Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-02-27
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/ lshcu III what rcDcis taH the SousACAA OOh-
/ fedefacy.
The rebel Congress bas passed and JEFF.
Davis has approved bill prohibiting the inn
The old regiments are returning from their
! thirty days visits to their homes with an av-
erage of l40 new recruits each.
1t is quite probable that the Secretary of
the Treasury viii in few days advertise the
| ten-forty loan.
By orders of the War Department, no vol
unteer shah be rejected on account of his
height, who is at least five feet.
The New York Commercial advertiser re-
commends the entire abolition of our pres
ent postal system, leaving the carrying of the
mails open to private enterprise.
The LIST Minnesota Regiment having re-
enlisted for the war has gone home on fur
Tough. They reached ST. Paul on the 18th,
and were received with great enthusiasm.
! The total funded and fundable debt of the
United States on the 29th of January was
81 ,446, 81 ,507. The interest of $756,717,-
500 is payable in gold.
! The extent of immigration into Colorado
Territory may be judged from the fact that
ten thousand and forty-one' acres were taken
| up in Golden City District in the month of
January.
| A land grant bill has been reported in the
| U. S. Senate, to aid in the building of road
| from st. Paul to Lake Superior. 1t grants
| five sections of land for each mile of road.
Henry Ward Beecher declares that he is in
faver of President Lineoln's e-election, and
| that he shall announce this fact to the public
! and give his reasons under his own sigma
| ture.
A report from Africa that Dr. LIVINGSTON,
the intrepid missionary explorer, has been
murdered, is perhaps untrue. There are
grounds for hoping that he has only been
| wounded.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the wellknown
| English author, has left Washington for Ha-
| vana.l After short visit to Cuba, hewill go
| to Vera Cruz, thence TO New Orleans, and so
| through the South and West.
| The Heralds Washington dispatch says the
policy of extending the Presidents amnesty
| to colonies is much talked of. Rebel prison
ers and refugees state that this would cause
whole regiments to desert.
| Sixty thousand veteran troops have already
| re-enlisted. All the regiments in the Army
| of the Potomac, whose terms of service ex-
pire this year, have re-enlisted, or are about
to do so% IL - & = ttkBf5
An emancipation meeting was held at Cow
ington, KY, on the 18th, to elect delegates to
the emancipation convention at Louisville,
on the oath. Among the speakers was j. r.
Grant, father of Gen. Grant.
JOHN S. BURNS, the only citizen of Gettys-
burg who joined the army and fought in the
battle in July last, has been put on the pen
sion roll at the rate of IS a month. He
fought with the 7th Wisconsin and is an old
man, #.,-....r -
Rumors as to an intended protest by our
Government against the French occupation of
Mexico are certainly not well founded. The
policy of the Government on this point is full
ly explained in the lately published diplo-
matte correspondence.
Gen. John Morgan and his two staff officers
who escaped with him have been made the
recipients of grand ovation and testimonial
from the State of South Carolina. The testi-
monial consists of a magnificent horse to
each, and seven sets of elegant and costly
caparisons.
The steamer NM Boy was sunk on the 1st
inst, miles below Jacksonport, on White
river, laden with Government stores for the
troops at Batesville. A part of the cargo
was saved. The boat was valued at S14, 900,
and was total loss. -
The Richmond Examiner of the 10th inst.
has an editorial denouncing the Virginia Leg
islature for attempting to interfere with
State and war matters, by the passage of an
act requesting JEFF. DAVIS to remove the
outlawry against Gen. BUTLER, to facilitate an
exchange of prisoners
The Richmond Enquire. also contains a
long editorial bitterly denouncing the Vir
ginia Legislature for its chicken hearted
course in recommending the acknowledgment
of the beast BUTLER, and yielding to terms
for an exchange of prisoners in secret SEES
sion. 1t urges DAVIS to remain firm, and de-
clares there viii be no exchange of prisoners
till they get more than we have.
The Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune states that it has the highest
authority for saying that Gen. Grant has
within few days formally, peremptorily, and
in the most decisive terms, rejected direct
offers made to him lately by leading Demo-
cratic politicians to secure his nomination for
the Presidency by their National Convention.
The Times Washington special says that
Gen. Butler has issued an order forbidding
the sale of liquor to be drank on the premi-
ses in his department, under penalty of fine
and Imprisonment at hard labor also, an
order that all estates in his Department,
abandoned or occupied by rebels be taken
possession, of by the Superintendent of negro
affairs.
A Mr.. Corvin, who came to this country as
the correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
and the London Times, and obtained a situa-
ton in the Treasury Department about year
since, has Just been dismissed. 1t is said that
the calumnies upon our Government and ar
mics, contained in his letters to the journals
mentioned, were the cause of his removal.
He claims to be German count and de-
scendant of the famous Corvins.
The Secretary of War has decided that the
| term three-fourths, used in connection with
veteran regiments, means three-fourths of
| the organization serving together, and does
not include men absent in prisons, hospitals,
sc. Men who have not served two years
will be allowed to 60 ON furlough with their
regiments, provided it goes as an organiza-
| ton, and they agree to re-enlist as soon as
they come within the limits of re-enlistment.
Very near one hundred and ten thousand
new recruits have been formally mustered into
| the service since the 1st of November last,
1 and many more thousand are known to be en-
| listed, although not yet mustered in. The
last two weeks the enlistments have averaged
| 1900 a day. 0fthe number formally mus
! tered into the service, New York has furnish
| ed about 10000, Ohio 10000, Indiana and
Illinois IL, 900 each, Missouri about Z, 900, and
Pennsylvania only the same number.