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We are publishing the petition which the Chicago Arbeiterverein sent to Congress, and we urge all private citizens, as well as societies in other cities, to submit similar petitions to our national legislature. Since the drawing of numbers has been postponed until February 15, there is ample

In response to the appeal of Mr. Johann Gindele, a number of German ladies of Chicago met in the new Turnhalle to discuss matters referred to in the appeal. Mr. Gindele had invited Mr. Heinrich Greenbaum to be present at the meeting. After Mr. Gindele had opened the meeting, the organization

"To the Editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung: In one of its famous sensational articles, the Tribune takes the liberty of condemning the County Board's procedure with respect to county bounties. The Tribune does not want the members of the Board to pay bounties to veterans. Although these ve

If any class of workers deserves sympathy and support in its endeavors to obtain an increase in wages, it is the seamstresses. In an earlier article, we described the sad plight of the women and girls who work in the garment factories in New York. We emphasized the fact that it would be much

Yesterday afternoon, the officers of the militia met at the old Klinger Saloon on La Salle Street. The meeting was attended by Messrs. Peter Shimp, Pflaum, Nelson, Ries, Hausmann, and Lochbieler. In the absence of Colonel Knobelsdorff, Mr. Peter Shimp was elected chairman. It was de

Since a condition of war still exists in Missouri, General Rosenkranz has issued the following order: "Everybody is forbidden, directly or indirectly to intimidate, or to hinder from the performance of his duty, any workman who is employed in a Saint Louis factory or shop where articles for u

The undersigned turners have been authorized to organize an independent company for the one hundred days' service. Every patriot who has the welfare of our country at heart is requested to join and thus help complete the contingent. August Ries, Joseph Schulte Recruiting O

Adjutant General Fuller has authorized me to organize a company of volunteers for the one hundred days' service. I therefore request all those who would like to join my company to report at the Provost Marshal, 132 South Clark Street. A. Bruning, Recruiting Officer.

The undersigned has been authorized by Adjutant General Fuller to organize an independent company for the hundred days' service. All those who wish to comply with the request of Governor Yates are asked to report at the Recruiting Office, 15 North Wells Street, in Stromberg and Anderson's Boo

Lieutenant Colonel Shimp is helping Captain W. B. Lawson of Bloomington organize a company. The latter has already enrolled forty-five men. Captain Pflaum has enlisted seventy-nine men; Captain Lochbieler, seventy-seven; and Mr. Stromberg, and Mr. Cronside, sixty-eight each. Captain Ries' com

The undersigned has been authorized by Adjutant General Fuller to organize an independent company for the one hundred days' service. All who wish to comply with the request of Governor Yates are asked to report at the Recruiting Office, 139 Randolph Street, across from the Court House.

The undersigned has been authorized by Adjutant General Fuller to organize an independent company for the one hundred days' service. All those who wish to comply with the request of Governor Yates are asked to report at my office in the Court House Square. J. PFLAUM.

The meeting of the Chicago Arbeiterverein held on the seventeenth of May, 1864 was attended by only a relatively small number of members. By a vote of thirty-seven to thirty-five (the organization has a membership of more than a thousand), it was decided to send delegates to the convention wh

Anyone who wishes to join the Mr. Peter Shimp's company for the purpose of serving the country for one hundred days is asked to report at headquarters, which are located over the saloon of Dick and Werner, 120 Randolph Street. C. Hausmann, Acting Adjutant.

"Every evil [has] its good," says an old proverb. The truth of the adage is again evident with respect to the heavy debt which we incurred through the great War of the Rebellion. Of course, now that the first great joy caused by our glorious victory has passed, and the immense increase in bus

Persuant to an appeal published in the Illinois Staats-Zeitung yesterday, a large number of Germans assembled in Farwell Hall to express their sympathies in respect to the late events of the War. Despite torrential rains the large hall was well filled by 8:30 P. M. There was little time to de

The following contributions in money and goods were made through the members named below: Mrs. F. A. Hoffmann: Cash............................$440.00 Goods (monetary value)...... 521.50 Mrs. H. Claussenius: Cash...........................$348

When Louis Napoleon put an end to the French Republic, he considered it necessary that the French people approve of this act of violence. The president became emperor "by the grace of God and the will of the French people." Thus he claimed that God approved of the perjury which he committed,

The glorious victory which the Germans won at Sedan--the most glorious feat of arms recorded in modern history, perhaps in all history--has had a queer effect on the Anglo-American friends of the cause of Germany. The Chicago Tribune, which imports its economic ideas from England, seems parti

In the meeting which the German Patriotic Ladies' Aid held yesterday it was decided to dispose of the articles which were left over from the Fair given in Farwell Hall, at the North Side Turnhall next Thursday. The manner of disposal will be announced tomorrow. The following letter