The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-12-03
weekly SUMMARY Of News Items.

General Pope ich Milwaukee. ON the
2Tth ult tor Washington. .e0Ffgt
Over fifty thousand shelter-teuts have
been furnished during the past two weeks
to the army ofGcneral Rosencrans.
1t is ascertained that Captain Gourly. of
ert l.. McCook. fAf
Bloody work must cnsue whenever the
closing battle ol the rebellion is fought.
within u few ,iays or weeks at tho latest.
Reverly Johnson's visit to New Orleans.
made us Sl05, 900 poorer and the rebels that
much richer.
General Negley thinks the enemy are
over 10000 strong in Middle Tennessee.
Other testimony places their number ut
&c 600 of all arms.
Major General Wright is requested by
General Rosecrans to arrest the Editor of
the New Albany Ledger, for violating the
5Tth article Of war.
The rebel papers effect to treat Burnsde's
march to Fredericksburg as retreat of his
whole army from before Stonewall jackson. !.
One more such retreat will llruin the rebels.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph, of the
27th ult. states that Motagorda, lndionola
and Powderhorn have all been taken 10y the
Federals. The rebels were concentrating
at Iavaces for fight
The War Department has recently been
urged from mercantile quarters to devote
the proceeds of all sales of cotton on account
of the United States Government to tho
equipment of African regiments,
Railroad connection between Louisville
and Nashville is now complete. A train
left Louisville on the morning OF the 26th
ult.. and arrived at Nashville the same even.
ing.
Reports come from the West Indies that
a large q'iantity of army goods is making
up on the islands, supposed to bo for the
Rebels. Whether supplies from this quar-
ter will be allowed to enter the Southern
coast the blockading squadron must decide,
Advices from Holly Springs state that
nearly the entire population had emigratcd
| All the stores, and most of the private res
denccs were closed. There is a small Con-
| fedratc force there, but not quartered per
manently. The Federals occupy Hudson
vile, ! miles north.
Clothing was shipped last week from,
New York to the Department of the Gulf
for the fugitive blacks there who are in the
employ of the Government. This clothing
is gotten up very choaply, and is issued to
the blacks at cost price, the amount to be
deducted from their wages.
Staflords proiectile, which accomplished
such wonderful results in u test at West
Point recently, has to-day, at trial at the
Washington Navy-Yard, with rifcd 100
pound Dahlgreen gun, surpassed all its
| former efforts, and demonstrated the fact
that iron-clads are as vulnerable to it as
wooden walls are to ordinary shot.
The Grenada (Miss.) appeal learns, from
several sources, that tine Federals in West
ern Tennessee and vicinity, and at Holly
| Springs are forbidding farmers to SOW
wheat, declaring thrt they will not be al
| lowed to raise 1.-THE Fedcrals' purpose be
ing to prohibit the production of anything
| but cottan.
General Ilarney's expedition consisting
of II transports, carrying about 5000 men
which left Helena, Ark, some days since
and proceeded to the mouth of White
River, but, owing to the shallowness of the
water could 60 no further, has returned tc
Helena. Its destination is said to have beer
Little Rock,
Sixty paroled rebel officers and soldiers
voluntarily took the oath of allegiance n
Nashville ON the goth ult., also number o
rebel oitigenR, On the same day, fifty par
oled Federal officers and soldiers, who haC
surrendered in cowardly manner to th'
rebels at different times, We're marche'
through the streets, dressed in night-caps
and sent to Camp Chase.
letter from General Erosion OF th'
rebel army in Tennessee, gives very
gloomy picture of the future aspect OF rebe
affairs. He advises his wife lin Nash
ville) to look fer peace IL some happie
land, until this cruel war is over: He say
that James B. Clay (tle recreant son o
Henry 0lay) bitterly denouppes Arage fo
disappointing the expectations which he in
sprired Clay has no command. Prestol
says Clay is discontinued, disappointed anC
angry as to Kentucky. She has become al
open shame, | fear, to our enemies, a scorl
and derision even to Yankees, to whom sh'
was betrayed
The REBEL PIRATE ALARAMA.--This vesse
is well calculated to fight or run. She ha
made most of her captures under canvass
She ID u now steamer ofabout nine hundred
tons carries one hundred side guus, thirty
two Founders, two traverse guns, one
sixty-eight and the other rited one hun
dred FOUNDER. She has three masts, witt
square topsails and top gallant sailq on tn
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