The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-18
PEN AND SCISSORS.

Coy. Bissell of Illinois IS suffering
from a severe Illness.
The Southern Citizen, John Mitch
ellis paper says:
For any rational man, living at the South
and having his lot cast there, to be sec
tional is no matter of choice, but OF mere
nccessity-is not faction but patriotism"
Fourteen hundred journeymen print
ers have been thrown out of employment
in New York within the last fortnight.
The St. Paul Minnesotian says the
amount of winter wheat sown in Mime
sofa this fall is several hundred per cent.
above the previous seasons.
Tho n. Y. Times says: The fall
ing off in the freight and passenger bust
ness among the various railroad and
steamboat lines running out of this city,
presents in striking light the extent to
which the whole business of the country
has been affected by the revulsion. There
is scarcely one that has not lost from one
third to two-thirds of its business during
the three weeks of October"
The Milwaukee Sentinel estimates
thewheatcrop of Wisconsin at II 900, 900
bushels for 1857, an increase of near
100000 over last year.
81 1850, 967 worth of boots and shoes
were exported from the United States to
foreign countries the past year.
"A mass of copper weighing 1862
pounds, was taken from the Minnesota
mine, at Superior, recently.
james 0. Brayman, convicted in
Chicago of stealing money letters from
the Post Office, has been sentenced to
four years. Imprisonment in the Alton
State Prison.
The St. Paul Advertiser says that
there is not less than 100000 of overdue
and protested paper deposited by Eastern
creditors in the banks of that city; that
the Indebtedness IN st. Paul, to banks
alone due or to become due in the next
six months, is $4,000 more; while the
eastern Indebtedness of the merchants and
others to mature in the same PERIOD is
81, 100000. That is, the city owes
50, 100000, of which $1,5OO,OOO is due
to the East Other towns in the territory
are similarly involved.
-Epaphroditus Ransom, an old Mchl-
gan wing, very much of a fossil in politics,
went from that State to Kansas, where
he turned up as candidate for delegate to
Congress on the pro-slavcry Democratic
ticket Parrot, the Republican candidate,
beats him by a large majority, whereupon
a Michigan country paper cxclaims:
''The year of jubilee has come,
Return you Ronso0,d sinner home"
Some 1000 unemployed foreigners
met in the Park in New York city on the
I'd inst. Several speeches were made,
the substance of which was that they
must have work or fight.
By a census just taken of Dubuque,
by the direction of the Board of Educa-
ton, it appears that the present popula-
ton of the city is 1881; number Of
families, 1923; number of persons be-
tween the ages Of and 81 years, 1890
-"We have span of horses" said
an economic the other day. "on our farm
that support themselves without any cost. y
"Why, how is that?' exclaimed listen
er. "Why, you sec, remarked the qucs-
toned, zone is 4 saw horse, the other a
clothes horse
A rather thick headed witness in the
police court, a short time since says the
st. Louis News, was asked the question
WiCtuCl CI-dlti-So : SlOOu Oh the uC1CIl-
sive" Ono, sir" he inn occntly replied,
she stood on the benchm
Last Friday there was fight at st.
Paul between the deck hands of the War
Eagle, and some Irishmen on the levee.
Several were badly wounded.
The Saltwater Messenger Says
Up to the present time there has been but
little suspension on the public improve
ments and private enterprises going for
ward in the city; while we have not a
single failure or suspension to note among
our business men.
The amount of letter writing in the
United States may be inferred from tho
amount of postage stamps sold, which
during the past year was 100000.
The census of GAINESVILLE. Just com
pleted, shows a population of 9,676. This
shows an increase of 1858 since June
1855.