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o *' '' * vdi s. i. THE CHRONICLE. I9BUKD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY’ WEI6GLESWORTH & CO. B PUBLISHERS AN I) raOPBIET9*S. jeardoe’s BLOCK, DODGEVILLE, IOWA COUNTY, Wis. TERMS: Si,oo aVEA It IS ADVANCE, $12") IF PAID IN THREE MONTHS, Hf IK PAID AT THE END OF THE YEAR. ClVeihnii. —A discount of ten l>cr cent, will bo al loWHfwhero clubs of ton or twenty are formed. RATRS OF ADVERTISING, linos, compact mutter, or its equiMilont in space, make one square. i t— 4 c<s cs 33 o c c H S % g 5. = 5. S IS 9r % - % I JT_ "a T.-A a C *1 u a-TA* ~i jo ,2,r0 . 4 r. 15 JpjNUn..* ~.V r.‘ BW| Ol . Y ~iW “ 4,<0 7.< O' !• 12 341 _lß| y 29 - Bj oo 13,00 Ac. 18' 22 291 4r ‘ ■Riiainnss Curds one year, one dollar a line for the fiwt five lines, and fifty cents for each additional line. ' Yearly Ad-'-rt isers are allowed the privilege of cliang- Notices, leaded and kept inside, fifty per cent. Rdvance on usual rates. Bftssion;il ft Curbs. lTm! strong, a *ORNEV AT LAW, Notary I’nWic. Land and MBeollcetinir Agent, Sliudge.vilie, W is. 1 articular *" the settU'nv'nt of -tales inChe County Court. Ofiiee in Court House. [1 p > burs.] }/_ m2B-yl r - ”• I SLYE & WIGGINTON, T JatYERS, Dodgeville, Wisconsin. ill practice L in all the State and Federal Courts. Office in l’d<" k I 1 1' ] s. w. REESE, * TfORN’KY AT LAW. Laud and Collecting Agent, A,' D-dgeville, lowa County, Wls. lartieul.ii .it „Tve„ to collecting agencies, and payment of tase&fi lowa County. Office in the I’ost Office Rmld iug, 1 J 1 J. H CLARY, & TtCRNF.Y AT LAW, Mineral I’oint, Wis. Of /\ fee in Thomas' Stone Block. fnl-yl] J R. ROBERTS, ■VTOT VUY I’l'lUHC. Heeds, Mortgages, Ac., drawn N With accuracy, at his Hotel on Main Street, Hudg'nii! •. Wi-. ■ [usv.-,.! B ABUITDELL. GKKERAL IMCALKU in stoves. Hardware, Tin, Hii'isdraii. and t.'olilMjr ware, ,ve., lowa S.re.ei, Jr the old I’osf Office, Dodgeville, W is. fnl-yl] T BEECH, PWimN AND M'RUKON. Dodgeville Wis. CBlice opposite the old I‘ost Office. [nl-,yl] | G W~ EURE ALL. M. 33. WHITE EY SMITH. SCIIALL’S HOUSE. on- , v 2011 Randolph Street. Chicago Illinois. Bid, house is centrally located, in the business part Of the city, near the IVsl Olaee. the ( onrt House, and ai the principle Rail Road Depots. he accom n.edati.ns are goml. and cheaper than most ol the Hotel# in this vicinity. lU4I-UJ MASONIC- Tilin.AU MF.FTI N<lS of Dodgeville Lodge No. HBM., ... v. V. X A. M. on the first and third In dav Sellings of each month, at their Hall on lowa street. Transient brethren visiting Dodgevihe, are oonliliv Invited to attend. . Henry Dcnstan, See y. daRB To widow's (oars to orphans' cry, ■ Alt wants onr ready hands supply, So fur as power is given ; , Tho naked clothe, the prisoner free,— B jiuch are tho deeds sweet masonry Revealed to us from heaven. I. O OF G. T. ißfl,>jTlA LODGE. No. lot. Independent Order of A|R..od Templars, meet# every Monday evening in B F H’lu.mas' Hall, at T'o o'clock. Members of this .nvW'visiiin"- tliis Village are cordially invited to meet with J . T. I’ ll VO R, W. C. T. Jf J.OoKSisn, W. S. Hail wav time table. Mil* & Prairie du Chicn K. Way. Al|i' 1 after Sunday November 1018(12, until further notice, Trains will run as follows: (] GO IXU EAST. pass arena: Mall land Express Trains, at fh3s V M. Way .Freight A;l3 “ pass mazomame; Mail and Express Trains, at 9:85 A. M. WawFreight, A:ls “ GOI X T G WEST. pass arena ; MaWand Express Trains, at 4:42 r. m. . {flßFrcight, 10:14 a. si. PASS MAZO MANIE t Mail! and Express Trains, at 4:42 r. m. Wayij'reight, 9(33 A. M. RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE CHANGE OF TIME. ftf To take effect Monday, May 12, ISO 2. MINERAL POINT RAIL ROAD, tfOING SOUTH. Legit Mineral Point at C;4O a. m. dLgMfe Darlington at 7:40 “ Arrive at Warren at S;4O *< GOING NORTH. Lome Warren at 10:00 a. m. Leut Darlington at 11.-00 A-irlyc at Mineral Point at 12:00 m G. W. Cobb, Receiver. Taken Up, 'jHAhe subscriber, residing in the f' D JP wn Dodgeville. three miles tjo village, on land owned by him, m •Aid town, on or about the 29th day of No wdi|r 1862, two yearling calves, one black one red and white heifer. AJ|o, on the Bth day of December, one red one vetir old. **l3Mw ’ OWEN C. JONES. A Few Plain Statements Honestly Made. The Dodgeville Chronicle is in definately suspended from this date and this we have been compelled to do, not because wo disliked Dodgeville as a lo cation ; —not because we have any con troversy with any of the Dodgeville people ; —not because we disliked the business of issuing a secular paper;— for no cause in the world other than that of being unable to sustain our selves and keep out of debt, and there arc few things on this earth that we loathe more than being in debt; and running the printing office in Dodgeville has been running us in debt every day for the last three months or more; And this any one can see when we make an honest statement of facts. It will take at least the labor of two pretty smart boys to set up the type for the Chron icle, full size each week ; their labor is certainly worth six dollars, paper for live hundred copies will cost at least two dollars and fifty cents, in fact, for (he last few weeks, it has cost four dol lars at the very lowest; light and fire costs at least one dollar and twenty-five cents a week ; rent of room costs one dollar and twenty-five cents a week ; in cidental expenses costs fifty cents a week ; here, then, we have an aggregate of thirteen dollars a week leaving not one cent for any labor the editor may expend. To meet this outlay wo have not averaged more than six dollars on the Chronicle account,for the last four or five months. The list of subscribers have increased some fifty in the time but the white paper costs all that the subscription amounts to, or very near it. Had we an independent income of two thousand dollars a year, we might have managed to have stood tins a while, but we have not and must succumb. We and n't blame any one, nor arc we sure that any blame is attachable to any one. There is a printing business of some two thous and dollars a year connected with the affairs of lowa Cos. for the last two years ah the county business payable in county orders done in this office amounts to the respectable sum ot one hundred and live dollars; mind you, this is for two years; the printing has been done elsewhere. But we do not blame any one, officers have a right to have their work done where they please and as they please. We have offered to do the county work or a part oi the coun tv’work as cheap and as well as it can be done elsewhere. o have offered to take part of the work and do it as cheap and its well as at any other printing concern in the county, No! we must not have it; we don’t blame any one. Our office is furnished with hun dreds of dollars worth of new type, and for anything we have heard to the con trary, what has been done at this office has been satisfactorily done, still the Chronicle office located at the county seat must not be patronized. Well,gen tlemen, we don't blame you, nor can you blame us for moving away where we can at any rate, carry on a little printing on our own hook at less ex pense than we can do it at Dodgeville. If you cannot believe this statement, which is a true one however, look over the files of the county papers and com pare the county business done in them with the county business done in the Advocate that was, and the Chronicle that is, and see for yourselves. There are men in Dodgeville who do not relish the idea of being without a press and a paper iu the place, and per haps it is the only county seat in the world, especially in this American world, where a press has to stop and a paper fail because the county, nor the business people in the place will not support it, but so it is here, these are the facts. Perhaps the times will change in this particular in reference to Dodgeville sometime, but the present managers of this affair cannot wait and run in debt while waiting for that good time to come. Someone may come, perhaps will come, and very likely will succeed better. The Dodgeville Chronicle is suspended; it ceases to act —to live for the present; there are many dry eyes. "W hen the County Scat of lowa County is prepared ' to sustain a paper issued there, then DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1863. p’ease let us know and we may think about trying again. The Chronicle is suspended for the present. Mootings of Compromise/ Some of the newspapers of the north | are mooting the idea of making some kind of compromise arrangements with the South, so as to put a stop to the war frenzy that has been blustering so loud and doing so little, for the last two years. And really, it would seem that the soon- j cr some arrangements can be gotten at | i to have peace, the better it will be, if j the next two years fighting, provided I the fighting continues, does not do any more in the way of settling who and what shall rule, than the last two years have. If ever there has been a sham fight on this earth, this American squabble, es pecially on the part of the Union, has been a sham, a sham that has cost some thing to be sure, — cost a good deal in fact, and so much the more serious is the sham. Better stop altogether than sham it any longer, and if the heroism of Union soldiers cannot be put into any other kind of action than a series of shams, the sooner this burlesque on con ducting a war in earnest ceases, the bet ter. It is mooted or indicated that the South or session, is willing and waiting to shake hands—to be friends—to re-join the Union and be decent, and move in harmony; especially do the Northern Democracy profess to indulge such no tions. In this we rather judge that the Democracy of the North is somewhat misled. The Democracy of the South has little sympathy with or fellowship in the Democracy of the North, only so far as it can make it. a sort of whipper in, and use it as (he monkey used the cat’s paw, to pull the chesnuts out of the fire. If the Northern Democracy is willing to be the cat’s paw-to South ern aristocratic Democracy, then, indeed, the South may be willing to throw the mantle of Southern chivalry over Nor thern Democracy, and grant it a protec tion under its shadow but it will claim the right to rule, and not only rule but domineer, and the mudsill Democracy of the North must be under the thumb of the chivalrous Democracy of the South, and do its bidding. It is easy to talk of equality, but the equality that aristocratic Democracy claims is the equality of being the head and dictating to the body politic, without question. a letter sent by a young man who, a year or two since lived in the neighborhood of Laxey, dated Dnyls ford, August 21st. 1862, the follow ing extracts are taken : “Dear Sir : — I suppose you wonder that I have not written sooner, but re ally I am so much out of heart about this country, since I came to it, that I have no courage to write. I don’t won der that England has been sending transports to this place; I wish I had stayed in America, but I hope to see it again. There is a little gold here, but, as the man said, it is ‘more cry than wool.’ This is our winter here, and we have not had a dry week since May until this week. I have never seen so much mud in all my life. This is a little town in the woods ; it contains a Presbyterian, a Wesleyan, a Primitive and a Catholic church. Everything is very dear here. Butter and eggs, especially butter, 2s Gd per pound, and eggs are 3s per dozen, English money. I would not advise any one to come here. Work is scarcer here than ever I knew it in Wisconsin. I have heard people say that there was no snow here. I saw a good deal of snow, and when I was sick there was a crust of ice on the pitcher at my bed-side. Address Daylsford, Victoria, Australia. Philadelphia, Jan. 5 th.—Commander Bankhead in an official report of the loss of the Monitor, says 4 officers and 12 men are missing, lie expresses the opinion that the Monitor sprung aleak in the forward part where the hull joins to the armor, caused bvthe heavy spread as she came down in tlhe sea. She sunk in 45 fathoms of water. Another account says those lost re fused to come down from the turret, be ing afraid of being washed away. The Murder of Taylor in Kenosha County. We mentioned in Friday's paper, that we did not think it best to publish the name of the murderer of Taylor, in Ke nosha comity. Since then we have been requested to make it public. His true name is David Shearer, and he is a son I of James Shearer, who is a respectable j farmer, living two or three miles from | Bassett’s Station, on the Kenosha & Rockford Railroad, about 23 miles from Kenosha, in the town af Randall. The old gentleman is convinced and says that his son committed the murder, and he feels greatly depressed on ac count of it. The murderer kept a saloon in the lower part of East Water Street, about a ye nr ago, and took out his license un der the name of St. John. lie has also borne the name at times of David Car ter. He has been more or less in the city for the past 18 months, and has been generally regarded as a thief and a rascal on general principles. He is abaut 35 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighs about 170 pounds, is straight and square built, is very dark complexioned, with black hair with a very little gray in it, has one stiff knee, walks lame, might be taken for a mulatto, and had black whiskers when he committed the deed. Taylor was murdered on the night of the 10th nit. He and Shearer left the city together, and stopped at Kenosha, whence they went to the old man Shoar cr's house. Near the house are twin lakes, one of which is called Lake Eliz abeth, and Taylor and young Sheare started out at night with a pair of skates and an ax, to ga skating and fishing on this lake. The ax, Shearer said he would take along to cut a hole in the ice, so that he could fish through it. The skates they borrowed of the boys at Shearer’s. Late that night young Shearer returned, and reported that Taylor had gone off on the railroad to Memphis. The murderer left his father’s house the next day and wint to llacine, where he stayed all night at the boarding sa loon of Mr. Stillman. The latter's place was full, and so Stillman told Shearer that he could sleep with him, which offer he accepted. The murderer had a revolver fully load ed with him, but Stillman suspected nothing, and of course little dreamed that he was sleeping with murder er. The assassin was here in this city last Monday night, and it is thought that he will yet be taken. 11 is suggestedthat the Governor should offer quite a reward ft r the arrest of the murderer, as the friends of Taylor cannot afford it. Shearer has been in sev eral places about the State from time to time, and will be remembered by many. He once lived in Fonddu Lac. Officers are now after him. Taylor's body was thrust under the ice after the deed was done, and when the ice broke up it came to the surface. His head was terribly battered and bro ken, apparently with the butt of the axe. Shearer has been plotting the murder for a long t ime, lie Induced Taylor to raise all the money he could and then with it they started to go and purchase army horses. Military Items. Commissions haA C been issued to 2d Lieut. J. L. Con verse as Ist Lieut, and J. Truman as 2d Lieut, of Cos. G, 6th Rcgt. Archie D. Montcith, as 2d Lieut, of Cos. E, 28th Rcgt. W. Walthcr as Capt., F. Weber as Ist Lieut., and David 11. Daley and G. C. Neumeister as 2d Lieuts. in 34th Regt. (drafted militia.) Theodore S. West as Major of 34th Rcgt. (drafted militia.) Sergeant Major Peter Frenekes as 2d Lieut. Cos. I, 26th Regt. 2d Lieut. B. Domschkc as Ist Lieut, and Robert Muller as 2d Lieut. Cos. C 26th Regt. Ist Lieut. Charles Pizzala as Capt. Cos. G 26th Reg. Dr. Horace S. Persons as Assistant Surgeon Ist Cavalry, vdee Russel resign ed. Ist Lieut. Thomas A. J ackson as Capt. Cos. B 18th Reg. vice Royusor, resign ed. third Sunday in January has been designated as a day when the clergymen of the Northwest, Avithout respect to sect, shall be invited to press the claims of our sick and wounded sol diers upon their parishes from their pulpits, and take up collections for the sanitary commission. The irtscowstn says that Lieut. D. S. Curtiss, of the 20th regiment, has re signed, finding camp life too seA'ere for his health. It also states that ho will be a candidate for Sergeaut-at Arms or Post master of either the senate or the Assembly. I Fayetteville, Ark., Jan. I.—Rebel newspapers captured at Van Buren, Aark., admit the loss of the rebels in killed and wounded at the battle at Brane Grove to be 4,000. The entire telegraphic correspondence of Gan. Hindman was taken. It contains much valuable information, and will be for warded to the War Department. The 'destitution of the rebel array is most pitiable. Four thousand of Hind man’s army arc without shoes. The loss to the citizens by the re cent raid amounts to over half a million dollars. The rebels arc dispersing in every direction. It is reported that the rebels have met with a heavy loss at Arkadelphia, | fifty miles southwest of Little lloek. Gen. Schofield has assumed command of the army of the frontier. St. Louis, Jan. 3.—Gen. Blunt tele graphs from Van Buren, Ark., on the 30th ult., that the rebels retreated dur ing the night towards Arkadelphia, abandoning about sixty wounded rebels at Fort Smith, whom they left with in structions to take care of themselves. Gen. Blunt also reports that Col. Phil ips, whom be bad sent into the Indian Territory with 1,200 men, has driven the rebel forces of Cols. Coffee and Stanwaithe, across the Arkansas River at Fort Gibson, and destroyed the rebel fortifications, barracks and commissary buildings, at Fort Davis. Col. Mc- Intosh, commander of the rebel Creeks and Choektaws, has expressed a desire to lay down their arms and return to the allegiance of our Government. Headquarters 4th Army Corps Dept. Cumberland —In Front of Mur freesborough Jan. 3. To 11. W.llallcck: —On the 2Gth of December we marched from Nashville in three columns; Gen. McCook by the Nolansvillc Dike, Gen. Thomas, from his encampment on the Fran kl in Dike, by the Wilson pike, and Gen. Crittenden on the main Murfrecs borough pike. Our left and centre met with a strong resistance, such as the na ture of the country permitted ; the roll ing or hilly routes, skirted by cedar thickets and farms, intersecte by small streams with rocky and bluffy banks, forming serious obstacles. Qt'ii. McCook drove Gen. lliudv_v/o corps about a mile and a half from No lansville, and occupied the place. Gen. Crittenden reached within a mile and a halfe of Lavcrgne. Gen. Thomas reach ed Wilson’s pike, meeting with no op position. On the 27th Gen. McCook drove Gen. Hardee from Nolansvillc and pushed a reconnoitering division six miles toward Shelbyville, which found that Gen. Har dee had retreated towards Murfrees borough. Gen. Crittenden fought and drove the enemy before him, occupying the line of Stuart’s Creek, and capturing some prisoners with slight loss. Gen. Thomas occupied the vicinity of Nolansvillc, where he was partially sur prised, thrown into confusion and driv en back. Gen. Sheridan’s division had repuls ed the enemy four times and had pro tected the flank of the centre, which had not held its own hut advanced until this untoward event which compelled me to retain the left wing to support the right until it should bo rallied and assume a new position. On the first the rebels opened by an attack on us and were again repulsed. On the 2d there was skirmishing along the front, with threats of an attack, un til 3 o’clock P. M., when the enemy ad vanced. I threw a small division across Stone river to occupy the rising ground there, and while reconnoitering the ground occupied by this Division, which had no artillery, I saw a heavy force coming from the woods and advancing in line of battle, these lines deep. They drove our little division before them af ter a sharp conflict, in which they lost 70 or 80 killed and 376 wounded. They were finally repulsed by Gen. Negleys division, and the remaining troops of left wing of Gen. Morton’s Pioneer brig ade fled far over the field and beyond their entrenchments, their officers rally ing them with great difficulty. We occupied the ground with the ieit about night. The lines were completed at 4 o’clock on Monday. The third day was spent in bringing up and distributing provis ions and ammunition. It has been rain ing very heavy. Camp near Murfrcesborough, Jan. 4. —To Moj. Gen. Ualleck :—I add the following to my dispatch of last evening; I have to announce that the enemy are in full retreat. They left last night. The rain having raised the river, and the bridge across it between the left wing and centre being incomplete, I deemed it prudent to withdraw that wing during the night. This occupied my time till four o’clock, and fatigued the troops. The commencement of the retreat was known to me at 7 o'clock this morning. Our ammunition train arrived during the night. To-day was occupied in dis tributing ammunition, burying the dead and collecting arms from the field of battle. Pursuit was commenced by the centre, the two leading brigades arriv ing at the stone river this evening.— The railroad bridge was saved, but in what condition is not known. We shall occupy the town and push the pursuit to-morrow. Our medical director estimates the wounded in the hospital at 5,500 and our dead at 1,000. We have to deplore the loss of Lieut. Col. Garsehe, whose capacity and gen tlemanly deportment has already en deared him to all the officers of this com mand, and whose gallantry on the field of battle excited the admiration of all. New York. Jan. G. —The Times has the following dispatch: Nashville, Jan. 5. —From persons arriving from the battlefield, I learn that on Saturday night, during the storm, the rebels at tacked our men in their rifle pits along the whole line. There was heavy fight ing in the centre. We drove the ene my across Stone River. The 77th Pennsylvania first carried the point. On Sunday morning Stanley’s brigade entered Murlsesboro. The town is in jured by shells. Gen. Sill’s body was at the court house. The rebels buried their own dead and our officers. There has been gret loss of confederate life. V e lose about 9,500 in killed and wound ed, and about 5,000 prisoners. The enemy retreated to Tullahoraa. Our forces are terribly scattered. Out of 13G colonels engaged, we lost 19 killed. JMTThc largest room in tlie world is the “room for improvement.” JB@“Shcridan Knowles, the dramatist, died in Devonshire on the 29th ult., aged 78 years. Aaron Hazon, an old and respect ed citizen of Crawford county, committed suicide recently by hanging himself. lfes°'l'lclndoe's majority in Jackson Cos., as far as hoard from, is IKi. jwo towns to hear from. Major Bovay, of the 18th Wis consin has been appointed Provost Mar shall of Norfolk, Va. #. Louisville, Jan., 5. —Murfresboro ad vices represent the federal victory as complete. The entire rebel army is feeing toward Tullahoma in great dis order. BfirSomc one has beautifully said, “The water that flows from a spring does not congeal in winter, and those sentiments of friendship which flow from the heart cannot be frozen in adversity.” figy“‘This snow storm the boys regard as a joke, said one to Dr. S , dur ing a late snow storm. “Yes” replied the Doctor, “and is a joke that any one can see the drift of.” JSSaT’Tillostan says it is hard to per sonate and act a long part, for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. jgagT'Prentice of the Louisville Journ - al closes an article on the surprise of Col. Murphy at Holly Springs as fol lows : “That Murphy must be a small po tato.’’ The Milwaukee News says :—The soldier who was burned so badly at the fire at Camp Sigel is named Michael O’- Brien. As we have before stated, he is a member of Capt. Corneilusen’s company. His head, neck, shoulders and feet were fearfully burned. He will probably resover. JHsg-’Col. John A. Davis, of the 46th 111., from Freepoot, lately sojourned at the Water Cure, in this City, and under treatment for wounds received at Shiloh rejoined his regiment when only partially restored to health, and was killed at the battle of Corinth. —Kenosha Times. Minchell, State Geologist of Michigan, reports that the whole cen tral area of that state, embracing 187 townships, or 6,700 square miles, is un underlaid by coal seams, ranging in thieness from three to five feet. Mines have been opened in several places, three at Jackson and one at Corruuna, which last year yielded over 26,000 tons. The coal resembles that in the 4Hinois bed* in quality. NO. 18.