Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-08-31
General News Items.

San Francisco July %, for Portland, Ore
gon. with between Two hundred and three
hundred passengers, was totally lost near
Camp Lincoln, Oregon, July 80. Only
fourteen men and women saved.
....A Mississippi steamer was blown
ashore eighty miles below Louisville, and
some accident happening to her steam
works, a number of passengers were killed
and others terribly scalded. They were
mostly soldiers, d.rg
The government Of Buenos Ayres
has ordered the first town located in the
Province to be called Lincoln, in honor Of
the late President. # !
The probabilities that JEFF. Davis will
be tried by military commission at For
tress Monroe, begin 10 appear.
Lieut.. Gen. Grant with his family,
his father, and number Of personal friends
is on his way to St. Paul, On boord the
steamer Itasca.
The income Of the Girard estate, in
Philadelphia, is now about two hundred
thousand dollars year, and still incfeas-
ling.
-. The reported ll-treatment Of negroes
in North Carolina is stated officially to be
untrue. et-e
!. The ravages Of the cholera in the
| East is still undated. 1t is carrying oil
| 800 or goo a day at Constantinople II
is in Malta and Ancona, and is said to be
spreading in Italy There is a report Of its
appearance at Marseiles.
| 49,. The pirate Shenandoah is still at
! large, aud preying on our commerce. She
| is now in the Pacific, doing an immense
amount Of damage. The captain, on hear
/ ing Of the assassination Of Lincoln, said he
expected it, b refused to believe that Lee
| had SURRENDERED. 4a
-. An accident on branch Of the c.
and \. w. r. r., resulted in the death Of
| four persons.
IA collision on Oil Greek R. r. result
enin the death Of nine, and seriously woun-
ding Of ten or twelve passengers.
-. Preparations are being made to re-
ceive the President at Richmond, where he
is expected.
;. Southern railroads are rapidly being
put in order.
"A violent gale at Savannah did great
damage to bulldi! IS and shade trees.
-. Cotton is coming i'll rapidly, and
meets ready purchasers.
1.-THE Schenectady Star say that two
sons and daughter Of Jeff. Davis accom-
panied by relatives and family friends pass
ed through that city recently en- route it
was supposed for Canada
-. Their was fearful liremen's roit in
New York at fire on the goth, in which
pistols, knives &C. were freely used. One
man was killed, four shot and a large num-
Der badly beaten.
A ~, 10 A.
cunning recently wounded and captured a
large bald headed eagle. He is to be pair
ed with "Old Abe" Of the 9Th, and has been
named ANDY
=. The Ripon Communicable has been
enlarged to an eight column paper. We
/ like to see these evidences Of prosperity in
orr contemporaries.
49,. Efforts are being made to procure the
pardon Of Alex. Ii. Stephens, the rebel Vice
| President
=. 1T is reported that the president is
! dissatisfied with the course Of General Carl
Schurz, who is now engaged in a govern
mental mission at the south and the eX,
pectation is entertained that he viii soon be
frecalled
IAN immense fire in San francisco
caused the loss of half million.
-. The Indians ale again becoming
| Troublesome on the plains.
A Salt Lake dispatch, July 30th,
says the telegraph operator reports that the
| Indians have carried off five miles Of wire
west Of Platte Bridge On the Goth some
2,000 Indians attacked che post at Platte
bridge; there was skirmislIing all the after
noon, many Indians being killed Lieut.
Collins, 10Th Ohio Cav, and y men killed.
Lieut.. Collins was killed while leading a
charge By 700 Kansas troops against some
I 600 Indians.
49,. Edward Kctchum, the forger and
defaulter was arrested inMew York on Fri
day, he had not been ont Of the city. When
taken he had about $780, 900 with him.
| Since his capture he has had interviews
with his father, wifeand many of his friends
and victims. lie gives the amount involved
| in his transactions as about 100000. 1t
is thought that the assets Of the firm, will
amount to sixty cents on the dollar Of La
bilities.
The La Crosse banking house Of
Cole, Sumner 6 Co., which suspended on
account Of the Ketchum fraud, it is thought
viii be able to pay fifty cents on the dollar
Of their liabilities.
-. English cholera has broken out in
the Birmingham work-house. No less than
two hundred and fortythree Of the inmates
have been attacked with the disease.
-. Sixty copper mining companies are
now in operation on Lake Superior.
IA report from Jackson, Miss, says
the free State Constitution will be adopted
by the Convention.
500 fatal disease is carrying off the
horses in Pennsylvania rapidly. The throat
swells, and then the head and limbs.
-. Thirty Laplanders, dressed in furs
and skins accompanied by twelve Swedes,
hare arrived at St. Paul, to settle in Min
nessota.
-. Gold continues firm, the demand be-
ing large. The quotations opened on the
28tll at ,435 and ran up to AZ. On the
Doth it was AL.
THE Wirz trial is now in full pro-
gress, the testimony is being taken, and if
discloses some horrible and disgusting facts,
and we trust the fend who perpetrated
these outrages on our brave soldiers, whom
! the fortunes Of war had brought within
his control will meet with his just deserts.