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Year: 1866

ing the Governor and Leute r overnor Of the State
the entire Congressional asA senatorial delegations, the
Mayor Of the city and many leading private citizens Of
the State and city have appointed to meet tho Pres
dent a. AlchgAn City, Detroit some other point most
suitable, aud accom- D'panying him to the city,


The President m arrive here the evening OF the 9th,
and publ eeption will be rendered him y the Cham
ber OF ComnSere be obtained for that purpose and
not n the Rink, Wabash avenue. II was originally
intended 70 sell a cheap medal which would admit the
wcarer TO tho reception but at the meeting last evening
this feature abandoned, and the reception VIII be


free TO all Rooms have been secured for the President
and his Cabinet at the Sherman House.


The President will not deliver the address At the ay


ing of tho stone and General Dix has boon ap.
pointed make the address, and has promised to do
Precisely what extent the President will participate


in ceremonies Of the day has been decided upon


In the evening, after the laying Of the sone
amateur concert will be given at the Opera House,
which the President and other distinguished visitors viii
be invited.


After the conclusion Of his visit here, which will not
be prolonged over two days. the President it is sup
posed, will visit Milwaukee and Madison. There has
been nothing said about the by which he will
turn or the other points he will VISIT but IL is UNDER
stood that strong effort will be made 10 induce him to
visit 81. Louis in which event he would probably
turn by the way Of Cincinnati.


ine commeo having tne maItef IN Cnarge are anuci-
pating nm immense attendance of visitors, and are
making every preparation to make the laying OF tho
corner stone OF the most imposing demonstrations
Witnessed in this country Tho grounds surround
ing the green which just south and east OF the old
Camp Douglas win be suitably decorated for the
sion, and, aside from the lines Of horse railroad the
Illinois Central win run train every ten minutes be-
tween the grounds and their depot at the foot Of Lake
street. AL tho different societies and organizations in
the city, religious, benevolent and industrial will par
tcpate in the ceremonies and many societies from the
interior will also be present The Rev. William H. Mil
burn the blind preacher has been appointed to conduct
the religious portion Of the ceremonies


The Chairman Of the Committee Of Arrangements for
the Douglas ceremonies is daily receipt OF
letters from distinguished men, accepting the invitation
extended to them and promising to be present the
ceremonies letter has been received from Major
General Meade the effect that he would be present.
letter also received from Major General p H.
Sheridan, which expressed sympathy with the purpose
of the association and occasion to be observed but
gretted his official duties would prevent him from parti
cipating.
Year: 1866

DETAIL outside Of the Prague peace treaty between Aus
tria and Italy.


Austria will not demand any compensation for the
works Of defence built BY her in venstiA


complete peace between Italy and Austria lie certain
Year: 1866

nY~ Through the liberality Of Messrs.
Clarke & Co., the publishers Of Quiuer' $
Military History Of Wisconsin, we have
been permitted to peruse this great work,
for It is truly and underiably great work,
"a work which has cost its author years
of great toll, taxing his mental and physi-
cal powers to such an ext Mt that he is a
wreck Of his former self The publishers
inform us that every line of that large vol
ume Of over one thousand pages came to
them in Mr.. Quiner's own hand writing


In order that the work should not be too
much ousr gro,cn it was necessary that the
details Of the transactions and changes in
the various regiments should be greatly
abridged, consequently soldiers are apt to
think the history of their particular regi-
ment is not as full and complete as it should
be; but considering the magnitude of the
work, we think the book is a very fair, hon
est, and unprcjudiced history Of every
Wisconsin regiment which entered the
service. 1t is written in pleasing, read
able style, printed on good paper, and the
type is large and clear. The engravings
arc very good and lte-like, and altogether
it is a work Of which the people of our
State should feel proud and no family.
particularly if any member of that family
mas been in the army, can afford to b,
without it,,
Year: 1866

~ Those of our citizens who have been
notified, in accordance with ordinances Of
the Village, to build their sidewalks in
front of their lots, had better attend to the
matter Immediately, and thereby save
trouble and expense IF the sidewalk are
not put in right away, Or the money paid
to the Street Commissioner, the tax will be
ro turned to the Town Clerk, and by him
put into the regular assessment after add
ing ten per cent, and collected by the
Treasurer as other taxes are collected.
Now there is no doubt about this matter
The Board can and will force the payment
Of this tax if the sidewalks are not immc-
diatcly put down. Therefore it will DO to
the advantage of every lot owner to attend
to the matter without delay
Year: 1866

It will be seen by the premium list
and result of the late County Fair, that
the society is in prosperous condition.
Last year the total receipts Of the fair
were six hundred and sixty seven dollars,
and fifty five cents, and the amount award
ed as premiums, three hundred and twenty
dollars. This year the total receipts are
seven hundred and thirty-five dollars and
twenty five cents, and the amount awarded
three hundred and ninety eight dollars and
fifty cents.
Year: 1866

gW Owners of lots fronting on the north
side of Spring Street, between Main and
Vincent Streets, will see by reference to
the notice of the Street Commissioner,
that the sidewalk ordered by Ordinance
No %, must be built by the Sd day of
November; and as that is ample time,
and as long as the Board can allow, no ex-
tension of time need be looked for.
Year: 1866

Which is lower for some sizes than before the time
of high prices; but having large stock on hand,
grain being low, and money scarce, wish to leave
the Land Owner without an excuse for not draining
his Wet Land. feel determined to try these prices
this season, and if meet with the encouragement
expect, will another season put up new and i'm
proved machinery, and not only still lower the price
of Tiles, but make them more worthy of your pa
tronage. Hoping this liberal offer may be apprecia-
ted, remain, Sir, yours respectfully,


ap4 at THOMAS A. COLLINS.
Year: 1866

admission of an unwelcome truth. As to the
ordinance of secession, it is in some cases de-
clared "null and void" and in others SIM
ply repealed" and in no instance is refu-
tation of this deadly heresy considered wor-
thy of a place in the new constitutions


IT, as the President assumes, these msur-
rectionary States were at the close of the war
wholly without State governments, it would
seem that before being admitted to partici-
pate in the direction of public affairs such
governments should be regularly organized.
Long usage has established, and numerous
statutes have pointed out, the mode in which
this should be done. A convention to frame
a form of government should be assembled
under competent authority. Ordinarily this
authority emanates from Congress, but under
the peculiar circumstances your committee is
not disposed to criticize the Presidents nc
tion in assuming the power exercised by him
in this regard. The convention, when as
sembled, should frame constitution of gov
ernment, which should be submitted to the
people for adoption. If adopted, a Legisia-
ture should be convened to pass the laws
necessary to carry it into effect. When a
State thus organized claims representation in
Congress, the election of representatives
should be provided for by law in accordance
with the laws of Congress regulating repse-
sentation, and the proof that the action taken
has been in conformity to law should be sub
mitted to Congress.


In no case have these essential preliminary
steps been taken. The Conventions assem-
bled seem to have assumed that the Consti-
tuition which had been repudiated and over
thrown was still in existence and operative
to constitute the States members of the
Union, and to have contented themselves
with such amendments as they were informed
were requisite in order to insure their return
to an immediate participation in the govern
ment OF the United States. Not whiting to
ascertain whether the people they represent
Year: 1866

ings; and once, among other not able in
stances, at dinner given in honor of no
torious rebel, who had violated his oath and
abandoned his flag. The same individual
is elected to an important Office in the lead
ing city of his State, although an unpardon-
ed rebel, and so offensive that the President
refuses to allow him to enter upon his official
duties In another State, the leading gener-
al of the rebel armies is openly nominated
for Governor by the Speaker of the House of
Delegates, and the nomination is hailed by
the people with shouts of satisfaction. and
openly endorsed by the press.


Looking still further at the evidence taken
by your committee, it is found to be clearly
shown by witnesses of the highest character
and haVlng the best means of observation.
that the FreedElen's Bureau, instituted for
the relief and protection of freedmen and re-
1ugees Is almost universally opposed by the
mass OF the population, and exists in an eff
ficlent condition only under military protec-
tlon, while the Union men of the South are
earnest In its defence, declaring with one
voice that without its protection the colored
people would not be permitted to labor at
fair prices, and could hardly live in safety.
They also testify that without the protection
of United States troops Union men, whether
OF Northern or Southern origin, would be
Obliged to abandon their homes


The feeling in many portions of the coun-
try, toward emaucipated slaves, especially
among the educated and ignorant. is one Of
vlndlctive and malicious hatred. This deep
seated prejudice against color is assiduousiy
cultivated by the public Journals, and leads
to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder,
winch the local authorities are at no pains to
prevent or punish. There is no general dis
position to place the colored race, constitut-
ing atleast tveAfths Of the population, upon
Year: 1866

VANITY is SO constantly solicitous Of
self, that, even where its own claims
are not interested, it indirectly seeks
the ailment which it loves, by showing
how little Is deserved by others
Year: 1866

Aleading object with every young man
should he to secure for himself a perma-
nent home; and for its greater stability
it should consist partly of land, and up
to certain limit the more the better,
if paid for. The house should be as
comfortable and attractive AS one has
the means of making. 1t should be one
the heart can grow to, and will cling
around more and more firmly with
each passing year. The owner should
desire and purpose to keep possession
should grow up feeling that there is one
place fixed and stable for them amid all
changes.


Americans are altogether too rowing
in their habits. We build houses cheap
ly, and pull them down without regret; !;
or we sell out, and move away half II
dozen times in Il lifetime, and in vain
hope OF bettering our condition. How
much better To choose early in life, and
then lay plans with reference to abiding
there. Even though our gains be less
than are promised elsewhere, a certain
ty should seldom be given for an uncer-
tainty. "A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush"


Only those who have experienced 1t
know how firmly family become at
tacicu to tnelf long lONeu homestead.
No children love home SO well as those
who have known only one. AS the
young become of marriagcable age they
should go out of the homestead, feeling
that it is to he the model after which
their own should be established and
knowing that it will remain unchanged
as long us the parents live: u place to
which they can return, and where they
will bc welcome. A pleasing writer
confirms our doctrine thus:


"There is II great gain in being set
tied down. 1t Is twofold. Epch year
accumulates the material by which la
Dor is lessened. The rough channels of
labor become worn and smooth. A
change involves Il great loss, and rarely
is there corresponding gain. Time is
lost, labor suspended, money paid out,
the wear and tear of removal Is no
small item, and above all, the breaking
up of old associates Is often disastrous
in the extreme. Parents and children
become unsettled in their habits, If not
IN their morals. Let the man who has
q homestead keep it; let him that has
none get one, and labor to render it IL
treasured remembrance to the absent,
aud Il constant joy to those who abide
it, To all of which every intelligent,
thoughtful person must give a hearty
approval.
Year: 1866

That warm air must he impure, and
that, consequently, it is hGrtful to sleep
in comparatively warn, room. A
warn; room is rs easily ventilated rs u
cool one. The warm air of close vehi-
Gle is less Injurious, he it ever so foul,
from crOwding, than to ride and sit still
and feel uncomfoltably cold for an hour.
The worst that can happen from
crowded conveyance Is fainting spell:
while sitting even less than an hour in
still, chilly atmosphere, has induced
attacks of pneumonia, that is, inliam-
nation Of the lungs, which often prove
fatal in three or four days. 1t is always
positively injurious to sleep In close
room where water freezes, because such
q degree of cold causes the negatively
poisonous carbonic acid gas OF sleeping
room to settle near the floor, where 10 Is
breathed and rebreathed by the sleeper,
and is capable Of producing typhoid fe-
yer i'm u few hours. Hence, there is no
advantage, and always danger especial
ly to weakly persons, in sleeping i'm an
atmosphere colder than the freezing
point.


That it is necessary to the proper and
efficient ventilation Of a room, even in
warm weather, that a window or door
should be left open; that Is always haz-
ardous to the sick and con valescent.--
Quite us safe n plan of ventilation, and
as efficient, is TO keep lamp or small
fire burning in the re-place. This cre-
ates draft, and carries bad airs and
gases up the chimney.


That outdoor exercise before break
fast Is healthful. 1t is never SO. And,
from the very nature of things, it is
hurtful, especially to persons Of poor
health, although the very vigorous may
practice 1t with impunity. In winter
the body is chilled through and through
unless the stomach has been fortified
with good warm breakfast; and Ia
warm weather, iniasnatic and iuaiari-
Gus gases and emanations speedily act
upon the empty and weak stomach in a
way to vitiatc the circulation and in
duce fever and ague, diarrhna and dys-
entery; entire families who have ar
ranged to eat breakfast before leaving
the house, and take supper before sun
down, have had complete exemption
from fever and ague, while the whole
coR1mUKity around them was suffering
from it, from having neglected these
precautions.


That whatever lessons cough is
good" for IL, and, if pcrsevcred in,
Will cure 1t. On the contrary, all
coughs are soonest cured by promoting
and increasing them; because nature
endeavors by the cough To help to
bring up the phlegm and yellow matter
which is in the lungs, as the lungs can.
not heal while that matter is there
And as it cannot be got rid of without
coughing, the more coughing there is,
the sooner II is got rid of-the sooner is
the lungs cleared out for the fuller aud
freer reception of pure air, which is
their natural food. The only remedies
such as loosen the phlcgm. and thus
less cough is required to bring IL up
Those remedies are. warmth, out door
exercise, and anything which slightly
nauseates.
Year: 1866

DEPTH OF QUIET PE0PLE.-SOme
men dawn upon you like the Alps.
They impress YOU vaguely at first just
as do the hundred faces you meet in
Your daily walks. They come across
Your horizon like floating clouds, and
YOU have to watch while before you
see they are mountains. Some men
remind you of quiet lakes, places such
as you have often mapped upon, where
the green turf and the field flower hang
over you and are reflected out of the
water all day long. Some day or other
you carelessly drop a line into the clear
depths. close to the daisies, and daffo-
diles, and it goes down, down, down.
You lean over, the sound is deeper. but
your line dosen't bring up. What q
deep spot that is you think and You
trv another. The reflected daisies
seem to smile at you out of the water,
the turf looks as green as ever, but
there is no shallow spot beneath. You
never thought it. but your quiet lake Is
all around unfathomable. You are


none the less impressed with the fact


that 1t Is quiet lake.
Year: 1866

A CURE FOR BAD GRAMMAR.-A
schoolmaster, after giving one of his
scholars sound drubbing for speaking
bad grammar, sent him to the other
end of the room to inform another boy
that he wished to speak to him, and, at
the same time, promising to repeat the
dose if he spoke to him ungrammatically.
The youngster, quite satisfied with what
he had got, determined to be exact, and
thus he addressed his fellow pupil:
"There is common substantive, of the
masculine gender, singular number,
nominatiye case, and in an angry mood,
that sits perched upon the eminence at
the other side of the room wishes to
articulate few sentences to you in the
present tense"
Year: 1866

CoMpRoAusEp.-We recommend the
following TO the attention of those who
are debating the ''Snnday question. .
A minister travelling at the West found
himself obliged to continue his journey
on the Sabbath, in order to meet his ap-
pointment for preaching. He hesita-
ted about hiring conveyance, but
finally did so, saying to himself, Il
will compromise the matter by talking
to the driver, as we So along, on the
subject Of religion =
Year: 1866

THE CoNsTITUTIoN.-Wa Washington
in his farewell address to his country
men said: "The basis of our political
system is the right of the people to
make and to alter their Constitutions of
Government
Year: 1866

NEW WIFE ON BOARD A NIGHT


TRAIN.


Our train rolled out from the Union
depot in the early part of the night,
bound for the North. The weather was
just sufficiently cool to make one feel
agreeable in company. The whistle
sounded for the first station north Of
Hoosier Capital. As usual, everybody
"poked" their heads out to see some
thing, if it was there. ''Just Married"
spoke an old lady, as she drew her
head in, after satisfying woman's Gu
riosity, and who could see further into
a mill stone than any one else of our
party.


Every one was satisfied that the old
lady was correct, as they witnessed the
''hugs and busses'' On the give and take
principle, and saw the surviving rela-
tives climbing into their country wag-
ons. The conductor passed the new
couple to a seat, and the cars rolled
swiftly away. The first parting had
been gone through with, and the dear
old home and the loyed ones there
could be seen only by the eyes Of
memory.


The fair young bride had forsaken
home, parents and all that was dear to
her youthful heart, for the one she had
an hour before pledged her love forever.
She had given up everything for the
one she believed was dearer than all
the world beside. The brightest picture
of joy and life dazzled her eyes to the
sorrow and grief of the future.


An hour had passed, and passengers
were getting dtowsy. Many began to
change positions, and fold themselves
up, cot fashion, on the seats. The con
ductor of the sleeping car soon came
along, and passing from one to another,
he notified them Of a chance for good
rest in the rear car. At length, he
came to the groom and bride. s'Doub-
lie berth in sleeping car, you can have
if you wish-nice bed and falling cur
tains," said the conductor. The bride
blushed, dropped her eyes a moment,
and then looked into the face of her
chosen. Her eyes as they rested upon
him spoke more love than one can write
in two weeks. Her swelling bosom told
of the heart that was struggling to leap
from its prison house, to embrace the
object of its affection. ''What does
it cost in sleeping cars 2" asked the
new husband. "Only one dollar and
half,n answered the conductor. The
husband commenced calculating. He
was in deep study. The wife felt as
any other woman would feel under like
circumstances, and looked a hundred
times better and sweeter than basket
full of ripe cherries. But, oh the
ugly cuss she had chosen for life.
Would that some humane being had
served him as refuse pump, and
drowned him when he was first born,
for he had not sense enough to enjoy
life, and was so mean and stingy that
he would not give one dollar and half
of rag currency" to sleep with his
beautiful and loving wife the night they
were married. . Sunday Mercury.
Year: 1866

An editor says his attention was first
drawn to matrimony by the skillful
manner in which pretty girl handled
her broom. Some men have been
alienated from mauimoney by the same
means.
Year: 1866

SOMEBODY has found new way Of
taking pictures, by which they can be
taken better at night than in the day
time. A photographer has missed sew
eral from the frames that hang at the
door, and doesn't approve Of the plan.
Year: 1866

attendance, and everything is being done tina.
propriety could suggest Very properly, all
public exhibition OF the remains has been
denied, excepting to those of the friends OF the
family and those having official business with
the affair. strong posse of police is in attend
ance, and no obtrusive stranger Is permitted to
force his uuwelcome presence upon the house
of mourning. The funeral will be conducted
with decorum, but will naturally create consld
cradle excitement. The funeral ceremonies will
certainly be the saddest that ever occurred in
this city. Eight mutilated corpses borne TO
their last home is sight only seen in one gene
ration.


After the hearing before Chief Franklin, the
prisoner was taken 70 Cohills Photograph Gal
lery, on Chestnut street, for the purpose of Sc
curing the counterfeit presentment of the crimi-
nal The street in front, of the establishment
was constantly crowded, and intense anxiety
was shown to catch glimpse of the murderer.
but such was the perfection OF the police ar
rangements that the crowd was kept at some
distance from the doors. The portrait obtained
Is said to be an admirable one, and win certainly
become of historic value.