Mineral Point weekly tribune., April 27, 1864, Image 2

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yiUSTKRED OUT.
Let me lie down,
Just here ia the shade ol the caunon-torn tree,
Here, low in the trampled grass, where 1 may see
The surge of the combat ; and where Imt hear
The glad cry of victory, cheer upon cheer
Lot me lie down.
Oh, it was grand !
Like the tempest we charged, in the triumph to
sharo ;
The etrphat—its fury and thunder were there
On, on, o’er the entrenchments, over living and
. dead.
With the foe under too* i nl our hag overhead ;
Oh, it wa- grand !
Weary and faint,
Prone on the soldier’s couch, ah how can 1 rest
With this shot-shattered head, and sabre-pierced
breast 1
Comrades, at roll-call, when, i shall be sought,
Say I fought till I fell, and felt where I fonght.
Wounded and taint.
Oh, that last charge !
Right through the dread hell-fire of shraj nell and
shell.
Through, without faltering—clear through with a
yell.
Right in their midst, in the turmoil and gloom
Li&v heroes we dashed at the mandate o! Doom
Oh, that last charge •
It was my duty
Some things are wort bless,and some others so good,
That nations who buy them pay only in blood ;
For Freedom and Union each man owes his part.
And here I pay my share all warm from my heart ;
It is my duty !
Dyirg at last
My mother, dear mother, with meek, tearful eye,
Farewell ! and Ood bless you, forever and aye !
Oh tliat I now lay on your pillowing breast.
To breathe my last sigh onjthe bosom first pressed:
Dying at last 1
1 ' not saint.
But, boys, say a prayer. There’s one that hegius
“ Our Father,” and then says— *■ Forgive U" our
sin*
Don’t forget that part, say that strongly, and then
I’ll try to repeat it, ard you’ll say, Amen !
Ah, I’m no saint 1
Hark! there's a shout!
Raise me up, cotnrsdes ! We have conquered, 1
know I
Up, up on my feet, with my face to the foe 1
Ah, there! files the Hag, with the Star Spaugles
brijriit.
The promise of glory, the symbol of right !
Well they may shout 1
1 am mastered out !
0 God of our Fathers, our freedom prolong.
And tread down rebellion, oppression and wroug '
O, land of earth’s! ape, on thy hlood-reudene ! sod
1 die for the Nation, the Union, and Ood 1
I’m mustered out.
AFTER MANY DAYS.
“ Cast thy bread upon the waters and thou
ehsH find it after many days,”
“ I wonder what that means ?” said Hamil
ton iircnt, half aloud, as he sal gazing into
the bright anthracite, blazing with such a
pleasant light before him. “I am not quite
sure what that man meant when, after he
stopped me, asked for work, and, looking at
his rags, I gave him something to do in the
lumber yard, more for humanity’s sake than
for the work ; he took my wc.'iuly gloved
hand in his cold one, and repeated the scrip
ture proverb that my mother had so often
taught me. I am sure I am not easting bread
in the sense I have always thought of it. Had
I given a poor child a quarter, o a poor man
some meat, it would have been a parallel case
to this one. Botu might have remembered
me for a while, but with numberless changes
the mercy of my charity might have never
returned to bless me. The man may not
come to work, or if he does, only to stay un
til he gets a little money, and then go to his
friends, if he has any, and that may end
any relation we may at present or for any
time sustain to eaeh other.”
Thus in the heart of the employ er the mat
ter was laid to rest; but in a pair of other
ones the promise of work boding ot main
good things yet in -tore, kept hope from grow
ing feeble and sick, and then dvingin despair.
From the home of Giles Davis—a home
rendered cheerless now by want and suffering
—went up many blessings for him who in the
darkest hour had befriended their, and 1
doubt whether the Intelligence ot a great for
tune would have made that voung wife’s
heart lighter than did the announcement of
her husband.
“To-morrow, Ellon, 1 will have work—o.
if to morrow were hut here !”
Dreams, pleasanter than tho.-e that for
weeks had visited their pillow, came to them
that night, and before half of his fellow labor
ers were thinking ot their dailv task, Giles
■'presented himself at the office door o| Hamil
ton Brent, to receive Lia share of the duties
that fell tc the lot of the lumber dealer.—
Brent met him at the door. His punctu dity,
or rather extra punctuality, very pleasantly
impressed his employer, himself a man of
hard work, always tirst. and invariabh last,
around the yard and in the office.
“ Ah, my man, I’m glad you have come. I
didn’t know but you would forget the number
or something of that sort. What is \our
name ? ”
“Giles Davis.”
lu a moment it stood on the day-book ami
ledgei, iu the great round letter.- for which
Uaiiiilu-u had been praised when a school
hot.
“ Now. go with me.”
At this juncture Porter came in, the for
mal “ head of the hands,” and to his less ten
der mercies the new comer was given over.
After the two had gone into the vaid, (Jilt
set at the task a--igned him, and Porter had
returned to the office, Mr. Brent said to him ;
“Do not allow Davis to work too hard ; I
guess the poor fellow has seen hard times.”
“I shouldn’t wonder," was the reply, “hut
he works as though he meant to do his duty.”
11 I hope he will ; I like a man thoroughly
in earnest in whatever he undertakes, anil
there is an expression in Davis’ eye that I
like, I believe I can rely on an an who owns
such a pair of eyes is he does,” ; nd, as . hint
to Porter to busy himself. Blent t irued to id
books.
During the day his mind did not rev. >-t to
the “charity hand" as the foreman called Da
vis, but when at night he w ent to look about
the yard, he found him hard at w ..rk piling
some oak timber which he h. and promised to
have measured and delivered earii next
morning.
low is this y said the careful tuerch mt
to himself; “should he be waiting to -teal or
burn, 1 must see the last of him before 1
leave, ' and so he came up to Lis new hand,
with distrust in the heart where confidence
had reigned iu the morning. Thus quicklv
do the hour and the Impulse make sad havoc
sometimes of our nature’s highest and holiest
qualities.
“Why have you not qu t, Davis* The othei
men have gone home a long time ago.”
• r . I orter wished me to pil. this timber,
and I staid to do it, sir."
“I believe I hired you to work from seven
until s : x, didn’t 1 *”
“Yes sir."
“Then you have no business here oTtc'
that hour, unless 1 bid y. n. Porter has no
right to impose upon you more than ten hours
labor.”
“ He offered me a shilling for doing thi
job, and—and—" the man's voice grow verv
hoarse, “ times have been very hard with me
—sickness an 1 no work have kept me prottv
low, and i am giad to earn an honest penni
whenever I can, sir.”
“ That’s all but I want to shut up.
myself, and I can t wait until vou get through.
You must go home now.”
“ Hut then— Wild the liiai: stopped His
voice could not trust itseli in words.
“ But then what r” said Brent, beg;: n:,g
to srrow cold and impatient.
“ I was going to say. sir. that I should have
nothing to eat until to-morrow. I was to go
to Porter’* house on my way I -mo, and get
the shilling, ud 1 w ould uot go and ask for it
befc.-o my work vra- done.” j
“ Tki you do this for monev to Ituv some
thing to eat?"
“ That is all, sir."
ilere is your day s ea-:; g," handing him
as he spoke, a dollar. •• Let the lumber go;
I wiU see to that iu the morning.”
“ All this for mo* lam working. >;r, not
begging;* there was a flash of independent
dignity in his eyes th tt Brent liked to ,< e.
“ 1 hired you," was the cool business an
swer, “ to pay you as 1 do other men whom 1
hare to work. I wouk give you more if I
could afford it ; I wouk certainly be a heath
en tc give a man who has a family to support
in a city like Bos'co anything less than sii
dollars a week. I like you—l believe I can
trust you. T 1 is is to be vour place, and I
M .til>ou ||t a better one aomc
a stranger ?” All the way to Beacon street,
Hamilton Brent thought of it, and after he
sat (town to his own dinner, picuired the sup
per table in Davis’ room, the centre piece of
thankf-’uess. To his matronly housekeeper,
whoa© Heart was ever open to deeds of chari
ty, be told the sad story, and promised to find
the next day where they lived, that from the
bounties he had been blest with Giles Davis'
home might be yet happier aud-pleasanter. —
The next morniug he did not forget to ask
Giles where he lived, and after dark the
housekeeper and her son paid a st. Nicholas
visit to the room designated, leaving their
basket upon the platform in tront of the door,
with nothing to show fiom whence it ;ame
but the the two letters —“ li. B.' 1 burned i
upon the handle.
Early and late was Giles Davis at work,
and the ragged “ charity hand,” that at fir-t
the men in the yard had shunned, grew to be
respected by all, from his employer down to
Tip, the little fellow who made fires and did
the errands of the office. The old house
keeper, after being caught iu her second visit
ala St. Nicholas, used to go in and chat wlth
the Rule woman whose hand and life grew
marvelously strong as the better time coming
gleamed upon her.
* i Hope rn her its heavenly radiance sited.
And wared its silver pinions o’er her head.”
The winter went by, and March came—the
month of winds and snow - , of hails and rains
—of days that are cheerless and nights that
are gloomy even to the gayest heart, and still
master and man stood as firm and as high in
each other’s confidence as ever. Often, as
he sat alone, Hamilton Brent conceived an
imperfect knowledge of his proverb shining
upon him, in the kind effort of Giles Davis,
but the full time had not yet come for him to
see “ after many days,” the wealth of its
promise.
Upon one of those stormy days you and 1
have seen in March, cr me an order for ship
timber* which Brent.must attend to himself.
All day long he staid iu that drenching and
chilling storm. That night his walk home
seemed longer than usual—the house colder
—the matronly housekeeper “ crusty.” His
great visions were sad ones—his dreams more
iike spiritual visitations than like visions that
we love to think linger around and above us
iu our sleeping moments.
The next day at his office passed sadly and
drearily,until it grew nearly night, when heart
and tiesli failed him, and he fell fainting to
the floor. In the hour of excitement that
followed, Giles Davis stepped into the posi
tion of counselor and nurse. Every one in
and around the office gladly followed his di
rections or asked his advice. He it was who
they agreed support Brent home and stay with
him. During the illness of many week? that
follewod his rash exposure, Giles’ strong arm
wa.- the one on which the good old housekeep
er leaned for help and guidance. The quiet
little woman was brought from her humble
home to the grander one of her husband's
employer, to assist in the enormous duties ol
nurse. The siek man, whose friends (with
the exception of an invalid aunt, who lived
with her daughter in Maine,) had all gone t
the “ spirit laud, looked, in moments of con
sciousness, the gratitude he could not speak,
every day. as Giles would go to tho office to
consult with Dorter and report favorably to
his emyloye..
It was rot until “ April showers ’’ had
brought May flowers 1 ” that Hamilton Brent
took liis old place iu the lumber yard. But
the strongest lie that can bind humanity to
gether, united their hearts, and Hamilton
never forgot that, under God, he owed his
after prosperity to the “charity hands.”
During the summer evenings when his bach
elor home grew silent, he would think, with a
lingering regret, of a pleasanter one in a
quiet street, and devise some plan to insure
that one as a part of his own. It was not un
til Christmas that his plan was perfected.
Then, when the other hands received tho slip
of paper w ith “ A Merry Christmas ” written
on it, and a dollar note pinned to it, Giles re
ceived a little package, and opening it in his
plea- it home, foqnd it contained the gift of
one-; .urlh interest iu the lumber-yard,.pro
vided Mrs. Davis would consent to occupy the
house iu Beacon street, in company with her
husband, Hamilton Brent, and her old friends
the matronly ainj hci son.
Davis was not unreasonable. She went, car
rying w ith her nothing but the sweet smiles
that had made her humble home a paradise
for her husband ; and as Hamilton Brent.en
joyed the pleasantness of the group that lin
gt red in t lie moonlight of hi? ancestral man
sion, his heart understood at length the bless
edne-s of the command, “Cast thy bread up
on the waters, and thou shah find it after
many davs.”
THE LOST LOVE-LETTER.
“ Well, wonders will never cease !”
It was a bright little boudoir, with sea
green walls and carpet of the softest emerald
velvet, the windows dim with the branching
greenery of fragrant remon-trees, and a silky
black spaniel coiled up on the rug in front of
the fire. Miss Melissa Jones sat in the mid
dle of the loom, her false curls stirred by
some inward agitation, and her forty-year old
cheek flushed with a bloom more genuine
than she usually wore, while her gypsy-like
niece, Nelly Howard, a dark-brilliant beauty
ot seventeen, leaned over her shoulder and
eagerly perused the open letter that lay in
. the worthy spinster’s lap. ishe it was who
: had made the above remark, to which Aunt
1 Melissa answered testily:
“ Wonders V 1 don't see anything so verv
wonderful in the matter. If Gerald Plumer
chooses to fall in love with me, i can't help
it !’’
Why, aunty, he is only twenty-two, and
you are forty !”
“Only thirty-nine !” ejaculated Miss Melis
sa, in rather a belligerent tone of voice.
“ And he is handsome, and—no v, aunty,
pardon me, hut you never pretended to be a
! beauty !”
Mi-- Melissa's check grew scarlet.
“ Mr. riumer possibly recognizes the power
I of intellectual charms,” she answered tartly.
“ And more than this,” pursued the relent
less Nelly, “everybody supposed the voung
! man in question to be desperately in love
w ith our little Kflie—w here is she, bv the
way Gone up stairs, I suppose, to cry over
I her defaulting cavalier. Well, I shall conn
■ sel her to call pride to her assistance . Hut,
bv the way, aunty, von haven't told me how
and when this epistle arrived. Hy post or
through a messenger ?”
“It was yesterday evening,” she simperd,
“Mr. Plume-—Gerald, 1 should say,” (N’ellv
made a grir - o) —“ called. lie only stood a
j minute, talking, by the fire. I supposed,
foolish thing that I was, his short star wa,
iow ing to Effie’e being away from home. Hut
i he had not been gone five nunntes before 1
discovered this folded paper lying on the floor
iat my leet. Was it not an exquisite wav ot
|p> ■•posing * Bee, he calls me ids dearest
one,” and signs himself mv “ ever devoted
slave I” ’
“Fiddlesticks. Aunt Melissa I" exclaimed
the irreverent Nelly. “He only warts vour
t rty thousand dollars'. It's just impossible
that a young man like him can really have
i laih-n in love with you!”
Aunt Melissa rose from the chair with a
countenance of such lowering wrath, that
Miss Nelly wisely remcmoeied the maxim
about discretion being the bolter part of valor
and beat a hasty retreat, only stopping once,
to laugh, on the stairs ! But her countenance
c’ it das she entered the room w here a
young girl sat. with her forehead resting or.
the window ledge, and her violet eyes spark
ling with tears.
“Cr ying, Eflio ! Let mo wipe the tears
darling—be isn't tv. >rth one of those
diamond drops.”
“ Oh. Nolly. 1 was so secure in the certain! v
of his lore P
" Forget him, dearest !" urged Nelly. “Nav
! don't sob so piteously—summon ap all the
; pride there is in your gentle nature, and meet
i him iu future as coldly as though he wore a
siraag* r V
And Effie. through her sobs, faltered out
that she would try.
Miss Mt lis-i blossomed out that evening
like a peony, in a georgous crimson silk dress
with gigantic bracelets on her arms, and gat :
in state in the parlor, her false ringlets gk.ssv j
with pomatum. * I
“ 1 or (,eraid's note said he would call soon, j
to receive uis fate Irom mv own lips,” she
admoored. j
call any such tardiness ou the part of an eaget
lover.
“What does it mean, do you suppose V
she asked of Nelly, a? die reluctantly turned
down the gas at the t lose of the third earn
ing. and went slowly up staieato bvd<
“-I don’t know, aunty. I’m sure,”,returned
the malicious damsel. ' “ Perhaps he's like
the boy who has pulled the string of % show
er-bath. and dodges back in terror at ins own
boldness. Suppose you send a committee to
brine him to a sense of his ituation V
Aunt Melissa slammed the door of her room
with a hang that made the verv policeman in
the street below open his eyes.
Gerald Plumer’s room at the Hotel
was literally blue with cigar smoke—a tact
easily accounted for when you glanced at
the recumbent figure of his room-mate o’.nd
boon companion, who wa= lazily vmtchrntr the
fire and smoking as if for a wager. It was a
pretty - ■•or., full of elecant hacbelor-kuick-
Knacka, oni it looked as if a pair of w ild
horses might have torn through it, and no
body have picked up things afterwards. For
the flower vio-cs were on the floor, and the
slippers were on the table, and the boot jack
reclined on the mantel, in comoanionship
with a wash-pitcher and an odd boot, w hile
the bronze inkstand wa? crammed back of a
heap of crumpled -newspapers, and a pair of
lavender kid gloves lay in the coal scuttle.
- “ What do I care 1” remarked Fred. Pow
er?, as he surveyed the scene of desolation
from behind his fortress of wreathing smoke.
“I can always find a thing when I want it—
if I only look long enough ! Hallo, Gerald I’,
for his (friend had hastily entered the room,
“ what’s up now ? What are you throwing all
those papers about for? how do vou know
but they are my love-letters ? Why can’t
you tell a fellow what you’re ionkiu® for?
Don’t believe its under the coal-box, nor yet
in the soap-cup. Own up ! What piece of
carelessness have you been perpetrating,
now ? ”
“ Have you seen a folded note, lying about
here, Fred ? ” suddenly questioned Gerald.
“I've seen the wash woman’s bill and the
tailor's little account, tendered in to your
humble servant! ”
“ Pshaw—l mean a note in my own w rit
ing ! ”
“ No, t haven’t,” said Fred, raising himself
on one elbuw. “But why are you so anxious
about it, my boy ? I hope you’ve not been
forging ray name to a check foi forty thou
sand dollars ?”
i’m a fool, Fred,” groaned Gerald, biting
his lip as he leaned against the mantle-piece.
“So I’ve always told you, you'll please to
remember. Jiut in what particular instance
has your folly developed itself this time ?’’
“ Well, I’ve beentrydfigto muster up courage
these six weeks to toll Effie Lee how much 1
loved her ; and at length, in despair, I was
foolish enough to write a declaration of my
sentiments.”
“ You made a donkey of yourself that time,
my boy,” interrupted Bowers. These things
are awkward in black and white ! ”
“Fortunately, there was no names mention
ed in the note, and I had determined not to
use it but to speak out like a man. But, to
my surprise, I find the letter is gone—slipped
through a treacherous rip in the lining of my
coat pocket. It is nowhere to be found, and
1 feel a little uneasy.”
“ Very natural that you should! ” remarked
Powers. “ Suppose the greasy old laundress
should pick it up on the stairs, aud imagine
herself invited to become Mrs Gerald Plurner !
Don't look so appealing at me, old fellow;
you say no names were involved, and if you
dropped it here, as is most likely, it has prob
ably been twisted into a cigm-lighter long
ago. Don’t fret, until you find yourself sued
by somebody for a breach of promise ! ”
And Gerald Plumor resolved for the nine
hundred and ninety-ninth time to be more
careful, aud the matter slipped from his mind,
just as the mischief making little note slipped
from his pocket!
“If you please, M.ss Effie, here is a card
lot you, said the mischievous black boy who
attended the door of Mr. Howard’s residence.
“De gen’lman’s in de parlor, and wants for to
see you ’ticular.”
“ Mr. Gerald Plumor,” read Effie, in sur
prise.
“ There’s some mistake,” exclaimed Miss
Melissa, starting up in a smiling flutter. “The
card wuas for me, Pompey!”
“ No, Miss’Lizzy,” persisted Pompey, firm
ly, “it w as Miss Effie Lee, u > gen’ieman said ;
aud he guv me a quarter, he did !”
Effie rose quietly.
“I will see Mr. Plumcr,” she said, with
iignity ; “but the interview must necessarily
be a brief one.”
She left the room, while Miss Melissa fidg
eted about in a tremor of eager expectation,
wondering, ev. *y moment, how it happened
that she was not sent for !
Gerald Plumcr was rather dismayed at the
frigid reception vouchsafed him by his lady
love, but he determined to win the golden
prize now or never, and boldly ventured on
his errand.
“ Effie,” he said, firmly, “ I have called
this morning to speak to you on a subject
inexpressibly near and dear to me. I might
make a longer preface, but I am not skilled
in the use of words. Effie, I can only say,
that I love you most truly and passionately,
—may I venture to hope that my love is re
turned y”
“This is a very strong announcement, Mr.
Plumer, returned Effie, calmly, “and singu
larly inconsistent with the declaration of
love you have so recently made to mv aunt
Melissa.”
tt I r>
“ Y'ou, sir.”
“ Effie, let me understand. Is it possible
j you are uuder the impression that—”
“ I am under an impression, sir, and a
! pretty strong one, too, that it is scarcely
three days since you wrote, offering yourself
to Mi-s Melissa Jones. Ido not know how
many love affair- you have on hand at once,
but —”
“Effie, there is some mistake here,” inter
rupted Gerald. “I never wrote to Miss
Jones in my life—never thought of her save
as a very respectable maiden lady,old enough
to be my mother.”
The words had scarcely passed 1 is lips, ore
the door flew open as if by magic, and Miss
Melissa herself—who had been -tnioned sus
piciously near the key-hole for some minutes
stalked into the room.
“ Then, sir,” she ejaculated, “ I’d like to
know what you meant by writing me this
love-letter? I’ll have justice done me if
there’s law in the land ! ”
Gerald took the letter from her hand, anti
his face brightened up with a sudden compre
hension.
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“ I regret that such an embarrassing mis
take should have been made, Miss Jones," he
said, " butliy what right Jo you appropii.ite
the contents of this letter to \ urselfl It
was w ritten to Ml-? Fffie Le'e.' I had con
cluded, however, not to use it, but to speak
mat* ad, in iu_\ own proper peraofi. I lost it
several days since. and am at a loss to imag
ine how it could have come into your hands.
1 • ’grot that your feelings have been enlisted.
Mis- Jones, but I should a- soon think of mar
rying rny grandmother ! "
The quiet self-possession with which he
spoke crushed the last faint flatter of hop*
.n Miss Melissa's virgin breast. Sue turned
white and red—half decided to go into hvs
teries at first, and wholly decided to fall back
on -coin and contempt at last. So -he walk
ed out ot the room, her nose high in the air
and kept the hysterics until she was safe j
within the precincts of her own room And j
then—but our tale has no more to do with
M-- Melis.-a Jones W t - must re tun. to the 1
apartment where Herald Plainer -toe I, with '■
his arm aronnd th-> waist oi the scarce resist- ’
ing Effie.
“So you ■ ■v.
lissademurely asked that damsel"
4 ‘ No—l want to marry you, darlin^.”
And he did marry her—but Mi-.- Mel.-s.t
wa- nut one of the bridesmaids !
Moral—young men, don't be careless of
your love-letters !
A lawyer, in cross-examining a witness,
asked him among other questions, where he
was on a particular day, to which he replied.
“ In company with two friends.” “ Friends !”
exclaimed the lawyer; “two thieves, X .-up
pose you mean.” “ They may be’so.” replied
the witaess, “for they are both lawyers.”
Their Latent Phase.
Desperation makes men bold. As the war
continues and the prospect of the total erad
ication of slavery, that ‘sole V i ! which held
together the party styling itsell the ** Deino
■cratie’' or “Conservative party, ,T becomes
1 Imminent the opposition in Congress exhibit
mere violence and more malignity than ever.
They evidently think that in a Republic:
without slavery the o< upation of politicians
j like themselves would be gone, and their love
| of party triumphs over their love of country.
They seem to think that if the Union were
i broken up there nrght be an opportunity to
j combine the fragments under slaveholding
| rule, but thev begin to despair Ol preserving
I both the Union and slavery,
i As an indication of their sentiments we
subjoin a few utterances of these “conserva-
Itive” members of Congress. In a speech
made in the House of Representative# on the
I Bth inst., Mr. Alexander Long of Ohio, said;
But, Mr. Chairman, how do we stand in the
eyco of the civilized world W-day, iu waging
a war of subjugation and conquest against the
Confederate States which have seceded from
us and set up a government of their own?
Are we not inconsistent with all our former
acts ? Have we not been early to admit
proper with regard to others? There never
was a people on the face of the earth that
demanded an independent government that
did not have the sympathy of the American
people, and ought v.e now to shrink from tiie
doctrine we have been so willing to apply to
others. * * * *
1 1 the Democratic party were in power
to-dr \ I have no idea, and honesty com
pels me to declare it, lhai they eouid restore
the Union of thirty-four States. My mind
has undergone an entire change upon that sub
ject, and 1 now believe that there are but two
alternatives, and they are either an arhnou-i
--' •, unit of the indtpenden.ee of the South as an
ua j* udt id tuition, or their complete subjugation
and eittrmination ax a people and of these alter
natives I prefer the former.
On the 9th, iu the same House, Mr. Harris
of Maryland, used this language —we quote
from the Congressional Globe :
‘‘l am a peace man, a radical peace man ;
and 1 am for peace by recognition of the
South, for the recognition of the Southern Con
foieracij ; and I am for the acquiescence in the
do trim of. ■•■•cession. * * * I feel through
the rustling of the winds there is a tornado
coming that will sweep away the present ma
jority from power and give it into the hands
of men who will settle the affairs of this
country ; men who have something like hu
manity ; men who have regard fur the princi
ples of our forefathers. Ay, I recollect how
my blood curdled wheu 1 heard the discus
sion on the confiscation bill. The gentleman
from Ohio [ Ir. Garfield] said, let them be
expatriated like the Tories of the Revolution.
The Tories of the Revolution had the mother
country to run to, and were protected there.
Rut where would the gentleman send those
whom he would expatriate from the South,
as gallant and noble u race os ton' milked upon
the earth; noble in everything that constitutes
men ref honor and men of principle — gentlemen.
*'* * * *
“Sir, the Union is dissolved and there is a
gulf of blood lying between the two sections;
but upon my honor, upon my soul, 1 repeat
.‘hat every drop in that gulf is ou the souls of
the Northern people.
** Mr. Speaker, in the early part of this se
ct s-iou movement there was a resolution of
fered pledging men and money to carry on
the war. My principles were then and are
now against the war. 1 stood solitary and
alone in voting against that resolution, and
whenever a similar proposition isbrought here
it will met with my opposition. Not one dol
lar nor one man, 1 swear by the Eternal, will I
voir for this infernal, this stupendous folly,
more stupendous than ever disgraced any civ
ilized people on the face of God’s earth. If
that be treason make the most of it.
“It is the rigid of the commoner of Eng
land to say that be w ill not intrust the monev
to cany ou a war to ih e L-;-g, *vuo fias the
entire war power. 1 do not know that a
commoner of the American House of Repre
sentatives ever 10.-t that right. That propo
sition meets with my approval. If you w ill
not make pence in any other way, and if 1
hare t?ee,sting vt>o hen against furnishing tin
shuws of tm.tr, you .'•hall not hat e them.
“ The South asked you to let her go in
peace. But no, you said you would bring
them into subjugation. That is not done yet,
and Gent Airmphty grant that it never may 6-.
1 h'-pe (hat y r>‘ t ill netcr subjugate the. South. —
If she is to be ever again In the Union I hope
that it will be with her own consent; and 1
hope that that consent will be obtained by
some oth-T mode than by the sword. ‘lf this
be treason, make the most of it.' ”
On the 13th inst. Mr. Rogers, of New Jer_
sey, made a speech in which he uttered the
following sentiments:
“ There were men here who would main
tain their lights. They vere the representa
tives, not of Old Abe Lincoln, but of the
free people who sent them hither. You are
not content with -hindering Vallandighain an /
other truepntr\o‘ God bless the exile ! lie
prayed the arrow of Heaven would pierce the heart
of the despot, (meaning the President of the
United State-). You are bringing soldiers
here to keep Old Abraham, King of America ,
from being encroached upon by Jefferson
Davis of' the Southern Confederacy. Tins is no
longer a country ot republicanism, but a mon
archy and a despoti-m. I go, he said, for a
dissolution of iL rt Union in preference to a
war of extermination
It is true 1 .at other members of the oppo
sition on the floor of Congress disavowed en
tertaining such =• miments, hut no one can
read the debate- Congress, or the leading
opposition journal- of the day, without ob
serving a strong tendency, on the part of the
opposition leaders generally, to sympathize
with ovextenuate these treasonous sentiments.
The Washington correspondent of the L;n
ciunati Gazette, in describing the scene whi.e
Harris was promulgating his infamous senti
ments, sny a ;
“The scene is a curious one. This man is
'landing in the House of Representative!- of
the Unhid States surrounded by the Demo
crats and border State men of what claims
to be a loyal opposition, lie i.- talking the
boldest treason ; and ytl they knot clustered •
dt lighted t r’c/ts around fiiiu ; almost every nui/i's
fare wr a gratified smile, and at everv ex
tremely extravagant declaration they burst
out into open laughter and applause. A few
look gloomy—they are thinking of the record
ali thi- is making —but the great mass are in
the highest glee. Some ol them think it a
capital joke that those disgraceful utterances
should bo made on the iieeis cf an effort to
expel another for something not nearly so
bad, and are delighted at this defiance thrown
in the teeth of the majority ; others really
indorse what the man says, but are too cow
ardly to say it themselves; ali of them h.
and applaud and egg him on.”
TLe opposition press has bo rebuke for
these utterances. Here and there we observe
mild expressions of non-concurrence. But
the bolts of their indignation are all reserved
lor what they allege to be infractions of the
Constitution by Abolitionists, Republicans
e~ War Democrats. They can devote col
umns to the denunciation of disunion senti
ments uttered years ago by a few non-voting
lunatic.- who never had political power enough,
had they chosen to use it, to elect a consta
ble in any town in the United F'ates, but this
deadly treason from the lips of members of
(. ongress, in a crisis oi peril, calls down none
of tin ir invectives.
—An Oxford student joined without invi
tation a pa ry dining at an inn ; after which
he bos.fted si much of his abilities that one
<•1 he party said;—‘’You have told u
enough of what you can do; I*ll us some
lu-o - TOU carilJ °t do.” *Faith," said be. “I
When the slaveholders of the South re
belled, they thought the world could be
brought to their feet in the course of a few
months by the pressure of cotton famine. A
tew ngures will show how greatly they were
mistaken. In IS6I England imported 1,256,-
pounds, of which 736,640,000 weie
American, while India did not contribute a
single bale. In 184-2 the American supply
sank to 13,524,00<*i pounds, and that from In
dia rose from nothing to 392,65-1,528 pounds.
In the same year Egypt and Brazil contribut
ed 88,000,000 pounds more than they had
supplied the previous year. In 186 H the im
port from India is believed to have fully
equalled 4SO.OOO,iH>O pounds, and that from
Egypt and Brazil to have reached 140,000,000.
These may be regarded as astonishing results,
when it is remembered that of the whole
British import of 1,390,988,752 pounds in
1860, all but about were the pro-
duct of this country. Cotton-growing in In- |
dia had never been a failure, neither iu Egypt
nor Brazil, because the staple has been suc
cessfully cultivated there from time immemo
rial. But its transmission to England was
simply a question of price —the American
slaveholder undersold all other growers. The
price has now risen to a point which makes
it profitable for every cotton-growing country
to seek a European market. The estimated
receipts of England alone for 1864, amount
to over I,OOO,CHX>,OOO pounds, exclusive of
the United States.
Sales of Confiscated Lands. —The Secre
tary of the Treasury has sent in to the Senate
a repoit from the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, upon a Seuate resolution of inquiry
as to the amount of money expended, num
ber of officers appointed, and the salaries
paid the same to carry out the act of Congress
providing for the collection of direct taxes
in insurrectionary districts, including the
amount received into the Treasury from di
rect taxes of the quantities of laud sold in
said districts. The report shows that of com
missioners for the above purpose, at salaries
of SB,OOO, there were three for each State.
Stationery expenses in South Carolina have
been $1,912 (for Wm. E. Wording) ; iu Flori
da, $1,854 (Lyman D. Sticknet) ; in Virginia,
nothing; in Tennessee, SBBO (Delano T.
Smith). The expenses of surveying and ad
vertising has been iu South Carolina, $2,750;
in Florida, $3,861 ; Virginia, SIOB ; Tennes
see, $3,600. Total salaries and expenses,
$43,466. The receipts from sales of lands
were $206,309, of which $27,899 is from
South Carolina ; Florida, sl6 002; Viich ; '.
$110,407; Tennessee, $52,600. 103,000 acres
are reported as sold in South Carolina, 124 in
Florida, and 6,400 in Virginia. The persons
who received stationery as above had charge
of the funds.
Statistics of Miscegenation. —There were
411,613 mulatto slaves in the South iu 1860,
of whom 69,979 were in Virginia, 43,281 in
Kentucky, 86,900 in Georgia. These num
bers are considerably beyong the legitimate
proportion oi those Stales. There were also
176,789 free mulattoes in the United States
in 1860, of whom 106,770 belonged to the
South, and 69,969 to the free States. Of the
free mulattoes Virginia contained 23,485,
which number, added to her slave mulattoes,
makes a total of miscegenated population of
93,824. Her mulatto slaves alone exceeded
the total number of mulattoes in the free
states.
The whole number of mulattoes, slave and
free, in the Union, in 1860, was 588,8?2, of
whom 69,969 belonged to the free States and
618,383 to the slave States—a number greater
than the combined white population of Ar
kansas, Delaware and Florida—greater than
the white population of Maryland—almost
twice as great as that of South Carolina, and
twice as great as the combined populations of
Delaware and Florida. The mulatto popula
tion of Virginia alone exceeds the number of
whites in Delaware or Florida.
We hop., that some of our copperhead ex
changes w ill try to do justice to the enormity
of the practices disclosed by these figures.
———
The Copperheads say the reason men
do not now volunteer with as much rapidity
as at the beginning of the war, is because of
the emancipation proclamation of the Presi
dent. Do they suppose the public so stupid
as to be deceived by such nonsense ? The
reason men do not volunteer as readily now
as formerly is, simply that a million of the
able-bodied men of the country have already
volunteered. There were thousands of men
at the bcgin„.ng of the war who had no busi
ness or family ties to keep them at homo.—
They could enlist as well us not. This class
is well nigh exhausted. Most of those who
now go, unless it be tne young men who
have become of proper age since the war be
gan, must abandon families and settled busi
ness in older to enlist. It is this, and not
opposition to the policy of the Administra
tion, w hich renders it more difficult now to
find volunteers.
The 28th in a Fight.—Six companies of
the 2Sth Wisconsin, under command of Col.
L. J. Smith, left Pino Bluff on the 26th ult.,
together with three regiments of cavalry and
the ISth Illinois infantry upon an expedition
towards the Saline River. The following
Tuesday they destroyed a bridge on the Saline,
burned 38 of the enemies wagons, and cap
tured 270 prisoners with over 200 horses and
mules. Up to this time they had not fired a
gun. On Wednesday they had a sharp skir
mish at Mount Elba. The rebels were driven
back. On our side the entire loss was two
killed, both members of the 2Sth Wisconsin
—Thomas Green of Cos. G., and Patrick
O’Brien of company I. Fifteen of the ene
mies dead were buried by our men, and over
thirty were wounded. The expedition return
ed to camp with 320 prisoners.
Xew Treaty with Japan.—Minister Prittn
has concluded a treaty between the United
States and Japan, by which the latter power
agrees to admit, free of duty sheet lead and
other articles used in packing tea, and ma
chines and machinery; all drugs and medi
cines. except opium, which is prohibited; iron,
tin, sugar, glass, clocks >nd watches, and
wines and spirits, at the reduced duty office
per cent
-V drunken fellow, sitting on the steps
of Park street church, the cold wind blow
ing chillingly round the corner. “'lf heaven
(hie; tempers the wind to the (hie) shorn
iamb, I wL-h the lamb (hie) was on this cor
ner.
Hard Times.—A farmer who lives on a cer
tain hill, called “ Hard Scrabble,” in Central
Aew fork, say that last summer, owing to
the drouth and poor land together, the grass
was so short they had to lather ft before
they could mow it!
; One of the best remedies for the high
prices of provisions is bean broth, beef shin
soup, codfish and. potatoes, and plenty of
From the 22d Wisconsin.
Correspondence of the State Journal,
Nashville, April 12th.
This morning’s air is alive with the sounds
of industry, from the clatter of the hammer
as the carpenter drives the nail, or the black
smith beats the iron, on and in the huge
buildings being erected bv government for
shops or storehouses, down to the rasping of
the shell in the adjoining tents, as the men
ply their trade in converting rough shells into
beautiful lockets for mother, wife or sister at
home.
spring approaches slowly, 'Hough the
peach tree is wreathed in blossoms, the grass
growing refreshingly green, and the familiar
chirp of the blackbird comes down to us as a
Hock dy past towards the marshes of Wis
consin.
We look forward confidence to the
coining tug of war, and whether it be our
task to bear a part or guard communications,
we shall do our best to advance the cause of
nationality. Ours is not a regiment of men
who love the maddening scenes of war, but a
band of patri* ts who took up arms in a na
tion’s extremity, and will gladly lay them
by when the necessity no longer exists, to
return to peaceful pursuits and quiet homes.
At one t ime, the brigade, except big the
33d Ind., home on furlough, were under or
ders for Lookout Valley, but since the con
solidation of the 11th and 12th army corps,
the prospect seems remote of leaving this
city, and ceasing to become one of its subur
ban villages.
The 22d were or. brigade drill yesterday,
with the 18th Mich., 13th Wis., and 102*1
O n, and, nn.l*>r command of Lieut. Col.
Bloodgood, acquitted themselves creditaT*!.
Col. Utlc-y has returned, and is temporarily
in command of the brigade. New officers
are coming up fro n the ranks as the old hands
resign, and u general satisfaction attends
these changes, which are rapidly restoring
that harmony which must exist between offi
cers and men for execution of duty in the
camp or field. There have been many appli
cants for commissions in negro regiments,and
the most of them have been successful, to the
encouragement of others.
We have been favored by a visit from our
former Major, Mr. Murrey, whose almost pa
rental interest towards us lias never been for
gotten.
Surgeon Hancbard, who first learned of his
promotion through the columns of the State
Journal , is an excellent officer, and has gain
ed, the confidence of all parties, skillful as a
physician and most gentlemanly as an indi
vidual. Through his instrumentality and the
kindness of the agent of the U. S Sanitary
Commission, several barrels of potatoes,
onions and cabbages have been received by
the different companies of the regiment to
the decided improvement of their unchanged
bill of fare.
As at Murfreesboro, the wants of the ser
vice anti the capability of the rank and tile of
the 22d, have drawn largely upon the regi
ment for details, and whether on the train as
guard, or at the barracks, at the “Hume of
Refugees’’ or the “State’s Prison,’’ clerk, car
penter or blacksmith, the soldiers of the 22d
Wisconsin will be found faithful to their
duty.
By a comparison of our number and health
with other regiments, we stand the first best
on health, though we have barely eight hun
dred men, while each of the other three are
recruited to the maximum.
Co’s F and A are full to the minimum, but
several companies have not been strengthen
ed by the addition of a single recruit. There
is room and welcome to many more, and if a
man lias any pride in serving his State and
country, now is his chance to show it, and
ours is the regiment in which to show it.
Soldiers and correspondents have so gene
rally written when the gloomy spirit came up
on them that a prevalent but mistaken opin
ion is held that a military life is all hardship,
all exposure, sickness and wounds, but stand
by the groups playing at ball, pitching quoits,
filing shells, reading papers, studying scien
tific works or engaged in conversation, and
you will find no despondence, but a manly
freedom and a cheerful feeling which they
themselves were strangers to when confined
to the desk and pampered by luxu-y.
Uniforms are not clean and fitted as the
new coat from the tailor, and our coffee is
drank from nothing better than a tin cup.
We cannot have the shelter of an umbrella
when rain falls, nor more than overcoats and
blankets for our bedding, but the life-current
flows with vigor, and the browned counte
nance beams with determination and good
nature.
Though many comrades sleep the sleep
which knows no more of earth’s awakening,
many will return home toughened by the
campaign and well prepared to carry on the
profession with success, they reluctantly left.
Xo community is so healthful but that some
die, and the mortality of our army now, un
der the care and experience of old surgeons
and the attendance of agents of benevolent
societies, is a little more than at home.
Hospitals are no longer the dread of old
soldiers, for the minister is a frequent visitor
and noble women arc foond there engaged in
the labor of the Samaritan. Clean as the
kitchen of a tidy housekeeper, and furnished
with a variety of reading, the sick man often
finds an attention to his comfort which home
could not give.
The march is wearisome, hut the rest is re
freshing, and there are few who are not inte
rested in the scenery of the country through
which they pass, the different style of archi
tecture, the novel manner of cultivation and
all the objects which challenge the attention
of the observer away from his home, and hav
ing no care for stage, car or boat, fare or ho
tel, Lc having but to obey orders and look
out for self. ‘ W. H. M.
President Lincoln on the Recent Massacre.
A dispatch from Baltimore, dated April
18th, says:
The inauguration exercises of the Great
' Fair at the Maryland institute to-night were
very imposing. The President’s appearance
in the Hall was greeted with tremendous ap
plause. After the inaugural address of Gov.
Bradford, the President was loudly ealleu lor,
and, in response, proceeded to make a brief
address. He referred to the great change
that had taken place in Baltimore during the
last three years. The world, he said, had
long been in want of a correct definition of
1 the word freedom. Whilst all present advo
i cated liberty, there was in their minds many
’ very opposite views of what liberty
With one man, liberty implied to work for
! himself and to do as he pleased with the pro
i ceeds of his labor. With others, liberty
meant to do as you please with other men
and their labor. One of these two conflict
ing ideas would have to give way to the
other. He thought from some occurrences
which had lately taken place in Maryland,
| that her people were about to determine
which of these views of freedom should con
trol her destiny.
He then alluded to the occurrences report
ed to have taken place at Fort Pillow and the
measacre of several hundred soldiers by the
Confederates. Many supposed the Govern
ment did not intend to do its duty in regard
to the protection of colored soldiers. He de
sired to say that all such were mistaken.
When the question of employing colored men
as soldiers was left to the Government, it
rested very much with himself whe*’ier he
should make soldiers with them or not. He
pondered the matter carefully, when he be
came convinced that it wag his duty so to
employ them. He did not hesitate to do so.
He stood before the American people respon
sible for the act, responsible before the
Christian world, lie should stand in the eye
of the historian responsible for it. He stood
before his God, and he did not shrink from
the decision he Lad made. Moreover he be
lieved he was right, and when the Govern,
ment determined to make soldiers of the col
ored people, he thought it only just they
should have the same protection as the white
soldiers, (applause,) and he hesitated not to
declare the Government would so protect
them to the utmost of its power.
Whenever a clear, authenticated case is
made out, retribution would follow. Hither-
government bad no direct evidence to confirm
the reports in existence relative to the n
sacre, but ho himself feared the firsts rela; J
were true. When the government doe- know
the fact? from official nourcfca and tjj.y u i,.
-lantiate the reports, ictribntion will be sure
ly given. (Great, applause. } But how retri
bution will be administered was a gen
still to be settled. Would li be tight to take
the lives of prisoners in Washington, at Fort
Delaware or elsewhere in retains! m foi a,
in which they had T ot shared, ar'd which v
probably be found at the ordering of oulv a
few individuals or possibly of only owe man ■
Tbe President reiterated that toe Govern
ment would not fail to visit retribution when
the facts were clearly proven. Through*
his remarks he was warmly applauded, and
especially his determination to visit retribu
tion on the barbarous deeds of the rebels.
Sfirs Item?.
Quarantine will be rigidly enforced below
New Orleans after May let.
An Alexandria letter of the 9th Says I
rebels are burning all the cotton on the lb
and Ouchita rivers.
It is thought .Forrest is preparing to rc-U;
South. G riersou is to w atch and Tiarras
moveiuent.
An unsuccessful attempt was made hy t
rebels on the 17th to decoy and capture t
steamer I*iminury, 85 miles below Mcmp!
The Senate military committee report ,
against the House bill giving *25 Fount\
9 months’ men.
The Senate Pacific railroad committee hav
authorized their chairman to report son.
important amendments to the Pacific ra
road act of ISG2.
A letter states that the Confederate M mi
ter, Gen. Preston, will leave Havana for Vn
Cruz about the 22d inst., and there await :
arrival of Maximillian.
The Inquirer has a letter from North! ,
giving particulars of a rebel attack on P
mouth and an assault on Fort Gray. 1
rebels were repulsed with fearful slaught*
Ten more wounded at Fort Pillow, pick
up a few days since from abiding place w:
they had been suffering since the battle, h .
been brought up to the Mound City ho=pii
Vienna papers give a positive denial to ti
report that revolt had been planned by f
Hungarian troops in the Austrian array, an.
that in consequence wholesale executions !
taken place.
Notice of Sale.
IN CIRCUIT COURT FOR Till
J. County of Fond du Lac.
Alexander Spaulding, Cbarle* Butler and Mo-
M. Davis, Trustees, Plaintiffs, against Fox and u -
cousin Improvement Company and Al>r
B Clark, sole surviving mortgagee in trust, i.
fendantg.
I Public notice is hereby given, that by virtu.- ai
in pursuance of the terms and provisions an.l i ,
piweref sale contained in a certain deed ol tn
dated the first day of December, A. D. U ■ ,
by the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement C
pany, a corporation under the laws of the M
of Wisconsin, party of the first part to Ah x u
Mitchell, Charles Butler and AlexanderSpaulii.
parties of the second part, as trustees, to their - u
vivor and survivors, successor and successor
trust for the uses and purposes expressed in .
deed of trust and in the act of the Legislature .
Wisconsin, iu said deed referred to ; and by virti
of and pursuant to an order or judgment of a .
&c., rendered in said Court in the above eutil
action on the fourth day of February. A. I). I 4.
to which trust deed, act and judgment, referee
is nere made, wo, the undersign, and Trustees ar
Referees for sale, si all on Thursday, the lit*h C
of May, A. D. Ixo4, at ten o'clock iu the l. reuo
of that day, at the office of the Fox and Wisenn-;
Improvement Company, in the village of* A
pleton, in the county of Outagamie, in the Si .
of Wise . .sin, offer lor sale and sol’ at public u
tionto the highest bidder, the lands, rights, ini r
ests andclaims, legal or equitable in lands, .. -
rights of way, dams, lock.-, canal.-, water-pow •
works of improvement and appurtenance , rirh
privileges and franchise* belonging to said com.
ny or connected with said improvement, an 1 pr
erty of every description hereinafter described
referred to, upon the conditions and iu the mum •
hercaftei specifi. and.
Notice is also given, that Moses M. Davis w ; .
appointed and is now trustee under said and.
trust, as successor to Alexander Mitchell fr -
aud that the under-rgned Charles Butler and A.-
sutler Spaulding are two of tho j.artie . iuu:
said trust deed as parties of the second part. t;
by said order or judgment of sale, it is adju ; r
in substance that the sale hereby noticed will
.•rate to pass to the purchaser or purchasers
such sale, all interest in said lands, rights, pro :
ty, franchises, Ac., Ac., which is represented : .
said trust deed, and all which is now v ■ i in ;
defendant Abraham B. Ciark, as .-..U surv.i
mortgagee in trust under the mortgage in ■
judgment referred to, or which is repre-, nted
any way passed by said mortgage; and which .-
mortgage is fully set out in th complaint in ti
action, and is filed in the office of tho Secretary
State of Wisconsin, and recorded in the offices
the Registers of Deeds for the county of Outa
mie and several other of tlio counties herein.,
named. That by said judgment it also app.
that the undersigned trustees, and tho said C'lai
mortgagee in trust, respectively, have in due IV
been requested by the beneficiaries under sa
trust deed and said mortgage to canse sale to
made of the lands, property, franchises, Ac., A
herein mentioned, for the payment of the niatur
unpaid indebtedness secured by said deed
mortgage; and which matured unpaid indebted;,,,
exists in a large amount. That if on the first
of sale all of tho lands, property, franchises, A
bo not sold, the said sale will be continued fr
day to day (Sundays excepted) so lomr ns shall
necessary. That the said lands, property, fr..!
chises, Ac., will be sold in the order present-. I
the act of the Legislature of Wisconsin in n-lat
thereto, approved October 3, am j tint r
partitioned and selected lands, of which there r.
certified lists, as hereinafter stated, will be sold
tracts not exceeding 640 acres each.
Notice is also ; :vcn, that tho property i
hereby uotiurJ for sale, is described in said
or judgment of sale as follows, to-wit : “All tie
lauds, rights and interests in or claims upon or t
lauds granted by Congress, in aid of the Fox :n
Wisconsin Rivers Improvement, the water-power
works of improvement, corporated rights, fr.t
chises, privileges, and all property covered by s
trust deed, and the mortgage set out iu said a
plaint.”
That said property, Ac., is described in aid tru
doed as follows, to-wit: “All the unsold la..
granted to the State of Wisconsin by the seven
al ts and resolutions of Congress to ai l in the
provement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivera and e .
the works of improvement, constructed or to
constructed ou said rivers, and all and singular
rights of way, dams, backs, canals, water- ■' :■
and other appurtenances of said works, ai.J
rights, privileges and t ranebises belonging to -
improvement, and all properly of said Oompan;-
whatever name and description.”
That said property, Ac., is described in f
mortgage substantially as follows, *n wit : All
property, rights of property and interest ther.
eviry kind and nature of the Fox A Wisconsin i
prov.-ment Company, to the same exteut as ti
are mentioned iu the resolutions embodied in
mortgage. That in said resolutions it is pr vi
in t u'ustance, that said mortgage be upon ...
interests iu lauds, Ac., which are embrace and iu
descriptions above given, and also be upon pr-q -
ty described substantially as follows, to wit . on
the property of said company, whether corport
incorporeal, and ou all the rights ol proi-erlv .
said company, whether legal or equitable in .
ing the channel or water course of the /*.’- •
right ot way in the same, the locks, bridges,’r u
verts, and ail and singular the works pertait
thereto and belonging to said company then ip
and constructed or thereafter to be made uud c
structed, together with the revenues of the -
canals so constructed or to be constructed ; li
the hydraulic power then owned and to be .!.
by said company, and all the revenues there
and generally ail the revenues ol the company n
including the right of said company to re.
from the State of Wisconsin on the purchase of '
improvement as provided in the charter the i
chase money to be paid therefor.
Notice is also given that all of the lands grau
to the Mate of Wisconsin by the acts and rs
tions of Congress above referred to, and which •
by said State granted to said company, have uv
yet been partitioned, set apart and selected Jr
tho lands belonging to the United States; that
of said i..nds are in the Stale ol Wisconsin; lie’
many of said lands have been so partitioned,
apart and selected and tho approval of the i’i< ■
dent of the United Stales to the a°.ue uas !,•
certified; that lists of the lands so partitioned. ■
apart and "elected, have been filed in the on.
the Secretary of state, of Wisconsin., and cer ir
copies of suet lists are filed in the office of the 1. -
t- rs of Deeds for the several counties, nspe :
wherein sab' lands are situated; that all oftfi .
sold lands embraced in said lists will, with
other property above described, be offered an . ;
at the sale hereby noticed. Referee
here made to said lists, which were filed as a- ’
said in the following counties, to-wit: toa;
W aushara, Calumet, Outagamie, Winnebago, iD ;
athon, Richland, Trempealeau, Marquette, u s
V-mon, Portage, Fond du Lac, Juneau,Cra-
Jackson, Kau Claire, Wood, Waupacca. u ;:
Lake. Brown, Sauk, St. Croix, Kewaunee, 0(? “
Chippewa, Dunn, Adams, Shawanaw, and T '
That for a further desciiption of the said tanJ--’
partitioned, set apart, selected and certineu
aforesaid, and the said works of improves I
rights of way, dams, looks, canals, waier-j i
ngh's, privileges, franchises, property, Ac., re
ence is here made to the several acts and re so
tions of Congress and of the Legislature <- "
consin in relation thereto, and especially t. 1
acta of the Legislature of Wisconsin ir re-A
thereto, approved as follows : (X) an act PP r
July 6, 1K53; (2) an act approved Ma-oh SI.
and (3) an act approved Octobers, |
That schedules giving description, as fnliy i
practicable, of the property, Ac., to he s-'hL •' I
as nearly accurate as may be, will be prepare s*
exhibited at the time and place of sale. i
Dated, Appleton, February 23d, 1564. I
ALEXANDER SPAULDINO, I
CHARLES BUTLER, ■!