Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-04
catch 90 ''loose niggers?" Hurrah for

GAVIN ~ iooSc HiSSe[S' huEEan IOr
Gen. Patterson!
Justice.
The daily Leavenworth Times says:
"Eleven OF the assassins engaged in the
burning Of the Platte River bridge have
been summa rily executed" for which all
honest people will be duly thankful, and
to which all good christians will respond,
lmen!
NobIy Done.
We have the official report of Major
Jas. IL. Goodman, of the 4th Ohio Regi-
ment, to the Commanding General, Civ
ing an account of his splendid achieve
ment at Petersburg, Va. None of our
men were killed, and but one or two
badly wounded. After giving partic-
ular account of the fight, the rout Of the
enemy, and the pursuit by our gallant
boys, he says:
1--WE released six Union prisoners held
by the Rebels--took four of the Rebels
prisoncrs-fye large Virginia wagons,
four of which were loaded with provis-
ions for the Rebel army-three negro
slaves, teamsters, driving the loaded
wagons-twenty three horses-nineteen
sets harness, about four hundred barrels
OF shelled corn, seventeen tents, and
small quantity of coffee, rice, &c, as per
schedule herewith furnished"
Nine of the Rebels were known to be
killed and large number wounded
They did some of the fastest running
on record. There were 500 Rebels and
29O Ohio boys. Good!
Caleb Cushing,
The President of the Breckenridge
| wing of the Democratic Charleston and
Baltimore Conventions, has come up no
bly,, to the rescue of the country. He
made one of the grandest speeches of
the day at Salisbury, Mass, on the 18th
inst. After giving in his adhesion fully
to the war, and in support of the Ad-
ministration, he closed with these elo-
quent words:
And let us now in this great temple
of nature, by the music of this sounding
ocean, swear to be faithful to the Gov
ernment of the United States, and to re-
store the Constitution of our country.
FRIDAY, Sept. q.
The news by the daily papers of yes
terday is unimportant. The exciting
reports of the day before, that the Rebel,
Gen. Price, with his army, was surroun-
ded by United States forces at Lexing-
ton, Missouri, and about to be captured,
is contradictcd, as we feared it would be.
Are these daily sensation articles got up
by the city papers for the purpose of
sellingthe next edition? 1t really looks
like it. In almost every paper, whole
columns of the most exciting rumors of
impending engagements are given, under
startling head Lines, the official accounts
of which may be looked for the next
day. But the next days paper, which
is bought un in thousands by the excl
ted populace, coolly announces that the
reported conflict was all mistake, but
that, at some other point, terrible
battle had just commenced, the full par
ticulars of which could not be had be-
fore the next issue And SO it goes
from day to day. The mammoth dailies
have usually from five to ten mortal
columns, thus filled. And they are
grabbed up by eager crowds, who, ours
ing the contradiction of the false re-
ports of yesterday, PIN their faith anew
upon the equally unfounded rumors of
to-day. When any of these rumors are
confirmed, they will appear in the Tele-
graph.
SATURDAY, Sept %.
The daily papers Of yesterday are
filed up, as usual, with contradictory ru-
nors from all directions. Reports of