Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-07

When an llluStrOuS gentleman Wa
candidate for Governor, the marked ability
of his speech before convention OF me-
chanics and workingmen should have been
the herald Of his success. That speech mad
the weight of 500, and if the candidate
had been the Bohemian, he could not have
spoken more truly his language.
1 pass by host of anecdotes and the
recital of many peculiarities.
When the Bohemian had the Union IN
charge. and was fitting to and fro on the
railroads, it was a pleasure to dine with
/ him. His manner Of dining was this: The
place appoi nted was the little byplace or
ssShades' on Thomas street. Another
/ friend made our party three In number
When we two were assembled. our Bone
milan friend would rush in with nice
salmon or some other tit-bit, procured
somewhere, and perhaps ask: 'How much
money have you, boys?" The sum might
happen to be slight. An order was given
to suit our combined means, embracing the
customary beverage of ale. Stop, our
/ friend would exclaim, eve need bottle OF
wine: excuse me-" and before the salmon
was cooked, he had dashed out to return
with quart bottle of champagne, procured
from Biningers, or some other generous
house. which would never let gentleman
!
ExPEDKNTs.
At one time he made sudden appear
ande in nv Office, and without saying BY
your leave !" deposited parcel OF trunks
and traps in one corner thereof. he then
rugged up an arrangement, by which some
dry goods brought with him were let down
as q curtain to cover the whole, and thus
preserve the decencies. The ''tIaps so
remained for some weeks
When that notable gentleman and true
friend Of art. Mr.. S. Spooner, had published
with infinite labor his reproductions OF the
Boydell engravings, illustrative of Shaks-
peare, he employed the Bohemian to pro-
cure subscriptions in the southern states.
He proceeded to Richmond, and from his
hotel sent specimens of the engravings to
Daniels, who then conducted the Exam
liner
The distemper which at length proved so
fatal to the South was then working III the
veins OF this editor, who, instead OF treat
inc the work as it deserved, or with decency,
assailed it with viTulence and vituperatlon,
showing his virus and motive IN abundant
filings at the Yankees. The result OF this
treatment was that the Bohemian was COM
PEELED to quit the field without effecting
any sales Neither he nor his employer
were of nature TO let an indignity or in
Justice like this 60 unatoned. Knowing
that il was useless to seek healthy justice
IN the infected region, he bided his time,
and that time came when Tyler, being
President, his friend Daniels was appointed
Consul at Turin. To reach the consulate
il was necessary to go TO New York, and ON
landing on the wharf he was politely sa-
luted by the Bohemian and a proper officer.
Enough to say, he gave bail and proceeded
on his way, and In due course OF time suit
was tried, resulting in heavy damage against
the editor, which 1 do not know that he
ever paid.
1 close this brief history, having chosen
TO designate my friend as the Bohemian,
from the fact of his preferring TO live sort
of GYPSY life in a rowing and precarious way,
and to have associated himself in his later
years mainly with the press. He had been
thrice married, in each instance to a beau
tiful woman, and in two cases he had been
divorced The last lady of his love was
the superior of the three in all the attri-
butes which render the sex attractive. q
During the war he was engaged upon
responsible mission, with others, for the
preservation of property and revealed to
the Government important facts by which
some frauds were detectedand heavy losses
prevented. On his return to New York he
was employed by we'll known gentleman
of high character and large fortune upon a
peculiar enterprise. This gentleman had a
son of dissipated habits. which he hoped
might be cured by employment in the ma
w, and the Bohemian undertook to take
the son 10 Washington and obtain place
for him. This proved to be an impossible
ity. The general manners and bearing of
the youth were SO much in his favor, that
l.. Il all
but his entire lack Of self-control soon re-
vealed his fatal vice. and after bafiied eff
forts the Bohemian returned to New York
to meet the disappointed parents. An in
terview of an exciting character took place
at a well-known hotel, as the result of
which my unfortunate friend fell dead on
the floor
4 distinguished poetess, now in Florence,
happened to be at the house, and, with
characteristic kindness, took charge of
his funeral arrangements.
4 telegram was sent to his wife, who
came on, and was asked concerning his
friends. She mentioned three-a we'll
known and kind-hearted young lawyer, O
well-known member of Congress, and my
self. Two of us being near were sent for
and appeared. The device resorted to to
reach the Congressman showed at once the
acuteness of the poetess and the value of
the press as a subtle medium. Learning
his politics, she said. che probably reads
the Tribune" In this paper the next
morning she put particular notice of the
decease, and by noon the Congressman
was with us. He was travelling, opened
the paper in the cars, and was at once
moved by his synpathies, to come to the
side of him who had place in his alice
tons.
We three men formed the funeral cor
tege, the poor wife being too weak to move,
and the lady poetess being required to re-
main to give her support and comfort.
A more solemn funeral has never moved
through the shades of Greenwood. The
young lawyer read the impressive service
of the Episcopal Church, the Congressman
and myself taking fervent part in the re-
sponses.
We know the spot where he rests among
the miscellaneous graves, whose life was
but a miscellany-a thing of shreds and
patches-and of whom we can say, as we
search out his resting place, with a touch
of pathos as sincere as that of Hamlet,
'.Alas. poor Yorick p
Shall / travel step further?
All of this little history ends not with
that which is below the earth. What of
her, the tender companion, so much be-
loved, so beautiful, so fragile, 80 mourn
full, so helpless2
l would stop, but there Is truth and
something of life in what follows:
1t was thought that as the wife was des-
titute, and as the death of her husband was
il some degree referable to causes in which
the wealthy and respectable man had taken
part. her appearance would appear to him
/ for a little of that of which he had so much.