Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-04

portation of cattle during the prevalence Of
the cattle disease.
Capt. Semmes is to be tried by court
martial for sundry violations Of the laws of
war.
Secretary Seward has directed the seizure
Of all articles contraband of war found on
board vessels sailing for Mexican ports.
Mrs Clement C. Clay expressed wish to
the President, a few days since, that her
erring husband may be tried Immediately
or released on parole.
Frederick Douglass has written letter
accepting the position Of delegate in Wash
ington, of the coIored men Of New York.
The "Trent,' the historic vessel asso-
ciated with the seizure Of Mason and Slidell,
has not long survived the American war.
At last accounts she was at the Isle Of Dogs,
where she was to be broken up. Gone to
the Dogs-what a fate
On Christmas day number Of men en-
gagged as laborers Oh the Dayton and West
ern Railroad, near Richmond, Indiana, took
passage on train bound for Dayton and
refusing to pay their fare a difficulty en-
sued, in which two of the laborers were
killed and others wounded. The baggage
master Of the train was also wounded
BY the steamship City of London, We
have European adyices to the 24thinst. -
four days later.......Two more Fenians have
been convicted and sentenced to penal serv-
itude, one of them for life. Stephens is
safe in Paris. ......A joint note from England
and France, proposing terms for the settle
ment of the Gillian difficulty, reached Ma
drid Dec. 9. How it was received is UNI
known. Eyre has been suspended as
Governor of Jamaica, and Sir Henry Stark
appointed to fill the position temporarily.
A commission, consisting Of Sir Henry
Stark, Sir Edmund Head, and Mr.. Charles
Livingston, has been appointed to investi-
gate the subject of the Jamaica outbreak
and its repression. ..... Napoleon, being APP
prehensiye that the Mexican Emperor is
about to abdicate, has sent home the latter's
Minister at Paris, for the purpose of dis
suading Macmillan from such step.
The War Department computes the nuns
Der Of deaths in the Union armies during
the rebellion at 100000, and in the rebel
armies at 275, 000-lnaking total of
$4,000.
Advices from Rio de Janeiro to Dec
state that the Paraguayans had entirely
withdrawn from Corrientes; that the Bra
lillian fleet was at the mouth of the Para
quay; and that the allied army had crossed
the Corrientss river in its march to the
Parana.
Further correspondence has taken place
between General Weitzel and Mejia. The
former informs the latter in compliance with
orders from General Sheridan, that in case
Of any further outrages upon American Cit
zens by Imperialists, no personal apologies
would be accepted; and strongly intimates
that he will be authorized to settle the mat
ter,by force Of arms. He also states that
hereafter no supplies will be furnished TO the
Imperialists from the American side, Gen.
Sheridan considering such furnishing to be
violation Of neutrality against the existing
authority in Mexico. The French troops
have left Monterey. The whole state of
Oaxaca is in arms against Macmillan. The
Republicans are masters Of the coast from
Tuspan to Tizal. The Austrians have met
with several defeats. Marshal Bazaine in
forms Mejia that the northern frontier is
under the double protection of the Emperor
of Mexico and the Emperor Of the French.
1t is stated that the Fenian Senate has de-
termined upon an immediate Canadian war.
Measures of compromise between the Fen
ian Cabinet and Senate, are under consid-
GRAFTON. OMahony on the ..22d, received
dispatches from Head Centre Stehhens of so
important nature that he ordered them
at once communicated to the Senate, that
they might comply with the requirements
they contained.
Gov. Orr of South Carolina has addressed
a communication to Secretary Seward, stat
ing that the people of the State will feel
highly gratifed that their government has
been intrusted to officers of their own selec-
ton; and assuring Mr.. S. of his (Orr' D
unalterable purpose to aid in upholding
the supremacy of the United States, and in
advancing the honor, interest and prosperity
of a common country"
Gen. Carl Schurz's report of his mission
to the South has been published. The Ger
eral says the loyalty of that section is of a
decidedly negative character, consisting in
submission to necessity; that the slaves
have been emancipated in point of form, but
free labor has not been put in place Of sla-
very in point of fact; that the freedmen,
though no longer the slaves of individuals,
are still the slaves of society; and that, to
avert future disaster, national authority
should still retain control at the South, and
the freedmen be endowed with certain
measures of political power.
Judge Reagan of Texas states that, in in
terview with the President and Secretary
Seward, they expressed the opinion that
there would be no more executions or con-
fseations on account of the rebellion-they
believing that the South had suffered
enough.
In Brooklyn on the 22d, man named W
H. Russ, shot lady named Frances NJ
Dayton, to whom he had been paying atten-
tons, and then made an Intellectual attempt
to commit suicide, Miss Dayton was not
a.
expected to live. Russ is under arrest.
A Vicksburg paper asserts that the ne
| groes in the Yazoo country are arming them.