Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-31
THE NEW WORLD.

Washington dispatches of the 21st say the
Treasury Department had received notice that
SO, 900 ounces of silver had been received at
the Mint in Philadelphia, from Chicago, with
a request that it be coined and returned in
half and quarter dollars and dimes. This
would furnish silver change to the amount of
$62, 500. In Washington, silver was being
paid out to considerable extent, and DR.. Lin
derman, Director of the Bureau of the Mint,
says that silver would be in general circula-
ton as currency by the 10th of November.
All the mints in the country had been ordered
to work to their full capacity in >strik-
ing off the coins. The President
had approved the report of the Commissioners
sent to examine the sixty-ive miles of North
ern Pacific Road between Portland and Puget
Sound, and directed patents to issue for the
lands to which the road is entitled under the
law. 2TE.
A st. Louis. dispatch of the 21st says the
Attorney General had commenced proceedings
in the Circuit. Court against the st. Louis
Mutual Life Insurance Company in behalf OF
Mr.. Cottrell, policy holder. The petition
charges that the charter of the company has
been forfeited for several years by reason of
sundry acts of malfeasance and usurpation.
The Court ordered a writ of quo lcasra,ato to
issue, returnaple on the first day of the De-
cember term, and notice to that effect to be
served on the company Immediately.
A New Jersey dispatch of the 21st says a
train on the Midland 81 Oswego Railway had
been wrecked on the night preceding at Stock
holm, N. j., by the engine plunging into the
creek at that place. The engineer, fireman and
one of the brakemen had been drowned
A Springfield dispatch of the 21st says the
Chicago, Alton & st. Louis Railroad Com
pany had dismissed the suit brought against
Myers and Creary some months since for re-
fusing to pay more than three cents per mile
for passage over the road.
A Montgomery. Ala, dispatch of the 21st
says there had been three deaths from yellow
fever in that city on that day. The Manager
of the Southern & Atlantic Telegraph Office
had died. en. ssr-. }
The Commission of United States Engineers
appointed by the War Department, some time
ago, to examine and ascertain whether the
bridge now in process of construction across
the Mississippi River at st. Louis will, when
finished, obstruct navigation, have made a
very elaborate report. They find that the
bridge, as at present designed, will prove a
very serious obstruction to navigation, and, as
it is impracticable to change the plans Of the
bridge or to raise it, except at an enormous
cost, they recommend a canal, or open cut, be-
hind the eastern abutment of the bridge, 12O
+ feet wide, extending from a point 500 feet
above the bridge to 800 feet below it, with a
draw of the same width They also recon-
mend that arch trusses, like those of this
bridge be in future prohibited in plans for
bridges over navigable streams.
Washington dispatch of the 22d says the
commanding officer of the Southern Pacific
feet had written to the Navy Department ask
ing for three ships of war to be sent to Panama
for the purpose of keeping the Isthmus road
open and safe. There were troubles in that
region, q, revolution being in full blossom.
The object-glass for the Naval Observatory,
the largest and most perfect glass in the
world, had been shipped 10 Washington, by