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dantly sustained by the press since he was here that it is unnecessary to add a single word; unless it be that his moral character is fully equal to his high intellectual position. By all means go and hear him. # A STRANGE PROCEEDING. This community was taken by surprise Tuesday evening upen the arrival of a militarycompany from Milwau- kee, sent hither, as we have been informed, by Gov. Randall. At whose instance it was done, we have been unable to learn. Certain it is that no necessity existed for any such movement. The rumors afloat during the day that a meeting was held at Juneau in the afternoon at which ar- rangements were made for sacking the Banks here in the eve 'ng, a la Milwaukee, were en- titled to no sort of credence. There were excited individuals here, it is true, but none of them had any design on the Banks in Water- town, for they well knew that those institutions could do nothing but follow in the wake of Mil- waukee and take only such money as they took there. It was a great piece of folly to incur the expense, and cut such a figure, as that in- volved in posting a military company out here when there was no greater reason for doing it than in the present instance. We wonder who caused it to be done? Since the above was written we find in the Milwaukee News, of Wednesday, the following item which throws some light upon the matter, but leaves us in the fog as to who was the orig- inator of the canard. The News says: "A telegram was received in this city, about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, stating that a mob had commenced an assault upon the Banks of the city of Watertown, and were en- gaged in sacking the Banks. A request was also forwarded for military companies from this city to assist in quelling the riot. "Two companies immediately started, fully armed with muskets, for the depot of the Wa- tertown road for the purpose of proceeding to Watertown, to assist in quelling the riot. They left by special train about five o'clock, and will use every exertion to restore order." Now the question is, who sent that lying tel- egram? Have we a person here so base as to be guilty of such a proceeding? If so, the public has a right to know his name. # THE MONEY PANIC IN WATERTOWN. This has been a badly excited town since last Satur- day, when intelligence reached here that ten of the Banks in the guaranteed list had been thrown out in Milwaukee and were no longer current. It soon became noised about that the bottom had fallen out of the arrangement cooked up by the Bankers in April, and the consequence was a rushing to and fro of every one who had a dollar of Wisconsin currency in his or her pocket, anxious to pay debts, or buy goods, or in some other way rid themselves of it. On Monday the furor was stronger than ever. Some of the merchants refused to take it on any terms whatever, and closed their doors, while others took it at a discount of from twenty to thirty per. cent., and others still taking it at its face. In the afternoon. the Jefferson County Bank and the Bank of Wis- consin declined to receive deposits, while the Bnk of Watertown stood up to the rack man- fully, taking all that came along from its regular customers, though the business it was doing must have smacked strongly of "biled owl." Tuesday there was less commotion, the mer- chauts depositing with the two first named Banks declining to sell any goods except for specie, while those doing business with the latter institution kept on selling as usual, until four o'clock when they, too, having been noti- fied that deposits would no longer be received there "shut down the gate" and a blockade at once rested upon trade. Thus matters stood until Wednesday morning, when dealers offered to take the bills of thirty-four Banks known as the Farmer's & Miller's list, and business again began to flourish as of yore. In the afternoon, the Banks concluded on receipt of advices from Milwaukee, to take deposits again the same as they had done Monday, throwing out the ten Banks mentioned in another column, in addition to those discredited in December. So matters quieted down once more and trade went along as smoothly as though nothing had happened and the town had not been all excite- ment but twenty-four hours before, reluctant to touch Wisconsin currency with anything but a ten foot pole. # THE HOG LAW. Amongst the multitudes of irrepressible conflicts going on around us the war between the porcine tribe and our city, deserves & passing notice. Agreeably to the doctrine commonly entertained that hogs are not free commoners, our city government years since passed an ordinance prohibiting the brist- ling gentry from running in the streets. This law the City Marshal, who is the official repre- sentative of the city, is sworn to enforce, and in the discharge of his official duty he is clothed with no discrectionary powers, nor is he allowed to know any difference between the hegs of friends or foes, the ordinance is his rule of action, and his oath of office binds him to put it in force. Unlike some of his predecessors, our present Marshal is nobly discharging his duty, and this shows that in this respect cer-
