Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20
SUMMARY OR rRE SyzsEz.
General gnfeEE1gemces

General Intelligence
Gold touched 1873 n New York on the
10Th inst.
The missing steamship Brittan5q, overdue
from Londonderry, arrived in New York on
the 10th.
Forney has declared in favor Of Thadde
us Stevens for United States Senator from
Pennsylvania.
Considerable speculation is INDUCED in
the fact that Secretary Seward has lately
had two interviews with Thad. Stevens.
1t is said that twenty millions of dollars
viii pay for all the property now used in
the lawful manufacture Of whisky.
A bill is being prepared to provide for
the purchase Of ali distilleries in the coup-
try, and their. operation by the Government.
Several lives were lost and q number of
persons scalded near Fortress Monroe on
Saturday, the 9Th, by the explosion Of 8
steamer.
It is alleged that John H. surratt will be
offered pardon in case he turns States evil
dence against all Of his fellow oonspirators
in the plot for the murder Of President
Lincoln.
A rumor is prevalent in Washington that
Chief Justice Chase will accept the Presi-
denoy Of the Pacific Railroad, made vacant
by the appointment of General Dix as Min
lister TO France.
1t is stated the President will not order
tbs release Of jeff. Davis on parole, or in
any manner interfere with his case Mr..
Davis will remain at Fort Monroe until
arrangements are made for his trial in the
spring.
The Postoffice Department is considering
the feasibility Of taking up and delivering
mails from express trains at points where
they do not stop aud without slackening
their speed. Several inventions which pro-
fess to accomplish this are being expert
mented with
The Postmaster General has decided to
discontinue all post offices in the Southern
States, where late Postmasters fail to make
returns Of the money and stamps in their
hands at the beginning of the war.
Female suffrage is much talked of in
Washington. Cbares Sumner remarked re-
Gently that ii is obviously the great ques-'
ton of the future, which viii be easily set
tied whenever the women in any considera-
bic proportion insist that it shall be settled.
The Governors of several of the rebel
states have issued call for convention OF
all the Governors, to decide upon plan of
action to enable them to lay an Atlantic
cable which will be owned exclusively by
Americans.
The man who gave the information which
led to the arrest of John f. Surratt, is a
French Canadian, named st. Marie He
as formerly Union soldier, and served in
the Papal Zouaves. Both he and Surratt
were in love with the same lady, in Wash
ington, and st. Marie betrayed surratt
through jealousy
The extent Of the storm of tho 10TH and
10th may be inferred by the following re-
port by telegraph Of the depth of the sncw
at the several points: Lynchburg, Va, 6
inches, Washington inches, New York s
inches, Albany inches Buffalo 10 inches,
Pittsburg inches, Stanton, Iowa, inches,
st. Joseph, Mo-, Is inches, Kansas City, s
inches, Chicago, II inches.
Several leading members of Congress are
in favor Of making an experiment to see if
the Postoffioe Department cannot advan-
tageously manage the telegraph. The pro-
position is to build line from here to New
York, declare it o post route, put it under
the control of the Postmaster General and
require each message to bear cent postage
stamp for every twenty or thirty words 1t
is believed that the line would yield hand
some revenue. The present Postmaster
General is understood to think the scheme
entirely practicable. One member of the
lower house has declared his purpose to
push the project into law at the next SEES
sion of Congress, if nothing is done this
winter.