Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-18

south Of Memphis on the river are overlooked
The planters are in a starving condition.
Reports from Warsaw say that the
Russian government is concentrating troops
and munitions of war in Poland.
The Kansas City Mo- Journal says
that thirty outlaws have been hanged by the
vigilance committees in johnson aud Pettis
counties during the winter and spring.
The frost Monday night in st. Louis
made ice in some localities, and 1t is said that
much damage has been done to vegetation,
especially to early berries.
Thirty.five horses were suffocated to
death by fire in the stable Of j. r. Dolsey,
corner OF Broadway and 26th street, New
York, early Tuesday morning.
The street car question in New Or
leans is settled. The chief of police has is
sued an order forbidding interference with
negroes in any car.
In hurricane on Sunday the Missis-
sippi hurst its banks below New Orleans, de-
stroying the telegraph lines for considera-
BILE distance.
Information received at the Agricul-
tural Department IN Washington indicates
that the wheat crop viii be the finest in many
years.
There was heavy gale in New York
city on the 9Th and the tide rose so high as
to do considerable damage to merchandise
in Easements along the rivers. h. Is ~ .s--
1t is reported that the franchise of
the Baltimore and Potomac railroad has been
sold to the Baltimore and Ohio road for half
million of dollars,
A workingmen's meeting is called for
tonight, in st. Louis, to consider the present
state of affairs, and decide upon some plan
of future action.
A burglar in Memphis in attempting
to rifle a room in the Gesse Hotel, at three
O'Clock Saturday morning, was snot dead by
guest of the hotel
Seventy thousand Germans, it is
said, have engaged passage by steam to tn
United States. The new Prussian conscrip
ton Law ID driving many to our country.
The court at Richmond, Va, quashed
the attachment for S4S, 600 made by Cafin g.
Co., OF New York, sgaInst Steinback i Bros,
on Saturday. ... ri
A state dinner was given TO the Japa-
nose Ambassadors by Secretary Seward on
Saturday evening. The wife of President
Juarez was present.
A prize fight took place in Denver
City, Colorado, Thursday, between Reed and
Fitzgerald, for prize Of one thousand dol
lvrs. Reed won the fight in ninety-six rounds.
There was a collision on the Erie
railroad at Monroe station, New York, rgi-
day night, by which several cars were oedly
smashed up. No persons are reported in
juTed.
The hurricane of Sunday night aud
Monday caused i've crevasses below New
Orleans The rice crop and orange trees are
nearly all destroyed, and great distress Is re-
ported among the inhabitants.
The bark W.B. Scranton was wrecked
on the bar at the mouth o the Columbia
river May 5th. Vessel and cargo total
loss; valued at two hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars; partially insured.
At meeting of the American Tract
Society OF Boston, il is reported that SIX and
a quarter million pages Of tracts have been
printed during the year. The receipts were
$780, $50. and expenditures Sl57 926.
The large warehouse at Norfolk, Va,
used for storing building materials and naval
stores, was entirely consumed by fire Mednes-
day morning. 1t was owned by A. A. Nc
CullOch.
The eight-houT labor bill which was
passed by the Pennsylvania House, remained
Ia the hands OF the Senate Judiciary Com
came up IN the Senate for consideration.
The Dover Hill pits, near Richmond,
Va, which recently exploded, were opened on
Saturday. There was water twelve feet deep
in them, but no bodies have yet been recOv-
cred.
Counterfeit plates for ones and fives
on the Peoples National Bank of Michigan,
legal tender one dollar bills, together with
IN air al hav
found near DObb's Ferry, NJ.
The jury in the case of Joseph Les
lie, of Dayton, Ohio, on Thursday, brought
in verdict OF murder in the first degree, for
the shooting OF Miss Miranda Cuyler at
ShsTpsburg, anear this city, III August last.
The trial on the Fashion Course,
New York, on Thursday. between several
horses, best three In tive, was won by Lizzie
Warwick, owned in Cincinnati. Best time
2:444.
The moulders at Trenton, Ohio, are
on a strike. Some of the mouldels went 10
WORK, and the strikers tried to run them ont
of town Friday night, and in the row one of
the strikers named George Livermore was
killed
1t is estimated that in the counties
of Halifax, SpOttsylvanis, Franklin and Hen
~, Va, and Rockingham and Casweli, N. c.,
the tobacco now on hand is worth sl2, 600, COO.
The crop of Spettsylvania alone is placed at
S3,O0U,O0
The Mobile colored convs ntion
unanimously resolved that it is the undeni-
able right of negroes TO hold Office, sit ON
jUres, ride in ali public conveyances, sit at
public tables, and visit places Of public
amusement.
Upon requisition of the Governor
OF Michigan, q desperate character named
John Leroy, alas Red Leroy was arrested in
New York Friday night, on a charge of as
saulting with intent to kill a citizen of
Michigan.
a heavy rain prevailed in Cairo, ILL.,,
on Saturday night and all day Sunday. Dur
ing the high winds that accompanied it. four
loaded sail boats and two coal boats sunk in
the Ohio river, short distance below Mound
City. The loss Is $50 900.
The United States Treasurer has de-
lvered to the Union Pacific Railway (Kansas,
branch) tine bonds for the thirty miles OF
road accepted by the commissioners April
9th Another section of this road, twenty
miles west OF Salina, viii be ready for inspec-
ton May 18th.
The New York Herald has a dispatch
by the Atlantic cable, dated Rio Janeiro,
April lSs.a which states that the Emperor Of
Brazil lad issued decree declaring all
slaves Iree, the mandate to take effect within
twenty years, and children, slave born,
hereafter are to be free from their birth.
Accounts from Macon, Ca, state
Governor jenkins brought to Georgia himself
the subpoena of the United States Supreme
Court IN the Georgia case, and had it served
on Gen. Pope when they we're stopping at
the same hotel in Atlanta last week. Gen.
Pope replied that be would obey the order of
the court.
Great numbers of refugeos are ar