Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-03

week ending November 20, 81, ,OO7, 900
shipments, $643,0Oo; amount destroyed
$35O,99O
A Washington telegram of the 21st
says: "The gold balance in the Treasury
to-day is $1Os,O69,7OO, and the currency
$11 ,627,363. OF the gold balance, $35,.
100000 represents gold certificates out.
standing, leaving $73,060,79O of actual
cash in gold in the Treasury. Since the
publication of the debt statement at the
first of this month, the department has
sold $6,O0O,OO0 of gold and purchased
$7,OOO,OO0 of five-twenty bonds, which
are laid away, subject to the action OF
Congress, besides $2,OOO,OOO for the sink
ing fund"
The Boylston National Bank of Boston
was robbed on the night of the Goth, of
valuables valued at between 100000 and
$500000, belonging to individuals who
had deposited them in the bank for safe
keeping. No funds of the bank were
| taken.
A resolution to exclude the Bible from
the public schools of Louisville, KY, has
been voted down-17 to 5.
President Grant has issued proclama-
ton abolishing the discriminating duties
heretofore levied upon merchandise i'm
ported into the United States in French
vessels, either from the countries of its
origin or from any other country, in view
of the fact that the levying of such duties
on all merchandise imported into France
in vessels of the United States, had been
discontinued.
1t was stated in official circles at Wash
ington on the 23d that. there is nothing
political in the legal proceedings of our
government in connection with the affairs
of Cuba. "The object of libeling the
Spanish gunboats, now under detention at
New York, is simply to bring the question
before the court with view to release the
vessels, and is between the contractors and
the government, and not in this aspect in
terfered with by Spain through its repre-
sentative"
A special dispatch from Washington on
the 23d asserts that the American squad
ron in the West India waters has been
augmented specially in view of the con-
tingencies that may arise in consequence
of the action of the United States in the
matter of the Spanish gunboats.
A Washington telegram of the Gath says
"The entire speech of Mr.. Gladstone at
the Lord Mayors dinner is just received
here in the London papers, and is regarded
as friendly to the settlement of the Ala
bama claims question in manner satis-
factory to the United States.'
A petition praying for the recognition
of Cuba by the United States has been
started by the ladies of Baltimore, to be
signed only by ladies, to which 1000 sig
natures have been obtained in that city
alone.
Vincent Collyer, Special Indian Com
missioner, arrived at Omaha from Sitka
on the Oath, having performed the journey
in twenty-five days, touching all the prin-
cipal points. He travelled over 5000 miles
along the coast of Alaska, and found the
Indians to number over 10000. They are
of a very superior order, having large
droves of cattle, raise grain to some extent,
and live in villages, with well-constructed
houses. They are all peaceful, and partial
to Americans. Mr.. Collyer thinks the
purchase of Alaska a judicious measure.
The jury in the Credit Mobilier case at
Harrisburg, Pa, returned verdict on the
25th for the Commonwealth Of $407 ,4S3
SO. The amount claimed by the Common
wealth was $529, ,546S7.
The New York Canal Commissioners
have decided to close the canals in that
State on the 10th of December, unless
sooner closed by ice
United States Marshal Harlow, of New
York, on the 24th took formal possession
of the thirty Spanish gunboats in the
North River, in the name of the United
States Government, on a charge of an in
tended violation of the neutrality laws.
A Washington special to the Chicago
Journal ON the 25th states that, in view
of the fact that feet of Spanish war
vessels had sailed for visit to New York
| harbor-for what purpose was not known
the Government at Washington had
ordered several of our heaviest iron -clads
to that port to be used in case hostile in
tentions should be exhibited by the Span
iards. 1t was presumed that the deten-
tion of the newly-built Spanish gunboats
in North River had something to do with
the coming of the fleet.
Customs receipts for the week ending
November 20, $3,125,S94
Six hundred packages of tea were for
warded by railroad from San Francisco to
New York on the 25th.
A Washington dispatch of the 26th
says: "The Navy Department to day
ordered the iron-clad Miantononan to re-
port to the Port Admiral at New York.
The ordering of this vessel, the Terror,
and several other national vessels, to New
York, was doubtless superinduced by the
approach of the Spanish war vessels to
that harbor, not in anticipation of any
trouble, but merely to assure foreign
visitors of our preparation for all emer-
gencies."
Over 5000 persons attended the Ala
bama State Fair on the 26th and 27th.
The fair is said to have been a decided
| success.
PERSONAL.
The committee which examined the case
of Captain Washington, in connection