Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-04
SUMMARY DE x'8zE HEEnz
General Intelligence.

General Dix has accepted the mission to
France. .o4 sjag geG, CG
United States Treasurer Spinner is now
prepared to furnish samples Of the new per-
forated postal currency. ~
!, A Washington dispatch states that the
Paymaster General has been instructed to
commence paying the extra bounties at
| once ~
| 1t is definitely settled that the trial of
JEFF. Davis cannot take place in the adn
journed court, next month, and will cohse-
quently have to be postponed till some fu-
ture time. esr GgGv-; 1.ab t6s
It is reported from Qgdensburg that q
large number Of Fenians are concentrating
in Northern Vermontfor raid upon Cana
| da. Considerable excitement exists in those
counties which border on the Canadian line
The Canadians are arming at the threatened
points. e,2e
Tidings Of the lost and dead have come
up out of the sea. The ship City of New
| York, missing since she sailed from New
York in December last5I has been heard from
through bottled message found upon the
coast of Scotland. George Adams, carpen-
ter Of the Inflated ship, briefly, announced,
January -, boats all lost--ship going
| down. a..,
The Atlantic cable had been looked upon
as SO hopelessly lost that the underwriters
had paid the full amount insured. The
Great Eastern will now be entitled to large.
amount of salvage money, and so it may be
hoped that the long run of ili-luek which
that vessel has had to endure; h&secome to
an end, and thai her shareholders will at
last get rich by her. t9uen
Since the completion of the Atlantic
cable, and the successful fishing up of the
old one, whereby there are now. two cables
in successful operation, the Russian extern
sion of the Western Union Telegraph has
been regarded as failure, even if it should
be. completed, because, on account Of the
great length Of time it will require to trans
nit messages, it can never compete with the
Atlantic cables.
The Postmaster General has recently
issued instructions making provision for
printing Of business cards on envelopes in
+ any desired form or design, with requests to
return letters; provided that not less than
five hundred envelopes are ordered, and the
persons wanting them furnish the cuts or
plates, prepared for the press, from which
to have the printing done Postmasters are
to receive the orders on the usual terms,
the cost being the value of the plain enyel-
opes with the addition Of the amount of
the required stamp. i@aiSao3 q ~
The use of the Atlantic cable in equaliz-
ing transactions between London and New
York is nowhere better shown than in the
great business now being done. in United
States bonds, and the turning of the tide of
gold back upon the United States. Several
millions in bonds are being purchased and
shipped weekly, upon orders per cable, and
it is not an uncommon thing to have orders
for bonds countermanded by the Ocean Tel
| egraph when just on the eve of being
shipped, in which event the bonds are usually
thrown Immediately upon the market and
AO-6OAN posAbAOo ZIG JULIUS
being charged with whatever less may be
sustained. =
A valuable statistical table, exhibiting the
rate Of increase in the population of the
different States in the Union since the State
census of 1865, has been received by the
department from seven States, and the in
crease of population, even during the exist
ence of the war, in which the mortality was
universally large, is as follows: Minneso-
ia, 4oper cent; Illinois, 26 per cent; Wis.,
consin, II per cent; Iowa, - per cent;
Michigan, 1910 per cent; Rhode Island,
4 per cent; Massachusetts, 8 per cent.
Taking the general average of this increase,
19z per cent. as a fair representation of the
ratio of increase in the other States, the