Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

felt in the latter city.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Mississippi and Missouri rivers
are rising fast.
The Italian patriot Farini probably
MazzinD is dead.
The Canadian Minister OF Finance
has resigned. Parliament will be pTorogued
this week.
1t is confidently expected that anoth
eT invasion OF Canada Will take place at an
early day.
Eleven messages were forwarded from
New York city on Saturday. for transmission
to Europe on the cable, for which 81 100 ia
gold was paid.
Most of the New York daily papers
call FOR a reform in the management of the
cable, particularly in regard to the press dis
patches, and complain OF the excessive charges
The City Council of st. Paul has
agreed to purchase the stock held by private
parties in the st. Paul inclined bridge, amount
| inc 10 $50 900 at the rate of 335 cents ON the
dollar. The city will then own the bridge.
A bill has been flied in the Clerk IS
Office of the Circuit Court of the United States
for Virginia, by the stockholders of the
/ National Express Company, asking an lDJunc-
| ton against that company.
| OOl. II. u HiOIBttus AoTlhtItg vi Wv
ernOr FentOn's staff and superintendent OF
the New York State Agencies, died suddenly
-at jamestown, N. Y, on Wednesday, OF
hemOrrage of the lungs
TIE Tribune's LeavenwOrth special
saws the Indians on the borders of Northern
Kansas are on the war path, TObbng and out
raging the settlers IN the most horrible man
Der. Troops have been sent to the protection
of the settlers.
The sailors of the navy are dissatisfied
| that their claims upon the Government should
have been overlooked by Congress. No mon
ton of them is made in the reports, aud they
are cut of from the 800 bounty voted To sol
diers.
Information has been received in
Washington that at a recent celebration of
the Mexican masOns in the City OF Mexico, a
toast was offered amid great acclamatIon for
| the speedy re-establishment of the Republic
| and the complete success of brother Benito
Juarez.
Col. John Rutherford, who presided
at the recent state central committee of Vir-
ginia, died suddenly Friday night at an
| advanced age lie for several years
lieutenant governor of Virginia.
Adyices from Mexico report that the
| Liberals on the morning of July 22d, assault
ed the fortified garrison at Acapulco, but were
Tepulsed and pursued some distance, leaving
The amount of direct tax received by
Government from the Southern States, from
the first of January TO June SOth, of the
present year, rs stated at SS73,9 62.
According to the statement published
by the Treasury Department, the present Ma
tiOnal Debt, deducting the amount IN the
Treasury, is s., 6S3, 0g9 276.3S, being reduc-
ton of s2I, is3, 800 since August /, 1865.
A mercantile letter dated Puerto
Prince, July 18th, states that the recent in
surTectiOn at GOnayes has been entirely sup
pressed by the Government, and the town has
been gwen up to the regular authorities. The
troops of President Getfrard marched from
st. Marco. They surrounding and acting IN
conjunction with the HaytIen gunbOat Gala
teO, compelled the insurgents to surrender.
free pardon will be extended to all except
the members of the provisional government.
1t is stated on high authority in
Washington, that General Grant has request
ed Secretary Stanton to furnish for publication
all of Sheridan's dispatches in reference to
the New Orleans riot, in order To set at rest
the various contradictory reports concerning
them, as well as to place General Sheridan
correctly before the country IN the matter.
The Times Washington special insists
that Gen. Sheridan's dispatches from New Or
leans have not been INITIATED as charged 10y
the Tribune. He says the dispatches will be
published IN full, and Ii will be seen that Gen.
sheridan regards Mayor MunrOe and his po-
licemen, as even worse than DOstie and Hahn.
He has IN all dispatches recommended the re-
mOvSl of Mayor MunrOe.
The Indian commissioners have Just
arrived at Omaha from the Upper Missouri
They report the treaty with the Indians on
the Upper Missouri river "a being successful.
Important land grants at the juntion of the
Yellow Stone and Missouri rivers, and the
right of way tor the Pacific railroad have been
ceded by the Indians to the Government.
The Treasury of the United States
Thursday received the sum of S57, 600, almost
the whole of which the government has been
defrauded ont of by the fOrgeries charged
upon William BingOld Casper. The amount
was received in two certificates, one on the
first national bank of Philadelphia for sI7, 900
and the other ON the Adams express company
for $4,000.
The New York Worlds Cindad, Boil
var. Venezuela correspondent saws the Amer
lean citizens. residents at Caracas, have sent
to the government at Washington a protest
against the return of +. ID. Culver as minister
there, charging him with penuriOusness and
specializing in merchandise, disgracing the
country ia the eyes of the natives. He also
SAYS numbers of Outrages have been perpe-
trated uDOn the American citizens IN VeneZu-
Ella many of whom had been fOully murdered
without our government taking any cOgniZance
of the matter.
The United States Emigrant Aid
Company met at Concord, N. H., for Organiza
ton on Saturday. The corporators are Ed
mund Burk, Daniel Cross, George w. Debble,
and Charles W. johnson, of New Hampshire
George b. Loring and Paul Needham of Mas
sachusetts. The company was chartered at
the last session of the Legislature. 1t is the
intention of this company to establish agen-
cies in all large American cities, and ON the
continent of Europe. Hon. Edmund Burke
was elected Chairman, Hon. David Cross, Sec
rotary, and Daniel Needham, Edmund Burke
and David Cross, "a Committee of Organization.
ing Secretary, with headquarters at Boston.
This company has full power To buy and sell
lands, furnish supplies for emigrants, and to
do general business in connection Herewith,
and will proceed to business at once.