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Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

and was listened to with profound atten-
ton, by the audience.
At the close of the Grafton, the Assem-.
bly, repaired to the long table, we'll filled
with the choicest viands, which were soon
dispatched.
During the afternoon exercises, short
and pertinent speeches we're made by B.
p. Rankin, Joseph Dyson, the Agent Of
the American Sunday School Union, and
Rev. VIM. Hamilton.
Several appropriate Airs were sung
during the day, by the children, under
the leadership of J. P. Kast.
The declamatory exercises by the chill
dren, formed a very entertaining feature
of the ceremonies of the day. They
acquitted themselves in a manner that re-
fected great credit on themselves, and
their teacher, Mrs. Nye.
The various exercises were interspers-
ed with Martial Music, and songs by the
Choir.
We were much gratiied to witness the
large attendance, and general interest
manifested in the Celebration. Indeed,
we hardly expected so many women and
children could be gotten together at such
short notice.
The exercises were closed at a late
hour, by partaking of Ice Creams, made
on the ground, and when we left, the
children, both large and small, were
d" pitching into the frozen Cow-juice.
with an unmistakable sign of satisfaction
A free dance came off in the evening,
in this City, in which a large number of
Ladies and Gentlemen participated, and
thus ended the Celebration for 1853, of
our country's creates, holiday.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The following has been handed US, with
request to publish. 1t is a matter well
worthy Of consideration =" The citizens
of Bellevue, are requested TO meet at the
School House, on Saturday evening, June
10, at s o'clock, 10 consider the propriety
of building a hotel on the spot selected
last fall, for that purpose. The hotel to
cost not less than five Thousand, and not
more than eight thousand dollars. The
way proposed, is h is:-Issue fifty shares
at 500 a share, and then let every man
furnishing money, material or labor, come
in for one or more shares, as be sees fit.
In this way we could build a hotel that
would do credit 10 the town, besides giving
work to many mechanics and laborers,
during these dull times. The merchants
could supply hard ware, the lumbermen
lumber, the Spectator lots, &c. In this
way it need not, in reality, cost any cash.
All tina, feel interested in such a move
msnt. will attend the meeting, and give
their. support. Come one, come all.
A CITIZEN & MECHANIC.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08
A CITIZEN &

PLATTE RIvER.-From the amount of
water emptied into the Missouri by this
stream, we cannot help thinking that it
may yet be made navigable, by some sort
of slackwater improvement. The meal
culable benefit that the navigation of this
river would be to the Territory, ought
certainly to induce exploration and exper-
iment. The Bellevue Gazette suggests
the purchase of a light draft steamer for
this purpose. This is a good idea. If
this cannot be done, we suggest the fol-
lowing: Let a party of three or four
young men take a skiff in a wagon as far
up as Powhocco, or Cedar Bluffs, and
then placing the skif in the river, float
leisurely down, sounding frequently, and
in shallow places examining the nature
of the obstruction. We are willing to
make one of a party of this kind, at any
time when not too closely pressed with
other business. Who will second the mo-
ton !-Pacifc City Herald.
Friends of the Platte Valley, will you
second the motion? We will also make
n of a party for the purpose proposed
by our neighbor of the Herald.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The London Athenenum says after
all, and in spite of his many former re-
@fusals, Professor Agassiz, of Boston, will
be won over for the dictatorship of the
Museum of Natural History of the Jdrdin
des P!dntes, at Paris. 1t appears to be a
f~avorite wish of the Emperor NapoIen, to
draw this celebrated scholar, whose per.
sonal acquaintance he made in Switzer-
land, to Paris. Agussiz has been offered
a salary of $4,000 francs, and the imme-
date Senatorship, which brings another
10000 francs and at last he has consent.
ed TO go over to Paris for a verbal and
personal negotiation"
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

DEATH OF AN EDIroR.-Dennis Cor
coran, the well known journalist, wal
among the killed by the recent explosion
of the steamer Pennsylvania. Corcoran
was a native of Ireland; came TO New Or
leans in 1884; was connected with the
editorial corps of the Picayune; and was
one of the founders, and till 1857 one OF
the editors and proprietors of the Delta
InlS53 he was elected to the Louisiana
Legislature, and having served out hi;
term he was subsequently elected; and
served for two session MS reporter OF de-
bates in the Louisiana State Senate.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

SANTA ANNA.-The distinguished
Mexican exile, General Antonio Lopez
de Santa Anna, has addressed, from the
Island Of ST. Thomas, Il lengthy nantes
to to his countrymen. Like former efforts
in the same line, it is a warm ~eulogium
upon the author, by showing him TO have
been the most discreet, pure minded, sue
c~essful, considering the circumstances,
and eminently patriotic ruler Mexico ever
had. The drift of the whole evidently is
10 induce a recall to the scene of his form
er g%lories. He says\" the clamor of my
friends and of many fellow countrymen
reached even to my humble retirement,
and could no longer remain a stranger
to your sufferings." But on arriving at
ST. Thomas, he learned the fall of Comon-
fort, 1.-The execrable little tyIant," as he
terms him, and he therefore paused, assur-
ed that " the illustrious citizens will know
how to provide for the necessities of the
country" He congratulates in advance
"the fortunate man who succeeds in
bringing the great work to a successful
termination, whoever he may be-" 1t may
be Santa Anna, but the present posture
of affairs IN Mexico does not render il
very likely-indeed does not hold on
very strong hopes that there is any such
" fortunate man now living.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

INFORMATION WANTED. - A young
man, named William McCombs, of Me-
braska City, formerly of Edinburg, Port
age County, Ohio, left Council Bluffs, la.
on n business errand to Sioux City, on the
22d of May, last, and has not been heard
of since having never arrived at Sioux
City, and his friends are much alarmed
as to his welfare.
When he left for the Bluffs, he had on
black broad cloth coat and pants, a fgur-
ed plush vest, and drab colored hat, and
rode a sorrel horse, with a white stripe in
its face ; its eyes defective ; nearly blind
in one eye.
McCombs was about % years Of age,
neal 6 feet high. full faced, rather light
hs'r, and blue eyes.
Any information in regard to him will
be thankfully received and amply reward
ed by his friends. Direct TO ]. Dawson,
Wyoming, N. T., or E. w. Botsford, Ne
braska City.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08
A NERY HARD CAsE.-The New
York Times has the foil living

80
IAN enterprising young man in Alba
ny, a few years ago, who had what he
considered 10 be n valuable medicine,
which he wished so sell for the benefit of
mankind, prevailed upon an old fellow of
his acquaintance to Join him in the bust
ness and furnish him with the necessary
capital to 60 ahead with. He came 10
New York, and at once entered upon a
mos proflgate and ruinous course of ad-
vertising, which at last excited The alarm
of the old gentleman in Albany, who came
down TO inspect the accounts of the con-
Germ, and 10 his utter CONSERVATION he
discovered that his prodigal partner had
spent his entire capital the first year in
advertising, But examining a little t rr-
Their, he discovered that he was entitled
to draw out more than five times the
amount of The capital he had furnished, as
his share of the profits. The astonish.
ment of the poor Old gentleman proved too
much for him, for he went home and died
in a fit. If merchants do not want 10 get
rich too fast, they should be careful not
TO advertise"
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The Oalthumpian Band, VIM. Dean,
Captain, were out on parade last evening,
and favored us with a serenade~ Their
appearance was decidedly novel, and
did not fail to provoke a smile even from
crusty old bachelors. Long may you live,
gentlemen, to indulge your fun-loving
propensities.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08
The N~ewburvnor, Herald GAYS thai, N,

The Newburyport Herald says that the
old residents of Ward One were not a
little surprised on Thursday last by the
advent in their midst of Mr.. Peter Fudge,
after an absence of forly-six years. 1t
was supposed that he had long been an
inhabitant Of the spiritual spheres. In
1912 Mr.. Fudge sailed from Newbury-
port in a ship, since which time no lidings
were had of him until his return. His
wife was married twice after his depar-
ture, and died some years since.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

VEsuvIUs.-The news of the eruption
of Vesuvius does not make it clear that
all danger is yet over which fact, togeth-
er with the inherent interest belonging to
such mysterious manifestations of the
power of the elements, will make the ac-
counts read with much avidity. Premo-
nitions of the outbreak have been noted
for some time, though the absence of de-
struclive eruptions for Il long period has
prevented the alarm which used TO attend
such warnings. The first and most dread
full eruption Of Vesuvius, of which we have
any mention, was in the year 20, when
Pompeii aud HerculaneWn, with over
200 900 human beings, were buried UNI
der the burning lava and cinders. In 1851
the town Of Tore del Greece, then hav-
ing four thousand inhabitants, was entire
Iy destroyed, with much Of the surrounding
country. In the eruption of 1884 the top
Of the mountain fell in, leaving the crater
nearly two miles in circumference. Down
TO 1850, f%orly-nine eruptions had been re-
corded, those Of the present century TAX
ing place in 1919, 1894, and 1889. There
was quite a flow Of lava in 1855, since
which time, till the present outburst, the
mountain has been quiet.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

In an old mail bag recently purchased
by a Milford shoe manufacturer to work
into shoes, was found a letter containing
1888 in bank bills. The letter had been
mailed at an office in Tennessee for ano,h.
er place in the same State. The same
manufacturer has purchased thousands OF
mail bags, and letters are occasionally
found in them.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

A LIVE EDITOR IN THE SENATE
The Senate of the United States has been
hoaored by the election of an editor to a
seat in that body. Ex- Governor H. b.
Anthony, editor of the Providence Journ-
al, has been chosen United Satates Sena-
tor from Rhode Island, for six years from
tile 4th of March next.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The farmers of Kansas have a fair
prospect of a rich harvest before them.
The rain has been abundant. But, as
yet, it has done no general mis- ,hief, and
the yield promises to be large.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The French Gazette .MedieaLs states
that by an accident, charcoal has been dis
covered to be a sure cure for burns. by
laying a piece of charcoal on the burn'
the pain subsidies Immediately. BY leaV,
ing the charcoal on one hour, the wound
is head, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions. The remedy is cheap
and simple, and certainly deserves a trla
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Big ITEM.--Who would believe it
that enough long chains have been taken
away from this City during the last four
months, to build a chain telegraph from
here to Santa Fe-over seven hundred
miles.-Kansas City Journal.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

An IMPoRrANr DrcIsIoN.-Under
this head, on the 9th of May las, we EN-
bodied an article, a report from Washing
ton, made, we believe, by the co%rrespon-
dent Of the Missouri Republican, to the
effect, that the Supreme Court of the
United States, had made a decision, that
as the Government parts with its title to
larfds only when the patent issues to the
purchaser, that public lands are therefore
not taxable by States or Territories until
the actual issue of the patent.
The report of such a decision has gone
the rounds Of the papers of the United
States, and it seems that Mr.. Barney, Of
this city, wrote 10 Senator Jones to ascer-
tain the truth in relation to the matter.
Mr.. Jones has written in reply as fol-
lows.
Washington, June 18th, 1853.
SIR.-I called on the Clerk of the
United States Supreme Court, relative to
the decision Of the Supreme Court of the
United States with regard to the iIiegality
of taxing lands before the issue of the
patents. lie informs me me that there
Is no such opinion given; and as he owns
much land in the West that Is subject to
taxation, which would be exempt under
such a decision, if any such has been
made. He says the Newspaper report it
without the least foundation.
| am your o'bt. servant,
GEO. w. JONES.
w. |. Barney, Esq, Dubuque, Iowa.
Dubuque Express.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Jos. E. Pray is now erecting a com.
modious brick building, on Main Street,
for an office. When completed, it will
be one of the finest buildings in the City.
We hope to have a few more of the same
sort.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

SMALL Pox.-Several cases of small
pox are reported on Sonora Island in the
Missouri river, about twenty miles below
Nebraska City. One person died with
the disease, and several others are not ex.
pected 10 recover
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

CUTTING Wharf.-The Alton Demo-
Graf says: Harvest operation has COM
menced at Monticello, and in the Plasa
regions. The grain stands well, and the
harvest, with this beautiful weather, prom.
ises greatly. The fears of rust, cut. worm,
lodging, &C., are mostly ~groundless, as
vet"
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Attic semi.annual election of the Belle.
vue Lodge No. a, of ]. 90. F., held June
"a, the following were elected officers for
the ensuing term w. w. Harvey, N.
G'; f. M. Davenport, V. G.; Chas. E..
McRay, Secretary.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

An election was held last Wednesday,
to see if our citizens would vote a Civ
Loan of $4,000, to complete the Court
House. A large marjority of votes were
cast IN favor of the Loan. Only six votes
were polled against it.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

BoArs.-The st. Joe Packet, Watossa,
came up July lst.
The Mansfield, an Ohio River Steam.
er, arrived July 9th.
The new and elegant Steamer, Sioux
City, is now due at this port. She is ad-
vertiSed for Sioux CITY.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Henry M Rice, U. S. Senator from
Minnesota, is a native of Morrisville,
Madison County, N. Y, and learned the
printing art in the Office of the Madison
Observer.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Bituminous coal can be purchased in
Lawrence for twenty cents a bushel, or
SIS so a ton, A very good vein has re.
Gently been discovered some four miles
west of Lawre 1ce.-HerdH of Freedom.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

NoricE.-No more public meeting,
will be permitted in the Bellevue School
House from this date. BY order of the
SCHOOL BOARD.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The ocean steamer. Vanderbilt, made
her last trip from Europe to the United
States, in six days and ten hours, between
land and land.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

The County Commissioners adjourned
to meet at Cooks Office, July 22d, al 9
o'clock, A. M.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Read the new mail arrangements. 1t
will be seen that we are having three
mails a day, and on Saturdays, fou'.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

George ID. Prentice, the editor Of the
Louisville Journal has enrolled himself
as a memeber of the Sons of Temperance.
He joined them on the night of the eth
nlt.., and made, it is said, some very
touching remarks upon his past life and
his prospects for the future.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

Gen. jim. Lane of Kansas, WHO has
been OH trial at Lawrence, for some time
past, for the murder of jenkins, has been
acquitted.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

William Wild, and James Miller, are
erecting a large building on Warren
Street, for a Brewery.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

w. F. Wilson, has been appointed
Agent of the Omaha Indians, uice Gen.
J. b. Robertson.
Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1858-07-08

All accounts of the crops in Kentucky
and Tennessee are encouraging.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-01-21

for them at Onehow. I took my order in the shape OF
. kanaka. which by the by Was the only kind OF an
order that could have been delivered, for on arriving
at the west side Of the island 1 found the surf too
high to land. but sent my boat. to take my ordernear
the shore, and dispatched it through the surf and
presented it. The articles were all collected by
another day, and when it was smooth, my boats
landed and took off all we wanted. Three iron hoops
would load my boat with potatoes and yams. having
the hoops cut in pieces for change. One hundred
pounds Of iron hoops procured me more vegetables
than $3.50 had at the other islands, so many ships
having resorted there for supplies. On my first COM
ing to these islands two hundred pounds Of hoops pur-
chased all I wanted, but the natives had learned the
value Of money since my first visit 1 left Onehow
the 9th Of April, 1922, for Japan. and was absent
from the islands five months when I returned, having
taken 1900 barrels, which completed my cargo Of
2150 barrels Of sperm oil.
Thus ended my last voyage in the Pacific. I ar
rived at New Bedford the 18th of April, 1928. Four
months after my arrival from the Pacific / took the
ship South .America and performed n voyage On the
coast of Patagonia. I was absent eight and a half
months, and on my arrival. finding the price OF oil
not remunerating. 1 concluded to 60 whaling no more.
I then took the ship Phoebe .Ann to Brazil on q trading
voyage, returned to New Bedford, and after a month
took my Brazilian cargo to Europe, (Hamburg) and
from Sweden on New Years day, 1896.
Since which time I have not been on the ocean.
EDMUND GARDINER.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-01-21

hear him give his opinion Of Gulick's letter. The
upright will confirm his report those whom the
shoe pinches will squeal. Those who have been to
Ascension and deny Gulick's statements. add the
meanness of falsehood to their peccadilloes.
Why did not .Many ShipmasteTS'' publish their
names? Were they afraid that so1le Of their crews
would see them and say, Well. u bowed II our
old man isn't a brick"?
"Many Shipmasters - say !" Fortunately the
character Of the whaling feet is too widely known
Cor anything which he may say to blacken its good
name Now, let me stop and laugh-let me laugh
out loud and strong-just as all will laugh who
sknov the ropes and just as Many ShIpmas-
tiers" laughed in their sleeves when they wrote those
lines.
Blacken its good name (Gulick is speaking Of
ssmoral pest-houses,'' and those who only gather
there for sin " and sailing rum.) No, DR.. Gulick
can't do that. His black is not strong enough. 1t
would be like the boy trying to blacken the black
man with coal tar the man was SO very black that
the coal tar made a white mark on him
When men visit out-of-the-way corners Of the
earth, where there are no restraining influences,
they are very apt 70 throw down the reins of reason
on the neck of passion, and gallop away. 1t is only
where sound religious principles restrain hin tf11
man is safe. Ask any man who has drifted -
u L dCIuC, ia WuaiCcuipo, w CSnt - eSA ySoAc -
he believes Gdfick's report, and he win not deem the
question worth an answer. Perhaps he might say,
ssGulick is a fool for telling it."
No, MANY Shipmasters," you are very safe in
saying that he cannot blacken the character Of the
whaling fleet, in the particulars of which he speaks.
No man of common sense. who is half posted up, will
ever try. If you were only as correct when you &C.
cuse Gulick of falsehood, I should have nothing to
say. 1t is very evident either that you have not
been to Ascension, or that you, whilst there, have
been guilty of the practices of which he complains.
You, perhaps, think that by squirming about in the
agony caused by public notice Of your immoralities,
added to your guilty consciences, you can, by some
hocus-pocus, shift the odium from your shoulders and
fasten it on Guliek's. My brethren of the lance, that
won't go down in these days, in this community. 1t
may be believed at home, where your wives and
sweethearts and sisters are 1 hope, for their sakes,
it will but out here it is no go. You may as well
abandon the idea. CYMoN.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-01-21

DIR. LIvINGsToNE's TRAVELS IN South AFRICA
Harper and Brothers have issued this long expected
work Of the great missionary traveller. DR.. Living
stone, a few copies Of which are expected by the
Yankee. The London .4theneum says: "The Afri-
can Columbus has broken the egg, and let the world
into his secret. What he has achieved, and endured,
and conquered, the witchcraft which for sixteen
years he has used against a vertical sun and O
malign climate,-how he has run the gauntlet of
carnivores, and pachyderms, and ophidia.-how he
has lived ON roots, and locusts, and frogs, and mois-
tened his mouth only with rain or river water,-how
he has striven with thirst and fever, with che loss of
letters and the absence of intelligent companionship,
how he has sounded unknown lakes, broken
through thorny jungles, n~avigated unknown rivers,
opened to light a world teeming with floral, animal,
and mineral wonder,-obtaining ingress for science,
for commerce, for religion,-and leading after him,
as the special spoils of his expedition. q throng of
colored indigeni drawn along by no other letters save
of love and admiration; so runs the story of his book,
book not so much of travel and adventure as, in
its purport and spacious. relation, a veritable poem.
Il think I would rather cross the African continent
again. pleads our modest traveller, sthan undertake
to write another book. 1t is far easier to travel than
to write about it,"