Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-04-02
News Items.

The Wisconsin Legislature has refused
to establish military school in connection
with tia State University.
There are no CQlifornians on Gen. Ere
monfs staff. Following his friends adj
vice he has shaken off the whole gang.
Beauregard, Polk, Cheatman and CLARK
are at or near Cornith, Miss, where It IS
expected a great tatde will soon be fought.
The latest dispatches from Strasburg'
state that Banks and Shields are there,
and Jaclsso4 is in sight. A battle IS ex-
pected to-day.
The Governors of South Carolina, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana are out
with strong proclamations calling for vol
unteers, and threatening to draft.
Tie Philadelphia Inquirer says the
..heh delinquent at Washington, Of whose
exposure some promise has been given in
the dispatches, is Cabinet officer, and not
Of the War or Navy Department. Who
lis it?
Rebel sources assert positively that
Memphis will be burned if il! ley 70 fall
into our hands. Surrender, evacuation
and destruction have become so fasmona-
Die with them, they may do either At any
time.
The Government financial prospects are
said 10 be improving Of late. The $50
Treasury notes, which were two and a
half per cent. discount sixty days ago, are
now in demand at a premium. All the
loans of the Government are readily taken
up for Investment.
The rebel Congress has voted that no
cotton be raised this year. So King Cot
ton is diserowned and disthroned. Per-
/ haps the rebels think they can get along
without a home-king in the anticipation Of
inviting a foreign one to wave his sceptre
ever their bowed heads.
/ Our pickets are six miles beyond Stras-
/ BURG. Jackson is not in sight. All the
fences, trees, and ground aoag the road
show the terrible effect Of our artillery on
the retreating enemy. Gen. Shields arm
/ has been reset. He is comfortable, and
will probably be able to resume active du
ties in two weeks.
The reported capture Of Fort Pike, be-
low New Orleans, which recent intelligence
from Ship Island renders probable, opens
the way to Lake Ponchartrain from the
] Southern shore, where shell road seven
miles long. leads to New Orleans. The
bee line is only about five miles. The
water is five to ten feet deep.
Edward Magoflin, Of Missouri, charged
with violating his military parole in Mis-
souri,, has been tried by Court Martial in
! St. Louis, found guilty and sentenced, '1o
I be shot 10 death at such time and place as
4 The commanding officer Of that Depart
ment may diiect" The finding nd the
sentence has been approved by Gen. Hal
leck.
/ There was a great panic among The
rank anG file Of the rebel army, on account
j Of the federal victories. The newspapers
a.e carefully kept from the rebel soldiers.
j They have been so often imposed upon by
4 false statements Of rebel victories, that
4 they are much dissatisfied. The deserters
say that during tie excitement that pre-
vailed ID Norfolk, Immediately after the
fan Of Roanoke, that if demand had
been made on Gen. Euger, lie would have
capitulated.
The amendments thus far made to the
tax rob are not decisive, but merely The
action Of the Committee Of the Whole
The House having finally to act on them,
| it is believed Congress viii in conformity
with the bill proposed by the Secretary Of
+ the Treasury increase the. tax on Tobacco,
Whiskey and Other Injuries. The hasty
clause taxing the amount of whiskey now
I in tie hands Of dealers will probably be
reconsidered. The bill with this clause
stricken out viii be uniform and more ac-
ceptable.
The Gulf correspondent Of tde Boston
/ Journal writes, under date Of the 9Th,
that among the means which the rebels
have adopted 10 guard New Orleans
against approach from below, is an inn
mense raft Of logs, containing eight thou
4 sand feet, stretched across the liver, at a
4 point called the '.Jump." The iaft is Sc
cured to the banks of the river on either
/ sue Et'tNl tiBtlu~y WHICH are uiOppcd
when any Of the Couiederates steamer pass
This formidable obstruction is eommandel
BY 4 strong battery.
The Southwestern rebel newspapers
give currency to the report, that jeff Da-
Wis is soon to come west and take com
mand Of the rebel forces. Son people
/ think this notion Of the traitor may have
been stimulated into present activity by the
I fact, that the atmosphere Of Richmond IS
likely soon to he too hot for him, aud
] from tie idea that his health may soon re-
quire Of him the effort Of journey to the
mountains Of Mexico, and that be thinks
be had better start off "a leetle ahead" Of
the other members Of the rebel Govern
ment.
The Nashville Patriot Of the 2lst, has
later Southern news OF Mr. Yancey. The
Prfriot says Mr.. Yancey bias arrived in
New Orleans, 81 his return from Europe
In response 10 TIE wishes Of the people Of
the city, he made speech. We learn
from i gentleman who saw a report Of it
10 the n " Orleans Pieayuae, that lie
gave an unfayoyable account of bis MS
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