The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-12-26

be made Secretary.
OF The Siiver Moon arrived at Gin
cinnat on the 18th with 40 bales of Cot
ton from Memphis, and the A urord with
20 bales, making a total of 400 bales.
OF The tobacco crop Of Pcnnsylya-
MIA is fully as good as that Of last year.
Tho leaf is not so large, but the quality
is as good, If not better.
OF The Louisville Democrat has sus-
pended in consequence OF the paper FAM
inc, SO that the Journal is now the only
paper printed in Louisville.
OF Garrett Smith of New York, has
sent to the Treasurer Of the fund now
raising to relieve the Dcstitution Of
England" his drift for one thousand dol
lars.
OF Politicians at Columbus, are dis
cussing the Senatorial question with
great vigor. Wade, Tod, and Groesbcck
are talked of most. 1t is hinted that the
new candidates will soon be announced
OF Cotton is arriving at Cairo from
Memphis so fast that spectators have
been glad to realize at reduced rates.
The country which Gen. Grant is OPEN
ing up is prolific with cotton.
OF Lieut.. Ryan, of the 7th Michigan,
was arrested and confined in the Old
Capitol, last week, for going home with
out permission from the proper uuthori-
ty.
OF Colonel French, Provost Marshal
General, of New Orleans, has issued an
order that all persons arriving at that ci-
ty, are required to take the oath Of allie
glance before landing.
0t5- A special Cairo dispatch states
that the gunboat Cairo, when 81 miles
below the mouth of the YOzoo, was
blown up by torpedo, and sunk in 6 fa-
thums OF water. No one hurt.
OF BY the last arrival from New Or
leans, we notice that General Butler has
levied un assessment Of $2s,ooo on Cot
ton Brokers, of New Orleans. These
brokers had advised the planters not to
send Produce abroad, in order to induce
foreign intervention.
or Way down in South Carolina, On
St. Salmon Island, a company of the
blacket kind OF darkies have been doing
picket duty, and as the record runs, doing
it well. a few days ago, they proceeded
up the Darion and captured several Re-
bel officers and Rebel Marshal, who no
doubt feel highly insu'ted at being made
captivcs by" niggcrs."
o. There is rumor from hcadquar-
tcrs, that Gen. Banks has gone to operate
against Mobile, and is to supercede Gen.
Butler at New Orleans. He will have com.
mand OF 10000 men. The balance of
the force is to counteract any schemes
of Flance in the Southern States, and to
cooperate in opening the Mississippi.
01.y- The Chicago Journal pertincntly
queries Of peace spouter in that city,
named Morrick, what evidence he has
that the South wishes to restore the
"Union as il was!" fthcrc be such evil
dence, then why do they try to destroy it
"as it wasl" LIT them lay down their
arms, ana the Union is at once restored.
OF Ex- President Buchanan has pub
lishcd still another letter in reply to the
last one of Gen, Scott. lilo attempts to
deny the facts stated by Gen. Scott aud
to show that the Southern States had no
unusual quantity of arms. Evidently the
Old Pub. Func. is not only traitor but a
fool.
o. The memorial to Congress for an
airline railroad to Point of Rocks, con-
meeting thence to Cumberland, thence by
partially completed road to Connersville
and on to Pittsburg, would shorten the
distance Of travel between Washington
and Pitts5urg one hundred and ten miles,
and between Washington and Wheeling
one hundred and six miles.
TuE MURDER OF ALLsMAN,-Tho St.
Louis correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser states that Ais
man, for whose abduction Gen. Mcneil
executed ten rebel guerrilla cut-throats
has returned alive, is false, and that Ger.
Mcneil has in mis- possession informa-
ton that Allsm0n was led out and shot
the day after his capture.
or A letter, recently discovered,
written by Jacob Thompson, Secretary
of the Interior, under " Old Buck" in
which he gloriously describes the good
prospects for Confederate success as ear
ly as the fall Of 1850, and thus aludes to
Buchanan "lIe is the uruest friend to
the South have ever known from the
North. He is js,osl and man But
my duty now is to the South"
IMMENSE "SLAuGHrER." The Cleve