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The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-13

+ says, is simply intended a life in its ideal attitudes"
Simply intended Did ever mortal man listen to such
~verbiage run mad? What, again, are we to understand
by the words I" objective" and " subjective" which
every goose with his sham metaphysics has. now-a-vays
on his lips ? These Titanic Gil6llanisms will certainly
be the death Of us.
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-13
Written for the Emigrant Aid Journal.
THE NJ.
By L.. y. C~OUNyRYhAS

By l.. n. COCNTRfhAN.
It's night,-the storm howls fierce and loud
In wind and snow without
The trees, wrapped in a snowy shroud,
Are swung in wrath about.
The broken shutter, c~reaking, swings;
The doors and windows rattle,-
Each moment some new horror brings,
OF this unequal battle.
I saw the way pile full of snow,
And still the snow sheets come,
Full in the face of him who'd 60,
Onward to reach his home.
There, beating hearts wait his return;
There comfort is, and rest.
These thoughts within his bosom burn,
And onward fast he pressed.
But human strength cannot avail
TO longer brave. the blast.
The drifts increase-his powers fail
Not longer can they last.
But now a light bursts on his sight;
New strength is to him given
And in the dark and fearful night,
He gains his home-his haven.
| saw a frail and tender form
Pass Ger the lonely street.
She had no shelter from the storm,
No rest her wandering feet.
Above-around-bright lamp-lights shone,
She merry music heard
But she, alas. is poor and lone
She shuddered at the word.
Twas not SO once She, too had friends
Such friends as fortunes make,
Who, when they re gone, their friendship ends,
They former VOWS forsake
She tottered on-her fragile frame,
Still shivering with the cold,
While ever and anon there CAM
Sad thoughts Of days of old.
. But as she walks, Que hope ~revives,
Perhaps one friend remains;
Against despair she nobly strives,
Until his house she gains.
She knocks-a welcome voice bids, come
He knows that tender form,
And plying, thenceforth gives her home,
And shelter from the storm.
Thus, in the darkness Of that hour,
When storms around US rave,
The light of some supernal power,
Avails from death to save.
And though the storms may not abatc,
There's joy and peace within,
Where, rescued from a fearful fate,
A ION of rest we win.
Min, 1858.
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-13

d Do1LARs AND Gents IN CANADA.-Me Provincial,
Legislature Of Canada, having passed an act reqniting
all the accounts of that government to be kept ia dollars
and. cents, afer, The first of January, 1855, many Of ths,.
banks Of the Provinces have. given formal notices that
all bills or notes intended for discount or collections, and
falling due on and after the 6rst day Of January, BE OK
pressed in dollars and cents. They have likewise given
ing purpose, be adapted to the decimal system. 80 $50
The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-13

One Of the old philosophers usel to say that life and
death were just the same to him. why, then said
an ~objector, do yeu not kill yourself !" Because it =
just the same replied the philosopher.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

practically look upon women as inferior,
The truth was that they were coordinate
members of society; women should have
the privilege of earning what they could
at as fair price as men, and have tn,
right to aid in making the condition ;
every human being had the right to do
what God had given him or her the abili.
ty to do, and society should protect them
in the exciscse of that ability. The sculp-
tress, the female medical practitioners the
Grace Darlings, the Joan of Arcs, the
Mrs. Pattens, the Mrs. Stoves, had their
right to do what they did-they had
their right in possessing the simple power
to do it. The same principle was as
applicable in anything else that women
had ability to do-whether in using the
gifts of spofen eloqrence, of written
cloquence, of mechanical ingenuity, or
any other gift. If they had a tight to
use these gifts, then they had the right
to aid in c. ntrollins those gifts, and the
conditions unde- which they were excr-
cised and developed.
A women had as much right to vote az
a citizen, as to vote as a stock holder in a
railroad or other corporation, ,as she might
to-day AS for war. woman never faltcr.
cd in day oftrial in all the worlds his
tory. Regarding the ballot-box, men
did not leave their business long to vote;
and women could not 90 along the streets
to shop or to the theatre or the concert
without meeting with as many indigni-
ties as possible at the polls; 1t had taken
him but ten quiet minutes to cast his vote
for Fremont last fall, where women could
have gone without being crowded !; but
last week he went to concert where his
clothes were nearly torn off by crowd of
ladies. Women were told it Was undi =
nifed to quietly drop ballot in a box in
quiet room, but they might q to crowd
ed and heated scenes Of sociality or pub
lie amusement, or whirl in the dance
with stranger whom they might never
see again. and feel, perhaps, his tipsy
breath VI on their cheeks and neck. The
industrial condition of woman could new.
er be allcviatcd till the equal claim OF
women to all their rights should be estab-
lished in all hearts and organized in the
laws OF our land. And that, the lecturer
believed, would not be long distant. =
The women of this land were as able to
vote as their coachman or buffers, or as
that valuable class OF fellow -citizens who
every day land on OUR shores and derive
their political opinions from the rum
drinking and tobacco-spittins purlieus of
city offices. Prejudice vas the great
opponent of women obtaining their true
position, and all that we askc. in the
name OF those women who really suffer,
ifit is not believed that all suffer, was
that the subject should be looked at free
from prejudice and with minds open to
every generous movement, every hospita
BILE thought, every earnest prayer.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

The FARMERS lIoME.-Ihe business
of the farmer is at home-his pleasures
are home pleasures, and his cnjoymcuts
are the enjoyments of home. The mer-
chant may get along without home; he
may spend his days in his office or count
ing room, or in the exciting marts of
commercials evenings in contriving
new schemes, deep plans for accumulat-
ing wealth, or avcrtins anticipated loss.
Too seldom are the hours or days he
snatchcs from business cares for recrea-
ton devoted to quiet home pleasures
they do not satisfy the ever-feverish
brain that Graves excitement, even in its
repose. The waterins-placc, the concert
the theatre, the convivial party, the wine
cup, constitute, in too many cases, the
pleasures of our men of wealth. 1t is
stated that merchant who recently fail
ed in one of our large cities, on being
asked what he intended to do, replied.
that he should first go and get acquaint.
ed with his wife and children ibis,
perhaps, was an extreme case; yet too
many are strangers at home. bow ham
py the man who feels that he has true
HOME the temple of his household gods.
where he reigns as patriarch, priest and
king-a refuge from envy and malice, a
shelter from the storms of life, that no
loss of wealth, no change of circumstan-
ces can effect "a rose without a thorn
sun that knows no setting.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08
A Story with Il MOr:,l.

Mr.. Bones. of the firm of Fossil,
Bones & Co., was one of those remarka-
Bile money making men VIII Sc uninter.
ruped success in trade has be the won
der, and afforded the material for the
gossip OF the town for seven years. Be-
ing Of familiar turn of mind. he was fire..
quently interrosatcd on the subject, and
invariably give as the secret of his sue
cess, that he minded his own business.
A gcntlemsn met Mr.. Bones Oh the
Assanpink Bridge. He was gazing in.
tently on the dashng, foamins waters as
they fell over the dam. He was evi
IDENTIFY in a brown study. Our friend
ventured to disturb his cogita;ions.
Mr. Bones, tell me how to make a
thousand dollars.
Mr.. Bones continued looking intcntly
at the water. At last he venture d a re-
ply.
DO you see that dam, my friend
Certainly do
We'll, there YOU may learn the Sc
cret Of making money. The water
would waste away and be of no practi-
cal use to anybody but for the DAM
That dam turns it to good account,
makes it perform some useful purpose,
and then suffers it to pass along. The
large paper is kept in constant mo.
ton by the simple cconomy.-Many
mouths are fed in the manufacture of pa
per, and intelligence is scattered broad
cast over the land on the sheets that are
daily turned out; and in the different
processes through which it passes. mon
ey is made, So it is in the living Of
hundreds of people. They get cnouyh
of money. 1t passes through their hands
freely every day, and at the years end
they are no better off What is the rea-
son? They want dam. Their OK
pcnditures are increasing. and no prac
teal good is attained. They want them
damned up so that nothing will pass
through their hands without brin sing
something back; without accomplishing
some useful purpose. Dam up your cx-
pcnscs and you will soon have enough
occasionally to spare little, just like
that dan. Look at it my friend.-
Trenton True American.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

Yes, Miss Nell; and told her what a
good bed there was over the woodshed;
but she looked strange out of them large
eyes of hers, and never seemed to her.
The poor child is in trouble, said Nell
quite sorrowful that she could not re-
lieve her necessities. I'd have given
her something to wear. and we could
have sent her to Sing Sing, but perhaps
she will come back again; if SO will
you send her to me:
If she do, | will. Miss, answered
Susan, going at the gooscberries again.
Put little Kate did not come back
She had been watching her opportunity
to get off, and had already been gone
some time. She slept in an open field;
crawled into some hay; she would have
walked all night if she had dared. but
she was afraid of the darkness. II n
MIR. Warden, there is a queer case
over at my house. said u bluff looking
fellow, meeting the Warden OF Sing
Sing prison. I'VE found her last night
in some out of.thc-way place, and moth
my Nouiu 40 Dut my WIG must '"hN
hen in. We cant find out her name,
except that i, is Katy, and l expect she
wants to see somebody in the prison.
But we can't get anything out of her;
where she Came from, Or anything about
it,
Bring her over here said the War
den, my wife is wanting little girl
for hcly; maybe she's the one
So Katy stood trembling more than
ever, in few moments, in tho pres
sence of the warden and jailor. Katy
was a prctry child. Her large b?uc eyes
wore an expression of intense melon
choly; her hair had been nicely onbed
and curled, and some one had put
good pair of shoes on her tect.
We'll. my little girl, said the War
den kindly. for he was preposccssed II
her favor, 'wherc Lave you come from
New York, said tie child family.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

A ISLANDER REFUTED.-A clergyman
was charged with having violently drag
ged his wife from revival meeting, and
compelled her to go home with him.
The clergyman let the story travel along
until he had fair opportunity to give
it broadside. Upon being charged
with the ofcnse, he replied as follows:
in tho first place, I never have attempt
ed to influence my wife in her views. nor
a choice of a meeting, Secondly-my
wife has not attended any of the revival
meetings in Lowell. In the third place
Il have not even attended any Of the
meetings for any purpose whatevcr.-
To coneluGe-ncither my wife nor my
self have any inclination to these meet
ings. Finally-I never had a wife.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08
Slsin.lisi- 4 House.

Frank H--was a young min who
commenced life with every ila,tcring pros.
pect, and a VT and lovely children so n
blessed him. Unhaprily by slow de-
yrccs he became attached to strong
drink, and became = TO make long mat
ter short--a drunkard. One evening he
left his wifi. III tears, as was too common
repaired to the house of man who sol:
him the d adiy poison, and drank so
much that he sank down in kind Of
stupefac'ion easily mistaken for sleep.
All his companions had deserted him.
Near midnight the landlords wife came
into the bar room, and said to him
Il wish that man wonld 90 homo, If
he's got one to go to-
Hush hush : says the landlord. 'lc
will call for somclhin, else directly.
Il wish he w,u'd make haste about it.
then, for it 10 time every honest pc.son
was in bed, said his wife.
He's taking the shingles off his house
and putting them on ours, said the land-
lord.
At this time Frank began to come 70
his senses: and commenced rubbing his
eyes, and strcatching himself, as If no
had Just awoke, saying, Il believe Ill
go
Don't hurry, Frank said The lard
lord.
y yes, | must CO. said Frank, so
good night : and off he started.
After an absence of some time the
landlord one day met and accosted him.
'llallc, Frank, why haven't you been
to sec US ? +'i
why said Frank. L had taken shin
giles enough off my honsc, and il begsn
to leak, so thought it was time to stop
the leak, and l'ee done it' The tav-
crn keeper was very much astonished.
and went home to tel his wife about it,
and Frank ever since has let rum alone.
and attended to his own business. He
is now happy man, and his wife aud
children are happier than ever.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08
this may be; the poor and only boon
left for aching and sorely -smitten hearts
to crave.
ANOTHER SINGULAR BALLOON INCIDENT

ANOTHER SING ULAR BALLOON INCIDENT
On Friday last man named Wilson
made an ascension from the Fair Ground,
at Centralia. ILL.,, in balloon belonging
to Brooks, the aronant. He descended
about eighteen miles distant, at the farm
Of a Mr.. Harvey. After the graphing
iron hsd been made fast, Harvey, to
amuse his children, one a boy aged about
four years, and the other girl Of eight
years, placed them in the basket car and
permitted them to ascend several times
as high as the rope would allow. Un-
expectedly the graphing iron slipped
from the fathers hand, and the balloon,
with it precious freight, was waited out
of sight.
The distress of the parent knew no
bounds. The peril of his children he
considered imminent, for what assurance
had he that they would not be borne into
some dense forest, where they would be
overtaken with hunger before they could
be found, or perhaps descend into some
lake or stream and be drowned? As
soon as it was possible an extra was cssu-
cd at Ccntralia, and the whole neishboring
country placed on the alert to watch for
the balloonand children.
Saturday morning at day break "a farm
er near New Carthage, forty three miles
distant from Mr. Harvey's place, discov-
cred the balloon suspended in the air,
attached by the graphing rope to tree in
his yard. lie Immediately hauled the
balloon down, and found the youngest
child asleep in the bottom Of the basket,
and the eldest carefully watching over
her little brother. They had been waited
about by different currents Of air though
out the night, and had come to halt
but little while before they were re.iev-
ed.
The story the girl told was, that as the
balloon assembled she cried piteously to
her father to pull it down. She said she
passed over a town where she saw great
many people, to whom she likewise ap-
pcalcd at the top of her voice. This was
was Ccntralia. The balloon was seen to
pass ONCi thGlts cul tiiC RCOplC lltllC
imagined it carried two persons in such
danger. Her little brother cried with
cold; and the heroic girl took off her
apron, covered hin, and 90. him to sleep.
In handling the ropes she happened to
pull one which had the effect of bring
ing the balloon down, and although not
understanding the philosophy of move
ment, she Was quite content to keep the
valve open, so long as by SO doing she
approached the earth.
The youthful voyagers were in the
balloon about thiteen hours and quar-.
ter. Il may be imagined that among the
neighbors where they landed they were
the objects of much curiosity and interest
The girl's presence of mind and loving
consideration for her brothers, may well
en.itle her to remember while the incl
dent itself was of such remarkable char.
acter that we opine it will not soon be
torg in that section.
The boy and girl were conveyed home
as soon as practicable, and it is needless
to say were received with outstretchet
arms st Louis Republican.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

FIpEs.-By strange blunder for so
learned a man, DR.. Oliver mistakes the
name ofthis goddess. and calls her Faith.
The spurious Freemasonry,' he remarks,
'had goddess called FAITH Nosuch
thing. Edcs, Or as Horace calls her,
'incorrupta Fides' (incorrup,ahle fIcl-
ity), is very different thing from the
theological virtue of faith. DIR. Mackcy.
Mackey is ,agh', aud Dr.. Olivia. and
after him the tual of Massachusetts,
Is rroHy i Masonic journal.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

The Boston Courier has the following
Judgment, ON the democratic party -
'1he democratic party still retains Tie sem
blahee Of a national party, but ii IS tic sem-
blance oniy.'
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

APPROPRIATE QUOTATION. - The
most happy citation from the Bible we
have yet SEEN in reference to the Tclc-
graph, which is SO soon to girdlc the
globe, appears in the National lntclli-
gencer of recent date:
Their line is gone out through all The
earth, and their acords 10 the end of Tie
v0rtd. '-Psalms xX,I
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

1t Is as easy to deceive ourselves
without our percciving it, as it is diff
cult to deceive others without their per
eeiving it.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08

Hon Linus b. COnins was re-nominat-
cd for Congress this afternoon by the
Republican Convention, for the 4th
District. on the 7th ballot. receiving So
votes to 81 for j. r. Putnam.
The following table shows the vcte of the
three parties in New York in tsJ6 and 1857
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-10-08
OR EVENING HYMN.

Through the pleasures of the day,
When read and when I play,
Let mc ever keep In view
God Is seeing all do.
When the sun withdraws his light,
And 60 TO rest at night,
Let me never lay my head
On my soft and easy bed
Till lift my heart in prayer
Fer my heavenly Fathers care;
Thanking him for all his love-
Sent me from his home above;
Praying him to kindly mako
Mo his child, for Jesus sake.
, 1858-07-02
UDOLPHO WOLFE's sCHNApPs,

@sGClns pIet Dlnn' " emlnehuy sautery quuues,
>cneuAm, 10 hoLsno
msue '0n .ne oest bMIey tnat can ne selected IN
EvIP, WIN 'no ss.snCe ~ an aIomauc tasn perry o.
acEno "leogeo AND ext aoiolnaEy medci q ~ lues II
nSs OGg tGes GSqIso .ss ngnsr reputation 10th IN Eu-
10 Travel Oogt and koeumatiEm, in OestrUct Ons Of
tne Bladder ana Moneys and IN general Debility, ts
eneen are prompt, decaeo and invariably reliable And
not Iemeuy Ior these malades, but, IN all cses
70 Ihcn 'ne are Podnceo oy drinking bad water which
aimoAt universally the cause O them, operates o.
sukH PREVENTIVE
Ihe distressing tnects upon the stomach bowels and
bAdotr y usveles, or new readent' and all persons
all our great inlhnd rivers like the Ohio, Mississippi and
Alabama, from the large quantity Of decsyed vegetable
matter contained In them, IN state of solution, we'll
known q: a also that q the waters of limestone regions
, 1858-07-02

BELLINGHAN NBAY.-Notwithstandn the diff
cuties in the way of the speedy completion of
the Bellingham Bay trail, Whatcom continues to
flourish and grow apace. The demand for Ium-
Der for building is greater than the supply, while
the demand for stores is constantly on the in
crease. Among the first to engage in business
at Whatcom, since the gold discovery, was Mr.
George Gallagher, one of the enterprsing stove
and hardware dealers of Olympia, who was not
slow to perceive the advantage of establishing a
branch Of his extensive business in close prox.
unity to the Mines. With two stores, one at
Olympia and another at Whatcom, both doing
thriving trade, it would be strange indeed If Mr..
Gallagher did not soon make his "pile." From
his stock the miner may select all the tools requi-
site for mining; while the agriculturist, mechanic
and housekeeper will have no trouble in finding
there such articles as they need, whether for till
ing the ground, carpentering, or furnishing
kitchen,
, 1858-07-02
wIstar's Balsam OF VIVA Cherry,
THE nEar nRAIEnY EYRn ENnuN

For Coughs, Colds Asthma Group BrOnehs InauenzA Bleed
Ing Of the Lungs, Deut Breathing Pain or Weakness o
The Breast or side, First Stages Consumption, 10.
In Short this BasAm peculiarly adapted every disease
Of the Lungs and Liver.
Wd Cherry has long been known 10 possess Important me-
denal prOperties This aet familiar to every matron In
our land, and Physicians oen prescribe In different form,
for variety Of complaints Tar also has been equally noted
for IT, vrussi and pycIAns whose fame b Amar 70
The whole country, have gone far declare that even
conSumpon could be cured By that alone In other hands
again, was nearly vaaelsa owing doubt to their gnor'
anes In preparing and administering n; dcuy now en-.
rely obvated By patient experience and long experiment
The extraordinary medicinal poweu possessed By these two
substances now for the st time combined and embodied
In DR.. WIsfARS BALsAM or WILD CHERRY. By nice
chemical process everything dsetsFOus or useless rejected
% that what remains b the most extraordinary and truly en-
eaeOus remedy for all kinds Of pulmonary and liver diseases
ever known 20 man.
cAUf10N-As there are many CoHntsrteits ooh ven !,
the signature before puFchasng take none unless the name
Of Sanford Park engraved on the outside wrappsr-a
otheFs are bass tAlitationa
Sold By an Druggists and country meFchants
PARK = WHITE, Sole Agents, to whom an orasrs
should b addrerd, lSa Washington street. San Vranelueo
Also Imporss and Wholesale Agents for an GENUINE PA.
fENf MEDICINE, which Osred 70 he trade at reduced
rates lor cam. Ism