The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-04-04
NEWS OF TEE WEEK.

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10 the Stevens Battery is contained in the
bill, which also has an appropriation Of
sis.OoO,ooO to purchase gunboats with.
There will be news from General FIRE.
m,nt's Department before long. Gen
Miroy writes Of a gallant act of thirty five
scouts of the Third Virginia, who, on 8
reconnaissance TO Huntersville, were sur
rounded by two hundred and fifty rebels
and cut their way out, losing one man.
- A train on the Northwestern Rail.
road, running into Chicago, was smashed
up on Wednesday night through the
breaking of an axle, and ten Of the Third
Wisconsin Cavalry were killed, three Sc
riously wounded, and number slightly
hurt.
The agent of the Manassas Railroad and
Station Master, who have been hiding for
weeks in the mountains to avoid General
Jackson's forces, have returned and given
valuable information to Gen. Banks.
The Messrs Newcomb, mill owners in
Louisville, KY, have just received from
Nashville one hundred and forty bales OF
cotton, which they purchased before the
war broke out.
Gen. Stone is to be tried by Court
mar ial as soon as officers of rank can be
spared from active service.
Senator Lane is suffering from serious
sore throat
-f1ens. Thomas Nelson S, and Nc Cooks
divisions of General Buel's column, had
reached Dick Creek.
The latest advices from Cornth, Miss,
state that tie rebels there number 70, 1000.
A serious mutiny occurred in the Wis
consin Seventeenth regiment, at Madison,
few days ago. There was some delay in
paying them, and nearly three hundred
+, fused to obey the order to embark in the
for cars ST. Louis. They were all placed
u.der arrest
"A lecturer named William w. Holmes
died suddenly from congestion of the
lungs, on Tuesday at Schoharie. The only
person with him at the time was his little
son aged nine years. He says, "Pa told
me never to drink any liquor, and always
to keep good company, and would have
said much more, if his tongue had not
sweiled up SO that he could not talk"
Van Dorm and Price, according to the
telegraph, have gathered their shattered
forces. and retrested entirely across the
Boston Mountains. They are nov At Van
Buren and Fort Smith, 35 900 strong,
receiving supplies from Memphis and
Little Rock, via the Arkansas River.
.-(n the night Of the 26sh inst, force
ot from 500 to 500 Rebels attacked four
companies of State militia at Hummens
vile, Polk County, Mo-, and were defeat
ed with loss of Is killed and large
number wounded.
1T is thought that Emerson Etheridge
will be returned as Senator from the State
of Tennessee, as colleague of Andrew
johnson, who, of course, will resume his
seat after a loyal State government is
organized.
1t is believed in Washington that the
Senate will pass the bill for the abolition
of Slavery in the District of Columbia du
ring the week.
Gen. Buell. has assumed the command
of our forces in Mississippi, and at the la
t.st advices was within fifteen miles of
Beauregard, at Corinth.
The rebel Government is so hard up for
arms that pixies are being manufactured for
new levies. John Brown furnished the
samples.
The ladies' of Charleston are contribu-
ting jewels, silver spoons, watches and
money to build gunboat, to be called
LADIES' Gunboat,"
The day on which President Lincoln
was inaugurated, March 9TH, 1861, U. S.
6 per cent stock sold at 90 l1. After in
creasing the public debt, which then
stood at $76, 6,455, 900, to some $3.50, 900,
QUO. that same stock is now selling in the
ma. ket at 81.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times says that the late successes of the
federal troops have created liefamong
the French merchants that an arrange
ment will shortly take place by which an
end will be put to the civil war, and that
commercial relations will be resumed.
This report has had very favorable
effect in the manufacturing districts.
point, on the Lower Potomac,
WAS occupied by our troops on Friday. A
few rebel cavalry occasionally make their
appearance near the posts occupied by
our pickets.
~ Fairfax Seminary. puite recently the
headquarters of Gen. Mcclellan, is order !
ed to be vacated and surrendered to the
trustaes for rAstoration to its original mr. If