Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-02-18
NEWS ITEMS.

l. GEx. FREMONT has asked to be ass sned
% active service.
- The Missouri Emancipation Bin has
,assed the Senate by majority of four.
- Gen. Rosecraus forces have aptured 600
Of Norgan's men.
GEN. Shields mas been ordered to the
Department 0, The Pacific.
The limos Legislature has adjourned.
The extreme Copperhead measures were de-
tat.d in the Senate.
- Cen. Corn an has been relieved from du-
i and ordered to report at Memphis, where
IL III Ire court msrtialed for gormandising
COTTON.
The work on the new canal al Eichsburg
!. progressing satisfactorily. There is six feet
1acr ia the channel aud it 10 rapidly in
sang.
Gas, BUBNsrpE generously offers to re-
ne Command Of his old corps and fight I'M
i ucoker. This shows the vast moral diff
saee between him and some other depoeed
ef.n.,nders lie fights for county. They
themselves.
Z, is said that ten regiments of negroes
s,,. u .aissl at Norfolk They are anxious
10 Lave q hand in the fight.
cen. Crrti. approves of surppressing the
.l. .s'i.u of;ho Chicago Times by post COM
-nir- r Weston M;>so uri.
- The -ay if tie polite Jams attempt to
.,r-i.e4t oil manage .iee Hooker they will
-ske Up the uglies, cuatomer on this hernis-
.p.e. He has ,ar'e blanche from the Presi-
LID and from the nation too.
- perfect reign of terror prevails In North
Alabama aud Mississippi. persons fleeing from
,nscriptior, are being, hunted with blood
.e-uds by gueriIas, Persons carrying tood
r. friends hiding in cave. have been torn TO
a,c.s by blaod-tounds. Houses burned.
the iaaa,ts maltrcaied, shot and hanged.
The Texas EmLEs at New Orleans say
4 leit Al e but 1000 confederate troops III the
4 Na,e. and thai IL or $4,000 Union troops
Il sud easily held the WI ole state, and stop
L immense CONT ahand tfH,se VIA. Mexico.
zlich now vastly helps the rebels.
= The LEersLAruRE Of Oregon have pass
i d resolutions expressive of admiration for
IN. Hooker. who was once resident III
ut State. The people of Oregon know Fl
I ching Ioe' and believe III HIM. s
= Cen. RosEoRASs has sent a noble letter
:, lie Ohio Legislature in response to a reso-
.a'ous Of thanks 1t administers singing
.ebuke TO \ Northern traitors.
= Nearly all the Indiana and Illinois Gen.
erals and Colonies have sent home strong re-
moustrances against the present traitorous
.eaclings of the Democratic leaders.
= Ohio has thirty two regiments in Nir-
ginia, thirty six with Rosecrans, twenty eight
With Grant and in Western Tennessee, and
ffteen in Kentucky.
The Army Commissioners bill. which
fskcs all power over the State troops out OF
ID. hands of the Governor, has passed the Hi
aois Assembly by vote of: to as.
= Tie Memphis Bulletin says that a large
pos,,on OF the rebel army OF Virginia Is now
At Ficksburg., and also all the force they had
at Mobile, save few thousand they keep for
garrison duty. - a.. s.xr--. -.t 2.
= Col. Ludlow, COMMISSIONS on the part
Of our Government for the exchange of prison.
ere. has demanded the release of Federal Off
GERS confined in Richmond prisons. The reb-
els refused to release any officers captured sine
The nth of December, the date of jeff Davis
reclamation.
A Memphis observer describing the i'm
uerse rush after cotton along the railroad be
twcan jackson and Visksburg, says; IF on'
i Spectacle is more sublime than any other pre-
sented BY the present strife, it is steamboat
-Oad Of well dressed gentlemen rushing for
YARD heroically to take the profits of the wal
Thet, the risks are all over. 1t makes one fee
hat re have not lost our character as a COM
Rereial people" a- H-
1t is rumored through rebel channels
'sat Gen. Banks has fought battle seven
'ailes bslow Port Hudson, and that at its ter
"iuatiOn the rebels retreated to Port Hudson
and BANKS 10 his camp
Between Port Hudson and yicksbsrg.
aeeels have control of $50 miles Of the Missis-
NPPi' and it IS through this territory that they
Constantly receiving supplies of beef
. 'Rd other neesssaries from Texas