The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Tho mortality in the Chattanooga hospitals is
about 90 per week.
ueuer.l Blair has resigned has posiuon in the
army.
Dcscrtera who have come into The Army Of the
Potomac report that large put oi Lees array
has been detached to reinforce hongsTcct'
Fourteen hundred shipwrccks arc stated to have
taken piacr IN the Mediterranean dnrrg the hIst
wock in December.
During the last two years there have been con
hned on Johnson's Island ll6 prisoners ct whom
2,6l2 still remain tlesc.
Tho inauguration Of Governor Curtiu, Of Penn
pyvania for the new tcrm took place at Harrisburg
cn the 18th inst, at uoon.
A dispatch from Toronto, Canada, on the 10Th
inst, stated that a terrible snow storm wns pre-
vailing throughout the western province, with TO
signs of aba,ing. Trains were all stopped.
Chas. a. Dana was, On the Goth inst, nominated
in executive session OF the Senate, "a Assistant
Secretary of War under the law recently passed
aul approved for that purpose.
A riot occurred at seymour Indiana, On the 10Th,
between drunken soldier, and the guard, resulting
IN the death of two ritorS AMI the wounlng OF
several others.
Boats lately arrived at Cairo, report cc in the
Mississippi below NicksUrE. The AIkansaa rvcI
was frogrr over. This indicates extraordinary
cold weather for that latitude.
dispatch from Louisville stats that on the az
tcrnoon of the 18Th inst. the boiler Of locomotive
exploded on the Lebanon Branch Road. The ong
nccr was instantly killed. aud the fireman fatally
injured. The boiler was thrown seventy. bvt
Yards aud the cars onthe track. Many passenger,
were slightly bruised bat none seriously
A letter from Chattanooga TO the New Nork
World, contains an extract from letter to a dc
Rcrter from the 10th South Carolina Regiment from
hs sister, stating that large amounts of machinery
anil other heavy material are being removed from
Richmond to Columbia. She believes it |, oks lik'
the evacuation of the Confederate capital. This
letter was dated December l6.
The members Of the JOINT Committee ON the Wal
are Senator Wade, Chairman, and Mcssrs. Chand
icr, of Michigan, and Harding, Of West Virginia, u
the Senate and on the part of the House, Messrs
iooch, Julian, and Loan. Mcssrs. Harding anc
Loan take the places Of Senator Andrew John
son and cx- Congressman Covode. The powers u
the Committee have been considerably enlarged.
An order lust issued from the War Department
declares that So much of General Orders No. 1863
of 1853 and of all subsequent orders, authorizes
the payment of premium of So to or for accepted
recruits Tor volunteer organizations, is annullcd
and no payments of this premium to veteran voluu
tccrs, or to recruits for volunteer organizations
will in future be made.
4 Hilton Road letter oi the 18Th inst snvs tha
an expedition now preparing to start from tha
point, is one Of vast magnitude. As many of Jh,
vessels are olight draught, IT is thought by som'
that it will 60 mp Saynnuah river; others expect d
movement 60 the rear of Charleston while Others
still, believe that Mobile is tn he itS destination
4 largo negro force accompanies the expedition
which will be landed at various localities to gather
an slaves.
Gen. Banks has issued a proclamation for
State election in Louisiana the 80 of February
Hc says in his order that he is fully assured that
moro than tenth part nf the population desire the
earliest possible restoration ui Louisiana to the I'm
ion. lie declares the portions OF the Constitutions
mud state laws which relate to Slavery nconsii
tcnt with the present condition Of puhlic affairs
aud luhprlicabic 10 any class of persons now exis
ting within ts limits. They are therefore null and
void The General also calls Constitutional Con
vCntlon to meet IN May.
correspondent Of the Boston Traveller, writing
FROM Newbern, N. G., SAYS information had reached
there that call had been ISSUED at Raleigh for n
State Convention for the purpose oi seeding from
their allegiance to the Southern Concdcracy. The
writer says Governor Vance and nearly every lead
lng man Of North Ourolinn, desires to return to thC
Union. Tie also saws an army of ten thousand men
under General Butler, could march to Raleigh
take possession Of the capital, and free the Stat,
from the rule Of the traitors, in one month. SuCl
army would receive an enthusiastic welcome
there. apl all along the liue of march. So say
men that know.
A dispatch from Washington. states that while
General Butler there, the 20th lust. he ro-
ccVed a telegram from Fort Monroe that the duG
n trace boat from city Point had brought news
that the rebel government had evacuated Rich
mond, and removed the archives aud all portable
property IN South Carolina. Hl immediately tclc-
graphod to General Wistar to make rcconnois
sance in force, which was done, and the recon
nuitoring party went Within twenty miles o
Richmond. They report that Rjchmond has no
been evacuated General Butler returned to Fort
Monroe on the 2lst, clothed with full power to con
duet tho business OF exchanges in his own way
ll0 has proposed o. the rrbes tn exchange man toI
man, and officer for officer, without IFS or butts.