Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-14
Southern News.

White, late of Mosby's guerillas. has been
elected Mayor of Leesburg, Va. lie was
pardoned several months ago.
The new penal law of Alabama, which
Furnishes horse and mule stealing with
death, took effect after the lst inst.
A woman, at Louisville, recently commit
ted suicide by taking morphine. Cause
said to be discouraging news from Canada
her sympathies being with the Fenians-
The ship Artesian, loading for Boston
with 1900 bales of cotton, was struck by
lightning at New Orleans on the 4th, and
the cargo partially destroyed by fire. The
vessel was sunk
On the night of the 9Th terrible hurri-
cane passed over Pulaski, Tenn, it being
the second severe storm this year. Trees
were Frustrated. and fences levelled to the
ground.
A tornado at st. Johns, Berkley county,
Ark, May SO, blew down two buildings,
killing DIR. Christopher Fitzsimmons and a
negro woman, and wounding several negro
men.
| Charles O'Conor has had interviews with
the President concerning the trial of JEFF.
Davis. He says they are ready to proceed
with the trial, and if the Government is not
ready, they will ask the release of Davis on
parole, with such security as the Govern
ment may ask. They offer bail from $780,
600 to $1O,OO0,OOO.
The tremendous hurricane which passed
over Augusta, Ga, on the 9th, unrcofed
many dwelling houses and tore up trees by
the roots. A school house was entirely de-
stroyed, by which seven children were killed
and ten wounded. The hurricane devas-
tated track of fifty miles wide across the
whole State.
Heavy rains have opened new crevasses
in the Mississippi and Red rivers. Alex
andria is overlooked, and details of the
affair are heartrending. People are driven
to RATS for protection, and an immense
amount of property is destroyed. No relief
is possible until the flood subsidies. Great
injury has been done to the crops of Texas
by the food
In bar-room difficulty at Greensboro,
KY, May 31st, a man named Goodman was
drew his revolver and shot three men. Nc
Alister was shot dead, Barkwell was shot in
the breast and will die, and VIM. Brown was
seriously wounded in the leg. Goodman
packed his clothes. settled with his employ
err, and left town. He has not been ar
rested, as yet.
The levee at Alexandria, La, gave way
on the morning of the 3lst ult., about two
o'clock, above and below the Ice House,
submerging the whole town and vicinity,
and causing great damage to property.
The Frolic left Alexandria at two o'clock
P. M. on the same day. At that time there
was from three to five feet of water over
| the whole town and suburbs.
| The Senators and Representatives elect
from Florida publish letter to the Chair
man Of the Reconstruction Committee, say
ing that their State, in the Convention and
Legislature since the war closed, has acted
Loyalty, and they say they believe impartial
justice will be administered to all colored
people by the State Government, and if ex-
traneous influences are withdrawn, the two
races will live in peace and harmony. There
are no serious animosities existing between
the people on account of the late war, but
all are quiet and anxious for the reorgani-
cation of industrial interests, and DESTROYS
to cultivate friendly relations among them
selves, and with the people of other States.
A singular affair recently came to light
in Brownsville, Texas. William Rogers Of
the 18th Ohio Volunteers, was under SEN
tence of death for killing an Assistant Sur
geon of his regiment. The gallows was
erected and all preparations made, the pris-
oner received religious consolation and ex-
pressed his readiness to die, but during the
night preceding the day for execution, he
managed to effect mysterious disappear
ance. It was positively asserted that he
had Joined the -guerillas in Matamo-
ras, and was fourishing in grand style
about the streets of that town; but few
days ago he was captured almost within
prison limits, having lived for twenty-eight
days in subterranean abode, dug out by
his own hands, within easy hearing dis
lance of guards, sentinels &c. He was
freeing himself from his gopher hole when
retaken.