Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-22

General News.


Hon. Reyerdy johnson declares that
the President has never intimated to him
anv wish that he should enter his Cabinet.
The census recently taken of Washing
ton and Georgetown shows the population
of the former to be 1907 900 and the latter
$1,000. @
Owing to the enfeebled physical con-
dition of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, his
friends do not expect him to live through
the winter.
A Washington telegram of the 18th says
tits ascertained from an official source
that jeff Davis will be tried on the indict-
ment now pending.
"A New York Herald's special says that
both Secretary McCulloch and President
johnson are in favor Of Shermans five
per cent.,loan bill.
It has been announced thatthere will be
no deficiency in the Postofiice Department
the present year, the receipts equal'ng
the estimates. and the expenditures com
ing within the appropriations.
Z 1t is said the President stated to Sena-
tor on the 18th, that he had no doubt OF his
authority to remove all the Cabinet officers
appointed by his predecessor, the Civil
Tenure bill to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. g@ @
The report was recently current that
the United States Government is to pay
eleven and half millions of dollars for
the Danish West India Islands, including
st. Thomas, st. Johns and Santa Cruz,
subject to the claim of France In the lat-
ter, or seven millions and hall for Ut.
Thomas and st. Johns.
The estate of Abraham Lincoln has been
finally settled, and, after paying all debts,
there remained $11O,295.91 to be divided
among the heirs, Of this amount Mrs.
Lincoln receives $36,765.30, and Robert
T. Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln receive
each the same amount The debts of Mrs
Lincoln as filed in the County Clerks
Office, amount to only 1881. =
4 The State Department at Washington is
informed that five million dollars worth
of property was destroyed by the tornado,
on the Rio Grande, of October oth Six
hundred houses were destroyed, and all the
ranches for thirty miles around Mata-
meras were thrown down. At the mouth
of the river scarcely a house is, left. All
the river steamers were wrecked or dis
abled except one. Twenty persons were
killed, and forty or fifty wounded. @ 4
ON the 18th, as E. A. Pollard, the his
torian of Lee and his Lieutenants, was
passing in front of the Maltby House, Bal
tinore, he was approached by son and
q nephew of Henry A. Wise, named John
and Douglas Wise, each of whom fired a
shot at Pollard, one passing through his
right arm, he having his wife on his left
arm at the time. Pollard drew his pistol
but was unable to raise it on account of his
wound, and the ball from his weapon
struck the pavement. The assailants were
rrested. 5~-lAl ~ 49, -
The anticipated meteoric shower on the
morning of the 14th, seems to have been
very general throughout the country
much more so than at the same date last
year. The display in the vicinity of Chi
cago is represented as very brilliant, not
withstanding the fact that it was modified
by full moon shining in cloudless splen
dor, The Superintendent of the Chicago
Observatory reports that about 1000 me-
teors were seen during the night, but thinks
that the number would have amounted to
10000 if the night had been clear and
moonless. In other parts of the Union
the display was even more brilliant.