Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-07-04

Prize money from the capture of the
b steamer Pet, by the u. S. steamer
Montgomery, amounting to nearly $780,
wv, viii be ready for distribution by the
Fourth Auditor about the LIST of August.
The postmaster at Beaufort, s. G., who
is q loyal man, belonging to Wisconsin,
has been removed, and a rebel doctor ap-
pointed in his stead.
In the House, to-day, Gen. Banks sta.
ted that he had reason to believe that
steps had been taken by our Govern
ment to ask Grest Britain to release the
Fenian Prisoners.
One OF the stock spectators in Paris
has lost $l,2Ol,0 900 by the recent fall in
stocks.
The postofice at Canton, Miss, hiss been
closed because there is no one there to
take the oath.
Gen. Fisk sent, the other day, a corpo
raj and squad of soldiers to jackson coun
ty, Tenn, in order to liberate a colored
boy about sixteen years old, whom a white
man In that county persists in holding il
slavery. The man maintains that since
the abolition of the Freedmen's Courts
slavery has been restored in Tennessee.
1t Is said that the cotton planters Of
the South have labored under serious dis
advantages this year. Heavy rains lack Of
implements and insuffciency of labol
have made them hopeless of an average
crop. The most despondsnt among them
estimate that the coming crop viii no
exceed 100000 bales, while others, mort
hopeful estimate it at 100000.
Ex-SeeEetaFy of the Interior, JOHN P
UsHKR, ia in Washington, and declarel
himself in favor of the policy of Congress,
Mrs. Hannah Simpson of Philadelphia,
bequeathed the sum Of ten thouFand dollars
70 the Friends Yearly Meeting, four thoHs.
and Tor instructing people of color, and tar
thousand for other benevolent purposes
a fire occurred at st. joseph, No, on Fri
day last which destroyed property TO tn,
amount of four hundred thousand dollars
The. insurance covered less than one half the
loss.
There has been in Memphis q lively strug
gle Tor the control of the street railway, viz
tually between the old residents and North
erners, In which the former prevailed by TIL
fraudulent use Of stock belonging the latter
Il viii be carried into the courts.
The late cold storm in Michigan had mos
disastrous results, the saeep having Just beer
shorn, and catching fatal colds. From ad,
vices received at Detroit, it is estimated that
over one hundred thousand must have dieC
ftom this cause IN Michigan.
It is stated that the expense incurred by
Canada, in consequence Of the Fenian invs,
sion, up to this time may be estimated at {
sum not fss short of 81, 500, 900.
New Orleans is reported remarkably
healthy.
The mean and despiesble practice o
throwing yitriol upon ladies dresses has beer
revived in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Fort Scott (Ksnsas) Monitor assert.
that no less than twenty-five thousand PEG
pie nave passed through Bourbon county il
that State, from the East, mp to the first 0
June.
A woman in PhilAdelphfe undertook, OF
Thursday, to punish a girl By whipping snC
in order to escape the girl jumped out of
third story window and fractured her leg.
A roof is in process of construction in De
troit, over the Michigan Central depot, which
will cover three hundred thousand SQUARE
feet, or over seven AGREES,
All the troops stationed IN Utah are now
concentrated in two garrisons, eight conpa.
mics are at Camp Douglas, and three compa,
Hies are at Fort Bridge, The ~head-quarteri
If the district are still at Salt Lake.