Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-06-14
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the 18th of July.
The State tax Of Tennessee for the
year 1860 was seven cents on one hundred
| dollars; this year it is fifteen cents on the
same amount-over double
"A young woman, Rachael Morris.
threw herself over Niagara Falls a few DAYS
ago, and persisted, on account of an unfor-
tunate love & fair
John 7, IIalstead, who witnessed the
inauguration of George Washington as our
first President, was present at poIl-rais-
ing in St. Paul. Min ;. last week.
Colonel Goodwin. Missourian. and
the nearest surviving relative of General
Jackson is raising regiment to fight against
Secession.
-Ex-Secretary of State Black, who has
returned from Whcatland says that express
ident Buchanan is slowly recovering from
his severe sickness
The Major General Of Tennessee calls
upon the people of the State to contribute
one thousand double-harrelled shot guns to
the Confederate service"
The amount received for tolls on all
the Canals of New York State from the
opening Of navigation to the 1st insr., is
STA, 600 ahead of 1860, to the same
date.
The Mobile journals announce that
their harbor is beginning ''to feel the first
blast Of the condign vengeance of Lincoln. "
the steamer Powhattan having inaugurated
blockade
"A special dispatch to the New York
Post says: 1t is said that the Union
feeling IN Virginia is growing remarkably
A vote now would show decided majority
IN favor of the action of the Government.
Tho Government has decided that it
Will not receive any more contributions
from States, and hereafter will obtain all
the funds necessary for the support of the
Government through the regular channels
Massachusetts has 10000 troops in
service, partly under the General Govern
ment, and partly under the State. Three
more regiments are to be Immediately
mustered in, She also keeps a steamer in
the service of the General Government
Broadway, New York presented quite
comforting sight on Monday, FIVE horse
loads of geld coming up the street from
the wharf at which the steamsip Etna
was secured. e329.446. or over S1,627,-
600 weight in specie, 10,250 lbs or five
tons.
On Sunday, June End, John Jacobs,
Jr., aged 9 years, says the Columbus
Joarnat. tell from the Beaver Dam bridge.
into the Crawfsh and w.s drowned. He
was son of John Jacobs. cabinet maker
of this place. His body was in the water
twenty minutes before taken out. Efforts
were made to resusctate him, but thev
proved unayailing.
The London G'oJe SAYS: 1T is the
temper of the South to consider itselfund
suhjugated when it is not uuduly ascen-
dant it broke out frc n the Union because
1t could not have all its eva way in it.
1t is stated that Col. T. w. Lander.
who vas Potter second in his B vie knife
duel, wherein Pryor backed down, has
offered his services to Gen Mcclellan, AID
has been accepted Col Lander is a small
regiment in himself
Emerson Etheridgc, who is now in
Washington, states that he was obliged to
escape on horseback. 81 violent was the
secession feeling III that part Of Tennessee
where lie resides.
-Lieutenant-Colonel Farnham, who BIZ
the death Of Col Ellsworth is commander
Ct the FIremen Zouaves, was in the Next
can war, is an efficient officer, and it is
beIleTed will prove worthy to eli the place
of his predecessor.
The news that Col Fremont has been
appointed Major General, to take command
OF the Western division, will inspire the
people with fresh courage. He will owe
a leader whom our brave troops will be
proud to follow.
The Springfield (Nass.) Republican
says: A private letter from Madrid re-
ceived in this city, states positively that
MIR Preston, our Minister there, has been
using all his influence at the Spanish
Curt, in behalf of secession and the inter
csts of the Southern Confedcracy.
-Ex Secretary Floyd, it is rumored,
has excepted the colonelcy of Regiment
RJ7cmen. They are to be employed in
rltiing the pockets Of their dead saldicry
Floyd is said to be drilling his men in his
approved tactics, lately used by him in
rt1lmg the Treasury of the U. S. A.
We shall soon have an important ad-
dition to our 5lockading force. The three
steamers of the Mediterranean squadron
are on the way home, and are about due
at New York. They are the Ss9aehonnu,
paddlewheel. Is guns tile Richn,oni,
screw, IA guns and the Iroqaois, screw
guns.
-Ephram K. Smart. who ran last year
on the Democrat ticket for Governor of
Maine, declines again to be candidate,
on the ground that he favOrs for the pres
ent suspension of all party conflicts. He
wishes to disregard political organizatins
and stand solely upon the issue Of the
Union of all the States,
The Southerners are getting up
testimonial for the family OF Jackson, Col
Ellsworth's murderer, who was killed at
Alexandria. Eleven hundred dollars have
been subscribed at Mobile The brother
of jackson is announced to be near Alex
andria with his wife, picking off from two
to five Northern soldiers every dav. Gov.