Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New York, Oct 25, 1869.

NEW YORK, Oct 70, 1869.
This great city is never without. its ex-
elements. Thousands Of these would be
but momen;ary, and confined to narrow
limits, but for the rivalry existing between
the newspapers, which must supply their
readers with everything in the shape Of
n VS., whether good or bad; and to our
shame be 1t said, the worse the news the
more popular the vehicle through which
1t reaches the people. TO day a husband
murders his wife and blows his own brains
out To morrow a mother kills her child,
and then browns herself Now bank is
robbed of the wealth of hundred rich
men then comes the story Of a fire fiend
who burns house after house for the graf
ificaton Of an uncomfortable and mex
plieablc desire to do mischief
On Saturday. Over Hand, who muir
dered James O'Donnell in the South
Brooklyn gas works, was sentenced to ex.
patiate his crime on the 81 Of December
On the day before. David Burke. convicted
of the murder of Thomas Kane, at Hun
ter's Point, in October, 1868, was con
demned 10y Judge Joseph Barnard to die
on the 10th of December In both cases
the prisoners pleaded that they had acted
in self defence.
The gold conspiracy is still prominent
topic of conversation, and is now engaging
more than ordinary attention, from the
alleged completely Of Gen. Dam Bu.terfield
with the arch-conspirators, Fisk and
Gould. Butterfeld. as an officer of the
army, has demanded court martial to
investigate the charges made against him !;
but it is very doubtful whether his request
can be compiled with. The offence with
which he stands charged does not come
within the jurisdiction of a military com
mission in times of peace, seeing that the
misdemeanor was committed by an officer
in the civil and not the military service.
1t had been decided at Washington to
remove the General unless he resigned,
but Yesterday the decision was reconsid-
cred. The Washington correspondent OF
the Tribune says: The fact. however,
that he is held under suspicion by the
business public of New York, and that
the full confidence necessary for the proper
administration of the high office is now
lacking, will. it is believed, soon effect a
change in the office, whether the charges
against him are sustained or not" The
investigation will be made by special
committee of both houses, in the begin
ming Of December, and until then General
Buttcrfield will remain at the head of the
Sub Treasury.
The Second Adventists are all agog
again. They have been in state of qui
escence ever since the earthquakes and
other commissions of nature in South
America hut the shocks down East the
other day are sign to one division Of the
Milenarians, at least, that the world is
"on its last legs and desperately sick"
The second division, who NAV be very
properly called the selvatives, will not
admit that we stand on ruin. They hold
that many signs and omens, and portents
dire. and miracles, must be witnessed be-
fore the final crack of doom is heard.
Father Snow sides with the conservative
Milenarians, but the radicals, the Millerite
Milenarians, have many able prophets in
whose foresight they have an abiding
faith, equally crcditable to head and heart
Father Hyacinthe has been terribly
bored by the reporters aud by legion of
that class who prey only upon lions
He manages to live through the inf1iction,
however, and seems to be about as stout
aud happy to-day as when he first landed.
Yesterday morning he attended service at
Beecher's Church, where, after the SER
/ mon, he had a pleasant conversation with
the great preacher of Plymouth Church.
1t was notable sight to see the brave
Superior of the Bareiooted Carmeites of
Paris and the famous Beecher together.
As neither of thes great men could speak
the language of the other, their words were
interpreted by an accomplished young
banker, protege of Beecher's and fast
friend of the Carmelite.
The French Cable Company. now doing
a heavy business, opened their office here
at the corner of Nassau and Cedar streets
on the 9th of September. Since that day
the office has not been closed for single
moment.