Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-19
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ted as the Republican candidate for unisd
States Senator from Connecticut.
The cattle plague is said TO exist IN
the District of Columbia, and that some I'VE /
hundred COWS have died with it.
Gen. Sickles reports affairs gradually |
imnrovino in South Carolina. The labor ques-
ton is settled, and lawlessness IS quelled.
The telegraph announces the cesslon
Of a large portion of Lower California to |
party of New York capitalists. h'-s aDoF
The Winona Republican says that |
the Union Packet Company has raised their |
rates of transportation, two cents per pushe'
on wheat and five cents per barrel on hour.
The Commissioner of Indian Atfalrs
* to hold a council with the Indians OF the
Plains at Fort Laramie. lie IS sald that ~
600 Indians will attend. The object rs TO make
a treaty with them,F OTTO BGEFzF
A National Tobacco Fair viii be held
at Louisville, Ky, on the 2Sth and 18th OF TINS
month"; The following states, besides others
will be represented: Virgins, Pennsylvanla,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, tennessee
Tuesday, the Sth inst, was great
day among religious societies in New, YORK
The American Sunday School Union, the
American Missionary Society, the Boston
Tract Society and the Universalist Society al
held their anniversaries on that day. t..
1t is said that jeff. Davis expresses
the opinion that he will not live through the
summer unless he Is released from lmprls0n-
ment. His victims at AndeTsonvile doubtless
entertained similar views OF their own fate,
and with much better reason, but. yett gave
himself no concern about their apprehensions.
The st. Paul Press of a recent date
saws that the steamer Itasca had arrived
there with five hundred pas engers; the boat
left Dubuque with seven hundred passengers.
The largest portion ofthese were emlgrants
from Indiana, Kentucky and other states who
intend settling in Minnesota.
The Northern Central Railroad Com
pany. of Pennsylvania, have narrowed the
guage OF the road from Elmira to Canandai-
Gua which they lately purchased, and now
have a uniform guago from Washington to the
New York Central line, and wall run trains on
and after Monday. the 9TH instant.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis was permitted
to have an interview with her husband IN
the presence of one OF the officers OF the
garrison, ON the Sd. Her baggage has been
moved into the tort, and she makes her home
with DIR. Cooper, post surgeon. She mas Sc
cured the services of of Messrs. CConner and
GEORGE Shea. of New York, in whose hands
the case of her husband lies. . v-
The Savannah Daily News 81 Herald
of the Sd says that the trial OF JamesW Dun
| can for alleged cruelty to Federal prisoners at
Andersonville, has been brought to close,
and the commission is determined upon md
| ing sentence, but it viii not be made public
until passed upon him by the department
commander. sft-# = 81. q
The Inspector General of the Freed
| mems Bureau, at Virginia, has just completed
an inyesti alton of the conditions of the Freed
| men in that state, and makes rathtr favor
| able report. The schools are well attended;
the prejudice against the negro is wearing
away the demand for labor exceed the sup
4 Al, -.Ffl, faala firnar
| erage about twelve dollars per month, includ-
| ing food, quarters and medical attendance.
The Detroit Advertiser of the 9TH
says: ga gentleman who, within the past
/ week or two, has Travelled extensively over
this state tMichigan), andhas passed through
| several counties with horse and buggy,
| gives il as his opinion that the wheat crop
this season will be fully mp to the average.
In certain localities for instance, the southern
| half of Cass county, the northern part Of
Washtenaw and in various isolated sections
Intervening, the wheat as badly winter-kIlled,
7, Dut everywhere where there has been much
] rain the prospects have immensely improved
within fortnight past. to .-
A dispatch from Canada; states that
the organs of the Government assert that the
| Fenian expedition ON tie frontier of Maine
| was the result of an arrangement between
McGee, Minister of Agriculture, and Killan--
| gotten up for the purpose of frightening New
ton scheme. Prominent politicians state that
| killian has all along been working in concert
| with McGee and the Canadian Government,
and that his reward is to be life appoint
ment i'll the civil service of the new Colonial
Confederate Government.
CONGRESSIONAL.
THURsDAY-Senate- Bills were passed
topaz Jno Ericsson $13 $50 for service in plan
| ming the war ste amer Princeton. and to reim-
| ats pf Nest VIRGINIA the 'gy-
penses in calling ont and eqnipping troop 3.
The amount called .Or Is S3US, 010. :,
Considerable debate was had ON the bill to
4 regulate commercial and postal -eommunica-
ton Between the states, but no important
| action was had on 1t. .- h .et4a-A Fa
In the House bill was passed amending
| the act of May Goth, 1864, providing a tempo
| rary government for Montana, and the Senate
bill, enlarging the boundaries Of the State If
Nevada, by including part of Utah and Ari-
4 IONA
The bill to admit Colorado to the Union was
| passed, by vote of 50 yeas To 80 nays. +.
A bill was passed to amend the organic act
OF Nas hingtOn Territory. ~
4 A Joint resolution to facilitate communica-
tions with certain territories was passed.
FRIDAY-The Senate did not trans
| act any business of general Importance.
In the House, Paine, of Wisconsin, offered
/ a resolution, in effect declaring that ali men
| who have served hOnOrably in the army for a
period of over two years, shall be eligible to
| appointment to the West Point Military Acad-
/ envy If they are under "a years of age. Those
who can show proofs of faithful and merito-
/ rious service TOR a period OF less than two
| years are 10 be eligible to the above until %
years of age. " .h.i-.A -@'
| Bills were passed, appropriating to Charles
| Brewer q Co., of Boston, 35S, 900 for he pas
sage from Ascension Island to Honolulu, of
| American seamen, whose vessels were
destroyed by the pirate Shenandoah; to
authorize the Issue Of military land warran
Ito Frederick Berlin, assignee of the heirs of
| Peter Hess, deceased; to create the Office of
surveyor. general of Idaho territory; to quiet
| the title to certain lands within the corporate
limits of the city of Beneicea, California. o.
| A joint resolution was passed for the relief.
| Of Ambrose E Goodrich and Matthew Cornish
p The bill reviying the grade of General in
the army, was passed with only eleven dis
senting voices.
SATURDAY was spent, in the House, IN
experimenting upon the question of recon-
sIruetion. ~ 1e.,af grfs l-Ge tE
MoNDAY--In the House bill was pass
ed, fixing the time and place for holding the
United States Circuit for Virginia. 1t fixes
the first Monday in November of each year
d the time, and Richmond as the place, and
authorizes the adjournment of the session.
now authorized, from Norfolk to Richmond.
A iOfnt resolution was passed., exempting
crude petroleum from tax or duty. efI
The remainder of the session was taken up
ina discussion of the bill revising the internal
In the Senate, the vote by which Trum-
bulls amendment to the Post-Ohice appropri-
alton bull was passed was reconeidered, by a
vote OF II yeas to Is nays. 4
TUEsDAY-In the Senate, the 9Th,
the House JOINT resolution relative to the at
farfaF faA ain NJ a mn