Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-10
sxrwuARY OF THE WEEK.
General Intelligence.

will visit ~. fGul ABOUT me z0'n OF thi1
month.
News from Venezuela, intimates that that
Republic was very likely TO side with Spain
in her war against Chilli.
Gov. Hawley and the State officers If
Connecticut were installed in their Offices
On the ID, with appropriate ceremonies.
The Straits are open, aud navigation on
the inland seas of the West, between Chi
cs9o and Buffalo, has now been resumed.
Eighteen bodies Of victims Of the De,roit
fire hare been recovered; two otherpersons
are known 10 baYe been burned'to death,
and seven more are~missing.
The food on The Missouri is fast subsid-
ing At Omaha, on the "a, fall Of fonr
feet had taken place and, at St. Joe the
waters had receded at shout the same rate.
YIN. Hops, who killed his wife il Lee
County, ILL.,, four years arc, end ~ho had
once been sentenced 70 be hing, has just
been acquitted on the ground Of insanity.
The river at Dubuque, april 30, rose to
within less than sig inches Of the marx Of
the great Rood Of 1859. Hundreds OF acres
Of the city were under water, and hundreds
Of houses to be reached only in boats.
The Senate was not in session on The eth.
In the IE6useitbe Grief feature was speech
from MIR. Ingersoll Of Illinois. SHARPLY re-
ceiving the Presidents course.
Judge Duplanter- of New Orleans, has
decided that notes payable in Confederate
money are worthless; also that mortgages
given for Confederate money during the war
,, are ilsaifaI III. ~ 81 ~
Latest adyices FROM Halifax indicates that
the cholera has almost entirely disappeared
from McNab's Island. The cholera excite
ment is subsiding there and in New York.
The buildings Of the New Haven, Conn,
. Clock Company, seven in ndmber, were de-
strOyed on the S0ihi together with eleven
dwelling houses in the vicinity. Loss,
200 ,0CO-iusurance, 100000.
The late fire at Detroit destroyed upwards
Of 81 ,O00,0 coo worth Of property. Twenty
nine peraons.-are known to have persisted
In the flames and by drowning, and num-
Der Of others are supposed to have shared a
"A Fcrian freebooter having cleared from
Eastport on Tuesday night, The gunboat
Winoossi started inIfdlI pursuit oplWednes-
day. In the meantime the original Fenian
.craft had transferred Fer armament and
men 10 another vessel, and returned.
In view of the hot and sickly season in
the Capital, rooms are being fitted up for
the President and his family at the InteRna
.tional Hotel, Long Branch, Nj. The fam
lily will probably repair there early, leaving
the President to follow on the adjournment
of Congress.
The, extensive stables belonging to the
Fifth Street horse RAILROAD in st. Louis,
took fire and were entirely destroyed, to-
gether with one hundred and forty horses
Z and mules, sixteen cars, and the harness
anu Ivrage, oaturusy noon the 0tn inst.
The following Western troops are ordered
to be mustered out: I'd California Cavalry,
128th Indiana, 6th Iowa, 2lst Missouri In
fantry, 18th and 18th Missouri Cavalry,
Brackets battalion of Minnesota Cavalry,
1st Nevada Cavalry, 48th and Both Wiscon-
sin, ten reg .ments of colored infantry, and
the Sd, 9Th, 9th and 18th Colored Artillery,
Ga Tuesday Of last week torpedo, " hich
had been sunk for three years and one
month, in Charleston Harbor, exploded off
the beach of Sullivan Island, near Battery
D, In about eight fathomss Of water. 1t is
supposed to have been exploded by the
dragging of vessels cable. Il lifted an
immense volume of water, and presented
quite grand appearance.
The Austro-P russian question was still
regarded.ss threatening, ali correspondence
between the two powers having failed 10
bring about an amieable adjustment of the
pending difficulties. Prussia still continues
her waFlike preparations. the London
Times, in an article upon the alteration, re-
MARKS that affairs between the two .powers
present an aspect identical with that which
has always proceeded the breaking out of
wer between powerful nations.
A few days since aterriole accident occur
red on the Hudson River, near West Point.
As the sloop James Coz testwasr6unding the
point, one of the hands named Benjamin
Hunt, attempted to shove the boom across
the deck, and at that moment heavy gust
Of wind struck the main sail, driving the
boom from one tide to'the other with light
ming rapidly. The main sheet curled about
Hunts meek, and Immediately tore his head
from his body, taking it out Thirty feet into
the river. The lifeless trunk fell covered
with blood upon the, deck All efforts to
secure the head failed
Another new large iron screw steamer,
similar to the Inflated London; IS believed
to have foundered, with every soul on board
She was the Nerbudda, 1857 tons register,
commanded By Capt. Hardy, belonging 10
the Bombay and Bengal Steam Shipping
Company, and was considered q first class
steamer having been built under special
survey OF Lloyd's surveyors. she sailed
from Liverpool for Bombay onthe 18Th Of
November last, with crew Of about fifty
hands. There is no doubt she encountered
the full fury of those disastrous gales which.
from that time until the month Of january
swSptsthe AIlsniic. 1t is reported that in
su.auces were Effected or her and her cargo
to the amount Of eS0,000.