The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-06-06
NUMBER 30.
NEWS ITEMS.

Zouaves has been disbandeo,
ES- Mrs. Gen. Fremont, the Little
Corporal as she is called, is her hus-
bands hardest working clerk.
Eg Queen Victoria has given to every
servant in her household photograph
of herself and her late husband, taken
at the time of their marriage.
Ey Major Slemmer, of Fort Pickens
fame, has arrived at the headquarters of
Halleck's army, and joined General A.
Med. McCook's division Of General Bu-
ell's army corps.
~ Now that the Merrimac is destroy
ed, the rebel navy is reduced to one
steamer, the Nashville, and one tug-boat
the tug of war.
@ An attempt was made in Wash
ington to kidnap some of the negroes fol-
lowing the 10th New York Regiment
passing through the city. The soldiers
resisted successfully with muskets, which
luckily were unloaded. :.
G The temporal emperor of Japan
has married the daughter of the spiritual
emperor, the united ages of bride and
bridegroom amounted to only thirty two
years.
Gs The trustees of the Rev. Mr.. Cha
pins church have acquiesced in his re-
quest for years absence in Europe,
and have generously voted to continue
his salary and till his pulpit in his abb
sence.
E A letter from Fort Monroe tells
of vessel which, after entering on board
nearly three hundred contrabands, sud-
denly sailed. She is supposed to have
gone to sell them as slaves in Cuba. A
gunboat is in pursuit.
RE Suicide is said to be contagious.
Napoleon has just ordered the destruction
OF a sentry-box, in which several soldiers
had successfully destroyed themselves.
GE The extent of the submarine tele-
graph cable now in use is 3,7oO miles.
The longest line is from Alexandria 10
Militia, 535 miles.
E Mrs. Jeff. Davis, very smart
woman, is said to have expressed wish
to be in Europe, AS, after the fall of Fort
Donelson, she regarded the Confederaey
as "played out''-her own expression.
Mrs. fancey, who brought the presents
OF dress patterns, gloves and such, from
Paris, told her that there was no real SYM
pathy in Europe for the South.
GS- The account given by the Virgil
uians who own hundreds of slaves, is that
they cannot now be made to work at all.
The owners themselves look upon slavery
as having received its death blow in the
State, aud, should the war continue, they
expect that Congress will pass general
Columbia.
EH- There was panic among the
Unionists in Leesburg, and possibly
tenth Of the inhabitants reported left there
on the rebels advance, after the Front
Royal affair.
i EE Fifteen of the most respectable
citizens of Loudou county, were hung by
the rebels on the road beyond Winchester.
The clergymen in the vicinity, with
single exception, sympathize with the
rebels.
ES The Senate refused to tax slaves,
by Vote of fourteen to twenty tive.
Browning, Lane, of Indiana, Doolittle,
and Wilson OF Massachusetts, voted with
Cowan and the Democrats and Border
State members, to exempt. Rhode Island,
with Grimes, Fessenden, Sumner and
most of the snti-slavery men, voted to tax.
The tax on cotton will now be passed
ES- A letter from Union prisoner at
Richmond, dated the first day of May.
describes with graphic force the terrible
barbalities inflicted upon our men now in
Rebel hands. A Fejee cannibal would
blush to have such charges made of his
behavior toward his human food.
Ex" Our first account from General
Banks command indicated that the Reb-
els were retreating toward Winchester.
All was quiet at Martinsburg and Viii
Transport.
Ig- The Constitution of the United
States has again been fractured, and our
Southern brethren insulted, by certain
black chattel This law-defy ing negro
carried load Of General Banks men to
Winchester but it may be consoling to
some people to know that the chivahy
under Ewell, paused in their work of
killing helpless, sick and wounded Yam
KEGS, long enough to shoot and capture
the black fellow
~ From sick and wounded men es-
capped from Strasburg, we learn some in
teresting facts worth putting on record.
Tbax GOV tba, the rebels deliberately at.