Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-01
THE NEW WORLD.


The Grand Council to treat with the
Indians in regard to the extnguishment of their
rights in the Black Hills reservation met at
point on the White River six miles below the
Red Cloud Agency on the 21st. At the opening
of the council Red Cloud refused to be present.
Senator Alison opened the conference by ex-
planning the desire of the whites to secure pos
session of the Black Hills region by giving them
fair equivalent for it..
The dispatches received on the 22d
from Texas showed that the damage done at Gal
weston by the recent gale was by no means the
only one on the coast Nine towns had been
nearly or quite obliterated, namely: Indianola,
where but three houses were left standing and
from $50 to 200 lives lost; Saluria; Sabine Pass;
Calcas leu; San Bernardlno; Buffalo Bayou;
Lyrchburg; Matagorda and Cedar Lake A great
number of lives were lost and the restitution
and suffering of the survivors were stated to be
very great. Dispatches were being sent to New Or
leans and other Southern cities imploring assist
unce. The people were responding and aid was
being forwarded by the people of Galveston and
New Orleans. On the 22d the Mayor of
Galveston telegraphed to the Mayor of St.
Louis appealing for aid and saying that the sur
vivors in the towns destroyed had lost every
thing, and that provisions, clothing and every
necessary oflife were n eded The floods were
gulf in huge volume upon the low-lying coast
The Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention met at Worcester on the 22d and
nominated the following ticket: For Governor,
Gov CASTOR; Lieutenant-GOvernor, Gen. w. F.
Bartlett; Secretary of State, Geo. II. Munroe;
State Treasurer, Weston Rowland; Attorney
General, George Il. Perry; Auditor, John e.
Fitzgerald. The resolutions favor speedy re-
turn to specie payments.
The Maryland Republican State Con-
vention met at Baltimore on the 22d and NOM
mated the following ticket: For Governor, j. M.
Harris; Attorney General, S. T. Wallis; Comp
trcller, Edward wilkins. These nominations
were made in conjunction with the Citizens
Reform party. Resolutions were adopted favor
ing specie payments and against currency ex-
pansion.
The New York Liberal State COnven-
ton met at Albany on the 22d and decided to
make no nominations. Resolutions were adopt
ed recommending Liberals TO vote for the best
men on each of the regular tickets, and also fa-
voring speedy return to specie payment.
According to a Washington dispatch of
the 22d there remained only $2S 600 600 of the new
5 per cent bonds for negotiation, and no
further call for the redemption of the old bonds
would be made until demanded by subscriptions
to the new.
Vlce-President Wilson in note to the
Boston Journal of the 22d declines the nomina-
ton for Governor of Massachusetts, if it should
be rendered.
The Minnesota Autobiography State
Convention met at Owatonna on the 22d and made
up ticket by selecting the Governor, Secretary
of State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice ftom he
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Attorney General from tae T, importance ticket
and nominating &. w. Dixie, the present incum-
bent for State Treasurer; A. j. Edgerton, for
Railroad Commits Sioner, and Sherwood Hongh
the present inc umbent for Clerk of the Supreme
Court. The convention, by resolution, favored
Treasury notes as legal tender for public and
private obligations, and the substitution of such
notes for National Bank currency, and the issue
of 3.65 convertible bonds to be exchanged for the
funded debt of the Government, such bonds to
be payable in specie or currency at the option OF
the Government.
A report prevailed in Washington on
the 2Sd that the Red Cloud Investigating Com
mission would in their report unanimously acquit
Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith Of
fraud, and would condemn Prof. Marsh for the
efforts made to secure evidence against the
Indian Bureau.
On the evening of the 23d a mass meet
ing of those favoring greenback expansion was
held in Cooper Institute, in New York city, al
which resolutions were adopted condemning the
policy of contraction; demanding the retirement
of the National Bank circulation and the substi
tuition therefor of legal tenders, and favoring the
payment of the customs dues in greenbacks.
Announcement was made on the 23d OF
the appointment of j. Russell Jones as Collector
of Customs at Chicago rice N. B. Judd, resigned
Mail advices from Galveston, Tex, re-
ceiyed on the 23d state that the loss of property
far exceeded the amount given in the telegraphiC
report Over 300 houses were swept away, an(
the destruction to railroad bridges ant
other improvements would make the ag
gregate loss nearly 81 100000. 1t wal
thought on the 23d that the total mum
Der of lives lost along the coast during the gale
would exceed 400 Several small towns in the in
terror and some distance from the coast had beel
swept away.
The Attorney General has been com
mended by members of both political parties IL
Mississippi for his recent letter to Gov Ames
Perfect peace reigned in the late disorderly por
ton of the State. Gov. Kellogg, OF louisiana, u
also reported to have approved the Attorney.eeg
erals course y Mississippi