Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-18
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

diers at Lancaster, and for whose arrest ,
reward was offered, has, as already stated
voluntarily given himself up to the civi
authorities. AS we understand the facts
\ the homicide was committed by See strictly
in self-defense, or in defense of his son
which would be equally excusable. Blu
whether it was legally excusable or justifi
able, is a question for the court and jury
who shall sit on his trial, to determine.
Z The 10th o. v. l., re-enlisted veterans
passed through Cincinnati, Wednesday
evening, on their way to the front.
CINCINNATI, says Kentucky paper, !.
very much in favor of the Administration
taking our slaves. If the Administrator
y were to propose to take Cincinnati's hogs
she would perhaps squeal as if all her big
and little porkers were holding concert.
/ SAYS the Clermont County Sun: A widow
lady of Miami township, in this county
contributed fire dollars to the Yallandigham
| fund. We think she ought to be arrested
hammer. That widows heart, like her
! money, is in the right place.
MAJOR E. L. Cory, 18th Ohio, and Capt.
| w. n. rlOyu, O1u OhlO, HdNO uOOh ulehiooCu
| the service.
ONO DEAD IN WASHINGTON CITY HosPI-
4 TALs.-The following named Ohio soldiers
have died during the past week in Wash
/ ington City: w. w. Davis, 1st cavalry; f.
NJ. Upton, 122d infantry. hsas
The following Ohio soldiers are reported
as having died at Knoxville recently: John
| Hoover, l24th regiment; Geo. Stone, same;
l w. G. Moore, 10Th battery. The health of
the army, generally, is improving.
The Treasurer of the Vallandigham Fund
| for Clermont county has receipted for
$757 6S, which, together with SS3, sent from
Loveland to this city, makes $40 6Sin total
for the county, with other amounts not re-
| ported.
ACLEvELAND Herald correspondent states
that Lieutenant-C Colonel z. S. Spalding, of
the 9th Ohio, son of the NJ. G. from the
Cleveland district is at Pulaski as "a spe-
cial agent for leasing cOntiscated farms in
the country occupied by the Army of the
Cumberland" Fortunes are said to await
the lessees if the country can be held
There will be a tremendous expenditure of
''patriotism' if fortunes can only be realized
A FRIEND who has been travelling in
Northern and Central Ohio considerably, for
some weeks does not speak very encourag-
ingly of the wheat prospects. The cold
weather during our winter has destroyed,
in many instances. almost entire fields, and
light crop is likely to ensle. The present
bitter weather will retard spring pl0wing.
Never was there a time when so much of
energy was needed to be expended as now,
in order to insure an abundance of the
''staff of life" for a scarcity of food would
be sore trial in these days of national
tribulation.
1T is estimated that three-fifths Of the
peach buds about Nashville, Tennessee,
have been killed. tAiF AZ
TENS and tens of thousands of bitter rebel
complaints were made at Gen. Bragg's be-
ing allowed the command of the rebel
army in front of Chattanooga. TO those
complaints JEFF. Davis has responded by
appointing Bragg to the command of all
the rebel armies. ,;-so,q,. 9a
Coy. .BRAMLErTE has certainly taken
strange course for man who wants to save
slayery.-Cin. Gazette. "a ara
A more important question is whether he
has taken a strange course for man who
wants to save the Constitution. Louisville
Journal.
JOHN s. PICHL, Bohemian, who swim
died Baltimore merchants In August last of
$4,000, and escaped to Europe, was arrest
ed at his native village in Bohemia recent
ly, by an English detective, to whom his
arrest had been intrusted. He restored the
bulk of the money to the officer, and was
then permitted to go his way.
CHANGE OF GuAGE.-The change of guage
on the S. M.&N. railroad has been COM
pleted, and trains are now running on the
new guage between Sandusky and Newark.
This change, it is expected, will mark
new era in the Importance and prosperity
of the road 5a aa1gEJa N s.gtsG
The Germans of Cincinnati have sub
scribed $4,000 for the establishment of a
sound Constitutional Democratic paper in
place of the Foiksfreund.
that the mad dog fever is high in that town.
Some eight or ten dogs have been found
raying with hydrophobia, and have been
killed by their owners. n|
TIE Philadelphia Press says that the
Government has called upon the locomotive
builders of that city for two hundred en-
gines to be made forthwith, and in case of
default the Government, would seize the
shops. The engine builders have agreed to
do the work. 10
n The Quincy Tribune, the leading Radical
organ OF Illinois, has now also hoisted the
name of John @. Fremont, as the peoples
candidate for the Presidency, and the Bohe-
mian paper published in st. Louis, The Po-
zoor, has done so likewise. Nf
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATEs.--The
C0mvier des Etdts Unis the French organ,
published in New York, in very elaborate
article, denies most emphatically that the
French Government intends at an early day
to recognize the Southern Confederacy, ru-
mors to that effect having reached this
country through the English press.
TwENTY-FvE MILES OF DEAD MULES
The Chattanooga Gazette states, that be-
tween the point Of Lookout Mountain and
Bridgeport, down the Yalleyof the Ten
nessee, lie twenty-five miles Of dead mules,
in one continuous stIing-the head Of the
first carcass lying on the quarter deck' Of
the one beyond him, and SO on, throughout
the entire distance. The Qazeffe says: 'sJust
imagine q conyulsion Of nature of sufficient
magnitude to bury these remains as they
now lie, and phancy the phe|inx Of a future
31szlz Ni1o - his eeologIcal researches
strikes c1Ifer Of the fern1IIli. and a(teuVfs