Wisconsin Farmer-Advertising Department. J. C. MCKENNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 77 DEARBORN STREET, Chicago, : ; : : Illinois. PECIAL sttention given the collection of soldier's claims for BOUNTY, BACK PAY, PENSIONS, &c., My former connection with the army enables me to prosecute claims understandingly and with promptness. Full instructions and approved blanks furnished to those who wish to act as agents, through me or otherwise, Nursery and Seed Garden ! on reasonable terms. All letters asking for information, containing return stamp. will receive immediate attention. All kinds of Collections attened to. MADISON, THIS WISCONSIN, THIS new establishment is now open to Dealers, agents and the retail trade for the fall of 1863. It contains an unrivalled collection of choice Apples. one and two years old, including over 100,000 Crown Grafted, grown distinct. APPLE STOCKS, the present year's growth. CURRANTS-in great variety-Red, white and Black, one and two years, in large quantities. Also a general assortment of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, &c. The especial attention of the Trade, those wishing to plant largely,nd those living remote from Nurseries, is called to this Stock as superior for their wants. A LARGE FALL TRADE IS EXPECTED. jy63tf STATEMENT OF THE ASSETS. Office furniture and fixtures...... Millinery Goods, Bonnets, Hats, Whole No. policies issued Caps and Headdresses, In PORTER'S BLOCK, North corner Capitol Park. м. конNER 45,464 60 Total am't losses reported during 1862... MERCHANT TAILOR Am't claimed for loss, resisted as fraudulent AND DEALER IN Losses adjusted and due... All other claims against the company. Ready-Made Clothing, Cloths, Am't paid for advertising and postage.... RATS & CAPS, TRUNKS, CARPET BAGS &c. Three doors below the Capital House, Main Street, Madison, Wisconsin. A Large Stock of Gents' Furnishing Goods on hand. Am't paid for printing.. $327,464 67 327,464 67 22,061 $15,962,000 00 7,706 $6,069,813 00 108,323 93 45,727 80 972 18 $17,744 16 21,413 97 2,000 00 none, none. 292 35 97 50 1,763 66 540 50 600 00 82 02 7,200 98 This holy of holies-the soul's innermostwho shall venture to invade the sanctity of its precincts? Not we; for we have learned that the soul is its own better high priest. But will it minister there as it ought? Ah! that is a question which every pure and noble human soul, and every superior intelligence of the Upper World asks and repeats evermore. Nay, it is a question in which the Great Father himself is more interested than in all else that pertains to this planet. Why? Because upon it hangs the present and future happiness of each individual, the welfare of communities and nations, the progress of the race. God's Angel at the door, with sword of fire! The life of man is full of glorious possibilities; but the period allotted for their fulfillment is brief at the longest. A single year is so quickly gone, and yet it is no small fraction of the whole. Oh, think of what growth you are to make in order to the fullness of intellectual, moral and social stature which should be yours ere the coming of the end. The way is open to you—the bright and shining way, that leads to the attainment of a beautiful and noble selfhood, such as shall be rejoiced in by man and approved by God. SOCIETY. We are each our brother's keeper, and no circumstance of life can absolve us from obligation to our neighbor. Has the past been as rich in good will and charitable deeds as it should have been? A man's benevolence is the measure of his life. If narrow and selfish, it is inevitable that he be a miserable dwarf, spiritually and socially. If broad and generous, seeking the good of others and deriving his happiness therefrom, it is just as inevitable that he develop into a great and noble manhood. The soul is a sacred entity, and he who by Reader, dare to be honest with yourself this willful neglect or misdirection stints or cripples day, and so prove your kinship with the good it, commits a most fearful crime, not only and true of all ages. Light anew the lamp of against the sonl itself, but also against society conscience and let its intensest rays search out and against God. There are a thousand ways the most obscure places of the heart. If with-in which it is possible to contribute to the elein the temple dedicated by God to Truth, Jus-vation, progress and happiness of those about tice and the highest Purity, the base represent- us, and so help to make society what it was atives of Fraud and Taint have been allowed, drive them forth in the might of summoned grace and of heroic aspirations, and then place designed to be-a beautiful and harmonious association of individuals, each aiming at the greatest good of the whole. Let us see if we may not make the coming year more fruitful of the Government and its firmer establishment of social improvement than the past. The cir-upon those pure and noble principles on which cumstances are likely to try us more severely than ever before; may none be found wanting. THE COUNTRY. Our country! What is not comprehended in those two words? The all there is of home, of kindred, of institutions, of nationality, of present and future glory is embraced-things all the more dear, just now, for that they are in peril of being lost. We had become a sordid people, unworthy the sublime sacrifices of our immortal sires, and another half century of rapid growth and unexampled prosperity would, probably, have ruined us as a nation forever. Even now, ere the close of the first century of our national existence, there is too much ground to fear that the virtue of the people is less than equal to the crisis through which the Republic is passing. it was originally based. And if there be not patriotism enough in the land to ensure this, then must it be true that we are unworthy of our rich inheritance, and equally inevitable that it should pass away from us. But it is not alone the Government we love that would be lost with that passing away. With it would go the hope of millions in other lands, who are looking to-day with a trembling and an agony of anxiousness to see the final result of this grand "experiment." If we fail, it is not we alone; Freedom and Humanity will fail with us, and eternity can never fully repair the injury inflicted upon the struggling race. We are to-day fighting the world's greatest battle; let us not be mean enough to think we can settle it upon the narrow and contemptible ground of temporary expedient. We have given freely of our substance, and of the blood of our dearest kindred to make sure the grand result; so let us continue to give, though demanding of the Government and exacting of our military leaders that our sacrifices be not in vain. THE RACE. It is now almost two years since the red hand of Treason was lifted to smite down the beneficent and glorious government of our fathers-a government so beneficent and so glorious that all peoples and kindreds have rejoiced in its light and flocked to its standardPresident and people have learned a lesson and yet the nation is to-day virtually under from the sad mistakes of the past year: God the power of a degrading and wickedly disloy-grant that they fall not into even greater eral sentiment, the very antipode of that lofty rors in the months to come. and pure patriotism which alone can save us from utter ruin. And to make the case still But there is a grander word than patriotism, more desperate, the fires of dissension have and yet akin. It is philanthropy. Not that been lighted upon our Northern altars by base, poor and soulless sentimentalism which too oftunscrupulous partizan leaders, to whom the en wears the name and so brings a reproach gratification of party ambition and the aggran- upon the genuine love of man as man, but that dizement of self are of paramount worth. 1t pure, unselfish sentiment of the all-embracing is these fires that must first be put out before soul which ignores the narrow boundary lines we may hope to extinguish the lurid fires of of nations, and labors for the whole human the Southern Rebellion. race. Christ was the grandest and sublimest representative of this sentiment the world ever saw. His vast out-reaching love knew neither circumstances of birth, nor of religious creed, nor of country, nor of race. He was brother to every human soul, and his life's work was for the equal blessing and saving of all. It makes no difference whether God deals with us in special or in general providences; nothing can be truer than that we are doomed as a nation unless there be virtue enough in the people of the free North to hold their leaders to a strict account, even to the compelling a subordination of every other interest to the one great end-the vindication of the authority The race is full of needs, material, social, spiritual. Let us bear this in mind; remem |