Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-11

expected there from the interior.
Advices from Queretaro to Secretary
Seward state that the Imperialists made an
other sortie on the 9Th, but were repulsed.-
General Miramon was mortally wounded.
The government disbursements for
the week ending the 9th was S., 319 O94; re-
ceipts from customs for the week, -, O4o,lo :
45; receipts from internal revenue tor the
week, 81 Cos, 2O6.
The Treasurer of the Southern Re-
lief Fund of San Francisco, has telegrsphso
forty-seVen hundred dollars IN gold TO the
New York commission, as contribution
from Story county, Nevada.
The Union Pacific Railroad track to
Wyandotte, and the Missouri Pacific to
Leavenworth, are out of water, and being re-
paired. Trains ran through to Leavenwofth
wednesday, and viii continue regularly
Tuesday, the criminal court at Wash
ingtOn adjourned until the 9th inst, when
is understood that John IL. Durratt wall be
tried, the court and counsel for the prosecu-
ton and for the criminal having so agreed
The eolored educational convention
met at Macon, Georgia, on the lst, and there
occupied in explanation as to the peculiar
system Of education IN the state.
Tue meeting on the Memphis race
course on Monday next promises TO s9rpas pass
any former one. T. large number OF cele-
Srated horses have already arrived and 9TH
ers are expected to-day.
a land slide occurred Monday night
at Wilmore on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
throwing the fast line from Pittsburg on the
track. Jacob Gilman, express manager, had
leg broken, and was otherwise injured.
Letters from the south to the Relief
Commission are numerous, and show beyond
question that the suffering continues intense,
and must increase as the season advances,
until the time Of harvesting.
The receipts of the sub treasury in
New York, for April are SlS4, 900, GOO; dis
bursements SIl5,OO0,o0O. Receipts OF Gus
toms for the month s9,5OO,OOO, $4,000 less
than last year.
Nearly all the railroad companies and
manufacturing associations of Chicago have
issued orders that workmen will be employed
BY the hour hereafter, thus paying by the
hour One-tenth OF the wages formerly paid
by the day.
The citizens of Halifax gave the resi-
dent negroes a complimentary dinner last
week, and the citizens of DanvIlie subscribed
heavily towards purchasing chapei for their
colored neighbOrs.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany has made arrangements by which ply
sicians DESTROYS of attending the medical
convention in Cincinnati, on the 7th of May,
will obtain round trip tickets at half price.
The lockout in the iron mills of
Pittsburg, which has existed since the 9th
of last January, terminated on the 29th by
the mill owners giving workmen the old
prices The nail factories viii also be in full
blast. --tt
A deed was filed April oath, in the
Office of the Recorder of santa Clara county
Cal, by the quicksilver Mining Company,
Pennsylvania, conveying to the Quicksilver
Mining Company, New York, the new Alma
den Quicksilver mine; consideration express
ed, three millions and half. ..
A Washington special says that a
prominent republican has bought farm OF
nearly 400 acres, which he proposes to divide
into small lots for the freedmen, the pro-
eeeds to be set apart for the benefit of an ed
vocational Institution for the freedmen The
cost of the land was $4,000.
Advices from Forts Rice and Suily
a month later than the reported Fort Buford
massacre, make no mention of any trouble
whatever in the upper country. The account
of that affair is considered a csnard at Yank
ton and other points on the Upper Missouri
There was received on the 9th at the
Treasury Department, from Cincinnati, two
of money-one containing $500
and the other ii, 1000. No particulars con-
corning the amounts were given, and they
were appropriated to the conscience fund.
The ice bridge opposite Quebec i
still firm and over five feet thick in some
places. An attempt to blow 1t up proved un-
successful. The country between Quebec
and Montreal is flooded in many places IN
of accumulations of ice. Barns,
houses and fences we're carried away.
The Central branch of the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company having completed as a
frst-class railroad, twenty sddit onal mics OF
its rallrOadin Kansas, the same has been ao-
copied, and the President has directed the
Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior, to
Issue to the Company the bonds and patents
for the lands to which it becomes entitled.
A quantity of Telegraph paper, in
tended for striking of 81 and s. notes on the
Peoples National Bank of Jackson, Michi-
gan, and number of counterfeit notes
printed from the same, have been seized at
Port Jervis. Clement and Ida Berri " were
arrested on suspicion of using the plates and
selling bogus money.
The assets of Orray, Tafts & Co.,
of Providence, Rhode Island, who failed re-
Gently, are said TO amount to ninety-three
cents on the dollar of Liabilities, and a salts
factory settlement with the creditors will
probably soon be mad9. The work on their
mill at Tsftsyille, Conn 1, will soon be re-
sumed. ~ ~t-...
The Liverpool packet ship Hibernia,
lying at the foot of Beekman street, New
York, undergoing repairs, was burned TO the
waters edge Wednesday evening. The tire
Sc =aA horr hna Nv Hsh
left in the hold by one OF the workmen No
cargo was aboard except two hundred tons OF
pig IRON. ..tF..f p
Some patients at the Charity Hospi-
tai, Blackwelts Island, have made an affidavit
that an old man named John Thompson,
NhO is pronounced dying, had his eyes
gouged aud was brutally choked TO death by
4 bandage round his neck by an orderly nam
ed Henderson. He has been arrested and
denies the charge. stlf
The statement of the public debt for
April, it is thought, will show a reduction of
FIVE or six million dollars. the receipts from
customs and internal revenue for the month
are about twenty eight millions, one-hslf of
which being from customs, is in coin. The
statement will probably show one hundred
millions in coin, and fourteen millions or
more in gold certificates, in the Treasury.
The election in Baltimore, Tuesday
for Judge and Clerk Of the new City Court
passed of quietly. The aggregate vote was
smaller than anticipated. The following is
the result: Scott and George, conservative
Democrats, III. 3i7; Kelly and Kernsrd, radi
cal Republicans, ASST, Johnson. and Lynch,
conservative Republicans, ,ee9.
The Japanese commissioners were
received at the State Department Wednesday,
and expressed the best wishes of the Tycoon
forthe health OF the President and Secretary
of State, and the welfare of the American
nation. His majesty further desires that the
relations of sfriendship already existing be-