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Uchas also a good Billiard iable. Give him Eli. 3 jaTroberts, VOTARY PUBLIC. Deeds, Mortgages, Ac., drawn SH W ith accuracy, at his Hotel on Main Street, it, geville, Wis. [ Bv4 - tf l R ARUNDELL, ByENERAL DEALER in stoves, Hardware, Tin, VI Sheet-Iron, and Copper ware, Ac., lowa Street, of; osite the old Post Office, Dodgeville, Wis. [nl-yl] wHITNEY SMITH, fIVKNSEU AND CURRIER, Mineral Point, Wis. 9 Leather of all kinds, also Hair for Plastering, al |jßy, on band, cheap for cash. Job Work done nt short ■f/cenu./ on moderate terms. [n26-tf] s. W. REESE. ■ TTORN'EY AT LAW. Land and Collecting Agent, Dodgeville, lowa County, Wis. Particular at ■it ion given to collecting and agencies,and payment of in lowa County. Office in the Post Office Bitild i _ L. M. STRONG, Bk TTORNEY AT LAW, Notary Public, Land.and ■V Collecting Agent, Dodgeville, Wis. Particular Htention given to the settlement of estates in (he diuulv Court. Office in Court House. [Up Stairs.] ni.yl ■I SOLDIERS CLAIM AGENCY. WIS. back pay for discharged Soldiers. Bounty K, I J Money and back pay for heirs of deceased Soldiers. certificates procured, Bounty claims settled prices establised bv Law. j nitdy SAMUEL W. BEESE, Att’y SCHALL’S HOUSE. W I‘ii.l Randolph Street, Chicago Illinois, fhis house is centrally located, in the business of the city, near the Post Office, the Court House, the principle Rail Road Depots. The accom- are good, and cheaper than most of the in this vicinity. [ri4l-tf] ■WESTERN IjoTEL. - - WIS. IN E undersigned would respectfully ask a ■]|||ft share!of the public patronage. His table I will always be furnished in good taste and BiiMhis rooms are large and airy, and in every the intention will he to consult * nJ wl<h< * °f *‘i ß patrons. Good stables ant” 1 V6oll * crß alwa y * n readiness. , ’he day or week furnished with all nec fy. ly. ,'' llV,, nicnct‘s and at reasonable rates. ■ tWK'M leave this bouse daily, north and south JOHN B. BOBERTS. H ' MASONIC. Sill. iv, V? MEETINGS of Dodgeville Lodge, No H c i A. M, on the first and third Fri ?' ’ -'‘fs °f eacli month, at their Hall on lowa V;;^Hai a n vi ' an , 51 ' ,ut brethren visiting Dodgeville, are ;|s Hexbt Dcnstam, Scc’y. |> toare to orphans’ cry, |§: .Mis our ready hands supply, Tk\ { power is given \ I ,ho Prisoner free,— Reveal ♦ de ° dß * wwt masonry to u, f rom heaven. E I I* O. OP G. T. 1G1 > Independent Order of ■•l.Thomas’ T ery M °nday evening in this Vtn >y * ° clock - Members of this us ® *s > mage are cordially invited to meet r L s M - BTRONG ’ W - C - T - L H. STRONG. K Commercial Broker, I BY The U. 5. GOVERNMENT.) Sells Real Estate. P■ Jf in n n p ar f s a j' t/ u . State. injfS i,f I-case, and Collects Rents for im f unimproved Property. ■ Sells Bonds, Mortgages, Notes, &c., &c. I ALSO Claim Agent. ■ Discharged Soldiers , Bbn p lO P a y f°f Heirs of deceased Sol esilbi °? Certsficates procured, nt ^ c ‘im bbshed b I Law. j,;: Hotue, Dodgeville, lowa County, Homely Thoughts. BY AUNT HATTIE. It is often said, that if every person would do his own share of work there would be no need of any one’s being overtasked. Whether this is unadulter ated truth or not, I shall not attempt to prove, but that there is sufficient con tained in it to write a short article upon no one will attempt to deny. If we begin with the first grouping of individuals—the family—there is no neighborhood that we enter without finding some example corroborative of the truth of that remark. Perhaps the wife, indolent and easy, sits with idle hands gossiping with a neighbor, lotting the precious morning hours pass with bettering or benefiting herfamily; while her husband, with the picture of a little home in the future sometimes coming near in Hope’s bright tintings, then growing dim and distant as Despond ency’s dark veil closes over him, labors on from early dawn till close of day for the sum that in improvident hands merely suffices for the wants of the next. Ofttimes it is the wife that is the earnest worker, making and mending turning the worn garment and refitting it until it looks almost as well as new; filling up her scraps of time with teach ing the youngest boy his letters, and the oldest his hard sum in arithmetic, see ing that no child throws his duties up on another; while her husband—fickle and careless, only induced to labor by some pressing want, or the pleasure of boasting over a large day’s work, is the clog that hinders all the machinery of prosperity in his home. If we turn to children, one lacks perseverance from dislike to work, and if made to accom plish his task needs a watchful eye over him, thus robbing that person of time and thought that should be given to her own duties, and laying a double burden upon her. Another is cross if required to work, and brings discord into the house that no pleasantness on the part of oth ers can exorcise, and thereby spoiling the happiness of home that makes its inmates labor with light hearts and therefore light hands. A third shirks in every possible way, bestowing the least amount of care upon his tasks, and indifferent how much he interferes or infringes on another’s rights, if he can only finish his own in haste with little exertion. Often the remark will apply to whole families. Some are dependent and some independent, though both started in life with the same amount of means, and since then have appeared equal shares in Heaven’s blessings. But a slight storm, a bad road, a cold north wind, or an icy path, were sufficient excuses to deter the father of the former from work, and coax him, if not to sit by the bar-room fire, to seek shelter by the grocery or market stove. His woodpile is almost invisible, for a half-cord is the extent of his means, and therefore he it often out, and a purchaser at the highest prices, and the coldest weather is sure to find him with only the green est article at his command, for the dry wood was all secured long before by more provident buyers. His garden is a failure, for the lettuce was planted when the potatoes should have been, and the tomatoes at the turnips’ seed-time, and the hot midsummer sun scorches the tender, rootless plants, and nothing but weeds repay in the fall his dilatory movements. He lives, as the saying is, “from hand to mouth,” and his wife sel dom prepares a meal without needing something that she used with a lavish hand a short time before. Half of her time is spent in borrowing, and running to the village grocery for provisions, and thus she is always behindhand anc m hurry, and fretting herself and family over her work. , The independent family has pu. P fewer luxuries for their table, but of good, plain food there is always a sup ply Fruit grows m every corner of their well-tilled lot, and cluster under their eves and over the 'veH-hous , and in everp spot where ere -P for a root to grow to support them. g etables succeed each other la jeir well arranged garden, from the y ‘ to the late winter roots, and not a ripe weed falls ready to spring up, headed, the coming summer. Ikeir wood-house, like a fiiithfujspri g. er empty, for it is refilled y fore use and if a hurried season over take, a,“V. h j s va,U tlTto s;‘ spent in running here an already ply food for his family, for i provided for use, His home not sold for back taxes; and when sicknes the stern necessity of vaP • Despotism encourages * l^ k ® r p or on. because the reverence! ® . n y. the priesthood strengthens its J UOAIT AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OE THE PEOPLE. DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1863. Female Life in London. Lest we be charged says the Phreno logical Journal , with exaggeration in our statements concerning “the poor” of the old country, and their desires to reach our shores, where there is less of slavery, we take care to quote the high est authority at command—namely, the greatest daily journal in the world, the London Times. Read what it says of a single class, not the poorest, nor the lowest, or most unfortunate. There are millions among them worse off than those described below. Is it any won der they wish to emigrate to America ? But read what the Times says about the “Sewing Women in London. —The young female slaves of whom we speak are worked by gangs in ill-ventilated rooms, or rooms that are not ventilated at all, for it is found by experience that if the air be admitted, it brings with it ‘blacks’ of another kind (coal dust and soot, with which the air is filled), which damage the work upon which the seamstresses are employed. Their oc cupation is to sew from morning to night, and night to morning—stitch—stitch— stitch, without speech—without a smile —without a sigh. In the gray morn ing they must be at work—say at six o’clock, having a quarter of an hour al lowed for breaking their fast. The food served to them is scanty and miserable enough, but still, in all probability, more than their fevered systems can digest. From six o’clack then till eleven it is stitch, stitch. At eleven a small piece of bread is served to each seamstress, but still,she must stitch on. At one o’clock, twenty minutes are allowed for dinner—a slice of meat and a potato with a glass of toast and water to each workwoman. Then begin to work— stitch, stitch, until five o’clock, when fif teen minutes are again allowed for tea. Their needles are again set in motion once more—stitch, stitch—until nine o’clock, when fifteen minutes are allowed for supper—a piece of dry bread and cheese and a glass of beer. From nine o’clock to until one, two, and three o’clock in the morning—stitch—stitch—stitch ! the only break in this long period being a minute or two —just time enough to swallow a cup of strong tea, which is supplied lest the young people should ‘feel sleepy.’ At three o’clock a. m. to bed ; at six o’clock A. m. out of it, again to resume the duties of the day. There must be a good deal of monotonj in the occupation. But when we have said that for certain months of the year these unfortunate young persons are worked in the manner we describe, we have not said all. Even during the few hours allowed to sleep—should we not say a feverish cessation from toil ? their miseries continue. They are cooped up in sleeping dens, ten in a room, which would perhaps would be sufficient for the accommodation of two persons. The alteration is from a treadmill (and what a treadmill!) to the black hole of Cal cutta ! Not a word of remonstrance is allowed or is possible. The seamstress may leave the mill, no doubt j but what awaits her on the other side of the door ? Starvation, if honest; it not, in all, probability, prostitution and its conse quences !” What a picture! and that, too, rep representing life in one of the foremost cities in the world! Philanthropists, awake! Here are lives to save! Will you not lend a hand ? Let us —Ameri- cans —complain no more of our hard lot while the millions of Europe are per ishing in their early youth. Let us forget our own trials, and help others who suffer more. Lord Tenderten, who was the son of a barber, had too much good sense to feel any false shame on that account. It is related of him, that when, in an early period of his professional career, a brother barrister with whom he happened to have a quarrel, had the bad taste to twit him on his origin, his man ly and severe reply was, ‘ A es, sir, I am the son of a barber; if you baa been the son of a barber, you would have been a barber yourself.” A young lady who talks eloquently about love, is, probably, incapable of fee - ins much of it. Deep feelings does not overflow in words. Many a young wo hsSS&SSSSSSSZ die-moulds that will just fit you. Mount Washington. On the summit of Mount Washing ton f Above the mountains themselves, above the world ! Nothing above us but the infinite sky ! The very clouds at our feet, rolling away their gray, white mas ses, tinged with evanescent crimson and through the glens and ravines! flashing out lightnings, and belching forth thunders—proclaiming, even as of old around Mount Sinai, that God liveth! The gorges are filled with cloudy va pors. They cling to the bald brows of the mountains, and climb up fearful precipices where no human foot may tread, and rest on dizzy heights where even the wild eagle’s eye might blench to fix his talons. Avery Hades in shadows—its bottom obscured with gloom ; Tuckerman’s ra vine stretches above its three thousand feet of black horror! cherishing in its bosom the crystal waters of a little brook, that flows on as fearlessly and innocent ly as meadows streams—down there in that solitude where never a ray of sun shine shall penetrate! To the north-west, across the almost illimitable gorge known as the Gulf, rises the Alps-like range, comprising Mounts Clay, Adams, Jefferson and Mad ison. Standing on the brink of the di viding chasm, we can see these granite ribbed “guards of liberty” from their base uyto their summit, clothed darkly in evergreens, torn and desecrated by land slides, ploughed and furrowed by wild spring floods, bare, gaunt, and stern as fate, lifting up their bleached old fore heads to the northern sky! Glancing past them, we look into the valley of the Connecticut. We see the great, silvery river winding its beautiful length through green meadows, and past thriving towns and busy cities, on its way to the far-off haven of the sea. Far away, the eye can trace, faintly outlined against the sky, the blue line that marks the Green Mountains in Vermont; mere pigimies they seem, in the mirage of the purple distance. To the west, rise the Francois—those sturdy relatives of the White Moun tains —behind whose lofty peaks the sun goes down, on fair nights, in a flood of liquid fire, To the south, fifty miles away, gleams through the intervening mountains the calm bosom of Lake Winnepissiogee— the smile of the Great Spirit; and ly ing between us and that sweet lako is the abrupt, castle-like cone of Chocor na —the bleak, rugged, desolation, where stood the old Indian chieftain, and with his dying curse, before he took the fatal leap into eternity, blighted the fair lands that lay in its shadow ! The ocean, old as time itself, meets the sky far to the east; and the almost imperceptible needle-like point, we'can see, is the gray shaft of freedom on Bun ker’s Hill. We see the pine forests of Maine— the glitter of Sebago Lake ; and close at baud the unruffled mirror of Love well’s Pond —storied in history and song —its lore written in lines of blood ! —framed in the rough mountains, like some rare gem set in unwrought gold. Why linger we over details ? Let us bike in the grand, the awfully solemn and magnificent whole ! The works of His fingers ! The monuments of His greatness! Mount Washington ! Stern, and sol itary, and desol ole ! Alone thy gran deur ; no face is lifted up to heaven as thine —no lofty mountain brow is so near to God as thine! Bleached by the storms of thousands of years, washed by mighty torrents, frozen by polar cold, and smiled on by a penurious sun ! thou art supreme, matchless, unapproachably magnificent, a Goliath among the giants! jg@“Cunning leads to knavery ; it is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery; lying only makes the difference; add to canning and it is knavery. jgyThe avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. Scarcity of Eggs. —An examination was lately held for the purpose of ap pointing fit persons to some of the gov erment°offices in England. One of the candidates inadvertently spelled the word Venice wiht two n’s thus, Yennice.— The examiner, a clever man, though not always a correct speaker, sternly in (juirsdj m ”Do you know, Sir, there is but one ‘hen’ in Venice ?” Then eggs must be very scarce there ! was the reply. The candidate passed. “What church do you attend, Mrs, Partington? “Oh ! any paradox church where the Gospel is despensed with. Precocious Children, It is painful to every thoughtful heart to sec a little child set to its daily tasks of book-work, more especially if it is a bright, precocious child, who goes to them with real zeal and liking. It reminds one of those beautiful blossoms which the skillful gardener forces into bloom, to last but a few brief days and then wither and die permaturely. If you have a little three or four-year-old, who is anxious to learn to read, who learns with great rapidity whatever you teach him, do not encourage and urge him on, as is almost invariably the case. ■ Parents are so delighted with intellec tual prodigies. Yot they can ( better afford to have them only common children, than to see them quite below the ordi nary standard of grown boys and girls. Yet if your prodigy lives, which is quite rare, you will be sure to see its mind dull and inactive as it approaches ma- tunty, and m all probability a physical sufferer all its life. Hot-bed processes may answer for garden plants, but not for human plants. Let the child amuse itself with out-door plays, a greater part of every pleasant day. There is no bet ter medicine for this mind-disease of prccociousnes, for it is nothing less than disease. Let your teachings be only of the simplest easy rhymes, and its little morning and evening prayers. Ido not think any child’s mind was ever injured by these. It is the glory of our blessed religion that a knowledge of its simple truths is healthful and life-giving; to soul as well as body. Let the sweet Bible stories be told over and over to your child as freely as you please. It will give food for reflection that will be at once most pleasant and beneficial. But never give a young child a task to learn, or lax its mind in any way. Let it bo free and gay as the bright spring birds. A practical writer has well said, that “mind and body are yoked together to pursue their mysterious journey with equal steps, nor can one out-strip the other without breaking the harness and endangering the whole machine.” A Difficult Question Answered. “Can any one,” says Fanny Fern,“ tell me why, when Eve was manufactured from one of Adam’s ribs, a hired girl was not made at the same time to wait on her ?” Somedody answers thus: Because Ad am never came whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to bo darned, collar string to be sewed on, or a glove to mend “ right away, quick now ! ” Be cause he never read the newspaper un til the sun got down behind the palm trees, and then stretching himself out, yawned out, “ ain’t supper most ready, my dear?” Not he! He made the fire and hung the kettle over it himself, we’ll venture —and pulled the radishes, peel ed the potatoes, and did everything else he ought to. Ho milked the cows, fed the chickens, looked after the pigs him self. He never brought homo half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn’t any fresh pomegranates, and the mango season was over. He never stayed out till eleven o’clock to a ward meeting,” hurrahing for an out and out candidate, and tnen scolded because poor Eve was sitting up and crying inside the gates. He never played billiards, rolled ten pins and drove fast horses, nor choked Eve with cigar smoke. He never loaf ed around corner groceries, while Eve was rocking little Cain’s cradle at home. In short, he didn’t think she was espe cially created for the purpose of waiting on him, and wasn’t under the impression that it disgraced a man to lighten a wife’s cares a little. That’s the reason that Eve did not need a hired girl, and with it was the reason that her fair descend ants did. An American in France says the French don’t know what hospitali ty means, except to purtake of it. He had lived two years in Paris and no Frenchman ever asked him to drink or refused to take one when asked. — Expulsion of Non-Combatants.— The Richmond Dispatch says ; ‘ ; Steps are being taken by the proper authori ties to relieve this community of all that class of persons note remaining here xcith foreign protection papers in their pockets , and who refuse to perform local military service in time of danger. Many of these creatures have amassed large fortunes by this war, and now, if they are not willing to protect their own property along with others, they deserve to be dispossessed of every dollar they have made here, and to be driven bare footed beyond the lines of the confed eracy. Let them remain no longer to consume the necessaries of life that would serve to feed better people, but make them go, and go quickly and empty handed. ’ Subscribe for the Chronicle. Torms • f one d ° llar P Cr y® ar jl time • v rt • i • i ( it paid in advance. Gen. John A. Logan on the Cause of the Country. ‘‘lt makes no difference whether you call me Democrat, Republican, or Abo litionist—as some have of late named me. It does not change my feelings does not alter my action. lam for my country every time—for my country first, last and always—and am fighting for the right of that country to be num bered among the honored nations of the earth. Until that is brought about, and this rebellion crushed out, I am but an American citizen. When that right shall have been asserted, then, should we find that there is something wrong in the fabric that our fathers reared, something we desire to change, it will be time enough to come up and demand the change. Now we have this accursed rebellion to root out. It must be rooted out. 1 am for using every means, and all means for putting it to an end. If the people of the North would use the same force Jeff. Davis and his minions use— and Avcre as unanimous as they arc —for in the South force of arms compels ev ery man to act as though he sanctioned the rebellion whether he feels inclined or not —this war would be successfully terminated in less than six months. Every mother’s son who is opposed to the war should be compelled either to take up arms against or for us. Then there would be no talk of peace here in the North, no talk of resistance, no such men as Vallandigham, no such cowards as those who support all such men, and say these things. Vallandigham says he has traveled over the Confederacy —using the term “Confederacy” not the phrase “so ealled-Confederacy,” (for I do not ac knowledge the existence of any author ity or Government in America aside from the United States) —-and has not met man, woman or child who does not sustain the war, and who is not deter mined to fight it to the death or bitter end. Vallandigham here simply lies. He tells what is not true, he knows if. Vallandigham, aside from the lead ing men—Jeff. Davis, Toombs and Ste phens—did not, I venture to say, speak with a dozen persons while hiking big involuntary trip through Dixie. Had ho done so, his report would have been of a different color. The people who arc fighting against this government—. the poor whites comprising the rank and file of the rebellion—nine tenths of them do not know what they are fight ing against. A majority of them do not know anything—and hundreds of them never saw the American flag in their lives until they saw it march into Vicksburg in triumph. They do not know the Fourth of July, or anything else that is good. But poor and ignor ant as they are, let them express their own free minds, and they, almost to a man, demand a speedy termination of this war—would submit to almost any thing rather than fight one day longer as they have been fighting. It is only by force of bayonets that their army is kept together. Even that cannot pre vent their deserters from flocking into Jackson by hundreds, to take the oath of allegiance or to join the Union ranks, And I tell you what I know when I say that it will not be many days ere the entire states of Mississippi and Ten nessee will be knocking loudly for re admission to a Union which not long since they thought their puny efforts could quickly dissolve. They are talk ing of it even now. Speaking of being united, I tell you, by the Eternal God, there was never a more truthful sentence than that of Doug las : “Those who are not with us are,. ogainst us,” and I reiterate ft, and add that those who are not with us uhgjildi he hung, or should be with their Soyth* ern brethren , fighting with them. Let them either aid the Ggye,ru men t, or go where they can bolster up the tottering fortunes of rebqldom.—- Better have a dozen foes intfre field than one fighting us behind q\ir backs. To all copperheads, peace me,n, agita tors, anti-war men—be they Republi cans or Democrats —for we have then* here pretending to be both—l have a word to say on the behalf of our bravo soldiers. You have undoubtedly been told that the war has its opposers in the ranks of the Union army. It is an ac cursed and foul aspersion upon the fair fame of men who are willing to spill their blood and give their lives for the country. They are for our Union. — They fight for the people and their country —for the suppression of the re bellion. Let me say to all opposers of the war: The time will come when men composing this great army will come to their homes. They have watched the progress of events with interest. They have their eyes upon these unmitigated cowards, these opponents of the coun try and the Administration—(and the Administration, I contend, is the coun try)—and when they return, it will do NO 49