THE WISCO14IN FARMER.



DOIN(kS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.


Annual Neeting of State AS. Soe-ZTTR
AOUIWurULAL Rooxt, Dec. 10, 1862.-Pursuant to the re.
quirements of the Constitution, the Wisconsin State Agri.
cultural Society held its Annual Meeting for 1862, in these
Rooms, on Wednesday, Dec. 10. at 3 o'clock P. M.: B. R.
Ilinkley, Predident, In the chair.
The attendaire was larger thRn at any previonu meeting
since the modificaticn of the Constitution requiring the
elections to be held at and during the Annual Fair, and ll
present appealed to f-el a lively interest in the protperity
of the Society.
  In answer to inquiries, and in advance of the publica-
tion of the Annual Fiscal Report of the Trosidurer, the
President made a verbal stateuent of the chief financial
transactions of the 6ociety for thb past year; the moat im.
portant being thc ale to the tlovernmuent of the United
Statw of the improvements on the tlre Fair frlunds, now
known as Canmp Randall.
  The amount of tle cLoi- audite-d by the F, b   autobr-
itiie is 1,953, and wai designed to indeuinify the Society
for the riot of raid improvement.. The mrouey hl; not
been paid over yet, but the Society has received notice
through the Q. M. t. of this State. that the claim has been
audited and is now in the hands of the Third Auditor of the
Treasury for payment.
  Tbe Secretary read the i'tice. giv-n by hiur and duly
filed at the Iast Annual Meeting, Dec. 11, 1861. of an in.
tent to offer amendments to the Constitution, together
with a copy of the proposed amendments, which ware as
fotlowd:
  Strike out thwe siond paragrapi in Artirle V., as pub-
listied In the 5th Vol. of Transactions of the Society. said
paragraph  eonmmenring with the sixth tine and ending
with the tmentieth of Riid Articht V.-and  substitute
thorerfor the f.llowing, to wit:

  The election of all Officers (if tbis tociety shall be held
  each year during and at the State Fair, and the exact time
  and place of elI-ction shall be notified by the Secretary in
  the public nwtvpaliers at least twenty days before such
  tlection, ard thb  Life Members of the Society, and the
  PrcuidentsJ tif   scveral Gsuntii Arictsdlrral &Scidies lk-
  galli orgao'ized and in adirte operation within this State,
  shall be the legal voters thereat, and the Officers so elect-
  sid shall continue in their respective offices during the pe-
  rnos of oue year f:om the first day of January subsequent
  to their election, and until their successors shall have been
  duly elected and qualified.

  lion. Simeon Mills moved to strike out of the proposed
  amundueut the words - shall b notified by the Secretary
  in the public newspapers at least twenty days before suct
  election," and to substitute in lieu thereof, the following,
  to witt Shall be distinctly notified by the Executive
  Committee, in all the published programmes of the Fair.,
  Adopted.
  Tho motion then recurring on the adoption of the amend
  ma   - amended, tt was carried without a dissenting voice
  On motion of lon. EL D. iasUngs, the Society adjourne
  Rim di.                       J. W. UOYT,
                                         Secretary.



       NATIONAL' AFFAIRS.


 The var still lags, Burnuide's defeat with greatslaugh-
ter of Federal troops at Fredricksburgh; a Union victory
at Prairie Grove, In northwesteriArkansassby Gens. lunt
and lHerron over Gen Illndman with great odds In his la.
Tor; the arrival of Banks' Expedition at New Orleans, hbi
proclamaton on assuming command instead of Gen. Butler
transferred, his sending 5,000 troops to Baton Rouge; and
the disgraceful surprise and capture of some 1,500 troops
at Holly Springs, Mdiss., nuder command of Col. Murphy,
of the 5th Win., being about the only transactione of gresat
public Interest.



EDITORIAL MISCELLANY.

  The Editor's Wayside Notes of Eu-
ropean Travel.-NEAR ARoENTIERES, IN
SttR ALrPS, May 29, 1862.-My last letter left
me still at Saint Martin's on the open porch of-
my good Franco-English host, looking out
wonderingly and with swimming eye upon the
majestic King of the Alps. The very top of
the mountain, which, late in the afternoon,

had glittered with a pure and perfect white-
ness, towards evening assumed a golden tint,

the tory of which was indescribable.  But
sudde;l'y the sun went down quite behind the
grand ii! I mountain over whose shoulder he
had been looking and glowing all the late af-
ternoon hours, and it was night. For a while
the mountains were dimly seen and distant;
but gradually the clear white light of the stars
illnmined their snow-mantled summits, and
they stood near again, with a new and over-

aWeing grandeur.
   At last, the hour lor retiring came, and the

good-natured landlady conducted me, after the
good old motherly style, to a comfortable
chamber through whose open windows I could
gaze from my bed upon the face of Mont
Blanc; and thus it was, soul-inspired and lift-
ed up in the presence of that sublime transfig-
uration, that Morpheus found me, and gently,
though quite against my own will, bore me
away to the rest1 of glorious dreams.
   When I awoke it was 4 o'clock, and the
 highest peak of Mont Blanc was roseate with

 the light of the morning. It seemed but a two
 hours walk to his base, and I fBatlered myself

 that directly after breakfast I should begin the



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