Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-28
Items from Rebel .s0GFnais,

The following items are from the latest tile!
of Richmond papers received at Washington
which come down 10 the 18th inst:
The Army correspondent of the Atlantis
IHteAige7acer, says:
| On Dec 2Sth, two corps Of the enemy
left Chattanooga, en r0ssts 10 Virginia, 10 re-
| inforce Meade.
| :" 4 division of infantry has gone toward.
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 accommodating
large supplies.
There is 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 Beliefonte to
Bridgeport"
Seven thousand copper pennies were
sold in Chesterfield, Va, on the 18th inst,
at SAT per hundred.
"A dispatch from Abingdon, Southwest
Virginia, reports the capture of 600 of the
Yankees infesting that country
The Ashville q. c. Ne1cs reports an en-.
gagement with 800 tories" in Cook county,
Tenn.
The Richmond Enquirer says: "SeveraI
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 coo cattle, 300 horses, 80 wag-
ons, $50 mules, and about 100 Yankees.
- The Raleigh Joa0nGl 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: I'm
| the late cavalry fight near Charlestown, Ten
nessee, our troops were stampeded. \ large
| portion of our loss was occasoned by the
stampede, our men and horses running over,
killing and wounding each other in their
| fright. Our loss is yariously estimated at
! from IS to 200 men, and the same number of
horses.
A bill passed the Rebel Congress on the
| lth, making appropriations "for the support
| of the government of the Confederate States
| of America" for the fiscal year ending June
| 50th, 1864, as follows: For compensation and
| mileage of the members of the Senate and
| House, 1927, 900; President, Il, 500; Treasu-
~ Department, S476,000 interest on the
public debt, S2O,0OO,0OO; engraving Treasu-
~ notes anG bonds, $4,000; rent of Presi-
dents house, $4,000; for expenses of keep
| ing and transporting coin belonging to New
O,l, n 10
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, S2,l25:
Quartemaster's Department, for pay of army,
&C., 1918, 745; support of prisoners of war,
81 ,OO0, 900; Commissary Department, S., 79S,-
500; Ordnance Department, $1,000, 900 :;
Medical SIC, $4,000; Navy, SIP ,4e5; for
constructing four cruisers, of the class of the
Alabama and Florida, in the Confederate
States, S2,5O0,000. Appropriations in keep
| ing with the above are also made for the De-
partments of State, Justice, Postoffce and
Indian Affairs.
- The Petersburg (Ea.) Express Of the
18th, says: The Yankees are concentrating
a large force at Portsmouth. There are now
there about 200 negroes, infantry, besides a
battalion of mounted men. 1t is supposed
that 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 18th says:
Butler is an outcast, and never can be re-
cognZed entitled to the privileges &C
corded foe taken in lawful warfare; vet it
may become question whether our govern
ment should not consult the feelings of the
Confederate soldiers now lingering in North
ern dungeons, and take the earliest practical
bic opportunity of releasing them Treating
with Butler should not release the pitiful
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-enlistments 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
Hest practicable moment in the spring. If
they Will not sacrifice an organizations 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, in 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"
- The Atlanta Contederacy of the 9Th,
says: "Gen. Armstrong; and Martins d-
visions of Gen. Wheelers corps are at Beams
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
few days afterwards the regiments above
alluded to caught fifteen or twenty Yankees,
and shot them in retaliation"