Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-03-05
THE NEW WORLD.


THE NEW WORLD.
THE Select Committee ON Alabama Affairs
made to the House on the 23d majority re-
port setting forth that the elections in that
State had been carried by fraud and intimida-
ton; that outrages upon the negro voters
had been of frequent occurrence, and that the
charges of corruption and plundering against
the Republican officials were unfounded and
unworthy of belief. This report closes with
a recommendation in favor OF the Force bill.
The minority of the committee made report
disagreoing with the views of the majority
AFTER the close of Mrs. Moulton's testi-
mony in the Tilton- -Beecher case on the 23d
and the re-examination of Mrs.. Carey, the
prosecution announced the close of the case
on their part and the court adjourned until
the following day. In her evidence Mrs
Moulton claimed that Mr.. Beecher had fully
confessed his crime in 1871 and that Mrs. Til
ton had also made similar confession, each
claiming to be the one most to blame. On
the cross-examination Mrs. Moulton admitted
to having on one occasion, when Mr.. Beecher
spoke of his great suffering and talked of
committing suicide, with tears streaming
down his cheeks, placed her hand on his
shoulder and kissed him on the forehead, and
said if ever there was good man she be-
lieyed he was one. On another occasion, when
Mr.. Beecher was on his way to prayer-meet-
ing, she had, in the presence of hor husband,
thrown her arms around Mr.. Beechers neck
and asked Mr.. Moulton to save this good
man. On the cross-examination ON the @3d
Mrs. Carey admitted that she had been as
charged from one place for intoxicatlon.
ERNEST ORTwEIN, the murderer of the
Hamnett family near Pittsburgh last April,
was hanged in that city on the 23d.
GEN. JOSEPH R. HAwLEY has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of the
First Connecticut District
ACCORDING to New Orleans dispatch of
the oath the Conservative caucus had, after
an exciting debate, accepted the Wheeler
proposition for compromise by a majority
of one vote.
THE Ohio State Prohibition Convention met
st Columbus on the Oath and nominated the
following State ticket: For Governor, Jay
Odell, of Cleveland; Lieutenant-G Governor. d
A. Thompson of Franklin; Attorney General
S. Adams, of Cleveland; State Auditor, Bel
mont Locke, of Lawrence County; State
Treasurer, E. H. Young, of Champaign; Su
preme Judge, D. c. Montgomery, of Knox
Member Board of Public Works, j. r. Buchol
of Akron.
On the evening OF the oath at New York
city, while the congregation of st. Andrews
Church were assembled in the building, the
walls of an adjoining structure, burned a few
days before, were blown down by high winds
and fell upon and crushed through the church
roof, falling upon the east gallery principal
ly, which was crowded by people Six per
sons were killed and twenty-five seriously in
jEed.
THE Conservative Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the Alabama Legislature have
signed protest against the memorial pre-
sented in the United States Senate on the 23d
1t lis said several Republican members of tn,
Legislature deny having signed any sucl
memorial.
On the 25th, at New Orleans, Speaker Wilt
In the Conservative caucus, entered protes
against the Conservative members returning
to the hall of the House, "from which the,
were driven by hostile bayonets, until the,
cessions whatever" About thirty member
afterward signed the protest.
A LETTER of acceptance has been presented
to Representative Wheeler from the Con
servative caucus of New Orleans, agreeing t.
his proposition for compromise of tn
Louisiana difficulties. A Washington dis
patch of the 26th says it was understood tina
the whole Congressional Committee would re
main after the adjournment of Congress, an
tnen canvass the returns, which would b
forwarded to Washington for their inspection
and determine the result, which would b
carried 10 New Orleans by Mr.. Wheeler an
put INTO enect under his personal supervisio
al an extra session of the Louisiana Legisls
ture.
GORDON CLAUDE, a naval cadet, has bee