Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-10
FROM THE SOUTH.
Interesting Summary of News.

~ CHATTANOOGA, March Z.
~ have rebel papers which teen with ac.
counts Of the repulse of our forces befor,
Richmond, but you already have reports
from Washington or Fortress Monroe. In
dispatch dated Richmond I'd the particulars
of the fight at Westham are given, also al
Alto on the Central railroad. In both they
claim to have been successful. This dis.
patch windsup by saying "at last accounts
the raiders were attempting to cross the
Pamunky at New Castle, with a view o.
Joining their forces on the Peninsula
Another dispatch dated Orange Court
House, March 4, Il think the date must be Q
mistake) gives the following which / send,
alta venture, sthe enemy's raiding party
got within two miles Of Charlottesville yes
tteerday evening when Beckhanl's horse ar
tillery and Major, Mason with body, oi
mounted and fiirloughedm met and drove
them back across the river. ,aaq s, .y,e- shq
The enemy's camp fires were visible four
miles from Charlottesville last night.
Another party of the ereniy's cavalry
crossed below at Ely's Fork, and reached
Frederickshall yesterday, tearing up the
track, but did not catch the train,y which
was signaled in time to return to Gordons-
ville.l or. ...z. .t II. AL
The enemy are also demonstrating In our
front.
Such arrangements have been made as
ought to insure the safety of Charlotts-
From various sources. / CLEAN tile follow
ing intelligeneeinffotn allyparts OF the
South: ,,esq :. stpr ln~ y.
!. General rWma Gardiner, commanding the
rebel troops, in Seymour's hattleb has as
snmed command of all the rebel forces in
Floritia.a aa4"f ~ 'sdl'Y@ li9' hriaGf 10
The Tallahassee Floridiaa says 200 Yankee
wounded have been brought to that city
since the battle of Olustee, mostly foreign
ers and negroes; that the foreigners were
miserable looking fellows not bit too
good to be put upon an equality with the
negroes, and that in the hospital, in every
case, whites and negroes were laid side by
side, in order to give the whites taste of
the equality they are fighting for. 1t fur
ther states that more than one thousand
dead bodies of Union soldiers have already
been. buried on the battlefield, and that the
rebel dead only numbered one hundred and
thirty-fvc, exclusive of thirty who after
ward died of their wounds.
The Savannah Ne,cs of February 26 says
a party of seventy-five Yankee cavalry
went to Gainesville last week, and captured
one hundred and fifty negroes and con-
veyed them to Jacksonville. .Isa.
The rebels say that with the exception of
two left at Vicksburg, the Mobile and Ohio
railroad has lost no locomotive since tie
war began.
The Mississippi papers endeavor to make
light of the damages done by Sherman to
the railroads in that State. The Chatta-
nooga Advertiser, published at Quitman, was
destroyed by special orders from General
Sherman. The publishers of the Southern
Republic, at Columbus, Mississippi, shipped
their press and materials on raftat Sher-
mans approach, and floated down the Tom
bigbee. Geo. Brown, of Georgia, telegraphs
him to furlough, the members of the Legis-
lature now serving as officers in the army,
rs he has called meeting of the Legisla-
ture for the 10th of March. The rebel Sec
retary replies by positively refusing to ac-
cede to the request. ra