Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-25
TELEGRAPHIC SEMINARY

lit is announced that our government
will sufferno armed parties to pass from
the United States into Mexico, and will
permit no arms or munitions of war to
be sent to either the Imperialists or Lib
erals.
Gen. SickIes is to succeed Gen. Gill
more in cainmand of the department OF
South Carolina.
Details of the fatal accident to W. p.
johnson, brother of the President, show
that he was accidentally shot while Ne,
moving a gun from "a small boat In
which he crossed the BrazOs river, on
the oath of October. The ballishatter
ed his arm, and, amputation being de-
ferred too long, he died after lingering
three or four weeks. He leaves wife
and three children.
Since the first of July last the inter
nal revenue receipts have been Sl5I,-
600. 800. tE
The people of one of the parishes OF
Louisiana met in convention recently,
and passed resolution declaring the
re-establishment of slavery.
A rebel general was informed by the
President Monday that it was not his
present intention to pardon any more
rebel leaders, either civil or military.
Frank Blair has been superseded by
Col. Dubois as chief of cavalry in the de-
partment of the Missouri.
The United States treasurer, in his
statement for October, places the total
amount en- deposit at nearly S100,OO0.-
600; S34, 754, 600 being in coin; and the
at nearly $50, 100000. ~
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day, two miles southwest of London,
Canada West.
The citizens of Tullahoma, Tennessee,
having refused to obey the order of
Gen. Thomas, requiring them To re-
build freedmen's schOOlhOuse which
they had burned, the general has sent a
military force to that point to secure
enforcement of the order.
The guard at Mr.. Lincoln's tomb,
at Oak Ridge cemetery, has been with
drawn.
In the District of Columbia, during
the war, the white population furnished
1.75O soldiers. nearly all by drafting,
and the black population over 4,5OO,
nearly all by volunteering. The num-
Der Of whites in the District is about
four times that of the blacks.
The personal property of Henry A.
Wise has been cOnfiscated.
The Hon. Preston King, collector of
the port of New York, Is supposed to
have committed suicide, on Mondav,
by jumping from Hoboken ferry boat.
He had been for some time laboring IN
der great depression of mind, caused by
difficulties arising from his official po-
sition, and is thought to have been suf-
fering from mental ALTERATION at the
time of the commission of the fatal
deed. Preston King was born at Og-
densbuTgh, St. Lawrence county, New
York, Oct 18th, 1896. He graduated
at Union College. and studied the pro-
fession of law. He was for several years
a member of the New York Legislature;
was representative in Congress from
1S43 TO 1S47, and from 1S49 to 1853, af-
ter which ne was elected to the United
States Senate. In 1864 he was a dele
gate to the Union national convention,
at Baltimore; and in September lat was
appointed collector of customs at New
York.
1t appears that Mr. Preston King,
on Monday morning purchased a %
pound bag of shot, which he took away
from the store with him; and If Is sup
posed that he placed this in his clothing
before he jumped overheard.
General John A. Logan, having de-
clined the mission to Japan, has been
appointed Minister to the republic OF
Mexico; and Cox William A. Browning,
of Tennessee, private secretary of the
President, has been appointed secretary
of legation. Col. Robert Johnson, son
of the President, succeeds to the posi-
ton held by Col Browning.
Marshal Bazaine, for fear of a col
lision between American and French
soldiers, has ordered his officers not to
let any detachment of French troops
approach the Rio Grande.
Orders have been received at the
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, navy
ward, to fit out for sea, immediately, the
iron. clad Passaconway, and the steam
ers Minnesota, Mauritania, and Galena.
DIR. Tyng's church, in New York, was
burned yesterday. Loss 100000, in
sured for $4,000.
The rebel general Duff Green died at
Mobile on the 10th instant. L. j.
Withers, of the supreme court of South
Carolina, died on the Sth. Mrs. Ma
rianna West died at Des Moines on the
18th. she was one of the oldest resi-
dents of Iowa, and was, it is said, re-
lated to Stephen Girard, Rembrandt
Peale, and Fenimore Cooper. Wash
ington L. Lane, editor of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, died Tuesday morning.
There was sleighing in Montreal on
Thursday of last week.
General Baker, of the government
detective force, asC ertaining that wo-
man named Mrs. Cobb, was procuring
pardons for rebels for Pecuniary cOnsid-
erations, sent detective TO her under
an assumed name, who, on the payment
of 5000, received a pardon within thirty
six hours, without having taken an oath.
Tie woman was then arrested and taken
to the military headquarters at Wash
ington, and, after making certain dis
closures, was released. She subsequent
ly went before the grand jury, and pro-
cured four bills of Indictment against
Baker for larceny and false imprison-
ment. The president has forbidden
her future admission to the White
House.
At Tuesdays session of the Indi-
ana Legislature, Governor Morton de-
iyered his message He gives the debt
of the State at S7,41S. 960,50 He favors
leaving the question of suffrage in the
hands of the States, and advocates rep
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