Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-06
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General Intelligence.

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Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands,
is about to depart for home, having received
intelligence of the death of her mother.
The President has accepted an invitation
to be present at the laying of the corner
stone of the soldiers monument at Peoria,
Illinois.
Secretary Harlan has retired from his
Office of Secretary of the Interior, and
Hon. O. II. Browning has assumed the du-
ties of that position.
Suit has been brought against Secretary
Stanton for imprisonment by military COM
mission and several more such suits are con-
templated.
It has been decided that an officer whose
discharge is dated prior to April 9, 1866,
though not received until after that time, is
not entitled to the three months pay proper
granted by the act Of Congress of March 8,
1865.
Grave charges are made against Hon. 0.
H. Browning, Secretary of the Interior.
It is asserted that he accepted $4,000
bribe to use his influence with the Presi-
dent TO secure the Communication of the SEN
fences Of three murderers.
The Commiss oner Of the General Land
Office has decided that parties who have
made entry under the 9Th section Of the
homestead act of 1862, on the condition of
FIVE years continuous settlement, have
right, at any time before the expiration of
that period, to make proof Of such settle
ment up to given day, and then pay for
the tract at $1.25 per acre, and at cnce get
title. When tract Of more than $50
acres is taken, the settler is required to pay
| for the excess in cash. and, should he desire
to change his homestead to cash purchase,
he is credited with the amount of such ex
cess, and only required to pay for 100
acres. In case party abandons his tract,
he forfeits all claim to the fees, Sc, which
were paid at the time of entry at the local
land office.
The immense revenues which are pouring
into the public treasury make it possible, if
it were desirable, to pay the whole of the
debt in ten years, after reducing the interest
bearing debt to $2,O00,O50,O 900 at the close
of the present fiscal year. And it requires
no extravagant progression Of domestic in
dustry and foreign commerce to make the
tax an easy one for the Government, should
the popular sentiment, North and South,
prefer to be rid of direct taxation altogether
within this brief period by paying off the
debt at the rate of 5000, 600, 900 a year to
having the system prolonged, even in a
modified shape, to twenty years. The Sec
rotary of the Treasury paid off $124,0o0,-
600 last year, besides paying off the army
and navy after the close of the war. His
gross revenues were $558,000,000. They
will not be much, if at all, short of $780,,
100000 this year, with the army and navy
on the peace establishment, mo unpaid
acquisitions against the Department.
The Presidential party on their tour west,
left Washington August 28th, under charge
of Gen. McCallum, and Major S. G. Koontz,
who were detailed by the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company to go with the train all
through. The following is a list Of exeur-
sionists: The President; Secretary of
State; Secretary of the Navy, and SON,
Edgar 7. Welles; The Postmaster General !;
General Grant, and Chief of Staff, General
Rawlins; Admiral Farragut, with Lieuten-
ant Mckinley, his Secretary; Rear Admiral
Radford Surgeon General Barnes; Min
lister Romero; Senator Patterson, and wife,
and Others The excursionists were re-
ceived at Baltimore with warm demonstra-
tions. The train left at 10.20A. NJ, arriving
at Havre de Grace at IL As A. NJ, and at
Philadelphia, at 2.13P. NJ, where the Pres
ident made speech to large crowd. In
the evening, he was serenaded. Arriving
in New York on the goth, the party was
met by committee Of the Common Coun-
Gil, and escorted by division of cavalry up
Broadway to the city hall, where Mayor
Hoffman delivered an address of welcome
The President replied in brief speech,
and after he had concluded, Secretary
Seward was called out and also spoke brief
| ly. From the city hall, the party proceeded
to the Fifth Avenue hotel, and on the 30th,
were to proceed by steamer to West Point
and Albany.