Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-03-23
News of the Week.

only a week ago to operate against our forces in
North Carolina.
All the Richmond papers except the Dis
patch, are suspended, their employees having been
called into the r,nks.
-Hingm,n Foote has issued from England
an address TO Tennesseeans, explaining his rupture
with the Con ederacy which government he re-
puiiates and denounces.
! 1t is slid that there is no doubt that Sen ator
Harlan will accept the Secretarys hip of the Inter-
or the President obtained shat genleman's assent
before sending in lis name.
General Grant has issued an order prohibiting
all further traffic under Treasury trade permits
except within the actual lines OF our army, and
commanders are ordered TO prevent all goods from
passing through cur lines.
"A considerable food prevailed at Albany New
York, last woek, iu consequence Of the gorging
of ice below the city.
The receipt in England of the news of the
fall Of Charleston created sensation. Cotton de-
clincd, the Confederate loan went down, and Uni
ted 9tites securities advanced. The Times saws
the effect can hirdly be exaggerated. The Star
regards it rs rremoni:ory of The utter overthrow Of
the rebellion. The Army and Nary Gazette says
the rebel garrisons released from the places eyacu
ated will strengthen the hands of the rebels, but 1t
viii require more genius than either Lee or Davis
has vet displayed to extricate them from their pre-
sent dilemma. The rebel ram Stoncwall was still
at Ferol, Spain, watched by Federal vessels.
The report that she was leaking badly is not con-
firroed, but she continues to receive large quanti
ties OF coal.
Montevidco, at last advices, was besiegcd by
the Brazilian arr1v.
The news continues to be encouraging Scho-
ieli's victory grows in magnitude and Importance
as the particulars come in. Our losses are much
smaller than at frs. reported. Terry has formed
n junction with Schofeld, and driven Bragg from
Kingston or Kins;on, which place our forces now
occupy, recapturng the prisoners taken in the first
days fight. The rebels partially burned the
bridge across the Neuse, and also the rebel ram
stationed to guard it. The railroad from New
bern is finished nearly TO Kingston.
| The latest reports from Sheridan say that he
has arrived at the White House and got within
Grants lines. The damages he inflicted upon the
rebels by the destruction Of the Lynchburg canal
is said to be almost irrepairablc; besides this he
captured and destroyed millions of dollars worth
of army stores. 1t is said BY competent military
men tina, this is the most important raid of the
war.
Lively firing occurred along Grants front.
yesterday week. bu, no important movement.
--Sccretlry McCulloch contcmpates issuing a
new 10. of thrties, to be disposed OF by Jay
Cooke
The Preside Is health is improving. He was
able the middle of last week 10 receive members
of the Cabine; and other visitors.
lit isnow said that Hon. NJ. S Wilkinson will
not be appointed as chief Of the Indian Bureau,
bus that Commissioner Dole will retain his posi-.
! ;ion.
-Advces from the Gulf Department, indicate
that operations against Mobile have already COM
menced. Rumors ofits evacuation are again cur
rent.
i The receipts of gold at the Treasury from
custom duties. has for some time past amounted
to 1923 COD per day.
The draft commenced in New York on Wed.
nesdav Of last week AMI proceeded quietly.
The Union Convention of Rhode Island nom.
mated last week Governor ,mes G. Smith for re.
election. and Jicob Dunnel for Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
THE stories OF malfeasancs in the Interior
Department. which have been ndustriousy circu-
lated 'or few days, are pronounced to have no
foundation in fact.
The high wind last Friday and Friday nigh,
L. II ~. u 81 a.
country. intcrrupting trleSraphic communication
generally for two or three days
/ An unprecedented freshet prevailed in New
York and Pennsylvania last week, intcrruptng
communication both by rail and telegraph. The
Like Shore. Central and Erie railroads we're more
or less injured many important bridges the
latter being washed away some of which it will
require consderAbl. time to replace. In the oil
region Of Pennsylvania the food WAS very great
causing immense damage. The loss is estimated
at millions in this region alone. chiefly in oil, but
horscs, fences and bridges were swept away by
the angry waters.
Spotted fever prevails in Hendricks, Perry
aud Dearborn counties. In the former county the
local physicians are making heroic fight against
it. young man of eighteen took one hundred
and fifty grains of quininc in twenty four hours
in large amount Of diluted alcohol, and survived
it, The same disease has appeared in Carroll
county.
The New Albany Ledger claims that James
Slider, who was born in Clark county in 1879, and
has lived there eyer since, is the Oldest settler in
the State.
Some refugees from way down South, crossed
the river into Canneton on Monday week. A
COW and old lady. six heifers, and six strappine
slattern girls, three mules and two men, two but
E, ternu, horses and sorrel dog made up the party
They were greatly interested in bottle of wills
Ky, and that 'buggy with the coffin in it," &
3 hearse which they met as they entered the town
: They we're familiar with the whisky but not viii
the hear c They represented "poor white trash.
Of which aristocratic negroes have such con
tempt. They are more ignorant even than tn,
: negroes on the plantations. But ,hey more t.
{ be pitied than despised. Slavery DEGRADED then
and kept them so, because they served to reconcile
the slaves their bonds being better clothed bet
ter fed, aud better cared for than the poor whit
tiash."
' pigeons have commenced their journey North
. IT, tr,nncrs on Tho Tinnecanoe arc busilv enca