Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-11

ioe5 in ra,ation Io additional bounties, extending
its benefits 10 the widows and chldren OF sololers
who hsd enlisted for a less period than one year
and had been killed or died in service The Tax
bill was made the special order for the LIST OF March,
to be taken up after the Tarif Dill line resoll-
tion calling on the President for information as to
the treatment of American citizens In British prls
ops for political offences, came up, and was dscnss-
ed A BILL similar in all respects TO the virginia
Hill for the admission Of Mississippi, reported
from the Reconstruction Committee and passed,
proposition to admit that State Internationally
having been voted DOWNS to gS: The Dill to
supply deficiencies In the Navy Department, 1
transfer of funds from one bureau to another was
amended SO as to reduce the appropriation to 81
500 OOO and passed. Resolutions were passed, to
print 600 extra copies Of the Tariff bill and 1000
comics for the Senate and 5000 for the House, of f.
" Hoyden's report of the geological survey IN
Colorado and New Mexico. Adjourned.
FOREIGN.
A cable dispatch of the 2Sth says the
Pope has issued special elimination
against the Fenians, both in America and
in Ireland.
A Madrid telegram of the 2Sth says that
in the recent election the Monarchists
polled five-sevenths of the popular vote.
The capture of Guamara by Gen. Pueblo is
reported. He was obliged to return to the
coast on account of scarcity of provisions.
The London Pail Mall Gazette of the
2Sth states that negotiations on the Ala
bama claims question have been sus-
pended.
The lands belonging to the estate of the
late George Peabody, in England, which
were recently seized by officers OF the
Crown, have been released by order of
the government.
A Havana telegram of the 29th ult.
states that General Pueblo had returned to
Nuevitas. He did not reach Guamara, and
was beaten by the insurgents under Gen
eral Jordan. Pueblo lost thirty six officers
and four hundred men killed and wound
ed. His horse was killed under him.
The Emperor Of France has refused the
request made by the Cabinet for reduc-
tion of the army, alleging as reason for
such refusal the sentiment now prevalent
in political centres.
The Spanish Consul at New York of
fcially contradicts the report from Ha-
vana that the Spanish General Pueblo was
defeated by Gen. Jordan, near Guamara,
with heavy loss, and denounces it as en-
tirely without foundation.
In the ha5eas corpus case of Robinson,
held for extradition, at Toronto, Canada,
on charge of arson in Massachusetts,, the
Judge ordered the discharge of the
prisoner, on the ground that the warrant
of arrest was defective, and that deposit
tions in the United States are insufficient
in evidence.
1t is reported that the Pope has yielded
to France, and withdrawn the project OF
infallibility.
The Paris journals of the s1st ult. state
that the French Minister of the Interior
had said that hereafter all monopoly in
telegraphic cables would be abolished, and
that even private parties were at liberty
to lay cables.
Two Toronto, Canada, newspaper
correspondents were recently expelled
from Winnipeg, by the commander OF the
insurrectionists.
A Havana telegram of the 30th ult.
says: General Pueblo attacked and cap
tured the entire camp of the insurgents at
Gualmaro with only 1900 troops. He
remained there seventeen days, destroying
all the Notifications which they had built
up in the encampment. The insurgents
fed after the first attack, leaving great
number dead on the field"
1t is reported that $50 prisoners were
killed in Havana, on the 31st ult., by vol
unteers. A great fire took place in the
negro quarter of Havana, called Jesus
Maria, the same night.
The Canadian Government has ordered
a large number of river boats to be built
for the conveyance of troops to Winnipeg,
at the first opening of spring.
A letter was received in London, on the
I'd, from Captain Cochrane, of the Royal
Navy, commanding patrol station off the
African coast. He reports that DR.. Liv-
ingstone, the celebrated African traveller,
has been burned as a wizard by chief in
the interior.
It has been fairly demonstrated that YES
sells drawing no more than 171s feet of
water are able to pass through the Suez
Canal with safety.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Sd
at 1907.
| An expedition left Fort Shaw on the
18th, against certain tribes of Indians
who had been stealing and numbering,
and it is reported that on the 23d it sur
prised camp of thirty lodges and killed
all but six or eight.
The Ways and Means Committee have
reversed their action ON bituminous coal,
taking it out of the free list, leaving duty
at $120 per ton. Anthracite coal is to
remain on the free list.
A Washington dispatch of the 28th says
the Committee on Banking and Currency
had authorized the statement that no por
tion of the testimony taken before them
in regard to the gold panic of September
or the substance thereof, had been given
to the press, and that all statements pur
porting to be such were unauthorized and
to large extent, inaccurate.
The Mormons are said to be gaining 6
number of converts at their revival meet
ings on Long Island.
Orders were received on the Goth ult
st the Philadelphia Navy Yard for tht
discharge of about 1,100 men; at tn,