Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-03-18
NEWS ITEMS.

ago, tiat tiilS u"OtoH ""' " IS
Not so. If "gab" could have killed this
nation, it would have been dead long ago.
Although + nuisance, ''gab' is not fatal
to national life.
- GEN. HOOKER is about to have
thirty deser,ers shot He will undoubt-
edlv shoot them if the President does not
interfere, and recently the President Is not
so tender-hearted rs he was. He begins
to perceive that war is an ugly business,
and discipline in IN army demands the
enforcement of severe penalties, without
any squemishness about it. 1t will be
necessary to shoot q good many desert
ers, and We might as we'll begin now.
- The President of Copperhead
Club in Dubuque, Iowa, made speech q
few days since, in which he denounced
the Government currency as worthless
trash of hardly equal value to the Con-
federato money. A poor Irishman who
happened to have q quantity of the latter
article called upon him the next day and
altered to exchange it for green backs,
giving liberal boot, but, strange to say,
our Copperhead Jailed to see it,
- The Johnson County Indiana Her
cid, Copperhead sheet, h"yin recently
declared that when the soldiers return
they will be the best friends of that sheet
fifty returned soldiers of that county have
issued card denouncng the editor as a
Copporhead and liar. They say they
would as soon support JEFF. Davis as such
a man. ''And if any returned soldier
is his friend it is pretty wood evidence
that that soldier is either deserter from
his regiment, or a traitor at heart"
- The news from Utah is of the ut
most Importance. Gov. Harding has
ordered the arrest of Brigham Young,
aud called upon the military to enforce
the order. The Mormons are determn-
ed to resist, and serious difficulty is APP
pretended.
- There is no good authority for as
serting that the President is about to
call for the CONSUMPTION OF 100000 men
When the call is made it is believed that
it will not exceed 100000, if, in ,act, it
approaches within so goo of that mum
Der.
- Col. CARRINGroN, u. 5. 4. in
Indiana, issued an order against the
Knights of the Golden Circle, declaring
them public enemies. 1t is stated that
recruiting officer was driven out of town
in Iowa by the members of this order.
- Gov. Morton has received dispatch
stating, that Col. Colburn was taken pri-
soner at Spring HILL, near Franklin, Ten
nesseo. One Michigan and two Indiana
regiments were captured, but no officer
above the rank of Orderly Sergeant was
killed. O less was l,406--150 of
whom were killed and wounded, and the
remainder taken prisoners. The rebels
admit loss of $50 killed and 400
wounded Their force WAS 5000, while
ours was but 5000.
"A novel way of conveying VIII iskey
to the soldiers has just come 10 light.
Whiskey is procured, put in stout bottles
well corked, and placed inside lump of
dough, which is afte. wards baked into
bre d.
- The Albany Statesman says: d.
NJ Davidson is ROW making iron cars for
the American and Anams' Express Com
panies. These are becoming all the
rage. Ia ten years from now wooden
freight car will not he tolerated on any
of our leading railroads, Mr. Davidson
is now making nine iron cars per week.
This is four hundred and sxty-eight in a
year. The most of his cars are taken
by the Central Road"
Gen. Halleck estimates that the
number Of deserte.s of the Army of the
Potomac alone at $4,000.
- Gen. Curtiss has been removed
from the Department of the West, and
Gen. Sumner, is ordered to take COM
mand in his place.
- Senator Hale, who has been con-
fined to his bed for two or three weeks
by severe illness, is now pronoune ed out
of danger, and decidedly improving.
- 1t is limited that France may have
had hand in melting the Poles to in