Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-04
Rebel Accounts.

PHILADELPHIA, March IA special
Washington dispatch to the Bulletin says
Richmond papers of yesterday are received
The Wing contains telegraph dispatch
from Fayetteville, North Carolina, stating
that no Federal forces have advanced in that
direction from Wilmington.
The Dispatch says that Singleton has ar
rived at Richmond. 1t adds, his mission is
q commercial one, he proposing to ex-
change bacon for cotton. All the other pa
pers intimate that it is of private charac-
ter.
Congressman VIM. C. Rivers, of Va, has
resigned his seat.
The Daily Dispatch of yesterday says a
Union cavalry force is moving down the
valley towards Staunton.
A special dispatch to the Columbia En-
quirer, dated Mariana, Fla. Feb. 11th, in
forms that journal that Capt. Dickinson had
captured So prisoners, including one Colonel,
three Captains and one Lieutenant; also ten
wagons, sixty horses, one ambulance, and a
quantity of arms, &c. The enemy lost in
killed five, including their AdjutaDt, and
four wounded, including their Colonel. Not
one of Dickinson's company was lost.
General B. j. Hill having been author
lied to raise brigade of mounted men in
North Alabama, will make his headquar-
tiers alternately at Rome, Ca, and Gadsden,
Ala. Beauregard authorized General Hill
to proclaim an amnesty and pardon to all
men improperly absent from their COM
mands, who may join his brigade.
In military point of view, everything
is quiet in the Trans Mississippi region
The rivers are higher now than they have
been for years, but no apprehension is felt OF
land invasion by the enemy.
P1oolyo1a runnino hatxunau
and the West Indies is carried on very sue
cessfully, perhaps rivaling in this respect
the ports Of Wilmington and Charleston
Quite number of steamers have run in
and out of Galveston during the past fort
night. Government stores in Texas and at
Shreveport are full of clothing and other
necessaries. The expedition fitting out at
New Orleans is believed to be intended for
Galveston and not Mobile. The army OF
the Mississippi is in excellent spirits
and condition. The troops are well sup
piled with clothing, food and munitions OF
war.
The message of Gov. Allen, of Louisiana,
urges the placing of 100000 negroes in the
army as pioneers, wagoners, etc. The mes
sage meets universal appreciation in Louis
lana.
A correspondent of the Montgomery Ap-
peal, Wrltlng from GrenaQa, MISS, says
Affairs on the border are in terrible con-
dition, the country being filled with bands
of jayhawkers and robbers, principally de-
serters, whose deeds rival the famous days
of Dick Turpin, and such reign of terror
has been inaugurated that travel is almost
broken up in some portions of the country
Coupled with these are large numbers OF
soldiers returning to their homes on fur
Tough, who are vowing vengeance on spec
ulators in the northern counties, who have
refused to take Confederate money for corn
and other necessaries of life for their fam
lilies, and unless something is speedily done
by those in authority we may look for a
desperate state of affairs here during the
present month.
ATupelo letter furnishes the following
Gen. Forrest told a body here few days
ago that he would be left alone to hold the
bag in this section, and that it would be a
prettg big bay. b,s. .,sse s-s . ..e.,aty
Coi. Patterson, commanding brigade in
Roddy's division, has been successful in
breaking up stills in Alabama along the
Mississippi fine. Many farmers in North
east, Mississippi carry their grain across the
line to be distilled into whisky, thus evad-
ing the law prohibiting its manufacture
Manypoor soldiers families suffering for
bread. lO aEaq F7al iat3 ~ as auo