Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-19

captain Greer, OF the IlgreSS, reports the
camp of the Polaris found August IA, off Lit
tleton Island, about sixty miles north of
| Northumberland Island, where the party res
cued from the Polaris supposed they had left
her. The crew had gone south two months be-
fore, in two boats made from the timbers of
the ship. A month later the Polaris
sank. The Tigress cruised about both
north and south, stopping at the set
| Elements, but obtained no news The
dispatch states that "the crew Of the Polaris
are probably on board Of a whaler from Cape
York" The Tigress left Disco August 25,
for the coast of Labrador, to continue the
search, and the Juniata came to St. Johns to
advise the Department and receive further
orders. -t Id. i. e-..s3.r q
The Massachusetts, Republican State Con-
vention assembled at Worcester on the 10th.
Over one thousand delegates were present.
The vote on preliminary questions showing
| that General Buffers friends were in minor
ity in the Convention, at the evening
session he stated he was satisfied that a major
ity of the delegates were in favor of the nomi-
nation of Governor Washburn, and that he did
not care to delay the business of the Conven-
| ton by a resort to parliamentary
tactics. He declared anew his fealty
to the party, and said that he did not want to
| do anything to cause dissension in its ranks.
| He consequently withdrew his name, and said
that he saw no cause to run independent.
Governor Washburn was then renominated
| by acclamation. The other nominations are:
For Lieutenant-Go Thomas Talbot;
Attorney General, Charles r. Train; Secretary
of State, Oliver Warner; Auditor, Charles
Endicott; Treasurer, Charles Adams, Jr.
| The resolutions condemn the action of
| those members of the last Congress s'who
availed themselves of the occasion of an in
crease of salary of the President and
of the judges of the Supreme Court and of
members of the Cabinet, supposed to be just
and necessary for the future, to secure to
themselves disproportionate and extravagant
compensation for the past as well as future
services; declare that no person holding a
public office has right to seek to influence the
action of his subordnates by exciting their
| fear of loss of place if their opinions and ac-
| tions shall differ from his own; that the adop-
ton of a policy which shall so reduce freights
ON railways that the raw material, food, and
coal of the West and South shall be exchanged
|
of New England interests the whole country,
and that Congress has jurisdiction on this
subject; and that Congress and the State Leg
islature ought to exercise all their power over
railways and all such monopoles, and, with
out injustice, reduce freights and fares to
proper rates.
A large mass meeting IN favor of cheap
transportation was held in New York City on
the evening of the 10th. The call for the
meeting was signed by a majority of the
heaviest business firms of the city. After al
luding to the rapid increase in the agricul-
tural and manufactured produce of the coun-
try, the resolutions set forth that the policy
of the Government should be to protect the
producing interest and commerce from cor
| porations and monopolies which tend to SUBJ
vert the rights of the people. Double track
railways, exclusively for freight, are pro-
nounced absolutely necessary, and reform in
the management of railways is demanded.
The frequent and arbitrary changesain freight
rates are denounced, and uniform rates are
demanded.
A few days ago, at Muskegon, Mich,
brutal wretch named James d. Canavan, hor-
ribly abused little girl nine years of age.
| He was arrested, and came near being hanged
by mob of indignant citizens, but the pub
lie authorities got him into Jail, where
he was subsequently visited by the
father of the girl, who shot Can
avan in the mouth, the wound not being
fatal one. The prisoner was afterward in
dicted, tried, convicted and sent to State
Prison for life, all within the space of three
days. t - t.
A Shreveport Q4a.) dispatch of the 10th
says: ''Yellow fever prevails as an epidemic,
and business of all kinds is suspended There
is much suffering for want of attention; nurses
and doctors are worn out. Interments yester-
day were 10 and to-day IL. At least 400 are
| down, though not all with the fever. The
sickness is fearful to contemplate
The bond for SIS, 500, OO0 the amount of the
Geneva award, is held by the Secretary of
State in that Department, and is not placed for
safe-keeping in the Treasury. The bond is
made payable to the order of the Secretary of
State. This bond is for the largest amount of
! money ever issued by any government in a
single transaction. Photographs of the bond
and the certificate of deposit were completed
at the Treasury Department on the 18th, and
copies sent to the President and each member
of the Cabinet.
The Liberal Republican State Executive
Committee of New York have issued call for
| State Convention to meet at Emira on the
| Sth of October.
| The authorities of New York City have de-
cided to bring Irving from San Francisco to
see what he knows of the Nathan murder.
The Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
| Of Illinois Soma time cinna issued q circ,IJar
in which they assumed that, for business pur-
poses, intersecting lines of road form con-
tinuous line In reply to recent query by
the Superintendent of the Rockford, Rock Is
| land & st. Louis Railroad, as to whether said
road can bill goods to point of intersection,
and confine its receipts and liability to the
same point, the Commissioners answer that
the goods must be receipted for to the destina-
ton. They can be billed to the point of inter-
section, but the bill must also state the rate
| to the destination.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
| Colonel Robb, one of the ex-Commissioners
to inquire into the depredations committed on
on persons and property of American citizens
on the Rio Grande border, had recently re-
ceived numerous letters stating that such acts
were constantly occurring, and that since the
| Commission left that section, last spring,
| large droves of cattle have been driven to the
| Mexican side from ranches between Browns
vile and Brazos de Santiago, and between
| Brownsville and Rio Grande City. These
| thieving operations were committed in day.
light, and in several instances exulting ges-
.ures were made by the Mexicans, who had
escaped with their booty, to the United States