Waukesha Plaindealer (Newspaper) - October 10, 1871, Waukesha, Wisconsin i enemy and unless report lies Series W A U K ES H A TUESDAY OCTOBER 10 Vol 1 badly thn only time lie was ever ex- posed to My danger from the chances of war was when lie made his sad Democratic State Nominations GOVERNOR JAMES R DOOLITTLE Of Kacine TDK A RICE Of ron oy STATE WILTON Of Monroe FOR STATE TREASURER ANTON KLAUS Of Brown EDWARD S BRAGG 01 Fond du Luc FOP STATE PRISON COMMISSIONER L K JOHNSON 01 Lafayette TOR OF W D PARKER Of Rock VOIt COMMISSIONED BODDEN Of FOP MEMBEn OF DISTRICT Hie town of New SILAS BARBER County Convention A Convention the in tho nl will be held at of October IS 1 nt two p m for the purpose of town In- th bounty will bt entitled to Mentis In By order of lUu Second Assembly District Convention A Democratic District Convention com- Ibe ol bon UTton will be held ai tlie Lak In on Saturday the Will day or ut 2 o'clock P M for nl ft candidate lor the Assembly Rich town nil T ll ago m will to t umo votos iu said of September den exit from Memphis Saus lotte Ilis James R Doo little is a man of a very different sort Gifted with talents and a com- manding en ful and be kindles an admiring enthusiasm ever Full bouses when he speaks glued ences listen with rapt attention to bis earnest words Ills manner bis and logic carry to all minds not willfully blind to the ruth These differing indications together with the cheering news from all pans discover to our judgment the most promising assurances of a coming democratic victory We believe a uro victory is within our reach if the united hopeful laborious democracy acting in concert will its hand to secure it The prize is most assuredly worthy of tbe effort for a victory assures to the people a positive relief by lessening the burdens of taxation breaks up ring of corrupt radicals who have grown rich out of the spoils of a depleted treasury and ad- ministers a deserved rebuke to an in- solent federal administration for its medling encroachments upon tbe province of state politics Results such as these are worthy of tbe laborious acd united party bent rescuing 3 state from the selfish hands who have so long misgoverned it Our Nominee for the Assembly The nomination of Mr Barber for the Assembly although unsought ior and unexpected by him lud his Mends seema to meet the entire approbation of all Democrats Mr Barber has been a resident of the county for nearly thirty years during which time he has been an active business man and has paid out dollars to the farmers of this county He once represented this District in the Assembly to the entire of his constituents and wo are to submit his case to the people Of this District out argument or counsel The Prospect The prospect for a democratic tory in Wisconsin was never more promising than it is this Iall The signs and indications are of the most encouraging description In the first place the unexpected nomination of auu Washburn fell the disgusted this assumption If masses of the radical party like Vet blanket It cooled off the little remaining ardor which had not been wherever he goes Even in strongest republican localities he U greeted with thin houses and the few flagging zeal The truth is that ite enthusiasm He is naturally proud and aristocratic and his ty and dictatorial manners are but the manifestations of a cold and selfish attacks of the law no proof that he ever used it -as a weapon to The Protective Tariff The Democrat Madison has found a pictorial which says farmer rises in the morning Puts or his flannel shirt taxed per cent liia ers taxed 60 per cent bis vest GO per cent on which are buttons taxed 40 per cent Which said tax goes to pay for ting down a rebellion of Southern Journal The radicals have a queer way of dodging an argument The is a fair specimen of the logic with which they treat their readers They must have a vast amount of confidence in the intelligence of their party ad- herents when such kind of is resorted to Men be now by style of talk are beyond tbe reach of reason We will however say a few words to an- other class men who are open to tbe influences of reason and com- mon sense This question of a tariff is one that deeply concerns the tical interests of all In the first place we shall assume we have a right to do so that the radical party favors a protective tariff The past history and present attitude of that we consult ijs record upon this sub- ject we find that within the last ten years a republican congress has in their minds by the long no iess than seventeen tariffs abuses of rule aud left in its place a Of which had increasing duties for feeling ot positive indifference object If we look at its present ing more conclusively proves the ex- we discover that tho recent of this filing ol In- convention voted twice distinctly in difference than the almost freezing favor oj a protective tariff and that coldness with which Washburn is re- a candidate who is notoriously a protectionist And with regard to tbe ques greeted with thin homes and the lew A high protective who stay to listen to his dull a fraud and a i es are poorly go away increases tbe sum of laxes tbe people with no new to excite their diminishes the amount have to pay it diminishes the amout Of revenue to the government I Washburn possesses none of those lends lo importations and popular traits of character which are the market a calculated to inspire confidence or ex- throws into the market a greate quantity of American goods often to of an inferior but upon which the people must pay tbe tax no a dollar of which however gors manifestations ot a cold and government To heart He has no warm pgr cen is a to generous Jf value of clot If he possessed the necessary aj fonr we must adc tual ability to become an orator he the t to eigh could not with his unsympathetic Qn coat> pur ture touch the popular heart lor he h a tax of about six who would kindle a flame in others must first feel its glow within bis owu breast He has a talent for money getting nnd for nothing else His life has been devoted to that object He has been a successful speculator and erybody knows that is a species of gambling It is sn avocation which makes men cold hard and His going into the army Las spoken of as an act of patriotism Never was praise BO undeservedly upon any man Tho army then his only escape from bankruptcy It was to Mm 9 double retreat for he was ex- posed to no danger from the bullets of the enemy and te at the same lime escaped the quips and bullets of the which the civil law discharges upon its victims He sought the sword of tbe soldier as shield to protect himself against the chaser pays a tax of about six dollar If the coat is made of imported cloth this tax goes intc the national treasu ry it is stolen by some radica before it gets there But i h is made of American cloth it coe into the pockets of tho manufacturer It is safe to that under a bigu protective tariff there will be sold four of American cloth as there will be o the foreign If this be so then fo every three dollars of tax which form a part of the national revenue thi people are compelled to pay dollars If the whole amount of rev enue reaches two hundred millions o dollars annually the people must pai eight hundred millions six hundred millions of which finds its way into the pockets of a comparatively few wealthy capitalists kind of legislation necessary in au in putting down the rebellion We should say Suppose should so express it in the aw that a direct tax of three dollars n yard of American clothy be of the prf for the the manufac urer How would that be the now ast the same As lone of actually ence does H make whether tis in the not paid by tlie in the tariff wo hundred millions of wbich is re- by the govern How long Oct I ones more p pended correspondence in once more if seeing myself the the I have be- uAr know any o her that I hardly and has become is about it 1 do wondor superstitions of a darker as printing still i ventor of ural gi my room can sit in the solitude of and down my thoughts a week's t m-i they come back to ma in t much e readable shape and thousands must the this sort of work i hing Just so long as they keep the party in power them the same I 169 in 133 Our State Legislature is composed of 133 members In 1870 the and employees of all kinds about this body ot 133 men nil told numbered ne sixty nine persons wages amounted to the nice itile sum of One hundred and sixty-nine em- ployed to on 133 How ia that or high That makes a little over one and cne fourth of an employee to each member Now we think that the ought with the fraction and manage to worry along with one full employee to each Can't they do Under Democratic rule they managed to run the Legislature with much less Economy you know is peculiarity and alarmingly a Radical trate ature is a It employes only 109 persons to attend ou 133 Wny don't have more Hi ere few ones at session are TLe types out the Hr he Part rof the 3 000 Miles Burnr 120 JULES LENGTH men on the street and weeping is heard m The extend from nearly z miles in thirty miles in is one wood The up OUT OF BOUSE HOME of Miles of Valuable Forests Destroyed Wild Beasts Fleeing in Every Direction Distant Forests for a Cover types the dullest of metals lead the most of minerals Lead won't sparkle nor alisten nor polish nor glow but it will Through Us flash from tbe lettered kindling a responsive glow in the hearts of delighted millions heavy dull lead what with sparkle is unable for it tbe thought gather into lasting the eloquent fall from the inspired lips of give a local and a name Impenetrable to the light ana almost in- capable of reflecting its rays yet it floods tho civilized world with sunbeams the effervescent glow of wit and beanly the manent lustre of and illuminates the dark places of barbaric with the steady of Christianity Gold nnd silver and diamonds we can get along without as long as we have plenty of but what should we do without be led into Desolating Prairie Fires in S BAY Out The fires in for should bu Only The Fort Atkinson Herald a very influential Republican paper of son county thus alludes to the Honorable Cadwallader Washburn tbe nominee for The only event in his military history that will live in story is his defense of details of which we decline to publish Hart Forrest before riding into Memphis with his wild done what rumor says he word in that was about to attack the city and requesting that and women and children and the hundred day men be full and complete history of the war might lave been written and VY name not once mentioned It will be safe to gamble that the Herald will never get any post office Ere this his name has been entered in the huge book at Washington containing the names of those are not tobe thought of under ia tion with local post office's Think of the of which a Republican editor is guilty to associ ates Washburn the warrior with women and children And hundred day men A full and complete history of tbe war might have been written and Washburn's name not once ed Think of it weep scalding teara and wipe your noses on each others coat tails and go for that Fort Atkinson Croise Democrat Greeley is after Grant At a quiet breakfast given him in Chicago a short time ago by long aud the Hon John B Grennell of Iowa Mr said The lic will stand no more and present taking President Mr Greeley have Grant in his mind at that In the same tion he said be would have a man for is above hunting a man who will not away of his time amid the follies and frivolities of a watering place and who when called upon for an expression of his views on political or other subjects of national interest can give them in clear and language We advise Mr Berg to punish Mr on his re- turn to New York for cruelty to an animal lead We soon Dull t the impression upon the world It is in th best type ot civilization Like in the that have been to the east and on the shoie of Lake are burning with no prospect of abatement and have broken the Bay The loss is beyond computation spread over a of country that is not less that the piny thou gold food for 1 will of Nor none them pale and common maD and mnn bul thou th ou meagre Ulan dost promise Thy plainness Joy be And yet to tho on serious reflection I think I would like a little of that gaudy and a few bushel bugs full of that same pale and common which men used to would be rather acceptable must have lived in a time of specie or would never have called silver lla common drudge He couldn't have written sentence in these radical times and in this country Even the est possible poetic license would not have tolerated such a liberty with stern It inny seem a little egotistical in me to speak so highly of lend which is proverbial lor its dullness Some may that I have the subject On purpose to defend Well I the right to defend full as good am have written on that subject There is Pope for instance who nad blind Shu in native j Still old she triog For boru a never di 5 I never pretended to any more than Pope and suppose I may eulogize as well as he It was not ray design to at the outset to make a heavy article out of this even if 1 have put a jood deal iri it I have devoted so much of my space to dullness that I am I shall have no room to be otherwise this If I say anything bright or witty you may regard it as the result of dent I find it a very easy task to be dull and am almost always so by design but my wit is always impromptu and all I write is the result of careful preparation Some lime ago I wrote a communication which was all over with wit and after it was finished I took the unusual to read it all became so frightened nt the possible consequences which it might produce readers that I dared not send it nnd so it perished still born I have concluded to never venture upon the dangerous theme Politics is beginning to warm up a little here The atmosphere is not too hot for comfort but just a decent healthy ture As weather cools we expect it will get warmer and by the time November's frosts arrive we anticipate a hot We hope however for a killing frost one that will nip the root of Democrats are feeling and confident of such a result A full democratic vote throughout entire state will give ty to this hope by the election of tie and his associates on the ticket Tis a consummation most devoutly to be wished P add a postscript for the purpose of introducing a theme The body of Frederick one of the men drowned in 4th lake a few weeks ago has been and committed to the resting place ot the dead at Forest Hill etery Alos poor Fred I knew him well Fully 100 families burned out ot house and have now come to this place destitute of at least a hundred more families are in an equally bad Houses barns farm buildings fences bridges on he everything has been swept away The smoke is so dense and suffocating that no at- tempt can be made to cross the ay and ascertain the of but it rages in Door and on the East and in and Oconto counties at the west and north In are sparcer and less loss has occurred But the ground is so dry that the fire eats in- to the vegetable mold a foot and a and burns the roots of trees so that they iall and lie in all directions for miles in extent like timber slashings Miles and miles of the most valuable pine lands are rendered worthless The wild beasts are in dis- may from the woods Bears approach human habitations and deer and fields in every direction seeking where the fire wave his banner of The plank rond to the eastward is burned tip to the very city limits The smoke is so thick in the streets that a man cannut be seen five away The poor settlers the fire as it approaches their homes retreating foot by foot as toward them gather round their barn and work to save it as long as possible till it goes then they protect houses till blinded and suffocated by the heat and the smoke they are forced to re- treat and see their all perish before ihtir eyes Many cases are related of men falling exhaustion and be- ing carried away to save them from the flames The fire now reaches on the north as far as and and threatens both places We daily of mills that are ed up with of dollars worth of logs and lumber The telegraph lines are burned up in all directions The roads are impassible at night when the smoke is not so and the Shawano the burning district There is no telling where and when the lire will stop as nothing will stop it but ruin which does not come nor promise to come Ail the supplies of food for men and beasts for the winter are through out 50 townships and tion stares tlie human and brute the during tlie com- ing Tne work of charity will need to be thorough and generous to save famishing GREEN BAT Oct fires which are now prevailing in the six or seven counties of Wis consin have never had a since the settlement of tbe country The drouth which has prevailed since early in August has up the springs and streams and all vegetation and has parched the ground to such a depth below the surface that iho soil itself acts as a conductor and living trees are falling from the action of the fire which undermines them All ont- standing property is swept being so little water in available situation to atop the fires Barns and their contents Lay stacks wood and other property together with hundreds of miles of fences are ed as no resistance can be offered to the approaching There is yet no authentic account of the loss of life although a family in Kewaunee county and some Indians and bis sad fate me deeply He waL are reported burn thickly settled with and bridges on the roads are mostly gone In some cases large lots if pine the dried up streams are burned Very little travel is practicable and it is with difficulty definite particulars can be ed: tbe and Railroad the ex- tends tp the track ou either side for between Depere Appleton threatening the bridges and culverts burning and cord closest vigi lance in Along the extension of road how building northward considerable one of the er's been destroyed Deers aud bears on the railroads and wagon roads be shot but one has the time to devote to that the Green Bay ayd Lake Pepin Railway grade mile of corduroy substructure ties and hundreds of cords of wood be- longing to the been turned besides property much greater in value belonging to All the bridges on the line of the Manitowoc road for twenty of Green Buy are circus over them only a few hours previous on to The fire extends to the city limits of Green Bay on the east running over the city -in danger though falling in streets The smoke is to-day that building two blocks distant are not visible On the west the fire bus approached tne village limits of Howard immediately opposite on the and a large of men are eu- gaged in staying its progress What will be the result to the ing pine and other timber in these counties cannot yet bo ascertained No access to the forests and direction now looks as if whole city might be destroyed Of number of lives sacrificed but how many and who cannot be known until thu been ar- and nothing can be estimated except from tho effects where it penetrates the ground from one co two teet destroying tbf trees The atmosphere is hazy with some appearance or rain It will take a heavy and drenching rain to saturate tbe ground and stop the pro of the AND IN f DANGER Oct and are said to be burning Wood belong ing to railroad company also fences adjacent woods are in Con north from Green Buy is destroyed There is but one line in between this point and Green Thousands ol square miles of territory in this and on the Michigan peninsular an- or burning Nothing can the ravages of the lire fi but a ery heavy rain The trees between Green Bny find Oconto are so burned out by the that they are constantly on the telegraph lines Tlie damage is very grent THE COUNTY Two Oct fire out yesterday noon in the swamps north-west from this village and ed like fury It fired one building in the village o'clock which was entirely consumed The blows a perfect The men were on ground promptly stopped the progress of the fire Another dwelling was fired uut ex rested 1 THE VESSELS ON THE SIVEE are catching fire in every direction and all on the south Chicago River will probably be de- bridge's Van street is burned tbe shipping in the cars on the track of the arid Iton and Ft: roads immense freight there are swept away JNo language can THE SCENE The swept blocks of houses with the fire Thousands of people tbe rushing out of in many instances baro- ly in to save their lives LATEE CHICAGO most ester fire known here is now Over one-half of the Side and a large portion of tbe are reduced to Cashes The city ablaze from Erie streets fire is spreading rapidly in ali directions making a clean sweep along us Have actually lost all over The are packed with thousands of wagons loaded with valuables saved from tne burning buildings The loss of life is great As yet no estimate of the be juade Thousands are leaving the city to seek new The of Com- merce office Sherman and Palmer several Elevators and road depots lie in rums Assistance from all parts is ing to the city Business is entirely suspended AU the inmates of tbe jail under the Court House were roasted alive Their number is nut known All com- with the EasS LATEK A Half the Opera Firld dry goods House Tri- bune and Works are all burned FiRE AT Special to Evening is Out broke out this morning in of the city together with uther buildings were destroyed ha origin of the tire is not known Now Hi 10 a in it is still without much In The following are the officers of Wisconsin State Society for the ensuing year President B R Summit Vice Presidents W R Taylor tage Grove C H Eli Oshkosh Clark Rufus Cheney White water J T Kingston Necedah Secretary J W Hoyt Treasurer Milwaukee Harrison Ludington Additional Members the tive Committee C L ville N S Green W W Fields J O Eaton Mil waukee J U Warren Albany N D Tratt Racine John L Mitchell Milwaukee We believe there are but three practical agriculturists in the list of officers The Ohio election for State Officers takes place to-day a man of many excellent traits Up to this lime tbe body of Dr Wilson has not been tound nnd it is feared never will be It is a sad affair OCTOBER 1871 Since the above iras ths body of Dr Wilson has been recovered It is to be sent to Racine for interment His broken father resides there the last scene of this melancholly accident which so cut oft the mortal career of two of Madison's prominent citizens it that of the leaders of the Radical party from Grant Butler j and others down to Carpenter bell Faifchild were active Democrats who failed to get office in their own party On the 24th nit Bev Clinton Clark preached at from tbe following Be ye therefore ready also for the Son of man when ye thinly and the day his home for a walk on the street he Ml insensible and died in half an hour id The hardest fights against the flames are made at many sawmills wLich are located among tbe pine forests in this region but many of them have been burned All the available force which could be ed from the adjacent villages has been called to the of the ed mills and some cases with Tbe work avail and has been in others not so and and the men so tired with the fatigue that in many places tne contest has up Iu places where there was no water the only available plan has been to dig lies around the property but the least wind large flakes of burning through the air and renders nil such means The Advocate to-day lias accounts of the fire in the counties of Browr the evening the scene was grand and terrible regon was iru with smoke flames dust and cinders The was dense in the afternoon that objects could not be discovered for the distance of a block The Wisconsin Leather Com- tanneries are safe the fire be- ing only in the rear of them It is re- ported that several farmers are out The smoke is very dense now but not dangerous unless the wind springs up again from the north Two Rivers Manufacturing f tories were danger Toe out wetting down the factories It was with difficulty that the mail rier crossed from Manitowoc to All is quiet now Terrible at Chicago A fire broke out iu Chicago on Saturday night and from tbe latest reports it wis feared that the whole city would be burned Some forty or fifty blocks are already consumed The authorities have telegraphed to Milwaukee for engines The tele- graph office at Chicago is we are unable to give any late reports but we tear thai the most of the city is burned up The be computed only by millions Tbe latest report says Court House and Sherman House is now on fire A dispatch The district already burned over em- braces an immense number of lumber yard freight depots of the Chicago St Louis Pittsburg Ft Wayne and Kewaunee Manitowoc Shawano It estimates that an area of square Chicago Railroads The property already counts ep many millions of dollars and perhaps the half is rot told The task of arresting it seems five-fold greater now than did an hour ago and no one dare ture the opinion as to when or where A miles burned over Three jt saw mills are definitely known to have 1 been burned and others are said to be burned but the reports need con- is prevailing throughout the whole Almost Waukesha Wisconsin JW j House Trimming all kinds ami a land Complete Stock iof Shell ami HARDWARE Agricultural Implements Cook Parlor nnd IK Stoves of Superior First flows WOODEN Forks of Cradles ic Of Manufactured hj from the Qualities of Tin and WARRANTED Churns Tubs Wooden Ladles Mops In Colors Oil OU Sash Glass PUTTY A of SASH GLASS Always ou hand WOOD TUBING Rope of all Sizes of all CLOTHES WRINGERS POWDER AND attention to TROUGHS UN JOBBING PAIRING ill work Promptly to Guaranteed or SINGER KENDRICK GASP T FOR SALE HI RENT HE dwelling soM or rented Enquire tno aba National Bant II 111 TnE Largest and Best Assortment of Dress to CO
