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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-04-15
M THESE HARD TIMES

OF DRY GOODS. LINENS, PARAsoLs, ALBUMS,
HOSIERY, SILVER PLACED WARE, JEWELRY
CUTLERY FRENCH and GERMAN FANCY GOODS
of every description. you can purchase any thing
in their immense stock for
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
Annual Reudkt of the State Treasurer.

From the annul report Of the State
Treasurer, soon to BE- published, we alb
stract few leading fact. and figures.
The balence in the General Fund at
the close of the fiscal year was $44. 946.-
IS.
The receipts into the General Fund
from all sources during the year, have
been 1914, 995.7O
Total amount in General Fund during
the year, S9Ol, 942 oS
Total disbursements from the General
Fund having been s9l9,372, SO.
Leaving balance of $56s.75.
The balance remaining in the treasury
at the close Of the fiscal year 1868, was
sl53,s3o SO
The receipts of the treasury during the
year, including the above balance,
amount to 1889, 755, CT,
Total disbursements during the year,
1883, s2O27.
Leaving in the treasury the sum of
sl55- 1885, 40.
In closing his report, the State Treas
urer, William Smith, Esq, invites the
public DIT their representatives, to make a
through examination of the manner in
which the accounts have been kept, and
the duties performed. He com ailments
the subordinates in the treasury Office, for
henor and efficiency.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

The London Examiner in noting
the fact that fifteen per cent, of the civil
war debt has already been paid off by
the Americans in gold, draws attention
to the further fact that they who advocate
liquidation in greerbacks instead of dol
lars were for the most part those whom
shifting and supercilious politicians in
England affected to sympathize with ex-
ciuslvely, as the chivalrous and high
minded class among their countrymen
whom majority Of less gentle birth and
bearing had driven to desperation by
their anti slavery zeal Succession, said
these gentleman, might be wrong, but
at all events, it was the cause of men of
gallantry and honor. How, then, it is
now aptly asked, comes it to pass, that
the struggle being over, and all men re-
turning professedly to their old places
and occupations again, and those who
were exclusively extoled in England as
worthy of all honor have alone been sug-
costing compromise with the public
creditor at sixteen shillings on the pound:
while the antagonists, whose hearts
blood was split like water in the feud.
are prepared to pay the uttermost farth-
ing?
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
THE FINANCIAL STRINGENCY.
Signs of the Coming End Of High
Prices
from the Philadelphia Ledger.

from the Philadelphia Ledger.l
The end of high price of almost every
thing seems to be approaching, and if
not hurried by crash it will be well.
The recent failure of an old and supposed
to be wealthy, wine house of New York,
has quickened apprehension In the mon
ey market, and apprehension is the nour-
ishment OF trouble in the same line. AT
Chicago we have reports Of an apprehcn-
sion panic there. At Louisville there is
a right sharp pressure, with high rates
for money, and an indisposition on the
part of the banks to discount. From
Cincinnati reports are current ola SINH
lar condition of affairs. This years grain
and produce have only been marketed to
a limited extent, and the current prices
thus far obtained have been SO unsatis
factory that the west is poorer than it
was before. The farmer is now selling
his wheat in currency for lower price
than he got in gold before the war, while
he bought his land, hired his labor, and
purchased his supplies on an inflated ba-
sis. In plain words this is the real troub-
le with the west at the present time
The hog crop is yet to be harvested and
grave apprehensions are beginning to be
excited everywhere lest prices give way
at the commencement of movement
Considering the embarrassments which
have been occasioned by the low range
of prices in grain,a corresponding decline
in the price of hogs would be but natur-
al, though an event which would greatly
compllcate and aggravate present imam
cial troubles already shown at the west,
having given signs here at tie east.
These facts point to the grand conclusion
of forced sales and lower prices. 1t has
long been felt that the prices were exor-
bitantly high, but it has been difficult to
find point at which to begin reduc-
ton, so interviewer are all the several
products of labor, and so dependent is
each upon another. The wages of labor
cannot come down while the cost of all
the articles necessary to the feeding and
clothing of the laborer's family are high,
nor can the production Of those articles
lessen in price while the cost Of labor is
kept up. High prices in one direction
make them necessary in another, and no
one is willing to begin the downwar9
movement. Each is anxious to get all
he can for labor or the product of labor.
The desired reform seems to be awaiting
some irresistible crisis, financial or other
wise, involving all the interests Of the
country. Whether this movement at
the west. beginning with the stringency
in money, at time OF unusually abund-
ant crops of bread stuffs and produce, is
first step toward general decline in
prices, little time will determine. If
it shall be so accepted by producers as
we'll as consumers, and be pliantly yield
ed to, the crisis that has been awaited as
necessary to enforce the result may be ma
terially shorn of its severity.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
RATE of Interest on our Debt.

We 20 not choose to dogmatize nor to
assume superior wisdom with regard to
funding our National Debt yet we feel
confident that the problem is imperfectly
apprehended by some who discuss it with
much assurance. For instance we are
told that the United States cannot bar
row at four per cent, while Russia, Tur-
key, and sundry other powers, are IN the
market for large loans at higher rate.
These averments seem to US to ignore a
most vital element of the problem The
United States do not want to borrow
more money, as other nations do, but
tess, We are quite awae that funding
so large Debt as ours at so low rate
as four per cent, would be impossible
without a steady, vigorous deduction of
our Indebtedness during the process.
That is the essence of cur solution. Keep
buying up and burning Five to Ten Mil
lions of our bonds each month, with a
firm resolution that this process is to be
maintained indefinitely, and we have
strong faith that four per cent, bond
running twenty years at all events, and
thence ledeemable at the pleasure of our
Government within the next twenty, I'M
taxable, and paying interest quarterly
can, with good management, be fioated
at par. And if it can, the annual bur-
den of our great Debt may thereby be re-
duced nearly or quite one-third-a saving
which of itself would extinguish the
whole Debt within a lifetime. At all
events, We trust that fair trial of the
experiment will be made before higher
rate is submitted to.-Neao York Tifb
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

SUICIDE BY A BUSINESS MAN.-Yes-
terday afternoon, W. Mullenbach, Il
gar aud tobacco dealer, No, 403 East wa
ter street. shot himself through the heart,
causing instant death. The sad affair
took place at the residence of the descas.
ed in the first ward. The cause is not
known, and probably never will be. Yes
terday tobacco firm in this city, to
whom the deceased was indebted some
$4,000 waited upon him, and it was un.
derstood would press their claim, AT
noon Mr. Mul.enbach ate his dinner as
usual. and appeared in his. good spirits,
but after dinner went to his room. In
a few mom1nts the report of a pistol was
heard, and MIR. NJ. was found by the bed
side, shot through the heart, the dis
charged pistol by his side, and he quiet
dead He leaves wife and two chill
dren. He had policy of insurance for
So, 600 upon his life Wisconsin,.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
Bloody ARRAY in Tennessee.

A Memphis dispatch says : A terri
BILE affray near Tiptonville, Tennessee
Sunday. A party of masked men we. t
to the house of William Jones, planter,
for the purpose Of disarming the negroes
working for him. jones having intima-
ton of their coming, determined TO resist,
as the negroes had been peaceabie and
we'll disposed, and made proper means for
defence When the raiders came, they
were met with Obstructive fire, which
caused them to retreat, leaving one OF
their number dead, and two MORALLY
wounded The dead one proved to be
Robert Dickinson, living across the Ken
lucky line. His cousin Robert Beau
champ. died next morning. He said he
was led into the scrape.
The excitement the next day was in
tense. Officers came and arrested MIR.
Jones and six of the negroes. Owing to
the excitement, Mr.. Joues was taken to
the river in the charge of the deputy
sheriff, placed on the steamer Louisville,
and brought here. while the sheriff with
the negroes started for Troy but on the
way they were attacked by a posse, who
took FIVE of the negroes into the woods
and shot them down. The sheriff, by
UaEu UCSglHS3 suCCCCuGu III Saving LIZ
life of the other one. who was taken to
Troy and put into jail:
The excitement in Upton is immense,
and as the parties who were shot are well
known it is supposed other blood will be
shed, even if the matter is settled.
Willis Jones at whose house the tragic
ARRAY occurred, states that he had an in
terview with the parties who attacked his
house on the Monday proceeding the aft
ray, and warned them that he would de-
fend his negroes to the last also that
Hicks, one of the men wounded, had at
tempted to whip one Of the negroes be-
FORE The ARRAY grew out IF the enmity
of Hicks and others to negroes. The
parties are all Southern men.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
OUR RAIL ROAD,

We publish to day communication on
our Railroad question from an esteemed
friend in Two Rivers, who expresses him
self very favorably for our Western road
That is all very well and we arc in IA
vor OF Western road as much anybody,
but, when we are threatened with being
cut off entirely from the West BY Rail
road between the two lakes, Michigan
and Winnebago, it is our humble opinion
very high time for us, to try to come in,
at the least for share of the transpor-
tatlon from the immense Northwestern
country to the Eastern and Southern
emporirms. And this is not the time
for US to daily any longer. We certainly
have done all that has been asked of us
to obtain Western road, and.'sofar.witb-
out avail. All>our citizens who have the
most interest in our Village, every banker,
merchant and mechanic of any influence
are tired of waiting any longer for the
promises made to us for the last fifteen
years of obtaining a Western road and
are now bound to employ every means
and energy to bring the proposed Mil
waukee and Fox River Railroad to our
Village and thence to the Fox River
Of our prospects. in that event, for
Western road we have spoken in our last
ISSUE and only add that not only the
Fox river country is anxious to connect
with us from the Northwest, but also the
East wiH soon come to US very soon to
connect as with the Northern Michigan
Railroad at Manistee and thence connect
with the entire chain of Eastern roads
All 1Fe want is unity of action and we shall
see our efforts crowned with full success.
Our Committee have been visiting our
business men North Of US andreport very
fayorably, they have gone to Milwaukee
on Tuesday, whence the news
SO far is very encouraging.
Let us all do our best no,o for
Lake Shore Road and the Western road
will, we might say, come to us without
any further great efforts on the part of
our Village which will then soon be a CITY
of twenty thousand inhabitants.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

1t is a noteworthy fact that corn, oats,
and coarse grains generally, as we'll as
pork and beef command high prices in
the Chicago market, and in the west
generally. Why farmers should devote
their time to wheat raising when not one
year in five is profitable one. we cannot
determine. The production Of butter
and cheese, or the raising of stock, very
rarely fails to return fair profit. The
continuation OF the present low price of
wheat for year or two may work a
radical change in this respect.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
The Indians and Fire Water.

The following is taken from the Wis-
consin and shows that Poor Lo" is get
ing still lower and lower in the estima-
ton of the Milwaukee police.
A few dusky braves went to Madison
and visited their great Father. The IA
Their talked to them, giving them much
sound advice, and advised them to steer
clear of Fire water. AS good Indians
will, they promised, and receiving their
presents, they set out for home. On Fri
day night one Of them was taken to the
station house very drunk and last night
four more fognd them selves in the same
quarters. Arriving here and telling the
same old story, ME good Injin-gib me
ten cents" they soon raised money
enough to get entirely drunk, and the
Indian came out Taking possession
of one of the bridges the braves had a war
dance, which was interrupted by the pol
ice, and the four braves were locked up
in one cell.
There is considerable romance about
tho noble red man taken from any point
of view in the radius extending from
Cooper to Sylyanus Cobb, but when you
leave the latter point and strike that of
IRE WAFER Tie IOLiduCe fanlSQoS. ne
four braves seated on the cell door, and
striving hard to keep their heads up
not only looked, but smelled, the picture
of despare. Evidently they had been
better used in Madison than in .Miwau-
kee, for the burden of their song all the
long night was ''me good injun-me
want to go see great father me no stay
here-great father say good Ingin come
back
Pow -wow-ski-nig- 6-fo- fun,
Good Ipjin- want go Mad i-son"
GOOD Ingln" could not go, but was
compelled to stay in his cell all night and
be turned out this morning to go off and
get drunk again.
Alas, Poor Lo-how very low.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
PREMIUMS IN CASH.

mailed to the thirteen parties entitled them Cor
livered to their orer) thd twenty fourth day of
January 1870.
The addresses of the successful parties will be given
in the WEEKLY TRIBUNE of the twenty fifth of jam
airy, 1870, together with the sizes of the winning
clubs.
Persons making up clubs in compliance with the
sbove terms will secare twenty per cent commits
sIy how, and if their club is ofthe thir'
leTGest will draw one another of the above
N idms.
AzrMoney by draft, express, money orders, or in
registered letters, may be sent at our risk.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
NeiU advertisements.

State of wisconsin, ManitOW 0e Co.'s
~ Probate Office Manitowoc Nov. II, A. D. 1862
In the matter OF the Proof and Probate Of the
will and testament Of Frederick Schmidt deceased
late of the county of Mantowoc
Whereas, an instrument in writing, purporting to
be the last will and testament of Frederick Schmidt
deceased, late OF the county of Maniowoc mas been
filed in this office and whereas application has been
made by Henry Schmidt praying that the same be
proven and admitted to Prob according
OF this state: Therefore, it ordered that said APP
pication be heard before at the Probate Office in
Manitowoc in said county on the 18th day of Deem
Der, A D. 1869. at 10 o clock A. N.
And 1t Is further ordered that notice shall be given
to all Persons interested in said will of the time aud
place OF said hearing, by publication in 'The Manito-
Voc ribune, newspaper printed in said county, for
three successive weeks, each week. prior the
time of such hearing. T323Bl
u. W. BARKER County Judge
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
Indrn Hnnh RranLenr;de

Judge Hugh Breckenridge, of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, while
riding through Westmoreland couny, Pa,
saw young girl, who was going out to
milk the cows, place her hand on the top
rail of fence, and spring over. ssIfyou
do that again. my girl, l Will marry yo'r. y
The girl did so. The judge dismounted,
saw the parents of the girl. and told them
that he would undertake the education of
their daughter and, afterwards marry her,
which was done.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

A Democratic politician in New
York declares that the principles of his
party are as ''old as the stars and as
unshanging as the moon" Democracy
compared to the moon is excellent. The
moon changes twice every month. 1t
wakes and it wanes. Democracy waned
under Buchanan, and has been ''waxed
ever since.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

MASONIC. the Free Masons Of
Europe are summoned to meetin general
convention at Paris, on the day when
the Ecnmenical Council meets in Rome,
the Grand master of France having an
idea that the Roman assembly mcnaces
the order.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

HE SPEAKERsHIP.-Th Racine .4d-
rocote, Wxukesha FTeeman, Fort Akin
son Herald, Waupun Leader, and Fond
du Lac COmnaonU salsh, favor the cleo
ton Of Hon. J. NJ. Bingham as Speaker
of thenext Assembly. We hope to see
him elected and have recommended him
: early as possible.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

THE CLOSING UP-Though there are
some movements in our river and harbor,
navigation for this year may be considered
as closed. Firm Ice is made every night,
and it is only by keeping tug constant
ly going that channel is kept open
through which belated vessels and steam
ers can move around.-G. q. Adrocate.
Brother Robinson, it seems to us that
the best thing your people can do is to
hurry up that Manitowoc and Green Bay
Railroad. Our navigation is about as
brisk as ever and will be Interrupted
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
GUARDIAN SALE.

nProbate--M anti wcc Comfy Court
L In the matter OF the estate of Frederick noeing
deceased Notice is hereby given that by virtue and
n Pursuance OF an Order of License made in said
natter, on the 18th day of November A. D. 1869 by
he County Court of said County, the undersigned
iurdlan to the minor eirs of Frederick Doeing de-
eased will, on Monday the 2Gth day of December
y u lS69 at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day
It the office OF the County Judge, in the Village OF
hanitowoc, in said County, offer for SALE at Public
tendue The following described lands to-wit The
eq OF swq of section a. Town 20 Range %, Manito-
VOC County. The terms of sale Cash.
r. I. BLAKE, Guardian.
1899. 1e-nss- st ''e' a. -
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Administrators Notice.

The undersigned, having been appointed admins
traitors of the estate of Henry Berner deceased no
ce is hereby given to all persons indebted to said de-
ceased that payment must be made the undersigned
at once steps will be taken to enforce collection
the same.
Dated, Manitowoc Aug. %, 1869
MARTIN FOLLENDORF,
20h CHARLES HAUKCHL.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
Its Market Reports

Are unusually full and minute. The great CONNER
cia staples of the West which of especial interest
to its readers. and which in Eastern paI
sarily limited omitted altogether, IRE infinitely
considered and the Western farmer or trader gains
this information from Chicago days earlier than
he get it from and Eastern paper if he finds
1t there at all. The telegraph market reports
TRIBUNE embrace every commercial centre of Europe
and the United States which can have any influence
upon Western produce trade Industry. Its reports
of the cattle markets. of Chicago and the principal
Eastern cities prepared with the utmost care by
special reborters Of long experience and training In
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

Gen. Grant has made reduction III
the Government offices at Washington
under his administration of $4,000, 900 a
year. How does that sound for extrava-
gance2
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
New Features.

On the LIST ofJanuary next, several important chan,
ges and Improvements will be made in the publication
of The WEEKLY CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Increased atten
ton will be given to its literary and agricultural de-
pd,tnae'ts. The ,eios of the geek both local and
general, will DE carefully rewritten and condensed
down to the hour of going to press and each nuuber
will contain original editorial and literary matter
which will appear in no other edition of The TRIB-
wv. 1t is the determination of the publishers to
make it second to Journal in the United States as
family paper and in order place it within the reach
of every Farmer, Mechanic, Business Man and Family
in the West we have made the following extraordn-
AIRY low schedule of prices for clubs which, consider
ing the size of the sheet and the of reading
matter that it contains, makes THE TRIBUNE the
cheapest paper in the United States.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02

THE CHEAPEST AND BEST FAMILY PAPER
IN THE LIND
TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE is emphatically the Pee.
pies Advocate. 1t is opposed to monopolies
rings, and swindng combinations of kinds. 1t has
interests alliencss apart from those the great
public to whose friendship and patronage it is indebted
tor the measure of prosperity enjoys distinguish
ing characteristic of the CHICAGO tribune is that it
always boldly takes the initiative ON important pub
lie questions and waits for time and reflection among
the people to prove that it is right.
The tissues.
1t seems to be morally certain that with the ex-
ton of the Fifteenth Amendment questions relating
to the Public Debt Taxation, and the Currency will
be the ruling and governing issues upon which the
country will be divided 1t is proper, therefore, to
indicate the views of those questions which TRI-
BUNE Will main tain and defend. 1t holds
/. That irrede enable and iuctuating currency
is the most expensive injurious and oppressive form
of circulating medium for all classes of people,
cept only the spectators and stock-gtmblers.
2. That the credit of the nation is its most vaua-
BILE posSession and that the efforts the government
sho be constanted directed TO the improvement of
its credit to the end that its bonded debt may be re-
funded at a lower rate of interest.
8. That, with the restoration of the public credit
the business of banking should Free subject
to the safeguards which may by prescrib-
ed by law.
4. That all taxes imposed upon the people should
nue. for the government, and that there should be
material and speedy reduction in the existing rate
of taxation both under the internal revenue and the
tariff systems
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-02
AgricuIturaI Depart,nent

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE will have the services of it's
well known correspondent Rural and will in adj
dition. contain weekly summary of agricultural in
tellgence relating to the latest and most approved
methods of cultivation, and all the scientific research
and practical experiments whose results are of value
to agricultural, horticultural, and stock-raisng
community living upon the rich prairie lands of the
West
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As A NnwsnaDer

THE TRIBUNE claims pre-emine,ace among Western jour
mails. 1t eqpends money for news than any
other publication west of New York. 1t maintains
corps of correspondents and special reporters equal in
number and intelligence to those of any New York
paper and, by liberal of tho telegraph il is en-
abled to bril- before Western reaers all the news of
the day-political, commercial, and miscellaneous
ta0o days earlier than any Eastern Journal