Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-07-13
Summary Of Late News.


900, the amount of his prize money, to es-
tablish national asylum in Washington,
for the orphans of soldiers and sailors. -.
The Department of Mississippi, embracing
the state of Mississippi, has been added to
the military division of the Tennessee, and
Major General H. W. Slocum has been as
signed to the command of the Department,
with headquarters at Vicksburg. .......
Libby Prison, Richmond, is now used as a
soldiers rest, where our troops returning
home and late soldiers from the north are
provided for and furnished transportation
70 t cir destination. ...... Of forty thous-
and men from the State of Louisiana, enlis-
ted in the rebel army, it is estimated that
only fifteen hundred are now living. ...
The receipts from the Internal Revenue for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1865, are
officially reported at $206,3ll, $50, 98.--
This does not include the tax on national
Bank currency ... George Fletcher has
officially announced the adoption of the
Constitution of Missouri by majority of
1860. The income tax in the Chica-
90 District is estimated at two millions Of
dollars. Stewart, the dry goods mer-
chant, returns an income of only three hun
dred thousand dollars. The income repor
ted by aim last year was ore million eight
hundred thousand dollars. This shows the
immense fluctuations to which the dry
goods business has been subjected during
few months past A second son
was born to the Prince and Princess of
Wales, June 3D.. There seems no immedi-
ate danger that the royal line of queen Vic
toria will become extinct. ...... General
T. H. Ruger, of GAINESVILLE, has been placed
in command Of the Department of North
Carolina, in place Of General Cox, who has
been nominated by the Union men as Gov
ernor of Ohio. ...... 1t is said that Anna
Dickinson, the strong-minded woman, is
studying to fit herself for the stage. She
has the first requisite insan entire self conf
dence. -. The Fair at Milwaukee still
continues to create considerable interest
Over $4,000 have already been raised and
it is confidently expected that the sum
will reach over 100000 before the close.
Gen. Sickles has returned from his
secret mission to the South American gov
ernmeEts His doings have been impor-
tant but his report is suppressed for the
present $500. The bodies Of the executed
conspirators will not be given to their
friends at present. IN important
letter from H. S. Foote, eyrebel, ETC., has
been published The atrocities they have
perpetrated against our prisoners are par
TALLY exposed John c. Breckenridge
wrote letter Just previous to leaving for
Cuba. He wants wisdom at Washington.
IF there had been more there just before he
left to join the rebellion, he might have
been safe at home, and one Of the count
rvs trusted counsellors now A
lion tanner, says New Albany paper, at
tached to the Combination circus, while
s'taming' with a cowhide refractory lion
ess in Terra Haute, last week, had several
fingers gnawed off. Though fond of noto-
riety, he objects to being lonized in that
way. $3.50. Tuesday was the second ami
versary of the surrender of Vicksburg and
the Union victory at Gettysburg, both OF
which events occurred July 4th, 1868 -.
The parties who own the house in Wash
ington in which Abraham Lincoln died
have actually presented claim for DANA
ges to pillow cases, sheets and carpets by
the blood of the President, and that after
they have reaped rich harvest by exhibit
ing their house at high rate of admission.
The bill amounts to $3.50. A fear
full accident occurred near Dyersville, Iowa,
recently, by which party returning from
wedding got into a swollen stream that
had overfowed its banks, and four men and
one woman and child were drowned.
HORRIBLE Internationally night about
9 o'clock, DR.. Chas. Warneke was shot