Sparta Eagle (Newspaper) - June 5, 1867, Sparta, Wisconsin VOLUME 6 SPARTA MONROE COUNTY WISCONSIN JUNE 5 1867 NUMBER 46 Every Wednesday BY WM At Sparta Monroe Co Wls f iV GoW Block over Bearer Creek OB of and Water Stretta MAKES A SQUARE Oat Two Column Tbird Column Column Column 3.00 4.00 -5.00 6.00 I 8.00 11.00 10.00 15.00 Tub 7.00 8.00 15.00 20.00 1200 1500 On 18.00 20 00 20.00 30.00 60.00 i y 12 00 20.00 2500 30.00 5000 80.00 exceeding twelve lines per annum at statutory rates D Bll solid itt news type 10 cents Leaded 16 per line on t -i one if Notices of Societies etc 10 r ordered discontinued before of contract will scale payable quarterly NATIONAL BANK SPARTA BANKING S EXCHANGE BUSINESS 17 3 Bonds and parts of Europe foi Kale in sums t T Vice W WRIGHT Cashier A LODGE XO GO SPARTA AVIS at in o tu tho in each M K W M CHAPTER No 19 i Wednesday menth T B H P F A LEE M DICKINSON Counselors At Law Office in First Building Sparta Wisconsin Practice in all Slut attention to claims X T B S H ROMANZO ic at office Jn Brick donrs south of First National Particular attention given and fi GRAHAM A at Law Wis Im of ana Al mj care will prompt 0 BEEBE M D Win promptly In all calln in the practice of Med- Office ou Street north of the tale residence of Dr THE OF VJ The conclusion of the first of the I fl winp used for some to Vne with perfect substantially the same qu had proposed and which nearly the words used during the interview with him I back is used for some oi liau been considerable inquiry as to its origin The who fell at Buena Vista A M D Office Goss Ke M Sargton Has over thirty years twenty of which havo in 1 J D under one door tht Church Sparta C DENTIST Brick Block Wood Wa St without pain by ef Sparta Omnibus tht earn and About village jit nil leaving triera attended to with cure and are their for thin Bus H TS Store Will attend promptly to nil business entrusted W my care and all work warranted to give en- BARBER HAJK on 2 doors north of Block will to who may Mm with their patronage hmr the belt A suite of bath rooms hn thin 43 F G JONES proprietor IK Or AMD SPARTA this house for Black River Viroqua all north and south at 8 o'clock of the tho most H H JOHNSON Co PRO'S 294 and 906 East Water Street MIL WISCONSIN iu tlie centrally located for pU business then of any in the city also the pet all Depots and steam boat docks In con omnibus to convey passengers to and se free of charge i W STREETS WISCONSIN LYNN CO Stock Bottled Ale in the village FREE Orders Abroad tfully solicited nnd promptly filed LAKES Yucky bus beat The last tattoo j That On eternal camping ground Their And glory with solemn round No rumor of the foe's advance If o We'd Of loved ones left behind No vision of the morrow's The warrior's dream alarms Nor screaming At The shivered red with rust Their Their haughty banner d in dust Is now their shroud And plenteous The red S- And tlie forms by battle gashed Are freed from anguish noir The neighboring troop the flashing blade The cannonade The din and shout are past No war's wild glory's Shall fierce delight Those breasts that mny feel The raptures ul the light For like the hurricane That sweeps the wild Flushed with the HOI to gaiu Came down the serried iue heard the tempest of the fray Breac o'er the well the watchword of that day Victory or death Long had the doubtful conflict Across the surging For ne'er such fight had waged The tiery sons of Spain And still of battle blew Still swelled tide Not long our knew Such odds his strength could bide Twas in that hour Called ton martyr's grave The flower of own beloved land The nation's fine to save By lathers gore His burn laurels And well lie the sons would pour Their lives lur glory too Full many a Northern had swept O'er s plain And lung Uie pity ing sky had wept Above her mouldering Tho raven's cry or eagle's Or shepherd's pensive lay Alime awakes each sullen height That oa that dread ft ay Sons of tha dark and bl ody Ve not slumber there Where stranger smps and tongues resound I he heedless air Your own heroic soil Must be your tiller She claims fiom war her richest spoil The ashes ul tho Now the parent turf they rest Far from 1 liu gory field Borne to a Spartan breast On many a bloody shield The sunshine of their native Smiles sadly on them here And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The sepulchre Rest oil embalmed and sainted dead the ye No footstep shall I read The herbage ol your grave Nor shall glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps Our honor points the hallowed spot Where proudly sleeps You faithful blazoned stone mournful pride shall tell many a vanished age hath flown The story how ye tell Nor wreck nor change nor winter's Nor time's remorseless doom Shall mar one ray of glory's light That gilds your death STORY OF A SPY Gen L C Baker's Initiation into the Secret Service of the Government lAt tlie next the der to make a thorough and satisfactory examination the prisoner jHe is your name were you born In Knoxville Term is vour business land a agent I is the Mr Court I a Chaplain army with me from tire Pacific coast d who returned former place of as Chaplain was on the had certainly an air of plausibility North I have been in California eight When did On the first day of January Then to the number of troops Washington and the strength of the fortifications around the city then con Do consider yourself a Southern I Do the Southern Are vou willing to fight with them Yes Sir Will you No Sir Why Because I am here oil business which I ought first to accomplish The guard wus to take Munson to his prison again Before ing I slopped to a table on which stood a ice water and turning to the rebel chief said allow me to take a drink of ice Water 1 get where I am replied Three additional days of life-in my loft were passed when I was summoned once more into the presence of Davis He sat by the table with buck the door while nearly opposite re- i clining upon a lounge half asleep and ing much like a man who had imbibed strong drink too freely was Kobert Toombs He roused himself as I entered to listen to my examination by the President who ing down his pen turned to me and Have you any other way of proving that your is excepting the letters found in your I cm not here sir and do not know any one You say you are originally from ville Can you give ine the name of any you know It has been a good many years since I lived in Knoxville but I remember some persons who were there when I lelt I gave the names of several men whom I resided in that city Would they you I should think so though a residence eight years in California has no doubt changed me very It I should see them I think I could make them remember me I had taken the name of Munson because I had learned that several families of that name belonged iu Knoxville and a son of a Judge Munson had been in California whom I represent Davis rang a beil a messenger appeared and taking a name left the room I at once his errand Pie was ed for somebody from Knoxville me if my story were true The crisis in my affairs had come I concluded the game was up and my vocation gone It was a moment of great anxiety and my thoughts were in- tensely active with the possibilities of escape from the snare in I seemed to be caught Davis continued writing and Toombs closed his eyes The messenger left the door ajar and unobserved I drew my chair nearly in front of it to gain a of the outer hall In it on a small table were blank cards on which those who called to see the Confederate President wrote their names and sent them by an orderly before they were admitted to an audience with him Soon the messenger with a stranger entered the hall The latter wrote his name and to the orderly who came in where I was sitting I raised niy hand to take the card and he stopped to to me when I glanced at the name and made a motion to have it laid on Davis table The rebel Executive did not observe this and To Brock would refer to something very crous and I would burst into laughter as at the recollection while Brock it would unconsciously tell lie the whole story so that I could put in a remark here and there which seemed to come from recollection Brook went away entirely reported to Jeff Davis Two days later u commissioned entered the room with a parole pledging myself to leave the Sty oF without from the signed it and leased from With the freedom of the city I continued my observations Walking through a street one Sunday boar tonce covered with posters regiments being organized arid other military announcements from additional intelligence n man came up slapped me on the shoulder Hallo What are you doing The name sounded strangely under the specimen of his race With the air of one interested I What is It's fur the down here in course This answer settled the of the proximity of the Potomac apprised me that fortifications and plenty of were not far oft I walked along stick timber measuring it by paces and said Tell these men they are getting this ber four feet too short will Yes sur sur It's only haulm am I replied leaving him to cut it four feet longer will you? I snv so I will That night to a small creek running into the Potomac arid within a hundred yards of a rebel battery encountered two German rebel soldiers fishing in the stream He he lived up the ft: ARE BY THAW hundred of superior other.jnjirimicnlfli produced 1 superior in Great Completeness of Tone I tell th em- Tell Gen L C Baker the famous Government detective and who has war become a resident of this state has just published a book in which lie history of the secret service with which he embodying the hitherto unknown particulars of many of the most1 interesting episodes of administration Gen Baker is a native of New but at the outbreak of the war had been for some plied rl f A f was apparently asleep The orderly put the I T 1 1 card before him was directed to admit the visitor and retired The Knoxville man came in turning him with a look of sudden grasped his hand and Why how do you do Brock Toombs raised himself up and nodded to Davis who sir do you know this man by surprise but appear ignorant before the President re- I was startled but looking around calmly 1 guess you are mistaken sir My name is Munson your name No sir Didn't you go to California in No sir I have lived in California but I did not go there till 52 didn't you cross the Isthmus with me in when the fight with the natives No sir I guess you have mistaken the man Well I would have swora that you were Baker Didn't you havo a brother there I had there but he came home in said turning it's all right I suppose but J never saw two men look so much alike in my life In the meantime I had obtained mation of military movements and learned where the enemy hud stationed troops OL were building fortifications and what were doing at the Tredegar works I had obtained the knowledge for which I came and was anxious to return North Succeeding at last in obtaining a pass to Baker attempted to travel beyond that post but had scarcely gone two miles from the city when be met an officer and soldier on reined up before mo aud in- quired Have you got a pass Yes sir Lot me see it With the promptness of assurance I drew forth and handed him the pass from mond to if able to read I hoped he might be satisfied with a glance at the paper ami let me proceed lie studied it awhile till his eye caught the word he then I don't think this will do Well it may be have to go back with me to My liud not been observed and with a pitiful 1 remarked that it was hard fur a lame man to be compelled to walk that distance and that if I attempted it I must necessarily defer my journey till another day I a painful effort to walk and so far moved the compassion of the that he to take the pass to the com- manding General and leave me in charge of the soldier When be was gone after a little pleasant conversation the day being warm I proposed to my guard that we into tho shade of the woods Tying his horse to a small tree be threw himself down on the grass Half an hour spent in pleasant chat and the officer did not make his appearance said the guard stretching How sleepy I am I didn't sleep a wink last night The fact with the inviting 1 and shade disposed him to snatch a nap and soon he was oblivious to everything around him It was no pleasure to me to subject him to punishment or even censure on my account but the law of self-protection sarily overruled my regard for the ful guard and carefully appropriating his revolver I unloosed and mounted his horse Riding along the path a short time I turned suddenly into the woods but the ground was rough and the bushes almost making distressingly slow As the sun was sinking behind the trees traveled half a miles I emerged into a clearing where a white-haired man who evidently had reached his shingles to the The Southern patriarch looked at me with surprise I said The Potomac years a resident of California where he was a prominent of the Vigilance Com- in Immediately after the attack on Fort to Washington to offer his services to the Government His experience as a detective in California gested the nature of his employment and haying been introduced to Gen the Walbridge and the lion M D Kelley he was authorized by the veteran Lieutenant General to undertake expedition On his way thither he was stopped arrested as a spy forwarded to and imprisoned in an engine house On the way however had aged to learn n good deal about the number and disposition of the troops The following is his account interview with Jefferson the or fifth day menli a commissioned officer attended by a entered the room and dent wished to see me I obeyed the mons and after room waited nearly two hours was presented to Mr Davis expression This is the occupied by him a front parlor connecting with a bedroom r was warm and he wore simply a without vest collar or cravat then said You have been sent here from Manassas as what have you to I related the circumstances of my bitterly of my treatment to which he listened Yes I know him but I can't call his old man who evidently threescore years and ten was making shir With a respectful salutation I Will tell me the shortest road to way is it name now of Don't you remember Judge Munson's son who went to What Sam That's my name said to Davis now I remember him Yes I know him very well Do you know his people there Davis I know his father Judge Munson very well Toombs stood up and said That will sir that will and Brock walked out of Toombs then drew a chair close to Davis conversed in whispers for some time when the escorted me to my I never heard of it life How long have you lived I was born here And don't know where the Potomac er I never heard such a river He was equally ignorant of the existence of Crock or any of the streams or places along the river Did you know that the South bad 1 inquired Well I've heard suthing was going on but taken much interest in politics no how since Jackson's time they are all the time getting up something That night he slept under a Just before the dawn of the next day I was startled from slumber and listening I soon learned that Rebel cavalry were in search asked i of me and had surrounded the house A I dozen horsemen seen through the of hay moving about in the darkness From the dwelling they went to Limit LU i creek and had come down to see how things were getting on him and N B allowed him to share their tent for the night years But Baker had caught sight of their and determining that here was his best chance of escaped to the American lines of the Potomac he offered to buy it of them This wakened their arid dingly in arranging their bed they placed our hero between them and took every pre- caution to prevent his escape I carefully crawled from beneath them till half body was out of the tent The suspicious man with a sound of unrest turned over I remained perfectly still till ho made another turn and stretched out his arm to see if all was right in the middle drew back to my old place and he laid his hand upon me several times before he seemed satisfied that I was there Several attempts to leave the tent ended in a similar Daylight began to steal into the tent and die night of suspense must end in some decisive to secure the boat aud cross the mac The soldier fishermen were sleeping quite as soundly as at any time before and in another moment I stood before the door watching the effect of my There was a little stir and I stood cally poking the embers of our evening fire as if looking out to see the breaking ot day but with my pistol in one hand ready for service Returning it to my pocket muzzle down I hastened to the bank To my great there were no oars in tne boat Upon making search among the lows I found a short one partially decayed as possible I launched the frail bark fearing each sound on the sand or in the water would bring my Dutch friends down the bank In a few moments which suspense made impressively long I floated out into the stream at this point not over thirty feet iu width Taking the middle of the current I pulled off my coat and began to row for life The tide me and I was congratulating myself upon the prospect of an unmolested voyage when a shout drew my attention to the vigilant Dutchman whose could not be under- stood Ho called loudly to his bedfellow the ish the ish lie seized his musket and made for the bank not more than a dozen feet from me Come pack Come pack nut that My only answer was a more vigorous of the oar Placing my right hand upon my pistol and watching the soldier I with left he continued following me along the bank He then paused levelled his musket and was about to fire I did not want to kill mine host but the law of self- defence again demanded a sacrifice With a quick and sudden aim I i cry of distress he and fell lifeless be- side his musket His comrade was running down the hill when what had he turned back to the tent He soon returned with a double-barreled shotgun and stole along cautiously through the bushes until within about 40 yards of the boat and then fired The shot fell around me in the water Catching a glimpse of my enemy in the thicket I discharged my revolver He ran away evidently unhurt The reports had given the alarm and several soldiers soon came in sight An instant later a bullet whistled over my head I had reached the decisive moment of my last movement to get out of Dixie Again getting sight of the Dutchman in the bushes I once more took deliberate aim and fired He threw up one arm gave a yell and fell the ground In a moment he rose again groaning staggered away Then two or three saluted me striking and splintering the side of I was now at the mouth of the creek and rapidly left the shore behind me A squad of soldiers by this time stood on the brow of the hill firing their muskets The chug of the bullets in the water reminded uic that my transit to loyal soil was not yet certain Both hands were laid to the oar and striking the broad current of the which was here four miles wide I rapidly from musket range A high wind and while rounding a bluff a carried away my hat aud lifting my coat lying in the bow of the boat dropped it into the river But it was Elasticity of Touch i i THB First awarded Organs in the month of Octo- ber 1865 over all competitors at and Are tlie only real ORGANS now before public only Organ having Sound Box or wind and by tlie coupler bellows swell nnd attachment The most charming can be produced from tlie softest whisper of the to the full volume and power of tna s p GREENMAN laying recently purchased of Mrs DERRINGER OB Clio Water and Nearly opposite the recently i varied Consisting in part of Instrument for fire Sole Patentees Celebrated Patent Iron Frames been awarded Twenty First Premiums together with the highest premium it the can World's Fair The testimonials are from the highest musical celebrities in Europe and ca as S Thai berg Strakosch G Sailer Eckhard Hoffman W Mason etc As an evidence of their general excellence the certificate of the Public School Department of New York Is Over J OO f your Pianos have been used in the different School districts of New York and they hare given the best satisfaction Wii H WILSON Esq N Y Board of Education ALBERT GILBERT Esq Clerk of N -Y Board of For Circulars giving Prices and each Instrument W 93 Washington St Chicago FOll THE N B Agents Wanted D it w Top and Mahogany Centre Rosewood Parlor Chun i Gents Easy Chairs Tables Book Cases Stands MIRRORS Fancy Standi Cane Counter GILT AND ROSEWOOD FOR PICTURE Also a large assortment of ROSE OVAL Rustic and Looking Glass all sizes and qualities GROVESTEEN CO JORTE MANUFACTURERS 499 The the Public and thb trade is invited to our NEW SCALE 7 OCTAVE ROSE WOOD which for and purity of are unrivalled by any erto marker They all th modern improvements French Grand Action Harp Frame Overstrung etc and each instrument being made under the sonal supervision of Mr J H who has had a experience of over 35 years in their manufacture fully wai ranted in lar Forte received tke highest award of merit over all others at the Celebrated World's Fair Where were exhibited instruments from the best makers of London Paris Germany Philadelphia Baliimorc Boston and New York and slso at Uie American Institute for five successive years silver medals from both which can be seen at our wareroom the introduction of improvements we maVe perfect Piano Forte and by turing largely with a strictly cash are to oiler these at a prica which will preclude all competition Net Cauli in Current Funds aug We would call special attention to and unexcelled assortment of FANCY FURNITURE Of the Latest FOR PARLOR Consisting of Mahogany BUck Walnut Wood Parlor sets embracing of the finest quality of HAIR CLOTH AND REP CHAIRS OTTOMANS Having recently returned from markets where we have made feel competent to furnish bur anything in the line of FANCY AND COMMON In addition to our extensive Ware Booms w keep a MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT tlie best Workmen are employed and bestol material used wori be executed on abort We would extend a cordial invitation to citizens of Sparta and vicinity to call and ex- amine our slack assuring them that our ire as low as any establishment either in city of Chicago or A General Assortment ef R.EADY-MADE C O F F I IT Constantly on band no time to look backward to those articles of apparel floating between me and my foes whose bullets still came unpleasantly near The shots continued untill they in the wake of my boat The sun had risen above the horizon warm and bright while for two hours and abaft I a single and aided the drifting tide approached the Maryland shore With an inexpressible sense of relief I heard the bow touch the sand I was near Chanel Point ten miles below the creek on which I embarked and was so exhausted that it was with that I reached the bank On its A A 0 T J C E beautiful Piano Fortes of Co aie deemed judges to be the of instruments of thu kind We cannot suggest what is to mate a musical instrument more perfect although We are tke limit of improvement be attained Before bad brought their Pianos to their present excellence they had submitted them to competition with instruments of the best makers of this country and Europe and received the re- ward of merit over all others celebrated World's Fair It- is but justice to gay that the judgement thus has not the musical world V Still by the improvements lately applied by them to their Pianos it is admitted a more perfect instrument has been made They have accordingly the paradox loaning mote excellent Surely ufter this they are entitled to the motto Excelsior dec o the out house and finally came to the 1 green carpet and under the cooling shade of u- stack I prepared for the worst With my head thinly covered t could watch my foes unseen by while my revolver lay be- fore me If discovered 1 resolved to shoot the successful man aud run for dear life 1 its trees 1 laid down to rest leaving the boat to which I owed mv deliverance to the winds and waves of the Potomac loss quarters I fancied that I had made some j toward the woods Several times the cavalry progress at this interview rode around the stack then one of the The next morning brought Mr Brock to dismounting began a sword examination my loft evidently sent to satisfy himself of lodgings I could hear the thrust fully that I was Sam Munson A delicate and difficult task was before me and the result to my own mind very doubtful Brock however was talkative willing to carry on conversation and evidently quite sure he was not mistaken in his man I know something of the and localities the blade into the hay until my coat and I grasped my six-shooter to spring but he passed on He ain't in there Remounting with his comrades he rode off At two o'clock in the afternoon when Ul AUU j U AU luv lii UUUU in Knoxville and by the aid of imagination emerging from a clump of buahess I came could pauses in Brock's conversation in in full view of a man hauling timber I eight years of absence all could and changing the coat in memory Brock asked leading questions hanging on one ana to the other I put my From the 1st to the 14th of May no than immigrants arrived at Now York an average of a day and a number most equal to the total arrivals of March last Of these there were Havre 491 London 636 Bremen Antwerp 440 Liverpool Glasgow burg CHICAGO Chicago Journal publishes a statement of the sales of the principal merchants traders of that city during the year There are 58 whose sales amounted to over 11 exceeding 4 exceeding the largest being Palmer Lester THE GROVESTEEN PIANO FOETE Still retains its precedence and great ity and after undergoing gradual improvements for a period of years is no-.v pronounced by the musical world be unsurpassed even richness volume and pUrity of tone Durability and cheapness Our new scale action harp pedal iron frame bass seven octave pianos we are selling cheaper by from to than the same style and finish are sold by any other first-class makers in the country ers and all of good pianos are invited to send for our Descriptive Catalogue con- tains together with prices should purchase a piano seeing this Catalogue Medals almost without number having been awarded the Piano and at the faif though put in competition with others fiorn all parts of Europe and the States it look the highest award 1835.1 GROVESTEEN CO 499 RAND PA BAXTER'S PORTER for the Cholera ic and children teething can be found at the drug stores in this Let every one and receive i iu Sparta Sept G 1866 S P U W TEACHER OF PIANO ORGAN AND MELODEON given in Thorough Musical Composition of ability to teach irom Musical Institute of- JR I 1st Piano Forte Manufacturers 409 NEW YORK PIANOS tie JL A ward of Merit at the Fair beat from London Paris Germany UM cities Baltimore and Boston also the Quid Medal at the for YEARS Pianos Harp Pedal Overstrung Baas Full and all Modern Improvements Every ment warranted FIVE YEARS Made J H who a practical experience of years and is the maker of thousand Piano Fortee Our facilities enable us to sell these than any piano forte 8 JAMES LOWRIE Machine SPARTA WISCONSIN ot Improved Skein and Particular attention given to OF JOB Usually in Tint Claw work warranted to gilt faction JAMES Md CHAIRS furnished with the aaroe at n of J J end Ayer's Ague Cure V
