Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-12-03
Items from Rebel Papers.

The Marion (Na.) Ensign, IN commenting
IN jeff. Davis Thanksgiving proclamation,
says the national heart should agonize for
peace We believe the people arc heartily
tired of the war and would terminate it at
once if they knew how to do it honorably.
Our rulers, or rather servants, no doubt par
take of the same feeling. We lack the nee
essary wisdom. We desire peace, but we
know not how to obtain it. Let US pray GOi
to enlighten the minds of the people of both
sections.
The Richmond Enquirer, in an editorial on
the efficiency of the rebel ordnance depart
ment, in its enthusiasm, apparently becomes
unguarded, and points out several valuable
objects, some of which Gen. Sherman mav
deem worthy of attention, as instance in
Georgia, the ArmOry and Laboratory at Macon,
Arsenals at Athens, Columbus, Savannah, in
North Carolina, Arsenals at Fayetteville,
Raleigh and Salisbury, and in Virginia, Gov
eminent works at Richmond, &c.
The Charleston Mercury of the 9Th, says
there is not a human being in the Cenfedera-
cy but longs for peace. There is a party
which assumes this blessed sound as the
shibboleth of its organization; but do they
mean simply peace by their organization? Il
so, everybody belongs to it.. But they mean
something more. They mean peace, with
submission to Yankee domination. They
mean reconstruction. Our Confedefacy is to
be abolished; our independence surrendered,
and the vilest of all despotisms to be estab
lished over US by a reunion with the hateful
and hated Yankee.
In the Georgia Legislature on the 8th, an
effort to prohibit impressment or enrolment
for military duty, of men between fifty and
sixty years, failed. On the same day a bill
was introduced in the House, empowering the
Governor to impress one half the male slaves
of Baldwin county, to work on the defenses
around the capital, and that the owners of
such be justly compensated for such labor, as
well as for all loss or damage to such slaves.
In the Senate on the same day Mr.. West
moved to take up his resolution, pledging the
States to a vigorous prosecution of the war.
Mr.. Essard offered the following: That the
General Assembly earnestly recommend our
Government to make to the United States an
official offer of peace on the basis of the
great principles of our common fathers in
.1776. s
And further, that our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress be requested to use
their influence to stop this unnatural strife
looking forward to the time when peace may
be obtained on just and honorable terms
These resolutions were unanimously voted
down, and the original ones adopted, yeas
80, nays none.
In the same body On the 9th, a resolution
was introduced asserting the right of each
State TO act in an individual capacity in ref
erence to efforts to secure peace, as well as
all other affairs-hailing with qualification
any disposition in favor Of cessation of
hostilities manifested by the Democratic par
ty in the NOrth-favoring a convention Of all
the States, and calling on JEFF. Davis rebel
congress ito make proffer of such a pu pose
to the Government at Washington.
LATEST RICHMOND Prices CURRENT.-Flour
continues scarce an high, the prevailing price
for super6ne being $3.50 per barrel, for extra
$3.50 per barrel; corn meal, $50 per bushel;
bacon Sl0@l1 per poundcut, and Rio coffee,
at $12 per pound; Java, S15 per pound
brown sugar, SS.50@10 per pound crushed
sugar, Sl1@12 pei. pound. Meats, fish, vege-
tables, fruit, &c, are, tending downward;
beef, S350@400 per barrel; pork, $500 per
barrel mutton and veal, 81 per pound tripe
and pork sausage, So per pound; bacon hams,
white, $40 per pound; hams cut, 81 per
pound; middlings and shoulders cut, 81 per
pound; corned beef $3.50 per barrel oysters
.$30935 per gallon; herrings, S15 per dozen;
chickens, s6@S each; ducks, s7@1O each;
geese, sl2@l5; turkeys, $40; hares, $;