The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-08-28
NEWS ITEMS.

The Convention Of War Democrats at
Indianapolis was a grand affair. Gen.
KimbNll presided.
The Tacony pirates who escaped from
Fort Warren, have all been recspiurcd.
\ Secretary Chase has decided that the
interest upon certificates Of deposite for
the temporary loan will be paid in legal
tender notes.
The desertions from the rebel army arc
still reported ms very numerous, particu.
lorly from their Western armies.
The town Of Lawrence, Kansas, has
been burned and Sucked by guerrillas
under the notorious QuLntrsll.
The colored regiment at Camp Della
ware is reported as being nearly full.
The Minnesota State Republican Con-
vcntion met nt ST. Poul on Wednesday
and nominned by exclamation Colonel
STEPHEs a. MLLEE of the Seventh rcgi-
ment, for Governor.
Judge GOODWIN has been appointed
Governor OF Arizona TO ill the vacancy
occOsioned by the death Of Hon JoHS A.
GURLEY.
Some refugees who have arrived at Nor
folk from Richmond say that JEFF. DAVIS
house is surrounded by guards, to.prevent
his running away. II JEFF's residence
is guarded, il is much more probably to
prevent bis assassination by the despe-
rate people than to check his flight.
Francis Scott was executed at New
Orleans on the 18th for the murder Of
Major Dullen of the 2sth Main.
The Toronto, Canada Globe says, that
Thos. darcy McGee got his wonderful
information about the intended invasion
Of Canada by Northern troops, from C.
l.. Vallandigham.
Major.G General Rousseau wns serens-
ded in Philadelphia on Wednesday night,
in reply to which he made u speech, not
very long, but pointed, patriotic and able.
Read il.
Dich Mccain, guerrilla ns notorious
in Tennessee, as Morgan was in Ken
tucky, and mean and ferocious villain,
has been captured near Nashville, and ia
now in the Tennessee peDiteDtiary.
General SrGEL has been relieved from
his duties in Pennsylvania, and his staff
mustered out OF the service.
The Peoria Transcript Gays the cop
porhead war in Fulton county Illinois,
is over. The traitors whose newspaper
organ boosted that they would require
|" twenty times one Hundred cavalry to
clean them out" on the arrival of only
three hundred troops, dispersed without
firing or receiving shot.
General MEADE has issued an order
forbiding the Iurtber stay, in the Army of
the Potomac, Of the wives of officers and
soldiers, of which, of late, there have
been large numbers in camp.
Mayor OrDYKE refused to sign the city
appropriation for drafted men until II is
so modified as TO substitute men, not
money for the persons drafted.
II seems that VALLAspIGHAM has been
telling the Canadians that Northern troops
were to invade that territory. The rebel
sympatbizers in that Province are begin
ming to discover that his Nord is no bet
ter than his loyalty.
General HuRLBUr learning that large
amount of rolling stock had been collect
ed a, Grenada, Miss, which the rebels
were preparing to remove, he sent out an
expedition under Lieut~Col. PHILLIPS, to
destroy il. This proved an eutire sue
cess. Fifty.sevcn locomotives and four
hundred cars, with blacksmith shops, Or
dnance and Commissary stores were de-
stroyed. The magnitude Of this blow to
the rebel cause can readily be imagined.
A military order has been issued dis
continuing the examination of baggage Of
passengers over the Louisville g. Nash
vile R. II.
Drafting has been going on in New
York this week, without any disturbance
or excitement.
Seventy-seven locomotives and 600
cars have been destroyed on the Misss.
slppi r. r. since the first investment of
Jackson, Mississippi.
J. p. Hawkins, Department Commis-
sary, has been promoted Brgsdier Gene
raj of colored troops, headquarters at
Goodrich Landing, Louisiana. Several
new colored regiments have been started
by Gen. Thomas, and enlistments pro-
crossing favoraby.
Intelligence from General wild's AZ
rican brigade, now in South Carolina,
states that the colored troops are eager
for the fight and their discipline excel.
| lent.
The War Department has organized
up TO this time seyeniy.fiye companies Of
invalids, who are 10 do garrison and other
duties that may not require them to great
exposure in the field. They are men
who have received two or mole wounds,
some OF them severe, and none of them
are men who would now pass surgeons
inspection for active duty in the field
nevertheless, they are one OF the most