Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-12

I'd, restraining them from executing the
resolutions adopted by them excluding the
Bible from the common schools.
At the National Baptist Sunday School
Convention at st. Louis, on the I'd, twen-
ty-seven States were represented.
The total disbursements of the Govern:
ment for October amount to $12,842, ,497
The interest paid on the public debt was
81, ,1O6, ,199 additional.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has decided that public land, once
offered for sale, retains the character of
offered land, as to right of pre-emption,
even though afterward withdrawn from
the market; therefore, pre-emption set
tiers will be required to make proof and
payment within the twelve months pre-
scribed by law.
The Governor of Missouri has appoint
ed the 18th inst as a day of Thanksgiving.
The town of Cisco, ON the Central Pa
cifc Railroad, was destroyed by fire on
the 1st inst. The railroad property was
saved.
tor shows that 2,7O9 acquisitions passed
through the office during the year, in
volving $7S,901, ,949.03, of which amount
$62,SO3,74124 were disbursements, and
$16,09S, ,20S.79 were refundments.
The bodies of the following persons
lost on the Stonewall had been recognized
up to 4th: James A. Adams and Mike
Kinney, stock dealers, of St. Louis; S
Doyle, j. Carson (or Jerry Conslee), j
P. Arms, John Hanley, j. Conroy, @. Con
roy, James Loves, j. Kelly, M. Q. Loot
Garret Coleman, Peter Cunningham. AL
Of the above, except the two first, were
deck passengers.
The colored citizens of Maryland cele
brated the anniversary of emancipation
at Baltimore, on the 4th, with great en-
thusiasm. The day passed without any
disturbances, and wound up with ball in
the evening.
From the annual report of the Second
Comptroller of the Treasury, we learn
that the total expenditures of the Wa1
and Navy Departments for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1869, were $S07, 1884, ,225.62
Commissioner Delano has suspended the
collection of tax on the pork-packers al
manufacturers, until January /, to give
packers and dealers time to apply to Con
gress. and get its opinion.
Several arrests have been made in New
York and Boston of members of noto-
rious gang of counterfeiters, who have
been engaged in making tobacco revenue
stamps, and had commenced engraving a
plate of a $50 bond. A large amount OF
counterfeit stamps were seized, together
with plates, presses, and all necessary arti-
cles for such business.
The dwelling of Nathan Dowry, in
Harwich, Mass, was destroyed by fire on
the evening of the Sd, and his only chill
dren, two little girls, aged six and four
years, perished. The parents were visit
ing neighbor.
The New York Sun of the 9Th says
Boutwell, is preparing to bring out new
loan at per cent. interest, and his agent
has sailed for Europe to negotiate with
capitalists for large part of it.
A Washington telegram of the 5th says :
"The decline in the price of gold has
brought up the subject among leading
financial men of return to specie pay
ments, and it is understood that Secretary
Boutwell,, among other recommendations
in his report, will urge that the time be
fixed at an early day for resuming specie
payments. In case Congress should
adopt the proposition, the Secretary will
adhere to it rigidly."
Treasurer Spinner on the 5th received
forty books of gold leaf, with a letter, say
ing that the gold from which it was made
belonged to the Government
During the last fiscal year about 10000
acres of public lands were entered under
the Homestead and other laws, yielding
the Government between $4,000, 900 and
$5,000,000.