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publishers and proprietors.
BLOCK, DODOKVILLE, IOWA COUNTY, YY IS.
TERMS:
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. TTonNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Land and
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SLYE & WIGGINTON.
i\vYKIIS Dodgevillo, Wisconsin. Will practieo
Li? aH the and Federal Courts. Oft.ce >
Joiirdoo’s Block [Up Staijs.) -
S- W REESE.
4 TTOUNKY AT law. Land and Collecting Agent. |
A Kwlireville, l.wa County, "’is. 1 articular at- j
j_ V ,KK, n l "i ’ .......neies, and payment ol i
tention jnvon to coileeton, api m u t .
taxes in lowa County. Ofttcc m the 1 ost Uftn • {| ,
IK. ! JLi~ |
J. H CLARY. i
4 TTOUNKY AT LAW, Mineral I’oint. Wta Of- |
tied in Thomas Slime Block.
J R. ROBERTS.
-vtOT \UY PUBLIC. Deeds, Mortgages, Ac. .drawn ,
N- •'•ft.wn
Dodgeville, W is. j J
R ARUNDELL.
DEALER in stoves, Hardware, Tin. ,
(’J Sheet-Iron, and • 'opper wave, Ae.. Jowa Mreet,
the old Post Oiliee, Po.lgev.He, \\ w.
T BEECH.
UIIVSiriAN AM* SURGEON Podgcville. Wis.
J 1 ,v. .. ,h,. old Post om.-e. InCyll
bukhall.m.d.
FIYSP’IaN AM' SURGEON, DodgcvilK lowa
County,' Wisconsin. l'' ! - ’■
WHITNEY SMITH.
f p VNNF.It ANP CURRIER. Mineral Point, Wis.
i la at h. rof all kinds, also Hair for i Sastermg. 1-
nvi on hand, cheap for cash. Job W ork don” at sow
notice and on moderate terms.
SCHALL’S HOUSE.
NO 07 A 209 Kan.b.lph Street, Chicago Illinois.
This bouse is centrally located, in the business
part of tbo city, near M.e Post Office, the Court lions'
and all the principle Kail Road Pepots Ihe.iutm
laudations are good, and cheaper than mostol the
Hotels in this vicinity. > 1 ..
MASONIC
REGULAU MEETINGS of Podgeville Lodge No.
119 0 f \ y Si A. M, on tho lu*t Rial thin! In
day evening of each month, at their Hall on lowa
street. Transient brethren visiting Podgeville, are
cordially invited to attend.
Henry Don ft as, Secy.
To widow’s tears to orphans’ cry.
All wants onr ready hands supply,
So far as power is given ;
The naked clothe, the prisoner free,—
Such are the deeds sweet masonry
Revealed to us from heaven.
I o OF G. T
\MICITIA LOPGE, No. It’d, Independent Order of
Good Templars, meets every Monday evening in
B K Tlioinas' Hall, at 7’.. o’clock. Members of Him
order visiting this Village are cordially invited to meet
with ns. J T. PKVOIt, W. C. 1.
J, J.OouNisn, M . S.
RAIL WAY TIME TABLE.
Mil* & Prairie du Chien R. Way*
ON and after Sunday November If. 1802, until further
notice, Trains will run as follows ;
(;o i\ (J r. ast.
pass arena:
Mail and Express Trains, at ft-fto r. m.
M ay Freight 4:15
PASS MAZO MAN IE J
Mail and Express Trains, at 9;do a. m.
Way Freight, 4:15 “
GOI X G XV rS T .
pass arena:
Mail and Express Trains, at 4:42 !*• M -
Way Freight, 10:14 a, m.
PASS MAZO MANIE
Mail and Express Trains, at 4:42 r. M.
Way Freight, 9;.'Jo a. m.
RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE
CHANGE OF TIME
W To take effect Monday, May 12, 18(52.
mineral point rail road.
GOING SOUTH.
Leave Mineral Point at 6:40 a. m.
Leave Darlington at 7:40 “
Arrive at Warren at g : 4O .
GOING NORTH,
Leave Warren at 10:00 a. m
Leave Darlington at 11.-00 “
Arrive at Mineral Point at 12:00 m
Ci. IV . Cobb, Receiver.
Strayed.
FROM the residence of the sub- frj -j
tcriber in the Village of Dodgeville
on or about the Ist of Nov. A. ■ *
1862, a dark red Heifer, with white star in the
face, white belly, and white left flank, three
year* old next spring. Any one giving infor
mation of tfao whereabouts of said Heifer, will be
awarded
nlO-4w WTI.LUM MICH ELL.
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, .THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 18132,
C rOnly 1 25 a year in Clubs if Four,
ARTHUR’S
For Vols. XXI and XXII Edited by
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Mothers Department, Children’s Department
Housekeepers’and Health Departments, with
literary reviews, and all the accessories of a
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timony to the character of aRIHUu’S
no vie magazine.—
“As we have often before said, it is, with
out controversy, the heel $2 Magazine pub
lished in the country ; and this is he strongly
outspoken testimony everywhere given by the,
press. We know of no periodical that so wet!'
desjives the praise b.slowed. The ed tors
nevei lire in their eftor s to give, each in ruth
a rich and varied literary repast to their
readers. Their work is kept fu ly up to the
standard of their promise, never dud, yet
alway s full of instruction. e have often
said, and repeat it again, that it should make
a part of the reading of very household. We
know of no belter educator of the people,
young end old Uf the editors we need not
speak ; their names are household words all
over the country. In their hands no periodical
can fail to reach the highest point tf excel
lency.”
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ing of Huntington’s eelebra td picture, “ Per
cy’s Dream'” >'L A similar copy of Herring’s
“Glimpse of an English H. ineslead.”
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x 4 Four lor £ 5 I'light and one to getter
up of ciuh, sma lar large. I Itree red stamps
must he sent to pay the postage on each
oieinium.
Address T. S. ARTHUR.
323 Walnut Street hi udrlphia.
Administrators Sale.
I.\ S*KOIS ATIv— IOW A CO COUK7’
In t'n“ matter it’ (lie estate of Andrew H.,1
sior, defeated.
X [otiee i hereby given that hy v rittc audio
J_\ jilu.-u nice of an order of lieeii'? mane in
sni.l im.tter ■ n the timh day of November A.
1) ISlj’J.hy the County Court of said County
he undo Tig tied administrator of the es'ate of
sod and ceased will on ilie ‘2lth dry of Janu
mV A. I). iMjt, at the Hunt door of the
•• u iscoiiFon Mouse.’ - (which said house issit
n a ted on the pu'iinses) otl’r for Fife at IV.b
tic vendue, she following c!o.-Ci ileti lands to
iv i I ;
hot no five ["], lot no. sixty-nine [6O) and
Cos s■os s ,\iV'Fevc ■ [C>7] and rixty-eigh. [lit-]
siliialed in the village ot llighlttnd [iminerl)
franklin] in the County of iowa and State
of Wisconsin.
The terms of sale w II he made known at
the lime and place of Bile.
Muted December the IMb A. D.
nlf.wd JOHN ROISTER
Admiiiislrator &c.
Thirty Years Experience!
Ilavebeen clifigontl> rmploted m perfecting
Christadoro’s Excelsior Hair Dye
Ji in no wonder, then, .hat af.t*r
Careful Analysis by Or. Chilton,
IP WA 4 * PIImXOUNCEI)
And is now inking the p act of all other Dyes
‘I hose who have been disappoint, and wi.h mis
erable imitations, are always pleased with the
genuine Any rluide of hl.o k orhrown, to sun
all complexions, produced in ten minutes.
Manufactured by J GIIRI'*I AIXHvC . fi
Astor House, New York. Sold everywheiw,
and applied hv all Hair Dressers.
Price, §l. §1,50, and §3 per box ; ccord
ing to size. n 15* 4 w
PERSONS OF FULL HABITS
Who are subject to Costive..ess, Headache.
Giddiness, Drowsiness, and s'nging in the ears,
a. ising from too great a flow of b>o<d to ihe
l ead, shond never be without BRAN RE I H’>
1*11,1,8, aid mi iv highly dangerous symtoins
will be removed by their imm diate use.
7’hc Hon. J. Hunt of M ostcheH* r Cos N.Y.
seventy-five years of age, has used Brandeth s
Pills for twenty-five years as his sole medicine.
When he fee is Inmsef indisposed, be it from
C ,ld, Rheumatism Asthma. Headache, Bilious
A flections. Costiveness, or irritation of the Kid
neys or bladder he does nothing but take a
few and. sesof Brandrelh’s Pills*
11 i s usual method is to take six pills, and
reduce the dose each night, on* pill. In every
attack of sickness for twenty-five years, this
simple method has never failed to restore him to
health ; and few men are to hi* found so active
and beany she May i6th. ‘Bh S ;‘'; i h >
P \ GRIFFITHS and Dr. W B. Blfidls
OP, lowa Street D, dgeville Uis . and by all
respectable dealers in medicines. nls-lw
Save Your Silks, Ribbor s, &c. &c
11 EG EM AN &G< Gt ’NG EN T U A 71' \ >
DENZIN E, removes Paint, Grease '|> 'if. &c„
instantly, and clean Glov. s, Silks, Ribbons. &c
. qua/ to new, without injury to the mo-H delis
caie color or fabric. Only 25 tents per Battle.
Sold In all Druggists.
II KG EM AN AGO., C heimsrs & Druggists,
Haw York- n>s - 3tn
Chapped Hands, Face, Lips,
Sunburn, &c.
certain and immediate cuhf*
hkgeMan & CO’S camphor ice
WITH GLYCERSINE.if used according u>
the directions, will keep the hands s ft in .he
coldest weather. Price 25 ds. Sodbyl>rug>
gi ., s .
n!5-3m Chemists & lirugg'strs, N. \.
Ayer’s Ague Cure.
Fragments of the Whig Policy-
Still Alive.
By carefully reading the President’s late
message it will be seen that there are em
bers of tiie old Whig policy still in existence
and that Abraham Lincoln cherishes the
idea, that by some process or other, Con
gress will bo induced to get into being some
legislation to make the old policy come into
actual life. A national bank, —yes a nation
al bank, sir, that is the idea. The prohibit
ing tariff went into being in thelast session,
that two is one of the old favorites and the
people of the West are enjoying its sweets
—perhaps bitters. For the last forty years
the eastern manufacturers —the nebobs ot
cotton and wool have pleaded for this, —
whined for this, —growled for this, —thun-
dered and almost lightened for this, and 10,
it ha come, —come to the very withering ot
our shirt tail, and at its present process ol
climbing, the tail itself will have vanished.
It use to be that a fanner could get for a few
bushels of corn, a decent piece of hickory
to wrap him in, but now the produce
of an acre will hardly suffice to procure a
a flimsy cotton wrapper of the poorest text
ure ; so that between the nabobs of cotton
reheldom and the nabobs of cotton manu
fucturingdom, what must we do for covering 9
G!i!—the Rebellion yes, my good sir, the
Rcbelli >n ; the rebellion has not done it all,
the prohibition has done some. If it were
not for this outrageous tariff, —if we bad
even a decent tariff, cotton and other goods
would be at least twenty-five per cent lower,
perhaps fifty ; and fanners produce equally
as high as it is at present, especially grain
produce.
And now for the National Banking law.
There was a National banking law once,
and President Jackson came pretty near
loosing his,when be sternly put bis veto upon
it. It would however be well for us to have
a surer currency than has been floating i
among us for for the last ten years for the 1
stuff has been the meanest of the mean and
frightful have been the impositions practiced
through. On the industry of the nat’.on
and thf gamblers in exchange have made it
a grand game generally to their own advan
tage and then the stump-tail: ah, what a
tail ! I
The “green backs" are a trifle better, bow
much we shall see ; at present they do pass
minus discount and that is something. Vi ill
they hold good ? we hope so.
Let the government, however, have con
trol at its will in assuming the currency of
the country and then look out for party
dominion, insolence, rampant. If a jug of
whiskey can control, —does control and
manage the jugglery of elections, How much
more will not a bag ot gteen backs doit,.
Tell us ye who are initiated !
But some express the hope that this gov
ernment banking affair would tend to give
us a more; stay able government, something
that every bobtail of a mullification, —seces-
sion, and what not, cannot run into a pantie
flustration, and really if any bank machin
erv or any other machinery could do that
for us, it would "be a mercy.
What is to Become of It ?
It is being muttered in the papers that the !
irrepressible conflict , man is among the crowd
of dastards who have figured and fumbled
in the management of this war so as to be ;
a chief cause of much of the failures that;
have proved so disastrous to the cause of ;
of the Union. It is muttered that he has!
done this designedly and that to his crafty |
policy and duplicity some of the most un-1
fortunate calamities have transpired. It is j
muttered that he has inveigled the presi
dent in his snares, so that “honest old Abe” |
is himself hoodwinked and sees only through
the wool.
If these moottings are true —if facts go
to substantiate them, then no man since the
days of Nero, has deserved the gibbet or the
guiilotinc more than the “irresistible con
llict” man.
Milwaukee & Prairie du Chien Eleva
tor. —This building on the opposite bank of
the river is now completed, except the ex
terior wall of brick. It is the largest and
most complete elevator west of Lake Michi
gan, and attests alike the enterprise of the
R. 15, Cos. and the immense business of the
upper Mississippi that is tributary to this
road.
The building is 55 by 185 feet, resting on
a wall of solid masonry five feet thich, is
80 feet high above losv water mark, and has
a capacity of 200,000 bushels. It is built
in the most perfect and substantia’ manner,
furnished with the best and most approved
machinery for elevating, and eight of Fair
banks’ 125 bushel Hopper Scales, which for
style and finish excel anything we havi
before seen. In this the Company have
shown their usual discretion and judgement,
by securing to shippers the certainty that
they will get correct weight— ra very im
portant consideration with those who hav.
produce to sell, or to send to market. —Me
O ’•fvw Time*
Employment.
The Undersigned has, for several years
past, been engaged in a business, which has
yielded him at the rate of tlr.ee thousand
dollars per annum, and is now willing to
teach it to others. The business is ot a
highly useful and general character, adapted
both to cities and villages, and one that any
person of ordinary capacity, young or old,
male or female, can acquire with a few hours’
practice, and by which they can secure a
very handsome income. Several young la
dies who have received instructions from
me, both in New York State and Pennsyl
vania, are earning upwards of sls per week
by it, and there is no resson why any one
else cannot do the same. Invalids, even,
can do well by it, as it is no peddling affair
but a business that is perfectly respectable.
Gentlemen and ladies of leasure who would
like to learn the business for their own
amusement or pleasure, will find the prac
tice of it a pleasant pastime, and one that
they will take great interest in. Onrece ipt
of sl, I will send printed instruction by
which any person can readily acquire the
art, and these instructions will also contain
every particular relative to the carrying it on
so that it will he highly profitable. The
purchaser of the “printed instructions” will
also be authorized to teach it to others; and
I have sometimes received as high as S2OO,
for teaching it personally to a single indi
vidual. 1 would state further that $2,50 or
$3 will buy every thing that is necessary to
commence the business with, and the articles
can he got almost anywhere, in city or
country, or, if preferred, I can furnish them.
Address, ALVORI) T. PARSONS, No. 50
Liberty St., New York.
MARRIED.
In the Village of Poclgeville on the ISth Inst., at the
resilience of Jus ph George esq., by the Kev. Janus
Lawson. Mr. James George to Miss Ann George, both
of Dodgeville.
From ttu! Democratic T.oador. i
The Working of Paper Money, j
The rates of foreign exchange are j
about forty per cent, higher than they |
were this time a year ago. This is cquiv-1
alent to an extra duty of forty per cent,
on al! our importations, and is a draw
back or discount of forty per cent, on
all our exports of produce and manu
factured articles.
The New York World , in an article
on Ibis subject, says that the imports
for the current year are estimated at
$240,000,000, and the exports of pro
duce at $200,000,000. The present high
rates of exchange, therefore, form a tax
of $90,000 per annum, and, assuming
twenty per cent, for profit on the same,
gives a total of $115,000, which the
American consumer pays annually for
enhanced rates of exchange compared
with last year, when our currency was
at a specie standard. If this tax of
$115,000,000 per annum were received
by the Federal Treasury, then there I
would be some satisfaction in it, but
this vast sum benefits no interest except
that of foreigners. The discount or
drawback of forty per cent, on our ex
ports, arising from the same evil work
ing of the high rates of exchange, amounts
to'ahout $80,000,000 per annum. That I
is to say, the foreign buyer receives the ;
flour at about $3,35 per barrel, which |
tiic citizen of New York is compelled to 1
bnv at $7. The British manufacturer
receives the American cotton at about
thirty-six cents per pound, which the
American manufacturer is compelled to :
buy at sixty cents. And the same advan
tage over Americans of forty per cent. !
discount on all American wool and other
products is enjoyed by foreign buyers
and consumers in Europe.
This paper money system of the Sec
retary of the Treasury is thus working
for the exclusive benefit and profit of
British and other foreign manufacturers.
It will enable them to undersoil in this |
market our own domestic manufacturers
of cotton and woolen goods. Domestic
manufacturers cannot compote with for
eigners on these unequal terms of buy
ing the raw material here. This state
ot affairs is grave and menacing to Amer
ican interests. It threatens to swamp
our own manufacturers unless there is
an immediate return to a specie standard
for prices.
It is evident that our commerce can
not long sustain its profitable working
under the present paper money system.
A change is imperatively demanded to
save our domestic manufacturers from
ruinous competition with those of Europe.
The annual diversion of $115,000,000
for the exchange tax on imports, and
$80,000,000 for the drawback on exports,
making a total of $195,000,000 in cash
capital taken from the channels of act
ive trade, is an evil of magnitude suffi
cient to embarrass our whole financial
system. These evils are the natural re
sults of using legal tender notes to the
extent of $130,000,000 instead of the
same amount of certificates of indebted
ness and treasury 3,65 notes for $lO and
How the bridge was Laid Before
Fredericksburg.
The following from the Times' corres
pondent, gives an account of the laying
of the pontoons over which our troops
passed into Fredericksburg on the 11th:
During the thick of the bombardment
a fresh attempt had been made to com
plete the bridge. It failed, and evident
ly nothing could be done till a party
could be thrown over to clean out the
rebels and cover the bridge head. For
tiiis mission Gen. Burnside called for
volunteers, and Hoi. Hall, of Fort Sum
ter fame, immediately responded that he
had a brigade that would do the business.
Accordingly the Seventh Michigan and
Nineteenth Massachusetts, two small
regiments, numbering in all about four
hundred men, were selected for that
purpose.
The plan was that they should take
(he pontoon boats of the first bridge, of
which there were ten lying on the bank
of the river, waiting to be added to the
half finished bridge, cross over in them,
and landing, drive out the rebels.
Nothing could be more admirable or
more gallant than the execution of this
daring feat. Bushing down the steep
banks of the river, the party found tem
porary shelter behind the pontoon boats
lying scattered on the bank, and behind
the piles of planking destined for the
covering of the bridges, behind rock, &e.
In this situation they acted some fifteen
minutes as sharpshooters, they and the
rebels observing each other. In the
meantime now and vigorous artillery
firing was commenced on our part, and
just as soon as this was fully developed,
the 7th Michigan rose from their crouch
ing places, rushed fur the pontoon boats,
and rapidly filled them with twenty-five
or thirty each.
The first boat pushes off. Now, it
ever, is the rebels’ opportunity. Crack !
Crack ! Crack ! from fifty lurking places
go rebel rifles at the gallant fellows, who,
stooping low in the boat, seek to avoid
the lire. The murderous work was well
done. Lustily, however, pull the oars
men, and presently, having passed the
middle of the stream, the boat and its
gallant freight come under cover of the
opposite bluffs.
Another and another boat follows.
Now is their opportunity. Nothing
could be more amusing, in its way, than
the result. Instantly they saw anew
(urn of affairs. The rebels popup by
the hundred, like so many rats, from
every cellar, rifle pit and stone wall, and
scamper off up the streets of the town.
With incredible rapidity the Michigan
and Massaehusett boys sweep up the
hill, making a rush for the lurking
places occudiod by the rebels, and gain
ing them, each man capturing his two
or three prisoners, the pontoqp boats,
on their return trip, take over more than
a hundred of these fellows.
You can imagine with what interest
the crossing of the first boat-load of our
men was watched by the numerous spec
tators on the shore, and with what en
thusiastic shouts their landing on the
opposite shore was witnessed. It was
an authentic piece of human heroism,
which moves men as nothing else can.
The problem was solved. This dash oi
| bravery had done what scores of battcr
| ics and tons of metal had failed to aecom
; plish.
The party once across, and the rebels
i cleaned out, it took the engineers but a
I brief period to complete the bridge.
They laid hold with a will, plunging
waist-deep into the water, and working
as men work who are under inspiration.
In less than half an hour the bridge was
! completed, and the head of the column
of the right grand division, consisting ot
i Gen. Howard’s command, was moving
i upon it over the Rappahannock. A
I feeble attempt from the rebel batteries
was made to shell the troops in crossing,
but it failed completely.
At. arming PitospECT in Eng t, and. —Nearly
a million of men, women and children in
Lancashire district alone, are solely subsist
ing on the poor rates and on inadequate and
intermittent chanty. The allowance to each
of these poor people is from twenty-two to
thirty-six cents per. week, which is to pro
vide food, clothing, fire and lodging. Low
malignant typhus fever has already made
its appearance in some districts.
The Copition of Lasting Peace.— The
New York Evening Post publihes an elab
orate letter from Robert Dale Owen to Sec
retary Chase in favor of the President’s pro- 1
clanution. He closes by declaring: “The
price of enduring peace is General Emanci
pation.”
I ~
| What a French Critic says of
Patti. —Hector Berlioz, in the Revue
Mu*icale, advises those who wish to see
; “gentleness united witn naivete , Hebe in
in person, the goddess of youth who has
quitted the gods to visit us,” to go the
Italian opera where Patty sings. Berlioz
is usually a severe critic,but seems to be
i quite fascinated by the little New York
girl.
--r :
A secret solemn,
This is what fill* the column
New lurk, Dec. 20.—The details of
the victory at Kigston, N. C„ show that
the march was a continual series of fight
ing, in which all distinguished them
selves. Several bayonet charges took
place. The rebels are reported to hare
15,000 men, and their loss in killed and
wounded heavy. 500 were taken prison
ers. Col. Gray of the 6th N. Y. was
killed. Our total loss will not exceed
150.
The principal fight was a few miles
fiom Kingston, where tho rebels were
intrenched ; but after three hours’ fight
ing they retreated towards Kingston
endeavoring to destroy a bridge leading
to that place. The oth New Jearsey
charged over it and saved it. Our di
vision rapidly crossed when the rebels"
retreated one rebel brigade towards
Goldsboro and the other towards Weldon
—our shells helping them along.
(.apt. \V ells and JLt. Perkins, of the
10th Conn., wore killed. Their regi
ment fought till out of ammunition, and
then went in with bayonets. The 23d
.Mass., Major Chamberlin, commanding,
captured seventy officers and men, in
cluding a Lieut. Col. of the 23d South
Carolina Kegimcnt. The march was
taken up on the 16th for Goldsboro.
A dispatch to the New York Times
says that by advices from York town
dated the 16th, wo learn that Gen. Nag
lee's staff have just returned from a roc
onnoisancc of Gloucester county. IJe
took out 400 infantry 100 cavalry and
brought all back.
Among tho prisoners is one John
Sewell, captain ol anew guerilla party
ju>t organizing in Gloucester county,
We brought all of his horses, cattle and
sheep. Our captures of animals will
loot up nearly one thousand. A num
ber ol prisoners were also taken but re
leased on parole.
St. Louis, Dec. 19.—Gen. Curtis has
received a dispatch from Gen. Herron
statCing that Hindman crossed the Ar
kansas river with his infantry. Marma
uukc is on the INortji side with bis cav
alry. Hindman’s non are dailyjoining
Herron. 51 any ol them arc Missourians
who express the greatest disgust at the
rebel Campaign, and think a further pros-?
edition ol the war hopeless.
Curtis yesterday relieved a communi
cation liana (he rebel Gen. Holmes, for
warded by order of Jeff. Davis, inquir
ing into laets relative to tho shooting
often Confederate citizens by order of
McNeil. Kudosed in the communica
tion is a printed slip from the Grenada
Appeal , credited to the Palmyra, N. Y
Courier. Holmes and tho rebel govern
ment desire to know if this account is
substantially correct. Curtis’ reply wilt
probably be published. It is looked for
with much interest.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The Star of
to-day says that Secretary Seward ha,s
resigned.
The Louisiana Election op Fed
eral Conuessmen.— The election in
New Orleans for two members of Con
gress to represent the districts embrac
ing that city, took place on the 3d inst.
There were plenty of candidates in the
field. The names of the successful
ones were Mr. Benjamin F. Flanders,
chosen for the first, and Mr. M. Hahn
for the Second District. They are both
strong, unconditional Unionists. The
Delta says that Mr. Flanders is a native
of New Ha mpshirc, but has resided in
New Orleans for thirty years. He was
among the first to welcome Gen. Butler
upon his arrival in May last, and is for
the Union at any cost. His chief op
ponent was Mr. Bouligny, the staunch 1
Unionist from the same district in the
last Congress, who received, however,
only 13U votes, against 2,184 for Mr.
Flanders. The other successful candi
date, Mr. Hahn, is r. lawyer by proles- i
sion, of German descent, who has lived,
in New Orleans since boyhood, and was
a stout Uuionist through the darkest
hours of secession madness. His chief,
opponent (though not the one who got
the most votes) was the old antediluvian,
Jacob Barker, who made very great ef
forts to secure an election, but was wo ,
fully beaten.
WIIERETIIESSI ALLCHANGE HAS GONE I
—The Canadian journals complain of ■
“plethora ofsilver.” The Toronto Lcadem
says; “for small change American silycl
has, to a certain extent, displaced ban ■
bills,' 1 while “the quantity of it in circi ■
lation is sufficiently great to create son I
inconvenience.” ■
English Benevoi ence. SydmM
Smith defined English benevolence to B
“a strong impulse on the part of A, wh*fl
he sees B in distress, to compel 0/■
help him.” A writer in the ProvidcnH
Journal remarks that this is just wIW
the cotton Igrds gf Lancashire are n. B
doing. They give little or nothijlßj
eomraratively, to their starving woiHj
men, but make frantic appeals for h.B
to London and everywhere else but®
home. im|
NO. 15.