The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-01-03
Summary Of News.

The Savannah, Albany and Gulf Rail
road will be completely restored in foul
or five weeks, when cars will run tbrougl
to Thomasville, Georgia.
Gen. J. d. Cox, Governor elect oI
Ohio, has forwarded to the War Depart.
ment his resignation as Major General ol
volunteers, to take effect January !, 1856
WI B. Crosby, builder of the Opera
house in Chicago. has made an assign
ment to Edmund Aiken, President of the
First National Bank. His liabilities are
reported at half million. lGe
Gen. Tobin, one Of the largest planters
Of South Carolina, is making the free
labor system progress very satisfactorily
on his plantations. He says the chiei
difficulty in the way Of the success Of the
system is the foregone conclusion on the
part Of the majority Of the planters that
itnust fail.
a.Advices from Charleston say that the
South Carolina Legislature passed law
giving the election of Presidential elec.
tors to the people; also for the organiza-
,i0n OF the State militia, and for creating
thirty.,hree new District Courts, for the
trial Of cases in which negroes are inter-
ested. The question regarding the pay
mentiof the rebel war debt was given to
a committee, with instructions to report
on il next session.
A letter from Nc bile. published in a
New York paper. makes serious charges
against the Government cotton agents in
the South. It asserts that many agents
seize private cotton on the charge Of be-
lug rebel property, and appropriate it to
their own use. The letter also says that
Of the one hundred and twenty thousand
bales Of rebel Government cotton surren-
dered by Gen. Dick Taylor, to General
Candy. scarcely ten thousand bales have
been. or !ever will be. received by the
National Government, the remainder hav.
ing been stolen.
Advices from Europe are to the 18th
ul.. four days later. Stephens, the es-
capped Fenian Head Center, had arrived
at Paris. Governor Eyre, of Jamaica,
has been suspended, and Sir Henry Storks
appointed in his stead. The wholesale
butchery Of "rebels" on the Island is to
be beinvestigated by a commission consist
ing Of Sir Henry Storks. Sir Edward
Head and Mr.. Charles Livingston. The
Feuiau trials were progressing. O'Don.
ovan had been sentenced to servitude for
life. He made very lengthy speech to
the Court, the tone of which is stated to
nave Deen luSolenI.
VIM. L. Sanford. of Alabama. has un-
dertaken to write an authentic biography
Of the late VIM. L. Yancey, and for this
purpose has been intrusted by the family
with his private papers. 1t is to be pub.
.lished by subscription.
A dispatch from Washington says thai
the President is preparing, or has PIE
pared, a reply to the resolution of Con
gress. asking for information why jeff
Davis has not been brought up Tor trial
The grounds taken will embrace legal
difficulties heretofore announced as 10 the
way Of civil trial
General H. A. Barnum, of the 20tl
Army Corps, elected Inspector Of Prisons
in New York, has forwarded his resigna
tion 10 the War Department.
Captain semmes, of the pirate Alabama
arrived at Washington. Friday, and wa,
confined In the Navy Prison.
Reports from Guadalupe show that the
cholera is raging with deadly violence or
the island. In one of the towns. on the
sed inst. l07 deaths occurred, in a pop
ulatiou of about G, 1000.
A Washington dispatch to the Chicago
Republican says that Secretary Stanton
has declined the invitation of the Con.
gressional Committee. to deliver a eulogy
upon President Lincoln.
Colonel James Duncan Graham, oil
the United States Engineers, died sud
denly at Boston, on Thursday evening
He was brother.in law of Gen. Meade
The railroad bridge over the Chatta'
hoochie River near Atlanta, has beer
washed away also, the bridges over III,
Oconee and Yellow Rivers, on the railroad
between Atlanta and Augusta.
Dispatches from Moorhead CITY