04 Sep 1863
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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1863
Page
1
A fragmenting poem depicts a lover's ascent from earthly sorrow to divine revelation. The speaker blesses the Lord amid grief, describing visions of an angel guiding them from pain to heavenly content. The scene shifts to a twilight farewell as the beloved contemplates death and heaven’s threshold.
A reader recounts a Montreal excursion via the Saguenay route aboard a weekly steamer. The journey, with stopovers at Quebec and Tudousac, highlights grand river scenery, cliffed shores, and the magnet steamship’s comfort and speed. The writer praises the voyage, the guides, and the bracing Atlantic air, noting Cape Klar nite and Cape Trinite en route.
A Persian king, tormented by indigestion, seeks the shirt of happiness from a famed magician. After testing ministers and merchants, he finds no joy until a red nosed laborer, recently widowed, reveals his happiness, exposing the ultimate truth that the only truly happy man has no shirt.
A lengthy exploration of clay origins and uses from granite decomposition to minerals in volcanic districts. It covers silicates in garnets emeralds and carbuncles, the role of limestone in earth foundations, and how clay underpins streets monuments roofs and jewelry. A Kentucky anecdote about a Universalist and a slave preacher ends with a humorous exchange.
A Philadelphia Provost Marshal scene reveals extensive draft fraud and brutal medical examinations to certify substitutes. Surgeons scrutinize bodies from teeth to toes, rejecting those with any defect while others use deceit. About thirty examined. over a dozen found ruptured or unfit, with some substitutes buying release or being rejected and sent to service.
Melbourne correspondent recounts a Victoria village tale of a once English couple now milk producers and cattle herders. The husband, bred in nobility yet in toil, and the wife, a refined milk cart operator, blend rural life with proud modesty as they raise three well behaved children and share chores from dusk to dawn while facing small social slights.
The Times reprints Vallandigham addresses and discusses Northern liberty and Union, arguing dangers to constitutional rights under wartime power. It contrasts Lincoln’s loyalty with Copperhead opposition and warns against surrendering civil liberties for political ends, noting public sentiment in the North.
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