Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-06-10
General News.

The population Oh RarlS TINS year
lis >, 667, S41. souls. exclusive of a gari-
son Of %, 400 men. yssg7 - q
Gen Butler has declined to crate at
Falls River, Mass, on the Fourth of Jul
ly, because of other engagements.
Den. Scott was walking about the
streets of New York on Wednesday, Ia
civilians dress, and in good health and
spirits.
AS Washington is the Father of his
Country, so will JEFF. Davis be known
henceforth as the Mother of the South.
The Empress Eugenie is thirty-nine
years old Yet she is very pretty, as
Smuggins says, '.just ripe enough to be
mellow.
Home, the medium, has gone to
England, it is said, to marry "a Scotch
lady. Raps and Rappee viii be matched.
George Peabody, the London banker,
is about to return TO his native country,
to spend the evening of his days and
sleep with his fathers.
John Ct. James, who died recently at
Doylestown, PENNSYLVANIA, has left all his
property, valued at $50, 900, to the Sun
day School Union.
- Some rascals down east have been
collecting funds for the Lincoln monu-
ment, and pocketing them.
Monroe, Michigan, contains eighty
two manageable girls, and only three
unmarried men. Unfortunate girlsl
Unfortunate men!
Two hundred and ffty-two persons
are annually killed in London in the
streets, and most of themwhile crossing
crowded thoroughfa' o.
"A correspondent writing from the
Mississippi valley, says that by reason
of his cotton operations, Kirby Smith
is undoubtedly the richest man in
America.
The Empress Eugene is said to
make charming Regent. Her de-
meanor in council is said to be quiet
and dignifed.
There is practically perfect relig
ious liberty in Paris. In 1880 there
were only three Protestant places of
worship. Now there are thirty-five.
Gen. Beauregard, of whom we bavo
heard very little for the past two
months. was in New Orleans on the 221,
and registered his name ut Gen. Banks
headquarters as paroled officer.
Over one hundred repentant rebels
day are reporting themselves at the
Provost Marshal Office in st. Louis, to
take the oath and get permission to go
home.
George H. Bissell, of New York,
has offered to build, for Dartmouth
College, first-class gymnasium, at a
cost of some SIS, 900. The work is to
be commenced as soon as the necessary
preparation can be made. Mr.. Bissen
is graduate of Dartmouth, of the class
of 1916. 3
Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia,
Speaker of the Rebel House, the 'fOr-
tunste" individual, upon whom, in the
absence of Davis and Stephens, devolves
the Presidency OF the Southern Confede-
racy, IL any of it Is left, has not yet re-
ported, and probably viii not.
"A returned soldier purchased pair
of boots in Buffalo. and left his old ones
A while after, he called for them, when
they were brought TO him, lie ripped
open the lining and took from beneath
81, $50 in greenbacks, IN denominations
of $50 and $500, which he had placed
there and forgotten.
A portrait of Mr.. Lincoln by Leutze
is on exhibition in New York. Itrepre-
sents the PRESIDENT in the act of deliv-
ering an address, while group of sol
diers and ladies forms the background.
1t is considered one of the best pictures
of the great man ever painted.
"A CONSERVATIVE" made speech at
Frankfort, KY, on Saturday last, in
which he stated that the Constitutional
amendment would never be ratified by
Kentucky. About a. hundred negroes
immediately secured their freedom by
enlistin8 in the army. ,.,
The Presbyterian General Assembly
now in session in Brooklyn, decided, on
Tuesday, after a long and spirited dis
cussion, to place, for the present, in a
state of probation, ministers of the
chu :ch from the South who have sup
ported the rebellion. A resolution au-
thorizing the Assembly to send ten min
listers to East tennessee was adopted.
There are now seventy-four prison
ers confined in Castle Thunder, fifteen
of whom are negroes. The rest are sol
diers, principally deserters. A portion
of the prisoners are sentenced to the
chain-gang for thirty-six and ninety
days. These are furnished by Captain
O'Brien, the commander of the prison,
to Lieut.. Leahe, the Chief of Police,
whenever he needs their services for the
cleansing of the streets and alleys of the