The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-01-17

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Private Lanahan, Company D, ed
Infantry, recently shot a Sergeant of the
Guard in Georgetown. He was condem-
ned to death and hung in the Government
grounds, near the Washington Monument
IN Tuesday the 7th inst.
EEF Large fires, consuming large a.
mount of property, have recently occur
red in the large cities of the rebel Con-
federacy. They are supposed to have
been the work of Union men.
EgSeveral more fires have occurred
recently at Charleston. A saw mill in
Norfolk Navy Yard was fired by an in-
cendiary, but extinguished.
Eg Hemphill, formerly q. S. Senator
from Texas, died at Richmond on Satur.
day.
RE- Halter, the bugler, shot on Penn
sylvanis Avenue Friday, by Capt. Turner
it is thought will recover.
Gs A little boy, six years of age, died
suddenly in Mishawaka, Indiana, from
drinking whisksy.
~ Pennsylvania has one hundred
thousand men in service in Virginia, Ma
ryland, Kentucky, and North and South
Carolina, and several thousand more in
camp.
G~ The Michigan Legislature have
chosen Jacob NJ. Howard U. s. Senator
for the unexpired term of the late Senator
Bingham.
Ew Two hundred and forty Union
prisoners, from Richmond, arrived at Fort
Monroe on Friday, and proceeded at once
to Baltimore. From Baltimore they were
conveyed to Washington, where they were
clothed and paid off by the Government.
Eg Confederate State paper is at dis
count of from twenty-five to fifty per cent
according to the character of the news
from England.
~A tax of five cents on each tele-
graphic message.i is one of the methods
proposed for increasing the public reye-
nue..
~ Gen. Fremont has arrived in Wash
ington and is to be examined by the Ar
my Committee.
1 The City of Galveston, Texas.
has been evacuated by the rebels. The
Galveston News will be published in
Houston.
RThe Legislature of the State of
New York met in annual session on Tues
day the 7th inst, at Albany.
EyA letter from an officer at Hilton
Head says that $4,000 Federal troops ar
rived there the night of the Sd.
Eg Chas. NJ Jefferds and Dr. Moses
Lowenherz were sentenced on Saturday
in the Court of Sessions, by Recorder
Hoffman, to suffer death February Goth,
1858.
ET Eleven of the prisoners at Camp
Chase were recently discharged, and sent
to their homes in Virginia and Kentucky.
HMrs. Sarah R. Andrews, widow of
Col Lorin Andrews, of the 4th Regiment
Ohio Volunteers, has been allowed by
Congress, pension of $40 per month.
for FIVE years.
EgT The British residents of New York
held a meeting at the Office of the Brit
ish consul on Saturday, and passed reso-
lutions eondoling Queen Victoria on the
death of Prince Albert.
LyOn Friday several hundred Fede
raj troops made reconnaissance as far as
Great Bethel, and after driving in the
cavalry piekets of the enemy, took pos
session of the place. They found there,
formidable breastworks and evidence that
the town had been evacuated in great
haste. e
George Halvy. aged 20, residing
with his father. at Port Leyden, N. Y.
last Friday on some slight provocation
Shot his father dead and made his escape.
Ey The clothing sent by the Govern
ment to the prisoners at the South, was
seized upon by the rebels and devoted to
their own men. A dirty trick for the
Southern chivalry to be guilty of.
Ey Gold and silver has entirely disap-
peared from circulation in the rebel States.
~ A fire occurred in Chicago, on the
night of the 7th inst. destroying property
to the amount of $25, 900. 1t was fully
insured.
w Gov. Gilpn of Colorado Territory
is in Washington. He speaks very fa-
vorably OF the product OF the Pixies Peak
mines. -from which he has fine specimens.
E \ man in Boston is exhibiting a
new invention by which che makes boots
in fifteen minates.'' and the Boston Post
swears that In, rerformS the work neatly