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Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

FINE WoRDs-Kossuth, short time
since, addressed the working classes Of
Edinburgh, when he closed his harangue
with the following words:
"The horizon is trembling with the
reflected light of the rising sun of liber-
ty. Be you free people as you are, the
lark to greet the morn Raise your
voice in the mountains and in your val
levs, and let it move over the face of the
waters. Let it be clearly understood
that tbs British people want no propping
up of rickety thrones, and do not mean
to couple the honorable name of Grea,
Britain with that Of the murderer of Hun
gary, the jailor of Italy and the robber Of
Poland I tell you, your voice will fal
cheeringly on the spirits of the oppressed,
as the warming ray of the sun falls Oh
the chilling night-path of the wanderer
So let your free and noble voice go forth
let it be heard in the good season, and
God Almighty bless you for it,
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

81 am stranger, but also a man, and
owe my life, soul, body, health and hap
piness-all--all to woman-to my mother
and if | turn deaf ear to the PRAYERS
of an innocent woman, asking my aid
against villain, may both my mother
and my God curse me ]! If you stay be-
hind, | go for one to fight Pedras and
his armed ravishers Of poor wives and
daughters
The speech was received with tremen-
dous cheers, and general shout, that
seemed to shake the solid earth, uttered
the first peal of the revolution.
'We will go! Death to the tyrants
Freedom for Texas, and the giant shall
be our leader!"
And then for the first time was heard
in the land of the wild, the name destined
to become an echo to the pulsation of all
hearts, the name of THOMAS j. RUsK.
The next day he led his raw recruits to
the attack of Nacogdoches, and stormed
every position against immense odds, af-
ter an assault of four hours, the carnage
being dreadful ON both sides. Fortunately
among the slain was the dead body of the
atrocious villain, Pedras.
Such was the debut of Rusk in Texas,
and from that day his popularity has gone
on steadily increasing, without even Sc
much as a cloud to dim its splendor. In
vain for three years Gen. Cos demanded
his arrest. Mexico had not soldiers
enough to take him, and in 1869 he
assisted to chase the last of these out OF
the country. Afterwards he amassed a
fortune at the Texan Bar, and was chosen
one of the first Senator'S of the new State
annexed-a place which he may hold
for life if he wills it.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

WEBsTER's DICTIONARY. .--Elihu Burrit,
the learned blacksmith, says 'Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary may be regarded
as bearing the same relation to the Eng
lish Language, which Newton's Prin-
cipia' does to the sublime science OF
Natural Philosophy. Indeed, in some
this comparison hardly does it
justice. That work of his long hfo's
study and prodigious industry is coming
to be recognized as the first authority and
most copious treasury of the language, in
the birth land Of our mother-tongue.-
An American may well feel an emotion
of honest pride at seeing it, as he may,
in the libraries of British Statesmen, and
of distinguished literati of that country.
But he should regard with richer salts
faction the fact, that such work, with
its vast treasures unabridged, lies like a
great encyclopaedia of living knowledge,
in many of the Common School libraries
of America. Let him travel the world
over, and he will not find in any other
country such a production domesticated,
as it were. with books prepared for the
instruction of the young
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
"My own brave child, am very proud

"My own brave child, ! am very proud
of you" said the well-pleased mother
"but now that you are so generous, deny
yourself one other pleasure. Let me
present the dress to Sally's mother, and
let her keep the secret from her, SO that
she may come to your party without a
single feeling of obligation to any one
here only thinking that her heavenly
Father raised her up friend in some
kind family; and you, my child, will en-
JOY seeing her so free and happy in her
manner, and win experience for the first
time that cit is more blessed to give than
to receive"
On the morrow the little company ar
rived. all il Ssghs< pirits and the pref
tiest, lovliest vi all the children, next to
Mary Wood, was Sallie Sprague.
'May the God of the fatherless ever
bless you and yours, dear Mrs. Wood, -
exclaimed widow, when she met her the
next day. "Poor little Sally wept and
laughed alternately for an hour after you
sent it over--and she has been SO happy
ever since. She added a supplement- to
her prayer last night please good God
bless the lady that sent me that dress, by
express 1 had told her it came by ex-
press), and bless her little girls and little
boys and everybody, for l love the whole
void now, and everything in it is like
sunshine and flowers. Amen"
Youthful reader, you are surrounded
by the virtuous poor; try to be unselfsh;
and when you pity them for their morti-
fcations and trials, think if there is no.
thing you could spare to make them hap
pier.-Boston Olive Branch.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

was when Hamilton made his report upon
navigation in 1890: it has doubled within
the last nine years. The tonnage of our
registered ships engaged in foreign trade
has trebled within the last fifteen years !:
our tonnage now surpasses that OF Great
Britain and all her colonies, and is double
the amount which British tonnage stood
only seventeen years ago. Our tonnage
is double that of all the European nations
together, exclusive of Great Britain. The
tonnage of Maine alone is equal to all the
Baltic powers combined. The united
tonnage of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
is not equal to the tonnage built in the
United States in the single year ending
on the 3oth day of last June.
eff this is the p.esent, what is to be
the future of commerce? Consider how
large proportion of the surface of the
globe has as yet made no contribution to
commerce, because waste, or occupied
by barbarous tribes, or inaccessible con-
slider what vast countries are now being
brought for the first time under the do
minion of civilized men: consider finally
how wonderfully production is being aug
mented by machinery, by the subjection
to human control of newly discovered
powers of nature, and by accumulating
capital. The progress of the past has
been great, and the capacity for the pro-
gress in the future is indefinitely greater.
The field for enterprise is not yet fully
explored; it stretches boundless on every
hand, and each step forward only gives
new points of vision and more extended
prospects"
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
Misffllanf0us.
A THRILLING INCIDENT.

The tragedy of Nacogdoches, and the
romantic incidents which led to the Texan
war of independence, find their parallel
only in the Roman history of Lucretia
and the elder Brutus.
Juan Costa was person of influence
and bravery in the wild forest, but he fell
under the displeasure of Santa Anna, and
his minions,. Pedras, the commandant
of Nacogdoches, was sent to arrest him.
He arrested the father at the supper table,
attended by his only daughter, a young
lady ofsurpassing beauty and intelligence
He loaded him with chains and cast him
into prison, Notwithstanding her tears and
entreaties. Finally he proposed to free
the father, if the daughter would consent
to sacrifice her innocence and honor. She
rejected the infamous proposal with a
blow in the face. The armed ruffian
swore horrible oath to execute his will
on them both.
With dark eyes, fearless, fixed as those
of corpse, yet flashing double portion
Of luminous FIRE, she mounted horse
and hurried wildly through the country.
She halted at every house, no matter
whether Mexican or American, and re-
hearsed in tones of thrilling horror, her
fathers wrongs and her own.
All timid modesty, all weakness had
vanished from her tongue, utterly con-
sumed by the scorching thirst for ven
geance. She painted in passions fiery
language. and with awful minuteness, the
fact Of the damning deed. She barred her
..yirgin bosom, and showed the livid marks
- the ravisher's fingers among the azure
ems along the surface of snow, now SO
diluted and soiled. but before as pure as
le gleam of an angels wing.
And still, wherever the beautiful maid
andered, deafening yell of wrath and
engeance rose up against the tyrants.
.he people of both classes and all ages
aw to arms, appointing general rem
,,zvous for the l4th Of June, at the resi-
nee Of the absent and now imprisoned
ian Costa.
II was there debated by the people the
ode of attack, and who should be their
ader. but nothing being agreed on, the
hole assemblage bade fair to break up
confusion, when a tall and powerful
~ stranger. who had just entered Tex,
rom the States, came forward and ad.
'essed the multitude.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
GIGANTIC COMMERCE OF AMERICA.

The following statement, which is the
closing portion of the leading article in
Hunts Merchants Magazine for the cur
rent month, presents comparative view
OF the commerce of the young giant of
America and of the nations of the old
world, exhibiting the growth and vast
preponderance of the former over the lat
ler-a preponderance increasing and des-
tined to increase beyond human calcula-
ton, if the Republic only proves true to
itself.
"Our tonnage is eleven times what il
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
THE INQu1sITIyE YANKEE.


A gentleman riding in an Eastern Rail-
road car, which was rather scarcely sup
piled with passengers, observed in seat
before him, lean, slab-sided Yankee
every feature of his face seemed to ask a
question, and little circumstance soon
proved that he possessed more "inquir-
ing mind" Before him, occupying the
entire seat, sat lady dressed in deep
black, and after shifting his position sew
eral times, and maneuvering to get an
opportunity to look into her face, he at
length caught hereye:-
In affliction?"
Yes, sir, responded the lady.
"Pa-rent? :? father or mother?"
"No, sir"
Child, perhaps?-boy or girl?"
"No, sir, not child have no chill
dren"
Husband, then, l expect?"
"Yes," was the curt answer
Hum - cholera "a tradin' man,
maybe?"
My husband was sea-faring man
the captain of a vessel; he didn't die OF
cholera, he was drowned"
"Oh, drowned, eh?" pursued the in
quisitor, hesitating for brief instant.
"Save his chist?''
Yes, the vessel was saved and nv
husbands effects" said the widow.
"Was they?" asked the Yankee, Ms
eyes Frightening up.
"Pious man 90
He was member of the Methodist
Church."
The next question was little delayed,
but it came.
Don't you think you have great cause
to be thankful that he was a pious man
and saved his chist? ?"
81 do, said the widow, abruptly, and
turned her head to look out of the win
dow.
The indefatigable pump" changed
his position, held the window by his gilt
tering eye once more, and propounded
one more query, in a little lower tone,
with his head slightly inclined forward,
over the back of the seat.
"Was you calculating to ever get mar
ricd again?"
Sir" said the widow, Indignantly
you are impertinent !" and she left her
seat and took another on the other side
of the car.
"Pears to be a little huffy - said, the
ineffable bore, turning to our narrator
who sat behind him. What did they
make you pay for that umbrel you'y We go'
in your hand ?"
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

= LoNG CoIL.-The condensers Of the
new Collins steamship Adriatic, invented
by Mr.. Allen, of the Novelty Works,
New York, cool the steam by means OF
tacenty-one miles of brass tubing, through
which cold sea water is made to pass
constantly by two pumps. The con-
densed steam is thus fed back into the
boilers fresh. The brass tubing is cut
into sections Is feet long, SO that the
cooling power ofthe water passed through
them must be nearly the same as if i
were mixed with the steam in Jets.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

IMPORTANT IF TRUE. = Galignani' s
Messenger contains the following:
professor Giovanni Caseli, of Flor
ence has just made discovery which
promises to cast all previous contrivan-
ces in electro telegraph into the shade
He has invented an apparatus by which
the telegraphic wire will transmit to any
distance an exact fac simile of any writ
ing or design when made to communi-
cate with similar apparatus at the other
station. If the account of this extraor-
binary invention which is given by the
Courier Mereanfa of Genoa, be true, the
transmission of telegraphic dispatches by
single letters viii be entirely superseded
and the original writing put into the ap-
paratus will be produced in an instant
with the signature of the correspondent
as ii written by himself
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

The members Of the Bar in Iowa. in
on the Supreme Court and
connected with the Legislature, held a
meeting at Iowa City last week, to dis
cuss the question of increasing the sala-
ries of Judges. They voted unanimous
ly that the present salaries are insufficient
and niggardly. and as unanimously rec
commended an increase, as due to the IN
creased labors of all the Judges.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31
Yoftrg
For the Quasqucton Guardian
TO NELLIE R.
BY MINNIE.

'Tis not the love which interest knows,
That I most highly prize;
Nor yet is it the tear that flows
AT will from practised eyes;
But tits the love that prompts the tear
For innocence that grieves,
And brings the heart of pity near,
When worldly friendship leaves.
My heart more fondly turns to thee,
Mid changing scenes of day.
And feels assured you think of me,
Though be far away.
And should the world in envious peals,
Conspire to blast thy name,
There is one friend for thee still feels
Unchangably the same.
When evening shades around me lower,
And hushed is busy strife
And at the hour when thoughts should soar
Beyond this transient life;
How sweet my friend are thoughts Of thee,
And still to call thee mine;
For there has beenfio change in me
Since days of auld lang syne."
WHO is this friend" the world may say,
That can life's ills beguile ?"
'Tis he who cheers you on his way,
With benignant smile.
Not he who coldly turns aside,
When aid he should impart,
Or fails to soothe when griefs betide.
And droops the stricken heart.
There is a friendship false indeed,
Which changes on the morrow
Following where bright prospects lead, n
But never near in sorrow.
But the blest friendship which crave,
If such can here be given,
Is that which leaves but at the grave,
To be renewed in heaven.
Ohio, Jan. Is, 1857.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

THE DocToR AND THE HooPs.-The
editor of the Medical aud Surgical Jour
nal comes out strongly in favor of hoops.
He says nothing can be more appropriate
during the heat of summer, than those
light frames to raise the weight of the
skirts from the hips and lower part of the
back. He counsels the ladies against
making such airy sprites of themselves as
to take cold. Yes, ladies, beware of the
whooping cough.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

A "MILKY WAY" AT SEA.-A lady on
her voyage to California, writes the fol-
lowing, which we are permitted to print ::
When in the Gulf of Alden, we saw
a very remarkable sight Itwas rough
and blowy evening that we were called
on deck to see the Milky Water" which
is only seen just in this region. II is still
undecided whether the effect is produced
by electricity, by atmospheric causes, or
by animalcule. Instead of water, it
seemed as if the vessel were plunging
through great drifts of snow. The ap-
pearance extended even to the horizon,
and if the air had been colder, and l
could have caught the sound of sleigh
bells, l should have lost all idea of the
sea, and imagined myself enjoying a
magnificent sleigh-ride. II was splen-
did sight; and it is very remarkable that
no chemical analysis can detect any Pc
culiarity in the composition of the water ;
and as soon as daylight or moonlight
comes, it vanishes. The milky water
lasted for three nights, and then sudden
ly stopped; and every evening afterward
the water was as usual. ~ y. OBS.
Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-31

zed by gentleman of tall stature and
swart complexion and who was evidently
from the country. The following CONVEX
sation took place:
81 say! you are Professor Anderson,
hey?"
eyes, SIR"
"Wal, you're tarnation smart man,
| hear. Yeou havn't got the bottle with
yeou have yeou?"
"No, SIR
"Well, I'm from down east, hev been
raised in Maine, and should like to pur-
chase duplicate of that ar bottle, as I'm
going out stumping for. / guess if
| had your bottle or its twin brother, I'd
soon swamp the Scotties without talking
politics either.''
II never carry my bottle with me, nor
have duplicate of it."
s'Sorry for that, SIR" said the
stumper. However" he continued, Il
was once taught trick when boy, but
| almost forget how the thing was done
III tell you how it was, stranger, as near
as | can. | used to take red cent and
change it into ten dollar gold piece"
"Oh," said the Professor, ''that is quite
simple, mere trick of sleight of hand"
81 know it's not very difficult, but as
| forget how, will you show me?" at the
same time handing cent to the wizard.
"Oh, yes, sir, if it viii oblige you, l
will show you in moment. Hold out
your hand" said the wizard. "This is
your cent, is it not?'
Eyes, sir
care you sure that you have it?" said
the wizard.
81 guess l have," said he, "and I'll
bet dollar you can't change it into ten
dollar gold piece"
"Done," said the wizard. "now hold
fast
Eyes, sir, reckon / will-but stay |!
down with your dollar; here's mine,
said the Yankee.
The wizard covered his dollar.
'Now, sir, open your hand"
He did SO, and to his utter astonish-
ment he held bona fde ten dollar gold
piece!
"Well, sir, you sec you have lost your
dollar" said the wizard.
81 guess l have" said he, handing
over the two dollars.
''Now," said the Professor, "I'll bet
you another dollar l will change the ten
dollar gold piece into your cent again
much quicker
"Io you DON'T" said the gent from
Maine, placing the money in his pocket
and buttoning it up tight. 'I'm mnch
obliged to you, Professor, but reckon
I'll leave it as it is. Good morning old
hoss," said he, walking out of the Office,
and turning round as he reached the door,
he placed his digits in close approxima-
ton to his nose, and said 81 guess there
amt anything green about this child, and
left the Professor in utter amazemcht at
his GOODNESS.