The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-06-20
NEWS ITEMS.

Major General Butler on high political
charge, at New Orleans, and will be sent
North in few days.
H Very little business is doing in
New Orleans. The bells which were ta-
ken from the churches by order of Beau
regard were shipped to New York on,
Tuesday the 10th inst.
re- A large fire broke out in Quebec,
Canada on Tuesday, June 10. Over one
hundred houses, principally of wood, the
of the workmen in the shipyards,
were destroyed.
GS The Iron-clad frigate New Iron
sides was taken from her wharf, at Reed
street, and placed upon the sectional docks
of the Navy-yard, Philadelphia, on Satur-
day, for coppering. This is being effect,
ed as rapidly as possible, when she will be
taken back to her old moorIngs, and there
remain until she is ready for sea, which
will be ON the 10th of next month.
E The prize schooner Cora, which
arrived at Philadelphia on Saturday, in
charge of Acting Masters Mate, Charles
A. Petit and five men, has cargo of
$50 sacks of salt. She was captured by
the steamer Keystone State, off Charleston
bar, on the 3lsL ult-
W Judge Cadwalader, of the United
States District Court, Philadelphia, has
ordered the sale of the prize schooners
Wave and Asiatic, captured by vessels of
the blockading fleet. They will be sold
on the 19,h, a tCallowhill-street wharf
together with 40 bales OF cotton and 235
barrels of turpentine.
EE A correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer states that over 5000 rebels
have been buried by our troops since the
battle of Fair Oaks. One of the rebel
Generals captured still refuses to give his
name.
~ A private letter from Hilton Head,
dated the 3Oth ult., says, ON the authority
of a member of Gen. Hunters staff, that
a portion of the Connecticut Battery was
lost in cutting off the railroad between
Savannah and Charleston at the Potaliyo.
~ The Navy Department has receiv-
ed intelligence that two of our gunboats
recently penetrated through the inland
waters of South Carolina to point ten
miles above Georgetown, discovering two
or three deserted fortifcations on the way.
A rebel force of cavalry and artillery was
found at the town, but not being prepared
to hold the place, the commander of the
expedition deemed it imprudent to en-
gage them. Our force net with no resist
ance, and brought off eighty contlabands.
@ Mrs. Tallmage, wife OF Rev. T. De
Witt Tallmage, Pastor of the Second Re.
formed Dutch Church. in Philadelphia,
was drowned on Monday, while sailing in
the Schuylkill River, with her husband,
daughter, sister and neice. Mr.. Tallmage,
who has recently removed to Philadel-
phia, from Utica, ~ Y, was rowing the
boat in which the party were sailing, and
came upon the dam at Fairmount unex-
pectedly. The boat capsized, and ali in
it We're thrown into the water. The
child was recovered with difficulty, and re-
suscitated after great exertion. Mrs. T's.
body had not been recovered at last ad
vices.
H- The prospect for good crops in
Maryland is very favorable, althous h in
some sections there are complaints that
the wheat is effected by the fly and rust,
and the corn by tha cut-worm.
@ Major General Grant recently ar.
rived in Cincinnati on his way to visit
his family, who reside i'll Covington, Ky.
The hero OF Belmont and Fort Donelson
was in good health and spirits.
~ The railroad bridge at Edgefeld.
over the Cumberland, has been completed
and the trains on the Louisville d NASH
vile Road commenced crossing last week.
1t has been repaired in about a month,
and is a very substantial work.
GS- The Stanley matter has been ar
ranged. No formal order has been sent
to him, but he has been apprised of the
views of the Administration, and is ex-
pected to permit the schools OF Mr. Col
yer to be reopened.
@ The contract for building NOM
ument to the late Senator Broaderick, but
not for making a statue, Las been entered
into, the price being fixed at $4,000.
Es Report says that Captain Bona
parte Patterson. serving in the Mexican
expedition, is in high favor with the Em-
peror, and it is conjectured that he may
prove more acceptable candidate as
King or President of the Mexicans than
an Austrian prince.
Ng Senator Wilson has introduced q