Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


The total receipts from internal rev.
enue for the year, ending Saturday, the 3Oth
ult., amount to nearly 1906, 100000.
Negroes were excluded from partici-
pating IN the celebration Of the Fourth at San
Francisco.
The Pacific Railroad is completed to
the Dutch Fiat, 81 miles beyond Sacramento,
at an elevation of 3, 4l6 feet.
The oil well at McAIinnville, Tenn,
which yielded ]. 600 barrels of oil mixed with
water, stopped flowing last week.
Two hundred thousand dollars in gold
dust have arrived at st. Louis from Fort Ben
ton in the past three days.
Ethan Allen, the celebrated stallion,
died June 26, IN Reading. Pa. in consequence
of hurt received the day previous. lie was
the property Of Marks Benin, and was valued
at IS, 600.
The last pan of the railroad bridge
at Decatur, Alabama has been thrown across
and the track viii be laid Immediately. The
connections with the entire South are now
complete.
The Assistant Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau IN Alabama, reports to
Gen. Howard, that d, coo ratiOns will be re-
uuired TO meet the wants of destitute whites
and blacks doing duty.
The German ladies of Nashville have
received from Leipsic, Germany. a flag cost
ing six hundred dollars. 40 a present to the
TnTnyerien Society there. 1t IA pronounced
the most beautiful flag in the United States,
owned by any similar society.
J. Fl. Wade, Esq, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, is under
stood to be President Of the new COnsol dated
Telegraph Company, which has capital ofS50 =
U00, sue and viii control $1,000 miles OF wire.
Complete official returns from the
Oregon election give the following Union ma
iorities Mallroy, tor Congress, $50; Wood, for
Governor, go. The rest OF the state tick
ct receives still larger msjOrity. The Leg
islatuFe stands: Senate, Union ma jority /;
House, Union majority.
A general order has been issued by
General Seymour, commanding at Pensacola,
establishing. virtually martial law over five
counties of Florida, IN consequence as it al
leges Os the civil authorities having failed to
prevent crimes being committed upon persons
of loyal citizens and soldiers.
Ii is now understood in Paris that the
Emperor intends gradually to pull down the
whole Palace of the TuileTies and rebuild it
with magnihcence IN accordance with the
massive and ornate paviliOnS of the New Lou
yre. The project will no doubt involve an
immense outlay.
A movement is in progress In France
to secure the abolition of the punishment of
death. The question, which viii shortly come
ND for consideration IN the French Senate, Is
awakening great interest, and several leading
senators are expected to speak III favor of tho
abolition.
Gen. Robinson, Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau and Military Commander
in North Carolina, reports bad state of at
fairs existing in that State. Sub Commission
ers throughout the State are continually ask
ing for troops to protect them, but he cannot
grant them on account of the small force at
his disposal.
Commissioners have examined an adj
ditiOnal twenty miles of tho Union Pacific
Railroad. One hundred and twenty-five miles
are now i'm running order. Regular passenger
trains carving the daily overland mail COM
menced running TO Columbus tho frat day OF
July. At Columbus, the daily line of OI erland
stages connect with the railroad.
A Galveston, Texas, dispatch, says
that on the night of the 2nJ the Regulators |
succeeded in capturing the three guerrillas |
who fired into them that day. All three were |
instantly strung up without trIai' and alter |
hanging twenty minutes were riddled with |
bullets and left suspended. The same fate |
awaits other members of the band in case they /
are caught.
The commencement exercises of |
Princeton College, New Jersey, were continued /
ON Monday when OratiCns were delivered by /
the ReVs. Noah Schenck and Joseph H. Dr1-
YEA. This c0ue2b Is one nilButGu dlt uihc- II
teen wears old, and Aaron Burr was its first /
President. The battle ofPrineton during the /
Revolution, was fought principally throughthe /
college grounds. Two pieces ofcanon used m /
the action are 10 DO seen IN the campus, and a i
pOrtrsit of Washington, presented by the pat
riot himself, still hangs IN the library.
A skirmish is reported between a
small party of French and United States sol
liers on the Rio Grande. The French COM
meDced the disturbance by making insulting Il
ssestures al our men, who instantly fired into
them. The fire wGs returned, and continued /
Tor about twenty minutes, when officers of
both sides arrived and stopped the shooting.
Our side lost ten titled and three wounded,
and five French were seen to fall. 1ho extent /
of their injuries is unknown. Among our
wounded was Capt. Mcknight, who received
baU in the arm while quoting his men,
Much indignation is felt among our soldiers, /
and more disturbanceis feared
The will of the late Gen. Cass was
fled at the Probate Office in Detroit on Satur-
law II contains no charitable requests, and
univ leaves special legacies, amounting, IN
me aggregate, to Sl5,600, to the following
persons: Vim. FOxen, Geo. :. Frost, John T..
Hunt has. G. Fitzpatrick and Marcella Bigh.
The rest of the estate is divided equally De-
tween his four children, Lewis Cass, Dr., who
is appointed sole executor, Mrs. Canneld,
Mrs. Iedyard and baroness Won Llmburgs
save that Mrs. Garfield receives SIC, 600 more
than the others This lady has been Mr..
Csss' constant attendant for some years, ne
having lived with her since his retirement !
rom public life. The division Of the prop j
sTty viii be made by G. q. Growbridge and
George S. Frost. The probsble value OF the {
whole estate Is about ST. 5OO,OVO.