Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-12-27


The citizens of Aunroe have present
ed fine horse to 1t. Col. Wrisberg of the
Ninth Regiment.
--Egbert E. Carr has became associated
with Mr.. Blintiff in editing the Monroe
Sentinel.
Samuel Waterman of Wood county,
was recently sentenced to ten years in the
State Prison for rape,
The New Jersey State arsenal at
Trenton, has been fitted up for rifing the
old smooth-bore muskets.
1t is whispered that Gen. Price. of
Missouri, was superseded on account of in
subordina tion.
Over million feet of oak timber for
guncarriagcs has been shipped east from
Michigan during the past season,
The people of Brown county are agi-
tating the question of issuing $4,000 in
bonds to aid the Northwestern railway in
completing its line to Green Bay.
The Commercial Bulletin hopes "there
will be no trouble with England it would
60 against our grain to have any difficulty
occur between the two countries"
A man in Boston is exhibiting new
invention by which che makes boots in
fifteen minutes" and the Boston Post
swears that he performs the work neatly
and in the time specified.
Fred. Frantz, convicted in the Cir
cult Court of Manitowoc Co., October
1897, of manslaughter. and sentenced to
State Prison for ten years, has been par
doned,
The French transport ship, the Re-
source, bound to Callao, was wrecked forty
miles south of Valparaiso. She had over
SIX hundred souls on board, only five or
six of whom were saved.
ten. Scott previous to embarking on
the Arago had long interview with Prince
Napoleon.
There is no abatement in England of
warlike preparations.
"A brewery in the village of Franklin.
town of Herman, in Sheboygan county was
burned last week. A man named Charles
Mates who entered it after the fire broke
out, fell into the cellar and was burned to
death.
The Hudson Times of the 18th SAYS
the st. Crsix Valley Bank was opened in
that city the previous Monday by D. w.
Armstrong, of Saltwater, CASHIER This
arrangement will fill the vacancy occasion
ed by the Hudson City Bank.
At Newport, a small village fifteen
miles from Detroit, well has been sunk
to the depth of AS feet, which furnishes
brine instead of water, every sixty FIVE
gallons of which yields bushel of salt
The people of that vicinity are greatly
elated by the discovery.
A letter, received at Washington on
the 10th, from mercantile firm in Liver
pool, which had made large shipment of
arms, states that 'tall the arms had been
taken from the vesse ls.Sixty thousand that
were to be shipped have been retained -
No more will be permitted to be shipped"
The bill reported from the House
Committee of Ways and Means on the
18th fer the payment Of invalid and other
pensions of the United States, for the year
ending July 80, 1861, appropriates one
million one hundred and fifty thousand
six hundred dollars for that purpose.
Hon. Caleb Gushing has written let
ter to Mayor Wood fully sustaining the
act of Captain Wilkes in Selling the rebel
ambassadors, Slidell and Mason, on board
the British steamer Trent He discusses
the case in all its aspects, and shows that
the act was perfectly justifable according
to international law.
1t is reported at Gen. Curtis's head
quarters that the prisoners in our hands
from Pope's expedition will number twenty
four hundred. The Lindell Hotel and
MeDowell's Medical College, both immense
buildings, have been taken by the military
authorities for their accommodation.
1t is reported that bridge has been
burnt and large portion Of the track
torn up on the North Missouri Railroad,
by the rebels. No particulars.
Palmyra, No., Dec 22-Maior Mckee,
with 103 men of Col. Bishops regiment
encountered and repulsed 400 rebels. four
miles south of Hudson, and killed ten, took
seventeen prisoners and thirty horses
Five of our troops were slightly wounded
The rebels had attacked a stock train,
captured all the stock, held the railroad
men as prisoners, and were in the act of
unloading the stock when the train, stock
and men were rescued by our troops.
New York, Dec. 25.-The special Wash
ington despatch to the Post gives rumor
that the Cabinet have resolved to release
Mason and Slidell, and orders having gone
out to ship them at once to Halifax The
Post regards it as improbable.