The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1863-04-08


A kiss you in your letter send
But, ah! the thrilling charm is lost
In kisses that arrive by post
That fruit can only tasteful be,
When gathered, melting, from the tree
A Washington letter in the London Her.
all, asserts that secret society has been
discovered, the members OF which were
sworn to kill President Lincoln
IRISH potatoes are selling in Jackson,
Mississippi, at the moderate price of $50
per bushel.
In his recent speech, at the great Union
meeting at indianapolis, Governor Johnson
OF Tennessee. declared himself unqualifedly
for the policy Of the Government as a whole.
He said
am for the Government and all meas
ures necessary to maintain it. Is not this
Government, the embodiment of the prin-
cples OF human liberty, worth more than
the institution Of Slavery? 1t is bu: as the
dust in the balance.
Col. CARRISGToN has arrested and sent
to their regiments 4S9 deserters in the past
ten days. Thirty Of them were arrested in
one county.
ALL women Of the villages on the shores
Of the Gulf Of Mexico are in the habit of
swimming. The young ladies arc all diving
bellies.
RKBEL ATROCITIES IN TExAs.-Gen.
Hamilton asserted at the meeting Of the
loyal National League on Friday evening
last, in New York, that it was within his
knowledge that more than tho hunJ,r1 anil
fifty northern people who had gone to settle
IN Texas mere lung IN that State, pending
the Presidential election, in 1860, because
they were suspected Of being more loyal to
the Government than to slavery
Mr.. TAYLOR, Of Lynn, Massachusetts,
who had for some time missed postal cur
rency and bank bills from his money draw
or, and had tried various means to detect
the thief, few evenings since discovered
that his "circulatins medium" had been alb
stracted by rosuish mice, to make them
= warm nest beneath his ice chest. Over
twenty dollars in good state of preserva
ton was found there, beside good deal that
had been destroyed.
PRoFEsson AoAsslz took the preliminary
steps Few days ago, to become natural
lied citizen Of the United Sta'es. A man
whose business is q naturalist ought to
have been naturalized before.
Next to William B. Astor Of New York
city, Nicholas Longworth, Of Cincinnati,
who died a few days since, was the richest
in the United States. 1t has been variously
estimated that his wealth amounted to Re
tween twelve and fifteen millions. His
taxes for 1862, in Hamilton county, were
over fifty thousand dollars.
A Mr.. Person Of Hull. England, . mil,
lionaire, and one Of tho masuates Of his Sec
ton, thought to add to his fortune BY run
ming our blockade. Some Of the first ven
cures were successful, but the subsequen,
capture Of several Of richly laden vessels
made him bankrupt, and now he is so 70.
duced that his servants sue him for thei,
wages, and all his estates, fine furniture
equipases, &c, have been put to the ham
mar to satisfy the claims of his creditors.
SIR WILLIAM BRowS, a pompous sor. q.
man, being at a meeting, made some pro
posa's. which were objected to by a farmer
Highly enrased, he said to the farmer. Sir
do you know that have been to two uni.
vsrsities Welt, sir" said the farmer
what OF that? l had : calf that sucked
TIVE COWS, and the observation I made was
The more he sucked the greater calf be
grow
"M1 wife," said 4 was tho other day,
came near calling me honey last night -
Indeed. how MAS that? Why, she called
ne old bees.wax' ....
-Goop.-Whi'e We Arc not At liberty Il
give full particulars. We can say, wishou,
any ksr Of successful contradiction. thu,
The Cedar valley Railroad will Be PARTIAL,
e,uplsted the coming summer, not to St,
1aal. bat 10 Minneapolis. This may b
~ down asa fixed fsce-sa
Gov. Boaham. OF South Carolina. has
eA0sd. ont dys regiments Of the re.erv.
oo9Do 70 re16o1yuue psumnklv ~ ~....;.
plaesg sana ard dssignased TO assist 4
Ispslling IL tAreatsning invasion Of IL,
esase aad H. capture q the metropolis o
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