The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-03-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Asparagus, artichokes, green peas,
and new potatoes, raised under glass,
have appeared in considerable quanti-
ties in the vegetable markets of Paris
and London.
An attempt was recently made by
three rufiians to assassinate Fred. Dou-
glass in Baltimore. Bricks were huri-
ed and pistols, drawn, and Fred. only
escaped through the interposition Of
friends.
An attractive widow named Bradley,
% years old, has recovered $4,000
damages in Wilkesbarre, Pa, from a
widower 50 years old, named Reynolds,
for breach of promise.
A Copperhead paper in Illinois ex-
claims: 1.-The President W ants to know
who are his -friends-and he wants to
know now" Git eout.
The New York Tribune says: Those
members of the Cabinet who contem-
plated resigning have concluded, after
consulting with their friends, to await
the action Of the President. They pre-
fer to give him the opportunity of re-
rather than of accepting their resigna-
tions. 1t is not improbable that he
will accept the alternative in the case
of one of these gentlemen in the course
Of few days
The New York Herald has brought
out Gen. Grant for the Presidency
We believe similar misfortune once
befel Gen. Scott
Eleven thousand one hundred and
seventy-one emigrants arrived at New
York during January, more than twice
the number arriving in January last
year. sE
The Louisville Journal says that
party of returning rebel prisoners, on
the Lexington train, demonstrated their
disloyalty at every station, in the most
disgustingly impudent manner, hurrah-
ing for jeff. Davis, the Southern Con-
federacy, &c, and companying it with
the vilest profanity.
Captain, Hogg, late of the Confed-
crate army, killed Captain Williams Of
the Federal army, in a street fight, in
Carthage, Tennessee.
The Wheeling Mtelz;gencer says the
Union people of the new county of
Mineral, in West Virginia, want a live
man to start Union paper at New
Creek, their county seat.
The Cleveland papers evidently be-
lieve in making the most of their mate
rials for items and DR.. Hughes seems
to be as good subject dead as alive
| The last sensation is that he has again
made his appearance inside of the Jail.
We think that part of the story, at
least, very improbable.
An oil well in Canada, called the
Hendricks well, yields fifteen hundred
barrels of oil per day. The excite
ment is high.
! A New York Judge has rendered the
following opinion about the newspaper
thief. '.He that steals or reads a
neighbor's newspaper without paying
for it is as much guilty of crime as
the man who fires his neighbor's barn,
for he robs the printer as well as the
subscriber"
Since the close of the war, Gen.
Grant has been presented with property,
including houses, horses, swords, cash,
&c, amounting to $4,000.
Six to seven hundred clerks are to
be discharged from the Treasury De
partment, and the clerical force in the
Quartermaster Generals Department
is to be reduced to peace footing
1t is probable that the Reconstruc-
ton Committee will soon report a bill
providing for the recognition of Ten
nesssee, and of course the admission
of her Congressional delegation.
Mrs Swisshelm, who has been q
clerk in the Quartermaster Generals
office, has been dismissed for speaking
too freely her opinions in regard to the
President in the Reconstructionist, q
paper which she publishes.
I. Darcy MCGEE writes from Mon
treal to the leading Fenians recommen-
ding the application of the money in
the Fenian Treasury to the colonial
ton of the inhabitants of Ireland into
the Western States and Territories
The correspondence seems to show
that O'Mahony has entertained the
plan above recommended.
A writer in the New York Neacs says
there are in the State of Mississippi
ten thousand orphans, most of whom
are children of deceased Confederate
soldiers. H#
It is said that the committee o
Ways and Means have prepared a bill
making some important changes in thu
Internal Revenue laws. Among 9th
ers, the tax on incomes will not go be
low those of 81 900 per annum, will
two hundred dollars additional fo
house rent. On all incomes abov'
that amount, five per cent. will be col
lected. ., ..
The Texas State Convention has ad
ded new article to the State Consti
tuition, abolishing Slavery, protecting
| blacks in their rights of property, ant
allowing them to testify in the Courts
by vote of Sc against 26.
Ten or fifteen thousand negro troop
are soon to be mustered out at Cit,
Point, and in view of it the suffers ar
renting at almost any price, every a
o valuable inch of room.
5 Many of the planters in the neigh
: borhood of Fredericksburg, Va, in
l tend emigrating to Mexico. ,#@