The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-01-25

| seek 10 command you. I0ur bravery has
won the admiration even Of those who
would be your masters. Your patriotism,
fidelity and courage have illustrated the
best qualities Of manhood. With the bay.
onet you have unlocked the iron barred
gates Of prejudice. and opened new fields
Of freedom, liberty and equality of right
to yourselves and your race forever.
That "the best officers of the Union
seek to command the colored soldiers may
be true, but the fact had escaped OUR no.
tice, until this authoritative statement by
the Ex-Hero Of Fort Fisher!
From the New York Post.
The Dead Of the Year
The year just closed has witnessed the
deaths Of many persons distinguished in
the walks Of art, science, letters, and all the
learned professions. Thackery, Hawthorne,
Morris, Lander, Schoolcraft, Mrs. Kirkland
and Catherine Sinclair are lost to literature !;
Silliman, Hancock and Sturve to science !;
Hunt, Roberts and Hudson to art Meyer.
beer to music; Robson and Wallack to the
stage; Archbishop Hughes, Thomas Starr
King, Potts and the Winslows to the church !;
Sedgwick, Wadsworth, Rice, Mcpherson,
Birney, Ransom and Totten to the army !;
Storer, McCluney, W. D. Porter and Carven
to the navy; Giddings, Lovejoy, Quincy,
Hulsemann, o Brien, Tallmadge and Day ton
to craftsmanship or diplomacy "Mudsill"
Hammond, Clay, Marshall, T. Butler King,
Gist, Stewart, Polk and Morgan to the reb.
els; the kings of the Sandwich Islands,
Bavaria and Wurtemberg to the throne !;
Newcastle and Carlisle to the English no.
bility, and Molakoff to the French Sreke
and Gerard to the ranks of intreped ex.
plorers and travellers; Uornb'ower and
Taney to the bench and William Curtis
Neyes to the bar; Pere Enfantin, the
head Of the St. Simonians, is also number
ed with the dead; and the names of Tick.
nor, Vattemare, Senior, McCulloch, Am
pere, Grattan, Sealsfield and Leech swell
the list.
Archbishop Hughes died in this city on
the Sd Of january, at the age Of sixty five
years and close upon this announcement
came the tidings Of the death of Thackeray
on the previous Christmas eve Mrs Kirk
land died in this citY'in April; Hawthorne
at Plymouth, New Hampshire, in May !;
Geo. P. Morris in July; Miss Sinclair in
August Walter Savage Landor in Sept. !;
McCullocb, the statistician, in Nov. and
Schoolcraft and Mrs. E. W. Farnham in
December. .t-a
During the battles OF the Wilderness, in
Grants march towards Richmond, the
gallant sedgwick, Wadsworth, Rice and
Stevenson fell; Mcpherson was killed in
battle at Atlanta in July; Birney died Of
disease in Philadelphia in October, and
Ransom at Rome, Georgia, eleven days
later. The rebel bishop general, Leonidas
Polk, was killed in battle in June J. E. B.
Stuart was killed in the Wilderness fight
in Virginia in May and John Morgan was
shot in Tennessee in Sept.
Out Of tho Draft.
Three young men handsomely dressed,
sat by the Fountain at Fairmount, smoking
and chatting pleasantly and leisurely.-.
While thus engaged in willing away time,
respectable looking citizen, whose head
was rather grayish, and expression some.
what stern and cynical, took seat on the
same bench, and managed to glide into the
conversation, turning its course meanwhile
to the army. At length he asked:
How is it gentlemen, that you in the
full! tide Of health, with apparently plenty
Of time and money, we'll brought up and
al that-how is it that you sit here idly,
and see others fighting and being butcher.
ed up, and sickening to death for your
sake?"
"Well," responded one, "the army
would suit me very well but for one thing.
If you will pull of that neatly fitting shoe
and roll up my drawers, you will find LEG
made Of leather straps and iron ribs. The
original left at Sharpsburg."
GAS for me-" remarked the second, il
you will take the trouble to feel this lef,
arm, you will discover that the shoulder
blade and the elbow, to the length Of about
five inches has been removed. When l
stand upon my right foot also, am bal
ancing upon my toes, the heel being gone.
Result Of bullets in the second battle Of
Manassas"
The third youth scarcely knew what to
say, but looked dsgsers at the cynical old
codser, and finally broke out:
"The same kind of talk forced me in; l
was Z shaking skeleton when I joined, and
on the first march broke down, got put
into one of the meanest hospitals in the
country, and came out paralyzed in one
side. Here be held up = lifs.ess and shriv.
eled arm. And may I ask, sir" he added
what keeps you ouU You seem to be in
excellent vigor." r-t.a
"Mei Why-ahem! Pm over forty.
Ave." .~..
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