Year: 1861




to make known to your readers my future
plan; that plan is very much like the ons
of the ones to be admired, ''Doesticks,"
(without his witt really no plan at ALL
l intend merely to give such jottings and
ilhiings of matters IN general, and things
and thoughts in particular, as may happen
to transpire before my eyes or run through
my brains-if have any-from title to
time so hero start.


Everybody and his wife either knows or
ought to know that the village of Waterloo
is one of the pleasantest little places to be
found in the State of Wisconsin, with q
railroad right through it. Here, nestled
down among the hills and valleys. beside
one of those "meandoring brooks" spoken
of by the poets SO much, is to be found
set of inhabitants, that for real sou! and
warm-hearted manhood, and, I beg your
pardon ladies, womanhood too, not to be
beaten this side of thirty six thirty =
You will find less of the "codfsh aristo6-
racy" here than in most villages, while
real gentlemanly and lady-like sociality is
as common as coppers in candy shop.
If man works out by the day and is a
man, he meets the doctor, merchant or
lawyer with cordial social equality, that
is pleasing in the extreme. Men differ
here in opinion as much as anywhere-and
women too, for all that-as much as I'M
other places but it ends very differently
from the custom in most places, for on pO-
litical questions they dispute and get as
"mad as March hares' at each other and
yet it does not destroy their personal
friendship, So you see, Mr.. Editor, they
glide along here just as easy as We used to
slide down hill on hand sled when boy;
and by the by, our boys, and girls too in
fact, are having "splendiferous" time
sliding down hill, for the snow is plenty
and deep in ''these diggins."


The cars of late have made their regular
appearance here once IN 1chiie and some
times taCice in the same length of time, so
that it is hard finding out whether Water
town has seeded and gone South or
whether "down South has come to Wa
tertown.


There are some things here in Waterloo
that are common and some things not so
common. It is no uncommon thing fer the
community to know that villages have
their hotels, but everybody do not know
that Topping keeps tip-fQp Topping
House, on the top of the hill right in
town. WE'LL l suppose it is common to
have a good number of stores IN every
stirring village like Waterloo, SO we have
friends Mattice, Basford, and the ever
stirring Phil Carpeles all ready to sell "ev-
cry dings vat de bsoples wants y but we
have something that is not common and
that is on the 'sWest sideP What is it7
says some, why real "Union Store" IN
der the superintendent of their agent, the
ever accommodating, genial and gentle
manly w G. Munson. The Union is
doing great business and saving the COM
munity great deal more money than the
most sanguine dared to expect. The time
will come when these 'sUnion Stores" will
be common through the country. and the
quicker the better. as1 eel


In the same building can be found all
kinds of drugs from pinch of snuff to a
pound of strychnine, and although some
people object to keeping up the habit of
tipping by drinking mead, very few take
exceptions to G. P. Mead dealing out to
them all kinds of the very best articles US
ually kept in bis drug store. y Essae
Heretofore liquor shops where drunkards
were made to order, and out of which
drunkards were ordered, numbered about
eight or nine, and the community having
got sick of such, have by universal con-
sent determined to stop them entirely
The war of determination was publicly
commenced few evenings since by a lee
ture in the church by Mr.. Drumming, which
was we'll attended, and by the alternate
dead silence, applause and laughter of the
audience, it was very evident that although
the lecturer did not claim to be eloquent,
he presented facts, figures, and fun with 8
force and spirit that showed he was in true
earnest. The meeting adjourned for a
week to meet again to hear another lecture
from somebody, and also to organize for
the purpose of regular and united action
to send bad corn whiskey way down south
to Dixey. a ,aazHszt


More soon from QUID.
Waterloo, Feb. 1861. HasH ca


Senator Sebastian, of Arkansas, who
has refused to attach his name to any Of
the Disunion documents Issued by Other
of the Southern Senators and Represents
tiyes for the purpose of influencing thell