Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-03-12
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year on the 7th of February last.
- The Minnesota Legislature adjourn
cd last Friday.
"A bill has passed the Legislature
requiring druggists to register the names
of persons purchasing poison.
- Military restrictions on trade be-
tween northern ports and Nashville have
been removed.
- decline of ten cents per POUND
in raw cotton depreciates the value of
the stock, now in Liverpool, twenty-five
millions of dollars.
- Hon. Edwin Flint, of La Crosse,
has been nominated for Judge of the 9th
Judicial Circuit.
= The Lindell Hotel, in st. Louis,
one of the largest IN the world, is to be
completed by next November. 1t has
cost over half million of dollars.
- The whole cost of the Capitol ex-
tensions at Washington, thus far, has
been about So 100000. Just for taking
Photographic views, sIl,754 have been
expended.
= A joint resolution was offered III
the Senate, on the 28th ult., by Mr..
Wilson, of Massachusetts, which propos-
es, in effect, to pay loyal persons in Ma
ryland and Delaware an amount equal to
$3.50 for each person discharged and
freed from service or labor, in case those
States will free all persons of African
descent held to service within their
boundaries.
= Cotton to the value of one hundred
thousand dollars has fallen; Unto the hands
of the Union forces at Nashville. The
Treasury Department has made arrange
ments for having it sent to New York
city.
1t is now confidently believed that
in less than six weeks, says Forney's
Press, our troops will have full posses
sion of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Georgia.
- John Thompson. the Reporter of
Bank n otes, has been sued for libel upon
the Shoe and Leather Bank of New
Y ork, for saying that it was unsafe be-
cause the signatures to its bills were
printed and not written. The bank was
damaged in reputation and business, as
it thinks, some $4,000 worth.
- From official documents it appears
that the uniform of the rebel navy is the
same as ours, save color, which is steel
gray instead of blue but as most of
the officers were formerly in the national
navy, they retain their old clothes and
relative rank.
- The Chicago TriJune's special
Washington dispatches state that the pas
sage of the homestead bill by one hun
dred majority, is an achievement due to
the efforts of Messrs. Potter of Wiscon-
sin, and Aldrich and Window of Min
nessota.
- All the Democratic papers Of In
diana, with one or two exceptions, oppose
and denounce the expulsion of Sena-
tor Bright from the U. S. Senate. Some
of them propose to re-eiect him next
winter, to serve out his uuexpiled term
| in order to rebuko the act.
L. G.. Smith, who was injured on
the 22d ult. at Menomonie, Wis, has
since died.
= Among the first welcomes to the
news of the victory at Fort Doneison,
was the Ginning of the peal OF bells at
Christ Church, in Old Cambridge, Mas
sachusetts, on Monday evening, from the
same tower from which was rung the
first alarm of the march of the British
troops to Lexington, in 1892.
- Governor J ayne, in pursuance of a
provision of the organic act, has called
the first Legislature of Dakota Territory,
to meet at Yankton, on Monday, 18th
instant.
= Col. Murphy, of the Eighth Wis
consin, has been appointed Military In
spector of tho district OF Cairo.
- Gov. Gambie, of Missouri, is lying
very i'll at Philadelphia. He went to the
East several weeks ago, to have a surgi-
cal operation performed for the excision
of a cancer in the face. The operation
was performed. and since then be has
been confined to his bed from the effects
of his wound.
Tho Great Eastern is once more
nearly ready for sea, and WILL 1t Is re-
ported sail for New York some time IL
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