Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-03-04
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. to resist tie burning OF cotton there. Tht
paper is denounced as a YANKEES, concern.
The Mobile Rsgsstsy says, the Southern peo
pie are not whipped, but cowed. Their souls
and not their hands, are disarmed. 4 GU
strength is not sapped, but our courage il
oozihg out at our fingers ends.
Tie Lynchbnrg Republican says the Vifgnis
& Tennessee Railroad, it is thought, will be
opened for travel to Bristol by the lst oil
March. rRep4irs are being pushed onward
with unusual energy. Some idea of the mag
nitude of the work to be. done may be formed
from the statement that all the bridges, 80 OF
90 in number, for distance of IS miles, have
toibe rebuilt, and much of the track relaid,
beside other repairs to be made of minor con-
sequence.
During a recent debate in the rebel Senate,
the food question came up, whenit TRANSFERRED
that the vast yield of the valley of Virginia,
which had in former years been always Sc
cured, last year fell into our hands, that this
was the result of calling into the armies the
details for gathering il; that thousands of sol
diers families had not, tasted meat the last
six months and were living on short supply
of bread alone that the soldiers themselves
had also been without meat for a long time,
The Herdlds Shenandoah correspondence
says an expedition consisting of 305 picked
men from the Michigan cavalry, after march
of 40 miles, meeting no opposition, reached
the Charlotte Iron Furnace on Water Lick
| Creek, which the rebels had in full blast pre-
| naring iron for shot and she'll. Tire estab-
| lishment, with all its machinery and material,
was DESTROYED. The force then returned with
trihiug annoyance from guerrillas. The main
portion of the rebel army is said TO be near
| StauntOn.
The British parliament was opened by the
ROYAL commission on February 9th The
speech said Her Majesty remains .steadfassly
neutral between the contending parties in
America, and would greatly rejoice at a
| friendly reconciiiation The QIeen has had
| great satisfaction in giving her sanction to
the conference meeting of delegates from
Canada assembled at Quebec, and the resolu-
tions which were adopted for closer union
| of those provinces under central govern
ment. If approved by the provincial legisla-
| lures, bill will be laid before parliament for
carrying this important measure into effect.
i The Herai,Fs correspondence says the .ex-
change OF prisoners, under the new, arrange
ments perfected between Gen. Grant and
| Commissioner Ould, is progressing rapidly,
and three steamers are now busily employed
| is carrying released Union soldiers TO An
napolis, Nd, and carrying in return loads OF
| rebels. Our men, both in words and appear
ance, add mountains of evidence 10 confirm
\ all that has previously been told of the bar
barity and rapacity practiced by the rebels
on their unfortunate. captives Under an
agreement lately entered into, all Union
prisoners now held in the trans Mississippi
Department are to be exchanged -
Further details, received'by the last arri-
| val from Vera Cruz, show that the fighting
| between the Juraezists and the lmperlalists
| is actively carried on in the interior of the
| country. The friends of the former state
| that Gen. Pataria has taken the town of Al
turero, and shot Francisco Vegs, the head OF
the Imperialst movement in that vicinity.
The Juraezist force i5 approaching Ellaraill.
| The Juraezst gnerrillas intend putting to
death every French soldier they may catch,
on the plea that any one fighting for, or hold
ing office under, Maximillian is traitor to
Mexico and Mexican liberties. Many other
| movements in the interior are named, which
I show the activity Of the National p1rty The
campaign at 0axaea, however, gives rise to
undisguised activity. ,Oaxaca is now defend
ed by Gen. Diaz, while Gen. Bazaine, in per-
son, is leading, an expedition against llbul.
| His vanguard has been defeated.
4 The foreign mails have the following: The
| Noyd saws: HThere was meeting of the
\ Privy Council on the 4th in Paris, and we are
informed that the affairs of America and the
connection they may have with the Mexican
| Empire formed the principal object OF the
! meeting. France is not without some uneasl-
| ness as to the attitude the United States may
assume towards the new Empire, when tine
conclusion Of the war has placed at the dis
posal of the Republic a large and tried army,
with numerous and. skilful officers, and a
4 four years. struggle has changed a State
| hitherto exclusively devoted to commercial
and maritime interests, into military State,
1 disclosing of the immense forces. Tue recent
| resolution of the Washington Senate must
4 have a share in increasing this uneasiness.
Nevertheless, according TO our correspond
ents, the discussion in which the Privy Coun
| ell was engaged ended in this resolution: that
for the moment it would be would be wrong
TO give way'to exaggerated fears, and that IN
/ the face of the pacific and conciliatory
I assurances which American diplomacy con-
tinues TO give, the best course TO adopt is to
abstain Professionally from all movements,
without, however, indalging IN false Sc
curity."
The Richmond Wings East Tennessee cor
respondent says many rebel soldiers are fall.
ing into the hands of the enemy's scouts.
| There were 81 North Carolina home guards
recently captured near TaylOrsville. No re-
sistance was made. The rebel reserves along
the mountains, the correspondentsays,d do not
seem to amount to much, as they are cOntin-
uaIly gobbled up. Much dissatisfaction exists
among the grain growing slave holders, at the
order coDscripting so many OF their negroes
for the service, and it seems cruel to demand
| the few slaves left out of the vast number
they held two years since. Since the demand
was made, at least three quarters of the me-
groes have gone over to the enemy. Farm
ers are now without means OF cultivating
their farms. The enforcement of the cor.
scription act in. East Tennessee, placed co.
900 fighting men in the ranks of the Federal
I army who would otherwise have been at
home, good citizens. Probably 1000 men
we're dragged into the Confederate service,
who have generally proved nuisance to lbe
| Government. Those daily running away,wIll
| come back in a short time armed and in the
enemy's ranks. This is the policy OF our
weak and silly Congress. To have armed the
| negro should have been. the policy of Gov
/ ernment two years since. .. 5i
The rebel General Forrest, whose bead
quarters at latest accounts were established
at jackson, Miss, and who was engaged in
conscripting guerrillas - d sending them to
1 Richmond TO be mustered into the rebel army,
| in an order dated Headquarters Cavslry De-
| partment of Alabama, Mississippi, East Louis
lana and West Tennessee Vernon, Miss, j an