Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-04-14
ITEMS GENERAL NEWS

to the magnificent sum of S $50 900. -
Over 900 rebel deserters came into
Chattanooga, during the month Of March.
Brigham Young is building a 25o,-I
900 theater, at Salt Lake City.
Iowa AuEAD.-This State is in
excess over all calls 1877 men.
France is paying nearly half mil
lion pounds sterling per month for the
support of her armies in Mexico.
Parties in Holland have subscribed
for one million nine hundred thousand
dollars of the ten-forty loan.
There are now only twelve revolution
airy pensioners now liying-the youngest is
g.. the oldest 105. aa af a
l4 -Confscated goods to the amount
of s4e, 900, mostly sugar and cotton, were
sold at Cairo, on the 18th inst.
Among the fruits Of the Red River
Expedition are 1000 bales of cotton
recently arrived at Cairo.
CoTToN.-Admiral Porter's feet has
captured 40, 900 bales Of cotton on Red
River, 4.@ .y
LUMBER.-9OO. 100000 feet of lum-
Der was manufactured last year, on the
upper Mississippi and its branches.
GLoR1ous.--The lUnionists on the
5th inst, carried the election in Gin
cinnati by over 4,oCO majority.
MORE GLoK1oUs.--The Union MAORI
ty in Connecticut is about 5000. The
fact is the whole election this spring is
off the same piece Of cloth.
SUGAR.-It is estimated that 5,O00,-
900 pounds of maple sugar will be made
in the North during this spring, worth
Is cents per pound, $3,75o,0oO.
CoID.. AT Bay du Noe, above Green
Bay, Wis. during March the mercury
fell to IS, IA and Is degrees below
zero, on three successive days.
Mrs. Lucretia Clay, relict of the
late Hon. Henry Clay, died at her resi-
dence near Lexington, on the 9th inst,
aged SO years. .''.
| EMANCIPATION. Since the Russian
emancipation scheme was commenced,
over 5000 new schools have been estab-
lished in that empire.
in 1859, Walla Walla Valley, in
Washington Territory, numbered only
forty farmers. Now it has five thou
sand.
A large bald eagle weighing fifteen
pounds, and measuring seven feet from
tip to tip, was recently shot at Dun
leath, ILL.,, about thirty miles above
Galena.
| UNION VIcToRY.-The entire Union
ticket was elected in St. Paul, on the
5th. The Mayors majority was 800.
This is the first Union victory in the
State.
BUILDING Building appears to be
brisk in New York city. A large num-
Der of elegent mansions and several very
fine churches are in course Of erection in
the vicinity of Fifth Avenue.
Gov. Morton has ordered the or
ganized militia of Indiana, known as
"the Indiana Legion" numbering sc, 900
men, to be in readiness to take the field
at moments notice to repel invasion
PREPARING FOR Defense
Ohio Legislature has appropriated one
million dollars to purchase arms, field
batteries. camp equipage, etc, for the
more effectual defense Of the State
against invasion.
QuorAs.-The quota Of Wisconsin,
under last roll was !, 94l deficiency under
former calls, 4,528, balance to be fur
nished under all calls. 1l,479, This
will be somewhat reduced by the veteran
enlistments.
|
Gen Neal Dow, author Of Maine
Liquor Law, who has recently got away
from Richmond, made telling speech
recently in Potland, Maine. He de-
clares it is a fact tina. the rebels did
place powder under the Libby Prison, to
"blow them to hell" at the time they