Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-02

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for political offenses was being granted
| The people had consented to abandon their
eagerness for a sortie, and were resigned to
stand on the defensive There had been
no serious lighting and but little canonad-
ing lately around Paris.
Reports received in London on the 23d,
| of military movements in the north Of
France, were quite encouraging for the
French. 1t is reported that the Prussians
besieging Montmedy and Mezieres had
suddenly gone towards the centre of
France. The city Of Lille was we'll armed
provisioned and garrisoned, its citizens
expecting siege.
| Dispatches of the 23d state that all
foreigners, including neutrals, had been
forbidden to leave Paris. The Prussians
had already refused a permit to pass their
lines.
Two Fenians, named Walsh and Boacher,
were arrested on the 22d, at the railway
station at Manchester Three hundred
cartridges and papers in cipher were found
in their possession.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of the oath
says: Prince Gortschakoff's S reply to the
British and Austrian Governments is very
conciliatory. 1t explains the pacific mean
ing of previous declarations, and affirms
that Russia Graves peace generally, and in
the East especially. 1t would be impossi-
BILE to maintain it without a common un-
derstanding, and Russia shrinks from act
ing separately from other Powers"
The outlay for the conducting Of the
war by the Prussians, to November Is, is
reported at one hundred and twenty one
millions of thalers.
The Americans in Berlin celebrated
Thanksgiving day with an address by
John Bigelow, public dinner and
speeches by Mr.. Bancroft, Count Eulen-
burg, Herr Simpson, President of the Diet,
Mr.. Bigelow, and Consul Kreussman.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 23d at
1114.
According to the annual report of Gen
eral Sherman, the following is shown to
be the present strength of the army: En-
listed men-10 cavalry regiments, 9,802; 8
artillery regiments, 1905; % infantry
regiments 14,486; Engineers battalion,
$780, Ordnance Department, 706; West
Point detachment, 261; signal detachment
1872; Hospital stewards, 1888; Ordnance
Sergeants, 121; permanent recruiting par
ties and recruits, not available for assign
ment, 1,010 men; men in the general SER
vice, on duty in the bureaus of the War
Department, army head quarters, etc, 276 !;
available recruits at depots, 743. Total
34,970. Commissioned officers, total, for,
all branches of the service, 2,488. This
number must be reduced to 2,277 before
Jan. 1, 1871, and the number of enlisted
men must be reduced to 10000 before July
/, 1871.
The official census returns make the
population Of New York State 1870, ,S46,
an increase of 339,079 during the last five
years, and 490,111 during ten years.
The Internal Revenue receipts for the
fiscal year to November 10Th were $70,-
5O4,4 4,43O. The customs receipts from No
vember to 5, inclusive, were $2,557, ,267
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says
the assumption in England that Russia
and the United States have secret under
standing, does not appear to have good
| foundation.
A recent fire at Baldwinsville Onondaga
county, N. Y, destroyed thirteen buildings.
Loss over $4,000.
At a rat and dog fight in Kit Burns
place, New York city, on the night of the
21st, Bergh President of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
made his appearance, accompanied by a
number of policemen, and arrested thirty
spectators.
A horrible murder of whole family,
numbering five persons, was committed
near Potosi, Mo-, on the 10Th. A Mr. and
Mrs. Lapine, sister, of Mrs. Lapine and
two children, were brutally killed by a
couple of miners, named John Armstrong
and Charles Jolly.
The steamer City of Bridgeton arrived
at Philadelphia, from Bridgeton, n j., on
the night of the 21st, and some of the pas
sengers remained on board. Early next
morning the steamer was burned and ii
was feared some of the passengers lost
their lives. ~
A counterfeiters' den at Hunters Point
/ New York, was captured ON the night Of
the 21st, with over $4,000 in partly finish
ed greenbacks.
4 At Evansville, Ind, on the 21st, three
steamers-the Norman, Pine Bluff and
City of Evansville-were destroyed by fire
A Mrs. Ward, passenger on the Norman
from Newburg to Rileys Landing, to join
her husband, became bewildered, and fail
ing to follow the chambermaid, who sought
to save her, she was burned to death. Hel
remains were recovered
Seven hundred workmen were dis
charged from the Brooklyn Navy Yard OF
the 23d.
The New York canals are to be CLOSED
ON Thursday, Dec s.
The following statistics have been OBJ
tanned at the Census Bureau in Washing
ton-a comparison of the census of 1885,
and 1870 as to the colored race in the State
named:
1860 1870
Georgia 95 counties 1886, $40 393, ,16
Kentucky, IS counties. s.......... 1888 1851
Maryland, county -.--..-.-.... $3.50 5,53