Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-03-05

Is sala, until h Committee on the con-
duct OF the war have concluded their in
and brought all testimony
him to light. Several witnesses
have testified touching Balls Bluff.
During the past week Gen. Banks cross
ed Mcleod Murphy's pontoon BRIDGE.
near Harpers Ferry, without opnosition
A small hostile force force was ut FIRST
thought to be an advance guard to attack
and to indicate an intention To disnpta
his passage, but it retired as Gen. Ranks
moved forward. He now o~ccupies LON
don Heights, overlooking Harper's Ferry
and the country in the vicinity. Gen
Mcclellan superintended the movement
Geo. w. Morgan, of Ohio. and Snaors
of Tennessee, are nominated Brigad;ar
Generals. Smith, Wallace and McCIar-
nard, commanding divisions at Fort Don
elson. will be nominated Major General
and Colonies commanding brigades Brig,
adiers. S~ubordinates will receive nroner
promotions.
The brave Gen. Lander died of concos
ton of the brain and lungs. at paw paw
Va, at 40 clock last Sunday afternoon.
after an Illness of a few hours. General
Shields Is ordered to take his command.
Commodore Foote, sent a dispatch to
the Secretary of the Navy, On Feb. "a. CON
tanning encouraging news from Tennessee
and Alabama, as follows: Lieut.. Com
handing Gwinn, with the gun-boat TYLER
has just arrived from Tennessee and Ala.
bama, and reports the Union sentiment
in South Tennessee and North Alabama
as very strong. l shall send him back TO-
day, and he will call for a regiment at
Fort Henry to accompany the gun-boat
which will aid the loyal people of those
States to raise Union forces within their
borders.
Two old citizens of St. Louis who left
Memphis on Tuesday of last week. report
that on the day they left Memphis the
Legislature arrived there, and were 10
meet on the following day to discuss the
present state of affairs in that State. Peo-
pie were rapidly arriving from Nashville.
and in large numbers. All the gold and
silver that could be got had been moved
10 Memphis, and a panic of colossal di-
mansions had seized the rebels. State and
confederate scrip was of nc value what
ever.
The Secretary of War in authorizing
Gen. Lander to try, sentence and execute
Col. Annisansel, of the first Virginia. Cay
airy, for cowardice in the face of the me
my at Bloomery, q few days ago, t~estiies
to the army that the Government is as
ready to punish the poltroon, as, in case
of Gems. Grant, Smith and others. to re.
ward the brave. 1t does not appear. how.
ever, that Gen. Lander intends infiictinq
so severe a punishment on Colonel Ami.
sansal. He will simply disgrace the re,
creant Colonel by depriving him of his
sword and commission, and ordering him
forthwith out OF his military jurisdiction
Col. Annisansel IS what is known as a
Franco Swiss by birth-that is he wa.
born in the French part of Switzerland
He has been in this country for several
years, and was until recently Il teacher OF
music at Canonsburg and Pleasant Hill
Female Seminary in Washington county.
Penn.
An important official War Buletion wa:
issued on the 18th ult., from the Secre.
tary of Wars office, by order of the Presi.
dent. The order is not to interfere
with the ordinary business of conpa
MES or private business: Is is ordered
that from and after Feb. &c, the President
By virtue of an act of Congress, take.
military possession of or lines in the
United States. Second. All telegraph
communications in regard to the military
operations not expressly authorized by the
War Department, the General command
ing or the Generals commanding armies
in the field in the several Departments
are absolutely forbidden. Third. Al
newspapers publishing military news
however obtained, and not authorized BY
afEeial authority, will be excluded there
after from receiving information by tele
graph. OF from transmitting their paper
by railroad. Fourth. E.. 5. Sanford i
made military Supervisor of telegraph,
messages throughout the United States
and Arson Stager Military Superinten
dent of all telegraph lines and offices ir
the United States.
The Chicago papers describe the appear
ance of the 300 rebel prisoners who have
arrived at that city, as anything but pre-,
possessing. Many Of them wear old pieces
of carpets and hearth rugs as overcoats.-
One Texen Captain q wore five wooden
shirts, and yet complained of cold. A
mong the captives is the Rev. w. G. How
ard, formally pastor of a Baptist Church
in Chicago and afterward of a church in
New Orleans. He is n chaplain of one of
the captured regiment. The Tribune a.
ludes TO the fact OF his shaving cepreached
borrowed sermon as his OWN, and says il
he has been paid off lately. his numerous
creditors for small sums will bemuch graf
fled. 1t having been reported that some
of the rebel officers out on parole, were
being lionized by certain persons, the
Board of Trade on Friday, unanimously
resolutions censuring such con-
duct as degrading and unpatriotic.