WISCONSIN. 



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ture, a boon to all students and laborers in the 

 Tamil field, and a crown of honor to its an; 



Dr. Winslow received the degree of D.D. 

 from Harvard College in 1858, and that of LL.D. 

 from Middlebury College in 1864. He was 

 brother of Rev. Dr. Ilubbard Winslow, the 

 author, and of Rev. Dr. Gordon Winslow of 

 the Episcopal Church. 



WISCONSIN. Tliis agricultural State en- 

 gaged in the war with ardor, and has vig- 

 orously responded to all the calls for troops 

 which have been made since its commencement. 

 Wisconsin has sent to the field twenty-four 

 regiments of infantry, four regiments and one 

 company of cavalry, one regiment of heavy 

 artillery, thirteen batteries of light artillery, 

 and one company of sharpshooters, making an 

 aggregate of seventy-five thousand one hundred 

 and thirty-three men. Of this number thirty- 

 two thousand nine hundred and seventy have 

 been lost to the service by deaths, discharges, 

 and desertions, leaving in the service, at the 

 dose of 1864, forty-two thousand one hundred 

 and sixty-three men. To this number should 

 be added three regiments of one hundred days' 

 men, furnished during the year. Two drafts 

 for men were made in the State. In 1863 the 

 enrolment was 121,202 and the number drafted 

 was 14,935. Of this number 880 were held to 

 service in person or by substitute; 2,689 failed 

 to report ; 6,285 were exempts, and 5,081 paid 

 commutation, amounting to $1,524,300. In No- 

 vember, 1864, under the corrected enrolment, 

 the number subject to draft was 96,068. Of 

 these there were drafted 17,534, of whom 3,439 

 were held to service in person or by substitute ; 

 0,724 were discharged after draft, and 7,367 

 failed to report. Great contributions were made 

 by the women in almost every town and village 

 of the State to the welfare of the soldiers, and 

 generally through aid societies. 



The amount of the State debt is two million 

 five hundred thousand dollars. With the ex- 

 ception of one hundred thousand dollars, this 

 debt was created for war purposes, and is a 

 legitimate charge against the Federal Gov- 

 ernment. The balance in the Treasury at the 

 close of 1864 was $107,620. The disburse- 

 ments during the year from the War Fund for 

 the families of volunteers, were $615,693. The 

 taxable property in the State was estimated in 

 1863 at $153,000,000, exclusive of $30,000,000 

 railroad property. The State tax is about five 

 and one-half mills on each dollar of the taxable 

 property. Of the total revenue $802,196 

 paid into the Treasury during the year, the tax 

 on banks produced $52,016, and the tax on 

 railroads, $128,003. During the year there was 

 paid $42,500.00 for the Hospital for the Insane; 

 $41,371.55 for the State Prison; $16,175.00 for 

 the Deaf and Dumb Institute; $19,250.00 for 

 the Institute for the Blind; $12,004.50 for the 

 State Reform School. The whole amount of 

 the productive school fund is $2,052,353 ; and 

 of the income, $151,010 were appropriated^ 

 public schools. The amount of the productive 



fund of tli Tlio 



National Bank Law pro.! 

 upon the hanks of ti. 

 at thy end of tl 



Tliis was secured b\ .mp- 



trolK ; '. iiout 



one-half of 



sin war bonds. The rim. 

 twenty banks was - 



bonds. It i') throw these on tho 



market to substitute the national boii- : 

 At the electio 



;' which Mr. Lincoln 



received 88,458; U-n. McClelL. Ma- 



jority for Mr. Lincoln 17,574. The Legislature 

 was divided as folio v. 



SensU. 



.Republicans 



Democrats 



H 



100 



In some parts of the State the popular vote 

 was less than in 1860. This diminution WM 

 ascribed to the war. 



Jason Downer was appointed a judge of the 

 Supreme Court of the State to fill a vacancy 

 occasioned by the resignation of Byron Paine. 



One of the oldest men in the world is a resi- 

 dent of Wisconsin, having reached the age of 

 one hundred and thirty-nine years. He is thus 

 described in the ' State Journal: " 



Joseph Crele was born in Detroit, of French parents. 

 The record of his baptism in the Catholic Church 

 of that city shows that he is now one hundred tnd 

 thirty-nine" years of age. He has been a resident of 

 Wisconsin for about * century. He was first married 

 in Xew Orleans one hundre'd and nine vear> 

 Some years after he settled at Prairie du Chien, w'-.ile 

 Wisconsin was yet a province of France. Before the 

 revolutionary war, he was employed to carry letters 

 between Prairie du Chien and Green Bay. It is but 

 a few years ago that he was called as a witness in the 

 Circuit Court, in a case involving the title to certain 

 real estate at Prairie du Chien, to give testimony in 

 relation to events that transpired eighty years before. 

 He now resides with a daughter, by his third wife, 

 who is over seventy years of age. 



The residence of the family is only four or five 

 miles out of Portage City. From citizens of that 

 place we learn that the old man is still active, is able 

 to chop wood, and to walk several miles. He speaks 

 English quite imperfectly, but converses fluently in 

 the French language. He goes to elections, and, like 

 a sensible old gentleman, votes the Union ticket. 

 Stoops a little under the burden of years, but not more 

 than manv men of seventy. In person he is rather 

 above the'medium height, spare in flesh, but showing 

 evidences of having been in his prime a man of 

 sinewy strength. Concerning his habits, a subject 

 of much interest in connection with an instance of 

 such extraordinary longevity, we have been able to 

 learn but a little, except that he is an inveterate 

 smoker. 



A very good daguerreotype picture of him, taken 

 in 1856, "may be seen at the rooms of th. 

 torical Society. 



Three score years and ten ordinarily constitute the 

 full span of a vigorous human life. This man's ex- 

 istence has been prolonged for almost twice that pe- 

 riod. Those who began the journey of life with him 

 are dead and their very bones are dust. Babes that 

 he might have dandled on his knee at an age when 

 most men are bowed with decrepitude, have g^own 

 into manhood, passed through the ordinary 



