Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-08-03
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The census OF the Cherokee nation
amounts only 20 -, l5G, falling on OF 10000.
The Judiciary Committee closed the
Impeachment investigation on the 23d.
The cholera In Memphis is deereas-
ing.
a train of seeding MormOns from
Utah arrived at Julesburg on the 18th, an
route for the states.
The steamer Antelope. from Port
Benton, was fred into BY the Indians below
Fort BHfOrd.
The receipts from customs dnring
theweek ending July 18th, at New York, are
S2,769 j53-
From the first to the sixth of July
over 6 OO0 acres Of land were entered IN the
Land Office AT Denver.
It is reported that the cholera has APP
peared ut Greenwood. ON the YAzOO river,
Miss. Over thirty negroes died. No cases
have vet occurred among the whites.
An Augusta, Ga, dispatch says that
the weather il favorable to the crops. The
accounts from the coast are favorable to Sea
Island cotton.
A Wilmington, n. c., dispatch says
that the accounts concerning the grain crops
are more encouraging fhe reports from
the cotton crop are not so favorable.
The statement Of the public debt
for the present month, which viii be pub
Iished the first Of August will show de-
crease of the debt OF two OF three millions.
Many of the farmers of Niagara Co.,
New York, have contracted To deliver the new
crop of amber wheat 10 L0ckpOTt mlllers at
- per bushsl-
The weekly report Of DIR. Harris, ON
the mortality Of New York city last week was
l53 less than the average of corresponding
weeks for the last six years.
A dispatch from Quebec says that
about 20 houses. on Olivia and LstOnyille
streets, were destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning. Loss not known.
The registration office In Nashville
was closed permanently ON Saturday. Six
thousand voters have been registered, OF
whom 600 are whites.
The locomotive of a dirt train on the
Illinois Central Railroad exploded at Cairo
On the 10Th, instantly killing j. W. Hayward,
engineer, and mortality wOundlng John Viii
son, fireman.
A circular, by order of Gen. o. o.
Howard, was issued from the Freedmen =
Bureau, providing for the appointment of all
clerks and citizens and agents in the bureau,
by the Commissioner, or higher authority.
Ashinrarat, one of the Japanese stu
dents at AIunsOn, Mass, committed suicide
by hanging ON sunday evening. Mental de-
preston, amounting almost to insanity, was
the cause Of the act.
Accounts from Arkansas represent
the cholera as prevailing on the plantations
in the vicinity Of Pine Blnff, Des Arc and
Helena. One planter near the latter place
lost twenty-five hands last week.
The crop prospects In Arkansas are
very encouraging. A large amount Of corn
has been planted. Gen. Pillow estimates his
corn crop at 20O.OO0 bushels. TgO-thirds Of
the land under cultivation this year has been
planted to cereals.
The Mayor of New York has vetoed
the resolution granting the Harlem road per
mission to run dummy engines between their
freight and passenger dep0ts, on the ground
of danger to human life, and depreeiatlng
property.
Ia the trOtting-match for 81, 200, 2
mile heats, ON the Fashion Course Tuesday,
between Gen. Butter Rich and StOneWall
Jackson the first aud third heats and the
race We're won by Gen. butler. Time, 1859
sos and sos.
1t is reported in Paris that. before
he entered QueTetaIc, Macmillan shipped
for Europe a story Of the French expedition
to Mexico. written by his own hand That
manuscripts II in possession Of Due ID. Aut
male, for publication in the French capital.
The formation Ola local government
for Ontario, Canada, is completed, and th'
Cabinet Ministers .werG -sworn IN on Satnr-
day. Matthew Crook Cameron ID Secretary
and Register, aud Edmund Burke Mood 4
Treasurer.
The New York Tribune says that the
report Of the Senate Investigating Commit
tee confirms the belief that stupendOus fraud.
have been pTacticed Ia the management O
the mails. In one. clam for $4,000 al
judged as fraudulent by the Senate, has beer
paid without the authority Of law, while il
another q contractor received s54 600, at Ieas
twelve times az much as he ought to.