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The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-19
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GENERAL SUMMARY.

We have at length by telegraph the full vote
for Congress cast in the st. Louis district at
the recent election. The Adm Illustration man.
ayers do not seem to have cheated quite as
much in the final returns as in the fret reports
or, more accurately, having ascertained how
many votes were wanted, they were contented
with the frauds in the poll, without adding any
in the count The official aggregates are as
follows:
Barrett, National Democrat 7.Os7
Blair, Republican 63l
Breckenridge, American 1858
Barrett over Blair, 426; do. over Brecken-
ridge, 1899.
Blair and Breckenridge over Barrett, 8, 1872.
Two years ago, the vote stood:
Reynolds 2l8l
The total vote for President in 1856
was. 1864
Do. for Governor, in 1857 1869
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

HoNoRABlE CosD1TIoNs.-N Many years
ago, in what is now fourshing city, III
this State, lived stalwart blacksmith;
fond of his pipe and of his joke. He was
also fond of his blooming daughter whose
many graces and charms had ensnared
the affection of a susceptible young print
err. The couple, after season of mutual
Ii ling and cooling, engaged" themselves;
and nothing but the consent of the young
lady's "palient" prevented their union:
To obtain this, an interview was arranged,
and Typo prepared little speech to as
tonish and convince the old gentleman,
who sat enjoying his pipe in perfect con-
tent.
Typo dilated upon tho fact Of their long
friendship. their mutual attachment, their
hopes for the future, and the topics, and
taxing the daughter by the hand, said:
81 now, sir, ask your permission to
transplant this lovely flower from its par
ent bed"-but his "pheelings" overcame
him, he forgot the remainder of his rhe-
torical flourish, blushed, stammercd, aud
fins ly wound up with" from its parent
bed into nay own."
The father keenlv relished the diScorn-
future of the suitor, and after removing
his pipe and blowing cloud, replied:
"WelI, young man: don't know as
I've any objections, propided you marry
the gal first Granite State Register:
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

Hore.-The great orator, the great
painter, the great poet, the great states
man, are all the children Of Hope: 1t
was Hope that hung the lantern upon the
ship OF Columbus; it was Hope that
brought to Milton tidings of Paradise; it
was hope that waved the torch before
Bacon, as he descended into the dark lab.
ratory of Nature; it was Hope that SKIP
ported the steps of Newton, when no
wandered into the dim solitude Of UNI
known worlds; it was Hope that scat
tered the Persian rivalry before the elo-
qu nee of Demosthcncs; it was Hope that
sprinkled the purple hues Of Summer over
the canvas of Titan and breathed the
solemn reposc of heaven over the divine
heads of Raphael. But Hope has ho-
lier signifca.ion. Sutton speaks very
beautifully of Christian happiness being
folded up in the bosom of Hope. In the
hone of the good man, indeed, that an.
gel is never absent; in the darkness Of
winter, and in the bloona of spring, it is
alike present, to cheer, to comfort, and
to exhort.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
WATER

Look at this We thirsty ones of earth!
Behold it! How it giitters, as if q mass
of liquid gems! tits beverage that was
brewed by the hands of the Almighty
himself! Not in the simmering still or
smoking fires, chokcd with poisonous gas
and surrounded by the stencil af sicken-
ing odors and rank corruption, doth our
Father in Heaven prepare the essence of
life. pure cold water; but iii thr green
glade and grassy dell, w ere the the red
deer wanders and the child loves to play;
there God b-ews i, and down, down in
the deepest valleys, where the fountains
murmur and the rills sing; and high W
on the tall mountain tops, where the ma
ked granite glittera in the sun. where the
storm clouds brood and the thunders
crash and away far out in the wide sea,
where hurricanes howl music and the big
waves roar the chorus-there God brews
it.that beverage of Observation-Disclosures.
And everywhere it is a thing Of beau
ty; cleaning in the dew-drop-singlng
in the summer rain-shining in the ice
gems, till the trees all seemed turned in
to living jewcls-spreading agolden veil
over the setting sun, or white gauze
around the midnight moon-sporting in
| in the cataract, sleeping in the glaciers
dancing in the hail shower-folding its
bright curtain softly about the windy
word, and weaving the many colored iris
that seraph's zone of the sky = whose
warp is the rain dropof earth, whose WOO
is the sunbeam of heaven, all checkerec
over with celestial flowers, by the mystic
hand of refraction-still al@aysit is beau
tiful, that blessed life-water? No poison
GUS bubbles on the brink, no blood stain
its limpid glass; broken-hearted wives
pale widows, and starving orphans she'
no tears in its depths; no drunkard,
shrieking ghost from the grave curses
in words of eternal despair; beautiful
pure, blessed and glorious; give me toi
ever the sparkling, pure cold water =
Paul Denton.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
PRINTERS PROVERBS.

l. Never inquire thou of the Editor
for the news, for behold it is his duty,
at the appointed time, to give it unto
thee.
2. When thou dost write for his pa
per, never ask him, "What tllinkest thou
of my piecce' for it may be that the truth
would offend thee.
8. 1t is not fit that thou shouldst ask
of him WHO'S the author Of ar article up
on subjects of public concernment, for du-
ty requires him to keep such things unto
himself
4. When thou dost enter into the
printing office, thou shouldst avoid loud
talking, and have care unto myself that
thou dost not touch the type or tho press
for thou mayst cause the printer much
trouble.
S. Look not thou at the copy which
is in the hands of tho composito,s, for
that is not meet in the sight of tho priI-
ter.
6. Never cxanfihe the proof Sheets
for it is not ren ly to meet thine eye, that
thou mayest understand it.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
WORDS TO THE YOUNG.

| 1.-THE following beautiful extract we Sc
! lecs from Timothy Titcomb's last letter to
the young:
That little creed of Mrs. Browning, ut
tered impulsively, in a flush of inspired
conviction, has world of meaning in it
that the slow soul does not perceive.
81 do believe i'll God and love-"
says the sweet songstress; and so do l.
| With God and love in human life, it be-
comes essentially noble and beautiful
thing. To live life thus informed is a
peerless privilege,-no matter at what
cost of transient pain, or unremitting toll.
1t is thing above professions and call
ings and creeds. 1t is a thing which
brings to its nourishment all good, and
appropriates to its development of power
all evil. 1t is the greatest and best thing
under the whole heaven. Place cannot
enhance its honor; wealth cannot add to
its value. 1t is the highest thing. Its
course lies through true manhood and
womanhood, through true tatherhood and
motherhood, through true friendships and
relate ships, of all legitimate and natu-
raj sorts whatsoever. 1t lies through sor-
row and pain and poverty, and all earthly
discipline. 1t lies through answering
truth to God and man. 1t lies through
patient ST. denying heroism. 1t lies
through all heaven prescribed and con-
scientious duty, and it leads as straight
to heavens brightest gate, as the track
of q sunbeam to the bosom of flower.
And now, my friends, farewell! Life
is before you,--not earthly life alone, but
life-a thread running interrninably thro'
the warp of eternity: and while | wish
you all manly and womanly JOY, and all
heathtul delight, do not wish that no
pain come upon you, no caro- Cypress you,
no toll weary you, no sorrow swim in
your eyes, no temptations beset you; but
| wish that you may bear what God puts
upon your shoulders, and bear it well.-
| wish that it may not be necessary to
chasten you oyermuch; but you can hard
ly grow strong without trouble, or SYM
pathetic without sorrow. 1t was neces-
sary that the only true human life ever
lived should be made perfect through suf-
ering; and it is strange presumption for
You to think that you can be made Per
feet W .hout it. | wish you many years
upon the earth-as many as will minister
to your growth and happihcss-for life
is sweet as nell as great and wonder
full thing. I wish you family of pre-
cious children to fill your homes with
music, and enrich your hearts with love.
Aud when, in the evening of life, the gol
den clouds rest sweetly and invitingly up
on tie golden mountains, aud the light |
of heaven streams down through the
gathering m;sts Of death, / wish you a
peaceful and abundant entrance into that
world of blessedncss, where the great rid
die of life, whose meaning | can only hint
at, will be unfolded to you in the quick
ola soul redeemed aud pu
rifed.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
THE COQUETTE.

Whatso'er she vowed to-day
Ere week had fed away
She'd ref Sc me !
And shall | her STEPS pursue
Follow stlll,-and fonGly Woo p
No excuse me
II she loves met were kind,
Just to teach her her own wind -
Let her lose me
For no more I'll seek her side,-
Court her favor,-fced her pride:
No l-excIsc me! ~ r.
If in idle. vain display. ea
She can cast my love away,
And thus use me;
For fic . lie heart, at best,
Shall grieve, and lose my rest , a
No excuse me ans
Let her frown,-frowns never kill
Let her shun me if she WILL
Hate abuse me -
Shall / bend meath her annoy
Bend,-and make my heart her toy I?
mol excuse me! H..
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
Fs- Did thee receive my remittance;

EE- Did thee receive my remittance;
Nathan, my son!'
'sYes, Father"
'Then why did the not buy new coat
thy present one is certainly very fragile
"Why, the fact is; left all my money
in the bank at New Orleans"
"Ah! thy economy is certainly com
mendable-in what bank"
Il do not exactly remember in what
bank, father-I know it was very good
one, as it had scriptural name. 1t was
-um let me sce-it was the Pharaoh
(faro) bank thihk'
sSop, banks are very unsafe now, and
thee had better send for thy money inn
mediately."
Son took a coughing spell.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

We may seek costly furniture for our
homes, fanciful ornaments for our mantle
pieces, and rich carpets for our floors ;but'
after the absolute necessaries for a home;
books are at once the cheapest, and GER
tainly the most useful and abiding en-
bellishments.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
LOVERS LANE
An EXTRACT.

Men and maidens wan''"" . ...s..
When the nights are cool and iair:
You may read the words they speak,
In the eye and on the check;
oft before have m;,n and maid
Through these winding foot-Paths strayed,
Some are dead and some have parted.
Some are crushed and broken. hearted:
None of these shall walk again
In the paths of Lovers Lane
Other men and maidens stray
In that quiet lane to day;
Other VOWS are uttered there, 80
True as Heaven and pure as prayer.
Man and maid must droop and die
Deaths the passport TO the sky,
And affections VOWS be broken.
Whatso'er their tone and token;
Yet, while life and love endure,
Shall these fowery paths allure
Thousands to their solitude,
Whe shall WOO as Others woOed,
Who shall wed and shall be blest,
Who shall Pass and be at rest
Arson @. Chester.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
SUMMER1NG.-(The following pleasant
paragraph we select from The Springfield
Republican,.

paragraph we select from The Springfield
Republican,.
at was particularly pleasant to see,
pokine around among the grass, a girl
with q fiat on,-none of your common
girls, but genuine beauty-with black
owes and raven curls, and form like a
svlph. and a foot like alike Alike a
child. and an indescribable charm about
her that one never sees about girl when
he is about his business. 1t was pleas
ant to wonder who she was, whe'e she
came from, how old she was, what her
father was worth, whether she was en-
gagged, and whether we should get &C
n,1ainted with her. 1t was pleasant to
see her slyly look up at us and to fee
that we had impressed her, some. What
matter if in FIVE minutes she meets
nurse and kisses the baby in her arms
and talks as if she were giving directions
Is it not possible she can be mother
and though, when the evening boat CONF
in she meets and kisses man with rec
hair and a stoop in his shoulders, we vii
not admit that she is married. She
. oirl in the dream, with unde6nable at
mites for us. Sometime or other, W
shall marry her, as Robert Browning ca
cu,ates on marrying in another world
/ little sixteen-year-old that be loved vhe
| be was married and forty"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

g "Where was ], ma," said . little
urcbin, one day, to his mother, as he stood
gazing upon his drunken, PROSTATE 10,
ther. "where was when you married pr
WHY didn't you take me along could .,
have picked out better ma" man nc 'Si
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

Holmes asks himself a couple o. questions
and answers them Tins = -
Where. o where are LIES lilies and roses,
Nursed in the golden dawn's smile
Dean as the bulrushes round little Moses.
On the banks of the Nile. $50
Where are the Marys. and AIMS, and Elias,
Loving and lovely of wore
Look in tbs columns of old Advertiser
Married and dead BY the score.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

os- IF tie disclosures Of the day, Is
tho fact. that one Of the most fashionable
5,essmakers in New York turns out to
be a man. For several years past no has
been fitting their dresses to the charming
forms of the New York ladies;
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

g Hap cried Holiingsworth, with a

AA" SiA0u AAOiiiiSo"orlu, Will a
start.
And SO he had, indeed, both before
snl after death
"Seer' said Foster. '.That's the place
where the iron struck her. 1t looks cru
ely, but she never felt it
He endeavored to arrange the arms of
the corpse decently by its side. His ut
most strength, however, scarcely suficed
to bring them down; and rising again,
the next instant, they babe him defiance,
exactly as before. He made another
effort, with the same result.
ain Gods name. Silas Foster" cried
|, with bitter indignation, "let that dead
woman alone'
"Why, man, it's not decent" answer
ed he, staring at me in amazement. e.
can't bear to see her looking so! Well,
WELL" added he, after third effort, ''t'is
of no use, sure enough; and we must
leave the women to do their best with her
after we get to the house. The sooner
that's done, the better"
We took two rails from a neighboring
fence, and formed a bier by laying across
some boards from the bottom of the boat.
And thus we bore Zenobia homeward
Six hours before, how beautiful! At
midnight, what horror! A reflection
occurs to me that will show luI.crors,v,
| doubt not, on my page, but must come
in for its sterling truth. Being the wo-
man that she was, could Zenob;a have
foreseen all these ugly circumstances Of
death,- i'll it would become her, the
altogether unseemly aspect which she
must put on, and especially old Silas Eos
ter's efforts to improve the matter, she
would no more have committed the act
than have exhibited herself to public
assembly in badly fitting garment!
Zenobia, [ have often thought, was not
quite simple in her death. She had seen
pictures, I suppose, Of drowned persons
in 1.-THE and graceful attitudes. And she
deemed it we'll and decorous to die as so
many village maidens have, wronged in
their first love, and seeking peace in the
bosom of the old familiar stream,-so
familiar that they could not dread it,
where, in childhood, they used to battle
their little feet, wading mid-leg deep, un-
mindful of wet skirts. But in Zenobia's
case there was some tint of tho Arcadian
affectation that had been visible enough
in all our lives, for few months past.
This, however, to my conception, takes
nothing from the tragedy. For, has not
the world come to an awfully sophisticated
pass, when after certain degree of ac-
quaintance with it, we cannot even put
ourselves to death in whole-hearted sim
plicity?
Slowly, slowly, with many dreary
pause, resting the bier often on some
rock, or balancing it across messy log,
to take flesh hold, we tore our burthen
onward through the moonlight, and at
last laid Zenobia on the floor of the old
farmhouse. By and by came three or
four withered women, and stood whisper
ing around the corpse, peering at it
through their spectacles, holding up their
skinny hands, shaking their night-capt |
heads, and taking couns; | of one anothers
experience what was to be done.
With those tire-women we LEFT Zenob;al
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

BAYARD TAYLOR has written orea
many excellent poems, but none bette
than the following.
"Give us song I" the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guarding.
g When the heated guns of the camps allied
Grew weary OF bombarding.
The dark Redan. in silent scott,
Lay. grim and threatening, under;
And the tawny mound of the Malakof
No longer belched its thunder.
There was pause. A guardsnan said 4:
d We storm the forts tomorrow
Sing while We may, another day
viii bring enough of sorrow.
They lay along the battery's side,
Below the smoking cannon
Brave hearts, from Severn and from Clyde,
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory SKI,
Each heart recalled different name,
But all sang Annie Laurie.
Voice after VOICE caught up the song,
Until its tender passion
Rose like an anthem, rich and strong
Their battle-eve confession.
Dear girl, her name he dared not speak,
Yet, as the song grew louder,
Something upon the soldiers cheek,
Washed off the stains of powder.
Beyond the darkening ocean burned
The sunsets bloody embers.
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers,
And once again fire of he'll
Rained on the Russian quarters.
With scream of shot, and burst of shell,
And believing of the mortars.
And Irish Nora's eyes are dim
For singer dumb and CORY;
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang of Annie Laurie.
All, soldiers TO your honored rest,
Your truth and valor bearing
The brayest are the tendcrost-
The loving are the daring.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23
poetrp<
THE SONG OF THE CAMP.

A oR1NElS rscrDESr-BY BArAED TAYLOR.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-06-23

BAYARD TAYLOR has written GREAT
many excellent poems, but none better
than the following.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-05-01
Mr.. Morrilrs Land Bill.

The bin donating public lands to tie A.,
crol States aud,.lcrritorics which may pro.
vide colleges Tor the benefit Of Agdvullarc
and Mechanic Arts, introt uced in Congrcs,
los Hon, J. s. Morrill,, member from this dis.
tict, passed the House of Representatives
last Thursday, This bill of Mr.. Norrill's
seem. to have met with very general favor,
aud it will probably now pass the Senate rr'i
become law.
The provisions Of this bill will be found Of
grca, importance 10 all classes OF people be-
sides those specially interested in the pro-
motion Of agriculture and mechanics We
may copy the bill entire hereafter.
We have before had occasion to speak Of
and OF thc posiJi0n winch our repre-.
sentative, hold in Congress, They have &c.
cc,cd the highest commcndation from their
compecrs, and the public press aud the PEG.
pie Of Vermont may we'll be proud Of them.