The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-26
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dams who Kill and plumber friend and foe
A letter from Fort Pickens states that
Major Newly of2the Wilson Zouayyes, at
tempted to assassinate Billy Wilson, but
was unsuccessful. ~@%
Bishop Andrews has postponed Indefinite
ly the General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which was to meet in
New Orleans on the first Of April.
SOME Of the Fort Donelson prisoners say "a
that John Bell is in very bad health, and
will not live many weeks. lie is at times
perfectly insane. JohnG. Breckenridge has
become an habtual drunkard he is now in
Tennessee. 1892
WENDELL PH1LL1ps gives his approval to
the PRESIDENTS moderate emancipation mes
sage. When Wendell Phillips and the Bos,
ton Courier, Horace Greedy and the Journal
Of Commerce take the same platform on the
slavery question, we may safely conclude
that the ''era of good feeling' has actually
begun. Y"s
The LONDON TIMES ON THE BURNSIDE
EXPEDITION The London Tins of the
- Ill VI ICO4 u"4 y, having lAcdiu lue ueWS Vi
Burnside's capture of Roanoke Island and
Edentoa, acknowledges that "the military
plans of the Federal Government are grad
uaIly assuming some. consistency and dis
tlnctness OF purpose" .....
MICHAEL SwEETMAN, a young man in Co.
burg, Canada West, undertook to- guage the
capacity of his stomach for beer not long
since. lie had been drinking whiskey all
day, and concluded to finish up with coup
lie Of quarts Of bcer-and persisted nobly in
the attempt.
THURMAN FOR YOUR SIDE AND WE WILL.
uURRAH FOR Ours" 1.-The steamboat F;tz-
hugh came up the river with prisoners last
Saturday. On nearing West Point, all the
prisoners cried 'Hurrah for the Un;on," ex-
cept one, who shouted Hurrah for HELP
There seems to be but two parties now
one for hell and the other for the Union
Louisville Jouruo1
SEVERE PUNISHMENT "A gentleman who
heard Of the conduct Of the contrabands on
board Com. Gotdsborough's feet, serving the
guns and .rforming other "overt acts' of
war, remarked that their conduct was quite
unconstitutional, rand that as punishment
the rascals ough: to be deprived oftheir lnas
ters.
How THE TonFEDoEs WE'RE Discovers
En.-The existence OF the torpedoe> in the
Tennessee River was discovered, curiously
enough, in consequence Of the 800 free use
Of her tongue by woman, who was a thor
ouyh Seccssionist. Being met by scouting
party and told the gunboats would destroy
Fort Henry on the next day. She exclaimed
Not a bit of it, they will be blown up be-
fore they gea past the lslaod." On that hint
our officers acted.
GEN. SCOTT was in the Leather Manufac.
turers Bank in New York when the capture
Of Fort Denelson was announced. The
General expressed great joy, but said II,
was pity that that great rascal Floyd had
escaped" When he came out of the Bank
he was greeted with enthusiastic cheers b,
an immense crowl, and secession flag
Thrown upon the steps for him TO tralnple
upon.
The Bounty DUE THE HEIRS OF DEcEAs.
ED SOLDIERS. Some weeks since Ike Sec
ond Auditor decided that the SlOC
bounty due the heirs Of deceased soldiers
should be paid from the appropriation for the
payment Of volunteers, or from any funds
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated
The Second Comptroller has now revoked
this decision, and declined paying any boun.
ty until Congress shall make specific ap.
preparation therefor. Five millions at leas,
must be appropriated Immediately for this
purpose. The claims are coming in at the
rate Of one hundred per day.
REBEL IRON CLAD VEssELe.-Mr. Chas
Elicit writes to the New York Tribune that
the rebels have two formidable machines
like the Jle'rinnc, but less in size, nearly
ready for use at Mobile. and two on the low.
Ter Mississippi, which may soon be brough,
out TO attack and destroy our shipping in tina,
|quarter.
THE GuNDoAT called the MuqAtuch. re-
Gently built by Stevens, of Hobokcn, is com
pleted. She is iron clad, modelled some what
after Stevens ron-clad battery, and is be
lieved to be impregnablo by shot, or she'll
from guns of the heaviest calibre. THE bic
Union gun is intended to be mounted on this
craft. This adds another to our iron clad
vessels.
SOME of our exchanges congratulate the
country that the President has taken the
conduct Of the war into his own hands the
evidence that he has, being the war orders
issued by himself The first Of these orders
seems to be dated back in January SO he
must have been conducting it at that time.
Why don't these same exchanges then, abuse
the President and not Mcclellan, for the es
cape of the rebels from Manassas We pause
for reply.
The UNION GUN ON THE RIP RAPs.-
This monster, which 1t is now proposed to
mount as floating battery, is a rihed gun
with twelve inch bore. The solid shot Of
the gun weighs nearly six hundred pounds
and the powder used in charge weighs be-
tween fifty and sixty pounds. The shell
loaded weighs about five hundred and twen-
ty-tive pounds, unloaded,F four hundred and
ninety pounds. A single shot, it is said
will destroy the Aorrinuc, or any other yes
sci that floats. .:sfe.l0 g....,,.. =.
The n. Y. Tribune, which insists upon it
as great bIunder that Mcclellan did not
hurry forward and fight the rebels at Ma
nassas, has correspondent At that point,
who writes to it as follows "But little
elaborate work was necessary where nature
was so opulent ia her defenses, and it seems
certain that nothing could have taken these
hills without paying far more than they a,e
worth to US, excepting the OUT thanking Of
banks, and the menace Of their base Of one
ra6ons. ...s...@ 20. vt
JOKES on THE RsBELs.-A correspondent
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