Galesville Transcript (Newspaper) - July 5, 1861, Galesville, Wisconsin G 3. S. Devoted to Home IK Vol. JULY 5, 1861, No. JULY 5, 1861, tho German of Guorgo HT H. C LAND of the Freedom's glorious of glowing gold Molten by Jehovah's Mountains that he to his heaven As great pillars Cradle of his clouds of And his eagle's Land of where the Bold as rebellious Downward rush to seek the And the Rhine with all his And the Rhine with all his That BO many words has Deem not the old German despots That the Rhine himself is That he minds not Neither nor German his own bow of glory as he sweeps Were you still so full of German Where ho and as nursling lias already earned his Where tho first word of creation Loudly through the air yet Land of which on rocky Whore the earth aglow with longing To her crown of that Until she for her own grandeur Deeply and is Once more I am thine own Again ye proud glaciers even and each brings New roses to your Land of if too vainly Many a boasts of Thou art yot the truest mirror Freedom ever smiled to Once T while an angel Wandered through the lordly Praying for a seed of Though but as a grain of And ho prayed but little And he prayed but room Little and little Needed freedom's tree to bloom tho lordlings called their beadles To the and and And tho angel took the 'Neath the shelter of his From the darkened land he bore To the mountain's purple And for want of laU it On the rocks beside the Us growing roots Like the tendrils of your User may it like your lofty Safe before tho heaven's And from your own reckless Safe from stranger's evil forever kce Star-Spangled and other airs of similar character and says to me hie idea of the exceedingly bad taste and of this selection of a by the thoughtless know that in the progress of the French which commenced in 1787, the attempted to cause the SECESSION of some of the southern departments of those on the river Gironde or and the region around the ed capitol of the intended aristocratic government of La de Salut at branch of the National Government of the French order to ther a force sufficient for the destruction of the summoned from all parts of France large bodies of citizens faithful to the Constitution as it then devoted to the unity of the The proclamation which moned the legions of the UNIONISTS to the rescue and defence of the Halleck on the Marseilles Of this fur profound and diversified of and a critical aui e with solid is not ed by any living in a conversation bore the la Une Indivisible union and and was and is the principle of French It so happened that when the Provencal ons marched through the southern gates of the National the Marseilles men struck up a patriotic song which had become popular in their city during the revolutionary excitements of the That song was the of get de Parisians and the bled people from all the departments tened with and soon rapturously j joined in the grand It itelj became the the and vas at once spontaneously adopted as ho hymn of French NATIONAL UNION forcibly to do but notice the incongruity of the new uses to which the tune has been perverted in The seditionists have d for the anthem of DISUNION the very strains consecrated in history as the sic of and un- sparing hostility to the division of a re- that vindictive resistance to secession and resulted in the bloody deaths of all the leaders and prime actors in the rebellious Charlotte Temple's A correspondent of the who recently visited Trinity noting the quaint tions on the stones and particular slab which set me moralizing was one which probably not one of the countless throng that ries past it down aware covers the remains of a beautiful and fascinating the record of whose romantic and sad career has ed the hearts of hundreds of The slab the place where it the strange excavation made in its upper the simple near the centre of the is in itself material sufficient for a half doxen fictions such as are days manufactured the shortest no- tice and most reasonable for the ty held with D. a feeling of mingled contempt and indignation at tho procedure of ing the as their tune u rebellion after by proscribed and prohibited he singing of was tenderly cared at a proper age was taken to and a fortune of twenty thousand pounds settled upon her by the head of her father's the Earl of true daughter and trne came back to New York and erected this monument to the ory of her The inscription on it was engraved on a solid tablet of brass an inch in heavily ted with and thus it cred to the memory of aged 19 This filial duty the daughter returned to England and lived a life of unobtrusive piety and usefulness until the history of her family was closed with the life of the late But the story of the plate or tablet is left to be Supposed to be of silver and of much it tempted the cupidity of those who feared not to desecrate the place of On a dark two with hammer and stealthily crept to its and succeeded in prying it from the while making or fancying they some one in they dropped it in the where it was sub- sequently They were never de- The plate was not restored to its original and it some good doubtless who had known the deceased in her days of that the simple was afterward cut just underneath the There it may be at any within twenty feet of by any one who will take the trouble to raise himself on the iu whick fche iron fence is and glance toward the slab now almost imbedded in the Journal once the custom was to read Spenser and sensation No date of no indication of no date of appears un the nothing but lotte The legend runs that while she was courted by dashing young British IJe de- old A little daughter she and Fletcher and and Jeremy Taylor and This was at a time when the circulating ry was filled exclusively with fictions of the Minerva or Avith poetry such as Hayley There was no great temptation in that time of dearth to con- fine one's reading to contemporary But the times are The shelves of our great reading clubs and are crowded with the novels of with the histories of with the poetry of Tennyson and and with a host of authorities on science and Such a literature as this is more than sufficient for the time and capacity of an ordinary and we need not der that the number of readers who limit their reading to the publications of the twelve month should increase every Yet we may be sure that such a tion has an essentially narrowing and produces a very injurious effect on the All the writers of an age however diversified their ever peculiar their mental arc en They breathe the same they handle the same they are acted upon by the same So that a critic can not more from the occurrence in their works of direct sion to cotemporary than from some trick of some habit of or some trait of fooling or whether an author belongs to the age of or of or of An- or of the period has a of its the reader who tho waitings of his only cannot escape their He to their their taste becomes his their his The in- tense pressure which writers near to us exercise upon our feelings and tions if we should preserve the intellectual manliness and to be staved and this can only be done by making ourselves acquainted with the modifications of taste and opinion which have obtained in different ages of Interior of Fort Extract From Mr. Letter to the London From the we descended by a staircase into the The Con- federates are greatly deceived in their ex- that States soldiers will be much exposed to sun or heat in More well ventilated quarters cannot be and there ia quite light enough to enable the men to read in most of The plague of flies will infest both and is the curse of every camp in As to the Confederates will probably if not at least as much as the U. States The effect of other such as yellow fever and will be in all probability impartially felt on both the position of the fort is peculiarly un- the who are under no con- trol in respect to their will suffer more than those who are re- strained by discipline and restricted to regular Water can always be had is fit for use if drank Vegetables and fresh visions are not of course so easily had aa on but there is a scarcity of them in both and the supplies from the are very good and The bread baked by the garrison is ex- as I had an opportunity of for I carried off two loaves from the bakehouse on board our Our walk through tho casemates was interesting They were all crowded with most of whom were They were looking soldiers mixture of old and equal in stature to their but more to be depended should in a long Everything seemed to be well The men were in their bods had mosquito curtains and were reading or sleeping at their In the casemates as a there were only same twelve men sick out of the whole and I was struck by the absence of any foul and by the cleanliness and neatness of all the The spoke to each of the men and they ed glad to see The dispensary was as neat as care and elbow grease make in strange the laboratory for fuses and deadly implements in good K tiling is for immediate vice I am inclined to think it will be some time before it is if the enemy attack Fort Pickens they will meet with a resistance which will probably end in the destruction of the navy and of the greater part of their A week's delay enable Brown to make good some grave but delay is of more advantage to his enemy than it is to and if Fort Pickens was made once the point appui for a vigorous offensive movement by the fleet and a laud I have cry little doubt in my mind Ja must and Bragg would obliged to In a few weeks the altitude of affairs may be very different The railroad is open to Gen. he can place himself ia very much attitude
