Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-11-05
CONTENTS OF THE REBEL MAIL.
News Items.

The Paris Patr1e says Russia has given its
adhesion to the French policy on the Roman
question.
La France says the instruction in Algeria
is spreading, and the natives there appear TO
be obeying summons to a holy war.
Yellow fever is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Newborn, but it is believed the
heavy frost of Saturday night checked it.
Richmond papers of the 22d acknowledge
a defeat in the Shenandoah Valley and say
they lost % guns besides those they had taken
at first, and about 900 killed and wounded,
with few prisoners. .f
A number of boys, called the Junior Re-
serves of North Carolina, and consisting OF
one regiment and a battalion, have offered
their services to the rebel Government, been
received and placed in the trenches at Rich
mond.
Admiral Porter communicates to the Navy
Department the capture of the steamer Ni1a-
dee, a blockade runner of 600 tons, with a
cargo consisting of $50 bales of cotton. She
was captured by the U. S. steamer IT. Jack
son.
An order was issued by the Richmond War
Office to conscript one fifth of the employees
of the Ordnance and Nitre Bureaus, thus Sc
curing 1000 to the military force. The or
der is considered breach of faith, and gives
great dissatisfaction, but it shows the straits
the rebels are reduced to.
Early's defeat by Sheridan is acknowledge
ed Dy the rebel press as well as by Early him.
self, who admits that he lost 80 pieces of ar
tillery, but claims the Union pursuit of him
did not amount to much, as only cavalry were
engaged i'll it; our infantry, who he says
sniff lu a.
moralized to follow. &.
The Palmetto Herald says the latest adyices
report the average deaths daily in Charleston
from yellow fever as 20, and also says the
rebel papers are filled with obituaries of dis
tinguished Southerners and of the discussion
of peace and reconstruction. On the whole
their tone is very favorable to US and shows
a great change within the last few months
The authorities of the British Provinces
have at length discovered that their seces-
sion friends are troublesome customers, and
are as DESTROYS as our government to be rid
of them. The utmost accord and all posi-
BILE aid will be extended us in bringing these
breakers of international peace to punish
ment.
The War Department has received copy of
Beauregard's address on assuming command
of the Army of the West In it he exhorts
all capable of striking a blow to come for
ward at once, and to all deserters who shall re-
port for duty within the next thirty days, an
amnesty is granted. He promises if the peo-
pie will only respond to this call as they have
done in days past, the enemy shall be driven
from their soil.
The Tines Washington special says the
Government has received no officisl informa-
ton of the reported proposition by General
Hardee to exchange prisoners. 1t appears
the status of the negro prisoners is not the
only point on which Government takes issue
with the rebels. They owe US to-day not less
than 5000 prisoners, they having declared
exchanged that number of paroled men with
out any equivalent rendered us in teturn.
0uld has acknowledged to 10000, and still
will not deliver up that number.
The London Times had an editorial on the
address with $780, 900 signatures recently sent
to Gov. Seymour from England, entreating
the North to make peace with the South.
The Times says the address signed by those
300,005 gentlemen, can affect just nothing,
end thinks the only possible solution of the
question is continued war. America has
commenced the fiery ordeal which settled
Europe on its present basis, and terrible as is
the process, the Times cannot doubt that
America will be better for it in the end.