Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-04

dent at Portugal, uice Shellabarger, re-
signed E. s. Modal, of New Jersey, AS
sistant Secretary of Legation at London,
0sce Badeau, resigned.
George D. Prentice, the veteran editor,
died in Louisville on the morning of the
22d, in the 6Sth year of his age.
In recent libel suit of Eliza P. Buck
ley against the st. Louis Republican, for
$25,000, the jury returned a verdict for
$4,000 damages.
Prince Arthur arrived in Washington
on the afternoon of the 22d, and was the
guest of the British Minister.
The marriage certificate of Albert D.
Richardson and Mrs. Abby Sage, in the
handwriting and certified to by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, has been filed at the Office
of the Register of Vital Statistics in
New York.
Prince Arthur was presented to Presi-
dent Grant by the Secretary Of State, on
the Gath.
The Senate, on the 25th, confirmed the
following appointments: Third Assistant
Postmaster General-W. III. HI. Terrill.
Pastmasters-HenryG G.. Wells, Moline, ILL;
Peter Grubb, Canton, o.; S. G. West, Mil
waukee; Horace Chaplin, j Jacksonville, ILL.,;
Henry M. Kimball, Carlinville, ILL.,; Will
liam K. Libbison, Mortified, ILL.,; Emma
J. Maneaken, Salem, ILL.,. Collectors of In
ternal Revenue-Jesse Duck, Seventeenth
District of Ohio. Consul-Edgar Stanton,
of Illinois, at Bristol.
The resolution before Congress, in rela-
ton to Mrs. Lincoln, grants her pension
of $4,000 per annum from the death of
Mr.. Lincoln.
The anniversary of the birthday of
Robert Burns was celebrated in New
York city on the evening of the 25th.
The Peabody fleet, the Monarch and
Plymouth, arrived at Portland, Me-,
on the night of the 25th.
The President on the 9th, made the fol-
lowing nominations: Jas. IL. Jennings,
Receiver of Public Moneys, at Ionia,
Mich. Jno. Eaton, of Tennessee, Com
missioner of Education, in place of Barn
ard, to be removed; Bruce johnson, Post
master at Shelbyville, Ind.
POLITICAL.
The Republican State Convention of
Oregon is called to meet on the 7th of
April.
Gen. Terry declined to submit the ques-
tions of law, in regard to the qualifications
of certain members elect to the Georgia
Legislature. to the Supreme Court of that
State. :.
A committee from the citizens of the
District of Columbia called upon the
President on the 22d for his aid in stop
ping the agitation of the Capital removal
question in Congress, as it was injurious
to the interests of the citizens of the Dis
trict.
The Committee of Ways and Means on
the 25th agreed-5 to ITO put coal on
the free list on the Tariff bill.
The New York Assembly on the 25th
passed resolution proposing the exemp-
ton from duty of tea, coffee, sugar, salt,
coal, pig iron and railroad iron.
In the Georgia House, on the Goth, an
order from General Terry was read, de-
claring that Representatives Donaldson,
Talifero, and Mum were ineligible to seats
under the laws of the United States, and
ordering that they be prohibited from TAX
ing part in the organization, and from at
tempting to exercise the functions ofmem-
bers also, that sixteen persons elected to
the House, and who had declined to take
the oath, and filed papers for the removal
of disability, had become ineligible, and
were prohibited from taking Seats An
other order provided that Colonel Harris
should be Clerk pro tenn. until the election
of Speaker. Col. R. Fl. McWhorter, Re-
publican, was elected Speaker over Col. j.
E. Bryant-78 to SO.
The House Election Committee have
agreed to report against the admission of
the Georgia delegation, on the ground
that they were elected to the Fortieth and
not to the Forty-frst Congress.
The President, on the Goth, signed the
bill admitting Virginia to representation
III SOuS1 1CoS.
The following is the Senate bill for the
admission of Virginia, which was also
passed by the House on the oath,
An Act to admit the State of Virginia to repre-
sentation in the Congress of the United States.
WHEREAS, The people of Virginia have framed
and adopted a constitution of State Government,
which is republican in form; and,
WHEREAS, The Legislature of Virginia, elected
under said constitution, have ratified the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the United States; and,
WHEREAS, The performance of these several
acts, in good faith, was a condition precedent to
the representation OF the State in Congress- there
fore,
Belt Enacted, &c., That the said State of Vir-
ginia is entitled to representation in the Congress
of the United States, provided that before any
member of the Legislature of said State shall take
resume his seat, any officer of said State shall
enter upon the duties of his office, he shall take
and subscribe, and file in the Office of the Secre
tary of the State of Virginia. for permanent preser-
vation an oath in the form following:
T., do solemnly swear that have never
taken an oath as a member of Congress, an
officer of the United States, or as member OF any
State Legislature, or as an executive or judlc al
officer of any State to support the Constitution OF
the United States, and afterwards engaged In In
aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, so help me
Cod
Or such person shall, in like manner, take, sub
scribe and file the following oath:
Il do soemnly swear that have, by
act of Congress of the United States been relieved
from the disabilities imposed upon me by the Four
seenth Amendment OF the Constitution of the
United States; SO help me God:'
Which oath shall be taken beforc and certified by
any officer lawfully authorized to administer oaths
in taking either Of such oaths shall be deemed
guilty of perjury, and shall be punished therefor