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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-20

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you must
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ter Circulars and small Bills, thick as leaves In
vallambrosa" Or II, as Is most generally the
case, your wares especially address particular
class,
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reached by we'll phrased appeals to their tastes
fancies and interest II you have Posters Cir.
oulars and Handbills,. it Is important that they
he put and scattered in tho right placos.
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you aim at, is to make sure that you
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-20

THE BEST PREPARATION In the world for
a Cough or Cold is DR.. Tanners Cough Mixture.
Try it. For sale by Chas. Graham, Main street,
Centre Wheeling, and druggists generally.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-20

IT Is A FACT admitted by every man who
has succeeded in business, that to do business
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES o. rHE UNITED STATES, }
Crrv povrgT me- q 1874

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES o. The UNITED STATES,
CRY PoINT, Dee. 8. 1854.
To Maj. Gen. Butler, amaHding Army Of II,
James.
GENERAL: The first object Of the expedition IN
der Gen. tzel is to close to the enemy the port
of Wilmington. If successful in this, the second
will DO the capture OF Wilmington itself. There
are reasonable grounds to hope for success if adj
vantage can be taken of the absence Of the great
part of the enemy's forces now looking after Sher-
for the number and equipment Of the expedition
all right except in the important ones of
where they embark and the amount of entreneh-
ing tools to be taken.
The object of the expedition will be gained by
efecting landing on the main land between Cape
Fear River aud the Atlantic north of the north en-
trance to the river. should such landing be effect
ed, whether the enemy hold Fort Fisher he bat
terys guarding the entrance to the river there, the
trooEs should entren ch themselves and by co-ope-
rating with the navy effect the reduction and cap
ture Of those places. These in our hands the ma
w could enter the harbor, and the port of viii
miugton would be sealed. Should Fort Fisher and
the point OF land on which IL is built fall into the
hands of our troops Immediately landing, it
will be worth while to attempt to capture Whining
ton by forced march and surprise. If time is
consumed ia gaining the FIRST object of the expedi-
ton, the second will become matter of after
sideration. The ails for the execution are en-
mand of the troops Should the troops under
Gen. Weitzel fail to effect landing at Fort
Fisher, they will be returned to the army operat
ing against Rich mond without delay.
(Slgned,) q. :. GRANT,
Lieutenant General.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
q. A. DANA,
Asst Secretary Of War.

A special to the Times, dated Washington,
the 18th, says: From an interview with Mrs.
Senator Foote, it appears that her husband
resigned his seat at the time it was so report
ed; that the rebel Congress is slavishly sub
servient to Davis; that when bills meet with
opposition, the majority go into secret ses-
sion and rush them through; that the charac-
ter Of the war has been changed by Davis,
and is now carried on for his own purposes !;
that unless it can be terminated to suit him
and his school of policy, he will carry it on
more blindly and barbarously than ever that
there is not the slightest prospect of Mr..
Blair's meeting with success that the rebel
contractors do not desire a termination of the
war, and are doing everything to continue it !;
that the great mass of the people want to
come back into the Union under the Consti-
tuition, but are restrained by military power,
and as freedom to the press in this particular
is entirely gone, there is no way for them to
express their views. 1t was for the purpose
of serving these people that Mr.. Foote en-
deavored to reach Washington. Mrs. +. says
those who serve the Richmond Junta live as
well as ever, being supplied with all Injuries
at comparatively small cost, as the Govern
ment pays the expenses.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

Tie Herdlds Washington special says Ad-
miral Porter has sent q communication to the
Navy Department in which he responds to
some of Gen. Buffers statements in regard
the naval part of the expedition delaying the
attack on Fort Fisher and thus causing its
failure. He says that the only work assigned
to the navy was to silence the rebel works
and that it did that effectually on the oath
and 25th of December, but that, as Gen. But
Ter then decided an assault by his military
oYce unfeasible,it would not have been less so
on an earlier day. He is of the opinion that
the fort could easily have been taken by the
troops if an effort had been made. Gen.
Butler started on the expedition, the Admit
raj says, before the naval feet was ready to
cooperate with him, and thus by exposing
his transports to the view of the enemy
warned them Of their danger. He also
charges that the army portion Of the enter
prise was gotten up in very unIniiitary man.
ner.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

WILMNGToN.- from Fort Nor
roe give the following additional items about
the capture of Fort Fisher, which it seems
was accomplished by the very same troops
that came down with BUTLER, with the addi-
ton of one brigade, and numbering in all
about 10000 men,"
The assault was made by the army and ma
Wy brigade at 3 O'clock on Sunday afternoon.
One corner of the fort was secured in half an
hour but we had a hand to hand fight with
the garrison which lasted till 9 o'clock at
night 1t very stubborn and bloody
resistance, and the fort and approaches were
strewn with dead. The garrison had been
very heavily reinforced.
The number of prisoners taken was over
1000 The number of guns captured was
y. All the forts, including the mound and
island batteries, were surrendered. The rebel
loss in the assault was 500 dead besides
wounded. Our loss, army and navy, about
900 killed and wounded.
The rebel pirates IaNatasse and CHickamau-
ga were both in the fight, and were driven up
the river. Our gunboats went up the river
on Monday morning.
The prisoners will be Immediately sent
north. The magazine in the fort exploded
by accident on Monday morning, killing and
wOunding 200 of our men.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

The Commercials Nashville correspondent
says the Convention passed, by nearly a
unanimous vote, resolution that no person
be considered a qualified voter, until he
takes stringent oath declaring himself un-
reservedly in favor of the Union and all laws
and proelamstions issued since the war began
BY the psssidsat or csnassss.-
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

THE PORES ENCYcLIcAL LETTER.-0n the
9Th ult. the Pope issued long encyclical let
ter, with an appendix cataloguing =" the errors
of our time" The letter deplores the "evil
doctrines of the day." urges all members of
the Church to labor for her welfare, and adds
this order to the clergy:
Teach " that kingdoms rest upon the foun-
datiOn of the faith (St Celest, Lets. 90 and
Svn. de Eph.) J, and that nothing is so mortal,
so prompt to engender every i'll, so exposed
to danger for those who think that is can
alone suffice, as the free will which we re-
eeived at birth if we ask nothing further from
the LOsd-that is to say, if, forgetting our
Author, we abjure His power, to show that we
are free" And do not omit to teach that the
rOyal power has been established, not only to
exercise the government of the world, but
above all, for the protection of the Church,
Is. Lent, Epist., l56, AL. 1885, and that there
is nothing more profitable and more glorious
for the sovereigns of states and kings than to
leave the Catholic Church to exercise its laws
and not to permit any to attack its liberty"
The appendix denounces, under eighty sec
tions, ten different classes of "errors," such
as rantheism, rationalism, socialism, denials
of the rights of the Church and the civil
powers of the Pontiff, and concerning mar
riage and morals.-
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

The Times Washington special says Gen
Thomas has written to the War Department
letter giving a very encouraging view of
military affairs in the Southwest. 4 He says
that Hood cannot gather an army of 10000
men, and that the Southwest is practically a
conquered country. Hi ider &.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

Upon careful calculation it is estimated
that President Lincoln, in the two hours of
his levee on New Years day, shook hands
with about seven thousand persons, men,
women and children of all ages, rank and
races.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
From The eth REGIMENT.

A Picket AHdck-An E1ecatjO1 Witnessed
Injustice to Soldiers By Reducing Rations-
Preparations for further Operations.
Correspondence of the State Journal.
CAMP OF 5TH REGT. WIS. VOLs.,)
NEAR WELDON, r. R.,
January II, 1853.
Since writing last we have been enduring
the m onotony and dullness of life in camp
in humble submission to Henry Ward Beech
er's principle" Patience is eommendable
when person can't help it." Almost any
thing is acceptable that brings a mite of ex-
element and thus breaks the sameness of
such life. Once only have we been formed
with line of battle since being in our present
camp.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28


A letter from Valparaiso of the l4th ult,
says the Spanish Peruvian question appears
more intricate than ever. The commanders
of the Peruvian feet have informed their
President they cannot cope with the Span
iards. A letter from Callao of the 2Sth
states that the Spanish feet had been. rein
forced by three ships of war.
1t is reported from Washington, that the
Secretary of the Treasury is about to issue
an order doing away with the present system
of making the National Banks depository for
public moneys in those places where the Gov
eminent has regular repositories. This is a
matter that effects the National Banks in all
our large cities.
The New York papers are still further adj
justing themselves to war times and the high
cost of paper. The New York Evening Post
has reduced its pages four columns; the Her.
aid has raised the price of advertising to 40c
a line each insertion-think of that, We adj
vertsers the Albion, weekly, charges lie a
copy; the Leader weekly, 10; the Sunday
Times, Z, and the pictorial weeklies have gone
up to Is. A further advance in the price Of
the dailies is also threatened.
A letter from George Saward, Esq, Sec
rotary and General Superintendent of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, to Cyrus W..
Field, after abiding to the absolute electri-
cal perfection. of the cable now being manu-
featured, states the amount completed up to
the 30th of December at 750.miles. The ca
BILE Is now being manufactured at the rate of
eighty miles per week, without hurry and
without night work. 1t will be finished by
the end of the first week in June. Two
tanks are on board the Great Eastern for
slowing the cable, and the third is rapidly
progressing. There is no doubt but the ca
BILE will all be on board the great ship, ready
for sea, with every appliance of the kind, and
in the best order, during the month of June.
Mr.. Saward has no doubt but the cable will
be successfully laid and worked.
The announcement that the citizens of
Philadelphia had presented $50, 900 house
to Mrs. General Grant is premature. They
are intending to do something handsome for
for the General and his family, but haven't
decided what yet.
The Panama Star and Herald SAYS it learns
that all restrictions are being removed by
the Japanese treaty. Large quantities of
silk, accumulated at Yeddo, have arrived at
Kanagawa, and European merchants were
congratulating themselves on the improved
prospect of business.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
IA PICKET ATTACK.

A few mornings since, some time before
daybreak, we were startled. from our slum-
bers by the yells of the Johnnies, (and when
one has heard these once, he will not soon
forget them) ard their rolls of musketry, as
they charged upon cur picket line in our i'm
mediate 'front.' Our boys were quickly driv-
en- from their posts with loss of one prison
er from our regiment, while the rebels quick
ly gathered blankets, &C., and returned to
Dixie. 1t was most complete surprise, with
aloss of thirty-6ve prisoners in all, and a few
killed and wounded. These night attacks Oc-
cur not unfrequently, the object probably
being to make our men fearful of any who
may approach them from the rebel side, and
thus make desertion from their ranks very
dangerous 1t may be, also, that the rebels
desire to feel our lines, intending soon to make
an attack in force.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

Harmonious Action of the Forces.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

TRANsPLANTISG AT NIGHT.-A friend, in
whose power of observation, says the York
ing Farmer, we have confidence, and who is
an exact experfmenter, informs US that last
spring and summer he made the following ex-
pertinent:
He transplanted ten cherry trees while in
blossom, commencing at four O'Clock in the
afternoon, and transplanting one each hour
until one in the morning. Those transplant
ed during daylight shed their blossoms, pro-
ducing little or no fruit, while those planted
during the darker portion maintained their
conditions fully. He did the same with ten
dwarf pear trees after the fruit was one-third
grown. Those transplanted during the day
shed their fruit; those transplanted during
the night perfected their crop, and showed
no injury from having been removed. With
each of these trees he removed some earth
with the roofs"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
AN EXECUTION

Took place in our division day or two
since. The unhappy man was private in
New Jersey infantry regiment-his crime
was desertion. The whole scene was solemn
ly impressive. To one who had never wit
nessd military execution it was a scene
never to be forgotten. How impressive the
feelings it excited The whole division was
called out to witness it, After being formed
into hollow square, brigade on each Of
three sides, with lines open two rods apart
and fronting each other, the unhappy man,
seated in an ambulance with his religious ad-
wiser, the Chaplain of the regiment; pre-
ceded by band playing the death march or
some mournful dirge, and a guard followed
by guard whose duty it was to execute him,
and wagon in which was his coffin, was
drawn through the lines. On reaching the
end of the line the coffin was taken from the
wagon and borne by four men, was carried in
front of him to his grave in the center of the
open space, and placed across it. He was
assisted to dismount, and seated upon his cof-
fin, his feet and arms pinioned, when the
Chaplain offered a brief prayer. A band
age was now placed over his eyes. At the
word "Fire" a simultaneous report was
heard and the prisoner fell over upon his
coffin, his breast and neck pierced with
eleven balls. How terrible and what state
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

Rebel Guns SIeneed s. Fort Damaged.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
eEN. eRANr's INpoRsENENr.

Gen. Grant, in his Endorsement of Buffers
report, says: alt was never contemplated
that Butler should accompany the expedition,
Major General Weitzel being specially named
as commander" Gen. Grant thinks the de-
lay in the moving of the expedition can be
charged to waiting for the gunpowder boat
to be prepared. Grant says. "Butler is in
error in stating that the decentralization of
troops was by his instructions, as his instruc-
tions never contemplated withdrawal after
q landing had been effected"
The following is the letter of instructions
from Gen. Grant to Butler, which is append
cd to Buffers report Of the Wilmington ex-
petition:
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

Terrific Naval Bombardment.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28
WISCONSIN PATENTs.-The following is a
list of patents recently issued from the Pat
ent Office to Wisconsin men:

WISCONSIN PATENTS.-The following is a
list of patents recently issued from the Pat
ent Office to Wisconsin men:
Grain elevator. Nichols, Fond du Lac.
Belt tightening-J. Nichols Fond du Lac.
Uterine supporter-J Lee, Stevens Point.
Cartridge for ordnance-T. Yates, Milwaukee.
Heat Radiator-C. b. Hall, Racine,
Astaic guard for water buckets-J. B. Hyzer,
GAINESVILLE
Heat-radiating attachment for fues-w. P. Mer-
rill, Milwaukee.
Process of heating steel, to render it tougher,
stronger and more elast CIV. P. Merrill, Mlwau-
Magazine or selfloading fre-arm-J. F. Apple
by, Mazomanie
Seeding machine-J. NJ. Stebbins, Appleton
Camp Kit. Walkley, Monroe
Construction of railways-T. Yates, Milwaukee.
Animal trap. N Flsutt, Reedsburg.
Mode of raising sunken vessels-C. Harrison,
Milwaukee.
Locks-J. Hussan, Janesville.
Operating cultivator teeth-T. W. Harmon,
MontfOrd.
Town VS.. COUNTRY READERs-In cities, if
books are read at all, it is the latest books
only, it is the noised books of the season, the
books about which you must be prepared to
say something in society. In the country it
is the books on the shelves; it is the vol
umes, bound and lettered, that are in their
turn taken down and read, at least in por-
we take any given level of intelligence and
education, the aequAintances of persons of
that same level with the standard writer's of
the by-gone age, from Shakespeare down to
Sir Walter Scott, will be as ten to one in
favor of country families. 1t would be a
curious experiment to make of this loi; in a
promiscuous assembly,-let it be such an
average company as may be gathered for
listening to a philosophical or literary lee
ture we must premise the suppOsition that
everybody is truthful. Some one, or the lee
turer himself makes proclamation in these
terms: I" Those of the company present
who have actually read Paradise Lost, will
their hands," This done, then the form fol.
lows, The contrary, theirs" Will the rea-
der venture a guess as to the percentage of
the ayes IN such u company? hesitate to
name what | inwardly suspect would be that
percentage. Be it what it might, ranging
between two per cent. and ffty-we may
guess it at twenty-five then would come
the further question as to these twenty-five
bona ide readers of Milton, how many of
them live mainly in .cities,-liye in the
world, and how many of them are bona fide
eOuntryfolk. | should bring nobody over to
my way of thinking merely by declaring my
belief that, of this number, the country would
lay claim to the twenty, leaving the five to
be challenged for town life.-Good Words.
TRANSFORMING AT NIGHT.-A friend, in
whose power of observation, says the Work
ing Farmer, we have confidence, and who is
an exact experimenter, informs US that last
spring and summer he made the following ex-
nerimant.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-28

OFFICIAL AND OTHER REPORTS.
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things, and what will make scene like this
necessity How strangely terrible to see
enacted living funeral
INJUSTICE TO THE SOLDIERS.
Was done, at the last Congress in increasing
their pay, but decreasing their rations one
fourth of the original amount, which was in
reality decreasing the amount received from
the United States for their services; for the
three extra dollars per month viii By no
means compensate for the loss of rations.-
The friends of the soldiers in Congress should
see to 1t at once that justice be done the SOL
diers in this matter. Very great complaint
is made in regard to this by the "boys in
blue"
TIE DEFENsEs IN FRONT
Are being very greatly strengthened. Every
available team is being used to bring material
for the construction of several new lines of
abattis When these are completed our
works will be so strong here that mere line
of skirmishers with the guns in the forts can
readily hold them against almost any force
the enemy can hurl upon them. The con-
structiOn of these works means either that
part of our corps is to be removed for opera
tions elsewhere, or that our military authori-
ties anticipate very early advance in the
Spring, and wish to be able to concentrate at
any given point as many men as possible.
THE FUTURE
Is full of brightness. Whether we shall have
submission very soon, or by early spring, the
military movements now in operation will
have eliminated, and so fiercely will Grant
hurl upon the already panic stricken '"'rebs
the bolts of war as to compel submission.
B. G. HAMMOND,
Chap 9th Wis. Vol.
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VfctOry Finally Gained.

COMBINED ASSAULT MADE.
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WILMINGTON HApBoa CLOSED UP.

70 Guns are Reported Ours.
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1000 Prisoners Secured.
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THE FIT. FISHER VICTORY
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The second Wilmington Expedition.

TT Is COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL,
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things, and what will make a scene like this
a necessity How strangely terrible to see
enacted living funeral