Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-02-07
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
The Grand March,

a writer in the Cincinnati Guserte
gives graphic description of the ''for- ;
ward movement" of Gen. Smiths Divi-
sion from Paducah, on the 18th ult.-
They marched through mud and rain
for seventy miles, and returned, some
times making only two miles day, with
the utmost exhaustion of men and teams.
Many horses and wagons were lost, and
vast amount of stores destroyed. Two
hundred of the men gave out, and the
hospitals are full Of sick Volunteers
The object of the march seems to be
unknown to those who made it. All
that those who formed the expedition
know, is that they we're ordered to make
the march, and then ordered back again
But it is net without its parallel in his
tory, for once, we are told,
"The King Of France,
With forty thousand men, -eE
Marched up the hill, a. Irl1
II And then, marched down again" 3
Put it Through, quick Ea -1iea
Senator Wilson has introduced a bill
reducing the salaries Of officers in the
army. This is7a movement in the right
direction. There is neither sense, JUS
tice, nor patriotism in. the extravagant
pay of military officers. Nine out of
every ten seek the positions from purely
mereenary motives. The result is, the
service is disgraced, and the patriotic
volunteers outraged by overbearing tyr
amy, and insulted by the disgusting
swagser of ofunprincipled upstarts in epau-
let's. Let the pay be reduced, and honest,
patriotic merit will not be crowded out
Of the places it ought to occupy, by;
incompetent blusterers. ..
Volunteer Exemption Law. eli
The Superior Court of Cincinnati has
just discovered, and SO decided, that the
law of last winter, exempting the prop,
erty of volunteers from sale on execu-,
ton, don't mean what the Legislature
thought it did, and that it does
not apply to any of the three year vol
unteers. The Court admits that it was
the intention of the Legislature to ex-
empt the property of volunteers, and
that it oughtto be exempted; but it claims.
to have found out that the law don't
reach the case at all !
Us,ion Prisoners. ..n.- 5sr.s eEi
Secretary Stanton has appointed Bish-
op Ames, of the NJ T. Church, and
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Of New York,
Commissioners to visit the Union pris-
oncrs held iu the South, and under such,
regulations as can be agreed u pom with
the rebel authorities, minister to their
wants. The Commissioners, who are
fitly chosen, have accepted the trust, and
are on their way to fulfill their mission
so far as permitted Whether they will
be allowed to see their captive couusry-
men is yet uncertain. ..... .
A New Discovery. -. al-
a committee of Congress, it is said,
have discovered that it is .'uncoastitu-
tio1rds to abolish slavery in the District
of Columbia. This is certainly the
greatest discovery of the age! In all
the twenty years struggle over the right
of petition, and the slavery question
generally, the want of po,oer was never
fore urged against the measure. All
that even John c. Calhoun ever claimed
was that it would be an insult to the
South to abolish it in the District. But
even he admitted the Constitutional
pouer of Congress over the subject. AS
Congress, by the Constitution, has e.r-
clusive Jurisdiction over the District, on
all subjects, it follows that, if slavery
should cease in all the States, it must be
maintained in the District as long as the
Constitution lastsl Who says the age
of discovery is past2
Burnt Again. 49,. ss.r.ss,. --..
| The long bridge OF the Hannibal and
St. Joseph Railroad, in Missouri, which
had just been completed, has been again
burned by the rebels! We suppose it
can be rebuilt in about. four months
ready for another match. Throughout
Missouri and Kentucky the rebels seem
to keep gun-shot ahead of our armies,
burning the bridges and tearing up the
rails. jolly times for the Secesh, and
good jobs for contractors! .a:. a
Would Not stand the Test. .
Among the crowd Of contract-hunters
and others who pressed upon Secretary
Stanton the other day, was fellow who
claimed to have invented breastplate
which made the wearer bullet-proof.- f.
Stanton asked if it had been tested by
the Board. "No," was the reply
Then I'll order test-put it on and
be shot at, y said the Secretary. "But
might be hit in some unprotected part. "
'No; Col Berdan shall saoot. He is a
sure marksman.' The. breastplate in
ventor edged away. s@
The IrrepressibIe Conflict.
| Everybody knows something of the
barbarous slave-code engineered through
the Legislature of New Mexico, in the
same style as the Lecompton game was