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1, PnbOihen. i Story art iaplleallon The readen of Hugo's "Toilers iof the Sea," could not fail to hare been thnllingly Interested in the narration of CSUiat's encounter with the devil fish. They an questionably followed with breathless interest the movements of the monster as be threw out one after another the powerful elimy, blood sinking thongs entwining the body of hie victim, until he thrust forward his hideous head te complete the conquest so nearly won, when Gilliat by a desperate stroke of his knife in his left ha.nd,. the only member of his body left to skillfully severed the pro- tfuding head, and left the monster dead and powerless for further harm. The reader of this thrilling passage, given at all to reflection and comparison, oonld scarcely fail to find in the present condition of the republic in view of the en- croaubmente of despotism, an exact parallel to thie encounter of Gilliat with the devil fish.

The celerity of the movements of'-the monster anticipating thought and precluding defense; the paralyzing effect of hie graep, the innumerable blood suok- iag orifices of his organism in full play on the body of his victim the moment of touching it, and finally the hideous head is protruded for the final death are paralleled in the despotism wbjnp.iia8 been gradually entwining the republic for the last six years, forth ite revolting "dram head" forlJio final stroke, that the could scarcely have escaped at. or eis years lie haw been in war and During all this time the popular baa been tiofeled with the cry of "emancipation," "freedom," "progress in human rights" and "God and human- i ty generally. What are the plain, palpable Will not men concent for oaefcrief moment to withdraw their attention Trom this hubbub which has cap- tivafced their outer ear, to the positive eoaditwme which BurrounWand involve them! If they will but consent to da BO, wrbai will they inevitably discover? This palpable, comprehensive fact, to -wit: That to-day, each and every one has less liBerty and freedom than each aod every one had six years ago. So plain is this tfeat it needs but one moment's glance to reveal it; so unmistakable is it that after each a glance no one will venture to contradict it. Can it be denied that every business relation of men which was once free is now hampered in every possible manner, by stamps, taxes, tariffs, prohibitions, difficulties, expensive and perplexing, which are the very reverse of progress in freedom and of emancipation and can it be denied, as a necessary BC of this, that the country feas been filled with officers drawing their from these things and exercising control, interference, and espionage, ever ail -business, and as a duty involved by the lawa enacted during this period of aw-calied progress, hamperitg and con- all business in every offensive Now, either these are of freedom and progress, or fte complaint of the "stamp oar wbwfion, WM eheer anfocnded Bat they are tub'- versive of freedom, and the complaint Ye- Cane4 to Was unfounded.

These aw practical, palpable results of the senti. in the ooontry. While it fcae been tickling the ear and deceiving tbe ceases with high sounding, pleasant wfftrdi wad phrases, these things are what it done md ii doing. To-day, awry of tke nation who win nfer to he will look in vain for a single one which he can apply to his own person. And when he is told thaLali-these hampering manaclep upon his own movements have been made necessary by the emancipation of another race, let him examine bow.

problematical is the blessing which has been conferred in yief of the mode in fct him consider, what is still more important, how impossible it is, that one race can be emancipated by the enslavement of anoth'er, and least of all, how utterly im. possible it the black.8 of this nation can be benefitted by any system of things which is a positive damage to the whites. Republicanism is in the thongs of the devil fish of despotism. Its hideous head for the final assault was thrust forward in the military government bill now before the president. Whether like Gilliat we shall sever the head of the monster in good time, or like Clubin, our bones shall whiten the oaves, is the problem not yet solved.

consideration, Mr. lowing I have fefefRjeftn months fttfeorieefl stare by my former political and, friends for foreseeing these which, now we wnr'peirtfin'gtJfi'J Tbe Commander Iron Brigade "Btjecied." Among the federal officers in Wisconsin rejected by the United States senate, we find the name of Gen. JEdward 8. Bragg, postmaster at- Lac. Gen.

Bragg joined the Union army as major of the sixth Wisconsin regiment, as early as September, 1861; and from that time until the close of the war. literally encountered fire snd flood, storm and hail, in the conflict with rebellion. So noted and noteworthy were his services, that president made him a brigadier general, by the unanimous request of the Wisconsin delegation congress, and by common consent he became the commander of the heroio iron brigade," throughout all the latter part o( tbo war. The records of the very senate which now refuses to permit him to fill a petty office under the gov eminent, bears tbe testimony in black and white of his promotion, with the unanimous consent of that body, for repeated instances of conspicuous gallantry in battle. Nor is this all.

The very party which now stoops to vote Gen. Bragg oat of the Fond da Lac poet office, two years ago, when it thought him an available candidate for congress, adopted and endorsed him while avowing and professing the same, principles to which he now subscribes, and attempted to make him a of the people in congress. He was a brave soldier and a good enough republican when wanted to run for office against the regularly nominated democratic ha not good enough in any respect to receive a recognition of from government by a commission from president Johnson. It is a prevailing impression that the senate of the United States; by these daily evidences of its drunken fanaticism and partisan debauchery, is kindling a fire in its rear which will finally send its leaders galloping from Wash ington as rapvdlv ae retreated from Richmond before the steady onset of the men it vainly attempts to dishonor. The ef Free Coven Since tbe commencement of the late war, almost every day prominent republicans could be found who complained that our government not strong enough, and did not afford sufficient guarantees of safety to capital.

-Lately this form of hostility to the government is assuming a more positive attitude. In a recent number of Tbe Anti-Slavery paper controlled by a man who sways more minds in the so-sailed republican ranks than any other ten individuals that can be editor saye: The old Uni6n we do-not want restored. It was an infamous bargain between aristocracy and a pretended democracy, fur the destruction of wbioh we are profoundly grateinl. In New York there is a literary political sheet called The Bound Table, In a recent issue it openly advocates Prof. Blackie's theory of the necessity of a privileged and strperiot or a titled aristocracy in this country, and says: We do not believe in tha logic, the expediency or tha foetiee of a government of the numerical majority.

We subscribe unreservedly to the beanty and fearooay ef inch a system iin aa Ideal or theeretio sense Bat in a practical iSenie we beHete neither in its policy, its equity, fterlts permanency. We predict it Will sot bo six months 'before the republican press of the west follow in the of their eastern avowedljr they now do by in- gen- in the from the boose of representatives, "for to the Wisconsin jover and, that yielding 4 to Chose ratal Hereilee of necessity dissoi ve theUntoTf eniibliatr a despotism. I have sir, I reiwatt been taest severely throughout llseotttta where. That denuBeUtionbM bean carried to such an extent as to eolmlnaie 'At Ust in' the reaolutions of Wisconsin iastraotiog me to resign my seat ia this As reported for a radical paper, Mr. Doolittle then entered upon a critiitism of the details of the and afterward referred at considerable to to resolutions instructing him to resign.

1 He denied the right of the legiiUtura of Wiseoniin to iaane such instru.atieQs, reviewing hie votes and speeches In the senate, and the aots cf bis public life whioh had caused these resolutions to be passed by what he termed the radicals of the Wis oonsin legiiUrurai He than contended ihtt he had abandoned the principles of the Baltimore platform of 1864, but that he was of it and of the policy of re- oonetruotion commenced by Mr. Lincoln. Reviewing the Louisiana bill, he said its ti tie should be amended so as to read not to restore civil government, bat to organize hell in the state of Louisiana. i ia the galleries, mingled with hisses jomoialavto the liquor laws of Ter- fmont. been on the alert for some time, and on Wednesday The nethodlst Church and the Divorce Law.

The annexed resolutions, referring to a bill now pending in pur state legislature on the subject of divorce, were adopted a few days since by the ministerial tion of the Methodist Episcopal church for the Milwaukee district, and are forwarded na for publication by the secretary, Mr. Btowe: Whereas, We understand the soriplures to teach that tb 4 crime of adultery is the only justification for dissolntion ofihe riage relation and re marntge; and Whereas, Many of the cnil laws allow divorce for other reaaoss; and Whereas, Efforts are DOW being made to harmonixe the laws of this state with the laws of God; therefore Resolved, That we approve such efforts, and will do all in our power to render thvem cent banquet la Eesolved, in ease the bill now ing in our slate legitlntore having far its object this change of the law of divorce to pass, we will seek all proper measures to renew the effort until tha needed reformation, shall be effected. WM P. STOWI, Secretary. OPINING or IHI SFBING THS FIRST Guy.

Syiacuse charter' election was held on Tuesday. The Courier of Wednesday morning says: "The result ot the charter election fester- day, was a grand victory to the democracy of tbia city. With a little more effort the whole city ticket might have been elected. Tbe radicals have elected both overseers of the The balance of the ticket is secured to the democracy at majorities ranging from 50 to 250, which is a decided gain on the radical vote of last fall of about 500. While wa afe writing, captain Hudson is out with the "lit- tie barker," which sends forth loud reports of this glorious victory.

Bonfires illuminate the streets and public squares, while brass bands are enlivening the scene with patriotic airs." OUR PROGRESS IN FREEDOM. The ten states which congress has attempted to place under military government include a territory as large as Under the reconstr ccthn bill, in this vast territory the courts are silent and the sword is at once to dictate, interpret and execute the laws. The of the organs of the La Crosse pea a vigorous defense of ''state interests," whioh finds its principal circulation through the- columns of the Ch oigo news We beg leave to suggest to The Republican that the best way to defend Wisconsin is not to adopt a line of argument so palpably gratifying to Illinois. PAYIKO STATS TAXES IN Marathon county owes the state some 19,000 and tbe legislature has passed a bill to allow her to pay. it in lands that have been forfeited for taxes and -which tbe county now owns, having, bid them in at tax sale.

Many of the-lands are excellent pine lands, or were ooce. The president, Friday, tendered ty Gen. Daniel E. Sickles tho position of collector of the port of New Ywk, in place, of Smythe, but it was respectfully declined, Gen. Sickles preferring his present position in the army.

i It is contemplated by the nwtobert elect of the 40th ooagress to held a eaocoe daring the present week fi nominate officers the house. If is certain 1 thaftGol- fax wiU be re elected tpeaket, Pherson apers to insure its spillingin the street Vhile it waa thus disposedof, some of the liqoordealers, by WffSf and informed a customs officer that there was a quantity of smuggled. i' tefeTbfslforoeVanu' seized the fluid which was, awaiting confiscation nnder thVitate laws. This riled the state officials, and wholesale raid upon every saloon and hotel was tbo consequence, tbe keeper of each hotel and saloon being required to give bonds in the sum of $1,000 not to open bier house to any outsider whatever. The consequence of this was, that when the usual influx of strangers to the village occurred on Thursday night, they had no where to lay their heads, and no place to procure a meal even, except at the eating room of tbe depot.

One of the "peculiar laws of Vermont is that private booses cannot receive and entertain any stranger for compensation, as that would be an infringement of the rights of hotels, so the unfortunates who desired to remain in tbe village were compelled to huddle together in the depot when night came, and two or three freight oars were metamorpoosed into barracks for their accommodation. The situation was unchanged up to last accounts. ''Every hotel is closed, villagers are excited, and business is almost at a stand-still. jraea porr Field, with ite quisaed Richard." To one at tie icweof a bat tie fielder a haterojrsaVoas rho, i beseigsd the etpitol and levied enor. hoUlir- TSefegiilatar.

h.ld.ut Tnos. H. recent number of The New York Times has an article on the subject ot the East India telegraph company, in which it makes the following allusion to that quondam intellectual giant of the Benton. When the late Thomas II. Benton was still a young lawyer and local politician at St.

Louie, he edited a small sheet called The St. Louis Inquirer. This was in 1819-20. In a series of articles in that journal, neither ocean steamers, railroads oor telegraphs being then in use, he advocated most strenuously the speedy construction of a national wagon road through to the Rocky mountains, and, with a proper treaty with Spain, through California to some point on the Pacific Suitable for a great harbor. lie fortified his proposal with irrefutable arguments.

Hie sagacious and discerning mind called attention to the fact that every country vrhioh, throughout all history, succeeded in obtaining a fair share of the trade with the beehives of peoples in tbe east, grew prosperous and wealthy. He referred to tbe Phoenicians and Egyptians in ancient times, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Hanseatio League and the English more recently. And he hoped that by open ing communication for convenient travel from tbe Mississippi to the Pacific the rjeople of the United States might share in a like result. "Old Bullion's" far-seeing ideas are now about to be realized, and that in a manner which not even he, at the time of his death, could have had coutage enough to hope. The telegraph to San Francisco was completed long since, and ajready reaches far up north, through Oregon into Washington territory and the British The national wagon road proposed by him forty-six years ago, is being rapidly pushed forward, supported by toe bounty of our government, but it is to- -be of-irotv end "swifrpropelriBg steam" the motive Dpwer.

San Francisco, "tbe mosVaflltablB place On the coast for a harbor," seems selected by nature herself for the great destiny that awaits it. omranr4oation.acroas to Shanghae, connecting there ty eoast steamers with all the most important commercial cities down to Hong Kong, Macao Canton, is provided for also by the bounty of our which has come to tbe succor of private enterprise in this great national undertaking. Thus all the preliminary steps to secure to us a fair share of the immense and highly lucrative trade-of the eastern continent have been completed. One thing remains yet to be done. We must have telegraphic connection; directly from here, and not over England and Europe, with all the trade centers of eastern Asia: then only, will our whole ays- tern of intercontinental commerce be truly American and wholly independent.

FIBE AT Appleton Crescent of Saturday has the following: Yesterday morning at about four o'clock, an alarm of fire waa given, end it was found that tha, upper story of the pest office build- log on t)oeida street, was in flimes, and beyond of beiogsatftd. The first 'floor was occupied by the post office, 8 assessor's office and Mr. QolPs office The upper story wis occupied a select school, and as an office by Dr. M. F.

Page. of oonteqaaaoe was sated from the first floir, bat nothing was not ouief the upper story. B. 0. Goff owned the boildiag about $800; iatund for tfr.

F. Page lost a very valuable library aid large stock of Houtepataie aedfeln less is estimated tt SOLD Qreen Bay Gaaette Istates that tho Scookbridge Indiana hate an anangemeat with the depait- at Washington whereby their lands in ShawsW county, amounting to some 00,000 acres. Many them have concluded, to become citi- jaans, and the balance will probably settljs i 1" capitulation or a hasty retreat were the enly alternatives fee honorable body chose the latter and made good it) escape. their booty, the bummers have suddenly dispersed and quietude, thxoofhout the capital, A wcacue siHAToa. Daring the reeesa, Geo Heed, of Manitowoc, has been almost constantly in his seat, engaged in perfecting tha tax bill, whioh a few days-since wse referred a select committee ooniisttag of aenatora Judd, Heed and Brown.

Sen. Reed ax very mduatriou legislator, aneT- combines with his industry competency and ability. It ia understood that if certain judicious aod agreed upon by the select which art being put in "due fom of law" by Ben. Reed, be incorporated late the bill, it will be acceptable and satisfactory to meat all patties, i 1 liaifttATIVS VAHUAt. The reporters acknowledge their tions to Sen.

L. Browne, for procuring the passage of resolution famishing each representative of the press in the legislature with a copy of tha legislative manual. It is a neatly printed and useful volume. rARiiy BEaoLUTiojia. The resolutions introduced by Hon.

D. Maxon for a decreased tariff are in the oustody ot the house committee on state- affairs. It la several weeks since they were presented, and the committee are reminded that there if an increasing sentiment in favor of action upon this important subject. The resolutions for aa increased tariff on wool weot through the legislature "kiting Tho oismittcQ was prompt ia reporting them back and recommending their time of the passage of the resolution for a tariff on wool, the democratic members present voted is the affirmative or signified their assent by slienci. HOB.

D. W. Maxon, tha author of the resolutions for a decreased -tariff, waa absent. He wojld have voted injfthe negative had he been present CHASOB or PROQHAMMI. The qvestibn- as to what committee the Wiooaa bridge bill will be brought speaker Cameron to the floor.

He advocated and secured ita refetWte-fo the committee on. railroads. Ha claimed, that it purely a railroad measure and properly belonged to the railroad committee. There ia however, a pretty large bridge in bill, and Mr. Barren thought it ought to be referred, (as It was In the the eommittee on bridges and fetries.

Part of theseqveloflfr. Cameron's desire for a change committees will be foandia, tbe fact that one of the leading membera on the nnnnaittee hM-reecnfly tiecoaialaoliacd of the Winone bridge. dtiavaahew which way the wind A or IIBIS. Madison aad twe adjaeeat villages hare recently been the theater of a series of fires. Within a Week oe two several small ings have been destroyed in this city.

A few nights siace picture gallery, situated la a finfUeek on Plnekney street, had a narrow escape from destraosJcn by fire. On Thursday evening last the villages of Marshall and Edgerton ware bath, viaited by serious conflagrations. The loss at EJw gerion, deducting insurance, is reported at The Madison Union says the fire epidemic is programing westward, and cautions the people to watch their The aoldiers' meetiag oa Tharsday evening reported in favor of thai inocr- poration the The WUeoaaia'e soldiers' moaamsataseooiatiOQ, thaoojaerof which Shall be to protfde SMane and saeare the ereotfon of i nronumerit to Wlseonatn icldiers, ate coat of 9100,000. Qen. T.

8. Allen Oot. E. A. Oatkiaa were appointed a committee to-present the stabjeette ffle Icgislatore.

A RMOtuTioa or -nrQVimT. A carafol aad oSsetviag senator hee prepared and will introduce a reavltubst, ia. atrootlng tha committee on state, to laquire die aaitVof iaJivialwali is act jeo'pardfaad by at, Sbebcygan on lOtfc i adm- An expert ten count ia BtartiaTIaw Oalhonn's estate in Pwkens, S. O. to- be aofd under a decree of a court of cbaa- A Missouri Uackamith has horse shoe for the Paris expceitiea.

A smaB body bat a magnificent Mr. George Pea-body. Chicago hae bad twenty drvnken antr- deza within the last six months. A French soldier inVera Orns swallowed a centipede in water. His death wat a dreadful one.

reterend Spurgeon ia ennoonoed as New York. SylVenwi Gobb, the story writer, leads a ehittoh choir. The gnesta at a colored ball in Jersey City drank three hundred bottles of chou- pagne. Thecoina intended bytte United States government for the; Paris' alxpesitioa are A man has offered opera house Lee 1500 for the "lonfrtaifad shirt" he wore when.be got the nowe. Two citizens of New London are having a law suit about a barren island rock ia the harbor of that city.

Theatricals pay. Lester Wallaok has just purchased a $50,000 house in Naw York. A sailor was found in New York who once mined in California and spent twenty fire thousand dollars, bullion, in. rum. There is a proposition among the high churchmen in New York, to bring over Dr.

Pusey for anniversary week. A wine merchant occupies an entire page with his advertisement in The London Six tons of prairie chickens were recently shipped east from Eighteen thousand arete sent to Liverpool. Tbe bureau agents have so educated the frefdman in Texas, that they wOt neither work, or do anything but gather about the and towns in idleness. Scunner once charply sritfeised ae a man who would see Che ojegro starve, on lead he ooold confine bint to. hia own particular baking'.

The New Zalaod-eoiotuata are now paying twenty shillings a head foe every British inaeotftoraug' bird that isilanded alive in the colony. Tbe Mobile Times, alluding to Morria- sey 1 connection with a Troy paper, suggests that his articles will be indicated by a fist. The idea of establishing an academy of natural sciences in Philadelphia iavHkely to be carried out, the initial sum of 100,000 having been raised. A St. Louis German gentleman recently displayed his parental tenderness by dving and leaving one, dollar to eaokff his ehOdtett, and half a millioa widow.

The Mexican lady, about to bemasried to the Frenobi ambassador in MOMMLT brings hint a fortune of twxr of doQara- Maximilian could not collect enough to pay tbe of tailor, or other tradesmen who' bad been employed in tbe palace of Oaapoitenee. The amount of the direflt tax itt Prussia is about $39 a vemr for every man, woman and ohilil. In Bavaria it is oalv about 30o per Thfepassron dow among- women ia for boiler of the; heatjag. capltol building, and to rtpert tke ity and expense of removiaf tieeame -enfo aids. The leeent staaat bcjBn dfiaster 4 Hflwaaiee pretae alt the -wfepards pOMible againtt dents from boHHn, A yoongbdt to ly preienietr a ralaed at nine hundred do.

wpent- nwers the temples, and! lovalockf, that shade tha luster ot deep Ex. An etror of A one that nas been detected in upwards of sixty different of the New Testament printed aiOxIdrd. A near-sihted entleman pttfft took it fot a fivei and so did Uiehatterktor ht said netting about it. shoemaker in Richmond Pair of seteflteen and a between tfie of AOaate, fedetsniiine rirfielbes-tae oould bmlAaa of and aawent.