Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

on hunting excursion.
| A statement issued by the treasury depart
ment gives the public debt, on the 3Oth ult,
at 81, 955, 1913, .46, and the interest thereon
at $sl, 776, 643.12.
The Tiiblsae's Shenandoah special says
/ Sheridan's pursuit of Early was so hot that
/ he captured beef which had been billed for
the use of the enemy, but which the rebels
left skinned and smoking upon the ground,
and had not time to issue to the troops.
In one week Sheridan's army fought two
battles, gained two signal victories, and pur-
| sued the demoralized and broken columns of
/ Early eighty-seven miles. The history of
/ this eyentful war may be searched IL vain for
more persistent and successful fighting dur
ing an equal space of time.
At New York mackerel are reported very
abundant near Newburyport and Portsmouth,
and large numbers have been taken. About
s., 900 worth we're taken at the Isle of Shoals
on Monday and Tuesday. One thousand bar
rels were caught on Tuesday.
An Englishman engaged in blockade run
ming arrived from Wilmingtonvia Nassau and
Halifax, SAYS those engaged in the blockade
running business believe there is time to
make only one or two good speculatiOns be-
fore the rebellion is finally crushed. He does
not think business will extend beyond the
present year.
The United States Sanitary Commission
has opened communication with our officers
and soldiers in Charleston, Andersonville
and other places south, through Lieut. Col.
Woodford, agent for exchange at Charleston.
Assurances have been received from Major
Lay, Confederate agent for exchange, that
supplies of specified articles will be safely
forwarded to our men.
At st. Petersburg, Russia, lately, a Catho-
lie church tumbled to the ground when it was
crowded with wOrshippers, and as many as
1000 persons were buried beneath the ruins.
Not one was saved alive. In many cases
there were no relatives present to claim the
bodies that were recovered, as the whole
family had been killed.
The heaviest casting ever made in this
country, has just been run at Hartford, Ct,
by Messrs Woodruff & Beach. Ii was a
channel plate for one of the large new fIig-
ate engines now building for the Government
took twenty six tons of melted iron, four
teen wOrkmen five days to prepare the mould,
and will require ten days or two weeks to
cool of.
The Boston Post, having observed that tn
present administration has abolished one hun
dred and fifty-two sineeure offices in the New
York Custom House, remarks that under
Just and economical Government they would
never have existed" The Bangor Wing re-
spends: every true. They existed under
Polk, Pierce and Buchanan. Under Lincoln
they have been abolished"
Mr. John G. Nicolay, the Presidents Pri-
vate Secretary, who was recently drafted in
Washington, though enormously enrolled,
being subject to military duty,not in the Dis
trict, but at his home in Illinois, which has
more than filed its quota, and being at the
same time Incapacitated by illness from serv-
ing, has sent a substitute to the enrolling
Office, who was duly accepted and mustered in.
About l 800 of the rebel prisoners confn-
ed on Rock Island have recently enlisted in
the service of the United States They are
to be sent TO the Northwest Territories to
take part in operations against the hostile In
ans. At present they are separated from
their fellow-prisOners, some of whom mani
fest much hatred towards them because they
have volunteered.
Gen. Forrest, in dispatch to the rebel sec
rotary of war, under date of Athens, Ala,
Sept. oath, SAYS; my forces captured this
place this morning, with thirteen hundred Of
fcers and men, fifty wagons and ambulances,
Eve hundred horses, two trains of care load
ed with quartermaster and commissary stores,
with large quantity of small arms and two
pieces of artillery. Ny troops are in fine
spirits. Ny loss is five killed and twenty-five
wounded"
The Paris MoRite1v says the cotton crisis
in France, which has been severely felt by
the operative classes, is well nigh passed
away The consumption of cotton in France
during the first three months OF the present
year was one-third more than in the same
period of 1868, and one-third less than in
the same time of 1860. The mischief caused
by the war in America is therefore in fair
way of being remedied. There seems every
probability that the French colonies of AL
geria, Guiana, and West Indies viii pro-
duce as much cotton as France requires.
The order of Gen. Heintzelman prohibiting
the sale of powder and firearms, commonly
known as the powder order" has been coun-
fernandez" The General expresses his thanks
to dealers in the country and particularly
those of Chicago, for their patriotism in so
cheerfully acquiescing in its provisions, and
aiding in carrying it out, evidently in many
places accompanied with heavy loss to them
selves. We suppose that the cause for the
issuance of this order has been so far remov-
ed, through the exposure and defeat of the
traitOrous combinations in Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio, and there is no longer the same ne
cessity for interfering with the trade IN arms
and ammunition.