Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-08-09
WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN,.

in one of the Indiana regiments IS a
Methodist preacher, who Is said to be one
OF the very best shets in his regiment :
During the battle, he was particularly con-
spicuous for the zeal with which he kept
up constant fire. The 18th Ohio Regi-
ment, in the thickcst of the fight. fired an
average of eleven rounds to every man.
but this parson managed to get in a great
deal more than that average. He fired
carefully, with perfect ccolness. and al
ways after a steady aim, and the boys de-
clare that every time, as he took down his
gun, after firing he added, And may the
Lord have mercy en- your soul, Evidently
be thought the body not worth praying
for after the aim he had So carefully ia
ken.
We learn that when Capt, Hotehkiss
was wounded at Monroe. his little daugh-
ter, a girl about eight or ten years ol',
went from her home to where the Captain
was lying as the Seminary at Monroe
She was unremit ing in attentions to her
father. On Friday evening last, her father
was taken from Monroe to Hannibal
On the way the train was fred upon y a
party of rebels. When the firing com
menced, the devoted child bent her little
body over her fathers head to shield him
from danger or death Springfield { 10. }
Republican.
One of the inmates of the Butler in
sane asylum at Providence, was lately a
prosperous Baltimore merchant. Seces-
sion troubles broke up his business, rem
dered him insolvent, took from him two
sons now in the rebel army, and finally be-
reft him Of his reason. His wife, an in
valid, residing near Providence, on failing
to receive letters from him as usual, was
at last informed Of bis situation, and from
that time declined to her grave. She was
buried few dsEs since.
The Richmond Dispatch in abiding
to the forty prisoners taken at Martins
burg, part of tie Philadelphia company,
says:
The captured Hessians are lard at
work on our Notifications at Wine ester. y
There is no doubt that the rebels are
making good use Of the prisoners they cap
ture from US and we can see no good rea-
son why there should be any hesitation to
rataliate on our part,
BY an official calculation on the part
of the fre-oficers i appears : hat the value
of the property destroyed, after allowing
for salvage. amounts to about 81. 800, 600
and even this may be considerable reduced
by the recovery of a larger quantity Of
salvage than is Included in the calculation,
which is now admitted to be exceedingly
probable The great fire in London.
MIR. Richard Busted, of New York
city delivered 4th Of July Grafton at ia.
maica, L. l., in which the following pas
sage occurred:
"Our government will live and grow fol
ages and ages after such emphemera a:
Davis and Rhett. and Yancey and Toombs
and Stephens and Letcher, and Maury and
Twiggs, and their confederates, have supl
into an oblivion too profound even fer hu
man scorn, guided by angelic pity, Il
reach. 1t will exist and flourish aud af
ford protection TO communities now unborn
1t will be eoeVal with man.
Mrs, General Gains has returned from
New Orleans strong Union woman. Sh
considers the Southern Confederacy
failure, and such was the general feelin,
there.