ATTORNEY AT LAW,

Gives undivided attention to

All Business Pertaining to the Profession.

OFFICE: BARRETT'S BLOCK,

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.

WM. ROBERTS,

Merchant Tailor,

J. RIGG & SON,

Grocers and Flour Dealers,

Repairing and Pressing done in the neatest manner. All orders promptly attended to.

S. H. SOUDER.

Repairs Watches.

Trustees-Isaac Scarritt, President; Gen. John Tillson, Prof. John B. Turner.

Secretary and Treasurer-E. P. Kirby. Superintendent— Henry F. Carriel, M. D. Ass't Physicians-H. A. Gilman, M. D., and Elias C. Neal, M. D. Clerk-Charles A. Barker. Matron

--Mary Johnston. Chaplain-Rev. E. A Tanner.

THE ILLINOIS SOLDIERS' COLLEGE,

Is located at Fulton, Whiteside county, and we deeply regret that our brief spice will not permit that notice of this institution that its merits so richly demand.

It was founded by patriotic citizens of the State at the close of the late rebellion, for the purpose of furnishing to wounded and disabled soldiers, and to the orphans of deceased soldiers, a thorough and practical education. The enterprise was the conception of the loftiest patriotism and an exalted Christianity, and born of the purest devotion to the interests of the common weal. Gratitude to the soldier holds but a small place in this work. Gratitude to the soldier has no place in the hearts of 'the people, simply because he is a soldier, but when the soldier perils all in the preservation of a country beloved, then is the love of country exhibited in works of love, in alleviating the ills of those who suffer for the common good.

The college was opened for the reception of students, Sept. 12th, 1866. In February, 1867, the Legislature of the State granted to the college a charter, liberal in its terms, and made for its support an appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars a year for two years. The Legislature of 1869 renewed the appropriation. The people of the State have contributed to the college about ninety-five thousand dollars. There are now in attendance about 260 students.

Each county has the right to appoint from two to four disabled soldiers, or soldiers' orphans, to scholarship in the college. Tuition, in all branches, board and furnished rooms, are free to such appointees. The entire course of study requires four years. It is not easy to estimate the good that must flow from

this institution. Very many of the wounded soldiers were, when they left the army, without an education, and being disabled, were without the means of support, and must either be supported by their friends or maintained at public expense. With an education, the maimed and physically helpless soldier is prepared to enter either of the many avenues to selfsupport and competence now open to him; and while the State is relieved, the greater relief comes to the soldier, to whom, otherwise, life must be a burden.

Faculty-Leander H. Potts, A. M., President of the College, Professor of Mental and Moral Science; Charles W. Feeks, A. M., Professor of Mathematics, Military and Commercial Science; Rev. Geo. W. Woodward, A. M., Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages; Rev. Olin Mattison, Professor of Natural Science; Moses Soule, A. M., Instructor in Language; William H. Brydges, Instructor in Mathematics and Natural Science; John A. Garmon, Instructor in Penmanship.

THE ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY

Is deserving of a notice, and we will give a brief description of the buildings and grounds.

Whole area belonging to the State is 72 19-100 acres; whole area within the main walls, 16 acres; main wall, 25 feet high and 6 feet thick; 100 cells for separate system, 715 feet, and 15 feet high; 900 cells for congregate system, and 100 cells for females, 4×7 feet, and 7 feet high. Each cell has a distinct ventilating tube, extending to roof, with two registers in each. All partitions, floors, and ceilings of cells, are formed each of one stone 8 inches thick. All buildings and grounds are supplied with pure water from the spring at the bluff. Buildings warmed by steam. Kitchens and wash rooms furnished with steam, and other cooking and washing fixtures of the most modern and approved kinds. All buildings and walls stand on rock foundations. A railroad track connects the State quarries with railroads traversing the State, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

Repairs Jewelry.

The present number of convicts imprisoned here is about 1,200.

In addition to those given above, there are also in the State the following State institutions, and for the support of which the State must provide:

Southern Illinois Normal University, established March, 1869, and located at the city of Carbondale, in the county of Jack

son.

State Reform School for Juvenile Offenders, established by act of Legislature, 1867 (amended 1869), located at Pontiac, in Livingston county.

Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane, established 1869, and located at Elgin, in the county of Kane. Also

The State Board of Public Charities.

But space will not admit of a more extended notice here. The last named are but recently created by the State Legislature, and as yet, cannot be said to rank among State institutions.

We would, were we able, give a full description of the New State House, and the National Lincoln Monument now being erected, at immense cost, in the city of Springfield; but we have not the means at hand, and will not attempt it.

Suffice it to say, that each in its way is a model of architectural skill and workmanship; and when completed will stand unrivaled among the works for which each was designed.

MILITARY RECORD OF THE STATE.

Had we the space, the time, and above all, the ability, to do justice to this part of our State history, we could conceive of no loftier ambition, or a brighter and more enduring honor, than would be ours in writing it! But this history, let it be

written by whom it may, let his powers be what they may, cannot be read to-day. The generation that participated in the stirring events of the past war, must pass off life's great arena, and those who come after will read, with a keen interest, the history of Illinois, made in the great rebellion. To-day, we live this history; we carry it in our hearts, deep treasured; and when we list, the fountain stirs, moves, courses through the soul, possessing our very being, and excluding all else— wraps and engulfs us as the bloody panorama of war passes in review, stirring and tossing the soul in the tumults of strife. Now, burned with lightning swiftness, now, rocked by heaventrembling thunders, the past stands before us, not upon tame pages of paper, where feeble pen has drawn its farce-like scrolls, but deep burned into the heart, where memory has but to touch the chord, to move the soul in deep upheaving. What! read a written work, when to-day we stand and look upon the long line of blue that files away from our homes, silently, firmly and true, to the breach over which the waves of death are rolling! Read, while the thunders of that fearful struggle are resounding in our ears! No, we cannot read; we can see, and know, and feel, but cannot tell; and he were a bold man indeed, who proposes to place before this generation, a work that shall take the place of that burned upon the tablets of the soul.

With this view, we forbear any attempt, knowing that an imperfect sketch could give no satisfaction, and anything else cannot be given. A few items may, however, be of interest.

The soldiers furnished by Illinois to the Government during the rebellion, numbered two hundred and fifty-six thousand men; more than one-quarter of a million.

This vast army served the country as follows:

Infantry organizations of the State, 161 regiments, with aggregate strength of 185,941 men.

Cavalry organizations of the State, 17 regiments, with aggregate strength of 32,082 men.

Artillery battalions, 33, with aggregate strength of 7,277 men.