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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26

Nature and climate, heaven and earth,
and ocean, religion and morality, tha
state and political life, all contributed to
awaken and to strengthen in the mind Of
Greece a love for the beauty of the mate
rial as well as a love of the spiritual world.
= Kritobulus, at one of Xenophon's ban
quets, was heard to say "By the Gods, I
would rather be beautiful than be king Of
Persia" This is thorough Greek senti-
mcnt. The Grecian poet, in speaking Of
the four things most desirable as crown
to happiness of life, places personal Jeaa-
ty at the head of his list; the other tire.
desidcrata, 'Riches, that do not give pain
to any body; heath, and the blessing Of
friendship, came only in to serve az set
ting for diamond Of beauty. The Greek
mind thus became q bright mirror reflect
ing countless different productions Of art
the beauty of Grecian nature and of Gre
elan life. These works of art made the
Hellenic breast swell with proud JOY and
glorious emotion, and they left temples Of
worship of the beautiful and monuments
of delight to the most distant poster;ty.--
Crdyon.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26

the magnificent Designer of all the won
drous works of creation with which we
are surrounded. If there be sentiment
in the soul, this hour must bring it forth !;
if there be slumbering gratitude within
the secret recesses of the heart, it will be
awakened. If there be music within the
breast the sweet harmony of this guileless
hour must strike upon its sympathetic
cords, and produce emotions of the most
delicate and enchanting pleasure, not
feelings that will burst forsh in loud and
rapturous expression, but those of gen
tie, pure, and serene character. For who
can look upon the delicate plants and
flowers gratefully bowling beneath the soft
refreshing dews of evening, and listen to
the plaintive and melancholy notes of the
whip-poor-will, as the feathered tribe one
by one are seeking spot for the nights
repose within the sheltering trees-who
can look upon the calm face of all smiling
nature, as the mantle of darkness is slowly
and silently spreading around its ample
folds, without being impressed with the
peace, the solemnity, the holiness that
rests over this brief and melancholy hour
fife? sit strange that the heart should
then feel softened, and the mind call up
a thousand tender recollections of by-gone
years,-of the joys, sorrows, hopes, and
fears of early youth 2 And that it will
often dwell with sad pleasure upon the
memory Of some long departed friend
some dear and cherished relative between
whom and us the wide ocean of past years
now forever rolls? Yet in this mystic
hour it would seem almost impossible that
tho bright spirits of another world should
hover around, and mingle with our own;
and that they should be allowed to hold
a short and sweet communicable i'm
mortal with the mortal-in this blest inter-
val Of time, when earth would seem to bor-
row for a while, the peace, the happi-
ness of heaven.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
A Good name.

Some time in 1888 or -, gentle
man in Tennessee became involved, and
wanted mone.;; he had property and
owed debts. is property was not avail
able just then.&pa he posted off to Bos-
ton, backed .naaAe names of several of
the best mon in Tennessee. Money was
tight and Boston bankers looked closely
at the names. "Very good" said they,
"but, but-do you know General Jack
SOM" "Certainly." "Couldn't you get
bis endorsement "Yes, but he is not
worth one-tenth as much as either Of these
men whose names / offer YOU" No
matter; Gen. jackson has always proteor
ted himself and bis paper, and we'll let
you have the money on the strength Of
bis name.' In few days the papers
with his signature arrived. The moment
these Boston gentleman bankers saw the
tall A and long of Andrew jackson, our
Tennesseean says he could have raised
a hundred thousand dollars uI on the sig
nature without the slightest difficulty.
So much fer an established character tor
honesty. However men may have differed
with Andrew jackson politically, no man
could deny him the NEXT Ct oeing a
honest man.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
The Feminine Jelhu.

(Says new London novel, "Did you
ever notice a woman driving pair OF
poniesa 1t is very pretty, but very pecu-
liar. She puts the leased things to their
topmost speed. She is always whipping
their lodging flanks. She is always
clutching the galvanized reins She is
always looking right and left, twisting and
tossing her Enthusiastically covered head two
ways at once. She sees the mighty bus
ses, and avoids them hundreds of yards
before they come up. She goes ten feet
too much on one side in clearing the rush.
ing cab or whirling chariot. Again, did
you ever see q woman crossing the road
What patience-that is to say, what fright
what dashing forward and driving back!
and when, at crisis, she scuds, how
recklessly high does she disclose the excl
ted hose! So in marriage. Doubtless,
when well harnessed, and the grooming
char-a-6anc, crunehing over the mud, is
full Of children, she pulls steadily the
scorched collar withal. But how she skits,
and scampera, and SHES, and jumps ia
first p
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
A word to Young Men.

Young man, word. We want to tell
you when you should take your hat and
be off. And mind what we offer. 1t is
when you are asked to stake a drink. =
When you find you are counting an ex-
travagant or slovenly girl. When you are
in bad company. When you discover
that your expenses run ahead of your in
come. When you are abusing the conf
dence of yonr friends. When you think
you are great deal wiser than older and
more experienced people than yourself.
When you feel like getting trusted for a
new suit of clothes, because you have not
got the money to pay for them. When
you swat upon" a lady just for the fun of
it,. When you don't perform your du-
ty, your whole duty, and nothing but
your duty.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
ETERNITY.

Eternity has no grey hairs! The flow
er fades, the heart withers, man grows old
and dies, the world lies down in the sepul-
cher Of ages, but time writes no wrinkles
on the brow of eternity.
Eternity Stupendous thought! The
ever present, unborn undecayed, undying
the endless chain, encompassing tho
life of God-thc golden thread, entwinlng
the destinies of the universe.
Earth has its beauties, but time shrouds
them in the grave; its honors are but
the gilded sepulchers; its POSSESSIONS, they
are but bursted bubbles.
In the dwelling Of the Almighty, can
come no footsteps Of decay, Its days will
know no darkning-e eternal sp.endors for
bid the approach of night. Its fountains
will never wane, for there is ever-present
God. Its harmonies will never cease; ex-
haustless love supplies the song.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
Rapid Settlement of Texas.

The Southern press claim that Texas is
settling with all the rapidity of a free
State. The N. 0. Picayune asserts high
er claims for this class of emigration. 1t
says:
The great body of emigrants TO that
State are pretty well provided with this
worlds goods, and, unlike the bulk Of
those who are filing up the Northwest
ern States, most of them are citizens of
the planting States, prepared to begin
life again on the fruitful soil of the lone
STAR State, with all the advantages of
long experience in agricultural pursuits
The emigration to Texas the present sea-
son appears to be larger than in any pre-
vious year, and the emigrants are of a
class the most valuable in building up a
wealthy State. Every steamship leaving
this port for Galveston, is crowded with
passengers, either going to settle at once
or to see the country and select loca-
ton for their future home. The day is
not very far distant when Texas will be
one of the wealthiest, as it is one of the
most productive and healthy States in
tho Union. The following from the DIAL
las Herald, of the goth Of June, will give
give our readers some idea of the rapid
settlement of the frontier count ties of Tex
as:
We have recently visited the frontie,
counties west of this place, as far as the
Brazos, passing through Tarrant, Parker.
Palo Pinto. and Young counties, a. fsr
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
TWILIGHT.

If there is an hour of all others, that
sheds soothing spirit and tranquilizing
influence over the siprits and feelings of
man, it is the soft, the beautiful, the lnys-
tic hour of twilight, when all nature seems
lulling to sweet and gentle repose, and
an almost imperceptible calmness gradu-
ally steals through the human breast, dis
placing, at least for the time, the tnnlul-
tuous and conflicting passions that have
agitated it during the more active hour
and noisy scenes Of the day. It is an
hour, which of all others, seems most cal
culated to awaken the refinements and
sensibilities Of our nature; to purify and
exalt the feelings; and to gently lead the
current of our thoughts to communion
with the great Souree Of our being, and
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
MARRIED LIFE.

The following extract from Whitney's
Friends of Bohemia" is libel on the
Southern character; though such charac-
tiers as the husbands may be found in
every quarter of the world. But the rea-
son of our inserting the extract is, that
the opinion it embodies in reference to
marriage, comedies with our own
"Once detained at Rue de Rivoli
Hotel in Paris-costly, comfortably bed
ded Windsor was reduced to daily
ANALYSIS of the coffee-room. There also
breakfasted and dined there, with equal
regularity, a young couple, newly married.
Thew were Americans. He was of that
youne-planter-of-the- South complexion
which YOU see often at the Trafalgar,
Greenwich, eating whitebait: low fore
head, a classic nose, shining olive cheeks,
cocoa-nut teeth, and round Greek chin
She was tiny thing of flush fifteen, Oh
i've and ripe, with brown glittening ring
let's on a deliciously girly head. They
fed there-the hungry, timid birds-be-
cause they dreaded, no doubt the hum
and stare of the cafes. This coffee room
was solitary to all but myself behind one
Of those largo yellow reprint novels, that
Paris appears to be principally engaged
in manufacturing. Me they never thought
of. they regarded the room as inhabited
bv themselves and the waiter. The wal
ter was stern matter-of-faet man, rough
with these tender cooling Yankees to
when he was necessarily pointing out
out plats, and from whom he was al
WAYS taking incoherent orders favorable
to the establishment. and, in Difference
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
A DREAM.
by W. L. SHOEMAKER,

Last night, in sleeps delightful land
Delightful then it was to me,)
We sat together, hand in hand:
Unchecked and free. 1 talked with thee,
Last night, in sleeps delightful land.
To make my rapture more complete,
But waking me with too much bliss,
In one long kiss our lips did meet:
Thou didst not then refuse kiss,
To make my rapture more complete.
In the enchanted realm of sleep.
The spirit makes her secrets known;
And hers. methinks, thine could not keep,
So gladly flew TO meet my own
In the enchanted realm of sleep.
Make thou my happy vision true,
IF was nothing but dream y
Since less than kisses will renew
NY bliss, and make it more than SEEM
Make thou my happy vision true
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
Portrait of a Spouse.

The descriptive talent seems very rank
in Kentucky. The "Frankfort Yeoman :"
gives the following as written by a lady
in the neighborhood and sent to that pa
per for publication:
"This is designed to let all the world
and the rest of mankind know that Will
liam Parker, my husband, has left my
bed and board without cause OF provoca-
ton. Scarcely had the honeymoon pass
ed by before he sold my house and lot in
Scott, near Stamping Ground, and took
me to wretched hut in q desolate place,
in the Franklin hills, where he common
ced collecting all what was due me, and
selling all / possessed; after selling my
niger woman and child, he left, and 10
Gated in Lexington, where he is now
romping with the gals, rugged from top
to toe in broadcloth, bought with my mig
ger-money, and left mo destitute, fo,lorn
and wretched. Said old Bill Parker is
about sixty-five years Of age, low in stat
ure, makes wretched attempt to be po
lite and agreeable, and countenance suf-
ticiently base to convict him to the pen
itentiary or gallows. Dear sir, you will
do justice to right by publishing the above
and requesting the editors throughout the
Union to give it a place in their columns.
"Oh that his bed may be of briers
And his path beset with thornes
And the balance of his days
Be haunted by the Beast with seven heads and
ten horns
Wedlock has been a woeful thing to me
For marrying is not what it is cracked up to be
thought my pathway would be strewed with
flowers and roses
But theSway old Bill has made me wrctchcd is
q sin to Moses.
feel like a tree by the north wind shaken
Wretched, forlorn, sad and forsaken.
January, 18th 1857 JANE PARKER"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
POETRY.
L KNEW THAT L WAS
BLTSHING.
By L. LELAND.

I knew that I was blushing
As he paused beside me there,
l felt my pale cheek flushing
Is he leaned upon my chair.
/ heard him softly signing
AS he Whispered in my ear,
But l dared not risk replying.
For fear some one might hear.
he took my hand and pressed it
A moment in his own.
He vowed as he caressed it
His heart was mine alone.
] met his earnest glances,
knew that he was dear,
But / turned from his advances,
For feared some one was near.
He needed none around him,
he watched my crimson check;
He owned the spell that bound him,
And plead with me to speak.
l felt my dark eye filling,
And brushed away tear.
But l checked my pulse, wild thrilling
For ! feared some one might hear,
He turned-I thought him going;
Concealment then was vain
7 FIT nv warm tears flowing,
And called him back again.
And as be bent above me,
And drew me still more near,
| kissed him murmuring love me,
And forgot some one might hear.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26

Bor7sp TO HAVE IA Yankee edit
orial friend of ours down in Vermont who
saws he is out of money, notifies bis sub
seyibers that be is young and agreeable,
and that he intends to call them person
ajlv and with those who won't pay he in
tends to board it out!
We reckon he'll get his pay especially
if provisions are very high. He remarks
.r,lv. "neaessitv knows no lsrv,"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
River Falls, Wisconsin,
And sent to single subscribers by mail or car
rier for
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR,
Invariably in advance,
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
JOB PRINTING.

The Journal Office is furnished with an en-
Type. Material, and Stock; and is prepared to
execute Book. Pamphlet Card, Circular. Bill.
Head, Handful, Label, and all other kinds Of
plain and fancy Letter Press Printing In al
good style and at as reasonable rates az any
Office in the Northwest.
Orders, from a distance, for printing, &C.
companied by cash, viii be promptly attended
10, and work Immediately sent by express or
nail as desired.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
HOW TO LIVE.

So live. that when the summons comes TO Join
The innumerable caravan that moves
n, ,b.t mysterious realm, where each shall take
U;s chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou 90 not like the quarry slave at night.
scourged TO his dungeon; but sustained ana
soothed
Bv an unfaltering trust. approach thy grave
like one who wraps the drapery of his oauch
About him. and lies down to pleasant dreams.
BRYANT.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26
MUSIC Il THE AIR.
By GEORGE W. CURTIS.

o listen to the bowling sea.
That beats on the remorseless shore;
Oh listen for that sound shall be
When our wild hearts shall beat no more.
Oh listen well. and listen long,
For, sitting folded close to me,
You could not hear sweeeter song,
Than that hoarse mUrmur of the sea.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-08-26

Premature consolation is but the re-
uembysuoe Of SORROW.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-03-14
The Gospel in Burmab.

/ The Rev. Eugenio Kncaid preached
to the First Baptist Church III New
York on Sunday morning last, from
Psalms ii. s. After lucid explana.
ton of the text, (says the Examiner he
! proceeded to describe the success of
the missions in Burmah, where there
were said to be as the result of mission
airy labor. $4,000 native commune ants
in addition to the nullitudes who had
died in The faith of the gospel. The
speaker gave interesting account of his
own labors since his return TO Burmah
in 1850, showing The manner in which
the gospel has been received and sought
alter by the heathen, from the time of
the capture of Rangoon until now
While the guns ofthe English could be
heard from the interior, tie natives
were crowded around him at Rangoon,
in mul,itudes too largo to be contained
in any house in the place. Up to last
June, twelve hundred converts had been
ba2tised, and 2S new churches formed,
within the limits of the Rangoon mission,
making in all forty five churches in that
mission. These are selfsustaining churc-
hes, having built their own chapels and
supported their own pastors-and hav.
ing also contributed, in ono year, five
thousand rupees to benevolent purpos-
os. MIR. Kincaid stated that there are
now one hundred self supported native
churches in Burmah. God has raised
up large numbers Of native preachers,
but the demand far exceeds the supply
Mr.. Kincaid then gave an account of
his visit to Ava in the spring of 1857.
and his cordial reception there. Ho
stated that after his arrival became
known there was not morning, for two
or three months, whom the people did
not gather around his DIV elling before
sunrise to hear the Wo,d, and remain
until nine or ten O'clock. The King
had urged him TO accept of p, esents, aud
also expressed his desire to support him,
so that Mr.. Kincaid with difficulty ox-
planned why he could not place himself
under obligations to His Majesty. He
never asked pei mission /" preach io
Ava, aud never would ask it of any man.
The direction of Christ is tn Dyc0ch, and
he had done so without let or hinder
ance. ....
The present King was represented
as exceedingly humane, aud u man Of
enlarged views. The Burmese are yiel-
ding 10 the gospel. Since his arrival
in this country. he had received let
ter stating that liquidation of Karens
had come from distance Of six hun
dred miles beyond Ava, begging for
books and teachers. The discourse was
full OF glowing statements, showing that
the missions ~ Bu,mah were never
more prosperous aud promising than ct
the present time.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-03-14
The Progress OF "a Great Fact.
ALL OPPOSITION VANQUISHED


Plunge stone into tl,e middle Of a lake
and from The point " here il falls ripples viii
spread in overwhelming rings until they
reach at least every portion OF its margin =
So II is with great discovery or inventions;
wherever il may be ushered 10 the ligh, its
lame is certain in the end 10 fill The world.
This has been s,rkingly illustrated in the
progress OF Professor Holowa,s invaluable
remedies. Twenty years ago they were first
announced in London; now they are the
standard medicines Of both hemispheres. -
Such is the resistess, far circlipg sweep of
grand uilitarian discovery, when applied
TO the highest philanthropic purposes, and
aided by the motive power Of the Press.
What are the greatest military achievements
compared with those Of Thomas Holloway 2
" u be true that The man who causes two
blades OF grass to grow where but one previ-
ously grew; what shall be said of him who
cures ten sick pefsons where but one was
cured before. Holloway, If the accumulated
testimony Of all nations is TO be believed,
'''o "''''N. '"o'h "OIO bluii ius. Diseases
which, prior 10 the inroiuctiln Of his Pills
end Ointment, bad baflled science, are now
relieved with an expedition and certainty
VIII ch are literally astounding. There is no
getting round or over The fact, for il is Q. /.
,ouched by The voluntary declaration of
convaescent mu!tiudes Professional jcal.
ousy and prejudice, the most form liable an.
tagonisis that Truth encounters, have been
vsn9uished By the success Of these prepare.
tons, and time honored medical institutions
OF Continental Europe have been constraiu.
ed 10 admit their value aud sanction their
employment. HNt n
III this country where the people are al
ways ready totest whatever is new, and q.
quully sagacious in discriminating between
the chaif and the wheat Of the great mass Of
novelties submitted TO them, the rapili.y
with which tlolowsy's Pills and Ointment
have obtained universal confidence has
perhaps, no parallel in the history Of science.
Their fame has rodiaied from tho focal point
in New Yoik 10 the remotest section OF the
Union.
Usually we improve upon all foreign in.
ren'ioirs but even Yankee acnmen cannot
enhance The value Of these remedies. We
take them ss they are, and ere not only sa,.
'sfed but grateful. - Boston Daily Joaynai.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-03-14
MORGAN7OWN MONOGAlA co., VA. SATURDAY, MARCH 4 1857

which is SIS per hundred. This is tho
price, but you have put up the tariff fif-
.ty cents on the hundred, you must pay
us five and a half. The merchant tells
him he can get what he wants at five,
of home manufacture. He is bound
to take five dollars, and we get fifty
cents a hundred more on every hund-
red weight of imported Iron clear by
raising the tariff. Importation would
decrease some 25 to SO millions that
would give home manufactures an OBJ
portunity to run their articles into mar
ket and getthe money which is carried
over to Europe for those article with
which our hills and mountains abound.
This would build up home manufac
lures. Competition would rise be-
tween home manufactures and the price
would come down. In my next shall
give the rise of this piebald party.
RUSTICUS.
American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-03-14

The treaty with Mexico contains no
stipulations for the ccssion of any Mex
ican territory to the United States, but
secures great commercial privileges to
citizens oftbe United States, in consid.
Grafton of which the United States is to
loan Mexico thesum Of fifteen millions
of dollars.
THE report Of the Joint Committee
OF the General Assembly of Ohio upon
Public Institutions and Buildings, an
nounces total Of detected ovorcharge
and stcalings from the State, amou Mt.
Ing to $279,333.
nsy~ Mr.. Buchanan got his inaugu.
raj coat made by an honest Dutch tai.
Ior of Lancaster, who patrioticelly
stitched it with stars, representing the
thirtytoao States Of the Union.