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Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09
FEMALE DUEL IN PARIS.

A late French paper gives an ac-
count of duel which was fought in
Paris, by two ladies. The following,
in few words are the particulars. On
Monday, the gath July, six young la
dies entered farce at the rue Royale,
st. Honore, and ordered the coachman
to drive to Bots de Vincennes. In adj
dition to the fare agreed upon, the
coachman received handsome gratu-
ity, which seems to have led him to
believe that there must be some mys-
terry in the proceedings of the femin-
inc conclave. His suspicious were not
unfounded. Madame L., furious
against her ex-intimate friend, Mad
anne Adele M who had distracted
her lover, had challenged her fortunate
rival to mortal combat. The invita-
ton had been accepted, and it was to
settle this affair Of honor that the two
ladies, each accompanied by two Sec
onds Of their own sex, had repaired to
the Bots de Vincennes. A pistol hav-
ing been placed in the hands Of each,
the two rivals fred in turn. The muir
derous engines, however, had been
loaded by inexperienced hands, and
were discharged by hands equally un-
accustomed to the arena Of duelling.
Neither Of the fair combatants, accor-
dinghy, were hurt, and though they
were themselves by no means DESTROYS
to retire from the affray, the seconds
severally declared that the principals
had done all that honor called for, and
insisted upon Withdrawing their wo-
men from the field.
This is decidedly remarkable chap
ter in the news Of the day.
Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09
From Friendships Offering for 1888.
THE LIsBONEsE.

THE LIsBONEsE.
It was many years ago, yet the rec
objection is in my mind as fresh as the
occurrences of yesterday. ! was stand
ing It the Terrace in front of Green
witch Hospital, looking at the wrecks
Of the gallant fellows who had, for ma
ny years, borne their country's flag
through the "battle and the breeze
now hobbling about with such limbs as
fate had left or the doctor had suppli-
ed them; and exercising all my inge-
nuity to trace, through their quaint, So
Der uniforms and venerable grey hairs,
the fiery heroes Of a thousand combats.
The struggle in the Peninsula was then
1t it height, and vessel with Portu-
guese colors was passing up the river.
] made some remark on the subject to
"a old pensioner who was standing by
me. He was a very old man, with
quiet expression Of benevolence in his
face that seemed to stamp him shade
shove the common sailor.
sAh sirp said he, Il have seen strange
things in the country she comes from!
! was at Lisbon in the great earth
quake in '55.
Indeed!' said /. THAT was an event
not to be forgotten
II was sir; but from more causes
than the earthquake-to me, that is
How so7' ! enquired.
Why, you see sir its quite story;
but poor thing, ] like to talk about her;
%, 4 you'll sit down on this bench,
you shall have It from first to last.
~ told you, was in the city
wnen the earthquake began; and 4 ter
rlole thing it was to Be sure. The
houses .:. sw.yed UP and down, Just for
81 the world like ship a anchor Il 4
hsavy swell; and then f rot wor.s I'd !
worse till down they came. Sr !. . c a,s
then another, then whole street. s - I,
the poor creatures ran out 81 thn,,
sands, and the walls fell and buried
/ them, snd the earth opened and swsl
1870 I. - 2
Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09
children. The additional pang, if it
was one, was short-the executioner
ierked the string and all was over.

"A MopEsr MAN, TRuLY!-James
IG. Bennett, editor Of the New York
Herald, in speaking Of his rejection
from the dinner lately given by the
publishers Of that city, to the authors,
writers, poets, &C., holds the following
language:
aThe committee of arrangements Of
that fete actually debated for several
hours whether /, James Gordon Ben
nett, should be invited to the dinner.
After several species I was rejected
on the ground that ! was not recogni-
zed as man of talent, genius, or in
tellect among the literary lotteries Of
New York.
CHOW / will venture to say, that
during the last two years in which l
have conducted the Herald, ! have is
sued more originalwriting morepow-
erful elequence-more just truth
more correct taste more unquestiona-
bic philosophy, on every subject, NOR
ais, religion, &c. than all the Htev0ti
Of New York, with the blockhead pub
lishersto boot have sin twice that time.
ssBut this is only trife. Before /
close my career, am determined, be-
fore God and Eternity, to create new
era in literature and newspaper philo-
sophy. l consider Irving, Cooper,
and all their literary contemporaries, as
a coteric of mere imitators and inferior
minds, some Of them aniable, some
unamiable, and some savage. They
are the copyists Of Byron and Scott,
who from the only batchof parent gen.
JUS that has appeared in the world,
since the time Of Shakespeare, Milton,
Pope, or Addison. My ambition is
higher. Ispurn allimitation-all copy
ing all cabbage dealing, Planting my
course on the Interchangeable principles
of truth, taste, and morals, my object
is to create a new literary age, and to
make the daily press the engine of
new reformation in religion, literature,
taste, and morals"
The hight attained by Irving Coop
er, &c. is to be the mere stopping, rest
ing place of this man Of mighty hand
in his aspiration, and the genius of
Shakespeare will be not only rivalled
but perhaps eclipsed, by this new lu-
minary in the literary world, in which,
RI James Gordon Bennett the man
who occupied the attention Of the COM
mittee for several hours, in the debate
of questionable point, through whose
veins courses some of Scotland's no.
blest blood in. whose ancestors was con-
centrated all the wisdom and talent of
the eastern wortd, which same wisdom
and talent converging, now cepters in
him, will create, new era. Think of
this aspirants to literary Immortality.
Think of the hight hereafter t ID
tanned, to enable you to beast
respectable talent, when such N
Washington Irving are consider( )
mere standards Of medocrity, and ]
James G. Bennett, is the ne plus ultra.
Of perfection in literature.
New York Paper.]
Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09
From the Louisville journal.

There Is lady in this city whom we hav'
been persuading for some time to attempt Pc
esry. The following as her first effort. w
have half begged and half stolen it for pubiica
ton. .AmeIia," "viola," as. ]. p" &C.
can re make room for a sister.
TO THE EVENING STAR.
Hail, lovely Star! Thou glisteress now
Through the calm shades Of even,
The brightest orb that ever glowed
Within the depths Of heaven;
But say, bright S.ar--within thy sphere
Does grief ne'er dim the eye!
Do whirlwinds never DER thee sweep,
Nor clouds obscure thy sky.
Within thy realms does blight ne'er fall
Upon the opening leaf.
Fade not thy flowers like those ofearth,
Az beautiful and brief.
Does the dark cypress never wave
Within thy high domains,
Hast thou no tombs. Oh, say, has death
Ne'es wandered Ger thy plains,
Have the bright beings Of thy sphere
Ne'er slept in loves sweet bowers,
Then walked to see the serpent coiled
Around their brightest flowers,
Have ill the hopes in childhood nursed
Meier died with childhood's years,
And left the fount Of feeling dry,
Or filed with blood and tears.
Hast thou ne'er seen the passions dire
Ger thy bright realms bear sway1
Has Rapine never stalked abroad,
Nor Murder prowled for prey1
Hast thou ne'er known Revenge and Hate
Pant for the feast Of blood,
Nor seen the lurid clouds Of war,
Brood DER life's troubled flood!
Thou speakest not--but thy soft fame
Floats down the depths Of air
So beautiful, cannot dream
That broken hearts are there!
MOL will deem thee still spot
Of Joy and Love and Light,
Where Sin and Sorrow visit not
Isle Of the Blest--Good night
HARRIET.
Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09

At a late celebration Of the old bach
elors' at Bloomington, Ia. the follow
ing villanous toast was drank:
The Fair!!-Saints in the churches
angels in the ball room devils in
the kitchen.
Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09

J. 4
Use. Talk Of consecrated ground, sir!
that girls body would have consecrat-
ed Constantinople!'
ANEcDorE OF THE FRENCH REvoLU-
Among those the most remarkable,
was a venerable old man whose bent
figure thin white hair, high forehead,
and withered complexion, bespoke the
extremity Of age, yet his manners were
firm, and he never forgot for mo-
ment the calm propriety Of hisdemean-
or. By his side stood a woman no
longer young; Entertaining much oftle
beauty, and all the dignifed elegance
of her former days. She stood erect
and supported without effort, the arm
of the old man, who leaned heavy up
on hers. The other rested upon the
neck Of a fair young girl-a mere
child-not apparently more than ten
years old whose tear swollen eyes
were fixed on her mothers face, with
sad and touching melancholy Of child
ish grief. They spoke not much to-
gether: once,as the wagon stopped
near where l stood, / heard the old
man murmur words Of patience to
his companion; as he spoke, she turn
ed her eyes towards the child-she
gazed on that fair young face, and all a
mothers love beamed in her eye-the
trial was almost too great for her--her
ipquivered-her face grew more dead
" pale but in moment, by strong
efforts, she bannished from her look
every appearance of weakness. She
raised her eyes to heaven her lips NOV
ed-and then as if her prayer had been
answered, she turned bright smiling
look on her little innocent, smoothed
back the curling hair that clustered a.
reund that lovely forehead, and the
mother imprinted one long fond kiss
on the brow Of her child.
The wagon passed on, and enquired
the name Of the victim whose appear
ance had so strongly interested me. It
vas Malesherbes-the honest and able
minister, the undaunted advocate the
lind and true friend Of Louis Capet-
accompanied by his daughterthe march
ieness. Rochambeau, and her child
about to die upon the scaffold. But the
child? Surely they would not MUIR
der the child? And why nots The old
mans crime was his innocence and pu-
rity Of character, how then could the
child escape? The wagon was drawn
before the guillotine, and all was soon
ready for the first execution Males
herbes stood nearest the steps; and was
about to descend, when savage cried
out the child frstv The old man
would have demonstrated but his child
checked hints but for moment
she raised the child in her arms, and
herself handed it to the executioner.
The little creature, frightened by the
savage looksoftheman, cried out don't
leave me-come with me-don't leave
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Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09

There is lady in this city whom we have
been peIsuading for some time to attempt Po-
esry. The following as her first effort. We
have half begged and half stolen it for publica-
ton. "Amelia," "Viola," as. ]. p" &c.--
can ye make room for sister!
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12

The agricultural reader will take much i'll
tcrcst in the article on our first page, III rcla-
ton TO the improvement of Indian corn.-
Cannot every farmer and planter improve his
wheat. oats and rye in like manner! Let the
largest ears he chosen from year to year and
sowed apart from other grain OF the same
kind, and beyond doubt, in the course of some
wears (pcrhaps it wouldrequire from half do
zcn to DOZEN a new and greatly improved
variety would be produced
Might not Cotton be also greatly improved
l,v selecting seed from the most productive
stocks and tnom the Jorls 1rhich first open!
We ono, saw an account of an early variety
OF peas produced by selecting for several
years that which ripcncd earliest. Why could
not this be done with cotton as we'll as with
peas! II it could, the productiveness of the
crop would be proportionately increased; for
however early in the season cotton begins to
bear, it continues to grow and bear Til killed
by frost.
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12

Raleigh and Columbia Rail Road.-
We have been favored with copy OF Mr..
Garnctt's Report of his Reconnaissance OF
the route for the above Rail Road, leading
through Haywood, Carthage, Rockingham,
Chcraw, and Camden. The ground is re-
presented as being very favorable. The
distance, it is said, can in no event exceed
l2O miles. [Thc Stage Road from Ra.
leigh to Columbia, By acay Of Fayetteville,
is only 112 milcs.] Tie estimate of the
cost is $4,000 per mile, and 100000 (a'
Locomotives, &c. making S3,4OO,OOO in
all. Mr.. Garnet thinks that not less than
so passengers would pass each way daily
but setting it down at IS each way, at +
cents per mile, he calculates the receipts
from this source, ut 1887, ,260, and from
the mail, at $500 per mile, at $4,000
making an aggregate of 1881, ,26o, exclu-
siye of produce. From this he deducts
5000 per mile for annual repairs and cx.
penscs, amounting TO $4,000, and it
leaves a net income Of S249, ,260, Or 10 1-2
Der cent. on the cost.-Fayeheri1e Obscr.
rer.
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12
Charleston, 2 L"
n. Orleans, 3 /"

These arrangements, and others about
which | wrote you yesterday, have restored
confidence in great degree. Stocks, that
index of feeling, all jumped up. Seventy
shares of U. S. Bank were sold at 49,
Things all look better and brighter. The
agony of the three days past none but those
who have suffered by it can adequately des-
cribe. ..=-'
AS to the ultimate result Of these important
arrangements, the banks differ. The best
security is wisdom, and practical experience Of
the men who made them. Merchants here
say, what Nicholas Biddle says is ,ceu, must
be well, such is the confidence they have in
him as financicr
There were no failures yesterday. The
failure of Morgan g. CO. was day before yes
terday. 1t was serious failure. We have
promises of resumption of payment. There
is talk that the Josephs will resume. 1t
may be, but it is hardly to be expected.
APRIL 3, 1887.
Notwithstanding the very discouraeine
news which came upon us Yesterday from
New Orleans, things have gone off very well
to-day. have heard of no failures. There
is good spirit among business men,
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12
SCENES IN WASHINGTON.
Correspondence oftte New York Daily Express

WASHINGTON, 23d March, 1887.
have been somewhat surprised, that no
no.icc has been taken by any Of the numer-
Gus letters written from this place, of very
cxciing scene which took place few days
previous 10 the adjournment ofthc last Con-
srcss, in the Committee appointed TO cx-
anime iu:o the corruptions Of the Executive
Departments. The majority Of that Com
mit,cc. consisting" Of rhO'c hog" thorough
bred RoyaIists," brought into the Com
mite room and read report, retlcc;Ing
with great severity upon the conduct and
course of the minority, Mcssrs. Wise,
Camob?l! and Lincoln, Lincoln, who is a
Yankee and L very mid, prulcn: man, was
reused by the outrageous and personal re-
fccions thrown out against himself and
Messrs. Campbell and Wise, in the report
Of the Royalst majority. lie rose from
his seat and addressed Glett, who
had been the mos: scurrilous amongst them,
and demanded upon the spotthat he should
rc;ract every thing he had said Or written
against the minority Of the Committee
Gillct, trenblcd and shook like an aspen
leaf, and protested that he did not write the
report. Mr.. Campbell, of S. c., feeling
equally indignant, locked the door of the
committee room, putting the key into his
"brseches pocket" and avowcd his deter
mina,ion to hold each member ofthc MAJOR
itv ofthc Committee personally responsible,
unless the offensive language olthe report
was Immediately stricken out-whereupon
each member of the majority denied having
written the report: when Mr.. Lincoln COM
pcllcd Mr.. GiIIc;t and Mr.. AbIah Mann,
who had before " fathered the report 10
civc up the name Of the author-when 10
and behold it turns out to be Reubea AZ.
IThtucy. 1t is scarcely necessary for me
to say that the offensive part of the report
was stricken ont. But even more than this
was cone Mr.. Pierce. royalis!, Offered
the following resolution, which was unanl-
mously adopted:
"Resolred unanimously, That notwlth-
standing the highly exciting topics Of dis
cussion which have come before this Com
n.ittcc, and their frequent and anImatlng de-
bates, the Hon. Henry y. Wise, as their
chairman, has at all times so conducted as
to crtitle him to their thanks: which are here.
BY accorded TO him.
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12
B. BRYAN, p NJ.
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March 81,
RAIL ROAD MEETING.

At meeting of the Citizens Of Salem
County, Sumter District, held at Bishopyile
on the 9th March 1887, to consider of the
steps necessary 10 ensure success to the
subscription Of the Sumter and Darlington
Rail Road, DR.. JONATHAN MILLER was
called to the Chair, and {. G. CAMPBELL,
Esq. appointed Secretary: =.
The following Resolution was then Of
fered by Capt. w. II. Bowen:
ReSolred, That this meeting seeing the
urgent necessity both to Planter and Mer.
chant of q Rail Road between Sumter and
Darlington, as link in the great chain of
Rail Road about to run from the Roanoke
10 the Savannah, will afford every aid to
carry the same into effect.
The above resolution being read, Col. q.
sc. Deschamps rose and advocated it at
some length in a very lucid and eloquent
address, and was followed by John Watson
ESQ. whose remarks on this occasion fully
satisfied the meeting Of the practicablty d
Importance of the work. Mr.. G. l.. Cham.
pion also addressed the meeting in support
Of the Resolution, which being submitted
was unanimously carried. -
1t was then on motion, Ordered that the
proceedings be published in the Chcraw Ga
zcttc and the Charleston papers.
JONATHAN MILLER, Chairman.
C.. G. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12

The Legislature Of New York has at last
been induced 10 pass an act on the SUBJECT
Of pilots, corGonnable in some degree, to
the demands ofthc public. 1t tvests the ap-
pointmcut ofthe pilots in five commissioners
who are allowed the small sum of 5000 per
annam compensation so that the pay Will
not tempt many aspirants. ltrequlres thas
1be present pilots, as welt as the other aP-
nlicants. shall be examined as to skill, COM
pctcncv, and temperate habits, before they
can be licensed. 1t leaves the NUMBER OF
piots uaEmitcd- the increase TO be from
time TO time, atthc discretion ofthc coiamls'
sioncrs, and only giving a preference, otaef
things being a!ikc,t to apprentices who nave
served thrce years. 1t prohibits, under
neual,v OF forfeiture Of license, all division
Of earnings among the pilots of different pl-
u, boats. \ clause in this bill absurdIy Is
made to clash with the late act Of Congress
s,,biecling to fine or imprisonment, as
Car q misdemanour. any person not haIins
, licencc from the State OF New I ork, WHO
s,a)l undertake to pilot vessel into Sandy
nonI, :; ls This is, Of cours, a dead letter.
The American, from which we get ieese
,,r.;.nlars of the bill, proposes, in order to
renJer competition still more active tat
fast sailing boats should be built oy the
New York merchants, and let TO the Nc"
Jcrsv pilots, who are poor. and without
some such aid, will, it is said, have dill
,,I,., ;rrvcrr:sir1 th":r y0ca.;cn.
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12
From the Neao York Daily Express.

MASSACHUSETTS on SLAvERY.-The fol.
lowing resolutions were recently passed inthe
Massachusetts, House of Representatives by
vote Of 37S to IT,. -;
Whereas, the House of Representatives of
the United States, in the month cf January.
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-seven, did adopt resolu.
ton whereby it was ordered that all petitions,
memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers,
relating in any way, or to any extent whatev-
er, to the subject OF slavery, or the abolition Of
slavery, without being either printed or refer
red, shall be laid on the table, and that no fur
ther action whatever should be had thereon;
and whereas by the resolution aforesaid, which
is adopted as standing rule of the present
House Of Representatives, the petition Of a
large number of the people Of this commons
wealth. praying for the removal of great
moral and political evil, have been sighted and
condemned therefore,
ReSotred. That the resolution above named
is an assumption Of power ard authority, at
variance with the spirit and intent of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and injurious to
the cause Of freedom and free institutions that
it does violence TO the inherant and inaiena-
bic rights of man and that it tends essentially
to impair those fundamental principles of nat
ural Justice, and natural law, which are ante
cedent to any written constitutions of govern
ment independent of them all, and essential to
the security of freedom in State.
Resolred, That our Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, in maintaining and advo-
eating the full right of petition have entitled
themselves to the cordial appreciation Of the
people of this Commonwealth.
Resolted, That Congress having exclusive
Legislation, in the District of Columbia, pos
sesses the right to abolish slavery in the said
District, and that its exercise should be only
restrained by regard to the public good.
INTHE SESATE.-To the surprise of every
one present, says the Boston Gazette-even
the leaders of the abolition party of this city
the Senate adopted the following resolutions,
after long debate-the first unanimously and
the second by only ONE dissenting roice!
| ReSolred, That Congress having exclusive
! legislation in the District of Columbia, posses
ses the right TO abolish slavery and the slave
trade therein; and that the early exercise Of
such rip,:t is demanded by the enlightened SEN
timent of the civilized world, by the principles
of the Revolution, and by humanity.
Resolred, That slavery, being an admitted
moral and political evil, whose continuance,
wherever it exists, is vindicated mainly on the
ground of necessity, it should be circumscribed
within the limits of the States where it has
been already established; and that no new
State should hereafter be admitted into the
Union whose constitution of government shall
sanction or permit the existence of domestic
slavery.
Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-04-12

>c,I % i,'c C:'ri>i.n public, anJ that coaIl
hardly have been tolerated uatl this time,
it had been umdcrSood.' In another rt-.
ter he says, "Dr. Taylor should have a jos
as to occupying the Spirit Of the Pilgrims,
While hcSpccta:or has been so closely s1ut
up against one sentence in oppos;tionlo 10 his
views, except as fuo:cd by lis OWN writer's
for comment. No work in our coun " has
been so narrowly conducted.
Yours, vcr2 atlccliouate'y,