Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-15
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS,

village of New Lexington, Ohio, and Il
creating sad havoc. The victims seldom
survive more than three days after the first
attack.
THERE were 1,4O3 enlistments in Ohio last
week, making total number under the
two calls of 23S11. The States quota still
wants about 6,OO0 of being full.
DIsoRDERLY SoLDIERs.-The Cincinnati
| Gazette of Monday says:
| Nearly every day during the past week
4 squads Of half-drunken and reckless SOL
i diers, Of the 5th Ohio cavalry, who have
been quartered in Fifth and Sixth street bar
! racks for several weeks, have committed
some outrage on the property or persons OF
/ citizens, and without any proyocation.--
They have been arrested several times, but
as soon as little sobered, or when called
i for by their officers, they have been releas-
| ed, by somebody, without even the form Of
trial. Taking it for granted, on account Of
such treatment, that they can set civil law
at defiance, they have day after day become
more disorderly and riotous, and we unite
\ with the citizens in that vicinity In protest.
| ing against their remaining there any long
er. They should be sent to Camp Denni-
son, or some other regular camp outside OF
the mischievous influences of the city.
AMoBILE paper says that some rebel sol
diers recently had fight with band of de-
serters in Jones county. Alabama, captured
q number, and hanged and shot ten.
GENERAL SIGEL assumed command Of the
DEPARTMENT. of West Virginia on Thursday.
GENERAL LEW. WALLACE has been ap-
pointed to the command Of Gen. Schenck's s
old department, with headquarters at Bal
timore.
BREcKINRIDGE supersedes Sam Jones in
command of the department of Southwest
Virginia. The rebel Brigadier General Ma
hone has been made Major General, and
military superintendent of all the southern
railroads.
GENERAL BUcKLAND, commanding the
District of Memphis, has just issued an inn
portant order relating to the militia. 1t
provides that on all occasions when the reg
iments of enrolled militia are on duty, bu-
siness in the city shall be suspended and
houses closed. The provost guards will en-
force the order.
GEN. SHERMAN had returned from New
Orleans and was at Memphis on Sunday.
THREE hundred and thirteen National
Banks, with an aggregate capital Of 8 10 0O0,-
600, have been organized.
A WASHINGTON dispatch Of the 18th inst
says:
1t is estimated, at the War Department,
that the number of new enlistments under
the call for 100000 men, in all the States, up
to the 1st of April, will foot up 100000. A
draft will certainly be required to fill the
quotas of Kentucky and Maryland. The
War Department still contemplates a fur
ther call for 100000 men.
THE number of hogs packed at Chicago
last season, was 100000, being falling off
of $1,000 as compared with last year. De-
crease in weight, IL per cent-equal to 1l7,-
600 head. &
IT is understood that the Secretary Of the
War Department has reversed the decision
of the Provost Marshal General, that dis
tricts which had not filed their quota must
stand the draft, even though the State had
in other districts raised more than enough
surplus to fill this deficiency.
ACCORDING to Washington reports Gen.
Grant is to return to the National Capital
from the West, and will, it is said, direct
the movements of the Army of the Poto-
mac in person. Gen. Sherman is to take his
place in the West, and Gen. Mcpherson Is
to take Sherman's place on the Mississippi.
Gen. w. S. Smith supersedcs Gen. Meade in
command of the Army of the Potomac.
A MmLEDGEvILLE, Ga, dispatch of the
10th inst, states that Hon. Linton Stevens
had introduced into the House of Represen-
tatives of that State resolution, declaring
the power to suspend the hd6eds corpus yet
limited by prohibition, and that no person
shall be deprived of liberty without due
process of law, which must come from the
courts and not from the Executive, and that
the act of Congress, attempting to sustain
arrests under process of orders from the ex-
ecutive, is void.
The Newburyport Mass, Herald comes
out with vigorous recommendation Of
Gen. Banks for the Presidency.
The mock marriage got up at the late
Sanitary Fair in Brooklyn, N. Y by Rev.
Mr.. Cuyler, is generally condemned by the
Eastern press, and euer, says an exchange,
by many preachers.
THE Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sentinel states
that the freezing and thawing weather of
the past month has seriously injured the
wheat crop in that region, and that its pres
ent appearance does not indicate more than
half crop. The Indiana exchanges gen.
orally give similar accounts.
In Newark, N. j., a few days since, a lit
tie girl eight years old, was caught on a
shaft in a sash and blind factory, and was
whirled around at the rate of 240 revolutions
minute, her head striking the ground
every time. Her clothing was entirely strip
ped from her. Her skull and its contents
were carried away, and both her arms and
legs broken. When extricated, the body
was so crushed, that recognition would
have been impossible.