Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-06-05

CARL ScHuRz' leave Of absence has
been revoked and he has sailed for Eu.
rope on his mission. ~ go
The now Military Department of
Kentucky, Col. Robert Anderson, Com
mandant, embraces so much of that State
MS lies within one hundred miles of the
Ohio river. His headqua tiers, for the
present, arc Louisville.
The Government received no official
Intelligence from our ministers by the
last mail from Europe. The impression,
however, which the H,tna mails convey
respecting American affairs there. is en-
t;rely satisfactory to our Government,
and clearly indicates that great changes
had already taken place in the minds
of the people. -
Tho Confederate States are getting
their postal system arranged, and the
United States has finally withdrawn its
mails from the South. The South has
never paid its own postage when attached
to the General Government, and will
doubtless do no better now. We shall
lose very little by that arrangement.
-The people hurled the Stars and
Stripes in the public square at Memphis
the other day by the side Of the statue of
Andrew Jackson, which will lovingly
keep watch over it, till the resurrection
day-for tile flag shall be raised in Ten
nessee.
When the mother of Col. Ellis
WORTH WAS informed, at Mechanicsvile,
on Friday, of b sons death, and tue at.
tendant circun stances, she immediately
exclaimed; IL wish | was man, I'd
so Immediately and ayenge his death"
Tho New York Commercial Id
rertiser contains the following:
at is related that on the day of Els
worth's depal ture, his mother, who was
at the Astor House, said to him.
81 hope God will take care of you,
Elmer"
ale will take care Of me, mother,"--
he replied. "Ho has led me in this
work, and He will take care of me-"
And so the gallant boy, his mothers
parting kiss upon his lips, went forth, in
humble trust that God would take care
of him."
--"They have got up new device for
letter envelopes in Cincinnati, which is
thus described by the Press,
IL stump-tailed bulldog in cooked
hat. called "Scott," stands guard over a
tempting s:roin labelled. "Washington,"
while lean looking hound in palmet-
to tile, called jeff" looks lonoingly at
The Wand, an saeaks away with his tail
between his legs, as Scot.inquires "Why
don't you take itl .
1t is understood that Maj. Gen. FIRE.
mont will be assigned to the command
of the Western Division of the army, to
operate in the Mississippi valley.
The army proposed to be concentrated
in Soutl crn Illinois, will be sixty thou
sand strong, Gen. Mcclellan or Gen.
Fremont? to command.
1t is reported that the Virginia New
town Rifles, Roger A. Pryor's company,
voted in body the straight out Union
ticket, much to Pryor's Indignation, who
immediately dsbanded them. This is
bad rs bowie-knives.
ALL Southern mails were stopped
May 81. No more letters or papers
sent to or received from the South from
that date. The department will lose
nothing 10y dishonest rebel postmasters,
as the amount of defalcations will be de-
Quoted from the amounts due Southern
contractors, who have not been paid for
several months.
The very best regulars will be with
drawn from the Wcs,eln Territories and
actively employed in the Fast. Teritor-
ial lcyies of volunteers will be used in
checking Indians and protecting the over
land mail route