Oconto Pioneer (Newspaper) - December 26, 1861, Oconto, Wisconsin NCX 28 26 1861 VOL 3 THE OCONTO published every Thursday morning in the ol Oconto by C GINTY My Tbe Inst fell the lips of P B of the N Y recently of typhoid at the ago of 20 yours The fever vas burning in the veins Of n youth in a fur off of Hart's building And the heated brow felt tho cooling touch 01 ds Come from but T In Advance 50 per annum 1 for six months To village subscribers by currier BATES OF ADVERTISING I 12 lines or less ono week u two Cinch t square one I quarter of column ono year column 00 1 50 25 10 00 18 00 30 00 Must lie who aud homo friends Must ho die away from thorn alt 7 self 1 con- Prince to power u rint be offered an me And it is not easy I can tb beat waiter Just come and try let mv secret out The who these words down from toy lips says if I let it where 1 am the whole world which is in other words readers of Robin Would no loved hand smooth the corne to have a look But that Business per your not exceeding ibur for ouch additional Hue Legal advertisements nt rates prescribed law All casual advertisements must be paid for BUSINESS C A R S JOHN J AND AT Oconto J LOY When lie heard the angel's pall He hnd yielded all for his country's weal And the steel he had For Bight he had wielded aloft his sword For his Lund his heart ho had bared And now when his rich young life ebbed out Were there none from his Northern home Togo down him to the river's briuk To the dark and lone 1 There was one in years laid down All the dross of Life's She dime with a noiseless step and kissed Tho pule brow of Key dying boy She hovered couch and he felt Her hands smooth his damp hair And In by the glorious halo of light fits angel mother was there But those who hnd watched his grow dim Did not know a loved one had come To go with the boy to tho Aye 10 lone would make present masters fortune aud I owe him a grudge What's the news to-day the asked me one brought his breakfast morning when I enmities r n his beckoned 1 n t With a smile ho cried Will the of tho mother went Brown mul the brave young Hero thnt died Rural Yorker J BROWN ND AT LAW w KISS ifi AX LAW Oconto May a Waiter Speak 1 nto A AND Cof NM county Wisconsin There is no occasion for my ing how it was that I became a waiter perhaps I have been educated for better Not I replied cheekily for I a if anything in those days People are talking about Louis Napoleon and that he had been arrested for returning to France without leave said Mr Jackson quietly on hearing the news and as I left the mirror 1 saw him smiling Now the douce was there in roy remark to make liim I put it When he left us to act ered an household but I declined it I bad no particular faith leonic stair I was a great donkey I gossips are like Death they love a shining mark Of late they find a great deal to gny about the Emperor of after all I particularly the French ami the visit lately paid him regret it for I have saved goodish by the King of It seems that bit of money and am negotiating for two sovereigns neither of be- very remarkable Jackson of New the floor is always at his service should beyond his control compel him to take up his abode among us again I have seen him sevaral times since he resided at our hotel but did not address him for there is a change between Mr York and the Emperor of the French The former gentlemen had rather a gry look about him in spite of his being a prince and was most particularly low but the Emperer seems to improve every year and that gentlemanly disease gout appears to havo done him At any rate to see him as I saw him last down that related to Mrs spring a man would bo not only terson and pleased that some one of the family was served out as they all ly deserved On another occasion wben the ger asked me about the news of the day I told him that an extra performance was to be given that evening on behalf of the poor at the Theatre Francais and that Rachel had promised to sing the s iud sin door smith of All kinds of in the looking 28 Will I py of t os G HO UK GINTY AM U li M i street ho L I AND Wis Will strictly tu of owned 1 P K A IS ASP siJi of strnot tho house with extra white flour K Shop Kte i of all Puts lob fo 13 pny strict to of out contracts ul perhaps not tion is that 1 for a situation at the Clarendon and that presupposes decent testimonials and was rejected solely because I could not speak French Whereupon I determined to that sind proceeded to laise for this occasion as the last She bad done so during the Revolution and 1 had gone to hear her but as for All I need ia a word in the language very seldom I learned mind Paris where I obtained an appointment JOSE I'LL OK Notary Public and Will attend sale of real estate payment of examination of lands in of JOHN A Poor AND Buy U 8 Hotel Thankful for past fa Tors from the of lie hopea to a ol at the du Rhin on the solely because I could speak English Jt was t lie beginning of that T proceeded to the wonderful metropolis and I cannot pay I saw much of the sundry I carer fully out of the -as I was only a Things went on antly with and I picking up French Fast thanks to n when iin event occurred I declare to that when in September a drew up at the door and there from nevermind He was a fort of gent but all the luggage he had with him consisted of two seedy carpet bags As he asked mo for one of course I showed him up to tho fifth story all tho other apartments weie en- not but that is a betwixt myself and my At any rule if the old adage that lence gives consent be true the ger was quite satisfied with the fashion in which he treated for without saving a word he took possession of a parlor next thu sky which was not fitted up I could judge of that because door At at lime of course my readers arc that Fiance was a Republic find hnd something morn important to-do than to selves about strangers the color of their hair and so on- ono our row customer for his tials but for nil that he gave his name as Mr Jackson of New in the of letters arriving er persons asking to sec him I am only a tor told ma that the whole art of ing French lay in opening my If that be true then Rachel was larly termed a stunner but untrue who said that he had thing of the parvenue about him To nay mind he looks every inch an Emperor wouldn't conic to Paris tho Empress of France would not stay there so there were the two Benedicts deserted what were they JQ bub enjoy themselves and punish their spouses i could they do this Like any two plain husbands bent on a- similar purpose they went to the theatre and the ploy invited the whole party of actresses home to supper So the player people went to the the chance was not to be slighted by and doubtless the widowed potentates enjoyed themselves i far better then if the imperial and royal ladies who claim to be their better had appeared at the party As for the actresses they got a peep which otherwise they could never have had at You're a sinner sir And you know it But no matter friena Go Only by and by may chance to din And you it You defraud and cheat yon know it Mix the wheat it Only there is a place When you run your race Shame will veil your face Dare you You have wronged tho poor And you know it- their sorrows sure J wonder whether he will really require j the reality of those great personages whom that first floor of If I were i they spend their lives in mimicking But of it I would have it decorated at i the wives rumor says have pouted ever If music wore a recognized art in England and 1 were authorized to fonn an opinion howled But this is neither here nor there 1 will return 10 my stranger Said I Now look here in spite of the ness of thj times the tickets are expensive The Englishman who lives on tho first floor has paid sixty francs for an orchestra stall Oh dear when a man is rich ho can afford such luxuries 1 say Mr Jackson forgive me would yon to pny such n fora bit of supposing you could said the mystery man with u ensile and interrupted thu blc by taking tip the book hu once after the fashion of the but it is not quite so certain now as it once looked ESCAPE OF A REBEL Carlo correspondent of the St Louis Republican has been visiting the rebel camp at Columbus under a flag of truce He relates the told by the rebel General of the manner in which he escaped capture at tho battle of Mo Just as the opposing armies were one another since her majesty of Franco has cast a over the circle at Biarritz where the imperial family is spending a week or two and her majesty of Sweden is so depressed as to be unable as yet to re- turn to Stockholm There's such dN doth hedge a King MILITARY La Mountain is making experiments in tary aeronautics near Alexandria ary which promise to eclipse the feats of his rival Prof The latter as is known keeps Irs balloon moored to terra ham discovered a squad of cavalry coming by a cord Prof La Mountain has down a road near his position tain as to which force it belonged to companied only by an orderly he rode up to within a few yards of it and in- quired What cavalry ia that 2 Illinois cavalry was the Illinois cavalry All right just stand where you are The cavalry obeyed the rebel order and unmolested by them who supposed he was one of the federal officers the General rode safely lack directly under the guns of another federal regiment which had by time up but who him come from of the also supposed that iia one of Some of our officers remembered 1 took on him fortnight ilr Mystery's them the incident and agreed with the hero of it that if they had known who ho was it was very probable f hat there would have been one general loss night J A JO UN SON Hopes by strict to to u 01 in him by the people ol vicinity I Mid laid when I entered his one Hang his impertinence I hall up my mind to wait on him no er hue about a- arrival began to make a grand discovery j FROM RED hist Mr of tin fifth floor of he tel du was not so badly off for friends as I had imagined lie began having visitors groy haired gc wearing orders and many of them looking uncommonly like old Whenever I entered the fifth stoiy room with cigars or 1 could help noticing these an improved theory Efe launches boldly forth into the heavens and sails down over Dixie's land high above heads of astonished secesh Hovering over at an elevation of from otio to two miles well out of rifle range the with busy eye notes aught th ut may be deemed of at military headquarters and then when who lias been following him with wrathful eye imagines the luckless ager to be drifting himself right into his clutches down comes a shower of sand and up leaps tho balloon a peg higher into the heavens strikes a ter current sails saucily back to the f the stars and stripes and he de- by the usual method of opening the escape valve Within the last month and a half he has made six successful re- excursions upon this plan A number of intelligent men have been detailed to form the U S Army BaU Yonder wrinkled crone Shall before the All sins make For her cold Shivering and old i From the crazy wall Heady to its foil lu the snow storm sent When for lack of rent Tears she gave aud for a stona You're a sinner sir And you know it But no matter friend Go it Only by and by You chance to There's a on high And you kuovr it Men have given you gold And you know it Earth your praises told fi Go God your gold can rust Turn frame to dust Ask you for your trust Can you show it ANOTHER OF FLOYD'S T THOUSAND OF ARMS SEST TO tlemen behaved in a manner to Mr Jackson most respectful cmd had a most unpleasant habit of talking in the lowest possible voice Could anything more in- to a waiter be Not that I wanted to overhear tbe conversation but still Afc last the climax Mr son said to me one line morning I say George -I have invited some nine or ton friends to dinner to-day KO the kindness us a com- fortable room not quite so high as my present one where I can receive my guests properly I do not care about anything else but I leave the His services to tho vicinity and by to all ho to Oconto Wisconsin u Uir A W M D AXi ou bunk inj mill H AVING from l outside resolved to the named n not only but in A First Class House Therefore ISt it that at the Flag Ho Mr JOHNSON may willing to upon the traveller that Attention requisite to AND Situated in the immediate vicinity of the portion of the village find the steamboat proprietor fuels warranted iu for a share of public ISth 2 MUSI U P DEALER iti Vio linn nml Musical Instruments of 40 street Illinois Old in for new cues to rent A large assortment of kept ou id Seminaries supplied on the reasonable All orders hi A Judson Biggins 40 prompt attention will receive ljut bless you for a long time it as trouble wore quite for he had not tho slightest connection with the world as far as people were concerned Mr Jackson received neither nor visits and never the hotel His only amusement seemed i to consist in talking t-o me in a pleasant j way about tiro events of Vive day and when be discovered I was an man though how he did so I do not know to this for accent was fect he told mo that he was an can who had lived many years in and loved her institutions do you know that it did me good I had bcon accustomed to be called or with compliments I may omit that it delighted me to be ed simply as George I say that 1 felt any extraordinary respect for tho on the fifth floor still I must allow that he always behaved to me as agent and I objected mount BO many flights cf stairs that 1 might have the pleasure of waiting on him Our mysterious stranger spent the day reading and writing for be had brought a good many books with and took in every paper that appeared in Paris at and they were no trifle to get through I assure you Ho had his meals in his room and never said a word against anything that I brought him up 1 am sorry to say now arrive and they must have a shelter that 1 palmed off many a dish on him The only thing he was particular about Ins wine and be tho of Bordeaux no matter as he paid the very regularity wo had no objections to servo him with it The thing about the stranger i hat he would stand at his fifth floor window in deep thought looking out on tho Place Vendome at the Napoleon I said to myself many a time that it was certainly a handsome work of art and worth looking at say twice but how ever a man could come all tho way from America to live in u fifth and at- but that of tho Northwestern published afc tho Rod settlement contains the lowing The hunters have boon co ing in during the past few days from their last trip for This s what is commonly known ns the green meat who go in contradistinction from dried meat and pe mica They have been only three and have come id heavily with meat We are hap py to hear of such Our crop is rather this year and it is well that meat provisions are plentiful This will still further depress the ers market which is low already Scarcely beef mutton or pork can be sold as it is although prices are at the lowest point Flour is the only article that is saleable Reel River has better cleared of at present care Of course as he paid I attended to the matter 1 consulted with and at the appointed had a very nice room ready for him The dinner was I firmly believe as a one as was ever don't caro for or poor but somehow 01 guests did not to it The words their lips as if they were afraid of waking the dead or as if spies them which was certainly not the case under tho Republic ever it may be now Even the guests had I must do them the honor of saying they they did not alter Here one might whisper in the ear of the other but to my mind they were as jolly as a lot of The host balloon and caps jokes cm errors th They wear the figure of a the letters 13 their letters give rise to many antiquity of tho AN EXCITED one of the Worcester churches last Sunday the clergyman while proceeding in a very earnest discourse said that no man could ho first rate in two different adding among other things no man can at the same time be a rate clock maker and a first rate boot maker Here a man in tho congregation ing swiftly interrupted him and asked permission to controvert that sentiment He maintained stoutly that it was not true for he himself was first rate at both clock making and boot making He could match the best in making a boot and work at a clock with the best man in Worcester Of course there was a great I ho congregation but the clergyman soon his critic to tho floor and allow go on with his discourse CALIFORNIA Some weeks since we a despatch to the effect that the Government expected to receive stand of arms from California and were at a loss to conceive how so many could bo spared from or have gone to the Pacific coast It seems that the were equally astonished on dis- covering how rich they as will bo seen by the following from tho Los An- gelos Seventy thousand stand of arras wore sent here by Floyd and so secretly con- to the Benicia arsenal not especially entrusted with the mation knew of their arrival Even ter the arms had boon stored in the nal for months the Legislature made a requisition on the General Government for materials of war which requisition was actually complied with and tho arms solicited were promptly furnished This shows that tho Administration itself was not of the bountiful ner in which Floyd had supplied tho State with muskets and The amis wore sent here without a doubt in ex- of their being seized by the Had the plan succeeded California would have been in a state of revolution to-day In the programme of the rebellion arranged at Richmond attempt was to be made either to unite California with the South or form a dis- tinct Confederacy of the Pacific A canvass of the popular feeling the impossibility of effecting cither of these schemes of treason or even seising and retaining the arms for the use of the South Discovered by tho department of them were ed to the Atlantic Status and the re- mainder conveyed to Alcatraz where such of them as are not ia use are stored The question may well be asked in a time of profound peace what ex- cuse was there for sending extra stand of arms u alone can turo California we can only Floyd Artemas otherwise Chas F Browne lectured at Tremont of face a keen OUR is stated that in more than three-quarters of the regiments tive in the The Germans are in the majority in on- ly six The Irish in only out of a hundred two-thirds of fho bth inst The my are he a The average age of the pleasant ge is over twenty-four years Three-fourths eye and a countenance are single men The American Bank powers of observation Note Company of Philadelphia is j and afresh intellect gaged in getting the roll for the Legion of being a splendidly engraved which is to be officer and soldier in the army The certificates were ed by Congress and will be ready for distribution in a about month from this time A PLUCKY LITTLE BRITISH MIDEY re- seemed the gloomiest of them all the august ears of his ing down from the fifth floor Prince Alfred who to have improved his temper on indignantly reported to the in the company had retired the command that mysterious stranger said to me 1 want an apartment sisting of morning my and luggage way I as well that if any one inquires after Prince Louis can send him up You might have knocked me down with a Said the Prince Now better go arid look after my for I do not intend sleeping on the fifth floor to-night I ran off to consult with my proprietor and the Prince was very speedily moved down from the fifth floor to the second Next day two servants arrived a man and a Swiss with a heap of heavy trunks which were far more respectable than the two seedy carpet bags It was in our hotel that the intrigue took which eventually led the the indignity was the result of impertinence and all the satisfaction highness piece of advice to the that in ture he had better keep a civil tongue in his head A SUBLIME CONCLUSION Returned after he had ed railroad bridges and informed the rebels of I our movements we caught him and by Jove we took him and Excited YV hat What 1 Returned Volunteer With dreadful emphasis Made the oath of allegiance sir f GEN The thirty-sixth birth day of Gen N occurred on the 3d of December classed among the voice is clear sweet and which thin His pleasant and attractive and agreeable This subject of tho lecture was in I ho Woods it was a slashing review Of the weak points of men women politics fashions and else The Scientific American gives its sanction to a invented by a Mr J S Smith of New It is composed of thin spring steel and is worn between the cloth and lining of i common military vest It has two leaves which lap at the edge when tho vest is buttoned so as to cover tho en- tire chest It weighs only three pounds and a half and can be worn by any cer or soldier during tho most active ex- It is very strong in tion to its weight as ic resist tho thrust of a bayonet or a sword and it will repel thu bullets of muskets and pistols at ranges which would otherwise be fatal to life Col Boone of Mississippi who was taken at Bull Run and is now confined at Washington is reported tu havo made a remark in conversation recently which for its length contained at least as true an account closing scene of battle of Run as Gen ial dispatch I never in my saw a of men so badly scared as were on that except yours Flis friends gave a social dinner party on the occasion and pledged him thirty-six COST OF BEING MAYOR OP NEW YORK cost of being Mayor of New York city the Express is becoming a lits tie too for poor man to as the following estimate within gunshot of accuracy will show Gunther's bills bills Wood's bills Opdyke is in part reimbursed by the heavy house taxation but and Wood's are dead losses Moral or rather men can never run for Mayor in New A SLIDING Wood's popularity is becoming small by degrees and beautifully The World a dissolving showing that his vote in 1857 was nearly in and only late election If he keeps falling ae this rate he will soon be entirely out of A WASHINGTON correspondent writes as follows Not a spare room can be obtained at any of the principal hotels and new coiners are forred to or share rooms with houses furnished are in demand at ex- prices and those citizens posed to receive boarders into their ilies are well repaid for their trouble A paper giving an account of Toulous in France says It is i large town containing sixty thousand in- habitants entirely of brick This is equalled only by a well-known in- scription of Albany runs Albany is a city of houses aud eight thousand thousand tants to tiie most of their gab's
