477     THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



Ing thi known to the Lime Wool Growers of Wiscosin ?
Ourcircular will be out in a few days, and we would be
glad to send it to such names as you may give us. Please
sake a note of this in the Wiscotesie FAzum in addition.
  With much esteem, sincerely yours.
                               W. T. GRZE.

   The Markets are full of encouragement to
 the farmer. Grain, hay, pork, fat cattle, wool
 and almost everything else bears a good price
 and seems to be on the ascending scale.
   At Milwaukee, Nov. 20th: Wheat firm-
Spring, No. 1, 1 09(agl 09j; No. 2, 1 06;
Winter, No. 1, 1 10 ,1 10.i.  Oats, 61@,62.
Rye, in store, 92. Corn-No. 1, mixed, de-
livered, 9fic; in ear, 72. Barley 1 20(al 25.
Potatoes, 60(ba60. Butter, in roll, 22. Cattle
in gross, $2 75 per cwt. Chickens, 8c per
lb.; turkeys, 9c. Wool, 665(,70.

          NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

  No news of startling importance since our
last issue. All quiet on the Potomac. Meade
feeling after Lee, and Lee feeling after Meade
on the Rappahannock. Gillmore is still pep-
pering Charleston with shot and shell; Gen.
Butler has been assigned to duty at Fortress
Monroe; Burnside has been in a tight place
at or near Knoxville, Tenn.; Grant is crowd-
ing Bragg farther away from Chattanooga;
the 13th Corps has had a collision with the
enemy in Louisiana, and been worsted, losing
some 639 men and quite a number of prison-
ers; Col. Guppy, of the 23d Wis, being of the
number.
  The courage of the army and people of the
Union never was better than now. The draft
is- adding but few men to the army, but en-
liatment is going on actively in all parts of
the country. The rumor that a conspiracy
was forming in Canada, under the direction
of rebel emisaries an4 sympathizers, to burn
certain cities on lake Erie has occasioned
such precautions on the part of she Govern-
ment as will prevent its consummation.

          FOREIGN MATTERS.

  England appears to have her hands full,
just now in preventing the escape from her I



ports of certain iron clad ships built for the
Confederate service, but restrained by order
of the Government.
   France has notified the Ainerican Minister
that the work of building rebel pirate ships
in her ports should be stopped. It is rumored
that the Emperor is to withdraw his troops
from Rome, and that 10,000 Spanish troops
are to take their place. He evidently needs
more force for the subjugation of Mexico, and
Spain is only glad enough to give her this in-
direct aid.
  Polish affairs are slau quo. The Czar still
bears upon the people of that fated province
with a heavy hand.
  Syria is struggling with revolt, 20,000
Arabs in the Hlauran having rebelled.
  The Mexicans, at date of last accounts,
were doing their best to thwart the expedition
into the interior, for which the French were
making great preparations.

  Gen. Commonfort, the Mexican Secretary of
War, had left San Luis for Queretara to take
the command-in-chief of the army-from 15,-
000 to 20,000 strong-which was drawn up
before that place. The next in command na-
der Commonfort was Gen. Uraga, Governor of
the State of Michoacan, who is reported the best
officer in the service of Juarez. Gen. Diaz,
whom Commonfort had relieved, had marched,
with some 3,000 men, from Queretara for Te-
huacan, where he expected to receive rein-
forcements from the States of Vera Cruz,
Puebla, and Oaxaca. With the forces thus
raised he was to commence active operations
against the French in the eastern part of
Mexico, between the City of Mexico-and Vera
Cruz, with a view to cutting their line of
communication with the coast.
The Church party of Mexico are not very
well pleased with Gen. Bazaine, who seceeds
gen. Forey in the command of the French
army. They find his views too liberal to suit
them. They are much more liberal than those
of Gen. Forey, who is believed to have been
recalled by the Emperor in consegnence of
his unduly precipitate glicy.



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