Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-26
OF THE WEEK.


uonld be closed to the public.
The late arrivals from Europe indicate that
,becbolera has made its appearance in both
France and England. Two cases have oc-
Cured at Southampton.
Five caves have been discovered under the
citv of Nashville, Tenn, which were oecu-
MED by thieves, burglars, etc. The military
.5aye the matter in hand
Pella, Iowa, has had the persons who were
engaged in the transaction arrested.
Last week, the residence OF the late Ed
ward Everett on Sumner street, Boston, was
sold at auction for S56,791, and will be gu
perscded by business property at once.
There are rumors ahoat in Washington
that Butler is TO have a seat in the Cabinet.
Last Sunday night fire occurred in Nil
yankee, opposite the Newhall House, de-
stroying ten or twelve wooden stores and
residences.
The bonds of the new Irish Republic are
10 be issued this week. John Mitchelrs re-
lease is positively announced.
A heavy FIRE occurred in Charleston, S. c.,
on Wednesday, 18th, burying thirty or forty
persons in the ruins, Of whom fifteen to TWEEN
~ we're killed. Loss about 100000.
The regular army is to be increased TO
5000, by agreement Of our leading gen
erals.
The Mississippi Legislature organized on
the 18th inst, and Gen. Humphreys was
iuaugnrated. In his inaugural address, he
insists upon the sincerity of the South,
acknowledges the death of slavery, and
denrecates its resurrection in any shape
A bill has been reported in the Tennessee
Legislature and referred, regulating the
elective franchise Among its provisions is
one giving the right of suffrage to freed
men who can read and write, possess the
residence qualifications, and were free prior
10 Feb 1st, 1865.
The Tennessee Senate have passed the bill
allowing the negroes the right of testifying
81 in The Courts.
tend the boundaries of his empire into Brit
ish Honduras has been met by declaration
from the English government that Mexico
has no claim whatever TO any portion OF
that territory; and in this view the impe-
rial government has been compelled to ac-
auiesce. There is q report that Maximilian
had sent S., 100000 to Washington to infiu-
ence congress in favor of his recognition.
Gen. Sterling Price, Ex-Governor Harris, OF
Tennessee, Lieutenant Marry, and three
other ex-rebels, have been appointed by
Maxjmilian as commissioners Of colonization
and Immigration More French troops have
arrived in Mexico.
A company has been formed, and grant
obtained from the Queen of Spain, to lay a
submarine cable between Porto Rico, Cuba
and the United States.
The 18th Illinois cavalry, by its foolish
and criminal characterization, in refusing to
cross the plains, as ordered, is under arrest
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
As was to be expected, there is no confrma-
ton of the report that Jeff. Davis had made
his escape.
The large freight depot of the Michigan
Central Railroad at Detroit was totally con-
sumed by fire on the 18th with its immense
storage Of freight, involving loss of
quarter of o million dollars. Among t
goods destroyed were seven hundred bales
of cotton, and large amounts of highwines,
whiskey and tobacco. The depot was q
thousand feet in length and completely filed
with freight. Several cars were also de-
stroyed. Six employees of the road lost
their lives in this terrible confagration.
A case of lynching occurred at Pella,
Iowa, on the 10th. A young man was ar
rested for stealing fror fellow possen yer
in the coach, tried, and acquitted by the
magistrate; whereupon the citizens took
him to warehouse and hung him up by the
neck TO force a confession. Unfortunately
not expected to live,
Six thousand negroes in Washington have
signed q petition asking for the right of
suffrage.
Harris & 0sbrey's bonded warehouses in
New York were burned last week, involving
loss of million of dollars. Seven hun
dred thousand dollars worth of cotton was
destroyed
The notorious guerilla, Champ Ferguson,
was executed last FRIDAY. On the same
Henry c. Magruder another guerilla and
relation of the rebel General Magruder was
hung louisville
Beauregard has been appointed Superin-
tendent of the Jackson and New Orleans
Railroad.
A hard battle has been fought between
the Paraguayans and the allied army, re-
sulting in the utter defeat of tho former,
with great loss.
The Tunisian embassy came as far West
as Niagara Falls, last week, and returned
immediately TO make their errand at Wash
ington
Last week, woman and two children
''were horribly mangled by freight train on
the North Missouri Railroad, near Macon
City, the head of the woman being crushed
50 that she died Immediately, and the legs
OF both the children almost torn from their
bodies The woman is thought to have been
sitting under the cars with the children, 10