Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-30
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

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In the U. S. Court at Cincinnati, on Mon
day, the ownerof lC3 bales ofcotton, confs-
Gated by the Government authorities, was
seeking to recover the same back by sub
stantiating his loyalty. The case was yes
terday in progress of hearing.
JOHN RAcEy, one Of the men arrested last
year at Hoskinsville, Noble county, died on
Saturday at the Commercial Hospital, Gin
cinnati. Hehad been tried, fined 81, 900, and
committed to the Hamilton county jail for
non-payment. fkJJi .i-,4. ~
A member of the Cincinnati City Council,
one of the late Coal Committee, has received
a letter from gentleman owning coal lands
| In Perry County, on the Cincinnati, Will
mington and GAINESVILLE Railroad, Offering
to contract with the city to furnish coal in
the mines at one mill per bushel.
ONO BRIGADE.-Col. Mitchell, of the
18th o. V. l., has now command of what
| Is called the sOhio Brigade" consisting Of
the Sd, 9Sth, 1O2d, 12lst, 113th Ohio and two
| Illinois regiments. This brigade was, until
recently, commanded by Brig. Gen. John
Beatty, now resigned.
A GIRL IN UNIFoRM.-A damsel Of attrac-
tive appearance was arrested at Camp
Cleveland on Saturday, while attired in
| Uncle Sans uniform. She had been tempt
ed to the act from desire to follow her
'soger boy,n who was in the camp. She
belongs to Aurora, Portage county, and Is
of a respectable family. She was sent to
her home yesterday. ~ $3.50 AhfSi
THE Democracy of Cass county, Indiana,
have presented the editor of the Logansport
Phaos, Samuel A. Hall, Esq, with power
printing press. n, ~
A LETTER. from Gettysburg speaks Of the
sufferers from the rebel raid into Pennsyl-
vania as still without any relief notwith-
standing the assurances of aid from the
State Treasury, and now 'grim penury pre-
sents its v'slge at the doors of every house
and cottage" in that section. 0s
AccoRD1NG to an official statement, the
amount of interest, payable in gold, between
now and the I'd of July, is $20,S49,199 so; of
which $3,15S7l1 % is payable the lst of
April; S14,245,l41 SO, 1st May, and the bal
ance on the lst of July.
FREMONT MEN BETTING.-The partisans
of General Fremont are offering the Lin
coin men two bets even: l. That Lincoln
will not be elected; and 2. That Fremont
will be the next President-the two to be
taken together. io FrA
THE official statement of the public debt
on the 10Th inst. was $l.5S0,0O0,O00. The
| increase since February I'd thus appears to
be over 100 millions--that is, in six weeks
time, or forty-two days-equal to 81, 1000
per day.. tAA ~ +-+-Ais-
WE are told that deputation of Con-
gressmen is to wait upon Mr.. Lincoln to
ask him to retire from the Presidential can
vass. Chase's withdrawal is to be the basis
of their appeal. Wehave no doubt Lincoln
will regard that appeal as the best joke of
the season. lsats lanN
A WORKMAN named Jensen, who superin-
tended the wharf at Flensburg, was
compelled to take down the Danish flag and
hoist the Schleswig- -Holstein flag. He was
so overwhelmed with shame that he died
shortly after of an attack of apoplexy
brought on by his distress of mind.
A LAWYER CowHIDED "A young widow,
whose character is said to be above reproach,
created sensation at boarding house the
other day i'm Chicago, by cowhiding law
yer named Cameron, whom she suspected
of writing note, the tenor Of which was
not exactly to her liking, and thrusting it
under her door. The limb of the law was
forced to leave the table by the violence of
her attack. In future, most likely, Mr.. G.
ware O. the vidders." .,...-..
A ST.. LOUIS paper states that thirty-four
soldiers of one detachment from Northern
regiment are at one of the military barracks
near that city suffering from secondary
syphilis. inoculated into their systems by
the criminal carelessness of the surgeon In
charge. The soldiers were vaccinated for
kinepOx by the post or attendant surgeon
of the barracks, not (as itnow appears) with
kinepOx virus, but actually with poisonous
puss, taken from syphilitic sore upon the
person of female nurse in one of the mil
itary hospitals. ~ g1si
JOSHUA DEWEY, the Oldest graduate of
Yale College, died at Watertown, New York,
on the 24th, aged 81 years. He taught j.
Fennimore Cooper the alphabet. G6
THE utmost quiet prevails in Florida.
The whole rebel force Is reported to be con-
= .l5htrating in the vicinity of Jacksonville.
It is thought the rebels will occupy the
country till they have secured all the cattle
and torn up the railroad iron for use else
where, and then abandon the State. ot
AN exchange says now as Louisiana has
been put in an acceptable shape for the Bal
timore Convention, it is to be hoped that
Gen. Banks will be allowed to proceed to
the practical business of the war, and that
the prosecution of this political work of re-
organization for Presidential purposes will
be postponed to a more convenient season.
THE Michigan Journal, published in De-
troit, and the leading German radical paper
of that State, has now, after some hesita-
tion, also hoisted the Fremont flag. Two
more German papers in Illinois, the Peoria
Deutsche Zeitu,ig and the Alton Beoabactter
have likewise hoisted the name of John G.
Fremont for the Presidency in 1864 and
the w Wisconsin Democrat expresses its prefer
ence for Fremont, declaring at the same
time, that it will not support Mr.. Lincoln
on any condition. rsgsvg