Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-12-01
News Paragraphs.


ed the ID inst.
Many Union prisoners have been sent TO
Camp Lawton, near Savannah.
The Posrgffce Department has re-establish-
ed the Post ofics at Helena, Ark.
Perley Tallandigham, nephew of the
"rnartyr," has been sentenced to the State
Prison in Iowa, for voting illegally.
New Hampshire has just voted to hold a
J Constitutional Convention. No day is yet
specified.
The Charleston Mercury of the 18th says
ince the last report $50 shells have been
thrown at Sumter and 102 at the city.
The Richmond Dispatch of Friday says the
exchange Of prisoners, inaugurated at Savan-
nah, will De transferred to City Point.
A dispatch dated Savannah the 18th saws
that so far 8, 100 rebel prisoners have been
received. The delivery OF Yankees com
menced Thursday.
Mrs. Anne Butler, wife of the absconding
Treasurer of the Confederate States, arrived
at Washington on the 9th, direct from Rich
mond, from which place she escaped.
a South Australian paper says that kan
garoos are increasing to such an extent
! throughout Australia as to seriously inter
fere with the feed upon sheep-runs
a Washington special says that commits
| sion is to be appointed, soon after Congress
meets, to investigate the operations of the
| Sanitary Commission.
! Gen. Giie"'s loss in the late encounter
with Breckenridge is estimated at 400 killed
wounded and missing. Gillem is safe at
Knoxville.
Late adyces from the western Mexican
coast represent the people as divided, and the
Empire gaming ground Manzanillo will soon
be occupied by the French
Admiral Farragut communicates to the
Navy Department intelligence of the capture
OF Prussian schooner, by the e. S. steamer
,Se'ota, while in the act Of attempting to run
! into Nelasco, Texas, with an assorted cargo.
Rebel sympathizers at Nashville are gloomy
and disconsolate in consequence of the an
ticipated results of Sherman's movements
Accessions to the army are daily arriving
from the North.
Nine hundred rebel prisoners arrived at
Nashville Saturday morning from Atlanta
Thinking the latter place evacuated, they
rushed in to pillage and plumber, and were
captured.
information has been received from the
west gulf blockading squadron of the capture,
on the 9th inst, Of the schooner Joanna, by
the steamer Fort Morgan, laden with medi-
cine, iron, &c.
A Paris letter to the New York Herald
says that Richard Hildreth, United States
Consul at Trieste, and author of an excellent
history of the United States, has become
nopclessly insane from softening OF the brain.
Gen. Breckenridge in East Tennessee is en-.
deavoring to win the people in that district to
allegiance TO Jeff. Davis, and had declared an
amnesty to all who would lay down their arms
and cease bushwhacking his troops
In the rebel House of REPRESENTATIVES on
the 1871 inst, and Senate on the 10th, reso-
lutions were offered by Messrs. Henry and
Footc of Tennessee, that the war was to be
carried on until the independence of the
South was acknowledged
1t is proposed, since slavery is a blessing
to the negro, according to the approved Con-
federate creed, that the free blacks be en-
rolled in the rebel armies, and as a reward
sold into slavery on the expiration of their
term of service
The Bristol EAST Tenn.) Register SAYS the
rebels captured and destroyed train of cars
loaded with cOmmissary stores at Morristown
on the l4th also wagon train consisting of
military wagons, killing Is and capturing
number Of Yankees.
The louisville Democrat SAYS that Paul R.
Shipman late editor of the Journal, of that
city, who had been ordered through the lines,
and actually started on his way South, has
been directed to return to Louisville by the
Secretary of War. The Democrat is unable
to say what is to be done with him.
The Governor of California has issued a
proclamation calling for another regiment of
California volunteers, in accordance with
-. A. n
used to garrison the harbor defences Re
cruiting in San Francisco to fill up old regi-
ments goes on briskly.
In the rebel Senate resolution was offer
ed requesting jeff Davis to inform the Senate
if any one of the United States had express
ed Il willingness to go into convention with
the Confederate States to negotiate peace
or consulting on the best method of effecting
Il cessation of hostilites.
The Vermont Legislature is still at work
on the agricultural college question The
House has voted by large majority to repeal
the act of last year to Incorporate the Yer
mout State University and associate colleg-
es," and the tavorite plan now is to divide
the income of the agricultural fund among
the three colleges already existing in 1.-THE
State.
The Richmond Sentinel says in Virginia new
movements are on foot, and in Georgia and
Tennessee vast campaigns, singularly compIi-
Gated, are in process of development. Both
the Sentinel and Dispatch insist that Sheridan
has sent part of his army to Grant, and says
Early has advanced to New Harper's Ferry.
| They are also in expectation of a grand
movement against Richmond by Grant
The plates of the new ffty-cent fractional
| currency are nearly ready for printing. These
notes will be of the same breadth as those
now in circulation, but nearly twice as long.
| The new fve-cent notes will be of the same
size as the old ones, while the ten and TWEEN
| ty-ive cent notes will be Of length graduated
| between the highest and lowest denomina-
tons. 1t is probable that three-cent note
will be issued, for the greater facility of MAX
ing change.
The 9Th Massachusetts (colored) regiment,
many of whose men are from the West, re-
ceived its full pay on the Goth of October. 1t
will be recollccted that this regiment, which
has fought calamity in South Carolina for a
year or two past, refused to receive the SO
a month offered it, demanding a full soldiers
stipend, which it has at length received.
4 pretty Young woman at Jackson, Michi-
gan, has been carrying on the recruiting bus
mess in a novel manner. She marries man
on condition that he will enlist and give her
his bounty. She being strikingly handsome,
the man consents. After he is gone she mar
ries another. Four men has she married and
sent to the army. On the fourth occasion
she was detected.
\ private letter from the feet off Charles