Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-25
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The Illinois Legislature is engaged in
to their banking law.
White eak is the newest substitute
for whalebone in umbrella ribs, and is said
to be superior.
The Senate judiciary Committee Of
the New York Legislature have thus early
agreed not to make the divorce laws easier.
Several slaves have been arrested at
Manchester, Near Richmond, Va, on the
charge Of characterization and conspiring
to form an insurrection.
The rumors of privateers, under the
Palmetto flag on the ocean, will bring com
mercial men strongly in the support of the
Union and the laws.
Gov. Perry, of Florida, reached home
last week from the north. where he pur
chased 1000 Hayward rifles and 5000 of
Minnie muskets, for the use of the state.
The southern members of congress
are sending home their wives, which is re-
garded as an evidence that conflict is ex-
pected at Washington.
hellaple information from Georgia,
states the seizure Of the forts in that state
was not demanded by popular pressure,
but was premeditated scheme Of the lea
ders to excite the popu1ace,
The bill to abolish slavery in Nebras-
ka passed the Legislature of that Territory
on the 10th ult., by a vote of 50 to 2.
"A little boy in Vermont who swallow
ed cent last summer, is dying slowly by
copper poison. His legs have become use
less.
There died in Providence last year 1O2
persons Of the age Of 70 years and up
ward. One was 10l years Of age and an
other 100.
General Lsmoriciere has accepted an
invitation to visit Kilkennoy, Ireland.
Preparations are making to give him a
brilliant reception
-Unsocial old Snarl says that love is a
combination Of diseases-an affection of
the heart, and an inflammation of the
brain
The Monterey Bulletin announces the
discovery Of immensely rich silver mines in
the mountainous districts of New Leon,
Northern Mexico.
"A little German girl, two years old
was burned to death in North Goshen, her
clothes having taken fire from the stove.
The number Of emigrants which ar
rived at New York during the year 1860
was 1913, 62l, which il about q, 600 more
than in 1859
Stephen Castles Of Lowell, has been
pardoned out of the State Prison, where
he was sent about three years ago for five
years for forgery.
oil has been discovered in large guam
titles in the immediate vicinity of the town
of Cuba, Allegheny county, n Y, and
great excitement exists in consequence.
Hon. VIM. AIKEN, of South Carolina,
has been compelled to contribute $4,000
to the Revolutionary Government under
penalty of having his whole property con-
iscatcd
The Ohio Legislature has again this
winter indicated an inclination either to
sell or lease the State Canals. These
worksrun the State in debt $1,000 a
year.
The New York marine insurance COM
panles insert the war clause" in their
pollces on vessels bound South, and have
advanced rates to gulf ports one hundred
per cent.
BY the concurrent vote of the Maine
Legislature, Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill, has been
elected United States Senator to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Hon Hannibal Hamlin.
According to the census, the popuIa-
ton of New York, is S14, 254, crowded in
to 81, 33S dwellings. This is an average Of
about three families and fifteen persons to
each dwelling.
John Williams, an EngIishman, died
Of starvation in New York, on the 7th inst
His wife and three children were found
nearly exhausted. The children, three in
number, had the small pox.
Some satirist of the fair sex saws :;
Many beautiful young women, while walk
ing in the streets, seem very angry if thew
are gaz.d at and sadly disappointed if they
are not.
One of the "aggressions" of the free
states upon Louisiana is the payment of
$50, 100000 during ten years in the shape
Of duties upon sugar, which goes directly
into the pockets Of her planters.
The New York TrtJ,ole's Georgia cor,
respondent says that a northern man is
recognized at the south by his clean clothes
and that the fact is enough to condemn
him in the eyes Of all southerners.
"A flaming meteor, superior in splendor
to the planet Venus, was observed in New
Haven, in the northern sky. about quar-
ter past o'clock ?. NJ, on Friday. Jan
uary 4tb, 1861, while the day was still
quite strong.
The President of one of the Boston
city banks received through the Post Office
a package containing three hundred dollars
with this memorandum This $500
with INTEREST," taken from teller's cash
three years ago"
The house No. 81 Bond street, New
York, so well known in connection with
the murder of DR.. Burdell, was sold on
Monday last. There was lively CONNIE
tition, but the property was finally sold for
$4,000.
Judge Seymour of the Connecticut