Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-02-19
News of the Week.

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rapidly recovering his health.
The distance from Padueah 10 Florence
Alabama, the head of navigation on the
tennessee for large steamers, it about $50
miles.
The total cost of the engraving. nmber-
ing, printing and the paper for the issues
OF Treasury Notes under the acts of the
9TH and 18th of August last, was nearly
Sl38, 900.
The rebels left Bowling Green. one of
their Kencucky strongholds, on the morn
ing Of Saturday last Gen. MitchePs di-
vision took possession of the town on tho
same day.
1t is probable that an important com
mand in Texas will be entrusted to Gen.
Fremont, and that for reasons of obvious
fitness the troops assigned to him will be
exclusively Germans.
1t is stated that the rebels are %eyacuat-
ing Bowling Green, with the intention of
falling back on Nashville, the nearest point
at which they can hope to make anything
like q successful stand.
Senator Chandler has received a letter
from Col. Wilcox who says that himself
and other prisoners at Columbia, S. c., are
in good health and that their condition
has been rendered comfortable by the
clothing received from the q. S. authori-
ties.
Fort Henry, I2.-The expedition under
command ofCol. Riggin, returned to Fort
Henry to-day from the upper Tennessee
River having captured $4,000 worth of
c~ontraband goods at Paris, Tennessee; he
also found tents and camp equipage of the
troops that left Fort Henry.
The Secretary of War was attacked with
vertigo" while at his post in the Wan
Department on the 10th, ard compelled
to give up his labors for a time. He re-
sumed his duties the next day. Mr.. s.
has been subject to similar attacks, after
close and continued mental application.
Two men were arrested at Princeton,
Indiana, a few days since by the Surveyor
of the Port. Upon searching their per-
sons, their clothing and boot legs, were
found wadded with letters for parties in
the South. Many of them were from Eu-
rope. One of the men had q large amount
of gold on his person.
Gen. Sherman at Beaufort proposes that
the Government shall take charge of the
plantations coming into its hands, and
shall raise the cotton; employ and pay the
negroes, keeping the latter under a strict
but kind discipline of overseers. He also
proposes that suitable teachers be pro-
vided for the blacks, and that religious
instructions be given.
Lord Russell has replied at great length
to Mr.. Stewards argument on the Trent
affair. He differs from our Secretary of
State upon pretty much every point ex-
cept the point which admitted the de-
mand for the surrender of Mason and
Slidell to be valid. England still wants
to reserve to herself the right of doing
pretty much as she pleases on the high
seas.
Late southern papers state that the
steamer Calhoun, recently captured by
the federal forces, had a cargo consisting
of $4,000 pounds of powder, and 10000
pounds of saltpetre and that her crew fir
ed her in the hope of saving her from the
Yankees. The Yankees were Just fool
hardy enough, howeverto on board the
burning ship, put out the fire, and a
the powder and saltpetre to pepper the
rebels with.
Edwin NJ. Stanton has taken the helm
of the Wa Department, and his zeal, de
cision, and energy, are being infused into
the conduct of the war. The limiting of
Gen. McClellan's command to the army
of the Potomac is one of Secretary Stan
tons acts. Hereafter, all orders public
and private, to Buell., Halleck, Butler,
Sherman, and other Generals command
ing Departments or expeditions, will
emanate from the War Department, which
has now taken upon itself its legitimate
duties.
Upon Thursday of last week, the Rev.
Mr.. Gordon, serving out a sentence in
the Cleveland jail, under a Section of the
Fugitive Slave Law, assisted a Capt"
Davenport, a forger, to escape from jail
Davenport wearing off Gordon's hat and
spectacles, and passing out with a party of
Gordon's visitorsas lone of them" Dav-
export was re-taken at Berea the same af-
ternoon. Sheriff Craw, who had before
allowed both Gordon and Davenport the
freedom of the debtors apartments, has
consigned them both to a cell.
Colonel Jennison, of Kansas regiment,
which has acquired the subroiquet Of Jay
hawkerS," has illustrated in his six
months campaign how wal may be made
selfsupporting. He not only supplied
his regiment with horses, forage, provis-
ions, &c, at the enemy's expense but has
actually turned over to the military au-
thorities of the Department of Kansas
$4,000 worth of. property confscated
from the rebels. The region of Missouri
in which Colonel Jennison has operated,
furnished the hordes o border rufhans who
overrun Kansas six or seven years ago.
The news from France is satisfactory
Napoleon opened the Chamber on the 9th
ult., and contrary to the givings out of a
portion of the Paris press, and of the mis-
givings as to the position by letters from
Europe, the Emperor did not advise the
breaking of the blockade, nor the recogni-
ton of the Southern Confcderacy. He
said "the civil war which desolates Amer
lea has greatly compromised our CONNER
cial interests'-but, he added $50 long,
however, as the rights of neutrals are res
pected, we must confine ourselves to ex-
pressing wishes for an early termination of
those discussions"
Advices from Vera Cruz to January 18th
state that the allied force at that place
AiuHlDSIGu lO,OUO men, anu IndJ there
were between the city and the capital So
600 Mexicans ready to resist any advance
movement. The Mexican government
has increased the taxes twenty-five per
cent, and ~re-established an income tax of
two per cent. The allied powers have is
sued a manifesto announcing that they
have come to get PREPARATION for past inju-
RES, and denying that their purpose is
conquest or interference with the politics
md government of Mexico. Attached to
his is a dispatch from each of the plenipo-
stating their claims.
The st. Louis Republicans Fort Henry
correspondent gives further particulars of
he Tennessee River Gun Boat Expedi-
ion. Everywhere thepeople insisted upon
their visitors with presents, and as
ar as Florence the river can be ~navigated
Utmost as safely as the Ohio. Blessings,
:heers and widest enthusiasm prevailed
md greeted the gun boats everywhere.-
Numbers of prominent men came for
and said should the Federal army