The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-03-25
NEWS TTEMMS.


~ Lieut.. Col. Won Schradcr of the 74th
Ohio regiment is among the released prisoners
who have arrived at Washington from Rich
mond. ta
tEThc basis of the conference proposed by
England on the Gcrmano. Danish quarrel is as
follows;
"lst The European powers guarantee the
autonomy as well as the indivsibility of the
Duchies.
"2d. The territorial arrangements hitherto
existing are to undergo no.charge.
w"Austria and Prussia have adhered, in
principle, to the proposal, provided, however,
that the German Diet and France is also assert
and that the negotiations should not interfere
with the prosecution of hostlitics." aa
Returned prisoners from Richmond report
that the rcbles put 900 kegs Of powder under
the Liby prison, on the approach of kilpatrick's
forces, and would have blown the inmates up if
the expedition had succeeded in entering the
City. The rebles do well to prate about inhu.
manity .riI
tB- Con Grant is on his way TO Nashville hay
ing returned from the Potomac He will probab.
ly attend the opening Of New York Sanitary
Fair.
~ Tho Baltimore Conference the most in
fucntial body of border Mcthodsts, adopted
a series Of patriotic resolutions on Tues
day, by vote Of 45 to 10. The revolutions de-
clare exclusive allegiance to the Government of
the United States to be q matter Of religious
duty; forbid the reception into the Conference of
disloyal ministers and candidates, and express
sympathy with the emancipation movement ms
tending torelcye the church Of embarrassment.
tE- At the municipal election In Portland
Me-, yesterday, the Union candidate for Mayor
was elected by majority Of / ,l30, being again
since last year Of 935. Every ward in the City
was carried by the Union party. Portland used
to be strongly Democratic, ''straws," etc. ..,,..
tE Mr.. Summer will soon introduce series
Of resolutions in the Senate. on confiscation, EN-
bodying some different features from existing or
proposed legislation.
~ There were l,iO3 enlistments in Ohio
last week, making the total number under the
two calls 2s,slT. The States quota still wants
about 5000 Of being full. 4stt., +
IF General Lew Wallace has been appointed
"a the command Of General Schcncks old de.
partment, with headquarters at Baltimore.
t5- Gen. Grant, in a letter to the citizens Of
New York, says the rebellion will soon be sup.
pressed, and the Union rc.establishcd stronger
than ever.
III Since Union President of the PcunFyl
vania Senate has been elected, jeff Davis find.
ing that he could not help the Copperhcals OF
that State by keeping the captive Union Senator
Major White prisoner any longer has released
him. The major it will be recollected, smugg
led home his resignation by returning prisoner
The major came north in the last batch of par
oiled men. A more significant example Of the
active cooperation Of the rebel leaders ard their
northern friends has seldom been afforded.
To- The Baltimore American is emily toler
ably satisfied with the action of the Maryland
Legislature, which has just adjourned. 1t does
not think the emancipation law sufficiently
direct and stringent. 1t also censures the Legis
lAture for failing to inaugerate general school
system to oprovide fer immigration; to repeal the
odious Black Code, and generlly leaving all leg
hlation in favor of freedom, to a convention into
which some prosfavery and traitotus men will
get. ...
tY- The Constitutional Convention of West
ern Virginia have adopted an article abolishing
slavery immeadatly and uneonditionallv.
There was but one dissenting vote. There can
be mo doubt that this feature Of the consultation
will receive the support Of large majority Of
tho voters of that State q
cT Ex- Governor Hicks,of Maryland, ia ly.
ing dangerously i'll at Washington. Hesprained
one Of his legs, and crysipeas setting IN, the
limb was amputated. He was very weak at
last accounts, but his physicians lad some hope
Of his recovery.
tB- Gov. Brough has received a dispatch
from the War Department, stating that another
call for two hundred thousand men had been
made. Ohios quota viii be about 10000.
tH 1t is reported that Gems. McCook and
Crttenden have been acquitted by the Court Of
Inquiry, which recently set on their eases at
Louisville. The former is held to have done h;s
duty in the battle of Chicamauga though he
committed an error of Judgment in going into
Chattanooga. Gen. Crittendcn il held to been.
tirely blameless. 'r
cB Indiana had raised on the 31sl Of Janu4
ary an aggregate of ! $50 men more than requ-
ired. and in every district there is an excess of
from 500 to 800 men. When veteran credits
and enlistn,ents since that time have raised her
surpl,s to about $4,000, or enough to discharge
its quota under new call for 100000. She
will thus escape draft under the new cali fo,,
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