Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


MISCELLANEOUS.
3 Kansas is excited with reports of In
dian outraees ON her western border. The
Governor of the State calls for help.
lPhe-impressionie gains ground Mt Fort
ress Monroe that Jefferson Davis will be re-
leased on conditional parole, on playground OF
his continued ill-health. Isl
According to a circular just issued by
the Paymaster General, The paw of officers and
soldiers is not effected by the Presidents
Peace Proclamation. e.
A celebration will be held at Des
Moines, Iowa, to-day, in honor OF the arrival
of the first passenger train on the Valley hall
road. -st-Hs
A dispatch from Mt. Washington,
dated last Friday, SAVE: Snow Is falling
fast, and the visitors are engaged In snow
balling.
In the race on the Hamtramck truck,
Detroit on the 2Sth, between Grey Eagle
and ''Lady Ellis" for n purse OF i've hundred
dollars, the first named horse was the winner.
The Canadian troops have all retired
from the frontier, as tho Provincial authorl-
ties have received information that no fenlan
movement is contemplated before February.
g The Chicago Board of Trade has APP
propriated $500 towards defraying the ex-
penses of the survey of the ship canal from
LaSalle to the Mississippi river.
The Medical Department of the army
has furnished to soldiers up to May llth,
1866, the following artificial limbs: Arms,
2.1Si; legs, 1874; hands, IA; feet, .; apparatus,
10i-at a cost OF 1865 2S.
The Emperor's Maximilian's Euro
pean dispatch ON Tuesday, for the Atlantic
cable, to his wife in France. cost fifteen thou
sand three hundred aud siXty-tOur dollars IN
Nva hundred
cypher. 80
The Commissioners of Customs has
received information of the capture of slOop
ON Lake Ontario, near Big LOdus Bay, con-
tanning 81 500 worth of cOntrabaEd goods
The goods were cOnhscated and the sloop' q
crew imprisoned.
The total number of night, Sabbath
and private schools under the jurisdiction Of
the FFeedmen's Bureau Is y75; number OF
teachers employed, l,105; number of pupils,
20 900. or these Virginia has 1913 schools, 200
teachers, and II 7S4 pupils. ~ ~ .
The whole debt of the State of Vir-
ginia, including interest mp TO the LIST of last
July, was So, 3I2, 297. OF the coupon debt OF
Virginia, there Is payable, or held in New
York, $40 100000, and IN London, 81 ,S65, 600,
the interest upon which, since July, 1861, Is
still due.
The Huron and Ontario Ship Canal
i
Hon. Donald Mcdonald and Adam Crooks,
Esq have joined the direction Hon. VIM
Csyiey accepts the position Secretary, and
it is said that the work will be put under con-
tract.
The recent order of the Secretary of
the Treasury to the Second Auditor, directing
the suspension of the payment of bOunties TO
colored soldiers, is cooperate only until rules
are prepared by the CommissioneT of the War
Department tor the payment of these and all
| other bOnritles.
-TIieSeeond Controller has decided
that an officer whose discharge il dated pI1Or
to April 9th, 1864, but not received until after
that time. is not entitled TO the three months
paw proper. granted 10y the Act of Congress
approved March 81, 1865.
The Tribune's New York special from
LeavenWorth saws information has been re-
ceive,i that over 800 Indians are at the forks
of the TOlOma, on the war path. They have
driven all the settlers back, and scalped seven
whites.
A prize fight occurred at Morris
Grove near Jamaica, long Island, Sunday,
between Teddy McAulif1e and Billy Kelley for
5000. fifiy-iye rounds were fought, lasting
an hour and half. Both parties were Sc
Yerely punished. The affair ended with a
fight between the seconds and the main fight
was declared a draw by the referee.
A Leavenworth special reports addi-
tiOnal murders by the Indians between Forts
Reno and Laramie. fearful Indian war is
predicted. Mrs. Darlington, wife OF the
Colonel commanding, is reported among the
murdered. 1t is also reported the Blackfset
and Crows on the Upper Missouri have COM
menced hOstilities. The Crows are said to
have torn their treaty to pieces and murdered
ten men. --
The Commissioner OF Pensions hao-
has given notice that claimants for an increase
of pension nnaerthe law granting to widows
two dollars per month additional for each
child nnder sixteen years of age, will be re-
qnIred TO prove the dates OF birth OF such
children, in the manner required in the case
of an application in behalf of minor children,
as prescribed in the pension forms and in
structiODs. -
The letter from Gen. Howard. chief
of the Freedmen's bureau, to the SECRETARY of
War. recommending the cessation OF ratlons
except to hospitals, after October list, Is pub
Iished. The reasons he gives are that charges
are made that the freedmen are FED In idle
ness: that the statements made by Gems.
Steedman and Fullerton, imply that they con-
Time their ideness in expectation OF ratons
and that the crops are sufficiently matured 10
prevent starvation.
A telegram from Leavenworth, Kan
sss, reports severe fighting with the Indians
near Fort Reno, in which the red skins are
said to have succeeded in killing several OF the
soldiers sent against them. and IN driving OH
a large number of Government mules. Ii ls
also stated that the Indians have returned to
the vicinity of Fort Garland, New Mexico, and
are now engaged in an indiscriminate massa-
ere of all the Mexican inhabitants they can
find. -.-t (, -ssr .-g u.......
The prospects of the cotton crops in
all parts Of the state are gloomy on account
of the continued drought. In Southwest
Georgia where tue yield formerly was one
bale To two acres not more than one bale to
ten acres will be realized from the present
crop. This is equally true of other sections.
Accounts from Florida represent the late
daught as followed by heavy rains, which
have seriously injured the cotton The cot
ton crops in Mississippi and Alabama are rep
10 be very bad ON account of the
drought and ravages of the boil worm.