The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-04-04
NEWS ITEMS

ed to the Committees Of the House of
Representatives during the session, has
been sl8l,885 OF this sum S64,4io is
charged to the Military Committee. The
larger part being furnished by the Com
mittee to soldiers in the army.
Gy~ Mrs. Buckner, had arrived at
Memphis She complained of not being al
lowed to go farther north than Cairo In
the parlor of the Gayeso House she attract
ed universal attention by her bitter denun
Citations of Pillow and Floyd. The former
is reported to have said that he would
shoot Floyd whenever be met him:
Es5~ There is no later intelligence from
the Tennessee. Troops are constantly de-
parting, and movements are doubtless on
the tapis of intense interest:
Gs~ The House adopted amendments
a few days since requiring of lawyers,
| physicians, dentists, claim agents, keepers
oflivery stables and cattle breeders, ten dol
lars; iugg1ers and prestidigiiateurs, twen-
ty dollars. Taxes on baker, brickmakers.
preachers, and lecturers We're rejected.
lS- The Union Senatorial caucus adj
Ijourned, without nominating. until next
winter,
i re- The report of Gen: Cameron's in
tention to decline the Russian mission, is
Alithoritatively denied.
RE- Gov. Johnson has put newspapers
under military rule, suppressed one or
two, and has issued PROCLAMATION of a
conciliatory character. He said he desired
, to win the people back to the Union, but
should deal vigorously with treason.
Gg- The .Merrin1ac is expected out
soon. She is all ready, and her crew ON
, board. Flag Officer Goldsboro has taken
suitable measures, and Captain Jeffers,
= commanding the Monitor, sends word to
, Captain Dahgren that he has no doubt Of
his ability to whip her.
gg- The attempt to tax slaves failed on
the vote on the amendment forfeiting the
claim to service and freeing the slave. on
: non payment of the tax, by 45 to SO.
Re- General Shields te'egraphs from
Winchester that our victory was more fa-
tai to the enemey than was at first sup
i posed. Union prisoners who escaped from
u Mount Jackson. just arrived, say that eight
IS wagons loaded with dead and wounded
: rebels entered Mount jackson on Monday
e at 10 p M, A miles from the battle field
/ in 90 hours. The rebels admitted that they
e had 900 in the field, also that they lost
IS between 1000 and 500 in killed and
e wounded We are finding their graves
g some distance from each side of the road
J The blow has struck terror to the heart
u Of the Shenandoah valley.
. l Two hundred and thirty rebel pris-
> oncrs, captured at the battle at Winches-
ter, have arrived at Baltimore.
,.t lgE A sergeant of the Twenty first
" Massachusetts regiment writes that
at mong the cannon captured by Gen. Burn
of side at Newbern, were thirteen brass field
Of pieces taken by the enemy at Bull Run.
,o This fact would seem to Indicate that
as the Confederate troops at the battle of
9 Newbern, or at least part of them, were
% frcm Manassas.
er Hg Numerous letters received by
~ members of Congress from Pea Ridge,
no concur in according the success to Si9ePs
a. generalship during the last days of the
he fight.
lie @The Democratic caucus was not
harmonious, as stated, but broke up in a
is row. Only thirty members, including
OF the border States men signed the call
er Vallandigham was the prime mover.
X EE-BALTMoRE, March 95.-Two hun
na dred and thirty rebel prisoners captured
: at the battle at Winchester, have arrived
o. here. They are mostly Virginians.
| EE General Beauregard, appeals to
- the planters for their bells to cast into
cannon.
aE- The rebels have lost seventeen
10 of their Generals by wounds, resgna-
~ tions, and suicide, during the war. The
,,t Union army has lost but two--one was
-, killed in saddle and the other died Of
sickness produced by wounds.
Ee~ The rebel Gen. Ben. Nc Cullough
pi, a few moments before he expired his ply
. scian assured him he had but very time
in to live AT this Ben. looked up incredu-
ian lousy and saying Oh hell ] turned away
ny, his head, and never spoke after.
l., Re- The promise of an abundan
the peach crop in Delaware and New jersey
md was never better at this season.
''g ieE~ The Trenton, n. j., Locomotive
lIv works are being converted into fpundrie
are for the manutactury OF cannon oil th'