Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-04-16

Some fifty Of the members Of the Typo.
graphical Uuion Of this city made . fra.
ternal call on Artemus Ward, at the
P'ansers' Hotel, on Sunday evening. The
humorist received them in the gentleman 8
parlor at that we'll regulated hctel, and
expressed in feliciteus terms bis gratitude
for this marked courtesy from bis brother
craftsmen Of the imperial city Of the Far
West. A very pleasant evening followed.
Genial stories we're told, and exhilarating
but harmless jokes were cracked. A. W.
related how, in early years, he had wan.
dered with his gay stick and rule through
tho West and South in quest of employ.
ment; how be frequentlh didn't get it;
how his wardrobe was often reduced to
consecutive shirt only, and unboiled at
that; how he landed in the lively city of
New Orleans one warm day in July, with
no other earthly possessions than speck.
led silk handkerchief and an ambrotype
Of his grandmother, (the speaker was here
interrupted BY three cheers for his grand.
mother, which elected the cheerful remark
from him that "she had always sustained
. good character.")
The speaker regetted the absence of the
friend Of bis you,h-Mr. Daniel W. Wilder
He had known old Dan for many weary
years. Dan was named for Dan'l Webster,
a criminal lawyer of some local repute in
Massachusetts. The speaker felt that be
need not eulogise homes. old Dan Wilder
to bis friends present. Why paint the lily
or gild refined gold, when it was 60 cents
premium 1--WE slept together said the
speaker, "in childhood's halcyon days
Even then little Daniel often turned
longing eye towards the fertile plains Of
Kansas. 1t is bleeding Kansas little
Daniel would playfully ssy-'and hope
to soon be bleeding Kansas myself How
thoroughly he has done it, l need not in.
form you.
He is kind hearted man. shalt never
forget how be Used to borrow money Of
met always seemed to affect him deeply
and on one occasion, l remember, after
borrowing two dollars of me, he burst into
tears and expressed the belief that had a
future before me. Up to that time l had
supposed be was behind me. Although
not quite thirty years Of agd at the present
time, it is sad to think that in little over
seventy years from this time Dan will be
an old man, perhaps dead. Such is the
fate Of others. The price Of real estate"
A voice-"What's real estate got to do
about it?"
True, why has she? AS the gentleman
aptly observes, who has got it? As said
before, this Wilder is not altogether with.
out merit He yields filthy old pen. l
regard his leaders as about the spott;est
things in the history of modern literature.
There is no doubt in my own mind ,ha.
Carney owes his election to Wilder's
statesmanlike articles.
A voice-"No, no-Wilder's for Lane"
"Yes, certainly. So he is. l mean bis
course in favor of Quan,ril, or il regard
to the Constitution-what mean is that
/ attribute this war to Wilder. ZAP.
plause. 1t is the editorial articles in the
Conservative that has brought this thing
on. He is man Of considerable origi.
nality. He went of with my oyercoat
once, and I didn't see him for nearly two
years aferwards. After dining with Ed
ward Everett oLe day, he went home and
foisted = favorite aunt Of his out of
four'story windsw, d;slocating her collar.
bone, and otherwise dangerously injaring
her. He bad keen appreciation of the
ludicrous OF his courage I ,hirk there
can only be several opinions. Colonel
Jennison, who knows him, informs me that
with regiment Of such men he should
have no hesitancy in garrisoning almost
any town in the interior Of Massac chuset,s
He has uttered some great thoughts, this
Wilder. The remark, "This is the last of
Eearth,' is his. So is the observation
"How Is your poor feetf" The speaker
conclded his feeling tribute to the friend
Of his early years in Latin, remarking
that however much others nigh. sine qua
non or CT, bono, Honest Old Dan Wilder
would never qnid proco or habeas corpus
his nihil.-Learcn,corth Conservative.
At Virginia City. Idaho, -four is $40
per cwt; bacon Sec; beef Csc; potato
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