The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-02-17

League, Kansts, are terribly excited
and mad over his defeat for re. election
TO the Senate. They are passing Vi
olent resolutions on the subject
A aumber of Federal troops have
arrived in Florida, to cut off the large
supply of bcevcs being c,rricd OF by
the Confederatcs, which have been at
the rate of l4O per week. .,s.
General Price, of the Confederate
Army is at Camden, Arklnsas. lie
has been reinforced by 5000 men, and
is preparing for a movement on Little
Rock. ...r
There are said to be S2l, 100000 in
gold in the US. Treasury. Why not
take itand pay it out to the soldiers, as
the Democrats in Congress suggest?
| Jim Lane has gone up in Kansas.
He has been beaten for the United
States Senate. Governor Carney
takes his place after the 4th of March
next.
The main body Of Lees army is be-
tween Gordonsyille and Orange Court
house. Lee expects, by conscription,
to increase his army to eighty or min,
ty thousand men.
Atlanta will be destroyed, it is said,
before it will be captured. Starya-
tionis not thought to be imminent in
the South, as there are plenty of sweet
potatoes. ...
Several thousand Federal prisoners
arc about to be sent from Richmond
to Georgi.. Nine hundred Of our
prisoners are in the hospital at Rich
mond.
There are six Confederate vessels
If war in the Chinese waters They
were fitted out in England. 1t is
thought that these vessels may be pre-
, pairing for an attack upon San Fran
cisco.
The Maiden (NTass.) bank robber
and murderer has at length been ar>
rested. His name is E lwarl W. Green,
Postmaster at Ma(len, Massachusetts.
; lie has confessed the crime and most
of the money has been recovered.
Governor Brough has appointed j.
J. Winans Judge of the Common Pleas
in the Second Ju licial District, in
[ place Of White, appointed Supreme
Judge in place of Hunter, resigned.
We arc now informed that the rebel
armies are larger than they have been
since the beginning Of the war, and if
we are not strongly reinforced, We
may lose many Of the advantages we
have obtained the past year.
A dispatch from Richmond state;
that that city is threatened by tn
Federals from the Peninsula. Then
pickets were driven in twelve mile
t from Richmond. The movement i.
probable intended as a reconnaissance
+ for an important movement.
, The Secretary of War has ordered
the suspension of pay to 300 or 4O'
= Colonels, for neglecting to forward
= proper returns to the Adjutant's off
ce. He has also stopped the pay {
j. nearly 200 company and field officer
/, for the same reason.
General Early, tie Confederate, hG
o been compelled to retreat up the sout
/. fork of the south branch, toward tn
/. Shenandoah Valley, owirg to the vie
v orous manner in which he has been a
. tackled by General Keliy's forces
j The latter have gained consiferab'
advantages.
: The Federal attempt, under Genel
d al Butler, to take Richmond by .ul
prise, and 10 release the Federal pri
i oners, failed, because some desertel
. gave, the enemy warning Of our al
proach. rA
IS TIE Pittsburg coaI-disgers hav
le had another strike, this time for fv
v cents u bushel, and have obtanc
their demands. The Chronicle say
l. they threaten to ask for six cents mex
e. month, and adds that the end of thes
- extortions will be the Introduction {
i some kind Of machinery that will d
n away with large amount of huma
labor. dg q ngy1
ia. Some political priests have calle
3: upon the President upon the subjec
8. Of amending our Constitution 81
IS favor Of Christianity and freedom.
III This means, we suppose, that we al
IL to have Union5of Church and STATE
& together with Abolitionism. Th
y / +
e President has promised to take til
i, matter into consideration, and wi
) nrnbaLIy declare for a State religion