Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-28
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General News,

hour. 4M 49,
The bill for the reiefsof the currency,
which passed on the 22d, is simply as
follows,
6 Be 1T enacted, That the Secretary of the Treas
ury be and is hereby authorized and directed to
redeem compound interest notes with the accrued
interest, and to issue therefor United States legal
tender notes without interest, not exceeding IN
amount $1,000 ,0OO
This vote was carried by vote of 90
to IS in the House, irrespective of party
1.-THE following circular, by. command OF
General Grant, has been issued 90. " Here
after, none but unmarried men, who are
not less than five feet five inches in height,
will be enlisted into the army of the
United States for any arm Of the service.
This regulation will not apply to. men en-
listing in regiments of the veteran re-
serve corps, OF to men enhstinga as m1si-
oians.,'sni -sTe'iob bnesuodj a9Tdj iUoJe
Prof. Alexander Dallas hBache, jSuperin-
tendent of the United States Survey, and
of the Office Of! Weights and Measures,
died in Washington on 'the:19thg He was
born at PhiladelphiaIin 1906 and was a
greatrgrandson9 off Benjamin Franklin,
| whose daughter married his paternal grand
father. - The Secretary of the Treasury
has issued g, circular mourning his loss, and
ordering the Coast Survey Office draped in
black and closed on the day Of the funeral
The Swatara, the vessel conveying
Surratt to this country, was = signaled
at daylight on the 18th, off Fortress Mon
roe. She passed inside the capes and head
ed up the Chesapeake, going to Washing
ton direct On the519th he was removed
from the vessel and placed in the Washing
ton City Prison, in aniron-clad cell about
10 by 10 feet square and about feet high,
with no window, light AMI air being adj
mitted through the iron grating Of the
door, which fronts. upon the corridor,
where Waterman looks every fifteen min
utes to- see how the prisoner Is coming on.
No one except his keeper is allowed tothaye
any communication with him on any pre-
| text whatever. He was very taciturn---
having little or nothing to say while being
conveyed to prison. He was handcuffed,
and was dressed in the full uniform of the
Papal Zouayes--a gray cloth short jacket
loose trousers, with canvas leggins red
sash and cap. He positively denies that he
is John HI. Surratt 's''"' s'+
The River and Harbor Appropriation
BILL as passed, contained the following
Western items: For the Conneaut harbor,
Lake Erie, 100000 Ashtabula harbor,
Lake Erie, So, 900; Grand River harbor,
Lake Erie, 100000; Sandusky harbor,
Lake Erie, $4,000; Maumee river, at To-
ledo, $4,000; st. Clair river, Mich, $780,
900; Saginaw harbor, Mich, $4,000
mouth Of st. Mary's harbor, Mich, $780,
900; mouth of Au Sable river, Mich, $780,
900; Marquette harbor, Lake Superior,
$4,000; Eagle harbor, Lake Superior,
1$65,000; Lac la Belle harbor, Lake Supe-
rior, $4,000; Superior City harbor, Wis,
| $4,000; for the extension of the pier at
Grand River, Mich, $4,000; Black Lake
| harbor, Mich. $51 1000; St. Joseph harbor,
Mich, $23, 900; Racine harbor, Wis, $45,-
900; Sheboygan, Wis, $4,000; Dunlzirk,
N. Y, 100000; Buffalo, N. Y, 100000 ;
| Oswego, N. ", 100000; Hudson river. N.
", $305,000; Mississippi river at New
Orleans, 100000; Ohio river, 100000;
Michigan City, $4,000; the Mississippi,
at Des Moines Rapids, 81 900, 900; the Mis-
sissippi, at Rock Island, $500, OOOaad of'a /.
Foreign Intelligence.
The Princess of Wales has been safely
delivered Of girl. . '''1t
The Liberals have carried the North
German Parliament. iAH 'aH 20 .iaifi /
The famous ex-rebel steamer Sumter has
been lost in the North Sea- y.Voi1 sd /
| Nine II Fenians, arrested in Dublin,
have been convicted and heavily sentenced.
The American Chamber of Commerce
of Liverpool have voted to present a gold
medal to Cyrus w. Field. alG sg,h yt /
A private cable telegram announces that
| the Confederation bill had passed to third
reading in the House of Lords. ~ t
A dispatch from Toulon announces the
death by apoplexy of Lieutenant Corn
| wall, of the American iron-clad Miantono-
NAH
Dispatches from Madrid state that the
King and Consort are exiled from Spain,
on charge of plotting the regency of the
| Kingdom.
The restoration of the Constitution of
184S to Hungary by the Emperor, has had
the effect to remove the troubles hereto
fore existing. fse4 $50 mo4lsT4j @ sIat /.
| The great fire. at Tokahama, Japan de-
stroyed property to the amount of So, 00O,-
600. All the foreign portion of the city
| was burnt. e
| A Telegram from Naples reports that a
magazine Of ,glinpowder exploded at Posi-
lippo, near that city on the 13d, and a mum
Der of lives were lost by the disaster. ri'e
A weekly telegraph and express line
combined, is now open to Tientzin, China.
| The time Of transmission of messages from
london to Tientzin is now reduced to
twelve days 3aAn - -if211 E|
| a speedy conclusion Of peace is re-
ported between Spain and the allied Re
publics oflSouth America The Spanish
Government Is in trouble at home, as a
serious insurrection is impending. ,g
The Sultan of Turkey has officially re-
formed the leading Powers of Europe that
he has decided to call together an assembly
of the representatives of all religious
creeds in the Empire for the purpose Of
| adopting measures for the more effectual