Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-12-01
Items from Rebel Papers.

The Marion (Va.) Ensign, in commenting
On 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 honorablv.
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 God
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 nav
deem worthy Of attention, as instance in
Georgia, the Armory and Laboratory at Macon,
Arsenals OF 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 human being in the Confedera-
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
50, everybody belongs to it, But they mean
! something more. They mean peace, with
submission to Yankee domination They
mean reconstruction. Our Confederacy is to
be abolished; our independence surrendered,
and the vilest of all despotisms to be estab-
lished over US by 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 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 vi gOrous prosecution of the war
Mr.. Es8ard offered the following: That the
Genera. 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
l776
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 a cessation Of
hostilities manifested by the Democratic par
ty in the Notwithstanding a convention Of all
the States, and calling on JEFF. Davis ebel
congress Ito make proffer OF such pu pose
| TO the Government at Washington.
| LATEST RICHMOND PRICES Concentrations
continues scarce an high, the prevailing price
for superfne being $3.50 per BARREL for extra
$3.50 per barrel; corn meal, $55 per bushel;
| bacon Sl0@l1 per poundcut, and Rio coffee,
at Sl2 per pound; Java, Sl5 per pound;
brown sugar, 8.5O@IO per pound crushed
sugar, $l1@l2 per pound. Meats, fish, vege-
| tables, fruit, &C., are tending downward;
beef, $350@400 per barrel; pork, $500 per
barrel mutton and veal, 81 per pound; tripe
and pork sausage, s. per pound; bacon hams,
white, so per pound; hams cut, 81 per
pound; middlings and shoulders cut, 81 p r
pound; corned beef $3.50 per barrel oyst rs
S3O@35 per gallon; herrings, SIS per dozen;
chickens, S6Q96 each ducks, S701O each
geese, Sl2@15; turkeys, $50; hares, 50
squirrels, IS.
IHE TEAIA5CLAK hAILROAD.-1he peninsula
railroad is now completed distance of sixty
miles from Little Bay Du Noquet towards
Marquette, and trains are making regular
trips. 1t is the design of the compa6y to
complete the road to Marquette, at once, and
the work IS being pushed with considerable
vigOr. The line is now under the superin-
tendence OF Superintendent Baldwin, late of
the Milwaukee d Chicago railway Consid-
cradle quantities of iron and copper ore are
already being brought down to Escanaba, and
one or two coaches have been added for the
accommodation Of passengers. The operation
OF the road renders the trip to Lake Superior,
through the wilderness. comparatively easy
MARMADUKE CAPTURED BIZ BoY.-It is
stated that the rebel General Marmaduke was
captured by a little boy belonging to one OF
the Kansas regiments. He at first refused TO
to an " interior officer" but was i'm
mediately PeTSuaded to doso. The lad brought
him to Gen. Curtis headquarters, where he
himself, much to the surprise of
all, but especially Of the boy hero. General
Curtis asked the boy how long he had to
serve before his term of enlistment would
expire. The reply was 4" eight months" The
General immediately wrote a furlough for
that time, and presented him With the horse,
royoIVers, belt and sabre of the rebel Gen
efaL
The Chattanooga Gazette learns that Mai.
rem Meagher has been order to report to
1aJ. Cen. Steadman for duty with instruo-
ions that he be assigned to command all
ne troops belonging to the 18th and 18th
orps now in that district.