The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-03-04
NEWS ITE1Nrs.


eB- 1t may be interesting to the lady read
ers to know that the Empress of Austria has
the smallest waist in Christcndom. Itmcasurcs
154 iuchcs--about the circumference of her
husbands neck. And yet would you be-
lieve it girls?---the circumference Of her body
at the shoulders is s3 4 inches.
cB" Several hundred copies Of Of the Amnes.
ty Proclamation have been sent tn Lee'sArmy
within week. The effect is already seen in
the increased number of desertels. ...
GB General Banks, has written letter to the
leading Louisiana politicians ]. Barker among
others, who objected to taking the Presidents am
nesty oath before voting,a the imposition of an
other oath of allegiance to the one they had alrea-
dy taken. The General says it is necessary that
those persons who participate in the election
should make public their purposes in regard to
the measures of the Government to ask such ex.
planatory declarations ms are embodied in the
Amnesty Proclamation, and oath accompany
ing, to dispel all suspicion of mental reserva-
tion or evasion on the part of a voter, and place
his loyalty beyond cavil. The regulation for
the election give the right of suffrage to every
free white male 81 wears of age, who has resided
in the State l2 months, aud in the parish where
he offers to vote, 6 months, who shall have taken
the oath drescribed by the president on the 9Th
OF last December. Citizens, who have been
driven from their homes by the enemy, can
vote in the precinct where they temporarily re-
side, and soldiers sailors, citizens of the STATE.
may vote at their station.
gtBr The Southern papers represent the bonn
bardment Of ofCharleston as being prosecuted with
great vigor. On the Oath ultimo lag, and on
the 2sth 100 shells were thrown into the town.
Our troops are erecting batteries on Dixon's Is
Land, which command Solomons Creek. The
Richmond Wing of the Goth says meat eating is
too great luxury for non combatants that the
late Congress would have limited the supply to
onehalf the present consumption, if the matter
had come up before before it, and that the next
Congress will probably legislate on it. 1t says
that negroes can get along with little or no meat,
but soldiers cannot, The Examiner is enraged
over rumor that jeff Davis favors the recog.
milton Of Gen. Butler as a Commissioner of Ex-
change, Itsays: "That once yielded, the same
reasons will be good for acquieseing in every
other condition they may choose to Impose. To
hold our own recovered runaway slaves as nris-
oners Of war, to receive a negro officer as But
ler's lieutenant on the flag of-truee boat and
accounts with him for the prisoners--there is
nothing Of all that Lincoln may not exact, and
ought not to exact, if he finds lis compliant
enough to negotiate with the felon." The Sa.
vannah Republican formally corrects the rumor
that Gen. Toombs was arrested for treason. He
was only put off the cars for refusing to show
pass and violently abusing the officers of the
train.
.B- Our Nashville dispatches say that the
reported disaster in Florida is not believed at
headquarters there. Gen. Grant's scouts brought.
IN reports that all was going on well in Gen
Gillmores department. Richmond papers UP
to the 18th have bern received at Fortress
Monroe. These eoutain no reports of great
reAl victory or any kind Of a victory. A dis
patch dated Tall,hasse Fla. Feb. 26th saws our
forces hao retreated to ia ksonville and men
tions aarebel officer no was killed in some en-.
gagement, but no rference is made to an event
such as we havd had reported via New York.
The latter speaks of the disaster as having o.
cured on the afternoon of the Goth. The silence
Of the rebel press on this subject cannot be, ex.
cept upon the ground that no disaster occurred
If the rebels gained the advantages indicated
by the New York rumos, they would not
only have reported it. but blazened it abroad
and talked about it, unless they have very n
GENTLY change their policy regarding matter.
L We may at least doubt the reliability of the
New York rumors
- All was, quit in Gen. Thomas front yes
terdny. The National forces continue to occupy
Taahel Hill, and the rebels Dalton.
!. n Longsareet is still on the retreat in East
Tennessee. Our forces occupy Morristown n which
was lately the rebel headquarters.
~ The Conference COMMITTEES on the whis
Ky Tax failed to agree. BY the time that Con
gress gets this bill through there will be whisky
enough in the country to supply the demand for
nearly year. The delay in passing the law
causes q much greater loes to the revenue than
would a failure to tax stocks on hand. Nothing
fan be done now until now until next week.
~ The Memphis Union Convention adopt
81 radical emancipation platform. A resolu.
lion recommending compensation to loyal own
o.. Of slavee failed to nass. The Convention was
largely attended, and great enthusiasm prevail.