The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-04-13
NEWS OF TIC WEEK.


( Gen. Mcdowell is to have command
luf the Pacific Department in Galifor>
mia. tc
! Col. Ed. McCook has seen made a
Brigadier General.
Generals Stcne, Negley and Porter
are reduced to their original positions
in their regiments.
Gen. Montgomery, the infamous
raider Of Kansas, now in South Caro-.
lima, has been very properly, by the
President, dismissed from service, to
which he never ought to have been
tspPolntel.
4 number of important changes have
been made in the organization Of the
Potomac Army.
A well known Federal Scoat by the
name Of Rees, has been csptured on
the Potomac. The netcaac Army is
Immersed in the spd,
| Mrs. Lscretia Clay, the widow Of
the late Henry Clay, died yesterday
at sscxington, aged So years.
The Golden Gate was burned on the
I'd, by guerillas, short distance be-
low Memphis.
The gunboats had fight at IIick.
man, on Wednesday last, and captu-
red few guerillas.
The consolidation of the different
regiments creates much unpleasant
feeling among the military.
The Confederates have been driven
from Arkadelphia, Ark, by General
Steele's army. His movements in
that part of Arkansas have been COM
pletely successful.
Mr.. Collins, an American gentle
man, has returned from Russia, where
he has been two years on business con>
nected with the proposed line of tele>
graph through British and Russian
America, connecting the two cont
nents by way of Behring's Straits
Congressional aid is to be asked for
the project.
The London Herald, the organ of
the Tory party in Great Britain, says
that unless Napoleon and Maximlian
recognize the South, the Mexican ex-
pedition is a fruitless waste of treasure
and blood.
There is an improbable report that
the Federal army has taken Shreve-
port, La.
1t is sold the Federals obtained for
ty thousand bales of cotton on Red
River. #.a... ..a
Gen: W. F. Smith is to command
the troops in Buffers department.
General Meade denies that he is
sued an order to retreat from Gettys-
burg on the I'd of July. 1t was writ.
ten by General Butterfeld, with out
orders. . .. a.. ... .. ..
The privateer Alabama was at the
Cape Of Good Hope on February 19.
Forrest, at last accounts, was at
Jackson, Tennessee, apparently in>
tending to 60 South.
James Moore, of Coshocton county,
has been appointed Member of the
Board of Public Works in Ohio, in
place Of Gamble, deceased.
The experiment of firing fifty pounds
powder in the 15-inch guns have pro-
we'd success aboard the gunboat Sau-
gus, in the Delaware. ..
Probate Judge Morrison, of Henry |
county, died on Friday last. He was
well known throughout this State as
an active and influential politician.
State Pay~agent Williams has arri-
we'd at Columbus from Knoxville, |
bringing home for soldiers families the
handsome sum of $106,000.
The steamer Empire City has been
fined 500 by the Government au.
thorities at Cairo, for unwarrantably |
taking cotton from Tennessee River
A new Bureau is to be established |
in Washington, especially devoted to
negro affairs. We don't see any use
of this, for all the Bureaus are devot-
ed to the negro now.
General Schofeld, of Missouri, the
Presidents friend, can not obtain his
confirmation as Major General from
the United States Senate.
For the last ten days it has rained
severe in the Army of the Potomac -
The camps are in a horrible condition.
1t will take four weeks before any
thing can be done in the way of an
advance.
The War Department gives thirty
days furlough to such non commission
ed officers and privates as desire to en-
ter free military school in Philadel-
phia. If they pass a good examin-
alton, they may be commissioned as
officers in negro regiments.
The President has the power to dis
miss from the Army and Navy any
officer he choose, without court,mar-
tial. An attempt has been made to
abolish this kingly power, but it fail
ed.
The Democrats have carried Maids
son, Ind, by one hundred majoity.
Commissioner Ould has returned to
Richmond from his interview with
General Butler, about the exchange
Of prisoners, at Fortress Monroe.