Janesville Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - May 13, 1864, Janesville, Wisconsin T R I t 1 J h THK PAST m c H s M o s unl the of the i qui to 19 JANESVILLE WIS FRIDAY MAY 13 1864 NUMBER 38 t ll I j n tin ul FIRE in t U the i in tn my mimi one ol the adventures of my 1 a large u Hull and St at with the climate had reckless Tho the of October I lot koil in the ice I loo long in my ol timber and J lor my a die or end ol April in v iio at home to bo int 1 to make the beso as AS ell as 1 could tin in St I about in J lose and hill out again 1 it 1 1 md made myself MI tol hemp and took off his hat and pardon me 1113 little father but ber it is butter One day f sallied out into rhc great neon to the of the capital through the lair and saw Mich alight The line was guarded by mounted gendarmes dressed bkt lancers and wearing light blue uni- forms v ith brown epaulettes There were Chinese Turks Germans En princes priests bearded and their portly colonels of the in their hel mots in a long procession of which at the rock on Peter the s stands to the base of the great granite column of Alexander lacing the enormous pile of the Winter Palace Tired at last of the procession I turned aside to one of the largest of the wooden theaters A clash of music from within announced the commencement of a now joining the torrent of ple old and young rich and poor who jostling for admittance i at last my way to where a mob of clamorous moujiks were thrusting out their hands with the admittance ey in childish impatience T drew back to make way for a respectable old bearded merchant and his pretty daughter who up in a trimmed with the fur of the silver fox clung to his arm and shrank back the rough ting crowd 1 thought 1 had never seen so charming a girl so tender in manner so gentle and in beauty The merchant and his daughter bowed and thanked me in broken English for my paid their money and passed in 1 followed rapidly but a crowd of ants thrust themselves in before me so thai when 1 took my seat I obtain no glimpse of the merchant or his pretty daughter The wooden theatre of the was an building built as a peasant The evening next mo said It had I d id i d u I1 t to hold fh o thousand galleries balconies ami Corinthian pillars hung cheap drapery and gay Avith rod and blue paint chandelier lighted up the interior Tho theatre Avas already full AS hen 1 entered so that f had to content m self AS ith a back seat in an upper box not far from the head of one of the as I soon found by the keen-edged h ed draught f amused myself the playing Avith the motley The Tartar only partially iCi fi om Avere s to th ai c i st yn i H U 1 v they hiu 1 1 bio and -in 1 t i I'M hoin ol Polish or Circassian cycs and almost a ol now that they beamed v tun oblique eyes glistened ln g eat boarded IK fids rolling about in y and thin fell on a e largo line reek contour now and then a ul o portly in furred with the serfs bin TS iih aa e that showed Their children In and boots were ih es all but the beards any ol women of the rough honest Irish looking ii A them in bonnets most ol v ilh heads bound round with di- I i iki ur a opp idly ti j c haadkerchief- li noi listen much to the music it urc on it OM opi th t brazen mechanical bort of music The j color or life that no one listens to co hi oak I i if ended with a jolting crash into 5 v some spaces u in i s in -i H ho There had d dav s now rain and and the Avails still though tho k up mornin 1111 1 looked out of my floor at Miss MUe relish had tho of the that I known sinn that the ice had porous and to hold in a low hours would break 10 and begin to float to breakfast 11 broke from the 1 said d ot the table i- tho i tlu 1 There a moment's pause and the tain drew up A deep hush passed over the troubled AS aA es of the pit The dren clutched their fathers hands the diers their practical jokes paused in their gossip the boys stopped eating and every eye turned to the stage An honest old jubt before as I judged by her amused me especially by her eagerness She put on her spectacles and leaned forward with both hands on her to drink in every word The play Avas a little operetta half French half Italian I think they called it Rose and Luhin Ii AVUS a gay trifling thing The hero and heroin Avere villagers and an old cross father and a malicious fool were the constant interrupters of their stolen ings Hose Avas dressed in a little tucked up goAAn of Awhile silk stripped pink a gipsy Lubin Avore a non- r sort of blue bilk coat and flapped with his j bile the tumbled into a present I thousand scrapes in a sort of miller's dress AN ith a i all and a blue broad-brimmed hat Thoro a good deal of hiding and about soldiers until the low enlists and finally returns a h to marry Hose It was a flimsy bit ol nonsense mixed up with and and HOAV and then a and it till over in half an hour Silly as it was it pleased the audience AS ho laughed and encored thing A display of fireworks was to and then a short fan e Between the acts 1 tried the little Russian I know and the old woman who had turned and me some HOAV she liked it little she said quite sori- it is tho most wonderful thing I or behold since I the ul Moscow in Napoleon's all the and laughter The curtain had not but 1 hunt light Avas be- u Li AAas the commencement of the display and I curious to sec AS hat the could do in these The first scene Avas to bo the il- lumination of the Kremlin at tho tion of the Emperor Alexander the first Probably that AA as the preparation for though the red light widened and glowed the curtain strangely enough did not rise The people stamped and ted All at once the the clown in his dress pale as death his eyes staling his hands tossing about like those of a madman We are on lire he shouted Save yourselves 1 lUOOs 1 or true The ad- mil oi oi Ferrari cried tho ith laughter Excellent Viva Bravo Ferrari 1 join the a.- it ed in an agony of feigned fear laughter redoubled A man in rushed whispered to the chestra and his hand to some men Avere not visible to the audience The curtain rose swiftly at that ominous signal and disclosed to my horror a rolling mass of fire and crimsoned smoke Already the flies had caught and Avere hanging in blazing streamers Tire rose from be- fire gleamed from above lire darted Ith quick from either bide The theatre AS as on lire The had not been feigning but was terribly in earnest 1 shall never forget the scream that burst from those four thousand people the reality broke upon them L had only an instant to look but in that instant I saw row after row of faces turn as by one impulse to the door Then came a stamping rush as of a herd of maddened animals Many tore without a thought but of their own safety others snatched up their children others dragged forward their old mothers or fathers or bore their or sweethearts in their arms Then came the grapple for life the trampling suffocating battle for existence that only served to hasten on death many I am enough but in sudden danger I have always found myself cool and collected Perhaps a or's frequent hazards and the constant thought of the possibility of death is a sort of training perhaps al quality I know not it is I only state the fact 1 immediately though for the moment safe and far from the full torrent of the my hopes of escape quite as desperate as the hopes of those who were trampling each other to death at the entrance Un fortunately one of the great folding doort opened In the first rush it hat been closed and the pressure was sc great it could noi bo moved one way or the other The flames spreading rapidly the smoke rolled towards us in and from those clouds darted and leaped serpent tongues of fire The flames ed AS ith cruel to from seat to The slips Avere blowing the chestra was a seething pit of fire The screams and groans on all sides Avere I hesitated for to remain where I Avas and meet death or to breast the human below At that moment a surge of flame ran the ledge of the next box to me blackening and blistering as it went Tho heat greAV intense I determined to make one sti for my life 1 ian to the head of the stairs and looked down There the herd of screaming shouting people fought Avith their hands in hoi rible gle of life and death 1 myself up as lost hand my coat It Avas the old keeper screaming her entreaties to me to save her 1 told her to cling to me and 1 do Ashat I could ft gave me age to think T Avas struggling tor some one myself She kneeled and prayed to iod for us both I placed at the edge of the in order to husband ray strength for a last effort One thing 1 mined and AAras that f would not save myself by treading poor and children under foot than that 1 let the fire burn me or i recommend my soul to myself into tho crater behind me and so die quickly One agonizing thought alone shot through my heart and that Avas a the tender girl I had seen so innocent and happy half an hour before Suddenly as I stood there like a diver hesitating before he plunges a peasant scorched and burnt dashed past me from the that had trampled upon him and staggering forward with smoke fell face downward dead at my feet His ax as usual with the peasants was thrust in his belt behind A thought of surely sent straight from Heaven flashed through my brain I stooped and drew out the ax Make way there or I cut down the first man stops me I cried out in broken Russian I hall fought half persuaded a few to give way until I reached the bottom of the stairs and had the bare plank wall of the outer enclosure of the theatre before me I will you I cried if you Avill let me free my arm The old woman still clung to me but as I advanced to strike my first at the plank partition that arose between life and death there was a rush which for a ment us 1 had no time or room to turn but next moment I felt her grasp still firmer and closer One blow and the splinters flew a second a plank gave a third blow and the blessed daylight poured in on us a fourth and a chasm wide enough for the passage of and my charge After us hundreds passed out rapidly 1 found myself among a crowd of shrieking were calling on an officer standing in a brouche by six horses to saA e their husbands sons and brothers Suddenly a man Avith a ed beard his eyes streaming with tears came and look from me the woman T had saved I so blinded Avith smoke and fevered excitement that I had ly given her a thought All I knew was that 1 had saved an old woman and by Joel's grace opened a door of escape for of doomed tures When I looked around I found the merchant I had before Avas the scorched and weeping tears of joy over a beautiful girl who had fainted The old woman had been di- vided from me in the tumult The daughter it was who had then clasped was her whom 1 had saved Beautiful she looked as 1 bent over her and received her father's blessings The tall officer was the emperor My he kept saying to the mob I will save all I can Bring that brave man to me I am not ashamed to repeat those though I did not deserve them he said to me in French the Russian nation owes you a debt of gratitude it is for me to repay it come to me at the palace I bowed my and handed my card to one of the staff When the fire wan subdued and rliey began to dig for the bodies the scene Avas agonizing Heaps of charred corpses lay under the smoking stifled others trodden and beaten to death Some were charred roasted many only burnt in the chest and head the holiday clothes still bright and guy Ii the galleries Avere found suffocated and leaning over the front boxes In one passage they discovered a crowd of dead all like so many from tho other More than a dred found still alne but dangerously burnt Most of these died the One little boy Avas discovered unhurt under a he had crept there when the burning roof began to break up and drop among the struggling multitude The beams and dead bodies had so fallen as to form a shelter over his head and there he had remained till we disinterred him The official returns the number of the dead as three hundred but my agent told me thai AS bile he stood there he counted fifty wagons pass each laden with from ten to fifteen corpses and many people made a much higher estimate I need not say much about my visit to the palace suffice it to mention that the emperor me Avith an order that I highly prize On the same day the priests offered up public prayers for the souls of the sufferers on the bite of the burnt alre It was a solemn spectacle and as I rose from those prayers full of gratitude to God for my a rough hand grasped mine It Aras the merchant whose daughter 1 had saved Tears streamed from his eyes as he embraced mo and then kissed my forehead and my cheek in tho Oriental manner of his nation little he said 1 rather have found thee than have cleared a thousand red rouble notes Little ine whom you saved has been praying for you ever since Come you must dine Avith ns 1 will take no denial for do I not you more than 1113 life? Come a droshky to the Catherine Avill leap for joy she sees you That was an one to me for on my my third from that date 1 married Catherine and a ing and devoted wife 1 found her She is kissing my cheek as I pen hose But it is not to dwell upon my personal and happiness that 1 hase this plain remembrance It is that I may do what little T can to impress upon those may read it that rush from any building on fire ascertain io be latal and that an orderly from it is certain deliverance Tho tre church or hapel does not exist through afire could spread io rapidly as fo prevent tho whole bly liom going out unscathed if they go tree from panic The Santiago ease an exceptional one Tho AS hole ol gaudy claptrap AS ore under the management of priests the mana- on and what kind of priests AA ere may be inferred fi the fact thai base all precipitately fled and that not one of had tho hood io stand at the altar his of authority he could be seen em a platform made to lender him anel his directions would have been issued at an immense advantage Again the assemblage Avas mainly com- posed of women and children in light in- flammable Again the show was lighted by lamps of clanging and strings from the of the root above the people's heads which dropped upon them so many overturned pots of liquid fire as the strings were burnt But even under these specially disastrous conditions great numbers of the assemblage could have been saved but for the mad rush at the door instantly closed Suppose that rush not to have been made suppose the door wiele open suppose a priest the soul of a man in him to have stood on the tar passing the people at that end of the church out of the priestly door of Ave hear nothing and which the last of these quick fugitives perhaps shut after and how changed the re- sult I entreat any one who may read this experience of mine and may after- wards be in a similar condition to remem- ber that in my case and in the Santiago case numbers lost their because the building was on fire but because there Avas a desperate rush at the door Half a men capable of control might save as many thousand lives by urging this on a crowd at tho critical moment and by saying Avill go last Tho Art of Wife A must make herself to her husband or he Avill drift out beyond her horizon She Avill bo io him Aery nearly hat she and to he Unless she adapts herself lohor husband ho uill fall into the arrangement and tin tAVO Avill fall apart do not moan that they quarrel but Avill load rate lives They Avill be no longer band and There bo a domestic alliance but no marriage A predominant interest in the same object bit ds them gether after a but marriage is something thai Ff and purposes to be the friend of her husband if she ble to him not simply as the nurse of his children and the directress of his household but as a woman fresh and fair and fascinating to him intrinsically lovely and attractive she should make an effort for it It is not by any means a thing that comes of itself or that can be left to itself She must read and observe and think and reach up to it Men as a general thing will not tell you so They talk about having the slippers ready and enjoin women to be domestic But men are blockheads dear and affectionate and generous blockheads and kind and hard-working stupid whore women are concerned Indispensable and delightful as they are in real life pleasant and comfortable as actually find them not one in ten thousand but makes a dunce of himself the moment he opens his mouth to theorize about women e an nx to grind The pretty thing they inculcate slippers and coffee and cure and courtesy ought indeed to be done bul others ought not to bo left undone And to the former women doni need to be exhorted They take to them naturally A great many more men follow boorish husbands vilh fond little attentions than wound appreciate one by neglect domesticate Avas a glacier tt as tho first I had seen For years i had read everything that I could lay my hands upon concerning glaciers had followed Alpine travelers Avith an interest scarcely ess than that excited by Polar regions lad been an invisible and imaginary ber of the Alpine Club and explored Avith its most adventurous men the Peaks Passes and Glaciers of the Alps and yet iad never seen one There Avas a kind of mystery hung about them They my mind Avith an indescribable At length f behold it t lay of so that 1 could scarcely look upon it ll seemed to be let from the sky The clouds darkened the A alloy I But they had opened far up this A alley to the left and let through a of light which kindled the to the in- tense and dazzling radiance I sat doMn in silence I don't know if tears should e started It was not simply the picture that lay me It Avas the stirring within by that picture of those subtle yearnings that never fail to rise in the presence of objects that bring near the conception of the Infinite and Eternal God My inward vision was far beyond any outward seeing I almost expected to hear an Apocalyptic voice and to behold angels above it as if this exceeding white- ness lifted up against the far sky could moan nothing else than the opening of the Gate of Heaven THE if Pair is to open un the ii themselves to death already What they want is they need to be to a large comprehensive catholic life in their domestic ties shall have an appropriate niche and nob dwindle down to a narrow and servile one over AV hich those duties spread and occupy the AS hole space There are less They ce their husbands attracted in other tions more than theirs They have too much and profound faith to be vulgarly jealous They fear nothing like shame or but they feel the fact at their own homely duties precludes real the emotions thoughts sentiments a palpable and contact of mind ol They MO others leisure fo accomplishments and attractiveness and the lios to ward by hh nature Because ho is a AS i-e and and moth ho does no dart into ho lame lie doe not oson hi A- lie noser ol such a thine ile circles around sunning himself in it thought one Avay or another only Cooling hal it is but Mrs molli sits at homo in darkness mending die children's i- not Many a women feels that she possesses her husband's affection s She does not secure his for- his His Jove honest and solid but a little dormant and fore bi ace and tone and stimulate She Avants not the love only but the keenness anel edge and flavor of the love and she suffers pangs i it for I have seen it It is not a thing to be uttered Most women do not admit it even to themselves but it is ed by tho lift of the by the er of the eye by a tone of the voice by a trick of the Hamilton a thing light mmh What is Mr Secretary It is important to know is iar as ble the Suture policy of the financial of the and especially at this lime make gambling profitable an uncommon flood of false assertions and theories damaging the public credit are boldly circulated Tho excitement got up iu Wall Street by gamblers in Stocks and gold are tele- graphed ov ory where exaggerated and tho outside public naturally lool that there is sumo great wrong when in fact there is wrong There is on- ly a hullabaloo among the bulls and Mr Chase w ill press right on wilh the Lo just as ho has be- gun There will be no change in Iho rate of interest lie Avill make no temporary loans of tho Banks bul will take from the people or tho Banks at five per cent interest payable on ten days notice as heretofore and he Avill run the usual line of one-year Certificates He will sell the surplus gold from customs after setting aside an amount sufficient for six months interest and nso Iho proceeds as the spirit and letter of the law partly in a sinking fund and partly for the current expenses of the Government He appeals afresh to this the most trying military and financial period of the rebellion to come forward with heart and money lie iw reducing ume of currency gradually and will con- to do so Jf the stock and gold gamblers shall again attempt the they played last ho will bring the whole power of tho Government and its whole moans both and abroad to checkmate thorn The Secretary of tho Treasury the lor the and upon the Army or victories and upon Congress for adequate taxation he people will come to his help Avith every dollar that can be appropriated is their Irue interest it is their safety If Iho armies will do their part there is no but victory Con- gress will doits duty it dare not falter To those capitalists who complain that Mr Chase ought to pay a higher rate of interest AVC say pointedly that a per cent obligation against tho American peo is better than a Bond at any higher rate of interest For Your froo from extortion generously for your auso is and will lie through all time But youi Country grind tho American people in their time of dis- tress and waul take Shylock's it Avill the vou get OAOT five per to defend youi against the political that will your bonds Well aud it be for you come Avith that spirit that tho and for orn e cy lay aside the that the u properly -y you all is al stake on an in minority at tho boxes Cotter oi come to standard of t and or bag AA hat gold you can und tins THE The Washington Chronicle pays that years ago the so-called code of honor was the supreme law of this section of the country there was a lovely gem of a grass plat just over the near Bladensburg on the estate of the late John C Avas much frequented by the chivalry they chose to re- the duellist's for their offended dignity A beautiful stream meanders through the charming dell was den on from the outside world by n beautiful groAvth of trees enclosing this amphitheatre Here upon the banks of this fair rivulet crimsoned have too often the fearful results of this relic of a baric and so-called chivalrous tho combatants mot Avith their seconds taken their assigned positions and sent the death-dealing bullets on their mission But now how changed I The shady grove has disappeared before the and the eio as well as tho -un is open to the ol oven Though the hui ol i reminds on many a spot echoes no more the Con- formable to the ailed ot honor so ed himself in the lied is one of the youngest general in uoe be- ing only A ears of ago lie entered tho in ISOl captain in the was in the at a second time in the shoulder at Fort AN hoi e he AS as colonel of the 1 and a third time wounded at Shiloh by bo- ing shoi through the back of head He Avas now been for the fourth time A SIM i CASK About a your MUCI a and lady appeared in Aille Ind and he hung out shingle inscribed S Johnson Dentist The lady Avas and They seemed to bo poor and avoided though the people to take erable interest in them Ho and was apparently doing well until days a man named Seymour from Livingston county Michigan pre- sented himself and claimed Dr Johnson's companion as his wife Ho said he had with her without serious trouble till she had borne five children when she left him Avith Johnson who liad been boarding with them An interview between the parties resulted in accepting a sum of money for his honor and left but he wrote back to woman promising to forget and forgive if she would return to him A warrant was sued against Johnson but he was allowed to escape and she left it is said to return to her husband a little son of rick Bailey of the of county Wis left his home about the 10th of March last since time nothing has been heard of him from his friends He is thirteen years old has light sandy hair light com- blue a round plump face Any information that will lead to tho re- covery of said boy sent to the Gretr Bay was a wild of fellow by the name of Thornton who one day got up during service and walked out of making rather a prominent dis- play of a gold headed cane The vicar a Avoll known eccentric a wooden pounced upon him in thin AVISO Pull un- der your arm my young friend and throw it for there are no gold headed in heaven Whereupon Thornton turning round quickly replied Pull that stick of wood out of your pants my old friend and throw it Thero are no wooden logs in heaven Abernethy once said to n rich but ty patient who consulted him about an Lee your bring you throe or four pails of and put it into a wash rub take off your clothes get into it and nib yourself well and a rough towel and you'll recover This very much like tolling me to said the patient il may bo open io ouch construction clergymen on heir Avoy afoot to i Connection church one oi them Mr to officiate were overtaken by a drenching shower As thoy reached the church door the preacher expectant said Io the Doctor I do I'm soaking Avet It won't do to into the pulpit HO O never mind brother rejoined the Doctor you will be dry enough as soon as jou get to preaching ate office Avill b ora ll for A good story is told of a farmer came to town a few days since to market a couple of tubs of butter bringing his wife along to do sonic trading In the midst of looking out her ters husband came in and Well AVC had best not do much trading day for butter is bringing only 43 cents and may be down to 40 cents before an- other T i int I
