Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-02-26
NEWS OF FIJI e e

III years, died on the 29th inst.
Col Doubleday is acting in the capacity
OF a Brigadier General, under the appoint
ment of Gen. Halleck.
The Louisville Journal SAYS Gen. Buck
ner, captured at Fl. Donaldson, is to be
tried for treason.
Gen. Butler has gone to ship Island,
near Orleans, to take command of the
forces there.
Gen. Curtis has taken Bentonville, Ar
kansas, with a considerable quantity of
baggage, wagons, etc.
The New York Post says reinforce
ments have been sent to Gen. Burnside,
which will increase his force to &C,
The fine Lake Superior side wheel
steamer North Star was burned on last
i TTnursdd.syy night in Cleveland, ather berth
in the Old River Bed.
Yaneey, the rebel commissioner. is seek
ing to return South. He was a passenger
In the steamer Seine, which sailed from
Southampton on the 3rd for St. Thomas.
Government has released a large num-
Der OF political prisoners from Forts La
tayette and Warren, on their parol that
they wont give aid or comfort to the en-
envy.
1t is proposed to introduce a bill into
Congress giving soldiers the privilege of
setting and making homes in the fertile
districts along the Mississippi and other
rivers South.
Gordon, the SLAYER Captain, was execut-
ed at New York, on Friday last. He made
no speech. He attempted to commit su-
icide by smoking cigars saturated with
strichnine.
Francis, the old colored man who has
been Messenger at the War Department
for forty-two years, died suddenly. on
Sunday, from excess of joy at the news of
the late victories.
Reports from usually reliable sources
say between three and four hundred of
the Berkeley county militia have deserted
IN a body, and are en- route to cross the
Potomac and JOIN our ranks.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad have
received orders from the War Department
to put their road in working order at the
expense Of the company, under condition
that the Government protect operatives.
The Tennessee rolling mills, four miles
from Fit. Donaldson, were burned on the
night Of the 10th inst, by our gunboats.
The works had been used by the rebels in
the manufacture of shot, shell and other
material Of war. 1t was an extensive con-
Germ.
The wife of Senator Monroe died in
Oberlin on Wednesday evening Her
death must have been very sudden, as Mr..
Monroe had no previous intimation of her
illness. The dispatch announcing her
death reached Senator Monroe in Column
bus on Thursday morning.
One of the released prisoners who had
been confined at Richmond seven months,
gives unmistakable evidence of a strong
Union organization at Richmond. The
Union men claim to be 5000 strong, and
say they are eagerly waiting and longing
for an opportunity to Sing out the stars
and stripes.
Everything at Fort Donelson is progress
ing satisfactorily. Our army are encamp-
ed in the captured works, having comfort
able quarters in log huts and tents of the
late garrison. The soldiers are very en-
thusiastic and anxious to march at once
against Nashville. The actual number
of prisoners taken is l3, 300, among them
Gen. West, not previously mentioned.
Before s~urrendering, at Fit. Donaldson,
the rebels threw most of their late mails
into the river. Col. MARYLAND, postal di-
rector, however succeeded in seizinS a
number of mail bags and some outside let
tiers, supposed to contain important infor-
nation. Floyd's Brigade, fearing they
might be captured, threw all their arms,
which were Mimic rifles of the best kind,
into the river. The gunboat crews are
now engaged fishing them out.
A dispatch dated Sedalia, Mo-, Feb. 19,
says: Brig, Gen. Edward Price, son of
Sterling Price, Col. Phillips, Major Croos,.
and Captain Crosby, were captured near
Warsaw, on Sunday night, and brought
to this place. These prisoners were cap
tured by Capt. Stubs, of the 9Th Iowa.
They had some 500 recruits for Price in
charge, who had just crossed the Usage
River, but as Capt. Stubs had but a
small force, he did not follow them.
The Federal gunboat Tuscarora started
from Cowes, England, on the morning of
the 9th inst, in pursuit of the rebel pri-
vateer vessel the Nashville. The Nash
vile had 40 hours start of her. The En-
gineer of the Nashville told the pilot who
took her out that it was agreed by all on
board that she should never be captured
that he had all the valves of the engine
so arranged that she could be blown up in
a moment, and that if the capture of the
Nashville was ever heard of a violent ex-
plosion would accompany it.
The New York Worlds Washington
correspondence says-The recent news
from Europe touching the determination
of the Allied powers to put a Hapsburgh
| as ruler over Mexico and thus create a
monarchy on our borders, is exciting pro-
found emotion here. The actual fact that
some such scheme was on the tapis has
been in possession of the State Department
forsome time past and it will be found that
dispatches have already been sent to our
Ministers at London, Paris and Madrid,
protesting energetically against any such
project.
A special to the st. Louis Democrat. da-
ted Springfield, No, Feb. Is, says: Gen.
Curtis has driven the rebel army beyond
the Arkansas line at 10 o'clock Sunday
night we were sixty-nine miles south of
Springfield. The Federal flag now floats
in Arkansas. Several skirmishes had
taken place in the defles of the noun
tains. We had six wounded, and the en-
envy had l6 killed and a large number
wounded. We lave bagged a large num-
Der of prisoners.
On Tuesday two rebel regiments, from
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, came to Fort Donel-
son and gave themselves up, saying they
had been deceived and were tired of
fighting against the old flag. The Pro
Marshal at GAINESVILLE sent word to
Gen. Grant to come up and occupy the
town at once. Officers of the g%unboats
now lying there report Union feeling very
strong, and people state that they had
been made to believe that the Union ar
was entirely composed of Germans
and Negroes, for abolition purposes ; but
they see it is not. They are anxious to
return to their allegiance. Prominent
citizens there say similar feelings will
pervade the whole State in a week.
FREDERICK, Nd, Feb. 10.
On Saturday night, at a complimentary