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Dated April 81, 1863. 40
IN Notwithstanding COUNTY

IN PROBA TE-MANITOW0C{ COUNTY
i Cout In the matter of the estate If Mich
Gel Driscol. deceased. ~ So Qa*
On reading and filing the petition Of Thomas
Goggin, Administrator Of the Estate Of said
deceased, representing, among other things.
that he has fully administered said estate, and
praying that time and place be fixed for ex-
aiming and allowing his account of his adj
minis5ration, filed in this Court. 1t is ordered
that said account be examined by the Judge of
this Court, on Monday, the It'll dry of May, A.
d. 1868, at 10 o'clock, A NJ, at my Office in
said County. Ordered further, that notice
thereof be given to the heirs of said deceased
and to Ill persons interested, by publishing a
copy Ct this order for three weeks prior to said
day Of hearing, in the Manitowoc Pilot, a week
ly newspaper published at Manitowoc, in said
County. GEO. w. BARKER,
- County Judge.
Dated April Is, 1868 -af.4 40
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NTANIToWoC COUNTY CIRCUIT OERT
ltl Nary K Nelson, pIailrjff aglinst Har-

NTAYITowoC COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
Itl Mary K. Nelson, Plain IF Against Har.
ny II. Nelson, defendant. Sthirons seo6ir Re-
lief. Complaint served o'iisAIiHf ssl.5 2Fbi
The State of Wisconsin. 10 the ADORE named
defendant: SIn-You are hereby summoned
and required to answer the Complaint in this
action, Of which copy is herewith served up
On yeu, and serve copy OF Meui. answer on me
at my Office in the Viilageland County of Man
itowocn Wisconsin, within twenty days after the
service hereof, exclusive of the day of such
service and if you fail to answer the COM
plant as aforesaid, the plaintiff will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded in the Com
plainf Il oers-a 9sU s9ibB3 .Gf5oI
Dated April IS, A. D. !sestg q TiaH 1ie'ss
ssrs,aeE.s b. TREAT. Plaintiffs Attorney
!. A copy. Of the complaint in this action
has this dy been fled in the Office ofthe Clerk
of the, CIRCUIT Court ofrMfitoyec County,
A prii is, 1868 e59 III e. b TREAT,
Plaintiff Attorney.
Dated April Fl, 1863. 40
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Change in(CattleT salesI

After the first Of January, 1868, Cattle
Sales will be held in Kossuth Town, near =.
Shimoncs's country store,~ ON the following
days III y z 4 a Il ~ & ~
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DEAFNESS, !,

Noise in the Head, Discharges from the Ear.
Catarrh, Fits, Asthma, Rheumatism, Nsu.
ralgia, and removes Cancers. i 'soE
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uU = 10 10 NOVembcr
Sellers and purchasers are respectfully in
vited to attend
arid g2 n JOHN KRAIN5u
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- q yge-7 e AS Prices Ia
DRY GOODS.

Having purchased full stock of goods dur
rg the great panic in prices, am enabled to
sell all best styles.
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T f W F L E s.
Fruit &iVegetable
sqsS TO r EsH

ORDER E0R PROOF OF wILL-STATE
~ of Wisconsin, Manitowoc County, IS.
Probate Office, April IS, A. D. 1868. esaiia
In the matter of the Proof and Probate eft
last will and testament Of Catharine Meal, de-
ceased, late of the County Of Manitowoc
Whereas, an instrument in writing purportihg
to be tthes hst Filhand TESTAMENT Of CstAarine
Meal, deceased, late of the County Of Manito-
woc, bus been fled in this Office; and where
as. application has been made by John Neal
praying that the same be proven and admitted
to Probate aecordingto the laws Of this State
Therefore, it is ordered that said application be
heard before me at the Probate Office Ia mo
Village Of Manitowoc, in said County, on, the
Eleventh day of May, A. D., 1853, at 100 check
+ IN. And it is further ordered that notice
he given TO all persons interested in said Will,
of the time and place of said hearing, BY pub
licAlp9in tn Manitowoc Pilot, ., newspaper
printe6in Sid e,.unty, for three successive
weeks, once each week, prior to the time Of
said bearing. By the Court. go
Is, GEO. W. BARKER, County Judge.
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TWO thousand Barrels,
MICHIGAN LAND PLASTER

Fresh and direct from the mills, which will
have On hand for sale early in the spring,
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CHOICE GROCERIES.
Christmas Presents,

Consisting of toys of all kinds, fancy can
dies, &C., whic / bought at aucti n ices,
and shall sell them at half their value, as |
will close them OFT on or before Christmas
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and 7 could Iiek:: ::him and not hardly

and 7 could Iieks.him and not hardly
try; and I don't, think be was
healthy either, for i never saw a
good little boy that wasn't always
sick, and had the mumps, and
measles, and the scarlet fever, and
wasn't a coaghins all the while,
and hadn't to take castor-oil, and
tarwater, and couldn't eat cher
ries, and didn't have to have his
head patted till all the hair was
rubbed off by everybody that
came to his mothers, and be asked
how old he was, and who died to
save sinners, and what he had
been studin' az school, and how
far he'd got, and lots of other con
undrums, and have to say bis cate
chism no II should not, like to be
a good Iittleboy, I'd just -as-lief be
an angel and bedonc with it. But
/ don't think I shall ever be a
good little boy, and ether people
don't think so, too, for I wasn't
never called a good little boy but
once, and that: was. when Uncle
John asked me where [ stood in
my class, and I told him it was
next to the head, and he called me
a, coed boy and asked who was in
my class, and when I told him
only me and another boy be shock
his head and said he was afraid I
never would be a good boy, : :,
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A REMARKABLF EscAPE.-A re-
markahe account is given in a
late English paper Of the escape
of convict from prison. The sell
in which he was confined had an
iron door, with q lock entirely on
the outside. The only implements
the prisoner had were a wooden
spoon, some bits Of wire and a
needle and thread. Out OF the
spoon he had made key; by
means of the needle he passed a
thread over and under the door;
bits Of wire were pushed through
the inspection hole, and fastened
to this long thread extending out
side from top to bottom. The key
was also pushed through, and
being fastened to the thread, was
brought opposite the keyhole by
dexterous manipulation Of he
slender line, worked gently in,
then turned by means of the wire,
and the door was opened. This is
certainly one Of the greatest exhi-
bitions of skill and patience on re-
cord:
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-AXR&-

RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS
is a powerful combination
now forming in this city, headed
be Jay Cooke, for the purpose Of
securing an early resumption
of specie payments. The com
bination is said to embrace a large
number ofthe ablcst men in the
Republican ranks, who repudiate
the proposition of Senator Sher-
man to prepare for resumption two
years hence. They express the
determination to have specie pay
ments at much earlier day, and
the purposeis to press for an imme-
date resumption. A leadTn g
politician here, who professes to be-
in the combination, says that the
scheme is fully endorsed by General
Grant, who will throw the whole
weight Of his influence IN it's favor,
and wko will take an active part
in its success.-Washington Letter
nj Baltimore Gazette.
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-. :. - y I-'-..Z- : 13@sSL.
A Georgia Negro's: Expe-

One William Smith, a Conserva-
tive negro residing somewhere in
Middle Georgia, concluded, .a.short
time ago, to travel North and tell
the people the truth with regard
to his race in the South. A part
of his experience in Washington
is given in a letter to the Macon
Telegraph, from which we quote:
When 1 got to Washington I
was tired out and wanted a dram.
So I went into a bar-room, as I
would do in Macon, and asked for
one. The barkeeper looked at me,
raised his eyes, and said, says he,
NO nigges's are allowed to drink
at, this bar" Says I, Il axes your
pardon-I am stranger a travel
ing about, and I wants a drink
nightly, and would you please
tell,me how | can get one? ?? Says
he, "Thar's a perllceman at,.the
door, and if you give hin the
money he will buy one for YOU"
Then l went to the door and
pulled of my hat and stated what
: i wanted: Says he, ''give me fifty
CENTS" which I did. Then says
he, "you stand here" Then he
went in and soon brought out a
little whiskey in tumbler, and 1
drank it in the street. Then T
stopped a while to see if there was
any change coming, and he says.
says he, "whatsis you waiting for?"
Says I, "a little change if you
please" Says he, "change hell;'
we don't wait ON niggers for moth
ing up here.
Then I next encountered a gen
tleman in high place, holding an
office of both trust and honor un;-
der the United States Government
and I assure you he talked very
plain. Says he. 1--WE Northern
people have no use for. negroes
We are willing you should be free,
and have freed you, but as for
equality notions. they are all stuff
and nonsense. Do you reckon You
could set at my table? No, you
could not come inside my gate.
You negroes must learn to keep:
your place. The Soath is the best
place for you to live in. If you
come North yeu will 'starve, for
We have no place for you. here
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The Destruction of Fort La
fayette.
NEr Vopu nonapo har

A thrill of joy passed over liber-
ty-lookipg New York yesterday
when itbecame known that Fort
Lafayette was no more. The
American Bastile is destroyed
Perish with it all the horrible re-
collections of those black days of
despetism, when in the name Of
liberty, and in the madness of the
the hour crimes were committed
that history, it is hoped, will for
givingly overlook when the true
story Of our civil war is to be
Written. There it stands to-day,
at the. entrance Of the model Re-
public's greatest harbor, black
mass Of ruin and desolation, ut
terly useless and too ugly to look
at. There may it's ruins remain,
never to be rebuilt for purposes
such as have disgraced the great
national fortress during the past
eight years. The cinders from
the smouldering ruins are hailed
with delight, not only by those Of
our citizens who, in a time Of ter
ror, were unjustly incarccrated in
that fort, but also by the thousands
to whom the very existence Of the
fort became an eye-sore ever since
it had been turned into a despotic
bastile by men charged with pro-
tecting the liberties of a free peo:
pie.
Circumstances so willed it whilo
the fire was raging, that not sin
gle human hand was once occu-
pied in checking the progress Of
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crack went a rifle and down went
the biggest peccary. 1t took me
SO by surprise that l dropped to
the ground and saw that my friend
had come up. But he was soon in
as bad a fix as I had been my
self.
The peccaries made a rush for
him, and he was glad to do as [
had done-drop his rifle and hist
himself up a tree. Ihad made for
my. rife and loaded it and fred;
when the pesky things turned on
nae, and I had to drop itagain and
run up the tree double quick. Then
my friend he come down, got his
rife, and blazed away at them
agin; then they went at him full
pelt; then I come down and fired
agin; and. we kept on, firing turn
about until-you may believe me
or not, as you. please, stranger
we done this fifteen times, and
killed the thirty peccaries between
u.s." =.
This story, with occasional va
riations and additions, was told as
a true story of a Texan hunters
life. Whetherit is true the reader
can determine for himself.
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The Pacific Railroad, we are
told, will be completed by next
July, thus placing the Atlantic sea-
board within six days oommuni-
cation with the Pacific. One Of
the first great results achieved by
this great enterprise will be to di-
vert the European travel to and
from China, Japan and India across
the American continent. The time
now occupied by the Eastern route
is about sixty days, and it will be
reduced by the completion of the
new road to tbirty-6ve days. 1t
will be a long time before the
march ofiIlprovement in Asia and
the East will be able to overcome
this advantage. In the meantilae,
the United States is destined to
reap 3 rich harvest, incident to
the new route. A vast increase
in the ocean marine Of the Allan
tic and Pacific ports will be among
the first of it's results, and a pros
porous impetus will be speedily
given to all the large cities lying
on the direct line Of communica-
ton, A more thorough intermln-
Cling Of the American with the
European population will not be
among the least important changes
it will bring gabout-and one that is
destined to have great influence
upon our social as we'll as political
relations. The full measure Of the
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Moral Courage.

/. we received b COMMUNICATION
recently prefaced BY this slightly
astounding question Have you
the moral courage to publish the
following
We answer that we have the
moral courage to publish any
thing whatever-if we choose to
do it. -
|, Moral courage is usually one of
an editors weaknesses. ".
He generally has so much NOR
al courage that he is constantly
getting into trouble.
If an editor can cure himself Of
moral courage he may congratu-
late himself.
Horace Greeley never cured
himself Of it-he had even more
than the average to begin with,
perhaps-and SO he is always call
ing some one q blockhead or
faisitier. He can't suppress his
moral courage-it is one too many
for him, and always has been.
Moral courage is an epidemic
among editors.
Every young editor has bis
first attack just as be- had the
measlesand2w whooping-cough when
he was a boy-but he never gets
it entirely out Of his system. 1t
breaks out every now and then
even when he gets as old as the
editors Of the Post have been for
many years.
!: An editor has moral courage if
he hasn't got anything else.
Onr greatest difficulty is to find
one that hasn't got too much.
Whenever we get a young one,
he always has it badly.
He is anxious to attack every
thing within his reach, and unless
We watch him he does it.
Moral courage is an editorial
nuisance.
We've got more than we have
any use for ourselves.
It's lying all around our Office.
We have plenty.to spare if any
body wants any.
AS to our correspondents ques-
ton, We have simply to say that
we should publish his article
we choose to.
We don't choose to-.
We, ourselves, have learned to
suppress our moral 'eourage-ex-
cept when,we see some good rea-
son for letting it out.
The article in question would
hardly' induce any one to punch
the editorial read-and for any
advantage short Of this it isn't
worth while to. get our M. c. un-
der weight:-New York Ereniag'
Mai. -:
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Awell-known wealthy Partisan

Awellknown wealthy Partisan
has had himself PAINTED, by an
eminent artist, ''as he was. ""as he
is" and "as he viii be-" As he was
represents hi-n, at the age of twen-
ty-ave, q poos devil in ragged gar
ments, with his toes peeping
through holes in his shoes, sinking,
halffamished, by the side ola wall.
Gas he is" figures aim fat and Jolly
as an alderman, weH-dressed, with
gold chains decking his waist
coat, and diamond rings blazing on
his fingers. And in "as he will be-"
he is made arotting, hideous corpse.
Not the least single feature ofsuch
a singular freak, is the fact that be
has the paintings hung in his
drawipg-room,
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A Touch SroRY.-There is q
place in Maine so rocky that
when the natives plant corn they
look for erevices in the rocks, and
shoot the grains in with a mus
ket they can't raise ducks there
no how, for the stones are so thick
that the ducks can't get their bills
between them to pick out the
| grass-hoppers, and the only way
the sheep can get at the sprigs Of
grass is by grinding their noses on
grindstone. But this amt a cir
cumstance to place in Maryland
there the land is so poor that it
takes two kildeers to cry "kildeer,"
and on a clear day you can see
the grasshoppers climb up mullin
stalk, and look with tears over
fifty acre field and the bumble-
bees have to 60 down on their
knees to get al, the grass; all the
mosquitoes died Of starvation, and
the turkey buzzards were obliged
to emigrate. But there is a eoun-
try in Virginia which can beat that
there the hand is so sterile when
the wind is northwest they. have
to tie the children TO keep 'em
from being blown away-there it
takes six frogs to raise one croak,
and when the dogs bark they have
to lean. against. the fenccs-the
horses are SO thin that it takes
twelve Of them to make shadow,
and when they kill a beef they
have to hold him up to knock him
down
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A"Hunter freed.

The'S Southern hunters tell Won
depful stories Of their adventures
in the forest. We woald not care
to vouch for them all, nor, indeed,
for all Of any one ofthem; but it is
properto remember that what
appears Incredible to the man Of
civilization, seems to be quite pro-
babie, and even commonplace in
the western wiids. Let us tell .
single story, TO illustrate SONIC 81
their exagerations, which ~as re-
lated to a circle Of Southern men
in Mississippi steamer, and did
not seem TO be doubted as an
authentic incident by anyone Of
them.
The peecary is a>ereature of the
hog species, andis utterly fearless.
It pays no regard to rife balls un-
less they llitit, and never hesitates
TO attack any one and every one,
whether man or beast, that comes
across its, path. A relentless war
is waged against it by the, south
ern hunters, as much for their own
safety as from any love of the
sport. It has won the reputation
of being the only wild game the
experienced huater always, runs
from instead Of stopping to fight.
- A Texan said that once when ne
was shooting in a swamphe killed
a couple of pcccaries. (This crea-
ture roams in fecks numbering
from ten to fty.) In. an instant
the whole company turned. upon
him, and he at once ran to tree
and sprang into it's branches. One,.
two, three hours passed, and yet
no help came. He was separated
from his friends and did not'dare
to stir from his position. Getting
''oneasy both in. body and mind,
he moved little to make his seat
easier," and losing his. balance,
fell. Luckily, he said, he dropped
his rife, and caught hold ofa lower
branch of the tree and 'elung to it
for his life, with his feet within a
couple Of yards ef@the sile.''
"Fhis," he added, twas very
okkard, and l could see the pecca-
ries jumpin' up to catch hold Of
my feet: Fortunately they couldn't
reach, and I thought l was safe;
but only see the cunnin' Of them
critters! Several ofthem lay down
on their stomaehs and others got
on their backs, so >as to form a
platform, the head peccary got on
it, and jumped up and seized me
by the heel Of the right boot. l
kicked at him with my left foot,
like a horse, and wsen we were
strugglin', the other peccaries roll
ed from under him, and left him
hangin' on to my heel by his tusks,
while his friends were a grumblin'
away like mad all round. They
made a most dreadful nize; and my
arms were gettin' tired; and L
began to make up my mind that
I'D have to fall and try what a
rush would do among them, when
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Congressional.

Both Houses organized on Mon
day. In the House, on the 9th,
bills were introduced, electing the
President and Vice-President d.
rectly by the people; removing
political disabilities; abolishing
the funding privilege; to contin-
ue the freedmen's. Bureau in cer-
tain States, etc., by. Pomeroy.
The President was requested to
give information regarding the
relations with the South American
Republics and Brazil. A bill was
introduced, extending the juris-
diction of the Court Of Claims
over Arkansas and Louisiana.
December e.-In the House, a
bill was introduced submitting
the Virginia Constitution to the
people of Virginia on the seven
teenth of January.
The House passed the bill re-
lieving Judge Moses. Contrary
to universal custom, it tabled the
message, instead. of referring it to
Committee of the Whole, and
passed the bill directing the Viz
ginia election on the fourth Thurs
day in May.
In the Senate, q bill relieving
the political disabilities of Judge
Moses, Of South. Carolina, passed.
Sumner introduced a bill relative
to Georgia. The title was read.
WASHINGTON, December9 9.-The
Senate refused, after a few para:
graphs, to hear the Presidents
Message read. Summers Georgia
bill is as follows After promising
that the Leg stature failed to CON-
ply with the Reconstruction Acts,
by omitting to exact the required
oath, and did things utterly un-
justitiable and requiring the inter
zvenrfon Of Congress- ill-dc.
clares the existing government
provisional only, and in all re-
spects subject to the paramount
authority Of Congress, to abolish,
modify or control the same, until
the Legislature complies with all
the requirements Of the, Recon
struction Acts, and adopts the
fourteenth amendment, and SUBJ
iect to the fundamental condition
that ne change be made infringing
on the rights of suffrage of any
class Of citizens. The bill directs
that The Governor elect shall call
the Assembly at Atlanta on or
before April next, excluding, un-
less relieved by Congress, all who
cannot take the prescribed oath.
The Governor is also empowered
to suspend or remove from office
State or municipal officers, and
appoint others in their stead. Fl
nally the President is ordered to
place at the disposal Of the Cover
nor such portion of the army and
navy as may be necessary to pre-
serve life, property, peace and
free expression of political opin
ion.
The Reconstruction Committee
reported a bill relieving from po-
litical disabilities some twenty in
diyiduals, mostly Virginians, in
cladiag Gen. Anderson, formerly
proprietor of the Tredegar Iron
Works.
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the devouring flames. Those who
had been left in charge of the fort,
as well as the workingmen EN-,
ployed in repairing the root, ran
for their lives. fearing the instant
explosion of the powder magazine,
and left the horrid building to its
well-merited fate. And a clean
work was made Of it. Not only
all the lumber piled in the fort
which first caught fire, but every
thing except par, of the mere out
ward walls has been consumed.
Even the shells and shot exploded
in the air one after another, while
the lurid flames beautifully lit up
the great hartor. Not a thing is
left that can serve. any purpose
whatever, if there, still exists in
the minds Of some, a. desire to re-
enact the scenes of the past, which
God forbid! The Government
loses a. valuable fortress, bat its
very destruction may be a fore
runner Of better things to come.
The families; that resided at Fort
Hamilton have not all returned
yet to their abodes, the fears Of
explosion not having entirely yet
vanished. Fortunately no. lives
have been lost by the constant
explosion of shells, which contin-
ued during the entire night, and
which made the passage down
harbor rather perilous at one
time, ~ Correspondent Charleston
Courier,
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=. The~ following. correspondence
explains itself: In consideration
for the modestys of some Of the
partles,~ we give only initials:
! New YORK. Nov. 1O.-General
J-n M:C-e-Dear General; For
rest says | am "a liar, poltroon
and sceundrel." What do you
think about it? Truly, &C.,
JUDsoN FITZPATRICK.
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NO. ST..

advantages to accrue to the ,coun-
try by the completion of the Pa
cifc Railroad can hardly be prop
crly appreciated until actually ,ex-
perienced.-CAarleston Neus,