Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-23

by a system of wing DAMS revetments and jetties,
and that by such means judiciously applied, its
channel can be permanently located and confined,
and that by this method any depth required by the
largest vessels may be constantly maintained from
the Balize to St. Louis at a cost of a few millions
of dollars; that the system of Improvements sug-
gested for the river below st. Louis is eminently
gTited for the Improvement Oft, Of the Missouri
Cumberland, and many other important streams
in this valley, on each of which it should
be applied on scale commensurate with the vol
ume of the river and the demands of its commerce
that every practicable water route to the Gulf, to
the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Great Lakes which
can be opened and made safe and convenient at a
reasonable cost, when compared to the benefits
to result from it in lessening the expense
Of transporting the products of this valley
to their various markets, should meet with
favor from the General Government, and re-
ceive the unanimous support of every representa-
tive of this valley in Congress in favor of bridge
law by Congress regulating the lengths heights,
location and construction of bridges over the
navigable streams, with a view to prevent unneces-
sary injury to the navigation of such rivers; that
the revenue laws should be so amended as to per-
NIT shipmasters to purchase ships wherever they
can be most cheapy procured; condemning the
revenue law which forbids registry to the ship of
an American citizen, simply because she was built
in foreign land, etc., etc.
The New York Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has reelected Henry Bergh
as President, and Henry Clews, Treasurer The
society is reported to be in a t1ourishing con-
dition.
The body of Captain Thomas, killed in the
recent fight with the Modocs, arrived in Wash
ington on the 18th.
The President has appointed William E.
Davis Assistant United States Treasurer at
Cincinnati.
About dozen men were buried and killed
by a rock estimated to weigh from 10000 to
$4,000 tons sliding upon them in the New
York Iron Mine, near Negaunee, Mich, on
the 18th.
A fire in the car shops of the c., B. & Q.
R. R., at Aurora, ILL.,, on the 18th, destroyed
eight buildings, with valuable machinery, four
palace cars and other property. The loss is
estimated at over $3.50, 900, fully insured.
General Van Buren, the suspended Vienna
Commissioner, says: "For ten months / have
spared no exertion or expense to make our ex-
hibition a success, and am utterly unconscious
of doing, or authorizing to be done, single
wrong or unworthy thing, and the person who
says have is a cowardly knave and liar"
The municipal election in Providence, r. L.,
has resulted in the reelection of the present
general officers of the city. Thomas A. Doyle,
for Mayor, had 2,117 votes; William G. R..
Mowry, Democrat and Prohibition, 1,OO6. The
new Board of Aldermen elected will favor the
granting of liquor licenses, reversing the policy
of the late Board.
The Congressional excursionists reached
Denison, Texas, on the 18th, from ST. Louis.
A colored boy has carried off the prize of a
cadetship at West Point, in Norfolk, Va. He
had nineteen competitors, of whom fifteen
were white.
The Secretary of State has received informa-
tion from General Sickles that th Spanish
Government has ordered the Cuban authorities
to send O'Kelly (the Herald correspondent to
Spain.
Eight ships arrived at New York on the 10th,
with 1852 emigrants, most of whom were
bound for the West. This is the largest ar
rival in any one day so far this year.
severe hail and wind-storm passed over st.
Louis on the afternoon of the 19th prostrat-
ing fences and chimneys breaking windows
and doing great injury to gardens and orchards
in the suburbs.