Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-20
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK,

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SUMMARY or TIKI WEEK.
General News.
Internal revenue receipts for the week
ending December 14th were $2,254, 900.
The new Commissioner of Agriculture
has issued orders abolishing the Govern
ment seed store.
The new Commissioner Of Agriculture
has given out that no person need apply
for appointments In his Bureau, as he Is
reducing the force. se.,T
The estimates for the next fiscal year, as
Sent in by the various Departments, are aS
= follows War Department, $6S,oOo,ooo'
Navy, SAT ,0OO, 900; Civil List, $50, OOO,oVo;
Pensions, $2O000,000; Bounty, $So,o0O,-
600 Indian and miscellaneous $40 DOC, OOO.T
Total S225,OO0, 600. r Gan. Grants cor
Grected estimate of the amount required for
$sa' the military service for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1859, is $375i1512 The
=. reduction is caused by the suspension of
enlistments until the army Is brought to
the authorized minimum strength The
ssssss Chief of Engineers has also reduced his
estimates from $3.50, 900 to $632,5Oo,
making total reduction Of $4,000.
Foreign Intelligence
6ssiaas The statement that Garibaldi had es.
'@s capped from Caprera is denied. at 80. = .s-s
------J John McDevitt and Joseph Dion played
a game Of billiards at Montreal, on the
11th, for the championship of America.
McDeyitt won by twelve points.
sHsi9 The general conference of national
eFTPowers on the Roman question has been
g9 abandoned, the leading European govern
.sments having finally declined to take part
init sri .sssd9 fvgf, f,p75 a..igaH saa
The London Times Of the 18th counsels
the acceptance Of President Johnson's
ssa views on disputed questions Of naturaliza-
ton and allegiance as expressed in his am
nual message. Il Il ii -"
.Ess 3 "a A. dispatch from Gaspe, canada East
says timber laden ship, name unknown,
went ashore near Magdalen river few
w daysago, and the captain, two mates and
nine seamen were drowned.
Dispatches received In London on the
18th show that the English captives In the
hands of the Abyssinian King are alive
and well. The troops composing the
1Abyssinian expedition were already suffer
Ing from want of water. Four thousand
y Egyptian soldiers Joined theexpedition at
Massowahs -
In their editorials commenting on the
sssas Clerkenwell prison explosion, the London
morning papers demand vehemently that
In future no clemency be shown to Fenians,
and it is said that the universal horror
which the explosion has excited will cause
q the Fenians to cease all attempts against
the government
The demonstration proposed by the Fe-
mans TO come off In Liverpool, on the 10Th,
was peremptorily forbidden by the author
tiles Of. that city, The Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland has issued proclamation de-
.ssii5 claring that the holding Of public funerals
saiE'' for the Fenians executed for treason AT
Manchester is seditious, and prohibiting
such demonstrations Of sympathy in fu-
ture.
49,. In presenting to the people of St.
Thomas and st. John the Kings procla.
.z~v nation announcing the proposed transfer
-, of those islands to the United States,
the Danish Commissioner stated that the
are0 voting on the question by the people
would not take place till January, in con-
asa sequence of the unsettled state Of affairs
'~ growing out Of the late terrible disasters
to the islands. 49,. = - -
~OO An Unsuccessful attempt was made In
- London, onsthe 18th, to release the recent.
ers ly arrested Fenian, Colonel Burke, who
was confined in Clerkenwell Prison. Pow
s,,f.- der was placed beneath one Of the prison
asa' walls, and was exploded, it is supposed, by
Burke's confederates. The whole side
saa wall was blown into the air, and three id
Joining buildings were destroyed. Three
|. ~, persons were killed and over forty
= - wounded, l'"" r. zi oa'S 4
silss FIs, A Havana telegram of the 18th says:
The Spanish Government have made a
ss.s formal offer to the American Minister at
Madrid to sell Cuba and Porto Rico to
, % the American Government for one hun
dred and Fifty million dollars in gold. The
terms Of the sale are fifty millions In gold
BIO to be paid in cash on signing the treaty
"a and formal delivery of the island to the
authorities of the United States; second
al >, fifty million dollars in gold to be paid in
''''s one year thereafter; the third installment
of fifty, millions in gold to be- paid off in
six years W 54l1Kl41 y
$50 laqO.n -E
~ Eight hundred boats, loaded with grain,
Tsaa apples, potatoes etc, are ice-bound on the
' +, Erie canal, and navigation Is closed for the
fftE season. 81 ID 3 T4p99- ~ iif1 t1is Gag