Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-11-12
News Items

aant auYices are anticipated Just now in nror
n Il quarters from Gen. Gilmore.
"A party of Wheeler's scents wara oon+r,oa
/ Nashville. anu sent 70
uen. Hatch has been assigned to d,,.
"' o. Louis IN charge of the cayalrv
department. 10 be established at that point
| ARKANSAS advlees say that Marmsduke at-
'"cheu our forces at Pine Bluff on the 2st
ana was repulSed with considerable loss.
The Daetator, the most powerful iron.c,sd
yet constructed in this country. will he
launched this week. 1t is believed To be
i'''e 'iiah match for any now aloat.
| Gov. ANDREW JOHNSON. of Tennessee :.
OF opinion that an election can now he safely
anu Ialfly held for members of the State Jac.
until that is accomplished TeppeS.
'"liiio' DC represented in Congress
mes dispatch says: In contrast to the
oankruptey and financial lunacv which rnIe
"!u rum IN Richmond, Secretary Chase's ad-
iiithistration OF the Treasury will show a clean
paiance sheet on the LIST of November
haj' Gen. Butler has been assigned to com
nlaho the 18TH army corps Department of
Virginia and North Carolina in place of Gen.
roster, who is ordered to report here to the
Adjutant General.
W. U. Sparrow, son of Rev Dr. Sparrow.
formerly Principal of Fairfax Seminary. was
| arrested on his arrival from Staunton Va
Win rebel mail containing letters of i'm
Portance He Is now in the old Capitol.
Inc appointment of Gen. Butler to the De-
partment OF which Fort Monroe is at present
! the headquarters, is considered an earnest of
purpose to conduct the war in that quarter
on what are known as Buffers principles.
- The President has recognized NJ. E.
Roderguez Consul of the Mexican Republic
at San francisco, thus giving another official
| acknowledgement of the Juarez Government
without regard to French intervention. o. ,s:-tl
-Gov. BUCKINGHAM, of Connecticut, has
called an extra session of the Legislature, to
meet at Hartford, on the Sd of November
The OBJECT is to have some plan adopted by
which the quota of the State under the Pres
ldents last call for troops may be promptly
| filled.
Mrs Jessie Fremont, with her daughter.
was in Amesbury, Mass, last week. to visit
the poet Whittier; and with him they made
visit to the top of Powow Hill, where is one
OF the most lovely views of land and ocean
| to be had in America
Corinth dates of the Goth ult. state that the
lst Alabama cavalry, Qoyal about 500 strong,
recently sent to destroy the railroad commu-
mcatlons OF the enemy, when near Talladega
were surrounded by the energy in superior
force and the most of them captured.
= The rebels hold Union officers prisoners
at Richmond as follows: l Brigadier General,
| IA Colonies, % Lieutenant Colonies, 20 Sur
! geons, 43 Assistant Surgeons, % Majors. 246
Captains, 264 First Lieutenants, POI Second
| Lleutenants.
| The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau IN October are fifty per cent in excess
OF those Tor September, and include about
Sl,OOO,OOO as the tax on deposits and circula-
ton OF banks. The entire receipts since the
Bureau went into operation are nearly
s63,oOO,OOo and nearly slO,O0O,OOo for the
| last month.
There is a young women in Nova Scotia,
seventeen years OF age, who is seven feet two
| inches III height. She measures forty-three
inches round the waist, thirty three inches
inches from her armpit to the tip of her fin
| gers, weighs 274 pounds and has foot thir
teen inches long. She is good looking, quite
social, although difident, not being accustom-
ed to see the public, and her name is Anna
| Swan. ..
The Ir5dauae's Cape of Good Hope cores
| pondent states that the Ala6aazaa had been
| with her two prizes to the GuanO Islands. but
returned to Simons Bay Oct 18th. The
georgia LETT Slmons Bay Aug. 2lst, and was
supposed to have gone to Mauritius for re-
pairs. The Tuscaloosa had gone east and it
was expected the Vanderbilt fell in with her.
special to the Tribune, from the front
says: We learn that there are indications Of
disposition on the part of Gen. Meade to
obey the enemys orders by attacking the en-
envy, and to ascertain the truth as to whether
Lee intends to fight; if not, it will soon be
settled. There is no need of hunting for the
foe, as they are all around
The 1176une'S Washington special of the
4th inst. says: The Commissary General of
prisoners has received intelligence that
clothes and blankets sent to Richmond, by
our Government, have been received and
distributed to the prisoners for whom they
were intended. No further progress had
been made by the Commissioners toward an
exchange OF prisoners.
4 Washington dispatch says that Secretary
Chase and others have made efforts to have
Rosecrans sent to Missouri, to take the place
OF Schoheld, who Is now conceded to be only
Brlgadler, and, consequently, not competent
to command a Department where Major Gen
erals must come under him, but it is not be-
lieved that there is any hope for the success
OF the attempt. 1t is certain that he cannot
be appointed to anything, except in defiance
OF the opposition of some of the highest a,-
thorltles III the management of the war
Efforts are working to have Generals Sted
man and Cox, OF Ohio, promoted to Major
Generals.
- The news from Chattanooga is encourap
ing. Though the rebels still hold part of
Lookout Mountain. we hold possession Of the
Tennessee river to point within two miles
Chattanooga, across bend, and the Supplies
are sent up from Bridgeport by steamers.
The position of the army at Chattanooga is
safe, and plenty again reigns in our camps.
Hooker has cleaned the rebels from the south
bank, as far up as the position taken by the
blockade runners, and repulsing fierce at
tack by Longstreet, entrenched himself The
question whether the Army of the Cumber-
land could hold Chattanooga was, when Gen.
Grant took command, one dependent upon
| the speedy reduction of the length of the
road over which supplies must be wagoned,
The question is now answered and the army
is safe. .. .E- a.
A refugee from Richmond, northern
WOODEN spinner, brings the intelligence that
at Manchester, near Richmond on the James
river, gunboat clad with three thickpesses
of two-inch iron is within six weeks of COM
pletion, that at Rockets, at the foot of
Main street, two other ironclads are on the
stocks, and that a sense of security ia so
complete that large iron works private pron-
erty, are in process of construction by a man
named Bradley in Manchester, and machine
shop at the Central railroad depot has been
greatly enlarged. Two cotton mills have
heeD greeted in Manchester