Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-12-25
GRANT Co. Wis, Dec. 2,

last week, but was accidentally overlook
ed.
GRANT Co., WIS, Dec. 2, 1862.
Mr.. EDITOR In the scarcity of more
important news, venture to write you a
few local items from this little retired
place. Peace and prosperity again reign
within the limits of our State. Rebel
lion has been put down,-if not in Dixie's
land, still among the Luxemburgers of
Ozaukee Co., and the Sioux of Minnesota.
There aoaS fierce outburst of rebellion
to resist the draft, among the Germans in
the eastern part of the state, but our young
Governor Saloman, q German Jew, ap-
piled the parental birch of military disci-
plne with such JUNCTION that some one
hundred and fifty of the rioters were
forced right into the ranks,-in fact, draft
ed without any chance of escape, and of
these some fifty have enlisted for three
years. Let US hope that the successful
crushing out of these revolts truly typify
the end of the great rebellion. Our coun-
ty has been called upon, first and last,
for II IA men to sustain the government.
That she has not been deaf to the call is
shown by the fact that her full quota is
raised and in the field, together with over
four hundred more men, which number
can be applied npon the next call ; hence
this county escapes drafting.
Winter. has come in with good sleigh
ing and bitter cold weather. reminding us
strongly of the poor boys shivering in
their tents, throughout the South, and
especially in the frozen regions of north
ern Minnesota. The " Ladies' Soldiers
Aid Society" is hard at work to relieve
their wants. There is no money in circu-
lation here, unless paper may be called
money. Green back currency and paper
change, or scrip, issued by store-keepers,
is plentiful, but gold and silver have
wholly disappeared from circulation. Spe-
Gle has been sailed down" in large sums,
by the saloon-keepers. whose business has
become about the only really prosperous
one, anu whose number is still increasing,
but what shall it profit man, though he
gain the whole world, if he sells whis-
key?
Although this place is on route but
little trayelled,-in fact quite out of the
ordinary course of emigration, yet there
have been very many emigrant teams
passing through here, in their fight from
the Indian war Their white covered
wagons; frequently, with smoking stove
pipe protruding through the top; their
weary looking cows and colts, driven by
still more weary looking women and chill
drcn; their two or three pairs of gaunt
oxen, beside which stalks the gaunt, I'M
shaved and ragged "pater-f amilias arm
ed with ten-foot OK whip; altogether,
form a group such as is seldom seen in
eastern streets, though common here.
Many thousands of the poor pioneers Of
Minnesota have thus fled from the savages,
leaving valuable lands and splendid ripe
crops behind them. One day | saw two
such emigrants stop their teams before a
doctors Office and get their wounds
dressed They were both wounded in the
head by Indian bullets, while peaceably
at work.
Since | wrote before, great events have
transpired both in the field and at the
polls. The triumph of tie opposition in
: some of the states has been source Of
modification to all the loyal, but how
could the election result otherwise, where
nine tenths of all the soldiers enlisted
we're republicans, who disfranchise them
. selves temporarily, to fight the rebels
' This state has proved her gratitude fol
the self-denial shown by her absent sons
by allowing them to vote, wherever theil
camp may be-
But the emancipation victory in Mis-
souri, was most cheering sign of tn,
= times. The possible retaining of a
: large and beautiful state as Missouri
. from within the lines of slavery an,
= that, too, by the free votes of its owl
people, is result that gives us reason t
: bona that thourh Tho 10 tho 6rot Ctot