Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

rebels-is declared TO be constitutional
a private letter received in Montrea
states that the only surviving descendant o
Columbus will shortly visit this country.
The SD regim ent U. S. colored il
fantry have contributed Sl20 10 the nationa
Lincoln monument.
; The French Canadians in New Yorl
held meeting Saturday night fayoring tn
annexation of Canada to the United States.
Two hundred and thirty-five patents
have been issued from the Patent Office fo
the week ending December let.
The Brooklyn common council ha:
| authorized the construction of a new Gruan
House, 10 cost $4,000. VEL -. = =
The expense of the carpet necessary
4 IN fitting up the new State Department eX
eeeds ten Thousand dollars. The building ii
very handsomely cGrpeted throughout.
The 18th cOlored volunteer infantry,
Colonel Hunter, arrived at Leavenworth, from
New Mexico, ON Thursday last, and will be
paid of and mustered out there.
A number of officers of the 18th army
corps propose TO call a meeting soon at Chi
i cagO for the purpose OF organizing an assO-
citation, to be composed: of hOnOrably dis
charged officers and privates OF said corps.
The United States Marshal has sold
the GreenviIle, s. C., State Army Works at
public suction or $4,000, and the building is
10 be used as a cotton factory.
Secretary McCulloch has already
commenced reducing the quantity of gold, in
anticipation of the action of Congress. 1t
will be done gradually.
The United States buildings on
Chambers street, New York, on the site of
Buttons old Theatre, have been sold at
$230.O0J.
transcripts embracing swamp tracts
in California amounting to over IS, 900 acres
have been submitted 40 the Secretary OF the
Interior, as preliminary step for issuing pa
tents for the same TO the state.
Fourteen thousand five hundred EN-
tres for public lands have been made the
past month Ia San Francisco. The winter
rains have set In early, and the country is
clothed IN green.
The steamship Concordia now at New
York, has been chartered by the French Con-
sui to proceed to Vera Cruz, and carry per-
tiOn of the French troops from that port to
Hayre, France.
The indictments against several mas
ter workmen in the Brooklyn navy yard, for
defrauding the government, have been
qUashed by Judge Nelson on the ground that
the indictments should have been found IL
tine southern district of New York.
The retire nchment committee of Con-
gress, presided over by j. l. Thomas, Esq,
Of Maryland, met in Baltimore on the LIST aud
examined some very important witnesses In
relation to government patronage and re-
treHchment.
1t is rumored that frauds to large
extent have been perpetrated 10y some half
dozen firms in the Brooklyn custom house.
The firms are all wine merchants and a con-
siderable qusBtity Of wine is withheld from
delivery by the custom house.
The certificate of incorporation of
the New York, Pennsylvania 81 Ohio railroad
has been filed IN the 6tlice of the Secretary OF
State of Ohio. The teimini OF the road is TO
be at Cincinnati and hIillersburg, Holmes Co.,
Ohio. The capital stock is S5,OOOtOO.
The Senatorial caucus has decided
to depOse from leading committees of the
Senate, MessTs. DOolittle. Dixon and COwan.
There are many Senators who favor the cleo
tion of new Vice President, and if they
agree, AIR. Wade will probably be the man.
The message of Governor PIerpOnt,
of Virginia, laid before the Legislature of
that state on Monday, urges the adoption of
the people of the SOnth to beware of the
Presidents party in the North.
Governor Fletcher, OF Missouri, has
sent troops into Lafayette county under
Colonel Montgomery to suppress alleged law
lessness, and secure protection to all classes
OF citizens.
The heads of the various departments
in the treasury office have written letter to
the committee on ways and means, urging
the passage of the bill introduced at the last
session OF Congress, to increase the salaries
Of the clerks
A special Washington dispatch says
the report of the Investigating Committee
discloses startling frauds upon the govern
ment. Parties 10 high position IN society
during the war are seriously implicated. The
frauds amount to hundreds of millions of
dollars. '[sEF@ Fta ass IDS
A company of colored emigrants sail
ed from New York on the 5th for Liberias to
fouId a settlement to be called Lincoln, in
hohor;Of the late President. The expenses
Of the voyage and provisions for six months
after their arrival, will be betrayed by the
Pennsylvania Colonization Society. fia-
The U. S. Senators elect from Ne
braska, Thayer and Triton, have arrived In
Washington, and Mr.. Marquette, the Repre-
sentative elect from the same state, is short
ly expected Mr.. Thayer has brought with
him the constitution of the new state, which
will, in a short time be laid before the COM
mittee.
An Improvement on the plan of
smelling iron has been made in the foundry
of the Philadelphia navy yard. By this i'm
prOvement, where ii occupied before three
hours IN smeltlnR a ISW IL
now aecOmplishes in one hour.
The government is determined that
John n. Surratt shall not escape again, and
ia order to avoid the risks OF land transporta-
| ton, Admiral Goldsborough, commanding
| the European squadron, has been ordered
| by telegraph. per ths Atlantic cable to dis
patch gunbOat at once TO Alexandra. Egypt,
to bring him directtO Washington.
The Freuch Minister takes exception
to the language of the President in his mes
sage, in speaking OF the conduct of the En-
peror Napoleon, in not complying with his
| agreement in the withdrawal of the French
/ troops from Mexico, and il proposing sharp
letter to Secretary Seward ON the subject.
The reports from Montana indicate
/ serious danger of famine in that Territory
| this winter. The cold season set in earlier
than was expected, and the supply of provis-
/ ions is very meagre. Starvation prices have
already been obtained in the mining towns.
The Quincy & Palmyra railroad was
/ sold Friday to the Hannibal & st. JOSEPH
railroad for a quarter of million dollars, anC
/ now forms part of that road. The officers o.
| the road, in conjunction with the managers o.
the Wabash Valley road, united to bridge the
Mississippi at Quincy.
The report that the prisoners at the
/ Dry TOrtugas were inhumanly treated il
4 authOTitatively denied The cells are neal
and orderly. aud the prisoners receive the
same ratiOns as the enlisted men Of the post
are neatly and comfortably dressed, and ths
labor required OF them is of very hghl
/ character.
Two checks given at West Point, pre-.
vious to the war, by cadets who joined the
rebels, were presented at the Treasury fol
payment. The matter was referred to the
Secretary of War, who decided that the checks
should not be paid but cancelled, and the
amount returned to the appropriation from
4 which II was drawn