The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS CLIPPINGS.

i MISCELLANEOUS CLIPPINGS.
"a New Orleans letter gives The fol.
loving instructive facts: II have Just
met an old friend, whom 4 not only find
aloyal man, but actively engaged in aid.
ing the government His father owns the
estate on the river below the city. known
as the Magnolia Estate" large brick
building. looking, with the sugar-mills,
like village on the banks Of the river,
as we came up. lie says be is hiring the
negroes by the month, and they work day
and night in the cane in this the most
driving of plantation work. They need
no urging-they work too much. He
says the large hospital he has for the ne
groes, which was always sure to be filled
at this season, is now without tenant,
and all are over.anxious to work"
General Hooker, according to letters
from the army, is fast earning the name
of working Joe Hooker" He is reor-
ganizing and deciplining the army. He
is about to do away with grand divisions,
SO that he may have report made to his
headquarters direct, and thus know the
condition and wants of his troops. Work
is being done on the roads in spite of the
mud. General Hooker has issued the
most stringent orders concerning fur
loughs, and leaves of absence, and will
deal summarily with deserlels. He is ia
king measures to silt out the disloyal, dis
obedient, disaffecting and demoralized Of
feers, who have SO long cursed the Poto-
mac Army.
On the arrival of train laden with
rebel prisoners, at Chicago, on Thursday
evening, crowd of Secession sympathi-
gers assembled around the depot, supplied
the prisoners with wLiskey, and tried to
break into the cars threatening to kill the
guards, composed, of the 34th Iowa regi.
ment, if they offered to oppose them. By
the frmness Of the soldiers, assisted by
the poliece, the rioters were driven back,
and compelled to abandon their design,
which was evidently the rescue OF the
rebels.
The Young Mea's Christian Associa-
ton at Chicago, has followed the example
of the Board of Trade, and expelled that
secesh sheet, theChicago Times, from
their reading-rooms. They have also vo-
ted to burn the last years file of the pa
per in one of the most public places in
the city. One of the staff of the paper
was ordered our Of Ladies' Association,
called the Home Of the Friendless,' He
is one of the 'frendless withou. home
On the morning of the Oath ult.,
COL Conner had desperate fight with
the Indians on Bear River, Washington
Territory, 142 miles north of this place.
Killed 224, besides many supposed to be
drowned,.s took IFS horses, destroyed their
lodges, provisions, &c. The fight las
ted four hours. His loss wao Is killed,
with officers and 38 men wounded.
Rebel newspapers say that 10000
men led into Missouri, in April and May
last, by Price, not more than $500 are
now surviving and fit for service. They
state their loss in the fight with Rosecrans
was 5000. In Breckinridge's Division
1900 men were killed outright in an
hour and forty minutes. Wilher's lost
$500.
-Messrs. Ellis, Blltton. and Eaton, of
Springfield, VT, have proposed to pur-
chase Of the government, 10000 acres Of
cotton lands al Port Royal, and agree to
employ 10000 emancipated negroes, at
IS % per day, and to sell them the lands
at cost price, in quantities from half an
acre up.
Governor Yates, of 1llinoir, states,
in his recent message, that that State pro-
duces twice as much corn as any other
State, and nearly twice as much wheat,
aud as many meat cattle ; that in hogs,
she is but little behind Ohio, and in live
stock of all kinds, almost the second State
in the Union.
The Administration has decided to
have in its service none but firm supper.
ters of its policy. A number of clerks
were dismissed on Saturday last, for ex-
pressing sentiments antsgonistic to the
course pursued by the Administration.
More removals will take place soon.
The Rebel Virginia Legislature is
trying to elect Confederate States Sena-
tor. There had been twenty or thirty
ballots up to the 18th. Rives, Floyd,
Claperton, Russell and Allen, are the
principal candidates, receiving about an
equal number Of votes.
General Wool has been requested by
Gov. Andrew, Of Massachusetts, to look
after the defense of Boston harbor. 1t is
probable that he will soon visit Boston for
that purpose, and that additional Guns