Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-06-04
News Paragraphs.

1t is proposed to remove the capital ofNey
Hampshire from Concord to Manchester
James Taylor, of New York, has been ap
pointed special agent at large of the Pos
Office Department, in place of James Hol
brook, deceased. 80 ~--~s.
A rebel Lieutenant states that Lees arm,
numbered before the battle from $4,000 t
10000; that he has lost $4,000 to 2S,0O0.-
He also says the rebel army has plenty of pro
visions.
Wendell Phillips says that ".tle gristle o
the South is hardening into bone" William
Lloyd Garrison replies "If the griste of the
/ South is hardening into bone, it is the bone
of a skeleton"
The Richmond papers of the 10Th instant
claim great victory over Sigel at New Mar
ket, and say they would have captured his
army had it not been for our cavalry. Ac
cOrding to their accounts Sigel ran 20 miles
without stopping, abandoning his hospitals,
burning his trains, &c.
Acapulco advices of the 18th say that the
French occupy but a narrow line from San
Bias to Vera Cruz and Tampico. 1t is sur
missed that the Fench Admiral doesn't ven.
ture to occupy any other Pacific port because
he would not be able to keep up communica.
ton with the interior. . a-
Two men were captured the other day near
Annapolis, with large rebel mail destined
to Baltimore, with letters for New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia parties, also $4,000 in
gold and g, 900 in Greenbacks. The letters
speak of scarcity of food Sc, and contain
highly important Information.
A BaltimOrean, temporarily residing in
Boston, invited five friends to dine with him,
few days since, but they noticed just before
they seated themselves, small secession flag
topping piece of ornamental pastry, and
without word all instantly left the room and
the house. Next day Mr.. Baltimore went
home. 4r ~.ss a..
The Hartford papers tell sorry tale of a
young widow belonging in this city whose af-
feetiOns were won by gay deeeiver in Hart
ford, and who was swindled out of $3.50 un-
der the pretense that the money was to go
for "pIace where "they two" would live
in connubial bliss. Now the Springfield wild
ow looks in vain for the faithless lower
General Slocum, commanding the District
of Vicksburg, has ordered that, where the
Government lessee of an abandoned planta-
ton is robbed by guerrillas, sufficient proper
ty shall be seized from disloyal citizens in the
vicinity to indemnify the sufferer; and if a
lessee is killed, an assessment of $40, 600 shall
be levied upon dislOyalists.
The Burlington Free Press mentions as the
prominent feature of the late State conven-
ton at that place, "the apparently unani-
nous desire for the denomination of Abra-
ham Lincoln, which found expression in hear
ty applause whenever his name was mem
toned in the convention; in the resolutions
adopted by unanimous vote, and in the cleo
ton of delegates unanimously chosen" The
same paper thinks Senator Foot, the chair
man of Vermont's delegation to Baltimore,
would look well presiding over the National
Convention.
The success of the patriotic women in their
attack upon indulgence in foreign dress
goods, embOldens them to seek reform in
other fields. They are now preparing cam
paign against the fashionable watering places
this coming season, under the conviction that
while so many fathers, husbands and sons
and brothers are imperilling their lives on
the field of battle, it does not become wives
and mothers and sisters to be dancing and
flirting at Saratoga, Newport and Niagara
No, 1t don't. Let them take their relaxation
in more quiet and healthy style. 81