Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-03-23

! Iient. Governor Armstrong with gold watch
/ worth $500. The members of the House also
| held banquet at the Merchants Hotel the
same evening, at which the Speaker, MIR. Far
mer, was presented with silver service.
The roads across the Sierra Nevada
mountains are being finally opendd for
| travel. The accumulation OF bullion for the
/ last three weeks, in the state of Nevada, has
| commenced TO arrive IN San Francisco. Inc
/ The quantity is enormous amounting 70
many tons. military escort has been de-
tailed for the purpose Of protecting the treas
/ ure during its passage across the noun
tains.
i Adyices from Venezuela note the ar
| rival OF the French man-Cf-wGr D'Estaing at
/ Laguayra, and reports that on the Sd OF Feb
4 rusry Venezuela has 10 pay $3.50 600 TO the or
/ der OF the French legation and rs unable TO 90
il. This fact being fully appreciated by -Ahe
French no doubt accounts for the presence
there of man-ofwar.
A Memphis dispatch says that the
/ Mississippi river is slowly rising, and is now
one inch higher than high water mark OF
| 1882. The whole lower country Is flooded,
and cattle, hogs and mules are drowning
and perishIng; fences are swept away aud
/ plantations de trOyed. The inhabitants say
the river is higher than was ever known
/ before.
The Indiana Legislature adjourned
sine de on the 18th, after a session OF sixty
| lays. A large number of bills were passed
/ during the session, among which were the
registry law for the protection OF the ballot
| b x, the new Congressional and Legislative
apportonment bills, q law TO punish boiling
/ IA the Legislative, and law for the establish
| ment OF House Of Refuge Tor JaVenlle onen-
ders. The amount OF money approved IN the
general aud specific appropriation blils
| amounts to sl.5OO,OOO.
The correspondence is published rel
alive 70 the case of Michael UBrien, an
| American citizen. He Was arrested IN Liver
pool on suspicion Of being Fenian, and 6fu-
| tally treated at his trial. de was acquitted
and laid ths case before the American con-
sui at Liverpool, claiming compensation Tor
| false Imprisonment. The case was referred
| to Minister Adams, who returned the papers
| with the intimstiOn that the home govern
ment had better be consulted before any de-
mEnd was made.
| The whole of the Virginia and Ten
| nessee valley HIS been visited with the heaVi-
| est freshet within the memory OF the Oldest
/ inhabitant The whole valley, from Lynch
| burg 10 Chattanooga was swept by the swell
/ len streams Itrained necessarily Tor three
DAYS, which, with the melting snow from the
tInOuntains, OVERLOADED all the streams. Inc
Virginia and Tennessee railroad Ia badly
| damaged, and trains are blockaded. Inc
| damage to property Is very great
A despatch from Carson of the Sth,
Gays the Nevada Legislature adjourned sane
de at midnight. The Lieut. Governor, before
/ 1t adjourned said that the Legislature
/ had brought no credil to themseles nor to the
state. No revenue bill having passed, the
state is without credit. his evening there
| has been refused credit for hundred pounds
| of flour 10 the state prison. Within twenty
days they would turn the prisoners loose TO
| seek a living for themselves. The closing
scenes were disgraceful.
Another horrible murder occurred IN
house Of ill-iGme, in Chicago, on the night
l of the Sth inst. A woman, named ENNIS
Grant, one Of the inmates, got into quarreI
with her p ramOur, one Michael Spar, snd
drawing huge dagger, plunged It into ms
| throat, making a frlghttul wound. Bleeding
most pFOfusely. the wounded man rushed
ont OF the house, and, by a friend, was as
| sisted across the street into a drug store
where he died IN ten minutes. The murder
| ess was arrested and committed TO Jail. She
displayed no remOrse whatever for the hor-
rible deed.
The floods in the OHIO and Missis
sippi rivers are doing immense damage, and
| the people are suffering greatly. A Cincin-
| natl dispatch OF the 18th says: Reports
| from below represent great destruction of
property by the food. In many places be-
/ tween New Albany and Evansville, the river
/ Is thirty miles wide. Thousands of cattle,
! sheep aud hogs have been d. owned, and hun
/ dreds Of thousands of bushels Of grain has
/ been lost. The countryis covered with float
/ ing stacks OF hay, wheat and oats. Nearly
i ali the steamboat landings are under water,
and boats cannot make landings. Shawnee
/ town il completely inundated. In the lower
/ part of Cincinnati and COvington humid eds
Of houses are under water.
The Commissioner Of the General
Land OfiOs has received returns exhibiting
| sn aggregate disposal OF 1882 sores OF pub
| Ito lands during the month OF February, at
| the following local offices, viz: Nebraska
City, s,729 acre.; St. Peters, Minn., 4,0l5
acres; Humboldt Kansas, 4,2e9 scres. A
| large portion Of the land was taken under
| the homestead law for actual settlement and
/ cultivation. Tue remainder was sold for cash
and located with Agricultural college scrip
and military warrants. The cash sales
amounted 10 $3.50 The Commissioner
/ transmitted % the Governor Of Iowa paten
70. 8, embracing l,l20 acres Of swamp landst
in the late Charlton district, enuring to the
state under the grant OF Sept. Is, 1850.
The lower house of the Missouri leg
islature passed, by vote of lie to g. the bill
| 10 restore the state credit by the payment OF
interest on state bonds. The bill appropri-
! ates 5000, 900 out Of the state treasury 20 pay
the interest falling due July l, 1867, ami lev
les a tax of four mills on the dollar 20 meet
the the annually accruing interest thereafter.
i Also appropriates "a, 000,OO0 of the sum due
4
| payment of overdue coupons in the order in
| which they matured on the LIST OF July 1861 as
| fact So said money Is received from the gov
| eminent. The remaining overdue coupons,
estimated at 81, $50, 900, are to be taken up.
and new state six per cent. bonds, bearing
date January LIST, 1865, issued for them. The
National Bank OF Commerce of New York, is
made the agent of Missouri for the trangac-
ton of this business.
A dispatch received by the Southern
/ Relief Commissioner, from Washington,
states, on authority of Gen. Howard, that
although the proposed Congressional apprO-
priatiou OF 81 600 000 for the relief OF the
suffering poor OF the south be passed, private
contributions should not be eurtailed. Gen.
| Howard says in addition to the one million
| dollars from Congress, $500. 900 should be
raised by the people. Gov. Jenkins telegraphs
i that the destitute in Georgia number co., 600
| whites and 80, 600 blacks, which is largely in
| excess Of Howard's former estimate, and IL
| il believed that real destitution in South Car
| china is even larg er than in Georgia. The
/ government has given the relief committee
the free use Of the bark PurveyOr and she
/ will be loaded this week with full cargo Of
corn. Her capacity is about 25, 600 bushels.
| The commissioner hopes to obtain another
ship to be filed with corn this week. u
Tie finance bill passed by the Mis-
souri, Legislature, places $3.50. 000 now in the
| state treasury, to the interest fund; provides
| a four mill tax which will reslize 81 400, 600
] per annum, and appropriates 81 600, 900 of the
/ sum due the state by the Federal govern
ment. These amounts willretire during the
| present year ten overdue coupons on each
/ bond Of the state debt, which Is SIS, 436. 600,
| and leave sinking fund of S400, 600, to re-
/ tire the remaining coupons, or they may be
| funded as the Dondhoders choose. The
| Platte Valley, Southwest Pscifc, Iron Noun
ittaf1 and flairO and Eultou RafIroada are