Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-23

The First National Bank on the
Pacific Coast has been authorized for
Portland, Oregon.
Several discharged soldiers have
been appointed to clerkships in the
Treasury Department.
The famous Thames tunnel has
been sold for million of dollars to a
railroad. company.
"A house is still standing in Ports
mouth, N. H., the lightning rods of
which were put up under the superln-
tendence of DIR. Benjamin Franklin in
1862. f.AsA bAs ~
The Connecticut River is so low
that it was forded by team at Hartford
on Sunday circumstance which has
not occurred before in the memory OF
the oldest inhabitant.
"A policeman in Buffalo has been
fined five dollars and costs for compel
ling man in ii horse car to give up his
seat to lady.
The crane crop in the vicinity OF
Cincinnati is reported to be very nearly
failure. The vines are generally
widowed.
The rush at the Pithole post Office,
in the oil country, is so great that an
advanced position in the line sells for
two dollars.
The Papal army is TO be increased
from 5000 to 5000 men. Recruits
will be sought in Switzerland as well as
in the Papal States -
L i = p 81
in 1860 there was produced in LII.
nois SO, S37, OBS bushels of wheat; IN
Indiana 16,S4S, 257; in Wisconsin 49,
557, 45S; in Ohio 10, 49, 47. ~
Daniel s. Dickinson has entirely
recovered from his recent severe illness
and resumed his official duties as dis
trict attorney.
| Gen. King, commanding at Angus
ia, Georgia, has issued an order declar'
ing all contracts, where the agreement
was to pay in gold, void.
Beware of counterfeit long fifty
cent notes of the new pattern. They
are poorly executed.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle
saws that the town of Winchester. in
that State, was occupied by theUnion and
confederate forces, successfully, seven
ty six times.
The Emperor Napoleon and hiswife
have been taking tour through Swift
zerland. They have visited his old
home at the chateau of Arenenberg. and
passed the odd ultimo at Lucerne, on
their way to France.
The first contract to a cOlored man
for carrying the mails has just been
awarded. Strangely enough, his route
lies in Virginia The appointee's name
is Robert Orrick.
The total value of imports at Bos
ton since January 1, is $15, $50, 251, an
average of $40, 007 per week. The to-
tai value of exports from Boston for the
week ending 25th ult., was 1867, $685.
against 5000, 239 for the corresponding
week last year. The total value of i'm.
ports during the same time was $443,
7S5, against 1852, 593.
Tho yield of our domestic tobacco
crops will be unprece dented this veal
in the history of that weed in New Eng
land. One farmer in Connecticut has
eleven acres planted with the weed, and
others in proportion. The plants are
healthy and free from worms, and job
bers are running over the State buying
the weed IN the stalk.
AT Ottawa, G. w. one day last
week, the body of murdered infant
was discovered in the water by some
| little boys who were fishing. A young
woman named Allen was suspected OF
the crime, and upon going to her pre-
misses, another murdered infant was
found concealed under the floor of the
vault. The woman was doubtless the
mother of both babes. She is now in
custody.
The Hon, Samuel Hooper, M. c..
of Boston, one of the wealthiest and best
men in Massachusetts,, has Just given
5000 to Harvard university, to found
a school of mining and practical geolo-
gy. 1t is to be opened on the first Mon
day of October Mr.. Hooper has pro-
posed Josiah ID. Whitney, of Califor-
MIA, Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, formerly oi
New York, and Professor Eustis, OF
Cambridge, as professors.
"A Boston Correspondent of the
Scientific american tells how to draw
corks from bottles without injury to
the cork, and without the aid ofany in.
strament. He says Grasp the bottle
in the hand and strike it squarely upon
any firm place, right side up, with such
force as it will bear without breaking
A few blows will exact any ordinary
cork, whether, the bottle be full or only
partly SO.
Thomas M. Key, who has been NOM
mated by the democrats of Ohio, for
the supreme court, was formerly Major
Key, of McClellan's staff, who, it will
be remembered, was ANONYMOUSLY dis
missed the service by President Lincoln,
for asserting, after the battle of Antie-
tam, that it was not the policy of the
government to suppress the rebellion,
but to allow it to continue until the
people would be compelled to acknowl-
edge the necessity of its terminating by
compromise. He is fit representative
of the Vallandigham democrats Of Ohio.
when the Great Eastern steamed
from Valentia upon the important bust
ness of laying the Atlantic cable, she
carried a supply OF vituals so various,
so large, and so choice, as to provoke
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