Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ton.
There is very high authority for the
opinion that the fugitive slave law does
not extend to the District of Columbia
Members of the Cabinet and Senators
whosel legal knowledge is of the first order.
agree in this.
Attemps to raise a Union regiment in
North Carolina is progressing, but it is
doubtful if more. than Il or two com
panies can be obtained.
Prompt responses have been received
from most of the Governors of the New
England States. calling outadditional reg
iments to meet the demand of the War
Department.
Hon. Edward Stanley has received his
commission as military governor of North
Carolina. His powers and instructions are
similar to those with which the President
invested Governor johnson, of Tennessee.
A mass convention of the friends of the
administration and those favorable to the
emancipation Of the slaves of Missouri un-
der the plan submitted to Congress by the
President, Is called to meet at jefferson
City, Mo-, June 10th, to nominate State
officers.
The telegraphic cable across the Chesa-
peake bay, from Cherrystone to Back riv-
er. in Virginia, has been relaid. The
War Department is now in te~legraphic
communication with Gen. Mcclellan. The
cable Is twenty-five miles in length, and
is said to be very strong.
A company of Cherokee Indians came
came into Knoxville, Tenn, on the 10th,
from North Carolina, to join the rebel SER
vice. The company nubered 80, and the
intention Is to raise a full battalion of the
red scalpers. So states the Knoxville
Register.
The Fire Zouaves reached New York
on Monday to be discharged. 1t is stated
that the dcmeanor of the Fire Zouaves is
much changed. There are few disorderly
men among them, and, as a body, they
exhibit ~commendable discipline. Their
appearance is nea and soldierly, and there
Is nothing in their manners to mark them
as volunteers who could no longer be re-
tanned in tie service.
HALLEcK's H-EADouARrERs. MAY %.
Considerable diminishing along our
whole line yesterday. In every case the
enemy were driven back. Our loss about
forty killed and wounded-the enemy
about the same. Deserters continue to
come in daily in squads, mostly from the
18th Louisiana.
The Wheeling hteHigcnccr gives the par
ticulars of the hurricane that visited that
city on Wednesday, afternoon, the DIST.
at about 2 p. N. The German Lutheran
Church-an old building-was partly
blown down, and the roof and walls fall
ing upon the floor of the church broke
through into the basement, where was q
school OF. thirty or forty children, by
which four were killed and numbers in
jured.
Sterling Price, who was killed by Gen.
Roberts Sharp-Shooters, at the ~reconnoi-
sance to Pennington, was the leading reb-
el General of the extreme West. He rails
ed and organized the rebel armies in Mis-
souri,, and commanded them il n manner
which won the admiration of the Union
officers. He had great personal and po-
htical popularity, and his death will be
no less a severe blow to the rebels than
that of Gen. Ben. McCulloch.
The War Department has called for no
definite number of troops, but has reopen
ed the recruiting stations lately closed by
order. Some new regiments will be rails
ed for special service, as i'll Kentucky, for
the military commandant appointed
there. Beyond this no formal call has
been made On States for volunteers the
4main object Is to obtain 4 reserve tofll up
existing regiments. The Radicals exag-
gerate this matter.
Gen. Burnside has seized all the Com
missioners of the town of Edenton, Nc.
land, taken them to his headquarters at
Newbern. They are held us hostages for
the safe return of Mr.. White, a Union pi-
lot, who was seized by the C~onfederates
while on a visit to his wife at Edenton.
It-is alleged that these Commissioners,
connived at Mr.. Whites arrest, though
they stoutly deny any completely with the
4matter, and insist that they had no bow
er to prevent it. Gen. Burnside intends
to send one of the Commissioners to Ra-
leigh, whittier Mr.. White has been con
veycd, to demand his release. The Con-
federates threaten to hang Mr.. White,
land Gen. Burnside intends that all the
Commissioners shall swing for it.
News received by contrabands from
Richmond Is TO the effect that the rebels
intend to evacuatc that place with all con-
v~enient speed. There is said to be a pam
ic in the city, and families living even
eight or ten miles out of the town are
packing up and moving South. The dis
patch from which we make the foregoing
quotation says that all the houses in
Yorktown are occupied as fever hospitals,
and that the average deaths amount to
ten a day out of 400 or 500 patients.
The French man-ofwar steamer Mon
tezuma, from Vera Cruz on the Sth inst,
arrived at New York on Monday. The
Captain reports the French army as stead
lily advancing on the City of Mexico, with
but little opposition.
Our Ministers in Europe, in their dis
| patches by the last steamer, mention the
reports about Intervention as rumors,
Matched by the emmisar:es and al es of the
rebels in Paris and London. Nor are they
confirmed, as we are assured by good
authority, by any advices from their home
Governments, received by those foreign
Ministers most likely to be informed on
the subject. But while our Ministers de-
clare that the secret designs of foreign
Powers have not yet taken so definite a
shape as nlmor would have us believe,
they almost unanimously assure the Gov
eminent that the surest way to stife
rumors of Intervention and to thwart the
designs of the rebel conspirators abroad,
is by u vigoroos prosecution of the war.
\ returned prisoner taken at Williams
burg. says the Rebel cavalry riied the
pockets of killed and wounded soldiers.
Ten dollar Treasury Notes, COTTON in this
way, were offered to and freely purchased
by the prisoners at 50 80 in gold. Sever
al of the prisoners have in their posses
sion Georgia hinplasters, printed on insur-
ance policies, showing the Rebels want of
paper.
A gentleman, for twelve years resident
in New Orleans, says that the statements
of rebel papers, that yellow fever is begin
ming to show itself itself in that city,
must be COTTON up as sensation stories
that disease never having shown itself
there at this season.
We hear a little of our hotilla on the Low
er Mississippi through rebel papers re-