Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-04-08
News Items.

prisoners from Texas, including a number OF
naval officers.
1t is understood Secretary McCuloch con-
templates the issue of new series of z 3o's,
under the auspices of Jay Cook Co.
The Commercials Washington special says
the stories of malfeasance In the Interior
Department are pronounced without founda-
ton by the National Intelligeneer.
The Posts Washington special says Secre-
tary MeCulloch expresses the opinion that
large quantities of cotton will reach the
North during the next three months.
dispatch from Newborn dated the 18th,
says prisoners taken by the rebels in front of
Kinston, have been recaptured, and General
Terry has formed junction with our forces
there.
The Posts Washington special says General
SchO6eld has placed Gen. Hawley in COM
mand at Wilmington. He is a native ofNorth
Carolina, but resided in the North for many
years He left the Hartford Press to enter
the war;
Richmond journals of last Friday, announc-
ed that the removal of the gold belonging to
the banks of that city had already been COM
menced In strongest language the Legis-
lature and people are called upon to put
stop to the removal of this precious metal, on
the ground that if removed it will nearly all
get into the hands of the Yankees, and upon
its retention depends the very safety of the
rebel Capital ITSELF
Richmond editors are very angry over the
recent seizures at fredericksburg Va, by
sisO aE-"fos.ssl .-Sr- IF some ZOO,OOO POUNDS
OF tobacco, which had been sent thither from
Petersburg. They say there was understood
TO be an agreement on both sides that the to-
ell Col @Has
and that they should receive bacon in return
for it, and consider its capture Yankee
trick, with which Gen. Singleton of Illinois,
who has been in Richmond for some time
past, is suspected of having had something to
do.
An expedition of 50men of the 30th Wiscon-
sin, sent from Louisville Saturday, surrounded
barn, Sunday morning, in Webster, Mead
cSunty, capturing Sue Munday, alias Jerome
Clark, Msgruder and Henry Metcalf after
some resistance in which three of our men
were slightly, and a fourth MORALLY wounde-
ed. The prisoners were brought here by the
steamer Morning Star, Monday morning, and
lodged in the military prison Magruder is
suffering from a recent wound and not likely
to recover.
The Herald prints a letter from Gen. Sher-
man to Wade Hampton, dated February oath,
stating that in consequence of foraging par
ties having been murdered by the rebels after
being captured, and labels attached to their
bodies of " death to all foragers," that he has
ordered a similar number OF prisoners in our
hands to be disposed of in a like manner;
that he holds 1000 rebel prisoners, and can
stand it as long as Hampton. The rebel Gen
eral responds that he knows nothing of such
murders, and that for every soldier executed
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picking out officers as the first victims. He
makes long story about the barbarities al
legged to be practiced by Sherman's army, and
concludes by saying he shall hold So prison
ers as hostages for those ordered to be ex-
ecuted by Sherman.
Gov. Andrew publishes special appeal to
deserters, in which he says: 81 avail myself
of the earliest opportunity, after the Presi-
dents proclamation, in this public manner, to
advise all persons liable to the charge of
desertion, to accept at once the Presidents
offer of pardon, to report themselves imme-
diately to the nearest Provost Marshal, to re-
turn to duty and obedience to retrieve their
reputation, protect themselves against punish
ment hereafter, and save from certain forfeit
ure their precious rights as American citizens.
| appeal to the neighbors and friends of all
such deserters especially to the mothers and
wives, who have heretofore invoked go often
my advice and interposition, earnestly coun-
selling them, both as a magistrate and as
man, to enforce and persuade the absent to
return and seek the shelter, pardon, honor
and happiness which now await them under
the Union flag"
Rebel papers chronicle the passage of the
negro enlistment act, saying it is measure of
necessity, not of choice. Senator Wigfall,
during a debate, denounced the Legislature
of Virginia, and demanded the resignation of
jeff Davis The speech of Senator Hunter
in the rebel Senate, is printed. He voted for
the bill to arm and emancipate negroes I'M
der instructions from the Virginia Legisla-
ture, but entered his protest against it, as in
conflict with his views, with public policy
and with the interests of the Confederacy.-
That il is an abandonment of the cause for
which they made war, an abandonment of all
the hopes of the Confederacy. There is no
point of dispute now between them and the
Yankees, and the result will be abolition and
equality. He also showed from statistct
that no considerable body of negro troops
could be raised in the States over witch the
Government had control without stripping
the country of the labor absolutely necessary
to produce food, and stated that the COM
mandant of conscripts, with authority to i'm
press 10000 slaves, had since last September
been able to get but 1000, of whom $500
were from Virginia and North Carolina and
the balance from Alabama. Hunter also ar
gued that the negroes would not volunteer,
and those we did get would desert to the en-
envy, who can offer them better price
How THE DAVENPORT BOYS CANE TO GRIEF.
You have doubtless heard by this time how
the Davenport Brothers have come to grief
at Liverpool. At their last seance given
there, Mr.. Cummins, to whom Mr. Sothern