Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-06

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been elected United States Senator from
that State, for six years, from March next.
On Sunday morning, the I'd inst, the
Jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was destroyed
by fire, and ore prisoner was burned to
death in it. II was cottonwood structure.
The prisoner had been placed in Jail at
midnight, aud the fact Of his being there
was not known to those who witnessed the
fire. So s In.f't -
ue Gen. John A. Dix, Minister TO France,
sailed from New York on the Oath.
The Presidents Message was written and
partly in type on the 9th ult., but not en-
tirely until Dec. lst.
The President has caused disavowal to
be published of all responsibility for the oc-
cupation of Matamoras by some of sheri-
dams troops.
The estimates for the next year will be
much less than heretofore, especially in the
War Department. The Quartermaster GEN
eral, who formerly required enormous ap-
propriations, will not ask dollar for the
coming year.
Secretary Seward received on Sunday,
the I'd inst, the following important dis
patch by the Atlantic cable:
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Dec. /.
81 | have arrested John II. Surratt, one OF
the assassins Of President Lincoln"
"CHARLEs A. HALE,
"Consul General"
The London Times says that peace will be
soon declared between Spain, Chill and
Peru.
The absurd rumor that Bismark had re-
signed in disgrace Is contradicted by cable
dispatch.
There is no truth in the report that a.
brigade of United States troops had crossed
the Rio GraDde and occupied Matamoras.
The announcement in Paris that Matamo-
ras has been seized by American troops,
and the French driven out, caused pro-
found sensation in Government circles and
among the people.
Macmillan is daily expected at Havana,
his withdrawal having been final and COM
plete, and no obstacle remaining in the way
Of his embarkation. Marshal Bazaine has
expressed himself anxious for the arrival of
General Sherman, to whom he intends sur
rendering his trust.
Advices from Paris, Sunday, December 2,
state that Empress Carlotta, of Mexico is
dying at Miramar. The Emperor Maximil-
ian is expected to reach Miramar in the
course of the next two weeks, and prepara-
tions are being made to give him fitting
reception upon Austrian soil.
The French Emperor has notified our
Government that vessels have sailed to
bring away the French troops from Mexi,o,
and before the end ofaJanuary they will all
have been Withdrawn. The Mexican Gov
ernme MT is to be surrendered into the hands
Of General Sherman on his arrival at the
City of Mexico.
A new island is forming in the Missouri
river opposite st. Joseph, and two citizens
have built shanty on it in order to secure
the first claim to entry when Government
places it in the market. 1t is two miles
long
On the 31st of October, party Of twenty
miners was attacked by party of Indians,
about twenty miles above Fort Sully, and
Mr.. Kendall Of Wisconsin, and Mr.. Tupsey
Of New York, were mortally wounded.
Four hundred Sioux and Kiowas had start
ed on the war path, to capture the forts On
theyUpper Missouri. af s9a1
The Western Union Telegraph Company
successfully laid cable across the Ohio
river at Maysville, Kentucky. on the Both
ultimo.
On Tuesday night, the 9th ult, party
of six desperadoes from Kentucky, headed
by Jack Hays, forcibly liberated from the
jail at Lebanon, Tenn, FIVE prisoners, and
only abstained from killing the jailor
through the entreaties of two prisoners,
who refused to go loose
A fire at Eufaula, Georgia, on the night
of the 9th ult., destroyed between 800, GOO
and $780, 900 worth of property.
The Stewart divorce suit, which has
created considerable interest in New York,
has resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, on
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with one Kneeland.
Col NJ. D. McAllister, Chief Engineer Of
the Military Division of the Gulf, has just
concluded a contract with certain citizens
of New Orleans for the opening Of the
Southwest Pass of the mouth of the Missis
sippi river.
H. c. Bell, alias " Major Hines" of
Franklin, Ky, has been arrested at Nash
vile, Tenn, charged with being one Of the
robbers of the Louisville & Nashville r. r.
pay train recently. He was formerly of
Morgan's staff.
About thousand buildings are now in
process of construction or are under con-
tract on the burnt district of Portland.
The opportunity has been taken to widen
and straighten the streets and lay out
squares.
A fatal collision between freight and
passenger train occurred near Corinth, on
the Memphis & Charleston railroad, on the
9th, by which seven persons, among them
the conductor of the passenger train, we're
reported killed, and large number wound
ed. Both trains were completely wrecked,
several of the cars being burned,