Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-26

mite sPecks Of clouds float dreamiIy on high
| iHe sun sIo"s like ball of golden FIRE
Spring rpcns into summer; and the yesr
Moves Its accustomed round with no;seIess foot
| !oiter thoughtfully aoown the street
Anc tell my heart the perfect days are near
CHoP1Ns FUNERAL MARcH."-It wouIs h.
impossible 20 pass in silence the Funsral
March inserted in the first Sonata, which was
arranged for the orchestra, and performed
tor the first time, at his own obseouies, Wba+
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
| 1t remarked by i native Of his own country
these pages could only have been written by
| Pole" All that the funeral train of an en-
tire nation weeping its own ruin and death
can be imagined to feel of deselating woe, of
majestic sorrow, walls in the musical ringing
OF this passing bell, monrns in the tolling of
thSSolemn knell, as It accompanies the mighty
escort on its way to the still city of the dead
The intensity of mystic hope the devout ap-
peal to superhuman pity, to infinite mercy. to
| a dread justice, which numbers every cradle
and watches every tomb; the exalted resig-
nation which has wreathed SO much grief
with -halos 50 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-
tons.
We feel it is not the death of single war
ror 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 waling 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 profound meditation, as if,
chanted by angels, they foated already in the
heavens the cry of 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:
1t breathes upon the ear like the RI ythmed
signs of angels. The antique face of grief is
entirely excluded. Nothing recalls the fury
OF Cassandra, the prostration of Pram the
frenzy of Hecuba the despair of the Trojan
captives. A sublime faith, destroying in the
survivors of this Christian Ilion the bitterness
of anguish and the cowardice 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, 1t suppicates the Supreme Judge with
prayers so poignant, that our hearts, in listen
ing break under the weight of an august COM
passion From Liszt's Life of Chopin.
An UNsAvoRY SUBJECT.--Mr Pierre ~ 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 inquiring the cause, found that he was
re-reading the following anecdote from the
Knickerbocker Table,:
A French gentleman, whose nnostenta-
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.
Yok; and L go up one night in z upper part
de cite 1t was mos in re contree) to see a
frande. All oui Wen come by re door
yard, 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!' SO | strike
top of his necks. All, ha! sup-poy' what
lie do, ell? B-a-ah!! He strike me
back in my face wiz his Damn ! cannot
tell it was aaEti1 -D-READFULs He SMELL
so you cannot touch him-and re Same
| s'row myself in re pond up to my necks; l
smell seer wee-eeEs l not like 90 in re room
wiz my frande. dig big hole, to put my
cloes in re ground it not cure zem. | dig
zcm up; bah! It's the Same. l put zem
back-and dey smell one year; till zey rot
in re ground. 1t ees fact! He was id
Skonk!!"
"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-
phic delneation of that sad mishap"
The TmRTY-FIFTH Wisconsin, Stray
Regiment New York Worl98 New Or
leans correspondence of the 7th contains
the following:
The Thirty-fifth Wisconsin infantry arrived
here on Thursday from St. Louis This regi-
ment had been directed to report at Alexan-
dria, on Red River to Major General Steele
but, on arriving off the mouth of that river.
the gunbOats could give them no information
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 UP
gent need for soldiers hero, 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, Orff, reported
them as veteran reg iment, which alarmed
the enlisted men exceedingly, and they vocif-
erously declared that it was no such thing
they had not been three weeks mustered in
and knew no drill. To clnch the nail, they
declared that as they came down the river,
they were fired upon by gueriIlas severed
times, and shat 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 vet
eran regiment. | should think not
The REBEL GENERAL SrUART.-The Rich.
mond papers notice the death of Maior-Gene-
raj James E. B. Stuart, which doubtless or
CURED in fight with Gen. Sheridan's cavaI-
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
the summer of 1857 he distinguished himself
and was severely wounded. in a fpbt With
the Cheyenne Indians. In 1860 he was pro-