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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31

MYSTERY OF LAw-Frederick the
Great, century ago, wished to enlarge
his possessions and his palace. A GER
tain mill obscured the view, and he offer
ed the Prussian fair price for it. He
refused to sell it because it was pater-
nal estate Frederick then ordered the
mill to be torn down, which was done -
The miller stood calmly by, saying that
he would abide by the law. He must
obey his sovereign, but the law did not
compel him to sell his mill till be chose.
He appealed to the courts, and the courts
decided that Frederick should rebuild
the mill. This he cheerfully did, thank
ing God that he had court not inau-
enced by impartial favor. Twenty years
ago the present owner Of the mill became
involved and offered to sell it to Fred
erick William, the successor of Frederick
the Great. The sovereign refused to
buy, but freely gave him $4,000, saying
that the mill must stand, as monument
of the triumph oflaw, and Prussia stands
to day as constant monument OF the
majesty Of land. It is not beneath the
dignity even Of her emperor to be sub
missive to law.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31
WHITNEY SMITH,

rxASNER AND CURRIER, Mineral Point Wis
Leather of all kinds also Hair for Plasterlngs al
noiice and On moderate terms [n26-tfl
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T.. M. STRONG,

A TT0RNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Land and
n Collecting Agent, Dodgeville, Wis. Paftlcuial
attcnton given to the settlement of estates in the
County Court Office in Court House. Up Stalrs-l
t..aa n28-yI t3.4
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DODGEyIIIE WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER
Russia and the Russians.

Bayard Taylor, Esq, late United
States Charge des Affaires at St. Peters
burg, is lecturing with applause on the
subject Of Russia and the Russian
people" His repeated visits and extern
sive travels in Russia, followed by two
years of official residence at the Court,
have giving him extraordinary advan-
tages for acquiring an exactitude of
knowledge as to the true condition Of
hat great empire and he has looked at
everything with American eyes, and
describes what he has seen in his usual
graphic and straightforward style. It is
not surprising that his representations
differ very essentially from those we are
accustomed to receive through French
and English channels; the one always
remembering the Napoleon campaign,
and the other always forebsding the ap-
proach of the Russian frontier toward
India. Mr.. Taylor sees clearly the iden-
tity Of the principles of reform adopted
by the Emperor Alexander II, with
those which underlie our own civilization,
and which no other European nation has
taken, viz: personal freedom, the owner
ship Of land by the laborer, general edu-
cation and the protection Of public JUS
tice And these are to be carried out as
fast as the people can bear them. In re-
gard to Poland, Mr.. Taylor states the
facts in clear manner, that the trouble
was begun by the priests and petty no
bles, who conspired to avail themselves Of
the EN- barrassments connected with the
abolition Of serfdom to create reaction
ary revolution in the interest of France
and the Pope; that the bulk Of the people
have never participated in the plot; that
the so-called conscription at Warsaw was
the consequence and not the cause Of the
conspiracy; that the alleged unanimity of
the people is produced by system ofes
pionage and violence more atrocious, if
possible, than that practiced by our own
Shareholders in Texas; and that the re-
construction Of ancient Poland, after a
century of foreign rule, is neither desir-
able nor possible. -Ipdependent '.s05
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31

When man has learned how to learn,
he can coon learn anything
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31
The N alton.

The Continental Monthly for Decem-
Der opens with "The Nation,' contri-
button from the vigorous pen of Rev
Hugh Miller Thompson, Of this State
w make the following eloquent extract:
Since the days when men left house
and home and friends, with red crosses
on their hearts to redeem from the hands
Of the infdel the sepulcher which the
dead Christ made holy, the world has
never seen a war carried on for a more
purely ideal end than our own. We
fight for the integrity Of the Nation
We fight for what the word means of
hope and confidence and freedom and ad-
vancement to the groaning and bewilder-
ed world We say let all else. perish !;
wealth, commerce, agriculture, cunning
manufacture, humanizing art; we ex-
pend all to save the Nation. That price
less possession, we shall hold intact to
the end, for ourselves, our children and
the coming years.
Thank Heaven for this virtue Of patri-
otism /. lifts man out of his lower
| nature, and makes his heart beat with
| the hearts Of heroes. There are two OF
three things in the world men will die
for. The Nation is one. They viii die
for the land where their fathers sleep
/ They win fling fortune, hope, peace, fam
ily bliss, life itself. all, into the gulf, Il
save its hearths from shame, its roof-tree
from dishonor. They will follow the tat
tered rag they have made the symbol 9
| its rights, through bursting shells AM
| kissing hail of rife shot, and serrie'
ranks Of cleaning bayonets, ''into th
! jaws of death, into the mouth Of Hell,
when they are called.
q They will do this in thousands, th
poorest better than the richest otter
the humblest, just as heroically, as th
leaders of the people. And therefor'
we say thank God for the elevatipg poy
er of Patriotism, for National Pride, fl
national prejudice, if you win, that ca
by this great love Of Country, SO conqu
{. selfshness, meanness, cowardice, and {
lower loves, and make the very lowest
its power a hero, while the mortal mi
:. dies for the immortal Nation.
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poetrg anb Mistellanp.
SONG THOUSAND YEARS
By HENRY C. WORK.

X 81 HENRI " "0fA
This soul-thrilling piece beautifully depicts the fl
ture of this great nation ina way that strengthens GU
hopes and fills us with resolves. 1t is set to mu
sic and published in sheet form by Root Cady OF Chl
cago.
Lift up your eyes, desponding freemen!
Fling to the winds your needless fears!
He who unfnrrd your beauteous banner,
Saws it shall wave a thousand years
"a thousand years p my own Columbia!
IT'S the glad day SO long foretoldl
.Tis the glad morn whose early twilight
fFYn Washington saw in times of old
What il the clouds, one little moment,
Hide the blue sky where morn appears,
When the bright sun, that tints them crimson,
Rises to shine thousand years?
Tell the great world these blessed tidings
Yes and be sure the bondman hears;
Tell the oppressed of every nation
Jubilee lasts asthousand years.
Envious foes beyond the ocean!
Little we heed your timing sneers;
Little will they-our children's children
When you are gone thousand years.
Rebels at home! go hide your faces
Weep for your crimes with bitter tears I;
You could not bind the blessed daylight,
Thongh You should strive thousand years.
Back to your dens, ye secret traitors
Down to yourown degraded spheres Fl
the first blaze of dazzling sunshine
shortens your lives thousand years.
Haste thee along, thou glorious MONDAY
Oh, for the eyes of ancient seers
Oh, for the faith Of Him who reckons
Each of his days thousand years.
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How A BRAVE MAN sPEAKs.-W hlle
riding up Mission Hill on the memorable
25th. turning my horse to the right or
left to avoid treading upon the wounded,
I had dismounted from my horse to give
water to a dying boy, who lay upon his
gun with a bullet hole through his head,
when, few yards to the right, obsery-
ed an officer being carried down the hill
on stretcher. Riding up, inquired
Of the men
"Who have. you here -
"Adju,ant Marsh, of the 2lst Michi-
gan, was the reply.
"Where are you wounded, Adjutant 2"
"In the left arm, ;" was the reply.
.'Badly?" | inquired when, with a
smile lighting up his face, at same in
slant that [ discovered the arm aahering
to the body by small piece Of flesh, he
replied
my, arm is gone /, that's nothing ;
we've beaten them, thank God, and the
slur of the Chickamauga defeat is soblit-
Grated. Let the arm perish such vic
tory is worth thousand arms"
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From Harper's Week
CHRISTMAS, 1863.

In the first grand days of the prophets Fl
God stood with His armed men; a-i 7.
In the last grand days of the Christians
lie standeth with them again.
His presence then won the battle ##
That was for the Christ to be;
And his presence now is conquest
For the Christ that made them free.
And the early strife was holy, ty
By the peace it ushered in ; a 4
And the later in Gods commandment,
BY the peace it hath to win.
For the peace of Christ hath millions
Accepted the battle trust aaa
And yet, till His peace is perfect,
Shall war for the right be just.
War for the right unshaken,
To partake not Of a sin; E +tta
War with its outward horrors,
And the heavenly peace within.
The right is the peace eternal, @s
And thus is this Christmas morn - SIS
Rich in that days fruition -a,e MI
When the Prince of Peace was born.,
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j. I'll. CLARY,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Mineral Point, Wis. Of-
n fee in Thomas Stone Block. lhI-vI
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s. w. REESE,

.. w. hGGOh'
rroRNEy AT LAW Land and Collecting Agent
4 Dodgeyie, Iowa County, Wis. Particular at
tention given to collecting aud dagences and payment OF
taxes in Iowa County. Office in the Post omGe Dua
L. -
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31

CLERICAL VITA Uniyersalist cler-
gyman of Wisconsin, who has recently
returned home from term Of service as
chaplain to regiment in the army Of
the Cumberland, spoke at a town meet
ing the other day, and IN the course of
his remarks touched on the atrocious bar
barities of the rebels my friends he
said, Il have always preached to you
against any such institution as hell, or
future punishment but my experience
within the last few months has modified
my opinion somewhat I believe there
is hell provided for those wicked devil;
as a military necessity
4 When a man has learned how IN learn
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS THROUGH
OUT THE UNITED STATES

The reader will find in another part Of to-day g
Intelligencer Proclamation of the President of
the United States, ordering suspension of the
privilege of the writ of habeas corpus throughout
the United States, as far as regards certain class
of cases. This proclamation is issued under the
first section of the act of Congress approved March
Sd, 1868, "reating to habeas corpus and regu-
lating judicial proceedings in certain cases" The
first section of that act is in the following terms:
Be enacted by The Senate and House Of Representatives
of the United Sta'es Of Amerea in Congress assembled
That during the present rebellion the President of the
United States whenever in his judgment the public safe
y may require it, is authorized suspend the privilege
the writ OF habeas corpus any case throughout the Uni
ted States any part thereof And whenever aud wher
the said privilege shall be suspended aforesaid
military other fficer shall be compelled in answer to
any writ of habess corpus to return the body of any per
detained BY him by authority of the Pres-
dent but upon the certificate, under OATH of the officer
having charge ofany detained that such person is
detained by him prisoner under authority of the Pre-
sdent, further proceedings under the writ of hsbeas cor
pus shall be suspended by the judge court having
the said writ long said suspension by the President
shall remain in force and said rebellion continue
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
This is an explicit avowal of his purpose to re-

This is an explicit avowal Of his purpose to re-
gard the war as at end just so soon all resist
ance to the Union shall have been conquered. Ii
he docs not mean this his language is juggle OF
words, and none surely will impute to him any
such unworthy concealments of thought. 1t is
obvious, therefore, that he either expects the war
to last until all slaves shall have been actually
freed in the process of restoring the Union, or is
prepared to accept restoration Of the Union with
slavery undestroyed in quarters where it has not
been reached by the contact of our armies. In the
former case slavery will not have been destroyed
by the proclamation, but by military operations /;
and the latter suppositon the proclamation will
be equally confessed to have fallen short of its end
leaving the student of history to wonder, in any
event, why it ever was issued. But when in the
clear light of what was really accomplished by it
all men shall be able to see that, as ga military
measure" the proclamation did nothing for the
Government but very much against it, they will be
only the more ready to perceive the force of the
"pressure" under which this paper edict was ex
torted from of the most practical and, if left
free to follow his own primary convictions, Of
the most sensible of Presidents.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
REPORT OF GEN. GILMORE.

DEPARTMENT THE SOUTH
Headquarters in the Field, Sept. Z, 1868
Major General II. w HALLECK, Generalin- Chief
GENERAL; have the honor to report that Fort waQ
ner and Battery Gregg ours.
Last night our sappers crowned the crest of the coun
ter scap of Fort Wagner its sea front making all ts
guns and an order was issued to carry the place by as
saut at nine O'Clock this morning that being the hour Of
low tide.
About ten o'clock last night the enemy commenced
eVacuaing the island, and all but sevenyve of them
made their escape from Cummings Point in small boats
Captured dispatches show that Fort Wagner was com.
manded ny Col Keitt of South Carolina and garrsoned
oy fourteen hundred effective men, and Battery Gregg by
between one and two hundred
Fort wagner is work Of the most formidable kind
Is oombproof shelter, capable of containing eighteen
hundred men, remains intact after the most terrific
commandment to which any work ever subjected
we have captured nineteen pieces of artillery and
large supply of excellent ammunition.
The cy and harbor Of Charleston are now competeIv
covered by my guns
have the honor to be- General very respectfully your
ooou'ens se''aht, Q A. GILMORE,
brigadier General commanding.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
FROM ARKANSAS.

CINCINNATI, SEPT. 15-The Gazette's LeavenwoIth tn
despatch says that Gen. Blunt, at the last accounts was
at Fort Gbson preparing to start for Fort Scott In his
recent campaign he marched two hundred and fifty miles
IN nne days, fought two battles, and cleared from the
rebels one hundred thousand square miles Of territory
Refugees from the rebel conscrpton are coming into
Blunts lines by hundreds Their sulTsrngs are repre-
sented as ndescribable More than one hundred Union
men have been shot and hung at Fort Smith since the re-
bellion began,
supply trains are running regularly from Fort Smith to
Fort Blunt.
Fort Smith has been the headquarters for operations
during the winter.
despatch to the Commercial, dated at Brownsville,
Arkansas on the I'd instant, says:
Gen. Steele arrived here last evening His force will
come up today The rebels are in strong position tour
miles this side Of Little Rock with force estimated at
seventeen thousand men and thirty to forty guns Kirby
Smith has gone to Red River, leaving Price in command
The rebel Gen Mamaduke wounded in the leo IN the
recent engagement at Bayou Meteor
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
MAINE ELECTION.

PORTLAND SEPT. 15.-We have additional returns
from thirty six towns which give Coney 1881 majority
against 4l6 last year
SO far 226 towns give Coney 4S,934 Bradbury 33 S7,
being majority of l5057 The towns to be heard from
will considerably increase this m jority.
Full returns from York county give 800 Union majority
Franklin county gives about 5000 majority for the Union
ticket, Oxford about 200 and Kennebec it s thought
$500. The vote ia very close in Lincoln county
BY the annexed table it will be that the Repub-
Of Maine have uniformly carried the elections in that
State since the year 1865 The table aso shows their
majority in each year.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI

CAIRO, SEPT. 15-Admral Porter ha, inst arrived in
the General Lyon from below
oo the 30h Of August the eunboat Champion was at
tackled at Inorganic, while conveying the Julia, loaded
with troops Five hundred guerrlss opened FIRE on both
boats from behind the evee The troops passed on while
the Champion engaged the rebels aud dispersed them
Gen. Heron is after them with some troops
The General Lyon found the steamer Ewing sunk of
Plum Point, with gunbost guarding her
The STEAMER Hope caught fire just below Columbus
The General Lyon pulled her into deep water to extin
gush the ames left guard with her. and came up for
gunboat
The General Lyon also brings the news that the Marine
Brigade had captured at Bolivar three rebel paymastsr
IN whose possessloa found two millions Of doIars
Tbs sum was to be used to pay the troops at little Rock
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
IRON THE SOUTHWEST.

MEMPHIS, SEPT. l3-The cavalry and mounted inan
try of the Sixteenth Army Corps under the direction
Gen. Carr at Cornth, have been active during the past
week. going far south the Taahatche and stamped
ing the rebel cavalry into Grenada and Okolona Gen
Carr also scattered the rebel Rhodds forces in the yc
ity of Jacinto and Rienzi.
The rebels reported to have ordered all the cotton
to b destroy along the Taahatche which the planters
endeavoIing to get to the Memphis market.
Rsbel mas have been captured with correspondence
which confirms the report that Johnston reinforcing
Bragg.
rebel force with artillery is reported to be moving in
Upper Arkansas to intercept the navigation of the Msss
sipp They will receive attention
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
LATEST NEWS FROM CHARLESTON
PROGRESS OF OUR OPERATIONS.

New York, SEPT 16-The steamer Mary Sanford,
from Charleston Bar the night Of the 10TH has arrived
She has dispatches for the Government and mail from
the fset.
Gen. Gilmore was actively engaged erecting batteries
on me upper end Of Morris leland sustaining heavy fire
from Forta johnson and Moutrio The rebels have two
hiteenincb guns 10 Fort Moultre.
for' sumter entirely senced but the garrison is still
there ana the rebel flag still flying, attempt having
been made to capture it since the repulse of the boat
expedition.
The health Of the feet s good The Monitor patapsco
has gone to Port Royal for repair. Commander Ammen
has been appointed chief of Admiral Dahgrens staff.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
TIE SUCCESSES AT CHARLESTON
OFFICIAL REPORTS.

FORTRESS MONROE, (VA.) SEPTEMBER 10, 1863.
Major Gen. H. w. HALLEcK, Generalin.C Chief:
The steamer New York arrived this morning from,
Charleston, which port she left at 3 p M Tuesdav
5th instant
Capt Chisholm reports that forces captured at Fort
wagner seVenty-hve prisoners twentyone guns, and
large amount Of ordnance stores
The rebel flag is still flying at Fort Sumter but there
are no guns mounted and only very small force remains
there.
Five Monitors and the Ironsides engaged Fort Moutre
and batteries Beauregard and Bee from A. M till Q p
NJ on Tuesday, the 9Th instant shell from one of the
Monitors exploded in the magazine at Moutrie. The
southwestern parspet seriously damaged by the ex
plosion. EDWARD f. PoTrrp Cb;sf oc stag
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
REBEL NEWS FROM CHARLEsToN

CHARLESTON, SENT. 4.-The enemy is perfecting ar
rangements for permanent occupation Of Morris Island
erecting lines of telegraph along the whole island and
vertng Battery Wagner into powerful work enlarging
their bomb proofs, &C. They fire upon boats plying
in the harbor from Battery Gregg.
CHARLESTON, SEPT. I5-The enemy is building tele.
graph from Tybee Island and Fort Pulaski, along the
South Carolina coast, to Cummings Point
magazine of one Of our James Island batteries was
exploded to-day, killing one lieutenant and FIVE men
Anxiety is felt to hear from Bragg
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.

FORTRESS MONROE, SEPT. 16.-The Richmond Dis
patch of to-day, received here, says
1T reported that there advance of the enemy
and engagement at Cupeper Sunday last and skir-
msh between cavalry Rapid Station on Monday
without any very definite result The enemy are crossing
their infantry at Kelys Ford, and apparently contem
advance"
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
SURRENDER OF CUMBERLAND GAP

CLEVELAND, (O) SEPTEMBER 10, 1863.
Major EcKERT, Washington: The operator at Crab
Orchard states that the line working to Cumberland
Gap yesterday but not working the hour when secce
tary Stanous message received announcing the fall
of Chattanooga.
The same operator states that Cumberland Gap surren
dered to Gen Burnside yesterday afternoon at four
o'clock, without firing gun. We expect further advices
soon. sr.orp
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION.

The Government yesterday received the first official
information Of the fall Of Chattanooga and the occupation
Of the place BY our troops, in the following despatch
CLEVELAND, (0) SEPTEMBER 9, 1868.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON, Secretary of War:
The operator at Trenton Georgia. teegraphs that Crit
tendens division took possession of Chattanooga
ANsoN STAGER
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
REBEL NEWS FROM GEORGIA

ATLANTA, SEPT. 14-Gens. Johnst, a and Forrest
shrmished with the enemy Dalton o . Friday For
rest wounded The Yankees have advanced to Tun-
nell Hill
Gen. Wheeler had skirmsh near Lafayette the same
day. The enemy being too strong, he fell back A gene
raj engagement is expected.
Roecrans occupies Chattanooga and il reported that
Burnside has joined him.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-17
VIRGINIA ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT.

A friend at Norfolk has kindly sent us some re-
cent Richmond papers, including the Enquirer Of
the 9Th instant, which contains the opening pro-
ceedings of the extra session of the Legislature,
with the Message of Governor LETcHER, commu-
nicating his reasr r.s2r summoning special ses-
sion, and an exposition of the public exigencies
which demanded that measure.
These exigencies are grave enough certainly,
according to the Governors admission, and not
likely to be cured by all the remedies which he
recommends. The exposition serves to disclose
not only the desperate condition to which the re-
bellion has brought affairs in Virginia, but also
that the Governor occupies at present the most un
easy spot of an anxious seat. He has at no time,
we presume, since Virginia suffered herself to be
/" dragged" into the South Carolina conspiracy oc-
cupied bed Of roses but now we dare say he
would, if he could speak out, be ready to excaim,
with the sage of Undertook, "our sufferings as
int olerable" Yet who can commserate the dis
tresses of one whose judgment was not blinded by
his passions, but, knowing better, consented to
drag such calamity on his country?
The debates in the Legislature, however, blaze
with the language of resolution and confidence
confidence which scarcely be sincere, and that
sort of resolution, we suppose, described by the
poet as gathered from despair"
The Enquirer itself is, according to its "voca-
tion," very bold and very defiant, yet admits vir-
tualy that the only card left for the Army Of the
Potomac is another invasion of Maryland But we
question if the able commander of that army will
concur in this view. His experience has taught
him, we suspect, that expeditions into Maryland
do not pay.
For the curiosity of our readers we quote few
passages from the Message Of his Excellency Of
Virginia.