The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-01-24
NUMBER 10.
NEWS ITEMS

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seven millions of dollars. this does not in
;lude the appropriations for forlifcations,
which is several millions. @
EY The Davenport Gazette, says, the
ice Oh the Mississippi in that vicinity isa
foot thick
~-The Wing says that Vicksburg is
turning out from eight to ten brass cannon
per week. Some Of them are rifed.
ENMr. Stanton was confirmed as Sec-
retary of War by the Senate in executive
session by thirty eight to two.
EBThe hundred millions of Demand
Treasury Notes asked for by Mr.. Chase,
will not pay the present floating debt a.
gainst the Goyerenment.
@ Mexico is preparing to resist the
allies.
EE Strenuous efforts are making to in
duce the President, to commute the sem
tence of the slave trader Jordan, from
hanging to life Imprisonment.
~According to the Vincennes Sun,
eight thousand FIVE hundred hogs have
been slaughtered at that point during the
past season.
@A burglar was shot at Newark. N.
j., the other night, by a daughter of H.
B. Kimball, while attempting to enter the
house.
~ D. U. Martin, the wherry and
berry man, is now in California, and sub
sists almost entirely on grapes and apples.
EThe Empress Eugene will spend
the winter at Nice and Monaco. A villa
has been prepared for her near Nice. iija4
EEA returned prisoner, from Column
bia, S.. c., says that the treatment Of the
Union prisoners transferred to that place,
was much better than it was at Charles
ton.
Ew A new military department has
just been constituted, the Department of
Key West, consisting of Tortugas and
Fort Taylor. 1t will be under the COM
mand of Brig. Gen. Brennan.
E9A bill has been presented to Com
gress to reduce the pay of chaplains in
the volunteer service, to the pay of chap
lains in the regular. army.
~The mints of the United States
have coined since they commenced oper-
ations-a period less than seventy years
the large amount of eight hundred mill.
ions of dollars, about one-6fth of the
whole metalic currency Of the world. OF
this amount five hundred and twenty
millions were derived from the mines of
the United States. @
EB-Mr.. .Rodman, Chief Clerk Of the
Treasury Department, died last week
after few days illness.
EYA new rebel flag, a white cross
upon red ground, with stars above and
below the arms, is said to have made its
appearance at Manassas. Some think
that this is to supersede the Stars and
Bars altogether.
E St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church, Washington City, was opened
for regular service, after being closed for
months, last Sunday. The usual prayer
for the President of the United States,
was omitted in the service.
~At Warrenton and Centerville, Va.
split leather boots sell from twelve to fif-
teen dollars per pair; Salts niue to twelve
dollars per bushel tea two dollars a pound
and bad whiskey one dollar per piut.
g-The Little Rock Journal of Dee.
3ist, says that on the 9th ult. Edmund
son, the man who exposed the Union plot
in Northern Arkansas, was called to the
door of his house and shot dead by six
disguised men.
~John K. Lincoln, one of the rebel
prisoners at st. Louis, is cousin of the
President, and wealthy citizen of Clin-
ton county Mo.
IEIt is the intention of Gen. Grant
to attack Columbus simultaneously by
land and water, aud no one at Cairo en-
tertained doubt Of our success. The
troops left amid great enthusiasm.
WA diabolical attempt was made on
Thursday night, by secessionists in Alex
andria, to burn the great hospital there,
with six hundred sick soldiers in it. The
building was fred in several places at
once.
1 EThe new Senator from Kentucky,
Hon. Garrett Davis, is making his mark
in the Senate as practical legislator and
a firm supporter of the government.
~Mr. Stearns, distiller of Rich
mond, Va, is making about four thousand
, dollars day clear profit on whiskey, and
could make FIVE thousand if he would ex-
ert himself. The demand for whiskey is