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lizard on the Newspapers.

There has not been for yeors If ever 50 ng tba
time for newspapers in this country, i1 inc
present The unprecedented rise which Ii enters
paper h Snq fdssa on Of renders
the Continuation omany ddG eaes suRpty
Tea teii oond;tion of affairs, there are but two
n IN os' which, if adopted will save all half sus
n ssps am the an B' sd3sn ass'6
are 10 S,ne of our contemporaries are restor-
root to one norm of the dilema, and some to the
other fewn order to make k9sdans aGo o
y! SUI However. have decided to take in SAIL
pnti there shall be an abatement Of the storm
uS raging Consequently most Of our Stehsa
re- come to us reduced in size, or IN half>shees
ges oo'ii These are some amoLg the fortunes OF
l war which are always exceedingly unpaista5-
Di S 10 the people ss6 shsuc
be borne with christian patience and [eslgrsUa
There il a good time coming, IN the lutore,
h ng,o !" nTesent INDICATIONS, we admit, seem to
Mace it long way of.
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GOv,Andrew's Message.

BOSTON. jan. 9
Gov. Andrew message was delivered to-day
and is very lengthy.
The aggregate number of troops raised by the
State, IS $4,000. The banking institutions are
reported to be in a sound condition. In conclu.
sion, the Governor alludes 10 the patriotism of
the Massachusetts soldiers and citizens, and
says they are Unionists in no double sense
We have held from the beginning that the gov
eminent is greater than any class of men and
interests, and has an original right to devoted
and hearty service of every subject and power
We deny the rightfulness ofthe rebellion, and
we are in arms against it, and we ha We equally
denied that rebel states could rightfully be al
lowed to impose their reasonable will upon any
human being whose interest or desire would
make him loyal. While our wives surrender
their husbands and our fathers their sons TO all
| the perils of dreadful war, we have never dis
covered reason why the rebels should retain
their slaves and compel them to be rebels too
Supporting always the government without
conditions as to its policy, we rejoice with un>
utterable JOY that its policy is that of human
| nature, and not that of human sophistry
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Major General Commal
H, w. HALLECK,
Commander in Chic f.
(Signed.)

Information from the Army of the Potomac
shows that our pickets extend from Falmouth to
King George Court House about % miles distant.
Contrabands agree in stating that rebel ineur>
sions are nightly made below the Court House for
u long distance, and negroes are carried away and
sent south The greater portion, however, OF the
slaves in the long neck of land, between the Rap
pahannock and the Potomac rivers, have made
their escape to our lines, bringing with them their
masters teams and other property.
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J. P USHER, of Indiana, has been appointed
by the President Secretary of the Interior, III
the place of Caleb B. Smith We think there
will be a general feeling of regret that some
person better known, had not been called g
the Cabinet
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SENATOR SHERMAN introduced bill, on the
9Th, into the Senate providing that after the
first day of July next tax Of TWO per cent sha'l
be imposed on the currency issue OF all banks
On all fractional currency more VuiBafiy
known as 'shipplasters,' tax of ten per cent
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A lady having accidentally broken her smell
ling bottle, her husband, who was very petu.-
liant, said to her L declare, my dear, every
thing that belongs TO you is more or less bro
KEN True, replied the lady, for even you
are little cracked
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WIsCoNsIN BANKs.-The monthly statement of
Bank Comptroller Ramsey oil Jan. LIST shows an
increase IN the bank circulation of the Stale du-
ring the month of December of $54 ,3O7. The to>
tai circulation now outstanding is;
Ofsolvept ,429, AIS
az winding m S,7lS
The securities held by the bank Comptroller
tor this circulation on the st of January were es
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a ahimnIns rr sAGarY.

A Shinplaser story has been localized here,
and applied TO a popular dry goods dealer. The
story may have been in print, perhaps, bnt
repetition will do no harm. AS the story goes
farmer purchased a few cents worth OF goods
from this trader, and gave him bill 10 make
change from The latter returned him eighty
five cents in his engraved promises to pay gen
erally known as checks but vuigarly known as
shnplasters.
whats them :? inquired tho countryman.
oh, said the merchant those are sort Of
currency we dry goods dealers have, and went
away TO attend to another customer.
The countryman went off, not exactly satisti-
ed. but soon after returned, and bought nearly
dollars worth Of goods. After receiving the
neatly tied up package and being tolc the price,
he deposited a number Of pumpkin seeds on the
counter
what are those?' inquired the astonished
merchant
Oh, replied the countryman, cody, 'thems a
sort of currency we farmers have and thereupon
left the store.
The story has it that the dry goods dealer, who
appreciates good jokes, was so amused be did
not call his Improbable customer back.-BoS'
ton Post
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LIFE IN WAsHINGTO&.-Mr CoiiaN, mem
her of Congress from Indiana, writes from
Washington to this paper, the south Bend
7Washington is becoming more and more
nor,bernized. Instead Of the hstleness and
ataGnotion which seemed to characterize it Il
fayg years ago, it is now all hustle and activi-
~ The new blood in its veins appears to have
Given it a new life and a new era Of prosperity
Seems to have opened before it. Not only in
branches of business affected favorably by the
army is this apparent, bat in all thai marks the
advancing step Of growing city. Rents have
gone up one hundred per ceut in the past year,
and vacant houses are not to be found. Ii
boarding house keepers do not retire rich in a
short time, it will be because they do not know
what to do with their money | know mem~
Der from Indiana who is paying $ll2 per
month for quite unambitious quarters, and he
is daily congratulated by fellow mem bers at tn c
reasonable rate at which he lives. You can inn
agine what is paid at Wizards where the profits
of the prapretors reach un to thousands daily,
and you would scarcely credit it if told you
that they have, for their best room, declined
accepting members entire monthly pay for The
board of himself and family.
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The recent census of Chicago shows the pop
ulation of that city to be 1877 ,O3O, or gam oi
81 1853 IN two years.
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DIR MCKINLEY,
RACINE HOUSE.

The House recently occupied by A. Campbell, on the
Northeast corner Of the Park. 0tiice-on the same
block on Main Street. V2ln4SIy
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L q. MERRILL,

communicable is Agentfor UGraou8 Companies 81
nndonbted credit and is prepared to issue Poclesoh
Life and P, perty, favorable terms. See adVer'
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FOR THE TELEGRAPH.
ID NJ A u

Dead! The sad old year is dead. Toll slowly bells!
mourDful requiem sound!
The dark and sad old year full Of funeral knells,
~ cps now, low il The ground.
Dead Earth has many ives, there's hardly room
For his but he is dead
And claims place sleep in, claims silent tomb,
One quiet, dr. eamless bed,
Dead yes, dead. The saddestyear Of Of all the years
That Time has ever known
The year Of strife and grief of agony and tears
Has bre2thed his last faint moan.
Dead His heart was broken with the waning signs
That fell upon his
His eyes dimmed by seeing all the agones
That clustered round him here
Dead! The dying means, the living walls, that rung
All through his mournful life,
The cries ofbreaking hearts the songs that
The bitter woe and strife,
Dead! No They live still and watch around his tomb
A sad and lonely band;
But Sec thro all the shadowy darkness and the gloom
Gods tender-loving hand.
Dead! From near his death bed comes piercing cry,
wrung out of bitter pain,
o. sad old year. give back our loved ones ere you die
OSbring them back again
Dead eur dearest hopes born with you old year!
You them face an die;
Wilt give hopes back that life dear!
He's dead-and reply.
Dead Sleep well, sleep well, sad, dark bloody year
And you, fond hopes, sleep well
Sleep WE'LL sleep well lost daring ones loved and dear!
Rest on Farewell, FAREWELL
dark There comes, with the old years dy ing groan,
The birth-cry of the new year, low wailing moan.
It is born amid weeping, noy joy Goth it bring.
The waves rising higher, the winds louder sing,
The years born in darkness, and it follows on,
IN in the bloody pathway, where the old years gone.
None glad but the children who rise from their sleep
And wish "Happy New Year. while silent, weep
Then cry out with trembling, low on Bonded knee,
Their year is in heaven. What is left for me?
Thursday Morning, Jan 18t, 1868.
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The less the writer knows Of q subject the
more ink he uses in telling it.
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Mrs. Speckles says the best vegetable pill
yet invented IS an apple dumping for destroy
ing gnawing at the stomach, pill which may
always be relied on.
country schoolmaster thus describes a
money lender; he lends you in the conditions
al mode; keeps you in the subjnnctiVe, and
rales you in the future
An Irishman, just from the sod was eating
some old cheese, when he discovered to his dis
may that it was inhabited. 'Byjabbers ! said
ne, does your chase in this county have chile
der?"
An Irishman who hBd just landed, said 'the
first bit OF cheese he ever ate in this country
was roasted potatoes-bolIed yesterday And
il ye don't believe me / can show it to We, for 1
have 1t i'll my poenet.'
An old fellow being visited recently by his
pastor, he assured him that he could not be
good Christian unless he took up his daily
cross whereat he caught up his wife and lugs
gedheT about the room.
| A captain of rife company out West, was
guilty Of an unheard of barbarity on one very
cold day recently. He actually marched his
men to the canal. and then coolly ordered them
TO fall in
| A line, line, my kingdom for line
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A n. CROrsE EMU IL s. n.
RACINE WISCONSIN
Sious sta bling 1yn3Sv21
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"Why don't you wash the bottom of
your feet johnny" asked a grandmoth
er Of a boy who was performing the
operation before retiring for the night
to which he very grayely replied:
"Why, granny ye dosn't think rs go>
ing to stand up in bed, does ye?''
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-15
THOMAS PRICTURE,

IMPORTER and DeoGer in Wines, Liquors. FoT'eT'
Ale, Etc. Market Street.
All IMPORTED Liquors for sale in bond, at New f0rk
and Boston Prices with freight fare. Double hectned
Whiskey, in any quantity, at Chicago ana mli"auAee
prices 1yV2ln3T
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LYMAN 81 ROME,

Boots, Shoes Leather FTrdinga,&c. Eoery oaraety
every article pertaining to their business may be had
of them at the estprices custom WorA 70 oI9eI'
Leather for sale Hides bought, &C. Corner ofMNr'
ketsquare and Main street See advertisements.
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$3.50 PER ANNUHI IN ADVANCE.
KENOsHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 1868
Official Dispatch of Maj Gen. Wright.

Official Dispatch of Maj Gen. Wright.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.
Gen. Ha!leck has dispatched the following to
Gen. Rosecrans:
Headquarters of the Army,
Washington, Jan. ..
To Maj. Gen. R0secr0nS, Commander OF the Ar
ma OEtbe CUnberlRHd:
Observation-Disclosures accounts fully confirm your
telaoro,h from the battlefield. The victory was
we'll earned and is one of the most brilliant ofthe
war.
You and your brave army have won the gratl-
tude of your country and the admiration OF the
world The field of Murfreesboro is made hlstorl'
cal and future generations will point out where
so many heroes fell gloriously in defence OF the
Constitution and the Union. All honor to the al
nv of the Cumberland and thanks to the living
and tears for the lamented dead
(Signed,) H. W. HALLhoh'
Commander Chief.
CINcINNATTI, Jan. 9.
To MAJ Gen. II. ". Halleck, General m C@'et'
Washington:
| have Just received dispatch from General
Granger, that the cavalry force of about looo men
which he sent to East Tennessee on the 2lst ult.,
under command of Gen, H. Carter, to destroy the
East Tennessee railroad bridges &c, has been
heard from Granger has just received dispatch
from Garter, at Manchester, KY, who Is on his
return stating that on the Both he entirely destroy
ed the Union and Wautuga bridges, with ten miles
of railroad
$50 rebels were killed, wounded aud TAKE en- prls
oners. 700 stand of arms and large amount OF
-four salt and other rebel stores. and also loco
motive aud two cars were destroyed.
A brisk SIX irmish took place at the Wautuga
bridge. and another at Jonesville. We lost but
ten men.
This expedition as characterized by Gen. Gran
GER has been one of the most hazardous OF The war;
and was attended with great hardshps and prlva
ton, owing to the almost impractlcable nature OIL
the country the length of the route OF nearly @oO
miles each way and the Indictment season. The
important routes of this Expedition can hardly be
overrated seyerng, as it has, the main rebel ar
nv communication between Virginia and the
Southwest.
Gen. Carter, officers and men deserve the thanks
of the country Great credit is also due 10 Maj
Gen Granger, under whose immediate supervision
the expedition was fitted out
IL. G. WRIGHT,
Major General Commanding.
To MAJ Gen. Wright Cincinnati:
The daring operations and brilliant achieve"
rnents of Gen. Garter and his command are with
out parallel in the history of the war and deserve
the Trunks of the country. This expedition has
proved the capacity of our cavalry for bold and
dashing movements which l do not doubt VIII be
initiated by others
(Signed H. W. HALLECA'
COMMANDMENT Chief.
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While standing at a window around
which small group were gathered,
an ice cart passed by, when friend
remarked to our venerable Uncle Bill,
that the ice Company reaped very
small harvest last winter Turning
to the speaker, Uncle Bill dryly asked,
do they reap their harvest with an
jcic5eGce sickle?)
"Don't stand there loafng," said a
professor at Franklin and Marshall
college TO three students, standing
where they shouldn't. "We're not
Ioafng," said one Of them, ''there are
only three of us, "and it takesleaven to
make loaf"
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M. DIRE ssER,

Barbsr Shop, and Clothes Cleaning EStG6Iis1nlent-
on Market Street, one door west OF the Guy novel
Give MIN a call. IL
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Attorney and Councillor at LdaO, Keaosha, Wisconsin,
procures
Soldiers Bounties, Arrears of Pay, &c.
l5tf
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J. W. Il no WI

Eugraper on Wood and e0ery kind Of NetGG StCtt0n
~, Fancy Articles &c. Main street
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Arab Dancing.

One night, says Mrs Patrick, in her
"African Journal, some time after our
arrival at Khartoum, and when the
moon was full, it was whispered that
our people wished to dance before us.
Consent was willingly granted, and
seats werepIaced for US. About twenty
of the servants, among whom were
Achmed, Ringa, Selim, Wangyo, and
Halima, stood in Seml-circle. They
began with singing a doIeful melody,
clapping their hands to the measure.
One of the woman's children,a pretty
girl of some seven years, stepped for
ward; she moved her feet slowly to the
time, and advanced. She danced with
her head, back, and arms, curving her
body until her head almost touched
her heels; and when close to me, she
jerked her head forwards so violently,
that her necklace slipped over and fell
into my lap, A drum was then beat~
en-this was done by the hand-a
boy ten years old, DJour, took his
turn to exhibit. The music was more
lively,& he ran rapidly about, occasion
ally bending his head, land leaping as if
he was going through circus hoop
His performance over Achmed came
forward to dance the Kordormance
dance. His movements | can hardly
describe, so excentric were they; his
elbows, keeping time with his feet,
touched at every step his ribs, whilst
his knees met beautifully, and saluted
D+h ho ocAa i
those who were clapping their hands
crowded round, and did SO almost I'M
der Achmed's feet, after the fashion of
the popular Spanish dancers. He all
so .ierked his head when close upon us
so that the tassel of his fez fell over
his face.
The Mean Means danced most
gracefully, humming low melody;
their movements were very calm.-
Ringa was in advance of the females.
W angyo and Halina; they linked their
arms together, and followed him
sometimes they separated, and three
would still singing, go through the
figure of eight. Selim, the Shillook
bounds forward. He had taken off
his blouse wore only drawers, and a
feather Il am sure it was plucked from
a turkeys taiD was placed upright in
his stiff curling hair. His leaps were
truly astounding, he required no music
but danced in his own wild way
S d enl y cry of defiance
came from him, and he looked as if he
saw foe: and then he did in panto-
mine what he really, if weapons had
been in his hand, would have done.
He threw imaginary spears, evaded
others: he crawled along the yard like
a serpent; and sometimes he was mos
.tionIess as a stone; and had one not
been closely watching one might have
been deceived. He feigned death;
and then as those who thought him so
perhaps approached, would leap upon
them. Ringa watched these manGu-
vers with great interest, and when
they were ended, proposed to show
what the Mean Means did when they
attacked an enemy He also discar-
ded his robe; and arming himself with
a wicked looking curved Ratchet, and
putting his arm through the sling of 8
large oblong shield he sang himself
into a fury, and then a grand imagi-
nary combat took place. 1t was hor>
rible, for when he had his toe on the
ground, he ripped him open as it were
with the Ratchet.
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Aenosba Business 1irrttorp.
ADAM DICKHOUT,

gsnytno Lir CUTTING and Sl,Gmpooing Saloon, OPpo-
site the City Hotel Main street. Old RazorssharpehSu
cd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-04
Correction OF tho Chronology.
TO rnE EDITOR or THE HERALD.

CANT SUFpULK, va, Hcc. ", 1867
Noticing IN your" Record OF Events, published In the
HERALD OF the 2Th that you give the credit OF the skr
sb,n a, hath Va on the Sd and 4th OF January last
q, lba suh Connecticut regiment, feel called upon to
matc correction. Al the time specified the Fifth Con-
nsc,cut was Frederick CITY ND and dd not arrive at
fInnc,ck until Jan. o. The Thirty ninth Illinois volun-
lars Col osborne commanding, and Lieut. Muhienburgs
ari,on OF Bests battery, were the only troops sngaesd
Three companies Of the Thirty ninth flinois-nsney
company ~ Captain Linton; Company ], Captain Phillips
and Company X, Captain Woosrur-and the artillery were
nj Bath aud by most desperate skirmIshins were
enabled 10 hold the whole ~ Jacksons force IN check for
forty eight hours They then forced across the river
a, SIR Johns run. Company 9, Captain Rudd, stationed
Cacapou Bridge held the rebels calamity uni obliged
der the regiment stationed at Alpine fought Desperate
" but we're obliged to retire the river / make
this correction beciuse has become common for
some regiments 70 gain lsures rather by tho perudy OF
a correspondents than bv their rsantry in the Aeld
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k the FrenchmAn spoke IN the most disrespectfu
manner Of the deceased during the ceremouies in tho
church. ana snat one Oh 'he new 1ranAdan omces 70
quesed him 10 be silent When they out OF the
church the Freuchman continued hs abuse Of Arboleda
~, 49,. -,,ar ~, co.,. 49,, -, ~, !,
am MN ,hronSh The hoay .s ha rs h ~ ra u
ran nii nv oouy WIN nis sworn throe OF iouI
at ,ha. sha ran,s ~ 90 81 ' h ~ va A 10
PIN ,,o ~ ~. hpS VI Ias.o nau oecome 20 oissusteo
~rnnoi,,on. FOR nss ~ Nv Mos uow oo 1ns " aAo
p " 0 "oeQu0'a so'o'n"ou''
PERU.
The government be In earnest about reducing
the army. More than 1000 men have been disbanded
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Larceny or False Pretences.
REcoRDER's CHAMBERS.
norc-a p..~-t.- HANNAH

JAS. 3-TAs People aoaina john MeKeon.-The prisoner
was Indicted and tried at last General Sessions for grand
larceny in stealing. from Jerome s. Underhll fty i've
dollars. His COUNSEL Mr.. W. v. Howe, then contcndcd
that tho case anything was one OF prctence and
not larceny The Recorder ruled and the prisoner
then discharged the larceny but held Tor false pre-
fences Mr. Howe brought the prisoner on habeas
corpus, and oontended that the prisoner must be dis
charged because the evidence showed that the
parted with his money much on the representation Of
dcvicc II was Larceny and not false pretenscs"
The Recorder held that Mr. Howes objections were fatal
and DISCHARGED tho prisoner. Jesse vanderpoe, Esq
District ATTORNEY, appeared for the people.