Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-23


Loire at Beaugency, where the French
were reinforced. Fifteen hundred priso-
ners and six guns We're taken The
remainder of the French army, on the
road to Bourges, was captured or beaten.
Another account says after the fight of
the 7th the Bavarians threatened Beau
money. and the forest of Marchones.
The French were reinforced, but the
Prussians took Barbant, Beaumont,
Messas and Beaugency. On the 9th,
Bonvallent, Villerain and Bernay were
captured. .t as.~-
The center of Frederick Charles
army is at Orleans, the left wing at
Beaugency, and the right wing near
Tournan. A cavalry division, followed
by force of infantry, has proceeded
south from Orleans, and now occupies
Vierzon., The whole army of the Prince
comprizes eleven divisions, in all $4,000
men. The extension of the line over so
long distance causes some anxiety at
Versailles Two divisions are operating
in the country about Dion, while there
are in Lorraine, at Montmedy and Lon
gevy, two divisions, and in front of
Paris, seventeen divisions. These armies,
if the ranks were full, would number
$4,000 men, but the real strength is
less. New recruits are now en- route to
fill them up to this strength, which is
considered ample to hold the country
all winter.
-Advices from Versailles, dated the
9Th, state that Paris was summoned to
surrender on the 9th. The French
officers captured at Amiens and Orleans
accompanied the heralds. The latter
threatened an immediate bombardment
as the penalty of non-submission. A
committee was allowed to come out of
Paris to consult with the Government
of Tours. The reply returned was a fiat
refusal. 1t is doubted whether the
threat of bombardment can be possibly
fulfilled as no guns are in position. But
there are plenty here, and they could
soon be mounted if the gunners in the
forts would let the. workmen alone
Three hundred guns can be run into
position in a single night, and can prob
ably be all dismounted and silenced by
one days firing from the forts. The
King was very angry with the CORE
spondent who stated that the lombard
ment was impossible, and ordered him
discovered and banished from the army.
The expectation is that the war will
close with the surrender of Paris.
MiscelIaeOusn.
Smallpox has made its appearance
in New York.
Frederick Hudson has again as
sumed the managing editorship of the
New York Herald.
--Surveyor-General G. D. Dawson died
on Monday, at Otter Tail City, Mimi, of
typhoid fever.
Winter Garden Theatre at Cincin-
natl, was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 7th.
Schuyler Colfax, it is said, will be-
come the editor of the Brooklyn Union
when he retires from the Vice Rresi-
dency.
VIM. Beals, member of the firm of
Beals & Co., proprietors of the Boston
Post. died on the 8th, at that place, aged
80 years.. .t -
A girl, Hattie Turner, took fifteen
cents worth of strychnine at Omaha re-
Gently, but did not succeed in killing
herself
Mrs. Annie L. Campbell has been
appointed Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue in the Ninth Ohio district, uice
her husband, deceased.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has authorized national banks to COM
mence business at Appleton, Wis, and
Santa Fee, New Mexico.
The Governor of Iowa has offered
the Presidency of the State University
to Hon. Newton Bateman, Superinten-
dent of Public instruction. The office
has not been accepted.
Two steamers will at once be placed
on the new German line. The route is
from New York to Stettin, port on
the Oder river, south of the Baltic, and
two und half hours from Berlin by
mail.
Several members of Congress have
called upon the President to protest
against the appointment If Vaughan as
Governor of Utah.
Edward Klees, retired broker and
man of large wealth, died near Irving
ton, New York, on the 9th, in his 18th
year. He is said to have left large be-
quests to public charities.
1t is reported at Raleigh, N. c., that
the House of Representatives will adopt
a resolution sending messenger to the
bar Of the Senate to demand the i'm
parchment of Gov. Holden.
The contest for the United States
Senatorship of South Carolina, was de-
cided Wednesday by. the reelection of
Senator Robertson. Vote stood: Rob-
ertson, SO; Butler, (Dem.) 81; Moses,
%, and Cardozo (colored) 4.
The Committee on Ways and Means
will, as requested, give Mr.. Boutwell,
power to issue three hundred millions 5
per cent. bonds, the Secretary having
acknowledged his Ia per cent. bond
scheme failure. -
The Postmaster-G General has sent a
letter to the House of Representatives,
asking for an appropriation of 1885,
69S for service ending June 80, 1879.
Receipts from postage and standing APP
preparations for the free mail service are
estimated at S2l ,647,3l5, leaving to be
appropriated out of the Treasury 49,
969,3S3, to make receipts equal to esti-
mated expenditures, and further sum
of $725,OOO special appropriations for
steamship service.