Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-01-30
LIENS ftam Rebel Journals.

The following items are from the latest file:
of Richmond papers received at Washington
which come down to the 18th inst:
| The Army correspondent of the Atlanta
Lntelligaaccr, says:
son Dec. 2sth, two corps of the eRemy
left Chattanooga, en- route TO Virginia, TO re-
inforce Meade.
a division of infantry has gone towards
Nashville, to be distributed to guard the rail-
road.
THE Federal brigade at Stephenson is in
winter quarters, and there is large force at
Bridgeport, where the enemy Is aceumulating
| large supplies.
There is a Federal regiment at Trenton,
Tenn, and $50 cavalry near the State line OF
| Georgia and Tennessee, twelve miles from
Trenton, who are scouting day and night on
Sand Mountain, from opposite Bellefonte to
Bridgeport"
Seven thousand copper pennies were
sold in Chesterfield Va, on the 18th inst,
at S47 per hundred.
A dispatch from Abingdon, Southwest
Virginia, reports the capture of "400 of the
Yankees nfesting that country"
The Ashville On. CO. Neps reports an en-
| SdSenlent Will oVV tOiAcS III Oooh COuiIi,
Tenn.
The Richmond Enquirer says: "Several
thousand tons of ice have been gathered from
the river and ponds, and housed in Richmond.
The ice is three or four inches thick"
The fruits of Lees and Ross recent raid
towards the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad are
claimed to be 500 cattle, 800 horses, so wag-
ons, 800 mules, and about 100 Yankees
= The Raleigh Journal says that Lincoln
gold is being freely used in North Carolina to
betray the Southern people into the hands of
the Yankees" and suspects that prominent
persons and newspapers are engaged.
The Atlanta appeal of the Sth says: 'In
the late cavalry fight near Charlestown, Ten
nessee, our troops were stampeded. large
portion of our loss was occasioned by the
stampede, our men and horses running over,
| killing and wounding each other in their
/ fright. Our loss is variously estimated at
from 65 to 200 men, and the same number of
horses.
- billpassed the Rebel Congress on the
It'll, making appropriations " for the support
of the government of the Confederate States
of America" for the fiscal year ending June
30th, 1864, as follows: For compensation and
mileage of the members of the Senate and
House, 1927, 900; President, 1880; Treasu-
nv Department, $4,000; interest on the
public debt, S2O,0O0,O00; engraving Treasu-
ry notes and bonds, $4,000; rent of Presi-
dents house, $4,000; for expenses of keep
ing and transporting coin belonging to New
Orleans $500; War Department, $4,000
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 81, l25
| napartmanf no of
&C., $3ls,745; support of prisoners of war,
$1,000, 900; Commissary Department, So, 1885,
500; Orunanee Department, 100000
Medical, $l6, 10000; Navy, $l12, 495; for
constructing four cruisers, of the class of the
| Alabama and Florida, in the Confederate
States, $2,500,O00. Appropriations in keep
ing with the above are also made for the De-
partments of State, Justice, Postofliee and
Indian Affairs. F
= The Petersburg (Va.) Express of the
| nth, saws: A" The Yankees are concentrating
large force at Portsmouth. There are now
Il there about 900 negroes, infantry, besides a
| battalion of mounted men. 1t is supposed
that a raid is contemplated towards the
| Blackwater. No Yankees have recently Wis
tied Suffolk, but pickets are still at Jericho
Run, two miles below the town, and camp
of cavalry is kept at Demands Mills"
| In reference to the exchange of prison.
ers, the Richmond Enquirer of the 9Th says
| " Butler is an outcast, and never can be re-
cognized as entitled to the privileges ac-
| corded foe taken in lawful warfare; yet it
| may become a question whether oNr govern
ment should not consult the feelings of the
| Confederate soldiers now lingering in North
| ern dungeons, and take the earliest practical
1 bic opportunity Of releasing them. Treating
/ ebould raIoaca fba ,aifif,i
| wretch from the ban Of outlawry pronounced
against him; but catching is before hanging.
He could, however, be executed, and doubt
| less will be by the Confederate officer in
| whose hands he may chance to fall"
= The Enquirer, speaking of the announce
| ment of the re-enstments of so many FEEDER
| al troops for the war, says: "The action of
the enemy in this matter is important to us.
| The preservation of their organization shows
| that they intend to move forward at the ear
| lest practicable moment in the spring. If
| they will not sacrifice an organization which
| has stood the ordeal of two years campaign
| ing can we afford to hazard the experiment
| of opening the spring campaign under officers
| recently organized, with companies unaccus-
| toned to association, and men strangers to
each other? We shall need every energy of
national defence for the spring campaign.
| Richmond will, i'll all probability, be APP
preached from the Rappahannock, as well as
from the Blackwater. In Northern Georgia
the fate of Atlanta, and in South Carolina
that of Charleston and Savannah, and in
North Carolina that of Wilmington, all must
be decided in the spring" ~e
= The Atlanta Contederacy of the 9Th,
| SAYS: "Gen. Armstrong; and Martins d.
visions of Gen. Wheeler's corps are at Beans
Station, East Tennessee, where they are con-
tinually having heavy skirmishes with the en-
envy. Four or five days ago, a squad of our
men captured lot of Yankee clothing, and
were in the act of draping themselves in the
captured property, when they were recap
tured by the Yankees, who, finding them in
Yankee clothing, contrary to their pub
lished orders, led them out for the purpose of
shooting them Just at this time the 4th and
7th Alabama regiments of cavalry arrived
upon the spot, and charged them, but not in
time to save our men, who were shot down in
cold blood. The ruthless villains escaped
A few days afterwards the regiments above
alluded to caught fifteen or twenty Yankees
and shot them in retaliation"
/