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DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1873. An Indianapolis dispatch of the 8th says of deaths on the 11th up to 6 p. m., was fortyGeneral News Summary. that all work on the Canada Southern five. Railroad, in Northern Indiana, had been Havana advices of the 6th say that the InTHE OLD WORLD. stopped by the Sheriffs of the several counties surgents, 1,000 strong, had surprised the SpanA Madrid dispatch of the 7th says that on through which it runs, taking prosession of all ish column at Holquin. The Spanish loss was hat day a column of 2,000 Insurgents had the company's property. 125-killed, wounded and missing-among nade a desperate sortie from Cartagena, but According to the Chicago Journal of the whom was the Spanish Commander, who was were driven back with heavy losses in killed 8th, the Third National Bank of that city had badly wounded. The Spaniards were subsend wounded. A dispatch had been received opened its doors again. quently reinforced, and the Insurgents driven t the Ministry of War, from Gen. Noriones, A St. Louis dispatch of the 8th says that back to their camp. The Insurgents had also announcing a great victory over a large body finances in that city had not worked as satisattacked Santa Cruz del Sur, but had been reof Carlists in Navarre. factorily as was anticipated. The Union pulsed with a loss of 13 killed. A London dispatch of the 8th states that Bank suspended on that day and had decided Advices from the City of Mexico of the 2d, here had been an extensive riot in Cornwall to go into liquidation. via Havana 11th, say that Congress had deIn consequence of the arrest of a couple of A Washington telegram of the 8th says the creed the separation of Church and State; the niners by the police. Several hundreds had President had appointed a commission for the prohibiting or establishing of any religion; attempted to rescue their comrades, builderection of a military prison at Rock Island, marriage to be a civil contract; prohibiting ngs had been gutted, and several of the police Ill., as follows: Colonel Nelson A. Miles, of the holding of property by religious instituad been taken to the hospital badly hurt. the Fifth Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. tions, etc. A London dispatch of the morning of the H. French, of the Second Artillery; Major A New York telegram of the 11th says that 0th says that information had just been reThos. F. Barr, Judge Advocate; Rev. E. C. George A. Clarke, Cashier and Ticket-seller of eived that the Carlist General, Ollo, had Wines, of New York, Secretary of the National the Union Pacific Railroad, had fled from the outed the army of General Noriones near Prison Association, and S. R. Brockway, of city, and a deficiency of $10,000 had been found Ciraqua, and compelled it to retreat to Puerto Detroit. in his accounts. He is supposed to have used a Reyna, leaving behind a large number of Delos C. Culver, of Jersey City, according the money for speculative purposes during lead and wounded. the panic. to a New York dispatch of the 8th, had just A Paris dispatch of the 10th says the Count A Philadelphia dispatch of the 11th says been declared a bankrupt. He was Vice-Presile Chambord, in view of developments in the that business matters were in a very critical dent of the New York & Oswego Midland Railear future, had taken up his residence near condition. Several manufacturers closed road Company, and his liabilities aggregated Geneva. The Left and the Republican porentirely for want of funds, and others are at$8,000,000. ions of the Assembly, represented by Thiers tempting to reduce the wages of their emA New York dispatch of the 8th says that nd Gambetta, respectively, had agreed upon ployes. Should the reduction be insisted upon, Stokes was arraigned for the murder of Fisk declaration in regard to the proposed mona general strike will be the consequence. on the morning of that day. rchy. The police had seized upon 22,000 A Memphis dispatch of the 12th says that A Washington dispatch of the 9th says that photographs of the Prince Imperial, which the favorable change in the weather was havTreasurer Spinner had just completed his rewere about to be distributed throughout ing a good effect, and it was thought that the port of the National finances and the transacFrance. epidemic would soon be abated. tions of the National Treasury for the fiscal A London dispatch of the 10th says a person A Washington dispatch of the 13th says year ending June 30, 1873. The net receipts claiming to be Arthur Orton had arrived in the Comptroller of the Currency had issued a by warrants, exclusive of repayments and hat city. This would complicate the Tichcall upon the National banks of the country counterwarrants, were $548,669,221; and the orne mystery. to report their condition at the close of businet expenditures, exclusive of same items, An official dispatch from Gen. Noriones, Reness on Friday, the*12th of September. This $524,044,597. The net receipts were dispublican commander, to the Spanish Governdone to enable that officer to furnish comtributed as follows: Loans, $214,931,017; cusnent, of Oct. 10, had disposed of the claim of plete statistics of their condition st previous toms, $188,089,522; internal revenue, $113,he Carlists that they had achieved a victory to the beginning of the panic. The special 729,314; lands, $2,882,312; miscellaneous, $29,ver that officer. He reports that the Carlists officer from the Comptroller's department 037,055. Receipts from customs have decreased were driven back with a loss of 100 killed and had reported that the proceedings taken by since the report of last year about $28,250,000, 00 wounded. the Union National Bank of Chicago to go and those of internal revenue, $16,900,000. The A Paris telegram of the 11th says that tweninto voluntary liquidation were irregular in increase from miscellaneous sources was about y-seven members of the Municipal Council form. The department, had therefore re$4,500,000, and that from lands, $300,000. The ad published an address, in which they deturned the papers to the bank, giving the innet expenditures n account of the War Delare that the Assembly has no right to alienstitution the choice of correcting them or partment were $46,000,000, and the Navy ate the national sovereignty; affirm that the resuming. The Comptroller had received a $23,000,000, against $36,000,000 for the War najority of the people reject the claim of the dispatch from the bank that it had decided Department last year, and $21,000,000 for the Count de Chambord to the throne, and reupon resumption. Navy Department. Expenditures for diplouest the Deputies from the Department of The Supreme Court of the United States matic service have decreased about $300,000, he Seine to declare how they propose to vote met in their chamber on the 13th, and immediand those for the judiclary have increased when the question of a change of government ately adjourned to pay their annual visit to about the same amount. Expenditures on acS brought up in the Assembly. the President. Subsequently a bar meeting count of the public debt were $343,555,945, Advices from Vienna to the 11th say that was held to take action concerning the death against $529,324,414 last year, a decrease of nany American travelers, who hold letters of of Chief-Justice Chase, and resolutions eulo$185,767,469. The balance in the Treasury redit from suspended banks in the United gistic of the character of the deceased were June 30, 1873, was $131,178,137, which differs States find themselves without funds, and are adopted. from the figures of the Secretary and Register compelled to accept friendly subscriptions to A Washington telegram of the 13th says $161. The conscience fund, during the fiscal nable them to return home. Many of the the President had caused an order to be issued year, independent of the Congressional back American waiters and laborers at the Exhibifrom the War Department, giving full pardon pay, was $25,551, making the total receipts lion were also in destitute circumstances. to all deserters who may return to duty on or from December, 1863, $154,695. In addition A Madrid dispatch of the 12th says that the before the 1st of January next, and who may to this, the sum credited to this fund on acserve faithfully during the remainder of their Alphonsista Club had issued a manifesto decount of back pay, was $196,513. During the term of enlistmant. claring that the time had come to prepare for year there was received from the he accession of Don Alphonso to the throne A report of the great storm of August 24, of Colombia, $114,307. The Treasury holds issued from the Signal Office, shows that of Spain. A rumor was in circulation that a from National Banks, to secure circulation, conspiracy had been discovered to assassinate 1,032 vessels, of which 425 were small fishing $309,410,550, and to secure the Government Senor Castelar. schooners, are known to have been destroyed deposits of $15,560,000-an increase in the first during the 24th and 25th of August in the item of $10,000,000 over last year, and a deTHE NEW WORLD. neighborhood of the Gulf of St. Lawrence crease in the latter of $200,000. The business A Madrid dispatch of the 13th announces Atlantic shores of Novia Scotia, Cape Breton of the Treasury, transacted through National hat a naval battle had been fought off Carand Nowfoundland. In addition to this a Banks, was $114,000,000. agena, between the Intransigente fleet and the large nnmber-over ninety vessels-had been A special from Shreveport, La., of the 9th, National squadron. The fight lasted two destroyed by the same storm in its course besays the back-bone of the pestilence had been hours, when the Insurgent vessels were comfore reaching Nova Scotia, making a total of broken. Rev. Father Leasont, Secretary of elled to haul off and return to Cartagena in 1,122 vessels destroyed within a few days; the Bishop of Natchitoches had died, making I badly damaged condition, and with a loss of 223 lives were definitely reported to be lost, the fifth priest of the diocese who had been hirteen killed and forty-seven wounded. and the most moderate estimate of numerous stricken down by the scourge. The number Senor Mayer, member of the Junta, raskilled. cases, in which whole crews are stated to have of deaths from the fever on the 9th had been A Washington dispatch of the 7th says that been lost, had swelled the number to nearly ten. The pestilence in Memphis had shown he Civil Service Commission, in session in 500, while if to this be added the loss of life very little signs of abatement on the 9th. hat city, had recommended the appointment of on land and in the earlier history of the cyFifty-six nurses had been sent from New OrE. O. Graves, for several years Chief Clerk of clone, the grand total amounted to at least 600 leans. Several of the first citizens of that city he Treasury, as Examiner-in-Chief. It would lives. The records also show that about 900 had died during the day. e his duty to organize local boards buildings had been injured or totally destroyed A New York dispatch of the 9th says that f examination for candidates for the civil by this storm. currency had become more plenty, and that ervice. Subsequently the President had apDispatches from Oregon, of the 13th, say currency payments would soon be resumed by pointed him. that the election for Congressman had passed the various banking associations. The NaThe Board of Equalization for the State of off quietly. It was thought that Nesmith had tional Trust Company had decided to resume llinois had completed its labors on the 7th. been elected by a small majority. in full on the 13th. Gold sold as low as 1085 The estimated value of all lands in the State A San Francisco dispatch of the 13th says for greenbacks. The firm of Gibson, Cazenf Illinois, according to their opinion, was that Delche, a notorious Apache chief, had ova & Co., had failed. John T. Irving, who $1,245,760,454. left the reservation with 1,000 warriors, and acknowledged to a San Francisco detective A New York dispatch of the 7th announces gone upon the war-path. General Crook had that he could indicate the murderers of Nahe suspension of Wylie, Knevals & Co., sustarted in pursuit. than, had reached New York. gar-dealers. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 13th announced A dispatch from Reading, Pa., of the 9th, A Memphis telegram of the 7th says that, that all the banks in that city had resumed announces that Bushing & Bro., of that city n that day, more cases of yellow fever had currency payments. There had been no run, had suspended, with liabilities amounting to been developed than ever before. Over 600 and the deposits had been liberal and beyond over $2,000,000. persons were under treatment. The expectation. A Washington dispatch of the 9th to the leaths numbered forty-two. Among the According to a New York dispatch of the Associated Press says that the Treasury reatter was Rev. Father Carey, of the Dom13th, the Clearing-House Association had exserves had been drawn upon to the extent of nican priesthood. At Shreveport the intertended the period for the maturity of the loan $3,000,000 to meet the current expenses of the nents were less numerous, probably because certificates beyond November 10, if this form Government. he material with which to operate was less of relief should then be found necessary. The The only notable event in connection with bundant. The town had become almost deNational Trust Company had resumed busiNew York finances, on the 10th, had been the populated. ness. decrease in the price of gold, which was sold The New York State "Liberal" ConvenA dispatch from the Mayor of Memphis to as low as 1071/2 for greenbacks, the lowest ion met at Elmira, New York, on the the Mayor of Cincinnati on the afternoon of price since the war. th, appointed a Committee and the 13th says the yellow fever had not abated A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch of the 10th and that aid from abroad was wanted. Other adopted resolutions congratulating the peoannounces that the yellow fever had appeared le upon the growing disposition to oppose in that city. The deaths in Shreveport, La., dispatches say that it was thought that the had only reached nine on the 10th. iny perversion of civil authority; reaffirming disease had passed its worst, and that there he principles set fort at Cincinnati more than A dispatch from Northwestern Iowa of the would be no more violent outbreaks. A disyear ago; denouncing the Congressmen who 10th says that great devastation had been causpatch from Owensville, Texas, says the yellow voted for and retain the so-called back pay, ed on the preceding day by the accidental fever had broken out in that vicinity. ennlanding those who returned it to the starting of
