Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-28
News Items.

Rev. Henry Ward BeecheTs salary has been
increased 5000 making it 525, 600 year.
The sales of 5-20s on Saturday amounted
to 8, 583, 100, and for the week, SI4,5I2, 80.
information ha been received of the
stopping of the overland mail to California
Gen. Blair has resigned his position in the
army.
Orders have been issued to rifle all the "a
and 32-pounder guns at the Washington ar
senal, on the James pattern.
The Secretary of War has ordered the dis
continuance of the premium of 3 TO or for
accepted recruits for volunteer regiments.
Rumors say that the Secretary of the In
terror has cancelled the sale of the Ninneba-
60 trust lands, and has ordered new sale
Immense deposits of lead, believed to be
impregnated with gold and silver, have been
discovered near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The Wilmington Journal announces the
Bleaching OF two more blockade runners, the
steamers Ranger and Adore.
The Richmond Wig, of the 18th. thinks
the future of the South is involved in the
next Springs campaign in Upper Georgia.
The British blockade runner SHyar,us was
captured in Doboy Sound, Georgia, on the
sd INST, by the gunboat Huron.
The Postmaster General has invited bids to
reduce the running time four days from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, for the convenience
of the letter mail as well as entire mail.
Two trains run through daily from Chatta-
nooga to Nashville, the time being l9 hours
The mortality in the Chattanooga hospitals is
about 80 per week.
\ proposition was made in the rebel Con-
gress to conscript negroes for soldiers, but
was vigorously opposed by the members from
Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina.
A riot occurred at Seymour, Ind, Tuesday,
between some drunken soldiers and guard,
resulting in the death of rioters nd the
wounding of several others.
A special to the Tribune saws The Arkan-
saS delegation say that in four months Arkan,:
sas will come into the Union as a free State.
They recommend Col. Rogers for military
Governor.
The War Department has decided that
volunteers who have served faithfully for two
years are entitled to the bounty provided bv
the act OF July 22d, no matter at what time
since the commencement of the rebellion
they entered the service of the United States.
The wholesale rebel CONSUMPTION law is
creating great CONSERVATION and excitement
IN the western portion of North Carolina,
where preparations are being made to resist
it. Meetings are held at which the Southern
Contederacy is openly repudiated, and re-
turn to the Union favored
The Worlds correspondence says Gen.
Grant telegraphs that Gen. Foster, who is
suffering from his wounds, asks to be relieved
He requests that either Gen. Schofield or
Mcpherson be Immediately assigned to the
command.
The Iribuaes special says that the Senate
committee have determined to postpone the
consideration of the nominations of Major
and Brigadier Generals for the present, in
order to ascertain how many vacancies and
unemployed Major Generals there are on
hand.
The. Holstein question shows an increasing
enlightenment, and is still threatening The
Danes have evacuated Hostein. The London
Times continues to take gloomy views, and
says the Germans are watching still upon
events, while events threaten more and more
to be masters rather than guides.
The New Orleans Era gives the statements
of Union refugee just from Mississippi. He
says that fully one half the population of that
State left at home, are strongly Union, and
the women are especially bitter against jeff
Davis, Hundreds of Mississippians were in
the woods, to escape CONSUMPTION.
1t is ascertained that the Arch Duke Max
imillian will accept the Mexican crown prof
fered him by the Mexican mobiles, and will
shortly sail for Mexico. He is expected to
visit Paris and to reach Mexico before the
end Of March with requisite reinforcements
The understanding between the Arch Duke
and Napoleon is said to be excellent, and it
is said that capitalists oyerwhelm the Arch
Duke with offers of money on the simple
guarantee of his accession.
A refugee from Richmond, who travelled
via Wilmington and the Mobile & Ohio R. R.
to Oklahoma, gives the Memphis Bulletin long
account of the condition of things in the Con
He describes the state of society
in Richmond as terrible, the decentralization
among all classes being most extraordinary.
There were large number of rebel officers i'll
the city, and Uunion men were said to be nu-
merOuS. The same decentralization existed at
Mobile
Secretary Seward in letter to minister
Adams, dated Oct 9th, last as it appears from
the published correspondence, says, the U. S.
insist and must continue to insist that the
British government is justly responsible for
the damages which the peaceable, law abiding
citizens Of the United States sustained by
of the alabama, that vessel hay
ing been built and fitted out in British waters,
the secretary cannot therefore instruct Mr..
Adams to refrain from pressing claims which
he now has in his hands.
A special to the Post says letters received
from Robert j. Walker, now in London, state
that a great revolution is going on in public
opinion in England in reference to the fnan-
cial strength of this government He says
also that heavy tide of emigration will set
into this country in the spring, and with con-
gressional legislation it will swell TO half a
million persons a year. He proposes that
Congress shall enact that no emigrants shall
be liable to conscri ption during this war
This would disarm suspicion abroad.
The Era has intelligence from Texas,
through Rev. Mr.. RcRea, of Port Lavaca, who
says there is an overwhelming Union senti-
ment in Western Texas A number of Union
men have been imprisoned by order of Ma
gruder, for publishing book called Com
mon sense" Fears for their safety were en-
tertained, as the 'sons of the South" had Of
fered to hang them. Much mutiny exists
among the rebel soldiers in Western Texas
Magruder was concentrating his forces on
Brazos river, 80 miles from the coast and in
trenching.
The committee on ways and means have
resolved to tax manufactured tobacco 80 cents
per pound snuff, 80 cents; fine-cut, in bulk
exceeding half pound, 80 cents; fine cut in
foil, one ounce, cents per pound ditto, in
two ounce packages, 5 cents do, in three