WISCONSIN. 



LIBERTY LAWS.) This was the first instance 

 among the Western States of the repeal of 

 these obnoxious laws. At this same extra ses- 

 sion resolutions were passed by a majority of 

 fourteen which emphatically condemned all 

 future anti-slavery agitation in the Northern 

 States. 



On the 19th of April, Governor Harvey was 

 drowned at Savannah, in Tennessee, whither 

 he had gone with hospital stores for the sol- 

 diers of the State who were wounded at the 

 battle of Shiloh. He was succeeded by the 

 lieutenant governor, Edward Salomon, a Ger- 

 man-born citizen. 



An election for six members of Congress 

 took place on the first Thursday of November, 

 when the votes were given as follows: 



Republican. Democratic. 



1st District 10,077 12,593 



WOLFF, JOSEPH. 





2d 

 3d 

 4th 

 5th 

 '6th 



13,107 

 10,000 



9,613 

 10,005 



9,037 



10,974 



7,514 



15,343 



11,021 



6,672 



The Democratic candidates were elected in 

 the 1st, 4th and 5th districts, and Republican 

 candidates in the 2d, 3d and 6th districts. 



The debt of the State previous to the war 

 was $100,000. A loan for war purposes was 

 authorized by the Legislature in extra session, 

 May, 1861, of one million dollars. Of this 

 loan $800,000 was taken by the bankers of the 

 State, who paid 70 per cent, at once, and the 

 balance in instalments of 1 per cent, every six 

 months, giving their personal bonds as security 

 for the payment, and depositing the State bonds 

 with the Bank Comptroller as a basis for bank- 

 ing in place of the depreciated bonds of South- 

 ern States. 



The number of banks in the State in May, 

 1862, was seventy, whose capital was $4,397,- 

 000; specie, $380,000; circulation, $4,600,000. 



The length of the railroads in the State is 

 1,157 miles, cost $41,809,817. 



There are nine colleges in the State, three 

 theological seminaries, and a medical school. 

 The number of common school districts is 

 4,558, and the number of children in attendance 

 at the schools is 198,443, besides 8,000 esti- 

 mated to be in attendance at private schools. 

 The school fund of the State is derived from the 

 proceeds of the sale of the sixteenth section of 

 each township and an additional grant by Con- 

 gress of 500,000 acres of land ; 25 per cent, of the 

 proceeds of sale of swamp and overflowed lands, 

 and lands selected in lieu thereof (25 per cent, 

 goes to the Normal School Fund) ; 5 per cent, of 

 the proceeds of sales of Government public 

 lands in the State (this has been withheld in 

 consequence of a claim of Government against 

 the State) ; 5 per cent, penalty as forfeiture for 

 non-payment of interest on school land certifi- 

 cates and school fund loans ; and the clear pro- 

 ceeds of all fines collected in the several coun- 

 ties for penal offences and for trespasses on 

 State lands. The productive fund from the 

 sale of these lands, &c., September 30, 1861, 



was $2,458,351 49, and there remai: 



and forfeited 454.775 urn - 



lands; forfeited lands of 1S61. 21'.'. 



125,000 acres unsold swamp laml> ; Hi 



acres of forfeited swamp Ian. 



acres of forfeited swamp lands of 1801. 1 



are also 140,000 acres of land claimed from 



Government, and sixteenth section and swamp 



land, yet unsurveyed. The lands as yet unsold 



will exceed 1,500,000 acres. 



Previous to the 1st of July, 1862, the State 

 had sent to the war nineteen regiments of in- 

 fantry, three regiments of cavalry, and seven 

 batteries of artillery and two companies of 

 sharpshooters numbering entire 24,653 men. 

 Under the call for 300,000 men in July, six regi- 

 ments were raised, and under the call for 300,000 

 nine months men about twelve regiments more. 

 The attempts to complete the quuta under the 

 first call by drafting met with much opposition 

 in some parts of the State. At Port Washing- 

 ton, in Ozaukee county, the commissioner was 

 forced to flee for his life, the machinery for the 

 draft was destroyed, and the houses of eight 

 citizens who encouraged the draft were at- 

 tacked and injured. A military detachment 

 was sent to restore order. In Washington 

 county serious disturbances occurred. 



WOLFF, JOSEPH, D. D. LL.D., a traveller, 

 author and clergyman of the Church of Eng- 

 land ; born at Weilersback, near Bamberg, 

 Germany, in 1795 ; died at the vicarage, Isle 

 Brewers, Somersetshire, England, May 2, 1862. 

 He was the son of a Jewish rabbi, named 

 David, and received the name Wolff from his 

 parents, to which he prefixed " Joseph " when 

 he became a Christian. While yet a child he 

 manifested so strong a predilection for Chris- 

 tianity that the Jewish neighbors called him 

 u the little Nazarene/' At the age of 17, 

 through the influence of Count Stolberg and 

 Bishop Zeiler, he embraced the Roman Catho- 

 lic faith, and was baptized by Leopold Zolder, 

 a Benedictine abbot, near Prague, September 

 13, 1812. The next year he commenced the 

 study of Arabic, Syriac and Chaldean, and the 

 following year attended theological lectures in 

 Vienna, enjoying the friendship of Profs. John, 

 Friedrich, Von Schlegel, Werner, and Hof- 

 baiir, the General of the Redemptorist fathers. 

 From 1814 to 1816 he studied at Tubingen, be- 

 ing supported by Prince Dalberg. His atten- 

 tion was "here given to the study of the Orien- 

 tal languages, for which he possessed a Jewish 

 aptitude, together with ecclesiastical history 

 and Biblical exegesis, nnder Professors Sten- 

 dell, Schnurrer, and Flatt. He next travelled 

 for a year in Switzerland and Italy, enjoying 

 the society of Madame de Stael, Holstein, the 

 historian, Niebuhr, Zschokke, Madame Kiir- 

 dener and others. Toward the close of the 

 same year, he was first received as a pupil of 

 the Collegio Romano at Rome, and atterward 

 transferred to the College of the Propaganda ; 

 but his spirit was too restless and dogmatic to 

 accept without questioning all the teachings of 



