Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-01-07
Personal Items.

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A Washington correspondent ofthe. James
vile Gazette says that Senator DooLITTLE has
returned home to spend the holidays. He
has made arrangements for the residence OF
his family at Washington during the sessions
of Congress hereafter, and they will return
With him to the Capital.
! We understand that Senator HOWE has al.
80 returned home to spend the holidays.
HARRISON REED left Washington about the
middle of December for Fernandina, Florida,
where he expects to remain nearly two
months. He will then return and await the
close of the investigation now going on as to
the acts of the Tax Commissioner, of which
1 he was one. va
II Aletter has been received at Washington,
dated Dec 8, 1854, frem.GHAREEs A. STEVENS,
I of Wisconsin, a prominent Barstow and DEM
oeratic politician. He is now a rebel prison
! er in confinement at Columbia, South Caro-
lima. He was captured in Mississippi, last
February, near vicksburg, whittier he went,
having first obtained an appointment as some
kind of treasury agent from Mr.. CHASE. The
envelope enclosing the letter was made OF
thin wall paper, the figured side OF the paper
being the inside of the envelope, indicating
that paper is scarce in Dixie.
Count CHATEAuBRIAND, the new French
Minister, will not sail for the United States
until the month of April, being prevented
from coming by sickness in his family.
Several prominent men have recently died
in New York city. WILLIAM CURTIS MOVES,
the distinguished lawyer, died of paralysis on
Christmas day. On the same day, JAMES A.
WAlLAck, the veteran actor, died. COL CHAs.
A. May, distinguished for his gallantry in the
Mexican war, under Gen. TAYLOR, died at the
New York Hotel, on the oath.
We have already mentioned that ALExAN-
DER DUMAS, the great French novelist, is
about to visit this country. He proposes to
leave Paris about the lst of January for New
York, and to visit every northern State east
of the Rocky Mountains. Paris letter
writer saws DUMAS was asked not long since,
bv friend, whether he intended going into
the dominions of JEFF. Davis. The great ro-
mancer replied that he thought he should not
run the risk of being sold to pay the expenses
of his capture and keep. DUMAS makes no
secret of his African blood, but is rather
proud of it and of his descent. The father
of DUMAS, of the same name-ALEXANDRE-
was a native of the then French colony OF st.
Domingo, general-in-chief in the armies OF
the republic in 1894, and the intimate friend
of Hoche, Kleber and Moroccan. His mother,
the present DUMAS grahdmother-was full
blooded negress.
An instance of Gen. GRANTS comprehensive
foresight is recorded by the Washington cor
respondent Of the Boston AdUertiSer writing
on the nth. After mentioning Gen. SHEER
MANS last message before he left Atlanta to
Admiral PORTER, "Look for me at the coast
vbout Christmas" which had just been made
public, the Adyertiser's correspondent says
g This was duly conveyed to the Admiral
but with it went also the word of Gen. Grant,
BE ready for him at least ten days sooner;
'he will reach there at least week earlier.
Events have proved that Gen. Grant had
thoroughly comprehended the problem there
was to solve"