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Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
Remember the Denarteh.

Let the departed be held in holy re-
membrance! Letnot a lineament fade.
But let it be a Christian remembrance.
Remember them not as those who were,
but as those who are. Seek them not in
the tombs, but seek them in the heavens.
Death may dissolve all false and unreal
bonds, but it only makes closer all real
one. Not one such bond is broken. Re-
member them as beings who look on you
with beth a wiser and tenderer interest
than when they were with you-wiser,
as better knowing the true ends of life,
tenderer, as better knowing its struggles.
Remember them as beings who more
than ever rejoice in every step you take
in a Christian way, and who mourn not so
much for your trials, as for sins. Such
memory hallows the earth, and it brings
almost to our vision higher world. In
the Apocalypse, the heaven and the earth
were seen to pass away, and before the
eye Of the seer arose a new heaven and
a new earth It Is scarcely too much to
say TINT the sublime vision is repeated In
the experience of every Christian beEe7S
er. AS friend after friends departs, what
was before our earthly home, expands
with them into the skies. The spiritual
world of faith is added to the world Of
sight. Every tie broken here, is carried
upward to be made spiritual and immor-
tai.
And there are not those alone whom
we have known and loved, but the good
of all ages. Nor these alone. He is
there, through whom it is given US to have
this blessed faith, and whose visible re-
surrection Of all. He is there-not as
when on the earth, crowned with thorns,
and fainting under the cross-but clothed
in brightness of the Father; and over all
the infinite goodness, the all-embracing
love, in whom all things subsist. Before
this vision revealed to faith, the Garth
and its interests no longer seem Of sole
or chief importance. We attain TO some
understanding Of the words Of the beloved
disciple: 81 saw new heaven and a new
earth; for the first heaven and the first
earth were passed away. And heard a
great voice out of heaven saying, behold,
the tabereacle Of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them, and they shall be
his people, and God himself shall be with
them and be their God. And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
thero shall be no more death, neither soE-
row, nor crying.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
NO. t.
The WhIppOOrWill.

While enjoying comfortable chair up
on the piazza the other day, and rejecting
upon the events of the day, our thoughts
were disturbed by the far-ot strain Of
Whippoorwill. twas the first we had
heard this season, and its sad music awak-
ened train of reflections.
While the air of Spring is filed with
the songs of thousand warblers by dav,
by night Is heard the mournful chant Of
the Whippoorwill. Buried deer N the
groves Of Ssuthern land, and nesting
quietly beneath q tropical sun, this lover
81 warmth ant nfort chnses awass.tho
long winter months; and when the ineri-
dian sun sgain breaks the ice and dissoIves
the snow, vfzvia Ahe green grass once more
shoots up and the trees feuf - their. usuoI
oroer, s--'ay away he flies. and the Ia
haunts of his birdisb love know him once
again. The bright glare of day seems to
hare no charm for him; unlike other
feathered songsters, he prefers to sing at
night. When all is silent save the low
ehirps of the Katydid and an occasional
hoot of the Owl, the little melancholy bird
of the night comes forth from his hidden
nook, and seating himself upon a bough.
rocked by the evening wind, he begins
his plaintive chant, "WhippoorwiI -
This is soon caught up and echoed back
by another of his tribe, and another will
take up the strain, and thus it is carried
from throat to throat until the forest air
vibrates with the melancholy song. This
serenade continues long after all other
winged and creeping things are asleep;
and not until the first streals of sunlight
tint the tree-tops do they cease their
night-wail and retire to their hidden and
leafy recesses; there they rest in security
and quiet until the twilight chirp OF the
Katydid calls them forth again.
The Whippoorwill is about the size Of
a robin; has long tail, and its color is a
lightish brown; is rather a pretty bird
than otherwise. 1t is sometimes called
"Bird of the Night" from Its peculiar
habit of being hidden all day when other
birds are out, and coming forth at night.
Many years ago we remember visiting
the ruins of an old church-yard; the gra-
yes were mostly fattened by time, and
the few stone graves It boasted were
mouldered with age. 1t was Just after
twilight, and all was still and serene in
that old burial place save plaintive note
from a "Whippoorwill" )" Following the
direction of the sound it brought rs 10 q
little grave, with small stone a. the
head; 1t bore this simple inscription,
"Our Willie" Rereaung again TO
little distance, and waiting for sound
from the hidden songster, were presently
gratifed by seeing little bird perched
upon a low limb of an oak which grew
Immediately at the boys head, open, his
throat and emit the slow mournful notes
which had 1ust attracted our attention.
The summer wind played in The long
grass and stirred the leaves Of the oak,
aud, wirile. the twilight shaded more and
more into the night, .ha loving little
"Whippoorwill'' sang louder and Iouuer
over the little lonely boy; and we thought
as we turned homeward, we had never
heard a more touching or solemn re-
QUEEN.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
'IeS IS as IOIIOWS
Square miles

1t is seen that the area of Kansas is
nineteen thousand square miles greater
than that of all New England, New York
and New Jersey; and that the area of
Nebraska is ninety-fve thousand miles
greater than that of all the non-slave-
holding States except California. Oregon
is nearly equal in extent to all New
England, New York, Pennsyl7ania, Ohio
and Indiana. 1t is possible that New
Mexico and Mesilla VIII be embraced in
one Territorial organization by Congress,
containing two hundred and eighty -eieh,
thousand square miles of territory, ex-
ceeding that Of all New England New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. Utah is nearly equal in extent
to all New England, New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio. Washington exceeds
in extent all New England and New
York.
If the Territories should be en-. on INTO
States OF the average size of the present
States, the Union would consist when
they should all be admitted, of between
sixty and seventy members. 1t is not
likely this will be done; but as Texas
will probably be divided into three States,
and Nebraska into three more, the Union
will, when all the territory now belong
ing to us shall be erected into States, oon-
sist of at least fifty members.
The Kansas question disposed of, we
can conceive of no difficulties attending
the settlement of the Territories and
their organization into States, except in
the case of Utah. In regard to it, it
strikes US that there is but one way to
proceed, after suppressing the rebellious
outbreak, and that is, to obliterate its
geographical boundaries and partition it
to the States and Territories adjacent
This Congress has the power to do, and
its effect will be-to break up the Mormon
settlements. In this connection a project
has been favored of organizing a new
Territory in the great basin, "lying be-
tween the Sierra Nevada on the west, the
Gvose creek range of mountains on the
east, the Oregon and Utah line on the
north, and the Colorado on the south. y
The country thus bounded Is summarily
by the following extract froR a recent
California paper:
1.-The valleys number from two nun
dred to two hundred and fifty, and range
from ten to hundred miles in length
They are alluvial, and are the best graz
ing and agricultural lands on this CONT.
nent. Comparatively 10 metals or mine.
rails have yet been found in them, altho
it is believed that many of them contain
both. The foot hills lying Throughout
this basin as we'll as the mountains are
known to possess gold, silver, copper
lead, zinc, iron, coal, and many other me
tails and minerals, as we'll as preCiou.
stones. Already copper, gold, sIl
yer, iron, and coal mines are being work
ed. Thus far they have proved to be tht
richest found on this side of the continent
The physical resources of the country ar,
immense, and no human agency will per
haps, for many years, be able to discove
the length, width, and depth of them; fo
until some better security to life is afford
ed, the Mormons and the Indians wi
WELD the sceptre of authority over thi
great basin.p
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01

faint light, these questions seem to US to
have hung round his mind, filling it all
with solemn shadow; be looked on them
as on mystic hieroglyphics, but when he
asked their secrets, they remained silent
as Isis; he ever turned away saying, in
baffled pride, / will compel your answer
in eternity; yet always turned again, fas-
cinated by their sublime mystery, and
stung by their calm defiance. No word
of frivolity escapes him; he tells men
sternly whatthey have to dare, and do,
and suffer; he never says the burden is
light, or the foe weak but the one musg
be bernes and the oth nuss BE met
golul nfoe9n rugged regsoh WssEe
Nature. forgetting her gen.leit moods,
desires to write upon the tablet of the
world her lessons of solemnity and pow
er; you perceive that only hardy plants
can breathe this atmosphere, that here. no
Arcadian laws can smile, no Utcpian pa
-laces arise; then awaken in you that cou-
rage, you seem to be conscious of that
sense of greatness which the strong soul
knows in the neighborhood of crags and
forests, where the torrent blends its stern
murmur with the music of the mountain
blast.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01

Not the least hopeful result of the
great revival Of religion, now so general
among all denominations of Christians, is
their unity of purpose and effort, and the
abeyanqe, for the time beingat least, Of
seetariap escluziTers TtiH realise
tlon 81 The fizofi a h7iich Ant Bigotfg
feIl and broke hi les II wished" said
the matchless dreamer, that it had been
his neck" His neck will be broken be-
fore the end comelh, and Christ's prayer
that all his disciples may be one, even as
He and the Father are one, will yet be
answered. In the mea1ime, as a me-
mento of what has been, and is not yet
utterly extinct, we copy al eloquent pas
sage on
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01

"Oh, Mr.. Grubblesr' exclaimed
young mother, shouldn't you like to have
family of rosy children about your
knee?" "No ma'am," said the old dis
agreeable old bachelor, ''I'd rather have
lot of yellow boys in my pocket"
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
JOHN FOSTER.

The writer last quoted thus graphically
and truthfully delineates one of the most
profound thinkers of the age in which he
lived:
"Earnestness was, perhaps, Fosters
distinguishing characteristic; oIer his
every page you seem to see benilng the
knit brow and indomitable eye of the
thinker. This man, you feel, is consci-
Gus that it is a great and awful thing to
be alive, to be born to that dread Inherit
ance of duty and destiny which awaits
every spirit of man that arrivesOn earth.
He shakes from him the dust Of custom !;
he little heeds the sanctions of eputation;
afar off and very still, compared with a
voice coming from above, he hears the
trumpetings of fame; calm, determined,
irresistible, his foot ever seems to press
down till it reaches the basal Rdament.-
This earnestness is made the more Inn
pressive from the manifest letning of his
mind toward the gloomy and mysterious.
OF habits of thought deeply reflective, be
retired, as it were, into thelnner dwell
ing of his mind, there to poader the inso-
luble questions Of destiny; Ike dim cur
tains, painted with shapes of terror, o.
gloom, and of weird grandeur, that hang
round duslly hall, waving fitfully in The
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
From Emerson's Magazine.
This is q Great C0untrYs

We never were more impressed with
the idea of the territorial vastness of our
great Republic, than in looking over
some statistics lately published in De-
troit paper, giving the areas of the seve-
raj States and Territories. The Repub-
lie has grown from thirteen States to
thirty-one, and yet we have more terri
tory left than is comprised in all the thir-
ty-one States. Who can foretell the des-
tny of this nation?
a, comparative statement of the area
II Re present States with thit of tha Ter
siled to Be erectedinto States.
exhibits NE ipteresiing fact that the area
oH trle latter IN square miles exceeds the
former. The superficial area OF -tlle-rer.
ritories, organized and unorganized, is
set down as follows:
Square miles Square miles
Kansas Territory 1856 900 Sew Mexico Terry 21oOee
Minneseta l4I 600 Nebraska (" SIS 600
Oregon /" 2z7, 600 Mesilla 7s,oOO
Washington IIs eco Indian $4,000
Utah !" $4,000
Total Square miles 100000
To these Dacotah is to be added, ,of the
extent of which we have seen no estimate.
The superficial area of the present
States is as follows:
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01

A Yankee and a Southerner were
playing poker on a steamboat.
Il havn't seen an ace for some time, y
remarked the Southerner.
"WaIl, l guess you haint," said the
Yankee, "but l can tell you where they
are. One of them is in your shirt sleeve
there, and the other three are in the top
of my boots.'
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01

'Now, Mr., don't you think it very
abthurd in mamma to thay I'm too young
to think of marriage?'' said spinster of
forty to a lover of thirty.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01

A merchant lady advertised for a clerk
who could endure confinement, received
an answer from one who had been in jail
seven years.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
INDoMIrADLE PERSEVERANCE.


An incident in the life of Audubon is
we'll known and is gracefully told by DR..
Storrs:
"One of the most interesting passages
in modern literary history, is that in
which the great ornithologist of our time
met the sudden destruction of the trea-
sures he had accumulated in fifteen years
of incessant exploration. At the shock
of what seemed an irremediable disaster
he was thrown into a fever which had
welI-nigh proved fatal. "a burning
heat" as he described it, "rushed thro'
my brain; and my days were oblivion"
But as consciousness returned, and the
rally of nature fought back the sudden
incursion of diseasey there sang again
through his weakening thoughts the wild
notes he had heard in the bayous of
Louisiana, the everglades of Florida, the
savannahs of the Carolinas, and the for
ests that fringe the sides of the Allegha-
nies. He saw again the Washington
eagle, as it scared and screamed from its
far rocky eyric. He startled again, from
her perch on the frs, the brown warbler
of Labrador. He traced in thought the
magic hues on crest and wing, that so Of
ten had shone before the dip of his rife.
And the passion Tor new expeditions and
1 discoveries, arising afresh, was more to
him than medicine. In three years more,
passed far from home, he had filled once
more the despoiled portfolios, and at eve
ry step, as he lold his biographer, sit was
not the desire Of fame that prompted hint;
it was his exceeding enJOymert of ma,
| +,,-a >
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
Miscellaneous.
From the National Magazinel
CullGd Flowers.
CulIed Flowers.

have here only made nOsegay Of culled flowers, and
have brought nothing of own but the string that
ties then-MoNTAIeNE.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
THE FINITE AND THE INDEFINITE.

THE FINITE AND THE INDEFINITE.
Bayne, whose critical acumen has been
noticed in our pages, has frequently a
beautifully suggestive passage:
"There is beauty in the face of nan
when his God smiles on it. as on the face
of the babe in his cradle, on which fa-
ther looks In JOY, which must not be
taken away. There is an earnestness in
the heart and life of man when he
knows that the eye of the Eternal is on
him, which must not be foregone. There
is an eternity Of consequence in every
act of an immortal, which he cannot de-
ny and continue to work The finite be-
ing staggers in bewilderment when sep
arated from the Infinite; he cannot stand
alone in the universe; he cannot defame
his spirit without darkening it; he canned
scorn faith without weakening reason;he
cannot deny God and reach the full
strength and expansionof Of his fSculties as
a man. Coleridge says truly; that rel-
zion makes all glorious on shichi il looks.
How eGeclcal and sublime Is the educa-
tion receive in the survey, if every OBJ
iect l meet is gifted with a power of ex-
baustless suggestion, and every leaf of
the forest, and star of the sky, is COM
missioned witness for God; and not the
most careless trill of the woodland melo-
DIV; no chance CLEAN of sunlight over the
fountain that leaps from the crag, and,
reckless as it is, must stay to reflect il It's
rainbowed lovelinesS the beauty of heaven
no wild wave tossing joyously on the
painless deep, but has power to call into
action. my highest and hottest. power OF
wonder, of reverence, of adorltion.'
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-07-01
CHRISTIAN CHARITY.

1t is taken from sermon by the cele-
brated -Cudworth, preached before the
British House of Commons n the days
of Cromwell, and reads a, though it
might have been written last fear:
"Love is, and has ever beer, the most
most wanting of the Christianl graces.-
What do we see in ChristeEiom? A
vast complication of ecclesiastical machi-
merry, churches established andchurches
unestablished, to keep men in the tram
mels of sectarianism; vast aCumula-
ton of doctrines to be believed, dlties to
be performed, and rites to be oherved /;
vast array of Biblical learning and cri-
ticism, in which every word is examined,
weighed, and defined. We have Geeds,
confessions, lithurgies, prayer-b bools, ca
thechisms, and forms of faith and hisci-
pline. We have bishops, priests, par
sons and teachers We have councils.
convocations, synods, conferences, assem-
blies, and other ecclesiastical bodies
without number. We have commenta.
ries, reviews, magazines, religious news.
papers, and journals of all kinds, and
thousands of religious books, from the
four page tract to the quarto volume. We
have caIhedrais, churches, Chapels, ant
sohools--in short a lFondroUs aud c6lnplt
rated mass at meons. i1stTumentalaies
and agencies. BIT arhers is our charity
All these things are hut means to an enc
and that end is charity out of a pure
heart, a good conscience, and faith un
feigned."
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THRNHS:

one year if paid in advance, s5'gO
4. ~ 90 % :" nt the end Of months, 2,5O
uu @ - " 4" q" u 800
of17 or more will be furnished at Sl,5O per
q r-oyided the cash accompanies the ORDER
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TRUE PoLITENESS.

Is Christian grace. 1t is obedience to
the injunction of the apostle BE eourte-
Gus. The great and good Lord Chatham
says:
Gas to politeness, many have attempt
ed to define it. l believe it is best-to be
known by description, definition not be-
ing able to comprise it. l would, how
ever venture to call it "benevOlence in
trihes," or the preference of others to
ourselves in little daily, hourly occurrences
in the commerce of life. 1t is perpe-
tual attention to the wants of those with
whom we are, by which attention we
either prevent or remove them. Bowling,
ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff cl-
Whites, will never be politeness-that
must be easy, natural, unstudied, manly,
noble, and what will give this but mind
benevolent and perpetually attentive to
exert that amiable disposition in ;rihes tc
all you converse and live with.
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Is privilegs Of yearly advertisers will be comm
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n,aa not pertaining thereto, to be paid for ex-
I.srly advertisers have tho privilege OF changing
thcIrt Advertisements quarterly.
All lcadcd advertisements charged double the
nboT1 rates.
kfrsrtissm,ntl on the inside exclusively will be
chas0td extra.
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l AM

~
Who can conceive a more beautiful
connection of sublime ideas than is found
in the following. The authorship is at
tributed to Bishop Beveridge:
al am" He doth not say, am their
light, their guide, their strengthening
tower, bat only l am. He sets, as it were,
his hands to blank, that his people may
write under it what they please that-is
good for them. AS if he said Are
they weak? am strength. Are they
poor? am riches. Are They in .Touble2
/ am comfort. Are they sick an
health. Are they dying2 l am life
Have they nothing? ] am all things: l
am wisdom and power; am glory, beau
~, holiness, eminence, super-eminence,
perfection, all-suficiency, eternity. Jeo-
vah l am! Whatsoever is amiable in it.
self, and desirable to them, that / am
Whatsoever is pure and holy, whatsoever
is good and needful to make men happy,
that l am.
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HnTin- added 10 the Advertiser Office Card and
y frcszcs New Type of the latest styles, Inks Of
cdo ores B-auzas Fine Paper, Envelopes, &c: we
e new prepared 10 execute Job Work Of every de-
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tte United States.
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p Proprietors, having had an extensive expe-
a, will give their personal attention to this
n Of business, and hope, in their endeavors to
p, both in the excellence Of their work, and
nable charges to receive share Of the public
rnage.
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GREATNESS AND nEAxNEss


Are so nearly allied that a very trifing.
matter marks the boundary betweenth them.
Emerson thus explains it:
"What must do is all that concerns
me, and not what the people think. This
rule, equally arduous in actual and in in'
tellectual life, may serve for the whole
distinction between greatness and mean
ness. 1t is the harder, because YOU will
always find those who think they know
what is your duty better than you know
it. 1t is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude
TO live after your own; but the great man
is he who, in the midst of the crowd,
keeps, with perfect sweetness, the inde-
pendence of solitude.
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Fame is a revenue payable only to our
ghosts; and TO deny ourselves all present
satisfaction for this, were as great mad
ness as to starve ourselves, and fight
desperately for food to be laid on our
tombs after death.-.MKenzie.