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ft 1 7 37 Wm Connor 15 th John Kynasten 28th George Bristor I 33d John Pomeroy 22d Geo Allen A 28th Rasmul LarsonH 28th Rudolph Peters 28th Wm Webb 28th Gottlieb JDrews A 9th 1 Asle Vangen 27th 3d Cavalry C'Critton 27th Infantry Joseph Mistell 28th Charles Gepoke Hospital Steward Gen Prairie du Chien Wis JV 4 sfoMra rancis Lu'Clayton now in Maine en WORDS CHEER MORNING Do not be sorrowful darling" Do not be sad I pray Taking the year together my dear There more night than day rainy weather my darling waves they heavily run But taking the year together my dear There more cloud than sun We are old folks now my darling Our beads they are growing gray But taking the year all round my dear You will always find the May We have had our May my darling And our roses long ago And the time of year is coming my dear Por the still night and the snow 1 And God is the God my darling Of the night as well as the day And full well we know that we can Wherever lie leads the way Aye God of the night my darling nf the Tiieht of death so crim The gate that from life leads out good wife Is the gate that leads to Dim Tua Potato Diet As prices are now there is scarcely an article of food more ex pensive to those who have to buy all they eat than the potato We have paid three dollars a bushel for potatoes for some weeks past and five dollars a barrel is a moderate price at which they could not be obtained in this city during the summer The potato is cultivated over greater range of latitude than any other plant and is used more extensively as an article of food than almost any other vegetable yet it has very little nutritious food in it Of its constit uent elements 75 parts are water and only 25 dry food out of 100 parts and of this dry food there is less in to nourish that is to give strength and enables a man to undergo fatigue than any other vegetable that is gen erally used except rice There are three vegetables greatly used by different races of people and Prof Johnston in his Chemistry of Common Life says that the three races who use them are distinguished by the size and prominence of their stomachs I The Hin doo who lives on rice the negro who lives on plantain and the Irishman who lives exclu sively on potatoes are all said to be thus marked This peculiarity is1 in part ascribed to the necessity of eating a large bulk of food in order to be able tp extract from it a suf ficient amount of necessary sustenance But the potatoe is now firmly rooted in5 the affections of the Anglo Saxon as well as the Celtic race and will be a prime article of food as long as it continues to be wholesome Its price has been steadily raising for some years past while the quantity raised has also been greatly inscreased There is no surer crop to find a good market than potatoes and there is scarcely any food that poor peo ple buy so much of and get so little out of it A 17 Observer Prairie du Chien Wis is well adapted for such purposes Most of the soldiers transferred belong to The tollowing is a inmates ot me speechless from soon as I could obtain an answer from her I asked her what she had seen Was it a man S3 No no it a man nor a woman She know what it was but it was so dreadful so ugly Oh poor granny 1 This was all I could learn from her lput her into my bed and leaving the candle lighted 'went out of the house and walked about the streetstill daylight The carousers had returned and knew the worstthen They were sobeied after the shock andwere civil to me and thanked me for the care I had taken of the child whom however they stu diously kept away from me The old woman was decently buried and on New Day I left my lodgings I shall never forget that nigh t'so long aa I live But what was it the child saw i APOOR STORY The Dutchman In Java He rises generally at 5 A lights his cigar and then sallies forth to take his stroll or the natives term it makan ang signi fying literally to eat the wind About seven he returns to partake of a collation of eggs and cold meat after which he drinks his tea or coffee and smokes again He then takes his bath throwing buckets of water over his head after the manner adopted by all who reside in Eastern climes After the enjoy ment of this necessary luxury he puts on his day suit always of light texture on account of the heat and generally white and enter ing his carriage is driven to his kantor or house of business If he is a wealthy citi zen he probably returns home at twelve at which hour the breakfast as it is termed though at midday awaits him consisting of all kinds of Eastern delicacies Tice curry and endless sambals or small piquant dishes After this heavy meal Morpheus waves his wand over Batavia and all his votaries who can spare the time to retire to digest their food in a siesta of from two to three duration Rising from this sleep the first ci is Spa da a contraction for iSapa ada Who i which is immediately followed by Ayi a demand promptly attended to by some boy who' prepared for the sum mons quickly appears with a cigar box con taining five hundred or more ilippinos in one hand and a lighted Chinese joss stick in the other while another boy brings a tray on which is a cup of tea and snme cakes Another delicious cold bath generally suc ceeds the smoke after which the luxurious European retires to dress for the evening reappearing with the usual mouth appendage and a stick in hand no hat of conrse for the Batavian fashion is for neither gentlemen or ladies to wear anything on their heads ex cept when they go to church on Thus attired he wends his way quietly to the Plain or to that of Waterloo to gaze on thotiZe and fashion walking or driv ing about which the ladies do in full dress decollete and wearing ornaments in their hair On reaching home after his promenade our Dutchman partakes of orange bitters diluted in Kirsch wasser IIollands or brandy as a stimulus to the appetite and then after the enjovment of another weed the Mandocr' head servant or butler announces dinner When the ladies retire from dessert cigars are immediately handed round and cups of excellent Java coffee The gcntleJ men generally sit but a jshdrt time after the ladies leave adjourning after them tothe drawincr rnnTHj where they continue to puff vigorously at their lighted cigars To the per fume of which the ladies never make any ob jection As the room always opens on a ver andah some retire to seek the eoolness of the night air while others while away the time by music and chit chat retiring general i Miscellaneous Paragraphs Paul Morphy (says the New York Mercuro is now in New Orleans he having returned to his home to save his property He obliged to take the oath of allegiance to do a rather hard pill to swallow He aristocrat of the first water and like all Eucll fully sympathizes with the rebels He do not play now except in private In Paris he was several times defeated by players whom he can give odds to when in practice As Italian Love The Italian papers give an account of a terrible tragedy at Turin Two lovers finding an obstacle to their union resolved to sacrifice themselves The young man wrote a letter to his mother and a letter to his sweetheart Rosita and then blew out hlS brains Rosita determined to share her fate Her family entreat ed her to be calm she seemed to yield to their prayer but a day afterwards she con trived to be alone then putting a pistol to her heart she instantly ended her life Her mother hastened to her daughter the ment she heard the pistol report At the sight of her bleeding dying child the poor senses wei icft from her by emo tion and she is now in a mad house Rosita's young sister was so struck by this tragic scene she attempted to leap headforemost from the window and was with the utmost difficulty retained Sweet Potatoes in Place of Hyacinths A curious as well as simple and interesting experiment may be performed in the follow ing manner Take a sweet potatoe place it mouth of a transparent jar so that it fits loosely and keep it in its place by putting pins in it ill the jar with water and set it where the sun can shine upon it or in place where the temperature is quite even Almost any place in the house will do as in a window where it gets the light The pro gress will at first be slow replenish the jar with water as the potato absorbs it keeping the aterup to the middle of the potato and soon roots' ar from the part in the water rom this point its growth is quite rapid the roots striking downward finally it begins to sprout from the top green leaves appear and it continues to grow like a climb ing vine attaining a yard in length I have started several in this manner and now have one doing well Cassini in Scientific American Garibaldi It is not easy to conceive anything finer simpler more thoroughly un affected or more truly dignified than the man himself His noble head his clear honest brown eye his finely traced mouth beauti ful as a and only strung up to stern ness when anything ignoble or mean had outraged him and last of all his voice con tains a fascination perfectly irresistible allied as you know and felt these graces were with thoroughly puieuntarnished nature The true measure of the man lies in the fact that though his life has been a series of the bold est and most daring achievements his cour age is about the very last quality uppermost ii? vour mind when you meet him It is of the winning softness of his look and manner his kind thoughtfulness for others his tiree re pitv for all suffering' his gentleness hwwn dcstv his manly sense of brotherhood wak the verv humblest of the men who have lovd him that you think these are the traits that throw all his heroism into shadowy and all the glory of the conqueror pales before tbe simple virtues of the Dian BtackwxL Removal ov the Capital of Italy Since the announcement that lorence was to be made the capital of Italy property there has greatly enhanced in value As an instance it may be mentioned that two days before the news of the transfer of the capital had been spread a Turinese banker had entered into a contract with a lorentine gentleman for buying a house The owner had offend £5000 sterling and the banker had asked £4000 Whilst they were negotiating the "reat news reached lorence and the banker who wished to have the house was obliged to pay £12000 for it A small room which let for ten francs per month has now gone up to sixty francs at once lorence can no longer be called the cheapest as well as the loveliest city in Europe It will take two years to com plete the removal of the capital of Italy from Turin to lorence What the continen tal people call the Cabinets of the Ministers will only be removed fropi Turin at present The archives the offices of the different branches of the military and civil administra tions will follow Turin therefore will not feel the shock of the transfereo suddenly as it had been supposed Tobacco and the Heart Decaisne in a communication to the Academic des sci ences exhibits another clause in the heavy bill of indictment against the abuse of tobac co He states that in the course of three years he has met among eighty three invete rate smokers twenty one instances of marked intermittance of the pulse occurring in men from 27 to 42 years of age and not to be ex plained by organic lesion of the heart The absence of such lesion or other condition of health capable of inducing intermission of the action of the heart and the fact that in nine of these instances in which the use of tobacco was abandoned the normal action of the organ was restored Decaisne be lieves will justify him in concluding that in certain subjects the abuse of tobaqpo may give rise to a condition which may be termed narcotism of the characterized by intermission in the movements of that or gan and in the pulsation of the radial artery and that in some cases a suspension or dim inution in the practice of smoking is suffi ciaht to cause an entire disappearance of this irregularity iTedvcal jmes and Gazette Why a Parisian Dined at the Restaurant Instead of Home You may rest assured the digestive apparatus discovered the pro verb going is healthy going is long going or slow and sure goes many a Now in a own house soup is on the table at the appointed time the roast i tak en off the spit the dessert is spread The servants force you to eat fast that they may have more time for their dinner they do not wait on they suffocate you At a res taurant you are served in a very different manner You are not pressed you wait I always take care to say to the give yourselves too much trouble about me I like to wait I come here to Besides in a restaurant the door opens every minute an acquaintance a com rade or a friend enters You talk yon exchange news or ideas you laugh you are gay It is not the viscera it is the mind whielfis at table You make orv repeat or hear some bon tnots you recall some agreea ble souvenir dinner is over before you thought it commenced Yon have dined and digested at the same time and no animal but a boa constrictor takes pleasure in digestion This is the reason I live in Paris like a bache lor Englishman or Russian on a visit tothi? city Syiridion" in Boston Gazette i I The Continent an Iceberg Prof Agassiz in the Atlantic Monthly comes the con clusion that the continent of North America was at one time covered with ice a mile in thickness The proof is that the slopes of the Alleghany range of mountains are glacier worn on the very top except a few points were above the level of the icy mass Mount Washington for instance is over sixthousand feet high and the rough unpolished surface of its summits covered with loose fragments just below the level at which gla cier marks come to an end tell us that it lift ed its head alone above the desolate waste of ice and snow In this region then the thickness of the sheet cannot have beenmnch less than six thousand feet and this is in keep ing with the same kind of evidence in other parts of the country for wherever the mountains are much below six thousand feet ithe ice seems to have passed directly over them the few peaks rising on the heights are left untouched The glacier he argues as great plough and when the ice vanished from the face of the land it left it prepared for the hand of the husbandman The hard surface of the rocks was ground to powder the elements of the soil were nojn gled in fair proportions gtanite wag carrie into theTirqe regions Iinieiwas mingled witn the more arid and unproductive districts an a soil was prepared fit for the agricultura uses of man There are evidences ail oye the polar regions to show that at one Perf the heat of the tropics extended all over globe The ice period is supposed to subsequent to this and next to last beio the advent of the earth Poor and in search of lodgings I wander ed into the humblest district of westers Lon don and after some failures in my applica tions for a lodging I lighted upon a fairly presentable house in a shambling sort of ter 1 race not very distant from the principal thoroughfare of that section of the town I was admitted after repeated knocks and just as my patience was becoming exhausted by an old woman of about sixty five though it is possible that she might have been prematurely aged by want and illness When I inquired of the portress the terms of the lodgings the poor old creature who was shaking in voice and body from a sort of pal sy stammered out that she would call her daughter to answer my questions but I please step inside a I complied and waited on the ragged mat in the dingy passage while the old woman hobbled and jerked herself down stairs to the kitchen I knew when she arrived at th" door for a dull sound of voices which I bad noticed upon en tering suddenly expanded into a confused roar in which I detected both male and fe male laughter The occupants of the kitch en who were evidently carousing though it was but three in the afternoon seem ed to me to greet the old woman with shouts of derision Something hard was flung at her at her entrance I am sure for I heard her cry out in her quaky treble and the mis sile whatever it was rolling upon the wood en floor A great laugh was raised at this sally after which I recognized the trembling tones of the old woman declaring! presume the mission which had so unseasonably in terrupted the mirth in the kitchen There was a lull directly and shortly a terward I heard a younger and lighter step ascending the staircase and my landlday stood before me She was a bold sluttish looking woman of about thirty with a face which though not positively ill looking was of a low stamp and certainly unattractive She instantly as sued a smirk and courtesy to the prospective lodger but I perceived a trifling thickness of utterance and a peculiar lack of lustre in her eyes which were outward and visible signs of excess She excused herself for not waiting upon me immediately but was all owing to that stupid old woman servant which she kept out of charity Heaven knew she did nothing for the use of the house in return lor all the and which was and so on Abusing the wretched old woman and denying in every word the fact that it was her mother of whom she spoke so evilly the landlady pre ceded me to the drawing room and threw open the door with a conscious pride They were very inferior lodgings I believe at any other time 1 should have incontinently lett the spot but something prompted me and I agreed to lodge there for a month I had become interested in spite of myself and I was determined to know something more about my shaky old friend I had agreed upon taking lodgings from the first of December till the New day following and on beginning my reign in my new quarters I found the wisdom of hiring apartments of this sort weekly a plan I ever afterward adopted Nothing could have been more completely inconvenient as far as ac commodation and attendance were concerned and yet I staid for I had already found an interest in the place The shaky old woman was the servant of all work the factotum the fag of the lodgings Often I have myself relieved her of the breakfast tray when the cup and saucer and butter boat and tea pot have been trembling responsively and the egg designed for my humble repast has been rolling wildly from side to like a barrel on deck in a storm She cleaned the boots swept the stairs answered the bell fetched the beer (no sinecure) and performed in short every menial while her shame less daughter and recreant son in law ate drank (and were drunk) and slept at ease with all household burdens save that light one of receiving the money shifted from their young shoulders to crazycare After a due amount of patience on my part I ventured to inquire of the old handmaid as to the menage of the slipshod household Why do you do all the work I said kindly to her one morning after I extricated mv breakfast (at the expense of the egg) from entire dissolution at her hands is too for To my surprise the poor old woman sat down an a chair and burst into tears I was not a little astonished but held my tongue till she had somewhat recovered when I again remarked afraid this is too much for you do day after The old creature rose suddenlyrand totter ed to the door humbly pray your pardon she stammered I forgot myself been am well lately sir and the children have I said the door and tell me all about it I am anxious to know all about you and if I can do any thing Oh no dear cried the poor old wretch trembling with fear in addition to her usual palsy notice me Sir if you please pray If they were to know that I had been crying or talking to you Here she paused and looked nervously at the door Whafwould they do? I asked? beat me Sir She often does if" forget any thing and he oh I awful swearing and flinging pewter pots at me was ill once for weeks from a blow be gave Why on earth do they ill treat you I asked do all the workj "While they idle There must be some other said the old woman with some pride in her voice cracked jerks and feeble as it wa I was once worth more than a thou sand pounds I mean when my husband died and before she was married I set them up but they robbed me of all my money and they know it and keep me here and hate and ill treat me in Why do you stay? I asked but a mo ment after I was conscious of the folly of my question as the old woman Where conld I go to Sir The simplicity and despair of this response convincing me that I should do no good by personally interfering in the domestic misun derstandings I refrained from further ques tioning and waited for some issue to this course of ill treatment when I might though an outsider be justified in stepping jn as a check It soon came In the Christmas week the poor old mother took to her bed" 1 thoroughly conquered by the hard weather and the increasing work 4 Every day I heard angry voices and curses through the thin wainscoting which separated my bedroom from the wretched old sleeping 3 deni A feeble squeaking was all that rough usage neglect or execution elicited My blood used to blaze within me at the coward ice and the low triumph of that drunken and disreputable pair who iunketed while their mother was gasping for breath or calling for common assistance did once forgqt my po sition and attempted to expostulate with the daughter my landlady who came into mr room 'attended by a rampled haired child with a dirty face (which was a pretty like ness of her on the morning of the twenty fourth of December Bedizened was the landlady and ribboned11 nr ckn wna hiimH lirtnn 1 Eaa KJ I Cl Jl Ills A Ka A I merry making with friends that Christmas I ly about eleven or twelve to renew the same eve and I was so struck with the heartless 1 the next day ness of a daughter who owed her fortunes hBy the Governor of the State of Wisconsin such as they were to the poor woman starv I A PROCLAMATION ing and neglected in the next room leaving I Another year has parsed its trials its victories a parent dying perhaps in the feare of only 1 jtarewardsj its? pffbishtoenfs it blessings have a child five years old that I mildly reflected 1 recorded its fruits have been gathered in upon the remarks which the neighborsmight in reviewing them how manifest are the reasons make on the occasion I was speedily si for thankfulness and God for his wonder leneed by thatrtndescnbable manner which a ful gooIneB8 tbe children of men or th many 1 low bred woman always can assume to those tokens of DiTine faTOTj the many blect iugs thev whom she considers as interfering with her hilTe beeu permitted to enjov Unpeople of Wls on her departure her husband eonBin haT9 greaUr8Rfon thankful Pestii his eyes still dazed and lustreless from last ence and famine have been kept far from us The night excess merely put his head inside of 0 1 I laboraot the miner tbe mariner the xnecbanicand mv door and gave me a look but that glance I the husbandman have been rewarded Thepnnl decided me against interfering any further I nhoprlP PhrUtrnna of educattou and of worshiping God accord alone in a wretched lodging with no other 1115 to he dictates ot conscience have been enjoy occupants than a bed ridden old woman and I ed J11' a miserable child I had taken a rather more Thelhonor and loyalty of Wisconsnj have been 4 enne rv expensive dinner tnan usual tnat evening in honor of the day and when I returnedrfiiid ing my fire rather low I called out' to' the little' child was I in her room to coine and show me where the coal cellar was fA shrill an swered me and I waited for my little guided 3 one was a ions time coining: ting wearied and cold when I heard a strange hobbling outside my door and to my horror and amazement the old mother staggered in with a coal scuttle in' her hand little child grasping her thin dress and smiling all to ns for liis loving kindness jJJis constancare the while I an(l abundant mercies we should I gasped is I hearts thank and praise him' this? Why are you here Whatever Therefore James Lewis Governor ot the duced you to get up to do this? I would state of Wisconsin in accordance with a worthy have gone without fire a hundred times I and time houpred custom do hereby designate and rather than you should have run his I appoint The old woman smiled as I seized tlie Thursday the' 24th day of November coal scuttle out of her palsied J8G4 as a day or Thanksgiving and Praia to Al nothing do it for you for you but I mighty God and I would recommend to the peo not for them no not for them God bless I pie that laying aside secular pursuits they meet you sir Good night and a merry Christmas on that day in their accustomed places of worship to you Come Nancy I an(j offer thanks to God for the many blessings we I cried" back to have been permitted to enjoy during the past year bed you 11 kill tourself in this bitter cold I and with their thanks let the fervent Go back I beseech you I prayer ascend for'the protection of the widow and going sir said the shivering crea I tbe orphan thenoble soldier and his suffering ture are you sure you want nothing familyt that we may all grow wiser and better fetched or anything tjiat an our bieEBiDgg may be continued and that In Ileaven name no I cried again peace may soon again visit and bless our land go back to ki 1 Iq te6timonj whereofj have hereunto sub 4 the poor old wretch as I scribed my name and the great seal watcued her retreating to her dan I shall cf the state of Wisconsin to be afflxeJ 1 Ied And 30 murmuring Done at MadiB thlB 22d day of October she hobbled out of sight 0 'If mu the year of our Lordjone thousand eight My terrors were increasing I poked the hundred and sixty four fire but could get no addition to my spirits By tbe Oovernor JAMES LEWIS by watching the friendly blaze At last worn LucIns VAIRCHILb Secretary of State out and at a late hour I determined upon a goipg to bed and trying to overcome the sad I forebodings which had seized upon me by Spewli from Secretary boward sleep I lay a long time awake but at length Ou (he evening priop to the election Sec I went off into a deep slumber HoW long I retary Sbward as has been his wont for remained unconscious 1 do not know but ars addressed his fellow citizens at creasing in horror till they culminated in my burn New York Although some portions starting up in my bed with a loud cry ringing I of his speech were of only temporary inter in my ears Believing it to be the effect of I est there is much of it of a more permanent a disordered fancy I was preparing to sleep nature The as is well known'' again when my blood ran icily through my I at a repetition of the former cry It avows hmself an optimist and defends his was a voice Yes and in the next custom of looking at thd cheerful side of the' room I listened and heard a struggling and future' never dCsnairinff of the ebuntrv And then the pattering of naked feet upon the SQ after ex essin hi3 confidence in the tri boarding of the adjacent chamber I was 4 frozen with fear Suddenly I heard the child umphant vindication ot the Administration cry out in a panic of fear Granny granny before the great popular tribunal on the fol Send it away! send it away! Go lowing day he added: away I know you you are eo ugly BhOuld be recreant if I did not coutcss 4nd a struggle again This time that gee no of safet for the Union if the child voice was raised almost to a shriek the le to morrow should give it over in Go away go away ho are jou Let tthe opponcnta of the Admin granny alone Oh mother mother come Cries of We do back come back to granny? And a moment But do notL fo what on the ni hJt after the little naked feet went pattering before the election will be hcard on the morn down and up the stairs while the child moan ing after tfae elcction however it may result ed piteously Oh mother mother come I tberefore let no man expect to hear after an bat'k Mastering nij fears as well aa I adverse result that I am despairing or even couki I leaped out of bed huddled on some I despondent Cheers If the opposition clothes and cautiously opened my bedroom I prevaj do not know indeed the fountain door It was pitch dark outside but I could I from whicb streams of hope can flow in that hear the child stall moaning descending the I disastroua event but I do know that God kitchen stairs eeling my way to the old I bas a thousand ways of saving nations even woman room I reached the door and paused their extreme pcriL Cheers I do know to listen There was silence over the house that najiong are boru live although they sa when the wailing of the little girl could must'eventuallydie and I do know that as my be indistinctly heard below Carefully push voce jn bbe daik: hours of 18C1 rang through ing the door open I entered and nearly tbe worjd giving reassurance to the friends shrieked aloud at the sight which met my of human so jf utterance shall eyes Crump ed up in bed with face and I be ieft to me it will proclaim witheven knees together sat the dd woman Her I greater earnestness and energy that this Re eyes were widely staring her hands grasping ia not aitogether lost' Vehement the wretched quilt her jaw dropped her face I anolause1 And as I sneak so in that fear the color of stone and as inflexible fahe fuj trust I shall be able to act Cries waa dead oft and cheers Taking a hasty inspection of the miserable 1 room to insure that no one was concealed I He then painted the dangers that surround there and that there had been no foul play I I ed the country civil war confronting it for carefully and shudderingiy retiied and had I wara threatening it the fires of treason iust lighted my candle in my room when I I 0 heard the child ascending the stairs again I I ou3 faction on all our borders and sending up called her by name' and she ran 'sobbing to sulphurous smoke under our very feet It me speechless from As1 soon as I I Would ba absurd to say that the country was not in a strait but therewere only twocours es before us one to persevere in the effort to put down the rebellion the other to aban don it Hazard attended either but in his deliberate judgment by far the lesser hazard lay in marching on in the line of persever ence Indeed' in no other way could our national integrity be assured After alluding to the conspiracies in the Western States the concerted aetion between Chicago London and Richmond that has been revealed the' raids from Canada iipon Sandusky St Albafid and other points and the amazement that many jfelt upon seeing after all thisa large class of our own citizens with alternate obstinacy and levity refusing to give an unreserved support to their own Government 5thespeaker saiJ that such fac tions were among the invariable incidents of civil war Opposition wouldK rise high as government became energetic and grow into faction and in civil war was unmiti gated After speaking of various governments that have through simi lar trials he'continued No Government in any of those countries ever Was less embarrassed in civil war by than theGovernment of the United States during the last three and a half years None of those Governments at that same tiifie ever dealt with domestic faction with so much moderation and humanity as this Government has practiced toward citizens who have aided and abetted fed and warmed clothed and armed its Open and defiant ene mies (Cries of better if they had hung Vallandigham and the rest of Cheers) Not one head has fallen on the judicial block Nor need you be alarmed at these demonstrations of faction The people of the United States have had a Christian education apolitical education a moral education such as Providence has never before vouchsafed to any nation and great as the forces and facilities of faction are the repressive And loyal forces possessed by this people are magnified and multiplied in propor tion (Chedrs) After characterizing the attempted frauds on the ballot box in New York as more fraudulent conception more wicked in de sign than we have before encountered" and congratulating his hearers on their timely detection he spoke of the policy of the Ad ministration respecting slaverv as connected with' the war as follows: SL is no question before tou of aban doning the war measures against slavery and substituting for them a policy of conservation or concession to slavery a Cheers Those measures are apart of the war Cheers It is for the nation in a tetate of war and not for the nation in a future state of peace that the Government is acting and of course that we are voting Applause There is no ques tion before you of changing the object of tbe war from the mainten ance of the Uniomto that of abolishing slavery Slavery is the mainspring of the rebellion" The Govern ment necessarily strikes it in the very centre as Kcll aa upon every inchroftits soil 2 Cheers and cries or "dying In my poor judgment the Mainspring is broken and let the war end when it will and as it may the fear that that mainspring will re cover its elasticity may give us at present no uneasiness Cheers Before the war slav ery had the patronage and countenance of the United States against the whole world Its inherent error guilt and danger are now as will not stoop her haughty forehead in the! Hlstek uusiywiuier uicwmuh vi rtsovia av ine bomb or of their craven abettors at the North She never stood more proudly erect more firmly self centered or felt a inore auroral hope than now as with bared arm and defiant eye she holds aloft the old flag and utters the inspiring battle cry the Great Empirb of Liberty or ward 1 her husband in 1861 and fought by his side till he was in the battle of Stone Riv er She was in eighteen battles once prisoner three times wounded in hand hip and knee and at her death made known her sex to the General and was discharged After that she walked ninety three miles from Lexington to Louisville bare headed ana bare footed traeking her way in blood fully revealed to the people of the United States as they have heretofore been to the 1 outside world Before the calamitous war in which slavery has plunged the country shall endit will be even more hateful to the American people than it already is to the rest of mankind while their condemnation of it will remain unchanged" Applause On the question ot peace or war as falsely raised by the opposition he continued: The Opposition will not succeed iirinislead ing you I am sure bv telling vou that you have a question of immediate peace or war involved in the present issue War and not peace vou have' already God knows that it is severe and painful enough If I could 1 think of taxes in the face of national I should say that our taxes are heavy enough most nobly vindfratedAiy her sons on many a batli Jf I could think of personal interests affec tiefleid Wherever our liberties have been nssau 1 tions or sympathies in the face of an insolent ed anAii Creator baa given us stout enemy in arms I should ay that men enough and Strong arms to defend tbem jhad been maimed and slain Butwhen we The free institutions established by ou? fathers shall have said all these things the actual sit have been protected and'preserved end a wicked nation of the country will Still be lie fore us I and nnholv rebellion bronebt near to its close She was a long time and 1 was get While the peopleof our sister btates have suf fered irom the devastations caused uv hostile arm ies in their midst our people have been spared! ever? How long is the war to last I amity oralltbese and numerous other answer the War will not last forever but it blessing which God in His goodpess has vouchsafed rom the Mississippi Squadron Dull times A Change of Commanders Ad miral Porter Itevairinq the Indionala sad AecidenC 'Correspondence ofthe State Journal Mississippi Squadron 5 Mound City Oct 29th Jfessra Editors Standing or rather" sit ting out a watcihOQ a gunboat at night esf pecially during the long midnight hours is tedious and one casts about him for something to do that will pass away the time and this being precisely the situation in which I find myself at present I drop a line or two to the Journnl The rebels in the vicinity o'f or Hurricane Island (for we up our old station here) will not furnish me with a single item We neither see or hear anything of them so I will confine myself to a I a A a a wara unchanged It is a state nof civil war and ua? not of peace (Cheers) Persons often ask thio squadron irst we have a change ot 1 in '1 kL 1 Tx inc on every liana is me war uu ior commanaers auu Aamirtu xunei icn up How long is the war to last 1 jgfaras my knowledge extends Admiral 11 frr 1 "I ly SS I 1 1 I A yf a LA AA A A OCA A A A wr must continue until we give up the conflict or the enemy give up the conflict '(Cries of men the command and we all miss him the and cheers) Are you I much He' was humane yet a strict prepared to give up the conflict (Cries of disciplinarian fearless and cool in times of ner r) ou say never 1 danger and an officer of excellent judgment Why? Because in that case yen give up the I national life (Cheers) In any and every In h9 farewell address which was read on the event the nation must live if you" were to quarter deck of every vessel he feelingly give up the national life you enter in the and gratefully alludes to the warm and effi sute of national death hat that state is cient suppOrt he has always received from' God be thanked we do not certainly know The Government will not abandon the con the officers and men of this squadron and flict until the majority ofi the people decide I reminds us of the fact that since his advent that it shall be abandoned Applauseand I as commander of Mississippi Squadron cries of That will never be On the g00 jjeg of tbe Mississippi river and other hand the enemy will abandon their re bellion just so soon as they shall Lave theun I nearly 2000 miles of its tributaries have doubted assurance that itcannot prevail I been opened to almost uninterrupted naviga Cbeers They will do so for two reasons: fl0n He deprecates the fact that what this first no faction can indefinitely continue a na has done has not been more hi2bly ap stiruggleXhat is hopeless Secondly because they give up no national life but they as well I preciated by the military authorities hints at as we rave their own national existence by I the prospect at no late day of having the sat their defeat and overthrow Cries of I isfaction of punishing some of our foreign al so and a better national existence than would be Confederacy and hopes in their maddest hours of delusion they have 1 everonceived as the result of their unlaw I to meet us all ib other fie! Qi of ful enterprise Cheers Suppose then that I Our squadron is now commanded by Captain the people as we all agree they will support I A Pennock who has been for a long time the Administration by their suffrage to mor I leet Captain and Commandant at Cairo ro The rebelsthenhave the assurance oftke About three weeks ago a partyi of some American people made upon a full rehearsing I sixty caulkers and carpenters in charge of the merits of the controversy upon appeal I Capt 8 camo down and and a full examination of results thus far ok I commenced work on' the Indianola with the lained with the relative forces of the parties I of our large crew She is now yet remaining in reserve that the conflict is I nearly ready for launching having been rais not to be abandoned on our part Tremen ed some seven feet new hog chains put in In all our athletic games three I and newly caulked rerdy for the water They times success in five trials gives the victory I are now constructing ithe ways on which to two decisions following each other is equal I launch her and then aa soon as the old Mis to three in five You have already abundant sissippi concludes to rise we shall have another evidences of the exhaustion of the rebels but I new gunboat The hull "and machinery are not yet evidences of their consciousness of I almost entirely uninjured only the upper that exhaustion Those evidences will ap works being burnt off Imd with a very little pear immediately on the announcement of the I edditional expense she will be as good as re election of Abraham Lincoln Cheers new Capt Lanning deserves credit for th You would have had those evidences earlier I expeditious manner in which he has aceoia if you had rendered this verdict sooner You I plished so heavy a job We understand he is will have them all the sooner after the verdict in I to take command of her when completed proportion to the unanimity and determina I A serious accident occurred here an hour tion with which it is sroKEN Loud cheers I ago Itihas been the custom to send a boat After showing the fallacy of attempting to out to passing steamers to save their landing whenever it was necessary to communicate put down an armed rebellion by substituting wkh them Uniess the manned by diplomacy and the arts of statesmanship I aQ experienced crew ibis is always attended for war he declared it was equivalent to a I with great danger This evening a boat went surrender of the Union If he had been wil out to put two women and a boy (passengers) I on board the great steamer Contmented Al ling to surrender he would have proposed I hough the were stopped the wheels surrender at the beginning he would at all I continued to revolve with the force of the events have availed himself of the first gleam I current The small boat did not succeed in of victor'v td secure forms as little humiliat I making fast to the steamers aide and was I carried under the ponderous wheel and with ing as possible The Secretary concluded a crash was gtove to atoma Tho boat con his speech with these noble words As for tained nine persons two of whom saved them the arts of statesmanship I know of none I selves by clinging to the guards applicable in this case The only art of I woman the boy and one man were pick i 1 i i edup afterwards by our boats while the statesmanship that I do know is to be faith female and thJree men werc drowned ful toGdd and to my country Applause I Among the lost we have to lament the loss I seek to cultivate charity and prevent war I of Mr Thomas Taylor Acting civil or foreign as long as consistent with Mate on this vessel who was in charge of the i boat He is supposed to have been struck nation ju tice and boner and safety it can tbe' buckets of the wheel and crushed iu be prevented but when in war to fight with staatiy with the boat He was a young and courage constancy and resolution and thus I promising officer and although he had been to save my country or fall with its I on board the Yfownd City but a short time he I had endeared himself to his messmates and rom the Wisconsin State Journal I the entire crew by whom his loss is deeply or Eight What it Means I felt I There is a corral Af some fifteen hundred The name of Abraham Lincoln is enrolled 1 I nostro womea and children on the Davis plan among the great men who in the Presiden tations but no able bodied men Some are tial chair liave'so won the confidence of the I picking their little patches of cotton but American people that they have been marked I most 01 them are idle I Our health is good and the weather fine out for the distinguished honor of being twice I Yours A entrusted with the Chief Magistracy' Since i A the days' of Andrew Jackson no man has The Dospltai pralrie du Chien been twice elected President until now 4 General Hospital 5 a recognition of the ability fidelity I Prairie du Chien Wis Nov 6 patriotism and devotion which Mr Lincoln I Editor Sentinel The above General has exhibited in the discharge of the migtity I Hospital at thi place under charge of Sur responsibilities of his position in a time of un geoa A Yaa on 4th inat parafolled trial and difficulty is an encourag I soidiers transferred from Jefferson Barracks ing evidence of the intelligence and stead 1 Mo The building fitted up for a hospital is fastness of the popular masses and a happy I ths in the lower town of augury for the future It announces to the people of the insurrec tionary States our unchanged and unchange Minnesota regiments able determination to make no terms with re I list of Wisconsin soldiers now bellion except absolute submission to the I Hospital Constitution and the laws' It tells them to I Lra Thomas Jones I 33d look for no change of policy no wavering no Wm Wilkins 33d relentment but only a vigorous unremitting I Russell 25th relentless war with the whole power of the I Gorman Sth National arms rebellion is crushed I Henry Baker A 28 th and loyalty to the National flag is es Nelson 28th tablished over every inch of the soil of the Joecks A 35th Republic 4 4 7 I Edmond Madison I 33d A convention representing whatever there I Smart 3d cavalry I ranz Enders 3d was of baseness of cowardice and of treason I Alden williams 3d in the North met at Chicago It represented Thomas Butler 3d yet more The programme of its proceed 1 James McCall 3d ings was the product of joint deliberation be I Keljy tween Southern traitors and Northern sympa Herman Shrader 3d thizers meeting upon British soil That Con Geo Ross 8th vention said to the American peoplk': It is Benj Bennett 3d time to fighting to the ballot box I buttle 3d and proclaim' the dissolution of the Repubhe Robert Martin 3d The war is a failure let the nation commit Herman Wittenburger And the American people respond Jacob ernan I 27th not with all the indignant emphasis which I Joseph Wollmer I 27th i i I Daniel Buchanan 27th would have characterized their answer had Levi Bunce the proposition been presented in its naked Johann ernisse 27th enormity instead of being as it was care Lloyd Breck 28th fully and blandly garmented in ambiguous I Yred Cager 8th i phrases specious circumlocutions false pro I fessions and Severt Johnson 27th 1 3 i I rx if i tn nbo ui ruu JAzpuDtuiu i 1avia AilDulCKj LLl But the answer is unmistakable 1 shout John Pelton 7th Battery the people if this great Republic must I Charles Corbet 8th Infantry if tho inevitable hour has we have some choice as to the manner of its Peter Johnson death Let it not fall if fall it must by a Simon PetersOnDJ 15tb craven £suicide Let it meet its fate in a man ner worthy of its past history and worthy of its grand aspirations Let it perish if perish it must in an heroic struggle to maintain itself overwhelmed bv superior force but un conquered in spirit going down like the glo rious old Cumberland her unstruck flag still waving aloft the symbol of indomitable and And the people' know and feel "that there is no such melancholy alternative dissolution by suicide or the suferior power of rebellion presented The will neither hor be overwhelined She Wisconsin Branch Christian Commission The Christian Commission was or ganized in November 1861 and consisted of twelve members Inorder however to bring actively into the work a large number of well known Christian gentlemen to preserve its nationality by the election of at least one memberfroni each loyal state and territory and to secures Catholicity by having repre sented in it all the various evangelical de nominations it has recently been enlarged to fifty members The official list is not yet published but we understand that the mem ber appointed from this State is Walter Carter of Milwaukee The State of Wiscon sin has also been constituted a branch of the commission and officers and members cho sen as follows: 4 Jf Chairman Walter Carter Milwaukee Treasurer rJolin A Dutcher Perkins Wm Sinclair 5 Holton Bradford II Kellogg John Johnston 0 George Allen A Kellogg Edwin Hy de Sherman II Bond Edward Roddis Buttles August rank John Pritzluff Hastings Madison Durant Kenosha Stewart Beaver Dam Lindsley Green Bay A gf Ca LxAcLU Dclvle Pettibone ond dv Lac George Gale Galesville at ri II Rountree Plattenlle Doolittle Win Smith ox Lake Worthington George ield Ripon Tschudy Monroe rederick Koehn Sheboygan executive committee Walter Carter John A Dutcher Per kins Wm Sinclair Bradford John John ston A Kdlogg Bond Edward Roddis and August rank Milwaukee As organized the Wisconsin Branch has four members (two from Milwaukee and two from the State at large) from each of the Congregational Presbyterian 0 Presbyterian Methodist Baptist Episcopal and Lutheran Churches Members from other evangelical denominations will be added from time to time The: growth of the Commission has been wopderful The first year (1862) the amount of money contributed to it was £40000 val ue of stores £142000 Bibles and Testaments distributed 103000 delegates sent 350 The second year the cash receipts were £358 000 value of stores $386000 copies of scriptures distributed 466000 delegates sent 1200 This year over £900000 in cash has already been received at the Central office in Philadelphia and stores in proportion The number of delegates "sent will probably reach 15001 The Wisconsin Branch urgently appeals to ths Christian hearts of the State for stores money and men The former should be sent to the Chairman and money to the Treasurer4 Milwaukee Two delegates will be con st uitly kept in each of the armies of the Po tomac and Cumberlandand as many as wish in the armies operating along the Mississippi river (as far down as the Gulf Department) and in Missouri and Arkansas Ministers and laymen desiring to serve as delegates the usual period of six weeks should apply to the Chairman stating when and where they wish to go and if personally unknow to him giving suitable reference Organizations in the State heretofore sending money: and stores elsewhere should now send to the Branch office Mw They eel in Reheldoin The following letter sent us by John ord of the SGth regiment who took it from the knapsack of a rebel soldier killed in recent movement south of Peters burg is interesting as showing the spirit of the Southern neonle and fog the re ports that their whole available force is now in the field We print it verbatim Charlton Co Ga October 2d 1864 Wainright Dear Son I once more wright you a few lines hoping they will Reach you soon and meet your approbation I must confess that I have nothing of a cheering nature to com municate to you we are all In a melencolly condition Our rinds is far from us and Ex pose to many dangers and Starvation and fa tugued In a Camp Life and the promising of hard fighting for hit looks like the ederals never will acknowledg our Independence the fall of Atlanta seams to renew thare Efforts and 'more Determing to Subjugate the South I am allmost disharteue'd at our prospect of gaining our Independence for our men is all in the field or nearly all and very light crops made in our Confederate States I dont See whate a numbers of amilys is a going to do that haint got a year of corn nor a pond of Bacon hit looks like starveing and it this war goes on twelve months longer I tell you that it is my candidly opinion that we Shall Starve In many numbers ior where there is no pro vishion starveation must be I recived your little note In closo In Mrs Stokes last monday and was glad to hear from you but wnuld be more than glad if you could git a detail to come home after a horse I hear that Sergt Syls is at home if I can git to see him I will send you a peace of dried beef As you stated In your letter that I need not send you any money I have not Sent any but I told Mr Grady to give Sergt Siles £30 dollars to hand you and as you dont Stand in need I will wright him not to Bend hit and if you want money to use you can use your Aunt Marys but I am in hopes you will git to come home before long you must do the best you can and bear All your troubles and Affliction with all the fortitude you can Oh dont I wish this bloody war would End for we have lost men Enough and thare has bin blood Enough Spilt for this war to end but I fear ths end is not yet but all wre can do is to pray to god to be with us and deliver us froifi the hands of our Enemys and that we a free and Independent people Worship ing and Serving the Lord for thatday is not far distance when we must Lay down our Bodys to rise ho more If we live to be one hundred years owld hit is but A moment time to Eternity 1 hope you will 'right often and wright all the news tell Stokes his fam ily is all well as common and giting a long as well as ean be Exspected Mary Sends her respect to you and wishes you to do well I must Close for the present Excuse all mis takes and mis spelling Wainright.