Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-14
CLIPPINGS.
HENS I'M GENERAL.

his sword at Ills labner lu-laW uiSpOSstl
Victor Emanuel has accepted tia
offer eagerly, and attached the Prime
to his own staff, where he is sure to SCI
plenty OF active service. - =
Several negroes in the vicinity o
lThomaston, Ga, violated their con
tracts recently, and being arrested, re
sisted ipcarceration in the jail, which
created great excitement, ending IN {
riot, which resulted in the death of sew
eral persons, white and black. The ne
groes were finally overpowered and I'M
prisoned. ~
IN Switzerland the telegraph is the
| property of the State. An office is es-
tabiished in almost every village, and
the charge is unifOrm-one franc for
twenty-five words, Irrespective of dis
lance. The dispatches are printed, and
the establishment yields large revenue
to the government, 5sog
1t is said by a Canada paper that
the VisioD-the little vessel which start
ed off on q voyage to Europe last year,
with a man, boy and dog, and was
reported lost--put into some obscure
port on the Nova Scotian coast, while
| the owners wife collected q large sum
of money from the companies with
whom the owner had insured his life.
There are two trees that will be
forever memorable in the war history of
Texas. They stand as mementOes of
crime and suffering. On one so Union
men were hanged with one rope. On
the other 81 brave lovers of our coun-
try were sacrificed to the barbarism of
slavery. A~
4 The women of Tallahassee, Florida,
lately held fair, and raised purse of
SO, 200, for presentation to Major Gee,
the Infamous keeper of the salisbury
prison. The fact that no had probably
starved few hundred of Federal SOL
diers to death was regarded rs his
especial claim to consideration.
On one little street in Galena, Ill.
and within the space of four blocks,
were at one time the business places of
six private citizens, now known as
Leut. Gen. Grant, Major General John
II. Smith, Maior General j. A. Raw
lings, Major General A. I'll. Chetlain,
Brigadier General j. A. Maltby.
An English paper relates that the
Rev. Paul Hamilton. ON receiving the
presentation to the church and parish
of Broughton, near Edinburgh, preached
a farewell sermon to the ladies of Ayr;
and, not a little to the surprise of his
fair auditory, gave out his text-"And
they fell upon Paul's neck and kissed
him."
The long contemplated work of
building the Potomac and Chesapeake
tide-water canal will soon be under
taken. A corps of engineers, says
the National Intelligencer, has been for
some time actively employed, and after
a thorough reconnaissance of the whole
country, a measurement of the heights
and distances and the capacity of all
streams required for feeders, are of
opinion that the work is practicable, at
an expense which will justify the under
taking. rr....
The Postoffice Department have is
sued an order providing that when the
present quarter has closed all policy
dealers, bogus lottery ticket swindlers,
gift jewelry houses, obscene picture
dealers and book sellers, aud all known
public swindling operators, will no lon
ger be permitted TO have. boxes at the
General Post0ffice. This order would
take effect Immediately bnt for the fact
that the box rents are paid IN advance,
and it was thought better to let them
run on to the close of the quarter.
An extensive haul of counterfeiters
has Teen made on the PottOwatomie In
dian reservation, In Kansas, with $780,
000 in bogus greenbacks and 5000 in
fractional currency. The arrests dis
close q large organization. reaching
from the ST. Lawrence to the Rocky
Mountains, which has issued spurious
bills to the amount of one and quarter
million of dollars. Large quantities
have been sent south, where currency
has been scarce and anything could be
passed, . l.. .t.s.-.a
"A horse recently jumped over the
rail ut q race course and seriously hurt
O young man. While he was lying on
the grass, another young man uttered a
piercing cry and exclaimed, "My broth
or, my poor brother r. He fang him
self on the PROSTATE form, from which
he was at length kindly and gently rails
ed, while the injured man was taken
away to receive medical care. 1t after
wards transpired that the affectionate
creature who flung himself on the body
of his brother, had done so to steal his
gold watch and chain. and portemOn-
maize.
"A small party of benrdless youths at
New Orleans took occasion one night
lately to serepade a very young lady