Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-09-17
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e"io tho 0lop hdo oilly IeacneQ some nifty
or sixty thousand baskets per year.
Capt Ericsson write to Epes Sargent
THE Dictator is fast approaching compile
ton, with her ten and a half inch side
armor and fifteen inch thick turret. Her
new wrought iron ordnance is also nearly
ready. Mark my word this vessel will as
surely prove Dictator as the first one of
her size has proved a Monitor"
The commerce of the world requires
10000 900 able bodied men to be constantly
traYersing the sea. The amount of prop
erty moved on the water is from 81 5000
900, or 2,00O, 100000, and the annual aver
age loss about $25, 100000.
Through the fundamentally Of the
Bureau Of Deserters, 1000 deserters were
rrested the first month it was in operation,
1000 the second, and last month, July, g.
100 were arrested, and returned to duty
with their regiments.
Ice sells in Richmond for t12 per
bushel. In consequence of this advance,
the price Of common whiskey juleps has
advanced to $l.50 50, and French brandy
uleps to $2as2.50.
Gen. Meade says this unhappy war is
near its end, and that men alone are needed
to fill up the old regiments to give a finish
ink stroke to the rebellion.
Dispatches from California state that, at
the election just held there, the entire Union
ticket is carried by an average majority of
some 10000 votes. This settles the status
Of the Pacific coast.
Five substitute deserters were executed
on Friday, (the 9th ult, } in the presence
of some $4,000 persons connected with the
Army Of the Potomac. Two of the SEN
fenced persons were Protestants, two Cath
olics, and the fifth Hebrew.
The Associated Banks of BOSTON have
voted in favor of loaning to the Government
100000, the proportion allotted to that
city of the $50, coo, coo recently applied for
by Secretary Chase.
PRo-lTAELE.-A fruit grower in Western
New York, from q single patch of sixteen
acres. sent to market 800 bushels of straw
berries. The entire crop wa sold at an av-
erage price of one shilling per quart, max
ing total of over S35,ooo
Maj. Gen. Blunt in his official report of
the battle Of Honey Springs, Ark, says the
lst Kansas colored regiment particularly
distinguished themselves. They fought
like veterans and preserved their line un-
broken throughout The engagement Their
GOODNESS and bravery have never seen sur
passed. They were in the hottest of the
tight and opposed to Texan troops three
times their number, whom they completely
routed. The Goth Texas regiment. which
fought ain them, went into the f. hit 300
strong, and came out with only 60.
Pooh Man. = Edward Lloyd, ESQ, a
wef Thy and influential Welchman, well
known on the London stock exchange, blew
his brains out recently in despair at his losses
by the Confederate loan.
"A curious revelation from the Lao Of
flee records at Washington shows that Sill
dell made four thousand eight hundred and
eight voters for secession in Louisiana. bv
endowing them with parcels of land, pur-
chased from the General Government, Just
before secession, the law of Louisiana re-
curing that voters shall be freeholders.
Government paid out thirty-four mil
lion dollars in gold, for interest en- the pub
nc debt, during the year ending in June.
The amount Of demand notes unredeemed
IS less than 5000, 600, hence customs, which.
during the last fiscal year, produced about
S69,000,0oo, are most entirely in specie.
Receipts of gold now largely exceed the ne
cessities Of the Government, and are accu-
mulating in the vaults of the Treasury.
Gen. Grants latest and happiest ex-
preston is contained in his letter, read to
hisfriendsat the recent dinner given to him
in Memphis. In speaking Of his noble army,
he says
.They rW rej0ieo ecith me that the missr-
able odherents Of tie reJelion, uhom tAeiq,
boyonets h0ce driren .trom this fur laad, are
belng repiaced By men VINO ACKNOWLEDGES
HUMAN LIBERTY AS THE ONLY TRUE FoUyDA-
TIoN OF HUMAN GOVERNMENT"
Among the slain in Gen. Sibley's expe-
dltion was John Beemer, a wealthy English
man, graduate of Oxford and former off.
Ger on the staff of Lord Raglan. He had
come from England on a buffalo hunt in Tho
Northwest, ana took nominal position m
on Gen. sibey's staff to crafty his taste for
adventure. Sent on accommodating service
he was caught in ambuscade and shot down
with iron headed arrows, the savages scaln-
ing and hacking off one side Of his head
while he was yet alive. He leaves a SPLEEN
did yacht and large library in New York