The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-05-06


ed. Rivalries between commanders
and corps arc at an end. The army
is at last q unit. Its commander is in
perfect accord with the head or the
War Department. a difference oil
opinion, that was not angry, respect
lug the disposition to be made of The
inyalid, was promptly harmonizcd by
an explanation. Secretary Stanton
has tue fullest confidence in General
Grants capacity, and in the wisdom
OF his plans. Lheir relations are Ell.
tircly harmonious. a sun Of Austcr.
litz is rising FOR freedom.
Thirteen ofthc Coles county Illinois
rioters, against whom there was not
suificient evidence ofguilt, have taken
the oath and been liberated. Fifteen
Others are held for trial, aud one has
died.
Six companies Of the 9th y s. col
ored regiment left Delaware last Mon
day for the field, their destination he
ing Annapolis, Nd, where large
force of colorcd troops is being con
centrated..
Gy- The Ohio Statesman captions
IN article on the calling out of the
militia in the Northwestern States
-"Jubilec of Shoddy." 1t depre.
Gates the policy with almost as much
bitterness as the rebels may be sup.
posed to feel about it, when they con.
sidnr IL will inorcaoo tho Union arm.
les to the front by nearly 100000
men
The Indians ars troublesome in the
extreme northwestern counties oi
Iowa. The Sioux City Register o
the 23d ult., says that the officers an6
many OF the citizens Of Sioux county
had come for safety to that place -
The houses at the county scat o
o 'Brien county have beeu burned by
the savages, and in Clas and Other
counties, property has been stolcl
aud people murdered. Cavalry have
been dispatched to look after tbc
maraudeis.
Advices from the Army of the Po
tomac are up to Monday. 1t cannot
be said that all was quiet, but there
had boen no ward movement
Our troops which visited Madison
Court House, destroyed the place
bat whether by or without orders i,
not known. Desertcrs report Lee.
army eighty thousand strong, inclu
ding twenty thousand effective caval
ry. All the railroads were employ
ed night and day bringing up re. in
forcements. II these reports are cor
rect it is evident LEE expe Is to figh
great battle on the Rapidan, and i
stripping other places of troops 70
this contest. Gen. BUINsIDE wa:
still at the front consulting with Gen
erals Grant and Meade.
I Both Houses OF Congress have vo
ted to pay colored soldiers Sl3 pc
month.
+ The Provost Marshal General ha
decided that members ofthc Nationa
Guard or Militia, who NAV enter tn
ono nunuFod day service, WIN nor, ~
reason Of their absence, forte thei
right, IL drafted, to furnish substi
tutes or commute.
! The condition orthe released Unio,
prisoners, who have lately arrived n
Baltimore from Richmond, is terrible
They are wasted to mere skeletons
Few complain of any disease hut tn
weakness which results from starva
tion, of which MANY have died. JohI
Oliver, sergeant of Co. X, S0th Obi,
regiment, 4 native of Frankfort, Ros
countv, fell into absolute insanity
AMI died shortly after reaching til,
Baltimore hospital Mcn weighing
when in health, 180 to 200 ponds
are reduced through want of foo
to 100 pounds One of the men re
ported to visitor that ont Of $50 sicl
persons taken into one Richmond hos
pital, in month sos died. In Belle
Island the suffering was unparalleled
Manv-a dozen or morc-had their feet
fingers. hands and toes frozen of
whilst exposed to the severe weathe
in this desolate abode. To keep tron
freezing entire they were compelled
to bundle dozens together, and chang,
positions as those under got warm
and those outside began to freeze. I
was no uncommon thing to see twenty
thirty. forty and fifty dead hodie,
carried outi in day, or to behold then
strewn around like carcasses of duml
animals.
Dogs aud rats were caught wher
opportunity afforded, and eaten b,
prisoners on this island rs choic,
morseis, and m old bone discovered
here was Gnawed rs n dclicany. Wha
came Of the many gifts Of provision:
sent from home, prisoners, with eX
treme executions. could not tell, save
whore they saw them ut times eagerly
dcvoured by the rebels themselves.
We have news from the Red River
to tho 24th ult. At that date Gener.
Banks forces were at Alexandria,
having fallen back from Grand Ecorc
Their march was harrassed by tho
rebels. When near Cane River {
battle cnsucd, in which the rebels ap
pear to have got the worst, No par
ticulars are given, except that th,
loss of the enemy was one Thousand
men and and nine guns. The repor
ted stranding of the gunboats is dc
MED.