Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-12-24

Treasury for all documents showing the prac-
| teal operation of the so-called reciprocity
treaty, which may be in his possession.
The House then adjourned
THE TRIUMPH OF THE PURITANs-" But IN
the matter Of dress and Of manners, the Puri-
tan triumph has been complete. Even their
worst enemies have come over to their side.
and the whirligig of Time has brought in it s
rcvengeS'
Their canOns of taste have become those
OF all England, and High Churchmen, VIII {
still call them round heads ana cropped ears
90 about roundT-hea0led and closer cropt tina n
they ever went. They held it more rationa
to cut the hair, to comfortable length tina
to wear effeminate curls down the back And
we cut ours much shorter than they ever did
They held, with the Spaniards, then the fin
est gentlemen In the worldly that sad L. c
dark cOlor3, above all black, were the fittest
for stately and earnest gentlemen. We all,
from the Tractarian to the Anythingarian, are
exactly Of the same opinion. They held tina
lace, perfumes, and jewelry on a man were
marks OF unmanly toppishness and vanity;
and so hold the finest gentlemen in England
now. They thought it equally absurd and sim
full for a man to carry his income on his back.
and bedizen himself out in reds, blues, and
greens, ribbons, knots, slashcs, and treble
quadruple dadalian ruffs, built up on iron
and timber, "a fact,) which have more
arches in them for pride than London
Bridge for use.' We, if we met such a
ruffcd and RULED worthy as used to sWag-
ger by hundreds up and down Paul's Walk,
not knowing how to get dinner, much
less to pay his tailor, should look on him as
firstly fool, and secondly swindler;
while, if we met an old Puritan, we should
consider him a man gracefully and pictur-
esquely dressed, but withal in the most per
feet sobrlety of good taste and when we
discovered, Gas probably should,) over
anC above, that the harlequin cavalier had
box OF salvc and & pair of dice in one
pocket, pack of cards and a few pawn
brokers duplicates in the other; that his
thoughts were altogether of citizens wives,
and their too easy virtue; and that he could
not open his mouth without a dozen oaths, we
should consider the Puritan (even though he
did quote Scripture somewhat though his
nose,) as the gentleman; and the courtier as
most offensive specimen of the "snob tri-
umphant," glorying in his shame. The pic
ture is not ours, nor even the Puritan's 1t
is Bishop Halls, Bishop Earle's-it is Beau
mont's, Fletcher's, Jonson's, Shakespeare
the picture which every dramatist as well as
satirist has drawn of the gallant " of the sew
enteenth century. No one can read those
writer's honestly without seeing that tie Puyri-
tQn, and not tie CaUafier conception of ahat q
British gentleman should be, is tie one accepted Jy
tie uholemati tbs day.-Chor2es Kingsley.
Our RELATIONS WITH CANADA-A cores
pendent of the Montreal Witness denounces
in very sharp and decided terms the conduct
of certain public men in Canada, in openly
sympathizing with the Southern rebellion
He states that on one occasion a telegram
was read in Parliament, announcing the de-
feat of the national forces, and that dozen
members greeted it with loud applause, Hon
6. E. Cartier, late Premier being among them.
Many of these members have maintained
regular correspondence with leading rebels,
have furnished them arms and munitions of
war from Canadian ports, a1d acted as the
medium of communication between them and
Europe The Grand Trunk Railway gave Mr..
Vallandigham an extra train on his visit to
Montreal. In the face of all the demonstra
tons, mainly led on by the Opposition party
the course Of the Canadian Government has
been moderate, friendly and conservative
We observe, by the way, that notice has al
ready been given in Congress by Mr.. Morrill,
OF Vermont, of bill to abolish the Reciproc,
ity Treaty with Canada
Another of his stories is of an old ,oa.-
at whose house Bragg had his headouarters'
She said:
Before you all came up here, I asked
General Bragg, What are you going to do
with me. Lord! Madame, the Yankees will
never dare to come here And, she added
with biubber, it was not fifteen minutes
till you were all around. %
A VoLUNTEER.-Pat was volunteer. and
ne got sick. The first question the surgeon
asked him was, "Pat, are your bowels regu-
lar :" "No, be jabbers, Pm lunteer."