Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-01-05
The Presidential scheme.


The terms upon which President Lin
coin proposes to receive the people of the
seeding States, are:
l. The sesessiOnists must give up their
arms and surrender their property in
slaves, and make no CLAIM to their other
already confscated property.
2. The loyal citizens must relinquish all
property in slaves
3. Both ioyalists and submitting seces-
sionists must swear that they approve and
will sustain all the confscation and eman-
ciPation acts of Congress, and all the pro.
CARNATIONS Of the President present past
and to come.
When one-tenth of the people shall take
this oath, they shall govern the other nine
tenths and shall be entitled to make new
constitutions. excluding if so disposed, all
others from the exercise of the rights of
citizenship. The President offers to sue.
tain by the army, the one tenth, in their
authority over the rest of the people.
These bastard States shall be entitled to
vote at the next Presidential election-and
to vote for Lincoln's re election.
This scheme is considered a sure method
to protract the war, ard prol ng the reign
Of the present dynasty Of shoddy.
lndeed the President virtually confesse4
that ho looks only to protrac,ion of the
war, as is evident f, m his message and
his-effsr Of Groterdcd amnesty.
CART. bANGEL O'C,NN R-It sffurds US
! pleasure 70 inform our readers that Capt.
Daniel O'Oonnor. brother of P. O'Connor,
Esq, or company d, Goth III. regiment,
who was severely wounded while CALAMITY
leading his company to the change on Mis-
sion Ridge, IN the late battle, has so ia:
recovered as 10 be able to return to b.:
home in this city. He received three des.
perate wounds and laid on the field for
several hours after the battle when he was
taken to the hospital. Capt. O'Connor ha.
proved himself heroic ard gallant soldier
and should receive such attention from ouI
citizens as is merited by brave and noble
conduct.
Cold WEATHEK.-That venerable indi
vidual, the "oldest iuhabitant," never ex
perienced such intense cold weather in thi
latitude as visited US on Friday and Satur
day. On Friday, particularly, it was al
most impossible to be exposed to the at.
mosphere without freezing Our street
were deserted and but little business O
any kind was done The thermomets
sank as low as 30 degrees And thougl
the weather moderated little on Sunday
It Is yet as cold as Greenland.
RgThe Joliet Republican announce
that the Rev. G. s. Maoreading has bee,
associated with Mr. Braden in the editoria
management of that paper. COnsiderin,
that Reverend will be connected with tn
Republican in future it is hoped that it
morals will be Of higher tone.
The GREAT SToEM.-The snow storm G
last Thursday and Friday has seldom beer
equalied in this part of the country. Tn
wind blew with great force from the ives
filling the air with clouds of snow an
drifting it in heaps, without regard to Ia
cality. The tracks of ths railroads wer
completely blocked for three days,no train
passing either way until yesterday. TIL
storm extended thoughoG, the West an
over portion Of the Eastern States.
DROWNED. little daughter of Mr..
Farley, aged about nine years, VIZ
drowned in the canal in the western gar
of the city, on the eth ult. 1t appeare
IN evidence before tie coroner's jury thu
she had been sent by her mother for som
water, and in dipping up the water wit
a pail slipped off the bank and was drown
ed. This makes the second child Mr.:
Farley has lost by drowning during th
last year.
BUcKwHEAT FLoUR-FOr a pure an,
fresh article of buckwheat -four call at tn
store of S w. Stone & Co. They hav
some of the best that can be found in tn
country. 1t is no mixture, but the gen
uine article itself. Buy some, and tr
it.
UNION FIRE Co.-The following are tn
officers elect for Union Fire Co. Nc. ., 70
the ensuing year:
Foreman-JOseph Brown.
lst ASsistant-John Limpert
ID do John Vogt.
Secretary-A. Brenning.
Traesuser-aenry Young.
Steward-JohE We're.
EG~Hon. j. G Allen has our thanks fo
valuable Congressional documents.
From Memphis, Cairo, sc.
Memphis, Dec. %, via Carlo Dec. 80.
After suffering defeat at Summervill
and Mlddleburg-the particulars of wllc
have not yet been received-Forrest divid
ed bis forces, nd column. represented a
4,OOO, crossed Wolf river, near Lafaye't e
yesterday afternoon. They destroyed sew
eral small culverts and trestlss and the tel
egraph line on the Memphis and Charles
tor road, between Collierville and Moscow
hnrn