The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-12-23
News Summary,

JoHN MoEGAN is reported by the rebels to
have arrived in Richmond
Tue cotton that camo TO. New Orleans
in September and October was -, 400 bales.
ENtSCipATtoS in tho Dutch Indies
works we'll all around.
SEVERAL of the towns Of Massachusetts
have filled their quota under the last call
for troops.
TUE Nashville papers arc complaining of
Il large arrival Of gamblers and smngglcrs
in that city.
lHE Supreme Court of Iowa, has Just Civ.
CD an unanimous opinion, declaring tho law
allowing soldiers to vote constitutional aud
valid
TuE election of DE-. Chauning rs Chaplain
in the uouse ci Representatives mt Wash.
ington, ia II radical victory. Claiming is an
ot-au-omt Aboljtiouist
Al tho Indiana regiments iu General
Banks department are re.onlisting for three
years additional service. Tho Indiana troops
IN General Grants army will also re.culist.
Or l05l applicants for Commissions in
the negro regiments, J60 have been recon-
mcnded for appointments, viz coloncls, 3;
lieutenant coloncls, 10; majors, 25; captains
l04; first lloutenants los; second Ii9utenauts
263.
The Union men Of Arkansas, a. of Ten
nescc, are enlistng freely in the National
service. Reports from Little Rock state
that over two thousand had already been
recruited in that noighbnrhood This ia a
new element of strength that was not fully
calculated upon.
THE farmers II southern Illinois have
been busily engaged soma weeks past in
cotton picking. On high ground the cotton
il little injured by tho frost. On the bottoms
and lowlands it il totally ruined. Cotton
presses are going ny in Union and jackson
counties, and gins are running in every
nctghborhood
TnE Senate of the loyal Virginia LcEisla-
turc, now in session at Alcxandrja, have
passed bill calling a convention tn meet in
that city on the 2ath oG january, tcr ct}"ct
the abolition OF slavery in the five counties
Of the state exempted fror, the operations
of the President Proclamation. These
counties are NcconAc Northampton Prin-
cess }nnc York and Elizabeth, and ncluiv
the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth,
CArrAlN FIskG and his party have arrived
at st. Paul, from their journey over the
plains, His party consisted of hut firy
three mon, three cf whom deserted On the
Goth OF July and went to rembina, where
they deliberately coucoltcd the story
OF tho massacgcs which we received some
tmo since. they report that Baunock city
is being depopulatod 10y tho rush TO The
Virginia City mines. At the Virginia City
mines the miners averaged 81 > per day, and
some as high as so, Sjj and even 500,
'Fhe Inhabitants OF this gulch number somc
5000 OF 5000, ;snd tho average product is
from S250,000 TO 100000 per week,
At Shelbyville, Indiana, on Thursday
night last, two young boys oi Rushvl,c, In
diana, were arrested for slight mlsdc-
meanor and sent to Shclbyvillc JAIL where
u crazy man was confined, previous to be.
ing sent to the asylum. Next morning,
when the ialor went to give his prisoners
their breakfast, tho boys worc found wei.
tering in their blood, their throts cut from
ear to ear, The Indianapolis Jomma} gives
the report that such excitement cnsucd that
some of the people of otShclhyville took the
madmau from tive jail and were aboNt TO
hang him, having actually fastened the
rope about his neck, bus other citizens III
terlercd aud rescued him,