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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26
The Peace Question in the rebel Congress
New YORK, January 20.

The Richmond papers contain a debate in
the rebel Congress- which shows that the
Committee on Foreign Relations to which
was referred the peace propositions, reported
unanimously III favor of sending commits
sioners to sue for peace. 1t also shows that
this action has produced a rupture between
jeff. Davis and the Richmond oligarchy on
one side, and Congress, representing the peo-
pie, on the other, which is shaking the
whole framework of the Confederacy. Mir.
Orr declared that the people were determin-
ed that in some form the craftsmanship Of
the country shall be invoked in an honest
effort to end the carnival of death by nego-
tiation. The debate is the most important
which has occurred during the war.
The Richmond papers are again abusing
jeff. Davis, General Bragg, and all Others
except Lee, for allowing Fort Fisher to fall
They again call for Lee as Dictator.
The Sentinel having published an article
denouncing the peace resolutions as treason
an exciting debate took place ir the House
in which the Sentinel was roughly handled
JEFF. Davis was accused of endeavoring t.
intimidate the advocates of an honorable
and peaceful settlement of the war. In thu
House, also, there was debate on the pro
posed repeal of the exemption law. Mar
shall, of Kentucky, was in favor of clear
sweep of every man in the country. II,
said the rebels had not began to fight yet
Others said that the country needed farmer
and that the people should be divided int
soldiers and producers.
The Richmond IVbjg says the PROPOSE
ton which came from JEFF. Davis, to repea
| the exemption law, rightfully finds but lit
tie favor in Congress.
Il The Richmond Eramjaer suggests tina
ali the cotton at Wilmington be burned, a
the port being closed, the place is no longe
Of any consequence and may fall into tn
J enemy's hands. The Richmond Enquire
acknowledging the port closed, says "No,
for the first time, we are thrown entirel
upon our own resources. Butler coui
have taken it on Christmas day, but he di
not, because he was afraid it would be foil
r to pretend that the port of Wilmington Wa
not of great value to our cause, but that
! did us much harm is equally clear"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26
The Dead Of the Year.

The year just closed has witnessed the
deaths of many persons distinguished in the
walks of art science, letters and all the
learned professions. Thackeray, Hawthorne
Morris, Landon, Schooloraft, Mrs Kirkland,
and Catherine Sinclair are lost to literature ;
SilIiman, Hitchcock and Strive to science ;
Hunt, Roberts and Husson to art; Meyer
beer to music; Robson and Wallack to the
stage; Archbishop Hughes, Thomas Starr
King, Potts and the Winslows to the
church; Sedgwick, Wadsworth, Rice, Nc
Pherson, Birney Ransom and Totten to the
army Storer, McCulney, w. D. Porter ant
Cravan to the navy; Giddings, Lovejoy
Quincy Hulsemann, 0Brien, Tallmadge
and Dayton to the craftsmanship or diplo
macy; ''Mudsir' Hammond, Clay, Mar
shall, T. Butler King, Gist, Stuart, Polk
and Morgan to the rebels; the Kings of tht
Sandwich Islands, Bavaria and Wurtem
burg to the throne Newcastle and Carlisle
to the English nobility, and Malakoff to th,
French Spoke and Gerard to the ranks o
intrepid explorers aud travellers Hornblow
er and fancy to the bench, and William
Curtis Noyes to the bar; Pere Enfuntin
the head of the st. Simmons is also mum
bered with the dead; and the names o
Iicknor, Nattemare, senior McCulloch. Am
Pere, Grattan Sealsfsh, and Leech swell tn,
list.
Presentation. Winfield Smith, the At
torney General has been some time il
Washington, attending to the settlement q
accounts between the State and Genera
Government, growing out of the Rock Rive
Canal Grant, and the detention of the Av
per cent. fund. We learn that there is
good prospect for the ultimate settlement {
these vexatious subjects. The period {
Mr.. Smiths return is uncertain, although h
is expected during the month. MiLtoauke
Sentinel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26
M. DkE sSE R,
O. MERRILL.

@ btad rredit and is prepared to issue Policiesol
lii. and p nerty, on favorable terms. See adVer
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26

Sec 1st. That slavery and involuntary
servitude except as a punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been duly con
victed, are hereby forever abolished and
prohibited throughout the State.
Sec. End. The Legislature shall make no
law recognizing the right of property in
man.
Sec. Bird. The Judges of the supreme
Court and the Attorney General & Reporter,
shall be appointed by the nomination Of the
Governor, with the advice and consent Of
tie Senate.
And here follows long schedule of alter
atoms resembling the acts of the Legislature
Of Tennessee, which met there in May, 1881
and by which body of rebels and traitors
the State Constitution was so altered as to
place the State, with the so.caled Southern
Confederacy."
These alterations and amendments as pro-
posed by the Committee, were with hut
slight changes, passed and Endorsed by the
Convention, as being such as the people of
the State should make, when the proper
time should arrive for their action upon
them.
The night session of Thursday last was
taken up by Gov. Johnson, Vice Prest. elect
of the United States who delivered telling
soeech to the Convention
Though but primary organization, the
meeting of this Convention, at this time, is
calculated to exert good influence. By
stirring up the people of the State thus,
they will come to know their duty to the
Union.
The streets of Nashville are overrun with
deserters from Hoods army, who have come
here to take the ''oath. By SO doing they
are permitted to return to theirshomes. The
conciIiatory measures that the Commander
of this Department has put into effect here
are calculated to win back great many Of
those who were once in the rebel armies =
Hundreds of such come in here daily to
take up with the kind offers Of the Govern
ment of the Union.
Verify the good cause is progressing, and
soon Tennessee will join her sister states,
Maryland and Missouri, in the ranks of the
Union, Free State. E. NJ. P.
! Nashville, Jan. 10th 1866.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26
Blob grintiug
a New-Year Hymn of Hope.

BY ANSON q. CHEsIEh.
The herald rays OF happier hours
With shining fingers touch the sklesj
The Year whose life in doubt began
In glorious promise dies.
The baiIny summer-scent Of Hope
Is mingled with the winery air
Thank God for foliage in our heart,
Although the 'rees are bare
What if the1eaden heavens withhold -
Their loving dews aud fragrant showers
We have within our secret souls
A very May of flowers.
The air is sweet with prophecies
Ofkndlier thoughts and kindiier creeds.
OF brighter spects, genter words
And better days and deeds.
The syblis of our thoughts and dreams
Thrill at the omens they reveal;
They hear the shouts OF triumph rise,
The bells OF victory peal.
Besdes the lrnwnug lhron" Of War
That demon with TIE bioOd.red hand
They see a woLdrous censor burn,
They see ange stand.
Come with a conqueror'4 tread, 0 Year
Whose glorious lite begins to-day
Thy rod shall reach the gloomy beavens
And brush the clouds away.
And while. within thousand fields,
We shear the harvest's russell fleece.
Thine eager hand shall gather in
The golden crop OF eace
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26
From our Nashville Correspondent,

! MEssRs EDToRs The ''Hon" Mrs. MUIR
ray, in the Preface to her Letters" de-
scribing her tour through the ''United States
/ Cuba and Canada" made in 1854 & 5, no.
ties her readers that 'facts can never in
jure truth, on whichever side it may lie !;
and statements made with fidelity, and &C.
s@racy ought to be welcome" Like all Eng
fish writers who visit this country, she some
times errs in her photography, in relation to
the names of places &C.. while going from
Chicago to Milwaukee she says, 'We passed
to day by several places, such as Waukegan
ShenoSha, &c meaning of course Wauke-
/ gan and Keuosha. We do not knowiwhether
/ her version is that called aboriginal or not.
| 1t at least is ''made with fidelity and accu-
racy." And the uniformed reader of these
! letters, of the ''Hon'' Mrs Murray, will
not b. able to gainsay her accuracy"
The majority Of hose who take the trou
bic to read the letters ''From our Nashville
Correspondent, that now and then appear
In the columns OF the Telegraph, are not
prepared to controvert the fidelity, or accu.
racy of the statements he makes. A know
ledge of this fact though somewhat of
satisfaction to the writer does not, we deem
in the least, relinquish him from his known
duty. That duty being, to avoid as much
as possible, all inaccuracies either in state
ments or otherwise.
With this DEPRESSION we will proceed to
matters less personal.
During the past week there has been in
session here Unioa State Convention COM
posed Of delegates from all parts of the State
some over 500 in number. No person was
admitted to the floor of the Convention with
out card of admission. These cards are
dark blue. and have printed on them as fol
lows, UNION CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF
TENNESSEE. ADMIT THE BEAEER 'OUR
FEDERAL UNION: IT SHALL BE PRESERVED"
We tolerate neither Treason nor neutraIi-
ty. Treason must be made odious, and Trai.
tors punished and impoverished.
And on the back of each card was the fol
lowing Endorsement IS. R. Rodg RS, Pres "
This Convention may be considered as be-
ing merely an informal meeting, of the 10y
al element Of Tennessee preliminary to that
of regularly convened body, which shall
have been duly elected, by the whole loyal
people of the State. AS such it is the step
ping stone by which Tennessee, as Parson
Brownlow says is to be wheeled black into
the harness Of the Union"
East Tennessee has had the control of all
the important measures that have been bro't
before tue convention for it's action. And
it is this fact that accounts for what to some
may appear to be radicalism in the Conven-
! ton.
The majority report of the Committee on
Resolutions, was presentedSto the Conven-
ton on the fifth day of its session, and pro-
posed the following anne ndments to the Stat
Constitution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26
LYMAN MOWRY n co.

Boots. Shoes, Leather, Flding8,&c. Eoery cGraety
eyery article pertaining their business may be mao
leather for sale Hides bought, &c. Corner ofMar'
tefsanare and Main street See advertisements.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26

EXTENSIVE PAPER MANUFACToRY. AN as
ISOLATION of business men are about to estab-
fish paper mill in this city, which will be
one of the most extensive in the Northwest.
The association bears the name and style Of
Wisconsin Paper Company. The mill will
be commenced in short time. We are not
authorized to mention the precise location
| liiLWauEee SentjneJ.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26

EXTENT OF THE PUBLIC LANDS. The Uni
ted States OWLS upwards Of 200, 900, 600
of acres of pnblic lands, susceptible Of cul-
tivation. They own at least 1000, 900, of
acres of gold and silver bearing lands.
The arabic lands are worth at least 200 900 900
The mineral l&uds worth at least. 500 900 900
Total. 81 coo 600 900
These are national assets, from which the
expenses of the existing war may be ulti-
mately reimbursed if Congress shall apply
them to that object.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-26

The total number of vessels lost at sea,
or otherwise in 1864, was three hundred
and sixty seven, and their value six mil
lions four hundred and twelve thousand
dollars.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

psry~s~ esep.ApG - t,usnass seasAaIsa ~ss ~
ssnst yss.srd.y Z " rcDea Ths sass Of fissos s.A
Trssnsa were tssnaais4 = fas - ~ sxaminAssea
soss AAl win BE- passsd over 70 ths 0randyury Those
Of Fuller aaA raaoa were not concluded, and probably
win bs further invessssatsd next wssk. RU1
An sxplosioa occurred IN the dssiisry Noa 81 and 80
Cherry street. between elk ana ssvsa O'Clock iast even
Ing dsnoiishins the building - osasiderabls sxtsns
and badly scalding one maa fhs damage d sstinassd
Il Ten thousand dollars
the Phiadelphia hremen and their New Yofk enter
tane took n excursion yesterday meuins TO Randas
Island whsrc they remained two three hours In the
evening the PhiIadslphians entainsd u masnn-
oent banquet at Irving Hail. They leave for homo this
morning from pier NortA river
The stock market wS dull aaA without material
change yesterday Gold opened a. lss and closed IN the
street q lsTx. Al night n closed q 1S1x
There nrmer feeling In commercial circles yes-
tscAay end proes general thing tended In favor Of
ssiisrx Still business nos aeivs except In few
articles Freights were rather better and the offerings
larger Groceries were steady Cotton was heavy
Petroleum lees sotivs bat nrm- On Change nour
and grain steady Pork aAl lard were armer The
lasssr again advanced ~ PER psaad whisksy was
rather better.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

Tm LnRp.a LOGO OF Gzssry sMru-
Gerrit Smith thinks that jeff Davis ought to
% pardoaed, go far a. bis association with the
rebellion goes. And whyi Because We have
recognized the South as belligerents, and that
must prevent us treating them as criminals.
Put who has told Mr.. Smith that we ever reoog-.
niveo Il southernsn ss u ieiligerents in any WY
that would .,.teos them HON the consequence.
Of their crimes when 4 was convssie1s 70 ma''
upon thoss crimes. We have exchanged rs'son,
srs with them, certainly, ~ matter Of MERCY
and justice to our own mem in their hands. We
spare the greatest criminal tSe world ever saw
if the bullet to reach him must ESst 60 through
the breast Of our brother. We recognized them
as belligerents by the war. The existence ofs
police recognizes burglary, arson and murder,
and all the rest Of the catalogue Of crimes thst
men commit, but we punish the criminals sn
the same when we catch them, and we havs
never recognized the rebellion TO any greater
extent than we daily recognize robbery and
murder.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

RECONSTRUCTION AT Born ENps.--While Andy
johnson is-reconstructing the South is it not
time for the rank and file of the Northern de-
mocracy to 60 to work getting up conventions
and taking other steps 10 reconstruct the North,
and al the same time separate themselves from
tbcir coppcrhead and traitor leadersf
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

CAPTIVITY OF AN ENorlsHMAx N MEnoo.-wo have r.
ceived communication from Mr. Geo. Walcott, Of the
English engineering nrm Of Bowers Co., who sent
to Mexico for the purpose Of carrying out contraot
obtained BY the nrm for supplying the city OF Mckee
with gas describing his imprisonment and suerings in
tho capital Of the empire. From Mr. Waloott's
appears that he obtained concessea Of land,
and actively engaged in constructing the as works
contracted for by his firm, whom his sympathes and
Of Justice urged him 70 protest against and endse
the brutal Of Mexicans, betwesa
twenty and thirty Of whom were daily led out 70
cuton in his vicinity almost before his eyea In punish
ment Of his renonstrances he forchiy seized By
Maxmilian's minions, and immursd n dungeon, where
no remained from January 70 April 2s 1895, chsios1
hand and foot the WALL Mr.. Wacot u one Of ths few
Engshmcn who appreciate the injustice Of crushing free
Mexico under the despotsm Of Napoleon and Maxmi,is
and who understand the wisdom Of the Canning Mosrds
doctrine.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

TIN VBrnRAH SoLDnss--WHnn Am THEY
TO Bs DDmARozDi-Ws have received fron
several veteran soldiers in the armies encampeA
about Washington inquiries a. to the disposi-
tion which \ to be made Of them From their
Representations it b apparent that great deal
Of Dissatisfaction exists among the re-eniisted
veterans They claim that they were promised
their discharge - seon - tho war was over.
and assert that they would not have re-enlisted
had they supposed that they would be required
10 serve after the war was over. They aiss
olaim that tho government hes o6acially oon-
strued tho phrase "for three years or during Tie
war" to mean that In case tho war ended before
three years nom tho date Of muster had elapsed
the soldier was TO be entitled to bis discharge.
All this b very true; but the soldier who b
forced BY tho government to continue his scr
Woe should recognize that there arc many Or
oumstances which forbid tho disbanding Of IN
our forces st oncs. The war q not literally
over; WIN not be, In the eomplets sense which
shall assure u Of future security from civil dis
tarbances, for some time to come, and the vote
rsns who have subdued the rebels must remaia
10 keep them In subjugation until the regular
army, which IN great measure was absorbed
In the volunteer foros, shall have been reorgan-
lied, increased and distributed In such maA-
ner a. 10 enable II to do what tho veterans ars
now doing preventing al future civil war;.
Besides, IL would not do, a. every veterans
good sense will tell him, to disband four hun
dred thousand men at once, If such feat could
be accomplished by tho mastering officers. u
would be cruelty to the veteran himself IL
would have the Same efeot on him as the over
stocking Of market has on the merchant, and
by throwing on the country largo number OF
laborers, destroy the value Of labor, ruin the
veterans, and put money only in the purses d
tho capitalists
The interest Of the veteran soldiers demands
their gradual disbandment and we trust that In
this view Of tho case they will possess their
souls in patience, stand by the government
and await the justice which, 90 they complain.
may be tardy, but which is none the less sure
to reach them eventually.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

PRoPosnD MExrMa FOR MEXICAN PATRIOTS. -Therearo
many exiled Mexican republicans In New York, and
among them number Of Of great eminence in stvfl
and military lfs-generala colonies, statesmen editors.
&oall Of devoted republican principles Being citizens
OF influence their example well their power, was
much feared by the foreign usurpe 70 be endured,
and they compelled to leave their country Their
stay here will probably be short but desired 70 have
them appear before American audience to receive an
expression Of the feelings entertained BY people fos
their cause and to receive from thom such authentic
of their rich and splendid native land as ws
have other means Of obtaining There are no books
Of the right kind and the enemies Of freedom have long
nsdousy circulated false assertions against the ibera
The meeting important one snd may be anticipated
with peculiar interest
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

Curious ON Dr.-It 10 reported tho govern
ment has discovered . large batch of letters
from Fernando Wood, Ben Wood, the Soy
mours, and various other persons In the North,
among the rebel archives seized In Richmond.
It is further said that these letters, when pub
lished, viii startle tho community, showing -
they will the completely Of the writer's in tie
devflish work Of the rebellion.
CAUGHT TARrAR-The nigger-worshippe
in Andy Johnson.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

THg HProrBE ArRoN--CLoss o. rHn SrAsor-The long
continued and thoroughly successful season terminates
to-day With grand farewell ~satHte, at haf-psst two.
End an evening performances At eight O'Clock, when al
she resources and attractions OF the season VIII b
brought into play for the purpose OF closing hs season
with brilliant seiot The comic pantomims of The Ers
OF Life vii, be given with the addition Of tho principal
cor,o scenes OF the famous psntomims OF Blue Beard
Thebesutul performing trick ponies. Lavina and A,nn
v appear for tho last time The great German gymsasts
the Mat Brothers. Marietta zanfreta the pony races.
the monkeys on horseback ana oil the great artists &
the equestrian and gymnastic company will appear
series Of brilliantly varied arenic performances The
out the season have resulted In the establishment d thte
bppodramat,c and pantomimc temple a long needed
specaIty IN our midst Prior 10 the commencement a
tho fall season In September the building VIII DO aereS
improved and entirely re0tted 'a
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

clique the fame of the countrys greatest soldier.
They got up political meeting, and intrigued
80 successfully that they secured the presence
of the hero. So far 80 good But that was not
the end. Their intention was to hob-nOb with
the hero over the country and clinch the asso-
cia ton; to dine and wine with him up the
Hudson in the grandest style, and hurrah him
through oil the towns on the railroad across
the country to Chicago, so that all the world
should know he was theirs. This did not suit
General Grant But what should he dos How
get out Of iti Being at the AstorH House, some
iudicious friend advised that he should consult
Stetson. Stetson was called, and came. Stet-
son, II n tolerably well known, is one Of the
shrewd men of the time. Cool, self-poised and
wary, he il competent to advise the highest or
the 1owest-the mightiest magnate or the pet
test politician. He knows how to keep hotel.
He can hit the nice line of propriety on any
given point in the relations of lite with conf
dent ease. Political mazes are no mystery to
him, and the lodges of politicians are as fami-
liar as toothpicks.
Grant stated the case running hastily through
the facts and coming to the point He had
never been very greatly bothered by Bragg,
Pemberton, Polk or any Of those fellows He
had readily seen through Lees ruses and
always defeated them. But now he acknow-
lodged that he was corneyed. He had gotten
into the hands Of fellows whose tactics he did
not understand. What should he dot How
avoid the politicians who intended to bore
him up the Hudson on big boat next day ?
Stetson's eyes Frightened his mind was easier.
Was that all Leave II to him. He under
stood the nature Of the case, and could manage
II. lie did. He sent for General Dix and
arranged II all; and next day, punctually at
Eve o'clock, government steamer waited for
the Lieutenant General at the Battery, and half
an hour later, when the politicians thronged
hungrily round the front of the hotel eager to
catch their man, the General and his party,
driven away In close carriages, went on the
little boat and steamed up TO West Point in
comfort Thus the politicians were fanked
and the whole horde of hungry ones left at the
hotel in utter discontinue, and they won't
know how IL was sll done until they have read
this article.
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

A SOLDIER MUSICIAN PoET Mr. Isaiah W. Con-
gler privateSp the One Hundred and TwentyseventA
New York Volunteers has just published very admra-
BILE piece entitled "Lincon's Grave" the words and
music being both his composition This work OK
hibts great deal OF talent lyric poem and in 10
musical construction The author presents in his own
person strong evidence Of the finer and more cultivated
elements OF society which represented in grand
army even In the lowest grades such to 30 found
in no other army the world He has written several
other excellent songs, which have been published BY
Hall Sons, Firth, Pond Co. and Horace Wstevs, such
as "Those Charming Scenes ~ "Marys Beauty" 'Wel-
come Merry Spring." &c. Mr. Gonger was wounded in
ly disabled as 10 be obliged 70 around crutch
The New York herald., 1865-06-10

HERALD.-During the last four years we have
employed between thirty and forty, and some
times more war correspondents, including the
army and navy, for the HERALD. They have
been attached to army corps, departments,
headquarters, and at every point on sea or
land where the services of special corrcspon-
dent could be Of advantage to the public. Our
army correspondents have, ON an average,
used up or had captured one or two valuable
horses each. The whole cost Of this war cor
respondence establishment reached during the
rebellion the sum Of nearly hoF million Of
dollars.