Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-05-05
NEWS. ITEMS, ETC.

ICELAND 1t was admitted IN recent
debate in the House Of Commons that du-
ring the last ten years Ireland has lost two
and half millions of its population, and
that the exodus is still going on at the
rate of one hundred and twenty thousand
ayear.
SPEcULArISe.-It is stated that large
quantity of green tea was bought from the
Bohemian wreck at 81 chest. The chests
were water tight or nearly so. The New
Yorker took the tea to his own city, sold it
for 81 so per H., and made $1,000 in the
operation.
The temperance revival
is going on with great deal of earnestness
in nearly every part of New England. In
Worcester the Sunday evening meetings are
attended by nearly three thousand persons,
and much interest is manifested.
No CIVILIANS TO THE FRoNT.-General
Sherman announces that it is useless for
civilians to go to Nashville with the expec-
tation of proceeding to the front. None
but soldiers are allowed on the road This
is rendered necessary by the increasing
number of returning veterans awaiting
transportation from Nashville. These, and
the shipment of freight, tax the road to its
utmost capacity.
"BouNrY JUMPERS" EXECUTED AT FoBr
WARREN.-Two assigned recruits belong
ing to the Vermont volunteers, and named
Matthew Riley alias John Roach, and
Charles Carpenter, have been tried and
found guilty of desertion by general
Court Martial convened at the "Depot for
Drafted Men," Long Island, Boston harbor,
and were sentenced to be shot to death.
Maj. Gen. Dix has approved the sentence.
Green, the Maiden Bank murderer,
when arraigned before the Supreme Court
at Lowell, lately, plead guilty Of murder in
the first degree.
Over 1900 acres of land were taken
up under the homestead law, during the
month of March, at the land Office in St..
Peter, MINI. Upwards of 10000 acres
were entered in the same month at the Win
nebago City Office, in the same state.
wB. F. Taylor is again writing letters
for the Chicago Journal from Chattanooga
He is the best and most readable CORES
pendent with the army.
Sixty pieces of heavy artillery were
sent from New York on the 18th to the
Army of the Potomac.
The notorious Judge Barnard Of
New York has indicted Horace Greeley
for contempt of court, because the Tri-
bune commented severely on some of
Barnard's conduct.
"A veritable soap mine has been dis
covered in Esmeralda. California. The
vein is ten feet wide, six hundred feet
long, and runs very deep. The soap,
when taken from the mine, is as soft as
putty, but hardens on exposure to the
air.
BOGUS GREENBAcKs Of the denomi-
nation of 100 dollars have found their
way to Denver. The counterfeit is said
to be neat and requires the utmost care
tc detect.
-"Let US" says the Montgomery
Alabama Mail, ''invade them with our
whole force, Missouri, Kentucky, Mary
land, and the Copperhea DIS will swell our
ranks"
Ireland has lost 100000 of it's
population by emigration in ten years,
and the exodus is still going on at the
rate of 100. 200 year.
Bonner, of the New York Ledger,
contributed his celebrated mare, "Lady
Woodruff to the Sanitary Fair. She
was sold at auction for $1,000. Mr..
Bonner gave $4,000 for her, originally.
There are one hundred and forty
nine shoe establishments, and thirteen
kid and morocco houses in Lynn, Mass.
The internal tax on this department of
manufacture amounted, last year, to
$252,759.
The stamp duty the last year in
England has produced the enormous sum
of 81 ,625, 900. There is no doubt that
our own stamp duty is toe light. It is
one which is less felt than any other, for
it applies to business transactions, in
which money freely passes from hand to
hand, and all parties are supposed to be
benefited and able to pay the duty.
New Jersey refuses to let her sol
diers vote. No State, in whose Legis-
lature there is Democratic majority,