Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-05-19
ITEMS OF NEW 8.

+ Hon. Ebon G. Ingersoll, the uncond-
tional Union candidate for Congress in the
9Th district of Illinois, as Mr.. .Lovejoy's
successor, has been elected by about 5000
majority, over his Democratic" opponent,
Judge Wead. This is an unexpectedly
| large majority in district which has been
regarded as ,'''close"' between the, two parties.
Copperheadism has done in that district
what it has done elsewhere, namely: killed
the Democratic party as a political
power. +. 4,.4 ,es,..s. :.
The marine losses reported for April
include the large number of sixty two yes
sells, worth, it is estimated, with the prop
erty on board, about two million two hun
dred thousand dollars. g4...,... fs
-Maximillian is at last on his winding
way to Mexico He comes to visit coun-
try conquered by foreign arms to rule a
peopleswho dispise and detest him.. The
throne he mounts is one propped up by the
French bayonets, the power he proposes to
WELD is usurped. ~ .xtI -
% The great elevator to be built this sum-.
mer in Milwaukee will have capacity Of
], 300, 900 bushels; nine receiving and five
shipping elevators, with $4,000 taking and
%, 900 capacity per hour. 0w
THIRD CAVALRY The re-enlisted yeter-
ans of the Sd cavalry, to the number Of near
$50, under Lieut.. Col Calkins, arrived at
Madison last week, and were appropriately
welcomed. 3a1 Ta}Ha 70
The coffee grounds are carefully dried
at the army commissary departments, and
bring twelve dollars a barrel. They are re
aromatized by some chemical process, put
up in pound papers, and sold at fabulous
prices as pure ground coffee.
The land shaft of the Chicago Lake
Tunnel is now sunk So feet and going under
the Lake has commenced. A very solid
clay is found at the present depth.
On DIT-that army officer bet $500, in
Washington, lately, that Grant will eat his
Fourth Of July dinner in Charleston, having
first taken Richmond. .4.ta..
The Richmond papers speak of the pres
ent campaign as the "last struggle" They
are not confident Of success by any means,
for they counsel all who can go to leave the
City, as food will be wanted for combatants
should the city be placed under siege. They
are candid in telling their readers this is
the last year of the war let whichever sue
coed. $. ,at. 4
The cash donations to the Mississippi
Valley Sanitary Fair foot up $115,53 II to
May Z, 1864. This is doing very well, and
gives assurance Of decided success. of the
neat charity festival, NJ a
The draft commenced in Boston Mass,
and adjacent towns on. the 18th inst.
~ GREENBAcKs.- The bankers of Chicago
on the 18th inst. adopted the National cur
rency as their standard la.4e@H e
"A recent gale on Lake Michigan drove
four vessels ashore, the bark Parana, the
brig STANDARD, and two small vessels, the
Union and Conquest. Their crews were all
saved 2 'a': '1 = 2a.5
"A correspondent says that Gen. Wads-
worth S.led charge, brave man that he
was, and fell at the head of his division,
pierced with ball through the brain, The
| division had been repulsed twice in charges
it had made 70 reanimate his discouraged
men, Wadsworth went to the head of it,
and rode just as squarely to his death as
| Quintius Curtius did"
Work has been resumed again on the
Custom House at Dubuque, Iowa. 1t will
| probably be finished this summer. 4ne
The Oshkosh Courier says the dipthe-
ria is raging fearfully in that city. It is
quite fatal among the children
From our exchanges we learn that win
ter wheat generally is looking well.
According to the Journal there was
quite a lager row at one of the brewe-
ries in that city on the 18th inst, the eff
fects of which were rather serious to a num-
Der Of the actors,in the shape of sore heads,
bruises, &c. Such are the legitimate fruits
of liquor the world over