The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-04-18
NEWS ITEMS


OF from Rhode Island in Simmons place.
Gs- The sale of Government cotton at
Atlantic Docks, Brookyn, "a few .ys ago,
called the net sum of Sls3, ,oOG.
EE The Government has contracted
or wood to be delivered in Washington
or army use al 81 per cord.
E~ The country wit be gratifed to
earn that General Lew Wallace was not
zilled in the battle of Pittsburg, as repor-
ed.
re- The latest and most reliable estii-
mate OF our loss at Pittsburg Landing is
1000. Ofthese 5000 were taken pris-
oners!
Eg- The bill reducing the salaries Of
Hamilton County Judges $500 passed.
the Senate on Tharsday, the 10th inst. 1t
had previously passed the House e..szl..sss
Eg- Confederate bonds can be bought
forifive cents on the dollar. Shinplasters
issued by banks and private parties are Of
more value, commanding a hundred dol
lars in specia for every thousand dollars.
Gg~ 1t is said to be Che intention of
the Confederate Government, to abandon
Virginia unless the State renders more aid
and money.
W The keels of two vessels on the
model of the Monitor, but thirty feet lon
ger, were laid at Greenpoint, N. Y, last
week.
Eg~ Twelve inches of snow fell at Phi11
|adelphia, on Thursday, the 10th inst.
@ The Iowa Legislature has enacted
that the cost Of jury trials shall be paid by
the losing party, thus saving; to the State
about SIS 600 annually.
@ Letters from Fortress Monroe
speak of rumors that the PresfdefA may
soon visit the Yorktown Penisula
~ A Washington Lawyer captured
and held prisoner at Leesburg by the en-
emy, reports the number of rebel soldiers
I there at no time over fourteer hundred.
Local papers daily contain accounts
of outrages by slave holders in the Dis
trict, itf sending 81 ives away, in anticipa.
Etion Of the passage of the Emancipation
! bill.
/ E Senator Wilson's bifl,. annendatory
to the Fugative Slave law of rs5e,. or
which he gave notice.. will make radical
changes, providing for Jury trial in the
placy where arrested.
T 70. Accounts from Che R,ppahannock
concur in saying that the rebels are re-
ttiring from that line, and concent a.
ting at Richmond.
@ VIM. H. Polk Of tennessee, ex-
pressed himself strongly favorable to a law
confscatfng the propeaty of rebels.
| @ At the battle of pntsburg Lansf'
ming, rebel prisoners say they had orders
to kill as many offk-ers as possible. Thefr'
Eoficers fought in disguise, ,ours III their utn
iforns, which was the cause Of their being
distinguished and SO marry of them killed.
! @ The slaTes of James M Mason, a
recent inmate of Fort Warren, now in
England have decamped from Winchester
in body, and made their way to- PhEhs-
delphia. 1t is currently reported, also,
that one of Mr.. Masou's daughters has
become hopelessy deranged from the va
rious family misfortunes.'
Eg A cavalry regiment from this
Col. Taylor's) State Was iir the battle of
EPittsburg without carbines,' and conse-
4 Equently were not able to render infpur-
tant service.
/ g Troops have baen arriving at
f Yorktown from Richmond and Gorden-
] vile every day for the last week. It is be.
Iieved that Gen. johnson and jeff Davis
are both at York town. and that General
johnson is in command.
Ex- The Comniii Tee on the conduct o.
the war says the evidence shows fright u
I atrocities by rebels apon the bodies of the
It Union soltlie:s.t
Es Every rebel gun on the Y orktowr
Il Qualifications is under cover. for fear o
. Berden's shalpshooters.
EE The President sent intoethe S,n
If fate. on Friday, the treaty with Grea
Britain for the etfectual Suppression of th'
: : slave trade, negotiated by. Seward alis
Lyons on the 7th April.
Iy~ The Senate passed the bill repeal
"a ing the law disapaifying negroes from
carrying the mail, without debate.
:. H- Cairo is filed with physicians
,e nurses and. civilians from Chicago, Spring
h field, Indianapolis, Indiana and Ohio, al
/, desirous of going up the Tennessee.
e ~~ About Washington, the manner
!, of the plantation which prevailed a yea
e ago, have given way before the civiliza
e ton and refinement Of the nineteentl
l, century.