Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-07-14
NEWS ITEMS.

close of the recent examinations.
finally adjourned on the 7th
of July, after trausacting all its import
ant business, which has been disposed of
with great ability and general satisfaction
to the people.
The gross receipts of the Centr al
Sanitary Fair viii amount to about 81, :
600, 600. The vote for the sword stood:
Meade, 3,442; Hancock, 1906: McClel-
Ian, 297: Grant. TT; scattering, l19.
Gen. Hancock got the horse equipments;
Gen. Birney the camp chest. and Mrs.
Gen. Burnside, the leghorn bonnet.
The remains of an Indian were late
ly found embedded in rocky salt four
feet below the surface in Nevada. The
body was in complete state of preser-
vation, and the flesh was dry like that
Of mummy. The supposition is that
the entire salt bed was once lake, aud
that the Indian had been drowned in it.
Nineteen rebel Generals, the Rich
mond papers say, have been lost since the
beginning of the May campaign in Vir-
ginia Seven were killed, ten wounded,
and two captured. Since that publica-
tion the rebels have lost five other Gen
erals Jones, killed; Law, Lane, Kirk
land and Finnegan, wounded.
A statement was recently made in
the rebel House of Representatives. Civ
ing the number Of troops supplied to the
rebel army by the respective states,
since the war began as follows Gala
bama has furnished 100000 men Flori-
da, 1000; Georgia, 81, 600; Louisiana,
81, 900; Mississippi, 10000; North Caro-
lima, $4,000; South Carolina, $4,000;
Texas, 5000; Tennessee, $4,000; Vir-
ginia, l03, 900; Arkansas, $4,000; Ken
lucky, 10000; Maryland, 10000; Mis-
souri,, $4,000. Total, sol 900. aa1 2
We have not seen returned vet
eran but is so heartily glad at getting
out Of the service that no money will
ever induce them to re-enlist.-La
Crosse Democrat, (Copperhead.)
We have seen some thousands of re-
turned veterans who have re enlisted
for the war. They did not do it for
money, but for love Of the great cause
of Union and free government. The
Copperheads, however, delight in SLAM
dering the soldiers, and in publishing
paragraphs like the above to discourage
enlistments.-,Stdte Journal
For some weeks past rebel con
script camp has been located on the
Hendersonville road, six miles from At
lanta. On Friday last, eight hundred
of the conscripts broke past the guard
and started for Gen. Sherman's lines.
Six hundred of them succeeded in safe
ly crossing the Chattahoochee River,
and surrendered themselves to Federal
officers. The other two hundred were
captured by the rebel cavalry. The
six hundred took the oath of amnesty,
and many of them will enlist in the
regiments of our Louisville
Journal. a ads
An ocean telegraph, with capital
of one million two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, has been started in Eng
land, on new plan. This company pro-
poses ''to provide and anchor ships near
the ordinary track of vessels, such ships
to serve as electric telegraph and signal
stations in communication With existing
systems in Europe anu America, and
also as safety beacons for navigation
The ships are to be fitted up complete
as telegraphic stations, and are to be
provided with steam-power. Steam-ten-
ders, capable of acting as tugs, are also
to be at hand, with view to render as
sistance to disabled and derelict vessels.
The first stations selected are off the
Scilly Islands and off Cape Race, New
foundland. The company looks for its
revenue to the conveyance of kilograms.
salvage, the sale Of stores, towage, and
the embarking and disenbarking of mails,
parcels and passengers