The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-09-26
COUNTY TICKET.
EP1ToME OF NEWS.

6F1IOM6 OE N6WS.
= Com. Wilkes has sailed with his
squadron for the West Iudia waters.
Our advices from New Orleans are
important. The steamer Essex had bonn
barded Natchez and the place had sur
rendered. The Texan expedition into
New Mexico, under Sibley, as our read
ers already know. was perfect failure.
His men were SO enraged that they mur-
dered him, in the neighborhood of Ell
Paso, as they were on the retreat.
The small river ..or creek, so fire.
quently alluded to in the dispatches as
scene of the recent conflicts in Maryland,
is called Antietam pronounced. s.An-tee-
TAM. 1t rises on the line of Franklin
and Adams counties, Pennsylvania, and
falls into the Potomac between Martins
burg and Harper's Ferry.
Gov, Curtin of Pennsylvania says
e72.0oo men have responded to the call
for the defense of the State, and he ex-
poets the whole 100000 to be in very
soon. They are equipped and sent to
the border as fast as possible.
Gen. Hunter is yet without COM
mand. His friends are urging that he
should be permitted to have command
sufficiently Independent to enable him to
hunt down Stonewall jackson.
"A thorough inquiry into the santa
ry condition of the army under Gen. Nc
Clellan has boen ordered by the Surgeon
General, and Medical Inspectors Vollum,
Mussey and Humphreys are to do the
work.
Reports circulated in the West that
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad is
or has been destroyed or in danger of
destruction by invasion, are authorita-
lively denied.
The Secretary of War has authori-
zed.. the commandant al. Cairo to hire out
the contrabands who are arriving there
by hundreds daily from Cairo, to Illinois
employers, and to transport them to their
destinations at Government expense
Whenever their help is desired, COM
mittee of responsible citizens must be
found to make the application, and they
will also act as guardians to the negroes,
to see that they are well treated.
"A man who was in the hospital at
Libby Prison, in Richmond, and who left
that city on Saturday, says that for the
first two weeks after capture, Gen. Pope's
officers were very harshly treated, being
crowded into room with hundred 9th
er prisoners, and kept on prison fare
without the privilege Of purchasing any
thing outside. But more recently have
been better used, have room by them
selves, and the privilege of buying what
ever they please. Rebel sentries fire a
all who look out of the windows, and have
killed one soldier and wounded one ol
General Pope's officers. Medicines are
scarce-the little they have are used TO
their own sick; scurvy is the principa
disease.
Elias Howe Jr., the inventor of tn
sewing machine whose income is quar-
ter of a million dollars year, has enlist
ed as a private in the 18th Connection
regiment.
When General Rene fell, Generf
Sturgis was in a few yards of him. II
was in command of the division formerl
commanded by Reno, increased by sew
eral new regiments; and the men had jus
distinguished themselves in driving tn
rebels from the summit o. the Blue Ridge
These Generals were bosom friends; ha
been classmates at West Point, and grad
uated together. When Reno fell, Sturg
ran to his assistance. had him picked u
and said, 'Jesse, are you badly wounded
10 which he replied, eyes, Sam, am
dead man. Gen. Sturgis had him pls
ced upon litter and carried to the rea
where he died in an hour. His last WORD
before leaving the battlefield were" ,"Boy
can be with you no longer in body,bl
am with you in spirit
THE correspondent of the New Yo1
Times thus describes 'Stonewall'' Jacl
son as he appeared upon entering Harper
Ferry--"Old "Stonewall," after ridin
T' down to the river, returned to BOLIVIA
Heights, the observed of all observer
He was dressed in the coarsest kind
homespun, seedy and dirty at that; wol
an cd hat which any Northern begg'