The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-05-02
NEWS ITEMS.

House have agreed to report joint reso-
luton establishing German Professor
ship at West Point. eos
E* Cars will run from Aqua Creek
to Fredericksburg in three or four days.
~ Our expedition to destroy . lock
on the Dismal Swamp canal was doubtless
successful.
w The first boat-load of cotton and
tobacco from the Tennessee River has ar
rived at Pittsburgh, having left Nashville
this week, and will pass East over the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Ey A dispatch from the telegraph :
operator at Salt Lake, says that the In
dians have stopped all communication BY
the overland mail. No particulars are
given. 1t is feared that the telegraph
line will soon be destroyed.
w The Central Ohio Railroad ex-
press train, bound West from Bellair, ran
off the track, near Spencer's Station, in
stantly killing S. Corben, Conductor, and
severely wounding several others.
EE The latest advices from Commo.
dore Foote, leave him still engaged in
bombarding Fort Wright. The rebels
had cut the levees on the Arkansas side,
which had resulted in the overflow of
great extent of valuable farming country
causing much evaporation among the
residents in that vicinity.
~ The crops in England are repre-
sented as most promising and luxuriant.
There is a greatly increased breadth of
wheat sown, and the crops are from three
weeks to month earlier than last year.
EE A proposition of the Archbishop
of Toulouse to celebrate, as glorious
event, massacre of Protestants three
centuries ago, is severely condemned by
the principal French journals.
~ The Senate Finance Committeo
has done with the machinery sections Of
the tax bill, having made various amend.
ments thereto. An effort to increase the
tax on spirits to 25 cents per gallon was
resisted. 1t stands, therefore, at 8 cents.
The tax on beer is increased to ~ pr
barrel instead Of 81. lszi
Ey A telegram from Gen. Nc Clellan.s
: army, dated last night, announces the
death of Lieut.. Wagner of the Topo-
graphical Engineers, who was wounded
by shell while making a Typographical
map of the country before the enemy's
lines.
@ There are said to be 100000
) dogs in the country. A tag of O. per
head will turn the CANNES to convenient
and perhaps useful purpose. Look out
for sausages when the tag nan commences
his perambulations. aa
~ Gen. Shields has - ss-esnted
Major General. Good. ~as cured
w Capt. Myers, of Mansfe ineura-
: that "Col Gibson, command
Brigade, acted like a hero. anu anu t.'u'
~ A resolution passe{ Fever Sore
: yesterday, on motion of Mrs
that all officers found guilty osa.l Liver Liver
t intoxication be expelled from the ah the
3 w The loss in General Nelson's diYr-
sion, at the battle of Piissburg Landing.
= was 558 men, and "a officers wounded
81 men and officers killed and So
r missing. Total, 739.
~ The President on Monday met
with an accident while returning in his
carriage from the Navy Yard. The
5 horses became frightened near the Capi-
tol, and serious casualty was only pre-
vented by running the carriage into a
bank Fortunately the President escaped
unhurt.
Es- Official reports state the loss Of
the twenty-one Illinois regiments at Pitts
burg as follows: Killed, 604 /; wounded,
$ e,642 missing, 228. --- -se-ss.. *
~ A Norfolk correspondent of the
Petersburg Express says many of the
rebel soldiers at the former place have
died from black measles, the worst type
, of which has been raging among them
E DR.. Lemoine of New Orleanss
who had recent interviews with the
French Minister, recommends through
the Richmond papers, the poisoning of
. springs and streams as an appropriate
means of warfare.
7 ~ The Senate has unanimously rati-
fed the new treaty with Great Britain,
. for the suppression of the African n-siAze
trade. This treaty, it is believed, viii be
+ an effectual check to the infamous traffic.
The Senate also passed Mr.. Summers bill
establishing diplomatic relations with Lii
beri and Hayti. -
~ General Scott has returned to his
home in Elizabethtown. N. j., and it IS
said he will now make it his permaner
residence. His old friends and neighbsrs
gave the retired hero cordial welcome.