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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
Foreign NEWS.

The English Government offers 5000 re-
ward for the body of James Stephens, dead
or alive.
A private cable dispatch states that the
Empress Carlotta died at Miramar, on Fri
day night, the 14th inst.
A letter from Port au Prince, of Novern-
Der 9th, says that the city of Maragoane
was almost totally destroyed by fire on the
Goth.
The London Times, in an editorial, says
that the Fenians have been fairly check
mated, and it would be madness on their
part to attempt rebellion
The Provincial authorities in Canada have
relinquished all responsibility for the con-
demned Fenians by turning them over to
the home government.
The University Of Toronto has erected q
memorial window to the students of the
college who fell in the battle with the Fe-
mans at Limestone Ridge.
A private soldier in Canadian regiment
is reported to have been logged for saying
that Canada would be annexed to the United
States within two years.
Another possible claimant of the Mexican
throne has been removed by death. A son
of the once famous General Tturbide died
in New York on Tuesday, the 18th inst.
The London Examiner believes that a
majority of the people are in favor of an
amicable adjustment of the Alabama claims,
and urges the prompt settlement Of them.
The Reorganization Of the French army
is thought to have some significance, and
late cable dispatches indicate that there is
som excitement in Europe in CONSCIENCE.
The army now amounts to 100000 men.
1t is said that the amount involved in
suits, now pending in England and France,
for the recovery of confederate property
claimed by the United States, is not less
than $40, 00O,0
On Friday, the 18th, The railway station
at st. Jean Pont Joli, Canada East, was
burned, The station master, Geo. Johnson,
his son aged eight years, and his daughter,
aged three persisted in the flames.
a cable telegram from London, December
10Th, says man has been arrested in Nor
folk, who is supposed to be James Stephens,
the Chief Organizer of the Irish Republic,
but the establishment of his identity as yet
ia considered dubious.
The Paris Monsteur of the 18th says that
the French Government has received tele-
graphic dispatches from Marshal Bazaine,
dated December 8, which state that the En-
peror Macmillan still remained, but that
his future movements were undecided.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
The South.

There was heavy frost in Mobile, De-
cember LIST.
Herschel V. Johnson was elected United
States Senator for Georgia ON The 18th.
The press of New Orleans bitterly de-
nounces the Ben. Butler Union Clubs which
are being organized in that city.
A careful canvassing of the Virginia Leg
islature shows only four members in favor
of the Constitutional Amendment.
Professor Eaton, musician and COM
poser of Memphis, who was well at break
fast, died Of pneumonia before noon on the
18th.
General Sheridan arrived at Brownsville,
Texas, on the 9th, and placed General Sedg-
wick under arrest, and also ordered the re-
lease of Ortega.
Judge Lynch has been holding high court
in Mercer county, Kentucky. One man has
been hanged, and fifteen persons were or
dered to leave the county or suffer similar
fate.
The sentiment in the Georgia Legislature
seems decidedly in favor Of territorial
government rather than the acceptance of
the Constitutional Amendment, or similar
terms.
The Legislature of North Carolina, on
the 18th, by vote Of one to forty four in
the Senate, and ten to ninety-three in the
House rejected the Constitutional Amend
ment.
Destitution at Chattanooga is so wide
spread that it is proposed to open soup
house, at which such poor as are unable to
work, and such as cannot obtain employ
ment, can receive one wholesome meal per
day.
Six ex-rebeIs were arrested at Griffin,
Georgia, December 9th, by the Unised
States Deputy Marshal, for violation Of the
civil rights bill. They ordered Union
man to leave town in twenty four hours, un-
der penalty Of hanging.
A terrific tornado passed through Hen
derson, Rush county, Texas, on the evening
of the 4th, doing great damage to the coun-
try. Five or six houses were blown down,
one OF which was the academy wherein
four scholars were killed and twelve seri-
ously injured.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
"A Asahy's biography .

We have had SO many kind friends
asking about that baby, that we have
thought it necessary to biograph the chap
briefly, and somewhat after the current
style Of the day:
It's boy.
He's buster.
Weighs nine pounds and quarter, and
old women tell US that he will grow heavier
as his weight increases.
He's the first boy of which we've ever
been proprietor, and of course he's the only
baby in town.
The old women before mentioned declare
him the very image of his pa
"a little copy OF his fathfel sire,
In form and gesture"
But in justice to the youth, we must say
we think him an improvement on the origin
ala world of progress, you know.
This young American is as old as could be
expected, considering the time he was born,
and will doubtless be too old for his father
in few years, if he has good luck.
He is quite reicent on politics, and only
wants to be let alone.
He thinks he favors Mrs. Winslow's
policy.
We haven't named him yet; we want to
give him distinguished cognomen, but the
fame Of our great men is at present so pre-
carious that we don't like the risk.
1t IS perhaps unnecessary to say, as all
biographies do Of distinguished personages,
that the subject of this sketch was born at o
very early age, of ''poor, but respectable
parents. "-E1change.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
TEae East.

Three hundred men, supposed to be
Fenians, sailed from New York in a steamer
on the 18th.
A heavy snow storm in Western New York
on the 18th impeded travel for some days.
The snow fell to the depth Of two feet.
By the explosion of barrel of sgaso-
line" in New York, On Friday night, the
18th, eight persons were terribly burned,
and three Of them it is supposed, will not
recover.
Mr.. Mcdonald, Agent of the Royal In
suranoe Company, Wall street, reports that
on the 10th, while his attention was divert.
ed, o thief distracted q tin box from his
safe containing $18O,OO0 in government
bonds, and got off safe with it.
1t is rumored, apparently on good au-
thority, that Ben. Wood, State Senator, in
q trial Of skill with Congressman elect
John Morrissey, at the scientific game of
faro, Wednesday night, the 18th, realized
the handsome sum of $4,000. The con-
test took place at the headquarters Of Nor
rissey, in Twenty-fourth street.
n terrible catastrophe happened in New
York Oe the night Of the 10th in double
tenement building. The fire originated in
the cellar, communicating to kerosene oil
store next door, and though the flames were
soon stopped, its violence among the petro-
leum was SO great that the dense volume Of
smoke which arose suffooated nine persons.
The residence of Prof. Morse, the cleo
trician, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was brok-
en- into by burglars, late on Sunday night,
the 9Th. and the whole building ransacked
from top to bottom, Mr.. Morse and family
being absent. The locks on nearly every
door in the house were broken, and the
rooms thoroughly overhauled.
A bookkeeper in mining stock house in
New York, last week, got leave of absence
to be married, and took with him, mad
vertently as was supposed, the key of the
the safe. After waiting couple of days,
the owners broke open the safe and found
the fellow had absconded with 100000 in
certificates and bonds. Within two days
he vas caught disguised in the city,
and the whole of the property recovered
The way of the transgressor is hard.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20

A little girl, four years old, daughter Of
Mr.. Brown, living on Chambers street. st.
Louis, was burned in q frightful manner. on
the 10th, by her clothes catching fire from
stove Her breast was burned to a bis
ter, and she inhaled the flames in her lungs.
She was still lingeri ng when last heard from,
with but little hopes of her recovery.
The city of Waukegan was visited by g
disastrous confagration on Wednesday
night, the 18th, resulting in the destruction
Of property valued at 100000. Captain
Hiram Hugunin, an aged and honored citi-
zen, formerly q resident of Chicago, lost
his life while endeavoring to aid in arrest
ing the fire, by stepping through sky
light and falling into the flames.
The Chicago Board of Trade has voted
approval Of the adoption Of the "cental
or 100 pounds" as the the standard of
measurement for grain, seeds, Sc, instead
Of the q bushel," as at present. 1t is an
derstood that the system will 60 into effect
on the first Of January next-provided the
leading Boards Of Trade in the country
agree to adopt it, as several have already
done. The Chamber Of Commerce of MIL
waukee, have also agreed to adopt the
Fcental arrangement.
A boy in Jackson county, Iowa, a few
days ago, went out to get some quail traps,
and, not returning at the time appointed,
search was instituted, and he was found
suspended from tree, dead. He had
probably been up after squirrel, and on
descending his foot slipped and his COM
forter caught, choking him to death. His
feet were within six inches of the ground.
A Springfield, Ill, despatch, Dec. 18th,
says: "One J. E. Kimball, manager of a
gift concert enterprise, has absconded,
leaving host Of persons in the lurch
Some parties suffer very heavily. The con
cert or drawing of the Capital Gift Enter
prise occurred on Saturday evening last in
this city. Everything appeared fair and
honorable. Several valuable prizes were
drawn, and the gifts were to have been dis
tributed to-day. Yesterday Kimball disap-
peared, taking with him his ill-gotten gains,
amounting, it is said, to several thousand
dollars"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
E'ho WEST.


The Pacific Railroad has reachad Doint
three hundred miles west of Omaha.
The city Of st. Louis is full of burglars.
No less than fourteen houses on one street
were robbed in one night last week.
Z. P. Gardner, one of the Oldest residents
of Ann Arbor, Mich, and the founder Of
the Argus newspaper in that town died on
the 14th inst.
Governor Lyon, of Idaho, was robbed OF
S47 ,000in Government funds, between New
York and Washington, while on his way to
settle with the Indian Bureau, on Wednes-
day last.
The safe belonging to the Michigan Cen
trail Railroad Company, at Jackson, Mich,
was blown open at an early hour on Friday
evening the 14th, and considerable sum Of
money stolen therefrom
H. 7. McCune, brother of Capt John S.
MoCune, President of the Keokuk Packet
Co., was waylaid, robbed and killed by
bushwhackers, on the 9Th, about 20 miles
south Of Sedalia, Mo.
The funeral of James Locke, Esq, late of
the Cincinnati Gazette, took place on the
18th, and on the same day occurred the
death Of N. Paschall, senior editor and pro-
prietor Of the st. Louis Republican. ~
w. A. Sanford, of Sterling, H., has com
menced action against Herring & Co., safe
manufacturers, to recover $26, 200, which
was burglarized from warranted burglar
proof safe Of their manufacture.
The Sparta, Wis, Eagle reports the shoot
ing of an insane man, named Manuel Urah,
who had escaped from his keepers, by a
hunter who saw him lying at the foot Of a
tree, and in the early morning light took
him for deer.
Lexington, ILL, on the Chicago and St.
Louis railroad north of Bloomington was
visited by a destructive confagration on
Sunday night, the 9th, consuming from
$25 900 to $4,000 worth of property in the
business part of the town.
Just now, the most interesting question
in Missouri politics is who shall be United
States Senator in place Of Graz Brown.
Two distinguished men are the principal
expectants-Chas. D. Drake, and Gov Thos.
G. Fletcher
At Thornton, Ind on the 9th, little girl
ten years old, daughter of Mr.. Slower, was
caught by the main shaft of a Touring mill,
throwing her with terrible force against a
post, killing her instantly, and scattering
fragments of the poor child in every direc-
ton
W. G. W. Smith was executed at Wash
ington, Ohio, on the 18th. for the murder of
his brother-in-law, John Gray, near that
place, on the 18th Of October, 1864 Smith
was fifty years old, and died protesting his
innocence.
The Buffalo Courier reports another at
tempt, on Friday, to throw a train off the
track Of the Lake Shore Road, for the pur-
pose Of robbing the passengers in the
confusion attending the calamity. Only the
locomotive and baggage car were, however,
thrown off.
Gov. Fletcher of Missouri, on the 10Th
lnst., issued q proclamation calling into
service three regiments of militia for three
months service, to suppress laWlessness in
the western part of the State. The regi-
ments are to organize Immediately, and to
rendezvous in Linn and Johnson counties.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
MfsfelIauY.
THE OLD STORY.
md III q heart

1 was a woman, and I'd heart,
And / rayed of love and of conStancy,
And saw the tears to my eyelids start,
For he was the world tome.
He whispered low when the spring-time few,
On the tangled paths in which men stray,
And around me all his arms he threw,
s His eyes were on fire that day.
We parted: yes bat chung TO him,
And put up my lips to be kissed again;
But the laughing eyes Of the heaY'n grew DIM,
And were swollen black with rain.
They came to me when my love was gone,
And said he was poor and toiled for bread;
They talked Of ruin and tears alone,
And nay heart was dull as lead.
And then they laid their bride at my feet
twas the same old tale that is often told
They play d On the strings of my hearts conceit,
And dazzled my eyes with gold.
sold myself to oveless thing,
And walked to ths altar and there ] lied;
For my heart was away with the primrose spring,
And by my husbands side.
And now you ask me what Of the lie?
I've paid fall dear for my girlish greed;
'Twere better, think, for to die
Than to live the life lead.
I am alone, but still can sing,
And pray for the uin Of winters rain,
For the scent of the primrose-crown OF spring
Will return to me again.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20

ALBION COMMERCIAL CoLLEGE.-We take
pleasure in referring persons wishing to
obtain good business education, to no.
tice of this institution, from the Detroit
Tribune, in another column. President
Mayhem, who is widely known as an author,
and who has been many years the efficient
Superintendent of Public Instruction in
Michigan, now devotes his entire attention
to this one institution.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
A telegraph TOke.

The Indianapolis Journal of the 23d ult.,
says:
Yesterday, message was sent by the
operator at headquarters of one Of the tele-
graph lines running out of this city, to an
operator at one Of the way-stations on the
line, as follows:
Operator at headquarters-If there is az
trunk at your station, marked L. E. FAINT,
send it to the city in care of me.
(Signed)
Operator at way -station-No, sir; no such
trunk here
Operator at headquarters--No, guess not.
Elephants generally carry their trunks with
them.
Operator at ay-station-Sold.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
The Swedish bonse al nohles h as abou

The Swedish house Of mobiles las shown,
at its last session, that the cause of woman's
rights is making progress in the country of
Frederick Bremen and Bishop Tegnier.
Al.er a long and warm debate, the follow
ing points were carried by large majority
/. That the king be asked to order an in
Qniry to ascertain whether women may not
be instructed in medical science SO as to
practice safely as physicians. 3 That
women be hereafter employed in railways,
mail lines and telegraphs in such positions
as they may appear competent to fill after
due examination 5. That women who
have gone through regular seminary
course are eligible for teachers in the pub
lie schools.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20

JEALOUSY. once heard of a man in
Pike county, Missouri, who, when his girl
married another teller, got drunk and then
went to the bedroom door Of the newly
married couple, and stood there kicking
against it all night long There is some
thing almost sublime in the thought of that
broken hearted man standing there through
the dreary watches of the night, kicking on
that door. Like the word of Camb-0nne at
-
N&leTlov, ~ wniu.i 5t7Gv sae 90 - :
found relief, so did the agony and despair
of the Pike county man find vent in kicks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-19
SEMINAL WEAKNESS CURED

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twenty five years. was never known ~ fail in
curing the worst cases of seminal weakness in
from two to five weeks. After over twenty five
years use in private practice. il is now adver-
to save them from the hands ofmerciess quacks.
if not from the grave. Price IS box-sent to
all parts Of the country. For sale at Dir. Bo-
hannan's office, No. 80 Pine strset between
Third and Fourth. Established in st. Louis
In lSYT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-19

mission in the navy, under solemn GOV
enant never 10 be sent to sea, nor ex
posed to the rude fire of rebel guns-and
he never was.
-. Forney is carried about the city of
Washington in vehicle owned by the
Government, and driven by man paid
as laborer in the capitol grounds. All
of which may be strictly patriotic, but is
not legal.
g. Forney has for private Servant a
man who is laborer for the Senate,
which is contrary to the law in such
cases made and provided.
o. Forney gets the Chronicle edited
by men who are paid as clerks of the
Senate, which may be patriotism, but
looks like swindling
10. Forney will employ nobody a.
clerk or messenger in the Senate, who
will not help to edit either the Chronicle
or the Press; which is good economy
but bad morals in the dead duck
ii. Forney wrote begging letter to
the President about six months ago. The
President did not grant the prayer Of the
petitioner, and the Chronicle immedi-
ately came out against Andrew johnson
and his policy. Which may be disinter-
ested, but doesn't look that way looks
rather like an unsuccessful attempt to
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
That thrift may follow fawning"
What a self-sacriicing patriot Forney
is, to be sure MACK.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-19
: Hone Deferred"

From the Atlanta Intelligencer.l
A Young and interesting lady passed
through our city yesterday, returning to
her home in Texas. She was led to the
altar during the second year of the war
BY a gallant captain In Texas regiment
who left her to join his command in Nlr-
ginia ere the honeymoon had waned.
His career was an honorable one, and in
her far-off home her heart had been
made to swell while his deeds of valor
we're being recounted by his comrades.
But few leaves of absence were given in
the Army of Northern Virginia to Tex
ans, and our captain was not permitted
to return to the rosy bowers where love
awaited him His devotion to duty knew
no abatement, and he was still found
among the faithful few when the end
came. He is known TO have surrendered
with the Texas brigade at Appomattox
Courthouse, and to have started fairly
upon the wings of love to meet the wo-
man of his choice Further than this
nothing is known of him. Other hearts
have been made glad by the return of
absent ones, but that great agony OF sus-
DfuSe mas Otl W bt iitSu ilOuu tht
heart of the fair Texas bride Unable
any longer to quietly hear the tor
ture of doubt and uncertainty, she re-
solved upon a mission of inquiry after
the one whose fate still remains a mys-
terry. Her search has extended from
Texas to Virginia, and no effort has been
spared to discover the probable cause OF
his heightened stay and while her search
has been fruitless, she is ready to wager
her future hopes of Heaven that if living
he is faithful still, and if dead her name
was mingled with his latest breath. She
returns to her home in Texas with a
mountain weight of sorrow pressing
heavily upon her fair brow. Such fidelity
is never rewarded in this life; in that
other world where sorrow is not known
will she find compensation for the deep
and poignant griefs she has borne so un-
complainingly in this.
"All the long summer did she live in hope
OF udings from the war and rs at eve,
She with her mother at the cottnge door
sat in the sunshine, ii q traveller go.
Appeard at distance coming o'er the NIL
brow,
Her eye was on him. and il might be seen
by the flushed cheek what thoughts were IN her
heart.
How her heart died within her"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-19

ries to consider results. He is not
worldly person, though he has seen many
countries, and has known multitudes Of
people, and he is sngnlarly unsophisti
Gated in many things Of the world, and
of irreproachable personal character.
Thad Stevens is an old bruiser. de be
lieves, or has believed, in the four W's
proclaimed by Senator McDougall as his
platform: Wine and Women, Whiskey
and War" He is thoroughly politi-
cian; and that which he does not know
Of the tricks Of the trade would hardly
be worth finding out. Sumner in person
was once upon time tall, graceful, we'll
proportioned, and handsome, with brill
liant dark hair, fine cut features, and
scholarly air He is becoming ponder
GUS. His features are heavy, his face
almost habby, his expression dull, except
when he is specially animated, and his
bright hair is deeply grizzled. Stevens
never was a beauty, and for many years
has worn an old brown wlg-as rusty
and palpable wig as could be found
but resolutely brushed smooth. de has
not seemed vigorous, physically, and
having a club-foot, hobbies about IN a
tottering, disconsola manner dis
countenance expresses little conscious
ness of his deiormity, with fierce re-
sentiment of any attention to 1t, and there
is, as nearly as the two can be combined
in one face, haggard, weary, vain ap-
peal for sympathy, and an intense, burn
ing scorn, for all corners. The index to
the man. given in this singular develop
mept Of facial character, which is OF
course associated with great irritability
as well as obstinacy of temperament, is
confirmed by his voice, which has an odd
blending of harshness and pathos 1t
has the quaver IF an old mans voice, but
u resolute sharpness, and mourntul ap-
peal for the charity of man, breaking out
in it like a few notes ofan old and almost
forgotten song; arasping, indiscriml-
nate contempt and hatred undertoning it
all the while. He is a man not wanting
in the finer feeling of humanity, but who
has suppressed their expression, and out
of his bitter experience of it has grown
an unnatural misanthropy, that appears
in mis- public career in that degree ofvlo-
lence and recklessness that marks his
course as a politician, and the intemper-
ance of his speech. A couple of weeks
ago Mr.. Stevens announced that he
thought in the course of week he would
be "a younger man." and then he pro.
posed TO undertake the. impeachment OF
the President. One Washington letter
writer said that Stevens was on this oc-
casion "livid with rage" and another
declared he turned white with passion;
At any rate he was not in any agreeable
state of mind, and instead af growing
younger rapidly, he fell i'll, and his
friends have had the most serious appre-
tensions of his condition. About the
same time Mr.. Sumner became sick from
over-exertion aud anxiety, and it was
reported that the injuries inflicted by the
cane of Preston Brooks were again ap-
pearing aud would probably cause the
State of Massachusetts, to be once more
represented in the Senate by Henry Will
son and that empty chair in whose
eloquense Mr.. Sumner once had so much
confidence.