The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-01-29
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Mr.. Loan, excused from service thereon.
s5g" Advices from Washington are, that
whisky on hand will be taxed, and that there
will be no duty on leaf tobacco.
CFy" 1t is reported that Gen. Foster has asked
to be relieved on account of lis health.
g5y" In the Ohio Legislature, the House last
week, ousted several Copperheads who got in
by Clerks refu ing to count soldiers votes.
c5S1 In 1900 the ratio of the Methodists to
the population of Baltimore, was one to twenty
six: in lS40, one to ten; in 1860, one tofourteen
C35" Whisky spectators are making prodi-
gious efforts to obtain reversal Of the decision
Of the House, yesterday, to tax all whisky ON
hand.
G5s" The Immediate Emacipationists in the
MARYLAND Legislature, have voted down the
minority report of the Emancipation Committee
which virtually proposed the indefinite post
ponement of a popular vote on the question of
calling Convention, to provide for the aboli-
ton of Slavery in the State.
eSg" Sixteen cases of claimed and contested
seats have come before the House, on only two
of which, Scgars and the bogus louisiana Con
gressman, Fields, the Committee on Elections
reported.
n1yp Business is suspended on the Pittsburg,
TT, Wayne 4 Chicago Railway, in consequence
of strike on the part of the engineers. The
latter ask 800 instead of $75 per month.
G[y" The Missouri Democrat, thinks that the
bill calling an immediate emancipation conven
tion, will get eight or nine majority in the
House of that State
sSg" The number of common schoolsin Penn
svlvania, not including Philadelphia, is l2,l6l.
The whole attendance of pupils, including that
city, is 703 453, and the total cost of the system
SO, SIS, ,l99. There were last year III less male
teachers and 739 more female teachers, than the
year previous, owing to the war.
C5s" In 81. Paul, Minnesota, there IRE from
seven thousand to nine thousand Catholics and
one thousand two hundred and forty five Pro
tostants
gSg" W. W. Tredwell, Cashier of the Peoples
Bank, Of Hudson Michigan, absconded on the
9th, with 10000 belonging to the Bank.
e5y~ 1t is calculated that 10000 people visi-
ted Central Park, New York, last Sunday; some
l. l. h.. +I,o
GTg7 Recent news from the front represent a
continued IN TX of dcserters from the rebels,
they agree in saying that large re-enforcements
haze been detached by Lee, to the sssistane Of
Longstrcot.
s9y" Bankers in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
and some other places, have been victimized to
the extent of $60,O0O, by Treadwell a. Co., pro
prictors of the Peoples Bank, at Hudson, Mich
igan. The latter absconded.
nT37 A fire at Franklin, johnson County,
Ind, on Thursday destroyed book store, two
Try goods stores and printing office The loss
in $95 900.
g5gF" The Ways and Means Committee will
'hange their programme of the tax on tobacco,
Both the leaf and manufactured article will be
axod
G5T" An officer in Lees army, furnishes
he Richmond Seminal with schedule of his
mothers expenses for December, which he gives
Is a fair average The total is $356,60. Among
u iE,5,nc ie G50 fnr % hat
s1SY" Fourteen hundred shpwrcks are tated
o have taken place in the Mediterranean, dur
he first week of December.
gE5" The Worlds Chattanooga letter of the
TIL, contains an, extract from letter to deser-
rom his sister, stating that large amounts of
machinery and other heavy material, are being
emoved from Richmond to Colnmbie. She
eleves it looks like the evacuation of the Con
ederate Capitol This letter was dated DeceIn
,er 10th, 1863.
c9y" The San Francisco Bulletin says, upon
he authority of trustworthy statistics, that the
opulation of that city, amounting to about
90, 600 persons, consumes, daily, 81 1852 pounds
f meat. 1t adds that San Francisco, probably,
onsumes more animal food than any city ofthe
ame size in the whole country
C1S@ In the western portion of North Carroll
a. public meetings are being held, and the
eople are openly repudiating the Confederacy'
nd declaring in favor of returning to the
Jnion.
eS~ The Mobile Register says: ave are called
non to believe that mobs of raw recruits, half
tarved and poorly equipped, are to do next
pring, what veterans have not been able to do,
fter three years Of hard and repeated trials"
" Gen. Grant telegraphs from Nashville, on
ne 18th, that the rebel General Vance, made a
Md to Tazewell, Tenn, on the l4th, and cap
ired twenty three wagons. He was at once
ursued by Col. Palmer, the wagons recaptured
,gether with one hundred and fifty prisoners,
nd Gen. Vance and his staff themselves taker
rispncrs.