Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-07

: orders forced loan of 2l,00O,000 forins.
S Z. Death of Rt. Rev. Archbishop Ker
drick, of Baltimore.
, 8. Surrender of Port Hudson; 5000 pri'
oners and fifty pieces Of artillery taken.
IL. The rebels invade Indiana, unde
Morgan, and take possession of Salem.-
The Indianapolis banks send their speci
to New York.
l3, ID, Is. Cheat draft riots in New York
Smaller outbreaks in Boston, Hartford an,
Newark promptly put down.
10. Capture of jackson, Miss, by Gener
al Sherman; retreat Of General Joe John
ston's forces.
! 19. Great bombardment of Fort Wagne
by General Gilmore. Our forces repulsad
%. Brashear City surrenders to the gun
boat Sachem, Captain johnson.
! %. Closing of the international industri
al exhibition at Hamburg, Germany. The
privateer Georgia destroys the ship Consti
tuition, of New York, off Trinidad.
26. Death of John j. Crittenden, al
frankfort, Ky.
n. Death of VIM, L. Yancey, of Mont.
gomery, Ala.
80. President Lincoln issues an order de.
claring for every soldier in the United
States killed in violation of the laws of wal
rebel soldier shall be executed, and fol
every one sold into slavery rebel shall be
placed at hard labor at the public works.
81. Arrest of a funeral procession in Bal
timore by General Schenck. KENTUCKY
declared under martial law by General
Burnside.
81. The Emperor of Austria invites all
the sovereigns of the Germanic Conteder-
and discuss with him the question of the
| raOr0a nj izotinn Of CnrnonU
AUGUST.
l. Brisk cavalry skirmsh at Rappahan
mock Station between Buford's command
and the advance of A. P. Hills forces
steamer Pcterhoff condemned in tn,
United States District, New York. JEFF
Davis issues an appeal to his soldiers not t
desert.
s. The riot trials commenced in New
York. The Alabama and Georgia cap
ture several American ships off the Cape o
Good Hope.
6. National Thanksgiving Day.
10. The United States frigate Hartford
with Admiral Farragut on board arrived il
New York.
IL. Death of Field Marshal Lord Clyde
at Chatham, England.
13. The first regiment of Pennsylvania
colored tooops leaves Philadelphia fol
Charleston.
ID. Death of Brigadier General Thomas
Welch at Cincinnati.
10. The bombardment of Fort Sumter re-
sumed.
16. President Lincoln sends letter to the
Illinois Republican Convention, in which
he declares the negroes have been of grea
service in defending the nation.
IS. Advance of General Rosecrans's army
10. Secretary Seward, with the diplomat
ic corps, leave Washington on an excursion
to New York.
81. Explosion of steamer City of Madison
at Vicksburg; 100 lives lost.
%. The Sumter runs the blockade a
Charleston, with two 600 and four 40C
Founders.
25. Atrocious murders committed in Law,
renee, Kansas, by Quantrill and his adher
ents.
20. Five deserters from the Army of thu
Potomac shot.
SEPTEMBER.
2. The great Texan Expedition leave
New Orleans, in gunboats and transports
4. The Kansas Missouri border raids OF
people leaving the country.
5. Anti-draft riot in the Mauch Chunl
coal region, Pennsylvania-Louis Napoleon
delivers an address before the French cham
Der Of deputies. General Banks reaches
the Rio Grande, and captures Brownsville
G. Charges preferred against Lord Pal
merston in London, relative to his intimacy
with lady.
z. Rev. DR.. Trench accepts the Archbish
opric of Dublin, vacant by the demise O
Archbishop Whately.
8. A large number of laborers and me.
chanics strike for higher wages. Robert
Toombs delivers speech against the rebe
government in Georgia.
IL. General Foster notified of his being
superseded in the command of his depart,
ment by General Butler. Polish insur.
rection; horrible atrocities by the Russians
women and children exiled. "A fleet O
French steamers arrive off Brazos.
IA. The rebel General Fitzhugh Lee, SEN
to Fort Lafayette.
s. Evacuation of Morris Island by thu
rebels under Beauregard.
8. Surrender of Cumberland Gap. Bonn
bardment of Fort Moultrie by the moni
tors. An expedition leaves in boats a
night to capture Fort Sumter, and is unsuc
cessful.
10. General Steele's expedition; the reb
els evacuate Little Rock, Arkansas, and oul
troops enter it.
Is. President Lincoln suspends the wri
of Habeas Corpus by proclamation.
20. Battle of Chattanooga with an unde
cisive result; loss of 10000 killed ant
wounded; our troops driven back.
81. John NJ. Mason, the rebel Minister Il
England, sends letter to Lord John Rus
sell stating his intention to depart from
London.
%. Arrival of the Russian fleet in New
| York harbor.
30. Revelations made of frauds in New
York custom house, by which vessels wer
enabled to procure goods here to run tn
blockade, in order to supply the rebels witt
with arms and food.
OCTOBER.
l. The great Russian reception in Ney
York city; grand military and civic dis
play.
2. Gen. Gillmore's headquarters remove
to Folly Island.
8. Gen. Gilmore throws Greek fire int
Charleston.
8. National thanksgiving day, appointe
by the President. Death of Archbisho
Whateley, of Dublin.
8. Torpedo assault on the Ironsides, o
Charleston, by four rebels in small ve'
sci. One Of the rebel rams built by Lair
seized by the British Government in tf
Mersey.
u. Death Of Lord Lyndhurst.
l6. Mr.. Beecher delivers lecture in Liz
erpool on the American war.
IL. President Lincoln, by proclamatio
calls for three hundred thousand volul
teers.