Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-07

machinery, even to appliances for railroad
ing. and will take with him geologist,
civil engineer, and other members Of the
corps, for scientific and industrial investiga-
ton.
LATER dispatches from Bombay state that
it is the nutmeg and mace crops of Banda
Island, in Malay Archipelago, which have
been destroyed by hurricane, instead of the
cotton crop of the district of Banda, India.
The loss is 100000 sterling, and the plan
tiers will not recover from the blow for years
to come.-The London Post says there is an
understanding between the Governments of
Germany, Austria, and Russia for the Treser-
walton of the peace of Europe.-A terrible
accident occurred on the 22d, on the Lelpslc
Line railway to train conveying the Pom
eranian troops from France. Four cars were
thrown from the track and officers and q
privates killed, and l officer and 40 privates
injured.-The mortality is increasing in
Paris in consequence of the arrival of a large
number of emigrants from the ceded pro
vinces. Neither cholera nor typhus fever
is valent.-Gambetta refuses to acknowl-
edge the mandate of the Assembly, accom-
panyjng his refusal with a declaration that
the Assembly ceased to exist when it voted
to ratify the treaty.
FIFTEEN thousand troops have been sent to
Fontainebleau, where two of the courts mar
tial are to convene. The corps of General
Douay will soon be sent to Lyons. The
Verite says the courts will commence their
sittings on Wednesday.-Prince Napoleon
has declined the nomination to the Assembly
from the Department of Chaseret, in favor of
Rouher.-Arrests continue to be made III
Paris. Among the prisoners sent to Yer
sailles within the present week are con-
siderable number of well-dressed and re-
| spectably-appearing men and women.-lt is
rumored that Prince Arthur is to be made
| Duke of Ulster, and that the Governmentln-
tends, before the propagation of Parliament,
| to introduce a bill for the purchase OF
| royal seat in Ireland.-Baron d. Anethan IN
formed the Chamber Friday that as far as
! known, of the Communists arrests in Paris,
| los are subjects of Belgium. He said the
| Belgian Government had not asked for their
release, nor did it intend to, but it expected
and would see that they had an impartial
| trial.
AN imperative demand has been made for
the immediate payment of the first install
ment of indemnity, which it was agreed
should be paid in 80 days after the re-estab-
lishment of the Versaillist authority
There is great distress in Paris, and large
numbers of people are constantly applying
to the Paris authorities for relief. It is cal
| culated that there are 100000 creatures of
charity in the city. Labor is scarce, and
there is uneasiness relative to the payment
of the overdue rents.-Hostilities have
broken out among rival clans in the Fejee
Islands, and cannibalism is being INDUCED
in to an unlimited extent by the Livani fac
ton, who recently protested Christianity.
a ha ic fOrpas n
attack the revolted cannibals.-Forty- seven
ships of the French navy have been dis
armed, and 900 sailors dismissed from the
service.
RocHEFORT is said to be in a galloping
consumption. 1t is also said that, in joining
the Communists, he expected to be President
of the new Republic. Emperor Ma
poleon and family are living very quietly at
Chiselhurst He receives daily reports of
the state of Paris from Pietrie. He is fatter
and healthier than when he reached Eng
land. He continues to have full hope of the
restoration of his dynasty.-A thousand
workmen have been turned out of employ
ment by the burning of a Manchester, Eng
land, cotton mill.
PARIS advices declare that the leaders of
the Versaillists all favor a constitutional
monarchy; that Republicanism has been
destroyed by the Commune Theirs has
issued decree providing for the estab ish-
ment of legion of modified gendarmes to
maintain order in Versailles. The legion
will be composed Of a squadron of cavalry
and eight companies of infantry.-The Pope,
in reply to an address of sympathy from the
French Catholics, praises the zeal they ex-
hibit in the cause of the Church and him
self, and denounces liberal Catholicism as an
| evil as formidable as the revolution of the
| Commune.-London specials report great
uneasiness throughout England as to the
future relations with Germany, and that
| many of her ablest men think war must
come between the two nations.-The Fenian
convict Burke has been released from I'M
prisonment on condition that he reports
yearly to the magistrate. William
has decreed the dissolution of the present
army combinations in France and the forma-
ton of all the German troops in that coun
try into one combination called the Army of
| Occupation of France, of which Gen. Man
teuffel is appointed commander.
| In the French Assembly, recently, An
deficit presented a report respecting con-
tracts made during the war. The report &C
cuses number of persons of corruption in
office, among whom is Victor Place, the late
French Consul at New York-The new
French loan has been covered and the sub
scription books closed.-The London Gazette
announced that the notifications of the
treaty of Washington were exchanged on
the 18th of June, and that the Commissioners
will shortly be named to carry the stipula-
| tions into effect. All British subjects having
claims against the United States are re-
quested to prefer them within six months
from the first meeting of the Commission
The deaths from small pox in London reach
about 24O weekly.-Gabriac goes to Berlin as
the diplomatic representative of France.