Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-04
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.

it;on Of 3,S31,777 a decrease Of 4o,950
e;nce 1860 according to the national CEN
sus Of that year,, but IN increase of $780,
oOo since the state census Of ten years ago
The total number Of voters is 823, 426, Of
whom 1854 are native born and 239, 1872
naturalized. The resident aliens 800,
356, and colored persons not taxed 30, 949
The population, therefore, deducting aliens
=, and colored persons not taxed, is 9, 1893, 430
La Crosse, Wisconsin had night of fires
on the 28th The second and most destruct-
i've conaagration swept along Third street,
taking of fourteen buildings total loss
,-s $4,000.
On Christmas evening. passenger train
over the Louisville, New Albany and Chica-
t r 90 railroad, was fred into twelve miles from
New Albany, the shots striking the ladies'
car, but fortunately hitting no one. The
train was stopped, and one Of the gang by
the name Of Jacob Boyles was caught, and
taken TO New Albany. His comrades will
no doubt be arrested, as they are well
known.
Englands offer to mediate in the Gillian
affair, is reported to have been accepted by
sSpain,-.0~r -,~r--.,--
- i3eT1me les mas arrived at W dsulngtOn, anu
is confined in the Navy Yard.
A special election is relation to negro
suffrage, was held on the 23d, at Georgetown
DC Of 200 votes cast, but one was in
favor Of the measure
.g A Judge of the Jupreme Court of Mexico
has abandoned Juafez, protesting against
his continuance in the Presidency.
Twelve hundred French troops landed at
Vera Cruz on the 9Th of December and 300
more on the 11th.
Macmillan has established drafting in
Mexico. The time Of service is six years
and those liable are between the ages of
Is and 85 The clergy, teachers, and some
other clagses'of people are exempt. Per-
sons drafted can commute for $500.
Reports from the Vermillion Lake mines
are to the effect that gold is found there in
immense quantities, The Chippewa chiefs
occupying that region are to be invited to
Washington, for sle purpose Of ratifying
new treaties.
The new fve-cent fractional currency viii
be issued in few days
's s The new national bankrupt bill, which
has been introduced in Congress, provides
,G system of voluntary and compulsory bank
ruptcy, and is clear andsimple in its details.
Two chiefs of the Red Lake Indians have
arrived at st. Cloud, Mimi, to ask Bishop
Whipple to send them a missionary and
teacher, whom they offer to pay salary out
Of their annuity One-third of the tribe
propose to separate from the rest, and at
tempt to initiate the civilization of the white
race.
Washington Territory has accepted the
national neutrality-suspicious.. California
z- won't come to it for some time yet.
Parties in New York, styling themselves
the Macmillan Express Company, are max
ing shipments of various articles to Mexico.
Affairs in the interior of Texas are de-
scribed as being in deplorable condition.
Bitter hostility to the national Government
is manifested, and general lawlessness pre-
walls When President Johnson's brother
was accidentally shot, all the surgeons
in the neighborhood refused to render their
services, on the ground of his relationship
to the President and his death is attribute
. BILE solely to the want of prompt surgical
aid. = 49,
s.s.. A Paris paper gives a report that an ar
rangement has already been concluded, with
the consent of England by which Antwerp
n y and the sea-coast of Belgium are to be Civ
... en- to Holland, Flanders and Brabant to
France, and Luxembourg and part of Linn
burg to Prussia.
Heavy SHOWS have fallen on the plains.
Over twenty trains are snow-bound at diff
ferent points, anda large number of animals
- are dying from starvation and cold weather.
A Washington dispatch states that the
Secretary of the Treasury viii not accept the
- offer of the national banks Of a temporary
loan of $10O,000,000, but will probably
adopt the usual mode Of obtaining loans.
~ lot of elegant furniture, including 81
s1 pieces, has been presented to Mrs. Gen. Rob-
ert. E. Lee, by some of the ladies Of Bal
timore.
9ffA The foreign files by the City Of Manches
ter state that the Great Eastern will posi-
lively lay the new Atlantic cable in June
next, and take up the old one.
Five regiments Of Illinois troops, now on
duty in Georgia and Alabama, have been
r4 ordered to be mustered out of service, and
g til supposed all others now in the field will
be soon discharged .a7et err
The London Observer has report that
Macmillan is about quitting Mexico, and
viii shortly be in Europe, and that Napoleon
has sent the Mexican Minister to dissua de
him from such q step.
The United States Telegraph Company
s' have extended their lines from La Crosse to
Winona, and propose to penetrate Minneso-
ia TO its farthest settlements as fast as posi-
bic But as the poles crossing the Missis-
sippi are set in the ice, the La Crosse
Republican thinks new arrangement viii
have to be made in the spring to aceommo-
date steamboat navigation.
The Legislature of California finally rati-
fed the slavery-abolishing Constitutional
- amendment on the 2sth, making the twenty
sA ( ninth State that has done so.s 81
1t is reported that Secretary Seward and
80 mis- family intend % make foreign trip.