Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-16

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posal to fully maintain your authority"
The following dispatch is also made public,
and it is stated that the troops at jackson,
Miss, and other points had received orders to
proceed to Louisiana at once, in accordance
Herewith:
WASHINGTON, May S, 1S73.-GEN w. II. EMORY,
Commanding the Department of New Orleans, La:
If in your Judgment more troops are needed in
Louisiana make Your call clear and specific and
we Will endeayoF to supply them.
W. T. SHERMAN, General.
The news from st. Martinsville, La, Sth, is to
the effect that skirmishing had continued all
the day, but with no serious results. Wagons
and supplies were coming in to the citizens
from all quarters, and they felt confident
of capturing the town. The Mayor of the
town has been imprisoned for high treason.
consultation was held at Washington on
the Sth, between Gen. Sherman, Acting Secre-
tary of War Robeson, Attorney General Will
| liams and Senator West, of Louisiana, the sub
ject being the condition of affsirs in Louisiana.
It was decided to instruct Gen. Emory that he
should call for whatever troops were necessary
to enforce the laws and preserve the public
peace, but not otherwise to interfere, except in
assisting the proper authorities in carrying out
the processes of the courts.
AT the annual meeting of the National Tenn
perance Society, held in New York City on the
9th, VIM. E. Dodge, of the firm of Phelps,
Dodge & Co., was elected President, and j. n
| Stearns Corresponding and Recording Secre-
tary. The receipts for the past year Were
| $53, ,9S2, and expenses, $53, ,S42. Resolutions
were adopted appealing to Congress to ap-
point Commission to inquire into the liquor
traffic throughout the country and to pass a
general law prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors in the United
| States.
President Grant reached Washington on the
| 9th.
Hons John B. Hawley, of Illinois, and J. M.
Rusk, of Wisconsin, have returned their back
pay into the United States Treasury.
1t was rumored in Washington on the 9th
that news had been received of the loss of
| Capt. Halls Arctic exploring steamer Polaris.
| The following dispatch was received in New
York on the 9th from President Grant, "Your
dispatch announcing the death of Hon. Chief
Justice Chase is received. His family and the
Nation have my coincidence in mourning the
loss of distinguished and faithful public
officer"
The final funeral services over the remains
of the late Bishop McIlvaine was held in Gin
cinnati on the 9th, the body having arrived in
that city on the day before.
Marshal Packard telegraphed from New Or
| leans on the 9th to Attorney General Williams
| that, having warrants for the arrest of Deblane
| and ten other leaders Of the insurrectonary Or
ganizations, he called upon General Emory,
who furnished military force of two officers
and forty men to make arrests. This force
arrived at Brashear City by rail, but could not
proceed at once to st. Martins for want of
transportation by water. Their arrival there
would he believed, end the contest.
The body of Chief-Justice Chase arrived in
| Washington on the morning of the 18th, and
lay in state in the United States Supreme Court
room, and continuous column of people was
passing through the room from ten o'clock in
the morning until five in the afternoon.
portion of the crew of Captain Halls Arc
tic expedition have reached st. Johns, n. F.,
and report the death of the Captain and the
failure of the enterprise. They state that
Captain Hall, under whose superintendent
the expedition was organized, and who was in
command of 1T, died of apoplexy in November,
1871. A year later the main portion of the
exploring party, consisting of nineteen
persons, became separated from the Po-
laris during severe gale, when in
latitude 72 degrees 35 minutes, and after
great deprivations, sufferings and narrow
escapes of the ice of the Arctic Sea, were final
ly rescued by the steamer Tigress, and brought
to St. Johns. The fate of the Polaris and
those on board is not known, and probably
will not be for some time. When the escap-
ing party last saw her she was under steam and
canvas, making for harbor on the east side of
Northumberland Island She had no boats left
of six which she had taken with her from the
port of New York The number remaining on
board was fourteen, and they had a plentiful
supply of provisions.
The Musical Festival at Cincinnati closed on
the 10th. Over {, 1000 persons were present, and
the interest was well maintained to the last.
duel was fought near Richmond, Va, a
few evenings ago, between John B. MOrdecai
and Page Mccarthy. Both were wounded
Mordecai fatally. The seconds were arrested.
The difficulty occurred about lady.
A dispatch from Yreka on the night OF the
18th states that Donald McKay's Warm Spring
scout had found the Modocs in the lava beds,
four miles south of their old stronghold, near
the foot of Snow Mountain, where they were
strongly intrenched.
The excitement over the recent development
of the Bender murders in Cherry Vale, Kan
sas, continued on the 10th. The Roach fam
lily, of Ladone, seven miles from the slaughter,
consisting of the old man and wife, and son
and wife, and Stevenson, John Harness and
wife, and Thomas Tyke, wife and daughter,
had been arrested. A. M. King, travelling dis
trict preacher, had been arrested at Parsons,
and notorious murderer once pardoned from
the Penitentiary, named Major AMunford, and
a woman with him, were arrested at Fort
Scott.
A courier arrived at Yreka on the 18th, with
news of battle of Hasbroucks command, in
which the Modoc Indians were repulsed.
It is said the President has stated that there
will be no appointment to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of the late Chief-Jus-
tice till the assembling of Congress in De-
cember.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
that, while there was no doubt that the Prcsi-
dent would intervene to protect the State of
Louisiana from domestic violence, should the
Governor make application to him for that
purpose, and provided the facts should war
rant the proceeding, it was nevertheless the
hope of the President-as he expressed him
self to a friend-that all disturbances would
soon cease, and that no such contingency
would occur; but if it unfortunately should
he would take care to act clearly within the
limit Of the Constitution and the laws. Here
tofore he had merely sustained the decision of
the courts.
DR.. 1. l. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, is of the