The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-05-09
NEWS ITEMS.

ES~ The rebel papers report that our
gun-boats, in passing the batteries on
their way to New Orleans, were protected
by bales of wet hay, impenetrable to cool,
and indestructible by hot shot. They
also state that the iron-clad steamer Lou
isiana, of 22 guns, the subject of many
boasts, was bored through and through,
and sunk by our steel-pointed ccnical
shot.
~ Gems. Denver and Sturgis, of ex-
treme pro-slavery, if not of Secession
sympathies, have, it is rumored, been re-
called from Kansas for the arrest of Col.
Jennison, which seems to have been MAIN
ly caused by partisan prejudice.
w- The residents of Beaufort, s. c.,
had a fine public library, the books of
which are now scattered, and the building
is flled with cotton.
re Secretary Chase says the total
national debt on the 1st of July will not
be over six hundred millions. He says he
estimates the daily expenses as overstated.
He has proposed to the Committee of
Ways and Means to issue twenty FIVE mil
lions Of the demand notes of the denomi-
nations under fves.
@ A young man of respectable pa
rentage has been arrested, in one of the
river towns in Ohio, on the charge of
robbing the post Office in that Town. @
E Senator Carlile has introduced
bill as substitute for the Homestead act,
providing that all persons in military SER
vice during the present rebellion, shall in
lieu of the one hundred dollars bounty, to
which they are now entitled, to be author
lied to enter one hundred and sixty acres
of any unappropriated lands which may
be subject to pre- emption, at one dollr
and twenty-five cents per acre, or eighty
acres at two dollars and fifty cents per
acre.
ET" The Congressional Committee ap-
pointed to investigate the rumors respect-
ing the treatment of our officers and SOL
diers, who fell in the bloody battle at
Manassas, in July last, in their report
submitted to Congress, few days since,
says" The outrages on the dead will
revive the recollections of the cruelties Il,
which savage tribes subject their prison.
ers. They were buried, in many cases,
naked, with their faces downward. They
were left to decay in the open air, their
bones being carried off as trophies, some-
times, as the testimony proves, to be used
as personal adornments /; and one witness
deliberately AYERS that the head of one of
our most gallant officers was cut off by a
, Secessionist, to be used as drinking-cup
on the occasion of his marriage.
: re Mr.. Mitchell, merchant. of New
Mexico. arrived in this city April 3lst.
He confirms the abandonment Of Santa
Fe by the rebels. They were retreating
, as fast as they could from the Territory.
Es A company of printers are on the
way to Fredericksburg, to establish
Union journal there.
~ 1t is dangerous still to visit Ma
nassas. 1t is feared that three civilians,
who left here few days since, were caps
! tured between Centreville and Manassas.
~ The Richmond Examiner de-
nounces the rebel Secretary Of War for
l lying about the battle of Shiloh.
re- The increase of bullion in the
t Bank of France, as shown in the return
for the mouth of April. is f33,O00, and
the total held is Ei6, ,64o, 600, or f3,67a-
600 beyond the amount at the commence.
ment of the year. In the same interval,
: the increase of the bullion in the Bank of
England has been f99O,,ll.
Er The st. Louis Evening News ex
presses its pleasure to learn that General
Sigel's illness is not of so serious nature
as his friends were at first given to ap-
prehend.
Eg Eleven Illinois regiments hare
voted on the new constitution Of thae
State, and of the whole number of votes
: cast there were only sixty against it. 80
~- Trustworthy reports say that Col.
Mason of the list, and Col. Appler of the
= SD Ohio, proved themselves arrant cow
ards at the fight at Pitssburg Landing.
GS- We have intelligence through
rebel sources that Fort Macon, Beaufort
N. c., surrendered on Friday to General
a Burnside's forces. after bombardment Of
ten and half hours, in which the garri-
son had seven men killed anu eighteen
. wounded.
E Gen Fremont has ordered the
members of his staff to hold themselves in
readiness to march at AN hours notice.
Gen. Blenker's division, ordered to the
Mountain department, from the Poton'ae
army, will reach Moorfeld in a few days.
when Gen. Fremont will take command