Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-08-03
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The II. S. Steamer Iroquois and Ar
rostOOk were at SimOn's Bay, South Africa,
NAV 2Sth. Captain English of the former, re-
ports that deaths from fever at Mauritius,
according to the news received at Simon's
Bay, reached 1900.
The hist of jurors for the July term
Of Martin County Court, N. O., was chat
lenged by one of the lawyers for not being
in conformity with Gen. Sickles' code. The
whole jury list was abolished IN CONSEQUENCES
and the court adjourned over to next teflh'
1t is believed that all the bills passed
at the last session Of Congress have become
laws either by the approval OF the freslaent
or nv massage over his veto. with the excep-
tion OF a bill striking out the word whit" IN
the statutes in the District Of Columbia.
A boiler in the boiler works of Clapp
4 Jones, Water street, New York, exploded
Saturday, severely injuriDg two men and five
bows, ar. Clapp, one of the firm, Jacob Reed;
Moses O'Keefe, John Dacy, Chas. A. LudreW,
ChAs. Alderman and L.. Fox.
a match game of base ball was
played IN st. Louis. on Monday, between the
National Club, of Washington, and the Union
Club, of st. Louis, which resulted IN the VIC
tory of the former by score of ll3 to 70.
The Postmaster General has APP.
pointed Isadore Bradley, of New Haven, as
i'm charge of the mails between San Francisco,
Japan and China. lie goes by the steam
ship Great Republic, on the Sd OF September.
The Tribune says that the nOminas
ton Of Horace Greeley as Minister 10 Aus
tria, was az complete surprise TO HIM az to
the public. He ID obliged for the compliment,
but could not be induced to leave this eoun-
try for the present.
A Lawrence, Kansas dispatch says
that the cholera is raging badly atForts HAIR
ker and Hays. Fifty new cases we've reported
at Fort Harker on Saturday, and seventeen
deaths There were seven cases in one fam
lily at Salina, and three deaths
A Savannah. Ga, dispatch says that
the cotton crop il somewhat damaged by the
heavy rains causing shedding OF the balls,
and by worms. The prospects are stlll tair
for a tWO-thlrds crop. The nee crop IS re-
ported 40 badly damaged.
A Washington dispatch says that the
President has under consideration the pro-
prlety Of calling the five district commanders
to that city, that they may confer with each
other and the Executive, relative To the exc
cutiOn of the Reconstruction acts, aud deter
mine, as near as may be-, upon uniform rules
of aston aud practice.
The officers Of the steamer McGill,
from the Upper Missouri, say tbat band
at I 50 Sioux Indians attacked a part OF the
Rhu tribe, above Fort Stephenson, and killed
three and run of tWenty-t five ponies. On the
same night the same Indians stampeded
number of government horses and wounded
one soldier at Fort Stephenson.
lmmenge deposits of tin ore have
been discovered Al MADISON county Missouri,
not far from Pilot Knob ami Iron Mountain.
One lode Is between 500 and QUO feet wide,
Several smaller ones have already been
found. The surface ore yields from three to
fifteen per cent, These are the largest
known in the world.
A prisoner named Franz Ecker, nm
der sentence Of death IN the ROokland Co.,
\. Y, jail for murder, on Monday last, shot
sheriff Thomas DeNayele, who was on Ills
accus toned rounds, and then committed SUI,
eide by shooting himself DE Nayeile Is still
alive. The wife Of the prisoner visited him
On Sunday, aud was arrested on suspicion OF
having procured a revolver for him.
Australian advices of June LIST report
the loss Of the mission ship John Williams,
al the south Sea Islands.-Ihe heavy Hoods
in Australia have greatly injured the crops,
and much suffering has ensucd -ChIlstopher
Newton. Bros. q 90. have stopped payment.
Their liabilities amount to over $40 900.
A Fort Phil. Kearney special says
that Judge kinney, Of the special Indian
Commission, has just concluded highly sat
isfactOTy council with eighteen hundred Crow
Indians at that place. They are anxious TO
Join IN an expedition against the Sioux
While IN council the Cheyennes ran OF their
horses. The Crows secured them, killing
three Indians.
Seven deaths occurred from cholera
in Memphis, Tenn, ON the 10th. The disease
Is steadily Increasing, though So tar II has
not assumed all epidemic form. The rayages
are confined almost exclusively to negroes
board of health has been organized To put
the city Ia good sanitary condition.
A Buenos Ayres letter, dated June
"A states that Vice President Paz has re-
signed, and as soon ar his successor Is ap-
pointed Gen MitTe will return 10 the COM
mand of the allied army. The Government
offices in the Custom House were seriously
damaged 10y fire. ID IA reported that the
greater part of the state papers we're de-
stTOyed.
The United States steamer Lincoln,
which sailed from san Francisco for Alaska,
on the 2lst, conveys government surveying
party to make Photographic survey OF the
coast aud adjacent islands, under the super
vision of George Davidson.-Captain A. w.
Howard proceeds by the Lincoln to Sitka to
organize this affairs of the revenue depart
ment.
At the democratic meeting In Balti
timure, one Of the members of the Maryland
constitutional convention appealed to the
hearers To assert the doctrine Of state rights,
and carry back the government TO it's real in
tent. as understood by the trainers OF the
constitution. The sovereignty OF Maryland.
he said, must not go under unless at the
point of the bayonet.
A Washington dispatch says that the
ex-Tebel commissioner for the exchange of
prisoners of war, published a letter IN the
National IntelligCncer, in which he says IN
1864 the rebel authorities voluntarily pro-
posed to deliver 5000 sick and wounded
soldiers without requiring any equivalent.
He offers To prove this by the evidence OF
Union officers.
Before the New York Supreme Court
on Monday. the case of James +. Cummings
vs.. James Gordon Bennett, for alleged libel,
with 5000 600 damages claimed, was argued
and the decision reserved. The Herald
merely published the charges contained IN a
former complaint, made III court by one
pOnltain, that the plaintiff had swindled the
rebel government under which he occupied
prominent position.
The Nashville Banner newspaper
press was broken on Saturday, and the press
work of sunday mornings edition was done
by the Press a. Times. The printers of the
latter Office. who are members of the Typo
graphical Union, notified the publishers that
they would quit work # this was repeated.
This morning AIR. Whitam paid and dis
charged them. and hereafter intends to en-
plOy no printers that belong to the Union.
The ship David Crockett, 40 days
from New York arrived in San Francisco on
the Odd. She reports that on April Sth, at
lat SO = Sc min. north, long,, 459 % min.
west, she passed Water-l0gged ship, with
nothing but the foremost standing; full poop
forward; house painted green; swinging da
Wits on the quarter; painted black; rail- brOk-
On away amidships; bulwaTks gone; had the
appearance Of having been in that condition
for some Time.
The Herald's New Orleans special
SAYS that Gen. sheridan has issued an order