Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-07
THE LATEST NEWS.


the movements of our forces. 1t ia not
to be denied that much embarrassment
has resulted to our forces by the publ
cation Of the plans of Government be-
fore they were put into operation. In
consequence of this order, we have moth
ing Of startling interest in the war line
this week. But we think it safe to pre-
dict that the immediate future is big
with great evente. We believe that the
new energy SO lately infused into our
policy, has not exhausted itself, but
is gathering strength to strike more deci-
Give blows than have yet been recorded:
We are content, therefore, to wait un-
til the stroke is made before announcing
what it is to be. rz
---General Lander, one of the
brayest and best Of our officers, is deadl
He died on the I'd inst, at his head
quarters on the Upper Potomac, from
the effects Of wound received in battle
some time ago. The whole country
viii lament the losa of this brave and
ehivalric soldier. .
- The great Erricson iron-clad bat
terry, of which so much has been said
and such high expectations have been
INDUCED, has been completed, aud sailed
-on mission to some point in the land
Of rebellion. Her destination is un-
known. But she will soon be heard
from, and if she performs at all as it is
believed she can, woe betide the point
, of her attack, wherever that may be-
We hope, before our next issue, to hear
that she has sustained the high expec-
tations of her inventor, and the public.
| AN order from the War Depart
ment has called upon the Governor Of
Pennsylvania for the forward movement
of all the troops in that State. This,
together with large draft upon the
surgeons of the State, looks very much
like business. With the prohibition of
all publication army movements, spec
.ulations are the order of the day, and
among these speculations is the SUPPOSE
tion that the army of the Potomac is
about to be put in motion.
--Gen. Banks has crossed the Poto-
mac and taken possession of Harper's
Ferry and surrounding region in Vir-
ginia. The rebels threatened to exter-
inmate his whole force, but their heels
took their courage captive, and they ran,
as usual, without firing a shot. The
rebels are said to be in strong force at
Winchester and Strasburg under Jack
son and Smith. Guess they wont fight.
Commodore Goldsborough re-
/ ports the capture of Winton, N. c.
He says the move to ascend the stream
beyond Winton, was opposed by the
rebels with artillery and infantry, but
we're put to fight by The gun boats and
Zouaves. Nobody hurt on our side
The houses occupied by the rebels as
headquarters were burnt.
1T is reported, and seems to be
reliable, that the rebels have evacuated
their strong hold at Columbus, Ken
tucky, and have destroyed the town.
This is their last foothold in Kentucky.
And it cannot be long before they are
driven out of Tennessee. Missouri is
already relieved of the presence of the
last organized body of the conspirators,
Price and McCulloeh having been driven
into Arkansas.
-. The House of Representatives, in
Congress, has passed, by an overwhelm'
ing majority, bill prohibiting the off
GERS of our armies employing their for
ces in slave-hunting and catching fugi-
tives, under penalty of immediate dis
missal from the service. This is right
The Shareholder have their own fugi
tive slave law still in full force, with
which they ought to be satisfied, with
out insisting upon the humiliation Of
the country by the illegal employment
of our volunteers in the disgraceful and
degrading business.
1.-The latest news from the rebels
, is, that in forty days they intend to take
Cincinnati, and by the sack of the city
provide themselves with means to pro
eeed to Philadelphia, New York and
Boston, where they will dictate terms oi
peace, which is to include the payment
, Of all the expenses of the war by the
Yankees--the abdication of fLincoln--the
, Inauguration of JEFF. Davis in his place
, the hanging of the Republicans-the
disfranchisement of the Union Demo
crats-the furnishing of each Northern
sympathiser with a "nigger," freshly
. imported from Congo, as reward io'
| his services, and a badge of nobility.
|, -GooD-Presideat Lincoln ha.
e appointed Andy johnson, the loyal, bu
exiled Senator from Tennessee, Brig
: adler General, to open military pro
: visional Government in that State, unit
e the Civil Government can be reconstruct
Q ed. What a contrast. a few month
0 ago Breckinridge and his crew huntee
t johnson for his life, over the mountains
t and through the passes of his nativ
q State. True to his country and his con