Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-01

Bluffs, Iowa, were caught in the prevailing
snow-storm, and all perished.
A New ORLEANS dispatch of the 21st says
the whole Amite Valley was under water
The river generally has a bank of twelve to
forty five feet, but the water had reached four
feet deep over the banks, and had washed
away houses, implements, etc. The inhab-
itants had fed to the high lands, where they
were in destitute condition.
PRESIDENT GRANT sent message to the
Senate on the 22d vetoing the Currency bill.
This message will be found in another column.
THE California State Convention of Changers
was in secret session in San Francisco on the
22d Three hundred delegates were present.
G. w. Colby was President
! A MEMPHIS dispatch of the 21st SAYS
the Mississippi was still rising and the
water was over the bank tops opposite,
nearly flooding the little town of Hope
field, the eastern terminus Of the Little Rock
Railroad, and running through the track of
that road there. Farther out the track was
three feet under water, which was pouring
over the banks from above, and had sub
merged nearly the entire country to Crawley's
Ridge, forty miles west of there, that being the
actual width of the river at that point.
ON the 22d Baxter telegraphed to the Presi-
dent that he could not move his forces to
assert his claim to the office of Governor of
Arkansas without coming in collision with
the United States, which he would not do,
and that he proposed to call together the
Legislature, have them settle the question,
and abide by that decision. He asked that the
Legislature might have the assurance of pro-
lection from the Government. The President
replied, heartily approving of the peaceable
| adjustment of pending difficulties, by means
of the Legislature, the courts, or other
wise," and promised to give all the assist
ance and protection proper, under the Con-
stitution and laws of the United States, to
such modes of adjustment He advised the
disbanding of the military on both sides. In
the evening Baxter issued a proclamation con-
vening an extraordinary session of the Legis-
lature, to meet at Little Rock on Monday
the 18th of May next. The proclamation has
the following ending "In testimony where
of, have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my private seal, the seal of the State not be-
ing at present accessible" A later dispatch
says the war is over. The Baxter troops were
being furnished with transportation and sent
home as rapidly as possible.
A RIOT recently occurred at Falbrook, in the
Honesdale (Pa.) district. About 5000 of the
miners had formed union independent of the
regular national union. A number of Swedes
applied for work and were requested to join
the new society, but they refused, and, after
several weeks of disputing, general fight oc-
Cured on the 21st. The riot lasted some time,
the Swedes defending themselves as best they
could without weapons. When the authorities
reached the scene the assailants were driven
off and the leaders arrested. About twenty
five Swedes were seriously injured some of
them fatally, and a number of the rioters
were fearfully bruised.
THE Supreme Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias have elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Supreme Chancellor, S. s.
Dawes, of New Hampshire; Supreme Vice
Chancellor, B. D. Woodruff, of Georgia; Su-
preme Recording and Corresponding Secretary,
J. Dow Hall, of Ohio; Supreme Banker, J. B.
Stample, of Maryland; S. G. c., Hugh Latham,
of Virginia; S. 1. S. c., III. Hodgeson, of West
Virginia; s. 1. s., w. I'll. Massew, of Tennes-
see.
THE Ohio State Convention of the Women's
Temperance League met at Cincinnati on the
22d. Five hundred delegates were present,
representing 1876 towns and cities. Mrs. Man
ley, of Akron, was chosen President Several
Vice Presidents were appointed from as many
counties. A memorial to the Constitutional
Convention was adopted, asking that the new
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Legislature to enact laws for compensation
for injuries resulting from the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors, and giving municipal officers
special legislative powers against the liquor
traffic.
THE Louisiana State authorities had for
some time, up to the Gath, been in the daily
receipt of letters from persons in the over
flooded sections, asking for provisions, etc.
The following extract from one of these let
ters is given as a fair specimen of their con-
tents: "Please send me some supplies, as
have large family of nine children to keep
up and feed. The water is three feet deep in
my yard and all over my place. 1t is utterly
impossible for me to get anything for my
family without calling on you for assistance.
Please, for PHYS sake, do not fail to send me
some supplies by return steamer" Contrbu-
tions were being raised at the East and West
for the sufferers by the flood in the South.
SECRETARY OF STATE JOHNSON, of Arkansas,
made formal demand upon Brooks, on the
23d for the possession of his office While
acknowledging and recognizing him as Secre-
tary of State, Brooks declined to give him
possession. Subsequently johnson signed,
with Baxter, the proclamation convening the
Legislature, and then Brooks informed john
son that he would not recognize him longer
as Secretary. The Secretary of War tele-
graphed to the commander at Little Rock, on
the 23d, to retire to the arsenal with his COM
mand as soon as the danger of immediate con-
flict had passed, and leave the question to be
settled by the courts.
ACCORDING to official reports from Puerto
Principe, on the morning of the 5th an in
surgent force of 1900 infantry and from SUI
to 400 cavalry attacked the encampment
Carided de Arteaga, near Puerto Principe, with
Indifferent results. The volunteers in one of
the numerous stockades in the environs of
Puerto Principe, being short of water, twenty
eight of them offered, or were ordered, to
bring in supply from alagoon in the vicinity,
but they had hardly gone beyond rifle range
when they were attacked by Cubans, and
twenty-five out of the twenty-eght were
killed.
THE Government rested its case in the How
ard court of inquiry on the oath. Gen.
Howard expected to occupy about week in
his defense.
WASHINGTON specials of the oath indicate
that the Western Representatives were very