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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.

bringing cats, and cats; always pilin.
'eln up yonder, pointing to a big pile,
as large in extent as pyramid, and
considerably aromatic,) and he piled
them, and piled them, nothing but cats,
catS!"
'Never mind, my son, what Billy
did. What has the committee met
for?'' DO -a5E -re oJ {~iR I .sni.
'Then Bill got sick handlin' 'em and
everybody got sick nosin' 'em; but Bill
got madder and didn't give up, but
kept a pilin' up the cats-and--
''Tell me what the committee are
holding a meeting for?'' a ot .aoEaa
"Why, the skule committee are go
ing to hold meeting to say whether
they'll move the skule house or them
cats!'' af+ E.saE F@1 @'@'
The old gentleman evaporated imme.
diately. 7ua rras = : G.es sA
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24

DOES THE WORLD HATE PIErY Pin
answer to this question, the great Sid
ney Smith says: o..s- -...
cit is not true that the world hates
piety. The modest and unobtrusive
piety which fills the heart with all hui
man charities, and makes man gentle
to others and severe to himself, is an
object of universal love and veneration.
But mankind hate the lust of power
when it is yelled under the garb of pie
ty. They hate cant and hypocrisy
They hate advertisers and quacks in
piety; they do not choose to be insult
ed; they love to tear folly and impu-
dcnce from the place which should ONLY
be sanctuary for the righteous ,na
the good"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24
Old Husbands and Young Wives.

II was an Old fool. Yes-I was an
old fool: that's all there is about it. |
ought to have known better; she was
not to blame, poor thing! she is but a
child yet and these baubles pleased
her ambitious mothers eye. 1t was
not the old man, but his naonea/-his
money! might have known it. May
and December-May and December
-pshaw! how could ever believe that
Mary Terry could loue an old fellow
like me?" and Mark Ware surveyed
himself in the large parlor mirror.
Sect reflects a portly old man of
sixty, with ruddy face, and snow white
hair, and eyes from which the light of
youth has long since departed. And
yet there Is fire in the old mans veins
too; see how he strides across the car
pet, calculating with fresh emphasis,
eyes, l was an old fool! an old fool!
But will be kind to her; Pm not the
man to tyranize over a young girl be-
cause her mother took her out of the
nursery to make her my wife. [ see
now it is not in reason for young girl
like her to stay contentedly at home
with my frosty head and gouty feet
Poor little Mary! No-I'll not punish
because she cannot love me; she shall
have. what she wants, and 90 where
she likes; her mother is only too proud
to trot her out, as the wife of the rich
Mark Ware. If that will make them
both happy, let them do it, maybe
and Mark Ware -s'maybe after
she has seen what the Dead Sea apple
the world-is made of, she will come
back and love the old man a little
maybe-who knows? No woman who
is believed IN, and we'll treated, ever
makes a bad wife, there never was a
bad wife yet, but there was bad hus-
band first, that's gospel-Mark's gos.
pei, anyhow, and Mark Ware is going
to act upon it. Mary shall 90 to the
ball to night with her mother, and
will stay to home to nurse my gouty
leg. There's no evil in her; she's as
pure as lily, and if she wants to see
the world, why-she shall see it; and
though can't 60 dancing round with
her, l never will dim her bright eyes.
no-no!''
''That will do TiHy; another pin il
this lace; now move that rose in my
hair little to the left: so-that vii
do" .....
''That will do! Tame praise fo,
that small Grecian head, with its crown
of braided tresses for the full round
throat, and snowy, sloping shoulders
for the round, ivory arms; and tapering
rose-tipped fingers for the lovely DO.
som and dainty waist Well might
such beauty dazzle Mark Wares eyes
till he failed to discern the distance be
tween May and December.
Mark Ware had rightly read Mary
She was guiltless and pure, as he had
said; and, child as she was there wa.
that in her before which the most au
daeious eye would have shrunk abash
ed. -
When the young bride first realized
the Importance of those words she had
been made to utter, s'hll death do u.
part" she looked forward with sbud
dering horror at the long, monotonous
weary years before her Her home
seemed a prison, and Mark Ware tn,
keeper. Its very splendor ronnresset
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24
A Vision.

At dead of night, when others sleep,
Near He'll l took my station;
And from that dungeon, dark and deep,
Ger heard this conversation:
'Hail, Prince of Darkness, ever hail,
Adored by each Internal,
l come among your gang to wall,
And taste of death eternal"
where are you from 2" the ficnd demands,
'What makes YOU look so frantic?
Are you from Carolina's strand,
Just west Of the Atlantic?
Are you that man of blood and birth,
Devoid of human feeling?
The wretch l saw, when last on earth,
In human cattle dealing?
"Whose soul with blood and rapine stain'd,
With deeds of crime to dark it,
Who drove Gods image, starved and chaine
To sell like beasts in market?
Who tore the infant from the breast,
That you might sell its mother?
Whose craving mind could never rest,
Till you had sold brothers
"Who gave the sacrament to those
Whose chains and handouts rattle?
Whose backs soon after felt the blows,
More ncaVy tnan the cattir 2!
"I'm from the South" the ghost replies,
"And | was there a teacher;
Saw men in chains, with laughing eyes;
/ was Southern Preacher!
In tasselled pulpits, gay and fine,
/ strove to please the tyrants,
To prove that Slavery is divine,
And what the Scripture warrants
I IL,
Of slaves by tortures dying,
And told the masters all was right
knew that l was lying.
81 knew all this, and who can doubt,
felt a sad misgiving?
But still, | knew, if spoke out, s.
That | should lose my living.
They made me fat, they paid me we'll,
To preach down abolition.
| slept dicd-I woke in He'll,
How altered my condition!
II now am in a sea of fire,
Whose fury ever RACES;
/ am slave, and can't get free,
Through everlasting ages.
Yes when the sun and moon shall fade,
And fire the rocks dissever,
/ must sink down beneath the shade,
And feel Gods wrath for ever
Our Ghost stood trembling all the while
He saw the scene transpring;
With soul aghast and visage sad,
Ali hope was now retiring.
The Demon cried, on vengeance bent,
Il say, in haste, retire
And you shall have a negro sent
TO attend and punch the fire."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24

A PHILOSOPHICAL gentleman was one
day passing new. school house, erected
somewhere near the setting sun Dor,
ders of our glorious Union, when his
attention was suddenly aroused by a
crowd of persons gathering around the
door. a..a--. -s Size
He inquired Of a boy whom he met,
what was going on. ,.ro.-.- .-...
"Well nothin', 'cept the skule com.
mittee, and they're going in"
"Oh, committee meets to-day, eh:
What for?' e 4" ssaz@ l.s5~e5
"Wen,' continued the boy, you see
Bill, that's our biggest boy, got mad
the other day at the teacher, and SO he
went ali over and gathered dead cats.
Nothing but cats, and cats. Oh! it was
orful, them catsi!'' - --
"Pshaw! what have the cats to do
with the school eommittee:''' orr sIr
.'Now, we'll, You see, Bill kept a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24

Dl1S, anu PoIt tloHs oi Il lfSu previously y
Drowned on the fire. You will then
put the goose into a pot, and boil it for
half an hour; then put it on your spit,
roast it until done, and you will serve
it with prepared gravy f.. .-..-.. --
Centaur listened with profound at
tention, and, noting carefully upon the
tablet of his brain Jimmy's directions,
started for the galley, hig ghly elated.
The affair was, of course, kept a pro-
found secret, and l would not have
spoiled the expected joke for the world.
Dinner time arrived, and Centaur
certainly won honors for himself by the
style in which he served the fish, both
boiled and fried. Dish after dish had
disappeared, and, when every one sup
posed the meal to be concluded, an
other dish was placed before the cap
tain, who, on removing the cover, to
his great surprise and Indignation, dis
covered the goose! His wrath was not
to be suppressed, even in the presence
OF the passengers, and, in a towering
passion, he shouted:
''Send that confounded cook aft di-
rectly."
Poor Centaur entered the cabin, very
greasy and goed-humored, having no
suspicion of anything wrong, and was
considerably startled by the question
"What do you mean, you scoundrel,
by this disobedience Of orders %
"'Beyed orders, sa done jis what
you said, sa," he stammered out.
"Obeyed orders, you rascal?' said
the captain, greatly astounded; "didn't
tell you to postpone the goose %
Centaur looked perfectly amazed,
"Course you did, sa !; an I did it,
'Did what:" shouted the captain.
''Postponed de goose, sa, 'cordin' to
directions.
The passengers here began to scent
the joke, and burst into a loud laugh
Even the little captain was somewhat
Modified, and requested Centaur to ex-
plain himself. .a's -.
"Well, sa," said he, "you ordered
me to cook de fish an postpone de
goose. Now nebber postpone one in
all my life, an OBJ course didn't know
nothin' bout it; but Jimmy Ducks
Tighten ME on de subjeck, an l foller
'zactly his 'cription. By ginger, l had
trouble enough; don't want to postpone
anoder, nohow." .....
Everybody laughed heartily at Cen,
taur's explanation, and even the cap.
tain could not help smiling.
''Be off, you black hlockhead!" he
said, "and send Jimmy Ducks here.''
The darkey was off in a twinkling,
and there being some curiosity as to
this new style Of cooking, we tried the
goose but for the life of us we could
not tell whether we were eating fish,
flesh or fowl. Jimmy soon afterwards
appeared, and was compelled to repeat
the directions he had given to the cook,
forgiveness being extended to him on.
ly on condition that he should eat the
whole of the goose and l was appoint
ed committee Of one to see the sen
tence duly carried out. The punish.
ment, however, did not seem to be very
severe, for in fifteen minutes nothing
but a skeleton remained of that much
abused goose. ...
"My heyes!'' was his exclamation,
when he had completed the task, eli
that's a postponed goose, I wish the
captain 'ud have one postponed every
week. The dressin', however, might
be varied, SO as to be a leetle more pal,
atable.''. ..-. ~.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24

jim went out. ..-
'sSee here" said Jed; "dismiss that
suit [ acknowledge the "corn."
will pay the thirty dollars and costs;
but blast those box witnesses-they
were too much for me-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24

- If you want to know whether a
tree is hollow or not. go and are it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-24
THE WOOD COUNTY REPORTER.
IS FUBb15HkD EVERY WEDNESDAY,, At
Grand Rapids, Wood CO., Wis

JOHN N BRUNDAGE, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
E. II. HAINES, CoRREsPoHDING EDITOR
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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-16
Letter of a Dying Wife to Her Husbund.

The Nashville Gazette says the following most touch
ing fragment of letter from dying wife to her hus
band was found by him. months after her death,
between the leaves Of religious volume which she was
very fond of perusing. The letter. which was literally
dim with tear marks written long before her hus
band was aware that the grasp of fatal disease had fast
ened upon the lovely form of his wife, who died at the
early age Of nineteen
When this shall reach your eye, dear George, some
day when you are turning the relics of the past
shall have passed away forever and the cod white stone
will be keeping its lonely watch the lips you have
so often pressed and the sod will be growing green that
shall hide forever from your sight the dust of who
has often nestled close to your warm heart For many
long and seepless nights when all but my thoughts
at rest have wresed with the consciousness Of ap-
preaching DEATH until at last it has forced itself upon
my mind and although to you, to Others it might now
seem but the nervous imaginngs Of a girl, yet dear
George, it s so! Many weary nights have passed in
the endeavor to reconcile myself to leaving you, whom
love so WELL and this bright world ofsunshine and beau
y; and hard, indeed is it to struggle on silently and
alone with the sure conviction that about to leave
all forever and 60 down into the dark valley But,
know in whom have believed and leaning his arm,
fear no evil.'
Do not blame me for keeping all this from you.
How could subject you of all Others, to such sorrow,
as feel at parting when time will make it apparent to
you? could have wished to ve if only to be at your
side when your time shall come and pilowing your head
upon my breast wipe the death damps from your brow
oEhlU P1CSSHC0,
embamed in womans hoiest prayers. But it is not to
be-and submit. Yours is the privilege of watching
through long and dreary nights for the spirits final
fight and of transferring my sinking head from your
breast to my Savours bosom. And you shall share my
last thought and the last faint pressure of the hand and
the last feeble kiss shall be yours and when flesh
and heart shall have failed me, my eyes shall rest on
yours until glazed by death; and our spirits shall hold
one last communion, until gently faded from my view
the last of earthyou shall minge with the first bright
glimpse of the unading gores of the better world where
partings are unknown Well do l know the spot, my
dear George where you will lay me- Often we stood by
the place, and as watched the mellow sunset as it
glanced in quvering flashes through the leaves and
FURNISHED the grassy mounds around with stripes OF
FURNISHED god EACH perhaps, has thought that somc
day one OF us would come alone and whichever might
be- your name would be the stone But we loved the
spot, and know you will love it none the less when
you see the same quiet sunlight nger and play among
the grass that grows over your Marys grave. [ know
you will go there and my spirit will be with you then
and whisper among the waving branchas-" am not
lost, but gone before"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-16

- The subscriber offers for sale his entire posses -
E sOns of Lands, lying in the county of Onslow on
&A the South West Creek, South West branch OF -
New River The Farm embracing about six hundred
on Creek and both sides of the Road leading from Viii
mngon to Jacksonville and Newbern five miles from Jack
sonve and about equdistant between Wilmington and
Newbern The Turpentine Pine Lands embrace sixteen
hundred lying within few miles of the plantation,
and from three to five miles from good landing the
Creek
The above property offers opportunity for invest
ment the Pine lands being mostly in their virgin state and
capable of producing from ten to twelve tasks OF boxes
The Farm lands although in bad order from long neglect
lies well and susceptible of very high state Of improve
rent aordng all the materials and every facility for the
same The Lands would be sold in body, or in parcels
Terms of sale made easy.
For further information apply to the subscrber or to
N. Nixon, Wilmington. CD: y. FoI:
Oct ], 1857 HzW-ou
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-16
RALEIGH, March 27, 1858.

10 has ErceLteney Governor Bragg:
SIR Since your instructions bearing date Dec &C.
1851 relative to the communication of facts having re-
aton to the establishment of National Foundry some
where in the valley of Deep River have from time to
time pursued my enquiries and have the honor of
communicating to your Excelency the additional nfor-
nation which have acquired. This additional nfor-
nation however does not relate much to the discov-
cry OF new locations of the metals to their compost
ton it amounts therefore simply to the determination
of the chemical constitution of the ores already known
to exist in this valley with exception that of exis
ence OF fine bed Of iron Buckhorn Falls and
about six miles below Lockville The existence of ore
at this place known at the time my report was
made; but wished to ascertain one Or two facts res
pecting it, before it placed among the reliable re-
sources of this valley The Buckhorn ore is massive
peroxide of iron Its composition similar to the well
known specular oe but it is of dull red brown color
and without crystalization and is extremely heavy
Its streak is bright re and it is rather tough but is not
difficult to break It would strike one at once on ma
king but slight examination of it, that it is very
rich ore.
The vein is eight feet wide, and is contained in the
Faconic States in which respect, well in its
position, it closely resembles the of Lake Superior
On submitting this ore to analysis, found it compo-
sed of
hoAeA'. ............ 4.'S
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-16
IL. LIN hOANOJ
Geol. to the State of North Carolina

No one who heard the speech of Mr.. GImer of North
Carolina, mot yet pubshed) delivered on the day be-
fore yesterday, surprised on finding him yesterday
doing the work the Republican party managers ner
vousy desired him to do Of the tenor of that speech
it is sufficient to say that it instantly drew rush OF
congratulating Republican members Abotionists-
around him. at its conclusion AS the venerable Joshua
who was at their head, bent him. and with out
stretched hands and countenance beamng with delight,
blessed him for the effort, as it were, Mr. George S.
Houston of Alabama moved doubtless by the pregnant
points of the passing scene fixed the attention OF all
present upon It, by exclaming in voice heard by all
g Kiss him, Giddings Kiss him, Giddings"
This exclamation, under the circumstances told, per-
haps with more force upon the mind of the House and
the spectators in the galleries than any hours speech o
the session. Washington Star.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-16
FURNTTURE!!!


n NHE subscriber would respectfully
i to the citizens of Wilmington
and the public generally that he has just SSS
selected in person, at the actores and will receive
during this month"; the largest best assorted of Cabi
net Furniture that he has offered in this place. As he
has had long experience this business and having
chased his entire stock cash. at manufacturers Locest
cash prices he offer inducements to purchasers
The following among the articles to be found in his
store, viz:
ParlOr Sets, complete in Mahogany and Walnut;
BrOCatelle and air-cloth covering;
Sofas and Tete Tetes great variety from $l3 to $50
Mahogany and Walnut Upholstered, Rocking and Easy
Chairs
Ottomans, Etageres and Corner Stands
Centre, Sofa and Card Tables;
Pier, Mantle and Oval Mirrors;
Cane Seat Chairs from IS cents to $23 each;
Cane seat Rocking and Nurse Chairs;
Eideboards and Secretaries;
beautiful lot of Chamber Furniture, setts complete;
Bureaus, great variety, from 81 to $50;
WardrObes, Washstands, Marble top, &c;
Bedsteads, Bedsteads, Bedsteads;
Towel and light Stands;
Extension and other dining Tables;
Work Tables, Toilet Tables, TeapOys &C.;
Aso lot of superior Piano FOrtes Music Stands Stools
&c.
Intending to sell goods low his terms cash. large
bills good negotiable paper, 80 days. with interest added
JOHN D. LOVE,
No. 10 Front street, Wilmington N. c.
August 10, 1857 286-12-50H
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-16

No MORE SLAVE STATEs.-The application of Kan
sas with proslavery constitution, presented by her
people, and passed by the United States Senate has
been rejected in the House. The South has suffered de-
feat on vital principle, involving her destiny in the
Union What five appointed Governors successively
tailed to achieve, the reachery Of Calhoun nsgated
by Southern spollsmen, has finally accomplished The
Legislature has been to the Freesoers and
thus the issue is stripped of practicable advantage and
left naked abstract principle. Whether State recog-
nsng slavery shall be received into the Confederacy is
the question and this, the voice of the Northern maor
ity, assisted by Southern Know Nothngs, has decided
in the negative
Clouds of doubt have, indeed, been raised bv poit
clans and thrown around the Kansas question We have
heard much OF Southern fraud, and much of violated
popular sovereignty But it must be manifest to all
that this is smoke and dust 1t is only an old strata
gem used by the Black Republicans to blind the people
Of the South and divert attention from the occupation
of advanced position towards securing Southern sub
lection and Northern rule. Under the sway of an in
creasng and overshadOwng Northern majority agitation
is to go Slavery is to be undermined, weakened
and worried out. Arizona, Northern Texas and the
Indian Territory, and Missouri, Kentucky MARYLAND
and Virginia to come in Free States Tennessee and
North Carolina are then, to be beeaguered until fatigue
famine and treachery do their work AS the circle mar
rows the Gordon of hostile sentiment and action along
the surrounding Free States will tighten upon their vic
tim. And finally, perhaps after desperate and bloody
struggle, slavery is to 90 out on this continent.
Such is the policy OF VIM. H. Seward the Iong-headed
statesman of the North the ruling spirit of the great
Black Republican party With the extinction of slave
ry for the object No slave States is but the
rayng cry of the first onset and apparently the South
is routed.
1t is suggested that the Senate disagrees to the
Bill which passed the House for sending the constitution
back to be made antsavey before Kansas be admitted
conference will be held, and possibly some compromise
effected. Possibly, in the House. a sufficient number
may yield under pressure, to carry Lecompton in the
end Of this we can form no adequate conjecture
Doubtless great efforts will be made by shuflng and
evasion, patch up hollow truce between the sections
But for the Union and the South the sooner this issue
met and settled forever, the better. We trust there
will be further weakness waverng on the part of
the South Charleston Uercurg