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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
professional 4 8usiness Garns
s. w. REESE,

A TT0RNEY AT LAW. Land AID Collecting Agent
y Dodgcyiilr, Iowa County, Wis. Particular at
tenton given to collecting and aen' les and payment of
taxes in Iowa County. Office in the Post 0fhce Build
ng. lni-yii
WRJHGLVSWnRTH G. co
DooK. CARD AND JOB PRINTERS, ALSO PUB
II fishers of the :" "DapG:ytlLE CHGnNcLE, ~ weekly
family newspaper delivered by mai! free in the Coun j.
~, on receipt Of th" price, 81 80 year.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
Modern Marriages.

3' Among the many strange things which
we meet with in life, nothing is stranger
than the way in which some people talk
about marriage. They regard it as spec
uation which may be good or badas a
game to be played which requires sasacity
and skill-as question Of position--as a
marketable commodity-as something by
which wealth is to be secured-as a mutual
compact for material aggrandizernent-
sometimes for the building up of family,
sometimes for the extension Of trade
Listen to few of the phrases current in
society, which will serve to prove our asser-
ton. 'She has played her cards well,''
exclaims one. "What a capital hit who
could have ever expected iler to be so for
tunate?' says another. "a good connec-
ton, indeed; he is likely to be rich man
before long," is the remark of third; or,
on the other side, one hears, "What a fool
the girl was to throw herself away so p
GLOW could she refuse such an offer? She
would have been we'll settled for lifc.'
ITO be sure, if she couldn't love the
man" exclaims some mild voice, 'sshe did
right to say SO; but young ladies are very
fanciful she would have liked him well
enough if they had once married. ''For
my part. cries a lady, who has made a
good match herself, and lives in style,
though reports say not very happily, "for
my part it seems unreasonable to suppose
a woman can find a husband exactly suited
to her. Love IS all very well in poetry
but when it comes to real life, we must take
the best chance that offers.''
A score Of such remarks might be added.
but it ia unnecessary; unfortunately they
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10

his auditors, and the especial enlightenment
of the chief magistrate of the village, whose
well behaved ideas never strayed beyond
the hill top in the dis tance, or went off on a
wild-goose chase after the phantolns of
knowledge. He lays down his premises,
and argues them logically, now interlarding
maxims, and then shooting off at tan
gent to tell of some. saying of the wise
man, his predecessor, who sleeps in the
Echurchyard, with either of which, he chokes
down the upstart, pretensions of the dis
mayed petti-fogger. He is an unsophisti-
Gated specimen of the genuine man of the
world, whose opinions must not be sus-
pected Of resemblance to counterfeits, and
whose dog,nas it is irreverenti to doubt.
There are great variety Of notifications
of your men Of the, world ; but we have
not room just now, to serve them up
They are all remarkable for one peculiarity
they contemn those who differ from
them, and hate those who are so heretica
,as to avow their disbelief in that creed,
whose first article teaches, that there is no
wisdom so valuable as knowledge of the
world.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
DoDGEvIILE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY NOVEMBER TO- 1864.

received their knowledge of its properties
from pions follower of Mohammed, who,
being constitutionally somnolent, invoked
the aid OF the prophet to supply him with
some remedy to prevent sleep during his
midnight dcyotions. The result was that
the pious soul was told to keep sharp eye
upon the movements of the goats, who
would direct him what to do. The good
man accepted the counsel, and soon discov-
cred that, when his fiocks fed upon the cof-
fee plant, they became extremely active and
frisky in their gambols. Hence, he follow
ed their example, and with the same effects.
/ He then communicated his discovery to the
dervishes, who never afterwards complained
of drowsiness while at prayers. We learn,
however, from celebrated statistician that
coffee was known in Persia long previous
to its discovery in Turkey. No. long after
its introduction into France, the Viennese
became enthusiastic coffee drinkers; and
but short time after, it was introduced
into England by British merchant, who
returned to his native country, from Con
stantinople. t.s,..... .
The greatest coffee drinking nations in
the world are undoubtedly Turkey and the
United States France, also. is a very
large consumer of the article, as, outside
the large cities, very few Of the French peo-
people ever see or use Chinese tea. In
France, the coffee houses are as much an
institution" as lager beer saloons in Phila-
dclphia; and French coffee, in our opinion,
is good deal the finest beverage known in
tho world.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10

We plunge down-down-down
and 10 we have alighted, harmless, upon
the vast unstratifed rocks of granite, with
their silvery particles of mica, their grey,
CLASSY quartz, and their Opaque, vari-col-
ored felspar, known by the names of
syenite, porphyry or basalt, some Of which,
from their being intersected by veins of
serpcntine or trap, prove that the formation
even of these primitive rocks, has taken
place at more than one epoch. Here we
have no traces of vegetable life, nor of
ANIMAL (if.we are deceived as to the doubt
full silicious skeletons Of infusoria, so that
we may speculate as to the number of ages
during which this incandescent globe, an
amorphous mass ofigneous matter, pursued
its hfeless course around the sum- shroud-
ed ia its own dim sulphurous smoke and
Startling the wilds of space by the tremen-
dous roar Of its innumerable volcanoes.
But these, at length, partially burnt them
selves out the fused materials of the earth
surface became consolidated, and the primi-
tive rocks thus formed, being again disin-
tegrated by the action Of water, settled into
the sedimentary strata Of gueiss, hornblende
and slate. Now was it that the my ysterious
the inscrutable .fut of the Almighty went
forth, and there-was life-animal life NOV
ing among the boundless waters, and vege-
table life, in the form of, marine plants. to
support the new creation! Corals, those
minute, but all eclipsing, architects, to whom
the builders of the Pyramids were but as
human aninalcules, seem to have been the
sarliest products Of the Almighty hand,
To these tiny laborers, enjoying their own
lives, and providing for life's enjoyments in
future and more noble races, was intrustcd
the construction Of the ground-pIan of
furturc continents and islands how insidu-
ously and enduringly, they toiled is mani
tested by the traces Of their labors in the
limcstones, and marbles, and rocks that
constitute the earlier formations through
out the four quarters of the earth. Small
shell-fsh, crinoidea, or iiy-shaped animals,
and trilobites. an extinct family ofcrustacaa,
appear to have had possession of the waters,
for series of ages, during which we search
in vain for evidence of any terrestrial pro-
ductions. But the earth, which had been
gradually emerging, was now about to give
life and beauty to the hitherto unsmiling
face of nature. The vegetable world several
hundred of whose different species have
already been recognized in fossil state,
was about to receive mighty development;
palms, arborescent ferns, and coniferous
trees, spread themselves in profusion, and
possessed the earth's surface for cycle of
centuries, ofwhich we can only form guess
from the prodigious extent Of ftheir..remains,
which constitute the most ancient coal
strata. Fresh-water shell-fsh, insects.
lizard fishes and reptiles, were added to the
creations list. Another cycle, another
change, another creation, and 10 we have
reached the upper secondary strata, when
the age of cviparous reptiles, sometimes ex-
tending to upwards of hundred feet in
length, astonishes US by its new and
monstrous forms.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
AHss, coma. +. suDnrTH.
COBB WILSON & SUDDUTH,

(Fornerly Cobb ( Su,iduth)
Z AWlERS, Mineral ioiht. Iowa C"inty. Wisconsin,
IA viii attend prnfes> >nna In siucsS ami cGrrcsf.n
drncr heretofore. Win procure Pensions, obtain
B1unties from the state aii F-eal Government, ana
Prosecute claims against them upon any liberal terms
Ofice opp ,siic Court ii luSe, up stairs l2yI
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10

nEAL#R IN DRUGS, MEDIC!%ES, PAINTS,
~ Oils. Dye Stufs Pcrfumery, Stationery, CUT
tlsry. Schaoi Blocks, &c. &c.
Having lately inDyr;i into New Store and jest
received large supply of the above articles, he
feels confident that he iurniS his customers with
such les in his line they may wieh the best
OF terms
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10

a~Whena man presents himself before
a public audience, it often happens that his
body is inclined to sink while his head
swims. aN5 olo4
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
WHITNEY SMITH.

vI>ANSER AND CrRRIER, Mineral Point. Wis.
i4e,ther Of all Kinds, Also Hair for Pla-rering, al
ways on hand cheap cash. job Work done n short
notice anI on moderate terms. inZ6tfl
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
JAMES JONES.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, May he found ut l,is Of
s} Ace in his sh store opp sit" lean, Thomas Co.'S
Store during, a business hours really to attend to all
business in his line. n2Syl
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10

H-One who is half man, half dog, will
bov 70 she rIch, and how.vow 10 tie poor
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
6. w. BURIAL, Nj. D.,
?. 4. GRIrFITHS.

DHYSiClAN AND SURGEON, Dodscyil!c. Iow
Il County Wisconsin. nl-ly.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
WISCONSIN HOUSE.

JOSEPH HOOKING, PROPRIETOR,
THIS Hotel a large stone building we'll
<GAEA furnished to accommodate the travelling
latsEI public The table will be supplied with
tsES2 all the del'cacies the market affords served
hkr1.SS& up in good style. B0ARDERs BY THE DAY on
WEEK, furnished with all necessary conven-
venesces ~ reasonable rates. The Proprietor returns
thanks TO the public for the patronage heretofore extend
ed 10 him. and respectfully requests continuance of
the same. Good stabling attached, and attentive
hostler always on hand. n2SIys
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23

pertinent 10 as ample and ouiet "a that Of n
poets farmer. He looks heavy Il takas an
occasion to move him, but when he moves h;s
momentum Is enormous. There ia mnch
lymph IN his composition, although he hoe Tho
complexion of a sanguihe temperament ba ~. 10
close observer, but better thinker and -
welded to his profession. "'0 80
Ills aspect Is pecHliar-nOt stern, but ratbor
benevolent and grave, with O strong cast of
firmness. His figure Is square and large
that together with considerable corpulence
it seems to rob him Of several inches OF stature.
He is fully six feet high and big, almost as
great as Nelson was. The former sweled, you
know, rs you looked at him. Manners, more
fusion. Gen. Thomas don't magnify until you
begin to measure him. Sandyish hair, and
Whiskers closely cut; keen blue eyes of me-
dunn proportions, sunken under shaggy brows;
straight nose, not strikingly prominent, but
strong rudy features, deeply scanned square
lace and body; large compact head general
bigness; heavy but firm step, and you have
the man, personally.
DE is patient perseyering and persistent,
even-tempered and energetic, speaks deliber-
ately and not frequently, and sometimes indul-
ges in grim pleasantry-which is rather aston
ishing than otherwise. Altogether, the lads
describe him best when they tell you about
Pap Thomas. His escort occasionally get
little impatient ct his deliberate way of rid
ing, and press too hard upon him. He Is ac-
customed 70 remind them of their indiscreton
by giving the command, "Slow troll" 80 the
Gen. Rosecrans entertained such an exalted es-
TEEN for him at the Military Academy that he
was accustomed to call him, General Wash
ingtOnn
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
Rebels on the Message,

The Richmond papers publish LlScolS's
message, and call it hard names. The Sen.
Hnel, at the end of long editorial, con.
cludes that the message is response to a
proposition of the peace men. We sup.
pose, if anything can, that Mr.. LINCOLN Z
emphatic brutal declarations will silence
all ideas of that sort hereafter. Absolute,
unqualified submission, to be followed by
the spoiliation of our property and Afric-
anlzation OF our country, is superciliously
laid down as the only terms of peace. The
declarations of the message will silence all
objections Of every sort to the use of our
stores in the public defense, if that or sub
jugation be alternative
The Era'niaer concludes its article as
follows:
AS to the bearing of the message upon our
slaves and the war, nobody, we apprenend, can
read 1t without coming to the conclusion that
there is no citizen of the Confederate States
more fully resolved to resist to the death recon.
structiOn Of the Union than Is Mr.. Lincoln.
VIII those men at the South who have been
sniveling about peace hold their tongues at
last
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23

Gen. HANCOCK has issued condensed
statement Of the way in which men can
get into the First corps:
lsL The men are mustered in Washing
ton. I'd. Veterans who have served two
years. and have been honorably discharged,
may enter for one, two or three years. 3D..
Those enlisting viii receive Government
bounty of $500, and in addition 800 for
one, 5000 for two, and $500 for three
years. 4th. They will be entitled to local
bounties. 9Th. Free transportation to
Washington by any Provost Marshal. 9th.
The best arms in possession of the Govern
ment will be furnished them.
The corps is said to be rapidly filling up,
and will probably number the required
twenty thousand by the lst of January.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
Sherman and WelIineto n.

The war annals of the old commanders
are being thumbed vigorously for parallels
to SHRRAAN's march from Atlanta into the
heart of rebellion. 1t has been compared
with NAPoLEoNs maj Oh to Moscow, and
the kindred Inflated enterprise of CHARLES
the Twelfth. But far closer resemblance
is found and deliberately maintained by the
Providence Journal in the famous and tri-
umphant advance of WELLINGTON in the
summer of 1913 from Portugal to the Pyr-
enees and the Bay of Biscay:
He gathered ibis immense army on the
Druro, and as 1t crossed the boundary of
spain, the great commander in bis enthusiasm,
rose IN his strips and waived bis hand and
exclaimed, Farewell Portugal! He cut
loose entirely from his base of supplies at Lis
bon, and started for the ports in northeastern
Spain, where British fleet and transports
could come to his aid. But he had to fight his
way. King Joseph Napoleons brother and
bis army was before Linn. History tells how
the great Captain, by brilliant strategy, sew
cred the connection of the French with
the coast, drove them up the rugged valley of
the Druro, reached the forts of Santander and
Bilboa, obtained his supplies, won browning
victory at Victoria, and thus delivered Spain
Of the rule of Frenchmen. This Wellington
did, having left base on one coast for new
base on another coast, to reach which he
marched hundred thousand men six hun
dred miles in six weeks, fighting as he went.
The movement of Sherman will be in history
the twin in conception to that of Wellington
and may gain q closer resemblance in its vic
tories and its results
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
Donations TO Colleges

The following statistics are taken from
the Report Of the Corresponding Secreta-
~ of the "Society fcr the promotion OF
Collegiate and Theological Education al
the West" Donations made during the
past two yeats-Bowdoin College, Maine
has received $72 900; Dartmouth College.
n. H., has received $47 900 Middlebury
College, Vermont, has received $4,000
from q legacy; Williams College has re-
ceiyed S25,00 in one donation Amherst
! College has received over 500, 900, in
sums of 100000, $4,000 and 800, 900
each; Harvard has received bequest Of
$44, 900; Andover Theological Seminary,
100000, of which $4,000 we're from one
firm Trinity College, Hartford, has re-
ceived nearly 100000; Yale College has
received Qncluding $l35, 900 from the q.
s. Government for its Agricultural School
the magnificent eum Of $4,000 to
which $780, 900 more will probably soon
be added
The report states tina; OF the portion al
ready paid, the following sums have been
given by individuals in single donations.
viz: $4,000, $4,000, $50, 1000, s27, 600,
$4,000, $4,000, and $4,000. New
York University has received 100000;
Hamilton College has received over 800
600; Rutgers College, \. j., has received
100000; Princeton College, y. J.,
$3.50, 200, of which $3O,O is in single
donation; Washington University, Saint
Louis, $4,000, in two donations-one
from New York and the other from Ros-
ton; Ohicsgo Theological Seminary has
received $4,000.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
The Rocky Mountain Slates.

Few have yet began to realize the ex-
tent OF the twelve States and territories
on our western borders, whose vast stores
of mineral wealth are yet to attract teern-
Ing multtides TO them. California has
l5s,6S7 square miles, containing lol ,659,-
$50 acres; Dakota, 14s, 9S2 square miles
and s5,316,4sO acres Colorado, 104, 500
square miles and &C, $50, 900 acres; New
MEXICO l21,2Olt square miles and 49,
oos,a4o acres; Arizona, 126,14l square
miles and So,73o,24O acres; Utah, l06,-
ooz square miles and 6s, 9S4,4s0 acres;
Oregon, "a, PAS square miles and 60, 95s,-
72o acres; Idaho, S26,375 square miles
and 2OS,S78,720 acres; Nebraska. 75.
955 square miles and 4s,e1l POO acres.
Washington, 69,994 square miles and
6Se,so0 acres; Kansas, s1,3lS SQUARE
miles and 52,043,52l acres making a
total Of 1,496,036 square miles and 957.-
73S,4O0 acres, of which only IS, 738,546
have been disposed of. Idaho alone will
make FIVE States az large as Pennsylvania
or New York.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
Major General Thomas.

Gen. THOMAS is one of the very few Off
GERS high in command against whom there
has never been a breath of detraction.
From the commencement of the war he
has pursued the even tenor of bis way, has
been equal to all the responsibilities inn
posed upon him, and always successful in
battle. 1t was he who lifted, at Mill
Spring, the dark cloud that for a long time
had overshadowed our arms; at Stone
River and Chickamauga he saved the army
from disaster, and now has Won the crown
ing glory of his military career in defeat
ing Hoop at Nashville As the personal
appearance and characteristics of the he
roes of the day are always interesting, we
append a notice Of Gen. THOMAS, which
appeared some two years ago:
Major General George II. Thomas, native
| of Virginia, from which State he was appoint
eed to the army. He is between 40 and As
! years of age. He entered West Point as q
| cadet in 1886, and was appointed Second
| Lieutenant in the Sd Artillery in July, 1910.
At West Point he stood pretty high among the
graduates of his year, only eleven out of forty
l
Stewart Van Vliet, and the Rebel Gen. Ewel,
were his classmates.
| After appointment the joined his regiment
which was then serving in florida, and was
brevetted First Lieutenant for gallantry and
good conduct in the war then being waged
against the Florida Indians, and his commits
sion bearing date November 6, 1841. He was
made q full First Lieutenant in April, 1874, and
was brevetted Captain for gallant and meritori-
our conduct in the several conflicts at Monte
! rey. in Mexico, taking chat rank from Sept %,
| 1876. He was also brevetted Major for gallant
! and meritorious conduct in the battle of Buena
Vista, which brevet was dated February %,
1847, the rank being awarded in May, 1913. In
1850, he was appointed instructor of artillery
and cavalry at West Point. In December, 1858,
he was promoted to the Captaincy of company
of his regiment, and on the 18th of May,
1855, was selected for promotion to majority
in the I'd cavalry, which was organized in that
year.
On the 18th of August, 1861, he was promot
ed to the rank of Brigadier General of Volun.
teers, and when Kentucky and Tennessee were
made into separate department, he was or.
dered to report TO the commander at the head
quarters.
Gen. Thomas is an impressive man his de
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
Judicial Etiquette.

" Mr.. Chase having been member of the
Cabinet and one OF the Presidents advisers.
VIII, according to established precedent sand to
all judicial etiquette, take no part in any decis-
Ion involving the Presidents acts In any matter
in which the Cabinet may have been consulted.
II Is evident in these matters he would not be
disinterested. Memo do6et csse iudes IN prop11
eadso, is ma1ium of universal jurisprudence,
and one which has ever been most rigidly nd
hered TO. 80 judge will never 81. In o case in
which he has given advise and counsel, and
this, whether he has been paid or has given it
gntuituously. Mr. Chase, We believe. has too
much self:respect 10 break through a rule 50
wen established, and thus 10y himself and the
Judgements OF the courts Should they be favor
sole to- the GovernmenD open TO grave suspi-
Cons. "-Boston Courier
We sincerely hope that Chief Justice
CHASE will not violate the above establish
ed precedent, should the occasion offer in
which be may be tempted to do SO.