Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-30
YeIegraphic Summary.

geographic summary.
On Saturday the work was COM
menced Of raising the wreck of the rebel
ram Merrimac.t IL is estimated that
the amount of copper in her exceeds
$50 tons.
Upon the Occupation of Chihuahua by
the impefialists, Juarez fed to FL Paso.
It is believed that be will be- followed
thither by his enemies, and that be viii
be compelled to seek safety ON the Am
ericsn side of the Rio Grande.
Jnarez personally contradicts the re-
port that he is about to leave Mexico.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad viii be
finished to Kansas City Tuesday, and
passenger trains will run through to
that point in the course of few days,
A Catholic priest at Louisiana, Mis-
sour. Was recently arrested, convicted
and fined, for preaching without having
taken the constitutional oath Of loyalty;
and, refusing TO pay the fine, has been
placed In Confinement The case will
probably go to the supreme court on
appeal. - .
4 delegation from Texas is in Wash
ington, urging the release Of JEFF. Davis.
The South Carolina convention has
repealed the ordinance of secession
there being three votes In the mega
tive.
In Pittsburg, on Friday last, $50, 600
was distracted from the safe of the pay
master of the Chicago & Fort Wayne
railroad. No clue has been discovered
as to the perpetrators of the robbery. :,
1t has been decided that land officers
cannot enter, in their own name, lands
for actual settlement under the home
stead law.
The trial of the rebel burners of
steamboats, commenced In st. Louis, be-
fore military commission, Tuesday.
The counsel for one of the defendants
gave notice that he sshonld summon,
among his witnesses, JEFF. Davis, the re-
bel secretaries Seldom and Mallory, and
Admirals Farragut and Porter. g
Champ Ferguson's trial, at Nashville,
was closed Tuesday, and the decision of
/ Che court has been forwarded to Gener-
al Stoneman. .-ar
The loss by the fire in New York on
Monday is much greater than was at
first reported, reaching some 81, 0O0,o
Among the property destroyed We're
5000 bales of cotton. 81
The internal revenue receipts from
July LIST 10 September 18th, 1866, were
$50, AS, S02.41.I 4t ~
A steam ram for the Brazilian navy
has arrived fiom France; aothers are
nearly completed at Rio Janeiro; and it
is reported that a commission has been
given for the construction In the United
States of iron-calds for Don Pedro.
In the Indian council at Fort Smith,
on Monday, the treaty was signed
by the rebel Creeks, Cherokees, Os-
ages. Comanches, Choctaws and Chick
asaws. 4 t.hs ~.
Burnley, the Lake Erie pirate, has es-
capped from prison at Port Clinton, Ohio;
and reward of 500 is offered for his
apprehension.
A man named George B. Beach was
shot Tuesday evening, in Chicago, by his
wife, at the door of the green-room in
Woods Museum. 1t appears that
there had been some disagreement be-
tween the two, In consequence of which
bill OF divorce was pending. She had
been Summoned to the city from Buffa-
10 In relation to the action, and, her
husband refusing to sign certain pa
pers, she followed him toward the
stage, and fred at him from behind.
He was conveyed to his home, and she
was taken into custody. IL cannot as
vet be aseertained whether the wound
is likely to result fatally or not.
The late rebel Gen. Pillow is In WASH
ington seeking pardon.
The State Rights Democracy of Iowa
have nominated DIR. G.. S. Bailey of
| Van Buren, county for Governor.
The total number of colored troops
enlisted in the army was 10000. OF
these, 90, 200 have died or been killed,
and 60, 900 of the remainder have been
ordered mustered ont.
The Fenians are negotiating for the
purchase of eight ocean steamers, and
it is stated that large quantities of arms
have been purchased Of the Govern
ment by parties in their interest.
The citizens of st. Paul are excited
over discoveries of gold and silver bear
ing quartz, in st. Louis county, Mimi.
Specimens assayed at the Philadelphia
mint show a proportion of S25. CD of
gold to the ton, and 81 42 of silver.
The Secretary of the Treasury has adj
dressed addressed letter to officers of
customs, allowing the shipment to the
Southern States of firearms and ammu-
milton for sporting, and blast powder
for mining purposes, the amounts to be
left at their own discretion. s
The corn crop in Central Illinois is
immense, and parties in that section are
anticipating as low price this winter
as fifteen cents per bushel, in view of
which many persons are purchasing
stock.
The notorious John r. Surratt, one
of the assassination conspirators, and
son of MIS-. Sgrratt who was executed,
was recently seen In Montreal where he
has been concealed. He is on the eve
of leaving for Scotland. 81
Private letters from the 18th Illinois
cavalry, of September 3D., announce the
arrival of Custar's Division at Hemp.
stead, Texas, ON the Texas central rail-
road, forty miles north of Houston,
where the command would remain three
weeks The division is composed of
the 9TH and 18th Illinois, 18th. Indiana,
I'd Wisconsin, and 1st Iowa, all cavalry,
in two brigades. 1T left Alexandria,,
La, August 18th, and performed the
march of nearly $50 miles in nineteen
days It was expected next to proceed
TO Austin. ] rs miles. stay several weeks.