[Excerpt from "The San Francisco Bulletin", Vol. XXI, issue 104, p. 2, 8 Feb 1866] [Excerpted 27 Sep 2007, Mark Murphy] [Note- relates to land near Vicksburg owned also by partner Emedicus Murphy-mm] Washington, Feb. 4 It is mentioned in diplomatic circles that the wife of the Chevalier Bertinatti, the Italian Minister, who before her marriage was Mrs. Brist [Bass], of Vicksburg, has received from the Quartermaster General $50,000, the value of her property appropriated or destroyed by our army at the capture of that place in 1863. Madame Bertinatti, formerly Mrs. Brist [Bass], resided in Vicksburg up to the time of the investment by our army, and has all along been an ardent sympathizer with the rebellion.