Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-28

cola states that yellow fever is causing con,
alarm on the coast. Over one hundred
and twenty victims died this month al various
points.
The military district of Illinois is soon
tn be broken up, and tue troops at Sprlngneld
will be sent TO Maeinac Immediately after the
sale of the government property AT camp
Butler. which is to take place on the 25th.
A disease is prevailing among the
draft horses in eastern Maryland. Ihey are
turned out to grass IN the morning. III aP
parent good health, and come home At nlSht
weak in limb, and soon die.
The Ohio Democratic State Executive
Committee has appointed William Alien, Geo.
H. PendletOn, George w. Morgan and oil. II.
Willet delegates at large to the Phlladelphla
Convention.
Satisfactory treaties of peace have
been concluded with the Upper Platte Sioux
and Chevennes at TT. Laramie. Contradlcto-
nv reports are without foundation. TINS Is
telegraphed by the Commissioners to the
President.
Gen. Sheridan has issued an order
prohibiting the erection in his military dNls-
ion of any monument cOmmemoranng the re.
helion. and prohibiting the reorganization OF
confederate companies, batteries, brlB suss,
&c for any purpose whatever. dood iof
Sheridanl
Gov. Brownlow applied to Gen.
| Thomas for military assistance To obtain a
quorum i'm the Tennessee Legislature, ana 10
punish refractory members. upon applying
| Ia Washington for Instructions, Secretary
Stanton said II WAS a case which did not war
rant military interference, and instructed Zen
| Thomas To strictly abstain from any such
| Interference.
Mexican news reports the attempted
/ assassination of President JuafeZ by two clI-
zens who had been in some way Wron6ed'-
| The sentinel ON guard made no attempt 10
save the Presidents life, allowing the wOuld-De
| murderers 20 discharge the contents OF TWO
| double -barrelled guns at HIM. JuareZ was
| not injured, although two shots passed thro
his coat.
| A Nashville dispatch, says: Chaucel-
Tor steele, of the Shelbyville Judicial district,
has decided that the members OF the Tennes-
| see Legislature of 1861, also the DlrectoIs vi
| the Bank of Tennessee at that time and others
| who aided To remove the assets of the bank are
Liable for these assets. As the deficiency 40 the
assets amounts Go about 81, 1000, 600. the decls-
| ION has created great CONSERVATION among the
| leading rebels of 1861 IN tins State.
The gross advertising receipts OF the
several newspapers of st. Louis, during the
last quarter, ending July l, as returned To the
United States Assessor, are as follows: Mis-
souri Republican, SEQ, 253 -; Missouri Demo
crat. S454lG 90; st. Louis Dispatch, 81 ,57l. 40
/ Anzeiger des weseens, $74l7il; st. Louis
| Press, s., 267; Westliche, Post and Evening
News have not yet reported.
Santa Anna has commenced suit III
in the Supreme Court of New York against
some Spanish gentlemen for the return o.
SI3 zoo which lac alleges he placed In theil
hands in the shape Of foreign exchange ion
safe keeping. The Spanish firm have been tho
Generals best friends and closest cOnfdents
and if he pu1sues the suit they promise some
rich Developments regarding Santa Anna'
private and public life.
About twenty gentlemen, members
of State Executive Committees of the Brt OK
inridge. Bell and Douglas parties of 1860 me
| at Richmond on the 10th, and adopted resO
luton declaring that the people of Vrgini;
ought TO be represented IN the Conservative
Convention at Philadelphia. committee o
five was appointed 10 prepare business ior al
adjourned meeting, TO be held ON Wednesda!
next.
The old seventy -four-gun ship, Della
ware, one Of the war-vessels sunk at the Cos
port Navy Yard, in April, 1861, at the out
break of the war, by our naval forces ON evac
Uating that station, has been got atloat by
number of wOrkmen, who have been endeay
Oring for long time past to raise the vessel
She viii be cut up for the purpose OF obtain
ing the immense quantity OF valuable cope
and iron she possesses.
A number of citizens in the interio
, | of Arkansas, with some from Little Rock
have organized themseles as regulators, anC
: Friday night captured two desperadoes, wh'
= | fired house "a few DAYS ago, and the ruftan
col Tossing their guilt were hung immediatel
. and their bodies left suspended large mum
% 4 her Of guerillas are believed to be assemblin;
I from different parts of the state. intending L
give the Regulators battle. 1t IS thought tina
a bloody fight will occur within a few ddys.
The Ironsides, on her last trip
brought down to Detroit the largest mass o
Hopper that ever left the mines OF Lake Su
Derior. It is from the Cliff mines, and weighs
| is 100 pounds, or a little over u tons. IL i
, estimated that IN this mass there is fully nine
| ty per cent. of pure copper. Besides thu
''chunk" the lronsides brought down abou
300 tons more of copper, some of tn
\ masses being nearly as large and pure as til
above.
: Prof. Goodwin Smith, in n letter {,
the London Daily News OrJnly 1. suggests that
considering the admirable way in which TIA
Americans have behaved about the Fenian ia
yasiOn of Canada, the present wOnld be
=; proper time TO consent to an inquiry on tn
! Alabama question. What the Americans de
, mand, says the Professor, is a fair inquir
into a case IN which they believe they suffered
I, wrong; such am inquiry honor need not re
fuse, and AK the most FUNCTIONS honor, ON Tia
: contrary, would court for its own yindication
!, A Nashville dispatch says: A writ o
d habeas corpus was, on the 10th, sued out be
= fore Judge Frazier, of the Criminal Court b
d MIR. Williams, under arrest for refusing TO al
d tend the present session OF the Tennessee
o House of Assembly. Williams also threaten
d to- sue for heavy damages. Another membe
refuses To attend any session, defies arrest
: and threatened TO shoot any body arrestint
: him. IL is feared that the members will no
y harmOniZe with the fOrcible measures adopte
! for the arrest of delinquent members, an
1 trouble is anticipated.
I Reports from ApalachicOla, Florida
y state that a schooner containing eighty-fiv
r negrOea, enticed from various parts of Ga
1 state, has been seized by the United State
= authorities. The vessel was about To sail 10
/ Cuba, where the blacks would be sold. Tn
commander gave his name as John L. Bonner
= from Cincinnati. He was arrested and place,
: under military guard The negroes Ia,
= been tOldby Bonner, that they were going Il
Texas To work upon cotton plantations at 81
per month ia gold, and one-third interest il
the crop. They will be sent back by the an.
thOaIties to where they came from.
A Helena, Ark, dispatch, says: Mrs
Henrietta w. Davenport has Just been
notified that she has fallen heir tC
an estate worth $4,000, OOO in Scot
land, through her nncle, Robert Bruce
Blackburn, recently deceased, who was one oi
the heaviest manufacturers in Europe. Alrs.
only sister, and, with her mother. moved rs r.
this country in 1913, aud located In Nortberu
Georgia, where shO married. Since the war
she and her husband moved here They n. ~