The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-01-10
NEWS ITEMS

SAASASS
@-The 82d Reg, encamped at Kenss
on, has nearly one thousand men en-
oiled.
@ Gen IL Clellan has been confined
70 his room and bed by severe indisposis
ion.
1H Cois. Meagher and Asboth have;
been nominated to the Ssnate as Brigas
dier Generals
~It is reported that Gen. Halleck
will be assigned the command of the Po-
tomac army.
% There ere about FIVE hundred
chaplains in the army at the cost of nine
hundred thousand dollars per annum.
rTbe House has passed bill for
the construction of twenty ironeelad ships
of war.
EE Col. WTillich has buried thirteen
OF his men up to this dale, since his fight
on Green river.
~ Government has expended twenty
millions for FIRE ar ms since the war be-.
gan;
E Carl Shurtz has obtained leave of
absence from Madrid, and is on his way
home.
~The President has nominated to
the Senate Chas. H. Foster, of North
Carolina, to be Marshal for that district.
~ Gen. Rosecfats has preferred
charges against Gen. B,Hhac1, for neglect
of duty, in letting Floyd escape him.
HG Gen. Siegel. according to the
Volks6zat Of Cincinnati. threatens to re-
sign unless his desire to be appointed the
commander of an independent diyisions
numbering 5000 or 90, 900 men be com.
piled with.
~We receive from Missouri full
Confirmation Of the report that Price and
his rebel army are again in full retreat
in the direction of Arkansas-this times-
probably, to make his final exit from ths
State.
@ Eighteen hundred mechanics ars
employed at the Navy yard, their month
ly wages amounting to one hundred thou
sand dollars.
% Com. Lynch, of Dead Sea notori-
ETY., now commands the rebel naval force
iufes,ing the waters OF Eastern Virginia
and North Carolina.
HRev. VIM. NJ. Scott, D. D.. for
merly pastor Of one of the Presbyterian
churches at Cincinnati, died at Princeton
n j. on the 92d ult. He was at the
time Of his death, professor in the
Northwestern Theological Seminary at
Cbieago:
EThe famous Ohio White Sulphur
Springs in Delaware county, have been
sold for non ayment Of taxes. the amount
being s97e,83. DIR. j. Welsh of Della.
ware, was the purchaser.
~The President has approved the
bill providing for the appointment Of three
Commissioners from each State to visit
the camps. to receive and forward to tbs
| friends and families OF soldiers the lattsf'e
allotmetts of pay.
G@Rev. Mr. Miner, Chaplain Of the
ed Maine Regiment, who has recently
been released by the rebels, states that
there was no such officer as Lieut.. Hurd
attached to that corps; SO that the story
regarding Col Corcoran's escape may
be set down as an invention.
E# Col. Windham. an Englshman by
birth, but for six years in the Sandman
ARMY, who offered his services to the
Government, has beep assigned position
in the 18th Wisconsin Reg.
~Itis ascertained that the story of
a large rebel force at Drainsyille is uns
founded.
Congressman Jackson writes from
Kentucky; that he will not take bis seat this
winter, unless the army in his State has
the misfottone to be ordered into winter
quarters.
, @P Postmaster General Blair is said
to be desirous of seat on the Supreme
bench. II he is put there, the excellent
First Assistant Postmaster General, j..
A. Kasoon of Iowa is not unlikely to take
his place.
~The High Street III E. congtega'
. lion, of Springfield, Ohio, rented the pews
of their church at public auction, OR the
18th inst.
} %Several attempts have been made
to fire the city of Montgomery. Ala, the
FIRST capital of seeesedom.
Il AF-B Blohdin, after retirement Of sew.
: eral weeks, has reappeared at the sgd
enhsm Crystal Palace. introducing many
t new and astonishing feats.
Some Paris shoemakers have sent
9 Garibaldi pair OF splendid top boots as
4 ia testimonial OF their appreciation.
Sandusky county makes show oi
j Sorghum this season. The number oi
: gallons manufactured and reported tc
The Fremont journal, is 1889, which
at 40 cents gallon, saves to the farmer
s4,93'.
~A yoang girl recently escaped
from convent of France by scaling a
t wall eighteen feet high AMI dropping her
e self down ON the other side.
n lgIn letter to the American Minis
e ter at St. Petersburg. forwarded by tke
q last steamer, Prince Gorchakof says:
"The Emperor has never ceased to avow
. his hopes for the grandeur of the AmefI
y can Union"
IL H Arrangements have been made ts
:. pay all the troops up to the first of jam
Il ary. Orders for preliminary music RI
we're issued several days ago.