Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-30

been seized in Boston was returned TO the
owners on the nth. on the ground that
the property would spoil before legal
decision would be reached. A keg of
lager was seized in Cambridge, and the
owner sentenced to three months at the
House of Correction, and fined $50.
The Cuban Junta, in New York, has
resolved to make Southern port their
base of operations hereafter. A steamer
is reported to have left for Richmond, and
the Ryan expedition will proceed there in
squads and then embark for Cuba.
In message to the City Council,
Mayor Bowen, of Washington, recon-
mends that white and colored children be
educated under the same public school
system in that city, and under the same
roof He has also nominated Prof. Vashon
(colored), as one of the trustees of white
schools.
| 1t is reported that bark recently left
Baltimore with $4,000 stand of arms and
10000 rounds of ammunition for Cuba
She got off without trouble, protesting to
be loaded with hay, and reached her des-
tination successfully. & - < II
The oolored mechanics of Baltimore are
forming Trade Union organization, to
embrace in its Jurisdiction the State of
Maryland. # "a 60
A society for the protection of Chinese
from the abuse of lawless white men and
boys has been organized in San Francisco.
The Central and Union Pacific Railroad
Companies have agreed to carry fruit from
San Franciso to New York at five cents
per pound, and immigrants from New
York to California at $50, and from Chi
cagO at $38.
The Trustees of the Purdue University
Agricultural College have decided that it
shall be located not more than two miles
and half from Lafayette, Ind.
A Washington telegram of the 21st says
the statement that Secretary Fish had
given authority to land the French cable
at Duxbury, Mass, is not correct. The
Secretary does not consider that he has
the power to give such authority, as it be-
longs exclusively to Congress, and the
Secretary simply expressed the opinion
that with the concessions which the cable
company propose to make to the United
States Congress will probably not make
any objections.
The first case and death from yellow
fever at New Orleans, this season, oc-
CURED on the Goth. The victim was a
young Frencnman, lately from Havana,
where he stopped only few hours.
Another successful trial of the air ship
Avitor was made in San. Francisco, on
the 21st, in the presence of members of
the press, a portion of the Chicago party
and number of engineers. Several of
the latter expressed the opinion that the
larger machine now under construction
will be success.
Returns from the Land Office a. Salt
Lake city show that during the first two
weeks of June last 83S declaratory state
ments, covering 100000 acres, were filed
in that Office under the pre-emption act.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Explor-
ing Expedition arrived safely at Fort
Abercrombie, July 10.
The trial of Yerger before the military
commission was concluded on the 22d, but
the verdict was not known. After the
trial was concluded, Yerger was brought
before Judge Hill of the United States
Circuit Court, on writ of ha6eas corpus
Judge William Yerger, on behalf of the
prisoner, submitted plea to which Judge
Advocate Col. Thomas F. Barr submitted
return, and Yerger was remanded to
military custody.
Measures have been instituted for Or
Eganizinga company having in view the
holding of a Worlds exposition of
manufactures, &C., in Washington a year
hence. .f:.a..... s,es sd.
All the prisoners confined at Fort La
fayette charged with being concerned in
the Cuban expedition have been released
The first fruit car on the Pacific Rail-
road left Sacramento on the 23d, loaded
principally with plums and pears for Chi
cago, and grapes for New York.
The Commissioner of Revenue has de-
cided that no tax be levied upon sales and
loans of building associations.
PERSONAL.
DR.. Richard Edwards, of Normal, Ill,
has received letter from Maj. Powell,
commanding the Colorado River Explor-
ing Expedition, dated June 80, in which
the Major states that himself and party
were all well and in good spirits. They
had ran four canons, twenty five miles in
length each, and were then camped at the
mouth of the Uintah. s.--a
Miss Borie, daughter of the ex-Secreta-
ry of the Navy, rescued a young Balti-
morean from drowning, who had got be-
yond his depth while bathing, at Cape
May, on the Goth.
At a recent interview with reporter of
the N. Y Times, Mr.. Koopmanschoop, i'm
porter of Chinese coolies, stated that it
was his intention to import a hundred
thousand of these men during the coming
year, and hire them out at from So to $12
per month and their keeping.
Prof. Morse, the famous inventor, sus-
tanned compound fracture of the leg by
fall at his residence near Poughkeepsie,
on the evening of the 17th.
General Sickles, the American Minister
to Spain, arrived at Madrid ON the 22d.