Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-04-23
heFs Items.


The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily News, says the difference between
England and France in Mexican affairs IS
very tickl;sh.
The ship Yorktown. a regular packet
from London, has been captured on her
voyage by confederate priyateer.
Carl Schulz. it will have been noticed.
has been confirmed by the Senate as a
Brioadier- General. There were eight nays
ore being a republican.
Mr. Sumner presented a petition in the
Senate seven hundred feet long, signed by
5000 women, praying for the abolition
of slavery. 1t would have contained So
900 had it been convenient to carry the
document. The women all think one way
about slavery.
The indianapolis Journal says that
Hon. Henry s. Lane, Of the U. S. Sen
ate, and Hon. G. B. Smith, Secretary of
the Interior, have written letters to that
city stating that the war will be termina-
ted in ten weeks.
Berdan's Sharpshooters are doing fear
fuI work belote Yorktown Every ac-
count tells Of the number who have fallen
under the deadly aim Of their rifles.
Gen. Prentiss did not escape from the
rebels, as was reported. lie is still pris-
oner.
Every day new barbaiities perpetrated
by the rebels come to light. This week,
two soldiers, who had strayed from the
ranks on the march from Manassas to Col
lett's were found, it is reported on credi
/ le authority, on the roadside, with their
throats cut from ear 10 ear.
The rumor is general that Secy Stan
ton has resigned in consequence Of differ
ences of opinion between him and the
President touching the movement Of
troops.
Congress has at last be gun to take no
tice Of the censorship exercised over the
press. There are indications that it will
be speedily abolished or modified.
The President sen. to the Senate, for
ratification, on the 18th, an important
treaty rendered by Great Britain for the
more efectuaI suppression Of the slave
trade.
The Secretary Of the Treasury, it is
said, has decided TO redeem 90 per cent. in
cash of the certificates Of Indebtedness IS
sued before the 9TH inst 1t is thought he
will receive 40 per cent additional OF these
certificates in payment Of the bonds he
may hereafter sell.
The Democratic candidates, +. S. Sher
man, was elected Mayor of Chicago, over
G. N. Holden, Republican, at the cleo
ton on Tuesday, by i majority of 1887.
The story Of the escape Of Gen. Prem
tiss is not true. Tue greater part Of his
brigade wore taken prisoners early in the
fight.
The Navy Department has invited pro-
osilions, BY mail or telegraph to the 30th
inst, at noon, with general specifications
and plans, for the construction Of one or
more gunboats, for the Mississippi and
Gulf service, with two turrets, on the plan
Of the Ericsson battery, for eleven inch
guns; the thickness of the iron plates to
be eight inches; the sides TO be plated with
iron, or three inches in thickness. in one
or two layers, to extend two and half
feet below the lead line; the vessel not to
be less than 220 feet in length, and 56
feet in breath, and not to draw over six
feet of WAGER when loaded and ready for
service; to be propelled by screws, to en-
sure speed Of nine knots per hour; and
the time when they will be completed, and
the price, must be stated.
Gen. Banks has advanced some thirty
miles further down the Shenandoah valley,
and rested at Newmarket. Two or three
days more will bring him to Staunton, on
the line Of the railroad to Richmond
There seems to be no opposition to his adj
vance worthy Of name. What few rebels
there are chiefly Of Ashby's cavalry
devote themselves to destroying property
in their retreat.
The dispatches speak of Com. Foote
as at Fort Pillow where it is announced in
his dispatches to the Navy Department,
given in another column, that the mortar
boats had opened fire on the 10th. There
is confusion of names which unexplain-
ed leads TO a misapprehsnson. Fort Pill
low that was, is now called Fort Wright,
and it is the first rebel fertilization on the
river below New Madrid 1t is near the
mouth of the Hatchue river, few miles
below Oeeola, Arkansas, on tho opposite
bluff, known as the First Chichasaw Bluff,
some twelve miles above Randolph, and
over seventy miles above Memphis. What
is now Fort Pillow is just above Memphis
at the mouth Of Wolf river.
s,The Nashville correspondent of the
/ Philadelphia Press says there is Union
League in Memphis in constant correspon-
dence with an organization Of the same
kind in Nashville; that notwithstanding
the tenor of some Of bis articles, tie editor
Of the AgDlanche is a member, and his pa
per will lie Union organ as soon as our
forces enter that city, aud that the editor
has been arrested Tor paoIishlgg eorrespon-
dence written from Nashville favorable to
Gov. Johnson and the Union army
Ii intercepted letters from Richmond