Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-06-26
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ing impressed into service.
Guards are securing these counties,
with lists of voters against the ordinance
of secession, and arresting all they can
get hold of, taking them to Manassas
Junction. Many who were escaping
were fired on by the rebels. The object
in arresting them is to impress them into
the service against the Government.
- aruv WASHINGTON, June 90.
A special dispatch to the Tribune says
that Gen. Mcdowell visited Gen. Scott
to-day with plans and proposition to cap
ture the enemy Immediately. Gen.
Scott answered, "no sir, nor. The Ohio
camp is supposed to be directly nenaced
the rebel picket flags are visible from
Gen. Schenck's Head quarters. The Ma
Wy Department know nothing ofthe land
ing Of our troops at Savannah or else
where on the Southern coast.
WASHINGTON, June 81.
Times Dispatch Secretary Seward
gives notice that hereafter no passports
to leave the country or to pass within
the lines of the rebels signed by Foreign
Ministers or Consuls, will be good unless
couLtersigned by the State Depart
ment.
Specia! messages arrived from Fortress
Monroe, says two men arrived there es-
capped from Sewalrs Point.
1t seems the Battery at SewalI's Point
is composed of five columbiads, six small
er bore and three rife cannon; in all,
fourteen guns. Between the Point and
Norfolk are two other batteries armed
with the stolen guns at the navy yard.
At Sewall's Point there are 500 men;
ut Norfolk 1900, most of them row un-
der orders Cor Richmond, and at inter-
mediate points about 2,00e; amongst
them are 1900 South Carolinians; two
full regiments from Louisiana, and one
from Georgia. The three last have been
so much disafected with their treatment
and probable destination, that Howell
Cobb, who has two sons in the Georgia
service, was sent from Richmond, to ad-
dress them. He babe them to be Of
good courage, and pledge his word of
honor that within three months tho Con-
federate army would not only occupy
Washington, but would have subdued
the entire Union forces of the North.
These men also say that the rebel
leaders will force them through n bloody
war and persist in their treason to the
end. They also say that the most exager-
ated reports of outrages committed upon
women by northern soldiers reach the
rebel camps-these base falshoods act
ing as stimulant upon the men.
Gov. Pickens has issued proclama-
ton forbidding any more South Carolina
troops from leaving the Palmetto State.
He expresses the belief that the Northern
hordes contemplate an invasion of the
sacred soil of South Carolina via Charles
ton, and saws that the first duty of South
Carolinians Is to protect their State.-
This is the legitimate beginning of the
end. .ara
.. WASHINGTON, June 81.
A special dispatch to the World says
that the fight at Edwards Ferry on Mon
dav seems to have been rather serious
affair, as we learn from Virginians, who
came oven for protection, that between
40 and so were killed by the bombs that
were thrown with so much &C curacy
among them from howitzer on this
side.
A battalion of rebels were, crossing
the mouth of Small Creek, making into
the river toward the close Of the action,
when bomb from the battery burst i'm
mediately over it, and after the smoke
had cleared off only two men were seen
standing, out of between twenty or thir-
ty in it. Many bodies were distinctly
seen floating in the water about the
boat.
WAsHINGToN, June 81.
-. Special to the Post.-A party of reb-
els came up the Potomac last night and
attempted to fire the Long Bridge. They
were fred upon by our troops. who kill
ed four or five, wounded a number of
them, and the balance, nineteen in num-
Der, were taken prisoners, and are now
at the Arsenal. The rebels were pro,id.
ed with powder and matches to destroy
the bridge. The number killed is prob
ably exaggerated.
All the army surgeons connected with
regiments, were ordered over the Poto-
mac late last night. tta
:. The War Department has discovered
that female secessionists are carrying on
regular correspondence with Beaure-
gard, via Mt Vernon 4@&t
The National Republican of this morn
ing says it is probable that Congress will
place means at the disposal Of the Presi-
dent for the colonization of such of our
colored as desire to emigrate to Hayti,
and that the contraband slaves now held
by the Federal troops will be included in
this measure.
1t is now evident that the main blow
against the rebels will be struck from the
Federal Capitol. The army Of Washing
ton now consists Of fully $4,000 effective
men. comprising two infantry and one
cavalry regiment from the city and State
of New York, i've from Pennsylvania,
four from Maine, three from Connecticut,