Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-08-17

arrival of the next mail from Cadlz, IL DelnB
feared that the new Ministry Will send new
officers.
Reports from Kingston, Jamaica, are
replete with lamentations about the new and
heavy taxation system imposed by the colo
NAL authorities.
The Havana merchants have unani-
mously agreed to charge their customers
one-quarter per cent. advance in consldera-
ton of the new tax.
The steamer Coral, from Louisville,
bound for Cairo with 8 full load, SUNK on
Sunday at Henderson Island. A NUMBER OF
lives are reported lost.
The following is a statement OF busl-
meas AT the New Orleans Custom House TOR
the month of July: Exports 81, l55,6t9; I'M
ports $6O5,3S8.
There is the best authority for the
contradiction of the statement that Presl-
dent Johnson has decided to remove COLLECTOR
Kellogg, of New Orleans.
The revenue cutter Pawtucket was
sold at auction in Boston, Wednesday, Tor
s25 coo, to parties in the city, and will be
despatched to China.
1t is understood that the control OF
the stephens branch of the Fenian Brother,
hood, in the United States, is to be rendered
to John Savage.
Eighty cases of yellow fever are re-
ported at Corpus Christi, and four deaths
have occurred. Business Is generally sus-
pended.
Five deaths on Saturday and seven
deaths on Sunday from yellow fever occurred
in Galveston. The chief OF police ana Dr.
Taylor, medical director, are dead.
Work will be considerably reduced at
the Springfield, Mass, armOry, $50 wOrkmen
having been discharged in the past two
weeks
The republican maiOrities for Gov
ernOr and Congressman in Tennessee are
increased rather than diminished by full re-
turns.
No further action had been taken by
the President last night, and the Secretary
of War remains at the Department transact
ing business rs usual.
The Massachusetts state cOnstables
invaded three club houses in Lynn on Sat
friday night, and seized the liquor and gam
ding Instruments, and arrested thirty-tour
individuals
Serious complaints are made regard
ing the corn crop of Ohio. In many places
1t has been ruined for want of rain, aud the
best corn land is drying up. Late potatoes
for the same cause will be failure.
The discharging of negroes at Mem
phis is still going on. The conservative press
urges their employers to use this method for
teaching them VINO are their lleuuSs IuC
streets are full of idle negroes.
The latest advices from Jamaica re-
port continued paralyzatiOn of trade, and
a general immunity for frauds and rObberies
committed in official circles and IN the rural
districts.
During the month of July there was
a loss OF twenty-five vessels at sea. The to-
tai value Of the property lost was $7S2,SOO.--
The losses for seven months of this year were
sl4, S55. 100.
A radical meeting was held in New
Orleans Monday night, to endorse the action
OF General sheridan. Prominent party
leaders we're announced to speak.
The u. S. Railroad Commissioners
have accepted another section of twenty-five
miles OF the Pacific railroad. Kansas branch,
extending 10 the two hundred and thirty
fifth mile west of the Missouri river
The engine and cabOOse of a working
train ran off the bridge where a track is
being laid, near Adams station, on the Rome |
and WATERFOWL railroad and ten men were |
injured, but none killed
One hundred and twenty-five farms, !
8, 43l acres, have been added to |
the productive force of Florida during July, |
under the provisions of the homestead act for |
the northern states.
The following is the amount of avail |
able funds in the Treasury of the United |
States: Currency, $65 266,676; Gold, Sl02.- |
905, IA, of which $40 457 $3.50 is in gold certifi
Gates.
The monitor Onondaga returned |
to New York with two feet of water in her /
hold, and proved as a bad sea boat. Her /
officers say she is likely to prove their coffin
if they attempt to cross the Atlantic in her.
Reports from the crops in Georgia
are encouraging. Daily showers continue. |
afr nfn in Gau &uf-
urday. The number of whites registered was
2 ,269, cOlOTed 1902.
A special Indian commission to visit
the northwestern Indian tribes, OF which
Sully is president, is now on its way
by land down the Missouri river, en- route to
Washington. They expect to reach there be-
fore the first of September.
The penny war which has been
raging for the past two weeks between some
street railroad companies and the public, in
st. Louis, on the question of an increase OF
fare, was closed Tuesday, by the companies
10 the old fare of five cents.
A special dispatch from Montgomery
saws: Mass meetings are being held all over
Alabama, under directions of the Republican
Executive Committee. The total registration
ia the state is liz. 400, of which $1,000 are
eolOred.
The jewelry store of G. Ct. Taylor, of
a..
Sunday morning. The safe was blown open
and robbed of about $1,000 worth Of watches
and other jewelry, and $3.50 in money. A re-
ward of $500 is offered.
There is no doubt of the fact that
the President on Monday formally requesteft
Stanton to resign his position Secretary of 4
War. The friends of the President assert /
that he has taken this course in order to Sc
cure unity of political views in the Cabinet.
The bark Oriental and the ship Rut-
land, from Boston, will take out a number of
to Japan and China this month. |
Among them are MIR. and Mrs. Taylor and /
daughter, of Ohio, and air. and Mrs. Atkin- |
son, of Chicago.
A large number of Boston bricklayers |
have knocked on work because they alege |
that their bosses employ more apprentices /
allow. The employers decline TO accede to |
their demand.
Orders have been received from |
Gen. Sickles to suspend all jury trials in |
North Carolina, on account of non-cOmpli- |
snce with general order No. 81, and orders a |
revisal OF the jury list. All jury trials upon |
receipt Of this order we're suspendeds
At GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Saturday
night, Frank Mcclure was shot dead by the
young bar-keeper that recently killed Nick |
Carney, a guerrilla. On Sunday the mate of
the steamer j. l.. Graham shot and |
killed in difficulty with a young man in |
GAINESVILLE.
The Cork Examiner of July 25th,
SAYS that ever indication pointed TO the GER
tainty of war between France and Prussia. |
A council of war is at the present moment
being held in Russia between the stats of
the armies of Russia and Prussia, and under
the presidency of the Gar himself.
1t is understood in well informed
circles that there is no foundation for the re-
port Of a disagreement between Secretary