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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
Moral HerOisin. --Incidents of
the Epidemic.

The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton has divided this city, we learn into
twenty two districts, and appointed a
committee for each, with physicians and
apothecaries, and has established at a
number of points, infrmaries, to which
the sick when necessary are sent. Meas
ures have also been taken to furnish the
destitute with such groceries and delica-
cies as their situation may require.
In this divine work, woman, as usual,
is the chief agent Woman! wherever
there is pain to be relieved, or broken
hearts to be raised up; where guant pov-
erty and raging fever hold terrible car
nival; where delirium and the death-rat-
tie drive away men from the abode of
misery, there is found woman. AMI no
where does the peculiar and innate beauty
Of her true nature shine out with so Sc
rene and steady and divine Light
where else does the bravery of her moral
heroism appear so respondent, SO envi-
able. We know not how many there are
at this moment engaged in conflict with
suffering and the plague in New Orleans;
but the number is by no means small,
and they are devoting themselves to it
with courage, zeal and faithfulness that
astonish those who know nothing of their
labor of love.
1t must not be supposed that these
women young and middle aged, many of
them delicate and educated, the ornaments
of society, 60 only when and where they
are called upon for assistance. Notwith-
standing the heat of the weather, with
the slight protection Of their parasols and
bonnets, they take to the streets, they
explore the alleys, they seek out those
who would otherwise never receive the
blessings Of their presence. They push
into the abodes of the lowly, the crowded
and filthy apartments where the epidemic
RACES with the greatest power. Nor must
it be supposed that they confine them
selves to the yellow fever alone. They
relieve suffering wherever they find it,
en- take care of tie destitute sick, what
ever be the nature of their disease. Very
touching, as well as terrible, are some of
the scenes which some of these light-robed
messengers of mercy have witnessed.
In one place on Girard street, they
found a German family of eight persons,
in the second story Of a house, seven of
whom had the yellow fever, ard the
eighth, an infant, lay q corpse by the
side of its sick mother, who, in her de-
hrium, was all unconscious that her little
one had been released from its sufferings
The little corpse was let down outside
lest its mother become conscious and the
shock be too great for her to bear. In
anoth er case well educated woman,
native Of Philadelphia, whose father, we
understand, is living and wealthy, was
found almost entirely destitute, and upon
whom the progress of the fever had gone
too far to be arrested. She soon passed
from her sorrows, unwilling that her ia
ther should know anything of her fate.
We might mention the particulars of
other cases almost as touching as these,
but our space forbids it. aa
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06
An Axe to Grind-Origin of the
term.

"When was little boy" says DR..
Franklin, II remember one cold winter
morning I was accosted by smiling man
with an axe on his shoulder"
my pretty boy" said he, has your
father grindstone!"
eyes, sir" said I.
"You are fine little fellow, will you
let me grind my axe on it?"
Pleased with the compliment Of the
'sfine little fellow" 80, yes" [ answered,
sit is down in the shop"
"Will you my little fellow" said he,
patting me on the head, "get me some
hot water?'
Could I refuse? I ran, and soon bro t
a kettle full.
"How old are you and what's your
name 2" continued he, without waiting
for reply; | am sure that you are one
of the finest little fellows l ever saw; will
you just turn few minutes for me?"
Pleased with the flattery, like fool, I
went to work, and bitterly did l rue the
day. Itwas new axe, and | toled and
tugged until l was almost tired to death.
The school bell rang and I could not get
away; my hands were blistered, the axe
was sharpened, and the man turned to
me with, "Now you little rascal you've
played truant; scud for school CT you'll
rue it." Alas thought I, it is hard e.
nough to turn grindstone this cold day,
but to be called little rascal was too
much. It sunk deep into my mind, and
often have l thought of it since. When
I see merchant over polite to his custo-
mers, begging them to take little bran
DIV, and, throwing his goods on the coun-
ter, thinks |, that man has an axe to grind
When I see man fattering the people,
making great professions Of attachment
to liberty, who is in private life a tyrant,
methinks look out, good people, that fell
low would set you turning q grindstone.
When l see a man hoisted into office by
party spirit, without a single qualification
to render him respectable or useful, alas !!
deluded people, you are doomed for a
season to turn the grindstone for some
BODY,
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06

LIEUT.. MAURY gives the following as
the result of the investigations made in
connection with the Atlantic Telegraph :
"They satisfy me that no sea is so deep
or so stormy but that an electric cord may
be safely planted in the still waters of the
bottom; that the currents and storms
agitate the surface do not reach far down
into the depths below; that under the
pressure of the deep sea there is no decay
even those mites Of little animals that in
habited when alive those microscopic
shells which Brooks reel brought up from
the bottom for us, are, there is ground to
con lecture, preserved for ages down there
hence SUI bmarine cables will last lifetimes
at the bottom of the deep sea; that hence
forth the wrappings of iron wire about
submarine cables may be dispensed with
that, except for shoal water, no future
cable need be larger than the gutta per-
cha cord which encases and isolates the
conducting wire of the Atlantic Telegraph
and that submarine lines of telegraph,
though the prime cost may be little but
not much more than that over other
lines, will henceforth prove cheaper in the
end-for, being once down, they will re-
quire no repairs in the deep sea. Only
as they come from the deptes of the ocean
to the land will they be liable to injury
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Dottry.
A S L z e P

An hour before she spoke of things
That memory to the dying brings,
And kiss d me all the while
Then, after some sweet parting words,
She seem'd among her flowers and birds
Until she fell asleep.
Twas summer then, It's autumn now,
The crimson leaves fall off the bough,
And strew the gravel sweep.
wander down the garden walk,
And muse on all the happy talk
We had beneath the lines;
And, resting on the garden seat.
Her old Newfoundland at my feet, Sd
think of other times
OF golden ewes, when she and |,
Sat watching here the flushing sky,
The sunset and the sea H
Or heard the children in the lanes,
Following heme the harvest SWANS,
And shouting in their glee.
But when the daylight dies away,
And ships grow dusky in the bay,
These reccollections cease
And, in the stiffness of the night,
Bright thoughts that end in dreams rs bright
Communicate their peace.
j wake and see the morning star,
And hear the breakers on the bar,
The voices on the shore
And then. with tears. | long to be
Across a dim, nnsOunded sea-
W.ah her, tgreveimPre.
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af[istflIanfous.
GENEul Plus:
OR .4..r.F.s
THE FlEND GOLDFISH.
ID Thrilling Historical Romance!

CHAPTER I.
NET was night nowhere, and nowhere
III was as dark as bottle of ink in a bar
rel of pitch at the bottom of well, and
forty-four thousand times darker than the
concentrated darkness of forty thousand
midnights, when, upon throne of petri-
fed turtle soup, stood the Mighty Gen
gulphus, Monarch of the Fe-Fo-Fi-Fum
Islands, eating slice of buttered beeswax
occasionally wetting his lips by drinking
huidical wrought iron sheet anchors fluke
foremost.
Around him stood eighty two thousand
nine hundred and eighty seven an If
courtiers! s.
'Bring fortht the Whangdoodle and put
him upon the hewgagw exclaimed he
in terrific voice, at the same time cut
ting off a courtier's head with the sharp
edge of an Illuminated cotton bale.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06
CHAPTER III,

AT length the Whangdoodlo was
placed upon the hewgag. Dismay and
terror sat upon the countenances of the
nobility. Lord De Moza involuntarily
clutched Prince BIowbushy' coat tail, and
the Countess Fizfum disappeared hyster-
ically within her hoops, whilst bold Count
De Scratch, hitherto the bravest of the
brave, threw himself at the foot of the
throne, and elevated one leg as signal of
distress. But the mighty Gengulphus was
unmoved. Drawing a golden wire safety
fuse from his bosom, he was in the act of
attacking one end of the whangdoodle,
when-Oh! horror ofhorrors he beheld,
in one corner of the room, his believed Sci
leh, locked in the arms of Feetile Swash
Bosky, Envoy Extraordinary from the
Isle of Wight. ~ IS
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06
noUeLAs AND HIS OLD FR1ESDs.-Th'

DOUGLAS AND HIS OLD FRIENDS. The
following paragraph from the New York
Daily Neps administration organ) is an
other proof Of the increasing bitterness
between the President ard MIR. Douglas:
'sThat Douglas will be defeated IS every
where conceded; but the effort he is now
making to prevent such a result has never
had its equal in the political history OF the
country. He works increasingly, and but
few constitutions could hold up under the
effort he is making. He spends money
layishlv. He has sold his fine mansion
in Washington, mortgaged all his prop
ertv here, and if he is beaten, he is con-
sidered to be not only politically but Pc
cuniarily bankrupt. In his speeches he
is the same inscriptions and bullying
demagogue he has always been. Like
the fayorite of darky minstrelsy--
.He wheels about, and turns about. and jumps
Ard eserv time he turns about he jumps jim
Crow.
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r W I l. TG II r.

Slowly, slowly up the wall
Steals the sunshine, steals the shade,
Evening damps begin to fall,
Evening shadows are displayed,
Round me, DER me, everywhere,
All the sky is grand with clouds,
And athwart the evening air
Wheel the swallows home in crowds.
Shafts of sunshine from the west
Paint the dusty window red =
Darker shadows-deeper rest,
Underneath and overhead.
Darker, darker and more wan
In my breast the shadows fall;
Upward steals the life of man,
AS the sunshine from the wall,
From the wall into the sky, g T91F
From the roof along the spire:
All the souls OF those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.
-Lon1telioW-
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M at 3 ] NJ o N I A L.

An angel always dweils beneath the roof
Where, in her virtue, sweet wife fulfills
Her gentle duties and unnumber'd ills
From that love guarded precinct keep aloof.
1.-The man who finds wife, twas said of old,
Finds something good. and so always hold
The bachelor is a pondescript-(I beg
His pardon, hut it's true } quite out ofplace
He seems to me, amongst our loving race
Unfinished, like a chair that lacks leg
A knife without fork,-a book unbound,-
"A lonely traveller on a lonesome way,
Who faint and sad looks wistfully around.
But from the sun Of love reeeives nc chsering
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06
CHAPTER V.

"Dier shouted Gengulphus, as he
swirled the fearful instrument above their
heads-but alas! in Its swift descent, 1t
came in contact with Baron de Boosey's
PIPE, and glancing at right angles Glove
assunder the massive door leading to the
Royal Menagarie! Birthstone aud tor
pedoes! Numbered Gengulphus-but he
was too late. Ere he could again raise
the huge weapon, a fierce demoniaeal yell
ran through the rooms, and the next mo- mo-
ment the infuriated grizzly Goldfish ran
madly forth from the demolished door
and buried It's deadly fangs in the seat Of
Gengulphus, inexpressibles! He uttered
a sharp cry Of pain-n sde one desper-
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06

There is an almost oppressive beauty in
The music sang itself to death
The lamps died oct in the perfume;
ABAssA on a silk divan,
Safe in the moonlight in her room.
Her landmarks loosed her scented hair
With lilly fingers from her brow
Released the diamond, and unlaced
The robe that held her bosoms snow;
Then she laid down upon the bed
With folded hands happy maid
And slumber kissed her on the eyes,
And led her to the Land of Shade. ~
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CHAPTER Y l..

But little more remains to be told
Selleh, soon after the death of Gengul-
plus, stabbed herself with a bed wrench,
and her paramour, Ere tile Swash Bosky
becoming stricken with remorse, buried
himself in a pot Of portar-heels up
The countess of Fizfum, eloped with an
Egyptian mummy in a good state ofpres-
ervation; and the Count de Scratch hav-
Nc lost the whole of his fortune in play
ing :Simon says wig-wag," with Lord
de Monzo, was forced to emigrate West
where he enlisted as orderly sergeant to
a lime-kiln, and was shortly after killed
by the accidental bursting of cabbage
head.
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CHAPTER II.

The Whangdoodle was placed upon
the hewgag-but before we 90 further,
let us take look at the political state of
America at the date our story epens.-
We were involve in war with Mexico
and General Scott was carrying our vic
torious flag through the halls of the Mon
te-losers. Gen. Washington, comman-
ding the home army, had formed con-
junction with Christopher Columbus. at
Nauvoo, and defeated the combined for
ces Of England, France, and Hindoostan,
in sanguinary retreat on Bungtown
Heights. John G. Fremont, President
of the United States, had appointed James
Buchanan Governor of Cape Cod; and
Napoleon Bonaparte as Mayor of Bun
ker Hill, assisted by Lieutenant General
Barney O'Twigger, of Ireland. was pre-
pairing for descent upon the Tories of
Cerro Gordo, whilst DR.. Jayne, United
States Surgeon. was constructing strong
fort at Cairo, armed with a chain pump,
and one hundred bottles of his Carmina-
tive Balsam.
Under these tremendous circumstances
no wonder that the men and women of the
nineteenth century are highly intellectual
and generally speaking born when they
were young. @
Turn we again to our story.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06

A STEAM Prov The correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune writing from the
State Fair at Centrala says:
The most attractive feature of the day
was second trial of stern pillow. To
record the trial is but to record another
success. A success satisfactory to inyen-
tors, witnesses and to the friends of scien-
tifc progress everywhere-a triumph the
extent of whose influence it is now i'm
possible to grasp, and which the record
of wears can alone demonstrate.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06

"Go MARRY."-The most beautiful
flowers are those which are double; such
as double pinks, double roses, and double
dahlies. What an argument is this a.
gainst the chilling deformity of single
blessednessl $50 marryr' is written on
everything beautiful that the eye rests
upon-beginning with the birds of para
disc, and ending with apple-blossoms.
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CHAPTER ".

To say that Gengulphus was angry,
--ould be but an Indifferent statement of
t,,a truth. He was in rage. He couldn't
contain himself, sud consequently boiled
over in torrents that ran down and form
ed puddles of wrath at his feet. He
foamed, rayed, ripped and tore--stamped
rolled, kicked and roared. At last SCI
zing battering ram by the horns he
made furious push at the guilty pair.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-10-06
LIGHT AND SHADOW.

You who judge BY what you see,
Often fail to judge Alright!
Stars arc, shining solesnnly,
In the day as in the night;
All the day they lie concealed
BY the glory of the sun;
But at eve they stand revealed
In the azure, one by one.
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So the daylight Of a smile

Sc tho daylight OF d smile
May but veil the human face,
Holding, for little while
Doubt and care and sorrows trace;
So, when shadowy clouds of WOO
Der 3 happy face arise,
Still bepesth the shadows glow
Stars ofjoy in gentle eyes.
Life is arched with changing skies;
Rarely arc they what they seem;
Smiles we have and also sighs-
Much we know, but more we dream;
Look beneath the outward Show,
To the shadow or tho light
And, from wbat you surely know,
Learn to see and judge Alright.
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ate effort to shake off the monster-and
then fell to the floor, as dead as a June
bug in January.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25

re- We notice that the Rulo Guide,
and other papers. are publishing an adver-
tisement of the New York Mercantile
Guide, for which they are promised a
valuable gold pen. As an act of kind
ness, we will inform them that they are
advertising for swindler, and they win
be numbered among his victims They
will never receive the gold pen, and per-
sons viii not be safe in sending money
for the Mercantile Guide. Several years
since. we published the same advertise
nent, and sent marked copies. as per d.
rection-we kept sending. and sending,
bat no gold pen came. We then wrote
Mr.. Blakeney, calling his attention to the
fact and after long time he sent US a
reply. never mentioning gold pen: but
ccolly informing us that if we would in
sert the advertisement again, and give it
q good editorial netice, we should receive
the Mercantile Guide in exchange!
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25

1t Is thus seen that, Tor eight years past,
hogs have commanded full prices The
only season within the nine years, embra-
ced in the above exhibit, that the value
was below a remunerative point, was
l849-50. when the average was 1921.
From the course of the matket, then, for
eight years past, we might expect sur
| plus in 1852, Overwhelmingly large.
because hogs. supposing no extraordinary
circumstances to have existed, would ap-
pear, from the figures presented, to have
been more profitable than anything else
that farmers could have prepared for mar
ket.
But notwithstanding eight years Of full
prices for hogs, and four or five years Of
fair corn crops, on an average, we are
entering upon the new season, with hogs
at S5,I5 per 100 lbs, net, and the pre-
valling opinion that the crop will not
much exceed. if it reaches the figures re-
ported for 1878. High prices and
short crop views. however, at the opening
Of the season, are not to be taken as con-
elusive evidence of deficient supplies. 1t
has not often, If ever, occurred in the
history of the pork trade OF this city, that
a deficiency Of supplies was not figured
up at the beginning of each season. II
speculations Of this character had proved
correct. the deficiencies that were annual
" predicted, would have reduced the pork
trade to a mere cipher. several years ago.
Parties engaged in the business, usually
have their Judgment warped about this
period Of the year. by contracts. &C., and
their views are influenced good deal by
their pockets, so that If we would listen
to both sides, an abundance Of short snd
long crop ideas would be obtained. But
the existence Of the state Of things that
now prevails in this respect. does not fur
nish rslisble data upon which to base ope-
rations for the future.
1t has been generally found that high
prices for hogs, with fair supply Of corn,
secured full crops of the former. no mat
what the showing Of Assessors figures,
&c, had been. The reason splain enough.
Hogs are the most productive animals we
have, as they are also-the most numerous
of farm stock. There may be a very
short crop, this year, and yet very long
one next. Give twelve months notice
to farmers and they viii furnish as many
hogs as may be desired, provided you
viii pay well for than, and there is q
good crop. Again. the actual number
Of hogs IN those States which furnish tha
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25

ELECTION RETURNS FROM WASHINGTON
TowSsHIP.-Acting Governor w alsh dis
cards the vote OF this Township on &C
count of certain "errors in making the
returns" lie claims that the certificate
certifes TO a vote by ballot. and that an
abstract of the vote was returned instead
of the original pollbook.
One ofthe clerks the said election, and a
gentleman whom we cannot believe would
be guilty of participating in fraud, tells
us that tho certificate did not say the vote
was by ballot, and that the original poll
book. kept by the Clerk Of the Township,
sras returned, and without change what
ever; but that in writing the certificate,
they carelessly said SO many votes were
cast
On this Aimsy plea rests the excuse Of
the Secretary for throwing out our vote
and giving certificates of election to the
Pro-Slavery Democracy. True, it will
not be a matter of any permanent conse-
quencN, rs the Legislature, being Free
State, will unseat the holders of the GER
tifcates and give their places to those
really elected.-Kansas Press.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-25
Tur "Fe. or Coon FrE,1xa Wei

TIE ERA OF COOP FEELING We
have been wont TO read, in the Herald Of
Freedom, for few weeks past, a great
deal about the "era of good feeling" in
which the good qualities and clever dis
position Of Gen. Eastin. of the Leayen-
worth Herald. have been highly extolled.
VIII the Herald of Freedom tell us whe-
ther it is an evidence Of such %good feel
ing" on the part Of Gen. Eastin, when he
classes with the Free State party. every
rufian of his own party, who has render
ell himself an outlaw, and brought down
the scOrn and hatred of every honest man
upon his head? And is it an evidence Of
this "good feeling" for Gen. Eastin,
whenever one Of these rulIians receives
Just punishment, to announce that Free
State man has been murdered by his own
party, because he was conservative ?
We could forgive any ordinary injury;
but when a man leads a marauding band
over the Territory, numbering defenceless
and unoffending men, women and chill
dren; imprisons us in a loathsome hole,
almost starves US, attempts TO take our
life. heaps the most CALLING indignities
upon us, destroys our property, and all
we own in the world, and persecutes US
as long as he has the power to do so, and
for no other reason than that we differ
with him in political opinion, we would
see him consigned to the hottest corner Of
H-alifax, before we would ever sit
down to cosy, confidential confab with
him, and then boastingly publish the fact
to the world, as the commencement of the
"Ora of good feeling!' The editor oil
tho Herald of Freedom is his own master,
and can do as he thinks best; but that
sort of "gOod feeling" wouldn't suit US
We might lie down and sleep in den OIL
rattlesnakes, sit down to dine with a
grizzly bear, travel alone with hungry
wolf, seek refuge among hslf-famished
cannibals, or even vote a Democratic
ticket; hut after suffering such injuries
and indignities as the editor of the Her.
aid Of Freedom has, from banditti whose
instigator and commander in-chief wa:
Gen. Eastin. the "era of good feeling
with us would be. when we heard that
the rufian had shared the fate of his vic
tims-as have those good Free Stat.
men, q G. w. Clark and Reverend
Martin White