The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-02-21
NEWS ITEMS

ny AHe report Vi W. II. refers, COm-
missioner appointed by the Governor of
Virginia, to make an inventory Of property
taken from the United States Government
at the Navy Yard, Gosport, and in and
near Portsmouth, Virginia, shows that
the Confederates made the following gains
by getting possession of the yard:
Value Of territory, 8 2ss, 900 90
Value of buildings and
other improvements. 3,938,48 6s
Value of vessels, 332, 800 90
Value of engines, ma
chinery, de-, 250,6 90
Total, $4,81o,O56 68
re- The House Committee of Ways
and means reported adversely to the Sem
ate amendment to the Civil Appropriation
Bill, paying extras for the White House
expenditures.
@ The depressing influence of the
war on real estate in New York was illus
trated on Saturday, by the sale at auction
of eight brown stone houses in Madison
avenue, at prices varying from SI9, eou
to $23, 400. Six months ago it cost thirty
thousand dollars to build each of these
houses. This decline in the value of this
description of property on Madison ave-
nue. is said to be equally marked in other
portions of the city.
~ Iowa REpuD1Ar1oN.-Twenty-
four counties in Iowa are in default
s7O,o75.
E The Hon. Richard Stillwell, LII.
D., died at GAINESVILLE, on Saturday last, Of
paralysis. He had resided in Muskingum
county since 1903.
@ Complete plans and specifications
Of our Western gunboats were found in
Fort Henry.
~ A number of North Carolina con-
trabands among Com. Goldborough's
gunners, are said to be among the best
artillerists in the naval service.
@The Nashville Louisville Courier,
of the End, says that Humphrey Mar
shal's command is at the headwaters of
the Kentucky river, in Letcher county,
about thirty miles from Pound Gap. The
men are said to be suffering from the want
of proper food and clothing.
RThe importrnt report reached us
from central Kentucky that the National
Army is in motion, the roads having rap
idly improved in the last week. General
Nelson's division is marching along the
Glasgow Turnpike, with the view proba-
bly, of fanking Bowling Green, and Gem
eral Nelson's division had crossed Green
River on Monday, marching directly to.
ward that rebel stronghold.
~ Washington, though sore with
laughter, is still mirthful over Secretary
Stanton's squelehing of the Herald. That
Ives should have been hurried off to Fort
McHenry while digesting the costly and
seductive breakfast which Bennett author
lied him to give to General McCleIlan's
staff and that he should have been un-
tremendously jerked out of the bosom of
that military household which was to give
The Herald exclusive privileges in the
headquarters of the army that the favor
of General Mcclellan should not have
been the least protection to Benefits
especial Representative" against Secretary
Ssanton's iron gauntlet !; that the unprin-
cipled paper that had bullied Pierce's and
Buchanan's entire Administrations should.
in moment, be put down by the inexo-
rable lawyer-the joke is inexhaustible.--
1t will furnish Washington with laughter
till the end of the war.-N y Tribune
~ Col. Geary, in command of the
Pennsylvania regiments stationed on the
Potomac, near Harper's Ferry, shelled
portion of that village, a few days ago.
and destroyed number of the buildings
standing on the line of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad. The immediate cause of
this act was the dishonorable action of
company of rebels, under command Of
Capt. Baylor, enticing, under flag of
truce, boat containing party of Fede-
raj troops to cross the river, and then in
cold blood shooting Mr.. George Rehr,
former resident of Ha:per's Ferry, who
had been driven from that place in con-
sequence of his Union sentiments, and
who since his expulsion has co-operated
with the Federal troops by giving valuable
information in relation to the sentiments
of the citizens, and the localities in the
neiehborhood. Such dastardly conduct
is unparalleled in the history of civilized
nations The body of Mr.. Rohr was in.
TERED in Mount Olivet Cemetery, at
Frederick, the funeral obsequies being
celebrated in the Reformed church of that
city, which was densely crowded by Off
GERS, soldiers and citizens.
w The Senatorial convention met in