Janesville Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - May 11, 1865, Janesville, Wisconsin i -t 1 In- K UH OH ilu i i it h t th M the M the lk l 1 X LATHS SHINGLES S KST QUALITY 0 hit r A anj 1 I Street A P 0 y at ioi t Itb n H lulf h If a 1 tn tho K i i ml I Ji i U 11 suit I ni< ail r 01 n f i OU Co Ol I is r j i i i S} i A Br i i i v in ai tli mil v rt im i IH i i l M it i tn i i t K i o i j Depot 0 t E s A nt 1 ir rv JMI ff mnh ml and Piles It 11 fleets H euro Tiy it ni i u Depot 6 r c tor F slu Jt U THE 1 ii u i s i ni ic 1 t i- t it i In Ni Chill and all a ana dissipate i f mi in mid pi i- Iti ti in ll 1 Is 11 other or ill i il aid in the o of -i bt 50 s C Sole A i it Pa 1 Cm LI A Co K A It the Piu i STOKE ly TATE SOJ.1CITOBS t HI and rs poisons tiji ir may dud it to iVr Mith me KOH an I am about to to tho Also in I1 which I hopo li wish to purchase farms m the I i iHv Wisconsin I w on Id to l i that I opened e o 1 M u as bo niu n IK i ta pi pit le Hi i k Co Wis to tho j the Coi n is ni KocS 11 100 pel botu ILL FHEE of CHARGE i fi load if we grind it or 1 A J CLARK 14th oilers I lor ale of 200 acres for a 1 of 011 hauls Ac aun witli good boubo 1 tin 1 ir lot it desired M t uit j In e miles o r information 01 t is hereby of ilie Bunk oi be ixt Uio at for payment the ot this lor will be to li Jl OK short iho id depot s Kotc 1 with n u teut Tb n i a barn an nl s loi n to Jr at Hock rf until on tlu tlic on Kud COW milk a v n 01 en iu to her 1 1 tew a by G A SLOCUM J LOTOF SOFT MAP i 3 1865 VOL JANESVILLE WIS THURSDAY MAY 11 1865 NUMBER 38 U a jostling Vl m tin tuick I u step r Master c- tl iu i ot can issue institutions 1 u ni t h in u ii lii lv hi ut of man says it I i tin tl I fi ivncicut i hardy Union L I r 1 tin lus 1 1 slumber bear i tho in tho T im jini do not liko it lt won t Keep in Vi human mind lilt tin n tin skill IH t'i I IIH 1 not ol our doud how v i e thoy do lo id Ket p n tii t Vn upon tiie I i ui in the m is i its own v ill 1 ii in u ho lo i HO i ni h 11 1 Ir o I i ait i o man i t i P 1 I- U ll H nil OMI I 1 E I nt K t t IU t p AM i ii-b 1 31 ifi i an oi Xew on Tuesday oit in ex ivS s ot tuo i i when a child uc when they bore a 1 1 am not sure tho i i a- But mi- t of which by fhe darkness it tho i tue nation are able has sanctified the country We have sworn this before We owed it to our fathers but now to the blood of our martyred dent Let us keep a clear This is the ural that Professor ber has called the grand of tho Government The reaction has been upon the leaders and demoralized them Let us see to it and swear it over the ashes of Abraham Lincoln With the top the root of the tree shall also be destroyed There waq loud and continued applause upon Rev Dr Hitchcock taking his seat Mr Wm M Evarts then addressed the meeting He said MR EVARTS SPEECH Not as yet does the intensity of this grief abate nor will it fora longtime There is some terror in the grief oi a tion Our country presents an appalling this for one rnan We a ple bend under the affliction of dence with so vast a sorrow that it is of subdivision and distribution through every house in the land and it is as if some one was dead in every house This has not come as a bereavement but as a blow to civilization to our pride to our hopes Truly this nation of ours is eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil Assassination we should have been free from The brief tenure of of- fice the feebleness of power of the chair surely could have found no food to feed a dagger with Does it not seem as if a nation which had been raised to Heaven had been cast down to The King is dead Though the monarch yields to death esty yields no gap As we your stood at the obsequies of our late lamented President wo noticed the chief mourner over his grave was the President There is no fear for the Government from any personal We have a ment permanent und durable far beyond that of royalty for that ceases when the pedigree is destroyed What have we to say of this our dead President No more wonderful career than that of Abraham Lin cola is told in history or in romance Itc been a direct of what ony one may come to un- der onr constitution lio t lught thai by but ny worth we roach rejoice W w n appertain to our nature 1 i Ox and u made desolate L of u noble nand and father oar with a nation 1 in this ics hour of o more joy and personally mourning lie 11 lofty raid secure vlad hu lived second xd v 1 to it been lUu i he hand an has vr lu i i aniono How tor the h or this can ly to ids fame He Lie is safe in the keeping of an him in this secure jvi Wo are safe in assigning him place to Washington i us the beginning of a national j In the peroration of one of the of Daniel Webster he said hu eves upon our 1 see upon i UK Liberty and Union id forever one and inseparable us Union and Liberty for a Lincoln has conserved i and made Liberty universal word Liberty the muse of Mill carve upon his monument This will his name forevermore H often say oi the dead that we wish pv could gee the misery and grief upon their death Ey what right can cf you say that the spirit of Abraham i- not now brooding over If he could choose would he wish to his boat in Washington once more he would rather take the place ich God has given him I cannot n the death of President Lincoln as a Calamity to the nation I know what we I know it is a great loss for a to havo jtg stricken down he has incarnated its best principles its very Constitution But we belong erace hat can vote steadily under A nation that cannot but by die A nation that has not one tad We have a series of men that by 1 e can take the head of the m order upon the disability of a Never a plank started not a Bushed in the great ship of State Midden deprivation of its guide could have gone through even calamities We know how the can govern itself We have government of the people and by people This has been this side of the world of perdition H Qo greater mistake than r can annihilate principles down its head Out of the ot every martyr leaps the of Was the Empire destroyed by the assassination of Thirteen years after every l die assassins had died a bloody li the nephew of Julius Caesar -11 tho very place which m the Emperorship of 10 i of every assassination Lincoln lie has died liberty and Union What An oath more at Treason shall lue Slavery which hatches The blood of Abraham Lincoln No liny considerable advantage in this country fro 11 who precede linn T ask nny one to t iy what accident placed him a1 the of fifty in the tial but what lie had worked Vi im own Take him in his public career whatever he done on which fortune smiled at the The future that smiled on him might have terrified a or a Who did not think this was a storm ho could not guide the ship of state through lie took power the ple wore divided more bitterly than ever before Before hw death his own party lauded his every act The ed in and bins The rebellious South looked upon him as tho best tor between their guilt and the law The greater points of his character were tice sincerity intrepidity kind mild be- nignant clement patient politic Without favor he has been able to lain his position and build about him that fame which after death is power during life no roan fortunate until The of his death adds luster to his fame There was not one trait in his that should create a personal He has been slain as no other man before was slain fur his ness and by those who would have ed the benefit by his living There is one which we draw from his death Onr public men deserve better treatment than they receive The only thing that n public servant was sure of was to be slandered Kvil suspicion and easy belief of has been the terrors of a public The whole scope of treason has been a re- action of barbarism that laughed at ty founded upon rights of social liberty and equality The President is clothed with greater power than he would have had but for the death of Abraham coln When we come to peace it is to be inaugurated under the auspices of a man firm stern educated iu the reality of civil war capable of distinguishing between mildness and justice RICHMOND NEGROES But the negroes it was refreshing to hear them talk Many were taken with Lee's army as cers servants who are now finding their way to their homes within our lines ther South And Richmond darkies are on all sides telling of their joy at the cap- ture of their city I was jus so happy when I it dat I couldn't do nuffin but jus lay right down and said one I could jus roll up and larf I declare I jus feel as happy as a man's got religion in his Some men says a man can't tote a med in another but I could tote a flour dat day or a sugar I seed a rebel gwine de street dat said a third with an evident appreciation of the privileges of a freedman wid a big ham and I jus tuk dat ham from him and right down de street Au he hollar tome to stop but I jus keep dat ham We hab more liberty in one hour affer you Yankees come dan in all our lives was the comment of er Then followed a touching recital of the sufferings of a slave Dey part us all Dey send us away from our family Dey send us jus whar dey please Dey us Dey put us in jail Dey give us thirty-nine lashes Dey starve us Dey do ebery ting to us Poor fellows the end of all this has come and they know it Correspondence of ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is remarkable that Governor Kentucky in ing of Mr Lincoln said In politics he was essentially and altogether a Henry Clay Whig His anti-slavery measures were but the of the ings of his great leader No one who understood Mr Clay can doubt his anti- slavery views but it is a significant sign of the times that they should be regarded as such in Kentucky Remarks at tlie Funeral Services of tlic President in Concord April 19 BY R W EMERSON We meet under the gloom of a calamity which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society as the ful tidings travel over sea over land from country to country like the shadow of an eclipse over the planet Old as history is and manifold as its tragedies I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as has caused or will cause on its announcement and this not so much because nations axe by modern arts brought so closely together as because of the mysterious hopes and fears which in the present day are con- with the name and institutions of America In this country on Saturday every one was struck dumb and saw at first only deep below deep aa he meditated on the ghastly blow And perhaps at this hour when the coffin which contains tho dust of the President sets forward on its long march through mourning States on its way to his home in Illinois we might well be silent and suffer the awful voices of the time to thunder to us Yes but that first despair was brief the man was not so to be mourned He was the most active and hopeful of men and his work had not perished but acclamations of praise for the task he had accomplished burst out in to a song of triumph which even tears for his duath cannot keep down The President stood before us a man of the people lie was thoroughly can had never crossed the sea had never spoiled by Englith insularity or French dissipation u quite native ginal man as an from the oak no aping oi foreigners no frivolous born working on a farm a a in the Blackhawk war a country a in the rural Legislature of such modest Iho broad structure of WAS laid slowly mid yet bf prepared stop i lie to hio u- is only a cJ five or nix and menh of tho country MT by the convention al Chii then in the the of Slates And when iho now unknown ou tho report of the acclamation of vo the L ruv ii in good lu purely local tion to build so grave i tru iu such times and men of the chances in politic us turned out not io bo chain o The profound good opinion which people of Illinois and of the had jf him und which they to culloagucs that also justify themselves to their constituent's at homo was not though they not to know the riches of his A plain man of tho people an nary fortune attended lam Loid anys Manifest re occult ones fortune lit ing qualities at the encounter he did noc offend by superiority Jfe had n and a manner which which inspired ed good will lie was a man without ces lie hnd a btrong yf which it was very easy for him 10 Then ho had what i Jung head was excellent in working out sum fur himself in his case and ing you fairly and firmly Then it ed that he was a great had prodigious faculty of performance worked easily A good worker is so rare body has some disabling quality In a young men who start together and promise BO many brilliant leaders for the next age each one fails on trial one by bad health one by conceit or by love of pleasure or lethargy or an ugly each has some disqualifying fault that throws him out of the career But this man was sound to the core cheerful all right for labor arid liked ing so well Then he had a vast which made him tolerant and accessible to all fair-minded leaning to the claim of the petitioner affable and not sensible to the which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else And how this became a noble humanity in many a ic case which the events of the war brought to him every one will remember and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion The poor negro said of him on an impressive occasion Massa kum am Then his broad good humor running easily into jocular talk in which he de- lighted and in which he excelled was a rich gift to the wise man It enabled him to keep his secret to meet every kind of man and every rank in society to take off the edge of the severest decisions to mask his own purpose and sound his com- and to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he ed And more than all it la to a man of severe labor in anxious and exhausting crises the natural restorative good as sleep and is the protection of the over- driven brain against rancor and insanity lie is the author of a multitude of good sayings so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain that they had no reputation at first as jests and only later by the very acceptance and adoption they find in tho of millions turn out to be the wisdom of the hour I am sure if this man had ruled in a period of less of printing he would have become mythological in a very few years like or or one of the Seven Wise tors by his fables and proverbs But the weight and penetration of many passages in his letters messages and speeches den now by the very closeness of their application to the moment are destined hereafter to a very wide fume i pregnant definitions what unerring com- mon sense what foresight and on great occasion what lofty and more than tional what humane tone His brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded sion This and one other American speech that of John Brown to the court that tried him and a part of speech at Birmingham can only be compared with each other and with no fourth His occupying the chair of State was a triumph of the good sense of mankind and of the public conscience The mid- country had got a middle-class President at last Yes in manners and sympathies but not in powers for his powers were superior This man grew according to the need His mind ed the problem of the day and aa the problem grew so did his comprehension of it was man so fitted to the event In the midst of fears and ies in the Babel of counsels and parties this man wrought incessantly with all his might and all his honesty laboring to find what the people wanted and how to obtain that It cannot be said there is exaggeration of his worth If ever a man was fairly tested he was There was no lack of resistance nor of nor of ridicule The times have allowed no state secrets the nation has been iu such ferment such multitudes had to be trusted that no secret could be kept Every door was ajar and we knew all that bofel Then what an occasion was the wind of the war Here was a place for no holiday magistrate no fair-weather sailor The new pilot was hurried to the helm in a Iu four years four yearn of battle days his endurance his fertility of resources his magnanimity were sortly tried and never found ing There by his courage his justice his even temper his fertile counsel his manity he stood a heroic figure in the center of a heroic epoch He is the true of the American people in his time Step by step he walked before them blow their quickening his march by theirs the true representative of this continent an entirely public man father of bib country the of twenty millions throbbing in his heart the thought oi minds articulated by his Adam Smith remarks that the axe in portraits of British ml worthies under who have at the block a certain lofty chaun to the And who not even in thin tragedy ho how fast the terror ond are already burning into glory around the Far happier this tato than to have In to be wished to watched the decay of bis own to be bial ingratitude of statesmen tohmy mean men preferred Hud be riot lived enough to keep the greatest promise ev f'i- umn made to his tLp practical abolition of scon Missouri and Maryland their t laves Lie bad Charleston and sur rendered had soon the main of the rebellion lay down its arms Jehad the public opinion nf Canada and Franco Only Washington cnn compare with him in fortune And what if it should turn out in liio unfolding of the web thai ho had term heroic deliverer could not longer servo us the rebellion hud touched its natural and remained to be done required new find an committed hands a new spirit born of of the war Heaven wishing to show Hie world a com benefactor shall make him hia country even more by his death ban by his life Nations like kings are not good by facility and complaisance The kindness of consists in justice and Masy has been the dangerous foible of tho Republic and it was necessary that its enemies should outrage it and drive us to unwonted nepp to secure the salvation of the country in the next ages The believed in a serenn and beautiful Genius which ruled in the fairs of nations which with a slow but stern justice carried forward tho fortunes of certain houses weeding out gle offenders or offending families and securing at last the linn prosperity of the favorites of Heaven it was too narrow a view of the Eternal There is a serene Providence rules the fate of nations which makes little account of time little one generation or race makes no account of disasters conquers alike by what is called defeat or by what is called victory thrusts aside enemy and obstructions crushes everything immoral as inhuman and obtains the ultimate tri- umph of the beet race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world It makes its own ments creates the man for the time trains him in poverty inspires his genius and arms him for the task It has given ry race its own talent and ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure the er- JEFF DAVIS week pre- ceding the evacuation of Richmond Jeff Davis was measured for his last pair of boots by Messrs Darby Bead Co then to the Southern President The boots were finished but caine in too late on Saturday night April 1st to be sent home and on Sunday Mr Davis be- ing pressed for time didn't think of the traveling boots he had ordered and de- parted without them These facts coming to the knowledge of a gentleman in search of he immediately became the purchaser of the boots which are of calf skin of elegant make and finish The purchaser of the boots desires it to be understood that although he stands in the boots of Jefferson Davis he does not sume all his responsibilities neither ical nor pecuniary Not by a jug full A VN went to General Thomas asking him not to execute a noted guerrilla in his custody giving as a reason that the war vas about at au end I guess we shall Lave time to hang this the re- sponse of the sturdy General as he dis- missed the subject TERRIBLE CALAMITY OX THE Boiler tlie Steamer Vessel Totally 300 People on Board only of whom are Known to Tbe ing CAIRO April The following is the Memphis Bulletin's account of the disaster to the steamer tano The Sultana arrived from New Orleans last night the with about ple on board of whom were ed Federal prisoners from Vicksburg the balance being refugees and regular engers from various points down the river Proceeding towards Louis she left the coal pile about one o'clock in the morning and had made some eight or ten miles when an explosion of one of her boilers occurred The boat with its mass of ing freight took fire in the vicinity of the engine and in a short time she was ed to the edge and now lies on a sand bar near Landing with nothing visible but her charred remains and her standing erect The scene following the explosion terrible and heartrending in the extreme Hundreds of people were blown into the air and descending into the water some dead some with broken limbs some ed were borne under by the resistless rent of the great river never to rise again Survivors represent the screams as ing With no immediate at hand efforts to save life were beyond precedent Some clung to frail pieces of the wreck as drowning men to straws and sustained themselves foi a few but finally became ex- hausted nnd sunk Only the mers aided by fragments of the wreck were enabled to reach the woods and there take refuge until rescued by boats pent from the landing here lo their ance There v ero about fifteen women find children aboard and as nearly as can be ascertained not more than two or three had been found at the hour when this count wa written Some of tho wrecked people by the as down us the at Ibis city ami this intimation officers of the boats in port received of the terrible disaster A was sent out from the Marble City ami in a lew minutes tceu picked out ef die and brought ashore Two were after- found clinging TO the wheel and they brought to 1 of the calamity Hie oi the boats in port under notification of Caption Senior o the river guard dp and in a short time were al the burning whore hundreds of people were up and this landing light They were met by number oi tiii I who supplied them with dry clothing from the Department and ivm At this it impossible give a statement of the ol and the 01 minus of the and naved i- in th rc berry as on watch standing in tne pilot with who was at the v nod at the time ot the explo- sion lie only the and that ho blown into the air and tukei Iroin lie the deck ia and more of tho tit seemed lie can give no idea of the i id nt md say tho boat he speed ind all Anil up to the mom nt uf the ex- that the second i Fober reliable nun named wax at the engines and that nothing more than com- mon in progress Captain Clayton was also hurled into the wreck among ken boilers and rubbish sustaining slight lie jumped over- board with a door by which he was en- to reach the shore throe miles below where striking a sapling lie seized and clung to ic until Raved ens the engineer was badly burned and scalded and can hardly recover Mr John Fogleman residing on the Ar- kansas side on being aroused by the noise and seeing the burning steamer hastily constructed a rude raft and in way was the means of saving about one dred In the woods among drift of the wreck the officers of the found a family Bible containing the records of a family named Spike of Assumption Parish La The names recorded are Samuel D Spike and Spike ried Oct 31 1837 The record shows that there were twelve in the family It was subsequently learned that the father mother three daughters two brothers and a niece were lost This family had 000 in gold all of which was lost The steamer Bostona No 2 Capt Watson was coming down the stream from Cincinnati when the explosion occurred and rendered very valuable assistance saving many lives The Pocahontas and Silver Spray Marble City gunboats Essex Rose ton and others also rendered much service at the time of the explosion Capt Mason had retired from his watch and was iti bed lie was afterwards seen throwing shutters and doors to the assistance of people in the water and here all traces of him vanish Clerks d amble and Stratton are also missed The body of Wm Cruddes Co I 1st Virginia cavalry from Wheeling Va was found lie had taken the precaution to label himself Among the goldiers on board were thirty commissioned officers The troops were of regiments and nearly all exchanged They be- longed principally to western regiments At the hour of writing only 500 or GOO had been saved less than lives were hurled into eternity by this most of all river disasters 1 Ion W D Snow member of Congress from sas was on board and escaped uninjured The following is statement W D Snow U S Senator from On the morning of the clock I was awakened by a sensible mor 01 shudder passing over the boat but heard no explosion Not anticipating huch terrible consequences 1 arose and deliberately dressed before ing dressing I became aware ol a volume of steam driven through the by the wind J opened the door ol my stateroom and tn an instant the horror of the fare that the boiler had ex- killing and Molding many that the pilot house nnd at least one- third of the cabin roof had fallen to the boiler deck and the boat was on fire with afresh breeze carrying the with like rapidity through the balance of the cabin towards the ladies cabin 1 step- ped back to avoid the heat and denuded myself of my dress except my pants and vest and rushed to the rear oi the boat which was in the channel er the Tennessee than the Arkansas side I looked over towards the Tennessee side with a view of leaping but found it a sea of heads so close together that it was im- possible to jump without killing one or more 1 determined to try the shore which was about three-quarters of a mile distant 1 passed over several bodies ui dead men killed and tramped in the road rush which must have occurred sometime prior to my advent on that part of the boat found the same gea of heads on this side but found that the flames had driven them from the vicinity of the wheel house Prior to my leap I saw several husbands fasten to their wives and children and throw throw them overboard into the struggling mass below I struck out for the whore nnd reached a log lodged in fifteen ol wa- ter among flowed cotton wood at ten minutes to o'clock by which had not to run After four hours of exposure was rescue d by the contained souls The density with which they were packed had awakened my curiosity and 1 looked with Iho clerk hi x certificates find before retiring This number included lianas employed on the There were some females besides tew The bulk of the were relume t prisoners iUe inin they left on Among v ore il it point of prisoners at ga and Gettysburg Ley numbered alb gether men and lib number of hordes worn on tho boat providentially fell be Had hoy br kon n fate of the e d As near as can be v other dala than between and throe hundred the bank while about an equal floated down the stream on doors and A den mo estimated nt about took on the bow of the hilo were von aft by th wind A ft v iiin ibe -e ed by condition and fell e-f out- ward and boat turned n ajn reversing Tho part of then must as hau no at hand u over to excels a few of which were in the trining of tho bo t planks were overboard bir sunk at once under their Jiving Height and rose too far of A beat wax land oa bottom up the deid upon lie heads of and afforded support for a few in that The wholo time before tho boat was an sheet o t have exceeded twenty I not more than of tho distance t shore when f observed the iVi The nearly cry State m the Union even and the calamity will be as widely felt as a battle no In- considerable lions Si HIE O FLORIDA We learn through a recently from that a report reached there a short time before he loft that upon hearing oi the capture of and Gov Milton of Florida committed suicide al his residence a few miles from Mariana The report was subsequently confirmed by refugee directly from that place Governor John Milton sonic twenty years since was a gay and dashing young lawyer of considerable practice nt the bar of Orleans Karly after attaining manhood he killed a man named Kemp at Columbus in u most brutal ner lie fled the State and sought refuge in New Orleans where he met with some success as a lawyer but was forced to fly to the swamps of Florida to avoid a in regard to a lady Reaching ida he left the law and began preaching for a living but failure drove him into and as men of his stamp were in de- mand about the time of the beginning of the Rebellion he succeeded in making himself Governor of the State AN INCIDENT OP THE FUNERAL SION IN NEW New York Times reporter narrates the following in- of the funeral procession in that Under the car there is walking a dog through invisible from the outside It is the great Saint Bernard dog be- longing to Edward II Morton lie was standing with bis master at the cor- ner of Broadway and Chambers street as the car passed by when suddenly without warning and in spite of his master's call to him to return he sprang into the street passed beneath the car followed ita tions and is still there what instinct was this For Bruno was a friend and acquaintance of Mr Lincoln's and had passed some time with him only a few days before his death A DEMAND ier des Etats Unis learns from authentic sources that Mr Adams has made a de- mand upon Lord Russel to close all ports against vessels carrying the confederate flag It is said our minister bases his demand upon the fact that the confederates have not a single port left and hence the confederate vessels no irer claim the right of belligerents i
