The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-07-22
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night to rob the dwelling house OF Captail
Winslow. the hero of the Kearsage, at Noun
Vernon Place, Roxbury, Mass. A son of th
Captain started the "midnight intruders" off.
sB- Miss Mary Mitchell, sister of the ia
voritc actress, Miss Maggie Mitchell, is nov
yingserously ill of the heart disease in Wash
ington.
20 The Constitutional Convention of Mary
land was adopted by vote of 43 to H. Tn,
bill of rights reported by the committee, witt
the following addition offered BY Mr.. Abbott
| That we hold it to be self-evident that all mer
arc created free that they are endowed by
their Greater with ceitain iDuliehable rights
among which are life, liberty, the enjoyment O.
the proceeds of their own labor, and the pur
euSt of happiness" was adopted
sI5 At Ashland, a rebel lieutenant, when
captured by our men, asked to whom he had
the honor ofsmrenderiug ed Ohio" was the
reply. Great heaven p exclaimed the leu
tenant, Il fought that regiment in the Indian
, Territory, in Arkansas, in Kentucky, in Tenn.
esseo,and at last they've got me in East Virgin
ia Are you sporting rIgimentf"
! ssH Work has ceased on the great ironclal
ram Dundvrberg, building by Mr. Webb OF
New York for the Coy rrnmont Of the United
States The ship is r.ady for launching, and
has been SO for some time. Tie cause of the
dead lock in her progress is Tie inability Of the
contractors for her machinery to have the shaft
and propeller ready in time.
G5S- 1t may not be generally known that Con-
gress, at lis late session. adopted the view taken
by Judge Underwood, and rcscindcd the expa-
natory resolution which declared that the Con-
fscation act was to b. understood as only au-
thcfizing the forfeiture ofr1al estate during the
lifetime Of thc person found guilty Of treason.
GEs We have European news to the Sd inst.
The Prussans and Austrans have taken the
Danish fortified Island of Alsen with heavy lose
10 the ilancs sipGe which there las been no
fighting in the duchics The danish question
and Che course to be pursued by England iu ~
speet to it. are being discussed in Parliament
with much spirit
e. The New York City volunteer Commit.
tee, who engage to furnish citizens with subst-
tut for the sum of 500, had received about
6ne hun lr-l ,iapost, tp to Monday Thesub-
to the SO 900 0O0 Bounty Fund have
reached :67l 800 From this fund volunteers
are to oreceve $500 each The action of the ci-
iy in raising it, has to be approved by the next
Legislature, but none doubt that it will be thus
and accordingly the moneted In. |
stitutions and men are subscribing literally
TSS" The notorious ,Tuge McCunn, of the Su-
pcrjo Court of New York City, sailed on Satur-
day, to revisit his native Ireland lie made a
speech to some of his friends before ombarking,
saying that he should take every occasion while
abroad "to represent the true cause of this terri
bic war, aud to place the fearful responsibility |
where it truly bciongel--to the abolition fanat.
les of the North-ani show that only through
the sacred principles of the Peace Democracy
could the consumation of that peace so dcvout
y " " f" 'S''e0 NC a'."'n'' u WIN oe 'eeoi-
lecFed ''at 'hls lf'ehd OF peace was conspicuous
last summer IN ehde"Vor'ng to release the dral'
rioters and murderers by writs of habeas corp
'e.
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General on the staff Of the late Gen. Leonidas
Polk, was arrested in this city yesterday by
Capt Tal'ons detectives, and taken before the
Provost Marshal General She. stated that she
was on her way to Jefferson City to see her
mother who she heard Tas sick. Mrs. Houeh
was closely CUES toned by Capt. Burlett, Assist
ant Provost Marshal General, and was quite
frank in some of her replies. In her trunk
number Of letters were found, and small piece
# the skull of a Union sol lier on which was
written "Wilson's CIR rek, Dccember 81, leG1 !"
Mrs Hough said she had preserved this as mo.
nento ofthe battle She wosscnt to tl,e F.n,aIe