Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1854-01-12

| he ,Def. grave, temperate. Titus, II. g.
|. There are three companions with
whom you should always keep on good
terms.
/. Your wife.
Q. Your stomach.
3. Your conscience.
II. II you wish to enjoy peace. long
life, and happiness. preserve them by
temperance. lntemperance produces:
|. Domestic misery.
2. Premature death.
3. Infdeli.y.
TO make these points clear, I refer
you:
/. To the New Gate Calendar.
2. 10 the hospitals, luna,ic asyiums
and work houses.
To the past experience Of what y ou
have seen, read and suffered in mind.
body and estate.
FALLS OF THE Missouri RIVER Gov
ernor Stevens, in late letter, speaks OF
the falls of the Missouri river. aud ex-
presses belief that The river is navigable
to them. These falls are about thirty
miles distant from Fort Benton. Som
of Gov. Stevens party visited them
They represent them as presenting a
beautiful appearance. The ri,er is a
bout four hundred yards wide, and the
whole volume of this river leaps some
forty fee, into an apparently boi,omless
chasm. Long before il is reached the
spray is seen from the praries, ascending
10 the skies; aud the mountains in the
distance, on every side. give the whole
scene most. magnificent appearance
Very few white men have ever visited
these falls, bat the time will come when
they will become objects Of Curiosity
and thousands will find their way 10
them - Dem Press.
T "a Foreigners coming TO this country
are hurdled together on board of ships
in most shameful manner. The New
World, on which the cholera recently
committed such fearful ravages, before
her arrival at New York, 700 emigrsnis
The place where these miserable zoo
were suffering was so dark lha, nothing
could be seen wi'hou, light, the emf
grants would not tell of death. and in
sorie instances three or four would con-
thine in berth two or three DAYS beside
a corpse, and the discovery was only
made at last by the hose Of the sexton.
In one day eight dead bodies were
brough, from below aud cas-, info the SEA
A NEW PHASE OF The WoMAN's
RIGHTs MOVEMENTS SoTe Of the
"slrong minded women" of 81. Louis
the other evening took 10 the pave and
serenaded young clerks TO the tune ol
"Bufalo gals, are you coming out To.
night" substituting "boys" for '.gals.
This is consistent with The "reform;'
reversing the long established order oi
things. /. mus, have produced de.
iight!ul sensation in the bosoms OF these
favored clerks. Hurral! for the "Pe,s
Of the Pe,icoals!"
n The creates. curiosity in ST. Louis
is Belcher's Allesian well. It's now
sunk to the depth of 2.O63 feet. By
placing pipe in it. water has been
raised above the surface some fifty feet.
II is the determination of Mr.. RelcheI
to sink the well until pure wafer is Sc.
cured. The water which flows from i
now is similar to that of sea water, i'm.
pregnated little with sulphur.
II The Indians are rapidly disap,
pearing from Texas. Fifty years age
the naughty Spaniards of San Antonio
were fain to hold the s,irrups of the In
dian chiefs as they mounted their wild
cOurseIs IN the heart Of the city. Now
these proud denizens of the desert ap-
pear in the streets Of these towns 10 beg
for food.
y vThe capital Of the State Of Ten,
nessee. near completion. is said 10 be
one Of the fines, buildings in the world
Its cost is million Of dollars. II is
built Of solid limestone taken from neaI
the hill on which it stands. The roof Is
| of Tennessee copper, and the speaker
stand Of Marble quarried in that State
PHoHgTIcs.-A fonetic konvenshuI
for the organizashun of M York Fo
netic S.cieiv. tax place at Olbana, the
u,her da, and WOE largely attended. a
konstitushun, was a6op,id. and prop
mezzhurs lakensso organis and nrol ths
Fonetishuns in the State. Pionefics Il
the doc,rin or siens of spelling wusdz ii
tha are pronounss
i ~ The Presbyterian church, which
has been built lately in ST. Louia, j,
clipped OFF, with large gil, cross
This 10 US is something new in The his
tory Of Presby y,erian houses Of worship
] 1CeItain parties. with landab'e lib
erali,y. have been forwarding money b
Mr.. Mitchell the Irish patriot, bu, il
every ins;atance he has refusedi. Lik
Mr.. Meagher, he chooses 10 earn hi
own bread.
i a Seamen are so scarce in Ne,
York that from forty 10 fifiy dollars pc
month are offered. This is an exHaou
binary advance in Sca,nen's wages can
pared with she prices year or two age
j UA bail that explodes Hhen i, hi,
the mark. and does secon exeea,io
with . charge Of sho, con.aiasd with
il, Eas been invented by an eyappelic,