Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-05-03


| Union prisoners taken.
Gen. Kirby Smith, with large
force, is, according to the Atlanta
Commonwealth, at Bridgeport, with
in seventeen miles of Huntsville. The
evacuation of the latter place by the
Yankees is predicted.
Refugees from Norfolk state that the
rebels have five wooden gunboats COM
pleted there, all of which are ready for
service that the rebels are also build
ing another Merrimac, of smaller ton
mage, and that four more are now
building at Norfolk.
The rebel Congress adjourned on
Monday last to the second Monday in
August next.
Wheeling. April 81.
Specia! to the ". Y Times. The
| combined movements ordered by Gen.
Fremont against the guerillas in Web
ster county have proved eminently sue
cessful. Lieut.. Lamson, with detach-
ment employed in this service, has re-
turned, and others are returning. In
severe running fight of several miles
Lient. Lamson killed seventeen gueril-
las, and took ten prisoners. The town
of Addison, small place, the only one
in the new county, being deserted, was
burned. 1t had been a guerilla haunt
A formidable organiza ton in Braxton,
Webster and adjoining counties is en-
tirely destroyed, the leaders proposing
to surrender. 1t is understood that
the guerillas taken will be promptly
shot.
Gen. Milroy's scouts on the 2sd inst.
attacked the rear guard Of the enemy,
ten miles east Of the Shenandoah
mountain, the boundary of this depart
ment. They killed one Lieutenant and
two men. There was none Of our men
hurt.
The rebel conscripts are DESERVING in
large numbers, swearing Unionism, and
returning home.
Fortress Monroe, April q.
A boat containing four black men
and one white man arrived here this
morning from Portsmouth. They re-
port that the Merrimac will como out
soon.
A dispatch in yesterdays Richmond
papers. received by a flag of truce,
dated Mobile. Friday, says the Union
gunboats passed Forts Jackson and st.
Phillip, at four O'clock Thursday morn
ing. and at one o'clock the same day
before New Orleans. A rumor was
current in Norfolk last nj ght that New
Orleans had surrendered.
But few troops were at Norfolk or in
the vicinity. 1t was rumored that
Com. Tatnall had been removed from
the command Of the Merrimac-
1t is stated by coatrabands that the
most intense excitement exists around
Norfolk, and they have great fear of
an attack by Burnside. Nearly all the
troops have gone to South Mills to re.
pei any advance he might make.
l COntrabs nds state that the new prov
on the Merrimac is twelve feet long, OF
wrought iron, and steel pointed. Ma.
ny citizens Of Norfolk are leaving.
The fate of New Orleans is conced.
ed by every one.
Chicago, April 81.
A special to the Tribune from Cal
70 furnishes the following from the
Memphis Avalanche
On the 18th eighty Federal cavalry
took possession of Pierpont, Arkan
sas.
There were ten thousand Fedora
troops at Doniphan, No, engaged il
building fiat boats on the Current riy.
or, with which to descend Black and
White rivers.
The condition of the roads prevent
the Federals from marching on Corinth
for some time to come. They are ma
king no move in the direction of Hum
boldt.
Martial law has been declared at
Vicksburg, and five mile, around.
A large body of Texans are at Mem
phis, Ell route for Corinth.
De Bow, solicitor for the Confeder-
ate Cotton Loan, wants twenty tho u
sand bales for special purposes, in ex-
change for eight per cent. Confederate
bonds.
Mutiny has broken out at Nashville.
in consequence Of the late abolition
message of President Lincoln. Nine
teen Federal officers have resigned.
A Kentucky regiment mutinied, and
had pitched battle with two Indiana
regiments. The Federal steamer Mont
gomery was burned, also the schooner
Columbia, loaded with cotton, inside
the St Louis Pass, west of Galveston.
Dispatches from Richmond, 22d, say
that Fremont has left Eastern Kentucky
with his whole force, 10000, and gone
to Corinth.
Washington, April 2e.
The news which comes from New
Orleans, from several rebel sources, is
deemed Of the utmost Importance. -
What England failed to do has been
accomplished by New England. The
manner in which the success at Forts