Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-28

For some days past there have been
/ frequent rows between soldiers and freed
men in Augusta, Ga. One negro Is Iepof'eu
mortslly, and one soldier badly wounded,
The assessment just completed gives
a total valuation of real and personal prop
| erty within the city and county OF st Louis
/ of sI36 OOO. OO0 upon which the tax levied
amounts to 90 100000.
General Root, internal revenue col
Ieetor in Baltimore, seized six hundred bar
FeIs of whisky, valued at S, 800, at the dis
tillery of j. +. Perry, on Spring street. MIR.
Perry is accused of being a party to the
frauds prseticed on the government by the
shipments of whisky from Baltimore to Bos-
ton.
/ Advices from New Orleans state that
the re-Opening of the boards of registration
in Louisiana began last Friday, The reeon-
/ structiOn act authorizes i've days Tor feYl-
| sion. None coming under the Presidents re-
cent amnesty proclamation have as yet APP
piled for registration.
The voting in Richmond on the sub
seription to the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
/ road closed Wednesday without altering the
result. About two thousand black votes were
| thrown ont, owing to the fact that they had
/ forgotten the names they had registered by.
| and handed in their votes under different
names.
The soldiers and freedmen promi-
nent in the late disturbances in Augusta
/ Ga, have been arrested. The former are to
| be tried by court martial, and the latter by
/ civil court. An inoffensive white citizen
was set upon and badly cut Wednesday even
ming by soldiers, whO,i il is supposed, took him
| for cOlored man.
The consul at Palermo, under date of
August 3Oth, reports that the cholera has de-
creased so that there were only hundred
cases yesterday The city Is resuming a
cheerful aspect. The deaths within the year
we're about 10. 900, or per cent. Of the whole
population of the city.
THE EAST.
The Hoboken race for two-year olds
was won by McDaniels Planet, lilly out of
| Adeloeaia Time I.4Sf The mile heat race
was won by McDaniei's Clement, a Lucy
Fowler colt. Time, 1.51 aud l:5Ot.
A gang of burglars, operating in
Maine, between Portland and Bangor, have
been broken up and the parties connected
with it arrested. Considerable stolen proper
| ty has been recovered.
Three distilleries and one hundred
and twenty-five barrels of spirits we're seized
| in New York on the 18th by the revenue Of
ficials. Only one hundred thousand dollars
have been received as revenue tax for the
last two weeks, but it is believed that half a
million ought to be the figure.
A caucns of the republican members
of the New York Constitutional Convention
has determined to make effort To finish
business by the 10th Of October. and to sub
NIT the constitution TO the people at the No
yember election. In the Convention pro-
visO against the sale OF the canals was
adopted
GilIets & Noyes, IN the tea trade in
New York. have failed. Their liabilities are
under half a million. Their oblig tions are
chiefly in the hands of banks or private capi-
talists, who bought them through note
brokers. Tho cause of the failure IL said to
be of years standing, and includes the pur-
chase of goods for gold and their re- sale for
currency.
at meeting of tobacco manufactur-
ers in New York ON the 18th, resolutions
we're adopted against the recent Treasury
regulations, and a committee was appointed
Ia proceed to Washington. and in cODjunc-
Chicago and other cities, present petition
to the Secretary OF the Treasury praying for
a repeal of the obnoxious regulations.
The New York Post says that the
large insurance and brokerage agency of s. J.
F. DobsOn & Co, of Boston, which has
branches in New York and Chicago, has sus-
pended payment. Their liabilities are said to
be $20OO00, and many insurance companies
OF New York city, for whom they acted as
agents Ia other places, gre suffering from the
failure.
Fourteen of the steeTage passengers
of the steamship Minnesota, which arrived in
New York, on Monday night, died on the
| voyage; eleven from cholera. IL Ii stated
| that the disease was 0ccasiOned by the over
| crOwding of the vessel IN consequence OF the
transfer Of passengers collected for the Eng
| land, of another line, which was chartered by
! the British Government for the AbYsslnlaD
expedition.