Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-08-11

team, and guard was accordingly sent to al
| low this patriotic gentleman the great pleas
ure of making slight sacrifice for the Union
They proceeded to the stable, but found not
the objects of their search Though there was
| evidence that they had been recently III the
stalls.) They proceeded to the house, and
IN reply to interrogatories learned that they
! were IN the country, fifteen miles distant,
! having been driven there some four or FIVE
| days previously. The guard grew suspicious
and invited the proprietor to the stables
where, upon looking into the stalls, be saw
! that which sOrely puzzled him, but he hap
pe7,ed suddenly to recoNect that one of his kin
| tolk stabbed his horses there the night before
The ruse would doubtless have succeeded,
had not Smothered and suspicious noise
! ike the stamping Of ior5eS feet, at this
Juncture arrested the attention of the guard
/ III the direction of the house. They went to
! the spot-tore open the sutherland there
| III one corner Of the J,arIor stood the horses
! their feet carefully shod with tufts of cotton
| Oh cotton ! how H,nihesS I'M e,ngiye! another
| argument In favor of thy coronation! Suffice
! 1t to say, that the horses were soon upon
the street, marching direct for Headquarters
while the good old patriot" crimsoned with
! bushes, retired to his room, minus his Ger
| thcate OF Government Indebtedness to re-
| Meet upon the pleasures of sacrificing 4" tri-
| 1es to the cause of the Union. Many other
| ridiculous scenes were enacted which | will
not mention to-day. The horses in question,
| are intended to mount the 9th Pennsylvania
! Cavalry Several hundred were demanded,
and every loyal man received a certificate of
indebtedness from the Government. Many,
! and bitter complaints have been made, but no
! truly loyal man should doubt the justice Of
! the proceeding which has for its object the
| relief OF the gallant 9th Pennsylvania
| On Saturday no less than forty arrests were
! made in this city of disloyal citizens and re-
| bel agents from Dixie
! Last evening, in company with Il friend |
: went to the Military Prison to see the factory
/ hands from Roswell, Georgia. Through the
kindness Of the Surgeon in charge we were
! permitted to go through the entire establish
ment, and If they are a fair specimen of
| Georgia refugees, say let the refugees re-
main IN Dirle. Among the whole crowd
found but two Union persons A more de-
| graded, ignorant, scaly set of men, women
and children L never saw. Were they less
arrogant and brazen-faced, | should pity
them, and in fact went with the intention of
| plying thepoor, suffering Union refugees out
my sympathy soon sank below zero and dis
gust assumed its place. They uttered loud
| and bitter curses on General Sherman using
language like the following:
"What did yom'ns come down thar for and
I drive weues from home ?"
| That Gen. Sherman wants to steal our
| slaves, indeed he du; and he lit all the fac
! tries, and didn't leave nothing for we'uns nor
our kin. Right smart way to fight, we reck-
ons, drivin' little chider' and old folks outer
work and yitals, and toteing US way up here. :"
General Sherman is a0oif bar, beast,
| and our COMMENT will teach him suffing when
! they finds him. Orphans cuss him, Cord
cusses him, and the hull South cusses him"
| The above is a fair sample of their garu-
| lous loquaclty. The men are to be sent North
| of the Ohio, and the women and children are
being sent to various places in the city to
| work.
The remains Of Major General Mcpherson
are expected i'll the city to-day. | am rot
advised as to whether any military demon
STATIONS common on such occasions will be
made or not. The country will feel deeply
the loss of Gen. Mcpherson, as he was an ac-
tive and efficient officer.
Thus one after another of our noblest Gen
erals are falling, sacrificed upon the shrine of
st00e1y! and may, the Government never
make peace until this curse of man and the
cause OF the war Is utterly eXtermlnated.-
Experience tells us that it is curse, and
duty commands US to stop not until the last
vestige has disappeared from the land. Her
course through the land is marked with
blood ! We cannot longer tolerate it. The
voices of murdered patriots call out to us
from the shores of the eternal world, con-
juring US to strike strike until the monster
bends its brow in death Has the nation
bled thus in vain No. great as may be
the sacrifice, it shall be made to secure It's
everlasting overthrow! And there are men at
the North who must know the issues, and who
still encourage the traitors by their sympathy
and opposition to the Government. A voice
comes from the dying soldier at the 'front.'
''Tell the traitors all around you
That their cruel words We know
In every battle kill our soldiers,
BY the help they give the foe.''
Editors of Copperhead papers are not so
ignorant as not to know the true situation,
and why do they thus UNANIMOUSLY, murdereus-
ly oppose the measures of the Administra-
ton? Would they sacrifice the country for
po,ty's sake? Would they barter array the
future Weltaye of America to secnre prestige
for Slavery? That they cause incalculable
mischief, no one can deny. They occasion
the loss of valuable lives, which, but for their
reasonable utterances, would be spared to
US but the time is rapidly approaching when