Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-12-26
THE NEWS,

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day morning.
- A bill has been introduced into
Goyal) Virginia legislature, in session at
Alexandria, to abolish slavery in the
counties excepted by the Presidents proc
lamstion.
= The Radical triumph in Missouri
i complete. Rosscrans takes Schofield's
command, while Curtiss supersedes Ew-
Ing in Kansas.
= The rebels have repealed the substi-
tute clause in their Conscription act, and
all those who have sent substitutes must
now 90 themselves in addition.
= The official vote of Wisconsin has
lust been cauvassed. 1t stands Lewis
1894; Palmer $500. Union ma
jority 24,6l5.
- Senator Wilson, Chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs strongly
opposes the repeal of the $500 clause.
= The health of Joshua Giddings,
the American Consul General 10 Cana
ds, is 50 feeble that he hiss been obliged
TO retire TO his home at A.htabula, Ohio.
- dispatch from Washington says
the CONSUMPTION bill will not be amended
until after the holidays, and that the
draft will be postponed for twenty days
from the 5th of January.
A later dispatch says the reported
postponsment of the draft for twenty
DAYS was filsehood. 1t is now said
that it will positively take place on the
9th Of January.
= Gen. Grant has captured, since the
war broke cut. 46I cannon and 10000
prisoners.
= The widow Of Senator Douglas is
at present in Washington, engaged by
Secretary Chase as clerk in the Treas
ury Department. She is seldom seen in
public.
- An important decision of the Su
preme Court, rendered in July last, in
the hsbeas corpus case of Martin Con-
way and James Gibbons, is published
1t is TO the effect that children who come
to this country with their parents. VIII lie
minors, acquire none of the rights OF
citizens unless themselves naturalizsd OF
declared their intentions. Hence they
have no right to vote and are not liable
to draft.
= Morgan escaped across the Ten
nessee River, sixty miles above Chatta-
noOga, on the 18th. He rode a fine
race horse, presented him by some Gar
rett Davis Kentuckian, and was accom-.
panied by ain escort of thirty men,
Fourteen were captured, and the old
thief himself had narrow escape.
= The Toronto Globe cordially en-
dorsss the Presidents Proclamation to
the Southern people, predicts that it will
be great success, and believes the re-
bellion is on lis last legs.
The Message of JEFF Davis and the
report of Mr.. Memminger, the Confed-
crate Secretary of the Treasury. present
the condition of the rebellion as such
that, if it were not infamous, it would
be pitiabIe. When we come to look in
TO the receipts of the rebel Treasury, we
find that the War Tax has, during a
year, yielded s4,l2s, 9ss: the seques,
tration of the property of UEion men,
$I,S62, $50; customs, 934,70S; ex-
port duty on cotton. Ss,l0l; patent fund,
$lO,794; altogether, S6,945,341. And
this in Confederate currency worth SIX
cents in gold on the dollar. The rest Of
the Confederate revenue has been made
BY printing notes, which are now to be
forcibly funded. He admits the Jiola'
ton of the contract entered into by the
Government with the note holders, but
says he can't help it; that if his scheme
is not promptly adopted, "taxes become
fruitIess by reason of the depreciation Of
the money. The army can neither be
paid, clothed, or fed; arms and NUM-
tons of war can no longer be supplied
the officers of the Government can not
be supported; and the country must sue
comb"