Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-11
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General News.

The. sons of temperance OF Washington
have resolved to ask Congress next session
to pass a prohibitory liquor law for this
District.
Hon. Butler G. Noble, formerly Lieu
tenant Governor of Wisconsin, has been
appointed and confirmed Harbor Master
for the port of New York. II IEA-E-A
The old Capitol building at Washington,
occupied as prison during the war, has
been sold fol-. about $4,000 to'a gentleman
who will convert it into hotel.
At recent meeting of Confederate bond
holders in London, it was resolved to fur
nish a committee with funds to institute
legal proceedings against the United States
1t has not yet been determined when the
trial of Surratt shall take place. st. Marie,
the principal witness against him, is in
Washington, waiting the pleasure OF the
authorities r... -..,4 4a.g5a
Congress at the session just closed, passed
twenty-six bills and thirty-seven joint
resolutions, all of which, except the Sup
Elemental Reconstruction bill, were signed
by the President
Secretary McCu1loch seems to appreciate
the arguments of those who oppose thetoo
rapid retirement of the currency, having
decided not to retire the four millions for
the month. of March. I'D fs 9-,)s3la rE
The Department of Agriculture, at
Washington, expect supply Of beet seed,
adapted to make sugar, early in May, from
both France and Germany, and will dis
tribute it in limited quantities, for. expert
ment. 1"
The Senate Judiciary Committee has not,
nor is it likely to report in favor of bailing
jeff Davis, and Chief Justice Chase has
not yet decided when, if at all, he will try
him in Virginia. Horace Greeley has gone
to Washington to press the President to re-
| lease him. - t.-.s,
In accordance with a late act Of Con-
gress, Postmaster General Randall has
issued an order, to date from March 1, 1867,
for increase of pay as follows: Route
agents twenty per cent. increase, provided
the total salary shall not be over $1,000;
| clerks in postoffices of the first and second
classes, where the Department pays clerk
hire, twenty per cent. increase on salaries
of 81, 900 or less, and ten per cent. increase
on salaries over $1,000; letter carriers who
have been in service six months prior tc
March list, twenty per cent. increase.
The receipts from internal revenue arc
more than $s14,000,O00 since the first o.
July, 1S66--that is for three fourths of the
fiscal year. 1t is said in official sources
| that there is no good reason for supposing
that the revenue from this source will fall
| below the estimates. In fact, it is conf
| IDENTIFY believed it will exceed them. The
income tax is yet to be collected, and &C
cording to the provisions of the amenda
tory act of the I'd ult., is to be collected by
the Both of April The condition of this
branch of the National revenue is encour
aging, notwithstanding the depression tn
at first sight would seem to threaten seri
Gus difficulty. The National debt was re-
duced $15,0O0,000 during March.
Judge Holt has testified before the Judi
ciary Committee that Booths diary was
| given to him together with other articles
found on him, Immediately on the arriv
al of the captors of the assassin in Wash
ington; that the book had been in his
possession and control ever since; that il
has not been altered in any particular
that when it was handed to him eighteen
leaves were cut out !; that the diary com
mences with April 18th, the date of the
assassination, and the first entry states that
on that day he (Booth) had prepared a
communication, and sent it to the National
Iptelligencer, giving an account of the pur
poses of himself and associates that the
remainder of the diary consists of glori
fication of himself (Booth), whom he Xix
ened to Bruttls, and denunciation of his
victim, whom he call "tyrant," &c
Judge Holt further testified that, in his
judgment, the diary shed no light upon The
case and he did not deem it proper to offel
it as evidence. The publisher of the In
telJSge7acer testified that he had not recei 1eG
the communication that Booth had pre-
tended to have sent to thatpaper, and fin
ally, that there is no evidence that Bootl
ever wrote line in the book other thar
that which is found there. .,.. Il.
| After the final adjournment of Congress
on the 30th, the President Immediately
convened the Senate in executive session
and laid befOrn them a treaty with Russia
by which that power surrenders to the
United States its sovereignty over all O
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 or
the table, and will be taken up next week
The session eXcites intense interest. Int1u
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 Czal
secures the friendship of our Government
The English Representative is deeply
chagrined, and it is said Sir Frank Bruce
will telegraph to Earl Derby for instruc
tons to protest against it's acceptance by
our Government. This acquisition more
than doubles the United States coast on the
Pacific, and costs the United States about
seven millions of dollars. The treaty was
officially signed just before Congress ad
I io11rned