Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-06-28

dainty sustained by the press since he was
word unless it be that h 5 moral character is
fully equal to his high intellectual position
By all means go and hear him,
A STRANGE PRoCEEDING-Tbis community
was taken by surprise Tuesday evening upon
the arrival of military company from Milwau-
kee, sent hither, we have been informed. by
Gov. Randall. At whose instance it was done. we
have been unable to learn. Certain it is that no
necessity existed for any such movement. The
rumors afoat during the day that meeting was
held at Juneau in the afternoon at which ar
rangements were made for sacking the Banks
here in the eve ng, a Ia Milwaukee were en-
titled TO no sort Of credence. There were
excited individuals here. it is true. but none
of them had any design on the Banks in Water
town, for they well knew that those institutions
could do nothing but follow in the wake of Mil
waukee and take only such money as they took
there. 1t was great piece of folly to incur
the expense, and cut such figure, as that in
volved in posting military company out here
when there was no greater reason for doing it
than in the present instance. We wonder wko
caused it to be done ?
Since the above was written we find in the
Milwaukee Macs, of Wednesday, the following
item which throws some light upon the matter.
but leaves US IN the fog as to who was the orig
inator of the canard, The Nc,es says:
. A telegram was received in this city, about
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, stating that
mob had commenced an assault upon the
Banks of the city of Watertown, and were en-
gagged in sacking the Banks. A request was
also forwarded for military companies from
this city to assist in quelling the riot.
g Two companies Immediately started, fully
armed wi muskets, for the depot of the Wa
tertown road for the purpose of proceeding to
WATERFOWL, to assist in quelling the1iot. They
left by special train about five clock, and VIII
use every exertion TO restore order"
Now the question is, who sent that lying tel
egram2 Have we person here SO base as to
be guilty of such a proceeding If SO, the
public has right to know his name
THE MONEY PANIC IN WATERTowN-This
has been badly excited town since last Satur-
day, when intelligence reached here that ten
ot the Banks in the guaranteed list had been
thrown oct in Milwaukee and were no longer
current 1t soon became noised about that the
bottom had fallen out of the arrangement
cooked up by the Bankers in April, and the
consequence was a rushing to and fro Of every
one who had dollar of Wisconsin currency In
his or her pocket, anxious to pay debts, or buy
goods, or in some other way rid themselves of
1t. On Monday the Juror was stronger than
ever Some of the merchants refused to take
1t on any terms whatever and closed their
doors, while others took it at discount of
from twenty to thirty per- cent, and others
still taking it at its face In the afternoon. the
Jefferson County Bank and The BANK OF Wis,
consin declined to receive deposits while the
3 Tx Of Waterfowl Stood up to the rack man
fully, taking all that came along from its regular
customers, though the business it was doing
must have smaeked strongly of billed owl"
Tuesday there was less commotion, the mer-
chants depositing with the two first named
Banks declining to sell any goods except for
specie, while those doing business with the
latter institution kept On selling as usual until
four o'clock when they, too, having been mott
fed that deposits would no longer be received
there =" shut down the gate " and blockade at
until Wednesday morning. when dealers offered
to take the bills of thirty-four Banks known as
the Farmers & Miller list, and business again
began to flourish as of yore. In the afternoon,
the Banks concluded on receipt Of advices
from Milwaukee, to take deposits again the
same as they had done Monday throwing out
the ten Banks mentioned in another column,
in addition to those discredited in December
So matters quieted down once more and trade
went along as smoothly though nothing had
happened and the town had not been all excite
ment but twenty four hours before, reluctant
to touch Wisconsin currency with anything but
ten foot pole. !
The Hoe LAw.-Amongst the multitudes Of
irrepressible conflicts going around US the
war between the porcine tribe and our city,
deserves passing notice. Agreeably to the
doctrine commonly entertained that hogs are
not free commoners, our city government years
since passed an ordinance prohibiting the brist-
ling gentry from running in the streets. This
law the City Marshal, who is the official repre-
sentative of the city, is sworn to enforce, and
in the discharge of his official duty he is clothed
with no discretionary powers, nor is he allowed
to know any difference between the hogs Of
friends or foes, the ordinance is his rule Of
acti-n n, and his outh of office binds him TO put
it in force. Unlike some Of his predecessors,
our present Marshal is nobly discharging his
duty, and this shows that in this respect GER