Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-08-30
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recognition Of the insurgents by..Engiand,
would create struggle which would overthrow
the ministry.
| We have the most positive assurance that the
| Emperor of France is determined TO stand a
neutral observer of the fight till it is finished
and one or the other party renounces the strus-
gle.
The wheat crop in France will be deficient
The present tea crop in China is inferior to
the last.
The cotton question is stimulating the people
of British india to do all they can to meet the
| demand.
| The U. s. Marshal of Rhode Island arrived
at New York on the Goth. having as a prisoner
VIM NJ. Fisk. charged with uttering treason
able and sedtious sentiments at Newport,
Rhode Island. The prisoner was dispatched
to Fort Lafayette. 1t thus appears that treas
enable and seditous utterances are subjecting
| the utterers to arrest and imprisonment, which
| fact should be a caution to certain men here
abouts, lest they should find themselves in un-
comfortable quarters.
The correspondent of the n. Y. Evening Post
SAYS there is not a particle of dissention in the
cabinet, and the President is decided TO not
make any change in it.
There are about IT'S men in the battalion Of
cavalry, under Col. Daniels, at Ripon. The
number is increasing.
! The smallpox is reported TO have broken out
! tbn in ehe1 in IT,
ginia, and is raging with fearful virulence.
| The formidable preparations for naval e1-
petition from Old Point are about completed.
It's destination is profound ecret.
| The Cape Cod fishermen have offered to cruise
against the privateers. Should the Govern
ment accept their services, they will have a
feet of nearly $500 smacks ranging from nine
to one hundred and ts enty tons burden. man.
ned by crews who are Injured to all the vicissi-
tudes of sea life.
| A man named Michael Burke grasped his
wife and jumped overheard from the steamer
Key City, near Gutenberg, ON the Mississippi
river, on the 31st ult Both we're drowned
They belong in Dubuque. Both had delirium
tremens.
The wheat crop in Iowa this year is just
about an average one.
There is law by which soldiers or sailors
can secure the payment Of a portion Of their
wages to their families or friends, The law,
applicable to volunteers, was passed July 10,
1861.
The report of the committee represents the
President as literally surrounded by spies and
traitors, including his gardner. door-keepers
and the man engaged in painting his house.
The agents of the Boston and New York
Banks. which have taken a government loan Of
one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, have
been sent to Washington to induce the Presi-
dent to change his cabinet. If they succeed i'll
their purpose we shall have goverume Mt under
the money power Of the country, and the sooner
the government goes to ruin the better. 1t is
not probable that President Lincoln will listen
to them moment-he should ask them IF
their mothers know they are out" give tn EN- a
piece of bread and butter and send them to
their mamas,
Two Union guns were spiked at Arlington
the other night. Why should not all of them
be spiked, so long as traitors are trusted every
where We hope they will soon spike the cab
met and President, if the latter do noe soon
spike them, and then we will have a govern
ment which will not tolerate rebels.
Five thousand men left Ironton. Mo-. on the
9th, under Gel. PrSntiss, destination unknown.
Advices from Kentucky represent that State
as on the verge of civil war. The Union men
are ready for whatever the rebels force upon
them.
Heavy firing was heard near Poolsvlle, MI,
supposed to have been between Gen. stones
advanced guard and some of Johnston's forces
and full battery. near Edwards Ferry.
News from the Kanawaha state that Col Ty-
ler's force was badly defeated by the rebels
under Lloyd at Summerville, on the 26h. No
particular given.
The rebels are advancing their lines still
nearer to Washington. taking up their position
at Bailey's Cross roads, only few miles back
of Arlington Heights. Beauregard's army has
again taken the offensive
More than 200 men of Secession sympathies
are reported by the Committee as still retain
ed in Office at Washington. Thirty two of
these men are in the employ of the War Depart
ment. fsuch is the fact, and these men are
tolerated by the government day, it would be
hard to understand why our army should not
and ought not to be beaten. Such fact is
enough to arouse the nation to anger against
the Administration, and certainly will do it ere
leng
1t las probably been settled thft the
Government will hereafter retain all prisoners
of war, pirates and those arrested on charge of
treason, until the conclusion of the contest
Then they will be dealt with as they merit
the ringleaders being made such examples of
as will deter demagogues from again trying
war upon the Government
The Twenty first New York Regiment near
Washington. made up of Buffslonians, has met
with terrible calamity. Two Ct It's members
have died of by lropbobia. and five others were
bitten by the same dog that caused the death
of their comrades
The powder mills in Durham, n. H. were
blown up day or two since and FIVE men kill
ed. The works were engaged on government
contract, and probably were set on fire by a
secessionist. 1t is time every community in
the loyal States was at work roofing out every
secessionist among them
We learn from authentic source that the