Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-16
NEWS CLIPPINGS.
WAsHINoToN, May Z.

writes, and bore q cross examination
from the Generals and correspondents
without flaw iu his testimony, which is
entirely credited.
lit is known here that Gen. Low
ell, with his whole New Orleans army,
has e-enforeed Beauregard.
Gen. Mcdowell is organizing the
fugitive blacks into companies, under
officers of the same color. He has es-
tablished regular line Of promotion,
paying from twenty five cents and one
ration to a full day-laborer' wages.
White soldiers are henceforth to handle
musksts exclusively.
.-- Colonel Jennison of Kansas is
here. He feels sure of his ability to
prove his charges of Secession procliv
tiles on Gen. Sturgis. Gen. Craig, the
Missouri Congressman, is to be put in
command Of the Department of Kansas.
---- Mercier, and other foreign min
listers, are thunderstruck at the evacua-
ton of Yorktown. They had written
as sober truth the boasts heard at Rich
mond, and expected rebel victory on
the Peninsula Mercier says he don't
know what to think now.
NASHVILLE, May q:
--.A wounded Federal CaptaNiust
in from Lebanon, states that the men
and women fired from the houses on our
soldiers. The soldiers caught men in
! the act and desired to hang them, but
were. prevented by the General.
The Confederate prisoners number
more than one hundred and eighty.
Twenty three rebels were buried. Sew
s1teen were found hid under haystacks.
Morgan, in his flight, crossed the
Cumberland river at Carthage, with
twenty men and one horse
WASHINGTON, May 10.
The Senate yesterday rejected a
long list of naval nominations restoring
/ officers resigned before the war to their
former relative positions, on the ground
that it would work I'M ustiee to those al
! ways remaining in the service.
Returned prisoners from Rich
mond say that week ago large meet
ing was held, to decide whether Or not
70 burn the city. Property holders and
business men were against the measure,
the rifraff were for destroying the place.
| The prisoners think the artillery, after
being shipped South was suddenly sent
| North, with the intention of attacking
Mcdowell. The rebels were hauling
stone to James river to sink, for the pur-
pose Of preventing the gun boats coming
up. The returned men represent Will
liam Churchill, deserter from the First
Ohio Cavalry, as one Of the prison
guards, and as the most cruel Of all in
the treatment of the prisoners.
IA council Of war was held at
Norfolk, attended by the rebel Secre
tary of War and the Navy, Gen. Huger
and other officers. Evacuation was de-
termined upon. Commodore Goldsboro
reports as the result of reconnaissance
Thursday, that fewer troops and only
II guns are there.
49,. Up to now one hundred and
forty five petitions, for five hundred aad
thirty eight slaves, valued at three
hundred thousand dollars, have been
sent in.
Slidell & Co. are turning Catho-
lies, to win French sympathy, represent
ing the war as an effort by hereto
Yankees to subjugate men of the true
faith.
WASHINGTON, May II.
Major Scott of the Postoffice De-
partment carries to New Orleans six
thousand foreign letters accumulated
within the last two or three months.
Prince Napoleon writes that the
cause of freedom and progress. is repre-
sented by the North. lie is close y al
lied with the same cause in Europe, and
hence takes lively interest in our tri-
umph over the South.
- Fifty-one members, including
several Senaters-amopg them Sauls-
bury and PoHell-attended Democracy
resucitating cauens yesterday. kellogg
was the only Republican, Crittenden
presided There was the usual talk
contra anti-slavery and pro- compromise
- General Scott told Mr.. Wash
burne Of the House last October that
the backbone Of the rebellion was to be
broken this May OF before.
Taxes on raw cotton and slaves
are again in favor and will be strongly
pressed in the Senate.
----A An American sugar planter, now
in Cuba, writes to friend here that he
discovers the leading and intelligent
planters in favor of gradual emanci.
: patton, on the ground that Spain viii
be bullied into it sooner or later, ano
had better control the policy herself
A committee presented a memorial te
this effect to the Queen.
CHICAGO, May TO-.
Fort Wright Geserters, who ar
rived at the feet yesterday, assert pos
.itively that all the land forces have
been Withdrawn from the fort, save
barely enough to work the guns.
JEFF Thompson came up yesterday
: and exchanged couple of surgeons cap
tured at Belmont, for rebel officers o
equal rank. He has command of th'
forces both ahoat and ashore. ~
WASHINGTON, May IL.
IA large number of loyal black
arrived at Fredericksburg, direct from
Richmond, to-day. They represen
the rebel force increasing in front o
Mcdowell, and the panic increasing il
the rebel capit'l.