of printing materials generally, de-
mande scne action on the psrt Of newspaper
publishers; and hence, ct the request Of several
members of the Association, this meeting 10
called for the purpose Of taking these matters
into consideration, together with such Other
business as may properly come before the As
,ocistion. All New Jersey newspaper publish
srs, editors reporters and printers are earnestly
requested to be present, and take part 10 she
business Of the meeting"
BETWEEN twenty Ave and thirty thousand SOL
Iiers have passed down the river at Cairo with
a the last two weeks. Tho most of them have
rome to Memphis, and part to Helena. Its
expected that General Sherman, now at Mem
his, will cooperate with General Grant, now
,ngsgsd in Mississippi. ~ G |,
TIE order Of the War Department requiring
avalry companies to have one hundred and
hrse officers and men, neither more nor less,
as been so nodded as to require an average
( ninety. Eve, and to allow the mastering In Of
company with seyenty-fye priyates. Il
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