Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-11-12
Items, News, etc.

lands IN the world.
One million four hundred and ninety
five thousand men have been called in , the
field since the frs .sun was fired on sum
ter by the rebels, and $500, 100000 of
capital been poured into the Federal Treas
ury to support the war, without apparently
disturbing the onward course of events, or
checking the supply Of food sent to make
good the short harvests of Europe.
The Agricultural College lands have all
been located Much better lands have been
secured than was expected.
The body of a guide, lost in 1874, has
been found in the creyice of glacier near
Mount Blanc, in perfect state of preserya-
ton. $3.50
The Illinois State Fair was very sac
cessful. The receipts were ever So 900,
The Ohio State Fair as also very sue.
cesstul. At least sixty thousand residents
were IN attendance, besides large attend
ance from adjoining States and Canada
Inc receipts were sufficient to pay all ex-
p.snses, premiums, &c., and leave balance
Of several thousand dollars in the treasury
for another year.
The Union gain in the city of Madison
on the last governors vote is 225.
"A correspondent of the Journal wri-
ting from New Orleans, says that slavery is
dead in that Parish, although excepted un-
der the Proclamation He says no master
has any control over his slaves. They nat
urally betake themselves to work and claim
right to the bread they earn, and the mas
ter is powerless. The planters are seeking
a solution of the-to thea1-great problem
the profitable use of free labor. Not a
word do they utter about Constitutional
Aights,' not a pretence do they set up that
the death of the slave system is not the le-
gitimate result of the rebellion. They ad-
nit its justice, and do not seek to evade
this inevitable result As class the plan
tiers are qaite intelligent They generally
admit the rebel game is lost, and that their
case is like the '.lnan who was well, and
wanted to be better, and took physic and
died."
A deserter and murderer lately execu-
ted in Indiana, makes the following confess
sion:
"Ivos induced togo to meeting Of tie So
called knights Of the GoJdea Cireie,' and
soas made a member Of that organieation.
The obligation Of thai order bound as to do
all zee could against the acar---to resist a
draft, If one should be made, and Hhewise to
resist and oppose cont7scotion md enonci-
patton measures an ege2y possible ray HIe
acere saooan to stand By each other IN all
measures Of resistance. We We're pledged to
do all we could to prevent another man or
dollar going from the State for the further
prosecution Of the war. 4 met with this
secret meeting several times, and entered
into their views and plans,
The divorced widow of Aaron Burr is
now living near Manhattanville, near New
York. She is rich, ugly, old, and is known
thereabouts as ''the madam"
The Richmond rebels are at last raising
the cry of hunger. A man may avoid cry
ing out when his thumbs are in the thumb
screws, but not when his belly is pinched.
-Tuscumbia, point Of military interest
just now, is in Franklin county, Alabama,
five miles south Of Florence, and few miles
between the Muscle Shoals of the Tennes-
see river. 1t is forty-one miles west OF De
catur, the junction of one Of the railroads
connecting with Nashville.
"A new Goldfish bank, very productive,
has Just been discovered in the Pacific ocean
off the coast of Russian Tartary
The Chicago Times places the election
news that now comes in from all parts Of
the loyal country, under the head Of "Abo-
lition victories"
The Madison Patriot attributes the
Union victories in this State to the mad
ness of the hour and the prolific use OF
greenbacksn We think it is attributable
to the sober second thought and patriotism
Of the people.
Is. As near as we can get at it at pres