Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-21
Hon. ]. Mconeen. for many wears

6S years.
A Baptist church, a two-story bricl
and two one-story frame dwellings ia Jeffer
sonville, Ind, were destroyed by fire MOnda
night. Loss So 900; barely any insurance
The fire was the work of an incendiary.
There were thirty-two deaths from
yellow fever, in Galveston, Texas, on the 9th
| and ten cases admitted to the city hospital
| on the 18th, from the revenue cutter Della
ware. The fever has appeared in Losrang'
and other interior towns.
A telegraph operator named Ton
Young, employed on the Illinois and Missis
sippi telegraph lines at Chicago, blew hii
brains out in a "a con under the Sherman
i House, on Wednesday evening. Why he com
mitted the rash iced is not known.
At baIf-past ten o'clock Monday
night fire at AnOka, Mimi, destroyed th'
door and sash factory of Houston h Prescott
and the cabinet shop owned by Pomeroy a
Sias. Total loss s., 600; no insurance. The
origin of the fire was accidental.
The world of arts recently suffered 2
a most iTreparable loss by the destruction o.
| the famous chapel OF Madonna del Rosario IN
Venice. Among other works of considerable
note burned was Titian's celebrated picture
| OF the martyrdom OF st. Peter.
Earl Mayo succeeds Lord Monek at
Governor General % the Dominion of anads
next June Gen. Chas. Nindhsm replaces
Gen. Michel as COMMANDMENT chief of the
Canadian forces, DsTian is elected to Par
lament by majority OF 20. This is the vic
tory of the Range party.
ROxbury was on Monday declared
annexed to Boston by the votes of citizens OF
both places, a very decided majority on q
light vote fsvoriDg the proposition. By this
accession Boston gains 5000 more OF popu-
latiOn and becomes the fourth city IN the
Union, instead of the sixth as formerly; she
is now next in population to Brooklyn.
A Panama letter says that the prin
cipAl adherents of MosqueTa in BOgota have
resolved to support AcOsta and the new adj
ministration. II is also reported that Lopez
had submitted. Mosquera Is still a prisoner
in the observatory. HeTrara has been de-
feated at BIO Hatcha aud captured, aud the
country is once more peaceable.
1t is reported from st. Thomas that
there has been an uprising. of about three
hundred negroes which caused considerable
disorder in the streets. They attacked the
fort but were quickly repulsed with five
killed and several wounded. About fifty of
them have been imprisoned. The uprising
is said to have been caused by some sanitary
measures deeTeed by the Governor and Board
OF Health.
A negro named Howe, who bought n
first class car ticket north of Washington was
put off the Richmond, fredericksburg aud
Potomac cars near Richmond, he having re-
fused to ride in the negro car. He WAS about
to sue the company. but it compromised the
matter by paving him 5000 damages. This
Is the first case of the kind In the Soutn
where a negro has received damages.
Regarding the losses of the First
National Bank, of New York il is stated that
the President, Mr.. Hasorouck, was ia
arrears to the amount OF S9l 900. 1t ia sup-
haf hg hoy nd
thus became indebted to the bank. lie has
placed all his property in the hands OF the
directors, and the bank will pay all its indebt-
edness and is perfectly solvent.
In consequence of clerical error in
the public debt statement, referred To in dis
patches r-ccently published, the Becretary
of the Treasury has decided to make ont a
new and correct statement, 10 which will be
found he has added a report of the condition
of the public debt ON the Let of September,
1865, which, compared with the statement of
the Let of September, 1867, will show a reduc-
ton ia the debt of s2Gi ,9O6, 2l6.38. ~.
MIR. Roeblng, Engineer of the pro-
iected bridge over East river, between New
York and Brooklyn, has made report. He
stated that the bridge would terminate at
Chatham Square, New York, and near Fulton
Ferry, Brooklyn. The total length will be
), S62 feet, and the center epan 100 feet above
high water-mark. The total cost of this
structure is estimated at S6,G75, 537, and it
willpermit the transportation of $4,000 per-
sons daily.
The charges against Callicott, inter
nal revenue collector at Brooklyn, are of de-
frauding the government ont of the tax on
I'll barrels of whisky-upwards OF s42 ONO.--
The Post says that it il reported that Cali
colt permitted the government to be de
frsuded out Of 500, 900 on similar bonds du-
ring the first month he occupied the position
of collector, from the imperfect manner in
which he attended to his duties. CalhcOtt Ii
still in Washington, ami is said to be at
tempting to avoid arrest.
The cigar makers of Havana are en-
deavOring to organize strike for higher
wages. The city authorities take sides with
the employers IN keeping wages down, and
the government has issued an order enfOrc-
ing upon the former not to take ATTY opera
tives not provided with q certificate by the
police, and admOnishing them that they will
be held responsible for falling to report
every person demanding higher wages, to be
dealt with as distmber OF the public peace.
Recently about four hundred barrels
of whisky were permitted to be drawn from a
bonded warehouse in Brooklyn by the col
lector, Mr. CsllicOtt. Two hundred barrels.
it was subsequently sscertsined, were with
drawn upon worthless bonds, and the bal
ance without bonds, good or bad. war
rant has been issued for the arrest of Cali
colt and his deputy, John Allen. The latter
has been taken, but the former is absent
from the city.
There was terrible boiler explosion
Monday evening in the turning mill of Il.
WEIGH. on Twenty. eighth street, New York.
The room was much shattered. The engineer,
Jacob Medden, and fireman. Ed. Ward, aud
Brady. were killed, and Matt Beir, Frank
Case, Jeremiah Jassidy aud John jung, work
men, were badly injured. The boiler trav-
dence Of Sigismund HOuseman, tearing ont
the entire rear of the house, killing two OF
HGuseman's children and nurse named Maria
Bowling. Another servant named WilbeTzahi
received severe injuries.
It is aseertained from official data
that since April '65 about 5000 pardons have
been granted by the President. These in
elnde some of rebel foreign ministers, agents
members of the Confederate government,
governors Of southern states, and upwg ds
OF 90 brigadier generals, with a due proper
ton OF rebel ms yor generals. Major Sill
| Chief of the Pardon Bureau at the Attorney
Generals Office, has had on file for the past
/ two years about four hundred applications
from persons who we're engaged in the rebel
lion, and were not pardOned by the prOcla-
nation of May oath, 1877. By the proclama-
/ tion OF Saturday about one hundred of These
persons are psrdOnsd, but the other three
hundred come within the exceptions, and, o.
cOnrse, their cases, like others similarly sit
mated, must be separately considered.
Foreign Items.
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