Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-09-29
WHOLE NuMnER 81.


/ Resaca and Monterey. After the capturertf
! Matamoras, instead of using one of the houses
IN the city as his quarters. he gave them all
I up to the sick, wounded. and slept in his tent
on bed thatwas not mere than four in
! eheS above the mud and water that surrounded
l.it''
The speaker related many interesting Incl
denis connected with the movements ofarmy,
( illustrating the benevolence of Gen. Tavlor,
and the perfect confidence of the troops in the
goodness OF his heart, and his skill as a COM
nlander. He made Us all feel as if every
man was double, and had twice the strength
we really possessed and could do more than
any other army in the world. He was always
the first to meet danger, and used TO tell us 10
,oafch him close and nerer 70 run fH he rqn.-
But he never ran from the enemy he never
turned away from suffering soldier without
doing all he could to relieve and cheer him.
On the march to Servalo,' continued the
youth, "my strength gave out, and had il NOT
been for Gen. Taylor, might have been left
en- the road to die or be murdered. But he
saw me, and knew frem my looks that was
exhausted. lie took me up end sat me on his
olUn afle, and rode Nth him n, That aeat
for seuerai days. He saved my life then, and
| am ready to give every drop of my blood,
to HIM whenever he wants d soldier -,
. At one time we were almost out of provi-
sions. We had nothing to eat but musty bis
cult, and slushed maggotty pork An officer
went to Gen. Taylor, and complained that he
could not eat such food. We'll, SIR said
the General, 'come and take your dinner with
me-. The invitation was gladly accepted,
and the officer gladly anticipating first rate
dinner, dressed himself up, aud went to the
quarters CT the General, but instead of finding
regular dinner table, filled with delicacies, he
saw the General sitting before fire toasing
a piece of the same old sIlshed pork o., a STICK,
and that, with some musty buiscuit and lit
tie bean soup, made the dinner for himself
and the disappointed officer, who expected to
dine on roast beef and plumb pudding. That
gentleman did mt eat more dinners with Gen.
TAYLOR.
The young soldier continued hrs interesting
narrative about twenty minutes, his bright
eye often flashing with indignation when
speaking of the Islander with which Gen.
Taylor Is assiled, and his voice trembling
with emotions of gratitude and affection in
the relation Of the benevolent acts of the no.
BILE hero and patriot. We need not say that
he was frequently interrupted by the hearty
applause of the meeting. At the conclusion
of his remarks, the President, having ascer-
tanned from the stranger his name, announced
to the audience that the young man who had
addressed them was Sergeant EDWARD SHER-
MAN, of Massachusetts. --s...-r
Mr.. SIBERIAN, was elected by reclamation
an honorary member Of the Club Ifthis par
agraph should meet his eye, he would obige
as by calling at the office of the Daily News
WHO ISLANDERS GEN. TAYLOR Am Ohio
volunteer charged Gen. Taylor with blasphe-
nv. 1t subsequently turned out that Gen. It's
accuser had been rebulled in Mexico by Old
Jack for robbinS hen rooyt, and indicted in
Columbus for stealing a hog sr .s -r
Another man makes charges against Gen.
Tay Tor in the louisville Democrat. He boasts
that he served at Buena Vista, was Wing
when he entered the service, but now goes for
Gen. Cass. One of his comrades, in the Lou
isville Journal, denies that the man was ever
Wing, and accounts for his hostility to Gen.
Taylor thus; r eFT -4r5-e- s-er
8 w hen we We're about to attack the enemy
at the battle Of Buena Vista, and every other
man was at his post eager and ready for the
contest, this L. Nj. was trying to hide under
the hill side and to keep from the engag ement
and one OF the officers Of our company had to
draw his sword upon him before he would show
any symptoms of fighting. Such cowardly
men as these we do not want for Gen. Taylor.'
CuRios1rIGs.-The Rockingham, Va, Reg
lister, gives an account Of $. something new
in the curiosity line:
Thecelebrated " Runkel Family" of Rock
ingham, we understand, will start in few days
down the Valley, with the intention of visiting
family consisting oftwo brothers and two SIS
tiers, will befound to be objects of no little GU
riosity-being, in all probability, the larg-
est family of human beings ever exhibited In
this or any thercountry. Their united weight
is 400 pounds. One Of the young ladies is
so fleshy as to be unable to walk, and when
moving of her own accord, goes upon her hands
and knees. They are of the ordinary height,
and their mother is unusually small woman;
the father, however, is an ordinary sized man.
SINGULAR CASE AT WALrHAM.-There has
been and is now, considerable excitement in
Waltham, Mass, occasioned by the following
facts: & sH 1t --a
A young lady in that town was taken sick
recently, ard during her illness dreamed, three
nights in succession, that she should 90 into
a trance, and that her friends, thinking her
dead, would undertake to bury her body but
that, as it was being placed inthe tomb, symp-
toms OF returning life would induce them to
desist, and that she would finally be restored.
Last Monday morning, about 1 o'clock, she
ceased to breathe, since which time none OF
the appearances usually seen upon tie dead
have occurred The limbs are not rigid, but
as pIiabIe as in life No sign OF modification
has appeared, and the flesh has not that cold
and hard feeling that follows death. The at
landing physician has pronounced her dead;
but the family resolve upon not buryIng her
An importantmovement among the Hebrews
of Europe IS announced in the Jewish Chron-
icle Such is the feeling ofalarln among them
in respect to the revolutions taking place, that
thousands have been baptised into the Catho-
lie church to escape persecution, and that more
than one thousand from the city of Perth, in
Hungary, have resolved to enigrate TO the Uni
ted States. Among these are some of the
most respectable Hebrew families of Europe,