Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-29
SgMMAgY OF THE WREK.
General News.


Secretary Welles was some better on the
e2d, but not yet out Of danger
The receipts Of internal revenue for the
week ending November 23d were 81, 114,-
600; total since July LIST, $50, 100000.
Chief Justice Chase is represented as
taking very Encouraging view of the
national finances. He thinks the Govern.
ment will soon return to specie payments.
Detective Wood says the electro-gold
plate for a counterfeit of the ne-thousaDd-
dollar interest bearing otes, which he re-
Gently captured, is the finest piece or
workmanship he ever saw.
-easT The Southern Republicans in Washing
ton, friendly to Chief Justice, Chase for
President, propose to hold a Southern Rad
ical Convention at Washington on the 22d
OF February next, to bring the Chief Jus
tice forward as a candidate.
It has been definitely ascertained that
only $3.50, 600 Of the spurious seven-thir-
tieswere putin circulation, and the rest
that were printed were destroyed, so that
the holders of notes who had them in
their possession previous to August, 1867,
may be sure they are genuine.
The new counterfeit twenty five cent
notes may be detected by the fact that the
paper is a triie thicker than the genuine,
and the green on the. back is a trife light
er. The vignette of Fessenden is, at first
glance, fully as correct as that of the gen.
uine, but close scrutiny shows that it is a
good wood cut and not steel engraving.
.- Congress met on the 21st, with nearly, q
full attendance of members The Senate
did but little A measure looking to the
repeal Of the tax on cotton was inaugu-
rated, by calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for Information on the subject.
In the House objection was made to the
admission of the Tennessee delegation on
the charge of disloyalty. The entire dele
cation, except Butler, from the First Dis
trict, who, it appears, was a member of
the State Legislature under Confederate
rule, was finally admitted, Mr.. Robinson,
of New York, preferred charges against
Mr.. Adams, Minister to England, for an
alleged failure in duty in not protecting
the rights of American citizens arrested
as Fenians by the British authorities.
Both Houses adjourned till the Goth. / |
In the Senate, on the 25th, resolution
was adopted requesting the President to
communicate any official information in
his possession in regard to the relations of
the United States Government with North
3 Germany. A resolution was also adopted
exempting from the provisions Of the tariff
act of March ID, articles actually imported
on the Cd, Sd and 4th of March. Also, one
instructing the Committee on Military AT
fairs to inquire into the expediency of an
of the United States. The Sergeantat-
Arms was directed to arrest Edward L.
Dunbar, and bring him before the bar of
I. the Senate, to answer for contempt of Con-
gress, in refusing to communicate certain
facts which were within his knowledge to
{ the Committee on Retrenchment. 4
In the House, Mr.. Ingersoll introduced
bill to prohibit the further reduction of
the currency, which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means. The Gre
dentials of j. s. Galloday, Third District of
Kentucky, were referred to the Committee
on Elections. The standing committees
were announced. Several new bills were
introduced, and the resolution calling for
the impeachment of Minister Adams was
referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. The majority of the Judiciary
Committee -Messrs. Boutwell,, Thomas,
Williams, Lawrence and Churchill-re-
ported at length on the question of inn
parchment, concluding by offering a reso
luton that "Andrew Johnson, President
of the United States, be impeached of high
crimes and misdemeanors. A report was
made by Messrs. Wilson and Woodbridge,
a., of the same committee, concluding with a
resolution that "the Committee on the
Judiciary be DISCHARGED from the further
consideration of the proposed impeachment
of the President of the United States, and
that the subject be laid upon the table"
Messrs. Marshall and Eldridge then made
their report, generating the President
from the charges preferred against him,
after which the whole subject was post
poned until December 4.
FOrefgra Intelligence. eg
The report that the Italian Government
is about to raise new loan is denied by
the Paris papers.
One thousand and fourteen persons lost