The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-03-21
NEWS ITEMS

aiken the oath of allegiance and been re-
eased.
Gsg- All the newspaper editors in Nash
lille seeded and followed the rebel army
o Memphis, except those of the Banner,
which continues lis publication.
ES~ There is said to be terrible pa.
,c at Memphis. The Legislature, after
several Intellectual attempts to transact
scattered.
Gg Prices of goods in Winchester, at
the time the Union army took possession
of it-Coffee rs cents per h., sugar 35
to 81, calico SO cents per yard.
G Wild Billy Price, a desperate
chief of guerilla band of rebels, has been
taken prisoner, and is now in custody at
Springfield, Mo-
GB~ A cavalry force sent ont from
Lebanon, Mo-, attacked enc of Prices
guerilla parties, and killed l3, wounded 5,
and captured 90 prisoners. among them
Brig. Gen. Campbell
Gs~ Philemon B, Ewing, Esq, of Lam
caster, was appointed, ON the 4th inst,
Common Pleas Judge in the Seventh Ju-
dicial, Dstrct to fill the vacancy occasion
ed by the resignation of Judge Whitman.
G A recent war order issued by the
President divides the army of the Poto-
mac into five corps de ornees, to be COM
manded by Generals Banks, Mcdowell,
Sumner, Heintzelman and Keys.
Gy- Samuel G. Harbaugh, of SPRING
field, Clark county, has been appointed
and confirmed State Librarian for two
years, from March 24th next, the date of
the expiration of the term of the present
incumbent.
Es5~ The telegraph cable has been sue
cessfully laid at Fortress Monroe, and
Geographic communication is now COM
plete between that point and Washington.
N Four buildings, valued at nearly
100000, were burned in Alexandra.
Be The Senate confirmed the nomi-
nation of George W. Morgan, of Ohio, as
Brigadier General of volunteers.
~ The tax-bill contains lo5 sections,
one of the largest of any kind ever before
prepared, and on which months of time
have been bestowed.
The price of crude Pretolium at coil
City," Pa, is but six cents per gallon.
~ An explosion of three barrels Of
pretolium took place in Uright's varnish
factory, Philadelphia, on the 9th ult.
It was being boiled in varnish kettle. as
a substitute for turpentine.
Gg- The work cf gun making is crowd
ed to such an extent at the Springfield,
Mass, Armory, that all the daylight is
used, and over $4,000 worth of gas was
burned during the last quarter.
Ng The Marine losses on the St. Law
renee and lakes during the year 1861.
amounted in value to 1902, 625 on steam
ers, and S564,712 on sailing vessels and
their cargoes. The number of lives lost
was 116 that of last year 578.
~ A Flag factory is to be erected at
| Chicago.
ne Since General Burnside took pos
session of Roanoke Island, the supply of
turpentine las increased. It is now sell
ing at 95 cents per gallon in New York,
and is dull at this reduced rate.
Rg A considerable body of rebel cav
airy appeared on Friday at the railroad
bridge, twenty miles above Fort Henry,
and eadeayored to find cut the number Of
troops ar Fort Henry. They also Dragged
that Johnson was preparing q trap in the
mountains Of Tennessee for Buell..
~ Letters from Vienna mention that
the nephew of Count Degenfeld, Minister
of War, had been killed by wolves. He
was returning from hunting in sledge,
when he was attacked by two of these
animals he fred on them, and the coach-
man put his horse to a gallop to escape,
but in doing so he precipitated the Count
from the sledge. The coachman was not
aware of the accident for some time, and,
on returning, found only the mutilated
body of the Count.
Es 1t is rumored that large servile
insurrection has taken place near Holly
Springs, Mississippi. Seven white men
are said to have been killed, and nine ne
groes hanged.
GY~ the eleven-inch Columbiads with
which the Monitor is armed were supplied,
when she left New York, with four hun
dred rounds of wrought iron shot, each
weighing one hundred and eighty-two
pounds. These balls were made by forg-
! ing square blocks of iron at the Novelty
Works, and then turning them at the
lathe. The cost of the four hundred
amounts to $4,000, and their total weight
is seventy-three thousand pounds. Cast
iron shot are liable to break in pieces