Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-10-26
NUMBER 20.
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The recent Republican triumph in
Pennsylvania has blasted the hopes of the
fusionists, and they are already arranging
separate electoral tickets.
"A destructive storm occurred on the
gulf of St. Lawrence last week, doing con-
siderable damage to the shipping.
Jacob Collamer has been reelected to
the United States Senate for SIX years from
the 4th of March next.
"A chess match is said to be on the
taps between Morphy and Paulsen, both
of whom are still in New York City.
Andrew E. Elmore has been nomin&~
ted for the Assembly by the Democrats OF
the Estate of Mukwanago."
The Taylor's Falls Reporter says that
800 bushels of cranberries were lately ship
ped below from that place.
A Hudson correspondent of the Dunn
Go, Llanbe7man says, ''set st Croix Co.
! down for $50 majority for the Republicans
this fall''
The Auburn Prison, during the fiscal
year which has Just closed, has earned
a surplus of twenty-five thousand dollars
over expenses
In Ironton Missouri, where two years
ago there was not an avoWed Republ can,
there is now Lincoln and Hamlin Club Of
over 200 members.
The steamer DonI Drem on Saturday
made the run from New York to Albany
in sac hours and .ftty minutes, including FIVE
stops. The distance is $50 miles.
The ball to the Prince at New York
was perfect success. The Prince opened
the ball with Mrs, Gov Morgan, instead
of Miss Fish, as was announced
Mr.. Henry Williams, of Wauwatosa
has been appointed by the Governor. one
of the Managers of the State Reform School,
at Waukesha, in place of Dr.. E. Nunk re-
signed.
Tine tobacco crop inspected in Rich
mond, Va, during the year ending Octo-
Der l, amounted to rs, 633 hogsheads, an
increase Of 4,S35 hogsheads over last year.
AS an evidence of the good credit Of
Milwaukee it is stated that, at no time
since 1856 has there been so many repre-
sentatives of New York mercantile houses
in tie city, soliciting trade. as at the pres
ent time.
The Mauston Star says that whole
family named Nc Mahon, residing at Sew
en- Mile Creek, were poisoned last week
They had been eating bread made from
-four one third smut. The physicians say
the smut poisoned them, and it is doubtful
whether one of the children can recover.
The Whitewater Register says that
Geo, Hemsly, of that town, had one field
of ten acres which produced 440 bushels Of
wheat, or A bushels to the acre. The
land was new, and the wheat cut by the
job and weighed.
"A raibd pro-slavery Democratic jour
nal In the South suggests as means Of bar
monizing slavery agitation in the country
that all the Irish in the free States be 1e-
duced to an equal condition Of bondage
with the negroes the other side of Mason
and Dixon's line.
Isaac ', Fowler, the postmaster of
New York, has just recovered from the yell
low fever in Cuba, and is going to Mexico
to superintend gold mine, whore #ill be
a fat chance for pickings.
-Cassius NJ Clay, who has been hard
at work stumping for ''Old Abe, y through
out the West, for the past three months,
proposes going home to Kentucky, and
performing the same righteous work among
the shareholders.
The city of Yeddo. the capital of ia
pan, is said to be, without exception, the
largest city in the world. It contains one
million five hundred and one thousand
dwellings, and the unparalleled number of
five million inhabitants.
The venerable Nathaniel Willis, who
was for many years editor o. the Boston
Recorder, has recently received letter
from an old subscriber, inclosing thirty dol
lars for the principal and interest of three
years unpaid subscription to the Recorder
due twenty-three years ago.
The recent vote in Alleghan county,
Pa, (giving 1000 Republican majority)
shows Mr. Johnson what tie W rking men
there think of his insolent speech, that
'.Northern mechanics are white slaves,
who are marched up to the ballot-box at
the bidding, and under the direction, Of
their masters.
The Cincinnati Gazet'e says that facts
have come to light which show that Mr..
Craighead is rightfully entitled to the seat
in Congress claimed by Mr.. Vallandigham.
The latter received 121 majority, while it
is ascertained that there were 800 illegal
votes cast for him, 1t is probable the mat
ter will be fully Investigated and the frauds
exposed.
-Orestes A. Brownson, one of the pro-
foundest thinkers and ablest writers of the
country, and who has always heretofore
acted with the Den ocratic party, made a
thorough going Republican speech at Eliza
beth, New Jersey on Thursday evening.
So says the New York Erenng Post
When in the Senate Of the United
States on the 18th of last May, Mr.. Davis
asked Mr.. Douglas ssif as chief executive
of the United States he would sign a bill
to protect slave property in State, Terri
tory, or District Of Columbia ?'-He refused