Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-07-12


meat. $1s,l4t. Ths disbursements on eaz
count Of the above named departments dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, amounted
to 1896, 925, 634
No national banks were created nor Gov
eminent repositories designated during the
week.
The issue of national currency for the
week was ST., 800 $50; total amount issued
to date, $282, 555, 440.
On June 26th, two packages, containing
81, 900, were mysteriously stolen from the
Chesapeake Bank of Baltimore. On the
same day the wife of a clothing merchant
OF that city eloped with the former Colonel
OF New York cavalry regiment, and took
with her $1,000, her husbands money,
which she was authorized to draw, he being
IN Europe. The parties were pursued and
the wife secured, but the Colonel. with the
money, escaped.
The recent homestead law, to which the
emancipated blacks are to be admitted. and
from which those whites engaged in the re-
bellion are to be excluded, opens up all the
public land in the South to actual settlers.
The following is statement of the quantity
of this land:
Acres.
In Arkansas. 929s, 01270
In 1870 5S0o
In Florida........ Y 900 oil
IN Io,.4o
In Mississippi 4 1o0,f56O3
In all, forty-six million three hundred and
ninety Eight thousand and odd acres, of
which thirty millions are known to be good
arabic land. This win give nearly four
hundred thousand homesteads, and support
nearly two millions of people.
The bill recently reported from the House
Committee on the Judiciary, for the estab-
lishment of National Bureau of Insurance,
makes the bureau self-sustaining, while it
offers security in the matter of insurance,
by requiring all companies who may act UNI
der the law to deposit United States bonds
the amounts varying according to their
capital stock. No party is permitted to
transact Fire, Marine, and Life Insurance
at the same time The object of the pro-
posed legislation is to give every Company
an opportunity to show it's solvency, in or
der that the public may be guarded against
fraud, the principle being similar to that
now applied to National Banking Associa-
tions.
Last Monday just before noon, boy be-
longing to- the banking house of Tyler,
Ullman & Co, of Chicago, was sent to the
Fourth National Bank with Ten Thousand
Dollars. While going along the east side of
Clark street, opposite the Court House, he
involuntarily looked at the book, which he
carried in his hand, when he discovered
that the money was gone. He returned to
the bank Immediately and reported his loss.
He says he did not stop anywhere, and that
he carried the money in such manner that
it could not drop or blow out of the book.
He has no idea whatever, what became of
the money. The probabilities are that he
was the victim of some pickpocket prestid
igitator. No clue has yet been obtained of
the money.
The June report of the Agricultural Com
mittee gives comparison between the
amount of raw cotton imported from the
United States into Great Britain during the
four months of last year, and the four COR
responding months of the present year. 1t
exceeds the quantity imported from India
by almost one hundred per cent, and al
most exactly equals the total from all other
localities 1t is equivalent to sos, 726 bales,
of 400 pounds. The report says half mil
lion of bales in four months and $50, 000, 900
are respectable figures in the trade with one
foreign nation, even for the palmiest days of
cotton shipping from the ports of the United
States. The report also shows that Great
Britain buys this year ten times as much
wheat from Russia as from the United
States, and ON France nearly six times as
much. Only little over per cent. of her
seven millions of hundred weight are
brought from the United States.
The Clearing House Association of Chi
cago held O meeting on the evening of the
Both ult.. at which the following resolutions
were passed:
ReSolved, Unanimously, as the sense or
this Association, that the proposed amend
ment to the National Banking Law, by
which the country banks of all the western
and northwestern States, and territories, are
required to redeem their notes il New York,
instead of the great commercial centres of
the west, as originally provided for, is cal
cula'ed to work lDjuriously to the financial
interests of the country, by the concentra-
ton which would naturally follow of solarge
an aggregate Of bank balances in that city;
and that on behalf of the banking interests
of the northwest, this association earnestly
demonstrates against the same.
ResoJUed, That this association respectfully
invite representatives of the National Banks
Of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
the northwestern territories, to meet in con-
vention in this city on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER next, for consultation with reference
to such measures as may be deemed proper
for the protection Of their interests. and
commercial and financial wants Of their por-
ton Of the country.
The Atlantic Cable.
1t is supposed the Great Eastern would
sail from Valentia on the Both, to make an
other attempt to connect the continer g by
a submarine telegraph cable. The cable