Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-06
CURRENT ITEMS.


THE portrait of Gen. Grant by Mr.. Leutze
is now finished.
A DAUGHTER Of the late John Bell, OF
Tennessee, is wife Of q notorious New York
counterfeiter.
Miss HARRIET MARTINEAU is reported to
be rapidly failing in health and to have
abandoned her literary labors as result.
THE object of Jenny Lind's concerts in
England, is to retrieve her fortune, which IS
sadly impaired by her husbands dissipa-
ton.
MADEMoIsELLE MovITo, young girl, is
creating some sensation in Paris. She re-
plies to questions in eighteen languages,
and comes out strong in photography.
PRoF. PAUL A. CHADBoURNE, now profess
sor of natural history in Williams college,
Massachusetts, has been elected President
of the Wisconsin State University.
STEPS have been taken by the Government
TO stay all proceedings for the present in
the matter of the conhscation o. the late
Confederate General Beauregard's property,
in the Southern States.
Rev. S. BARNES, who for years has been
the pastor of the Universalist Church, at
st. Anthony, died very suddenly on Sunday
morning, the 10Th, of heart disease. In at
tempting to rise from his couch, lie fell back
and expired.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN HOOKER celebrated
their silver wedding at Hartford last week,
with Henry Ward Beecher, Governor Haw-
ley, and Harriet Beecher Stowe among the
guests. Mrs. Hooker was of the Beecher
amily.
REV. J. LEONARD CORNING, of Pough-
keepsie, rowed up from Poughkeepsie to
Troy, lasrweek, in a scull boat 80 feet long,
IA inches vide, weighing AZ pounds The
distance rowed is 80 miles, as the boat fol-
lowed the indentations of the shore, and
the feat was accomplished in Is hours. The
reverend gentleman avows his intention to
edo" the whole Hudson in this manner, in
which way he is spending his summer vaca-
ton.
SOME twenty years ago Mr.. Charles
Baeder, an enterprising manufacturer of
Philadelphia, failed, and was compelled to
compromise with his creditors. But, though
legally released, he felt under moral cb-
legation to pay his debts. Entering into
business again, he met with deserved re-
turn of prosperity, and recently invited his
former creditors to dine with him at the
Continental Hotel, when every one received
payment in full, principal and interest, of
the debt from which he was discharged
BEN BUTLER largely fills the public eye
just now, in consideration chat he is to be
nominated for Congress in Mr.. Alleys
Essex District where he has "squatted"
by building a house at Gloucester. Ben
historically resides at Lowell, but that is in
Boutwell's District, and Boutwell, was not to
be disturbed. He might haze moved his
Lowell house few rods and been in Banks
District as some wag suggested he should
do last year when Banks was candidate,
but the experience of last year has dis
suaded anybody fLom the attempt to unseat
the ex-Speaker, and accordingly Ben has
pitched his tent ON the rocky coast of Mas
sachusetts Bay, with convenient AUey
open to him for Congress.
A New YORK letter says: "Yesterday
met with a man whose name has been be-
fore the public, and VIGOROUSLY. He once
possessed noble intellect; but, alas he
is now but a remove from brute. Ispeak
of E. z. G. Judson, alias Ned Buntline.'
His has been wonderful career, but ever
tending downwards. Did dissipation and
vice ever tend otherwise? A sailor, soldier,
author, duelist, murderer, and drunkard-
he excelled in all. No better sailor ever
sailed ship; dead shot--he has fought
and killed his man according to the code !;
murderer-you remember the case of poor
Porterfeld at Nashville. A hard fate in
deed, a wife seduced and her husband to die
by the hand of the seducer. Judson is
drunkard now-the vilest Of the vile, and
the wreck of man, a wretched, homeless
vagabond."
TIE grand father of Gen. Robert Lee
was rival of Gen. Washington in love
affair. The object Of their affection was
beautiful Grimes, the first love of Washing
ton, and whom he celebrated as "lowland
beauty" Lee was successful and bore off
the prize. The son Of this marriage,
"Light Horse" Harry Lee, was always held
in great friendship by Washington; and
Irving, in his biography, suggested this
tenderness for the mother was not without
its influence in connection with the son.
The friendship continued between them
until the death of "the father of his coun-
try" Major General Harry Lee was gal
liant officer, the author of "Memoirs of the
War in the South; Governor of Virginia
in 1871; an advocate OF the federal consti-
tuition in the Virginia convention; mem
Der of Congress when Washington died !;
appointed by Congress to deliver the eulogy,
originated tie classic words: "First in
war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of
his countrymen.