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Wise and Eloquent Words—Speech
of Henry Winter Davis.
At a dinner given Hen. Schneck in
Haltimore, recently, Hon. Henry Winter
Havis made a speech of great eloquence
and power. \\ c commend to our rea
ders the subjoined extract. How nobly
docs the counsels of this patriotic South
ern man contrast with the cold, tamed,
or treacherous advice of Northern dough
faces, imbeciles, and sympathisers with
treason’:— Journal.
“The V nion must lie preserved, though
tin s generation shall perish in its defense.
(Applause.) Perish in its defense!—
Why, what is (his generation? It is
tin 1 life of the men who arc before me,
it is onr liberty and the union of this
country, it is our willingness to endure
all, and to be ready in our own persons
to do what so many of our soldiers by
the thousand have done on every field
of battle -to be prepared to die, that
(heir blood be not in vain. By no dal
banco iu your ladies’ chambers can this
be accomplished, by no debating on (be
streets, nor by any consideration in the
council, but by stubborn, bard, resolute,
fearless blows upon the deadly field,
where (rue men lay down and seal their
patriotism with their blood ; and they
who live owe it to the memory of the
dead that their blood shall not have been
shed in vain. ( Applause.) An armis
tice 1 say the doubtful, hesitating 1 nion
men. (A voice "Traitors. ) An ar
mistice that would relax your arms,
would compel your submission ; recog
nition of the Confederate States! the
disruption of the American name, its
eternal dcgrcdaliou ; peace fur a uu nth,
for a year, for live years, wars for gen
erations, and anarchy to the end of time.
(Applause.) Once make a division line
between the North ami the South, said
the speaker, and more than one will
divide the North itself. One stone from
Ihe andi brings it in ruin on your heads.
But who are they who moot these ques
tions? They of the South, do not talk
nf armistices; they arc the men of the
ioval States of the North, and of .Mary
land; they art' (hose who have crept
sin reptitionsly, under false pretences, into
power, and now, in more than one great
State, threaten to trail.- ter (lie theatre of
civil war from the rebellious to the
loyal States. 1 speak iu (lie presence
of the military and political representa
tives of those States, here this night,
and I say, rather than that the arm of
the government shall be palsied, welcome
the spears to our breasts, welcome civil
war to our soil, and let them know that
we are not now to be frightened by civil
war iu tin' North any more than when
its hydra head was raised in the South.
(Applause.) 1 here recognize but two
classes of men. and we coniine them to
no political geography: They are the
enemies and trieuds oi the 1 uiou (Ap
plause.) whether they live iu Ohio, as
iu Missouri and Maryland. (Applause.)
Shall those who now attempt to arrest
the powers of the government succeed?
I say to those present, who stand now
here with me upon the border ol this
terrific gulf, looking into it until our eyes
swim, that they will succeed unless we say
that we know no end to the war, no
termination to this collision, other than
the prostration of the rebellion, and that
rebellion will be suppressed in the North
as well as in the South. (Applause.)
These are not boastful words. They are
but the sober language ol common sense.
) on are committed to the issue, you arc
joined in the fight, and you cannot stop
short of your own destruction or itie de
struction of your enemies, if you would.
Lay down your arms, and instantly the
Coxes and Vallindighams, the alls
and Heeds, will try to drag the West to
the South, and expel from the Inion
the Puritan states. \ our alternative
must he “victory or death." (Applause.)
1 profess to be no more disinterested
than others; but 1 say (here is nothing
tor this country except victory or de
struction. Ido not regret the war even
though it should tail, for America will
have a name that will live hereafter in
history, and mankind will know that the
freemen of (his country in IStil and ISti:?
have not lived in vain. (Applause.) We
had tar hotter fail in the effort than unwor
thily shrink from it. God tries even/ na
tion destined to wear the crown oj em
pire and enjoy the blessings of freedom ,
and they Imre won their immortality by
tenacity , the power of endurance . the
resolution to encounter destruction rather
than yield. It is not the military glo
ries of Thermopylae, Plata*, Salamis, and
Marathon which inspires interest in the
thoughtful mind so much as the tenac
ity of the people who braced their minds
for long years to meet the dread alterna
tive of destruction rather than slavery.
It was the unshaken fortitude ot the
Homan people which enabled them to
endure for seventeen years the triumphs
of Hannibal unchanged by a single vic
tory, and that heroic endurance formed
the empire of the world. It was not
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1863.
military victories, nor the easy triumph
oi'organization over disorganization, that
had made great empires in the past, hut
l>rrsev<rani‘<‘ and the poicrr oj loolhikj
defeat in (hr fare, mid huotcimj no -peace
hut under ctetoriau s banners. Referring
to modern times, the speaker alluded to
Holland, with a million or two of in
habitants, scattered sparsely, which thro'
two generations of war, compelled Spain
to admit their independence; and to
France, who, after bringing her crowned
head to the block, met Europe in bold
defiance, with rebellion at home and
foreign intervention abroad, with her
generals deserting to the enemy—who,
during twelve long years, defeated all
Europe, and in the face of a world in
arms, would make no submission, but
relied upon a people who wane deter
mined not to be subjugated. Kelerring
to England, Mr. Havis said her military
disasters were far more numerous th all
those we have ever suffered ; and though
engaged in a far worse cause than France,
pursued it with that bull-dog pertinacity
familiar to her people. Through long
years of defeat and disaster she looked
only to one result, and was guided only
by one determination- -to repose on///
in victor//. (Applause.) He alluded
to these examples for the purpose o'
refuting the insiduous arguments of trai
tors in disguise, who only despair from
the slow progress of (he struggle— more
propitious than any that crowned those
of England for fifteen years, more glo
rious than anything that attended the
Netherlands during forty years of their
struggle with Spain. Like them wo have
no generalsat tlit* beginning of the strug
gle, but we have what they bad, a na
tion of power resolved to endure defeat
till we extort victory by tenacity. Our
men only require to be led, and they
are now marching to the enemy as calmly
as if to predestined victory, now or
hereafter. (Applause.) We have one
glorious victory in Tennessee, the fruit
of persistent determination ; and if we
meet with other defeats they will be
but temporary cheeks which the future
will repair. I live in the abiding ton
lidence that such will be the result, if
we proclaim it now that there are no
terms to this war excepting our destruc
tion or our unity. I was astonished this
evening w hen I read in a New’ York
paper, always so firm hitherto, a plan
for conducting the campaign, which, if
it were not successful at the end of three
months, suggested we had better bow
ourselvc from the field and confess the
independence of the enemy. (Hisses.)
Not thirty years, not when thirty armies
shall have been prostrate, shall we go
back. There is only one end to the
contest their capacity of endurace or
yours. (Applause.) You are more nu
merous ; you are wealthier; you have
the rescources of (hi l civilized world ;
you have the command of the seas;
you have time till the beginning of eter
nity before you. (Applause.) Persist,
and the nation will maintain its great
and glorious name before the world.
The men of I alley Forge will not have
died without successors, and the stars
that decorate the banner of the repub
lic will continue to circle in their ex
panding orbits around the sister stall's
dwelling together in unity, long ages
alter the falling stars of the rebel em
blem, now with fear of change perplex
ing nations, shall have gone out in night,
(Hrout Applause.)
An Apimiol’lUATeText.—“How tedi
ously long you are over that sermon !”
said the parson’s lady to her husband on
his not attending to the dinner hell ;
“1 could write out* in half (he time, if
1 only had the text." “Oh, if that is
all von want,” said the parson, “I will
furnish that. Take this text from Sol
omon —“It is better to dwell in a corner
of the house-top than with a brawling
woman in n wide house." “J)o you
mean me, sir?” inquired the lady, quick
ly. “Oh, my good friend," was the
grave response, “you will not make a
good sermoniser; you are too soon in
your application."
Mkasi uinu Hay. The following
method of ascertaining the amount of
hay in a mow we find reeeommemled
for those who may live a distance from
a hay-seales ; Multiply the length by
the breath, and if the hay is somewhat
settled, ten solid yards make a ton. Hay
will take ten to twelve solid yards per
ton.
iQrOol. Robert Johnson, son of Gov
ernor Andrew Johnson, has raised and
organized a full regiment of cavalry
from loyal Tennesseeans. The regiment
was reviewed at Louisville, last week,
preparatory to marching to the field.
“ Trust may be a good motto for a
Christian ; “ trust not' is a good one for
a tailor.
Neutral in Politics—Fair Play for all.
From Before Vicksburg.
Our Troops Harr Arrived The (iut
ojj Promises Well — Warm icorh ahunf
to Be pin.
Cairo, dan. 21).—The forces under
(Jen. M ('demand, are now in the vicin
ity of Vicksburg. Fart of the forces
have landed live miles below the month
of the Yazoo river on the Louisiana side,
and are now engaged in opening (he
canal cut last summer. The river is
now full enough to pour a good volume
of water through the Cut-olf as soon as
an opening is made. A few days will
determine its value. Onr gun and mor
tar boats can approach near enough to
shell the city, if that, would be of any
service.
Cairo, dan. ill. I have seen a captain
of the fltilh Illinois, w ho left Vicksburg
oil I In* 22d inst.
Hen. McClcrand s forces nave land
ed on the Louisian side, live miles below
the month of (In* \ azoo River, and in
full view of (he city. Brigades wore en
gaged, when Captain left in opening the
famous Cut oil. of which so much was
heard last summer.
The river is bank-full at Vicksburg,
and high enough to rush through llu*
canal at a fearful rate, Ho thinks that
il will be a perfect success. He thinks
that should (his channel become large
enough to admit the passage of boats,
the rebels for the present w ill be allowed
to bold Vicksburg, the Federal,s
(urn (heir attention to matters further
South.
In his opinion, it would take IbO.OOO
men to storm their fortilicationsat Vicks
burg. Onr gun and mortar boats could
shell the city from whore they lie on
(he north side of the river bend ; but
even if il were entirely destroyed, the
fortifications, which extend for miles
back, would be as formidable as ever.
Wisconsin. Items.
Ug%„The Kenosha Tinas is to bo dis
continued.
Mirlnu'l i Jarter.au old and esteem
ed citizen of Waukesha,fell from a load
of bay. on Tuesday last, striking bis
forehead on the frozen earth. He died
on tin 1 Thursday following.
Tiik 20tu Wisconsin. This Regi
ment. was at Forsythe, Mo., on (he l-2d
nit. The division io which II lu longed
was crossing \\ lute River, moving east
ward to get forage lor the annuals with
I hem.
.Arrangements have been made at
Kenosha fora course ol lectures to be
delivered at that place, the proceeds of
which arc to be applied tor the benefit
of sick and wounded soldiers.
Deaths of Wisconsin Soi.dikhs at
St. Lot ts. The following IV iseousiu
soldiers died in the hospital at St. Louis,
during last week : (’lias. L. Alien, and
E. W. Dean, of the 2d Cavalry ; IV.
Foilet, and (’has. McDnflin, of the 2!Uh
Infantry; Win. Dowuie, of the 18th In
fantry.
SrtciDK <•!•’ John Fitzukhai-d. —
John Fitzgerald, a prominent citizen of
Oskosh, and formerly a member of the
State Senate, committed suicide at the
St. Nicholas Hotel Saturday. He was
last fall nominated by the Democratic
convention for Congress in the nth Dis
trict, but afterwardsdeclined. Mr. Fitz
gerald was an Irishman by birth, began
life as a poor boy, and had amassed a
property valued at 61(H),(HIU. lie was
still a young man. Habits oi intemper
ance, unfortunately formed some years
ago, undoubtedly led to the rash act
which terminated his life.
Uosti'.k ot'TiIKIMTH Wisconsin Rku
iMi:.vr. —Colonel—Fritz Anneke. Licet.
Colonel- Henry Orff. Major Geo. H.
Walthcr. Adjutant —Herman Hesse.—
Regimental Quartermaster —-1. A. Rock
er, Cos. A.— ('apt., W. E. I’erslow ; Ist
Lieut., H. J- Calkins: 2d Lieut., M.
A. Leahy. Cos. R.—Capt ,|Jamesßuby ;
Ist Lieut., Henry R. Fox ; 2d Lieut.,
1). J. F. Murphy. Cos. C.—Capt., J. Cl.
Wilmot; Ist Lieut., F. H. V. Obladen;
2d Lieut.,lohu Johann. Cos. D.—Capt...
Noble W. Smith; Ist Lieut., K. M.
Scribner; 2d Lieut., Wm. W. Pettit.
Cos. E.—Capt., Cornelius Kuutz; Ist
Lieut., Chas. F. Bauer; 2d Lieut., C.
F. Lohmund. Cos. F.—Capt, Henry
Henkle; Ist Lieut., James Lanegan;
2il Lieut., Rudolph Kirsehener. Cos. <l.
Capt, Chas. A. Lang; Ist Lieut., Robt.
Strobman ;2d Lieut,,o. B. Blumenstein.
Cos. H. Capt., Jaidore de Saut Ange ;
Ist Lieut., W. D. Barelay; 2d Lieut,
L. Laplaute. Cos I.—Capt., F. A. B.
Hacker; Ist Lieut., Edward J. Kelly;
2d Lieut., G. C. Nowmeister, Cos, K.
Capt.. William Walthcr; Ist Lieut., Er
hard Weber 2d Lieut, L. Pester.
What is iu the Bedroom ?
On tins subject the American Ai/rie
u/turist has the following:
“If two persons are to occupy the
same room during the night, let them
step upon weighing scales as they ret ire,
and then again in the morning. Fre
quently there will be a loss of two pounds
or more, and the average loss through
out the year will be more than one
pound, That is, during the night there
is a loss of a pound of matter which has
gone oil from their bodies, partly from
the lungs, and partly through the skin.
The escaped material is carbonic acid,
and decayed animal matter, or poisonous
exhalations. This is diffused through
the air in part, and iu part absorbed by
the bed clothes, ll a single oum eof
wool or cotton be burned iu the room,
it will so completely saturate the air
with smoke that one can hardly breathe,
though there be one ounce of foreign mat
ter in the air. 11 an ounce of cotton be
burned iu the room every hall' an hour
during tlic night, the air will be kept
constantly saturated with smoke, unless
there can be an open window or ticor
for it to escape. Now (lie sixteeu ounces
af smoke thus formed is far less poison
ous than the sixteen ounces of exhala -
tion from the lungs and bodies of the
two persons who have lost a pound in
weight during the eight, hours of sleep
ing for while ibe dry is mainly taken
into (he lungs, (he damp odors from tho
bodv arc absorbed both into the lungs
and into the pores of the whole body.
Need more be said to show' the import
.nice of having bed-rooms well venti
lated. and thorough' airing the sheets,
coverlids and uiatressos in the morning,
before packing them in the form of a
neatly made bed?
Til K 1 M POUT AMT. OF ()\K Mll.lv By
constructing a canal about three-fourths
of a mile in length from Big Slone Lake
to Lake Traver, steamboats from St.
Paul could navigate both tin; Minnesota
river and Bed river of the North, to
Lake \\ innepev. a distance of sevci§
hundred miles. The country traversed
by these rivers is .surpassingly fertile,
and capable of sustaining a douse pop
ulation, Luke V/innepeg is larger than
Lake (hitario am 1 receives theSas-kalcb
wan river from the west. The Sas
hatch-a wan river is navigable to a point
( Mduundton House) near the rocky
mountains, seven hundred miles \\ esi
of Winuepeg and only one hundred and
lift v mill's East of the celebrated gob! dig -
t ings on Frazor river, in British (Adam
Ida.
The digging of that one mile of canal,
would, therefore, enable a steamboat at
New Orleans to pass into Lake Winne
pegaiid from thence to Edmondton 1 louse
b,OOO miles. A bill hasbeen introduced
into the Senate, which makes provision
for the building of the canal.
Probably in the World there cannot
be found a spot across which the dig
ging of so short a canal would effect a
result so prodigious. And w bat is almost,
equally remarkable, the ground between
the two lakes isso low and level that it is
said the water flows in time of freshets
from one to the other.
Am'K.Mfs Ward ox thi; Indians.-
The red man of the lores! was form ly a
very respectable person, Justice to the
noble aborygin warrants me in saving
that origgornally ho was a majestic* euss.
At the time Chris, arrove on these
shores (1 allude to Chris. Columbus)
the savajis was virtuous and happy.
They were innocent of secession, ruin,
drawpoker and siniullness gen rally.
T'hey did not discuss the slavery question
as a custom. They had no Congress, faro,
banks, delimit) tremens or associated
press. Their habits are consequently
good Late suppers, dispepsv, gas com
panies. thievs. ward politicians, and other
Metroplitan refinements, wore unknown
among them. No savage in good stan
ding would take postage stamps-—you
couldn’t have ho t a coon skin with a barrel
of 'em.
"Dk.moua lt/kd. ’’• --The New York
Tvthmn ■ tolls a good story of a stout,
athletic Zouave, who. ruuingaway from
the battle at Fredericksburg, was check
ed by a leiutenant with a drawn sword.
Said the latter. -Stop, Sir 1 do back
to your regiment, you infernal coward ;
you are not wounded. “For heaven's
sake, let me pass." implored the fugitive;
-I know I am not wounded, but I’m
fearfully demoralized.'
- -
Tolkuauuk.-— Robert Hall was un
happy iu his courtship of Miss Steel.
When he was perhaps smarting beneath
the disappointment lie went out to tea.
The lady of the house said with no very
good taste “Von are dull, Mr. Hall :
wo have no polished sfeel here to enter
tain you. ’ “Oh! Madam, that’s not the
slighiest consequences; you have plenty
of poiisned brast."
| ()no dollar per year
1 onus ... 1 , '
( it paid in advance.
Mutton Trade of Now York.
145 MII.KS OK SIIKKP.
Few persons areaware of the extent to
which sheep are sold in this city, In
cluding those recieved at four public
market places, and those sent directly
to butchers, an average of over 10,000
live sheep per week were slaughtered ill
this fit\ during the past year. Besides
these, there are at least 1,000 dressed
carcasses recieved weekly. Ifthe whole
miinher weredriveu in at one time, three
abresf, allowing lour feet of space for
each sheep, the line would extend from
New \ ork to Albany, a distance of over
one hundred and forty-live miles.
Binee the eouimeueemeut of the war,
the demand for wool has so greatly in
creased that farmers are adding largely
to (heir flocks. They lind that, with the
hie h prices ol wool aml l he good demand
for lamh and mutton, t- heep raising is one
ol’tln' most profitable branches of fann
ing, and they are now holding back their
stock. Prices vary somewhat with tho
supply, but well fed sheep, which will
weigh 100 lbs., alive, have been selling
at §sa Shi per head lor a month past;
they are now(4an. 15th) worth -
The rise in wool has added largely to tho
value of pelts, mixed lots of these selling
at It! each, and selected pelts at v- each.
I u former '.ears the thin ewes have been
bought up by farmers for store, at 82| a
ijsl per head. (H’ late this class has boon
mostly kept in the country. Those sent to
market have been bought up by butch
ers at 'S’ 1 , a8 1 ea< h. Pontrastlng with
this class are a limited numher oi extnv
large fat sheep, usualy sent in about the
holidays and sold at high juices. A lew
have brought as high as 81.) a 8-0 each.
'l’hroe full blooded Leicster sheej>, Irom
Panada, were recently sold to a. butcher
of this city for 870. They dressed 171
lbs. The pelts would bring 8- : j ! each,
wliich would leave the cost ol the mut
ton a little over 12 cents per pound. In
view of ihese figures it is safe to advise
the raising of men niinj) and Jrtnr ilnys.
( v >r\KKii Woman’s Wonoku. INly
friends 11 lore are (loco (hint's 1 wonder
at:
First. That children rdionld he so foolish
as to throw stones, clubs and brickbats in
to fruit trees to knock down fruit , if they
would let it alone it would fall oil ifc
sett.
Second. That men should he so foolish;
and eaven so wicked, :is to go to war and
kill eaidi other; if let alone they would
die themselves.
Third, and the last thing I wonder at
is, find vonng men should be so unwise
as toeoafter the young Indies ; if they
would only stay at home the youngladies
would he after them.
V IIkui:!. 'fitk k. The Nashville
r,nn has a letter from M nifrees-horo.
slating that tin 1 rebels have printed a
fur ninlh of (he i'niuH, containing an
annoucement that .Missouri, Indiana, Ill
inois and Kentucky have seceded, with
a long editorial bewailing their loss.—
To such desperate expedients do the reb
el leaders resort to encourage their fol
lowers.—Jaiinid/.
11 vdn r K n.i.Kn \w. A. letter from
a ( hamplain in Arkansas, says that a
man buying furs was conversing with a
woman at whose house he called, and ask
ed her ‘Tt there were any Presbyterians,
around there ?” She hesitated a little,
and then said, “She guessed not; her
husband hadn’t killed any since they had
been there.
Tilk Ft i.ti uk ok Flax. -KnglisU
papers are agitating the subject of an
increased attention to the culture of
llax as an onset to the scarcity of cot
ton. It is well known that machinery
has been perfected for its manufacture
both in this country and ilnrope, and a
permanent prosperity will no doubt result.
A Villainous Dopor. —The Bur
lington Ilawht-yr states that (ion. Au
gustus Ciesur Dodge made a speech at a
Democratic caucus meeting in that city
last Saturday mght, “in which he said
that Davis was a much honester and
hotter man than Abraham Lincoln—•
that he (Dodge) esteemed him higher—■
amt much more of the same sort.”
DKSTINV.—A (plaint old gentleman,
in speaking of the different allotments
of men by which some became usemi
citizens and others worthless vagrants,,
by way of illustration, lie remarked..
“So one slab of marble becomes a use-,
fnl doorstep, while another becomes u
lying tombstone.
te>“ A good story is told of Hilly
Wilson’s Zouaves, at Baton Kongo. It
is said that the hoys, nor exactly liking
their camping ground, made a rush for
the State prison, knocked down the
keeper, entered the building, turned the
key on the inside of the wall gate, and
cried, “Now we are at home!"
NO. 22.