Year: 1862

from the towns above, affairs in ard about
our own city manifest tone entirely the
opposite In walk about town the other
day we counted upwards of fifty buildings
which have been erected during the pres
ent season, and thirty in process of cree
ton. Besides these, we hear of large
number in contemplation, which will be
erected within the next two months. The
-mills-fully able to supply all present
demands-have had lively season of it,
and enough to do in supplying the demand
for lumber created by these various i'm
provements Main street, with its new ad-
ditions, has assumed quite city air. The
new fre-proof brick of Messrs. Schwaback
er Bros, is almost completed brick
work being entirely finished, and Messrs.
Brown Bros & Co.'S brick, on the opposite
side of the street, will be presenting quite
as imposing an appearance in few days
the work on that being in rapid progress.
Several frame business houses are also in
process of erection on this street. The old
shingle building, on the opposite side, which
has never been regarded as particularly or
namental, is undergoing repairs, and, we
are told, will in another fortnight present
as fine front as any wooden structure in
the city, Second street is also sharing in
the improvements. At the head of it, Mr.
A. j. Miner, is erecting planning and sash
and door factory-a much needed institu-
tion-and all along its length new build
ings are going up. The streets as far back
as Mr.. Sparks claim are dotted with new
buildings, and beyond the city limits in
that direction Mr, Meyer, has erected
large brewery. The whole city plot on the
western side of Mill creek is occupied and
presents an appearance quite different from
what it wore last fall Gains addition,
(which boasted of only eight dwellings, last
fall, has more than doubled that number,
and within the next two months,-if the
various Improvements contemplated by lot
holders there are carried out-will assume
magnificent proportions" A new ware
house just erected by Mr. Cain, adjoining
fiB residence, gives that side of the creek
business air, and with the mpletion of the
bridge across the creek, other buildings of
"a like character will doubtless follow The

Improvements Of the present season exceed,
by far those of any former year, and while
they evince confidence on the part of cit
liens in the permanence of the town, they
show that it possesses the elements of pros
perity, and is rapidly marching on to po-
sition Of more than its present Importance.


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SHARP PRACTICE.-It may not be gen
orally known by our citizens that there is
a law against purchasing any article of
clothing from soldiers in the service of the
United States. Such is the fact, and the
law afixes fine and imprisonment as a
penalty for Its violation. There has been
more or less traffic of this sort in the COM
munity, the soldiers having been in the
habit of offering various articles of clothing
for sale. We advise the people to abstain
in future from buying anything from them,
for all sales and purchases of this character
are in violation of law and the army regu-
lations. A recent transaction in our city
shows that some of the soldiers are aware
of these facts, and are evidently bringing
them to bear upon the unsophisticated
whenever it suits their purposes A few
days since, three soldiers entered one of our
stores in company, and one of them sue
ceeded in selling coat to the merchant
This was no sooner done than the comrades
of the one who sold the coat informed upon
the merchant, had him arrested and brought
before the magistrate, and he was placed
under bonds to appear for trial at the next
term of court. The part of the comrades"
was doubtless played for the purpose of
satisfying grudge against one Or the other
of the victims