Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-12-31

tridges in snivelling exquislteness.
How the great-gun preaching of these
cities would sound to me | cannot tell.
In the midst of such variety as is
afforded here one can pass away an
hour or two any day either by look
ing on the water, where ever-so- much
| stir is going on all the time, and ev-
cry conceivable thing that can be
constructed for floating purposes is
padding or putting with or without
canvass in every direction +; or by GO
ing little way in the country, and
visiting the cities of the dead-Cem-
etries-of which there are several,
some few miles out Of town; quietly
laid away here are thousands who once
painted and struggled: Gas thousands
are now painting and struggling the
tanglement of life is over with them
now ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
mouldering into invisibility, whether
natives born or foreigners enemies
or friends, here there is no distinc-
ton or quarrel, and the green grass
fourishes on their graves. These
burying places are very pretty much
pains are taken to ornament and keep
them clean, and much money is ex-
pended on monuments and memori-
ais of one sort or other to remind the
living that here the mortal body Of
omeloved one lies decomposing. Oh,
what amazing mysteries hang around
human existence And here, be the
road rough or smooth, it terminates
the life grapple - the everlasting
silences has hushed all voice and
strife dumb in deaths grasp, here
all din ceases; and so of the gener-
alton now pushing and being pushed.
amusing and being amused, teaching
and being taught, or in many ways
battling to breathe here it must
come, in fact, is coming fast, every
day, hundreds are being buried daily
and the cemeteries are filling up.
In the way of supply for human
lacks and human appetites, New York
is an amazing place and the demand
is equal to the supply +; by sea and
by land, wearables and eatables are
brought in, in prodigious quantities,
and by the same modes Of transit
vast quantities are taken out; to look
at the loading and unloading going
on, one would imagine that half the
world would perish were it not for
New York. What are called "the
markets, are miserably poor build
ings, howeverth they are well stored with
abundance of stuff upon which human
beings feed, aud to look at the mama
bic and to me, unnamable varieties,it
is no hard matter to guess that feed
ing is most important business of
| mankind. Never before, however,
in the history of this nation were
things to eat SO costly as they are
| just now in these markets: still it
would seem that the people generally
are in possession Of the wherewith to
procure the needful, as | hear of none
starving for want, though there are
some objects occasionally to be seen,
who, from their haeenrd appearance
one would judge, could do with lit.
tie more than they get.
Of theatrical amusements it would
seem that the Workers and Brooklyn
ties have a fair share, as the big
posters in blazing letters announce
every day some marvel in tragedy or
farce, performed by some real human
creatures or ghosts, at one place or
another, and thousands of things clad
in silk and hroadcloth, 20 gaping to
| look on. For such shadows, I for
one, have no affinity, deeming life of
too much moment to the myself of
me, to have it futtered away by the
Devils mimicity and mockery.
The lecture season is about com.
mencing now, (Nov) and series of
great talks from wise heads may be
expected, and from what the news
papers tell, several associations are
preparing, calculating to give us somo
entertainment, if not some good sense
this season. Already the inimitable
Miss or Madam Evans has been here
holding forth on the temperance ques-
ton, come all the way from Wales to
enlighten us, how much light radi-
ated from her feminine utterances l
don't know, | did not hear her. But
the great topics for talk are politics
and the war, and indeed these are
themes wise men may well study, i
I by any possible dint Of thinking o,
I talking, some clue can be found b,
: which the fearful snail may be un
!; coiled, for we all know that dir
t enough is the present ENHANCEMENT
: if more or less fathoms of talk wi
5 help to bring this nation into pure
e and better state than il now is, so moi
n it be m
i The Fulton street prayer. meetir
I lis one of the institutions in Ne
d | York that should not be forgotte
g and an Institution withal, which
7e stranger in New York, who has a
ye "breath Of Cod in him, should I
ne ! fail to attend one honr--the no