Wood County Reporter from Grand Rapids, Wisconsin • 2

WORDS OF CHEER. MOBXING COMETH. Do not be sorrowful, darling, Do not be sad, I pray the year togetn dear. There more night than day. rainy weather, my darling, waves they heavily run Bat, taking the year together, my dear, There more cloud than We are old folks now, my darling, Our heads 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, For the still night and the snow And God is the God, my darling. Of the night as well as the day And full well we know that we can go Wherever He leads the way. Yye God of the night, my darling, IS the gate that ie A POOR STORY. of lodgings, I Poor, and in of western Lotted into the hum a jj urea applicadou, and alter lighted upon a fairly tions for a a gambling sort of terpresentabley distant from the principal race, not pf that section of the town. I repeated knocks, and was was becoming exhausted d3 woman of about sixty-five, a possible that she might have been tbougbgjy a ecl hy want and illness.

When 1 the poor old creature, who was lobg fn voice and body from a sort of pillstammered out that she would call her Aghter to answer my questions, but 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 the door, for a dull sound of voices which I had noticed upon entering, suddenly expanded into a confused roar, iu which I detected both male and female laughter. The occupants of the kitchen, who were evidently carousing, though it was but three in the afternoon, seemed 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 missile, whatever it was, rolling upon the wooden floor. A great laugh was raised at this sally, after which 1 recognized the trembling tones of the old woman, presume, the mission which had so ur seasonably interrupted the mirth in the There was a lull directly, adftd 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 stanr and certainly unattractive. She inst.T assued a smirk and courtesy to the ospective lodger but I perceived a trilling thickness of utterance, and a peculiar lack of lustre in her eyes, which were outward and visible signs ot 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. Abiisiii" the retched old woman, and denying in every word the fact that it washer mother of hom she spoke so evilly, the landlady preceded me to the drawing-room and threw open tho door with a conscious pride. They were very inferior lodgings.

I believe at any other time I should have incontinently lelt the spot; hut something prompted me and I agreed to lodge there for a month. I had become interested iu 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 dav following and ou 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 accommodation and attendance were concerned and yet I staid, for 1 had already found an interest in the place. The shaky old woman was the servant ol all work, the factotum, the lag of the agings.

Often 1 have myself relieved her of the breakfast-trav, when the cup and saucer and butter-bgat and tea-pot have been trembling responsively, and the egg designed for my humble repast lias been rolling wildly from side to side, like a barrel on deck in a storm. She donned the boots, swept the stairs, answered the bell, fetched the beer (no and performed, in short, every menial oflice, while her shameless 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, shitted from their young shoulders to her crazy care. After a due amount of patience ou mj part, I ventured to inquire ot the old handmaid as to the menage of the slipshod household. Why do yon do all the work 1 said kindly to her one morning, after I extricated my breakfast (at the expense of the egg) from entire dissolution at her hands. is too much lor To my surprise the poor old woman sat down on 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 suddenly, and tottered to the door. humbly pray your pardon, she stammered. i forgot beeu unwell lately, sir, and the children I said. the door and tell me all about it. lam anxious to know all about you, audit' I can do uo, 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 1 had been crying, or talking to you, Here she paused, and looked nervously at the door. What would they do? I asked. beat me. Sir. She often does, if I forget any thing; and oh! awful swearing, and flinging pewter pots at me.

I was ill once for weeks, from a blow he gave Why on earth do they ill-treat you I asked. You do all the work, while they idle. There must be'some slier Sir, said the old woman, with some pride in her jerks, md feeble us it I was once worth moi than a thousand mean when husband died, and b-fore she was married. 1 jot them up, but they robbed me of all nq uoney; and they know it, and keep me he and hate and ill-treat me inconsequence. hy do you stay I asked but moment after I was conscious of folly of my question, as the old woman ans Where conld I go to, Sir The simplicity and despair of this sponse convincing me that I should do no by personally interfering in the domestic misunderstandings, I refrained from further questioning, and waited for some issue to this course of ill treatment, when I might, though an outsider, be justified in stepping in as a check.

It soon came. In the Christmas week the poor old mother took to her bed, thoroughly conquered by the hard weather and the increasing work. Every day I heard angry voices and curses through the thin wainscoting which separated my bedroom from the wretched old sleeping deu. A feeble squeaking was all that rough usage, neglect, or execution elicited. My blood used to blaze within me at the cowardice and the low triumph of that drunken and disreputable pair, who junketed while their mother was gasping for breath, or exiling lor common assistance.

I did once forget my position, and attempted to expostulate with the daughter, my landlady, who cane into my room, attended by a rirmpled-haired child with a dirty face was a pretty likeness of her bn the morning of thf twenty-fourth of December. Bedizened was the landlady and ribboned all over. Evidently she was bound upon a merrv making with friends that Christmas eve; and I was so struck with the heartlessness of a daughter owed her fortunes, such as they were, to the poor woman starving and neglected in the next room a parent, dying perhaps, iu the care of only a child five years old, that I mildly reflected upon the remarks which the neighbors might make on the occasion. I was speedily silenced by that indescribable manner which a low bred woman always can assume to those whom she considers as interfering with her concerns; and on her husband, his eyes still dazed and lustreless from last excess, merely put his head inside of my door and gave me a look; but that glance decided me against interfering any farther. I was doomed to a cheerless Christmas eve alone, in a wretched lodging, with no other occupants, than a bed-ridden old woman and a miserable child.

I had taken a rather more expensive dinner than usual that evening, in honor of the day; and when 1 returned, finding mv fire rather I called out to the cCS i the coal-cellar was. A shrill answered me, and I waited for my little guide. She was a long time coming; and I was getting 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 Land, the little child grasping her thin dress and smiling all the while. I gasped, is this? Why are you here? Whatever induced you to get up to do this I would have gone wLhouf a fire a hundred times rather than should have run this The old woman smiled, as I seized the coal-scuttle out of her palsied hands. nothing.

do it for you, you but not for not for them. God bless you, sir Good-night and a merry Christmas to you. Come, Nancy, I cried, back to bed; kill yourself in this bitter Go back, I beseech going, said the shivering creature, are you sure you want nothing fetched, or anything name, no I cried go back to kill muttered the poor old wretch, as I watched her retreating to her don. shall not have killed And so murmuring she hobbled out of sight. My tenors were increasing.

I poked the fire, but could get no addition to my spirits by watching the friendly blaze. At last, worn out, and at a late hour, I determined upon going to bed, and trying to overcome the sad forebodings which had seized upon me by sleep. I lay a long time awake, but at length I went off into a deep slumber. How long I remained unconscious I do not know, but troublesome dreams affected my sleep, increasing in horror till they culminated in my starting up in my bed with a loud cry ringing iu ray ears. Believing it to be the effect of a disordered fancy, I was preparing to sleep again, when my blood ran icily through my veins at a repetition of the former cry.

It was a voice. Yes; and in the next room. I listened, and bear'd a struggling, and then the pattering of naked feet upon the boarding of the adjacent chamber. I was frozen with fear. Suddenly I heard the child cry out in a panic of fear, Granny, granny, Seiid It away send it away! Go away I you you are so ugly.

Go away And a struggle again. This time tho voice was raised almost to a shriek. away! go awmy Who are you? Let granny alone. Oh, mother, mother, come back come back to And a moment after the little naked feet ent pattering down and up the stairs, wdiile the child moaned piteously, Oil, mother, mother, come back Mastering my fears as well as I could, I leaped out of bed, huddled on some clothes, and cautiously opened my bedroom door. It was pitch dark outside; but I could hear the child, still moaning, descending the kitchen stairs.

Feeling my way to the old room, I reached the door and paused to listen. There was silence over the house, when the wailing of the little girl could be indistinctly heard below. Carefully pushing the door open, I entered, and nearly shrieked aloud at the sight which met my eyes Crumpled up in bed, with face and knees together, sat the old woman. Her ves were widely Staring, her hands grasping the retched quilt, her jaw dropped, her face the color of stoue, and as inflexible. She was dead! Taking a hasty inspection of tho miserable room, to insure that no one was concealed there, and that there Had been no foul play, I carefully and ghudderingly retired, and had just lighted my caudle in my room when I heard the child ascending the stairs again.

I called her by name, and she ran, sobbing to me, speechless from horror. As soon as I could obtain an answer from her I asked her what she had seen Was it a man No, no it a man, nor a woman. She know what it was, but it was so dreadful, so ugly. Oh, poor granny This was all I could learn from her. I put her into my bod, and leaving the candle lighted, went out of the house and walked about the streets till daylight.

The carousers had returned, and knew the worst then. They were sobered after the shock; and were civil to me, and thanked me for the care I had taken of the child, whom, however, they studiously kept away from me. The old woman was decently buried and on Day I lelt mv lodgings. I shall never forget that night so long as 1 live. But what was it the child saw The Dutchman in Java.

lie rises generally at 5 A. lights his cigar, and then sallies forthjto take his stroll, or, as the natives term it, tnakan ang-n, signifying, 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 Ids bath, throwing buckets of water over his head, after the manner adopted by all who reside hi Eastern climes. After the enjoyment of this necessary luxury, he puts on his day suit, always of light texture ou account of the heat, and generally white, and, entering his carriage, is driven to his kantor, or house of business.

If he is a wealthy citizen, he probably returns home at twelve, at which hour the it is termed, though at him, consisting of all kinds of Eastern delicacies, rice, 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 is a contraction for Sapa ada, Who is there is immediately followed bv light demand promptly attended to bv some boy, who, prepared for the summons, quickly appears with a cigar box, "containing five hundred or more Eilippinos. in one hand, and a lighted Chinese joSs stick in the other while another boy brings a trav on which is a cup of tea and sume Another delicious cold bath generally succeeds the smoke, after which the luxurious European retires to dress for the evening reappearing with the usual mouth appendage, and a stick in hat, of course, for the Batavian fashion is for neither gentlemen or ladies to wear anything on their heads, except when they go to church on Thus attired, he wends Iris way quietly to the Plain, or to that of Waterloo, to gnfze bn the (the and fashion walking or driving about, which the ladies do in full wearing ornaments in their hair. On reaching home after his promenade, our Dutchman partakes of orange bitters diluted in Kirsrh-H-iisscr brandy, as a stimulus to and then, after the enjoyment of another weed, the Mandoer, head-servant or butler, announces dinner.

When the ladies retire from dessert, cigars are immediately handed round, and cups of excellent Java coffee. The gentlemen generally sit but a short lime after the ladies leave, adjourning after them to the drawing-room, where they continue to puff vigorously at their lighted cigars, to the perfume -of which the ladies never make any objection. As the room alway? opens on a verandah, some retire to seek the aoolnessof the night air, while others while away the time by uvsic and chit-chat, retiring generally about eleven or twelve, to renew the same the next day. By the governor of the State of Wisconsin. A PROCLAMATION.

Another year passed; its trials, its victories, its rewards, its punishments, its blessing? ive been recorded; its fruits have been gathered In reviewing them, how manifest are the reasonfor thankfulness and pra se to for bis wonderful goo 1 ness to the children of men. For the mat tokens of Divine favor, the many ble--iags they have teen permitted to enjoy, the people cl Wisconsin have great reason to be thankful I estilence and lamlce have been kept far from us. The labors ot the miner, themariner, the mechanic and the husbandman hare been rewarded. The privileges of education and of worshiping God according to the dictates conscience have been enjoyed by all. The honor and loyalty of Wisconsin bare been most nobly vindicated by her sons on many a battlefield.

Wherever our liberties have been assailed, an All-wise Creator has given ns stout hearts and strong arms to defend them. oy fathers ive been protected and preserved, ud a wicked and unholy rebellion brought near to its close. While the people of our sister Slates have suffered from the devastations caused by hostile armies in their midst, our people have been spared this calamity. For all these and numerous other God in Ilia goodness has vouchsafed to us; for His loving kindness, His constant care and abundant mercies, we should with graceful hearts thank and praise him. Therefore, James T.

Lewis, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, in accordance with a worthy and time-honored custom, do hereby designate and appoint Thursday, the 24th day of November. 1804, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to Almighty God, and I would recommend to the people that, laying aside secular pursuits, they meet on that day in their accustomed places of worship, and offer thanks to God for the many blessings we have been permitted to enjoy during the past year, and with their thanks let the earnest, fervent prayer ascend for the protection of the widow and the orphan, the noble soldier and his suffering family, that we may all grow wiser and better, that all our blessings may be continued, and that peace may soon again visit and bless our land. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and cau'ed the great seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at Madison, this 22d day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. By the Governor, JAMES T.

LEWIS. Looms Fairchild, Secretary of State. AaotUer Speech from Secretary Seward. Ou the evening prior to the election, Secretary Sbward, as has been his wont for many years, addressed Ids fellow citizens at Auburn, New York. Although some portions of Lis speech were of only temporary interest, there is much of it of a more permanent nature.

The Secretary, as is well known, avows himself an optimist, and defends his custom of looking at the cheerful side of the future, never despairing of the country. And so after expressing his confidence in the triumphant vindication of the Administration before the great popular tribunal on the following day, he added: I should be recreant if I did not coniess that I see no hope of safety for the Union if the people to morrow should give it over in trust to the opponents of the present Administration. of do But I do'not forget what I say on the night before the election will be- heard on the morning after the election, however it may result; therefore, let no man expect to hear after an adverse result that I am despairing or even despondent. If the opposition prevail, I do not know, indeed, the fountain from which streams of hope can flow, in that disastrous event; but I do know that God has a thousand ways of saving nations, even in their extreme peril. Ido know that nations are born to live, although they must and I do know that as my voice in the dark hours of 18G1 rang through the world, giving reassurance to the friends of human progress, so, if utterance shall be left to me, it will proclaim with even greater earnestness and energy that this is not altogether lost.

And as I speak, so in that fearful crisis, I trust I shall be able to act. of and He then painted the dangers that surrounded the country, civil war confronting it, foreign wars threatening it, the fires of treasonous faction pn all our borders and sending up sulphurous smoke under our very feet. It would be absurd to say that the country was not in a strait, but there were only two courses before to persevere in the effort to put down the rebellion, the other to abandon it. Hazard attended either, but in his deliberate judgment by far the lesser hazard lay in marching on in the line of perseverence. Indeed, in no other way could our national integrity bo assured.

After alluding to the conspiracies in the Western States, the concerted action between Chicago, London and Richmond that has been revealed, the raids from Canada upon Sandusky, St. Albans and other points, and the amazement that many felt upon seeing after all large class of our own citizens, with alternate obstinacy and levity, refusing to give an unreserved support to their own Government, the speaker said that such factions were among the invariable incidents of civil war. Opposition would rise high as government became energetic, and grow into faction and in civil war was unmitigated After speaking of various governments that have passed through similar trials, he continued: No Government in any of those countries ever was less embarrassed in civil war by faction than the Government of the'United States during the last three and a half years. None of those Governments at that same time 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 enemies. (Criea of if they bad hung Tallandigham and the icst of Cheers.) Not one head has fallen on the judicial block.

(Cheers.) 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 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 proportion. (Cheers.) After characterizing the attempted frauds on the ballot-box in New York as fraudulent in conception, more wicked in design than we have before and congratulating his hearers on their timely detection, he spoke of the policy of the Administration respecting slaverw as connected with the war, as follows; is no question before vou of abandoning the war measures against slavery and substituting tor them a policy of conservation or concession to slavery. Those measures are apart of the war. It is for the nation in a state of war and not for the nation in a future state of peace, that the Government is acting, and of we are voting.

There is no question before you of changing the object of the war from the maintenance of the Union to that of abolishing slavery. Slavery is the mainspring of the rebellion. The Government necessarily strikes it in the very centre as well as upon every inch of its soil. and cries of dying out In mv poor judgment the mainspring is already broken and let the war end when it will, and as it may, the fear that that mainspring will recover its elasticity may give us at present no uneasiness. Before the war slavery had the patronage and countenance of the United States against the whole world.

Its inherent error, guilt and danger are now as fully revealed to the people of the United States as they have heretofore been to the outside world. Before the calamitous war in which slavery has plunged the country shall end, it will be even more hateful to the i American people than it already is to the rest of mankind, while their condemnation of it will remain On the question of peace or war as falselyraised by the opposition, he continued: The Opposition will not succeed in misleading you, I am sure, by telling that you have a question of immediate peace or war involved in the present issue. War, and not peace, you bav, already. God knows that it is severe and painful enough. If I could think of taxes the face of national death, I should say tint our taxes are heavy enough.

It I could thin! of personal interests, affections or sympathies in the face of an insolent enemy in arms, I should say that men enough had been maimed and slain. But when we shall have said all these things, the actual situation ofthe country will still be before us, not of peace. (Cheers.) Persons often ask me on every land, the war to last forever How long is the war to last I answer tha war will not last forever, but it must continue until we give up the conflict, or the enemy nve up the conflict. (Cries of "That's the and cheers.) Are you prepared to give up the conflict (Cries of never You say, Wby Because in that case yeu give up the national life. (Cheers.) In any and every event the nation must live if you were to give up the national life, you enter in the state ot national death.

What that state is, God be thanked we do not certainly know. The Government, will not abandon the coni flict until the majority of the people decide it shall be abandoned. and Series of will never On the other hand, the enemy will abandon their rej hellion just so soon as they shall have the doubted assurance that it cannot They will do so for two reasons; first, no faction can indefinitely continue a struggle that is hopeless. Secondly, because they give up no national they, as well as we, save their own national existence by their defeat and overthrow, of so and a better national existence than in their maddest hours of delusion they have ever conceived as the result of their unlawful enterprise. Suppose then that the people, as we all agree they will, support the Administration by their suffrage to-morrow.

The rebels then have the assurance of the American upon a full rehearsing of the merits of the controversy, upon appeal and a full examination of results thus far obtained, with the relative forces of the parties yet remaining in reserve, that the conflict is not to be abandoned on our part. In all our athletic games, three times success in five trials gives the victory decisions following each other is equal to three in live. You have already abundant evidences of the exhaustion of the not yet evidences of their consciousness of that exhaustion. Those evidences Mill appear immediately on the announcement ofthe re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Ton would have had those evidences earlier if you had rendered this verdict sooner.

You will have them all the sooner after the verdict in PROPORTION TO THE UNANIMITY AND DETERMINATION' with which it is spoken. After showing the fallacy of attempting to put down an armed rebellion by substituting diplomacy and the arts of statesmanship for war, he declared it was equivalent to a surrender of the Union. If he had been willing to surrender, he would have proposed surrender at the beginning; he would at all events have availed himself of the first gleam of victory to secure terms as little humiliating as possible. The Secretary concluded his speech with these noble words: As for the arts of statesmanship, I know of none applicable in this case. The only art of statesmanship that I do know, is to be faithful to God and to my country.

I seek to cultivate charity and prevent war, civil or foreign, as long as consistent with national justice and boner and safety, it can be prevented; but when in war, to fight with courag constancy and resolution, and thus to save ray country or fall with its From the Wisconsin State Journal. For Eight it Means. The name of Abraham Lincoln is enrolled among the great men who, in the Presidential chair, have so won the confidence of the American people that they have been marked out for the distinguished honor of being twice entrusted with the Chief Magistracy. Since the days of Andrew Jackson no man has been twice elected President until now. Such a recognition of the ability, fidelity, patriotism and devotion which Mr.

Lincoln has exhibited in the discharge of the mighty responsibilities of his position, in a time of unparalelled trial and difficulty, is an encouraging evidence of the intelligence and steadfastness of the popular masses, and a happy augury for tl future. It announces to the people of the insurrectionary States our unchanged and unchangeable determination to make no terms with rebellion except absolute siffimission to the Constitution and the laws. It tells them to look for no change of policy, no wavering, no relentment, but only a vigorous, unremitting, relentless war, with the whole power of the National arms, until rebellion is crushed and loyalty to the National flag is again established over every inch of the soil of the Republic. A convention representing whatever there was of baseness, of cowardice, and of treason in the North met at Chicago. It represented yet more.

The programme of its proceedings was the product of joint deliberation between Southern traitors and Northern sympathizers meeting upon British soil. That Convention said to the American people: is time to stop fighting; to the ballot-box and proclaim the dissolution of the Republic. The war is a failure let the nation commit And the American people respond, not with all the indignant emphasis which would have characterized their answer had the proposition been presented in its naked enormity, instead of being, as it was, carefully and blandly garmented in ambiguous phrases, specious circumlocutions, false professions, and of ine Rut the answer is unmistakable. shout the people, this great Republic must the inevitable hour has have some choice as to the manner of its death. Let it not fall, if fall it must, by a craven suicide.

Let it meet its fate in a manner 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 by superior force but unconquered in spirit, going down like glorious old CumUrland her unstruck flag still waving aioft, the symool of indomitable and deathless And the people know and feel that there is no such melancholy alternative as national dissolution by suicide or the suferior power of rebellion presented. The Republic will neither surrender nor be overwhelmed. She will not stoop her haughty forehead in the either at the dictation of rebels at the South, or of their craven abettors at the iNorth. She never stood more proudly erect, more firmly self-centered, or felt more 1 auroral hope than now, as, with bared arm and defiant eye, she holds aloft the old flag, and utters the inspiring battle-cry: For the Great Empire ot Liberty, Forward From the Mississippi Squadron.

Did! Change of Commanders Ad- miral the sad Accident. Conespondrnce of the State Journal. Mississippi Squadron,) U. S. S.

Mound City, Oct. 29th. Messrs Editors or rather sitting out a watch ou a gunboat at night, especially 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 Journal. The rebels in the vicinity of Bend, or Hurricane Island, (for we have taken 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 what is and has taken place in the affairs of this squadron.

First we have a change of commanders and Admiral Porter has left us As far as my knowledge extends, Admiral D. D. Porter was universally beloved by the men in the command and we all miss him much. He was kind, humane, yet a strict disciplinarian, fearless and cool in times of danger and an officer of excellent judgment. In his farewell address, which was read on the quarter-deck of every vessel, he feelingly and gratefully alludes to the warm and efficient support he has always received from the officers and men of this squadron, and reminds us of the fact that since his advent as commander of the Mississippi Squadron, some 800 miles of the Mississippi river, and nearly 2,000 miles of its tributaries have been opened to almost uninterrupted navigation.

He deprecates the fact that what this navy has done has not been more highly appreciated by the military authorities, hints at the prospect at no late day, of having the satisfaction of punishing some of our foreign allies the would-be Confederacy, and hopes to meet us all in other fields of Our squadron is now commanded by Captain A. M. Pennock, who has been for a long time Fleet Captain Commandant at Cairo. About three weeks ago a party of some sixty caulkers carpenters, in charge of Capt. Banning, U.

S. came down and commenced work on the Jndianolg, with the assistant of our large crew. She is now nearly ready for launching, having been raised some seven feet, new hog chains put in and newly caulked rerdy for the water. They are low constructing the ways on which to launch her, and then as soon as the old Mississippi concludes to rise we shall have another new gunboat. The hull and machinery are almost entirely uninjured, only the upper works being burnt off, and with a very little additional expense she will be as good as new.

Capt. Banning deserves credit for the expeditious manner in which he has accomplished so heavy a job. We understand ha is to take command of her when completed. A serious accident occurred here an hour ago. It has been the custom to send a boat out to passing steamers to save their lauding whenever it was necessary to communicate with them.

Unless the boat is manned by an experienced crew this is always attended with great danger. This evening a boat went out to put two women and a boy (passengers) on board the great steamer Continental. Although the engines were stopped the wheels continued, to revolve with the force of the current. The small boat did not succeed in making fast to the side, and was carried under the ponderous wheel, and with a crash was stove to atoms. The boat contained nine persons, two of whom saved themselves by clinging to the guards.

One woman, the boy and one man were picked up afterwards by our boats, while the other female and three men were drowned. Among the lost we have to lament the loss of Mr. Thomas B. Taylor, Acting Mate on this vessel, who was in charge of the boat. He is supposed to have been struck by the buckets of the wheel and crushed instantly with the boat.

He was a young and promising officer and although he had been on board the Mound City but a short time, he had endeared himself to his messmates and the entire crew, by whom his loss is deeply felt. There is a corral of some fifteen hundred negro women and children on the Davis plantations, but no able bodied men. Some are picking their little patches of cotton, but most of them are idle. Our health is good and the weather fine. Yours, J.

B. A. The I. S. Hospital at Prairie da Ckiea.

U. S. General Hospital, Prairie du Chien, Wis. Nov. 6.

Editor Sentinel above General Hospital at this place under charge of Surgeon A. M. Kelly, was opened on the 4th by the icception of 198 sick and wounded soldiers, transferred from Jefferson Barracks, Mo. The building fitted up for a hospital is the in the lower town of Prairie du Chien, Wis. is well adapted for such purposes.

Most of the soldiers transferred belong to Minnesota regiments. The following is a list of Wisconsin soldiers now inmates of this Hospital: Ira W. Tracy, 33d. Thomas F. Jones, 33d.

Wm. M. Wilkins, 33d. C. W.

Russell, 25th. C. D. Gorman, Bth. Henry Baker, 28 th.

George Corkett, 2Sth. John A. Nelson, 28th. Wm. Joecks, 35th.

Edmond Madison, 33d. Wm. Smart, 3d cavalry. Franz Enders, Alden B. Williams, 3d.

Thomas Butler, 3d. James McCall, 3d. John Kelly, 3d. Andrew Zeh, 3d, Herman Shrader, 3d. Geo.

M. Ross, Bth. Benj. F. Bennett, 3d.

Albert Tuttle, 3d. Richard Libby, 3d. Robert H. Martin, 3d. Herman Wittenburger, Bd.

Jacob Fernan, 27th, Joseph Wollmer, 27th. Daniel M. Buchanan, 27th. Levi P. Bunce, 27th.

Johann Fernisse, 27th. Lloyd Breck, 28th. Fred J. Cager, Bth. Isaac Nichols, 32d.

Ira Bacon, 32d. Severt Johnson, 11, 27th. David Minnick, 27th. John J. Peltor, 7th Battery.

Charles Corbet, Bth Infantry. Hiram Doio, Bth. James P. Cox, 25th. Peter Johnson, loth.

Simon Peterson, 15th. Wm. H. Connor, 15th. John Kynasten, 28th.

George Bristor, 33d. John M. Pomeroy, 22d. Geo. D.

Allen, 28th. Rasmui Larson, 28th. Rudolph Peters, 28th. Wm- Webb, 28th. Gottlieb Drews, 9th.

Asle Yangen, 27th. L. O'Brien, 3d Cavalry. J. C.

Critton, 27th Infantry. Joseph Mistell, 28th. Charles Geroke, Hospital Steward, U. S. Gen.

Prairie du Chien, is. Mr. Francis L. Clayton, now in Maine, enlisted in the a.my at'St Paul, with her husband, in 1861, and fought by his side he was killed in the battle of Stone River. She was in eighteen battles; once prisoner three times wounded band, hip and knee; and at her death made known-her sex to the General and was dischaiged.

After that she walked ninetythree miles, from Lexington to Louisville, bare-headei and bare-footed, tracking her way in blood. Branch 1.8. Christian Cnraroissinn. 1 The U. S.

Christian Commission was organized in November, IS6I, and consisted of twelve members. In order, bring actively into the work a large number ot well known Christian gentlemen, to preserve its nationality by the election of at least one member from each loyal state and territory, and to secure Catholicity, by having represented in it all the various evangelical denominations, it has recently been enlarged to fifty members. The official list is not yet published, hut we understand that the member appointed from this State is Walter S. Carter, of Milwaukee. The State of Wisconsin has also been constituted a branch of the commission, and officers and members chosen as follows: OFFICERS.

S. Carter, Milwaukee. A. Butcher, W. Perkins, MEMBERS.

Wm, Sinclair, D. Holton, 1 J. X. Bradford, L. U.

Kellogg, John George W. Allen, A. W. Kellogg, Edwin Hyde, S. S.

Sherman, R. Bond. Edward Roddis, 0. B. Buttled August rank, John Pritsluff, S.

D. Hastings, Madison. E. G. Durant, Kenosha.

G. H. Stewart, Beaver Dam. M. P.

Lindsley, Green Bay. A. P. Waterman, Beloit. C.

Pettihone, Fond du Lae. George Gale, Gaiesville. J. 11. Rountree, Platteville J.

R. Doolittle, Racine. Wm E. Smith, Fox Lake. D.

Worthington, Madison. George L. Field. Hipou. J.

J. Xschudy, Monroe. Frederick Koeha, Sheboygan. executive committee. Walter S.

Carter, John A. Butcher, D. W. Perkins. Wm.M.

Sinclair, J. T. Bradford, John Johnston, A. IV. Kellogg.

H. R. Bond, Edward Hoddis, ami August Frank, Milwaukee. As organised, the "Wisconsin Branch has four members (two from Milwaukee and two from the State at large) from each of the Congregational, S. Presbyterian, 0.

S. Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal and Lutheran Churches. Members froui other evangelical denominations will be added from time to The growth of the Commission has been wonderful. The first year (1862) the amount of money contributed to it was $40,000 value of stores, Bibles and Testaments distributed, delegates sent, 850. The second year the cash receipts were 000; value of stores, copies of scriptures distributed delegates sent, 1,200.

This year over in cash has already been received at the Central office in Philadelphia, and stores in proportion. The number of delegates sent will prob reach The Wisconsin Branch urgently appeals to the Christian hearts of the State, for stores, money and men. The former should be sent to the Chairman, and money to the Treasurer, Milwaukee. Two delegates will be constantly kept in each of the armies of the Potomac and Cumberland, and as many as wish in th 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 unknown to him, giving suitable reference.

Organizations in the State, heretofore sending money and stores elsewhere, should now send to the Branch office. How They Feel in Reheldom. The following letter, sent us by John X. Ford, of the 36th regiment, who took it from the knapsack of a rebel soldier killed in recent movement south of Petersburg, is interesting as showing the spirit of the Southern neonle and ie re ports that their whole available force is now in the field. We print it verbatim Charlton Cos.

Ga October 2d 1864. Wainriylit Dear Son 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 communicate to you we are all In a melcncolly condition Our Frinds is far from us and Expose to many dangers and Starvation and fatugued In a Camp Life and the promising of hard fighting for hit looks like the Federals never will acknowledg our Independence the fall of Atlanta seams to renew thare Efforts and more Determing to Subjugate the South. I am allmost dishartened at our prospect of gaining our Independence for our men is all in the Jield or nearly all and very light crops made in our Confederate States. I dont See whate a numbers of Familys is a going to do that haint got a year of corn nor a pond of Bacon hit looks like starveing and if this war goes on twelve months longer I tell you that it is my candidly opinion that we Starve In many numbers tor where there is no provision starveation must be I recived your little note In close In Mrs Stokes last monday and was glad to hear from you but wnuld he more than glad if yea could git a detail to come home after a horse. I hear that Sergt L.

Syls is at Lome 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 S3O. dollars to hand you and as you dont Stand in need I will wright him not to send 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 de the best you can and bear all your troubles and Affliction with all the fortitude you can Oh dont I wish this bloody war Tvould End for we have lost men Enough and thare has bin blood Enough Spilt for this war to end but I fear the end is not yet but all we can do is to pray to god to be with us and deliver us from the hands of our Enem; sand that we a free ud Independent people Worship ing and ring the Lord for that day is not far distance when we must Lay down our Bodys to rise no more If we live to be one hundred years owld hit is but A moment time to Eternity I hope you will right often and wright all the news tellTL Stokes his family is all well as common and giting a long as well as can be Exspected Mary Sends her respect to you and wishes you to do well I must Close for the present Excuse all mistakes and mis spelling J. Waixrigixt.

Tub Potato Dikt. are now, there is scarcely an article of food more expensive 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 a 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 constituent elements 75 parts are water and only 25 dry food out of 100 parts and of this dry food there is less in it to nourish, that is, to give strength and enable a man to undergo fatigue, than any other vegetable that is generally 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 Hindoo who lives on rice, the negro who lives on plantain, and the Irishman who liv exclusively on potatoes are all said to thus marked. This peculiarity is, in part, ascribed to the necessity of eating a large bulk of food in order to be able to extract from it a sufficient amount of necessary sustenance. But the 5s now firmly rooted in the 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 greatlv inscreased.

There no surer crop to find a good market than potatoes, and there is scarcely any food that poor people buy much of and get so little out of it. JT. Y. Observer. Paragraphs.

Paul Morphy, (says the New York Meraerv is now in New Orleans, he having returned to his home to save his property. He was obliged to take the oath of allegiance to do hard pill to swallow. lie is an aristocrat of the first water, end, like all such, fully sympathizes with the rebels. He does not play now except in private. In Paris he was several times defeated by players whom he can give odds to when in practice.

Ax Italian Love Tragedy 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 his brains. Rosita determined to share her fate. Her family entreated her to be calm; she seemed to yield to their prayer, but a day afterwards she contrived to be alone, and then putting a pistol toher heart, she instantly ended her life. Her mother hastened to her daughter the moment she heard the report.

At the sight of her bleeding, dying child, the poor woman's senses weie tell from her by emotion, and she is now in a 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 ok Hyacinths. A curious as well as simple and interesting experiment may be performed in the following manner: a sweet it in the mouth of a transparent jar, so that it fits loosely and keep it in its place by putting pins in it. Fill the jar with water, and sot it where the sun can shine upon it, or in a 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 progress will at first be slow replenish the jar with water as the potato absorbs it, keeping the water up to the middle of the potato, and soon roots will appear from the part in the water: From 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 climbing vine; attaining a yard in length. I have started several in this manner, and now have one Cassmi, in Scientific American. Garibaldi. is not easy to conceive anything finer, simpler, more thoroughly unaffected or more truly dignified than the man himself. His noble head his clear, honest, brown eye; his finely traced mouth, beautiful as a and only strung up to sternness when anything ignoble or mean had outraged him; and, last of all, his voice contains a fascination perfectly as you know and felt those graces were, with a thoroughly pme, untarnished nature.

The true measure of the man lies in the fact that, though his Ufa has boon a series of the boldest and most daring achievements, his courage is about the very last quality uppermost in your mind when you meet him. It is of the winning softness of his look and manner, his kind thoughtfulness for others, his sincere pity for all suffering, his gentleness, his modesty, his manly sense of brotherhood with the very humblest ot the men who have loved him, that you think; these are the traits that throw all his heroism into shadow and all the glory of the conqueror pales before the simple virtues of the Blackwood. Removal of the Capital of Italv. the announcement that Florence was to be made the capital of Ifaly, property there has greatly enhanced in value. As an instance, it maybe 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 Florentine gentleman for buying a house.

The owner had offered £5,000 sterling, and the banker had asked Whilst they were negotiating, the great news reached Florence, and the banker who wished to have the house was obliged to pay £12,000 for it. A small room, which let for ten francs per month, has now gone up to sixty francs at once. Florence can no longer he called the cheapest as well as the loveliest city in Europe. It will take two years to complete the removal of the capital of Italy from Turin to Florence. What the continental people call the Cabinets of the Ministers will only be removed from Turin at present.

The archives, the offices of the different branches of the military and civil administrations will follow. Turin, therefore will not feel the shock of the transfer so suddenly as it had been supposed. Tobacco and tub Heart. M. Decaisuc, in a communication to the Academic des Sciences, exhibits another clause in the heavy bill of indictment against the abuse of tobacco.

He states that in the course of three has met, among eighty-three inveterate smokers, twenty-one instances of marked intermittance of the pulse, occurring in men from 21 to years of age, and not to be explained 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, M. Decaisne believes, will justify him in concluding that, in certain subjects, the abuse of tobacco may give rise to a condition which may be termed narcotism of the characterized by intermission in the movements of that organ and in the pulsation of the radial artery; and that in some cases, a suspension or diminution in the pract.ce ot smoking is suffLciaht to cause an entire disappearance of this irregularity. Times and Gazette. Why a Parisian Dined at the Restaurant Instead of at Home.

may root assured the digestive apparatus discovered the proverb, going, is healthy going, Is long slow and sure goes many a Now, in a own house, soup is on the table at the appointed time, the roast taken off the spit, the dessert is spread. The servants force to eat fast that they may have more time for their dinner; they do not wait on suffocate you. At a restaurant 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 comrade 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 which is at table. You make or repeat or hear some bon mats, you recall some agreeable 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 bachelor Englishman or Russian on a visit to this hi Boston Gazelle. Continent ax in the Atlantic Monthly, comes to the conclusion 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 winch were above the lovt 1 of the icy mass. Mount Washington, for instance, is over six thousand feet high, and the rough, unpolished surface of iu summits, cotered with loose just below the level at which glacier-marks come to an end, tell us that it ed its head alone above the desolate waste of ice and snow.

In this region, then, the thickness of the sheet cannot have been mnch less than six thousand feet, and this is in keeping with the same kind of evidence in other parts of the country for, wherever the mountains are much below six thousand feet the ice seems to have passed directly over them, while the few peaks rising on the heights are left untouched. The glacier, he argues, was 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 mingled in fair proportions, granite wig carried into the lime regions, lime was mingled with the more arid and unproductive districts, and aroilwas prepared fit for the agricultural uses of man. There are evidences all over the polar regions to show that at ond period die heat of the tropics extended all over the globe. The ice period issupposed to belong subsequent to this, and next to last before the advent of the earth..