Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-15

The expenses of the Presidential tour,
40 far as transportation and Inequalities are
concerned, are betrayed by committees OF
citizens at different places voluntarily con-
tributed.
An Arizona paper of August 23d,
states that I50 Indians attacked a train OF ii
persons near Lapaz, and after fighting three
hours the ssvages retired, leaving % OF then
number dead.
The track on the st. Paul & Pacific
Railroad was completed TO st. Cloud, on Sat
urday, and on Monday through trains COM
meneed running. There is now direct rall-
road communication between st. Cloud and
WinOna.
Late advices from Valparaiso state
that news had been received at that point OF
the abandonment by Spain of the war against
the South American Republics. Ii was also
stated that the allied Powers were not content
T. let Spain of so easily, but had determined
{ make retaliatOry war against her commerce.
The cable of last year was fished up
by the Great Eastern on Sunday morning,
about seven hundred miles east of Heart s
Content: it was Immediately sphced, and the
cable lowered, and the Great Eastern Is now
paving ID out Everything is now going on
well. and they expect to reach Hearts Content
on Friday.
The New orleans Tribune of the Goth
mentions the death of Lieutenant Horace W.
smith. of Wisconsin, at POinte COupee, La,
on the odd ult., of fever. The deceased was
70 ,merly of the Thirty-seyenth Illinois Req,
ment, and lately OF the Ninety-secOnd United
States COIOred Infantry. Information IN re-
gard to his death, together with his effects
NAV he obtained by application to II. N. Fris-
bic, Post Office Box 22SS, New Orleans.
The following dispatch was received
Tuesday at New York, from the steamship
Great Eastern, and is believed to be the first
instance in which any message has been sent
from mid-Ocean to Europe and thence TO
America in the same day: We have l1st re-
ceiyed kilograms from London, saying that
there is a serious outbreak in Canada. Please
advise me accurately by cable wa Hearts
Content and Valentia in regard to the same.
We expect to arrive at Hearts Content on Sat
urday next. All going on well.-CYRUs W.
FIELD.
The State Department has concluded
a bargain with the trustees of the Washing
ipgtO1 CITY Orphan Asylum for the occupation
of the asylum building on Fourteenth street,
at as. 600 per annum for two years. with the
privilege Of four. 1t Is not expected that the
old State building will be fully vacated bt fore
the fist of November, when the work OF
demolition will be at once commenced, prepar-
atnry to the erection on the site the next wing
of the Treasury building.
A nephew of the rebel Gen. Wise's
arrived at Fortress Monroe, Saturday morning
from Richmond with an order from Mai. Gen.
SchofieId, commanding that department, au-
thnrizing him to recover all the property that
could be found in the department belonging
to Wise, and now being used by the officers OF
the government. Quite a large amount OF
furniture and other household goods are
found hereabOuts, and their pOssesOrs dis
possessed of them in 4 rather unceremoniOus
manner The goods were stored here, pre-
paratory to being turned over to the ex-Gov-
eTnOr.