Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-23
GROCERIES,
PROVISION
Flour, Feed, ETC., E
have just received large lot OF
CHOICE GROCE r I
Which will be sold as low as the

I me Claiborne priesthood Of Clncin-
/ natl are RICHLY opposed to Fenianism, and
| di.apnroye of il as the very worst remedy for
the evils complained of by the Irish people.
The Court Martial which has been
/ irving Major Gee, at Raleigh, North Carolina
has adjourned for short period. UP 10 IN, this
| time the expenses of the trlai have been $3.50,
90.
The bones of some Federal soldiers
buried near Atlanta, Ga, were recently I'M
| covered broken in pieces, and streWn along
| the surface of the ground. 1t is supposed to
have been done by rebel guerrillas.
The exports of specie from New York,
Boston and Philadelphia, during the week
ending the 9th, was s., S6875i. The imports
of dry goods at New York for the week were
| 7,25OOOO.
Doniphan County, Kansas, has voted
| Sl5OO00 TO the stock of the st. Joseph and
Denver Railroad. The Company was organ
| lied on the 9Th, with Il. j. Chew as President
Work will be commenced on the line without
delay.
The New York health officer reports
three new cases and two more deaths from
cholera on the hospital ship since the last re-
port, leaving 40 patients under treatment. A
servant girl died of cholera, on 33th street, on
/ Tuesday.
It is stated that the surrender of Lee S
/ army threw into the hands of our Government
| thirty thousand muskets of British manGtac-
/ ture. These We're sold to a Spectator, and
| from him purchased by the Canadian Govern
ment, at double their original cost.
The latest foreign dispatches repre-
| sent the prospects for a preservation OF peace
| as much better. The powers interested IN the
quarrel have agreed to conference, and the
pending difficulties may be settled without an
| appeal to arms.
| l. A.. 4uoA Ul,.oe1or- On 4ho TTnsap
Course. l.. l., between Butler, Lady Emma
and Vanderbilt, best three in five, six heats
were made-the first was won by Vanderbilt
the I'd and 5th by Lady Emma, and the 81,
4th and 9th by Vanderbilt. Time-2:25; 2:271
2:27; 2:2S; 2:29 and 2:S2
From the 1st of July next, letters
posted in the United States and addressed to
the Dutch West Indies, Carsca, Neiaba, st.
Justice and st. Martin, may be transmitted to
their destination via France, in the French
mail, at a postage of 81 cents each, single rate,
of one quarter ounce or under, prepayment
being optional with the sender.
The receiver of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank has brought suit against the
stockholders to tho amount of the capitol
stock of the bank, S200000. He asks the
court to determine who are bona tide stock
holders in several cases in which transfers
have recently been made to ascertain who
shall be made parties to the suit.
Several meteoric stones fell Tuesday
night, near the railroad depot, in Nashville.
They were of BLUSH color and were quite
hot when first discovered. biologists say
nothing similar has been found in any part of
the world. One specimen has been forwarded
to Washington and another to New York for
further examination.
The New York Express says Sackett,
| Belcher 81 Co. large gTOcers, failed ia cOnse-
| quence of the defalcatIOn of SwansbOro, jun
4 NA.ns,n
/ aflairs. The concern lost about Si50,0O0 so
far as ascertainei. The whereabouts of the
| defaultng party Is unknown. The liabilities
/ or the firm are estimated at s400 900 and their
assets, good, bad and Indifferent, at $500, 900.
Steedman and Fullerton, the rowing
| commissioners for the examination of the
/ workings of the Freedmen's Bureau, have
made their report for the States of South Car
/ Olina and Florida. They recommend among
/ other things the discOntinuance of the en-
/ plOyment of citizens in the Bureau and turn
| ing over to their former owners the planta-
/ tons in the Sea Islands, which were given by
| Gen. Sherman to the negroes.
Col. Wedges, comma ding the militia
| " district of the ST. Lawrence, has issued an
order authorizing the searching of every rail-
road train passing through the border towns,
and the detention of any Fenians or muni-
| tions of war that may be found thereon, and
| railroad companies are forbidden from carry
/ ing fGI1dn5 Oh luGlI anu ally IdllTOhu
officer or employee, disregarding this order,
Will be arrested.
A company of about thirty Fenians
arrived in Chicago from st. Louis, two or three
days ago, expecting to go to the border but,
finding no preparations for sending them for
ward or for furnishing them with quarters,
they very innocently took possession of an
empty building at Camp Douglas. The
owner not having been consulted in the mat
ter, had them arrested. They were lsubse-
quently discharged, it not appearing that they
had been guilty of breaking any law.
A San Francisco dispatch, of the 10Th,
says: The steamer California has arrived
from Victoria, bringing $4,000 IN treasure. Pa
tents have been issued for upwards of IS, 600
coo acres of lands, Spanish and Mexican
grants, TO which the courts have confirmed
the titles. The steamer Golden Age has sailed
for Panama with $i,95S,700 in treasure, of
which $3.50, 100 is for New York. There was
large autiOn sale of refined sugar To-Day, on
sixty days credit. Prices we're &c lower than
previously.
The message of the Governor of New |
Hampshire delivered on the 9TH, says the |
state debt is about "a, 16i, 900. The estimated
revenue for the current year is S556000, and /
the expenses S515, 500, leaving a handsome /
balance toward the reduction of the debt.
The war expenses incurred by towns, amounts
to between $4,000, coo and s7,000,O0O, the as
sumption OF which debt or any portion Of it
by the state, the Governor considers absolute
ly impraeticable until the action OF the Gen
eral Government in that direction.
The Massachusetts Legislature, by a
blunder, is said to have relieved an I'M
mense number of liquor dealers who had been
of violating the liquor laws and
subject to fines. 1t passed a law changing ,
lhe penalty for the offence, and the new act is
,Ontended to be an &c post fdctO law as TO
Jersons previously convicted, and, as the old
aw is repealed, they have escaped all punish [
nent. In Boston and its neighborhood it is !
tated that over 500 persons escaped, whose
ines would, perhaps, have amounted to
/ 100000.