Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-18
SUMMARY OF TEzE SvEEAA.
General Intelligence.

sSeJNEEaA GsE OF EKzE svEEaAs
General Intelligence.
The Legislature of Texas is making en-
actments for the establishment of a State
University.
Reuters first message from New York to
India by the Atlantic cable and the CONT
mental line, reached Bombay on the 24th of
August. 1t was forty hours in transmits
sion.
A snow storm at the White Mountains on
the 9th, covered the summit Of Mount Wash
| ington and the neighboring peaks to the
depth of several inches The regular sea-
| son will close to-day.
Chief Justice Chase has decided that
United States Circuit Courts cannot be le-
gally held anywhere until new assignment
of circuits has been made. Under this rul-
ing no Circuit Courts will be held till De-
cember.
The appointment Of Frank Leslie as COM
missioner to the French exhibition will
| probably secure better illustrations of that
tournament of universal industry than any
ever given to the world Of such picturesqu
gatherings.
According to recent decision of the
War Department, drafted men and substi-
tutes are not entitled to the extra bounties
voted by Congress. Officers promoted from
the ranks are also decided to have forfeited
| their claims to said bounties.
One of the British grnboats recently
placed on Lake Erie boarded and searched
the steamer Congress, flying the United
States flag, under pretense that she was in
the Fenian service. The Canadian authori-
ties are investigating the matter. It is re-
ported that our Government has demanded
an apology for the insult. }5 ~
The State elections on the 9th gave
majorities for the Republicans. Returns to
the 18th indicated that Pennsylvania had
given from $4,000 to 17,000 Ohio, from
40, 1000 to $4,000; Indiana, from 10000 to
$4,000, and Iowa about $4,000 majority
The Republican, claim congressional gain
of two members in Pennsylvania, and the
Democrats claim gain of one in Ohio, and
one in Indiana. E
The President having, under date of
March %, 1866, granted a pardon to Joseph
E. Davis. the brother of Jefferson Davis,
Maj. Gen. Howard has ordered that posses
sion of his property be given him at the
expiration of the present lease thereon,
viz, on January l, 1867 Such portion of
the rents of the property as accrue after the
date Of the pardon will be paid to him,
amounting to about $50, 900.
The White House is being greatly i'm
proved and ornamented within A small
regiment of workmen are daily engaged in
the lower rooms. in painting, gliding, pa
pering, and removing soiled drapery, which
is soon to be replaced by rich and tasteful
importations from Europe, an agent being
there for the purpose of selecting the goods.
These highly necessary improvements will
probably not be completed before the 1st of
| December.
There are reports of great strikes of oil
in West Virginia in the valley of the Kan
awha. Some wells are said to be yielding
fifteen bundled to two thousand barrels per
day. White Oak, Burning Springs, and
Standing Stone are the localities most in
repute. A railroad is in course of con-
struction, and the Little Kanawha river is
to be made nevigable, by locks and dams, to
accommodate the increasing business of the
trade.
The Second Comptroller Of the Treasury,
in order to settle some disputed questions
about pensions and bounties, has decided
that hernia, or rupture, or broken limb,
are wounds within the meaning of the act
of Congress Of July %, 1866, when incurred
in consequence of the performance of some
military duty, if they were of sufficient Sc
verify to cause the soldiers discharge. He
also declares that conclusion of the brain
cannot be considered wound.
A widely published despatch that
the President has desil ed the opinion OF
the Attorney General whether a Congress
composed of members from the Northern
States alone is Constitutional, and whether,
in case he should not SO regard it, he would
be justified in sending to it his next annual
message: Also, what steps do the Constitu-
ton and his oath Of office require the Presi-
dent to take in order to secure the assem-
blage of a Constitutional Congress, proves
to be canard. Under its influence gold
went up four per cent, but subsequently
fell nearly that amount