Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-15


at Charleston, S. c., on the 9Th inst,.....A
dispatch from Galveston, dated the 9th,
states that the American bark Harvest home
was attacked by force of Mexlcans on par
Santa Anna, on the might of the 27th OF last
month, and her master, Il. Y. DlcKey, oDlgeo
to put to sea without completing her cargo.
The American bark Brothers was cap
tured by an armed force, also, on the 18th of
August. off Santa Anna, and the captain
forced to abandon her. He was picked up
Nv the Harvest Home, and arrived at Gal
weston on Tuesday. 1t is understood that
the captain will visit Washington and make
a full statement of the facts in the case to
the Government authorities.
Washington.
AN edition of 5000 extra copies of the re-
port Of The San Domingo Commissioners has
recently been issued from the government
printing office by direction of the President,
and is now being distributed over the coun-
try directly from. the White House......A
dispatch received at the Postoffce Depart
ment from the Postmaster at Savannah, Ca,
saws that the mails, and also all cars ana
passengers from Charleston are refused adj
mittance into Savannah in consequence of
fears of yellow fever. 1t is also stated that
Augusta The Postmaster General has
ordered a mail receiver on the railway be-
tween Marietta, o., and Caldwell, 35 miles,
and back, six times a week, from Oct. ].
THE amounts drawn from the treasury dur
the month of August, on warrants in favor
of the several departments, were as follows:
War Department, $58,901.O9; navy, $751;
1891; interior pensions and Indians,
S56,37O.56; civil and miscellaneous, $751;
125.I8; total, $780,, 1876. 74......1t is thought
that executive measures will soon be taken
for ordering the Kansas squatters, who have
settled on portion of the Indian Territory,
to vacate it, under certain pains and penal
ties, the land having been set apart for the
sole use of the Indians.
So FAR in the fiscal year, the internal rev.
enue receipts have run up sufficiently to
even warrant the Treasury Department in
recommending, it is believed, in the forth
coming annual report, an abolition of the
income tax. At present rates, in dull sea-
son, the revenue is exceeding the estimates.
The Government is taking measures, not
only to prevent future outrages, but to pun
ish those already committed by Mexicans
upon American commerce. The collector of
require an armed force to prevent depreda
tons along the Mexican coast. The proper
representations regarding this state of affairs
have already been communicated to Min s.
ter Nelson. The Mexican Government at
present have no accredited representative in
Washing ton. lin spite of the contradic
tions of the existence of yellow fever in
Southern cities, dispatches received here
from Savannah and Charleston are to the
effect that this epidemic really exists in
both cities.
Foreign.
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred in
Northern France on the 4th inst. Ten per-
sons were instantly killed and large num-
Der wounded. 1900 disastrous typhoon visited
the vicinity of Hong Kong, China, on the
I'd inst. Twelve vessels were driven ashore
and much damage done....The bark Err
mandine capsized in gale at Marty, on the
English coast, and all on board were lost
IA fishing schooner foundered recently
in the Pentland firth, and four persons were
drowned The brig Peacock capsized of
Shields, and the entire crew were lost......
Gladstone, in a speech on Saturday, eX-
pressed his Joy that Englishmen can now
look on Americans as friends. We may in
dulge in the hope that all controversies be-
tween the two people have been settled.
A LONDON dispatch says the ship Filometa
capsized off Malta recently, and IL persons
were drowned. ....Advices from Egypt re-
ceived in this city, state that it is reported
that the Viceroy has dismissed all the Amer
leans in his service, both in the army and
civil departments. This step has been
taken in consequence of the ill-feeling and
4orrr orl hU
numerous Turkish officials of high standing
and influence. 1t is rumored that Russia
declines to recall Minister Catacazy, at the
request of Secretary Fish, Four female
Communists were sentenced to death by the
court martial in Paris on the 9th inst, one
to Imprisonment for life, and one to ten
years. solitary imprisonment......A dvices
from st. Thomas report the following dlsas-
ter to shipping by the late hurricane: The
American brig Julia E. Carney was lost ;
crew saved The bark Duke of Wellington
lost; crew saved. Reports from Antigua
state that the English vessels the Hornet,
Douglass, and Westward, and the italian
ship Hero, were lost. ......
DISPATCHES from Russia state that the
cholera is still increasing in some parts OF
the empire, and that the rate of mortality is
yet very high. Private advices from Bra
ri repo that the yellow fever which ragged
there in July is still abating .....It is report
ed that the Marquis of Lorne has been ap-
pointed Governor General of India......A
terrible coal mine disaster occurred on the
9th inst, near Wignan, Lancashire, Eng
land. Some fifty persons in seam
of the mine at the time of the catastrophe
were cut off from communication with the
outer world, and all suffocaied by the foul
air. party sent down to ascertain their
condition, also persisted. The number killed
altogether was sixty-nine... Eighteen
thousand emigrants left the Mersey for
the United States during the month of Au-
gust.
The steamer Leander, from Dantzig for
Amsterdam, has been lost. 1t is thought
that not single person survived. Portions
of the wreck have been picked up. The
Leander was a freight and passenger steamer
plving between Amsterdam and Dantzig
The number of persons aboard is not known
but it is feared that y e loss of life is heavy
The officers and creW all numbered about Is
men The cholera in the Baltic provinces
of Prussia begins to abate. At Konigsberg
there were 40 new cases and rs deaths on
the 4th inst, and on the 5th only II new
cases and Is deaths. There has been but
one fatal case in Stettin. At Dantzig the
disease has been pronounced epidemic. The
few cases that have occurred in Paris and
London are said to have been of a different
type from the Asiatic scourge......The health
of Queen Victoria is improving.