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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11
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Prayer Meeting in a Storm

Prayer Meeting in Storm
(see President Buchanan's last Preclamation)
A GALE came up from the sou'-sou'- west;
Twas fierce November weather;
But the ship had felt such storm before,
And her planks still held together
And thus, though the bowling tempest showed
No signs of diminution,
The passengers said, ''We'n trust our ship,
The staunch old Constitution i"
The captain stood on the quarter deck
'sThe seas" he said, they batter US:
Twas my watch below in the former gale
I doubt if we'll weather Hatteras
The wind on the one side blows me off.
The current sets me shoreward
I'll just lay to between them both,
And SEEM to be going forward"
GBreakers ahead - cried the watch or the bow.
Hard up ~ was the first mates order:
''She feels the ground swen,n the passengers
cried,
"And the seas already board her -
The foresail split in the angry gust:
In the hold the ballast shifted
And an old tar said, ''If Jackson steered
We shouldn't thus have drifted y
But the captain cried, ''Let go your helm p
And then he called to the bo'swain
"Pipe all hands to the quarter deck,
And We'u save her by Devotion -
The first mate hurled his trumpet down
The old tars cursed together,
To see the good ship helpless roll
At the sport of wave and weather,
The tattered sails are all a-back
Yards crack and masts are started
And the captain weeps and says his prayers,
Till the hull by midships parted.
But God is on the steersman's side
The crew are in revolution
The wave that washes the captain off
VIII save the Constitution
BAYARD TAYLOR.
New YORK. Dec. IS, 1860.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11

"A St. Petersburgh letter of Nov. 1st.
states that the emancipation of the serfs
will be formally decreed on the 1st day of
January next. The Ministers are now en-
gagged in examining the reports Of the fifty
two emancipation committees, to draw up
the final act and submit it to the Senate
for approval, and the Emperor has ordered
that the business must be completed be-
fore the above named period. The num-
Der Of serfs in Russia is forty millions, and
New Years day will be the greatest day of
rejoicing Russia ever knew The serfe are
of the same race with their owners. Com
pare the conduct of the benighted South
at the present time. with that Of Russia,
and 1t must appear at once that the Ncrth
ought never to yield to the spirit of bar
harlsm.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11

The decline in the value of negroes is
so great in Virginia that great consterna-
ton prevails, and many of the richest
shareholders talk of selling out and moving
to the North, says Forney's Press.
Some weeks ago the st. Louis police
found woman dead in bed, with her
drunken husband and starving children be-
side her The husband has since given
himself up more entirely to liquor, and di-
ed IN his cell tie other day of delirium tre-
mems. The poor wretch was not long ago
respected and trustworthy clerk in one Of
the best drug stores of the city
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11

Policies IN FoRT MoULTRIE.-An off
Ger at Fort Moultrie, having policy of in
surance in one of our leading Life Insu-
rance Companies, wrote to the Company
on the 22d instant, stating the probability
that the Fort would soon be attacked, and
the certainty that sit would be defended
to the last extremity" and inquiring what
would be the effect upon his policy if be
should fall. He was promptly answered,
that although the company was not legally
liable where the assured fell in battle, yet,
''if he should thus fall now whilst doing
his duty gloriously and abandoned by the
government, he need have no fears but
that his policy would bo paid. IN T.
Ere. Post.
The proprietors and employees of the
Starch and Chair factories at OsWego,
bad Festival few evenings since. Du-
ring the year the former manufactured g.
100000 lbs. of starch, and the latter turn
ed out 10000 chairs, valued, at 33c to
s. each AS an illustration of the "a
pidity with which the work was done, it
was stated that the $50 chairs In use at
the festival were made the same day, by
I3 hands, in one four and fifteen minutes
There is a woman in Bernardston.
over fifty years old who drink S one quart
of laudanum and one quart of ether per
week, and has been in the habit of using
these stimulants to this extent for twenty
years. Sometimes she takes them sepa-
rately, and sometimes mixed. She is de-
pendant on the town for assistance, and
the druggists bill for the above articles is
generally paid by the town. She COM
plains of nervousness.
The New York H'orld says that over
5000 stolen Africans have been exported
from Africa in American vessels with New
York clearance papers during the last
three months.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11
WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN.

TERMS OF sURsCRIPTIoS-S1,5 80 per year, payable
quarterly Delivered by Carrier p cents extra
No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid
except at option.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11
NUMBER 81.

that anticipating the possibility of this, he
had provided a couple of pistols, which he
produced, pledged his honor they were care
fully loaded, and rendered them for choice
to his opponent The farce was ended,
and the intended joke became fearful
reality, as the result proved The dis
tance being but FIVE PAGES, both fell at first
fire-one killed outright, and the other
mortally wounded. What were the feel
ings of the father as he bore his dead son
from the field of sport.
About a year or two ago, in New York,
| was invited to be present at duel in
that neighborhood, which had also been
made up for the ''fun of it," but mindful
of the case I have Just related, declined
the honor of the pleasure. It appeared
that one of those silly noodles, y pretend
ed to be South Carolinian. was given to
boasting of his courage, his tender sense
Of honor, and his readiness, at all times,
to answer call to the fed. A plan was
arranged to get him into difficulty, and he
was easily led to send challenge to the
ofender-his second being one of the
treacherous conspirators. TO his profound
horror the challenge was accepted -
contingency of which he had not even
dreamed Hereupon be peremptorily re-
fused to fight, declaring his foe to be no
gentleman. Nothing could move lis mar
tial spirit but apon his seconds declaring
he must then take up the matter himself
he became exceedingly cheerful, and
agreed to pay the necessary expenses for
pistols, &c-the sum so reqnired being es-
timated modestly, at one hundred and sev,
enty-fye dollars-and actually paid down
ninety dollars of current cash for expenses.
1t was arranged that be should view the
duel incog, and proceeded to the field at
the appointed time, in a carriage, very sly
ly and cunningly. and secured charming
hiding place there. Everything proceed
ed in due form. The ground was meas
ured-the principals were placed-and at
the word the pistols sounded, and one of
the parties dropped. At this moment
squad of policemen rushed forth, some ma
king direct for the hidden mans covert
whereupon he took to his heels, and run
ming for dear life, reached his carriage
jumped in, ordered the driver (who was
already instructed) to drive with all speed,
and the last seen of the fleeing man of
fighting propensities, was the flap of his
coat tails as the carriage door closed upon
him. He left the city as fast as horsefesh
and steam would carry him. The joyous
crowd, including the impromptu police
men, after laughing themselves sick, ad-
journed to hotel supper, for which the
ninety dollars was nearly sufhcient-wines
and segars included Saturday
Erening Eapress.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-01-11
The Mystery.

The Albany Kmcker6ocker doesn't Won
der that our clergymen are lean, hungry
looking people. The life of our palson is
not one of much repose or comfort The
mere business of exhorting sinners to re-
pentance, is not the largest part of his of
fee. His sermon must please all parties
the aristocratic and proud, pedantic and
poor, the unbelievers and the doubling
He muEt be attractive in his language, and
vast in his resources. In some situations
he must be funny, even tickling bis con-
gregation into laugh:
The pulpit is no place to study charac-
ter-that must be understood in advance,
or the man will fare Ill enough in his en-
deavors. Your successful preacher must
know how to be agreeable to the ladies',
both old and young. If he be unmarried
the latter may make onslaughts or if he
be a man of family he must know how to
wear the domesticated habit Outside of
the church he has other difficulties to en-
counter. If he is plain in his dress, tho
fashionable members will say, ''he's so
common place looking!'' If he spends
much time among his poor, he may be ac-
cused of having low taste; and if he does
not, then ''he's too proud to be Chris
tian - He must study constantly what
to do to keep his place, what shall be the
tone of his sermons, and how to make
name for himself. Some will say this is all
bOsh, &c, but those who say it, are igno-
rant of the trials behind the garb OF saneti-
ty. There are always some uneasy spirits
who want something new, who are uneasy
to live in one house more than a year, who
never recollect to pay borrowed money, and
who always have some fault to complain of
in a preacher. Such people to the parsons
are like hounds to the fox. Let those who
think that $500 or 81, 900 per year is ample
remuneration for a steady preacher, inquire
further into the matter. True, there are
some who have ''a reputation and cannot
be damaged by the tongue but the major
ity are as much creatures Of circumstances
as the rest of mankind.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05

The news from Texas, if reliable, indicates
anything but an improvement in the condi-
tion of the people consequent upon their fol
lowing the lead Of South Carolina The
large force kept by the Government on the
western frontiers of the State as protection
against the Indians having been removed he
savages are pillaging and numbering without
restraint. The State treasury is empty, and
the sources of revenue EXTREMITY limited But
the most serious matter for the rebels is
report, said to be well founded, that the Mex
icun authorities are determined to re-assert
their claim to the State and enforce it by a
large invading army headed BY Gen. AmPu-
iia. In their present depressed and distract
ed condition, with an Indian war ALREADY on
haud, an invasion by Mexico, who has long
list of grievances to avenge, will be TO the
people of Texas a feast very different from that
TO which they were invited by Y ancy & Co
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
Later from E3r5pe.

SN<pY HOOK, Arpil 2-The steam :
ship New y Yorll, from Southampton on
tie 20th uIt. is-pnssing this point.
Breadstnffs quiet but
steady Flour quiet but steady at 28s
81 and 30s. W heat qiiiet and steady :;
red 1Is6! and lbs white 800 l4s and
Sd. Corn steady;' mixed 3Is 81, AMI
yellow $685. 81.
PARIs-The Conference assembled to
sign a call for convention to rrolong-
the French occupation of SYRIA une
9TH. The call for the convention was
signed all powers.
q RoME --In the consiStory. held the
Pope declared that he would have grant
'e1 the concession advised by the Catho
lie sovereignty bal he coRld not receive
the ceunsel .or uniust demands Of the
usurping Cover nment. z=
NAPLES, March 20 -Civitella del
Fronton capitulated heiote the order from
Francis II, reached there to surrender
The garrison; s,iluted he proclama tion
o. the Kingdom of Italy. This city and
the provinces a,e tranquil
A despatch to the Times, dated Ma
pies, March 10, says that all the coun-
cillors were dismissed. The coHGcil of
Lieutanley Is also dissolved. This morn
ing grand and imposing fete was held
in honor OF Garabsldia. All is tran quill.
VIENNA.-rhe whole Herzegovina is,
in reHnlntion, supported by Montenege-
ans. The fighting is. general Several
FntkiSh villages on the frontier have
been reduced to ashes .r.
The London Times, in referring to
President Lincoln's inaugural, says his
expressions are stud;ously cautions, but
really amounts to the fact that he will
reca ptnre the forts, citaGels. &c.
Adviees from Warsaw announce that
Sweching reforms are proclaimed by the
Czar for Poland. Every town is to have
elective n.uni' ipal councils.
The Russian manifesto. proclaiming
the emancipation of serfs, was published
on the 18th, The proprietors of landed
property preserve the right attached to
the same, but must cede to the peasants
for permanent use the dwelling, with
ground attached, which will be allotted
to them by law in consideration Of pay
ment OF dues.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
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umlgration from Georgia to iowa.


That there is a disposition in some
PARTS of the South to escape from the
unpleasant consequences of secession,
there have been frequent indications
Another is furnished in the following
paragraph from the Dubuque tlowa)
Times of the oath
Mr.. Mark Miller, the editor and
proprietor of the Northwestern Far
iner, in this city, informs Us that with
in the past month he has received not
less than forty subscribers from the
State of Georgia-the first, in fact,
he has ever had from that portion Of
the country. Nearly all Of the letters
accompanying the subscriptions say
the writer's are anxious to obtain IN
formation in regard to the agricultur.
al resources Of this State. evidently
with a view Of removing hlther--
Some of them state that the emigra
ton from the Gulf States to the
Northwest during the coming seasor
will be unusually large. Mr.. Miller
has also received several letters re
Gently from South Carolina on tht
same subject.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05

A letter from Texas III the National Incl
ligencer gives a gloomy picture Of affairs in
that State: -...
Texas has some three fourths of a million
dollars in United States indemnify bonds, in
the Treasury. which. of course, mus 90 topay
the piper. The history of that matter is this:
OF the ten millions of dollars paid by the Uni
ted States for Santa le, our Legislature ap-
propriated two millions as a perpetual school
fund. the interest only to be devoted 10 the
education of the poor. But, as The bonds only
drew five per cent. interest, law was passed
to loan six thousand dollars per mile 10 rail-
roads. We have on East" and Il West" in
Texas, as distinctly marked as the " North u
and " South in the United States. So our
fund was divided, million of dollars to be
loaned to the railroads in each section. Under
this loan bill and the sixteen sections OF land
to the mile, four hundred miles Of railroad have
been constructed in the West, and less than
one hundred miles in the East. The result is,
tliat the east of Texas has the $50 600 OF
bonds uninvested These will go to supper
the revolution; then, no doubt, the railroad
will be-rcliered from paying interest for the
present, as their commerce is greatly impaired.
Many Of our schools were founded upon Ibis
nuHiicent fund. The cause of education, re-
Gently so very fourishing in Texas, must be
arrested 10 a very great extent Many teach
erS will thus be thrown ont Of employment.
The next source of informl tiou must also suf
fer Texas has about scyeuty-live newspapers.
But, of course. the circulation of these depends
upon mail facilities. Our postal service costs
seven times as much as we pay. Successful
secession must cut off six-sevcnths Of this mail
, service The increased expense Of paper and
transportation, and the decrease of Northern
advertising and OF circulation, must destroy
The press. Within three months thirty papers
must stop, and hot ten will do a successful
business Think Of the men and devils .
thrown out OF employment. Our mercantile
business has already suff red terribly. Indeed
| there is a very general struction Of coni-
Adencc Bgt amid it all, the secession spirit
increased as The day Of Inauguration of Lin
coin approached. And even if men have ii
E,atlinue their misfortuncs directly TO the rcvo-
luton, they will regard the. Abolnion-spirit as
the cause. I Do not think they have applied
the most scientific remedy. But thy took the
quickest. TcI viii have seen that oar p pa
lalipn trcbleI the last ten years. The revo!U-
! tonisl@ expect 70 cxcecI this the mkt ten. Il
yon ask ho7y, that is their business We
now equal South Carolina IN representative
population, ana we are little behiad her in
political f6IIy.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
Union Club in Charleston.

The Charleston correspondent of the New
York Tribune says:
! am happy to be able 70 inform You that a
Union Club was formed last evening. It will
of course, as a matter of necessity, be a Sc
cret society for the present. A large num-
Der were present, and each handed to the
Chairman q list of names for which he was
responsible They are sworn at the first op-
portunity to render aid 10 the only Government
they acknowledge. shall forward to you, aud
also to the Government, the constitution Of this
society. 1t also comprises some good New
Yorkers, New Eng'auders. few Iris men, and
a good many Germans; and not an inconsidern.
Bile portion of them are doing duty upon the
Palmetto Islands.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
Later From California.

SAx FRANcIsco. April l
No progress is made toward selecting
a Senator The friends Of MeDougal
were disappointed, " hen the convention
reassembled yestsIday. 10 find he could
get only 27 votes 1t is now Il on ht
a new candidate viii be brought for
ward
The California telegraph lines have
consolidated as one company, and the
new organization undertakes to cstab-
Ii>h a good, substantial line eastward to
Salt Lake in the most expeditions man
ner possible they will strive 20 COM
plct. their line before the Easter, Com
pAnies extend theirs westward to Salt
Lake. to Join the California portion.-
Mr.. j II. Wade. the general agent of
the eastern companies, who Is now here.
starts for New York hy to morrow :
steamer. having completed all hio nego
tiafions satisfactorily.
TnrnsDAY. Marchs 81.
J. a MrDougal was declared elect ed
United States Senator by the Legisia-
ture, in joint convention. last evening.
reeeiring So ont Of Ill votes, and was
awarle 4 certificate of election hy rhe
Governor Subsequently. the CLERK
makes affidavit to 1I3 votes being cast,
leaving McDougal one vote short. An
investigation is proposed.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
Re.VaecInatiou.

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial write as fellows:
The importance of rev aeeination is
not sufficiently considered, at the present
time. in this city. Many adults are
prostrated with the disease, who were
undoubtedly, well vaeciRated when chill
dren, but since then have never been re-
vaccinated. hence liable to contract the
contagion AT any time.
In Europe. as well as this country,
all intelligent physicians recommend re-
vaccination every seven, or at The farth-
est period, every ten years, this being the
limit of its protection TO the system
The statistics Of the armies OF Europe
amply proving this to be the case, re-
vaccination IL Almost universally prac-
tieed on the continent OF Europe; hence
their greater Immunity from the disease
than Great Britain and the United States.
This. more particularly obtains in their
arnies;S where it is practiced by lega
enactments every seventh year, small
pox being unknown.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
From New York.

New YoRK, April "A letter from
the secretary Of the Navy to collectors.
says, in consequences Of the control of
the warehouses of the Government. in
the ports Of South Carolina, Georgia.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Flori-
da and Texas having been usnfped, it is
impractirablc to continue the privilege
OF bonding goods for transportion to
those ports. and collectors are instrus-
tel that no entries for transportation in
bond. to said ports. can be permitted
The Posts Washington correspou-
dent says that the question of reinforce
ment is not considered Improbable.
Proposals for SiI .O0e. .OGe, Of the loan
came from Boston, and { S26,00osUG9
form New York.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05
Prospective War Between Mexico and
Texas

Nrw ORLEAx<. April 2.-=Texas ad-
vices say that Col, Ford is reliably in
formed from Matamnras, that Gen. Am
pudia, with 5000 McxicaEs, is SO miles
off. marching on BrownsvilIe. Ampudia
dispatches expresses with rlaca:ds and
handbills, Announcing that Texas rightly
belonged 20 Mexico; that she had no
longer the support of the Federal Gov
eminent, and now was the time to retake
her.
Reinforceu7ents in large numbers are
rapidly coming to him Ford ordered
all heavy guns and ordinance stores at
Brazos Island to be Immediately remov-
cd to the scene of the anticipated diff
culties.
The Mohawk arrived off Pass Cavello
on tie 29th nit. The Coatzacoalcas
sailed with 600 troops The Empire
City and Star Of the West were lying
at Pass Oleams.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05

Detective Reese, of Washington, has seized
there and retains, by order of the court, bogus
and counterfeit notes on twenty-seven banks
amounting to 100000; also the plates dies,
&c. The larger packages contain the follow
ing: $4,000 in couRterEeits of the Bank of
Augusta, Maine; $50 900 in unsigned counter
fei1s of the State Bank of Ohio; $4,000 bog
us notes of the Columbia Bank of w ashing
ton city; $4,000 counterfeits Farmers and
Mechanics Bank of Virginia; IS, 600 of seven
denominations counterfeits of the Camden
Bank of New Jersey; four plates of the above.
dies of the denominations Of ten cents, and q
dollar, and two and a half dollar peices.
a letter from Com. Montgomery, flag officer
of the Pacific squadron, breathes the most
loyal sentiments of devotion to the Union. It
will be remembered that the gallant officer
was the first to raise the American flag on the
Pacific and subsequently lost two sens in the
war with Mexico He SAYS
" l honestly believe, under an al-wise Provi-
dence, that great and permanent good to the
Union, under our present glorious COastitu-
tion, viii result from our present agitation.
glory in the patriotic course pursued by Major
Anderson For my own part, knowing and
having acknowledged no obligation but that
Which I selemnly swore to the Constitution
and Union, nearly Fifty years ago, it would in
! deed be humiliating TO be now reduced tc the
/ position Of being citizen of seeding section
Of our country; and while two stars and stripes
of our proud flag shall be found together,
/ shall adhere to it with my whole heart, aztec
( iion and devotion.
Il have great hopes in the wisdom, patriot
/ ism, and strong sense of Mr.. Lincoln, (who
may by an all-wise Providence have been
reared for the present crisis in our history }
! That the Union will endure, and arise from
her present difficulties in greater strength and
permanency-I will say in greater glory than
ever-I fully believe
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05

SECESSION AND THE SurPLY.--Thc store
ship Supply, with provisions for Fort I'ickens,
has fallen, We are told, into the bands Of the
adversary. An unsatisfactory dispatch says
she was seiz-d at Pensacola, with what cir
cumstances or with what display of force We
are not Informed. The fact justly occasions
surprise not because the Seccssonsts have
added this particular form of theft to the
varieties they have almost exhausted elsewhere,
but that the theft should have been possible in
case Of a vessel provided with the ordinary
means Of defense, and, We may reasonably pre-
sumo, further protected by the guns Of Fort
Pckens. 1t is, of course possible that tue
capture could not have been avoided or de-
feated by any displays of courage or prccau-
tion but 50 long as we continue to tread
among The reasonable traps anG pitfalls lcft
US a legacy by the late Administration, we
cahnot proceed too guardcdiy, or look into the
causes Of such misadventurcs as the present
too curiously. g.