Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-03-01

perhaps I'll get promoted, and then
when / come back times will be good,
and everything will go on smooth
Say yes, Mother, and FIJI he satisfied
4 could not say yes. We had talk
ed till long after dark, and all the street
lamps were lit The girls got up to
get the tea, and presently father came
III. He looked little out of hnnor
when he found Charley there. H. al
ways thought his BOYS mustn't hang
about home muck after they left it
If he had only said sne word against
it that night Charley might have been
saved"
HIRE the mother stopped ~ force
back til. tears and bitter rccollections.
'sBy and by | told him about it, and
he only said, sProbably 1t would be
the best thing he could dor
"Such smart, steady, affectienate
boy as Charley always had been, sat
and wondered how he could give him
up 80 easy. Before he went away that
night / had given my consent. That
week | cried myself down sick. The
next time he came home he had on his
uniform, and tried to seem very cheer
ful, though / could see he had to feign
it all. He laughed with the girls, and
promised to bring the children home
curiosi.ies, and did all he could to
make ,,s think he was contented.
81 had blamed myself all the week,
for | felt that had left one thing un-
done. SO after they had all gone to
bed, told him that if he would only
stay | would go to the bank and draw
the hundred dollars I had deposited,
and let him have it to use. had just
began to lay mp little. | don't think
he knew anything about it before; but
it was 10 use.
".Na, Mather, he said, you have
said | could go; now nothing shall
hinder me-
ssrhis was Tuesday. On Thursday
ihsy were all to be on board. He stay
Ell that night aud the next day. w.
all sewed aud got what things We could
ready for him, but it was heavy work
with him looking on, for the last time
| very well knew.
"Next 'lav, at tea time, I sent one
Of th~ children up to his little room to
tell him tea WAS ready, and she came
back and said he wasn't there, and the
door was locked. | ran up; | found
the key hanging by the window of the
next room. | unlocked the door; he
was gone, and had taken all his things.
He had stolen off to keep from bid
ding uS goo l-b,e-poor, ten ler-heart
II, unfortunate boy.
Three months afterw,r,1 he died of
fever in the hospital at Pucbla.
But | seem to think | could bear
it we'll if hal your "onfrr,. Your
volunteers Il !ht for freedom, and on
their own soil I never should com
plain if mine had been sacrificed to
anything bat glor, AMI conquest. LIT
him 90, anal rr,oicc that y"u can help
A great cause Bat mine. H.. died
alone ami in Il fore. "a land, and lies il
forgotten, namrless grave!'
- II ,rrison Reed writes from
Washin ston that ''Jim Lane is ex-
Dcctcd back here to take his seat in
the Senate, his famous expedition not
being satisfactory to the commanding
General Unnter Indeed it i, beliey-
ed that it was already known to the
Administration that he gould be thus
ciseunvented, and that was the rea
sGn so much lltitude wss given him on
the slavery question. Fremont is still
here AMI seems to have been restored
t. favor, or, at any rate, IL Is now gen
orally believed that the charges ~ inst
him of incompetency or taithlessness
were malicious and groundless. The
chairman of the investigating commit
tee acquitS him Of all intentional wrong,
and is his speech on Ffi!ar bears
down severely u,pn the War Depart
ment, Gan. aIrKin~try and the Secre
tary OF the N,vv, for pr"higacy and
corruption. The committee evidently
were willing to assist the overthrow of
Fremont, but finding the wrong is
deeper and the responsibility else
shere. tfov can now do no less than
sanction the popular Judgment that he
hal been falsely assailed anil condemn
cd without su Il :is.lt cause. Whether
h" will be placed i'nn"diatelv ' in a res
pnnSible commard is vet uncertain, ~
it is known that SECRETARY Stanton w,s
never one Of his admirers. and will
not ROW lllaGe responsibility ilpnn him
nniess flnv assured that he is cqnpe-
ten. AMI equal to it.''
A Young lady who had lost her
bean waa advised to hang m her f1-
die. She said the advice did great Vi
olence 10 her hesrtstrinrs.
An rnicure requested his landlord