Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-02-08

Inc AuHelem National cemetery Will NC
ready early next spring to receive the DO
dies Of the Union soldiers-about 5000 in
number-who persisted in that battle.
The steamer Missouri had one hundred
and twenty persons on board, twenty five of
whom were passengers. The latest informa-
ton from Evans lille places the loss Of life
at about one hundred. The Missouri was
one of the largest passenger steamers on
the river, valued at one hundred thousand
dollars
In the Georgia Legislature, Jan. 80, on
the first ballot for U. 8. Senator, A. Fl. Ste
phens received 152 votes, and Mr.. Hill SO.
Mr.. Stephens not conserving to the use Of
his name, voting was resumed, and on the
sixth ballot Herschel V. Johnson was cho-
sen, receiving 152 votes.
It has been discovered that the hostile
Indians Of Minnesota and Dacotah have, for
a long time past, been supplied with Enfield
rifles by English smugglers.
The trial of Semmes will commence the
latter part of this week, or the first of next.
A National Horse Fair will be held at
alarnazoo, Atich., on the I'd, Sd, 4th, ana
5th of October next.
About II 900 deaths from cholera have
thus far taken place in the island Of Guade7
loupe, in the West Indies.
A despatch from Memphis says it Is re-
norted that Gen. Forrest, under the pretence
of retiring from business in Memphis to his
plantation, has gone to Mexico, in conse-.
quence of having been notified to- appear
before a military commission in Washing
tor.
Secretary McCulloch has ordered the B.
cent currency to be called in, and another
plate prepared, as over forty different eoun-
terfeits of the note are in circulation.
The Council of the Irish Republic have
issued an address, under date Of Dublin, to
the Fenians of America, asking for loan
payable six months after the establishment
of Irish independence and declaring that an
Irish army will soon stand face to face with
the enemy. Col. O'Mahony, in a card, in
dorses the address. =. ~-r
DIR. Mott, for So years President Of Union
College, at Schenectady, N. Y, died Jan.
90, aged SO years.
Gov. Brownlow writes to Speaker Colfax
ihat he fayors the admission of the Tennes-
see Representatives to Congress, but not if
such admission is to be followed by the with
drawal of Federal troops from the State.
He says that, unless law be enacted for
rebel disfranchisement,a and force retained
to carry out that law, Tennessee viii pass
into the hands of the rebels. r ~
The rebel Gen. Mercer, tried at Savannah
by military commission, on q charge of
numbering seven Union soldiers, has been
acquitted and released from prison.
A number of returned bushwhackers rode
into Macon, NJ, one day last week, and
commenced assaulting loyal citizens. They
finally came upon two gentlemen who had
formerly been captains in the United States
army, and drew their revolvers to shoot
them; but the latter were on the alert, and
Immediately killed two of the rufians.
The remainder fed but were pursued and
captured. 7ra
There are over 5000 applicants for the
400 vacancies in the regular army, and
about $4,000 applications for clerkships in
the Treasury Department.
A riot occurred at Sulphur Springs, Will
Hanson County, ILL.,, a few days ago, during
which William Burton and Mr.. Mcmahon
were killed and some six or seven persons
injured.
The capture of Bagdad is now said to
have been effected by a miscellaneous crowd
of Mexicans, suffers, adventures, and
idlers; and if any United States soldiers
were concerned in the affair, they were
present on this side of.the river at roll-call
next morning. The capture is said to have
been planned and executed without the
knowledge of Gen. Crawford.
The military districts of Michigan and
Wisconsin have been discontinued.
The four murderers of Mr.. w. Hefernan
Berry, Knight, Crab, and .Lysaugh-all
under twenty years of age, were hanged at
Nashville on Friday the 26th. oT
Gen. Sherman visited the Senate chamber
on the Goth, while that body was in session,
and so general was the greeting extended
him by the Senators that business was al
most suspended. He is at the capital on
official business, Gems. Meade, Thomas, and
Sheridan being also ordered to Washington
for consultation.
Gen. Terry, commanding at Richmond,
Va, has issued an order forbidding the en-
forcement of the yagrant law relative to the
negroes, recently passed by the Virginia
Legislature, upon the ground that it will re-
duce the negroes to state of servitude
worse than that from which they were re-
Gently emancipated. s--..4
A despatch from Washington states that,
in q conversation between the President and
a distinguished Senator, on the 28th, Mr..
johnson expressed doubts as to the proprie-
ty of making any further amendments to
the Constitution; but said that, if amend
ments were to be made changing the basis
of representation and direct taxation,-
which he did not deem at all necessary at
present,-he favored making the number of
qualified voters the basis of representation
and the valuation of property the basis of
direct taxation. The President also ex-
pressed the opinion that the agitation of the
question of suffrage in the District of Col
umbia was "ill-timed, uncalled for, and
calculated 10 do great HARM that it would
prove the entering wedge to agitation of the