Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-23
SUMMARY OF TEzE WEEK

at Concord, New Hampshire.
The reported assault On Mr.. Vallandigham
at Eaton, O., a few days since, is pronounc-
ed untrue.
At Nashville, Tennessee, four men and
one woman were killed On Thursday night
the 18th.
In San Francisco, Cal, on the night of
the 18th instant, two men entered the What
Cheer house knocked the clerk senseless,
and took $4,000 in gold from the safe.
In st. Louis two men were recently killed
in an encounter with highway robbers; and
burglaries are Of frequent occurrence. On
Friday, at noon, messenger of the United
States saving association was knocked down
in the street, and pouch containing $685.,
900 was wrested from him. A pistol was
fred at the robber who dropped the money,
and made his escape. The bank Of Benoit
& Co was robbed of 81, 900 in the same way.
The cholera steamer Atlanta has come up
to New York city.
Secretary McCulloch is about to fund the
compound interest bearing legal tenders into
fve-twenties at fixed price.
At Bangor, Maine on Sunday the 18th,
the mercury sank to zero, and the smaller
rivers in that vicinity were froven over. S
The Mississippi Legislature have adopted
a memorial praying the President to remove
United States troops from that state. The
House of Representatives have rejected 9.
proposition to admit negro testimony against
the whites.
1t is rumored in Washington that Judge
Otto, assistant Secretary of the Interior, is
about to resign, and that Hon. Jesse 0. Nor
ton CT Illinois will be announced to fill the
vacancy.
As a sample of the manner in which the
English treat rebels, it is stated that 1850 of
the Jamaica insurgents have been hanged
and shot in the parish of st. Thomas alone.
"But don't hang JEFF Davis"
General John A. Logan has been rendered
the appointment of Minister to the Republic
of Mexico. This appointment was made on
the recommendation of General Grant, who
in private consultation expressed himself in
favor of driving the French from Mexico at
the point of the bayonet. The French min
lister has objected to Gen. Logan's appoint
intimation sent seine time since by Secreta-
~ Seward to the Emperor Napoleon, that
the presence of French troops in Mexico
was regarded with disfayor by our govern
ment.
Emerson Etheridge has been acquitted by
the Columbus Court Martial. Gen. Thomas
has ordered his discharge, but disapproves
the findings of the court.
The election in New York is more sweep
ing than was at first supposed. The Senate
stands Y to 5, last year q to II ). the House
"a to "a, last year 76 to 81 The Republic
ans carry six out of the eight Supreme
Court districts.
The census returns of Illinois, now nearly
complete, show gain of q per cent in five
years. Should this hold good throughout,
Illinois will have a population of 2, 169, 900,
The Constitutional Amendment abolishing
slavery, passed both Houses of the South
Carolina Legislature.
The CHILEAN authorities have ordered oil
Spanish residents into the interior, and are
confscating their property.
Duncan and Winder, the confederates of
Wirz in the cruelties in Union prisoners are
to be tried Immediately.
There was great excitement at Toronto
on Wednesday the 10Th, in expectation of an
early attack of the Fenians, and troops were
placed by the government at the disposal of
the mayor.
The Governor of Wisconsin has changed
the Thanksgiving Day of that State to that
designated by the President, Dec. 9TH. Thus
far this is the day appointed by all the
govern ors.
The vote on the suffrage question in Wis
consin will run exceedingly close.
DR.. Tyng's church in New York was burned
on the 18th inst, involving loss of about
100000.
Gov. WiSe's personal property has been
condemned for confscation.
The total sick and wounded in Govern
ment hospitals at the present time is less
than 5000.
Gen. Baker says there was an error in the
published date of the attempt of Mrs. Wirz
10 poison her husband, but that the facts are
substantially as first stated.
Dalton advices report the election of Chas.
J. jenkins as Governor of Georgia, and of
johnson (what Johnson is not stately as
United States Senator.
Inc President is said to have last week
remarked that .. he had tried to overwhelm
1.-THE South with pardons and kindness: but
from recent events he began to think them
incapable Of approaching magnanimity."
A Richmond paper says that the Southern
congressman "will stand aloof if the Bouse
organized without them and, If the
debate threatens to be protracted and ex-
cited they viii leave the capital and await
Al their homes for Congress to send for
As'n' before they trouble them again"