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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-01-28
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MISS ANNE FRENCH.

MISS ANNE FRENCH
In thinking of ''old times" Anna
of The dear s.old times" Of yore,
Dost thou ever think of them, now Annal
The friends and the joys that are no more.
Dost remember the scenes, we so loved Anna
The old beech-tree, DOWN in the wocd.l
The bright green grass that grew by its SIDE,
And the miilstreams cooling food.
Full many years have passed, since then AIMS
Full many years of JOY and love, -
And many, we loved, so then Anna
Have gone where no more tears Elay Eo"-
We too are living yet dear Anna
But not as we used TO be
We are scattered widely no~ Anna
And we sit no mere meath our trusting tree
III We meat no more on this earth Anna,
There is bIissful home Above
Where the weary pi grim goss Anna,
Tis the savIours, home OF love.
When we meet, in that ssissi i~zd Anna'
We win live and LsSefor age;
And thsfe we will psrt no more Anna
We-xill live and love alw0y
oYzsrILrE, Dec. 81.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-01-28
Kindness

How much misery may be abated, how
much suffering may be removed by the SIM
pie tone and expression OF the human voice:
U pom tine Learl that is lone and tesolate,
that feels itself, US il were, shut out uf the
world, wrapped up IN gloomy imagiuinss,-
how swactiy falls the voice oi sympathy aud
consu.ation! Why is il, then, since e'csy-
thing proves, and none are ignorant Of tie
tact. that III must lie down IN mother earl
together, since all arc travellers in this hi h
way to death, Why is it tha. each should be
So sparlng OF that which costs him notaing'
but which might raise the dropping spirits
o. his neighbor. and cheer him on his J'ur-
ney-a few kind WORDS aud kindly looks!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-01-28

I
The treason trial of Mr. Adams reminds
one OF the ceYsuFe OF Joshua R. Gildings.
later in the same session., for venturing to
rtler in the House some moderate Anti
Slavery resolutions. His resignation, his
triumphant re election, are freshly remem-
bersd Truly the present father OF the
House may say, "Times change, and men
with them"
The Old Hall, of which we write, is not
solely consecraisd to the heroic and the
sublime. The ludicrous and the tacctIuus
have laid their gifts there. Among the
richest Of these was Tom Corwins reply to
pompous brigadier general OF militia from
Michigan, Crary by name. 1t was in the
Harrison canvass of 1910. Crary had en-
tered into minute military criticism of
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-01-28

A MUFF.-A thing that holds young
lady's hand without squeezing 1t.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

FrLL1BUsTERs.-Th The N. Y. Tribune
gives the following very sensible bit of
advice to those who covet Cuba, or 9TH
erwise indulge in fillibustering propensi-
ties;
If any of our readers are infected with
the Cuba fever, or are in danger of catch
ing it, we will thank them to take down
their Bibles, and read thoughtfully, from
Exodus Xxx. II, that commandment which
runs thus: "THoU SHALT NOT covET thy
neighbours house, nor his wife, nor his OK,
nor anything that IS thy neighbors." If
some one who reads wants any contro-
versy about the divine inspiration of this
passage or of the Mosaic Scriptures gen.
arally, we respectfully refer him to the
next clergyman he may meet who has
leisure to attend to him, while We rest in.
the fact that the wisdom and benifcence
of the above commandment approve
themselves to our understanding, heart
and conscience. "Thou shalt not covet
anything that is thy neighbors"- &c hear
that 0 fillibusters, annexationists, land
steaIers, and thieves generally, for it is
the Divinest truth which it greatly be-
hooycs yon to hear, heed and lay to heart.
If that one commandment were but gem
orally needed, prisons and scaffolds might
safely be abolished, for all Earth would
be an Eden. All crimes, all wrongs,
nearly all miseries, flow from the viola
ton Of this law. a 81 g s-
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
Lincoln and Douglas to Meet.

Desiring to meet with Judge Douglas,
and discuss with him the political issues
of the day, feeling that invitation to do SO
would come more properly from Mr..
Douglas, and therefore waiting as long as
courtesy would dictate, Mr.. Lincoln re-
Gently addressed an invitation to him,
inquiring if it would be agreeable, to
make an arrangement to divide the time
and address the same audiences during
the Canvass.
Mr.. Douglas replies that his arrange
ments have been made with the Demo-
cratic Central Committee as to times and
places of speaking, when the meeting
would be got up under Democratic aus
pices, that the local candidates would also
speak, and hence satisfactory arrange
ment could not be made. He further
thinks that a third candidate would thrust
himself upon them with design to divide
the Democrats for Mr.. Lincoln's benefit,
expresses surprise that the proposition
was not sooner made, but finally offers to
meet Mr.. Lincoln in some one place in
each Of the seven Congressional districts
where they had not spoken, subject to
certain conditions. A fair discussion,
through the canvass, of the questions at
issue, between men of such ability, would
have been very valuable to the cause of
truth, but these few meetings will be bet
ter than none.
Some malicious persons suggest that it
would hardly be pleasant daily business
to Mr.. Douglas, for the next three months,
10 set up popular sovereignty and the
bred Scott decision for Mr.. Lincoln to
knock down.-iState Journal.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
Foreclosure Sale.

A. BLAIsDELL.
DY virtue of Judgment and decree of fore
ID closure and sale in the above entitled ae-
ton rendered on the 28th day of July. A. d.
1853, shall on the 7th day of February, A.
D. 1859, at o'clock P. NJ. on that day, ex-
pose for sale and sell It public vendue for cash
to the highest bidder, at the front door of the
Court House in the City of Prescott and County
of Pierce, the following described mortgaged
premises, to w.t. Lot two (2) in Block A
Lots four (4) five (5) and seven (7) in Block
G; Lots one (1) three (3) six (6) and eight (9)
in Block d; Lots five 60 and six CO. in Block
E and the undivided half of Lots five go and
nine (9) in Block d and the undivided half
of Lot one % in Block E; in David r.
Clark's addition to Diamond Bluff, together
with the undivided halt of parcel of land
lying North of Enoch Quimbey's addition to
Diamond, Being the same as decided by Enoch
Quimbey to David R. Clark, containing six
(6) acres more or less also all of the South
East quarter of the North East quarter of Sec
ton one Q in Township five (5) North of
Range nineteen (19) West containing forty
acres more or less in Pierce County.
Said sale will be made to satisfy the sum of
six hundred and nine dollars and seventy cents.
and interest from the 26th day of July A. D.
1858, besides costs and expenses of sale, &c.
JAMES III. EAMES, Sheriff.
P. v. WISE, Plaintiffs AHo7ney.
Dated July 30th, 1853. aug4n7 -6m
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
PUnlDfS Troubles.

The columns of the Patriot for some.
time past have been as doleful as the
Lamentations of jeremiah. Pump mourns
in long and saddened cadenees over the
sins of the politicians. Sometimes in the
depth of his anguish, he INDUCES in in
vective, and his holy soul boils over with
righteous indignation. He means to be
politically pure and honest, himself; he
has striven 10 maintain an unimpeachable
character, and now he grieves with par
ticular emphasis, with kind of ner-
vous agoGizing energy over the most
lamentable fact, that the venal Republi-
cans have not paid him for his Invaluable
services.
His trials are affecting to contemplate.
He is too good to live peaeeably in this
wicked world. But AMONG Pumps dis
tinguished virtues, modesty is not pre-
eminent. The first personal pronoun re-
ours with painful frequency in his edito-
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
Report of the County Investi-
eating Committee.

Tic Committee appointed to iuvesti-
gate the financial affairs of the County,
repontel to the County Board at their
late meeting. The report is too lengthy
for newspaper publication, and will soon
he issued in pamphlet form. The Com
mittee have done their work in an able
manner, and great benefit will accrue to
the County from their lahors, nearly three
thousand dollars being directly saved.
Besides this direct gain, great benefit
will result from the introduction of system
and regularity into the transactions of
the County. The Board has authorized
the Committce to examine into the man
nor of conducting the other County Off
ees, and to recommend such improve
ments as they may deem necessary
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
Important to School Land
Owners. saaBs

Wv AC1Ss ftat4
We publish the following law for the
benefit of School Land owners who have
not paid tLeir taxes for 1851 There
are, we understand, about $1,000 of de-
linquent taxes on school land in our
county treasury, and it will be seen that
owners can save twenty five per cent. by
paying up before the lists are sent to Ma
Olson, which will be about the middle of
September: hu HcFl :
THE people Of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented IN the Senate and ASSEM-
big, do enact as tol2ows:
SEC. l. If the taxes on any State,
School and University Lands, in any
county in this State, shall not be paid on
or before the time established by existing
laws for the sale Of land for delinquent
taxes in snch county, the said county
treasurer shall Immediately forward GER
tilted lists of such lands on which the
taxes remain unpaid to the State Trcasu-
rer.
Sec. 2. The State Treasurer before
charging such returned taxes against the
lands to which they belong, shall adj
thereto twenty-five per cent, which TWEEN
ty-fve per cent. shall be collected with
other charges against said lands, and
when collected shall be added to the prin-
cipal of tae School fund.
Sec. 8. All parts of acts contravening
the provisions Of this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved May IL, 1858.
ALEX. w. RANDALL.
-PrescoH Transcript.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

E Observation-Disclosures were held on
the I'd inst, in the States of Missouri,
Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas,
and Kansas Territory. In Tennessee the
election occurred on the 5th, and the cleo
ton in North Carolina will be held on
the 10Th. sysa sao3 sa.sofa.tg 8 &
In most of these States the elections
are of only local Importance. In Mis-
solri, Congressman were elected. 1t is
probable that Barrett, DEM, is elected
over F. P. Blair, Rep, in the st. Louis
district In North Carolina a Governor
is to be chosen. In Arkansas members
of Congress and Of the Legislature have
been chosen. In Kansas no offices were
to be filed, the vote being on the English
Lecompton proposition.
We have not yet received reliable re-
turns from any of these elections.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

tor;alsx In a late number Of the Patriot
the following paragraph occurs:
1.-The Republicans might have been
long benefited by an Independent Demo-
cratic Press at the seat of Government
suc,, nm one as should prove now and
then a moral thunderstorm to cleanse and
purify the morbid malaria in thePolitical
atmosphere Of the States -
Now, that is = treniendons paragraph,
and h view Of its sonorous grandeur, we
easily pardon the vanity it contains. As
Pump speaks Of an Independent Demo-
ratio Press as one of the "might hayo
beens," we conclude he has given up the
idea of publishing such paper, and will
hereafter 60 in for party and pay, and let
principle take care of herself.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
The Atlantic Telegraph Sue
cessfUf

On Saturday last we received the cheer
ing news the laying of the Atlantic Tele-
graph was successfully completed on
Thursday the 18th inst. We do not as
vet, put implicit confidence in the truth
of this report but we hope to find it true.
IF true, it is matter for JOY and congratu-
lation. The remarkable facilities for
transmitting intelligence which We now
possess, are forcibly illustrated by the fact,
that, the day after the laying of the cable
was completed to New Fouudland, the
Hasca was steamilrg along the waters Of
the Upper Mississippi, with broad pen
non spread, on which the cheering news
was writtem
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

WISE, WIsER-Gov. Wise, of Virgin
ia, who year or two ago, gloried in be-,
ing one of the most ultra of the fre-eat-
ers, is becoming wiser as he grows older.
In late speech he took occasion to repu-
date some foolish sentiments uttered by
Senator Hammond, of South Carolina. to
the effect that the laborihg classes wero
''the mud sills of society,"" He said;
81 say that labor is not the "hlud sill''
of society; and / thank God that the old
colonial aristocracy of Virginia, which de-
spised mechanical and manual labor, is
nearly run out. Thank God that we are
beginning to raise miners, mechanics and
manufacturers, that will help to raise what
is left of that aristocracy up to the mid
die ground of respectability."
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
Republican Congressional Con-
yeufiOn.

SECOND DISTRICT. "A Republican
Convention for the Second Congressional Dis
trict in the state of Wisconsin, viii be holden
at Prairie Du Chisn, on Wednesday, the first
day of September, 1853, at twelve u'c1ock NJ =,
for the purpose OF nominating candidate for
member of Congress of said District to be SUPP
ported at the next general election,
Each Assembly district will be entitled to
two delegates in said Convention,
1t is recommended that the Republicans OF
the different Assembly districts, meet on Sat-
urday. the 28th of August next. and select deli
egates to said Convention.
DAVID ATWOOD,
HAMMER ROBBINS,
T. S. ALLEN,
NJ Sc GIBSON,
S. G. COLLEY,
Madison, July 8. 1853. District Com,
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

MINNESOTA BANKING LAw.-The new
banking law in Minnesota fixes Is per
cent RS tire limit of interest or discount
which banks organized under it can ex-
act from their customers. The Mime
sotian urges the necessity ola usury law,
and says it becomes necessary before any
good can be obtained from the banking
law, to pass another law, establishing Is
per cent per annum as the outside limit
of interest IN aU transactions phatever.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
Republican Convention.

A Republican Convention for the Assembly
District, comprising the counties of Pierce,
Dunn, Pepin, Eau Claire, Clark and Chip
pewa, will be holden at Dunville on Friday
the goth of August. 1853, at 2 o'clock, P, NJ,
for the purpsse of selecting two delegates to
attend the Congressional Convention TO be
held at Prairie du Chem, Sept l, 1853. Each
County will be entitled TO two delegates,
". P. BARTLETT,
Chm. Ass. Dist. Conan,iHce.
GEO. N. OAKLEY.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
-PrescoH Transcript.

BAYARD TAYLOR IN ATHENs.-In a
late No. of the Tribune, Bayard Taylor
gives on interesting account of the agri
culture and resources of Greece. He
says the soil is as productive as that of
any other country in Europe, but owing
to want of facilities for transportation,
and to the Incidence of the farmers, agri-
culture is in very imperfect state. Du-
ring the last winter, wood sold in Athens
for a dollar q pound. Taylor's letter
closes with tho following poetical para
graph:
Enough Of dry statement. Let me
not lose the pensive sweetness and sadness
of this last evening in Athens. The sun
is sinking in clear saffron light beyond
the pass of Daphne, and purple flush
plays all along the high, barren sides of
Hymettus. Before me rises the Acropol-
is, with its crown of beauty, the Parthe-
non, on whose snowy front the sunsets Of
two thousand years have left their golden
stain. In the distance is the musical
Egean, dancing with light whispering
waves to fill the rock-hewn sarcophagus
of Themistocles. Plato's olives send a
silver simmer through the dusk that is
creeping over the Attic plain. Many an
evening have / contemplated this illus
trious landscape, but it was never so
lovely as now, when | look upon it for
the last time. Every melodious wave in
the long outline of the immortal noun
tains-every SCARED marble in the august
piles of ruin-every blood-red anemone
on the banks of the Ilissus, and every
asphodel that blossoms on the hill OF Co
lonos-I know Thorn and they know me.
Not as curious stranger shall l leave
Athens; not as traveller, eager for new
scenes; but with the regret of one who
knows and loves the sacred soil, to whom
it has been at once a sanctuary and
home.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
81. ONE DOLLAR! ST.
FOR THE
W eekly Wisconsin.

TNHE SUBSCRIBER, in order to place the
i WEEKLY WISCONSIN within the
reach of every farmer in the North West, will
send it to any address one year on the receipt
of 8 L, postpaid.
GW Any person sending us $40 will receive
eleven copies for one year,
The Wisconsin is the largest family
newspaper in the State, is independent i'll poll
TICS has the fullest and most reliable Geographic
reports, and contains each week Review of
the Domestic and Foreign Markets.
N. B.-The Daily Wisconsin is mailed
every afternoon at o'clock, at $6 per year,
in advance Tri-Weekly every other day, at
$3 per year in advance.
GYF All country Exchanges inserting the
above four times and calling attention to the
same, will be entitled to an exchange daily.
aug4-n7 W. F. CRAMER, Publisher.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

INITIATED BANK BnLs.-The New
York Banks have decided to refuse all
mutilated bank bills, and to stand suit
to test their liability. This movement is
becoming quite general in other cities,
banks being very particular about recei-
wing fractional portions of bills. 1t has
been the custom for adroit rogues to make
FIVE out of four, which may be done by
skillful manipulation, and then secure the
redemption OF the whole.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
New Developments:
Kilbourn Plotting to get Control of the Railroad
.-..-.I and StatA Governmental!

Kilbourn Plotting to get Control of the Railroads
3 and Stata GOVERNMENT!
1.-THE best laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft a-gley,
An lea'e us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy.'-Barno.
Politicians often have OCCASION to prove
true these words of the poet. Byron
Kilbourn, the indefatigable wire-worker,
furnishes tbs with the most recent proofs.
He has published review of the report
of the Investigating Committee PAM
phlet of some sixty pages, which is fine
specimen of special pleading, as 1t does
not deny the facts sworn to by the Inves-
eating Committee, but attempts to show
that the action of the bribed members
was consistent with honor and integrity.
This pamphlet is to be used extensively
as an electioneering document, and Xii
bourn has been sending circulars to bis
friends requesting funds to aid in circula-
ting it. BY some mistake one of these
circulars was directed to a Republican in
Madison, who furnished the State Jour-
nal with a copy for publication. The
circular contained the following P. S. in
Kilbourn's own handwriting:
p. S. hare good understanding
NTH t,Oo of the Directors of the La
Crosse Road at the East, and am bring
ing about private understanding be-
tween Barstow and his friends and my
friends. The "News" and -Kslbourn
City Mirror" are IN our interest, and
Cranaers friends can manage him to the
same end. We think that with my de-
fence, and a sharp one on Randall, the
mortgage lar, and assessment law, zoe
can CARRY THE LEGIsLaTURE this fall,
and SOON GET CONTROL OF THE RAIL
ROADS and State Government. We must
work cautiously, so that the people are
not apprised Of our purposes. If PUMP
a0ants any assistance to keep ZIP hes fight
ON Randall, he must have it. X.
A very pretty plan, that; but Mr.. Kill
bourn must be more careful to "work
cautiously" or the people will be apprized
Of his purposes. No doubt Pump wants
assistance, and we hope he may be sus-
tanned in publishing an Independent sheet.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11
The best English authorities put


down the production of gold in Austria
lia for the past year at one hundred mill
ions of dollars. The production IN 9TH
er countries is dis follows; California; s65
600, 900; Russia and Siberia, $4,000,
600; other parts of the world, 10000
900. Total, lOO,ooo,ooo: we thus
have two hundred millions as the gold
crop of 1867. At this rate, if contihued;
two thousand millions Of gold will be
thrown into the monetary circulation of
the world during the next ten years.
There is now on exhibition at the
Buckingham palace, London, a nugget
taken from the Australian mines, which
is represented as solid mass of virgin
gold, two feet fonr inches long, ten inch
es broad and from one to two inches thick
weighing no less than 1743 ounces, and
valued at $4,000. Compared with this
all nuggets ever found before sink into
insignifcance.
"A Scotch girl of eighteen years, and
said to be handsome, and dressed in
Highland plaids, has commenced the feat
of walking sixty consecutive hours, in
Springfield. If she can do that she can
do many better things, and ought to be
doing them.
The Minnesota Assembly have pass
ed law fixing the rate of interest at fif-
teen per cent per annum on money
1t is thought the Senate will stick for
eighteen per cent.
"A farmer of Chattooga county, Ca,
warns the public against feeding cattle
with green Chinese sugar cane. 1t will
kill cow, he says, in thirty minutes. 81
"A young lady Of Lockport, N. Y,
who renowned Romanism lately, was
told that 'as she was born in the Cath
Ole church, she ought to die in it." She
answered promptly, 81 was born in sin,
but I have made up my mind not to die
in it." go ssf
The ladies of Bourbon County, Kan.
sas, have presented Captain Montgomery
with splendid suit Of clothes in testimo-
ny of their appreciation Of his defence of
them against the border ruffians Of Mis-
souri,. Il asa as aa& T..
The residence of Gen. Harrison, at
West Bend, Ohio, the original Log Cab
in, was recently destroyed by fire, which
it is supposed was set by one Of the SER
want girls. 80
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

A PLAN FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF
DUEL1Ne--The Vicksburg Whigproposes
a new plan for the suppression of duelIng,
which, if it obtains, will now, hereafter
and forever, put an end to the burning OF
gunpowder between gentlemen at ten pa
ces. The arrangement proposes that when
difficulty occurs between two gentlemen,
the matter shall be referred to a court OF
honor, who shall settle it or decide wheth-
err it is necessary to fight or not. 1nease
of the court deciding in favor of tight,
the parties to be compelled to fire till one
is killed, and then the other to be arrested
and hung for murder.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-08-11

THE Watchman, published at Galva,
Henry Co., ILL.,, has recently been enlar-
ged to an eight column sheet, and much
improved in typographical appearance.
1t is we'll conducted sheet, presents a
large amount of reading matter, and
among its other meritorious deeds, has
hoisted the Republican banner. Success
to the Watchm0n, and the cause it advo-
Gates.