Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-02
GENERAL NEWS.

"A LONDON mercnahb ii'ts plt hossuth
legacy Of $1,000.
YALE College Is favored -received $780,
600 in nbequests within short time.
In Europe they are making an article Of
alcohol from coal.
SPEAKER Colfax is candidate forre-elec-
tion to Congress.
A LIBERATED slave acted as one of Owen
Lovejoy's pall-bearers.
q, THE N. Y. Herald says Greeley, in his
rage, resulting from Gen. McClellan's popu-
larity, is rapidly getting crazy. ~ &
EvIDENoE Is accumulating that 'McClel-
lan's original plans forcapturing Richmond
will be again adopted.
/ CONNECTICUT hasher election on the first
/ Monday in April. No call is made for con-
cripts ON that State-at presently. Y.
Sunday Times.
A NEW oil fountain which discharges
eight hundred barrels day has been recent
ly discovered in Pleasant county, West
Virginia. .,,. = ar t-se.t sstsasfi
IT is reported that the President has sent
| for Gen. Fremont to give him an important
command. He could not take shorter way
| to use him up as Presidential candidate
| than to allow him to show his incapacity as
a military commander. - Neobugport
Herald.
THE investigation of the New York Gus
tom House has developed the fact that there
has been brisk cotton trade between Mata-
moras and New York. One cargo of 700
bales got in quite recently. III, tr~gg
A MARRIAGE took place at Newburyport,
Mass, last week in which the ceremony of
joining hands was entirely omitted, the
bridegroom having no hands to use. He
had his arms blown off at the shoulders by
a powder explosion, not even stumps re-
maining to which artificial arms can be at
tached.
FIFTY Germans, most of them veteran
warriors, arrived in Portland, Me-, on the
26th ult., direct from "fatherland," having
been hired to come to this country and en-
list on the quota of Boston. Fifteen hundred
of these Germans have been engaged to en-
list on the quota of Boston, and a detach-
ment is expected hereafter by every steamer.
II. S. Brown, radical Republican, pub
fishes an article nearly four columns in
length in the Milwaukee Ne,cs, all of which
Is directed against Mr.. Lincoln. 9
LoNGEvTTY.-Nancy James, colored
woman, has just died at Philadelphia at the
age of one hundred and ten years. Among
her domestic furniture were her shroud and
coffin, made for use twenty years ago. 4,
The town of Melrose, Mass, it seems,
showed the same spirit as Somerville, at its
election, on Monday, the 2Sth ult., the citi-
zens' ticket having been elected by de-
cided majority over that of the Union
leaguers.
IT is now shown that pretended official
Report which was published not long ago,
purporting to have been made by the Con-
federate Secretary of the Navy, is a fabri-
cation.
THE SOCIAL Evn-The magnitude of one
social evil that afflicts Washington in these
times is indicatedin part by the fact that the
new court there has, in the past few
months, imposed an aggregate of about
$4,000 in fines upon keepers Of houses of
i'll repute, and near about the whole of it
has been duly paid. -,9rr,
AN officer arrested a man in Philadelphia
Saturday morning, the 26th ult. on suspi-
cion of burglary, and handed his prisoner
to brother officer for safe keeping. The
prisoner, however, as soon as his captor had
left him, turned upon the officer who had
him in charge and shot him. Four balls
entered the officers body-three in the
back and one in the shoulder-and 1t is sup
POoNN
capped. y llat iil4t ~ +J0tN
The New York Ne,o Nation, the Fremont
organ, is in favor of abandoning the Balti-
more Convention, and suggests ITO the
whole people of the United States the idea
Of calling, before the holding of this nomi-
mating convention, a general convention of
the people, to be held at central point far
from eXtraneous influence, where the will
of the people of the United States could be
freely manifested, promising in advance to
submit to their decision, and urging the
Baltimore Convention, in the name of the
respect due to the popular will to follow
our example,"
1T is related of the late Mr.. Owen Love
joy that he kept the fleetest horses i'm the
country, and that these were used in carry
ing fugitive slaves to Canada. Once he was
accused of being President of the Under
ground railroad. He replied that he was
not its President, but he was its conductor.
1t is also reported of him that when speak 4
ing on slavery he would clench his fist at
the Southern members, and that he learned
this from his mother who, in teaching her
children the Abolition doctrine, would
clench her fist and gesticulate to impress it
upon their minds.
FROM CHATTANOOGA. A Chattanooga
dispatch, dated March 2S says:
Major Generals Buell., Negley, McCook,
Newton and Sykes, and ten
Brigadiers, have been ordered to report to
Gen. Sherman for duty in his division.
Buell. will likely succeed Schofeld in COM
mand of the Army of the Ohio, and Scho-
field have command suitable to his rank. \
Deserters report that Johnston is reinforc-
ing Lee. 1