Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-03-17
NEWS, ITEMS, ETC.

| candidate Tor the next PreSldency. III
/ Western Virginia has abolished
slavery.
DRAFT.-The telegraph says another
draft for 100000 more men will soon
be made. GL
Gen. Beauregard's wife died on the
I'd inst. Her funeral was the largest
ever seen in New Orleans.
The Richmond papers are furious
over the recent Fitzpatrick raid on that
city.
Gen. Seymore, who commanded in
Florida, is good and brave officer, but
rather unlucky.
! On the 8th inst, 800 Union pris-
oners were exchanged at Fortress Mon
roe for an equal number of Confeder-
ates.
The President in person on the
18th presented Gen. Grant his commits
sion as Lieut.. General.
-Mabies' great trained elephant,
"Juliet," died recently at Deievan, in
this State This was the most thorough
ly trained elephant in the country.
The Choctaw Nation are about to
return to their allegiance by action of
Council soon to meet. The Seminoles
and Cherokees, however, are still obsti-
nate.
Gen Rosecrans has been exorerated
from all blame by the investigating com
mittee, in the Chickamauga disaster last
fall.
In Jones County, Mississippi, some
400 rebel deserters have banded them
selves together, and thus far have sue
cessfully resisted all attempts to capture
them
Rebel deserters araive in Chatta-
nooga at the rate Of thirty per day
The oath is administered to them daily
and they are then sent to the rear.
Gen. Stedman, who commands the
port at Chattanooga is issuing 5000
rations daily, to citizens, many oawhom
come fifty miles to obtain the necessaries
of life.
New PAPER MILL.-A paper mill
has gone into operation at Belcit. The
more the better, if it will only reduce
the price somewhat, of that most expen-
sive of all articles to printers-paper.
The murderer, North Young, who
shot man at Beaver Dam some time
since, afterwards breaking out of the
Dodge Co. Jail, was again arrested in
Madison, on the 18th.
To-day is St. Patrick's birthday
From our exchanges we learn the day
will be more generally celebrated than
usual by the patriotic sons Of the En-
erald Isle.
FIREs.-Incendiary fires are quite
frequent in Richmond. On the 9Th
inst, there were three in different parts
of the city. Over 100000 worth of
property was destroyed.
To VoTE.-The amendment of the
the Constitution of the State of New
York, allowing her soldiers in the field
to vote, was ratified on Tuesday, the
9Th inst, by an overwhelming majority
of the loyal people.
The great Eastern mails for Chica-
90 and the Northwest, due at that city
on the 10th inst, were destroyed by fire
at Bellevue, Huron County, Ohio, at a
serious accident which occurred on the
Toledo and Cleveland Road at that
place. Four cars were burned and the
baggage master and several others kill
ed by the same accident.
The Territorial Convention of Coz
orado was held at Denver city on The
18th inst. Six delegates to the Ma
tional Convention were chosen, resolu-
tons endorsing the Administration and
pledging the hearty cooperation and
support of Colorado were adopted
They also asked Congress to pass an
enabling act providing for their admis-
sion into the Union as state.
The P. O. Department has conclud-
ed contracts for mail service in Nebras-
ka, Washington and Idaho, and the
other far off Territories. After the Isl
of July next the mails are to be taken
from Salt Lake City by way of Palse
i -. WILL Walfa IN