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GENERAL LIBRARY IIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. '
THE
Hagerman Collection
HISTORY AND POUTICAL SCIENCE JAMES J. HAGERMAN OF CLASS OF '61
IN TNB NAMOa OP
Profcsfor Chirici Kcndill Adams
IN
ISS3.
REPORT
COLLECTIONS
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WISCONSIN,
YEARS 1857 AND 1858.
MADISON, WIS., JAHB8 B08B, STATE PBINTEB
I
y
INTRODUCTORY.
The Fourth Volume of Reports and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, is presented to the public, like its predecessors, as a sort of melange of his- torical fragments. The successive volumes sent forth by the Society, have met with a friendly reception by the friends of historical literature, at home and abroad ; and the avidity with which they are sought and cited affords good evidence that they are accomplishing the main ob- jects of their publication, namely : disseminating widely and usefully the interesting story of the settlement and progress of our fair State, and holding out the varied in- ducements it presents for an agreeable home for the enterprising emigrant.
The present volume contains a number of valuable papers, generally relating to a more modem period than many given in former issues. The real glory of Wis- consin dates from 1834 or '35, when the settlement of the country by the hardy Anglo-Saxon race commenced in good earnest ; when civilization, religion and education were planted permanently in the country. Such a pe- riod deserves to be commemorated on the historic page,
«
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
OFFICERS
or THE
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR 1859.
♦ •^
PJlESIDENTt
<Jbn. WM. R. smith, Mineral Point
VICE PBESID£3ITSt
'INCREASE A. LAPHAM, Milwaukee; Gem. albert G. ELLIS, Stevens Point ; Hon. L. J. FARWELL, Wesiport ; Hon. morgan L. MARTIN, Green Bay ; CYRUS WOODMAN, Mineral Point; Rev. ALFRED BRUNSON, Prairie du Chien.
Corresponding Secretary. —LYMA^^ C. DRAPER. Recording Secretary. — J OUJif W. HUNT. Zi7»ranVin.— DANIEL S. DURRIE. Treasurer.— -Frof. 0. M. CONOVER.
Hox. D. J. POWERS, Hox. SIMEON MILLS, S. H. CARPENTER, £. A. CALKINS, S. V. SniPMAN, 8. G. BENEDICT.
C U R A T O R 8 1
IIox. H. C. BULL, Uos. J. P. ATWOOD, HORACE BUBLEE, P. O. TIBBITS, J. A. ELLIS, WM. GENNET,
Gk.v. DAVID ATWOOD,
de. c. b. chapman,
v. h. fibmin,
geo. p. delaplaine,
W. n, WATSON, J. D. GURNEE.
STANDING OOMMITTEESt
On Pufr/iea/(on«.~DRAPER, J. P. ATWOOD and RUBLEE.
On Auditing Jceount^.— BENEDICT, DELAPLAINE and GURNEE.
On rinance.— TIBBITS, POWERS, CONOYER, MILLS and GENNET.
On Library^ Fixtures and PurcA<ue«.— DRAPER, CARPENTER and DX7RRIE,
On Prinrin^.— CALKINS, WATSON and RUBLEE.
On Picture Ga//ery.— CARPENTER, DELAPLAINE and ELLIS.
On ObftuariMS,— RUBLEE, CALKINS, DRAPER, D. ATWOOD and CARPENTER.
On Literary fijpcAange^.— FIRMIN, DRAPER and CHAPMAN.
On irominations.—EUJB, CALKINS and BENEDICT.
On Building Lof.— BULL, TIBBITS, MILLS, DELAPLAINE and DRAPER.
0» Bui^'iig.— SHIPMAN, CHAPMAN, J. P. ATWOOD, POWERS and GURNEE.
Soliciting Commir<e«.— DRAPER, 8HIPMAN, TIBBITS, BULL and D. ATWOOD.
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLXCTIORS.
INDEX OF PAPERS.
Introductory, ^
List of Officers for 1858, 0
List of Officers for 1859, 0
Objects of CollectioQ desired by the Society, 8
Charter of the Society, 0
Constitution of the Society, 11
Fourth Annual Report, 17
Fifth Annual Report, 46
Treasurer's Reports for 1857 and 1858, 09, 71
Donors to the Library, 1357, 1858, 78, 75
Donors of Pamphlets, Documents and Maps, 77
Periodicals receired, 1857 and 1858, 78
Report on Picture Gallery, 80
Annual Address, by Hon. John Y. Smith, 117
Child's Recollections of Wisconsin, 158
Baird-s Recollections of the Barly History of Northern Wisconsin, 197
Branson's Early History of Wisconsin, Q2d
Commercial History of Milwaukee. 358
Sketch of the Brothertown Indians, 391
BeT. Catting Marsh on the Stockbridges, 399
Konkapot's Last of the Mohegans 303
Death of John W. Quinney, 309
Qainney's Speech oo Stoekbridge Traditionary History, 313
Qainncy's Memorial to Congrtsa 331
Early Times ia Sheboygan Coasty. 335
Early ETenta in the V<mT Lake CoJUiXrj. 343
Kcrt^Eaatcni Bou&dary <if Wiaewuin. 351
PnbOic Land Surrty ; LatxUide and Lwigjtad« of Wi*«x«0i«. 359
M«»-Shij*d Mwuidf rf Wi*wii«;», 3«5
Braaaoo on tL« J>^at3u %if 7«o«a*4^ * * 349
Eisgiiun ttB iLe DevUi of T4>t;«tii%vk , 375
Fina Gp»Tt is ▼ittwWiriL 377
Eaj-JT Svfitlmkeiit vf l<a ^^runvk 1^ui H.*^r^^ '.^MtutMrc ZhZ
loid MudiMiiL 3^
S WISCOKSIir HtSTORIOAL OOLLBCTIOKB.
OBJECTS OF COLLECTION DESIRED BY THE SOCIETY.
1 Manuscript sUtements and narratives of pioneer Ecttl.nv — >ld letters and journals relatiye to the early history and settlement of Wisconsin, and of the Black Hawk War ', biographica notices of our pioneers, and of emioent citisens, deceased *, and facts illustrative of our In- dian tribes, their hbtory, characteristics, sketches of their prominent chiefs, orators and warriors, together with contributions of Indian implements, dress, ornaments and carioaitie«.
2. FilM of newspaiiers, books, pamphlets, college catalogues ; minutes of ecclesiastical oonven- tions, conferences and synods, and other publications relating to this State, or Michigan Ter- ritory, of which Wisconsin formed a part from 1818 to 1S3&— and hence the Territorial Lawi and Journab, aud files of Michigan newspapers for that period, we are peculiarly anxious to obtain.
8. Drawings and descriptions of our ancient mounds and fortifications, their size, representation and locality.
4. Information respecting any ancient coins, or other curiosities found in Wisconsin. The contri-
bution of such articles to the Cabinet of the Society is respectfully solicited.
5. Indian geographical names of streams and localities in this State, with their significations.
6. Books of all kinds, and especially such as relate to American history, travels and bi(^p*aphy
in general, and the West in particular, family geneologies, old magazines, pamphlets, files of newspapers, maps, historical manuscripts, autographs of distinguished persons, coins, medals, paintings, portraits, statuary and engravings.
7. We solicit from Historical Societies and other learned bodies, that interchange ef books and
other materials by which the usefulness of Institutions of this nature Is so essentially en- hanced— ^pledging ourselves to repay such contributions by acts in kind to the full extent of our ability.
8. The Society particularly begs the favor and compliment of authors and publishers, to present,
with their autographs, copies of their respecUve works for its Library.
9. Editors and publishers of newspapers, magazines and reviews, will confer a lasting favor oo
the Society by contributing their publications regularly for Its Library, or, at least, such num^ bers as may contain articles bearing upon Wisconsin history, biography, geography, or an- tiquities } all which will be carefully preserved for binding.
Packages for the Society may t>e sent to, or deposited with, the following gontlemen, who have kindly consented to take charge of them. Such parcels, to prevent mistakes, should be properly enveloped and addressed, even if but a single article ; and it would, furthermore, be desirable, that donors should forward to the Corresponding Secretary a specification of books or articles donated and deposited.
.DEPOSITARIKS:
G. & J. A. REMSEN, at J. B. Lippincott k Co.'s, Philadelphia. SAMUEL O. DRAKE, Antiquarian Book Store, Boston. CHARLES B. NORTON, Appleton^s BuUdlng, New York. JOEL MUNSBLL, Publisher, 78 State Street, Albany. I. A. LAPHAM, Milwaukee.
CHARTBR OF THl 80CIBTT.
CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY.
♦ •♦
Act to inoorporate^tUe State Historioal Sooiety of
w^isoonsin.
Chaptib 17, Laws or 1863.
Sbction 1. That Leonard J. Farwell, Mason 0. Darling, Wm. B. Smith, Charles Lord, I. A. Lq)ham, Wm. H. Watson^ Cynis Woodman, James D. Doty, Morgan L. Martin, Lyman 0. Draper, Samuel Marshall, John W. Hont, Albert G. Ligham and 0. M. Conover, and their present and future associates, and tiieir successors, be and they are hereby constituted and created a. body politic and corporate, by the name of ^'Tns Statb His- torical Society of Wisconsin," and by that name shall have perpetual succession with all the faculties and liabilities of a corporation; may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts and places; and for the purposes of its institution, may do all such acts as are performed by natural persons.
Sbc. 2. The object of the Society shall be to collect, embody, arrange and preserve, in authentic form, a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statu- ary, and other materials illustrative of the history of the State; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers, and to obtain and preserve narratives of their exploits, perils, and hardy adventures; to exhibit faithfully the antiquities, and the past and present condition, and resources of Wisconsin; and may take proper steps to promote the study of history by lectures, and to diffuse and publish information relating to the description and history of the State.
Sbc. 3. Said Society may have and use, and at discretion change, a common seal; may ordain and enforce a Constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, and elect such officers as the Con-
Im
10 WISCOHgIN mSTOJUCAL OOU.EOTI0N8.
stitntion or by-laws may prescribe: Provided^ such Consiitc* tion, by-laws, rules and regulations be not inconsistent with this act, or the laws or Constitution of this State, or of the United States.
Sbo. 4. Said Society may receive, hold, purchase and enjoy books, papers and other articles forming its library and collec- tions to any extent, and may actjuira and hold, and at pleiasifA alienate, any other personal and real estate, and may acquire the same by devise, or bequest, or otherwise, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value, but all its funds shall over be fkiih- folly appropriated to promote the objects of this formation.
Sbo. 5. The incorporators, or a majority of them, with tktif associates shall meet upon the notice of the present Rceotdio^ Secretary of the Society, within thirty days after the passage of this act, and upon accepting the same may, if they or a majoritf of them deem proper, re-organize their present assoeiatMii il accordance with the provisions of this charter.
Approved March 4, 1853*
CONSTITUTION OF THB SOCIETY. 11
CONSTITUTION
or THB
STATE BISTOBIillL SOCiTY OP WISGONSIS.
♦ ♦♦
Thb first Constitution of the Society was adopted at its organizatioDy January 30th, 1849; a new one was substituted at the re-organization of the Society, under the Charter, January 18th, 1854, and several amendments have, from time to time, been since adopted.
On the 4th of August, 1857, Messrs. Judge Atwood, Ilsley, Draper, Durric, and Benedict, were appointed a committee to examine the Constitution of the Society, and the several amend- ments thereto, consolidate them, and make report of other needed amendments, and submit the whole to the Executive Committee for their approval or revision, in order to submit it to the annual meeting of the Society, and have it published in the next volume of Collections. This committee, through Mr. Draper, reported on the 8th of September following, which report was approved by the Executive Committee; and after a few slight amendments, was adopted by the Society, at its annual meeting, January 1, 1858, as follows:
Article I. — This Association shall be styled *'TnB Statb Historical Society op AViscoxsin." The object of the Society shall be to collect, embody, arrange, and preserve, a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintin^^s, statuary, and other materials illustrative of tho history of the State; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers, and to obtain and preserve narratives of their exploits, perils and hardy adventures; to exhibit faithfully the antiquities, and the past and present condition and resources of
12 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
Wisconsin, and may take proper steps to promote the study of history by lectures, and to publish and diffuse information relative to the description and history of the State.
Art. n. — This Society shall consist of Active, Life, Hono- rary and Corresponding members; which classes may be chosen at the annual or special meetings of the Society, or at the sessions of the Executive Oommittee; the Active members to consist of citizens of the State, by the payment of two dollars annually; the Life members, by the payment, at one time, of twenty dollars; the Honorary and Corresponding members, who shall be exempt from fee or taxation, shall be chosen from persons, in every part of the world, distinguished for their lite- rary or scientific attainments, and known especially as friends and promoters of American history.
Art. ni. — The oflScers of the Society shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meetings, and shall consist of a President) a Corresponding Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, a Librarian, who, together with six Vice Presidents, not resi- dents of Madison, and eighteen Curators, shall constitute the Executive Committee. All said oflScers shall hold oflSce for one year, and until their successors be chosen, except such as may have been absent from four successive regular meetings of the Executive Committee, unless detained by sickness or absence from Madison, who may be deemed to have forfeited their respective oflSces; and shall, if so declared, be ineligible to oflSce the year next ensuing.
And in addition to these elective oflScers, all donations of property by citizens of Wisconsin, if accepted by the Executive Committee, to the amount or value of five hundred dollars, shall constitute such donors Life Directors of the Society, and consequently members of the Executive Committee during their natural lives; but such Life Directors shall never exceed in number the regularly elected members of the Executive Commit- tee, and all moneys from Life Directorships, or from bequests, unless specifically directed by such Life Directors or devisors to be invested to the best advantage, and the accruing interest only
CONSTItUTION OF THB SOCIBTY. 13
used, shall be employed in such manner^ for the benefit of the Society, as the Executive Committee may direct.
Art. IY. — The annual meeting of the Society shall be held at such time and place, in the month of January, as the Execu- tive Committee shall designate; and those members, not less than ten, who meet at any annual or special meeting of the Society, upon the call of the Executive Committee, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.
Art. V. — The President, or in his absence, one of the Vice Presidents, or in their absence, any member of the Society se- lected on the occasion, shall preside at the annual or any special meeting of the Society. Such presiding officer shall preserve order, regulate the order of proceedings, and give a casting vote whenever the same is required.
Art. VI. — The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspondence of the Society; he shall preserve for the Society the official communications addressed to him, and keep copies of important official letters written by him; he shall collect, or cause to be collected, monies due to the Society, and pay the same to the Treasurer; he shall give notice of the meetings of the Society and of the Executive Committee; he shall edit and supervise, under the direction of the Publication Committee, the publications of the Society; direct the literary exchanges; and shall write out, and cause to be published, in one or more of the Madison papers, the proceedings, or a synopsis thereof, of the meetings of the Society and Executive Committee.
Art. Vn. — The Recording Secretary shall preserve a full and correct record of the proceedings of all meetings of the Society and Executive Committee, to be entered on his book in chronological order. These records shall always be open for the inspection of any member of the Society.
Art. Vni. — The Treasurer shall receive, and have charge of all dues, and donations, and bequests of money, and all funds whatsoever of the Society, and shall pay such sums as the Exec- utive Committee may, &om time to time, direct, on the warrant of the chairman of said Committee; and he shall make an
14 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
annual report of the pecuniary transactions and accounts of the Society, and also exhibit a statement of the funds and property of the Society in his hands, at any stated or special meeting, when thereto required.
Art. IX. — The Librarian shall have charge of the books, manuscripts and other collections of the Society; he shall keep a catalogue of the same, together with all additions made during his official term; in case of donations, he shall specify in his record the name of the book, manuscript or article donated, with the name of tho donor, and date of the gift; ho shall make an annual report of the condition of the Library, and respond to all calls which may be made on him touching the same at any annual or special meeting of the Society, or at any meeting of tho Executive Committee.
Art. X. — The Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer and Librarian, shall give satisfactory bonds, in such sums as the Executive Committee may deem proper, for the faithful perform- ance of their respective duties, and for a faithful preservation of tho property of every kind belonging to tho Society; and such bonds shall be filed among the papers of the Society.
Art. XL — The Executive Committee, in the absence of the President, and Vice Presidents, may select a chairman from their number. They shall meet for business on tlie first Tues- day evening in every month, except when they see proper to adjourn for a longer period; may meet on special occasions upon tho call of any three members of the Committee; shall supervise and direct the financial and business concerns of tho Society; may augment the Library, Cabinet and Gallery, by purchase or otherwise; may make arrangements for a single lecture, or a course of lectures, for promoting historical knowledge, and increasing the pecuniary resources of the association. They shall have power to fill any vacancies occurring in their number, except in that of the President. They shall audit and adjust all accounts of tho Society. They may call special meetings of the Society when necessary; appoint the annual orator, make tttitablo arrangements for tho delivery of the annual address;
CONSTITUTION OP THB SOCIETY. 15-
aso their discretion as to the publication of any communications, coIIectionSi transactions, annual or other addresses, or other written matters of the Society; and thej shall annually make a full report to the Society of their transactions, accompanied with such suggestions as may seem to them appropriate, and worthy attention.
Art. XII. — Any failure on the part of a member to pay his annual or other dues, after due notice for six months, to be given* by tho Corresponding Secretary, shall operate as a forfeiture of membership; and no person who may thus have lost his mem- bership shall be restored or re-admitted to the same without full payment of his arrears.
Art. XIII. — The Executive Committee may adopt By-Laws for their own government and guidance, not inconsistent with this Constitution.
Art. XIY. — This Constitution may be amended at any annual meeting of the Society, provided that the proposed amendments shall have been reduced to writing, and entered on the minutes of the Society at least three months previous to a vote being taken on the same; and provided also, that two thirds •f the members present shall concur in the adoption of the amendment or amendments proposed.
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 17
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.
-•■•«-
To HiB ExcJBLLSNOY, A. W. Bandall,
G-ovemor of the State of Wisconsin : Sir: — ^In making the Fourth Annual Report of the Stats HiSTORiOAL Society of Wisconsin, it becomes the duty of the Executive Committee, in accordance with acts of the Legis- lature granting the Society one thousand dollars annually, to present herewith the detailed report of the Treasurer for the past year, showing the specific objects of the expenditure of the appropriation, with the accompanying vouchers. The total receipts of the year into the Oeneral Fund, including the small balance on hand at the date of the last annual report, have been 11,277 89; and the disbursements for the same period, $1,257 65 — leaving a balance of the General Fund in the Treasury of $20 24.
By a further act of the Legislature, the sum of one hundred dollars annually has been appropriated for the use of the Society in the payment of expenses connected with the International Literary Exchanges, of State publications, the Society's publi- cations, and all other works relating to the growth and pros- perity of Wisconsin, which the Society is able to obtain; and to receive in return, from M. Yattemarb and others, valuable lite- rary contributions to enrich the collections of both the State Library and the Library of this Society. This Society is made the medium of effecting these exchanges; and for this purpose, the appropriations for the years 1854 to 1857 inclusive have been received — $400; and disbursements therefrom have been made to the amount of $852 28, as the accompanying vouchers show — leaving a balance on hand of the International Lite- rary Exchange Fund of $47 77.
2m
18 WISCONSIN niSTORIOAL COLLBCTIONS.
The total receipts, therefore, of the past year, of both Funds, have been $1,677 89; and the total expenditures, §1,609 bS— leaving an aggregate balance in the Treasury of both funds of $63 01.
Prosperity and Standing of the Society.
While the increase of the Library has been- fully as large as in former years, more attenti(m, if possible, has been paid ta making that increase more select and appropriate; and addi- tional attention has been given to securing manuscript historical narratives — which, after all, should ever be regarded as first in importance in the objects and collections of such a Sociefy. Tho past year may therefore bo set down as having been one of continued prosperity to all the departments of tho Society; and by common consent, tho State Sistorical Society of Wueonsin now ranks among the most flourishing of its kind in thd Unioni and has already dond much in giving character and reputation to our State among its sister States, as well as in Great Britain and Continental Europe.
Increase of the Library.
The increase of the Library has been as follows:
Jan. 1854, total 50 vols., .... increase, 50
" 1855, *' 1050 " . . . . « 1000
" 1856, " 2117 «<--.- *' 1065
'' 1857; " 8122 " - - - - " 1005
" 1858, *' 4146 *' - - - ' '' 1024
Wo have thus exhibited , since the re-organization of the
Society in January, 1854, an increase of over 1000 volumes
annually; and this exclusive of about 4,250 pamphlets and
unbound documents, and many files of unbound newspapers and
periodicals. Of the 1024 volumes added to the Library during
the past year, 841 wore by purchase, and 083 by donation and
exchange; and the total number purchased since the organiea-
tion of the Society is 1276, and 2871 received by donation tai&
exchange.
FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 19
Glassificatton of the Library.
Works on historj, biography, traTels, bound newspaper files, and publications of Historical and Antiquarian Societies,
2,609 vols. Congressional Publications, ... 628 **
Agricultural, Mechanical, and Scientific, - 191 "
Stato Laws and State Legislation, - - 194 **
Miscellaneous, .... 524 ^'
a
Total, 1,146
It will be seen hj this classificatioii, that over eight-tenths of the additions of the past year, were works on history, biogra- phy, travels, bound newspaper files, and publications of Histor- ical and Antiquarian Societies; while previous to 1S5G, less than half tho works in the Library wcro of this character. It is gratifying to observe that the solid works in this department are fast gaining on tho others, and now number nearly two thirds of tho whole. Of the additions of the past year, 49 volumes were folios, aud 1G3 quartos; making altogether 257 folios in the Library, and 405 quartos, the rest being chiefly of octavo size. The duplicat3s are few, and arc exchanged, as opportunities occur, for desirable works not already included in the collection.
Principal Works PurcJiased.
In tho year 1856, in round numbers, there were 1000 volumes added to tho Library — 600 by purchase, and 400 by donation; tho year 1857, exhibits nearly the same aggregate increase, but tho purchases and donations are reversed, exhibiting 683 volumes donated, and 341 purchased. All these purchased works may bo regarded as historical, and many of them exceedingly rare and valuable. Among the more impor- tant of them may bo named — Monthly Review^ 1782 to 1801, 51 vols.; Lettres JEdifiantes et Curieuscs^ 1717 — 1749, in 27 vol- umes, relating in part to tho Jesuit missionaries in the North West; Edinburgh Annual Jirgister, ISIO— 1825, 23 vols.; Ternaux Campans* American Voyages^ 20 vols. ; Parliament iary Jiegister, 1774—1780,17 vols.; New and General Bio-
20 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
graphical Dtcrtonary, London, 1798, 15 vols.; London Lit- erarj Magazine^ 1788 — 1794, 12 vols.; Ameriean Museum, 1787 — 1792, 11 vols., a valuable repository of early American history and literature; MarshalVn Naval Biography, 12 vols.; Political Magazine, 1787 — 1791, 10 vols. ; Annals of Europe, 1739 — 1748, 6 vols. ; Bouchette^s British Dominions in Amer^ icay 3 vols, quarto; Harris^ Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1744, 2 vols.; Steadman's American War, 1794, 2 vols.; Kalm's Travels in America, 1772, 2 vols. ; History and Con- quest of Florida, two editions, 1685, and 1731; CrespeVs Voyage [in Wisconsin], iim editions, 1752, and 1757; Bowen's American Atlas, 1714, folio; D^AnvUle's and Roherfs Q-en- eral Atlas, 1773 folio; Jeffrey* s American Atlas, two editions, 1776, and 17T8, folio; American Newspaper Extracts, 1752 — 1883, neatly mounted and valuable; History and Commerce of the American Colonies, 1755; PalaireVs American Colonies, 1765; State of the Colonies, 1755; Campanius* Pennsylvania, 1702; A New England Fire-Brand Quenched, 1679; Pitman's European Settlements on the Mississippi, 1770, quarto, with maps and plates; SeweVs History of the Quakers, quarto, Burlington, New Jersey, 1774; Tarleton*s Campaigns in the Southern Colonies, with MS. notes, Dublin, 1787.
Principal Works Donated,
Among the principal works added to the Library during the past year by donation or exchange, the following may be men- tioned: Record Publications of Great Britain, from the British Government, in 27 folio volumes, 11 quartos, and 27 of smaller size, relating to early English, Scotch and Irish history, statis- tics, &c., including several volumes of the Doomsday book; Congressional Globe and Appendix, a complete set, in 38 quarto volumes, from 1833 to 1856; Gales and ,Seaton's Annals of Congress, 42 vols., from 1789 to 1824; Gales and Seaton's Register of Congressional Debates, 29 vols., from 1824 to 1837; John Adams' Works, 10 vols.; Jefferson's Works, 9 vols. ; Diplomatic Correspondence, 1783 to 1789, 7
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Tolfl. ; JElliotfs Debate%y 6 vols. ; 'publications and TroMac- tunu of the Spanish Royal Academy of History at Madrid^ 32 vols. ; Tranaaetions of the American Philosophieal Soeiety^ IOtoIb.; Bseordeof MaeeacJiueetts^ 6 vols.; ChurehilVe Col- lection of Voyages ^ 1704, 4 folio vols.; Japan Exftditiony 4 quarto vols.; Boilings and Robertson* 8 Sistories; Protests against the Stamp Aetj 1766^ Colonial Taxation^ 1766; Far- mer's Letters^ 1768; Otis Vindication of the Colonies, 1769; New York Colonial History ; Smiihsonian Contributions to Knowledge ; Bancroft's History of the TJ. S.y vols. IV, V, and VI; Prescott's Philip the Second; HoUister's History of Connecticut ; Q-enealogies and History of Watertown^ Mass. ; Proceedings of Massachusetts Constitutional Convention; Cushman Q-enealogy ; Elliott's History of New England; and many others.
Hon. C. C. Washburn has been the largest donor, haying donated to the Society his CoDgressional book appropriation of March last, consisting of 156 volumes, including complete sets of the Globe and Appendix^ Annals of Congress^ Register of Congressional Delates^ Elliott's Debates^ the Works of Adams and Jefferson^ Diplomatic Correspondence^ and other works, which together cost the Government some ten or twelve hundred dollars. This is a munificent gift. The generous donation by the British Government, already adverted to, of a set of its Record Pid)licationSj now ranged upon our shelves, proves an invaluable addition to the Library. The publications of the Spanish Royal Academy of History ^ in some 32 volumes, and the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society y in 10 quarto volumts, have likewise been added to our collec- tions; and among the more prominent of the other donors may be enumerated, Hon. Henry Dodge, Hon. Cuarles Durkeb, Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Wm. H. Prescott, Hon. George Bancroft, John Carter Brown, Thomas S. Towns- BND, J. B. LippfNCOTT ifc Co., Samuel G. Drake, Jobl MuNSELL, Regents of the New York University, Smithsonian Institution, I. A. Lapdam, Lewis W. Tappan, Hon. H. W.
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GuflHvAK, James J« Bak(!lat, Stephbit Taylor^ Obo. H. Moore, Mrs. Louisa C. Tuthill, R. M. Dbwitt, Joun Dbak» V. Nai»rbt]*ck, 0. II. IIoLLisTER, C. W. Elliott, Gen. J. W. De Peyster, S. R. Phillips, and Dr. Henry Bond.
WorJcB of HiBtorical and other Learned Societies.
Beside the continaation of the publications of several socie- ties, we have received sets of the publication of the Royal Aoa* demy of History oi Madrid, a portion of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, nearly a complete set of the publications of the New York Historical Society, the Amer- ican Geographical and Statistical Society, and Dorchester Antiquarian Society. We have to greet the organization of sister Societies in Chicago, Michigan, Iowa and Tennessee, all of which have expressed friendly wishes of co-operation and exchange.
Bound Newspaper Files.
During the pnst year, 67 volumes of bound newspaper files have been added to the newspaper department of the Society's collections, including a set of the Globe and Appendix^ a com- plete history of the doings and sayings in Congress, from 1833 to 1856, gift of Hon. C. C. Wasubuun; Newspaper Extracts^ relating to America, 1762 — 1833, purchased; the Columbian Stary 1S24, from Rev. Jason Loturop; Lumley's Literary Advertiser^ from J. J. Barclay; vol Ist of the Pineri/y from Gen. A. G. Ellis; Dodge County Citizen, 1852—53, from Hon. R. B. Wentwortii; Cattskill Itecordery 1830—40, from S. F. McIIuon; ffome Mission Record, 1849 — '53, from Rev. Dr. B. M. Hill; Constitutional Blatt, 1850, from V. Napr- stek; Madison Patriot, 1855 — '56, from Carpenter ct Law; Argus and Democrat, Jan. to June, 1857, from Calkins & AVedb; New York Herald, 2 vols., 1844, 1845, and New Yorker^ 8 vols., 183C— '40, from AV'm. Gexnet. Adding these 07 volumes to the 273 previously reportetl, and we have a total of 840 volumes of bound newspapers in the Library, which together
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contain a large amount of most preloions historic matter no where else to be found.
Unbound Neumpaper Filen.
The follotring unbound newspaper files have been received daring the year past: Burr Oaky complete, Oct. 1853, to Dec. 1864, from Hon. R. B. Wentworth; ffome Hission Record^ If 58— '60, from Rev. Dr. B. M. Hill; Fmntain City Daily Heraldj complete, March to September, 1856, from Rotal Buck; several files, incomplete, of Western Wisconsin papers, and others, preserved by the late Hon. B. C. Eastman, from Dr. G. W. Eastman; and nearly complete files of iho National Eray and the Independent ^ from Dr. Hbnrt Bond. To these should be added the regularly received newspapers and period- icals— a list of which will be found appended to this report. — So far as they are sufficiently complete, these several files should be arranged and bound, both for their better preservation, and to render them more accessiblo and useful.
Newspaper Files Promised and Desired,
Of the several valuable and desirable files previously announ- ced as promised, only a single volume, and that from Gen. Ellis, hus yet been received. It is to be hoped that they will be forthcoming. Again would we plead for newspaper files and periodicals— 80 precious a source of historical investigation. — At no other point in the State could they be so useful; and where so appropriate a repository for all such files as the State Historical Society ? To our three hundred and forty bound files of papers, we point with pride and pleasure, as indicative of the result, in this single direction, of four years' efforts. They prove how much may be accomplished by associated effort, and the promptings of patriotism, even in a new State, in making such a collection — always difficult to secure, as so few preservo newspaper files. Let past success encourage to renewed efforts; and let the liberality of donors to this department, prompt thoso who yet possess other files among us, to add them to our oollection.
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Pamphlet Additions.
The pamphlet additions of the past year have been quite large and valuable — 950 pamphlets and documents, which is oyer three times as many as were received the year previous. The tota] number of pamphlets and unbound public documents, now amount to 4,250. It is to be hoped, that during the present year, at least a portion of them may be arranged by subjects, and bound.
Maps and Atlases.
Five bound volumes of Atlases have been added to our collec- tion— Bowen's American AtlaSj 1714; D'Anville and Robert's General AtlaSy 1773; Jeffrey's American Atlas, 1776, and another edition of 1778; and a volume of Maps and Viewh accompanying the President's Message and Documents, 1856 — '57. Also 13 maps — 10 of which were purchased; 3 of Moll 's maps on America and New France, 1720; 6 on America and New France, 1755; and a large French map of America, 1776; a Japanese map of Japan, 2 1-2 by 5 1-2 feet in size, on rollers, from E. E. Gross, through the medium of Hon. C. Billing- iiurst; a map of Kenosha Harbor, fromLt. Col. J. D. Gra- HAM, U. S. A.; and a map of lo^a, sectional and geological, from N. H. Parker.
Previously, 11 bound volumes of Atlases, and some 40 maps have been acknowledged; so that we now have altogether 16 bound volumes of Atlases, and over 50 separate maps — the major part of which are quite rare and ancient.
Manuscripts and Autographs.
From Louis B. Porlibr, Esq., of Butte des Morts, has been obtained the old papers of his father, the late Hon. Jacqubs Porlibr, who settled in Green Bay in 1791, and was for many years Chief Justice of Brown County; among them are several commissions from the British and American authorities; about 1500 old letters and MS. papers, mostly in French; a MS. Justice's docket for the period of 1823 — '24; and several day- books and ledgers, from 1806 to 1838, showing the names of
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^arly settlers in the Green Bay region, and the prices of mer- chandize at that period. The Porlier I'aperSj when arranged and bound, will make several volumes, and will form a valuable acquisition to our collections.
A certificate of the British Gov. Haldimand, of Canada, dated at Montreal, August 17th, 1778, to Cha-kau-cho-ka-ma, or The Old Kingy the Grand Chief of the Menomonees, depo- sited by Louis B. Porlier; a commission from Acting Gov. N. Pope, of Illinois Territory, dated May 4th, 1809, to Mich- ael Brisbois, late of Prairie du Chien^ as lieutenant of militia, from his grandson, Michael J, Brisbois, of Portage; MS. letters of Hon. W. H. Seward, Hon. Gerrit Smith, and Hon. Horace Greelet, from Col. Peter Saxe; a passport for the ship Hunter^ dated in April, 1812, signed by President Madison, and countersigned by James Monroe, as Secretary of State, on parchment, from John Cassin; autographs of Col. Ethan Allen, and his brother Gen. Ira Allen, Presidents Madison, Monroe and Jackson, Edward Livingston, and Samuel Swartwout, from George B. Reed; and a MS. re- ceipt, dated in 1715, from Thos. S. Townsend.
Autographs Promised.
Hon. Henry S. Randall, who has already proved himself one of the Society's largest benefactors, in his noble gift of autographs, remarks:
"I believe I mentioned that I have not done with you, but now I hope to make your Society the residuary legatee of a large collection of autographs, after I get a task off my hands, and make my own eventful selection for my family.'*
W. H. Watson, Esq., of the Milwaukee Sentinel, has com- municated an extract of a letter from the Hon. Arad Joy, of New York State — a gentleman who has been nearly thirty years collecting manuscript documents and letters of the Revolution, and has amassed thirty volumes, of from 200 to 500 pages each of Revolutionary Rolls and Records, with many Orderly Books,
and more than one thousand original letters from officers, rela-
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tiog to tho Revolution. ^' I am greatly flattered and gratified in having been elected a Corresponding member of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is my fayx>rite Western State. I respect many of its citizens as among my personal friends. I am much gratified in seeing such a spirit manifested in behalf of your Ilistorical Society." Mr. JoT ipcaks of his papers as being scattered somewhat just now, and then adds: ^' When tho summer opens, I hope to arrange and index them, and be able more easily to know what I have, and learn what I can spare. I notice tho Hon. IIbney S. Ran- dall's remarks, who donated to your society some one hundred manuscript lettorsof the Revolutionary chiefs. If lean follow him, or exceed him^ I shall be happy to do so; and if not just now, still they may come in good time. I shull not forget what I soy, and you may hope to hear from mo by and by, or I may hereafter direct to Madison."
Engravings and Daguerreoft/pcs,
Seven engravings have been received during tho year past, and all excellent. Tho Flat-Boat Card Players^ from tho artist, G. C. Binqiiam; Saturday Nighty donor unknown; three from tlio artist. Prof. A. BiiADisii; proof sheet engrav- ings of Stuart's Washington ^ and Sully's Jackson ^ from the publisher, Geo. W. Cdilds.
Daguerreotypes of Joseph Cuelie, said to bo 117 years old, and of James Steele, 92) cars of agv, both of Columbia county, from Mr8. Jonx Jollev, of Portago City; of Andrew H. Eabnst, a distinguished pomologist of Cincinnati, from Dr. W. II. BarsBANB; and of Mrs. Peteu B. Gricnox, of Green Kay, a daughter of tho pioneer Judge Lawe, from Mrs. GiiiONOX.
Additions to the Cabinet.
AxciBNT Newspapeus. — A number of the Philadelphia ie^fy^r, Dec. 23(1, 1775, from Natiiax[el IIodart, of Potts- town, Pa.; the Neto York Packet^ A\v^, 2(1, 1781, from Hon. Aqad Joy; tho Virginia Journal^ Aug. 30th, 17b7,from lion.
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Loins BosTXDO; the Providence Gazette^ Maj 24thy 1788^ firom Mrs. D. S. Curtiss; a fac-similo rc-print of the UUter County {^. T.) Gazette^ Jan. 4th, 1800, in moaming for Gbk» Washington, a copy each from Hon. J. Sutherland, Hirah Baenbt, and J. Crowley; three numbers of the Oreen Bay Intelligencer^ printed in 1835 and 1836, the Wieconein Free Prei$, Vol. 1, No. 34, Green Bay, March 80th, 1836, a politi- cal hand-bill, Sept. 1835, and a part of the Belmont Oazette^ Not. 80th, 183C, containing the remarks of lion. David K. Chance, of Dos Moines, in the Wisconsin Territorial Legis- lature, on the bill to locate the capital at Madison, from Louis B. Porlier; a number of Gree!ej*8 Log Cabin^ a political campaign paper of 1840, and a number of the Recruit^ a cam- paign paper of 1848, from Col. Peter Saxe.
Ancient Coin. — A fine collection of 110 coin, mostly cop- per, of various countries, from Capt. Geo. S. Dodoe— of which 43 aro English, the smallest being the eighth of a farthing; IG qf the small German States; 14 of the United States; 0 French; 7 Spanish; 5 East Indian; 4 Brazilian; {^ Italian; 2 Ilaytien; 2 Russian; 2 Portuguese; 2 Dutch; ji Mexican, and 1 paper milred of Brazil; a fac-similo o^^ jjj^v. ancient Jewish coin, known as tho ehekel of Israel j fror^ yf;^ g[^ WniTixo; a silver coin, about twenty-fire cents in * ^^j^^ bear- ing date iC94, from A. Menoks; a Norwcgiar^ ^jj^^p ^.^in ^f about twelve cents value, from Mrs. S. U. P^/x^by* a Danish ooppcrskilling, 1771, from S. G. Benedict . ^ copper two cent ooin of the Republic of Liberia, from '^ g^ Durrie; a small Sliver coin, of about five cents valu-^^ ^f ^^^ ^^^ign of Charles ii, 1G76, from John Eberoard; J>, Chinese copper or brass coin,, found in a chest of tea, Ir^j^ g jj Carpenter; a Daiiibh wppor coin, 1771, from^ x#. C. Draper; two British half pennies of tho reign ^f Gr orgo ii, 1754, and a Chinese brass coin, from EowAjitn ForTj.
And thofoVfowing ra^.c collection, received from Silas Citap- HAN, of .Milwaukee: n iiassachusctt Indian cent, 1788; a Mas- •aohusctts Indian Iralf cent, 1787, very rare; a Franklin cent^
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1787) with the motto— ^^Mind your business/' with an emblem-* aticohain of thirteen links; a Nova Csesarea or New Jersey cent: two half cents. 1800, and 1853; a James the Second half penny, 1688; a Chinese brass coin; an(jl an old copper cqin of 1785. This collection embraces several very rare coins — the Massachusetts, Franklin and New Jersey cents, are often valued and sold for $2 each, and the Massachusetts half cent is more rare than either. Some of these, Mr. Chapman has been about twenty years in collecting, and thinks it is now time they were deposited where they will be placed beyond the liability of loss, as nearly all of the old and rare American coin will' soon disappear. Mr. Chapman further remarks, that he has seen a notice of the Franklin cent described as having three links, instead of thirteen— and asks, was there another kind, or was this a typographical error?
Indian Antiquities. — A stone Manitou, or Spirit of the Bochy an object of Indian worship and regard, somewhat in animal shape, evidently the result of the action of water, about a foot and a half in length, formerly located on the old Indian war-trail on the western shore of Lake Winnebago, presented by Dr. D. C. Aybes, of Green Bay; a peace-pipe, originally a present from the old Winnebago chief De Kau-ry, to Gen. Z. Tatlor, then commanding at Prairie du Chien, made of red pipe-stone, inlaid with lead ornaments, with a wooden stem nearly three feet long, from Walter E. Jones; a stone battle- ax, found at Kenosha, from W. H. Hannahs; a stone hatchet found at Green Bay, from Daniel Whitney; a stone liatchet, eight inches in length, found in Cottage Grove, from Alonzo Marsh; a small brass kettle, three brooches, an iron ring, a part of a human jaw bone, and some painted hair, taken from a mound near the bank of the Mississippi, at Praiiie du Chien, presented by George W. Stoner; an ancient Indian war-club, formerly owned by the Chippewa chief ot Manitowoc, Na-YA-to-shingd, or He-who'lays-by-himBelf^ who died in 1838, over one hundred years of age, from Peter B. Grignon, of Green Bay; two strings of wampum, one of which is made
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tip chiefly of ancient beads found at the old Jesuit Mission Station at De Pere, and in the other is a long white bead, nearly three inehes long, evidently made of petrified maple, from Mrs. Peter B. Grignon.
Wisconsin Pioneer Relics. — A silver belt buckle, about two inches in length, used by the Sieur Charles De Langlade, one of the first settlers at Green Bay, during the old French and Indian war of 1755 — 60, and during the Revolutionary war, from his grand-son, Augustin Grignon, of Butte des Morts. An ancient silver seal or letter stamp of Charles De Lang- lade, from his great grandson, Charles A. Grignon, of Grand Kau-kau-Hn. A silver snuff-box, used by Pibrre Grignon, Sr., who first settled at Green Bay, nearly a century ago, and father of Augustin Grignon, presented by Daniel WniTNEYf an American settler at Green Bay since 1820.
Interesting Relics. — The wedding fan of Mrs. Oliver WoLCOTT, used at her marriage in 1755, whose husband subse- quently became one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence; a tablet, or memorandum book, of an officer named MoSELET, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill; and a piece of linen taken from the mummy unrolled by Gliddon, a few years since, at Boston, presented by Mrs, Daniel S. Curtiss*
Revolutionary Relic. — A curious powder-horn of iRevo- lutionary times, with fort engravings upon it, with this inscrip- tion: "David Belden — his horn — made in they. 1776.
"I powder, with my brother baU, Hero-like, doth concer [conquer] all.''
This curious relic, of which a more particular account of its history is promised hereafter, has been presented by Lemuel Taylor, of Green County.
Continental Money, — A sixty dollar bill, from Rev. A. Brunson.
Ancient Sleeve Buttons. — A pair of ancient silver sleeve buttons, from Edward Ford.
Charter Oak Relic — A section of the celebrated Charter
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Oak, of Hartford, in which the Connecticut charter was secreted
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sod preserved in 1G87, and which fell August 21 , 1856, pr^ 8ented by C. M. Cleveland.
Picture Oallery,
This most attractive and interesting department of tho Society has received several important additions since the last Beport was made — which serve to add increased interest to our picture collection.
A View of the Pecatonica Battle-Field^ painted from an original drawing made on the spot, and generonsly presented to the Society, by the artists, Messrs. Brookes &, Stevenson, of Milwaukee. This completes the trio views of the Black Hawk war battle localities in Wisconsin, and will convey to futuro generations the primitive appearance of these renowned and classic spots in Wisconsin history.
The fine portrait of the lamented Arctic explorer, Dr. E. E. Kane, painted and presented by the Chevalier Joseph Faqnani; mnd the characteristic portrait of the poet Percival, painted by Flago, and obtained by purchaEC, form an addition that would be regarded as most desirable and important in any collection.
The first house in Madison, a fine and truthful representation! painted by C. A. Johnson, and presented by Hon. Simeon Mills; a portrait of Wau-he-qe-sa-eo, or The Wampum^ a prominent Wisconsin chief, a copy from Ilealey, an Irish artist, made by Mark R. IIarkison, of Fond dn Lac, and presented by Hon. Narcisse M. Juneau.
Wau-mb-qb-sa-ko, or The Wampum^ was head chief of the Chippewas, Pottawattamies and Ottawas, who resided at Mani- towoc, where he died in 1844, aged about fifty-five years. He had acted a prominent part at the treaties of Butte des Alorti in 1827, at Green Bay in 1828, at Prairie dn Chien in 1829, and at Chicago in 1833— at the latter of which, the Indian title was extinguished to all that fine tract of country, commencing at Gros Point, nine miles north of Chicago, to the source of the Milwaukee River, and thence west to Rock River, which was ratified in 1835. The portrait of this distinguished Indian
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chief of Wisconsin, must ever be esteemed as valuablo and interesting.
Portraits and Pictures Promised.
Wo repeat the list of individuals, as given in our last Report^ with such additions and corrections as the changes in tho year render necessary, ^ho have kindly consented to furnish their portraits for the Society's Picture Gallery — and all of the forty- one in number are more or less intimately connected with Wisconsin history; Hon. Lewis Cass, so long the Governor of Michigan Territory, when what is now Wisconsin formed a part; Ex-Governor John Reynolds, of Illinois, so prominently con- nected with the Black Hawk war, and now devoting his vigorous old age in historic and educational labors; Governors DoDaB,
HORNBR, TaLLMADGE, DeWEY, FaRWELL, and liASHFORD;
Hon. Moses Meeker, Col. D.^I. Parrinsox, Hon. Moroah L. Martin, Gen. A. G. Ellis, Col. James iioRRisoN, Col. Samuel IIyan, Capt. B« H. McGoon, Rev. Alfred Bruxson, J. V. SuYDAM, Hon. Cuarles Durkbb, Col. H. M. Eillinqs, CniBP Justice Whiton, Hon. Stephen Taylor, Bishop Kem- per, Dr. B. B. Gary, Rev. Jason Lotdrop, Col. John B. Tbrry, Gen. Hercules Dousman, Wm. N. Seymour, CoL Jambs Maxwell, Cyrus Woodman, Hon. Augustus A. Bird, Hon. CaARLEs C. Suoles, Darwin Clark, Hon. Patrick RoGAN, Hon. Daniel Wblls, Jr.,- Maj. Joun P. Sueldon, Hon. Joshua Hathaway, Bishop Hbnni, Hon. Charlbs H. Larrabbb, Hon. Samuel Crawford, Hon. Asahbl Finch, Jr., Georgb p. Dblaplaine^ Hon. Wyman Spooner, Hon. Joseph Jack<>.on, and also of tho late Gen. Georgb W. Hick- cox, John Messbrsmith, and the distinguished Stockbridgo Chief, John W. Quinney, from their respective friends.
Beside this long list of desirable portraits, tho following distinguished artists of our country, whose fame is co-extcnsivo with the Union, have most kindly and courteously promised or intimated some gift of their pencil to the Society, viz: JoHH E« Johnston^ G. N. and John Frankenstein, John Nbaqu,
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J. McMURTRIB, P. F, ROTHERMEL, WiLLIAM HaRT, W. D.
Washington, John F, Francis, Alvah Bradish, John Phillips, and A. Hesler. The subjects have not generally been determined; those which have been, are — portrait of Jackson, by Johnson; an historical piece, by John Franken- stein ; and a copy oi his original portrait of the venerable Seneca Indian chief, Gov. Blacksnake, by Phillips. These will prove honorable free-will oflferings from artists of the highest rank in our country, and will greatly add to the interest and attraction of our Picture Grallery already enriched by the skill and genius of the two Sullys, Catlin, Cropsey, Fagnani, Flagg, Brookes, Stevenson, Edwards, Head, Carpenter, Stanley, Johnston and Harrison.
System of Literary Interchanges,
We have hitherto been thwarted in our desires to carry com- pletely into effect our system of foreign and domestic literary exchanges. Wo have been receiving liberally of the gifts of our sister institutions of the Union, and from a few abroad, and had long promised to repay their generous contributions at an early day. Our noble State, always liberal in the promotion of literature and science, early and promptly commissioned our Society to act as the medium of effecting an interchange of literary commodities, appropriating fifty bound copies of every State publication in furtherence of this object, and $100 annu- ally to defray expenses of transmission, &c. Meanwhile we had gathered together quite a collection of books, pamphlets and documents relating to our State and its various interests.
But it was only in the past year that we were able to obtain the means to defray the necessary expenses; and these obtained, nearly forty boxes, and several parcels were transmitted to Europe, and the several Historical and other learned Societies •f this country — containing altogether 2,534 volumes, 3,500 pamphlets, and 1,025 maps, all relating to Wisconsin. Of the books, 1,502 were transmitted to Mens. A. Yattemarb, Paris, for his system of International Literary Exchanges; 21lto Anti- qoarian. and other learned Societies of Qretkt Britain, to* be
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transmitted through the medium of the Smithsonian Institution; and 821 to Historical and other Societies in the United States. It may be added, that about two-thirds of the volumes are State Laws, Journals and Documents of Wisconsin; and the remain- ing third is made up of the Society's two volumes of Collections, Documentary History of Wisconsin, State Agricultural Soci- ety's Transactions, History of Rock County, Hunt's Wisconsin Gazetteer, Milwaukee and Madison Directories; and the pam- phlets relative to Milwaukee, Watertown, Fond du Lac county, Winnebago county, Madison, La Crosse, Racine, Prairie du Chien, Geological Surrey, our Colleges, Railroads, State Insti- tutions, <kc. We have reason to believe, that this is much the largest collection ever distributed by any similar society in the Union, and we may confidently expect liberal returns both to the State Library, and that of our Historical Society.
This mass of information about Wisconsin, its history, pro- gress and resources, cannot but exert a favorable influence upon the reputation of our State and Society both in our own country and in Europe. It is gratifying to add, that we have recently been appraised by M. Vattemarb of the receipt of the several boxes sent him, and of his transmission of the first fruits from his side of the Atlantic of this pleasant international literary intercourse; and which, we hope, may reach our State in safety.
Ebports and Collections.
The Third Annual Report and Colleetions of the Society, making a volume of 556 pages — a portion of the edition being printed on good paper, and neatly bound in muslin — has recently been issued. So far at least as its typographical appearance is concerned, it is alike creditable to the State and the Society. The eagerness with which our volumes are sought by kindred societies, and by persons engaged in preparing works for the press on the history, geography and statistics of the West in general, and Wisconsin in particular, affords sufficient proof of their intrinsic worth and usefulness. Their real worth to our State, can never be estimated by mere dollars and cents.
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Meetings of the Society — New Members.
All the stated meetings of the Society have been hcldy inter- mitting only those of the months of May, July nnd October; and we can yet sny in truth, that since the re-organization of the Society, no meeting has yet failed for want of a quorum — and this is the best evi Jcnce of the unabated interest and zeal of those having its affairs in charge. During the year, nearly forty active members have been elected, several Life and Hon- orary members, and quite a number of Corresponding members. The list of contributions to the Library and Cabinet show tho generous extent of the friendly attentions of all classes of members to the aims and wants of the Society. With tho increased membership, and new friends the Society is constantly securing, together with its own expanding means and facilities of usefulness, we may confidently and reasonably expect, thai our Society is destined to attain an importance little anticipated by its most sanguine founders.
Bequests and Endowments Desired*
In our last Report, we gave some data relative to endowment! of Historical Societies — that those endowed, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Historical Societies of New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, were successful and prosper- ous; while nearly all others, having no certain means upon which to rely, are either languishing or doing comparatively nothing. Our State appropriation of $ 1000 annually is certainly generous; without it, we should have accomplished but a moiety of our success; and yet, when rents, insurance, freights and other incidental expenses are deducted from our means, we find them diminished fully one third, leaving our resources exceed- ingly limited for the attainment of the important objects in view* AVe, therefore, respectfully repeat our appeal to our enlightened fellow citizens to bear our Society in kind remembrance in the distribution of their bequests and endowments.
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A Fire-Proof Hdifice Needed.
We are probably as safe from exposure to firo as wo could be in any baiiding not fire-proof. Yet we feel the necessity of keeping tbo fact constantly in view, that there is 9ome danger; and hence we should study how we may best and earliest secure permanent fire-proof rooms for our collections. This matter calls loudly for our serious consideration. Having dwelt some- what at length upon this matter in our two preceding Report*^ the importance of the subject must impress itself upon the minds of all.
Commendations and Encouragements.
Bev. C. B. Smith, Secretary of tho Iowa State Historical Society^ in acknowledging the receipt of a statement relative to Wisconsin legislation m behalf of this Society, stated that he had made use of the example and precedent in securing an annual State appropriation for a similar organization in Iowa, recently effected.
G. I. Walker, of Detroit, writes, that ^^ Inspired with seal by the efforts and examples of your Society, we are endeavoring to awaken attention to our early history, and to collect and preserve such materials of that history as are still within our reach;" and to this end, are making efforts to resuscitate the Michigan Historical Society, founded in 1828, but which has not held a meeting since 1841.
Fbancis Paekman, the historian, writes,^' I hope soon to send your very active and vigorous young Society someteore doouments bearing on the early history of your region. — I shall remember you in my researches, and if anything comes to hand that may especially interest you, yon shall know it." John Carter Brown, of Providence, writes, ^^ Your Histor- ical Society appears to me to be the most active of any other in the country; our own in Rhode Island is and has been for a long time, very dormant.''
Aaron S. Lippincott, Esq., of Philadelphia, writes :~ '* Whether I may be able to contribute anything of value or not,
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I shall always esteem it a special favor to be associated with the literary and progressive minds of the Grreat West, Indeed^ it is to be what is now called the Great West, that we begin to look for whatever is grand, either materially or intelleotually. The men of genius, spirit and enterprise, have departed from the Atlantic States, to make those of the Great Valley of the Mississippi, what it very soon must be, in agriculture, in com- merce, in population, in wealth, and I think in refinement and intelligence, also, what it already is in extent, the wondbr op
THE WORLD.
" Europe will continue, with accelerated force, to pour into your spacious territory a population for labor, which, guided and stimulated by the active spirits you now have, will soon make these old Atlantic States dwindle into comparative insig- nificance. I dare predict, that you, yourself, will see daily trains of freighted cars from the Pacific coast, arriving at St. Louis, or some other of your western cities, laden with the rich products of China, Japan, and all the Indies, and perhaps weekly auction sales there of thousands of packages of silks, teas, and other eastern products. What then, will be Now York and Philadelphia ? Only border cities; whilst yours will be a revival, on a far grander scale, of the interior cities of antiquity.
^^ One thing let me suggest. You must be aware that the preponderating political power of this great country will soon rest with the North- Western States. You have gathered up and Aronicled the many deeds of heroism of the pioneers. It is time now to stimulate chiefly among all classes the principle of universal peace and good order. It is these that will attract to you the most enterprising and intelligent of Europeans. — Looking, as they mostly now do, at England as the best sample of European States, they soon turn away when contrasted with the Great West in America, with loathing and disgust. They see, since the war of the revolution in England in 1689, which lasted nine years, that about sixty years of war have since fol- bwed, with an estimated expenditure prior to the late Bussian
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yfMTf of nearly nine thousand millions of doUaray and a remaining debit of three thousand six hundred millions^ Of course, witii this Tiew of things they mil continue to rush to yout magnifr- oent country, to avoid an odious and uigust incumbrance which they cannot remove. The laboring classes now hear by every returning steamer from America, of the wonders of the Great West, and that this is truly the land of peace, of plenty, and of Gf-old. No power can stop them from coming, and it affords me great pleasure merely to anticipate the scenes that you are bound to witness in Wisconsin and all the new States of the North- West, if you wield the political power that you will soon possess, so as to keep us all in one harmonious union.
"It will be a part of the appropriate business of your Soci- ety, to impress upon the new generation rising up among you, a proper sense of the evils of all contentions^ and of section' alism in particular j to which there seems now a strong tendency. S(mie of the English emigrants will probably be able to tell from personal recollection the evil effects of the contentious follies of our English relations. They may recollect the silly war against Bonaparte, which began in 1804 and lasted 12 years, the last three with this country, and cost 1159 millions. The honest Germans too may bring something in the way of experience, and help you to lay, in the Great West, the foundation of an empire and a government that will be imperishable.
"The influence and value of your association may be very great, in forming and moulding public opinion, and no doubt will be. By spreading it so widely in its members, you will naturally feel the pulsations of public thought and opinion in all parts of our great country, with considerable accuracy. — This is certainly a great idea^ for which you will have due credit; and it would not be more strange than the rapidly ex- pansive power of our new North- Western States, if the Histor- ical Society of Wisconsin should in time not very remote, be the model of the world, and its brightest intellectual luminary."
Dr. W. Db Hass, author of the History and Indian Wars of Western Virginia^ writes: "On more than one occasion,
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within the past year, have I heard the example of the Wisoonsm nistorical Society cited and commended. At New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and other points within a few months, I haye heard of the progress of your society in language most complimentary to all concerned. You have indeed, accomplished wonders. J^x^e^aioris justly your motto.'' Wo will conclude these extracts by a somewhat lengthy quo- tation from a paper in the New Tork Advocate and Journal^ of Dec. 10, 1^57, not merely because it contains a flattering notice of our young Society, but because it conveys some truthful and wcll-exprcsscd views of Historical Societies generally — and to which, for convenience, we will insert some headings:
Principal Collections of Amencan Eiztory,
'^Taking into account our military, commercial, literary, and religious power, wo may bo said to have fairly assumed our rightful historic place only within the past twenty years. And within this timo ha3 been developed the most of our historic seal. Before this period, special agents, commissioned to scour American and European libraries for documents illustrative of early American history, had scarcely been thought of; now they are most common. Tho paucity of this collected literature may be bettor understood from a few words as to its locality and amount. Tho appreciation of it will, of course, bo found epi- tomized in the public, society, and private libraries, because tho mass of the book trade only appear as the purchasers of impor- ted collections, and afterwards as the media of distribution, but at no time as tho hoarders of it. So far as we can ascertaiuy the best collection of autographs, ordinary manuscripts, pam- phlets, and books, such as in any way refer to the discovery and aettlcment of our continent, our colonial history, and tho inception of our Revolution, is to be found in the British Mu- seum. In this country the largest ingatherings have been effected by tho New York Historical Society, the Antiquarian Society of Worcester, and Harvard University, and tho New York State Library; tho relative value of their collections being
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indicated bj the order in which they are named. Of private Hbrarios, the most comprehenBiTO in this specialty are those of Mr. Lbnox, of New York, Mr. Brown, of Proyidence, and Messrs. Murpht and Brbvoort, of Brooklyn.
'^Tho largest and most valuable thesaurus of manuscripts, are those of Bancroft and Prescott. So exceptional has been the interest in, so poor tho appreciation of this literature, that, until Ycry recently, whatever had been gathered up from one sonrceoranother, was comprehended in these few librnries, with the exception of a very littlo treasured in tho small historical li- braries of some of tho older states. And it must be remembered, in addition, that it formed but a most inconsiderable portion of each.
Wisconsin Historical Society noticed.
''Of late, there has been a gratifying increase of interest in matters relating to American history, displaying itself in tho establishment through individual enterprise exclusively, of nu- merous 'State Historical Societies' in diiTerent sections of tho Union. And it is not a littlo interesting to note in this, as well as in more practical enterprises, the aphorism, ^ Westward tho star of Empire takes its way ! ' finds confirmation. Minnesota and Iowa have very respectable Historical libraries. Wisconsin deserves all praise, for she has already, with few exceptions, the best ^ }itate Historical Society and Library ^ in tho Union, arising from tho fact, that whereas the Eastern States donato nothing, and tho most of the Western only a nominal sum, Wisconsin has appropriated several thousand dollars to this institution. This early development of historical interest will secure for tho West the most accurate and reliable records of her growth, the importance of which, though we may infer it, will only bo fully comprehended in tho future.
Charles B, Norton's Labors.
'^Tho increasing attention paid to this sort of literature is, in some good degree, the result of exertions made by Mr. Cjias. B. HouTO::, of New York, formerly of the * Publishers' Circu-
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kr' aad ^Literary Gmzette/ who has scattered periodicals, letters^ circiilars^ and catalogaes, containing historical infoima. tien and exbortationy broadcast over the land.
^^Fonnerly his purchases included whatever was rare and yalu- aUe in literature, but of late, his specialty, and that in which he is renderiAg a great and essential service, not only to private taste, but to national welfare, is his collection of American history and biography; a service, which if it be made exhaustive of this department of literature, will merit and, no doubt, receive a better testimonial than a mere newspaper paragraph. We suppose that all these works have been at the disposal of HiLimKTU and Bancroft, and our other national historians; but it is requisite that the original authorities should in some way be made accessible to the people; so that when the standard authors are dead, there may be many qualified by original inves- tigation to take up the contest of all the queries and doubts in regard to our origin which intervening and increasing time will naturally beget. Mr. Norton has forecast this necessity, and is providing for it. Within eight years, more than 100,000 vol- umes relating to the history of this continent have passed through his hands, and some idea of the extent of such an en- terprise may be gathered from the fact that the whole of this vast mass has been purchased, for the most part, in single volumes from individuals, or in small lots from dispersed libra- ries. The utter inadequacy of the collections, as yet effected, to meet the wants even of the present, much more of the next generation of scholars, must be very apparent. It is a great thing, however, to have gotten a competent medium for collec- tion, such as we have in Mr. Norton.
Hints to States and Public Institutions,
**And now wc desire, in the most earnest manner, to call the attention of our state governments, and colleges, to the neces- sity of their either undertaking the work of these historical oolloctions themselves, or affording such countenance and encour- agtment to individual enterprise as shall effectually secure the performance of it. Considerations of economy alone should be
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Bofficient to secure the immediate inception of the enterprise^ because, perhaps, no other sort of property can be named which is so rapidly increasing in value. A natural and permanent advance of thirty per cent, within five years, the rntio still increasing, and without fluctuation, can rarely be predicated of any property or stocks. There is, however, another and more pressing consideration, which is: that the opportunities of purchasing this sort of literature at any price, will soon be gone altogether, because of the eagerness with which the commis* sioned agencies of English, French and Russian libraries are everywhere snatching it up. The British Museum has ahready the best collection in the world; and no pains are spared to increase it. Recently a catalogue of documents and letters, involving the whole unwritten history of the British army in its connection with the American revolution, was forwarded to this country; but before individual cnterpriaa oould command the means of purchase, it was suddenly bought at private sale. It is impossible to say where so valuable lu collection has gone; but the known energy and liberality of the- British governmrent do not relieve it from the suspicion of the purchase. Had such a prize fallen into the hands of any of our libraries, our newspapers had teemed for months with descrip- tions of it, and we should all with one accord have rejoiced isL it as a matter of national conci'm.
National Value of Historical Studies,
*^In every age historic studies have been regarded as an indi- cation of high cultivation. Until the Greeks had attained to that they were scorned even by the Egyptians. Plato makos an Egyptian priest to say to Solon: 'You Grecians are evea children. Tou have no knowledge of antiquity, nor antiquity of knowledge.' Commerce and the mechanic arts, pursued with whatever success, are not in themselves suflicient to deter- mine the highest national position, and to command universal admiration. They are indispensable; but high historic culture^
next to public morals, is the crowning glory of a people. K or
5m
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is there anything else capable of eliminating from the chaos of nascent civilizations the characteristic and providential cones, unlike in every people^ about which the facts of subsequent development are to crystallize. And nations, like individuals, are not come into the secret of their greatest strength, until they have determined their true bent and mission; the line along which, for the most part, their energies shall be expended, not only from the impressions of* instinct, but also from the careful study of their recorded achievements.
^^The final consideration we wish to urge for the institution of these historical libraries, directly, by the States, or indirectly, through the channels of personal enterprise assisted by the government, is intimated in some eloquent words of Dr. Albx- ANDEU: ^Our national tendency^ so far as we have any, is to alight the past, and over-rate the present. The influence of this defect upon our development is incalculable. But instead of going on to reckon up the consequences of the evil now in ques- tion, lot us rather draw attention to the fact that it is not of such a nature as to be corrected by the lapse of time, but must increase with the increase of ignorance and lazy pride; espe- cially when fostered by a paltry national conceit, and flattered by those oracles of human progress, who declare that history is only fit for monks.' There is no little painful truth summed up in this extract. To counteract the injurious tendency indicated in it, is one of the most pressing needs of our times. To do this effectually, every minister should inquire more assiduously and reverently of the oracles of Church history; statesmen in all humility should more and more submit themselves to the wisdom of the secular records. Our schools and colleges should give to historic studies a much greater relative importance than they now are permitted to assume in the accredited curricula. And then the most important of all, the State should have at hand the material to supply the demand for historic information which her auxiliary institutions may have thus created." ' With these statistics, views, and suggestions relative to the
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condition and prospects of the Societj, we make this report of our stewardship with a renewed confidence that each snccessiye year will exhibit the same continued gratifying results.
Wm. R. Smith, Ltman C. Draper, L. J, Farwbll, JoHH W. Hunt, Danibl S. Dureib, 0. m. conovbr, SiMBON Mills;
F. O. TiBBITS,
Edward Ilslbt, Julius T. Clare, 8. H. Carpbnter,
Hadison, Jan. Ist, 1859.
Hiram G. Bull,
D, J. Powers, J. P. Atwood, David Atwood,
E. A. Calkins, Horace Rubleb, H. K. Lawrence, S. V. Shipman, S. G. Benedict, C. T. Flowers, Wm. B. Jarvis.
Executive Committee.
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FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.
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To His Exobllbnot, A. W. Randall,
Governor of the State of WisconBin:
Sib: — The offioe of an Historical Society, is not to writo history, but to gather the proper materials and preserve them for the use of the biographer, the statistician, and the historian. It looks to the Past, the Prbsbnt, and the Futurb. It has ^gard to the actions of men and of nations — ^the living and the dead.
*^^It is because God is visible in History," says Banoboft, ''that its office is the noblest except that of the poet. The poet is at once the interpreter and the favorite of Heaven. He catches the first beam of light that flows from its uncreated source. He repeats the message of the Infinite, without always being able to analyze it, and often without knowing how he received it, or why he was selected for its utterance. To him, and to him alone, history* yields in dignity; for she not only watches the great encounters of life, but recalls what had vanished, and partaking of a bliss like that of creating, restores it to animated being. The mineralogist takes special delight in isontemplating the process of crystallization, as though he had caught nature at her work as a geometrician; giving herself up to be gazed at without concealment such as she appears in the very moment of exertion. But history, as she reclines in the lap of eternity, sees the mind of humanity engaged in formative efforts, constructing sciences, promulgating laws, organizing commonwealths, and displaying its energies in the visible move- ment of its intelligence. Of all pursuits that require analysis, history, therefore, stands first. It is equal to philosophy; for 4MI certainly as the actual bodies forth the ideal, so certainly
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does history contain philosophy. It is grander than the natural sciences; for its study is man, the last work of creation, and ihe most perfect in its relations with the Infinite.'^
Such is the office of History — and such, inferentiallyi is the office of Historical Societies. It may not become those to whom the interests of the State Historical Society of WiBetm- nn have been committed the past year, to speak too sanguinely of the advances the Society has made in its means of uBcfiil- ness; yet in rendering an account of their stewardship, they feel it to be a pleasant task — ^for continued success has attended their efforts during the year which has just dosed.
Financial Condition of the Society.
In compliance with acts of the Legislature, granting one thousand dollars annually to the Society, it becomes the duty of the Executive Committee to present herewith the report of the Treasurer for the past year, exhibiting the manner of the expen- diture of the appropriation^ together with the accompanying Touchers. It will be seen, that the total receipts of the year into the General Fand, including the small balance on hand on fhe 1st of January last, have been (1,120 24; and the disburse- ments (1,097 85— leaving a balance, of the General Fund, in ihe Treasury of $22 89. The balance of (47 77, reported on the Ist of January last, of the International Literary Exchange Fund, is still unexpended.
Increase of the Library.
Though the Society was organized ten years ago, during its first five years very little was accomplished — nothing except to gather fifty volumes into its Library, and secure two interesting annual addresses, one by Gen. William B. Smith, and the other by Hon. Morgan L. Martin. But during the past five years, its progress has been steady and satisfactory in all the departments of its labors— the Library, Picture Gallery, Cabi- net, manuscript historical narratives, newspaper files, atlases and maps, pamphlets, and its three published volumes of eol*^ lections.
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The increase of the Library, during this period, may be seen
by the following table:
Jan. 1864, total, 50 vols. . - - - increase, 50 " 1855, " 1050 " ....<« 1000
" 1866, " 2117 **.... " 1067
" 1867, " 8122 " . .- - . " 1005
" 1858, " 4146 " . . . . " 1024
" 1859, " 5258 " ....*« 1107
Total, present number of bound Tolumes in Library, 6268
This exhibits, for the past five years, an average increase of over 1000 volumes annually, exclusive of about 4700 pamphlets and unbound documents, and many unbound newspaper files. Of the 1107 volumes added to the Library the past year, 424 were by purchase, and 683 by donation and exchange; and three- fourths of the whole are works on history, biography, travels, bound newspaper files, and publications of Historical and Anti- quarian Societies. Such additions, relating mainly to our own country, render the Library more and more valuable for purposes of reference; and it is gratifying to know, that it is constantly resorted to by citizens of our own and adjoining States. The number of visitors has been much increased since the Library, during the past year, has been open every week-day, forenoon and afternoon — ^while, heretofore, it was only open regularly during the sessions of the Legislature, and then only on evexy Saturday afternoon, and three evenings in each week.
Classification of the Library.
Works on history, biography, travels, bound newspaper files, and publications of Historical and Antiquarian Societies,
8866 vols. Oongressional publications, ... QQS ^^
Agricultural, Mechanical and Scientific,. - 805 ^'
State Laws and Legislation, - - - ' 219 ^^
MiBoellaneoQS, .... 740 «
Total, - 5268
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The works, under the first classification, on history and its cognate subjects, are steadily gaining on the other classes. About half of the donations are of this character, and all of the purchases; and it may further be added in this connection, that of all the purchases since the re-organization of the Society, in January, 1854, there have not probably been more than half a dozen volumes other than those of an historical character.
Of the additions the past year, 50 volumes were folios, and 56 quartos; making altogether in the Library 305 folios, and 461 quartos, the rest being chiefly of octavo size. This shows that over one-seventh of the whole Library is composed of works of folio and quarto size, which is probably a large pro- portion for any public or private Library.
Principal Works Purchased,
Beside many single works on American history, the following have been added to the Library the past year by purchase, viz: Sparks' American Biography, 2d series, 15 vols., Sparks' Washington 12 vols.. Sparks' Franklin 10 vols., Hildreth's Hist. U. S. 6 vols., Catlin's American Indians 2 vols., Buck- ingham's America 9 vols., Burk's Hist, of Virginia 4 vols., the Casket 10 vols., the Port Folio 20 vols., Political Magazine 19 Tols, Louisiana Historical Collections 5 vols., Trumbull's Hist. Conn. 2 vols., Dwight's Travels 4 vols., Cobbett's works 13 vols., Featherstonhaugh's Canoe Voyage 2 vols.. Military Chronicle 6 vols.. Warden's America 3 vols.. Book of Family Crests 2 vols., and British Monthly Review, 1749 to 1828 complete, 203 vols., partly by purchase and partly by exchange.
Principal Works added by Donation,
Voltaire's Works, 72 vols., Rousseau's Works 8 vols., Roger's North America, 1765, and Le Beau's Adventures in America, 1728, from Stephen Taylor; Transactions of the Sta- tistical Society, London, 20 vols., full set, from the Society; Ladies' Book, 1839— '43, and Brother Jonathan, 1842— '43, 15 vols., from Charles B. Norton; American Journal of Insan- ity, full set, unbound, 14 vols., from Drs. J. P. Gray, and E.
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H. Van Dbusbn; Bulletin des Sciences Historique, 9 vols., Liebig and Kopp's Chemistry and Allied Sciences, 4 yols., Re- port of British Association of Science, 3 vols., Halliburton's History of Nova Scotia, 2 vols., from Dr. J. G. Cogswell; Pinkerton's Voyages, Phil. 1810, 6 vols, quarto, from L, K. Haddock; Gibbon's Rome, 6 vols, in exchange; Laws of New York, 1783—1813, from J. V. Swetting; Am. State Papers, 1801 — 1816, from Mrs. Louisa Rockwood; Reports of British Association of Science, 5 vols., from Dr. S. Kirkland, Jr; Journal of Proceedings of U. S. Lodge of I, 0. 0. F., 4 vols., from E. Ilsley; Thoresby's Diary and Correspondence, 1667- 1724, from Dr. Hamline ; Debates and Journal of the Massa* chusetts Convention, 3 vols., from S. G. Benedict; Wilkinson's Memoirs, 8 vols., from Col. J. S. Williams; American His- torical Curiosities, and Monuments to Washington's Patriotism, 8 vols., from Francis Parkman; Memoirs of La Fayette, 3 vols., an Abridgment of Universal History, 1631, from Cyrus Woodman; Lewis and Clark's Travels, 2 vols., from J. M. Db Frees; an Epitome of Roman History, 1630, with the auto- graph of John Leveritt, 1676-7, at that time Governor of Massachusetts Colony; Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, 1808 — 1847, from Cornelius Moore; Annuals of the West, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh editions, Butler's Kentucky, 2d edition, Taylor's Ohio, and At water's Ohio.
Jesudt Jtelations.
There were two of the Jesuit Relations, bound together, in
ancient vellum binding, which the Society published three or
four years since, for 1642—1644; together with a copy of Rich's
reprint of Marquette's Journal, from Thevenot of 1681. To
these several originals and reprints have been added this year,
and our whole collection is as follows, viz:
Relation ( 1642-43, by Father Lalemant, - purchased. " ^ 1643-44, by Father Vimont, - •• "
" f 1645-46, by Father Ragueneau, Vatte-
l mare exchanges, - . - . <^
^' ( 1646, by Father Lalemant. - - "
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" 1668-64, by Father Lalemant, - - pnrchased
" 1664-65, by Father Lo Mercier, - **
" 1666-67, " «i . . . «
An Abridged Relation of the Fathers in New France, by Bressany, edited by Father Martin, Montreal,
1852, **
Jesuit Relations, reprint, 1612 — 1672, under the au- spices of the Canadian Government, in 3 large vols.
gift of Parliament Library of Upper Canada. Dreuillette's Relation, 1 660-51, privately printed, from
the MS. original ... gift of Jahbs Lenox. LeMercier's Relation, 1656, private reprint, " "
Lalemant's Relation, 1660, " *' " "
Marquette, 1674-75, privately printed from MS. original, " Allouez at Green Bay, and other missionaries, ^*
1676-77, "
Bigot's Relation, among Abnequise,1685, Shea's ed'n, purchased Oavelier's Voyage of De La Salle in Mexico, 1685-87,
Shea's edition, "
Life of P. Chaumonot, 1688, Shea's edition, • '< " " continued, 1693, " - **
Gravier's Relation in Illinois, 1698-94, " - - "
Bigot " among Abnaquise, 1701, " - "
Marquette from Thevenot, 1681, Rich's reprint, Paris,
1845, by exchange.
The Society has also in its Library the rare works of Les- carbot, 2 editions, De Creuxius, La Hontan, 2 editions. La Salle, Hennepin, in French and English, theLettres Edifiantes, two diiFerent editions, Crespcl, three editions, and other early rare works on the North-West. In this class of the early his- torical literature of the West, our Society has been exceedingly fortunate in making collections — all the more desirable, as these works form the basis of our history.
Newspaper Collections.
To our former rich collection of newspaper files, we have made the past year some valuable and important additions.
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Their titles, the periods to which they relate, and the manner of their procurement, are as follows:
Maryland Gazette, 1760 — 67, purchased, - - 8 vols. St. James' Chronicle, 1774—78 " - - 1 " Jamaica Royal Gazette, 1782, '' - - 1 << Philadelphia Minerva, 1795— '98, *' - - 1 " Phila. Am. Advertiser, 1797, " - - 1 " Dessert to the True American, 1798 " - - 1 " Philadelphia Aurora, 1800, " - - 1 " Nationallntelligencer, 1806— '9, " - - 2 " Boston Weekly Messenger, 1817 — '18, gift of Mrs. Book- wood, .... ... 1"
New York American, 1824 — 31, purchased, - - 8 "
New York Herald, 1830, " - - 1 "
Alexander's Weekly Messenger, 1844 — 48, gift of S.
COWLES, 2 "
N. Y. Daily Tribune, 1858, gift of R. Townsend, 2 "
N. Y. Daily Times, 1853— '54, do. - 4 «
Total, 29 vols.
The total number of bound newspaper files now in the Library is 869 — no part of our collection is more valuable for purposes of historic research, or more interesting to the curious reader* We have also quite a number of unbound newspaper files, which we hope to have bound during the ensuing year.
Works on Bibliography.
There can be nothing more useful to a public library than a proper collection of works on Bibliography. They give us a history or account of books, notices of different editions, the times when they were printed, the best editions, and other infor- mation tending to illustrate the history of literature, and frequently adding the prices which rare works have obtained at public sales, together with their market value as indicated by priced catalogues. They serve to a public library as an invalu- able guide in the purchase of all except the most recently printed
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works. The Society has not, until the past year, purchased any pf this very desirable class of works. We have now 47 volumes on Bibliography, besides a large number of pamphlet catalogues — 26 of which were added the past year, embracing the most important part of the collection, and of these 26, eleven were purchased. The following is the list complete:
Lownde's Bibliographer's Manual, ... 4 vols.
Rich's Bibliotheca Americana, 1500 to 1844, - 2 "
Roorbach's Bibliotheca Americana, - - - 3 "
Brunet's Library Manual, - - - - 2 "
Bohn's Catalogues, 3"
Debritt's Bibliotheca Americana, 1789, - - i "
Hodgson's Classified Index of London books, 1816 — '51,
Ludewig's Literature of American Local history, -
Ludewig's Literature of American Aboriginal Languages,
Trubner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature,
Bibliotheca Americana Septentrionalis, 1820,
Lumley's Bibliographical Advertiser, 1846 — '47,
Jewett's Notices of Public Libraries in U. S.,
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature,
Guild's Librarian's Manual, . . . -
Catalogue of Anti-Masonic Books, ...
Catalogue of American Antiquarian Society,
Catalogue of Library of Congress,
Catalogue of Parliament Library of Upper Canada,
Catalogue of New York State Library,
Catalogue of Massachusetts State Library,
Catalogue of Astor Library, - . - .
Catalogue of Philadelphia Library Company,
Catalogue of Harvard College Library, -
Catalogue of Brown University Library,
Catalogue of Boston Athenaeum Library, 1827,
Catalogue of Young Men's Association, Albany,
Total, 48 vols,
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Additions from Historical and Learned Societies^ and
Q-ovemmenis,
We have received, during the year, the additional publications of the Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina Historical Societies, 20 volumes of Transactions of the London Statistical Society, and 2 volumes of Transactions of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. From the State Depart- ment, Washington, the State of Massachusetts, the State of New York, Harvard College, the library of Congress, the Phil- adelphia Library, and the Parliament Library of Upper Canada^ valuable donations have been received.
International Literary Exchanges.
Several cases of books have been received from M. Vattb* MARB as the first under the system of International Literary Exchanges. By order of the Governor,they were divided, the historical and narrative portion being assigned to the Society, and other portions to the State Library, and the State Agricul- tural Society. The Society's portion numbered 231 volumes^ 77 pamphlets, and 99 maps, plates and engravings; of the volumes 24 were folios, and 89 quartos — 94 historical, 55 scien- tific, 19 industrii^l, 25 laws and legislation, and 88 miscellaneous. Among the historical were four volumes of the original edition of the Jesuit Relations — almost priceless in value. Nearly all these works are valuable, for their European statistics and infor- mation, and form together an interesting addition to our Library.
Newspaper Files.
Besides the large number of papers sent gratuitously by their publishers to the Society, and which are carefully preserved for binding, the following unbound files have been presented to ihe Society: Vermont Freeman, 8 vols, from Eli Dutton; N. T. Times, from Oct. 1852 to July, 1856, nearly complcto,from Prof. J. C. Pickard; New London, Waupaca, Register, from A. L. Lawsox. Albert Norton, Esfj., has most generously promised a file of the National Intelligencer^ in good condition,
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from its commencement to , 1850, in some forty volumes, which will prove a truly valuable' addition to the Library.
Unbound old Newspapers, ^c.
A lot of 50 old Almanacs, from 1776 to 1823, 41 numbers of the Poughkeepsie Journal, 1793-94, and 9 old papers, 1795— 1804, purchased; London Magazine, July, 1759, from Mrs. D. S. CuRTiss; Sussex Advertiser, Feb. 20, 1769, and National Intelligencer, Nov. 17, 1800, from J. S. Buck; Pennsylvania Evening Post, April 9, 1779, from Dr. John Curwen; Lidepen- dent Ledger, a Boston paper. May 10, 1779, from J. R. Bates; Lockport Courier, April 7, 1831, from Hon. D. J. Powers; a fac-simile re-print of Poor Richard's Almanac, for 1733, from Dr. S. CoMPTON Smith.
Maps and Charts.
A copy of Findley's Modern Atlas, bound, from F. G. Tibbits; Map of Wisconsin in 1836, from D. S. Dubbib; a a map of Wisconsin Land District, 1838, from Stephen Tat- lob; and 30 maps and charts, mostly of the Lakes and Harbors of the North West, from Lt. Col. J. D. Gbaham, U. S. Army; and an ancient map of Rome, purchased at the Vatican, presen- ted by Dr. S. Compton Smith. We have now altogether 17 bound volumes of Atlases, and over 82 separate maps; the most of which are rare and valuable.
Pamphlets and Documents,
The pamphlet additions the past year amount, in round num- bers, to five hundred — making the total number 4,700. When these are properly arranged and bound, they will form a valuable and inteiesting addition to the Library. Among the principal donors the past year of pamphlets and documents, are Dr. Edwabd Jabvis 113, A. Vattemabe 77, Dr. S. Kneeland, Jr. 61, S. H. Cabpenteb 39, S. A. Gbeen< 17, L. 0, Dba- pbb 14, D. S. Dubbie 12. Astor Library 9.
It may be added, that one of these pamphlets is on WheeIock*s Indian Charity School, 1775; another is Melvin's Journal on
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the Qaebeo Expedition of 1775, of which only 100 copies were privately printed.
Autograph Letters.
During the year, three manuscript letters of Stephen Girard, written in 1800, and 1811, one of Gov. Francis R. Shunk, of Penn., 1841, and of Hon. S. L. Southard, 1826, from Dr. JouN Curwen; of Lord Napier, and Gen. J. E. Wool, from V. W. Roth; of Earl Derby, Roebuck, Hume and other English notables, from Col. A. Wellinoton Hart; a large number of American statesmen, Clay, Webster, R. M. John- son and others, from Wm. Brotherhead. A fac-simile letter of Gen. Washington, from Hon. A. H. VanWib.
Manuscript Historical Narratives.
Gol. Ebenezbr Childs, who came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1820, and now the oldest surviving American settler, has furnished his narrative of reminiscences of thirty-eight years' recollections, in 35 pages; John H. Fonda, of Prairie du Ohien, his narrative of reminiscences of the Winnebago and Black Hawk wars, and anterior events; Hon. John T. Kings- ton's reminiscences of Wisconsin since 1834; Stranoe N. Palmer's in 1836; 17 Letters on the political history of Wis- consin, by Hon. John Y. Smith; 125 MS. letters of the late Hon. Thomas P. Burnett, relating to early public events in* Wisconsin, from Rev. A. Brunson; and brief statements rela- tivo to mounds and tumuli — in Richland county, by Rev. An- drew Bbnton — in Green Lake county, by J. V. Swetting — in Beloit and vicinity, by E. F. Hobart — in and around Whitewater, by Rev. H. 0. Montagub— and at Muscoda, by A. J. Richards.
Additions to the Cabirmt.
Kjsi Ancient Gun. — Presented by Prbscott Briqham. This gun was the property of John Prescott, and was brought by him from Lancashire, England, who went first to Barbadoes, «nd owned land there in 1638, and came to New England about 1640. In 1645, Sholan, the Indian proprietor of Nashawog^
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offered to him and other persons a tract of land ten miles in length, which was accepted, and the General Court subsequently confirmed the deed. The town was named Lancaster, in the present county of Worcester, Massachusetts. John Prescott had occasion to use this gun during King Phillip's Indian War of 1675. On one occasion, as tradition has it, a number of Indians made their appearance at Prescott's old mill, hoisted the water-gate, when Prescott took this gun, heavily loaded, and started towards the mill, when the Indians retired to the hills close by; Prescott having fixed the mill, thought it prudent to retrace his steps, but did so backwards, with his eye upon the foe, until he reached his house, when the Indians raised a whoop, when Prescott concluded to give them a specimen of his gun- mansbip; and as he shot, they scampered off. Afterwards visit- ing the spot where the Indians were when he shot at them, blood was found upon the ground. The Indians ever after kept clear of the Prescott neighborhood. Mr. Prescott had at least seven children; and among them was Hon. Benj. Prescott, the father of Col. Wm. Prescott, who commanded at Bunker Hill, and gr^ind* father of Judge Wm. Prescott, of Boston, and great grdndfather of Wm. H. Prescott, the historian. The old gun in question was given by Prescott to his daughter Tabitha, wife of Silas Brigham, who in her old age gave it to her grandson Prescott Brigham, torn in 1780, now a resident of Sauk county, Wisconsin, and by him presented to the Society. Prescott Brigham is the elder brother of the pioneer settler of Dane county. Col. Ebenezer Brigham, of Blue Mounds.
Relics of the Black Hawk War. — A rifle barrel, and B: bayonet, found on or near the Bad Ax battle ground, presented' by Benjamin Rodgers and family, who found them.
A Relic of the Scotch Rebellion. — A portion of an old red silk flag, bearing date in gilt figures 1719, with the Latin motto, Nemo me impune lacessit — No one provokes mb with' Impunity; with the Scotch thistle, in giit, also yet remaining. This was the motto of the ancient Order of the Thistle, to the rough nature of which it has significant allusion. The Order of
f the Tfiistle, or Knights of St. Andrew, was, accordioglo some [ writers, instituted by Achaius, King of Scots, in memory of an I appenraace in the heavens of a bright cross, I'caeuibling that '' whereon St, Andrew suffered miirtyrdom, seen by Achaius the night before he gained a victory over Athelstan, King of Eng- land, in the tenth century. This order after having iimoh declined, was revived by Jaojea IT of England, in 1687, and again by Queen Anne, in 1703. This imoicnt flag of the Thistle Order could not have been borne aloft during the Scotch rebel- lion of 1715, as it bears date four years later; but it is tho distinct tradition of the family through which it has been handed down, that it was used in the memorable Scotch rebellion of 1745, and was in the fatal defeat of Prince Charlie at CuIIoden: I after which, its early possessor, the Clarkson family, migrated to New England, bringing this interesting relic with them. It was presented to the Society by JoH.V LiMliKRT, of Ceresco, who obtained it from Capt. Claukson of Ihat place, » lineal descendant of its originiLl owner. ■
A.v Oriuinal Dbkd of Wm, Pexs. — An original paieliment I deed from William Penn to Henry Litchfield, dated July 24, ' 1682, the next year after the Bettlcmeot of Pennsylvania, for five hundrcd^acrea of land in tho Province of Penttlvama — such is the ancient orthography, from TllOMAS Dr.VCAN SllITH, Philadelphia, son of Gen. Wm. K. Smith.
'ac-Simii.e UELicopCnAitLEsI.— .\n interesting fac-simile. engraving of the death-warrant of Charles I, with all the signa- tures of the Parliament who condi-mneil him: from Col. A. Wkllisotos Hart.
A Pardon of Indians.— The original pardon of two Indians sentenced to be hung by Judge Doty at Prairie du Chien ii> 1828, signed by John Quincy Adams as President, and Henry Clay aa Secretary of State, from Gen. Wil. R. Smitu.
Anciest Paucument MS.— Two slips of ancient MS. parchment, found as a part of the filling of the original btndin;» of an old bor>l; printed in London, in ltt40. and was [jrobably
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part of some ancient work which the discovery of printing brought into disuBe, and was hence cut up and used for binding purposes; presented bj 0. C. Britt, of Portage City.
An Old Enoraving. — An engraved view of Philadelphia, ab<iut the year 1760, when it contained a population of only 'about 18,000 poraons; presented by Dr. JoDN CUBiVKN.
A Sermox of the Olden Time, — A MS. aermou delivered by Rev. Dr. Edward Bass, first Episcopal Bishop of Massachu- setts, at three different times, as the endoraomcnts upon it show, once on Continental Fast Day, May 1", 1776; presented by Rev. J. B. Brittok.
An Early Passport. — The original passport of the schooner Nancy from Alexandria, Va., to the West Indies, in Dec. 1793, signed by Washington us President, and Jefferson as Secretary of State.
A Charter Oak Relic. — A leaf from the famous Charter Oak, plucked the day the tree fell; presented by W, H. .Watson.
A Relic of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.— Two sleigh bells, from a string presented by the Inte venerable widow of Alex- ander Hamilton, to her son the late Col. Wm. S. Hamilton, of this State, in 1839; from Wm. Maynb, of Wiota.
An Old Lock. —An old iron lock, found in a small mound at Fond du Lac, where was a trading-post in the latter part of the past century; presented by Royal Buck.
Ab Old Indian Ei'.m;lettb. — An old epaulette — one of a large number early presented to the Indians around Detroit soon after the war of 1812, to give them consequence and attach them to the American cause; presented to S. L. Rood bj an old Frenchman, an early resident at Detroit, and pre- eented by Mr. Rood, through W. II. Watson, to the Sooiely.
Indian Relic:*. — A curious copper axe or hatcbet, about two inches wide by four in length, found near the shore uf Lake Monona, in Madison, while digging a 'cellar; presented by HbNUT B. Gray, son of Neeiey Gray, of Madiaon. An Indian
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fltoae hatobet, presented hy Hon. A. H. Van Wie, Shel County. A string of wampum beads, found in a moam Ozaukef, presented by Dr. 8. Compton Smith.
AzTALAN ANTiQriTiES, — Specimens of the ancient brick, found in tbe aingalar earth-works at Aztalan, Jefferson county; presented by Mrs. G. B. Eaton.
Indian SKCLLS.-vOnc found in digging at Beaver Dam, presented by Cn.\nLBS Paine; one found in digging a cellar on tUe bank of the Wisconsin at Prairie du Sac, presented by E. A, Tapi'an; and one found in an ancient mound in Richland City, presented by Rev. Andeew Benton.
A Relic of the Mammutu California Tree. — A fragment of the mammoth California tree — the largest probably in the world, presented by E. W. Skinner.
Wisconsin Paper Plant. — A specimen of the fibre of the Wisconsin paper plant, discovered by Mrs. Beaumont, pre- sented by E. W. Skinner.
Continental Moskv. — Twelve old Continental bills, pre- sented by C. J. HoADLv; two by Hon. II. S. Baird, one by Dr. D. 11. Sui'mway; and one by Mrs. Jons Wright.
Adhitiosp to the Collection of Coin.— A fine collection of 114 copper coin, of various countries — one a Washington centofl783, presented by Dr. D. II. Shumwav; asmaltsilver coin of Qneen Elizabeth's reign, 1565, from John Limbert; an East India silver coin, of about twenty cents value, from Mrs. N. J. Moody; a Victoria coronation medal, and a Oerman kreutzer, from E. W. Skinnek; a kreutzer, 1780, from SlLAg Cuai'Man; a copper skilling, 1820, from S. G. Benedict; and four copper and German silver coin, from J, R. Casson.
A Remarkable Curiosity. ^ — An Elk'e horn found embedded in an oak tree, presented, with the section of the tree in which it is still mostly enclosed, by Chaules Martin, of Walworth county; also a similar curiosity presented by A. K. Kellogq editor of the Baraboo Republic. Of this latter, Mr. Kellogg, in hia paper of Jan. 31, 1857, gives the following interesting account;
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" This remarkable curiosity was presented to us hy tho liia coverer, Georqe S. Handy, Esq. This gentlemaD, who reeidea about seven miles from this village {Baraboo, Sauk Co.,) in the town of Freedom, preparatory to cutting down a large white- oak, about two feet in diameter, situated in an oak opening about a half a mile north of the Baraboo river, cut oIT as he supposed a short dead limb, which projected from the trunk at a height of about five feet from, the ground. Finding it uncom- monly hard, ho examined it, as well as two other similar projec- tions, and ascertained tbem to be bone or born. He took pains when the tree was cut down, to split the trunk carefully, and found therein completely imbedded in tbo heart of the oak, a large horn, which is pronounced by hunters to be that of an elk, with antlers projecting on one side, and the main body of the horn on tbe other. The born was about four feet long, and was accidentally broken off; the stump, about eighteen inches long, which remains partially imbedded in the wood, measures in diameter two and a iparter inches one way, and three the other. The horn was that of an animal about four years of age, and has served as a monument to some hero of the forest, in u man- ner no less surprising to ua, than unexpected to himself.
"How did it come there? When did it get in? How long has it been there ? These are the 6rst questions that spring tip in the minds of all who have seen this most singular combi- nation.
"The tree parted into iwu Simba at a height of about eleven feet from tlic ground, and the butt of the antler which was uppermost, was only about seven feet high. The heart of these two limbs unite about fifteen inches below tbe point where the second antler branches out. The heart of these two Hmbs unites about fifteen inches below the point where the second antler branches out. I'etwecn the bark and the butt of the Lorn, which seemed to occupy the place of tbe heart of the tree, over one hundred rings in the wood were counted, after which they were indistinguishable. Tbe tree was perfectly sound, and &<i wood tbe most solid descriptiou of white nak. These obscr-
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Tations put together indicate that it wns hung in tiio crotch of the tree when the latter was about twelve or fi/teen yeara of age, and that it has remained there somewhat more than a century. The animal himself could not possibly have left it in thtt position, and at that height from the ground: we therefore conclude that it was hung there by some hunter, probably an Indian, not long after the birth of the immortal Washington. InaBumch as the limbs had little ' spread,' there will not be much difliculty iu conceiving that the wood should grow up around and over the horn, ao as to leave only the ends outside of the trunk. The antlers externally very strongly resemble small dead Hmbs, with the bark removed; but the use of a pen-knife very soon removes every doubt as to their real character."
A CuRioi's FuEAK OF Natuhb. — A small doable-headed snake, found at Mineral Point, preserved in alcohol, prescated by R. C. RSMK
Atlantic Caulk Mkmesto. — A section of the famous At- lantic Cable, presented by Mrs. Jous Catlin.
DA(:0erreotvpkp, i.tc. — A fine daguerreotype of llev. Jason Lothrop, a Kenosha pioneer, from Mr. LoTniioc; a daguerreo- tj^e of John H. Fonda, a Prairie du Chien pioneer, from W. D. Mbhrill: a daguerreotype of Nathaniel Ames, of Dane County, now ninety seven years of age, and the only surviving Revolutionary soldier and pensioner known to be living in Wis- consin, prcstntod by Hon. R, V. Maink; a photograph of E, B. Quiner, an early WiscoTisin printer and editor, from Mr.
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Picture QalUrif.
The Soeiety's Picture Gallery has received several inter- esting additions during the past year.
1. Of Stbpues Tatlok, a Wisconsin pioneer of 1836; Ue
prepared an early paper on the curious animal-shaped mounds of
Wisconsin, which appeared, with a few illustration!), in Silli-
B American Journal of Science. Mr. Taylor now resides
[ in Philadelphia, of which city he was recently the Controller.
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This picture wae painted by Rockey, ib handsomely framed, and was preBented by Mr. Taylor at the request of the Society.
2. Col. Daniel M. Pahkinsou, a WisconBin pioneer eince 1827; having participated in the Winnebago Indian war, and in the Black Hawk war; whose interesting pergonal narrative appeared in the 2d volnme of the Society's Collections. Col. Parkinson resides, at a gi'Ctn old age, in La Fayette county, Wiaconain, honored by all who know him. This portrait was painted by Brookes of Milwaukee, andpreaented to the Society by Col. Pabkinson.
3. Bamsay Crooks, a native of Ureenock, Scotland, where he was born Jan. 2d, 1787; early engaged in the Fur Trade, and as a trader was in IVisconain as early as 180(3, and has dis- tioguislicd himself as a hardy and adventurous Kocky Mountain trader, as may be seen in IiiviNo's Astoria. Mr. Crooks now lesides in New York, where this elegant portrait was painted by E. Saintis, and presented to the Society, by its request, in a fine frame, by Mr. Crooks.
4. AUGCSTis Griunon, bom at Green Bay, Juno 27th, 1780 — a lineal descendant of Sicnrs Augustin and Charles De -Xiuiglade, the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin; and is now the oldest wfaito native inhabitant of the State. His valuable narrative of Seventy-two ]'(■«)■«' Recollections of Wtteonhin ap- peared in the 3d volume of the Society's Collections. Uo still lives at Butte des Morts, on Fox Rirer; and this portrait was
.|iunted of him, by order of the Society, by Brookes, the Mil- waukee artist.
5. Col. JosKPli Jacksox, of Oslikoah, an early pioneer of the the Lake Winnebago region, and recently Mayor of Oshkosh. This portrait was also painted by Brookes, and presented by Ool. Jackson to the Society, at its request.
6. I-OM-E-TAU, head war-chief of the Menomonce, now 87 -years of age, am! a brother of the famous Menomonce chief Tomah.
7. OsHKOSU, late head chief of the Meuomonees, who died during the past year.
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8. Sou-LliJN-v, now 73 years of age, a clistin;;;uishc(] Meiiuin- onee chief. All tbcso three lleuomoiiee ohicfs took purt in the trar of 1812-15 against the Americans; bnt ttided with the AmericnnB in the BlacV Hawk war. The portraits of theee chiefs were painted by Brookes, two of them by order of the Society, and the other was kindly presented by the artist.
9. JouN W. Qi/ISJJEV, lato head chief of the Stopkbriiiges of Wieconain — a noted man, devoted to the interest of hia people. He died in 18.'i4. This portrait was generously presented to the Society by Mrs. Electa W. Casdv, a surviving sieter of Quinney'a.
10. Natdaniel Ambs, of Oregon, Dane County, now in his ninety-ninth year, and the only surviving Revolutionary soldier in Wisconsin.
Tbeso ton pictures added to the collection, make just fifty-ono oil paintings in all — secured within the past five years; of which thirty-sis are portraits of Wisconsin pioneers, or distinn^uished Americans; ton are Indian portraits, three battle-ground views, and two landscapes. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the Picture Gallery attracts a large nuiniier of visitore uunuully.
Such is the account of our stewardship for the past twelve months — and such the present condition of the Society. The past year has been, on the whole, the most prosperous year in the history of tlio Society. Its growth has been steady, not spasmodic, and we may foadly hope its prosperity may never ■wane.
When we look around us and behold the priceless treasures , here gathered together — the noble Gallery of Art, of tho most of its pictures no. transcripts exist — of the venerable newspaper files, covering almost every year for a century past — of the rare books upon our shelves, some of which, if lost, could never be re-placed^voluiTies from the libraries of Franklin, Clin- ton, and others— volumes of the original Jesuit Relations of two hundred years ago — curious maps and ancient pamphlets of the Great West of th'e las^ century — manaBcripts of Sir Wm, John- * eon, at whose comraanda hundred years ago thousands of dusky
H vTouId Hock to bis etanda.ril, of 'the itcctirsod Brant,' of
WftsIiingtoQ, Greene, Schayler, Jeffereon, Old Put, Ethan Allen
uad Molly Stark, and many otliera — narratives of our own Wis-
r.<40nsin pioneers — historical curiosities from both worlds— all
Siesc, and many more, are every moment more or less exposed
the danger of fire. A fire-proof Library building is the
fpressin^ want of tbc Society. The New Yerk HistoricaT
Society was ten years from the corainenccment of raising funds
for a fire-proof edifice until it fully succeeded in its object. If
we have to wait patiently ten years, or even the half of that
Nperioil, is it not high time we had conmienced the work of plan-
: and devising? We ought to do far better in making
collectiong during the next five years than we have during the
five that arc past: if so, it is not reasonable to suppose, that wo
can find temporary ijunrters sufficiently commodious to contain
r collections, to say nothing of the dangers to which they
I^onld be constantly exposed.
Under these circumstances, the Executive Committee would Bspectively recommend that subscriptions for a building fund ) solicited, to bo paid in five years in yearly installments, ' without interest, if paid when due; and aw paid in, to bo inves- ted, in the best and safest manner, until wanted for building k purposes, or far the purchase gf a lot. A circular could be Bent to public-spirited men throughout the State soliciting sub- Hriptions; and we could thus, bard as the times are, secure more pledges lor such an object, tbiin the most sanguine would 'Alice hope. 1^ Encouraged by past Buccesa, let the Society, in the spirit of trae progress, adopt the motto of Wisconsin — Forwabh ! Wm. R. Smith, L. J. Farwell,
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I L A. LaI'HAM, i.DBKT G. Ellis, lloKaAM L. Martin iUVBVs Woodman,
F. G. TlBBITS,
Edward Ilslbv. IIiRAU C, Bull,
nPTn AKKtTAL HEPOllT.
Alfbed Bkcnson, Lyhan C. Draper. Jobs W. Hunt, Daniel S. Dubuie, o. m. cosover, JuLirsP. Atwood, , 8. G. Benedict, S. V. Shipman.
Madison, Januan- 4, 1859.
Daviu Atwood, E. A. Calkins. S. H. Carpkhteh. Horace Ruielbb, 0. B. Cbapman, J. Alder Ellis,
FrAHK H. FiRMDf,
William Gennbt,
B. Cl'TLER,
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Receipts.
I ^prit 1&, I3GT, ReceiTCd from Sta.le tttusary oppropriitioa Tor
' 1854-5-6-7 $*)000
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jLpTil 31, teST, To B. 0. Benedict, xeirieeB $ 3S00
April 21, 1857, J. T. Smith, scrricss 8 00
April 31, 1657, L. C. Draper, itama 5 00
Sec. 33, 1867, Am. Express Co., freight 148 82
Dec. 23,1857, do do 1700
Deo. as, 1957, Irring & Wiley do 98 87
Dbo. 23,1867, M.&M.II.R.C0 043
Deo. 33, 18S7, L. C. Draper itemi 6 38
Dee. 33, 1857, BbdIu, Ooold Jt Co., fHigbt 10 DO
J«ii. 1,1668, Holton&Co,, do 3383
Bftlftnce 47 77
Total 40000
Voucliers ft
Madison, Jfiii. 1, 18 Audited aod lound a
' tlio^ibrG going diebaracmcuts are hcrowitli presented.
0- M. CONOVBR, JVwiBw.
DAVID ATWOOD, D. J. POWERS, '
I. ALAPHAM. '
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APPENDJX NO. II
.TRt:ASURER'S REPORT P'OR ISSS.
The TreMOcer of Iho Stale ISitoricat Saeitlg of WiKoniin, respectfdUy BublniU tho foUoiring Beport or rooeipts into the Trcaaury of the Society, and dlB bursemenEa therefraia, duting tba past jear:
1. OESERAL FUND.
Receipts,
Jan. a, 1B58, Bnlance aa por Uiit Report, 30 34
" " AnDOsl approprktioa kota the State, 1000 00
Ueo. 31, '' From Secretsrj calleated f^um mcnben, 40 00
" Jno. D. Ournee, Life Member, 30 00
>' J. nathawnj, Milwnakee. Lifb Member, 30 00
" J.B.Marlin, " " 30 00
Total, Jl,130 34
3. GENERAL FONP.
JDithitraemen M.
Feb. 36, To C.B. NoMoa, rurPercivnt porlrut 100 00
" " " forDCwspoperEleg.. 71 CO
March I, Baptist Bocielr, for rent und gut, 13S 3S
Feb. 23, Wm. Eipley, Jr., rorbooka. 89 79
Jan. U, Chioneo, St. Paul, aad Fond (lu Lag R. K.ferfretEH, 30 00
II, M. &M. BR. for freight, I SI
3e. Anerionti Express Co., lor IVelght, I 60
Freight on two boxM IVom C. B, Norton, ...9 99
'■ Express, parcel from Albany, 1 75
onboifrom W. O. Deelb, Georgetown, (D, C.) 1 60
on paroelfrom Smithsonian Instituton, 3 3fi
on newipaper Bios, from B. Townsond, Albany, 3 17
on box of newspapers, from JaneaTille, 63
'' on box from C. B. Norton, New York, S 70
" on paokaga from Utica. N. ¥ 1 7S
C. B. Richardson, for tliBlorical Magaiine, 30 00
C, B. Norton, tat Mvnthla Rttiea, 80 00
Freight on booki from Gowi ' " "'
I.'. B, Norton, for books, ou m
" '■ ■' 80 a
Wm. Uowans, for books, . ,235 81
8. M. Brookes, on account of pictures, 76 0'
Freigbt on books. Irom C. B. Norton, 12 71
-' '■ " State Department, Washington, 4 &
'■ C.B.Norton, 18 S
J. 8. Fuller, forri'pairing frame,.- 3 0
8. M. Brookes, bnlanoe onpictnreB,., .....76 0
March 1, AprU 3, May 6,
Jane 13,
14, July 10,
ICONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
IM TEEN ATI ONAL LITEBAET EXCHANGE FUND.
At tbe oloeo of the year IBST, tlicrc rvmaiiicd in tlic TreaHury a balBiice ot
Ibrty-seven dolIiTB and BeTenty-Beien cents (SlT 77] beloDgtng to this Fond.
Ho tdditions bute bevn miide theroto (luring the jear 186B, noJ no diabuMC'
monts tbercfrom.
Vouchers tar the p
Jd/LtiiBon, January 4Ui, 1BS9. FAndited and found eorrBiit,
Oroboe p. Dblai-l*jnr, )
8. 0. Bbsbhict, I AuUiri,
JOHM D. QUBNCE, )
are herewith presented O. M. CONUVER,
TVtaiurtr.
DONOBS TO THB LIBBABT.
78
APPENDIX NO. III.
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DONORS TO THE LIBRARY, 1857,
MASSACHUSETTS.
Chas. Francis Adams
Samael G. Drake. .,
Lewis W. Tappan
John Dean
Hon. William H. Prescott
Hon. Henry W. Cushman
Dorchester Antiquarian Society
Hon. Joseph Willard *,,.
J. 8. Loring & S. G. Drake. . .
William Fox
Rev. C. D. Bradlee, J. L. Sibley 0. N. Bacon, C. L. Flint, B. H. Dixon, City of Boston, American Antiquarian Soci- ety, one Yol. eacD,
BHODB ISLAND.
John Carter Brown
Rev. E. M. Stone
Hon. J. R. Bartlett,
10 vols 15
7
7
4
2
3
3
2
1
CONNECTICUT.
John W. Barber
J. W. Barber & L S. Punderson
Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney
Gideon H. Ilollister
Rev. Edward Scranton. .......
PENNSYLVANIA.
Stephen Taylor
James J. Barclay
American Philosophical Society
Isaac Collins
J. B. Lippincott & Co
Hon. A.G. Curtin
Prof. 8. S. Haldeman
State Department
Penn'a Historical Society
J. F.Megennis, Rev. A. Nevins, U. J. Jones, N. B. Craig, Henry Bond, Dr. Wm. Dar- lington, Jas. S. Ritchie, Dr. Wm. Elder, and Phil'a Soci- ety for Ameliorating the Mis- enes of Public Prisons, one vol. each
9m
3 11 10 6 5 4 2 3 1
7
— 61
16 1 1
— 18
1 1 1 2 1
6
9 — 64
WISCONSIN.
Hon. C. C. Washburn 176toIs.
State of Wisconsin 18
Hon. Charles Durkee 11
V. Naprstek 12
Thomas S. Townsend 45
Hon. Henry Dodee 8
Stephen G. Benedict 4
Stephen G. Shipman 5
Franklin G. Tibbits 6
William Gennet 11
Stephen H. Carpenter 6
Lyman C. Draper 5
Daniel S. Durric 7
Edward Ilslcy 4
Julius White 4
S.R.Phillips 4
Rev. Jason Lothrop 2
David J. Powers 2
Hon. Harlow S. Orton 2
Gen. William R. Smith 2
Increase A. Lapham 2
Hon. Thomas Hood 2
Wallace Mygatt, Dr. J. W. Hunt, R. B. Wentworth, Aiiss Juba McMahon, Thos. Rey- nolds, Silas Chapman, C. B. Chapman, John Eberhard, David Holt, Carpenter & Law, L. B. Porlier, S. F. McHugh, S. R. Phillips, Hon. Daniel Wells, Jr., Calkins & Webb, Erving, Burdick & Co., Dr. S. Comp- ton Smith, W. Ripley, Jr. 1
vol. each 18
— 361
MICHIGAN,
Hon. Lewis Cass 2
Detroit Y'ng Men's Association 1
— 8
DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.
State Department 2
Smithsonian Institution 8^-
Hon. Charles Mason 8
— 8
KENTUCKY.
Hon. A. Beatty 1
74
WISCONSIN HISTOBIOAL COLLECTIONS.
NEW TOBK.
Riehard M. De Witt 19
George H.Moore 18
Begents of Uniyersity .\ 5
George W. Curtis 6
JoelMansell 8
Hon. George Bancroft 8
American Geographical Society 4
William A. Jones 2
BeT.B.M.Hill 2
O.W. EUiot 2
H. Stines 2
Gen. J. W. De Peyster 2
BcT. Dr. J. A. Spencer 8
Henry B. Dawson 2
Oanai Board, Thos. Ewbank, N. Y. Agricoltaral Society,
1 Tol. each 8
— 70
VIBGINIA.
Rot. William H. Foote 1
HIW JEBSIT.
Mrs. Lonisa 0. Tathill 3
Henry 0. Carey 1
— 4
IOWA.
N, H. Parker 3
OHIO.
Dr. H. R. Smith 9
OBEAT BBITAIN.
Goyemment 65
SPAIK.
Royal Academy of History.... 32
By Porchase 338
Total Additions 1024
SONOBS TO THE LIBBABT.
76
APPENDIX NO. IV.
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DONORS TO THE LIBRARY, 1858.
MAINE.
Maine Historical Society.
vols. I BHODl ISLAITD.
ll William B. Lawrence ^
MA88ACHU8BTT8.
S. Kneeland. Jr
Francis Parkman, Jr
Massachusetts Hist'ical Society
Dr. Edward Jarris
8. A. Green
Joseph G. Holland
Harvard College
William Fox, A. H. Ward, Geo. Lnnt, Wm. R. Dean, W. B. & J. W. Dean, Samnel Blake, Dr. J. Jackson & Dr. S. C. Jackson, 1 toI. each
COHNECTICUT.
Charles J. Hoadly
JohnW. Barber
Tale College
14 3 2 2 2 2 2
PENN8TLVAVIA.
Stephen Taylor
Strange N. Palmer
Philadelphia Library Co
J. Campbell ^
Penn. Historical Socigiy
G. Chambers, Thomn Balch, Horatio G. Jones^. B. Ham- ilton, Rev. Dr.jfieorge Peck, 1 vol. each
NEW TORE.
Charles B. Norton
Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell
Drs. J. P. Gray & E. H. Van Deosen
William Gowans
Regents of Uniyersity
L. K. Haddock
John H. Hickox
Robert Townsend
Benson J. Lossing
James Lenox
Joel Munsell
Gen. J. W. De Peyster
John Atwood
Dr. Howard Townsend, Dr. £. B. O'Callaghan, D. A. Har- sha, and Charles A. Clinton, 1 vol. each
8
— 86
8 1 1
— 6
92 6 2 2 1
6 — 108
26 21
14 9 2 8 8 8 2 4 2 1 2
4
— m
WISCONSIN.
Hon. C. C . Washburn 8
State of Wisconsin 12
Hon. Charles Durkee 7
Dr. Chandler B. Chapman. ... 6
Stephen G. Benedict 8
Mrs. Louisa Rockwood 6
William H. Watson 7
J. y. Swotting 6
Cyrus Woodman 4
James M. De Frees 8
D. H. Shumway 2
Seth Cowles 2
Hon. A. W. Randall 2
Dr. S. Compton Smith, T. D. Plumb, Wm, Ferslew, Royal Buck, Smith, Du Moulin & Co., A. H. Van Wie, W. P. Harding, A. A. Woodbury, J. T. Smith, L. H. Jenkins. S. V. Shipman, S. R. Phillips
and D. R. Coit, one toI. each 18
— 80
OHIO,
Hon. George E. Pugh 7
Dr. Hamlin 4
Winthrop B, Smith 4
Drs. Tail & Watt, Cornelius Moore, W. T. Coggeshall, Dr. B. P. Aydelot & J. C. McDon- ald, 1 Tol. each 6
— 90
INDIANA.
Hon. John Law 1
ILLINOIS.
Lt. Col. J. D. Graham, U.SJl.
Keen & Lee
E.H. Hall
Rev. Peter Cartwright
8 8 2 1 — 9
DISTRICT OF COLVMBIA.
State Department 24
Col. John 8. Williams
John S. Meehan
Hon. Horatio King
Prof. A. D. Bache
Charles E. Gardiner
\
Tiscoirsm hibtooical oollbotjoss.
Nev JttMj HutoriMl Sodetj, Hon. Gfloig* W. Jonea
Londoii StatiaUMl Society. ... 30 Leeds Philoiophiaal Uid Litor- uy Societj 3
Parliunent Libruy tf
Bypuohue 42T
Bj exohftnge 341
Total ftdditioiu 1107
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DOKORS OF PAHPHLSI8, SOOUHBirtS AKD MAPS. 77
APPENDIX NO. V.
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DONORS OF PAMPHLETS, DOCUMENTS & MAPS.
18 5 7.
John H. Hickcox 834 IHon. Henry W. Coslunan 5
Charles B. Norton 108 .New York Hiatorical Society 4
James J. Barclay 152 State of Wisconsin 8
Dr. Edward Jarris 84
Key. C. D.Bradleo 41
Increase A. Lapham 44
Hon. Joseph Willard 20
Samuel G. Drake 48
J. S. Loring 10
Amer. Baptist Home Miss. Soc 10
Dorchester Antiquarian Society 7
Middlebury Historical Society 7
Dr. Samuel H. Kurd 6
Purchased 5
Key. William P. Lunt 4
Dr. Samuel A. Green 4
Lewis B. Porlier 8
Hon. C. D. CuUen 2
Hon. Edward Everett 2
John H. Clark 2
Societies and indiyiduals, one each. . 12
917
Maps. — From Lieut. Col. J. D.,Graham, U. S. A., a Map of Kenosha Harbor.
1 8 G 8 .
Dr. Edward Jaryis 113
S. Kneeland Jr 61
Stephen H. Carpenter 39
Samuel A. Green 17
Lyman C. Draper 14
Daniel S. Durrie 13
Utica Lunatic Asylum 10
Col. A. Wellington Hart 10
Astor Library 9
EUDutton 8
Hon. Henry W. Cushman 8
William Gowans 8
Rey. Alfred Brunson 6
Bey. C. D. Bradlee 6
Chas. B. Norton 6
Alfred Coughtry 6
L A. Lapham 3
Chicago Historical Society 3
Dr. S. Hurd 3
Maps. — ^28 Maps of Lake Michigan Harbors, &c. from Lt. Col. Graham, U.S.A One map of Wisconsin Lead Region, from Stephen Taylor.
E. C. Herrick S
Pottsyille Association 3
Hon. Chas. Durkee 4
Elias A. Calkins 6
Gen. J. Watts DePeyster 2
Dr. H. Wheatland 2
J. J. Barclay 2
Maryland Historical Society 2
S. V. Shipman 2
Frederick Wadsworth 2
Gen. William H. Sumner 2
Utica Lunatic Asylum . . . . t 2
Dr. Howard Townsend 2
John L, Sibley 2
Unknown 2
Societies and indiyiduals, one each.. 27
407
78 wisoosrsiN histosioil oollbotions.
APPENDIX NO. VI.
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PERIODICALS RECEIVED AND PRESERVED.
For 1857-1858.
Qtuirterly.
N. E. HiBtorioal and Genealogical Register Boston.
Dental Be^^ster Cincinnati.
Monthlies.
IDstorical Magazine Boston.
Ifinlng Magazine New York.
Masomo Beyiew Cincinnati.
Wisconsin Farmer Madison.
Wisconsin Educational Journal do.
College Monthly Beloit^
Christian Repository LoaisYZile.
Student's Miscellany, preserved by the Secretary Madison.
AfHcan Repository, preserved by the Secretary Washington.
Prison City Item Wanpun.
Semi'Monthlf/.
Church Record Chicago.
Dailies,
Sentinel Milwaukee.
Wisconsin do.
News do.
Evening Gazette Janesville,
Paily Journal Racine.
Argus & Democrat Bladison.
State Journal do.
Wisconsin Pi^triot do.
Tribune Manitowoc.
Weeklies.
Tribune and Telegraph Kenosha.
Kenosha Times do.
Weekly Journal Racine.
Journal Beloit.
Pemocratic Standard Janesville.
Republican Waukesha.
Democrat do.
Register Whitewater.
Journal Sheboygan.
Evergreen City Times do.
Nieuwsbode ^ do.
Tribune Manitowoc.
Herald... do.
PBEIODIOALS EBCBIYEB AND PEBgBBVBD. 79
Commonwealth Fond dn Lac.
Courier #08hko8h.
Conserrator Neenah.
Crescent Appl^n.
Weyanwegian Weyauwega.
Advocate Green Bay.
Argus Horioon.
Dodge County Citizen Beaver Dam.
Central Wisconsin Wauaau.
Wood County Reporter Grand Rapids.
Journal Wautoma.
Wisconsin Mirror Kilboum City.
Badger State Portage.
Republican Journal Columbus.
Republic Baraboo.
Democrat * * Watertown.
Tribune Mineral Point.
Richland County Observer. Richland.
LaFajette County Herald Shullsburg.
Monroe Sentinel Monroe.
Independent American PlatteyUle.
Conner Prairie du Chien
Leader do.
Independent Republican LaCrosse.
National Democrat do.
Times Viroqua.
Transcript. Prescott.
Weekly Argus and Democrat Madison.
Weekly State Journal do.
Weekly WisooBsin P atriot do .
Weetem Fireaide, file preserved by the Secretaiy, do.
Madison Demokrat " " ^' *' ** do.
i»em'«'»rrttic Press Chicago.
Christian Times do.
Illinois State Journal Springfield.
Commonwealth Frankfort, Ky.
Athens Post Athens, Tenn.
Publisher's Circular New York.
Lake Superior Miner Ontonagon, Mich.
New Church Herald Cincinnati.
Boston Saturday Gazette, from Rev. C . D. Bradlee Boston.
Total. — Two ouarterlies, ten monthlies, one semi-monthly, nine dailies, and fifty-one weeklies: mwng seventy-six pablications altogether, of whioh fifly-nine are published in Wisconsin,
80 WISCOKSIN mSTOBICAL OOLLBCTIONS.
APPENDIX NO. VII.
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REPORT ON THE PICTURE OALLERY.
The committee on the Picture Gallery would respectfully make the following report :
During the past two years, since the date of the Society's last published Report, there have been added to the Gallery fif- teen pictures, thirteen of which are portraits, and two histori- cal views.
This department of the Society's labors is rapidly growing in interest and value ; and the interest manifested by visitors is an unmistakable proof of the wisdom of adding this feature to the attractions of our room<9. A speaking portrait will often live in the remembrance of the people, and serve to retain the memory of early pioneers, far more than any written descrip- tion of themselves, their lives or their labors. We have been generally very successful in obtaining reliable portraits of our early pioneers. As yet we have the portraits of but one Gov- ernor— Governor Barstow — ^although all have promised. But one of the Judges of our Supreme Court has fulfilled his prom- ise, and gratified the Society, by placing his portrait in our Gallery — Judge A. D. Smith. Of our Senators and Repre- sentatives in Congress we have but one each — Senator Walker and the late Hon. Ben. C. Eastman. It is earnestly hoped that these deficiencies will soon be supplied, so that the list of the ^^representative men" of our State may be complete.
I. The Peoatonica Battle Field. — If we consider the numbers engaged, but few of our American battle fields are worthy of a place on the map of history. If we consider the bravery displayed and the daring manifested, hardly one would be passed unnoticed by history. The Pecatonica
BBPORT ON TflE PIOTURB GALLERT. 81
battle was the first successful contest on the part of the whites in the Black Hawk war — a war which opened the way for the rapid settlement of this* country; and taken in connection with this fact, and in view of the bravery of the citizen soldiery of our State, is well worthy to be esteemed by us as classic ground. The painting is a fine sketch from nature by S. M. Brookes, of Milwaukee, to whose apt pencil the Society is so much indebted. Those who fought in this battle have repeat- edly pointed out the positions of the contending forces upon the picture, and vouch for its reliability. It completes the list of views of the battle-fields of the Black Hawk war in Wisconsin.
n. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane. — Aside from the mournful interest which attaches to this chivalrous explorer, taking his life in his hand, to re&cue, if living, a brother discoverer, from his ice-prison, a peculiar interest attaches to this portrait. It was painted by the celebrated Chevelier Fagnani, of New York, who knew Dr. Kane intimately. He painted one of the most spirited portraits extant of the great Arctic adventurer; and this picture, which the artist presented to the Society, is a faithful copy of his own original. No biographical notice of Dr. Kane will be required in this connection.
m. James Gates Percival. — This portrait was painted by Flagg of New Haven. It represents this distinguished poet and scientific man as he appeared in the prime of life, some twenty-five years ago. It preserves the peculiar expres- sion of self-forgetfulness, so remarkable in Percival. The eyes are lifted, as if the soul were contemplating something above the earth, and all the fine features of his face are ideal- ized in the portrait, as he was known in life. The painting is not an idealization of the man, but the idealization is the suc- cess of the portrait. For a sketch of his life, see vol. 3, Hist* Coll. of this Society, pp. 66—80.
IV. First House Built in Madison. — This is a truthful
sketch of the first house built on the present site of this
city. This humble and primitive dwelling stood on Butler
street, at no great distance firom Third Lake. The early
10m
82 WISOONdiN HISTORICAL 00LLBCTI0N8.
residents prononnce it perfect in detail, and true to reality in its general appearance. It hardly seems possible to an inhabi- tant of a city of lO^OOO, as he looks upon such a building but twenty-two years old, that it was the pioneer of business blocks, hotels, and even the Capitol of the State. It was painted by 0. A. Johnson, of Blooming Grove, Dane County, an amateur artist of merit, and presented to the Society by Hon. Simeon Mills, onet of the earliest settlers of the city.
V. Wa-mb-ge-sa-ko (The Wampum). — This is a portrait of the head Chief of the Chippewas, Pottawottamies and Otta- was, who resided at Manitowoc, where he died in 1844, aged about fifty-five years. He was a prominent actor in the early history of this State, being present at and signing the treaties of Butte des Morts, in 1827 ; Green Bay, in 1828 ; Prairie du Chien, in 1829, and Chicago, in 1833. The original was paint- ed in 1839, by Healy, an Irish artist, about whom we know nothing; and this is a copy made by Harrison, a very clever artist, of Fond du Lac, presented by Hon. Narcisse M. Juneau.
VI. Stephen Taylor. — This gentleman is one of the scienti- fic pioneers of Wisconsin. He was one of the first to accurately describe the animal-shaped mounds, so peculiar to Wisconsin. His account was published in Silliman's Journal, in 1842, the original manuscript of which, the Society has, through the kindness of Mr. Taylor, in safe keeping among the relics of the past. Mr. Taylor resided in Wisconsin from 1835 to 1843, and has published his ^^ Recollections " in the Society's second volume of Collections. This portrait was executed in Philadelphia, where Mr. Taylor still resides, and where he recently Served as City Controller.
Vn. Col. D. M. Parkinson. — Among the pioneers of our State, as an active participant in her early struggles, as a faith- ful representative in her Legislative Halls, no name stands higher than the name of Col. Parkinson. This portrait was painted from life, by S. M. Brookes, of Milwaukee, and is among he happiest efforts of the artist. The strong ffeatures of the
BBPOBT OK THB PICTURE GALLBBT. 88
Colonel, his straight-forward good sense, and firmness of char- acter are all remarkably delineated. Col. Pabeinson was a prominent actor in the Black Hawk war. For a stirring descrip- tion of early times in the State, which he wrote, see second vol. ffist. Coll. of the Society, pp. 326—364.
Vin. Ramsay Crooks was an early Fur Trader in Wis- consin and the West, as agent for John Jacob Aster. A detailed sketch of his life and services, will follow in its appro- priate place in this Report.
IX. AuGUSTiN Grignon, is supposed to be the oldest white inhabitant of our State, who was bom within its present limits. He was bom at Green Bay, June 27th, 1780, and at present resides at Butte des Morts. For a sketch of his life, see Hist. Coll. vol. 3, p. 195, and his " Recollections" which follow. This picture was painted by Brookes, of Milwaukee, and is a fine painting.
X. Joseph Jackson was one of the early pioneers of Wisconsin. At present he resides at Oshkosh, of which city he was recently the mayor.
XI. I-om-e-taii. — This noted Menomonee chief is the son of the half-breed Carron, and brother of the well-known chief ToMAU. He was bom about 1772. He was engaged in the war of 1812-15, and in the Indian wars of this State. He is an honorable man, and a worthy representative of red-men of heroic days. This portrait, with the two succeeding, were painted for the Society, by Brookes, and are justly considered as among the best pictures from his hand, in the Society's Gallery.
XII. Oshkosh, signifies brave. He was bom in 1795, and I is a grandson of Cha-kau-cho-ka-ma, or The Old King^ long
head chief of the Menomonees. He was engaged in the war of 1812-15, under Tom ah. He died near Keshena, in Shawano county, Aug. 29th, 1858, in consequence of a drunken brawl, but a few days after this portrait of him was taken by Brookes. He has a firm set, intelligent countenance, in spite of the apparent ill-effects of the fatal fire-water, to which he finally fell a victim.
84 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
and is dressed in European costume, with sundry tawdry addi- tions of Indian taste. Long will the name of OsHEOsnbe perpetuated among his people, and on the pages of the early annals of Wisconsin.
XIII. SouLiGNY, bom in 1785, is head war chief of the Menomonees. He is a descendant of one Soulignt, an early French trader, son-in-law of the Sibur Db Lan glade, who settled at Green Bay in 1745. He was engaged in the last war. He stands high among his own people, and with all with whom he is acquainted. For sketches of Souligny and the other Menomonee chiefs, see ^^Ghrignon'B RecollectionSj*^ in the third vol. of Wisconsin Historical Collections.
XIV. John W. Quinney. The portrait of this distin- guished Stockbridge chief, is the gift of his sister, Mrs. Electa W. Candy. A detailed sketch of Quinney will appear in its appropriate place in the following pages.
XV. Nathaniel Ames. This is a portrait of the only surviving Revolutionary soldier in Wisconsin. Hale and hearty even at his advanced age, now in his ninety-ninth year, he well remembers those times that tried men's souls. He was a zealous patriot during the entire Revolutionary war. He witnessed Andre's execution. He followed privateering for quite a length of time. After the close of the war he entered the ministry, and was a faithful, and devoted member of the Methodist church. At 75 years of age he left the ministry, and lives on a farm with his children, in the town of Oregon, Dane county.
As in the preceding volume, we now submit sketches of the persons, or events connected with the several pictures, and of the artists who painted them, compiled by the Secretary, Mr. Draper, from such materials as he has been able to collect:
I. View of Pekatonica Battle Field. — A better sketch of this notable event in early Wisconsin history cannot be given, than the following, written by James W. Biddlb, Esq., which originally appeared in the Pittsburg Evening Ohronicle^ of Nov. 12, 1856, It will be remembered that Mr. Biddle is the author of an interesting paper of personal Recollections of
BEPORT ON THB PIOTUBB 0ALLEBT. 85
Green Bay, in 1816-17, published^ in the first volume of the Society's Collections:
" Engrossed with the political wars ever present before them, our people soon forget the events in a more sharp and serions one, which, but a few years ago, occupied so much of their attention. We refer to the war in the North West, known the Black flawk war.
^^ We have just received the second annual Report and' Col- lections of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, for which we are indebted to its learned and able secretary, L. C. Draper, Esq. It is a work of over five hundred pages, and full of exci- ting interest. Conspicuous among these is the little, short, but sanguinary battle of Pekatonica. We have selected this because it is in these single hand-to-hand fights — man-to-man — that tries the nerve of the combatant far more than it could in a field fight of thousands on a side.
" In June, 1832, the occupants of the frontier of the North- West had been collecting at different points with a view of a system of general defence from the Sauk and Fox Indians. About a month before, Major Stillman had sustained a disas- trous defeat from a much inferior force under Black Hawk, owing to a want of conduct and discipline, which greatly lowered the reputation of our arms in the opinion of the great Sauk chief, and he had derisively sent them word to take better care of themselves, 'as they were a soft-shell tribe;'* and possibly it was in this spirit of confidence or contempt, that he despatched a scouting party of tried warriors through our lines and into the settlements, which committed various depredations — having, on the 14th of Juno, killed five out of six men found on a farm within a few miles of Fort Hamilton, and, the next day, a farmer within a mile of that fort. \ party was immediately formed for pursuit, under Lieut. . Charles Bracken, a gentleman whom we take pleasure, as will many of our citizens, to recog- nize as a native of our city.
" Just on the point of starting, they were joined by Gen, Henry Dodge with an additional party, and who now assumed
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the command, and making a short address to the troops, in which he fiedled not to remind them of the ^soft shell" slur, and telling them that he knew not the number of the enemy, but, few or many, it was his determination to overtake and fight them, and immediately started in pursuit, the trail for some distance running through a swamp, covered principally with vines and an undergrowth of prickly ash. Emerging from this, they struck upon a broad plain, and a sight of their enemy in full retreat. The horses of the party were now urged to the uttermost, Dodge's horse carrying him in advance of his party, and the remainder coming on with what speed they could command. Arriving at Pekatonica creek, the Indians found that a success- ful retreat was impossible, and disdaining, under such circum- stances, to attempt flight, they chose their ground and prepared * for battle. This was under the bank of an arm or bend of the creek, the channel of which was dry, and affording them, besides an embankment of about three feet, the protection of a thick hedge of vines and under brush which grew on its bank. Here their old chief drew them up to bide the fate of the battle. General Dodge now collected his force, and allotting to four of his men the charge of the horses, ordered the remainder to dismount. Having formed his men, twenty-one in number, including himself, he told them they were about to go upon a death struggle, and if any one wished to decline it to say so now, that he might know on whom to depend. The whole line stepped forward as one man in assent to the fight. He then ordered them to ^unbutton their shirt collars and tighten their belts. ' He then advanced through an ppen wood, Mr. Bracken, in his account, says in the form of a V (^r triangle, of which his party formed the two sides, and the Indians in the ravine the base.
"Coming within good musket shot, they received a full volley firom the ravine, in which three of their party were wounded. Gen. Dodge now gave the order to ^Charge,' which was as readi- ly obeyed, and led by him. It now became a hand-to-hand fight, and, as it afterwards appeared, of about equal numbers on each
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side. The Indians appear, after their first fire, to have dropped their guns and resorted to the spear, tomahawk and knife; but from the result, we must conclude these to be but a weak defense against the bayonet. Dodge lost but one other man, a brave fcJlow named Wells. Every Indian of the party was killed — not one being left, say our accounts, to tell Black Hawk whether they found *soft' or 'hard shells.' The number of the enemy was ascertained by the dead, and found to be seventeen. Of the party of Gen. Dodge in this sharp pursuit and sharper conflict, many were boys under twenty, and none that had ever be- fore been under an enemy's fire. The conflict, like all those of the bayonet, was of the shortest — ^not lasting, say the reports, over two minutes after the words were given to "charge,'* showing that there could have been no skulking or flinching in the ranks of either party.
" The annals of war give us few if any instances at all, of a conflict more equally or more firmly maintained — of such rapid decision and fatal results. The names of the whole party are given. The officers were Gen. Henry Dodge, and Lieuts. Charles Bracken, D. M. Parkinson, Paschal Bbquettb,
Porter, Surgeon Allen Hill, who had been drafted by
the Colonel as one to take charge of horses, but who seized his next in file, a weakly looking lad of 17, and made him exchange employments with him.
"The murder of the five men at Spapford's farm took place on the'14th of June — that of the fanner near the fort, on the 15th, and the atonement for these acts of daring was made at Pekatonica on the 16th, an instance of sharp military practice highly honorable to Dodge and his heroic command."
II and III. Doctors Kane and Percival. — The career of the former is too well known, and the latter has been fully no- ticed in the preceding volume of the Society's Collections, so that notices of them in this connection are not necessary.
IV. View op the First House in Madison. — As early as 1832, the site of Madison attracted the attention of Hon. James D. Dott; and in the spring of 1886, in company with
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Hon. Stevens T. Mason, of Detroit, he purchased of the Oeneral Government the tract of land on which the city is bailt| at a cost of about $1,500. At the meeting of the Territorial Leg- islature at Belmont, La Fayette County, towards the close of 1836, an act was passed locating the Capital at Madison — or, properly speaking, at the point where Madison has since grown up; and John Catlin and Moses M. Strong staked out the center of the village plat in February, 1837. Meanwhile Jas. D. Dqtt, a. a. Bird and John F. O'Neil, were appointed by the General Government, commissioners to construct the Capitol edifice. Eben Peck was sent on from Milwaukee with his family to erect a house, where the workmen on the Capitol, soon to follow, might board and lodge. He arrived on the 14th of April, 1837, and put up the log house so faithfully represen- ted in the picture — the first house erected in Madison. It was located on block 107, on Butler street, near the Lake House; and since this view was taken, the old pioneer house has been demolished. It was not till the 10th of June following, that Col. A. A. Bird arrived with a party of thirty-six workmen, for the construction of the Capitol.
Before the arrival of Col. Bird's party, the celebrated Eng- lish Geologist, G. W. Fbatherstonhaugh, visited Madison, of which he has given us some reminiscences in his Canoe Voy- age up the Minnay Sotor, with an account of the Lead and Copper Regions of Wisconsin^ published in London in 1847. His orthography of Minnesota — Minnay Sotor — is quaint and curious. In comiog from St. Louis in this direction, the author heard much of Ty-cho-be-rah or the Four Lakes; and elabo- rately engraved plans of several cities in their vicinity were shown him. He was assured that they were flourishing finely — Madison in particular was represented as already quite a city. Let us now cite Mr. Featherstonhaugh's graphic description of Madison and its^r^^ house^ which he gives as follows, under date May 30th 1837 — passing from Dodgeville to Col. Ebbnb- zes Brigham's, at the Blue Mounds, to dinner:
^Tursuing our journey, at 1 P. M., we passed the military
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road leading to Fort Winnebago and Navarino,'*' and soon afterwards got into one of the most ex2[aisitel7 beautiful regions I have ever seen in any part of the world. The prairie that had hitherto been distinguished by a regular rolling surface, here changed its character, and took the form of ridges somewhat elevated, which frequently resolved themselves into masses of gracefully rounded hills, separated by gentle depressions, that occasionally became deepened valleys. In these, some of the heads of a stream called Sugar River, a tributary of Bock River, took their rise. In whatever direction our eyes were turned, the most pleasing irregularities of surface presented themselves. But that which crowned the perfection of the view, and imparted an indescribable charm to the whole scene, from the knoll where we stood to the most distant point where the alternate hills and vales blended with the horizon, was the inimitable grace with which the picturesque clumps of trees, that sometimes enlarged themselves into woods, embellished this rural landscape from the hand of nature.
^^The aspect of this lovely country at once accounted for so great apopulationflocking to the lakes, on whose enchanting banks those cities were founded of which we had heard so much, and to which we were now advancing. Four noble lakes, in the centre of a region of such unrivalled beauty, must constitute perfection itself. Our expectations were exceedingly raised ; every moment produced a new excitement; the occasional glimpse of the shy deer, with their elegant fawns, and the more frequent flushing of the prairie-hen from her nest, gave animation to the still beauty around us. Enraptured with all I saw, I could not but occasionally reflect on the oddity of seven large cities, each capable of containing a population of half a million of people, having congregated so close together. There was Madison Oitj/y which was the metropolis. Adjacent to this was the City of the Four Lakes, A short distance beyond this was the city of
♦ A name appUed for a time, to Green Bay, or a portion of it, but which has Imue since gone into disuse. ^- ^' ^-
Urn
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North Madison. Close upon this again was the city of East Madison. Then there was the citj of West Madison^ the eity of South Madison^ and, finallj^the City of the First Lake. Of each of these I had a beautiful engraved plan, with all its squares, streets, institutions and temples."
In the vicinitj of Madison he found some very interesting mounds and other interesting Indian monuments, which he describes, and continues:
^^ We hastened on, as the day was drawing to a close, and we had yet some distance to go to Madison City. For some time I had kept a good look-out for some of the enterprising farmers, who must have come from great distances to this fertile country, and was rather surprised that we should hitherto have met no one. We had not passed a single farm, and concluded that, being an Indian country, the settlers had clustered round the great city we were bound to, and had established themselves near that lake where the best fish abounded. Fresh fish! prodigious varieties! cat-fish, pike, pickerel, salmon, trout, buffalo, perch! What an- ticipations for men who had for so many days been bolting pieces of tough fat bacon, cured 1,000 miles off. At length we came to a belt of open trees, and, passing through it, we reached the flat, marshy shores of the largest of the four lakes; we could see almost entirely around it, and much did we look; but, alas! no vestige of human dwelling was in sight.
^^ This considerably changed the current of our thoughts, and materially impaired the beauty of the prospect. Not being disposed to express all we felt, we reluctantly took to the woods again, along the margin of the lake, in the hope to stumble upon some one or other. Night was gradually drawing her veil over every thing, and it became rather doubtful whether we should not have — in the language of backwoodsmen — to camp out. Keep- ing, therefore, all my visions of fried fish in tl>e background for a while, I felt for my box of matckes, and, finding it safe, turned my attention — as old Indian travelers always do — to the next best thing, a rousing fire to lie down by. Black clouds were forming in the horizon; we had been drenched thoroughly the
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day before, and it became pretty certain there would be another storm. Groping our way, and occasionally jolting over the fallen trees, we, at the end of an hour and a half, got to the shore of the Third Lake, having somehow or other missed the Second Lake, where Madison City was supposed to be. We now changed our course again, and keeping to the north-west, and meandering, and wondering, and shouting for my companion, who had got out of the wagon to follow a small trail he thought he had discovered, I at length gave up the attempt to proceed any further, and, selecting a dry tree as a proper place to bivouac near, had already stopped the wagon, when, hearing my companion's voice shouting for me in a tone that augured some- thing new to be in the wind, I pushed on in that direction and at length found him standing at the door of a hastily-patched-up log hut, consisting of one room about twelve feet square.
This was Madison City ! and, humble as it was, it concen- trated within itself all the urban importance of the seven cities we had come so far to admire, and to which, according to our engraved plans, Ninevah of old^ Thebes with its hundred gates, and Persepolis, were but baby-houses. Not another dwelling was there in the whole country, and this wretched contrivance had only been put up within the last four weeks. Having secured our horses, we entered the grand and principal entrance to the city, against the top of which my head got a severe blow, it not being more than five feet high from the ground. The room was lumbered up with barrels, boxes and all manner of things. Amongst other things was a bustling little woman, about as high as the door, with an astounding high cap on, yclept Mrs. Peck. No male Peck was on the ground, but from very prominent symptoms that went before her, another half- bushel seemed to be expected.
" My first inquiry was, whether she had any fresh fish in the house. The answer was **No!" Inflexible and unwelcome word. No fresh fish! no large, delicious catfish, of twenty pounds weight, to be fried with pork and placed before the vo- racious traveler in quantities sufficient to calm those apprehen-
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sions that so often arise in Indian lands, of there not being
enough for him to eat until he falls fast asleep. ''Why, then/'
exclaimed my alarmed companion, ''whats to be done?'^ ''I
calculate I've got some salt pork," rejoined our little hostess.
''Then, Madam, you must fry it without the fish," I replied.
So to the old business we went, of bolting square pieces of fat
pork, an amusement I had so often indulged in, that I sometimes
felt as if I ought to be ashamed to look a lire pig in the face.
Our landlady, however, was a very active and obliging person;
she said she would make us as comfortable as it was possible for
her to do, and "she guessed " she had a little coffee, and would
make us a cup of it. Whether it was acorns, or what it was,
iptasled me not a little; it certainly deserved to be thought
riinetore of myrrh, and as we drank and grimmaced, dear BIrs.
Pbok, in her sweetest manner, expressed her regret, that she
;liad no other sugar for our coffee, they having, "somehow or
^another, not brought any with them."
-" Whilst we were at this repast, the thunder storm broke over us, and a deluge of rain came down, streaming through the roof in various places. In the midst of the confusion two other vagabonds came in; one of them a rulEan looking fellow, who said he was a miner, on his way across the Indian country from Milwaukee; the other, a stupid, boorish, dirty-looking animal, said he had not tasted anything for two days, having lost his way on the prairie; and, having been overtaken the preceding night by a very heavy rain, whilst making his way up a coulee or vale, had been afraid to lie on the ground, and had passed the hwole night sitting on a fallen tree. Fortunately there was pork enough for us all, and when our landlady had put the frying- pan to bed, she did the same to us by the act of blowing the candle out. Where she stowed herself was her own secret. Choosing a place between two barrels, I lay down, and drew my oloak over me; of sleep there was very little to be had, for it nuned in torrents almost the whole night, and, not having pitched my camp skilfully, it poured upon me from the unfinished roof as I lay stretched upon the floor, not daring to move in the
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dark, lest I should pull some of the articles of Mrs. Peck's museum upon me, or break some of her crockery.
^^ May Zl9t. — ^With the first raj of light I jumped up from my uncomfortable berth, and, having procured some dry clothes from my carpet-bag, strode oyer the two hang-gallows-looking fellows that were snoring near me, and gained the door. The illusion was now dissipated, and I had completely awoke from my dream of the Seren Cities, wondering how I could have ever thought it possible to have so deceived myself."
V. Of Wau-ma-ob-sa-ko, or The Wampum, we possess no further knowledge than has already been given.
VI. Stephen Taylor was bom in Pennsylvania, April 8d, 1807. He descended from early colonists, of the same name, who migrated from England under the auspices of William Penn, and settled at Upland and Tinicum, below Philadelphia. In 1835, a number of gentlemen connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the leading spirit of whom was the late Col. John D. Ansley, applied to the Grand Lodge of the Uni- ted States, for authority to organize a Lodge of that Order at Mineral Point. Mr. Taylor was delegated by the Grand Sire with the mission of its organization — being at that time the second in the North Western States, the first being at Cincinnati This purpose accomplished, Maj. John P. Sheldon, Register of the U. S. Land Office, then recently established at Mineral Point, engaged Mr. Taylor to aid him in the office. He continued, with a short intermission, in that position until 1841, when the office was removed to Muscoda; and during a portion of this time, the entire responsibilities of the office devolved upon him.
During his residence in Wisconsin, which ended in 1848, Mr. Taylor devoted much labor in theoretically developing the resources of the Lead Region, and in the collection and analysis of its minerals. Being at that day the only person in the country who paid any special attention to the subject, it became a matter of interest to the miners to preserve and forward to him the most rare and valuable specimens found, by which
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means it afforded to strangers an opportunity of studying and realizing the geological and mineralogical character of the country. He prepared and published an early map of the Lead Region of Wisconsin; and, in 1842, an interesting illustrated paper in SilUman^s Journal of Science on the curious animal shaped mounds of Wisconsin. It was his unabated interest he ever felt and evinced in the general developement of the country and its wonderful antiquities, that elicited for him the honorable eoubriquet of Old Curiosity.
Mr. Taylor recently served a term as City Controller of Philadelphia — an office of much responsibility; and he now lives in retirement in that city.
Vn. Col. Daniel M. Parkinson was bom in Carter County, East Tennessee, on the 1st of August, 1790. His parents were natives of Shenandoah County, in the Valley of Virginia; his father, Peter Parkinson, having served under Col. Daniel Morgan, in the Revolutionary war, and on one occasion was wounded; and about the close of that contest, removed to East Tennessee, where he took an active part in all public matters pertaining to that exciting era in Tennessee history. He served under Col. John Tipton, as a captain, in 1788, in a sort of civil strife then raging among the East Ten- nesseeans, growing out of a conflict of jurisdiction in consequence of the short-lived republic of Franklin, organised under the leadership of Col. John Sevier; and though it was mainly a war of words, yet some blood was shed before its termi- nation. Capt. Peter Parkinson died in Carter County, in March, 1792, when the subject of this sketch was only a year and a half old.
In 1810, young Parkinson, when twenty years of age, removed to White County, in the central portion of that State, and while there, held the offices, first of Lieutenant, and then Captain in the militia. In May, 1817, he removed to the Ter- ritory of Illinois, and settled first in Madison county, twenty-five miles east of St. Louis; and two years afterwards, he settled in what subsequently became Sangamon Counfy. During his
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tea jears residence in Illinois^ he held suceesaiTelj the militaiy offices of Adjutant, Inspector General, and Colonel.
He removed, in 1827, to Wisconsin, and engaged in the min- ing business, having devoted all the previous part of his life to the occupation of farming. During that year he acted as Sergeant in Capt. Abnrb Field's company of Illinois volun* teer riflemen, and embarked at Gralena for Prairie du Chien; but this Winnebago difficulty soon blew over. In the Black Hawk war of 1832, he served first in the capacity of second Lieutenant at Fort Defiance, and subsequently as captain of the fifth mounted volunteer company under 6en. Dodge, during the war, and took part in the battles of Pekatonica and Wisconsin Heists.
In 1836, he was elected a member of the first Territorial L^islature of Wisconsin, which first met at Belmont, and sub- sequently held two additional sessions, in all which he served his constituents fSuthfuUy. In 1841, he was again returned to the Territorial Legislature, from Iowa county. In 1849, he was elected a member of the State Legislature from La Fayette County; and at different periods of his life, served as Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Town and County Board cf Super- visors. Col. Parkinson, in a green and honored old age, resides on his farm, in La Fayette County, five miles from Mineral Point, where he has lived since 1833. When the great reveille shall beat to call him to his final home, not a few of his old surviving pioneer comrades will miss his tall and manly form, and the benignant expression of his countenance, and long mourn his departure.
Vni. Ramsat Crooks — a name familiarly known wherever has been read the interesting story of Astoria and Rocky Mountain adventure by the classic pen of Washington Irving. Mr. Crooks was bom in Greenock, Scotland, Jan. 2d, 1787, and migrated to America when only sixteen years of age; and he was for a while employed as junior clerk in the mercantile house of Maitland, Crarden and Auldjo, in Montreal. In 1805, he engaged in the service of a Mr. Oillbspib, and proceeded to 4he then frontier village of St. Louis, Missouri. His activity
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and indomitable attention to basiness, won for him the confidence of his employer, and a year or two later he was entrusted with an outfit of goods to trade with the natives on the Missonri
river.
About the year 1808, says Washington Irying, in his work on Aitoriay Bamsat Crooks and Robert McLellan were ascending the Missouri in boats, with a party of about forty men, bound on one of their trading expeditions to the upper tribes. In one of the bends of the river, where the channel made a deep curve under impending banks, they suddenly heard yells and shouts above them, and beheld the cliffs overhead cov- ered with armed savages. It was a band of Sioux warriors, upwards of six hundi*ed strong. They brandished their weapons in a menacing manner, and ordered the boats to turn back and land lower down the river. There was no disputing these commands, for they had the power to shower destruction upon the white men, without risk to themselves. Crooks and McLellan, therefore, turned back with feigned alacrity; and, landing, had an interview with the Sioux. The latter forbade them, under pain of exterminating hostility, from attempting to proceed up the river, but offered to trade peacefully with them if they would halt where they were. The party, being principally composed of voyageur$j was too weak to contend with so supe- rior a force, and one so easily augmented; they pretended, therefore, to comply cheerfully with their arbitrary dictation, and immediately proceeded to cut down trees and erect a trading- house. The warrior-band departed for their village, which was about twenty miles distant, to collect objects of traffic; they left six or eight of their number, however, to keep watch upon the white men, and scouts were continually passing to and fro with intelligence.
Mr. Crooks saw that it would be impossible to prosecute his ' voyage without the danger ot having his boats plundered, and a great part of his men massacred; he determined, however, not to be entirely frustrated in the objects of his expedition. While* he continued, therefore, with great apparent earnestness and
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assidoitj, the constmction of the trading-house, he dispatched the hnnters and trappers of his party in a canoe, to make their way up the river to the original place of destination, there to busy themselyes in trapping and collecting peltries, and to await his arriyal at some future period.
As soon as the detachment had had sufficient time to ascend beyond the hostile country of the Sioux, Mr. Crooks suddenly broke up his feigned trading establishment, embarked his men and effects, and, after giving the astonished rear-guard of sava- ges a galling and indignant message to take to their countrymen, pushed down the river with all speed, sparing neither oar nor paddle, day nor night, until faiily beyond the swoop of these river hawks.
What increased the irritation of Messrs. Crooks and McLellan, at this mortifying check to their gainful enterprise, was the information that a rival trader was at the bottom of it; the Sioux, it is said, having been instigated to this outrage by Mr. Manuel Lisa, the leading partner and agent of the Missouri Fur Company. This intelligence, whether true or false, so roused the fiery temper of McLellan, that he swore, if he ever fell in with Lisa in the Indian country, he would shoot him on the spot; a mode of redress perfectly in unison with the char" acter of the man, and the code of honor prevalent beyond the frontier. If Crooks and McLellan had been exasperated by the insolent conduct of the Sioux Tetons, and the loss which it had occasioned, those freebooters had been no less indignant at being outwitted by the white men, and disappointed of their anticipated gains.
In 1809, when John Jacob Astor formed the plan of estab- lishing a chain of trading posts on the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains, and thence to the Pacific, Mr. Crooks was induced to relinquish his business, and join the party of traders and trappers, which started from St. Louis, under the charge pf the late William Price Hunt, as Mr. Astor's agent, who was appointed for a term of five years, and was to reside at the
principal station established on the North-West coast. Another
12m
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party was at the same time dispatched by sea to co-operate with Hunt and his adventurous band in establishing a trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River.
The sufferings and hardships encountered on this expedition, baffle description. For over three years, from the departure of Crooks and his companions from St. Louis until his return, did these adventures and privations continue; traversing as they did, by their circuitous route, going and returning, about seven thousand miles, over horrid mountain passes, along wild streams and over dangerous cascades, through deep snows, and constantly running the gauntlet, as it were, of savage and hostile tribes. On one occasion, when Crooks was dispatched with a few men from the main party, he and his companions were reduced almost to starvation. ^^For the first eighteen days," says Irving, ^'after leaving the Caldron Linn, he and his men had been confined to half a meal in twenty-four hours; for three days following, they had subsisted on a single beaver, a few wild cherries, and the soles of old moccasins, and for the last six days, their only animal food had been the carcass of a dog;" and thus they became ^^so feeble as to walk with difficulty," In this condition, when they rejoined the main party, they were not long able to keep up with the others, all living on a scanty supply of horse flesh, when Crooks and his emaciated compan- ions were left behind to recruit, and then to follow the trail of the advanced party. When Crooks and his men ventured to renew their weary journey, in the midst of winter, they at length reached the Wallah Wallah Indians, who relieved their immedi- ate necessities; but in the spring they were robbed of their rifles and clothing, by less friendly savages, and driven off with not so much as a flint and steel with which to make an evening fire. After much suffering and many wanderings, they were overtaken by another party of whites, and at length, on the 11th of May, 1812, reached Astoria.
On the 29th of June, following, Crooks with his adven- turous companions started on their return over the mountains to the Atlantic States— one soon gave out, his mind becoming
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deranged, he was sent back to Astoria in charge of a party of Indians. After .various fortunes, adventures and hardships, they at length reached St. Louis, on the 30th of April, 1813 — during which Mr. Crooks suffered, at one time, from a violent fever, had to be supported by his companions on the march, for he was unable to walk, but at length recovered with the use of some simple prescriptions and an *^Indian sweat."
To Mr. Astor's far-seeing sagacity, aided by the energy of such men as Ramsat Crooks and his companions, is the country mainly indebted for the possession of the magnificent country now composing the State of Oregon and the Territory of Wash* ington; for although the previous visit of Capt. Gret was relied upon as the basis of the claim of our government by discovery, yet the occupation of Astoria by the partners and employees of John Jacob Astor was a fixed fact, and constituted the real '^pre-emption right " of first settlement on the northern coast of the Pacific.
In 1817, Mr. Crooks joined Mr. Astor again, when that enterprising merchant formed the American Fur Company, and was the Company's agent at Mackinaw for the ensuing four or five years; though his residence was in New York City ever after his return from the Pacific coast. He frequently visited the Company's trading establishments; and in a statement he furnished to a committee of Congress in 1822, he observes, that from 1806 he was acquainted with the system of Indian trade, at different periods, at Bello Fontaine, Fort Madison, Chicago, Mackinaw, Fort Osage, Prairie du Chien, Fort Edwards, and Green Bay. Mr. Crooks continued a partner in the new con- cern until 1830, and was principally stationed in New York to purchase the necessary goods required for the trade, and prepare the outfits. In 1830 he dissolved his connection as a partner, but remained with Mr. Astor in his usual capacity. In 1834, Mr. Astor being advanced in years, sold out the stock of the company, and transferred the charter to Ramsat Crooks and associates, when he was elected President of the company. The business opened as favorably as he and his associates could
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wish, but sad reverses and losses compelled the President in the month of September, 1842, to make an assignment for the ben- efit of the creditors of the company, who, through his exertions, were all paid, althongh the capital stock, three hundred thoiteand dollarij (of which, he owned two-thirds,) was swallowed up to liquidate the debts of the concern.
In 1845, Mr. Crooks opened a commission house for the sale of furs and skins in New York City. His well known integrity, irreproachable character, and great business qualifications, soon secured for him ample employment until the day of his death. He was a rare exception to the great mass of our mercantile citizens, being exceedingly plain and modest, yet polite and agreeable. He seemed, like all conscientious and reflective men, to be too humble for his position; the fear of intruding with his experience or opinions, upon any circle of friends, was a marked feature in the distinguished life of Ramsay Crooks; yet the remarkable gentleness of the venerable merchant, was a beautiful token of the carefulness of his education, and the faith he had in the rich rewards of Time.
As long as he was able, he delighted each summer to make an excursion to Lake Superior, and once more breathe its pure air and drink its pure waters, and talk over old times with a few old voyageurSj trappers and traders with whom he chimced to meet, and to hear some old Indian chief, whom he knew in former times, talk of former days; and every where his presence would be hailed with the most cordial welcome. He had a kind word for all. He sympathized with them in sorrow, and rejoiced with them in success, and manifested a feeling of sympathy and encouragement for every one.
Few Indian chiefs from the North-West ever came to New York who did not hunt him out. He could speak the Chippewa, and we believe several other Indian dialects. In conversation he was remarkably intelligent and communicative, and delighted, in a social way, to relate his adventures in his rambles through the vast wilds he had traversed. His remarkable travels and sufferings in some of his trips between the lakes and the Pacific,
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across the moantains, are well described in WASHuraTON iRVlira's Astoria. His life among sarage Indians was fre- quently in great jeopardy. Black Hawk, when visiting New York, and while dining with Mr. Crooks and a party of friends, declared that he was the best friend the Indians had ever had. He was said to be the first white man who passed over a route and discovered a pass in the Rocky Mountains, which Colonel Fremont was led to suppose that he had discovered.
He was, however, too modest to claim his right to the discov- ery, in a public manner, through the press of the country, and it was through his many friends that the fact became well established and known. Mr. Astor formed a high opinion of Mr. Crooks, who was always a welcom^guestat his house, and at the time of his death acted as one of the pall bearers for his old and much respected employer, who it was supposed had liberally provided for him in his will; but unexpectedly the amount was comparatively small. But, while the public found fault with it, Mr. Crooks himself never complained. He was named in the will as one of the trustees of the Astor Library, on a salary allowed to each trustee, which position he held until the day of his death. He was also, we believe, elected a mem- ber of the Geographical and Statistical Society, and also a member of the New York Historical Society, and of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He was likewise a director in one or more insurance companies and in other institutions.
He had an interview with Dr. Rae, the discoverer of the relics of Sir John Franklin's party, in which he was able to correct some of the Doctor's opinions regarding the peculiarities of climate, dec, of high latitudes, together with the natural traits and instincts of animals inhabiting the colder regions o^ country.
He seemed to die of no peculiar disease. He quietly passed from the world as one retired to sleep. The "sword had worn out the scabbard. " The frame had become too much dilapidafed by an active life to be longer a fit habitation for the occupation of a noble spirit, and it departed to the God who gave it. His
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death occurred at his residence in New York Citj, on the 6th of June, 1859, in the 73d year of his age. The sad intelligence carried pain to many a heart, not only in the city where he had so long resided, but throughout the West, from Detroit, Mack- inaw, Green Bay, and Prairie du Chien, to the Bed River of the North; at St. Louis, along the Missouri, and among the old settlers in Arkansas. He was noted for the simplicity of his manners, kindness and humanity of heart to both the white men and the red; his entire life, may, in truth, be named as a proud example of sterling integrity surrounded with the best emblems of patience, and purity of action; characteristics to which may be added not only a love of discipline, but a quiet performance of those duties which elevate the soul, and procure the esteem of intelligent men.
IX. AuGUSTiN Grignon. — Of this venerable man, a native of Wisconsin, now in his eightieth year, a full account was given in his interesting Seventy-two Years^ HecolleGtions of Wisconsin, which appeared in the 3d volume of the Society's Collections. That will probably be regarded by future histo- rians as the most valuable individual narrative ever contributed to the Society.
X. GoL. Joseph Jackson, of Oshkosh, was born in the county of Monaghan, Ireland, in 1812; whence his father and family migrated to the United States in the year 1817, and settled in Lewis county, N. Y. In 1834, Col. Jackson moved westward, and after spending some time in Western New York, Ohio, and Michigan, arrived at Green Bay in August, 1837; and on the 4th of March, 1838, settled at his present location at Oshkosh. He has taken an active and influential part in all public improvements, served as Mayor of Oshkosh, and has always proved himself one of the most meritorious of the pioneers of the country.
XI. XII and XIII— I-om-b-tau, Oshkosh, and Souliont, three distinguished chiefs of the Menomonees. Sketches ^of I-OM-E-TAH and SouLiGNY wcrc given in the third volume of the Society's Collections, as well as some notice of Oshkosh;
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to the history of the two former we can add nothing. Oshkosh has led a very intemperate life, which terminated after a seren days illness, Aug. 29th, 1858, at Keshena, Shawanaw county, the result of a drunken brawl. Bad as his habits were, his people greatly regretted his loss. The artist, Brookes, reached Eeshena just in the nick of time, a day or two before his death, to catch and preserve the features of the dying chief.
The following speeches of Oshkosh and Souligny, which appeared originally in the Milwaukee Sentinel of March 8th, 1855, are deemed worthy of preseryation in this connection:
"Yesterday afternoon we received a visit in our eanctum from a deputation of the Menomonee Indians, who have been in our city some days past. They were accompanied by Messrs. Charles and Robert Grignon, of Green Bay, Mr. Wm. W. Johnson and Capt. Wm. Powell, who acted as interpreters between our Indian visitors and ourselves. After being shown through the Sentinel office, and looking with considerable inter- est, at the different portraits and pictures which adorn the walls of the Editors' room — a fine likeness of Gen. Scott especially arrested their attention, as the portrait of one they remembered having seen in the Black Hawk War — the chiefs intimated that they desired to tell the editor the story of their wrongs, and through him, the public. Accordingly, a select and attentive audience, made up principally of the men and boys about the Sentinel office, with two or three friends who chanced to drop in, listened to the following talk from Oshkosh, Head chief of the Menomonees, done into English by Mr. Robert Grignon and Mr. Johnson:
"We have called upon you and shaken hands with you, with a good heart. We have come to ask your aid. We want you to publish what we say. You see that I am growing gray. I am an old man. I have seen many years.
"I was quite a young man when the Americans came to my place at Crreen Bay. In was in 1816. They shook hands with OS and told us they had come to live among us, and make ua
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happj and that if we followed their counsel we should have no trouble.
^^At a council we held in 1827, at Little Butte des Morts, Gen. Cass told us the same thing — ^that the Americans were our friends, and if we followed their advice we should always be happj. Again in 1836, at Cedar Point, we met Gov. Dodged who came from the General Government to treat with us and told us that whatever he promised, our Great Father, the Pres- ident, would perform. Our Great Father, he said, was verj glad that we had submitted to his wishes and made a treaty to cede a part of our lands. And he promised that our Great Father, the President, would always protect us like his own children, and would always hold our hands in his.
"Gov. Dodge told us that our Great Father was very strong, and owned all the country, and that no one would dare to trouble us, or do us wrong, as he would protect us. He told us, too, that whenever we got into difficulty or anything happened we did not like, to call on our Great Father and he would have jus- tice done. And now we come to you to remind our Great Father, through your paper, of his promise, and to ask him to fulfill it.
"We always thought much of Gov. Dodge, as an honest man, and we thought more of him, when he came to us, on the part of the Government. We believed all that he told us. We have done what we agreed to do. We have been always friendly with the whites, and have even taken up arms for them against our Indian brothers. If any of our young men were foolish, the chiefs werp the first to rebuke them and to give them good advice. We have respected our white neighbors. And now we want their help.
"It was at the Payment, at Lake Pauwaygan, made by Col. Jones, that this boy was bom. I then lived on the Wisconsin River, and was notified to come to the payment with my tribe. The roll had all been made up, and the payment was to be made the next day. During the night this boy was bom. I was told of it in the moming, and asked Col. Jones to put his
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name on the roll. The Colonel said this could not be, but if the chiefs were all willing, the child should have his share. They were all willing — the boy's share was given to me, and I gave it to his mother. It was this same child — the same one now taken from us. It is the truth I am telling.
"And now we want your help to get back the child. We still hope to find him. We cannot give him up. We want you to satisfy the public that the child is ours. Wc hoped to take him home with us this time. We came from a great distance. Once before the child was carried off by force, after the law had decided in our favor, and now he is again carried away. We are grieved and disappointed. This is why we ask your help."
OsHKOSH, having concluded what he had to say, again shook hands with us, (thft opening and closing ceremony of each speech) and gave way to Souligny, the Head War-Chief, who, though seventy years old, has all the fire and energy of a man in the prime of life. After a hearty shake of the hands, SoULiGNY squared himself and spoke as follows:
"Now, my friend, listen to me. The one who spoke first, is our Head Chief. What he says is so. You see me, another old man, standing before you. I can remember my old Chiefs. They used to own this soil. Green Bay was our principal village. There we lived when the Americans landed on the east side of Fox river, and crossed and came to our huts. They asked leave to live among us, and said their Great Father had sent them to take the Menomonees under their wings and shelter them from all harm. They told us, too, that their Great Father had a very long arm, and that whenever any one did an injury or took anything away from us, he would stretch out that arm and bring it back, no matter how far off. And now we have lost something. We lost it at Waupaca Falls. It is a piece of our flesh. And to think, after all our Great Father promised, that this should have been taken from us by some of his children, the whites, and they should claim it as their own.
"I cannot think my friend, the white man, did this wilfully.
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Those who took our child must be asleep, or dreaming that it is theirs. We had heard that the child had been placed in safety in the White Man's Court, whero all the wisdom and all the laws were, and we felt satisfied that justice would be done, and our child given back to us. I and the chiefs were called as witnesses. I was asked if I knew the nature of an oath. ' I said I did, that I knew there was a God above, who would pun- ish me if I did not speak true. And I was not afraid to kiss the book, because I told the truth. I said the child was ours. But after proving it ours, and the decision given in our favor, the child was stolen from us in defiance of law.
^'We next heard of the child in Illinois, and all the Chiefs authorized Dr. IIuebschmann, our new Superintendent, to go and get the child back if he could. And he promised to do so. Thej gave the Doctor full power to act for them, and to take the child wherever he could find him. It was their unanimous request, and they selected Dr. Heubschmann, because he was the Agent of our Great Father. We were very glad to hear that the Doctor had found the child. We thought him safe in the jail, in the care of the o£Scers; that none could get the child away from there, unless the law gave them the right. We cannot but think, it must have been an Evil Spirit that got into the jail and took away our child. We thought the white man's law strong, and are sorry to find it so weak.
^^I shake hands with you, as a writer. I shake hands with the Great Father, the President, and those who make the laws. I appeal to them to return us our lost child. When we get him again, we shall educate him like the whites. But let us have our child back. Write strong, my friend!"
With this closing admonition Soulignt shook hands and fin- ished his talk. Our readers are familiar with the wrong of which the Menomonees complain. It is the case of the boy claimed both by an Indian and a white mother. The case was fairly tried two years ago before Commissioner Buttk^ick, at Oshkosh. The Commissioner, after a patient hearing, decided in favor of the Indian claimants, and directed the Sheriff to
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give Nah-kom her child. Before the order could be executed, a party of white men, sympathizing with the P/\rtridoes, took the child from the sheriff's charge and carried him off. After two years, Dr. Huebschmann, the Indian Superintendent, em- powered and requested by the Menomonees to seek and reclaim the stolen child, succeeds in doing so. He is brought here, and the Partridges sue out a writ of Habeas Corpus before Judge Smith.
Pending the hearing, the child by direction of the Judge, is placed for safe-keeping in the custody of our sheriff. On Mon- day last, Judge Smith, having no time to hear the case, direct- ed the child to be restored to Dr. Huebschmann, conditioned that the Doctor would remain here two days, to give the Part- ridges an opportunity to sue out a writ before some other Judge. But instead of appealing to the law, the Partridges have again made off with the boy. He was enticed, or smug- gled out of the jail-yard, Monday afternoon, and has not since been heard of.
The Sheriff offers $100 reward for his recovery. For the credit of our State, and of the white man's law, we hope that the child may be found again and restored to his Menomonee kindred.
We annex the names and ages of our Indian visitors: — 0%h- kosh (Head Chief) sixty years; Souligny (Head War Chief) seventy; Na-Molte^ forty-two; Carron^ fifty-five; Oih-kee-he" naw-nieWy forty-nine; Ah-ke-no-tO'toayy thirty-seven; Shaw-ne- on, twenty-eight; Can-a-gan-ce-gay^ forty-five."
XIV. — John W. Quinney, the Stockbridge chief, is fully noticed in a subsequent portion of this volume, to which the reader is referred.
XV. — Nathaniel Ames, son of David Ames, who was a grandson of David Ames from Scotland, was bom in Eill- ingly. Conn., April 25th, 1761. At the age of six years, he went to what is now North Stonington, to live with his grand- father, Cornelius Waldo; and at the age of seventeen, in 1778, he served a month as a guard on the Stonington and
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Groton shore, and assisted in building Fort Griswold, on Gfoton Banks, which garrison Lieut. Colonel Etrb, directed by the parricide Arnold, three years nfberwards attacked, and, after its surrender, mercilessly slaughtered nearly every cap- tured officer and soldier. Mr. Ames enlisted in Continental service for the campaign of 1779; and, at its expiration, he engaged as a substitute in place of a soldier to serve out an unexpired enlistment in Gen. Huntington's brigade. During the cold winter of 1779-80, he was stationed with the main army near Morristown, New Jersey. It was a winter of great suffering, the soldiers living principally in small log huts, poorly clad, with straw for a bed, and a single blanket for each man for a covering, and some were destitute of shoes. The snow was deep, fell early and lasted late; and the cold was unusually intense. "We have," said Washington, "had the virtue and patience of the army put to the severest trial* Sometimes it has been five or six days together without bread; at other times as many days without meat, and once or twice two or three days without either. * * * At one time the soldiers ate every kind of horse food but hay. Buckwheat, com- mon wheat, rye, and Indian corn, composed the meal which made their bread. As an army, they bore it with the most heroic patience." "Washington," says Mr. Ames, "hearing of our sufferings, came to the barracks, looked in, and spoke words of sympathy and encouragement. We told him we hoped we should live till spring to fight our country's battles."
In the autumn of 1780, while stationed near Tarrytown, Mr. Ames witnessed the execution of the unfortunate Andre, in front of a stone church. After the close of the campaign of that year, he returned to Stonington, and engaged on a priva- teer sixteen gun brig, built at New London, called the La FayettCy and went from New London to Newport, Rhode Island. As the La Fayette entered the harbor, a French fleet entered also; and, the next morning, Mr. Ames was awakened at the tavern where he lodged, by a singular noise on the side- walk, which proved to arise from the tramping of the French
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soldiery who wore wooden shoes. The harbor was blockaded, and the La Fayette brig was compelled to stay a week, daring which Washington visited the city, which was illuminated on the joyful occasion.
Mr. Ames continued on the privateer for two seasons, during which they sent to New London several good prizes — some of which, however, were destroyed by the troops under the traitor Arnold, when he invaded the country in the autumn of 1781, captured Fort Griswold, inhumanly butchered the garrison, and burned the town and shipping in the harbor. Engaging on board a merohantman bound for Bermuda, he was unfortunately made a prisoner on his way home, by a refugee ship, and carried back to Bermuda, and detained three months. After the peace of 1783, he engaged on an English ship for a three years cruise, during which time he visited, among other places and countries, Madeira, Gibraltar, Turkey, Surinam in South America, and Quadaloupe in the West Indies. At Guadaloupe he had the yellow fever, and barely escaped death.
Returning to his native country, he went to school three months, and soon after married Sarah Hall, and settled near Albany, N. Y., as a farmer. At the age of thirty, he became a preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and soon after moved to Steuben, in Oneida county, N. Y., where he continued to preach until he reached the age of about seventy-five years. In the summer of 1844, Mr. Ames, with three of his children, moved to Wisconsin, and in Oregon, Dane county, bought 320 acres of government land, and where he still resides. His aged companion died in 1851, in the 89th year of her age. Mr. Ames has six sons and four daughters living, all of whom are heads of families, except the youngest daughter, who with undivided affection devotes her life to administering to the wants of her aged parent.
A friend asked Mr. Ames if he remembered Washington? "Yes," he replied emphatically, "and old Steuben too." After a short pause, during which his memory reverted to the scenes and sufferings of the Revolution, and the big tears
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coursed down his aged cheeks, he added: ^'You must excuse these expressions of an old man's weakness, for I can never think of those good men without causing my heart to be stirred within me."
Almost a century old, and the last surviving follower of Washington in Wisconsin, the venerable Nathaniel Ames cannot long linger on the shores of Time. Noble patriot! your aged form is fast tottering to the grave, and your spirit to God who gave it! In coming years, when we shall no more greet you among the young generation which now covers the land, may the green sods of the valley press lightly upon your manly bosom, and your memory ever be held dear by us all!"*"
We have thus rapidly sketched the persons whose portraits have been added to the Picture Gallery of the Society during the past two years. We cannot appropriately draw this report to a close without making proper reference to the several artists who have executed these paintings; and we regret, that in most instances, the materials at hand for doing so are very meagre.
Of the fifteen oil paintings thus added within the past two years, eight of them were painted by Samuel M. Brookes, of Milwaukee, — the View of Pecatonica Battle Field^ the por- traits of Col. D. M. Parkinson, Augustin Grignon, Col. J. Jackson, Nathaniel Ames, and of the Menomonee chiefs I-OM-E-TAH, SouLiGNY and OsHKOSH. As WO have previously adverted to Mr. Brookes' career as an artist, it will be unne- cessary to repeat the sketch in this connection.
Chevalier Joseph Fagnani, who executed the striking and excellent portrait of the renowned Arctic explorer. Dr. E. K. Kane, was bom in the city of Naples, on Christmas eve, 1818, of Italian parents, his father being from Pesaro, in the Roman States, and his mother a Neapolitan. His earliest recollections are associated with pictures, for his father being very fond of them, often purchased and brought home new ones, and young
*Iii the preparation of this sketch, I acknowledge my indebtedness to Hon .
B. P. Main, of Oregon, a neighbor of Mr. Axxs, for facts and details deriyed
from the aged patriot, whose memory and serrices it is designed to perpetnate.
L.C. D.
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Joseph y as early as the age of four or five years, used to spend hours in gazing at them. He was educated at the Royal Acad- emy of his native city, and his instructor was Oliva, one of the most distinguished of Italian teachers. At twelve years of age, a likeness he had taken in black crayons fell under the notice of the Queen Dowager of Naples; an J, from that time until the day of her death in 1847, he had a generous and most kind patron- ess, who took, in the young artist, a mother's interest. At the age of thirteen he painted her portrait so well, that he received for encouragement a pension from the king for five years. He was employed, soon after, to paint the portrait of the Arch- duchess Augusta, daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. At the age of eighteen, he went to Home, Vienna, Florence, and Milan, and had immediate and constant occupation at each and all of those cities. In 1840, he was commissioned by the royal family to go to Vienna, to paint the portrait of the Arch- duke CnARLES, for his daughter the Queen of Naples; and other orders kept him there for more than a year. He was sent to Paris, in 1842, in the employment of Queen Christine of Spain, daughter of the queen of Naples, until her recall to Spain in 1844, from which she had been exiled; and during his sojourn in Paris, he made three portraits of her from life, and was employed by her on pictures of her friends. The Prince of Capua, the famous Arab chief El Aboudi, and the Duke d' AuMALB were among his sitters at this time, and the latter gave Mr. Faqnani a valuable diamond ring as a token of his satis- faction with the picture.
Fagnani followed his royal patroness. Queen Christine, to Spain, and remained there two years, constantly employed by the royal family and others. He was dispatched by Queen Christine to Naples to take her mother's portrait, which he suc- cessfully accomplished. At Madrid, he painted Queen Isa- bella, and her sister the Duchess of Montpensier; also the Duchess of Alba, sister of the present Empress of the French, and many others of the most distinguished nobles of that Court. Such was his success, that he was made a Chevalier of the Order
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of Isabella la Catholica by a Queen, "as the proof of her ap- preciation."
In 1846, Fagnani again took up his abode in Paris, and remained there until 1849, when in consequence of the un- settled state of the times, he accepted the invitation of his friend Sir Henry Bulwer, who had been appointed British minister to Washington, to accompany him to the United States and spend the ensuing winter there. Visiting Madeira and Bermuda en route, they arrived at Washington on the 23d of December, 1849; since which Fagnani resided in this country, mostly in New York, until last year, when he returned to Paris — we hope only temporarily. Yet in the prime of life, we may fondly trust that nobler achievements await his pencil. It is fortunate that our Society has been honored with a picture exe- cuted by such a master — and that the portrait of so renowned and admired an American as the lamented Dr. Kane. Of the original of this valuable picture, from which that presented to our Society is copied, a New York correspondent of the Boston Evening Transcript thus speaks:
"To complete the train of reminiscences of which they are the mute symbols, our popular artist, the Chevalier Fagnani, has just put the finishing touches to a portrait of Dr. Kane, executed for one of his friends in England. It is the only like- ness of the intrepid savan, I have seen, that conveys an ade- quate impression of his character. Signer Fagnani painted a portrait of him for his father, the late Judge Kane, just before the Doctor sailed from New York, on his last expedition; he saw him on the deck of the Advance, and in the genial atmos- phere of his own studio; his recollection of every feature and phase of expression is, therefore, distinct and vivid; still, his new portrait may be regarded as a singular triumph, since it not only gives the contour and details of his countenance with mathematical precision, but we read in the eyes and mouth all that firmness, modesty, clear perception, moral courage and earnest faith, which marked the living man."
in— IV— V. Of Flagg, who painte4 the fine portrait of
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Perciyal, we possess no particulars; he has long ranked among the prominent men in his profession in this coantrj. As C. A. Johnson, who painted the View of the First House in Madisorty has not specially devoted himself to landscape paint- ing, we need only to say that the View in question is creditable to his artistic taste, and does justice to the truth of history and nature. Of Healet, the Irish artist who painted the original of the Indian chief, Wau-me-ge-sa-ko, in 1839, we have no knowledge; he seems to have made a tour in the West at that period; and of Mr. Harrison, of Fond du Lac, who made the copy in the Society's possession, it is proper to say, that he has made a good picture, worthy of a place in our Collection.
VI. Abraham B. Kockey, who painted the fine likeness of Stephen Taylor, is a native of MifBinburg, Union county, Pennsylvania, and was left an orphan when about nine months old. When about fourteen years of age, he was placed by his guardian with a spinning-wheel maker, with a view of learning the trade; and this man, in a few months, migrated to Stark county, Ohio, accompanied by young Rockey, who was encour- aged to do so by the present of a small rifle. Here some years were employed in clearing land and farming in summer, making spinning-wheels in winter, and maple sugar in the spring. At odd spells, he tried his ingenuity in making drums, fifes, and toys, by means of which he supplied his pocket with change. He used his rifle considerably on squirrels, and now and then on a deer. On one occasion, when out on an errand, he wished for his rifle. Passing along what was called the State road, leading to Cleveland, he heard a pig squeal, and concluded a bear was killing it; and not thinking of any danger, young Eockby left the road and ran into the woods, with a thick undergrowth, and soon mounted a small dog-wood. While looking around at a distance, he heard a grunt and growl nearly under the sapling on which he was mounted, and with no small surprise discovered a large bear with