The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-05-16
NEWS ITEMS.

<SS oen. Ac cCiellaH was Stfuck Dy a
piece of SHE'LL at the battle of Williams
burg. but was not injured.
G1~ Flocks Of contrabands daily bring
valuable information touching the move
ments of rebel troops
Es- Paris letters say jeff Davis has
invested two hundred thousand dollars
in French stocks.
ES- A rebel spy had been captured
while endeavorlng to cross the Mississippi
at night in skiff. He had copies Of
several late Northern papers. He was
placed in confn+ ment.
Es- AT Memphis sugar and molasses
IN large quantities is on the bluffs ready
to be rolled into the river, and all the
stock OF cotton is ready to be fired, ON the
approach of the Federal feet.
EH A Senator was offered twenty
thousand dollars by applicants for place
in the list of Pennsylvania Avenue Rail-
road corporators.
@- The Baltimore American contains
several COMMUNICATIONS urging the aboI-
lshment of slavery in Maryland.
Es- Prince Napoleon, in private let
ters, congratulates America on recent vic.
torres, and says he foresaw them, and
foresees the destruction of slavery.
G1- A refugee from Jackson, Miss,
reports the headquarters of Beauregard at
Pocahontas, with not far from $4,000
troops concentrated around him.
G Lovell's army was at latest ad-
vices at Patchapaho, on the New Orleans
and jackson Road, fifty miles north Of
New Orleans
E MADISON, Wis, May 8.-The
funeral of Gov. Harvey yesterday was
largely attended. The ceremonies were
very impressive. Bells were tolled, and
business houses closed. The hearse was
drawn by white horses with black plumes.
The body was escorted by the military to
its last resting place.
| Es- Mr. Harrison Thompson, great
stock raiser of Kentucky, has contracted
with the Government to furnish four hun
dred mules for Fremont's army, to be de-
lliyered in Covington within the next ten
days.
~ The official return of fifty -one
counties in Western Virginia, shows the
vote to have been 6,O52 for, and 6ls
Iagainst emancipation.
ES- The Methodist Church has now
redundancy of preachers; in some Com
erences there are thirty men for ten
places.
GE Rev. Samuel Green, sentenced in
Mary land, five years ago, to ten years
imprisonment for having in his possession
a copy of Uncle Toms Cabin, has been
pardoned by Governor Bradford. He and
lis wife are now penniless, but will find
friends no doubt.
E John Brown, Jr., writes that his
company have liberated seventeen hum
dred slaves in the last four months They
operate in Western Missouri.
EE The old demand notes are likely
= to rise in premium. Government may
+ have to buy $4,000, 900 of them on or
before May Is, to repay the banks aud
q other lenders.
0 re- A rich man named Budd lately
: died in London, leaving fa0O, 900 to his
sons, on condition that they shall never
. wear moustaches otherwise the property
S is to be applied to charitable object.
GS The Princess Alice of England is
] soon to marry the Prince Louis of Hesse-
Darmstadt, and the marriage treaty has
been published in the London papers.
Gw The Portuguese government ex-
e empts from export duty, for ten years, all
cotton produced in the Portuguese Afri-
can possessions.
! ES- The patriotic Germans of Cincin-
: natl have just subscribed So, 200 in aid
e of our sick and wounded soldiers at Pitts
e burg Landing The Germans are FIRST IN
the rsuks, aud among the readiest to give
t when they do not fight.
/, Eg- The exports from New York for
last week were $r,esI, ,s99 against 81,
e 3l1, III last year and S-,064,c67 in
1860.
e E 4 very worthy member Of the
: Society of Friends, in Baltimore, strong
e anti-slave:y man, was inquiring recently
0 of party of shareholders, whether they
would sell him two slaves. This inquiry
created the most profound astonishmcn mt,
D to be deepened stiff further BY the a,owa
q that he wanted to become IA slayeholder
, in order that he mi -sht havp ~ RIGHT tc
plead with Shareholders for the abolition
' of slavery in Mary land. on Mr. Lincoln
: plan !
II ias The congregation of one OF the
It churches il, Troy. N. Y, were somewha
amused Sunday morning, TO find in each