Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-13
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Lieutenant Gushing, the well-known naval
hero, had narrow escape from being drown
ed last week.
Though he labored for more than year to
capture Richmond, General Grant has never
entered the city.
NJ. Il. q. 0llendorf, the author of many
well-known grammars of modern languages,
has just died in Paris.
The United States Government has now in
its arsenals at least S00,000 guns which are
entirely new, never having been put in the
service.
The annual yield of oil from the wells in
West Virginia, is estimated at Sl,3l4, 900,
and from the wells in Southern Ohio at 81
100000.
Among the incidents of the Federal occu-
patton of Petersburg, was the application of
Roger A Pryor to Maj. Gen. Warren for an
order upon the Commissary for rations.
1t is said that when President johnson sub
mitted Sherman's memorandum agreement to
the Cabinet, he said: d" Gentlemen, this prOpo-
Sition Is not debatable, and only submit it to
ask you how it is to be set aside"
1t is stated that the Earl of Lovelace, wild
over of the only daughter of Lord Byron, is
about to be married to a widow lady named
Jenkyns, residing in Worcestershire.
Mr.. Knapp, of 0nondaga, has a cow he has
refused $500 for. From her milk during the
ten months ending March l, 1865, 633 pounds
of butter were made-an average of fourteen
and half pounds per week.
It is said that Mr.. Seward, has remarked
since the tragedy "This is only history re-
peating itself-all great revolutions have their
azaaSaina as we'll A. their heroac
1t is fact. that electricity travels SO rap
idly that it may be sent through gunpowder
without igniting it, and it is only when the
current is retarded that an explosion takes
place. The progress of electricity is swifter
than that of light, being about two hundred
miles a second.
The Massachusetts, Senate has passed to
third reading the bill permitting all criminals
under indictment to give testimony in court
upon their own cases, the same as other wit
nesses provided, however, in all cases, that
the defendants shall demand this privilege or
not, as they please.
The Philadelphia Press says that since the
commencement of the publication of the in.
come returns, there have been returned to
one collector alone an addition of $3.50, 900
of incomes.
Gen. Butler, in recent address in New
York city, discussed at considerable length
the essentials of reconstruction. In his view
they are four: No more slavery Constitu-
tional Acknowledgements by each State that
there can be no right of secession under our
Government; Reputation of the war debt
OF the rebels; and the complete disfranchise-
ment of all who have held civil or military
offices under the so-called Confederate gov
eminent.
We learn that only two days before Presi-
dent Lincoln was assassinated, he indicated
to Mr.. Stanton to have both Jacob Thompson
and Beverly Tucker leave the country, en-
barking at Portland, according to a request
they had made to the Secretary of War.
After the assassination, however, a contrary
order was at once issued, it having been as
certained that both these traitors, sojourning
in Canada, were implicated in the plot which
resulted in Mr.. Lincoln's death.