Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-10-13
Miscellaneous PARAGRAPHS.

at 81 ,955, 972 1886, and the interest thereon
at s8l, 778, 643.12.
| The I1iburte'8 Shenandoah special saws =
| Sheridan's pursuit of Early was so hot tina
| he captured beef which had been billed foI
the use of the enemy, but which the rebels
| left skinned and smoking upon the ground
| and had not time to issue to the troops.
| In one week Sheridan's army fought tive
battles, gained two signal victories, and pur
sued the demoralized and broken columns Of
Early eighty-seven miles. The history Of
| this eventful war may be searched il vain fol
more persistent and successful fighting dur.
ing an equal space Of time.
At New York mackerel are reported very
abundant near Newburyport and Portsmouth
and large numbers have been taken About
s., 900 worth were taken at the Isle of Shoals
on Monday and Tuesday. One thousand bar
rels were caught on Tuesday.
An Englishman engaged in blockade run
ming arrived from Wilmingtonvia Nassau and
Halifax, says those engaged in the blockade
running business believe there is time to
make only one or two good speculations be-
fore the rebellion is finally crushed He does
not think business will extend beyond the
present year.
The United States Sanitary Commission
has opened communication with our officers
and soldiers in Charleston, Andersonville
and other places south, through Lieut.. Col.
Woodtord, agent for exchange at Charleston.
Assurances have been received from Major
Lay, Confederate agent for exchange, that
supplies Of specified articles will be safely
forwarded to our men.
At st. Petersburg, Russia, lately, a Catho-
lie church tumbled to the ground when it was
crowded with worshippers, and as many as
1000 persons were buried beneath the ruins.
Not one was saved alive. In many cases
there were no relatives present to claim the
bodies that were recovered, as the whole
family had been killed.
The heaviest casting ever made in this
country, has just been run at Hartford, CT,
by MessrS Woodruff & Beach 1t was a
channel plate for one of the large new frig-
ate engines now building for the Government
took twenty SIX tons of melted iron, four
teen workmen five days to prepare the mould,
and will require ten DAYS or two weeks to
cool off.
The Boston Post, having observed that til
present administration has abolished one hun
bred and fifty-two sinecure offices in the New
York Custom House, remarks that under a
Just and economical Government they would
never have existed" The Bangor Wig re-
spends very true. They existed under
Polk, Pierce and Buchanan Under Lincoln
they have been abolished"
Mr. John G. Nicolay, the Presidents Pri
vate Secretary, who was recently drafted in
Washington, though enormously enrolled,
being subject to military duty, not in the Dis
trict, but at his home in Illinois, which has
more than filed its quota, and being at the
same time lncapaCitated by illness from serv-
ing, has sent a substitute 10 the enrolling
office, who was duly accepted and mustered in.
About 500 of the rebel prisoners confin-
ed on Rock Island have recently enlisted in
the service Of the United States They are
to be sent to the Northwest Territories to
take part i'll operations against the hostile In
dians. At present they are separated from
their fellow prisoners, some Of whom mani
fest much hatred towards them because they
have volunteered.
Gen Forrest, in a dispatch to the rebel sec
rotary OF war, under date of Athens, Ala,
Sept. 24th says: My forces captured this
place this morning, with thirteen hundred of
fcers and men, fifty wagons and ambulances,
five hundred horses, two trains of cars load
ed with quartermaster and commissary stores,
with large quantity of small arms and two
pieces OF artillery. My troops are in fine
spirits. Ny loss is five killed and twenty-five
wounded"
The Paris Noaiteur says the cotton crisis
in France, which has been severely felt by
the operative classes, is well nigh passed
away. The consumption of cotton in France
during the first three months of the present
year was one-third more than in the same
period Of 1868, and one-third less than in
the same time of 1860. The mischief caused
by the war in America is therefore in fair
way of being remedied. There seems every
probability that the French colonies of AL
geria, Guiana, and West Indies will pro-
duce as much cotton as France requires.
The order Of Gen. Heintzelman prohibiting
the sale of powder and firearms, commonly
known as the "pOwder order" has been coun-
fernandez" The General expresses his thanks
to dealers in the country and particularly
those of Chicago, for their patriotism in so
cheerfully acquiescing in its provisions, and
aiding in carrying it out, evidently in many
places accompanied with heavy loss to them
selves. We suppose that the cause for the
issuance of this order has been so far remov-
ed, through the exposure and defeat of the
traitorous combinations in Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio, and there is no longer the same ne
cessity for interfering with the trade in arms
and ammunition.
IMPROPER INTERFERENCE OF THE MILITARY.
We understand that complaints of undue
military interference are no longer confined
to the Copperheads. The Union Committees
for the Presidential campaign, find their la
bors rendered superfuous by the achieve
ments of our military authorities It is very
clear that If Secretary Stanton continues the
vigorous movements of the last few weeks
the elections may be regarded as a foregone
conclusion. The Document Committee at
Washington especially find that Sherman's
and Sheridan's short reports of their victories
throw into the background completely all the
documents they have been able to circulate.
They make Union voters a great deal faster
than all the speeches ever made in Congress.
It is pretty clear that Grant is actually chair
man of the only Union National Committee
of much Importance in the pending canvas
Belmont will find him troublesome customer
to deal with.
THE WHISKY TAX, THE WORST LINCOLN Our.
RAGE.-Talk Nv military interfearunce with
the freedum Nv eleckshuns? What is that
in comparison with the tax on whisky With.
out sootable supply Nv whisky there is no
! such thing as free dunn Nv eleckshuns. This tax
on whisky was an insidious plan to re-eleck
Old Abe, and grately feer its operashun will
/ be most disastrus tn our party. There is al
| ready a most deplorable destatooshun Nv this
/ demikratic fluid in menny seckshuns Nv the
| country. Wun Nv my Majors who used tC
/ drink modderately-about galluns week
has bin compelled TO cut himself down tt
| as many quarts, and saw him only yesterday
! talkin tn niger as black as the ase of spaid:
as if be took him for newman being. The