Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-09
From the Western Railroad Gazette;
Star Freight's Piigrimage.-EifthP Paper.


" The snow, the snow tits pleasant thing
To see it falling, falling
Down upon the earth with noiseless wing,
AS at some spirit calling.
Each flake, in fair parachute,
From teeming clouds let down,
When earth is still, and air Is mute
As Frosts enchanted zone.''
There is poetry into that.a and perbaps thara
.nay We some truth at proper seasons. But if the
~! ester nad been "spat, spatting round like one
gooss,~ as nave all day, I'm thinking he would be
inspired TO pronounce snow in Galena in the month
OF Ocioper, an unmitigated humbuC Fonr davs of
rain to close up with four incl es of snow resnIts In
about fourteen inches of splash. slush and sIcb
Does the reader care to know how nv beaItb las
Most dead, thank You, with terrible coid ,,st
like everybody else and though denrecst nf tuaa
swearing, Icouldn,t refrain from thinkinp Aman
Though said Abed,' to the sentiment rl
low-piigrinl, who calculated, dab dis kind -
beatherW The oldest inhabitant has not had . drx
foot to his name, for four days. and if were to is.r
any ode, address, apostrophe or command to the
weather, should do it in the following Language.
DRY up" might sling whole column of scraps
of poetry about weather. selected from all over
Burns, and the balance but not the whole combined
would express my deep disgust with the present
season of mas ness If this is Indian summer
please give some white mans winter.
Galena is not altogether gone-te-seed town.
though it is goneto seeder than it would he If Du-
buque didn't rather scoop it, in the way of trade.
Galena has furnished much lead and Gen. Grant. in
subduing rebellion. BY the way, / tried to be Gen
Grant to-day. Went up to 145 Main street, where
the General used TO buy hides in his brothers store
and stood on the step. Closed my eyes and imag-
ined my name was Ulysses, and that had on a lit
tie leather apron and was honest and didn't always
spell correctly, and never made speeches. and was
laboring for $40 per month. Then turned " back
ward 0 Time in thy fight" about five wears and
wondered what could do for my distracted country
Thus stood in deep, black study for about forty
consecutive seconds, and really got to feeling quite
Granty, and wondered whether, when opened my
on each shoulder. Almost feared to open them at
all In fear they wouldn't; and they didn't. Asked
Galener at that moment passing, if he took me to
be Gen. Grant, and his profane reply was 81 No;
take you to be a darned foolli Now the diSconEt
of the country milkmaid, in Websters old spelling
book, was not SO great when her pail of milk tum-
bled of her head. as mine was at being thus est-
mated. How in the world did that fellow find it
out? can't be Gep Grant no moro than I can
climb to where Moses Stood" There stood
where U. S. had stood thousand times; but If
Moses had stood there himself he wouldn't have
been Uiyss. Nose might beat Ulyss in getting III,
fireworks; but I'll bet ESQ Ulyss neyer'd have
been forty years in generating those Israeiters out
of Egypt. Geo. Mcclellan might have Peninsula
campaigned taem through in fifty or sixty, and had
mamma, and Observation-Disclosures the only quarter
masters stores. But if those ham-repudating Jews
satisfied with Nose, certainly am with Ulyss,
although can't be him, nor nowhere near enough
like him to have the citizens Of Gaena give me
splendid, newly -fuinished house which is On an hill
aud cannot be hid, with sidewalk built clear up to
1t. Al men have their fortes" and my forte u.s. not
being q Lieutenant. General. I'd be better Boston
Lancer
Gen. Grant is coming home TO vote Mr. Wash.
burne went and bad him registered in his proper
precinct; and he will be here Il flying visit, for
political purposes. l worder how he agrees on ne
gro suffrage2 wouldn't wonder if he was in favor
Of letting Mr. Negro suffer- some. Andy johnson
js you know. He says TO MIR Stearns, of Massachu-
setts "The elective franchise is not natural right
but political rghtn Henry Ward Beechar SEN
rOrEns' President. ieo hat
he (the negro should have suffrage, because IL is
natural right" From satch endorsement good Lord
deliver us Andy says tits not natIal; Henry
endorses" Andy by saying It's natrall An Irish
jury would agree that Andy and Henry agree.
There is nothing paradoxical in this figure of the
nGtsDQlaeSS OF the negro to suffer. l don't know
who is better authority 10 the premises than Mr..
Negro himself; and when asked the WOOL haired
waiter at the dinner-t0be whether suffrage was
natural or unnatural TO his race, he replied: Well.
yes sah-to some OBJ Us, its very" Taking that
view of the case, I don't see but the issue Is plain
Mr. Beecher endorses the President, and endorse
this niger. Plain case--let it go to the squatter
sovereign verdict of the people. think Grant will
agree; and goes the General, 50 goes the Union.
Having thus disposed Of the l0ng-agitated negro
leave him to his inevitable fate and turn ray poll
tica thoughts to Fenianisn. BY next week. may
conclude whether TO invade England, aud write
Emmetts epitaph, or not In case invade, shah
do IT by proxy, until drafted.
The next train westward bears among Its other
passengers, the to me precious form of
STAR FREIGHT.
APOLOGY EXTRA ORDINARY. "A miller had
had his neighbor arrested under charge Of stealing
wheat from his mill but being unable to substan.
tiate the charge by proof tho court a0judged that
the miller should make an apology to the accused.
Well" said he, ~ have had you arrested for steal
ing my wheat can't prove it~-and 1 AM sorry
TO, it,
SHOULD BE DISCONTINUED. The Hart
ford C0tront says that the custom OF giving the
N NitYtrn m. fuGi. riftnn taA
during the time OF the Indian wars when tho male
members Of the family always carried their mus
kets to church when it was, Of very proper
that they should have the end to rush out and re-
pei an attack.
That was gallant practice in those days, but the
idea of half Il dozen gentlemen filing out Of pew
into the aisls ut this age of the world, to let lady
sit at the inner end, IL simply and absolutely bar
bareus. The fashion Of 50 doing should be every
where re-pew-dated.
The FOLLOWING was sent to Connect
fcut editor with the intimation that more could be
had for the money:
He was drowned on the Sound
And his body wasn't found ~
For forty 'leven days;
Then he rose, and lis toes,
And his Jolly ruby nose
Were discovered through the haze
TOUCHING.
The following touching poem was picked up Ia a
rebel camp In Georgia:
laid four dollars on the board
bet 'eni wun by wuD;
The farrer deeler got ray checks,
Til at last he'd none.
Let every ga young gamboleer
Of cut-throts games bewar
And only pla with gentlemen,
Who spread upon the squag. n
AN ABSURD -DITTY. - Was ever such
small talk as the following before put Into rhyme,
Said b--d-bug TO u m1skeefer:
"You're the luckiest living creeter,
In extracting the sweets from life'a ills;
Such a feast and song you enjoy,
While poor ME Enen seek TO destroy
Pray what are the means on employf"
Quoth he Of the wings, "Old boy
For particulars small billsW
PHILOSOPHICAL. At Harper's Ferry,
the other day Sir Morton Peto and his fellow can.
iaiists from England, excavated az old fellow from
one Of the cellars Ia the town, who had held his
ground during the war, refining 10 be frightened
away by either caunonading or explosion 'eI dun
KNOW" the old fellow said "as ths wars dono rns
much harm. Fifty years ago was the poorest man
III Hsrpefs Ferry two years ago wes tho richest,
everybody else having away. j wasn't worth
nothing then; ain's worth nothing pow 30 I'm
square. Judge to Sir MortoD) have you any ter.
bakker about YET"
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