Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-02-25
News Items,

The rebel Congress has passed and jeff
Davis has approved bill prohibiting the i'm
portation Of Injuries
The old regiments are returning from their
thirty days visits to their homes with an av.
erage OF l40 new recruits each.
1t is quite probable that the Secretary of
the Treasury will in a few days advertise the
ten-forty loan.
By orders of the War Department no vol
unteer shall be rejected on account of his
height, who is at least five feet
The New York Commercial Adgert;ss,. re.
commendS the entire abolition of our pres
ent postal system, leaving the CARRYING of the
mails open to private enterprise.
The lst Minnesota Regiment having re-
enlisted for the war has gone home on fur
Tough. They reached St. Paul on the 18th,
and were received with great enthusiasm.
The total funded and fundable debt of the
United States on the 29th of January was
81 ,446, 81 507. The interest of S756,7l7
500 is payable in gold.
The extent of immigration into Colorado
Territory may be judged from the fact that
up in Golden City District in the month of
January.
A land grant bill has been reported in the
c. s. Senate, to aid in the building of a road
from St. Paul to Lake Superior. 1t grants
five sections of land for each mile of road.
Henry Ward Beecher declares that he is in
favor Of President Lincolns reelection, and
that he shall announce this fact to the public
and give his reasons under his own sigma
ture.
A report from Africa that DR.. LIVINGSTON,
the intrepid missionary explorer, has been
murdered, is perhaps untrue. There are
grounds for hoping that he has only been
wounded
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the well-known
English author, has left Washington for Ha-
vana. After short visit to Cuba, he will 90
to Vera Cruz, thence to New Orleans, and so
through the South and West
The HeraldS Washington dispatch says the
policy of extending the Presidents amnesty
to colonies is much talked Of Rebel prison
ers and refugees state that this would cause
whole regiments to desert.
Sixty thousand veteran troops have already
re-enlisted. All the regiments in the Army
of the Potomac, whose terms of service ex-
pire this year, have re-enlisted, or are about
to do so.
An emancipation meeting was held at Gov
ington, KY, on the 18th, to elect delegates to
the emancipation convention at Louisville,
on the oath. Among the speakers was J. r.
Grant, father of Gen. Grant.
JOHN S. BURNS, the only citizen of Gettys-
burg who joined the army and fought in the
battle in July last, has been put on the pen
sion roll at the rate of s. month. He
fought with the It'll Wisconsin and is an old
man.
Rumors as to an intended protest by our
Government against the French occupation of
Mexico are certainly not well founded. The
policy of the Government on this point is full
ly explained in the lately published dip lo-
matte correspondence.
Gen. John Morgan and his two staff officers
who escaped with him have been made the
recipients of a grand ovation and testimonial
from the State of South Carolina. The testi-
monial consists of magnificent horse to
each, and seven sets Of elegant and costly
caparisons.
The steamer lIU Boy was sunk on the LIST
inst, s miles below Jacksonport, on White
river, laden with Government stores for the
troops at Batesville A part of the cargo
was saved. The boat was valued at S14,O 900,
and was a total loss.
The Richmond Eaami,ae,' of the 10th inst
has an editorial denouncing the Virginia Leg
lsature for attempting to interfere with
State and war matters, by the passage of an
act requesting JEFF. DAVIS to remove the
outlawry against Gen. BUTLER, to facilitate an
Of prisoners
The Richmond Enquirer also contains
long editorial bitterly denouncing the Vir-
ginia Legislature for its chicken hearted
course in recommending the acknowledgment
of the beast BUTLER, and yielding to terms
for an exchange Of prisoners in secret SEES
sion. 1t urges DAVIS to remain firm, and de-
clares there will be no exchange of prisoners
till they get more than we have.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune states that it has the highest
for saying that Gen. Grant has
within few days formally, peremptorily, and
in the most decisive terms, rejected direct
offers made to him lately by leading Demo
cratic politicians to secure his nomination for
the Presidency by their National Convention.
The Tines Washington special says that
Gen. Butler has issued an order forbidding
the sale of liquor to be drank on the premi-
ses in his department, under penalty of fine
and imprisonment at hard labor Also an
order that all estates in his Department,
abandoned or occupied by rebels be taken
possession of by the Superintendent of negro
affairs.
Mr.. Corvin, VINO came to this country as
the correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
+ba T opIor Tya1oc o,,d 81
ton in the Treasury Department about year
since, has Just been dismissed. 1t is said that
the calumnies upon our Government and az
were the cause of his removal.
He claims to be a German count, and de-
scendant of the famous Corvins
The Secretary of War has decided that the
term three-fourths, used in connection with
regiments, means three fourths of
the organization serving together and doe
not include men absent in PRISONS hospitals,
&C. Men who have not served two years
will be allowed to 90 on furlough with their
provided it goes as an organiza-
ton, and they agree to re-enlist as soon as
they come within the limits of re-enlistment.
Very near one hundred and ten thousand
new recruits have been formally mustered into
the service since the 1st of November last,
and many more thousand are known to be en-
listed although not yet mustered in. The
last two weeks the enlistments have averaged
l 800 a day. OF the number formally mus
tered into the service, New York has furnish
ed about $4,000, Ohio $4,000, Indiana and
Illinois y, 900 each, Missouri about 1000, and
Pennsylvania only the same number.
A private letter from Vicksburg Sth, from
an eve witness, says McPherson's corps
crossed the Big Black Is miles east of Vicks-
burg on the It'll. Hurlbut's Corps took
parallel route from Vicksburg and crossed at
Messengers ford, miles above McPherson's,
on pontoons. Each column was IA miles