Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-15
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General News.

General News.
President johnson has granted par
don to James A. Seldom, late Confederate
Secretary of War. W.
Secretary Welles is confined to his bed
from the effects of slow fever, but his
physician predicts his early recovery.
A new lot of wellexecuted counterfeit
twenty-five cent fractional currency notes
have been put in circulation in Washing
ton.
It has been ascertained that the Presi'
dent will not send his annual message to
Congress till the meeting Of the regular
session on the frstA Monday in December. +,
Several members of Congress have re-
Gently been in Washington making ar
rangements for the coming session. An
unusually large proportion of them expect
toskeeps house, flil n ts. !.f Is
Immense frauds in the revenue have just
come to the knowledge. of Secretary Nc.
Culloch, through Western Treasury off.
cial.p4I It is said that several prominent
politicians are implicated. : ~ - o.
A Washington special of the 9th inst
says it is stated ON good authority that
Secretary, Seward has instructed Mr.
Marsh, our Minister to Italy, TO offer Carl
baldi an asylum in the United States.
Forged drafts, purporting to have been
drawn by the First National Bank lei
Memphis on the Seventh and Third Ma
tional Banks Of New York, for consid
erable amount are being neg egq pt PIC
North. = -
pursuant of Instructions by General
Grant, the military conmandant of the
District of Columbia has issued an order
disbanding all military companies, white
or black, that have been organized in that
District, without authority. x.s~k%i
gThereport Of the Commissioner. of the
General Land Office shows that seven mil
lions of acres gof public lands have been
disposed of during the past year. There
are yet remaining fourteen hundred mil
lions of acres, including the recently &C
CURED Russian territory.
1t Isl again stated that JEFF. Davis has
signifed his readiness to stand trial this
month at Richmond But an impression
prevails that in order to secure the pres
ence of Chief Justice Chase for the hear
ing of the whole case, it may possibly yet
be deferred until spring, II YrI,rTTY
DR.. Mudd,, the Lincoln conspirator, who
is a prisoner in the Dry Tortugas, faith
fully attended the sick during the yellow
fever epidemic there, all the other sur
geons being Frustrated. He did not lose a
case, and, in consideration of mis- services,
efforts ere being nadst to obtain a. pardon
lot Glm. eH aiRh9 esalbeI hGaW dtiE
The Assistant Secretary Of the Interior
has decided relative to the provision ofthe
act of June 6, 1866, which gives pension
to the dependent fathers of soldiers and
sailors who have diedFof disease incurred
or wounds or injuries received in the line
of duty In -thesservice of the United States,
that when the mother survives the soldier,
the father cannot claim the pension under
'no1fapf TIT TIT A. TTEA ryyTrFxTYlITB
The fOllowinglis aicOpy oflthe order of
President Johnson to1General Grant for
suppressipg military organ zationsinI the
District Of, Columbla :" am reliably ad-
vised that there are within the District OF
Columbia q number of armed organiza.
tions, formed without authority of law,
and for purposes which have not been
COMMUNICATED ito the government. Being
at the present time unnecessary for the
preservation of order or the protection OF
the civil authority, they have excited Sc
rious apprehepsions to their real designs.
You will, therefore, take. official steps for
promptly -disbsndihg and ssuppressing all
such illegal organizations" This order is
dated Monday, the 4th instant, and ap-
plies TO al armed military organizations,
whetler. composed of negroes, or white
men. "a -esf r. r.4o,.3