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WHY DON'T HE TELL ?-The editor of a
small paper at Madison, Welch's Home

WHY DON'T HE TELL ?-The editor of a
small paper at Madison, Welchs Home
Diary, says:
Having no party of our own, we have
been compelled to vote with the republican
union party, and for the present shall con-
tinue to do so for all fair nominations for
executive, legislative and judicial officers on
that ticket. In respect to other nomina-
tions-for example, secretary Of state,
which at most, is mere clerkship-we
shall not commit ourself. IF one of the
candidates for the position last named is
foisted ON the ticket, We shall oppose his
election at every point, and unless the des-
potism of party is supreme, he shall be de-
feated. We have documents and af6davits,
laden with molten thunder, impatient to
leap into life. AT the proper time we shall
uncork these Walls of wrath and justice, and
give the contents back to the elements. /"
For the sake of an outraged people who
have been plundered, deceived and preyed
upon by the Regency" it is to be hoped
that the Candidate" alluded to above will
receive the coveted nomination, that the
"vials Of wrath and justice" may be un-
corked. But why wait until the candidate
is nominated. IF you know of any dishon-
esty in high places, Why not tell the people
without waiting for other incentive than
that of common honesty
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IG The English Parliament was pro-
rogued en- the 2lst inst. The Queen was
not present, and the speech was read by
commission. The Queen declares that there
are no longer any grounds for apprehension
of war in Europe. "The reasonable con-
spiracy in Ireland has proved futile, and
the attempt at revolt has been suppressed
almost without bloodshed by the valor OF
the troors, vigilance and activity of the
police, and general loyalty of the people. -
The law has been indicated without the
sacrifice of human life. The speech refers
with satisfaction to the new postal treaty
with the United States, and in conclusion
co Dgratulates Parliament and the country
on the completion of the Canadian Union,
passage Of the Reform Bill, and adoption
of other measures beneficial to the United
Kingdom. zat
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D'Israeli on Ireland.

Mr.. D ISRAELI has always taken part in
debates on the improvement of ireland,
but his Efforts toward ref6rnation, il, he has
ever made any, have NOT yet brought forth
fruit He said recently IL Parliament, that
the decrease Of population in Ireland from
s. 200, 600 to 5, 600 vas one Of the most
striking events Of history, and gave him,
as we'll Is the government, much solicitude.
"As general rule, he said, {" emigra-
ton from an oyer-popnlated country oper-
ated as safety-valve but the extraordi-
nary extent of this emigration is great
social and political calamity." Referring
to his speech Of last year on the same sub
vital difference between wholesome emf
grafton and this wholesale depopulstion as
there is between the bleeding ordered BY
the doctor to check fever and that invol-
untary and uncomfortable hemorrhage that
ends by destroying life. His speech was
full Of kind expressions towards the Irish
people; extending sympathy and dealing in
rose colored hopes that it would very soon
change for the better, but not word did
he say of the intention, Of his government
10 DiID& IOfWaFQ any MedSuIe CdiCuldteU U
deal effectively with the grievances that are
causing "the great social md political ca
lamity" which he so fully admitted and so
forcibly described. M @
This practical inactivity is exceedingly
discouraging to the Irish people, especially
when they recall the graphic words of the
same statesman in 1874, when he described
the Irish question in this wise /:
"A starving population, an alien church,
an aristociacY the richest Of whom live in
distant capitals, and the weakest executive
in the world that is the Irish question. -
It is evidently not for want of keen ap.
probation of the difficulties before them that
the British statesmen do nothing towards
satisfying the unfortunate and long suffer
ing people of Ireland.
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A Shoddy Party.

=
One of the citizens Of New York. was a
halter. He earned very good living At
the business. His wife made vests for a
fashionable tailor. She made them we'll.
and, by her industry, added very much tor
the household. By one Of those sudden
turns of fortune which overtake meu in
this city, the man found himself in posses
sion of quite sum of money. He aban.
doned hating, and his wife gave up max
ing vests. He bought house in an up-
town neighborhood. His wife proposed an
entree into good society by giving large
party. The hating and tailoring acuuaintI
ances were to be ignored They had no
others. They were to be made through the
party. Had these people understood the
way of doing things in New York, they
would have gone to Brown, Of Grace
church, paid him handsome fee, and he
would have stocked their parlors with all
the company desirable. Instead of this
they took the directory, selected 500 namcs,
among whom we're some Of the most prout,
inent Of our citizens, and sent out invita-;
tons right and left for an evening named.
No expense was spared to make the occs.F
sion great one. The house was gaudily
furnished; the ladies, mother and daugh-
ter, extensively and -fashionably attired
The table was laid by one of the first ca
terers. Dodworth was engaged for the
music. Walters were called in, dressed iu
the clerical garb OF black and white. The
hour came but not SO the guests In moth
ing are the New Yorkers more skittish than
about the acquaintance they form and the
parties they attend. They will give all they
are worth for a ticket to ball, party, re-
ception, or accept miscellaneous invitations,
though there is plenty to eat The per-
sons who got up this party were unknown.
Strings Of young men drifted by the house
! during the evening. Brilliantly lighted, it
attracted general attention But the belD
was silent and the steps were deserted.
The curious could see anxious persons peer
ing through the cracks of the blinds at the
passers-by, supposing themselves uncb-
served. At a late hour the gas was turned
eff. During the whole evening the par!ors
had been deserted, the splendid table un-
touched, and the family turned to their
couches with feelings better imagined than
described. The candidates for fashionable
society were sadly disappointed.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE COEvEN-
TON.

A State Convention Is hereby called IN as
semble in the capitol at Madison, at II o'clock
noon, on
Wednesday. Sent. II. 1867.
for the purpose Of nominating candidates for
state officers. Each senate and assembly dis
trict will he entitled to two delegates.
All electors Of the state who would assist in
preserving civil and religious liberty in the
enforcement Of the federal constitution as the
supreme law: in defending the right Of the
states to local self-government in repeating
tariff laws enacted for the exclusive protection
of the few in protecting the right Of labor to
adequate reward in guarding capital from
the evils Of partisan misrule in defeating the
attempts to abridge the right of representation
and the elective franchise in promoting the
equality Of the people before the law in abro-
eating the present profigate system of public
expenditure and unequal taxation in op-
posing the unauthorized effoIts of the Iegisla-
tive power to control the conscience and die
tate the business pursuits Of the individual in
concentrating the heroism Of our soldiers in
a restored Union. and in placing the state ad-
ministrati0n in the hands Of honest and capa-
bic friends Of state prosperity. are earnestly
requested to participate in the election Of del
egates to this convention.
GEo. IT, PAUL, d. w. SMALL,
JoHS WISAxs, f. f. CHAPLIN,
r. GoDDARD. WN d. MERRILL,
d. C. COWBOY, FRED o. THoRP,
II. j. HARVEY, JERE CROWLEY, 81
THos. 3. TYLER, J. A. GRAY,
Democratic State Committee.
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A DIRTY TRIcK.-The Republican State
Convention is called to meet at Madison on
the same day appointed for the annual
meeting OF the Wisconsin grand lodge Of
good templafs at GAINESVILLE. 1t has been
charged that the object Of the regency in
calling the republican convention on that
day was to ensure the absence of temper
ance republicans as delegates, and thus pre-
vent fair expression of the republican
party in favor of the prohibitory and Sun
day laws. The Madison Journal denies
that this was the object, although it may
be the effect.
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The Late Railroad Disaster in Ire.
e land.

The scene Of the great railroad disaster
in Ireland, of which We are briefly inform
ed by the cable, was at the village Of Bray,
beautifully situated on the Bay Of Dublin,
where, VIC arc told, the express train from
Dublin for Wicklow ran off the track while
rounding Bray Head, and eight passenger
cars we're precipitated into the sea. About
a mile from the village is lofty bluff
known as Bray Head" It rises almost
abruptly from the bottom of the sea to the
hight Of many hundred feet, and its wild
and savage beauty is prominent feature
in the scenery of the famous Dublin Bay.
The railroad track is cut in the solid rock,
at great hight above the sea, to which
their is an abrupt descent. The curve is
rather sharp around the Head, and trains
generally run slow in going round, aud pas
sengers, looking out Of the windows, see a
wall of rock on one side and empty air on
the other, while far below, the waves may
be seen breaking on the shore. Few can
have visited the spot without thinking,
with shudder of horror, of the possibil-
ity Of such an accident as has now occurred.
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Fight Between Texan and Squad
Of soldiers-9he Texan Master Of

Fight Between Texan and a Squad
Of soldiers-1h6 Texan Master of
the Field. 49, =
! From the jefferson. Texas, Clarion, Auge.
Mr.. 8. Lockett came down from Bowie
county on Saturday last, and gave us the
following particulars In regard to disturb
ance which occurred among the us. SOL
: iefs and . man named Cullen Baker, at
Boston, Bowie county, a few days ago.
Baker lives at Linden, Davis county, and
being of doubtful loyalty, Uncle Sam S
Bowie county servants undertook his arrest.
A squad was dispatched in search of him
down on the Sulpher, with orders to bring
him IA. They crossed, and making III
quiries, could hear nothing OF him. when
they concluded to cross back and leave him
to his fate for the present. Just as they
crossed back, Baker overlook the squad,
and leveled his double barreled gun. Mis-
sing fire, he drew his revolver, and shout
ing '.charge them boysl he put them
on double quick, and pursued them to
Boston, s-iis sBa s1a i..gf asEa5EGo.
Reaching Boston once more, he sat
down, wrote demand for the immediate,
unconditional surrender of the town, and
dispatched the message by little darkey,
finding no one else who was willing to bear
flag of truce into the Yankee camp. The
little darkey returned, but instead of an un-
conditional surrender, he discovered de-
tachment headed by the bureau captain
coming with the evident intention Of bring.
ing him te justice. SEEING" bloody war"
depicted in their countenances, he retreated
in good order into the grocery store of Ora
ham & Sipes, refreshed the inner man,
and, examining his bull dogs" took his
stand near the door, On came the solid
mass of blue coats, bent on a mission Of
death or the capture of Baker. When
within gunshot range, Baker 6 let slip his
dogs Of war, which was promptly return
ed by the soldiers; a second, a third a
fourth, and the incessant rattling of mus
kerry and sharp cracks of Bakers revolt
vers, bespoke bloody work. The fight
ragged several minutes, when Baker stood
forth from the concealment to find himself
the proud victor of the field and master of
the situation, and he set the signet of
death upon one Of his adversaries, and
received only a flesh wound upon one of
his arms. The captain and squad had re-
tired, leaving their dead comrade upon the
feld-conquered by solitary man.
The last we heard from that quarter was
that Baker sat astride his war steed in the
centre of the public square, proud mon
arch Of all he surveyed. 7" ~
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A PROSPEROUS CORPORATION The
Cocheco print works at Dover, N. H., run
4S, 232 spindles and 1900 looms. These
consume 4, 700 bales of cotton yearly, and
produce 100000 yards of cloth. One
thousand hands, 600 of them women and
girls, are employed in the mills, and their
wages average from four to eight dollars a
week. For several years past the company
has paid in dividends 800, 900, every si1
months, aud in Ju ne, over and above this,
$500, 900 of the capital stock was divided
among the stockholders, leaving the work
ing capital an even million0 This is one
company for whose benefit the West j.
taxed by high tariff and which is clam or.
GUS for more protection. ag--5.
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Military Government.

Are the people aware, or do they pay
proper attention to the fact if they are,
that great portion of the country consti-
tuting the territory of what should be the
United States is in fact as well as in name
ruled by military dictation on the spot and
from Washington? Why is it that the
people do not concern themselves more in
regard to this thing and cry out against it 7
Without wishing to he considered an alarm
list, or wishing to cause unnecessary fear, We
think We can safely say, and with sorrow.
too, we say it, that the signs of the times
portend that if Congress is allowed to keep
on and pass more such laws as it has re-
Gently, the liberties of the people, except
the favored and fanatical few, will not be
worth jot in FIVE years hence. Congress
has already appointed committee to pro-
, coed to Maryland and Kentucky to see
whether they are administered as becomes
the minions of central and irresponsible
but fanatical power. A few more years of
congressional rule, and We will see them
appointing committees to proceed to our
own and other "loyal" States to see if
Sunday and Sumptuary laws arc enacted
md enforced.
Gen. PoPE, Military Commandant of
District No. 8, (Georgia) writes letter to
Gen. GRANT, in which he advises that all
those recently pardoned by the President
who do not believe in the Radical plan of
reconstruction should be banished the coun-
try.
AS another instance, showing the animus
which governs the Military Commanders
and the Radicals who uphold them, it may
be mentioned that Gen. RossEAU, man
who fought throughout the war, while in
New Orleans recently took occasion to ami
madvert on the course and policy Of Gen.
SHERIDAN. The idea that any one should
question the wisdom of this military satrap
was to him unbearable +; and We are quantity
informed by the telegraph that had Gen.
RossEAU stayed in New Orleans few days
longer he would have been arrested by a
military force and placed in confinement for
having dared to express his honest convic-
tons and sentiments in regard to the way
things were being managed in that District.
Revolutions never go backwards is a
saying which the people would do we'll to
remember, and if they do not soon wake
up to the fact that the radicals are pursuing
unconstitutional and MISUNDERSTANDING
means to keep their party in perpetual pow
er, it will soon be out of their power to
make local and State laws for their own
government. but instead will have to obey
mandates from Washington as do now the
people of the Southern States.
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" MY Papa is a Tall Man

The Cleveland Herald says: About
two weeks ago a gentleman, lady, and a
little girl stopped at one of our hotels, and
registered as Mr.. IT, and wife, and for
quite a long time everything passed off
smoothly They were as attentive and low
ing to each other as could be, and would have
continued the nice little arrangement but
for little error. One day last week the
gentleman and lady shut the child out in
the hall, for reasons unknown to us, and
the child, not liking this treatment, began
to cry and made great noise through the
house, and it reaching the ears of the pro-
prietOr, he went up stairs and found the
crying child and tried to pacify it, but still
it continued to fret, when he told it to 60
into the room with its papa, when the
child, looking to his face with halt
surprised expression, said to him: I" That
amt my papa; my papa is tall man, and
he is home" Here was revelation
papa home, a tall man," the man here
with the child was short man.
1.-THE proprietor hesitated moment
what to do, One thing was certain, they
must leave; so leaving the child, he went
down and sent word up to the man to come
down to the Office He came, all smiles.
as man would having good thing hid
from everybody's eyes, and was consider
ably surprised when the landlord handed
him his bill and requested immediate pay.
ment, and was still more surprised to hear
the landlord say, Pack up and leave with
in ten minutes. He protested, but the
unyielding proprietor only replied tina,
"children and fools always told the truth, .
and threatened him with arrest and disgrace
if he did not travel. The man made all haste
possible, and went out of the hotel consid
erably crestfallen.'' a
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GEN. GRANT.-The Republican papers,
are much exercised at present as to which
political organization Gen. GRANT favors
the most. The Radicals argue in lugubri-
Gus strains that GRANT was ordered" to
accompany Tho President in his tour some
time since; that he was ordered" to take
the place made vacant by the dismissaf Of
STANTON that he Was ordered" to trans
fer Gen. SHERIDAN from the Department
Of Louisiana to the one of Missouri Poor
GRANT, how he is to be pitied that with
all his honors he is not even imam of his
own head
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A HEAVY" FARMER. "A Mr.. Derby.
vile, of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, is this
week cutting $50 acres of wheat per day.
In the gathering in of his immense crop he
uses fifteen reapers and other appliances to
correspond. Mr.. Derlyville has seventeen
hundred acres of wheat, which he expects
to average twenty-five bushels to the acre,
making a snug little yield of forty-two
THOUSAND five hundred bushels.
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WHAT IT CosTs-Our Western military
POSTS in 1864 cost the Government $685.
600, 900, and in 1865, s57 600, 900, of which
last sum the pay of troops took only ST.
642,O 900, while the subsistence department
swallowed up $3l, 523.SsO, and the quarter
masters, $23,373, 2Os. It is stated that
$3.50, ZOO, 600 win scarcely meet the ex-
-penses Of the past year.
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RESULT OF THE KENTUCKY ELECTION
Returns of the late Kentucky election,
from all except eight counties, foot up
Helm, democrat, s7,lS2; Kinkead, demo
crat, Is, 1874; Barnes, republican, 80, sS1
The majority for Helm, democratic, over
Barnes, republican, is Sc, 3Ol. And peace,
order, prosperity and freedom prevail
throughout the State.
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BIZ Order of District Go


A Democratic Convention for the Third As
sembly District of Manitowoc County, will be
held ut BERGER's Hall. Two Rivers, on Satur-
day, September 7, 1867, at two o'clock, P. N.
to select two Delegates to represent said Dis
-trict in the State Convention which meets At
Madison on the 18th. Tho towns will be en-
titled to Delegates as follows:
Manitowoc, 5 Two Rivers
Hishicott 8 Gibson,
Two Creeks,
By Order of District Committee.
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pDrA National Labor Congress assem-
bed in Chicago on the 18th. They appeal
to the United States Congress to pass an
Eight hour law. They also wish to have
u. S. Bonds pay the same tax rs other
property of equal value The next meet
ing is to be held in New York city, one
year hence.
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b-The Fall River, Massachusetts,, Neus
complains OF the fearful increase Of drunk
enness IN that city, IN spite Of the prohibi-
tory law.
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Democratic Convention for the Second
Assembly District of Manitowoc County. will
he held at the Branch, on Saturday, Septem-
her z, 1867. at o'clock, p. NJ. to select two
Delegates to represent said District in the
State Convention which meets at Madison on
the 18th. The towns will be entitled to Dele
gates rs follows:
Maple Grove, Franklin. 2
Kossuth, 2 Cooperstown l
Cato, 2 Rapids, =
Bv OrfIrr of Disfrief To,n,piffer
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10r American mowers and reapers were
the only ones that won higher success than
bronse medals at the Paris Exposition.
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First Assembly District Convention

A Democratic Convention for the First As
sembly District, of Manitowoc County, will be
held at the store Of A. wALTERR.cH, in
Meme, on Saturday. September =, 1867, at 2
o'clock. p. NJ, to select two Delegates to repre-
sent said District in the State Convention
which meets ut Madison on the 18th. The
towns will be entitled to Delegates as follows ::
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Second Assembly District Convention

By Order If District Committee.
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That ASHLEY, BUTLER Il Co., tried to
get CoNovER to once more commit perjury
and swear to falsehoods. the Radicals can
not deny, but after waiting sometime they
have finally Matched up a counter-charse
that some four or FIVE democratic Senators
wished the pardon of CoNovER some time
since, but this is fact that has been known
for sometime, ss the democrats did not see
the propriety Of imprisoning him while
those who SO suborned him we're allowed to
90 free and FIJI high places.
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AS an earnest that l possessed the abil-
ity to do what | engaged, and in order to
satisfy some of their party who doubted
the existence Of evidence to connect you
with the assassination conspiracy, Ashley
and Butler desired and pressed me to send
for two or three persons Of whose intelli-
gence and qualification they could satisfy
themselves, and whom they could parade
before their incredulous friends.
81 consented, and Ashley supplied the
facts it was desired they should know and
repeat, and / forwarded them to trusty
friend, with secret explanations as to my
own purposes, and instructions to him to
procure two other friends to commit to
memory the statements inclosed to him, and,
when sent for, to come here and repeat
them (but not under oath) to such persons
as should indicate.
AFTER allowing my friends sufficient time
to learn their parts, the Rev. Mr. Mstchett
was sent for then, in order that it might
be said that the agent for the impeachers
had found the witnesses, and that thier
character for veracity was above suspicion.
"On arriving here, these persons we're in
spected by Ashley ard Butler, and were
found to possess the required qualifications
as to intelligence and personal appearance
But unfortunately for the impeachers, it
was deemed necessary to make some chang
es-modi6cations in some, and additions to
other positions of their statements-before
presenting them to tie lukewarm radicals
it was intended to indame. It being i'm.
practicable for the men to see me at the
jail on such business, and equally SO for me
to communicate to them the desired chan
ges and explanations and instructions in