Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-31

the system of free trade carried on by
irresponsible parties, and attributes all
the difficulties to the introduction of
eontraband articles, and the admission
of unprincipled men, The expedition
brought In young white girl fifteen,
years of age, named Amanda Fletcher,
captured in August last near Fort Hal
leck.
The Tribune's Paris correspondent OF
the I'd inst, writes of an important fact
not yet publicly made known in Paris.
Mr.. Stewards answer to Nj. Dronyn
De L'Huys dispatch of January 9Th,
has arrived Although the French gov
eminent has not yet announced an OH
cial opinion upon it by the cabinet of
the Tuelleries, it is very much pleased
with he contents. While reiterating
and reinforcing all that the United
States government has ever said upon
the Mexican question, he has happily
commanded language to describe the
position from which America will not
make up its mind to consider as not
incompatible with its own views. For
the moment, the undoubted impression
of the French ministry individually, Is
that MIR. Stewards latest communication
relieves them from load of anxiety,
and the relations of France and the
United States, in regard TO Mexico now
stand upon very good footing. 10.
Z. F. Drake, President of the Mime
sofa Valley Railroad, has discovered
that by an old law Minnesota Is entitl-
ed to 100000 acres of land from the
general Government for intCIn inn
provements. The law passed in ls4l,
granted this amount of land TO all
States hereinafter to be admitted. The
Commissioner of the Land Office re-
cognizes the validity of the claim.
The latest Mexican advices, per the
steamers Manhattan and Vera Cruz,
are 10 the 9Th inst, and show that
the promised Imperial pacitication OF
the country, is as far as ever from being
realized, and that the Republicans still
maintain the contest with the invaders
in nearly all sections, with stubbornness
and energy. Not the slightest indica-
ton of tie intention of the French to
withdraw is yet apparent. Several adj
ditional fights are reported.
Ex-Lieut. Marry, Maximilian's Min
lister of colonization had lett for Eng
land, and it was rumored he had been
thus disposed of TO avoid giving further
offense to the United States.
One of the Belgian ENJOYS sent over
to condole with the Empress Clothilde,
was shot and killed while en- route from
the Capitol to Vera Cruz, by guerrillas
who attacked the stage in which he was
riding. NJ. Saillard, Napoleon's En-
voy, had left on his return TO France.
The further progress of the royal
commission in their work of investiga-
ton III the Jamaica revolt Is reported in
the Herald's Kingston correspondence.
Abundant evidence, it Is said, las
already been produced to show that the
affair was not merely hidden and I'M
premeditated outbreak, but a deliber-
ately planned and organized rebellion,
with the ultimate design of numbering
and driving from the island, all the
whites. 7.;r
4 special says the resignation of Maj.
Gen. w. B. Franklin was accepted to
at from the 18th inst.
Little Bee," the chief of the Chip
pewas, died in Washington Saturday.
= Gen. Burnside was nominated by
reclamation, on the Goth, by the Union
Convention, for Governor of Rhode
Island.
A Washington dispatch says the gov
eminent does not seem to be apprehen-
sive that the Fenians will attempt an
invasion of the British provinces, nor
is the British Minister seriously alarmed
on the subject. Nothing is known as
yet to justify the belief that Fenians
have yet gone beyond holding meetings,
making collections of money in aid OF
the cause. Certainly nothing has yet
been done of belligerent character to
authoTizesthe government to interfere.
There is continued activity in Fenian
circles in New York. The funds and
arms are still flowing In. 1t is reported
that O'Mahoney has, within a few days,
sent of an expedition of 5000 men to
some point unknown to the public. The
total force under Sweeney up to this
date is given at %, 900 men.
The u s. consul at Tobasco, Mexico,
reports to the Department of State,
Jan. 80, that the portion of tue bellig-
erents in that section was unchanged.
The consul has been informed that hos
tilities have been waSed along the
southern borders of the State of Vera
Cruz, since the issue of Emperor Maxi
mllian's proclamation, which has led to
massacre OF those who were so unfor-
tunate as to be taken prisoners of war
by either of the contending parties.
The consul informs the Department
that in the late explorations he has dis
covered the ruins of two ancient cities
which have remained unnoticed and un-
koown since the days of the conquest.
The Chicago Journal has the follow
ing extract from private letter from
an officer in the army, dated New Or
leans, March 18th:
Official news that the cholera has
broken out at Key West, has reached
us. Assistant Surgeon Taylor and six
teen men are down with it. A strict
quarantine is established below New
Orleans, aud vessels from Havana and
Key West me subjected to 81 days
quarantine"
DIR. William Schmorle, an eminent
physician of Chicago, is prepared to
prove that the rinderpest is caused by
aparasite growing in the skin, and will
be checked by washing the animals with
solution of corrosive sublimate.
Late Mexican advices say that the
papers are filed with accounts of the
murder of the Belgian envoy, Gen.
Foury and Capt. ID. Huart. The funer-
al obsequies were celebrated in the city
of Mexico with great pomp, ON the 9TH,
Macmillan and Carlotta attending. e.
There is an account of the defeat of
the Juarists under Ponfrou. Diaz.