Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-04
SUMMARY OE THE WEEK
General News.

General News.
1t is estimated that at least so, 900 Swedes
will come to the United States during the
present year. "AC f'.
The bill making eight hours legal day s
work in government shops came within
two votes of passing the Senate after pass
ing the House ...,.. aHai. HI
A large quantity of Eastern mail matter
bound for Chicago was destroyed by fire on
the Great Western (Canada) Railway, on
the 22d, by an accident.
Lieut.. Gen. Sherman will visit Europe
and the Holy Land the coming summer
He has engaged passage in one of the
steamers that will sail next month. L
Congress at the session just closed, passed
twenty-six bills and thirtv-seyen joint
resolutions, all of which, except the Sup
Elemental Reconstruction bill, were signed
by the President
The Genital system has been abandoned
by all or nearly all the Boards of Trade,
and we now go back to the bushel system.
The next step will be to go back to pounds,
shillings and pence
Congress has adjourned at last, it having
been agreed by both Houses, on the goth
to adjourn on the Both till the first We'd
nesday in July, when if quorum is not
present in both branches, an adjournment
shall take place till December 10 ~.
The two Houses Of Congress have came
to dead lock on the question of adjourn
ment. The Senate wishes to adjourn till
December, while the House wishes to have
conditional intermediate sessions on the
first Wednesdays in June and September.
The Great Eastern will arrive at New
York about the first of April, ready to take
5000 passengers to the great Exhibition.
She has new boilers, a new shaft, a steel
steam launch fifty feet long by twenty
wide, steam steering apparatus, 500 lofty
and convenient state rooms new deck
saloon that will dine 500 passengers, and
other saloons, equal to dining 1900 In all
at the same time. ".rs~e .H-.'t
In all mail lettings since June 1, 1885,
the Government has refused to pay prices
higher than the old rates for the transport
alton of the mails. This has caused great
dissatisfaction among all railroads in the
country, and the Post Office Department
has now determined to have the mails on
all important routes weighed during the
month of April, and allow pay in proper
ton to the amount carried.
Secretary McCulloch, in previous let
ter to New York gentleman, alludes to
the stories about the over-issue of bonds,
saying they were originated by parties who
are operating in gold, and adding owe
have instituted a most thorough and search
ing examination Of the Currency Bureau
by the most competent men, and are salts
fed that the report is utterly without
foundation. We have no reason to believe,
that there has been an over-issue of sin
gle dollar" e.s ~ a t .art b.6s
After the final adjournment of Congress
on the Goth, the President Immediately
convened the Senate in executive session,
and laid beforn them treaty with Russia,
by which that power surrenders to the
United States its sovereignty over all of
Russian America and the adjacent islands.
1t especially includes the strip four hun
dred miles long which extends down the
coast, thus nearly excluding British Amer
lea from the ocean. The treaty was laid on
the table, and will be taken up next week.
The session excites intense interest Inf1u-
entail parties regard it as significant of the
Russian policy in view of the impending
European complications on the Eastern
question" Russia cedes her American ter
ritory for the same reason that induced
Napoleon to sell Louisiana. In the event
of war Russia would probably lose this
territory, and by parting with it the Gar
secures the friendship of our Government
The English Representative is deeply
chagrined, and 1t is said Sir Frank Bruce
will telegraph to Earl Derby for instruc-
lions to protest against its acceptance by
our Government. This acquisition more
than doubles the United States Goa st on the
Pacific, and costs the United States about
seven millions of dollars. The treaty was
officially signed just before Congress adj
iourned. nEaf- ct.~e a..