Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-21
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Boston and New York, and large committees
appointed to solicit aid for the sufferers by
the Portland fire. Bangor has sent-S1O, Goo
All the large cities throughout the country
have taken the matter in hand, and material
aid to a large amount Will be forwarded. A
dispatch gives the following in regard to losses
by the fire:
A special to the n. 7. World from
Charleston saws Gen. Conner counsel for
Keyes and others, convicted by court mar
tial of killing two soldiers in the Anderson
vile district, and now confined IN Castle
Piuckney, issued out writ of habeas corpus
before Judge Bryan. Gen. Sickles refused to
obey the writ, and Judge Bryan has issued a
writ of attachment against Sickles for con-
tempt of court.
The Salt Lake Beleih says Maj. Mar
shall and Col. Couplings had fight with 400 or
500 Indians at OWyhee, half Of whom We're
warriors Seven Indians were killed and IL
". laded. One white man was killed-the
whites retiring to Fort Boise to await rein
forcements. In crossing the river in a canvas
boat the boat sTamped, and howitzer was
/ lost.
| The Atlantic cable now being laid,
does not materially differ from that OF 1865.
| As suspended from the stern of the Great
| Eastern. il will sustain twelve times its OWL
| weight and is not liable TO part unless al
excess of twelve miles Is suspended IN the
| water. NTICtt LdsltEu VIII ~ Aht
scene of the breakage last year, will pick M
and splice the cable, aud steer for Nslentia
Bav. 1t is barely possible that the progress
of the European war may be soon reported boy
telegraph.
Mai. Gen. G. b. Fisk, assistant com.
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Ten
nessee. IN letter addressed to the Bureau
states that he has closed the medical estab
llishments OF the bureau in that state. He ia
tends to cease the issue Of ratiOns, except II
the most urgent cases of necessity, and say
he expects to set the state upon its legs again
before frost.
The steamer New York, from Aspin
wall, brings Panama dates to the LIST, ant
81, 430, 600 in gold. Chill, Peru, Bolivia AM
Ecuador, are said TO have formed d league Il
free Cuba from Spain, and an application wa
made to Venezuela and Columbia to JOIN tn
alliance. The three first named are to furnisl
money, and the others men, while hopes az
entertained of help from the United States b.
the emigration OF SOutherners through
Florida.
The ground upon which General Sick
les refused to obey the writ of habeas cOrpu
of the District Court ia South Carolina, AM
| reduce in court the convicted murderers, wer
| First. The Presidents proclamation of De
cember, 1868, suspendmg the writ OF babea
corpus.
Second. Parties, of their own motion, hav
ton, the record of all the proceedings in tn
case, and the whole matter, including the dis
position to be made Ofthese parties is now be
fore him.
Third. That he, (Gen. Sickles,) therefore
has no power by which he can in any manne
interfere with the present disposition OF thu
case without further orders of the President
A Galveston dispatch of the 18th
saws: The testimony which was taken befOr,
Generals Steedman and Fullerton has devel
Oped the fact that the freedmen have beer
most shamefully and villainOnsly imposed up
on in many instances by planters processing
To be their best friends Wherever the freed
men have been fairly treated they have don,
well, but in some counties the planters have
openly violated their contracts, when they
had secured the services of the negroes sui
| ficient for their purposes, sometimes not pay.
ing them anything, and Sometimes but hal
| what they agreed to. Wherever this waE
done it has induced discomfort and incidence
! among the negroes, and caused some robbine
| and depredations. The workings of the
| Freedmen's Bureau generally have been sat
| isfsctOry. Only two cases Of dishonest agents
| were developed, AID these the Government
| recommends Tor cODdign punishment.
The agent of the Hudson Bay
/ Company sc st. Paul received a letter from
Fort Garry, British America, giving an account
! Of a severe fight between the he'd Lake Chip
Dewa Indians and party of Sioux from Min
nes0ta, in which the latter were worsted The
/ letter reads as foil VS.:
ION the 22d of June party of twenty-oielt
Sioux and one Waratoka IudIan came down TO
make peace, and they found about thirty Red
/ Lakers here who chased them out on the
/ pl ms and In sight of our house, shot six of
/ them dead and wounded several The Sioux
ran 10 the Portage, siXty-five miles from the
/ settlement, where they met fifty more Red
| Lakers, and the last heard OF the Sioux was
that they were digging pits to defend them
| selves Some of the Indians cur up the slain
/ and actually ate some of the flesh. A Red
River trader has also received letter con-
| firming the intelligence. The attack and
slaughter took place within few rods of Fort
Garry, and in the midst of the pOpulous set
| Element which surrounds the headquarters OF
| the Hudson Bay COmpany's trade. The Sioux
are part Of those who sought protection of the
British flag after their participation in the
| massacre in Minnesota in 1862.
| CONGRESSIONAL.