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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-12-26
COayEEsjRE ER GEaRK.
THE KENOsHA TELEGRAPH OFFICE,

DECEMBER ZBth, IobI.
GRAIN MARKET.-Wheat is 5a6c lowe, owing to the
apprehended with England, and cannot quote
spring at above 5Sa60c.
Barley brings 35a40c for good samples.
Oats quiet at 2Oc.
PRoVISIoNS.-Butter brings 7a9c according to quail
y. There good market for sound potatoes at 25c.
DRESSED HOGS.-Dressed hogs are dull and lower.
We quote 1918
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Abomt EoYn.

We should Judge that they have terrible set
of boys up at Portage City from the way the
Register" Of that place talks. We thought
Kenosha was some on noisy and unrujy boys,
but we must say thai we begin to think that
our young scape. graces are comparatively very
orderly and we'll behaved jus. hear how The
Portage Register talks;
We agree with The Home League in saving
that there may be innocence in childhood bnt
ii there is not large and well selected stock of
deviltry in boyhood, then there are 10 snakes
in Dixie. This city is cursed with the noIsiest
diTtiest, sanciest raggedest, LATEST, vugarest
meanest, profahest, rudest most uncivil impoite
set OF scoundrels that ever II bbed hen roost
or an orchard. To any silly fool who denies
the dUclrine OF total depravity, We offer them as
an argument against him, ut once irrefragable
and convincing which no rhetoric can weaken
or logic overturn, They are toleraby decent
during the day, but when night comes, they
congregate by squads, and by companies,
anu wherever they can create the most annoy
ance and disturbance, there they 90 That
the little scamps have parents somewhere is
presumlble from knowledge Of physical laws :.
but the parental relation is only such as exists
between animals and their offspring. That Wau-
pun will have large addition to its inhabitants
qetore tho next census IS taken, no sane men
doubts.
If anybody has control over the young rep
robates that make night hideous in our streets,
by bowling like pack Of rayenous cayotes,
Tor God's sake and in the name of decency ex-
ercIse i. Induce them to stay at home in
some manner Try coaNlnS-w with CAD f.; set them
to work with fine tooth comb and n hammer
twill keep them busy
There are great many parents in this CITY
who little dream OF The mischief their bows are
up 30, and wouldtbe surprised ana astonished to
hear that their darling ones-fom eight TO a
dozen years OF age-are in the habit of smo-
king cigars and drinking beer with as good A
relish as Barny Britt ever had Such Is the
fact, and We think it high time that something
be done to reclaim the youth OF our city
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How things Look ina Nils gOmri.

A correspondent of the Beloit journal be
longing to the 18th Wisconsin stationed at Sui
pher springs, Mo gives the following graphic
account Of the people and the country in that
sect ion
the climate and soil are evidently adapted
to fruit growing and the production of those
vegetables and cereals successfully cultivated
in mild climates; we find growing wild in abun-
dance, persimmons, butternuts, walnuts, pea
cans and hickory nuts of all sizes known. When
Slavery shall have been driven from the State
and when still WESTWARD Empire takes its
way" Missouri will be second to no state in the
Union; but with its present institutions, pres
ent enterprl Sc and present way of doing things
it must be a marvel to all Yankee generations
Men, women and chrildren have holes in the
heel of their stockings, and go sip-shop gener-
ally. 1t matters but little how wealthy they
are only one slick of wood is provided at one
time, cattle go without hay all winter, living
simply upon corn because their owners are too
shiitless 10 cut it, Windows that are minus
glass are full of hats, cloths. rags, &c. The
poorest conducted mess in our Regiment is not
a ci Icumstance to the culinary department of
Missouri household In this extensive city
there is family of the upper ten" long res i
dents here, have not door latch in the house,
using bricks 10 keep theie doors together. Tn.
der the head of Schools and Education, the ex-
clamation of the old made in Uncle Toms Cab
in, ''Shiftless o how shiftless," is quite appro-
pirate.
| L do not vouch for the truth of the statement
but it Is said that there is a teacher few miles
out from camp that can neither read nor write.
Not more than one III five can read or wrto in
this vicinity, and it if said by those living here
that 10 miles back from the river no one sees
paper. This accounts for the ignorance of
the people OF this State III regard to the object of
this war
The wood school house Of this district is
log building about 2 feet square, with two win
dows of lights of glass 6x9, with door hung
upon wooden hinges, and wooden beetle for
door latch. The chimney Is built of stone up
on the outside of the building. Inside is fire
place, and two rough stools capable of holding
s or children, no ceiling, and several rat holes
through the roof The Legroes are few in num-
beI and mostly old and OF little value, "Old
Phil' is a character, he is a comic and makes
much fun for the soldiers he is pedler of ap-
pies, pies, krout &c. Says he has wife up to
Boonville and IA children and if ''de white folks
will only give me 500 dollars | will make fle old
woman a present of old Phil hissef."
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Bailey Il Co. having purchased the choice

Bailey IL Co. having purchased the choice and
well selected stock of Groceries of Perkins Co., have
removed to the store formerly occupied by +. Bailey
where'they will be found ready to receive the old pat
rous of Perkins Co., and having added to their already
large stock such articles the times demand they think
they will be able to compete with any one in this line
business They have in addition secured the agency
7. +. spads celebrated Monumental Oysters which
Everybody" knows cannot be beat
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TOWEKVILLE, Ufaw1ofd Co, WIS, Feb. q, 1861.
DR.. G. w. Roback, Proprietor of the Scandinavia.
Remedies, Cincinnati Ohio-Dear Sir: Please send me
sixty dozen of your Pills Immediately, as am nearly
OUT and shall ose sale if they are not promptly shipped
Although this is very small place, suppose vorg
know, am enabled to send you large order be-
cause moot OF the physicians in This part of the country
recommend them and prescribe them in their practice
People wont have any pills but yours and they really
are the BEST for use them myself when need anything
OF the kind.
Last lot of Purifier received safe and selling we'll Wiz
settle with your agent whenever called upon Ship care
of o. P. Martin, Prairie du Chen
Respectfully yours, NEAL MINES
See advertisement in another column Aw0s
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SPECIAL .S'DTEGES.
sabbath school Association

The annual meeting Of the Sabbath School Association
will be held at the Congregational Church on Saturday
evening o'clock Addresses by Mr. Burnei Of Be-
lott, and others The public invited to attend.
The quarterly meeting will be held at the Baptist
Church OF Sunday at3P.M N.
1T. VAN ARsDALE, Pres.
KenosEa, December &c, 1861.
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HORSES FOR THE lsT WISCONSIN CAVALRY.
From the following item which ave clip from
The Chicago Journal of Saturday last, it would
seem that the contract for furnishing horses for
the LIST Wisconsin Cavalry, has been let 10
one Z. G. Sherman, at the rate of $94,75 per
head, This is much lower than the Depart
mcnt has been IN the habit of pay for Cavalry
horses We hope the horses will not be receiv-
ed without they are good seIvicabe animals:
Capt. Porter, Assistant Quartermaster, yes
terday opened the bids for furnishing thous-
and horses for Daniels Cavalry regiment at
KenOsha There were large number of bids,
ranging as high as $40. Most of them were
offered to take the contract at sos The bid of
u. G. Sherman, for $9475, were found to be
the lowest, and the contract was let according
ly.
If horses can BE- furnished for $S475 why in
the world does the Government allow its agents
here and elsewhere to pay as high as $l05 to
$1I0.
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Actual expenditures for objects for
which the estimate of $3.50, 742 40 was
S377,784 81
SIO5,99O Is

SlUO55U 10
The estimates submitted for the esuing year
are calculated more closely and with less liberal
allowance From no source can there be rea-
sonably an increase of revenue beyond what is
estimated, except possibly from the tax on
banks; and considering the recent history and
immediate prospects OF the banking interest of
the State, there remains no reasonable hope that
the foregoing calculation of the bank tax will be
exceeded-which is the tax upon about So, BOO
coo of banking capital.
1t is difficult also, to see on what items the
foregoing estimate for expenditures can be re-
duced to any considerable amount. Indeed, it
is believed that IN all the ordinary expenses of
! the State Government, and in the management
of the pvblic institutions Of the State, that de-
gree eff economy has been introduced which rem
ders any wide retrenchment, within the present
scale of expenditure, impracticable.
Section 6, of chapter Is, of the acts passed at
the late extra Session, San act to provide for
borrowing money to repel invasion" etc. doubt
less authorizes the levy of further tax sufi-
cient to pay the interest for the ensuing year
on the whole issue of bonds for war purposes.
But it will be noticed that the rs mill tax di
rected by the acts of 1857 and 1858, originally
designed TO raise only a sum sufficient to paw
the interest on bonds to the amount Of SlOO.-
00O authorized by said act, now yields land has
for several Yeas past yielded) sum sufficient
to pay the annual interest on all the bonds now
outstanding against the State. Deeming that
this 2-5 mill tax has long enough served as
covert source of revenue to the General Fund
determined to make no provision beyond the
income of that tax for the purpose Of paying in
teresi.
The Legislature must therefore of necessity
accept and take measures to provide for GER
tain deficiency of not less than $22 ,573 81; to-
which should be added for unavailable resour-
The estimate for appropriations to the Charita.
bic institutions OF the State taken from the an
nual reports by the Trustees of the respective In
situations for the current year and the sums nam
go are IN amount and for the objects asked for in
such reports. The estimate for the current expen-
ses OF the State Prison rests upon the Judgment of
the present commissioner.
TIhe deficiency IF L. II, Jansen, former State
treasurer, Is omitted from the estimate of the
available resources of the State, the same as last
year. and for the same obvious reason then given
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Escape of Col. Corcornn.

New York, Dec. 24.-The Times publishes
an interesting statement made by Lieut. Hurd,
of the I'd Main regiment, who was wounded
and taken prisoner at Bull Run, and has recent
ly been released. He, together with Col. Cor
coran and some 300 others, was confined in the
Charleston Jail at the time of the great conha
grafton there, aud they only escaped from the
jail, witch was burnt, by leaping froma window
no effort being made to seize them by the Charles
tonians. Col. Corcoran, Lieutenant Hurd be-
lieves, escaped during the confusion, as be ex-
pressed his determination to try to reach Beau
fort or the North, and has not since been heard
from. According to Lieut.. Hurd's representa-
ton the national prisoners now in the South are
treated in the most brutal aud unjus tiff alb lie
manner
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.VHaU sFdUerfeSeasaeelaS.
OCT &faseznz.

q WILL pay $3.50 per ton for clear dry Dat Straw.
for bedding for cavalry horses for 80 so tons to-
be delivered at Kenosha 9' -
WALLACE FEYGATT.
Ke2osha, Dec. "a, 1861 1vo0
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T Events move rapidly

g Events move rapidly Fifteen months
ago we were testifying our resort for English in
stitutions by making the journey Of her future
sovereign through our land triumph tour. To-
day England threatens TO reiprocatO the COM
pliment by demanding the return OF a brace of
slaVeholding traitors, caught in the act betray-
ing the liberties of this country at the cannon's
mouth.-AIbany Erening Journal
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bristol Insurance

IENHB Annual Meeting of the Bristol Mutual Insuryca
Company for the election of officers wi be 0ejd NJ
the Red School House, NJ. Kingman's in Bristol
on Ihe nrst Tuesday being the seventh day Of January
1852, at one O'Clock in the afternoon ''
Bristol, Dec %, 1861 9wgg S'' y
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GEN. SCHoEPF.-This brave soldier, now com.
manding division OF the Felaral army in
Kentucky, was At oue time =. porter IN New
York hotel, He followed the same vocation in
Washington when, attracting Dir. Hollis atten.
ton, the latter gave him place in the Patent
Office, where for a time he performed bat little
more than menial services When Mr.. Holt
was transferred to the War Department he took
SchOepf with him. An important survey in Vir-
ginia CHANGED to be needed, and Schoepf was
intrusted with it. This brought him under the
eye Of Gen. Scott, and his militrry education
and requirements were for the first time brought
40 light Thenceforward his rise was sure. OF
course Schoepf had secured good military
education, and seen service in the old country,
ne being like so many of our brave defenders.
an adopted citizen.
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Perkins u Co. having disposed Of their entire stock
to BAILEY Co., settling up all and
demands--and those indebted to said firm of Perkins
Co.. are requested to call at the Captains off and set
tle Office in Bailey & Co.'s store.
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OFFICE KEN0SHA, ROCKFORD & ROCK
ISLAND RAILROAD CO.,

IAtHVsIa, ItCtulbef list, lSG1,
The Animal Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany will be held at this office on Wednesday The oo5
day of January next, at o'clock p NJ
The eighteen Directors for the ensuing year will he
elected and such other business may come before he
meeting transacted. nv
3w29 8 q T0uCsoN ,.o.,
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The Regents OF the University of Michigan
have voted to erect law building, aud invite
the proposals of contractors, the building to be
completed by the LIST of September. 1862 No
amount is fixed, but payments are to be made
annually for five years.
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gaB Among the property destroyed at the
Charleston fire, was large quantity Of rebel
machinery, for steamboats, aud ordinance, and
100000 pounds of Sea Island cotton, not in
sared.
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S 2 e G a l. n O TIC r.
TO CONSUNIPVENRs

The Advertiser having been health in very
few weeks by very simple remedy, having suffered
several years with lung ac that dread
disease Consumpton-is anxious to make known to his
low sufferers the means of cure,
70 all who desire it. he will send copy The PRESCRIPTION
used ree of CHARGE with the directions preparing and
using the same which they will find Crkn for Con
sUMPTfoN ASTHMA, BRoNcHITIs, &C. The only object OF
the advertiser in sending the Prescription is to benefit
afflicted and spread information which he conceiyes ia he
lnVaua and he hopes sufferer will
as it will cost them nothing and may prove atlessng
Parties wishing the prescription will address
Rev. EDWARD a. WILSON
3m2l Kino's Courtv N9t eg' ~ -,
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Notice.

The Teacher Institute of Pleasant Prairie will hold
its next regular meeting Wednesday evening. jam
airy sth, 1862. The exercises of the evening will he
lecture by A. N. Co9een and recitation by the pupls
of e. W. sherwood'5 school A general attendance Is
invited.
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Our Army Correspondence

Our Army COTrespon dence-We publish
on our first page another Interesting letter from
our correspondent, &" W" in the first regiment -
Our readers will find his description of Kentucky
scenery and southern manners interesting.
We also publish letter from another member
of the first, giving description OF the battle Of
Munfordsville, or Green River that will be read
with avidity, There has teen report about the
city, that the First Wisconsin was engag in tha
battle and lost several men in killed and wounded
This letter will correct that report The loss which
was II killed and II wounded were all Of Col
Walichs 32nd Indiana,
Subsequent accounts by telegraph, state that on
the 2lst inst, all was quiet on Green River, and
the rebels have vanished since the affair above
reterredot. On the 18th an Chic regiment scouting
over the river reported an attack imminent
Several other regiments were sent across to sun.
port them. The noble Send Indiana was not sent:
but it formed of its motion marched ND to the
graves of its dead, sauted them and held itself in
readiness if. by any mistake or foolhardiness on
the part of the rebels they should make an attack
which they did not, the alarm proving false
one, greatly to the disappointment of our troops
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ARREARAGE DUE FROM COUNTIES.

Through the excellent management of the
State Treasurer, the balance of arrearages due
from counties has been largely reduced during
the past year, and it now stands at lower fig
ure than for many years past. A statement of
the condition of the account with each county
of the State is appended to this report, marked
"a" The net balance due the State from all
the counties is shown to be $3.50, $3.50 %. In
the present condition of the finances of the
State it is important that this amount should be
paid. The attention of the legislature is re-
specially invited to the necessity of making all
the revenues provided by law to defray the ex-
penses of government available to the Treas.
urY,
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-
Gen, Tom Thunb.-The veritable origina,
General 7 ON Thumb, the wonder of the world
it will be seen by the advertisement in this week
paper, will give two of his grand entertainments
in this city on Tuesday, January 9TH at Simmons
New hall. The General has been in this city be-
fore, but we presume there are but few of our cit.
liens who would not be glad to see him again
The Generals adventures and escapes lately
| are making him quite a famous character We
published few weeks ago an account of an acct
dent he had in Canada in the upsetting ofhs con-
veyance. Then we gave an account of his sue
cessful deer hunting in Michigan. But there is
still another adventure This occurred on the cars
OF the Greut Western Railroad in Canada 1t
seems that the little man wandered off from his par
ty, and finding a seat occupied only by shaws
and other fancy articles belonging to lady pas
senger, he snugly esconsed himself there and
went to sleep. On arriving at the town where the
Gen. was to debark he did not awake but was car
red on, while his party lett the cars. The papers
thus give the account of the close of the adven-
ture:
1t appears that His Littleness, while asleep,
quietly rolled into one of the ladys baskets, and
being Immediately lost to view remained entirely
unobserved until the lady arrived at her destina.
ton, when the jolting occasioned by her move.
ments in carrying the basket and its precious
charge awoke INN to sense of his peculiar posi-
ton, and he Immediately gave vent to supdr1 ex
CARNATIONS and cries to be let out This SO
frightened the lady, that she dropped the basket
in alarm and fed in terror. But Being only a few
steps from her residence she soon returned with
others and to their great surprise ana delight und
the famous little man safe and unhurt He was
quite glad to be released and when he found .upop
inquiry that he was only a few miles from his
company ordered conveyance, and within an hour
was again safe and sound among his wondering
and verjoyed suite. The General is now firm in
the determination not to sleep in by-places OH the
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ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 1862.

Interesting Extracts from the fOrIhcOm-
ing Annual Report of HI ON. L. ~. HRr-
yev, Secretary of State
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TEN HE original,
G e l. f. b r A II E d
AND WORLD RENOWNED
Gen. Tom Thumb.

The smallest alive. At SIMMONS NEW
HALL, in Kenosha Positively for one dav only =
TUESDAY January It'll. Two brilliant entertainments
Afternoon at and evening at 2 o'clock Doors
open half an hour previous The Little General will an
pear in all his new and wonderful representations sonp
dances. Grecian statues, &c. &C., assisted by Mr. "
IoMIIN the great English Baritone and Bu5 from The
Nobility's Concerts, London Mr.. W. DEVbRR the enai
Pianist The Generals magnificent presents received
from the crowned heads of Europe will be raced in
view 1t each performance. He viii also ride in bis
beautiful carriage drawn by Lilliputan Ponies and nj
tended by elfn coachmen and footmen from The Dell
House to the Hall previous to each entertainment.
Admission.
Day Entertainment. Poets Eve. entertainments 15cts
Children under TO-. IS /" Children under 10 10 !"
Schools admitted liberal Reserved seats o.
terms.
ALFRED CAFEEY.
zW29 Business Agent.
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BeIOit COIIege.-We have received the An
nual Catalogue of the officers and students of Be-
lott College for the Academcal year 1862. Its
very neatly printed pamphlet from The Btlost
Journal office. The College is evidently in very
prosperous condition, if we may judge by the mum
Der of the students The following is the Summa-
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600 OQn m
% ,%Tu w
REVENUES,

The estimated means to defray the liabilities
to accrue against the Treasury for the ensuing
follows:
Ralance on hand October LIST 1851 on
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The expenses to be betrayed from the Genera
Fund the ensuing year, and the resources ap
plicable TO defray such expenditures, are esti
mated in detail as follows:
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$549,IS2 80
liabilities, as ADORE estimated

In the estimate submitted in the last annual
report, the revenues and expenses for the year
just closed were stated, in the aggregate,as fol-
laws (see pages ll2-ll4 of report of 1860
Resources including arrearages due
from counties, and loan to Univer'y. 1869 33l Oh
Expenditures. -..-....-.-........... 560,741 40
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y
Expenditures observation-disclosures 56U,I4| 40
Estimated surplus. sos 188 81
This estimate has been more than sustained,
as will more plainly appear by the summary of
transactions in the General Fund given on pages
"a of this ,eport.
The actual receipts from the sources of
revenue estimated, are there stated
Observation-Disclosures $444 794 90
Balance OF arrearages due from
ties October !, 1861, schedule "A'0 1880 rs
Due from University on loan-.--.-.. 5000 90
$4S3674 Sc
Actual expenditures for objects for
which the estimate of $3.50, ZAP 40 was
made Observation-Disclosures. 335 ,0s9 o9
Paid on appropriations by the Legisla-
ture not estimated
For Kansas Relief .--....------.---$ 1000 90
Capitoliextension.- Observation-Disclosures. 10 595 II
Hospital for Insane, enlargement and
fence. Observation-Disclosures 81 600 90
$377 ,784 81
Actual surplus. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lO5, 800 Is
Which is-Cash on hand October Isl
1851 ----.-...--... 81, log 81
Arrearages due from counties. -.-. 81. $50 %
Due on loan to University -----..--- 5000 90