The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-01-13
NEWS ITEMS.

The report of the Hudson's Bay COMPANY
states that the construction OF a line OF Telegraph
from Canada 70 British Columbis has been found
70 be perfectly practicable, and the requisite ne
gotiations on the subject are in progress with
the home government as well as with the gov
ernments OF OF the two colonies.
Gen kimbsI, recently in command at Little
Rock, Ark, passed through Indianapolis yester-
day, for Washington. He represents Union
meetings being held in all parts OF the State,
the people endorsing without reserve all the acts
Of the Administration for the suppression Of the
rebellion, and recommending that a State Con-
venton be called for the reorganizing OF the
State government without slavery
Mr.. John ?. Brown, Secretary Of the Ameri-
can Legation al Constantinople, writes as fol-
lows, IN private letter, respecting the employ
meut Of black soIisrs in Turkey
Here are plenty Of black officers aud SOL
dicrs, who do as well as white; but there is no
prejudice here against color. as in the United
States Slavery Is not hereditary, and freed
man Is on a fOOtiug, legally, With the white man.
There are no civil disabilities against him, and
he Il lett 10 seek whatever fortune God gives
him, ike any human being"
The London Post Of the ID inst speaks Of the
enormous increase Of emgrsnts as follows:
" The total number OF emigrants which lett
Liverpool last year was 81 ,Sl4 and on a com-
parIson OF the figures the increase for eleven
months OF the present year over the whole of
last year amounts 10 II. l.6s7 the increase itself
being double, aud nearly 1000 more thai the
total exodus from the Mersey for 1862 Nor
does the approach Of winter sppear to check the
tide Of emigration. Vessels continually leave
the port laden with living freight for tie United
States, tie country which above all appears 70
swallow Up the majority OF the emigrants"
The Bnaalo Courier, which Is devoted 10
Governor Seymour aud for many months has
been unusually malignant in its hostility 70 the
Administration, affects 10 deprecate what il calls
the indiscreton OF the meeting at Cincinnati.
in wha; il denominstes the ''pseudo-nomiuation "
of General McClelan-as gross political
blunder" With a broad hamor the Courier
goes on 10 say THE men who have thus pre-
maturely dragged him into the Presidential
arena could scarcely have taken a surer method
Of killing him This Is true enouCh-Only hc
was dead before he was kilt"
It is stated that the War Department has or.
dered Lieut.. Col Greve. chief Qiartermaster of
the department CT Washington, 10 break up all
the coltrabaud camps in and around Washing
ton, north OF the Potomac, and transfer all the
inmates 10 the coutraband farms in the neigh
b0rhood OF Arlington. where they will be put 20
work al farming on the abandoned estate Of at
SEQ lding seccssionists All negroes not en-.
poyed IL the Qgartermater's department, who
have heretofore been depending partially or
wholly on Government for support, are also 70
be seat over 10 the farms aud put u work.
* The Swamp Angel battery on Morris
Island. cost seven thousand days work. Ii
stands on the soitest Of mud, twenty two feet
deep. To construct il, ten thousand bags Of
sand were carried two miles, and three hundred
pieces OF timber ter miles, aud two and a half
miles of bridge had 10 be built. Col. Serrin
who constructed il, says he can in two weeks,
with the means we have on hand, utterly de-
stroy, oblitera,e. aud wipe off the face Of the
earth, as were Sodom aad Gomorrah, that sink
Of iniqui,y and hOt~bed of arstOcratic rebels"
The Col means Charleston.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN MINNESOTA The
fuel question has been solved most hsppily in
Minnesota, near the city of ST. Paul, by the dis
covery of vast beds of peat, which The Press
saws are sufficient to supply the city for centuries
As to its economy, judging from what has been
gathered, it is thought it can be cut dried aud
delivered in ST. Pau. at g., 80 or s. per cord,
aud afford a remunerative profit. Oak wood
sells in that city now for 81 per cord, costing
another dollar 10 be cut for use. Peat gives n
strong and steady heat, equal in all respects 70
oak wood, and in burning will 90 as far. There
are millions Of acres OF this peat in that section
OF the country, and in another year il will be-
come branch oi industry aforGing employment
OF much higher nature than coal mining for
large numbers Of people. The beds extend
through Minnesota Wisconsin, Iowa, in the Red
River Valley, and probably away up in the Brit
ish Colonies
The North Carolina Timss-the new loyal pa
per at Newbern-says in It's issue Of the l4th
instant:
North Carolina is beginning 10 furnish her
quota 20 the Federal Government One loyal
| White regiment has been raised Ia tais distrtct.
and i under the command Of Col McChesnev .
and the second under the command of Can't.
Charles Henry Foster, is rapidly filing up, aud
about 300 men have been enlisted within the last
six OF eight weeks by bis personal exertions.
Another regiment OF white soldiers from North
Carolina has been raised by that most excellent
man. Gen. Burnside, 10 East Tennessee. To all
this we must add the two regiments OF colored
volunteers tlat have also been raised and are
now ia service. A cavalry regiment Of blacks il
also recruiting by Major GlArdd OF the Sd New
York Cavalry. This last regiment is obtaining
nearly 100 recruits day. II the Department OF
North Carolina has been an expensive one. il
must be allowed that she has become partially
able to repay the Government for the treasure
expended, by furnishing her with men who are
used 10 The country and know how to use a rife