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Forty -TPIRD CONGRESS, UNITED STATES,
HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WAsHINGrnN d @ Mnrch q 1ST4

Hon IT. J. MAoKEY: Gen. Sherman
has shown me your letter describing the
graceful tribute offered by our late antag-
Onists to two of our dead soldiers from the
West. As one of the army of the Union,
allow me through you to present my
thanks to those who participated In this
commendahe tribute from one soldier to
another, | have often said that there is
but little bitterness among the men who
stood in arms on either side each, so far
rs | know, readily acknowledges the man
hood OF their opponents. Time, the great
consoler, will wear out soon all asperity
that now survives, and the common neces-
sites, common interest, and common pro-
gress OF an undivided country will give
room enough for honorable emulation, and
for consistent labor for common good
Such acts as you commemorate will 90 far
to bring about a higher and better state OF
feeling and are worthy of graceful and
kindly notice. Your Obedient servant,
). A. HURLBUT,
Late Major Gen. United States Volun-
teers.
After reading the above noble tributes
TO the honor and chivalry of our mistaken
OOuhll yhen' VIC suOulu ne RlaQ 10 nave
Gems. Sherman md Hurlbut take a look at
the piece of ground on the Island of Rock
Island, where lie the bodies of 1000 of our
countrymen who died at Rock Island mill
tary prison; who were buried in rough
boxes, in trenches, and whose graves have
been ploughed down to level with the
earth have not even a board to mark
their localities or numbers OF names, and
four captured cannon, one at each corner
OF the plat, with muzzle in the ground, aud
on each engraved Rebel Cemetery r.
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that he was a fool and we do not now pos |
itively deny it. We hope that he is not an
out and out fool, ias his present public
manifestations would lead one to infer, be-
cause he is 80 mixed up with the very ex-
traordinary a1darian movement which now
is stopping over the land where some saw
ing grains Of sense are so much needed.
Mr.. Lewis has hitherto been chiefly known
as the anostle of reformed system of
dress and diet, the first based on the prin-
ciple of ugliness, and the last on that of
emptiness A good many of that type of
New England women who wear spectacles
ard cut their back hair short have adopt
ed Dio Lewis s systems of attire and feed
ing to the terror of their households and
their neighborhoods, but they soon famish
and pass away. So the Lenten regimen OF
the Doctor does not bid fair to root out the
old-tashloned New England devotion to
fiesh pots and pork and beans. If he had
confined himself to these chimerical and
visionary Outgivings we should have had
only word of regret for the fools who
starved themselves because the Doctor had
a weak stomach, or limited their personal
embellishments to flannel petticoats and
brogans because the Doctor was without
any sense OF the beautiful But he emer-
ges upon wide and more important apos-
tolship, and wants looking after, We be-
lieve he claims to have invented prayer as
applied to publicans We have no objec-
tion to his assumption of patent on this
device, nor upon his exaction of royalty
Of so much night for his patent, with his
presence and palaver thrown in; but the
female aquarians ought to be permitted to
exercise their discretion as to when and
where and under what circumstances they
will uplift their voices ofsupplicatiOn. But
the Doctor seems to think his advice and
direction is necessary on that point. He
thinks they should go ''in parties of five, "
in the forenoon; often the best way,
he says, lis to kneel in the corner of the
saloon and pray earnestly in silence. If
on a second visit they be denied admission
let them pray for the proprietor knceling
close by the door, Our own hope is that
the women who engage in this work will
take counsel of their own good sense and
delicacy of feeling, and not be led into alb
surdities by this bumptious, bean -consum-
ing apostle. Without his intervention the
movement may retain whatever of force OF
dignity it has ever possessed, but under
his direction it will speedily become mark
for dcrisinn- y World
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Castor Oil Pills.

The safety and certainty of action of Castor OIL
lor both children and adults, has made it at all
times popular, because it is reliable medicine
THE ONLY OBJECTION
to It's constant use is the difficulty of administering
u 10 children and It's nauseousness to adults. Both
these objections are now entirely overcome. The
Proprietor, by the application OF the principles of
chemistry, aided by q careful manipulation and
long practical experience, has at length succeeded
in accurately combining,
IN A SOLUBLE FORM,
all the medicinal elements of Castor Oil with other
harmless but valuable vegetable products These
Pills being coated with sugar will be found easy
and pleasant to take and, as they contain neither
mercury nor minerals in any form are a very SAFE
medicine in all cases where purgatives are reo1ired
such
Bilious Disorders
SICK HEADACHE AND FoULNEss OF THE
STOMACH
Habtual Costiveness and Piles.
fevers and Inflammation and asa
GENERAL BLOOD PURIFIER,
Lhey viii be found invaluable; also very desirable
FEMALES IN DELICATE HEALTH,
None other should be used
VIM. SCRUTON, Proprietor.
81 Barclay street, N \.
Price % Gents per hox.
For sale by all Druggists.
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CLIMAX! CLIMAX !

Pages Climax Salve, a Family
blessing for 25 cents.
1t heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
Wewarrant it to cure Scrofula
Sores, Salt Rheum, ChiIblains,
Sore Breasts or Nipples, Burns,
Scalds, Cuts, and Sprains.
1t has been used over twenty
years, without one failure.
IthasnOpa parallel-having per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is compound of
Arnica with many other Extracts
and Balsams, and putup in larger
bOxesfOr thesame price than any
other Ointment.
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H0NoRs TO THE DEAD.
Responses Of Generals sherman and HurlO

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF UNITED STATES,
WASHINGTON. March 9, 1874.
Hon. T. J. Macl<ey, Judge sixth circuit Chester'
SC:
My DEAR SIR have the honor to
acknowledge receipt OF your letter of 7th
inst, enclosing slips from the Columbia, s.
c.. Union Herald, giving an account OF
the exhumation of two Of the soldiers be-
longing to Kirkpatrick's cavalry, by their
former enemies, now citizens OF Lancaster
county, s. O., and of their escort by them,
with all the honors Of war TO Column bla, .;
O., where their remains were transferred
to the custody of Col H. NJ. Black, United
States army, and were by him sent, under
escort, to their final resting places, the ma.
tional cemetery at Florence. Satisfied that
this act of sympathy and kindness on the
part Of the ex-confederate officers and sol
diers Of Lancaster was meant as an earnest
OF the great cause in which those two sol
diers died, and as manitesting desire to
bury the passions of the past civil war in
oblivion, / promptly responded to your re-
quest TO recognize the courtesy of the act,
and to assure them that such acts will
meet prompt recognition on the part ol
the people Of the whole country who want
peace, not only on the surface, but in the
hearts OF all our countrymen regardless OF
locality or of past dissensions. Wishing
you and your countrymen all honor and
success in the new era dawning on you,
am with great respect, your friend,
w. L. Sherman, General.
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Dio Lewis.

a. Professor Dio Lewis will do us the ms
'iOe 70 confess that we have meyer denied
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THE ADVERTISING BILL.
The Bill to Make Public officers Account Il
the People.

From tile Tlligoiz State Register
During the late session of the twenty
eighth general assembly there has been in
progress an effort u secure the passage of
bill which would compel the publication
in some newspaper Of all the proceedings
OF town, county and city affairs, and the
affairs If road districts, school districts.
OF cemeteries and water works boards
in short, of all officers or bodies of Off
GERS who collect or disburse the peoples
money.
Of the necessity Of such law there is
no question. Property worth thousands,
and perhaps millions of dollars, is annual
ly sold in this State under orders and
DEGREES of courts with no more notice than
is afforded by posting, which nobody reads,
on court house doors ald other legal pro-
ceeding are had, as in divorce cases, parti-
tiOn suits, or which effect the rights of mi
nor heirs aud the legitimacy Of persons, on
similar slight notice.
The publication of the proceedings and
acts of financial bodies and local affairs Is
likewise OF the highest importance. In
consequence of the lack of such law the
people of every township in the State are
now greatly excited There is nothing 10
show how much money has been collected
or how much expended, in any township of
the State. Some cities and counties, and
a few towns,d do, indeed, publish statements,
but this is dOne, lin most cases without
any express law, and the cases are SO few
as not to affect the truth of the general
statement that not one dollar in a Thousand
Of the taxes collected in this State is ever
accounted for.
In view of all these facts, which are not
disputed and in view of the great evils
which they produce, and the private and
public frauds and corruption which the
present system comedies and shelters, house
bill 447 was prepared and its passage
would have entirely remedied all com.
plants. 1t went into the hands of the
house printing committee and was replaced
with the substitute bill (H B. S42), which
received ~ votes to % against it, but fail
ed Ion want of constitutional majority.
AS the matter stands now, the peoplC
OF the State are wholly deprived of the
disposition of the money collected for Ioco
purposes, except that in some cases there
IS set of honest officers who make n nub.
lie showing All the thieves, hummer,
and scalawags all the men who nut in h;e
bills for little work, and for bad work. ane
for no work at all, are sheltered for anoth
year by the action Of the adjourned ses
SION OF the twenty eighth general assem-
bly,. In this instance, also the member
acted under the influence of the ''grea
metropolitan, independent sheets" of Chi
cago, winch have steadily opposed the pas
sage OF the bill. The publishers and pro
prle5ors OF the county papers throughou
iie state should make every candidate I,
the general assembly this fall pledge hi
support to bill which will require tb,
PuDhcation of all legal or official proceed
OF public money. 0S''I0'
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Hon John r. Eden, congressman from
this State, concluded an able argument
against McCrearys interstate commerce
bill with the following prophetic Ian
guage:
Should this bill become law, in my
opinion a contest will be inaugurated, the
result of which will be either that the gov
ernment will in the end own the railroads,
or the railroads own the government, with
chances Of success in favor of the rail.
roads
The bill passed the House, but it is not
believed that it can pass the Senate.
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF UNITED STATES,
WAsHINGroN March 9, 1874.
Hon. T. J. Mackey, Judge Sixth Circuit, chester
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-02-19

An elderly lady who was harding set
If Faiss teeth iu dental ofice, and admir-
ing the faency with which the doctor de-
serb, j them, asked Lin, ..Can a body eat
with these things = "My dear madam,
mas,icaiion can be performed viii facil-
ity al,nsst equ l,onasnre Itself, responded
the dostor. ''Y.s,I knew but can body
Gu, with them g.
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a New Phase of Breach of Promise

A late case Of breach Of promise before
the Liverpool Assizss illustrates the tickle
ness of man. Mr.. George Henry Wilkes
became satisfied that his wife WAS not the
kind Of Il woman for him, and so procured
divorce. Shortly after, he met Miss Nut
tai. To meet Miss Nuttal was to love her.
and Wilkes WAS infatuated. lie proposed
and was accepted. The Wedding day WAS
fixed. Wilkes WAS iub!lsnt. They were
to haze been married on the l. th Of Octo
Der lat: but, by al unlucky chance, Wilkes
went up to Londou There he ,a. his
former wife. The seductive smiles Of his
prior partner proved AS effective now a.
to make a long story short Wilkes surren-
dercd. They went straightws- to priest
aud were married. While they were rev
cling in their second hand Hiss, poor Miss
Mutual sat in the shadows at home, SORROW
ing for the lost one. Finally her bruised
and manSled feslings reused her to action,
and she sued Mr.. George Wilkes for breach
of promise, laying her damages at e 10, 900.
The jury heard bath sides, and thinking
that George Henry had been Carrying
things a litsle too far, brought in verdict
for the plaintiff IN the sum of $4,000.
This George Henry signifiel his willing
ness to pay, for the qualification of having
tie matter finally settled, aud went out of
court singing:
There's no wife like the old wife"
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Disorderly Students.

II Ithaca, where Young Legge.t was
killed curing AN initiation into the Cornell
University lodge of the karra AlIha So
ciety, Prof. Blanchard, OF Wheaton Col
ieGe, has been ATTEMPTING TO lecture on sc
cret societies. lis first lecture passed of
without disturbance, but on the second
night the students crowded the hall Al
though it was susl ectcd THAT their unani.
nous attendance meant mischief the pro
sessor began his lecture. Groans, hsses,
and catcslis followed every uttcrance that
di.reaseo the students, and finally the
speaker was driven out with a shower of
red Pepper. Since tho killing Of Leggett,
there has been an effort by .l.e faculty to
keep the societies within bounds, and the
lecture bv Prof Blanchard was intended to
be influential in mat direction
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Mysteries of 1.-THE Shawl Trade.


A Paris letter says: Before leaving
this subject must relate . curious dissoy-
cry on this occasion. II. Guyetaut took
me to see one of his FIRST artists who works
a. mono. In tie front room Of q modest
apartment was the intsGigent artist work
ing at his lathe, and.in the back room was
bis wife working upon an Indian shawl. A
fine cash mere, worth 1000 francs, or, per
bar 3 1900 ir New York, was cut up into
strings or figures, and CLAN cling vt it ! could
not help crying: "Ah how in the world
did this fine shawl get SO badly damaged?
was it eaten by the rats ? Madame Gu5e-
taut laughed, and said ''Oh, ouyriere
Monsieur. it is not damaged at all I'm
rearrausing it," Probably my lady readers
will be as much surprised as was to fad
out that these costly shawls are purposely
cut in pieces and then sewed together
agaia. The philosophy Of it is this
Some years the fashion is for white figures.
ru ming about in SCROLLS as 10 eAshmeres,
and sometimes far black. Hence shawl.
with white ground figures are cut when
black sell best, and the back cuttings seYu
in. Sometimes, when let Of shawIs has
been for many years On hand, the dispo.i
ton Of the figures is changed, In order to
suit the prevailing taste. Now, the work
was done SO well that could not distinguish
the seams: but il seems to me that if ! |
were to buy shawl worth thousand dol |
lars should greatly prefer to have it as il
came from the Indian lsom. I was told
that hundreds of those rearrangsd shawls
are often sold to American ladies at very
large prices; and if those who haYe them
find that they como in pieces, they will IN
dsrstand the reason. They have only to
send the shawl to some racommodense, like !
the pers N Of whom l write, and tie work |
will be elegantly done again. This indus
trious artist, and hi, not less industrious
wife, earn a very handsome living from
their common laDo-.
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HALLS
Ye4IAHE StNiiAN
HAIR
RmWfeZZ,D
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the mos. economical HAIR DREssISo ever
used, az it requires fewer applications. and
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2UF. BOI.S, RUN

FROM EAR Or u BlLEE
Lo my fever now is high;
+ ly. nay boy, in pity fly,
Bring me PAfSPAINT. NoLCoTr BALM
/; viii soon my fever calm. $50
Cool NV iips-they burnley burn
Fan my temples. too, III turn;
Give rehef or | exTile,
Painting III this blaze o! fire.
Give me PAIN PAINT, by the powers;
Drop il Ger my head in showers;
Oh! how cooling to my brow;
All! I'm breathing easy now.
PAIN PAINT calms my frantic brain,
Burning body free Of pain;
WoLcoTT's PAS PAINT | adore,
Perfect health So quick restore.
Drugs and doses, understand,
Degrade an ass-much more man;
Filthy compounds that they make,
Shall not, will not, cannot take.
Observe. when Mother Earth is dry,
She drinks the droprlngs Of the sky;
And evening dew her cordial gives
To every dropping plant that lives.
Thus man, self-taught by instinct, will
Drink deep from fountains or the rill;
False guides will snatch the cup away
Cram poison down--Our stomachs fay.
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One fthe most curious plants Of the
vegetable kingdom is the fern commonly
Known as the Tsrtanan Lamb. Many
wonderful tales have been tod of Struys,
who travelled through Russia, Tartary,
aud other countries, in the middle Of the
Seventeenth Century, gave one of the
earliest and best accounts C. this peculiar
plaas He says: ''On the western side
of the volga there is an elevated salt plain
Of vast extent, but wholly unculhvated and
u1inh ahised. On this pain, which furn-
ishes all the neighboring districts with
salt grows the Boranez or Bornitsch,
which has the shape and appearance of a
lamb, with feet, head, and tail, distinctly
formed. Its skin was covered with down,
as sofs as silk. The Tarars and Muscoyires
esteem it highly, and preserve is with
great care in their houses, where | have
seen many such lambs. A sailor who gave
me one Of these precious plants found it
in wood and had It's skin made into an
under waistcoat I learned at Astracan,
from those who were best acquainted with
the subject, that the lamb grows upon q
stalk three feet nigh; one part BY which 1t
is sustained is Elnd of navel, and that it
turns itself round and bends downwards to
the heritage which serves for its food.
They also said tina. It dried up and pines
away Wien the grass fails. To this
objected that the languor and occasional
withering might be natural TO it, as plants
are accustomed to fade at certain times.
They replied that they had also once
thought SO, but that numerous experiments
proved the contrary to be tine fact; such
as cutting away, or by other means corrupt
ing or destroying the grass all around 1t;
after which they assured me that it fell in
to a langui.hins state, and decayed insensi-
bly,. These persons also added that the
wolves are very fond of these vegetable
lambs, and that they devour them with
ayidity, because they resemble in taste
the animal whose name they bear, and
that, in fact, they have bones, blood, and
flesh; and hence they are callei zooplytes,
i e., plant nimals.
This wonderful tale of Strays, although
much perverted, is based on truth. There
is rude resemblance 10 the shape of the
plant to the figure of the animal. 1t is
covered by II soft doeny substance, and
may be compared to a silky fleece, but from
which no under waist-cCat could be made.
This fleece is of reddish brown color,
and not white. Like the stems of other
ferns, it so happens that they have some-
thing Of flesh color, and that the sap is Il
a rich, red hue. resembling blood. Ferns
often grow in barren soil, and as these
vegetable lambs are found Cd this salt
plains, 1t is not improbable that III such
grass in their vicinity, bat that the.hsrbage
is consumed by the ferns, or the plants
devoured instead of lambs by wolves, it is
needless to add, are ornamental additions
introduced to suit the taste of the arrator,
and to pander to the love Of the marvel
ouS as which prevailed in the age in which
he lived. This plant was in much repute
formerly as a styptic as it possesses as
tringent properties which are common to
all ferns in Il greater degree than many
other species. LIZ
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RI, YEKY, r1y blonde bair is now called
"the light fsn,a.tic tow"
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TAKE NOTICE.
COUNTY CLERK S OFFICE,

COUNTY CLERK OFFICE,
September IS, 1871. !
The following resolution was adopted at
the special session of County Board Of Su-
pervisors, held in the city and county OF
Manitowoc, which session commenced the
llth day of September inst:
WHEREAS. There are many mistakes made
by P. p. Fuessenich, while in the office of
County Clerk therefore,
Resoived, That the present Clerk Of the
Board of Supervisors be authorized to ask
through the four city papers of Manitowoc,
that parties holding receipts of p. P. Fues-
senich. for the redemption of taxes present
them ut the County Clerks Office to ascer-
tain if the proper entries are made in books
of sale to cancel said taxes, and that the
present Clerk be authorized to make the
proper entries on said books, and report
each case TO this Board. thereby saving5
county great amount of trouble ano
pense from Illegal tax-deeds.
Notice is hereby given, that the County
Clerk can be found at his office, between the
hours of 9 n m. and p. m. each day, ready
and willing to attend to the duties assigned
to him in the foregoing resolution.
If H 5 PlERP0NT. County Clerk.
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