Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-01-20

week ending Saturday, is S5Ol, 900. aud
the amount redeemed is $44, 600. There
were also redeemed nearly S151 900 of
legal tender notes. and upwards of
$3.50, 600 of gold certificates.
An extensive fraud on the Revenue
Department has been discovered at
New York. 1t consists In the issue of
counterfeit cigar box stamps, and
amounts to 100000. Three persons
have been arrested.
1t is stated that a deficiency of from
$4,000 to S150,O00 exists in the ac-
counts in the auditors office of Brook
lyn,N.Y John Lynch was late auditor
An Investigation of affairs will be made
at once.
The safes of Adams Express Company
en- route from New York TO Boston,
were robbed, on the night of the 9th, of
about $4,000. The thieves in their
haste dropped $4,000 in greenbacks
and notes. 1t is thought the car was
entered at the New York depot. The
robbery was not discovered until the
train reached Boston.
Gen. Sweeney says that months ago
he urged O'Mahony to offer the leader
ship of the F'enian movement to Gen.
the offer was made.
The Illness Washington special says
the last order for mastering out troops,
relieves Virginia of all white volunteer
troops.
George Bancroft, the historian, will
be invited to deliver the Congressional
eulogy, upon President Lincoln, dur
ing the session.
At Loon on the 9th the representatives
of four tribes of Indians, the Shawnees
Sacs, Foxes and IoWas we've received
by the President, in the library room of
the Executive Mansion. The Indians
including their interpreters numbered
Is, they were severally introduced to
Mr.. Johnson by Judge Cooley, Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs.
They called upon their Great Father
they said, to pay their respects and
give assurances of their loyalty and
good feeling. The President informed
them that he was glad to see them, and
they might take to their people his
assurance that the Government would
act with them in good faith and carry
out all IFS obligations to the severa
nations. In response, each of the sturdy
chiefs gave the Presidents hand a con-
vulsive jerk accompanied 10y guttaral
grunt, which according to the interper-
tation means 81 am glad" They We're
not apparently much affected toward
! the furniture and surroundings of the
White House, looking upon the whole
thing with evident contempt, until
they espied chair in the library made
up principally of the skin, head and
horns of huge deer, and heretofore
presented TO the President. by Seth
Kinman. The Indians took 10 this
curiosity with great satisfaction.
A Soldiers aud Sailors National Con-
vention is called to meet, in Washing
ton, on the odd inst, for the purpose
of urging Congress, to pass measures
relating to the equalization of boun-
ties, and to promote the mutual welfare
of soldiers aud sailors. All leagues and
soldiers organizations have been re-
duested to send delegations.
When jeff Davis, and Regain, the
rebel Post Master General, were cap
tured, there was found upon the latter
person, some sixty thousand dollars of
bills of exchange, on the Re thschilds,
drawn by Trenholm, Secretary of the
Treasury.
These together with some others, in
amount upwards of 500, 600, were sent
70 our consular agent at London for
collection. They have recently been
returned by him to the Secretary of
the Treasury, with an endorsement on
the back by the house of Rothschild
that there were no funds to meet them.
1t is alleged by persons who know that
there were plenty of funds when the
bills were drawn, but Dy some means or
other they have been spirited away.
The report that r. Clay Crawford
and Col. A. J. Reed are at Brownsville,
Texas, raising a division to aid the
Mexican Liberals, is not believed.
The Tribune's Washington special
says that Secretary McCulloeb, is contin-
ually in receipt of communications, from
purchasers of Canadian cattle, asking
for permission to import them to this
country, but he invariably replies such
permission would be in direct violation
of the law.
The Secretary of the Interior has
caused list of the clerks OF his depart
ment to be made, with the view to an
equal distribution of the clerkships
among the congressional districts OF
| the various StateS-
The Treasury Department is prepar-
ing the plates for a new issue of frac-
tional currency, of fifty, twenty-five,
ten cents. The design will be entirely
original, and the notes will be nearly
oval in form.
Petitions are being signed in Phila-
delphia, asking Congress to so amend
the law as to equalizs the pensions of
officers and privates. making them uni
formly the same, without regard to pre-
vious rank, and that their pay be not
less than S14 per month.
A Washington special says Gen How
ard is in receipt of the November re-
port of the Superintendent of colored
schools in the States of Mobile andArk., ,
in which he says there are now in
operation in the former State, seven
teen freedmen's schools, with ID teach
ers and 347 scholars, and that III Arkan-
sas there are thirteen schools, with IL
teach ers and /, AIS scholars.
The Birmingham Association in Eng
land, since the close of the war, has
largely contributed toward the relief OF
the destitute freedmen of the United
States. Their last invoice of goods,
mostly clothing, amounts to over Sc. 000
and the Secretary of the Treasury has
notified the Deputy Collector OF New
York to hereafter admit all such goods
free of duty.
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