The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-01-02
News items.

W SlNteen steamers wer0 seized al
CHM. on Monday last for the use Of the
army.
or The rebel Gen. Jones, with $500
mon, has lcft Winchester, going toward
! Staunton.
01- The Winchester Railrond has
been entirely destroyed by the rebels,
and the iron carried of.
or The Governors Message is in
type, and makes l6 octave pages, SO says
a correspondent from Columbus.
or EK-Surgcop-G General Weber has
constructed a new army ambulance,
which has many Advantages over those
now in use. lIc will submit nodcl to
the attention Of the Secretary of War.
or The Russian Government has ten
derod its aid TO the Emperor Of China in
putting down tho rebellion which has
spread so greatly among his subjects.
.01y- The London Star says "The
most enthusiastic meeting has been held
at Lambeth TO express sympathy with
tho Anti-slaicry policy in America
About 1900 persons were present.
OF The Louisville Journal says il has
confidence that intelligence will bc re-
ccived from East Tennessee, before the
dawn of the New Year, which will glad
den every loyal heart in the land.
0cy- Mary Ann Rythcrs, of Grand Ra-
pids, Michigan, has applied for decree
Of divorce from her husband, because he
is an officer and doing service in the re-
bel army. A sensible woman.
0rr Members of the Legislature who
hold army positions are rcsigning, pre-
paratory to dischurging their duties at the
next session, which will commence on
the sixth of January.
OF ltisrumored that the gallant Gen.
Butler is to be assigned to an important
command in the field. Will the North
crn Locoroco Bat,ernuts howl at this -
If they don't, il will be wonder.
OF The N. Y. World, at the prssen,
time, is one of the vilest tory prints in
this country Tho Government should
close it up, and consign the proprietor:
to Fort Lafayette. We hope ii will be
done.
OF Gov. Tod has appointed Mr., ]. C
Wetmorc, OF Columbus, State Agent tc
look after the interests of Ohio soldiers
in Washington and vicinity. He ia in.
struotcd to act in concert with the Ohio
Soldiers Rcief Association at that place
OF The Sinking Fund Commission
crs, loft Columbus on the goth ult, fol
New York, for the purpose Of paying of
the January interest on the State debt
II will be paid in gold as heretofore an.
nounccd. \
or Thirty eight condemned Indians
were hung at Mankato, MINI, at 10 A,
NJ. on the 26th ult. The galows was SC
constructed that all fell at once. There
were several thousand spectators in at-
tendance. All passed Off quietly.
OF Secretary Stanton, in recent let
ter, pays high compliment to the Ohio
medical corps in the army. He regards
it above that furnished by any other State
both in point Of skill and in prompt and
close attention 10 the wants Of tho sol.
dicrs.
OF The trial of William Hopp, for the
murder of his wife, Martha Hopp, a,
Pow.Paw, Illinois, in June last, is now
progressing in Chicago. 1t is a singular
case, as the pair had thirteen children
Yet tho husband grew jealous at this late
day, and, aNer considerable ill-treatmcnt
the murder was committed in an alter
cation between the parties. The ground
Of defense set up by the lawyers is in
sanity.
or One hundred head of fine cattle
which had been purchased for the rebel
army, in Virginia, were seized on the
cad ult,, by the Union soldiers aud taken
from the plantation OF one phelan Lewis
a wealthy farmer, and appropriated to the
use Of our own men. Upon demanding
the usual receipt, MIR, Lewis received ore
with those encouraging words written
beneath il; 81 believe phelan Lewis to
be disloyal man aud a traitor to the Go.
yernment OF the United States"
OF The leading rebels alsng the val,
ley Of tho Rappahannoek, are furious in
their denuneiations on General Lee fol
not having destroyed the Army of the
Potomac whilo is was massed in the
streets of Fredericksburg, and says that
if he does not afford them protection from
the rsvages Of the Yankees, they will
soon tske the oath Of allegiance to III,
National Government. What they mos
desire is protection, aud they are begin
ming TO be very indifferent what Govern
ment gives il 10 them.
or A bold attempt was made by III,
rebels on the 93d ult, to cross the Rap
pahannock on rats, Il miles below por