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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-05

The FIRST OF THE SEASON. Last week,
Wednesday was one of the days that make
themselves unpleasantly remembered along
the shore of Lake Michigan. It was the first
tremendous blow from the Northeast, since
the opening of navigation and the shipping
on the Lake suffered considerably. There
were no shipwrecks near here, but at Nil,
waukee there were several. We take the
following from the Milwaukee Wisconsin, ::
Yesterday afternoon. in addition to the
Monsoon, Cream City and Pride Of 4merican,
which went ashore; the schooner Il. r. Mar.
tin, Of cleveland, run up a flag of distress,
and all the afternoon till six or seven O'Clock
in the evening, continued to slowly drag her
anchor, and it was feared by almost every
one who saw her, that she could not escape
the fate which seemed impending over her.
1t was even feared that, if she Should run
upon the piles which are left from the old
pier that once stood at the foot Of Huron St.,
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A WHITE SLAvE.-We have all read of
white slaves in the United States, but the
thing seemed so outrageous that we have
hardly believed it possible Many of us have
of River Falls, sent home by Co. G. 4th reg't,
little boy about seven years of age, for
mely a slave, who has blue eyes, light hair,
and as fair complexion as any child in
Pierce county. He was adopted by the COM
pany some time ago, dressed in Corporars
uniform taught to read, and seems to be a
keen, bright boy.-PreSc05 J0uraal.
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MEssRs. EDIToRs:-I have noticed in your
advertising columns, for several weeks past,
a communication from the General Agent Of
the Home Life Insurance Company. Know
ing the proclivities of said agent, am not
so much surprised at seeing the figures he
gives to show the ratio Of assets to liabilities
Of the different Companies, as [ should be
under other circumstances. | presume the
friends Of" (not only ''the late Mr.. John
Taylor, y Life Insurance, generally, would be
gratified to have the matter stated in a fair
and truthful aspect, and for the benefit OF
such, will you please insert in your paper the
following official certificate of Commissioner
Wright a copy Of which was or had been in
the possession of said Agent when he made
out the statement alluded to. Therefore his
attempt to mislead the public, with the fig
ures he gives, into an erroneous conclusion,
is a1itItuLty wrong. There is plenty of oppor-
tunity to do business without resorting to
Misrepresentation. Honesty is the best
policy" in all things.
THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY is too generally and favorably
known to need putting. 1t is purely mutual,
dividing all its profits with policy holders, in
stead of Semj-annuaL diUidend to be deduct-
ed first for the benefit Of Stockholders. 1t has,
during the psst year, issued 1915 policies,
insuring to the amount of 81, $50, 234 As.
In 1862, it issued 8, 1902 policies, insuring to
the amount of 81, 734, 645, and this was the
largest in any one year, ever transacted, with
the exception Of a single company The
New York Life Insurance Company has spe-
cial reserve and undivided surplus of upward
of $3.50, 900, and has declared a dividend of
thirty-ive per cent.
Fort Atkinson, Feb. 81, 1864
, r. 8 KETT OGG
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The 100 Days Call.

There is fair prospect that the 100, 900
men for 100 days offered by the Governors
of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Wisccn-
sin will be raised. We see most encourag-
ing accounts from the several States, and
from each comes the busy note Of prepara-
ton. It would be grand thing and grand
exhibition of the active patriotism and I'M
untiring zeal of the people of the Northwest
to see a new army of 100000 men spring
into existence as it were by magic, to take
the place of veteran troops in posts and for
tifcations, and thus relieving that number
to take their place in the field.
The following dispatch from Madison
shows what is being done in this State to
meet the call:
MADISON, May g.
The doubt which has existed as to what
it was expected and proposed that Wiscon-
sin should do in furnishing troops for one
hundred days service, is removed by an or
der of the Governor issied from the Adju-
tant Generals Office to-day The order
states that the General Government will ac-
cept troops from this State for such service,
provided they are offered within fifteen days
This limited time necessitates immediate and
energetic action in order that citizens of
Wisconsin whose duties heretofore prevented
their enlistment for long terms, may unite
their energies with those Of our regiments
already in the field, and by relieving veter-
an troops from posts and Notifications, share
in the glory of an endeavor to render the
the immediate campaign both successful and
decisive.
Present State militia organizations will be
made the basis for four regiments, the 3D.,
Sd and 4th having been already rendered.
The 1st and I'd will rendezvous at Milwau-
kee; the Sd and 18th at Madison. Recruits
can report at either place The troops do
not receive any bounty, but have the same
pay, equipments &C., as other volunteers.
The order is as followr:
''The proposition on the part Of the Gov
errors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Iowa to furnish extra men for service Of
one hundred days, originated in an ardent
desire on their part to put the success of the
approaching campaign beyond question and
thus speedily crush the rebellion which has
so long cursed our land, and although no
one will be compelled to go on this extra
service, yet, believing that this will be the
last desperate struggle; that the rebels are
about to make a last desperate effort; that
heavy and well directed blow at this time
may and probably will close the war, and
save us much sacrifice in the future, and
that a few thousand men at this time will be
of great service to the Union cause"
The Governor hopes and desires to see
Wisconsin add new glory to the fame she
has already acquired in this war, by prompt
ly furnishing at least 5000 of her sons to
take part in what lie trusts will prove the
decisive and closing campaign of the war.
Four companies of the 38th left this morn
ing.
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Eg~ A lady who left Georgia about three
weeks since gives the following quotations
of market prices for few articles, viz
Gold thirty dollars for one; Corn Meal, TWEEN
ty-fve dollars per busheI; Meats, four dol
lars per pound; Butter, ten dollars per pound;
Milk, two dollars per quart; Flour, three
hundred dollars per barrel; Coffee, twenty
five dollars per pound. No articles of any
kind are sold for less than five or ten dol
lars. If the purchaser has note of either,
he can buy; if not he must do without. Ar
ticles like knives, forks, spoons, cups of all
kinds, the lady in question says are not to be
had.
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Chicago and Northwestern
RAILWAY COMPANY.

The Annual Meeting of the Bond and Stockholders
of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company,
for the election of Directors and for the transaction
Of any other business that may before them will
be held at the office of the company, in the city of
Chicago. Thursday, the I'd day of June, D. 1854
at O'Clock P. N.
5w4S WILLIAM B. OGDEN, President.
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The National Banks.

The number of National Banks now il
existence is three hundred and NINETY three
The aggregate amount of capital invested ii
these banks is sigty million dollars, with al
aggregate of stock or bonds deposited with
the Treasurer of the United States as basis
of circulation, of thirty millions.
The first bank established under the act
of May, 1868, was the First National Bank
of Philadelphia; which was organized on the
Goth Of June, 1868 but the first circulating
notes were issued to the First National Bank
Of Washington, of which Henry D. Cooke,
son Of Jay Cooke is President, and of which
the Cashier is w. s. Huntington.
The largest National Bank in the country
is the Fourth National Bank of New York
City, whose capital is fire millions of dol
lars.
The notes for circulation of every Nation
al Bank established, are issued from the Bu-
reau of the Comptroller of Currency in
Washington. The whole amount of circu-
lation issued to National Banks up to the 18th
instant, was SIS, $50, 200, divided between
the different denominations as follows:
VI flVeS. 81, OH, 200
Of Tens. 8, 3O7 900
Of Twenties, Fifties zoos and over. 541, 900
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Charles Dickens new story, ''Our Mutual
Friend" opens with a river scene and a
man who seems built up of mud, and to have
grown from slime, and who is of a new trade
being one who earns his living solely by the
pleasant occupation of mudlarking for the
purpose of despoilisg dead bodies.
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COLGATE,s HONEY SOAP.

This celebrated Toilet Soap, in such uni.
versal demand, is made from the choicest ma
terials mild and elfa0IIicnt in its nature fra
grnnily scented, aud extremely beneficial
in its action upon the skin, For sale by all
Druggists and Fancy Goods dealers. 1y34
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SPECR.EE NOTICES.
u. s. Excise Tax.

Notice is hereby given that applications for license
under the L. S. Excise Law, will be received by me al
my Office during the week ending the 9TH inst.-alsc
income returns. Second, that shall be bsent from
my office on official bushes most of the time during
the ensuing week.
Kenosha, May 4, 1874, S. Y. BRANDE.
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some of her crew would lose their lives, as
we'll as that the vessel would become wreck
Suddenly, however, by stroke of good sea
manship, she slipped her cable about half.
past seven o'clock p. M, hoisted her canvass,
and stood out in the lake a mile or two, when
she wore round and succeeded in making
the harbor without further mishap or dam
age.
This morning there were some fifteen or
sixteen vessels still out in the bay, but the
storm had mostly lulled, the waters had near
ly stilled, and several of the fleet had pro-
ceeded on their voyage, while others, which
sustained more or less damage, by dragging
or suffering injuries to their rigging, put in
to the harbor for repairs.
Quite large number of vessels that had
started for the lower lakes, put into port
through the day, to escape the fury of the
blast.
The cargoes of the Cream City and Pride
Of America, are both wet, the vrssels being
full of water. Both vessels can be got of,
probably, after the grain is removed but
they will have to 60 into dry dock to be
righted up and put in fine condition again.
The Pride of America has cargo Of 30, 600
bushels of wheat, and sailed from here for
Port Colborne on Monday Both vessel and
cargo are insured in Canada.
Capt. Hunt, of the propeller Nile, reports
having seen the schooner Walrus ashore on
a reef near Wabashank lights. Also pro
peller, name unknown, ashore in the straits
of Mackinack, on McGulpin's Point The
propeller Edith is at Northport, bound up,
with both wheels disabled. She has been
there several days, waiting to be towed tc
this port.
A large fleet Of propeIIers was at the Man,
itou Islands, bound up; most Of them viii
probably be here during the day.
The brig E. ". Cross, of Chicago, has re-
turned to this port in a leaky condition, ant
? will have to unload. She was loaded here
2 with wheat, by Fred. Layton. The cargo
. of the Cross was insured in the Columbian
Insurance Company of New York, and he
. hull in the Htna, at Chicago
The schooner Harvest Home also put bacl
: and arrived here in leaky condition, an(
S will have to unship her load, and go int
dry-dock. She sailed from Chicago, loadec
with wheat, and undoubtedly both cargo ant
hull were insured in that city.
EDITORIAL CoNvENTIoN.-J. D. Carpenter
# Corresponding Secretary Of the Wisconsin
Editorial Association, gives notice of an Ed
= torial Convention at Madison, on the 15t
day of June W. S. Webb, Of Waushara
will deliver the annual address, and Mari
Mignonette, of Lacrosse the annual poem
The fraternity of the State are invited to b
present, for whom ample provision will b
made Mr.. Carpenter expects to be absen
: during the summer, and has deputed Pro
9 Hoyt to perform his duties in connectio
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Balls Ohio Reaper G. Mower
anacinI NOficc.

Orders for Bats ohio Reaper 90 M00srs must be
handed in early to machine as there is but
limited number brought into market this season.
sample machine may be seen at the Water Cure, Ken
osha. Il, PENNOYER,
May 5, 1864 4w4S Agent.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. I
OFFICE OF INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS,
A,,r;I

BosToN, April Sd, 1868.
The President and Acturay of the New
York Life Insurance Company having filed
a Statement, duly attested under oath, sup
elemental to that giving the standing of the
Company on the first day Of November, 1862
it now appears to US that the amount of its
Indebtedness at that date for dividends, de-
fortunately declared and payable without
further action of the Board of Trustees, was
1927, 40696, leaving, after providing for its
payment and the payment of all annuities
and the losses then known;net assets to the
amount Of 92, 238. 1858, against $1,731,-
$50. 80, the net value Of the Policies as cal
culated by us, showing ratio of actual to
COMMITTED premium TeSer0e 0f129.27 per cent.
It appears that the further sum Of $685.
$3.50 of dividends, for which scrip has been
issued to Policy-Holders is not only still LA
bic for any losses by the Company, but can
not, be paid SO as to impair the fund reserv-
ed against losses or without further action
of the Board of Trustees
EIIzUR WRIGHT,
GEO. w. SARGENT,
Insurance Commissioners.
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save Your life. :

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~ Sick and NeyUoUs Headache, Neurdtgtd, Iet.
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UPHAM, No. 25, South Eighth Street, Philadelphia,
Pa. 6m37
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From the South.

New YORK, May 1.-The HeraJd's New.
bern letter of the SOth says Information
has been received mere that the rebel author
tiles have taken possession of all the rail
roads In the South for the next sixty days,
during which time no citizens are allowed
to travel on them
'1t had also been learned that the troops
from Charleston S. c., have been brought to
Wilmington, and there relieved the troops
who have since proceeded to Richmond"
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fgsThe Eremch tsreventirc. =

NightIy Emissions effectuaIly prevented
"a aottt0ut the use OF medicine by the use of "The
French Pre0enta0e," the greatest invention of the
age. Price 81. Sent postpaid to all parts of the
country. Address DR.. S. CURTIS, Box 2697 Post Of
fee. Philadelphia, Pa. Circulars sent free.
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DEATH OF COLLECTOR PALMER.-The
public will be universally panied to learn of
the death, this morning, of Mr. EDWIN
PALMER, Collector of the Port of Milwaukee.
He died very suddenly between 8 and 8
o'clock, of heart disease. He was at his
residence on Humboldt Avenue, near the La
Crosse Round House, and had been out to
attend to some matters about the house,
and on returning complained of feeling sick,
when he sank back in a chair, and died very
suddenly. He was not far from sixty years
of age, and he leaves behind him wife and
two children, to whom the sincere sympathies
OF the entire community are extended.
Mr.. Palmer was one Of our most upri ght
citizens, and was universally respected.
Kind-hearted and gentlemanIy in his inter
course with his fellow-men; honorable and
trustworthy in all his private and public
transactions; and of true Christian character,
his death is to be incurred by all, and his
place will long remain untitled by an equally
worthy man.-INU. us.
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tg~ The great sword subscription in New
York Sanitary Fair, which closed on Satur-
day evening, was great victory in favor
of General Grant. The final vote stood:
For Grant, 80, 291; Mcclellan, IA, 500
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OFFICE OF THE N. Y LIFE INSURANCE Co.
New YORK, April 9, 1868.
In the Synopsis Of the Standing of Life
Insurance Companies doing business in
Massachusetts, which appears in the last
Report Of the insurance Commissioners of
that State, the New YORK LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY is represented as having only
SO and 41-100 per cent. Of assets to liabili-
ties Though modification of this is fonud
on subsequent page of the Report; and
we learn that interested parties are making
use of this statement to the prejudice of this
Company, by imputing to it much small
er surplus than is possessed by other Com
panies.
The computation of the Commissioners,
however, was based upon an erroneous item
in our Annual Statement to them, which has
since been rectifed; and we have received
from them an official certificate, which is
appended hereto showing that our ratio Of
ASSETS to Liabilities Is 129 and 27-100 per
cent. instead Of the amount mentioned in
their Report:
This certificate, will, we doubt not, cor
rect any wrong impressions which may have
been received by those who have observed
the Synopsis alluded to.
PLINY FREEMAN,
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Eg The Fort Pillow investigation by a
com mittee of Congress, yields ffty-seven de-
post ions, each stuffed with narrowing de-
tails, in support Of newspaper accounts, and
even exceeding them precisely as the camera
gives more faithful picture than the pencil
sketch. The government has given its
pledge to act 1t will do so calmly and de-
liberately and give the world time, both to
comprehend the crime and the justice of its
penalty. Probably among the first steps
taken will be demand made upon the rebel
government to disavow the massacre, and
deliver up its agents. The accredited agent
of JEFF. Davis in this city is busy grinding
out on his organ the rebel psalm of deliver
ance from the difficulty, but we do not be-
lieye much weight will be given at Washing
ton to this attorney for the rebels.-Chfc.
Tribune.
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EAyspepsia, no matter how long standing
NJ yields AT once to ''UPHAMs DYSPEPSIA Cure u
The effects of this remedy truly magical TRY it
and be convinced. Price 81 box. Sent postpaid
to any address, by S. @. UPHAM, % South Eighth St.
Philadelphia, Penn Circulars sent free. 6m97
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From THE 10Th WISCONSIN, Water
town Democrat publishes letter from Ad-
jutant Il. G. Hadley, Of the 29th Wisconsin,
dated Grand Ecore, La, April 18th. He SAYS
but five companies of the 10Th were in the
battles at Sabine Cross Roads-Company b.
suffered the most, losing as follows
KjlLed-Almon Chaplin.
Wounded-Thomas Martin, Sidney Smith,
James Haskins, Arson Weaver
Mi8sing-Corydon Blaisdell, A. G. Gran
dali, Hiram Thompson, James Irwin, George
Holcomb, G. B. Young, James Burke, Cal
vim Barrett, William Wilson, and Oscar Her
ron
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When | was boy of twelve years, | was
working for twenty-five cents week, with
an old lady, and had my hands full; but
did my work faithfully. used to cut wood,
fetch water, make fires, scrub the floor in the
morning for the old lady, before the real
work Of the day commenced. NV clothes
were bad, and had no means OF buying
shoes, so was often barefooted One morn
ing | got through my work early, and the
old lady, who thought [ had not done it.
or was especially ill-humored then, was dis
pleased, scolded me, and said was idle and
had not worked. said l had; she called
me liar" Ifeltmy spirit rise Indignantly
against this, and, standing erect, told her
that she should never have the chance of
applying that word to me again, [ walked
| out OF the house, to re-enter it no more [
had not a cent in my pocket when stepped
into the world. What do you think l did
| then, boys? | met countryman, with a
team. | addressed him boldly and earnestly
and offered to drive the leader, if he would
only take me on. He looked at me in sur
prise, but said he did not think I'd be of any
use to him. go yes, will, said |, Il can
rub down and watch your horses, and do
many things for you, if you will only let me
try" He no longer objected | got on the
horses back. 1t was hard travelling, for the
roads were deep, and we could only get on
at the rate of twelve miles per day. This
was, however, my starting point. | went
ahead after this. An independent spirit,
and steady, honest conduct, with what ca
pacity God has given meas He has given
you-have carried me successfully through
the world.
Don't be down hearted at being poor, or
having no friends. Try and try again.
You can cut your way through, if you live,
SO please God. know it is hard time fol-
some of you. You are often hungry and
wet with the rain or snow, and it seems
dreary to have no one in the city to care
for you. But trust in Christ, and He viii
be your friend. Keep up good heart, and b.
determined to make your way honestly anC
truly through the world. AS | said, | fee
for you, because [ have gone through it al
! know what it is. God bless you.
l. EeneT0J ITifcboU
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81 Atlanta, Georgia, is a nice place for
strikes There are four newsnaners - - al ~,
city, all of which are suspended. ow;ne- 't 4o
the strike Of the printers under the ;nef3r,, -
tons OF the Printers Uniou, demanding
Sl.01 per 1000 ems. The result is that
as soon as the printers quit work they were
all conscripted into the rebel army at SIS a
month in rebel currency.
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