812 



WISCONSIN. 



440 ; average number of gallons primped per 

 day, 2,490,757. 



Average duty for the year, 22,778,385 pounds 

 raised one foot high by the consumption of 100 

 Ibs. of anthracite coal. Total amount of coal 

 consumed by engines, 1,662 tons 4 cwt. 1 qr. 



Such is the rapid increase in the demand in 

 the district supplied by the Twenty-fourth 

 Ward Works that it is difficult to provide for 

 it satisfactorily. On account of there being no 

 reservoir, nor any other facilities for storage, 

 and the fact that there is only one main from 

 the works to the stand-pipe, the demand is 

 supplied directly from the pumps, and requires 

 the constant and unremitting operation of one 

 engine, the other being kept in constant readi- 

 ness in case of accidents. The number of 

 gallons pumped during the year was 420,507,- 

 810 ; average number of gallons raised per day, 

 1,152,076. 



Average duty for the year, 38,525,000 pounds 

 raised one foot high by the consumption of 100 

 pounds of anthracite coal. Total amount of 

 coal consumed by engines was 933 tons 18 

 cwt. 19 Ibs. 



Number of gallons pumped by all the works 

 during the year, 7,932,886,423. Average num- 

 ber of gallons pumped each day, 21,733,935. 



WINDISCHGRATZ, ALFRED Zu PRINCE, 

 formerly commander-in-chief of the Austrian 

 armies, born in Brussels, May 11, 1787, died at 

 Vienna, March 24, 1862. He entered the mili- 

 tary service in 1804, received the command of 

 the Cuirassiers of the Grand Duke of Constan- 

 tine for his brilliant conduct at Leipsic, and 

 distinguished himself during the campaign of 

 1814 at Troyes. He was promoted to be ma- 

 jor-general in 1826, and made general of di- 

 vision and lieutenant field marshal in 1833. 

 In 1848 he led the armies which bombarded 

 Prague, Pesth, and the Austrian capital in suc- 

 cession, but meeting with reverses in Hungary 

 he was driven from Buda-Pesth in 1849 by 

 Gorgey, and in April of that year was deprived 

 of his command. Fierce and cruel, he never 

 treated the Hungarians with the least leniency, 

 and his latter days were saddened by seeing the 

 principles against which he had fought so ob- 

 stinately, carried out, at least partially, by the 

 Government. On one occasion, during the 

 first session of the Reichsrath, he ascended the 

 tribune of the Upper Chamber, and prophesied 

 new catastrophes, the necessary consequence, 

 he said, of the statute of February, and an- 

 nounced his readiness to protect Austria as 

 heretofore with his sword, but meeting with 

 no response he retired henceforth to private 

 life. In 1851 he published a work defending 

 his conduct in the Hungarian campaign entitled 

 "tier Winterfeldzug Von 1848-'9 in Ungaru^ 



WISCONSIN, one of the most thriving 

 Northwestern States, increased in population 

 during the ten years ending June, 1860, 470,- 

 490, when the whole population was 775,881. 

 {See UNITED STATES.) 



The Governor of the State, Harvey, was in- 



augurated on the 1st of January, 1862. He 

 had been elected by the Republican voters on 

 the first Thursday of November, 1861, by a 

 majority of 8,320 over the Democratic candi- 

 date. 



The Legislature convened on the 9th of 

 January. The members of the Assembly and 

 half of the Senate had been elected in No- 

 vember previous, and were divided as follows : 



Senate. House. 



Republicans 22 43 



Democrats 11 34 



Union 23 



The governor in his message recommended 

 economy in the expenditures, the introduction 

 of military drill in public schools, and the 

 establishment of an armory and arsenal at 

 Milwaukie, on the Lake Michigan. 



The following resolutions expressive of the 

 views of the majority of the Legislature on 

 Federal affairs were adopted with seven dissent- 

 ing votes in the House and nine in the Senate : 



Whereof, The language of joint resolution number 

 4, adopted by Ihe Legislature of 185?, is in some of its 

 parts identical with those of the Kentucky resolutions 

 of 1798; 



And u-Ktreas such language is liable to be so mis- 

 construed and perverted as to lead to misapprehension 

 of the purpose of its adoption, and to favor secession ; 



Ana whereas there is evidence in the fact of such 

 Kentucky resolutions having been endorsed by and in- 

 corporated into and made part of several of the Demo- 

 cratic national and State platforms, and especially by 

 that recently promulgated bv the Democratic State 

 Convention of Indiana, that the true intent and mean- 

 ing of such language has been misconstrued and per- 

 verted ; therefore, 



Jfesoh'ed by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, 

 That we regard the action of the rebellious States of 

 this Government, in their attempt to destroy the Union 

 by the pretended lawful right of secession, as unwar- 

 ranted by the spirit of the Constitution, and utterly 

 subversive of the well-established principles of good 

 government. 



Resolved, That no State of this Union has a right to 

 defy or resist the laws of the Federal Government, 

 but* should yield a willing and hearty support to the 

 enforcement of the laws, unless such laws are unjust 

 or deleterious in their operation, in which case the 

 only rightful remedy lies in their repeal or lawful ab- 

 rogation. 



Resolved, That joint resolution number 4, of the 

 Legislature of Wisconsin of the year 1859, in theory 

 enunciates the dangerous doctrine of nullification and 

 resistance to the lawfully constituted authority of the 

 Federal Government, and is incompatible with the 

 safety and perpetuity of the Union. 



Resolved, That said joint resolution number 4, of 

 the Legislature of this State of the year 1859, entitled 

 " Joint resolution relative to the decision of the Su- 

 preme Court of Wisconsin," be and the same is hereby 

 repealed. 



On the 5th of April a resolution passed the 

 House with one dissenting vote tendering to 

 the President of the United States an unquali- 

 fied approval of his course from the day of his 

 inauguration. 



A bill was brought before the Legislature at 

 this session to repeal the " Personal Liberty " 

 law of the State. But no final action was 

 taken upon it until the extra session in July, 

 when it was passed, and the law repealed. 

 (See ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, 1861 PERSONAL 



