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J. H CLARY.
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fice in Thomas’ Stone Block. [ul-yl]
MATTHEW BISHOP.
Has furnished his bar with anew assortment of liq
uors. lie has also a good Billiard Table. Give him
a call.
J R. ROBERTA.
VT otaky ITBLIC. Deed*, Mortgages, dtc., drawn
witli accuracy, at his Hotel on Main Street,
Dodgeville, Wis. ' ["Bv4-lf]
R ARUNDELL,
GENERA L DEALER in stoves, Hardware, Tin,
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wHITNEY SMITH.
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J Leather of all kinds, also Hair for Plastering, al
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notice and on moderate terms. [n2(i-tf]
S W REESE
VTTORNEY AT LAW. Land and Collecting Agent,
Dodgeville, lowa County, Wis. Particular ut
t-utioii given to collecting a rid agencies, and payment of
taxes in lowa County. Office ill the Post Office Build
ing. (Hl-yIJ
L. M. STRONG,
\TTOUNEV A'l LAW, Notary Public, Land and
Collecting Agent, Dodgeville, Wis. Particular
attention given to the settlement of estates in the
County Court. Office in Court IJoijse, [Up Stairs.]
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SOLDIERS CLAIM AGENCY, i
DODGEVILLE, - • - - - - WTS. 1
Clolleets back pay for discharged Soldiers. Bounty
/ Honey and back pay for heirs of deceased Soldiers.
Pension certificates procured, Bounty claims settled
st prices establised hv Law.
~24-1 y SAMUEL W. REESE, Att’y
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and all the principle Rail Road Depots The aceoni
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jjfjjl BST nR N ||OTE i „
DODGEVILLE, - - - WIS.
j j THE undersigned would respectfully ask a
share of the public patronage. His table
lit *3ri- will always he furnished in good taste and
• It StwS l l'rooms are large and airy, am! in every
the intention will he to consul)
the comfort and wishes of his patrons. Good stables
and attentive ostler* always in readiness.
B lardsrs by the day or week furnished with all uec
essary conveniences and at reasonable rates.
Ctp Stages leave this house daily, north and south
m-ly JOHN R. ROBERTS
MASONIC
REGULAR MEETINGS of Dodgeville Lodge. No
. IP) of A. K. A A, M, on the first and third Fri
day evenings of each month, at their Hull on lowa
treat. Transient brethren visiting Dodgeville, are
ordially invited 10 attend.
lluntiv Dunstan, Pec'y.
To widow's tears to orphans' cry,
All wants our ready hands supply,
So far as power is given ;
The naked clothe, the prisoner free,—
Sneh ui the deeds sweet masonry
Revealed to us from heaven.
I O OF G. T
VHICITIA LODGE, No. ]ol. Independent Order of
Go.al Templars, meet., every Monday evening in
I. E. Tie nets’ ilall, ul T’.j u'clot 1,. Members ot this
irder visiting this Village are cordially invited to meet
fltb ns. THOMAS 1 EWis, W. C. T.
J.vmks Bates, W. R. s.
L. M. STRONG.
Commercial ISrokcr.
(LICENSED BY I HE U. S. GOT, EUXMENt.
Sells Real Estate.
Pays Taxes in all Parts of t he State.
Takes charge of Lease, and Collects Renta for ini
rovcd and unimproved Property.
Buys & Sells Bonds, Mortgages,
Notes, &c., &c.
A I.SO
Soldiers' Claim Agex t.
Collects hark pay for Duscharo. i Soldiers.
pay for Heirs of deceased Sol
dier- vision Certificates procured, at
or- g&oablished by Law.
Office In . .‘v Court House, Dodgeville, lowa Comity
Wiiooniin. -
ALL’S WELL.
The day is ended. Ere I sink to sleep,
My weary spirit seeks repose in Thine;
Father: forgive my tresspasses, and keep
This little life of mine.
With loving kindness curtain Thon my bed,
And cool in rest my burning pilgrim feet;
Thy pirdon be the pillow of my head —
So shall my rest bejsweet.
At peace with all the world, dear L *rd and Thee,
No fears my soul’: unwavering faith can shake ;
All’s w 11! -a”. >hevc hie the grave hr m>.
5 he morning light may break!
* THE BABY WALKS.
Joy fills the house; the baby stands
Aloue upon her feet,
With quivering lip she lifts her little hands,
And wonderingly doth gaze into her mother’s
face:
Thus timidly she starts upon life’s fitful race.
How many hopes, how many fears.
How many smiles, how many tears.
Hang o'er her dangerous walk through coming
years 1
Almighty God! to Thee the child is given;
Guide home at last her weary steps to heaven.
The Favored Soldier.
[The following extract from a letter
written by a private in the Union army
on the Po to mac, contains so much good
sense that we cannot refrain from giv
ing it a place in our columns :]
I have been the most favored of all
the company, and have often been told
that there was not a single man in it
that stood his ground like myself. I
followed certain rules :
1 Kept myself clean, and got my
clothes washed every week at all times
when practie; ’ le.
2 Ate nothing but the regular army
rations, except occasionally a few apples
and vegetables.
3 Left whiskey and tobacco alone at
all times.
4 I trusted God for health and
strength, and for the aid of his support
ing hand in all trouble; and he has not.
failed to sustain me. For this I have
nothing to return but my humble thanks
and a willing heart in hi set—ice, made
so by his grace in answer to many pray
ers.
These are the best rules for a soldier’s
life we have seen. They look to the
welfare of both body and soul. They
prove the truth of that Scripture which
sairh, ‘-Godliness is profitable unto all
things.” If every soldier would adopt
them, how blessed would be the experi
ence of our armies! How happy the
hearts of those who write letters. How
happy the homes to which they come.
A firm faith in God fits us foi the life
that now is, and gives a glorious prom
ise of that which is to come. Cultivate
it, seek it and be favored.— S. S. Times.
Three Petitions.
A young soldier of the 45th Massa
chusetts regiment recently fell at News
hern, N. C.. hut left behind a name and
memory that shall be forever blessed.
While lin geriug in the hospital he en
joyed the continual presence of Jesu
at his side. One day, when too feeble
to speak aloud he told his chaplain that
he had never had a full assurance of par
don of sin until he became a soldier. In
the battle of Kingston, under the terri
ble tire of the enemy?* “his Savior came
to him as never before, declared his pres
ence, revealed his love, aud held his soul
in his hand.”
As the hour of death drew on. his
subjects of thought and prayer grew less
and less till only three remained—three
burdens of prayer. The first was -‘Oh,
Lord, keep me—hold me fast—leave me
net —let me not go!” And then all
thought of himself seemed to be at an
end. h M-tiy ifter his second burden
was laid at the feet of Jesus. “My God.
spare my country —oh. save my dear
native land ! After a few moments,
and but a k w before he died, his third
and last petition was offered. “Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven. Thus his
soul, his country, and the kingdom of
Christ burdened hisspiritand that burden
be cast upon God. How could his, or
any lile close more appropriately?
Improve the Present— Never whine
over what you may suppose to be the
loss of opportunities. A great many
have good early opportunities without
learning much ; every man may educate
himself, that wishes to. It is the will
that makes the way. Many a servant
that has wanted knowledge has listened
while his master s children were saving
their letters ; and putting them together
to form easy words, has thus caught the
first elements of ‘ polling. If any one
has a strong thirst for knowledge, we do
not care where he is put, he will become
•in educated man. The first step towards
self improvement is to leave off whining
over the past, and bend every energy to
the improvement of the present.
Always practice what you preach.
A REPUBLICAN AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE.
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863.
Want of Courage.
Sidney Smith, in his work on Moral
Philosophy, speaks in this wise of what
men lose for want of a little brass, as it
is termed:
“A great deal of talent is lost.to the
world lor the want of a little courage;
Every day sends io their grave a number
of obscure men, who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity bus
prevented them from making a first ef
fort, and who, if they could only have
been induced to begin, would, in all
probability, have gone great lengths in
■ the career of fame. The fact is, that in
order to do anything in the world worth
doing, we must not stand shriveling on
the bank, and thinking of the cold and
da u ger, but j urn p ina nd sc ra mb 1 e t hroug h
as well as we can. It will not do to
be perpetually calculating risks and ad
justing nice chances ; it did all very well
before the 110 id, when a man could
consult his friends upon an intended
publication lor a hundred and fifty years,
and then live to see its success for sis
or seven ct nturies afterwards; but at
present a man waits and doubts, and
consults his brother, and his uncle, and
his first cousin, and his particular friends, 1
till one day he finds that he is sixty
five years of age ; that he has lost much
time in consulting first cousins and par
ticular friends; that he has no more
time to follow their advice. There is
so little time for oversqueamishnees at
present, that „ opportunity slips away.
The very period of life at which a man
chooses to venture, if ever, is so confined,
that it is no bad rule to preach up the
necessity, in such instances, of a little
violence done to the feelings, and of ef
forts made in defiance of strict and so
bei. calculations.
An Indian’s Philosophy.
AVc doubt if better argument for im
proved agricultu: e can be given than is
found in the speech of an Indian Chief
to his tribe in the fur Wes* It r- 1:
thus ;
“Do you not see the whites living up
on seeds, while we eat flesh? That the
flesh require thirty moons to grow np,
and is then often scarce? That dach of
the wonderful seeds they sow /in the
earth returns them a hundred fold?
That the flesh on which we subsist has
four legs to escape while wo have but
two legs to pursue and capture it?
That the grain remains where the white
man puts it, and grows? The winter
with us is the time for laborious hunt
ing—to them a period of rest? For
these reasons they have so many chil
dren and live so much longer than we
do. I say, therefore, unto every one
that will hear me, that before the cedars
of our village shall have died down
with age, and the maple trees of the val
ley have ceased to give us sugar - , the
race of little corn sowers will have ex
terminated the race of flesh-eaters, pro
vided their huntsmen do not resolve to
become sowers.”
History shows the truth of these pro
phetic words.
The Sweetness of Home.
lie who has'no home, has not the
sweet pleasure of life; he feels not
the thousand endearments that clus
ter about the hallowed spot to till the
void of an aching heart and wile away
its leisure moments in the sweetness of
life's joys. Is misfortune your lot, you
will find a friendly welcome from hearts
beating true to your own. The chosen
partner of your toil has a smile of ap
probation when others have deserted, a
heart to feel your sorrows as her own.
Perhaps a smiling cherub, with prattling
giee and joyous laugh, will drive all sor
row from your careworn brow, and en
close it in wreaths of domestic bliss.
No matter how humble the house may
be. how destitute its stores, or how poor
ly its inmates are clad ; if true hearts
dwell there, it is yet home—a cheerful,
prudent wife, obedient and affectionate
children, will give their possessor more
real joy than bags of gold and windy
honor.
The home of a temperate, industrious,
honest man, will be his sreatest joy.
He comes to it ‘-weary and worn,” but
the sound of the merry laugh and happy
voice of childhood cheers him—a plain
but healthy meal await him. Envy,
ambition andstrfe have no place there;
and, with a clear conscience, he lays his
weary limbs down to rest in the bosom
of his family.
is nothing purer than hon
esty —nothing sweeter than charity
notning warmer than love—nothing rich
-1 er than wisdom—nothing brighter than
virtue—and nothing more steadfast than
faith. These united in one mind, 4 orm
the purjst, the sweetest, the warmest,
brightest, and most steadfast happiness.
Eating when rick.
It is the custom among a certain class
of people, when a member of the family
falls sick, to begin at once to ask, “Now
what can you eat?” Every one has
heard' the old story of the man who al
ways ate eighteen apple dumplings when
he was sick. On one occasion when en
gaged upon the eighteenth, his little son
said, "Pa, give me a piece ? ” “No. no !
my son,” replied the father, “go away,
pa s sick.” When a young man, who
has surfeited, in season and out of sea
son, until exhausted nature gives way,
and a fever is coming on, the good mo
ther is in trouble. She anxiously in
quires, “Now, John, what can you eat ?
You must eat something ! People can’t
live without food !” Then come toast
and tea, etc. The stomach is exhausted,
and no more needs stimulating, or food,
than a jaded borse needs the whip.
W hat is needed is rest, complete rest.
Nine-tenths of the acute diseases
might be prevented by a few days’
starvation, when the first indications ap
pear. 1 don’t mean complete abstinence
in every case, but perhaps a piece of
coarse bread, with cold water for drink.
If such a policy was generally adopt
ed, what ruin would overtake the med
ical profession ! — Dr. Dio Lewis.
The Human Figure.
The proportions of the human figure
are strictly mathematical. The whole
figure is six times the length of the foot.
W hether the form be slender or plump,
this rule holds good. Any deviation
from it is a departure from the highest
beauty of proportion. The G reek s made
all their statues according to this rule.
The face, from the highest point of the
forehead, where the hair begins, to tbc
chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature.
The hand, from the wrist to the middle
finder is the same. The chest is one
fourth ; and from the nipple to the .ip
of the head is the same. From the top
of the chest to the highest point of the
forehead is one-seventh. Tf the length
ot tue face, from the root:; of the hair
to the chin, be divided into three equal
parts, the first division determines the
place where the eyebrows meet, and the
second the place where the nostrils.
The navel is the central part of the hu
man body, and if a man should lie on
ITU back with his arms extended, the
periphery of the circle which might be
docribed around him, with the naval
tor its centre, would touch the extremi
ties of his hands and feet. The height
from the feet to the top of the head is
the same as the distance from the cx
trunity of the fingers when the arms
are extended.
The Mother Moulds the Man.
When I lived among the Choctaw
Indians, says one, 1 held a consultation
with one of the chiefs respecting the
snceessive stages of their progress in
the arts of c : vilized life; among other
things, he informed me that at the start
they made a great mistake—-they only
sent boys to school. These boys came
home intelligent men, but they married
uneducated and uncivilized wives ; and
the uniform result was the children were
all like their mothers ! The father soon
lost all interest in both wife and chi!
dron. “And now,” said he, “if we
would educate but one class of our ehil
dren, we should choose the girls; for
when they become mothers they educate
their sons.”
This is the point, and is true. No
nation can become fully enlightened
when mothers are not in a good degree
qualified to discharge the duties of the
homework of education.
Prayer.— Fill up the void spaces
of your time with meditation and prayer.
They are the safest who arc most in
their closets ; who pray, not to be seen
of men, but to be heaid of God.
It is a comfort to Christians apart to
think their prayers meet before a throne
of grace; and their persons shall meet
before a throne of glory.
There wants nothing but a believing
prayer to turn a promise into a perform
ance.
God is a great God, and therefore he
will be sought; he is a good God, and
therefore will be found.
The breath of prayer comes from the
life of faith.
Whatever you want, go to God by
faith and prayer, in the name of Christ,
and never think his delays are denials.
They that spend their days in faith
and prayer, shall end their days in peace
and comfort. J. Mason.
Knowing.— Nothing is more common
than for persons to suppose that they
know all about an obscure transaction,
because they know something not known
to others. We know what we know,
but we don’t know what we don't know.
If thine enemy hunger feed him.
THE PRESIDENT’S SPRING
FIELD LETTER.
His War Policy Vindicated.
i _____
EXECUTIVE .MANSION, WASHINGTON, )
August 20th, 1803. \
To lion. James C. ConJdin :
Mr Dear Sir—Your letter inviting
me to attend a mass meeting of Union
men,-to he held at the Capital of Illin
ois, on the third day of September, has
been received. It would be very agree
able to me thus to meet my old friends,
at my own home, but I cannot just now
be absent from this city so long as a visit
there would require.
The meeting is to he of those who
maintain unconditional devotion to the
Union, and I am sure that my old po
litical friends will thank me for tender
ing, as 1 do, the Nation’s gratitude to
hose other noble men, whom no parti
san malice or partisan hopes make false
to the Nation's life.
There are those who are dissatisfied
with me. To such I would say, you de
sire peace, and you blame me that we
do not have it; but how can we attaini t?
There arc but three conceivable ways ;
First. To suppress the rebellion by
force of arms. This lam trying to do.
Are you for it? If you are, so far we
are agreed.
If you are not for it, a second way is
to give up the Union. lam against
this. If you are, you should say so
plainly. If you are not for force nor
yet for dissolution, there only remains
some imaginable compromise. Ido not
believe that any compromise embracing
the maintenance of the Union is now
possible. All that I learn, tends di
rectly to the opposite belief—that the
strength of the rebellion is in its mili
tary —its army ; and that the army dom
inates ali the country and all the peo
ple within its range. . Any offers, if
made by any man or men within that
range, in opposition to that arc simply
nothing, for the present, because such
man or men have no power whatever to
enforce their side of a compromise if
one be made with them,.
To illustrate . Suppose refugees from
the South, and peace men from the North
should meet in Convention and frame
a proclamation or compromise embrac
ing a restoration of the Union, in what
way can that compromise be used to keep
(ion. Lee's army out of Pennsylvania?
Gen. Meade’s army can keep Gen. Lee’s
army out of Pennsylvania, and, I think
ultimately drive it out of existence.—
But no paper compromise, to which the
controllers of Lee’s army are not agreed,,
can at all effect that army. In an effort I
at such a compromise we would waste I
time which the enemy would improve to |
our disadvantage, and that would be all.
A compromise to be effective must be
made either with those who control the
rebel army or with the people first lib
erated from the dominion of that army
by the success of our army.
Now, allow me to assure you that no
word or intimation from the rebel army
or from any of the men controlling it,
in relation to any peace compromise has
ever come to my knowledge or belief.
All charges or intimations to the con
trary are deceptive and groundless, and
I promise you that if any such propo
sition shall hereafter come, it shall not
be rejected and kept secret from you.
I freely acknowledge myself to be the
servant of the peoplo according to the
bond of the service, the United States
Constitution, and as such I am respon
sible to them. But to be plain, you are
dissatisfied with me about the negro.
Quite likely. There is a difference be
tween you and myself upon the subject.
I certainly wish all men could be free,
while you, I suppose, do not. Yet I j
have neither adopted or proposed any I
measure which is not consistent with even
your view.provided you are for the Union.
I suggested a compensated emancipa
tion, to which you replied that you
wished not to be taxed to buy negroes,
but I had not asked you to be taxed to
buy negroes except in such a way as to j
save you from greater taxation, in order
to save the Union exclusively by other
means. You dislike the proclamation
and perhaps would have it retracted.
You say it is unconstitutional. I think
differently. I think the constitution
vests its Commander- u Chief with the
law ol war in time of war. The most
that can be said, if so much, is that
slaves are property. Has there ever
been any question that by the laws of
war property, both enemies and friends,
may be taken when needed, and is it not
needed whenever the taking of it helps
us or hurts the enemy? Armies, the
world over, do Any the enemy's prop
erty when they cannot use it, and even
destroy their ow n to keep it from the
enemy. Civilized belligerents do all
in their power to help themselves or
hurt the enemy, except in a few things
regarded as barbarousand cruel. Among
the exceptions are the massacre of vaa-
Terms: I O™ dollar pt-r yet
(it paid in advance.
! quishecl foes and non-combatants, male
and female. But the proclamation as a
law is valid or not valid. If it is not
valid it wants no retraction. If it ia
valid it cannot be retracted any more
than the dead can be brought to life.
Some of you profess to think that re
traction would operate favorably to the
Union. Why better after the retraction
than before the issue ? There was more
than a year and a half of trial to sup
press the rebellion before the proclama
tion was issued, the last one hundred
days of which passed under an explicit
notice that it was coming unless averted
by those in revolt returning to their al
legiance.
The war as certainly progressed as fa
vorably to us since the issue of the proc
lamation as before. I know, as fully as
one can kuow the opinions of others,
that some of the commanders of our
armies in the field, who have given us
our most important victories, believe the
emancipation policy and the aid of col
ored troops constitute the heaviest blows
yet dealt to the rebellion, and that at
least one of those successes could not
have been achieved where it was, but for
the aid of black soldiers.
Among the commanders holding these
views are some who have never had any
afinity with what is called abolitionism,
or the Kepublican party polities, but
who hold them purely as military opin
ions, 1 submit their opinions, as being
entitled to some weight against the ob
jections oiten urged that emancipation
and arming blacks arc unwise as mili
tary measures, and were not adopted as
such in good faith.
You say that you will not fight to free
negroes ; some of them seem to be will
ing enough to fight for you, but no mat
ter. Fight-you then exclusively to save
the Union. 1 issued the proclamation
and propose to aid you in saving the
Union. Whenever you shall have con
quered all resistance to the Union, if I
shall urge you to continue fighting, it
will be an apt time then for you to de
clare that yen will rot fight to free ne
groes. I thought that in your struggle
for the Union, to whatever extent the
negroes should cease helping the enemy,
to that extent it weakens the enemy in
his resistance to you. You think differ
ently.
I thought that whatever negroes can
be got to do as soldiers, leaves so much
less for whites to do in saving the Union.
Does it appear otherwise to you? But
negroes, like other people, act upon mo
tive. Why should they do anything for
us if we will do nothing for them? If
bey stake their lives for us, they must
V-'. prompted by the strongest motive,
e -cn the promise of freedom, and the
■ ,j~!misc icing made must he kept.
The signs looks better. The Father
of Waters goes unvexed to the sea,
thanks to the Great Northwest for it,
Nor yet wholly to them. Three hun
dred miles up they met New England,
the Empire and Keystone states and New
Jersey, hewing their way right and left.
The sunny South too, in more colors
than one, lent a hand. On the spot,
their part of the history was jotted down
ia black and white. The job was a great
national one, and let none be banned
who bore an honorable part in it. And
while those who have cleared the great
river may well be proud, yet even that
is not all. It is hard to say that any
thing has been more bravely and better
done than at Antictarn, Murfreesboro,
Gettysburg and on many fields of less
note.
Nor must Uncle Sam’s webbed feet
be forgotten. At all the water’s margin
they have boon present. Not only on
the deep sea, the broad bay, and the
rapid river, but also up the narrow mud
bayou, and wherever the ground was a
little damp they have been, and made
their tracks.
Thanks to all: for the great Repub
lic ; for the principles by which it lives
and keeps alive; lor man’s vast future
—thanks to all! Peace does not appear
so distant as It did. I hope it will come
soon, and come to stay, and so come as
to he icorth the keeping in all future
time. It will then have been proved
that among freemen there can be no
successful appeal from the ballot to the
bullet, and that they who take such ap
peal are sure to lose their case and pay
the costs. And then there will be some
black men who can remember that with
silent tongue, and with clenched teeth,
and with steady eye, and well poised
bayonet, they have helped mankind to
this great consummation ; while I fear
that there will be some white men, un
able to forget that with malignant heart
and deceitful speech, they have striven to
hinder it.
Still let us not be over-sanguine of a
speedy and final triumph. Let us be
quite sober and let us diligently apply
our means, never doubting that a just
God, in His own good time, will give us
the rightful result. Yours, very truly,
[Signed ] A. LINCOLN.
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