The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-07-28

defenders fall at the touch of the De-
stroyer. The brave, brotherly heart that
indited those paragraphs is still; the true,
generous hand that traced them, has
mouldered away.
HIS place also, shall know him no more,
who until some day in May, had charge
of the business department of the Jour
nal But so shall it be written Of him
who now writes; so will the ranks close
up, and the world move on, and it is well.
Thus has every household its memories
and its dead. .
After speaking of its earlier history, it
says: a9.s
We receive bright-faced exchanges to-
day, from cities, which then had no place
whatever in homemade Geography; we
look around upon our city contemporaries,
some of them in the first flush and flutter
of existence, and we see among the edito-
rial staff of the Democrat, the Tribune,
the late Democratic Press, and the Times,
old Aids of ours, to some of whom we
gave their first editorial commissions.
And yet the chairs of our own household
are not set vacant against the wall. Let
us group their occupants for once in these
bright new capitals: CHAs. l.. WILSON,
Editor-in- Chief; BENZ. F. TAYLOR, Lite
rary Department; ANDREW SHUMAN,
Political and News. GEORGE w. UPTov,
Local; aud FRANK w. REILLY, Com
mercial. .5y .e
Through all these changes at which
| we have glanced-we confess to a com
mingled emotion of gratitude and pride
as we write 1.-THE Journal has pursued
the even tenor of its way. If it has failed
in the advocacy Of the principles from
which its heart has never wandered, it
was an error only of the head; the aim
was earnest and true, but there was not
strength enough in the bow
Shutting off the old wear to-day, we
may be pardoned for thus looking over
our shoulder for moment, ere we set our
face as before, upon the onward way.
Those worn fonts now cast aside, we fol-
low with an interest which none but the
Editor and owner of daily paper can
clearly understand. Through rain and
shine, winter and summer, they have
borne the transcript of our thoughts to
friends and strangers; in them important
facts have been chronicled, and lighter
fancies found expression; principles have
been defended and wrongs exposed !;
prosperity and adversely have therein
found utterance; they have furnished in
their way, one of the log-books of the
West; harvests have been heralded,
deaths have been recorded, and joy has
found its BETTING word. They have
been the daily wear of the better part of
us; they have widened the horizon of our
friendships; and if they have multiplied
our enemies, they have given us a strong
er arm wherewith to strike. We have q
pleasing consciousness, that they never
have clicked into the printers stick to
CRAFTY private pique of ours, or to do a
whiting wrong.
The types now new and bright will
soon be dimmed by daily use, but the
past will bear witness for us that they
will never be soiled by anything blacker
or baser than INK; injustice shall not
darken, nor passion stain them.
With wider parish of readers to-day.
than on any day before-with the old
tried friends and true purposes reinforced,
even the past reality is bright enough for
the future hope.