Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-03

General News.


The President has pardoned ex- Governor
Fletcher, of Arkansas, ON the recommends
ton of the Attorney General.
NJ. Berthemy, the new French Minister,
was formally presented to President John
son at Washington, ON Christmas day.
Charles Reade, the English novelist, has
commenced suit for libel against the edi-
tors of the Bound Table, of New York.
1t is asserted on what is deemed reliable
authority, that no more Government troops
will be ordered South except in case of
actual riot in those States.
The fact is now apparent at Washington
that large majority of the members of the
House of Representatives are in favor of
Mr. McCulloch's theory of finance ,qs,.-
1t is now said that DR.. Mudd, the assas-
sination conspirator, will be released from
his confinement at the Dry Tortugas, and
brought to Washington, where he will have
new trial before civil court
The Western Union Telegraph Company
have, through the House Committee on
Postofflces, rendered the Government the
use of one of It's wires to test the expert
ment of Government Geographic system
The Treasury officers have succeeded in
capturing the plate for counterfeit fifty
dollar legal tender note. The counterfeit
is said to be one of the most'dangerous and
successful that has been palmed upon the
public since the first issue of national pa
per currency.
Secretary Seward is very much disap-
pointed at the result of the Sherman Camp
bell mission. He will wait some DAYS be-
fore taking any more steps in reference to
Mexican matters. In the meantime Con-
gress is nearly unit against any interior
ence in the imbroglio, the expenditure of
any money, or the loss of a single soldier
upon that field
A violent gale, attended with snow, Wis.
tied the Atlantic coast, extending into the
interior of New York and Canada, on
Thursday night, the 9th. Snow to the
depth Of twenty inches was reported at Al
bany the next morning, resulting in COM
plete suspension Of railroad communion
ton, which extended nearly through all
the Eastern States Several trains were
showed under on the Hudson River and
New York Central railroads, and the storm
is described as the most severe that has
been known since 1885. AT Goodrich, c..
W., the snow was reported three feet deep
on a level, and no trains run for three days.
Near Hudson, four passengers cars were
blown from the track. Besides the Com
modore, several vessels wore reported
aground, and it is feared that the loss of
life from shipwreck has been avy.
The three yachts concluded the famous
race across the Atlantic by arriving at
Cowes in the Isle of Wight, on the GOTH
The run was made by the Henrietta, Ben
nett's yacht, in the almost unprecedented
time of thirteen days, twenty three hours
and fifty-eight minutes, she beating her
rivals a trit1e over eight hours. The best
days run made by the Henrietta was two
hundred and eighty miles, and the poorest
one hundred and thirteen miles, She made
but one tack during the whole passage
The yacht Fleetwing lost four of her crew
during the gale. The Vesta made the trip
without accident. The vessels in the Roads
are everywhere showing the Stars and
Stripes alongside the Union Jack, in honor
of the American yacht fleet. J. G.. Ben
nett, Jr., of the Henrietta, announces that
he will accept a chellange from any yacht
on the Eastern side of the Atlantic. The
persons lost from the Fleetwing are Cap
tains Nichols and Ward, and seamen Kelly
and Nelson. They were washed from the
bowsprit on the eighth day out, and sub
scriptions have been started for their fam
lies