Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-19

! an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state
made by the authority of the United States. an
| portion and district anew The members of the
senate and assembly, according to the number
OF inhabitants, l have requested the superin-
tendent of the census to furnish me an official
statement OF the population of Wisconsin by
towns, villages and wards, as shown by the re-
cent census, aud have written assurance from
INN that such statement Will be supplied on
or before the first day of February proximo.
1t may be expected, think, that this state
ment, when received, will afford all the infor-
NATION necessary to enable you to proceed with
the redstricting of the state into senate and as
sembly districts and, If congress shall agree
upon an apportionment for Representatives in
congress into congressional districts also.
YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL.
Sometime since movement was inaugurated
looking to q celebration of the one hundredth
anniversary Of the surrender Of Lord CORVALLIS
at yorktown. and the governors of the several
states were requested to appoint commissioners
to arrange therefor. In accordance with this
request Hon. Milo P. Jewett, of Milwaukee,
was appointed to represent Wisconsin The
national government will take q prominent part
In the exercises of the occasion, which Will con-
sist OF naval and military reviews, civic process
slons, oratlons, poems, and the laying of the
corner stone Of monument to commemorate
the great historical event which closed the war
of the revolution. A liberal appropriation has
been made by congress to assist in de-
fray1ng the necessary expenses. 1t is
exceedingly appropriate that events of this
character should be celebrated, and nothing
Will more surely tend to heal the differences
engendered by our civil war, or more securely
weld the bonds of fraternity, without which we
cannot become q homogeneous nation, than
for the defendants, hneal and political, of the
vlctors OF Yorktown to gather together and
recount and commemorate the deeds Of valor
and heroism which secured our Independence
In accordance with the terms of resolution
adopted by the board of commissioners re-
specially recommend that an appropriation
be made by you sufficient to enable the state of
Wisconsin to take suitable part in the celebra-
ton of this centennial anniversary.
CONCLUSION.
The richest blessings of Divine Providence
have been bestowed upon our nation during the
past year most abundantly. Nothing that
could contribute to our material or political
welfare has been withheld, and in consequence
financial and commercial affairs were never in
more satisfactory condition, the evidence of
universal prosperity and contentment were
never more abundant, and the prospects for
continued advancement in wealth, in education,
and IN all things necessary to make people
truly independent, never more encouraging.
We have reason, also, to be most profoundly
grateful that the restlts of the late presidential
election were SO decisive, and were obtained by
methods SO unobjectionable, as to secure
prompt and cheerful acquiescence therein for
the time being, and, In addition there
to, the assurance that they will be
accepted by the great body of intelligent
people In every state as the conclusive adjudica-
ton that, in the United States, the nation, and
not state, is supreme. This is promise of
the impending and final disintegration of sec
tioDalism, and marks the dawn of an era, most
| anxiously awaited BY the people of Wisconsin,
when there shall be, politically, neither north
nor south, east nor west WIN. E. SMITH.
MADISON, January Is, 1881.