Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-02-17
TFLEGRsPHIC SUMMARY

Lawrenceville, near Pittsburg, including
the Round House, carpenter shop, an
Engine shop, blacksmith shop, with
eleven locomotives, were totally des-
troyed by fire on the 9Th. No insIr-
ance. Loss not known, but veryheavy.
Desertions from the Regular Army |
have been SO numerous during the past |
few months. that General Grant has |
issued an order, calling upon command |
ers of departments and regiments to
take the most stringent measure to
check the evil.
A messenger from the Sioux and
Cheyennes Indians was at Fort Laramie
on the 2nd. The interview was mutual
ly satisfactory The chiefs have been
invited to a council at Fort Laramie.
Peace prospects are favorable.
The Fenian excitement along the
Frontier of Canada is still spreading.
The Mayor Of Hamilton was dissuaded
from arresting Gen. Sweeney and Pres
ident Roberts, as they passed through
on the Great Western line, for fear 1t
would cause the destruction of the city.
Orders have been received at New
York, il is said, for $500, 900 in bonds of
the Irish republic, of which S13O, 600
have been sent to a banking house IN
San Francisco, through a nephew of
General Shields.
A Fortress Monroe correspondent says
JEFF Davis imprisonment and the pub
lie execration OF his crimes, have made
him iracible and soured his temper
His attention, now, IS given to fault
finding and reading his Bible.
Gen. Candy has issued an order at
Headquarters Department Of Louisiana,
New Orleans. Jan. so, disseminating
the Western District of Louisiana.
The steamer W. II. Carter exploded
near Vicksburg on Friday. 1t was COM
manded by Captain Hurd, brother to
the commander of the steamer Missou-
ri. She belonged to the Mississippi
Steamboat Company, and was valued
at about one hundred thousand dollars.
She is the fifth boat of this line that
has met with disaster. There was an
insurance of $4,000 on her cargo at
Louisville.
The Port Gibson Standard, of the
Goth ult., says it is reported that Col.
Osband, who commanded in the raid
made on that place at the time so many
OF our citizens were carried off and im-
prisoned, was found dead In his bed on
his plantation in Boliver county, his
throat having been cut. No clue has
been discovered as to the perpetratOr
of the deed.
An investigation of the cause of the
explosion of the Miami, held at Mem
pins, the Sd, shows that the first and
second engineers knew the boilers to be
in bad condition before the boat left
the port
The Military force in Department OF
Texas consisted of 10 regiments of In
fantry, 5 of cavalry and one company oil
Pontoniers, three batteries of artillery.
The Department of Louisiana, 10 regi-
ments Of Infantry, three of cavalry and
one of artillery.
The department of Florida has five
regiments of infantry and SIX batteries
of the regular artillery.
The merchants az Matamoras are
trunping up claims to be presented fol
losses in the Bagdad affair, believing that
the United States will pay them all.
The Charleston Courier reports the
maltreatment Of party of Pennsylva-
mans who visited Johns Island on JAN
uary oath, for the purpose of buying
lands, by a party OF negroes. They
were taken into custody and threatened
with cath, until relieved by the SER
gerant.
The Virginia Senate has adopted q
resolution cordially approving the course
of President Johnson on the question Of
reconstruction.
Late foreign news reports the cattle
plague as rather on the increase.
1t is reported that, at the lowest esti-
mate, one hundred and twenty five
lives were lost on the steamer Carter,
The Engineer of the Carter, who was
saved, is unable to state the
cause of the disaster, as the
machinery was running smoothly and
the boat going slowly at the time.
The ill-fated steamer belonged to the
Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship
Company, aud was running between
Louisville and New Orleans. She was
built at Louisville in October, 1864,
with a carrying capacity OF 1000 tons.
and was valued at 500, 001. Her ma
chinery was old, and she had tubular
boilers. Her cargo was insured in
Louisville for $4,000.
The amount of specie IN Richmond
just before the evacuation, according to
the statement of Trenholm, the rebel
Secretary of the Treasury, WIS between
$4,000 and 100000 This was dis
tribUted among the soldiers of John
sons army and the escort of JEFF. Davis.
1t is again rumored that our Govern
ment has come to an understanding
with Napoleon in regard to Mexican
affairs. The French soldiers are to be
withdrawn from Mexico, and our Gov
eminent is to refrain from all attempts
TO enforce the Monroe Doctrine, or to
interfere in any way to the prejudice of
Macmillan.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
ordered that on and after March /,
1866, all southern manufactures shall
be held subject TO the present rate of
duty, no exception being made in any
case on account Of the date Of the manu-
facture.
The st. Charles Paper Mill of st.
Charles, H.. the largest establishment
OF the kind in the west. was burned on
Sunday night. Loss $4,000. Insur-
ed for $4,000.
1t appears that there are upwards of
$4,000 destitute persons in Alabama,
who will require an expenditure of up
wards OF two millions per annum to re-
heve them. Labor prospects on the
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