Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-12-03


The town of Lincoln, in Vermont, gave
Lincoln 209 votes; Mcclellan, none.
The rebel arsenal at Charleston was burn
ed the I'd inst. ob "a s. aIs E
Many Union prisoners have been sent to
Camp Lawton, nesr Savannah.
The Postofiee Department has re-establisn-
ed the Post Office at Helena, AK. ffsrss
Perlsy vallandigham, a nephew of the
g Martyr has been sentencedto the State
Prison in Iowa, for voting illegally. E
New Hampshire has Just voted to hold a
Constitutional Convention. No day is yet
specified. i 81 ~
The Charleston Mercury of the l4th says
ince the last report $50 shells have been
thrown at Sumter and 102 at the city.
The Richmond Dispatch of Friday says the
exchange of prisoners, inaugurated at Sayan-
nah, will be transferred to City Point.
A dispatch dated Savannah the 18th says
that so far 800 rebel prisoners have been
received. The delivery of Yankees com
menced Thursday. ~ II ~
Mrs Anne Butler, wife Of the ascending
Treasurer of the Confederate States, arrived
at Washington on the 9th, direct from Rich
mond, from which place she escaped. "
A South Australian paper says that kan
garoOs are increasing TO such an extent
throughout Australia as to seriously inter
fere with the feed upon sheep-runs. 80
A Washington special says that commits
sion is TO be appointed, soon after COngrers
meets, TO investigate the operations OF the
Sanitary Commission. ih
Gen. GiIlern's loss in the late encounter
with Breckenridge is estimated at 400 killed,
wounded and missing. Giilem is safe at
Knoxville e
Late adsices from the western Mexican
coast represent the peopleas divided, aud the
Empire gaining ground. Mapzlnillo will soon
be occupied by the French. ~ .
Admiral Farragut communicates to the
Navy Department Intelligence of the capture
of Prussian schooner, by the U S. steamer
Sciotd, while in the act of attempting to. run
into VelaseO, Texas, with an assorted cargo.
Rebel sympathizers at Nashville are gloomy
and disconsolate in consequence of the an
AeeessiOns to the army are daily arriving
from the North:
Nine hundred rebel prisoners arrived at
Nashville Saturday morning from Atlanta
Thinking the latter place evacuated, they
rushed in to pillage and plumber, ana were
captured
Information has been received from the
west gulf blockading squadron of the capture,
on the 9TH inst, of the schooner Joanna, by
the steamer Fort Morgan, laden with medi-
cine, iron, DC. - Z -" ~
A,Paris letter to the New York Herald
saws that. Richard Hildreth, United States
Consul at Trieste, and author of an excellent
history of the United States, has become
hopelessly insane from softening of the brain.
Gen. Breckenridge in East Tennessee is en-.
to win the people in that district to
allegiance to JEFF. Davis, and had declared an
amnesty to all who would lay down their arms
and cease bnshwhacking his troops. =
In the rebel House of Representatives, on
the 18th inst, and Senate on the 10th, reso-
buttons we're offered by Messrs Henry and
Foote of Tennessee, that the war was to be
carried on until the independence of the
South was acknowledged.
1t is proposed, since slavery is blessing
to the negro, according to the approved Con-
creed, that the free blacks be en-
rolled in the rebel armies, and as a reward
sold into slavery on the expiration of their
term of service! ISL
The Bristol East Tenn.) Register SAYS the
rebels captured and destroyed train of cars
loaded with commissary stores at Morristown
ON tie l4th; also a wagon train consisting of
military wagons killing Is and capturing
number of Yankees.
The Louisville Democrat says that Paul r.
Shipman, late editor of the Journal, of that
city, who had been ordered through the lines,
and actually started on his way South, has
been directed to return to Louisville by the
So Tba =, L.
to say what is to be done with him.
TIE Governor of California has issued a
calling for another regiment of
California volunteers, in accordance with
requisitiOn from the War Department, to be
used to garrison the harbOr defences. Re-
cruiting in San Francisco to fill up old regi-
ments goes on briskly.
In the rebel Senate resolution was offer
ed requesting jeff Davis to inform the Senate
If any one of the United States had express
ed Willingness to go into convention with
the Confederate States to negotiate peace
or consulting on the best method of effecting
a cessation of hostilites.
The Vermont Legislature is still at work
on the agricultural college question. The
House has voted by large majority to repeal
the act of last year to incorporate the Yer
mont State University and associate colleg-
es," and the favOrite plan now is to divide
the income of the agricultural fund among
the three colleges already existing in 1.-THE
State. U II 81
The Richmond Sentinel says in Virginia new
movements are ON foot, and in Georgia and
Tennessee vast campaigns, singularly compli-
Gated, are in process of development. Both
the Sentinel and Dispatch insist that Sheridan
has sent part of his army to Grant, and says
Early has advanced to New Harper's Ferry.
They are also in expectation of grand
against Richmond by Grant. Il
The plates of the new ffty-cent fractional
currency are nearly ready for printing. These
notes will be of the same breadth as those
now in circulation, but nearly twice as long.
The new fve-eent notes will be of the same
size as the old ones, while the ten and TWEEN
ty-fve cent notes will be of length graduated
between the highest and lowest denomina-
tions. 1t is probable that a three-cent note
will be issued, for the greater facility of MAX
ing change. n . &.
The 9th Massachusetts (colored) regiment,
many of whose men are from the West, re-
ceived its full pay on the 29th of October. 1t
will be reeollected that this regiment, which
has fought calamity in South Carolina for
! ear or two past, refused to receive the $40
a month offered it, demanding full soldiers
stipend, which it has at length received.
A pretty Young woman at Jackson. Michi-
gan, has been carrying on the recruiting bus
mess IN a novel manner. She Inarries man
on condition that be will enlist and give her
his bofuty She beinp str kinply handsome.'