Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-02-25

urer had stated the wirOiee ipceb edu' 81 OF
the COule,ieracy az 81 II 0,0Oc; bu' afdi-
uon q cash labhrie$. 10 the AMOUNT OF $780,
OOO, 900, have been found to exist.
The Commercials Washington special saws,
officers from the feet off Mobile report great
! activity in the removal of torpedoes and 9th
er distractions in the harbor. 1t was conf:
IDENTIFY expected that the rebels would evac-
uate the city, The feet is working its way
up the harhor. fe &c : e.a-i g sazars i !:
IL Private advices from Richmond represent
matters there as in a very bad way for the
rebels and the difficulty of supplying the peo-
pie and the army with half rations is daily
becoming almost unsurmountable, and the
evacuation of r edmond is becoming more
imminent and probable. ~ F-..f.
Richmond papers state that a large Yankee
4 force has lanued at Smithtield, on the
North Carolina coast and have brought loco
motives with them, evidently intending to
use the railroads to facilitate their military
operations after they shall have captured
| Wilmington.
The Worlds Washington correspondent re-
iterates former statement that the rebels
would soon evacuate Richmond and the At
antic coast and fall back TO the mountainous
interior. He now says Lee and Beauregard
| will comlnand9 two grand armies, and that
|
| attack on Sherman.
The Commercials Newbern, North Carolina,
correspondent says that an expedition Is fit
ting out there which in all probability will
make an advance upon Goldsboro. If cap
tured it will give us all of southeastern North
| Carolina. Lit. Ware, of Gen. Palmer's st f.
was accidentally shot by Capt Horn, of the
18th n. Y.
By the steamer Ocean Queen, we have As
| pinwall advices of the 9TH. The steamer
Peru, from Calao the 2Sth of January,
brought news that the Spanish Peruvian
| question had been settled. The terms are
said to be that Peru shall pay 100000 for
the expenses of the Spanish expedition. Pc
ru obtains possession of the Chincha Islands,
admits Spanish envoy and admits the inte
rest of the Spanish.
The telegraph is again working to Denver.
/ The Indians, in small bands, are at different
/ points all along the road from Fort Kearney
westward. The main body has gone up the
| North Platte. Col. Collins, with his COM
msnd had,a series of engagements with the
| Indians between Julesburg and Laramie,
which lasted for six days. The Indians are
estimated to number 2, 900, while our soldiers
number about 200, not sufficient to follow and
chastze the savages. -s.sa.,.E
| The HtrdLds dispatch from Sheridan's head
! quarters show that though everything re-
mains comparatively quiet in the Shenan-
| dOah valley, the strictest vigilance is still ex-
ercised bv the National forces there, and the
country is frequently patroled by scouting and
| reconnoitering parties. The regular rebel
troops stationed at different points in the
upper part of the Valley, but the guerrilas
are proving around in some of the counties
t between the Blue Rid re and Allegheny noun
tains
! Il appears thatthe rebels have lingering
| in their prisons many Southern Union men,
civilians charged with Union proclvities.@-
| These men have no friends who. under the
existing state of aff4ii in the South d IRE in-
tercede for them, and the consequence is
/ they are made to suffer as badly our sol
/ der prisoners. IL il said our Government
has a number of civilian prisoners. Efforts
| are making TO get up an ex, hange which will
| release these sufferers. Ii will require, how
| ever. much effort in their be halt, and it is
| hoped all good citizens will aid the under
taking. A9
| The HtraLfS Washington special says "Ofi-
GERS from the forces operating against Mobile,
who have arrived here, cOlfi m the reported
evacuation of that place. Hundreds of de-
serters have come off to the army and to the
sht and a nnhe aP III ire a she fsHe
have left that place, and that the city
/ will be surrendered whenever a demand for
| it shall he made, even il the force by which
| il is backed up shall not be a very large one.
| The cotton has all been removed from the
city into the interior. Our feet are busily
engaged in removing distinctions, and ex-
| pect to be able to reach the city by the LIST of
March"
In prize case before the United States
4 = 4 Il Il Il.
a certain vessel was forfeited by reason of
having entered the port of Norfolk IN viola
ton of the regulations described by the
| Secretary of the Treasury and the several in
| tercOurse. prOclamations Of the President.
| The cargo was landed December 1868, and
| the SEIZURE OF the vessel was not made until
| the following June. During the int val the
! vessel made three or four Innocent voyages.
The turning point in the case was the ques-
| ton whether the vessel, made guilty by the
language of the admiralty law, by the viola
ton above mentioned, was purged by the in
nOceuce of the subsequent voyages, coupled
| with the delay of the Government in making
the seizure. The court held the forfeiture
| complete at the moment the cause of it arose,
| and this cause is the act violating the law.
| Sentence of condemnation was accordingly
pronounced.
The Richmond EzdmiHer of the 10th inst,
in an article on Southern railroad eonnec-
tons, endeavOrs TO show how Lees army may
| be supplied from North Carolina and Georgia
without the assistance of the Weldon road.
The Her0lds Paris correspondence states
that the two formidable naval rams, Spbyhr
and CheoJS built at Bordeaux some time ago,
have been fitted out in the N ost complete
manner for our Southern ebels, with the
heaviest class of guns and full crews, and I'M
der. the new names of lStoResoaH and Rapidan,
were to sail in the beginning of the month
from a little island off the coast of France for
this port. IL was believed they were of so
staunch a character that they would expert
ence no difficulty in passing all the batteries
in our harbor and coming right up to the city,
which il is reported to be designed by their
commanders to Law under heavy contribution
or to destroy. This scheme is said to have
been concocted and assisted in its proseeu-
ton under a secret treaty between the EN-
peror Napoleon and the JEFF. Davis govern
ment. -. z--cs o.
Richmond papers of the 9th contain severe
denunciations upon the course of jeff Davis
! in advising his Cabinet that they should not
. | resign in Difference to the expressed desire
of the rebel Congress, as they (the Cabinet1
are responsible only TO him, and not TO Con-
gress or the people. The papers demand
reform on the part of the Executive, claiming
: that although their armies were numerous
z and valiant enough to defy sublugation, and