The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-04-02
RED WING, G00DHUE COUNTY MIMI WEDNESDAY, APRU 3 1872
Miscellaneous Items.
The Ohio State Senate has nnders

~ Miscellaneous Items. .
The Ohio State Senate has under It's
consideration bill inficting a penalty
Of not more than five dollars, nor less
than one dollar, on all persons over
, fourteen years of age, who shall be
guilty of using obscene language, OF
lprofane swearing. .5..:y .@
An IMPRESSIVE WIND UP.-An am.
atcur writer thus concludes a story:
! "T'his is my first attempt at writing
= Tail and it is farfrom being perteck,
but if have indooced folks to see that
in 8 cases out of To- they can either
make life as barren rs the desert OF
Sarah, or as joyous3as a -four garding,
my objeck will have been accomplish.
ed. Adeo.''
A SLAVE YoKE.-A slave yoke, with
two antler-like prongs to hinder runa.
ways from getting through the bushes,
the whole contrivance weighing five
pounds, is now on exhibition at the
Boston Union Mission Fair. 1t was
taken from fugitive last September,
on the Maryland side of the Upper
Potomac, by a member Of the First
Massachusetts, regiment, after two
hours hard filing OF the iron collar.
In these days, when it is Sc fashion.
able to ridicule West Pointers, it may
be well to rememcer that Mcclellan
aalleck, Buell., Curtiss, Grant, Smith
Burnside, Pope, Sturgis and Thomas
are all West Pointers. The gallant
Lyon, the first distinguished victim Of
the war, was West Pointer, too.
Rations have been contracted fol
the food of the 1000 rebel prisoners
to be confined at Camp Douglas, Chi
(cago, at IL l-2 cents per diem. The
Tribune says that this is the cheapes,
rate known to the United States, and
also that the quality will be equal te
the best anywhere issued.
Blackwood's Mnguzine of February
assumes that the war between the Z
S. and Great Britain will take place
before 1868, and welcomes it with sat
isfaction. 1t says ''the campaign
just as likely to end by establishing &
new frontier Of Canada, with Port
land on the one flank and Lake Onta
rio on the other, as by leaving the enc
my in permanent possession of a mile
of Canadian territory.
How's Your AsrER1sk?-The Con
grcssonal Directory, at the head of it:
alphabetical list Of Senators and Rep
rescntatives, says in bracket: s'The
astcrisk (* denotes those whose wives
accompany them.' This has given
rise to the new slang word in Wash.
ington society-"Hew's your astcr-
isk?'- being the common inquiry for
a Congressional lady's husband.
At a General Term of the County
court of Chataqua, New York, at the
court house in Mayville, the iud &c, on
reading and filing the petition of the
members Of the bar, ordered that the
''Sheritf procure divers box traps and
proceed with all diligence to eaten,
secure, kill and skin all skunks which
may have their homes under the floors
OF the court house, profaning this tenn
|ple of justice with their unpleasant
smell"
We have deep and enduring conf
dence in Gen. Mcclellan. We be-
Iieve him to be great general. One
Of the minor evidences Of his greatness
appears in the mute patience, the calm
dignity, the accomplishing fortitude
and herois,n with which he has borne,
month after month, the serseless sneers
the unjust ridicule, and the ruthless
invectives Of mere politicians, who
could not understand him, and who
tancied themselves qualified to lead
the armies Of the world.--LouisviAe
Journal.
Major Lecompte, recently appoint
ed to a position on Gen. McClellan's s
staff, and who was sent to this coun.
try by the republic of Switzerland on
leave of absence, to aid in maintaining
our federal authority, was considered
one of the most intelligent, energetic
and thorough going officers on the
Swiss federal staff. In regard to mil
itary science aud authority, Major L.
compte ranks in Switzerland about the
same as Halleck in this country and
although but about the same age OF
Mcclellan, he is the author of several
standard military works.
The Archduke Maximilian, who. it
is said, has been selected for the throne
of Mexico, is the eldest brother of the
reigning Emperor of Austria. He was
born on the 9th day of July, 1882, and
is therefore still under thirty. lie is
Vice Admiral, and Commander-in-
Chief of the Imperial Navy, and mar
ried in 1857 Marie Charlotte, daueh-
ter of Leopold, King of Belgium
The Archduchess was born in the year
1910. ~. -~
A DEMONSTRATION occurred at
Rome on the 25th Of January. It be.
gan at noon and finished in the even
ing. The city was placarded all over
with tri colored bills in favor of Italy.
Tri coIored haos Hnato1