Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-29

eanize a division, under the recent action of
the National Division at Boston. The ap-
plication will be refused...... Judge William |
TAYLOR, of Texas, died at New York on the
Dist inst.
Washington.
THE Hodge defalcation has prompted Wig
orous measures of reform in the pay depart
ment of the army. Paymaster Gen. Brice,
it is said, is to be placed on the retired list,
and Paymaster Eaton appointed in his
place. The former has already been on
duty a year in advance of the period at
which the law provides for the retirement
of officers. 1t is probable that he will de-
mand court of inquiry, as he places the
blame of the defaIcation on the Treasury
Department. The latter confesses its blame
in the matter by preparing new system of
checks aud balances on disbursing officers.
courtmartial, with Gen. Meade at its
head, has been ordered to try Hodge.....All
the clerks in the departments who desire it
are to be allowed ten days leave of absence
in which to 60 home and vote at the Octo
Der election.
THE bond of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company for the transportation of
merchandise without apprasement to St.
Louis, Chicago, and Cleveland, has been APP
proved by the Treasury Department., and
the first consignment has left direct for St.
Louis.....The Secretary of the Interior has
directed that the order of Aug. II, 1871, di-
recting the removal of the land Office from
Humboldt to Independence, Kan, be sus-
pended until further orders.
In accordance with the circular giving
tice that the principal and accrued interest
on certain 500 registered and coupon bonds
would be paid ON and after the LIST day of
December next, and that the interest would
cease on that date, the holders of these
bonds are rapidly sending them in for re-
| demption ......It appears at the internal rev.
| enue Office that the distillers throughout the
| country are opening up their fall business in
| earnest. While there are not as many dis
| tillerles in operation as in former years,
those that have commenced operations show
| IN their management healthier condition
of affairs, as many capitalists have invested
money IN distilling operati"ns......The Com
| missioner of Internal Revenue decides that
a dealer in leaf tobacco purchasing for ex-
| port trade, whether on his own account or
| as commission merchant, is not required
to return sales made in foreign country.
/ 1.-Two hundred recruits have been ordered
to Omaha to reinforce the I'd cavalry. ..... In
telligence from Washington states that the
| new German Minister has informed the
| President Of one of the Schutzenvereine
| there that the Emperor William has sent
the + present of six stands of chassepot
rifles, which have already left Berlin.
| Foreign.
The foot and mouth disease is rapidly
spreading among the cattle in Norfolk. .....I
| is stated in Paris letter that Theirs is be-
| ginning to show the consequences of over
| unrZ hat ho &c fail ~,
strength He has a very bad eye, and, be-
| sides, is subject to fits of prostration, which
| generally come after the fits of angry dis
cussion in the Chamber .....A dispatch from
| Shanghai announces that the French dirlo-
matte representative in China has received
telegram from his Government, directing
him to make common cause with the Amer
leans in the war with Corea..... The Russian
press geaerally is now vigorous in its attack
upon Prussia and Germany.
The London Times has dispatch from
Versailles announcing that Theirs goes to
Fontanebleau during the recess of the AS
sembly. He will afterward visit the sites of
the proposed military camps. George
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treas
ury under Earl Derby, died on Tuesday, in
Dublin. THE postal money order system
between the United States and England will
go into operation on the I'D of October......
The English hop crop has been gathered,
and the yield is about one-third of an aver
age crop......The German army will be
placed upon peace footing immed lately,
and reduced to an effective strength at 400,
600 men,. The violence of the cholera in
creases IN Konigsberg. The ratio of deaths
has advanced from so per cent to 20 and
even 80. The deaths for the week ending on
the 18th were 800.
The disarmament of the French National
Guards, in the Departments of the Rhone
and Loire, is completed. Theirs demands
that Mexico guarantees that it will keep the
faith of treaties before he will resume dip
lomatic relations with that Republc.....
Dispatches from Constantinople announce
the appearance of Asiatic cholera at that
place and in Smyrna..".Another explosion
took place at the Wigan coal mine on We'd
nesday, by which FIVE persons lost their
lives An attempt was recently made to
assassinate the Chief Justice of India. He
was seriously wounded and lies in dan
gerous condition, at his residence in Cal
cutta.
RoCHEFoRT has been sentenced to trans
portatien to the penal colony for life. The
cattle disease is increasing in the north of
France......The English holders of Confed-
crate cotton bonds are organizing to present
their claim to the commission of ar FILTRATION
at Washington. The Chief Justice of
India died of his wounds on the 21st. His
murderers feign insanity ..... There was quite
a severe snow storm in East Prussia on the
| 21st inst..... Odo Russell, the newly appoint
ed British Ambassador to the German En-
! pire, has arrived in Berlin, and has been
| officially presented to Emperor William.