Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-09-04
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JEFF Davis has taken his daughter
from the Canadian convent, where she
was being educated, from fear that she
would become Catholic.
-Bismark talks Of coming to America
next year. In private letter he ex-
presses great curiosity to see General
Grant.
The President has issued an order
suspending Gen. Sickles from the com
mand of the Second Military Dictrict.
and appointing Gen. Candy his successor.
The Star has information that Gen
eral Sickles will, on retiring from his
command of the Second District, leave
the army and commence practicing law
in New York. t...
A proposition has been brought be-
fore the Cabinet by the President to issue
a proclamation of amnesty for the uncon-
ditional pardon of almost every rebel and
traitor in the land
1t is said that Gen. Grant has sent
another protest to the President against
the removal Of Gen. Sheridan, urging the
retention Of Gen. Hancock on the Plains
1t is said tina: some time since ali
the members of the Cabinet verbally ten
dered their designations It is rumored
that the notorious Jerry Black is to sue
ceed Secretary Seward. a-soa@ =
The quantity and value of raw and
al J
imported into the United States for the
year ending June 30th is as follows
Wool, 35,325, Isl pounds, worth 1910
oS2; shoddy, 5,J86.lS7 pounds, worth
$5l6,48O
Holmes is busy on the remaining
chapters of his "Gnardian Angel : y which
is to be published in book form in Nov
embor. A very handsome sum has been
| paid to him by an English publisher for
sdvance sheets, and the novel will appear
in London the same day it isissued com
plete in Boston. ea1.s
The following advertisement appear
ed in the Washington MteUigencer, or
Friday. and is exciting much comment;
Confederate bonds wanted. First Ma
tional Bank, August 20, '67. We have
an order for moderate amount of 8 pei
cent. bonds, G. S. A., and until filled viii
buy all that are offered at the best rates
W. S. Huntington, cashier /" .ae
The 23d regiment had very plea
SAINT time at their anniversary reunion in
Madison On the Both ult Over one hun.
dred members of the regiment from Dane
and adjoining counties were present
Speeches we're made by Colonel Guppy
I'D Captains Villas and Bue!; formerly
officers of the regiment, and Governor
| Fairehild, Secretary Allen and Attorney
General Gill.
Several Of the loyal States are tc
hold elections this fall, viz: Vermont. on
the first Tuesday in September; Califor-
MIA, on the first W edhesday ia September
Maine, on the second Monday in Septem.
Der; Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa, on
the second Monday in October and Mas
saehusetts, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, on
the first Tuesday in November AL
these elections will be held before the
next meeting Of Congress.
The great grandmother of General
| Grant was the grandmother Of the late
General Peter B. Porter, of Niagara Falls
Noah Grant, who came from Scotland
and settled at Coventry, Conn, did early
and his widow married Peter Buel, BY
whom she had a daughter named Abigail.
This Abigail was married to DR. Joshua
Porter, of Salisbury, Conn, aud they
were the parents of the late Augustus
and Peter Bue Porter, Of Niagara Falls.
A Philadelphia paper, remarking
upon the immigration Of grown men and
women to the United States, estimates
that every immigrant is worth to the
country procuring his services at least one
thousand dollars. Setting down, then,
| the number of arrivals from the old coun,
tries to new homes here, for the present
year, at three hundred thousand, and the
value Of these at one thousand dollars
each, and we have an aggregate addition
to the wealth and resources of the coun-
try from this source alone Of three hun
bred notzltons Of dollars. -.i-.- az -. -
The Journal Of Commerce, speaking
of the revival of trade in New York. says
there is little excitement and no great
eagerness among the buyers, but far
more healthy trade than often occurs
when the competition for goods is more
furious. The loaded drays pressing
around the entrance to the docks, throng-
ing the streets in converging lines toward
the principal, freight depots, and imped-
ing each other wherever there is chance
for transportation, are Indicative of the
revival of demand for goods for interior
consumption. or =
The Archbishop Of Canterbury, who
is the Prinate of the Protestant Episcop-
al Church in all the world, has called