Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-28

/ " HAGe eptchs OF ciOuus UoaE QEedullly on ulku5
! The sun glows like a ball Of golden fire.
/ Spring ripens into summer; and the year
| Moves its accustomed round with noiseless feet.
| loiter thoughtfully adown the street,
| And tell my heart the perfect days are near.
CHoPIN's ''FUNERAL MARCH."-It would be
impossible to pass in silence the. Funeral
| March inserted in the first Sonata, which was
arranged for the orchestra, and performed,
| for the first time, at his own obsequies. What
other accents could have been found capable
of expressing, with the same heart breaking
effect the emotions, the tears, which should
accompany to the last long sleep, one who
| had taught in manner so sublime how great
| losses should be mOurned? We once heard
| it remarked by native CT his own country:
"these pages could only have been written by
| a Pole" All that the funeral train of an en-
tire nation weeping its own ruin and death
can be imagined to feel of desolating woe, of
majestic sorrow, walls in the musical ringing
of this passing bell, mOurns in the tolling of
thissOlemn knell, as it accompanies the mighty
escort on its way to the still city of the dead
The intensity of mystic hope the devout APP
peal to superhuman pity to infinite mercy to
dread Justice, which numbers every cradle
and watches every tomb; the exalted resig-
nation which has wreathed so much grief
with halOs so luminous the noble endurance
| of so many disasters with the inspired hero
| ism of Christian martyrs who know not to
despair ;-resOund in this melancholy chant,
whose voice of supplicatiOn breaks the heart.
All of most pure, of most holy, of most be-
lieving, of most hopeful in the hearts of chill
dren, women and priests, resounds, quivers
and trembles there with irresistible vibra-
tiOns.
| We feel it is not the death of single war
rior we mourn, while other heroes live to
avenge him, but that a whole generation of
warriors has forever fallen, leaving the death
song to be chanted but by wailng women,
weeping children, and helpless priests. Yet
this Melopee so funereal, so full of desolating
woe, is of such penetrating sweetness, that
we can scarcely deem it of this earth. These
sounds, in which the wild passion of human
anguish seems chilled by awe and softened by
distance, impose a profound meditation, as if,
chanted by angels, they foated already in the
heavens the cry of a nations anguish mount
ing to the very throne of God The appeal
of human grief from the Tyre of seraphs
| Neither cries, nor hoarSe groans, nor impious
| blasphemies, nor furious imprecatiOns, trouble
| for moment the sublime sorrow of the plant:
| it breathes upon the ear like the rhythmed
| signs of angels. The antique face of grief is
entirely excluded. Nothing recalls the fury
OF CassandTa, the prostratiOn of Priam, the
frenzy of Hecuba, the despair of the Trojan
captives. A sublime faith, destroying in the
survivors of this Christian lion the bitterness
| of anguish and the cOwardce of despair, their
sorrow is no longer marked by earthly weak
ness. Raising itself from the soil wet with
| blood and tears, it springs forward to implore
God; and, having nothing more to hope from
earth, it duplicates the Supreme Judge with
prayers so poignant, that our hearts, in listen
/ ing, break under the weight of an august COM
passion From Liszfs Life Of Chopin.
An UNsAvORY SUBJECT.-Mr Pierre NJ. r.
wing, author of those delightful volumes, the
Life and Letters of Washington Irving
mentions that one morning he heard "Uncle
Washington" laughing consumedly " in bed;
and nquiring the cause, found that he was
re-reading the following anecdote from the
Knickerbocker Table,:
"a French gentleman, whose unOstenta-
tious but princely hospitality adds even a new
charm and grace to the lovely banks of the
st. Lawrence, along the most delightful
reach of that respondent stream, used to re-
late the following story: 1t ees twanty year.
said he, since came over, and was in New
YOk and l 60 up one night in z upper part
de cite Ct was mos in re contree) to see a
/ manu- al Jul : w Cu COluC ny &c uOuE-
yard, l see som'sing-I know not what he ees,
bot | Sought he was leetil rabeet; bot he was
YER tame. go up softly to heem, an
say, All, ha | av' gOts you'll So l strike
him big strike by my Ombrelon re
top of his necks. All, hal sup-pos' what
he do, Ell? B-a-ah!! He strike me
back in my face wiz his Damn cannot
tell it was autm i-D-READFULs He smell
so you canhot touch him-and | re Same
l s'row myself in re pond up to my necks;
smell seer wce-eskS ! | not like go in re room
wiz my frande. dig big hole, to put my
cloes in re ground; it not cure zem. / dig
zem up; bah it is the Same. | put zem
| back-and dey smell one year; till zey rot
in re ground. II ees taact! He was id
| SI0ak!!"
''And so it was a fact; for no man born of
woman could have ever counterfeited the fer
vOr of disgust which distinguished the gra-
phc delineation of that sad mishap."
| THE THIRTY-FIFTH WISCONSIN, Stray
Regiment New York Worlds New Or
leans correspondence of the eth, contains
the following:
The Thirty-ifth Wisconsin infantry arrived
here on Thursday from st. Louis. This regi-
ment had been directed to report at Alexan-
| uIltl, Oll lAtu lAlhCI, W OCHcIdl CtttIc
but, on arriving off the mouth of that river,
the gunbOats could give them no information
as to the whereabouts of that officer. In
consequence of this they continued their
voyage to this city, and on arrival were no
better able to tell what to do. There is ur-
gent need for soldiers here, and being within
a department where civil and military law
are both manufactured for the occasion, it was
determined to use them at once, and so they
were sent up to Port Hudson.
The colonel of the regiment, 0rff, reported
them as veteran regiment, which alarmed
the enlisted men exceedingly, and they vocif-
erously declared that il was no such thing
they had not been three weeks mustered in
and knew no drill. To clinch the nail, they
declared that as they came down the river,
they were fired upon by guerillas several
times, and that all along the lower points the
officers hid themselves below, out of danger
and out of sight-a circumstance which they
declared would never have occurred in a vet
eran regiment. | should think not.
The REBEL GENERAL STUART.-The Rich
mOnd papers notice the death of Maior-Gene-
raj James E. B. Stuart, which doubtless oc-
CURED in a fight with Gen. Sheridan's caval-
ry. He was born in Patrick county, Va,
about 1885, and consequently was hardly
thirty years of age He graduated at West
Point in 1854, and rose to the rank of first
lieutenant of cavalry in December, 1855. In