Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-02-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Carolina, report that the rebels are dis
heartned and arc very much excited con
corning the concentration of forces in that
Department
- Eighty army officers are 10 be dis
missed for violating the regulations, in
their structures upon the removal of Gen.
i Nc CleIIan and the court-martial of Fitz
John Porter.
- Hon. ". Il. WEIGH, late Chief
Justice of Minnesota, died on Thursday
last, at Red Wing, n, the age Of 65
years.
- The rebels have already fortified
/ Galveston TO such an extent that its re-
/ capture will be delayed for the present.
/ They have secured the batteries of the
/ Harriet Lane and Westfeld, and Mag
ruder has force of 700 men in the city.
- Salisbury the drunken secession
Senator from Delaware, has again dis
craced the Senate chamber. When call
ed to order by the Vice President be re-
fused to obey, and the Sergeant-at- Arms
being ordered to arrest him he ot.ompt
ed to shoot that officer For this con-
duct Senator Clark, of New Hampshire,
introduced resolution expclling him. If
the Senate acts consistent with its dignity
the resolution will prevail.
BANKS has called for largo sup
ply of entrenching tools. The intilnat-
ion of the telegraph that they are to be
used in the capture of Port Hudson, is we
presume. nothing more than conjecture.
The rebels are making great pre-
parations to resist an attack upon Vlcks
burg and Port Hudson, Gen. Johnson
is massing an immense army at the lat
ter place.
- Gen. Cameron emphaticaly denies
the statement published in Harrisburg
paper, by member of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, that Cameron had offered
him $4,000 for his vote for :. S. Sen
atoY.
The general belief is that the whole
story was fabricated by Democrats, as an
absolute necessity to apologize for the
monstrous crime of ovcrawing the Leg
islature hy tho importation Of PhiIadeIph
ia rowdes.
- It is rumored that part of tho
prisoners captured in tho late fight at
Arkansas Post, will be sent to Camp
Randall for safe keeping.
A bill for the admission of Utah,
and for the creation of new territory
called .Shosho1e, it is stated, are about
to be reported in Congress.
The Madison correspondent Of the
Chicago Times says the democracy of the
Legislature voted for Ryan for Senator,
to give the party endorsement to his ia
nous address, so much commented on.
Very well; let it be understood that the
address is formally accepted and adopted
by the Democracy Of the State.
In the joint convention Of the Ohio
legislature which has just re. elected Ben
Wade to the United States Senate, the
vote stood Wade, rs; Hugh j. Jewett,
So; Thomas Ewing, Is; Gen. Schenck,
The Democrats all voted for Jewett.
Among the peculiarities Of this |
war is the fact that on the 3lst of De |
cember, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Gar
csche was killed at Murfreesboro on the |
Goth of December, 1862, Major Garesche
was killed ut Vicksburg. Thus Mt differ
ent points, nearly a thousand miles apart
the two brothers have lost their lives with /
in two days of each other, both having
fallen in support of the Union. All hon
or to the brave.
- The rebels are not at all satisfied
with such cautious Democrats as Gov.
Seymour, of New York. They prefer
the Ben Wood and Vallandigham sort.
Says the Savannah Republican: well,
Seymour, has been inagulated, and what
has he donel just nothing at ali for
which the South cares one farthing. In
stead of putting forth r mighty aud por-
tentous programme of revolution at home
and peace with the South, he ignores the
whole question, and leaves matters just
where he found them"
Seventy-five of those Boston "Pu-
ritians" who are so cordially hated in all
parts of the country, have recently do
mated SO; IA for the sick and wounded