The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
Items from Telegraphie Reports.

The country between Fredericksburg and
Richmond is desolated by war.
The French have established hospitals
at Perote and Quecholac. In the latter
city two thousand are sick.
The rebels are reported short of powder,
and forage is scarce, while the people on the
route to fredericksburg are on the point
of starvation.
The House Judiciary Committee have
prepared report sustaining the Postmas-
ter General in his exclusion of disloyal
newspapers from the mails.
The rebel army has done drafting. Every
man in the South between the ages OF 10
and 40, and who can bear arms is now in
the service.
The town of Bolivar Landing, fifty miles
above Memphis was destroyed by our
gunboats. in retaliation for the guerrllas
firing into our steamer, Jenny Lind.
The Office of the Keokuk Constitution, a
paper of Secession proclivities, was de-
stroyed on Thursday last by convalescents
from the hospital.
A mutimy recently took place, in which
several North Carolina regiments were en-
gagged. The ringleaders were shot by or
der of Beauregard.
Charleston is strongly fortified on all
sides but the west, and is supplied with
iron-clads to defend the harbor. Two OF
these are destitute of machinery.
. 1t is charged that Eastern Copperheads
are seeking the command of African reg
irnents, in order to make them inefficient,
and 80 prove them worthless.
An appropriation is to be made for a
navy yard in the West. The site TO be Sc
lected by the President. St. Louis is un-
derstood to be the place.
The first execution under the laws Of
Kansas took place in Leavenworth, Friday,
February Is, being that of Carl Home, for
the murder of man named Frcund. lie
protested his innocence to the last
The tone of the Richmond journals gen.
orally indicate want of hope and spirit.
All prospects of foreign mediation seem
to be given up, and the present is considered
the most critical period of the whole war.
A Carlo despatch says the ram Queen
has gone on an expedition up Red River
for the purpose of destroying rebel vessels.
If successful, one of the chief sources Of
rebel supplies will bc cut off
The Mexicans claim to have beaten 200
French at FL Organo causing them to re-
treat with loss of SO killed and 30 or 40
wounded. Also that they have occupied
JalapG,
Ii ia announced in the rebel papers that
General Price il to succeed Holmes in the
command of the rebels in Arkansas, and
that large reinforcements will take the
place of the demoralized and thinned reg
iments of the latter
The Vicksburg Wig, of the 9th, says the
Mississippi is overllowing the barracks on
the Louisiana side. The town of Desoto,
opposite, is nearly submerged, and it is ex-
pected the whole peninsula will soon be in
undated.
The Memphis Appeal of the 9th says there
is no dodbt but the whole force of the en-
emy is concentrated in sight of Vicksburg.
Mortar boats towed down, yesterday, to a
point near the rendezvous of the fleet, say
any moment may announce the commence
ment of an attack,
Mexican advices represent the small pox
and dySentery as making sad havoc among
the French troops. The French war
steamer Vance was burned and abandoned
at Tampico. Three vessels, one laden with
ammunition, and the other with provisions,
were also abandoned,
The Committee of Ways and Means, in
their report accompanying their bill es-
tablishing branch mint in Nevada, say /:
The discoveries of the precious metcls war
rant the belief that in few years il will
in that respect surpass even the Golden
State.
An official dispatch from Admiral Porter
to the Navy Department, states that the
injuries to the rebel steamer Vicksburg,
by the ram Queen of the West, were so great
that her machinery has been taken out, and
the hulk fastened to barge to keep it from
sinking. The Vicksburg was the most for
midable boat the rebels had on the Missis-
sippi, aud might have done our transports
much damage.