Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-14

The last installment of the 81, 900
stake for which Hsmiil and Brown will row
at NewbuTg Friday was deposited by them IN
New York.
The newly appointed Collector of
Internal Revenue for the Fourth District Of
Texas is Judge Evans, formerly a member Of
Congress.
Some Spaniards, arrested as the sup
posed Mexican robbers have been discharged,
the property found in their possession prov
ing TO be copper, not gold.
The base ball match in Detroit. on
the End, between the Hiagaras, OF Buffalo,
and the Detroit Club, of Detroit, was wen by
Detroit by 26 to 10.
A warrant has been issued from the
u. s. Treasury Department for S4,3l7 ,O65.9O
In coin. in payment Of interest due on I1-40s
up to he 1stinst.
A Dominican inspector of mines Is
on his way to the United States TO obtain 500
or 600 wOTkingmen and machinery for the
construction Of railrosd in San Domingo.
The suit in the United States Court
against the Merchants Union Express Com
pany has been dismissed by Judge Nelson,
at COOperstOwn.
A dispatch from Washington states
that orders have been sent to District At
tOruey DOrsheimer, at Buffalo, for tue release
of arms belonging to Fenians seized 10 June,
1866.
The dispatch from Kansas City re-
porting that p con of Judge levitt of Ohio
had disappeared from Junction City, Kansas,
il incorrect 80 James b. Jewett, the only
son Of Judge j., Is located IN Philadelphia,
and has NOT been ia Kansas.
The suit of Charles Burnell against
the city OF Boston commenced on Monday in
the United States Circuit Court. The plain
tiff claims about s1,OO0,0U0, principal and in
terest for furnishing soldiers md sailors to-
ward the quota Of Boston during the war.
The failure of Silas S. Drew & Co,
dry goods merchants in Boston, with liabili-
ties of quarter of million of dollars, Gre
ates quite n sensation IN business circles.
One New York firm II said to suffer to the
smOunt of 800 600. The total assets are es-
timated at about the latter sum.
The Department of State has re-
ceiyed a full report If The proceedings Of the
recent monetary conference at Paris, which
agreed upon the five franc piece - the unit.
A reduction in weight of the United States
gold dollar Of 81 per cent, Is requisite for
uniformity with other nations.
The corner stone OF the new Jewish
hospital in Chicago was laid on Monday
Tire ceremony WAS characterized by due p0mp
and display. All the Jewish organizations in
the city participated. Eloquent adore sses
WfHt luhut ~ A1ufoA AtASb anu Albtig OtGtuc-
haum, IN English, and Godfrey SnydeckeT. in
German.
4 private letter received in CaiifOr-
MIA, Mo, from former resident Of that
place, nov living in northern Texas says that
the negroes of that part OF the state have
quit work and gone into camp They are
well armed and assert that they intend to
take the law into their own hands.
The nett earnings of the Union Pa
cific railroad for the quarter ending July 3lst,
il officially reported at s4S5, 7S9 "a, exclusive
OF S479, 283. II charged to contractors for the
transportation of men and materials. Four
hundred and sixty miles west OF Omahs aTe
now completed, and it lie expected that the
track to the Rocky Mountains, five hundred
and seven miles. will be finished in abOnt q
month.
TIE pension office, during August,
disposed Of 1884 claims, of which 9l4 were
rejected. Six thousand one hundred and
thirty-seven letters were written, and Is sig
circulars sent, and sixty land warrnts were
issued, covering 8, 720 acres. Two hundred
and fiitv patents will be issued from the pa
tent office for the week ending the 10th of
September.
The steamship Great Republic has
sailed from San Francisco for YokOhama and
Hong Kong, with seven hundred passengers,
mostly Chinese. She takes q large and valu-
able freight, including a large amount of
quicksilver, wheat, -four potatoes, salmon,
aDd one million dollars IN gold aud silver.
One Of the passengers Is Alien McLsue pres
ident oft Pacific Mail Steamship Company.