The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-05-18

HAL SotuiCI UuC WHdL chiI lcdO anu Wiloo'
He carried not only his bible and hymn
book, but charts of the very country he
was to invade. AS these moving columns
marched along in solid columns, the mo-
tion as it were of one man, Icould not but
help notice their calm dignified bearing.
One could hardly expect on such an occa
sion to see less than smiling, happy faces,
if not even nod to some warm friend or
relative in the crowd, yet not a single in
stance of the kind came under my obser
walton. The triumph Of victory, the love
of home, the happy meeting IF lovers,
wives and husbands, parents and children,
are all secondary considerations to severe
discipline and soldierly bearing These
same troops left for the war vito far more
cheerful faces, singing with will tsat
beautiful German war song commencing.
Morgen roth, morgen roth,
Leichet mir yum fruhen Tod
Bald wird die .Trompete 3lasen o
Damn muss CHI mein Leben lassen
Ich und manchc Hammered"
There was park of artillery-the same
which had done good service in nearly
every battle of the war These guns are
very heavy, and were drawn each one by
six large horses. The artillerists were on
their wagons, the same as they went into
| battle, and the caissons followed closely in
the rear As have before remarked the
Germans are not dcmonstrative in their
welcomes, The whole street was full and
it took more than an hour to pass, yet du-
ring all this time, except on one occasion,
wAs there single hurrab. When the
remnant of the. Sixth Regiment, the va
gers, which went out with more than ff-
teen hundred men and returned with less
than six hundred, came along in the pre-
cession, thele were few feeble shouts.
There was not single pound Of powder
burnt on the occasion; yet this must not
be taken as want of patriotism or pro-
per respect for those who had returned
NUN AlOA1OQS tAANA ouCGCoSAuA WAL OuCl
is their CUSTOM They do not believe the
emotional feelings of the heart whether
in pleasure or sorrow, ought to be quick
ened by gun powder or poor whisky.
While there were many hearts that sor-
rowed that day for those who went and
will never return again, there were many
more who rejoiced to welcome home
again with hearts full Of love their faith.
ers, sons, husbands and brothers. In the
center of the beautiful park is . granite
column at least one hundred feet high
surmounted by an angel of peace, with
outstretched wings. Standing on one
foot with poised wings and holding in
her right hand a wreath-even she seem
ed TO enjoy this festival and ready to de-
scend and place her wreath upon the vic
torious brows of the returned soldiers, if
she had as rbany.
And now Doctor if you cannot make
out this manuscript, poorly written | adj
NIT, but never copied communication
in my life, don't guess at what | write,
but substitute words that will make
sense. You will find an amusing sen
tence purporting to have been written by
me short time since, in the Union l
was endeavoring to give the reader an
idea of the personal appearances of the
king of Wurtemburg, and | compared
him to my friend Salmon UpSon Of Bris
tol, believing that Mr.. U. had known me
too longto think Imsant any affront And
also knowing too that he would rather
have the honor Of being the most rapid
huskc: of corn in Kenosha County than
to have the doubtful reputation of being
the best WALTER that ever stripped the
light fantastic toe" in Simmons Hall
The sentence I wrote was in reference to
the brains of the two-for that is the on
ly sensiblepart of man-and it was this:
"twenty years ago Salmon Epson of Bris-
toll would have been taken for twin
brother Butin intellect and good prac-
tical common sense the Bristol farmer is
many lengths ahead OF him" In the
printed copy read slime" instead of
''him," which entirely perverts the mean
ing
A few days ago had ths pleasure of
hearing from our townsman Mr.. Leonard |
Lee. He arrived safely at Queenstown,
Cork harhor on the 18th inst bein0
fourteen days over, fair passage for the |
hardest month of the year for an ocean
passage. [ am now expecting to see him
l. 4 I. - L.