Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-02-04
From RebeIdOm.

The Wilmington Cdr0i1ian of the 10th
says: Fort Fisher fell last night after an OBJ
stinate resistance. Gen. Whiting and staff,
with about 200 troops, are now in the hands
of the enemy. The conflict within the Fort
was very severe one, and lasted for two
hours, hand to hand, with the enemy. We
have no heart to enter into details, nor to
comment on the disastrous event. We may
tell our readers however, that the gallant
Whiting did his duty, but had to succumb to
their force of numbers, having been assaulted
on his sea, land and rear face, By the soldiers,
sailors and marines of the enemy"
We are glad to learn, says the Lynchburg
Republican, from an authoritative source,
that the salt works in Western Virginia will
again be in successful operationby the LIST of
February next, possibly before, so slight was
the injury done to them by the late Yankee
raid
The Richmond Enquirer of the 10th, says
the reticence of the rebel war department,
concerning events current in the South indi-
Gates the fact that important movements are
in progress. If Wilmington falls there Will
be no panic, though much sorrow for the in
habitants. The idea that there is an i'm
mense amount of cotton stored there is one
attractive influence, to say nothing of that
port as base, which is Row alluriDg the in
vaders towards it. There is a combination
in the matter which involves Charleston as
well, and Sherman is on foot in the matter.
If these places fall, it will be after the exhi-
bition of much strategy, for Sherman Is al
ways at it and We hope our army is also.
Sherman's feints are in fact realities, for
while aiming at various places he is meaning
to take all, and it hardly matters with him
which he takes first.
The Richmond Sentinel says the Senate
resolution creating the Office of commander
in-chief of all the armies, has been concur
red ia by the House also recommending the
reinstatement Of Gen. Joe Johnston.
The Richmond Examiner of the goth says
refugees who reached Charleston on the 18th,
report that Sherman had sent one corps to
cooperate in the attack on Wilmington. The
Exanainer also says the loss of Fort Fisher
was occasioned by Bragg failing to attack
the rear of the Union farces. The latest
advices from Hood report his army as in fine
spirits and on tho way to Corinth. The SUI
persedure of Hood by Dick Taylor is confirm
ed. The Wing and Sentinel are out in ex-
tremely bitter articles against reunion.
The Richmond Wing thus states the result
of the South making war upon the nation,
attributing the horrors to the Yankees: sour
WOuASI, Ouk hOAhSACco DoVAS03 OuA
murderously slain, our blackened homes, our
battered cities, our slaves in arms against US,
our prisoners murdered in cold blood or pin
ing year after year in northern dungeons, tell
US what the Yankee is at heart"
Gold has reached in Richmond thirty-6ve
hundred per cent. premium.
The Mobile Register of Jan. 18th says
1.-THE people absolutely decline to bet, with
the odds 40 to /, ON the success of our cause,
and the honesty of our Government and peo-
ple."
The Richmond Sentinel calls for new out
burst of enthusiasm and patriotic devotion.
1t says it would be delightful and inspiring
A citizen writes to it that he had moderate
supply of bacon in the house, and he asked
his wife, "Shall the meat go?" She res
ponded, Eyes, letit CO." and it went Per-
haps it was the kind fed to our poor priso-
nurs. =. s 49, 49,
The Richmond Ercnaner saws ait is thought
the existing cabinet has pretty nearly ex
hausted its intellectual resources without
achieving a very brilliantly illuminated indi-
vidual fame, and that a new set. with fresh
ideas and wide-awake characteristics, is es-
pecially desirable at the present time"
The Augusta Constitutionalist says that city
ia filed with fugitives from South Carolina
Il would appear that panic had seized upon
the people Of that State on the approach OF
the Union army and they were ready to leave
everything to save their lives