Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-11
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General News.

cession of Crete to Greece.
The President has appointed Colonel
Noah L. Jefries, of Maryland, Register of
the Treasury, pice Colby deceased.
The London Standard, in a leading arti-
Gle, says the general arming of France is
exciting apr ehensions of winter cam
paign.
= The, Austrian Bishops Of the Roman
Catholic Church have declared in opposi-
ton to any change in the concordat between
Rome and Austria.
Heavy rains in Florida still continue.
Heavy freshets at Live Oak have washed
away the track Of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad in several places.
The Turkish Government has apologized
to the American Minister for the insult
recently offered to messenger connected
with the United States Consulate.
Charles Lever hints that Louis Napoleon
will have to come down heavily with hush
money to keep certain unpleasant written
records of the Mexican expedition from
being made public, &2$1 @S
The following exhibits the rate of taxa
ton per male adult in six of the principal
cities New York, $12320; Philadelphia,
$82.92 Boston, $14580; Cincinnati, $92.-
"a; Chicago, $8452; San Franciso, $14O.-
g.
The New Orleans papers have accounts
of tremendous gale at Galveston on the
I'd inst, and estimate the damage to
wharves, shipping and goods at a million
of dollars. 1t is the highest overflow since
1887. e. Z
The Paymaster General, it is under
stood, has received an order from the Sec
rotary of War, to reduce the clerical force
of his department 1t is estimated that
about 400 clerks have been dismissed by
similar recent orders.
A Vienna paper of September 20 says:
"The Mexican government will not give
up the body of Macmillan before the set
Element of pending questions, and particu-
larly the recognition of the Mexican2R Re-
public by the European Powers"
The Editorial Excursion Party for the
Rocky Mountains started from Chicago
on the afternoon of the '7th, at half past
two o'clock. : A magnificent press dinner
was given the excursionists at the Sher-
man House, by the proprietors.
Gen. Grant has been misrepr esented by
newspaper correspondents who have stated
that he has refused to revive the consid-
Grafton of war claims. He also denies the
statement that he has said that he would
run for the Presidency if nominated. ~
Mr.. Wells, United States Revenue Com
missioner, has left Washington with the
purpose. OF, visiting the principal Western
cities, and comforting with Boards Of Trade
in reference to business interests and the
state of trade. He will visit Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Louis f-s'AA ~ =. - =
The official statement of the public debt
for Oct. /, shows that the debt Qess the
cash in the Treasury amounts to So, 1885,
277 446,76 The amount Of cash in the
Treasury is more than one hundred and
thirty five millions, of which ope hundred
and three millions are coin and nearly
thirty two millions currency.
The mail steamer from Rio Janeiro
has arrived, and brings the following news
from the scene of war on the Rio Parana !:
The combined land and naval forces of the
allied powers had bombarded the-Para-
guayan positions at Curupaity and HUI
malta, but with what success is not
known. Those accounts of the attack
which had reached Rio Janeiro up to the
time the steamer had sailed, were SO con-
fiicting that no definite idea of the result
could be formed.
The following army orders are reported
Brevet Major General James A Hardee,
Inspector General, has been ordered to
Fort Larned, Kansas on special service.
Brevet Major General Clark is assigned to
duty as Chief Commissary, Division Of the
Missouri, at st, Louis, relieving Brigadier
General L. J. Haines, who reports to Gen
eral Sherman. Brevet Colonel J.. Mel.
Taylor has been ordered to report to Gene
raj Halleck. Iss @ 4
Additional disturbances between the
Fenians and the authorities in England
are reported At Rochdale, the home of
John Bright, policeman has been killed
by q Fenian, and ia London another off,
Ger has been assaulted by number of Irish
men. These occurrences following SO close
ly on the riots at Manchester are evidently
exciting considerable alarm, giving rise to
anticipations of new and more extensive
Fenian rising than any that has yet &C.
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The laying ofthe corner stone of the
monument to be erected in the Soldiers
National Cemetry, situated on Hampton
Greek, took place on the afternoon Of the
5th, in the presence of laIge audience
The monument will cost, when finished
$4,000. The cemetry at Yorktown, aane
smaller ones, in the vicinity of Suffolk
Norfolk and Portsmouth, are being rapid
ly broken up, and the bodies being rein
TERED in the Hampton cemetery, which
when finally completed will contain abou
10000 bodies. Iaq0Hq 34o2
The GAR dispatches say, has made, u
one sense, overtures to Turkey for an ALI
ance, having for its basis the political and
administrative independence of Crete, anf
the neutrality of Turkey in the event o
complication of Russia with other Pow
ers This proposition is said TO have beer
rejected by the Porte. There is threa
involved in the proposition. Russia init
mates that it may cease to be conservativ,
and that Turkey will find opposed to hel
then all the forces the Gar has at his com