Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

tilted his belief that Ketchum was not
poisoned by tartar emetic, and DR.. John II.
McClurg, of Westchester, Pa, testified that
the death of Ketchum was the result OF
purely natural causes.
In the Wharton murder trial at Annapo
lis, on Tuesday, Prof White testified that
the tests establishing the presence of poison
in Ketchum's stomach were insufficient
Other medical experts were examined, but
nothing of importance was adduced. Gen.
Halleck died at his residence, in Louisville,
Ky.,-on Tuesday evening, of congestion of
the brain, superinduced by disease of the
liver, with which he had been afflicted for
some time......The difficulty between Gov.
Warmoth's friends and the Carter faction IN
the Louisiana Legislature, is becoming serI-
Gus. A regiment Of Federal troops,
with cannon, were stationed near the
State House, on Tuesday, to repel
threatened attack from the Lafayette Square
mob. The State House is filled with armed
police, the militia are in the armories, and
| two hundred citizens have been mustered as
militia guard at the Governors othce......W.
R. Wheyland, a mem Der of the Lower House,
was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon,
while attempting to prevent the arrest OF
brother member. -
| A COLUMBIA IS. C.) letter states that the
defense in the Ku-Klux cases is entirely
| broken down, and those implicated are flee
| ing. The Khan is most efectually broken
| up..... Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, issued
another proclamation on Wednesday order
| ing the Carter faction to desist from further
proceedings, and commanding the members
| to return to their seats in the General AS
sembly.
Washington.
GEN. BABcocK, of the Presidents staff, ha
written letter to the Retrenchment C>m-
mttee asking that they make g most
rigid investigation into the charges
made against him of participating in the
profits of the general order business of the
New York Custom House, and he takes the
liberty to suggest that the witnesses be ex-
amined exclusively by the Democratic mem
bers of the committee.....D Ryland T.
Brown, an agricultural chemist of Indianap-
oils, Ind, has accepted the position of chem
list of the Agricultural Department rendered
him by Commissioner Watts.
THE action of the Senate in legislating adj
versely to the admission of six japanese
student as cadets to the West Point Military
Academy has induced the Japanese Minister
to visit Senators and urge them to recon
slider their votes. The japanese Government
proposes to pay all the expenses of the
cadets, and only desires to send them to
West Point because they believe it is the best
military school in the country. Most of the
Senators object to admitting foreigners to
the institution on account of its being so
bad a PRECEDENT. Mr.. Williams the newly
appoin ted Attorney General, formally as
sumed charge of the Department of Justice
WoIp dow Low ,ln-I
Semmes, of the navy, has been found guilty
of cruel punishment, abuse of official power,
oppression, and inhuman conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and a gentleman, and SEN
fenced to be suspended for three years, and
reprimanded in general orders by the secre-
tary of the Navy.
Foreign.
TIE ship Spirit, of London, which sailed
this week from Liverpool to San Francisco,
was driven on the rocks off Hollyhead, and
is total wreck. Only five of her crew es-
capped ...... Gen. Andrew Porter, formerly of
the United States army, died at Paris on
Thursday COCA St. Petersburg letter says
that the unfriendly feeling toward Germany
has quoted down in Russia. Sympathy for
France, too, has greatly died out. This is
said to be partly due to the Theirs Govern
ment, and partly to the conduct of the
French themselves. The execution of Ros-
sci created an unpleasant impression in
Russia.
VAUTRA1N has defeated Victor Hugo for
the French Assembly by large majority
...... The British Government having refused
to help the Royal Geographical Society to
organize an expedition to search for DR..
Livingstone, the Society row appeals to the
people for assistance. Great efforts are being
made to start the expedition next month
1.-The ex-Emperor Napoleon, on New
Years day, is reported to have said: I will
give Theirs six months of the Presidency of
the French Republic, and at the end of that
time Gam BETA will be in his place, and the
change will be favorable to the imperial
cause" jos. elliott, the steel-pen manu-
facturer, is dead.
LONDON journals, in articles on the assas-
sination of Fisk, cite the cases of Richard
sen and Crittenden, and attribute the fire.
quency of such cases to the peculiar civili-
zation of America. They denounce the laxi,y
of public sentiment.....It is said Napoleon
will soon publish historical work, In which
startling revelations will be made in regard
toethe French military system during the
late war.....A private letter from Messina,
| Italy, Dec. 9, says almost every city in Italy
is infected with the small pox......A Bombay
letter to the New York Herald says that an
English expedition of 10000 troops had been
sent thence to subjugate the natives on the
northwestern frontier of India.
THE captain of the ship Windsor Castle,
which ran down vessel in the English
Channel, and who was reported to have
passed. on without needing the cries of the
drowning mariners, has been acquitted of
all blame.....It is announced that the Pope
will shortly send an ultimatum to the Roman
Catholic Bishops who have not accepted the
| dogma of infallibilty.
Dr.naonAsunc w, Honry.occ