Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-11-20
NO 80.
News Items.

-dcn. StOrGIlldU has UScli Iio''''~F
to the command of the entire cavalry
force of the United States.
A San Francisco dispatch Of tho
l2th, says the pirate schooner Hera has
been seized there.
The recent election in Kansas resn.t-
ed in the choice of Topeka as the State
Capital.
i, has been ascertaine1 that the loss
of the rebels at the battle of Belmont
was 26l killed, 427 wouuIed, and 218
missing.
1t is stated positively that the pri-
vateer Sumter has been captured, and
that her crew is on the Niagara, on their
way North.
The volunteer service now numbers
48O 900 men, leaving but 10000 more
enistments to reach the number authoriz-
ed by Congress.
-Goodwn's Menagerie was burned
in Boston recently. Between seventy
and eighty animals were smothored to
| death.
WIN. B. Astor declines the nomiua-
| ton for Mayor of New York.
The report of the capture of ST.
100000 worth of cotton at Beaufort 's
pronounced a canard.
john Tyler and R. A. Pryor have
been elected to the Confederate Con
gress.
The steamer Bermuda, with
1900 bales Of cotton, ran the Savannah
blockade on the nigbt of the Cd.
A vessel just arrived at Boston re-
ports that large English steamer laden
with munitions Of war bad been captured
by Z. S. frigate, and taken to Key
West.
The work of raising brigade TO be
composed entirely of Virginians is pro-
crossing finely. There are several
thousand refugees from Virginia who are
DESTROYS 10 enlist in the defense of the
government.
John Mckinney, late State Treas
urer, tried at Ingham County Circuit
Court for the embezz,ement of $500
State funds, has been convicted.
The people of Ireland are anticipa-
ting another famine, Their potato crop
is almost total failure.
Tho report that Bishop Me Ilyaine,
of Ohio, is about to go to Europe is
true. He sails next week 1t is stated
that Edward Everett is also about to
visit England.
1t las been judically decided IN
Boston that contract of enlistment does
not bind man if he was drunk when
he entered into it.
john Patch, who claimed the honor
of being the original inventor Of tie
steam screw pro- eor, died at the poos
house in Yarmouth, n. S., on the 9Th
Of September.
The Supreme Court of New York
have rendered decision restoring the
old Cor Mayor Wood's) police to Office
and pa:.
Marshal Murray goes TO Boston 10
deliver Mason and SIidell to the com
mandcr of Fort Warren.
The British brig VIM. r. kjbley
has been seized for running the blockade,
and the captain committed TO Fort La
fayette.
-Gustayus A. Henry. a grandson Of
Patrick Henry, and Langlon G. Hayres
have been elected to the Confederate
Senate from Tennessee. They are fosS
politicians, the former an American, aa5
the latter Democrat, in old pare
times.
At Boston, on the 18th, one ,Jaines
Brown was arrested as a seccssior;st.
On his person was found letter from
VIM. L. Yancey, in England, to his aoj.
in Alabama, in which be speaks dscour
agingly of the prospecs for the recoeni-
ton of the Southorr Coufede-acy by
European powers.
Our naval force at Newport News
has been increased, in order to check tie
rebel expedition fitting out in james Riv-
er, of which three formidable fire boats
are said to form part.
-Ephraim Ellsworth, father Of the late
Col. Ellsworth, has been appointed mili-
tary store keeper, but has not yet been
assigned to duty.
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