Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1856-12-13

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and terror, a gulf on the right md a
gulf on the left, and before hin what
seems an interminable void. lie looks
aloft, but no eye has yet reachd the
ton Of the great wei archng lone;
nothing is there see but the fishing
of the water dropping from ab,ve, smll.
mo. as it shoots by, in the unyonted
pleam of the lamp. He looks elov, and
nothing there meets his glancesav, dark
ness as thick as lamp-black ard b hears
a wild, mournful melody ofwatsr, the
wailing of the brook for tho green and
sunny channel left in the upper world,
never more to be revisited. Down goes
a rock tumbled over the df by the
guide, who is of the opinia that folks
come here to see and hear, Tot to muse
and be melancholy. The, it goes
crash! it has reached the htom. No
bark, it strikes again; ore more and
again still falling. Will itnever stop?
Ones hair begins to brist as he hears
the sound repeated, grong less, and
less, until the ear can loiiots ~ lohSoi'
CHARLES CARROLL AND1IE TEA DU-
TIES A correspondent the Boston
Investigator says that all story tells us
of the throwing ~overboarpf the tea in
Boston harbor-it hrs nbbeen equally
attentive to the burnig sfhe tea in An
napolis harbor. Ia the summer OF
1774 that the brigtre Peggy Stewart
approached Annap< with a cargo OF
the forbidden leaS on board. The
people were in corntion at the news.
1t was an insult, ah defiance Swift
destruction was Incorporation for the
vessel-instant chasehent was in search
of the owners. Terreized them. They
sent to Charles Carrt.s the only man
that could moderate fury of the peo-
, pie, and save their Hns and property
from a sudden destrJNn. He told them
there was but one va save their per-
sons, and that was to their vessel and
cargo instantly, in tght of the peo-
pie. 1t was done; andb the flames con
sumed at Annapolis, \ the waves had
buried at Boston; and both cases the
spiritand the sacriicte the same-op-
!, position to taxation VII representation,
and destruction to it'd boil"
- SUGAR MAKING.Il sugar making
: season will be Of shdalration in this
parish the present " A friend who
has taken some little trp to inquire into
. the state of the sugar qha districtem-
lie braced within four m Dove Plaquem-
ee inc and eight below il uding the bay
Re Gus Plaquemine and b, says that in
err this portion of the pa&here are eight
~ plantations that will nc sugar at all,
~ three that will make D." seven that
Ill will make forty or fluids, two that
!" will make about one fred, and two
in about one hundred amy. These are
lg mainly large planters !; friends, how
IS, ever, does not enumeHll the planters
Id in this section. We ksured, never
Dy theless, that this statemtill give a pref
A ty correct idea of sugarsng, or the SUI
We gar crop in lbervllle u year 1856.
Id -Pfdquefnsne SentineE.
The Journal of C4ce gives the
he names OF t~hirty-two Acan sea going
n vessels which were ned as totally
RI lost during the month october. The
value of the vessels is Hat 1904. 900.
is. aud that of the cargoe& 1858 $50. In
o. four instances the wrecere attended
ia. with loss of life. Tho of the .un-
lr- known cargoes wouldbably bring
ell the gross total up to 500.
ia, John C. Fremont has ger electoral
os vote than any defeated &ate for Pre-
sident ever had Mr.. Eanan has a
he smaller proportion OF thole popular
70 vote than any man WHOEVER chosen
President by the people.
of New England gave Hire vote to
Washington, and nowH it to FIRE.
nd mont. No presidential Gate interve-
ming, shares with them 6nor.
of At a turkey shoot town of
as Houndsville, Jefferson Gu N. Y. ON
Nv Friday week, one of the Amen mis-
lbs took the cap of a ooy Bet up the
of birds, for the turkey, hshot him
through the head from tdno temple,
cutting off the nerves a ewes and
~ destroying his sight, but a strong
M probability of saving his
nat The General Associa4 Congre-
80 gational Ministers in New nsbire' at
b their late meeting in Exebok meas
ures to erect IA monumenta memory
of Whitfield, who, nearHsty vears
ago, closed his earthly 4 by the
%, preaching of his last serm& hat town.
us The propeller of the UlAam Fri
Z gate Niagara has just bee 6bleted bv
MS James Murphy " Co., of ton Iron
n. "orks' IL is o brass, an the lar
gest in the world, as vet weighs
81, 600 pounds.
" An old author quaintlr y, he
I, aVo'u argument win lad n spin
" ming yarns among silks and a man
ng is sure to be worsted and a. And
cd when a man is worsted an1,aa no
ng may consider himself wouS6
THE PRISrER.-The prinkkv have
y, a bank and quoins without byortb a
=" cent; have small caps, and neither
wife nor child. Others mn fast.
10 gu. ne ge.s along through &rld by
Se4'"y Jd@. % says one wHews.
a Mr.. Lind, of Chicago, Mcentlv
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