pable determination to perpetuate the supremacy of military power in the United States; by its attempts to preserve the ascendency of a minority party through the subversion of the Government; by its unceasing aggressions upon the freedom of speech and of the press; by its open and active friendship for despotic forms of government; by its invention of false excuses for tyranny; by its unscrupulous taxation of the people for the aggrandizement of its power in the enrichment of its leaders; by its odious alliances with the traditional enemies of republican institutions; by its shameless assaults upon the elective franchise; by its substitution of partisan decrees for the obligations of the supreme law; by its intendpermanent maintenance of a national standing army to enforce compliance with its usurpations-has proven false to all its pretensions of patriotism, false to the Government and the people, and deserves the reprobation of the friends of freedom throughout the

ed abrogation of the reserved rights of the States and

civilized world.

Resolved, That the indiscriminate disfranchisement of more than 12,000 citizens of Wisconsin, by officially publishing their names as deserters, while many of them were faithful soldiers of the Union army, without previous trial and conviction, or other sufficient proof of crime, is an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power, and in many instances a wanton and cruel libel upon the living and the dead, which demands instant and complete reparation at the hands of the people.

Resolved, That the enormous tax, directly and indirectly imposed by congressional legislation upon the industry of Wisconsin, of between thirty and forty millions per annum, in large part for the exclusive protection of Eastern capitalists, or for the support of dangerous schemes of partisan aggrandizement, is an exhaustive drain upon the resources of the State, which calls for earnest and united effort in behalf of retrenchment and reform.

Resolved, That we are in favor of the full and punctual discharge of the national obligations and debts, precisely on the conditions and times on which they were contracted, and the faith of the Government pledged to its creditors.

At the election in November the total vote for Governor was 142,510. Governor Fairchild was reelected by a majority of 4,764. The vote for the constitutional amendment, giving a salary to members of the Legislature, was 58,363 for, and 24.418 against. The Legislature stands as follows: Senate-Republicans, 18; Democrats, 15. House-Republicans, 59;

Democrats, 41.

WRIGHT, Hon. JOSEPH A., ex-Governor and United States minister to Prussia; born in Pennsylvania, about 1810, died at Berlin, Prussia, on the 11 of May, 1867. At an early period of his life he left Pennsylvania and settled in Indiana. His early advantages were limited, but, like many prominent men, he also, without the aid of family influence or pecuniary means, simply through his own untiring energy, raised himself, by successive and rapid strides, from an humble and obscure position to some of the highest and most responsible offices within the gift of the people and the Government. Devoting himself to the study of the law, he was admitted to the bar in early manhood, and soon took a conspicuous stand in his profession, and became a member of the State

Legislature. In 1843 he was chosen to represent his State in Congress. He was elected Governor of Indiana in 1849, and continued to hold that position until 1857. In that year President Buchanan appointed him minister to Prussia, which position he held until the acces sion of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency. He returned to this country in 1861, and, acting with the War Democrats, was in 1862 elected United States Senator from Indiana (in place of J. D. Bright), serving one session. In 1863 President Lincoln appointed him United States commissioner to the Hamburg Exhibition. He was appointed minister to Prussia for the second time by President Johnson, in 1865, and continued to fill that position up to the time of his death. That he was able to discharge the duties of these several offices with credit to himself may be attributed to his active and superior intellect; but his elevation to these high places was owing more to his persevering energy, and to his strict integrity and inflexible honesty. As United States minister he was highly popular, ever ready to place his familiarity with Berlin at the disposal of his countrymen. He assisted them in obtaining introductions to distinguished men, and in gaining admission to places not open to the general public. To young men, especially to those attending the university, he was particularly obliging, introducing them to the general circle of his friends and inviting them to his house on Sabbath evenings, when homesickness steals over one with added power. To the Germans it was incomprehensible how a man without a university education, and without wealth, could be so honored at home, could become the represent court of Prussia; and still more inexplicable ative of a first-class power at the aristocratic did it seem that, having attained all this, having become the associate of royal ministers and ble. Like most Western public men, he had ambassadors of kings, he should be so accessi devoted himself to the so-called practical ques tions more than to scientific theories; yet his society and opinions, though the latter were expressed in homely phrase rather than in the language of the schools, were much esteemed by a wide circle of men of letters.

A consistent and devoted member of the Methodist Church, Mr. Wright never hesitated, when opportunity offered, to express his rellgious convictions with fervid earnestness that added to their novelty.

WURTEMBERG, a kingdom in South Germany. King, Karl, born March 6, 1823; succeeded his father, June 25, 1864. Ares 7,840 square miles; population, in 1864, 1,748,328, The aggregate revenue for the financial period from 1864 to 1867 was 51,226,785 florins: surplus of revenue over expenditures, 34,077 florins. Public debt, in 1867, 98,343,670 florins. The army, in 1867, consisted of 29,392 men. (See GERMANY.)

YELLOW FEVER. The prevalence of this epidemic in the Southwestern States, in 1867, demands some notice. The disease, like cholera, has marked and peculiar symptoms from its outset. Commencing with a feeling of chilliness, a quick fever supervenes, accompanied by pains in the head, back, and limbs. The pain in the head is frontal, and often exceedingly severe, attended with confusion of thought and violent delirium. The stomach is early affected, and vomiting ensues almost immediately. The matter vomited consists of the contents of the stomach, of bile, and thin colored fluids. The patient complains of a burning sensation in the stomach, the face is flushed and swollen, the eyes red, suffused, muddy, and sensitive to light. The breathing is sometimes hurried and irregular, sometimes slow and embarrassed. The skin is commonly hot, dry, and harsh. The yellowness, from which the disease derives its name, first tinges the eye, then spreads to the forehead, neck, and breast, and last to the extremities. The color varies from an orange to a bronze, and sometimes, in the last stage, approaches a dark mahogany. The tongue is at first generally moist and white, then red. The pulse leaps to 100, and is full and bounding. The patient is very restless, constantly changing his position, while the expression is gloomy and anxious, or sometimes fierce and threatening.

These are the first stages of the disease, the average duration of which is from 36 to 48 hours. The second stage is succeeded by an abatement of all the unpleasant symptoms. The skin becomes moister and cooler, the pain in the head and limbs is relieved, the stomach is irritable, the pulse calmer, the expression of the countenance more natural. The yellowness of the skin, however, becomes more marked and deeper in tint. The stage of remission generally lasts from 12 to 18 hours, though it may be prolonged to 24 or 36. The third stage is characterized by prostration; the pulse becomes more feeble and the skin darker; the tongue may remain large and moist, or become dry and brown, or smooth, red, fissured and bleeding. The irritability of the stomach returns or is increased. The vomiting is often incessant. At first it may consist of a colorless, acrid liquor; soon, in bad cases, it begins to contain flakes of a dark color, increasing until the matters vomited look like a mixture of soot, or coffee-grounds and water; that is the black vomit. The quantity thrown up is often very great, and it comes up with little effort.

Sometimes diarrhoea now supervenes, the stools resembling the matter ejected from the stomach. With the appearance of these symptoms the patient becomes more and more

prostrated; the skin is cold and clammy, the pulse very feeble, frequent, or intermittent; the breathing irregular and labored; the tongue is black and tremulous; there is low, muttering delirium, and death closes the scene. Pathological anatomy has not hitherto added much to our knowledge of yellow fever. The most constant alteration is found in the conditions of the blood. This is usually dark colored and fluid, seeming sometimes to have entirely lost its coagulability. The surface of the body is usually more or less yellow after death, even in cases which did not present any trace of that color during life. The liver presents a full yellow or fawn color, and is more or less fatty; and the stomach is more or less reddened and its mucous membrane generally softened.

The causes of the disease are much the same as those of cholera. Filth, decayed vegetable and animal matter, marsh miasm, the excessive use of tropical fruits, and excesses in eating and drinking are the principal causes. The disease is epidemic during the hot season, a succession of heavy frosts checking and usually ending it for the season. Opinions in regard to its contagiousness are divided, a small majority of professional men favoring the idea of contagion, or at least of communicability from the fomites of the disease. Some persons are not subject to it, and others who having had it are exempt, but lose their protection by a residence in a cold climate for a single season.

During the summer and autumn of 1867, it raged with great virulence in the West Indies, proving unusually fatal in St. Thomas, Santa Cruz, Cuba, and Hayti; some cases occurred in the Florida ports, more in Mobile, while in New Orleans it was more severe than it had been since 1853, the deaths from it in August being 255, in September, 1,637, and in October (the first week), 431, and for some time it continued at the rate of from 50 to 60 deaths daily. In Galveston it was still more severe, taking all classes and producing a frightful mortality. Throughout the coast portion of Texas it raged with great virulence. It made its way up the Mississippi and visited Natchez, Vicksburg, Helena, and Memphis, all previously desolated by cholera earlier in the season. The cities of the Atlantic coast were exempt from the. scourge, except a few cases on board one of the ships of the navy at Philadelphia, which had just come from Florida, and the cases at Quarantine, New York. Of these last there were 390 cases of yellow fever which had occurred in port, on the passage, and in quarantine, and of these 112 were fatal. The epidemic was peculiar in the much greater frequency of profound congestion than is usual.

The most effectual treatment has proved to

be the use of very hot baths, profuse sweating, and careful nursing. If the action of the secernent vessels of the skin and a steady and uniform circulation of the blood throughout the system can be maintained, by whatever method it is accomplished, the patient will be saved. The evil to be most carefully guarded against, in apparent convalescence, is the morbid craving for food. If allowed at that stage of the disease it is followed almost inevitably by speedy

death. In persons of weak and enfeebled constitutions yellow fever is more sure to prove fatal than in those of robust habit, the disease incubating for some time in the system, before decided symptoms make their appearance. Yet the statistics of the epidemics of it in New Orleans indicate that there-and the same is true in tropical countries-women, children under five years of age, and the colored races, are less subject to it than white male adults.