Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

New York has received the sum of
1922 600 for licenses under the new excise law
Hon. George f. Badger of Raleigh,
n. O., died ON the 18th.
The Charleston, s. c., Courier of
May 5th, gives quite a favorable account oil
the growing crops in the southern states.
A large quantity of arms shipped at
New York have arrived at Vera Cruz, for the
use of the Impt rialists, in Mexico.
A fine he'd of blue clay has been dis
covered near WinOna, Minnesota, suitable for
making brick. This will supply want which
that thriving city has long felt
Robert Tifinay, halter, in Sap Fran
cisco, paid five thousand dollars in gold for
the first choice OF seats, on the occasion OF
the first appearance of Edwin Forrest IN that
city.
The health officers report states that
since the last report no admissions or deaths
from cholera have occurred ON the hospital
ship. All are well on board the Virginia and
Illinois.
After a deal of excitement in regard
to the disease prevailing in the past month in
New York haTbOr, many prominent physicians
in New York express the opinion that there
has not been single case OF genuine Cholera
either in the city or on shipboard.
The French minister explains that the
Nrench tFOOpSs WHICH are ftllOFttu as HdN1nS
passed through Havana, on their way to Mex
leo, are recruits to take the place OF men
whose terms of service have expired, or who
have been inyalidated.
1t is announced that the contract for
constructing the Gettysburg monument has
been awarded to its designer, Jas. G. Batter
son of Hartford, Conn. The monument is to
cost S5O, 600 MIR. PATTERSON designed and
built the Worth monument.
mn, IL
the Ninona & St Peter Railroad has adopted
from Milwaukee or Chicago to kasson as fol-
lows: First class, per hundred pounds, $l;20;
second class, S1.1O; third class, 97e; fourth
class, soc. H"
A Columbia Is. C.) correspondent
has forwarded an affidavit made by VIM. b.
Nash setting forth that he saw the South
Carolina depot building burning before Sher-
mans army entered the city. He also saw
cotton burning, and saw cOrpses of persons
killed by the explosions at the depots.
A letter from Charles Hamilton, dated
Williams Fork, Arizona, April 3Otlr, seemsto
confirm the massacre at Fort Goodwin On
the contrary. dispatches received at the military
headquarters in San Francisco, from Gen.
Mason, dated April 30th, say the reported
massacre at Fert GOodwinis without founda-
ton.
Judge Smalley. IN the u. -. District.
court in session i'm Rochester, N. Y, has or
dered an indictment quashed against party
for making false income returns. He holds
that the act of 1862 does not make this an in-
dictable Offense. The act of June Both, 1865.
does not, however, make the offence indicta-
BILE, but all who make false returns, prior to
that date, escape under this decision.
The, Leavenworth Conservative, of
the 18th says: One year ago to-day an en-
gagement took place near BocO Chico, between
Union and Confederate cavalry, the latter un-
der General Slaughter. Our loss was seventy
men. This is only remarkable as being the
last engagement of the war, and Just previous
TO the surrender of the rebel forces in North
ern Georgia. 3ts-
The island known as Long Point,
Lake Erie, sold by Government, as before re-
ported, comprises about 10000 acres, and has
been purchased, the Ionden Free Press be
lieves, by an association of gentlemen who
intend to stock 1t with deer, muskrat, beaver,
perhaps, and Issue licenses to sportsmen for
deer stalking, duck shooting, etc. Game |
keepers will be stationed ON the island, and |
with a little care and time a capital preserv- |
for sporting will be secured. In addition to |
this il is said that good ''oil prospects, exist |
but this nowadays is so common an assertion i
with regard to property that it may not /
amount to much. From calculations made, it |
is estimated that the investment will pay
twenty per cent. by the sale of licenses alone.