Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-06
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An Sorts Of shorts.
ON LADY sTUSG BY A BEE.
To heal the wound bee had made
: Upon my Delias face.
"A Its honey 10 the part she laid,
And bade me kiss the place.
Pleased. il obeyed, and from the wound
Sacked both the sweet and smart;
The honey on my lips found
Fhesting went through my heart.
A RARE combihation-dolla and sense.
LOTS of cotton at Nashville. Price 300
BusHwHAcKERs are robbing the mails in
Missouri.
THE New York Post as usual abuses our
Generals for faults committed in higher
places.
CLEVELAND, Ohio's, Sanitary Fair will
yield a cool hundred thousand dollars.
The ladies of the Albany bazaar have
charitably bagged $31, ,6S3.
The people are feeling more interest in our
national finances every day.
GRANTS is pronounced diffident army.
1t has SO much reserve.
THE Chicago sswater works lake tunneln
is to be completed in two years.
Tennessee SO far has furnished about H.
900 negro troops.
FEpERAL loss at Chickamauga-1 ,200.-
Confederate ditto-l9,600.
If the Radicals continue their abuse of
President Lincoln, will not another fort be
necessary besides Warren and Lafayette?
THE New York Tribune is very indignant
at Blair's speech, and accuses him of being
the Presidents champion.
IT is related that Gen. Burnside got q
good deal kissed by the women folks during
his tour 'away down in Maine" and per-
haps he liked it.
ONE of the rebel organs at Richmond ex-
claims, sswhither are we drifting~ ''Devil
knows,n answers Prentice.
SOME of the Radicals are getting angry
at honest old Abe's jokes; and he can't
please them when in earnest.
4 PRESIDENT LINcoLN's time, to Judge
from Washington correspondence, is Occu-
pied in levies and leyees.
The pressure to make Chase resign is
strong, but his friends pat him on the back
and urge him to hold on little longer.
WILD boars are very numerous in Alsace
tIll4 WAntCls 10iuC UOlCo dfO Clu6ily DACIt-
tifii1 here, but unfortunately one cannot
kill them.
A CONTEMPORARY asks what has become Of
Mr.. Chase's distinguished friend" who
pronounced the Pomeroy circular hoax?
INCARCERATION is said to be uncommon
ly popular at Port Royal.
ONE rebel regiment has re-enlisted for
thirty years or during The war.
A PROFESSOR of Greek in one of the East
ern colleges proposes to give lecture upon
the art of war. He is no doubt very good
scholar, but he very likely knows as little
about war as Halleck or Stanton.
THE New York Courier says President
Lincoln beats Caligula In appointments
The Emperor took horses, but the President
selects -.
On account Of Mr.. Lincoln's late recov-
cry from the smallpox, a Richmond paper
is smart enough to call his amnesty proc
lamation "a voice from the pit"
A LADY in Murfreesboro' sends the Lou
isyille Journal several pieces Of music
which she calls rebel airs. The editor re-
plies: 1--WE are in no want of anything of
the SORT some Of our ladies here put on q
great many Of them.p
THERE have been instances of audacity
since the war commenced, but we should
like to know what Copperhead ever at
tempted to show SO conclusiyely the imbe-
cility, unpopularity and criminality even
Of the present Administration as Messrs.
Blair, Pomeroy and Greeley.
Young CROMWELL, the Treasury clerk at
Washington, who lately stole one thousand
dollars from the public treasury, and has
confessed the crime, excuses himselfon the
ground that robbery on every hand was
going on upon a large scale, and he Thought
Il no harm TO rushin and get his share.d
CALm6Rx1A is the skeleton in Mr.. Chase's
financial closet. The laws of the United
States declare that certain descriptions of
engraved notes, bearing the quaint signa-
ture Of Mr.. Treasurer Spinner, shalt be
sslegal tender.n But the Californians per-
sist in making gold and silver the basis of
their commercial transactions. and their
Legislature obstinately refuses to repeal the
"Specific Contract Actr which leealizes
the right Of business men to make their
transactions In coin
A WOMAN AFrHR OLD ABE.-The wash
ington correspondent Of the st. Louis Re-
publicdn says the author Of the slashino ex-
pose Of the imbecility of Mr.. Lineolns ad-
ADMINISTRATION In. the conduct Of the war. its
yacillation upon The emancipation Question.
and its sins Of omission and Commission
Is Miss Emma Carol, Of Maryland, Wig
orous politicaiwriter, and In all a woman
Of which Massachusetts, would 30 proud.
Mr. HosE5 the medium, states that be-
fore his expulsion from Rome he was re-
Quired 20 sign the following declaration IN
the presence Of the Chief OF the Inoi1isi-
tQo ;--''l, Daniel Douglas Home. ID hereby
solounly declare and ivow that have not
sold my soul TO the Devil nor have 5n arv
occasion been cognizant Of bold,nc cosn-
munlcation with the Evil One.r 81 y A
II Is stated on high military .utbor;fv
that before Gen. Halleek was relieved n NJ
command Of the Department ~ t,,o Wesf
President Lincoln tfansmitfed an nr1o,. ~, -
him relieving Gen, Grant Of All s,,d
ncd practically shelving him. III IL VA Ss,,.5
& Generals McCl ClelIan and Fremont Gor6ro1
alIeck, however, took the -
p5&ketInE the order, and thus saved fie,'es.
Il Grant 10 the service. = y V'''e'
HOW EzxUYFULl =. The Wasb;noto,,
Chron{cle y responsible for Tie ~ f,,,e,,
that Miss Dickinson "has showed ~, ,sjff
her II|v-VnIte hand, the doors AZ fi,, a. r,'
0rtc1c Court d the United Stars AZ a. =,
present c91sc{s'I(t and forbidden a. si;,,'
di<1[|cu foereln o. the proclamslI<d ~ ~
dom 10 t1e s|1{>a 71 <e3elsn The n 6r1Sfc5
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