Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-09-01

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The State of Illinois has been
made separate military district, and
General Paine, Of this State, appointed
a commandant, with his headquarters
at Springfield.
"A man at Columbus, Ohio, paid a
negro $3.50 to go as his substitute, but
the negro found substitutes in demand,
and sold himself at auction for $1,000.
Wilkes Spirit of the Times, which
went in for Fremont and the Cleveland
platform, has caved. Itenow says that
the Fremont movement is practical
alliance with the copperhead tacticians.
The daily consumption of water in
New York city is 10000 gallons, while
the Croton river now furnishes only
$4,000, SO that economy in water has
become necessary.
Marshal Murray, Of New York, on
Monday seized 30 cases containing from
80 to 50 revolvers each. These revol
vers were part Of lot purchased in N.
York, for the Sons Of Liberty in Indi-
ana e.ser aa
- 1t is estimated that the present
population Of New Orleans is larger
than at any other time in its history, at
this season. Small houses are nearly
impos sible Of attainment, although a
few more expensive ones are placarded
for rent.
The number Of emigrants arriving
at New York, according to the latest
returns, is at the rate of 1921 week,
or about 100000 year. Possibly the
gross emigration of the year will be
something under this; but it is safe to
reckon it at 100000.
In Richmond the rebels will give
twenty dollars Of their notes for one of
ours. At that rate it would take S.
200 of rebel rags to purchase one hun
dred dollars in gold. Thus measured
by the standard Of values, their dollar
is worth about two cents.
On the 18th, we'll dressed, smart,
intelligent woman, with an eye to bust
ness, appeared at Portsmouth, N. H.,
with four substitutes, which she had
brought with her from Baltimore. She
sold them soon after her arrival to the
brokers, for $500 each.
Connecticut was fortunate enough
to have credit of nearly 1000 over
and above all other calls, and but a
small margin to fill on the last call
The surplus was due to the large num-
Der Of veterans who re enlisted, (being
more than two-thirds of all the men in
the old regiments
notwithstanding the Mormons are
laying by grain FOR season Of famine,
food is now pretty we'll up to starvation
prices. The Deseret Neo0s of July 9Th,
quotes flour at SIS per 100 pounds;
wheat, S. per bushel corn, $3.50 per
bushel pork, SO cts. per pound sugar
81, butter so cents, and whiskey $40
per gallon.
We learn from good authority that
all persons running away or removing
from town after the draft order is
suen, and moving from towns exceeding
able to draft, into towns that are free
or liable to be free, are to be suspected
of changing their residence in view Of
escaping the draft and treated accord
ingly.-Graet County Herald. {.
BEGRUDGING THEM BREAD.-A late
Southern paper, referring to the cir
cumstance that there were thirty thou
sand Union prisoners at Andersonville,
Ga, cries out in the bitterness of its
own half-starved condition-"Pity they
have to eat bread and meat" And
pity it is, indeed, that they have to eat
such bread and such maat; but it is
fortunate they get so little of either, as
a full diet would undoubtedly insure
the death of more than half the poor
fellows. AS it is, the deaths at Ander-
sonville during the month of June last,
twenty-eight hundred Union
prisoners.
S1GNIF1cANr.- The Copperhead Con-
vention, which met at Chicago to nomi-
nate candidate for the Presidency,
on the birthday of Benedict
Arnold-the 29th of August. It is
fitting, indeed, that the party that has
for its object the elimination of the
treason instilled by the traitor Arnold,