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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

81
/. The Home Journal begins the new
year with many added attractions. The
first number is a model paper. Printed
on fine paper, with new type, its nechan-
ical execution is perfect, and the matter
it contains is worthy of the manner in
which it is presented. NORRIS and Will
LIS, are "household words" on both con-
tinents, and the fact of their being the
editors of a paper, every number of
which contains something from their Wig
orous and graceful pens, is of itself a suf-
ficient Recommendation. sTwoways to
wedlock," is commenced and promises
well. BARRY GRAY, keeps on contribut-
ing his inimitable papers, and the "Tales
of the South" are to be continued. In
fact the HOME Journal is the ne plus atz-
ira of a literary paper. We read it
before we reached our ''teens," and ex-
pect to keep on reading it as long as we
can read anything. Its terms may be
seen by referring to the advertisement in
this paper.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Skating.

Skating is becoming quite a common
amusement among the ladies in many
parts of this State.
A female correspondent of an eastern
paper, writes the following on this sub
ject:
English ladies are perfect adopts in
this art, and to their practice of it owe
much of their wonderful brightness and
clearness of complexion, which they re-
tain long after the Americans have for
feited their claims to delicate loneliness.
1t is q brilliant sight to see the glittering
surface of beautiful lake or pond cut in
to myriads Of fantastic shapes by the ev-
olutions of a hundred gay, laughing, re-
volving female fgures-their dancing
compilations and bright eyes dancing in
their own light, looking out so bewitch-
ingly from amid the mass of fllrs, velvet
and feathers. Then talk of ball room
in order to fall in love! Why, it does not
afford half the opportunity that is discov-
cred by taking few lessons in skating.
The putting the skates on the delicate
little feet. and fastening the straps-how
long It takes sometimes! Then the char
ming little fears and screams, the slight
touch of a hand to wrist, in order to as
sist-the race and being caught--the
tender anxiety about taking cold, and the
compliments to ones courage, skill and
o race. are worth all the pokas and re-
dowas in the world"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
washington ON Abolitionist.

Gen. Washington addressed the follow
ING letter to Lafayette in 1898:
Il agree with you cordially in your
views in regard to Negro Slavery. l
have long considered it a most serious
evil, both socially and politically, and |
should rejoice in any feasible scheme 70
rid our State Of such a burden.
ssThe Congress of 1887 adopted an or
dinance which prohibits the existence OF
involuntary seryitude in our Northwest
ern Territory forever. I consider 1t scase
nasasure. 1t meets with the approval and
assent of nearly every member OF tEe
States more Immediately interested IN
slave labor. The prevailing opinion IN
Virginia is against the spread OF stavery
into the neu Territories, and TRUST WE
SHALL HAVE CoFFEDERAcY OF FREE
STATES"
What stronger anti-slavery sentiment
has any Republican expressed, than to
trust we "shall have . Confederacy o.
Free States"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Barbarism.

Among the other relics Of the dark
ages still existing at Washington, is a
law requiring every free colorcd person
entering the city to reside there, and ev-
ry person manumitted there, to prove his
or her title to freedom within five days,
and pay license of fifty dollars, which
must be renewed on the first of Decem-
Der annually. The penalty for failure to
comply with these terms is from ton to
twenty dollars fine and expulsion from
the city, or confinement in the workhouse
until the intruder consents to leave.
Is not this highly creditable state OF
things to exist in the Capitol of the most
free and christian nation in the world
Free negroes are citizens of a number Of
States, but if they wish to visit the ma
tional Capitol they must pay license Of
fifty dollars, to atone for the sin of dark
skin.
What theme for satirist!
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Our Best ParIOrs.

Don't keep a solemn parlor, into wL;eh
you 90 but once month, with the parson
or sewing society. Hang around your
walls pictures which shall tell stories Of
mercy, hope, courage, faith, and charity.
Make your living-room the largest aud
most cheerful in the house. Let tue place
be such that when your boy has gone to
distant lands, or even when, perhaps, he
clings to single plank in the lonely waters
of the wide ocean, the thought efthe still
homestead shall come across the desola
ton, bringing always light, hope, and
love. Have no dungeon about your
house-no room you never epen--no
blinds that are always shut.--K Maruel
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
The Republican, Party.

Beriah Brown was the Democratic can
didate for Congress in the LIST Distict in
this State, at the last election. He was
elected to stay at home. and he is now
editing the Madison Argus. Beriah's
pure soul greatly loathes the venality of
that patty by which he was beaten, and
he describes it as follows. g
In it extremes meet-ultraism is its
chief element,-bigotry and infdelity,-
Intolerance and tieentiouSaess,- societies
tor 't,seriag 'conae,,, legaliziag prostitu-
ton and destroying the naorridoe rela-
ton are ats ddj9ncts, and increase an d.
rect ratio to its. success. In its behalf
clergyman become brawling Maek-guards
land pot-kouse politicians hold maud
lin discourse for freedom in the name of
God and liberty. Protested ministers of
peace and good will to men, sprostitute
their pulpits to this unholy ertsade-eu-
logic Congressional hullies aud braorarts
in scripture phrase, and distribute bowie
knifes and rifles to their fanatical follow
ers IN the name or God. Ss'
With this party. can have no tempo
rizfng, cen give or take no quarter. 1t
i z guerrilla par'y--a panty of treason
and robbery.
Wei done. Beriah You have said
your say and car take your seat now, but
ros u Congress
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Westinghouse Religious Char
acter.

Rev. Theodore Parker in recent dis
course on Washington, said:
SIT is not easy to ascertain in detail bis
theological opinions, for these he kept to
himself. In one Of his addresses he speaks
of the pure and benign light of revelation
and of the divine Author of our blessed
religion. Silence is figure of speech,
and in the latter years of his life, | sup
pose his theological opinion were those
of John Adams, DR.. Franklin, and Tho
mas Jefferson, only he was not specu
latiye man. and did not care to publish
them to the world. Anxious to claim
him for the Christian church, ministers
have rested his christian chara cter on the
fact that he whipped men for swearing,
that he had prayers in Fort Necessity,
was vest ~ man in his youth, and once
in his high office, attended the Commu-
Mon, and partook Of what is called the
Sacrament. If they are satisfied with
such proof, am content; but find the
proof of Washington's religion in his We
raciousness, in his adherence of falsehood
in that moral courage which never failed
him, and in that mastery integrity, where
he stands superior to the rest of mankind
Above all, l find it in his relation the
to the nations greatest crime. If Chris
tianity be more than onesof the humbugs
imposed upon a grooming world, it is be-
cause it teaches religion which consists
in piety, the natural love Of God, and mo-
rality, the natural keeping of his laws;-
and if piety and morality be religion, then
who shall dare to charge Washington
with lack Of Christianity? Ministers who
fawn upon wickedness, and statesmen
who enact iniquity into law! Before he
left the earth, he wrenched the letters
from off each bondsman's foot, and as he
began his flight to Heaven, be dropped
them into the bottomless pit-w here they
who seek, perhaps may find.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

Gov. Medary, of Kansas, has made
q requisition upon the President for aid
in suppressing the disturbance in that
Territory.
1t appears to be generally conceded
that Douglas has written no letters on the
subject of the Presidency.
Ministers are not allowed to hold
seats in the North Carolina Legislature.
Whether the Ministers are too good for
the place or the place too good for the
Ministers does not appear.
-Parson Brownlow of the Tennessee
Wing tries to snake it easy" to his sub
scribers. He offers to take "East Tennes-
see bills worth twenty cents on dollar,
Shangha;Ghickens, hoop skirts, bootjacks
broom CORN, baby-jumpers, fishing tack
les, patent medicines, sucking pigs, frozen
cabbage, old cloathes, Colts revolvers,
second handed tooth-brushes, ginger
cakes, parched corn, circus tickets, or any
other article found in retail store" If
they will not settle up on these accommo-
dating terms, the parson says he shall
file his claims in the high chancery of
heaven and let them settle with their God
in the world to come,
An Indian has been discovered in
California, FIVE feet and half high, and
weighing only sixteen pounds, being
mere skeleton, but in good health and
lively. This is supposed to be the yerita-
BILE ''Lo, the poor Indian" that we read
about.
"A clergyman, who was reading to
his congregation chapter in Genesis
found the last sentence to be, .s'And the
Lord gave unto Adam wife. Turning
over two leaves together, be found written
and read, in loud voice, "And she
was pitched without and within. He
had unhappily got into description of
Noah's. Ark. "
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

Roger Pryor, of the Washington Sta
ties, formerly of the Richmond South,)
has an able article on the coalition of all
the political strength now opposed to the
Administration.
Such coalition is leading idea with
some prominent Republican papers, aud
the question is, how shall the offices be
divided.
Now the Republican party is emphat-
ically the party ofthe Opposition and it
will keep its own ground. Pryor says:
1.-The Black Republican principles are
these -'Down scith tie bred Scott de-
cision, aud no ertension Of Slavery be-
yoad its present limits.' The campaign
of 1860 will be fought upon them"
We hope the States may prove true
prophet. These are the principles for
which we wish to contend and with which
we hope to conquer.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
The slave Trade.

Some benighted Professionalism fan
mites frobably-have thought the slave
trade was not highly humane or chris
g tan practice Poor deluded men. The
Charleston Ncrcsgy is an able paper, a
leading paper, and its assertions are enti
tied to respect, if not to unquestioning
credence. ai,Tho lNercury says Oh"
Tho great CIvILtzER as wen as EVAN
GELIsT, is the Shareholder ), and a sasccess-
fri goyqge Of an. ,.AFRIC-AN Sid
YER does more for ciQiiization. than all
TIE. missionaries sscko are Spending their
tires on TIE african Continent. 2 5,5A1a'
This is sufficiently clear and explicit,
and shows the drift of the nnterrifed De-
IN. ocracy Of South Carolina. .al Dad hoI
But this spirit is not confined to South
Carolina. In an article in the Augusta
(Georgia) Sentinel, in which the alriva'
of the wild Africans of the Wanderer is
announced, the editor says ood7 al
1Ho question: HIS OUCH Deeil asked,
what practical good can result from the
practical agitation of the revival of the
slave trades We point to this cargo of
sturdy laborers delivered from the dark
ness and barbarism of Africa, to be eeva-
ted and christened on our soil. We point
to the price paid for this jolly son of the
janglcs, and compare it with the exhor-
i.itant prices paid for the fancy and less
valuable negroes here. And ne claim
that these results are the beginning of the
blessings to flow in upon the South from
the fearless advocacy of the revival of the
Slave trade. This trade may be called
piracy, by false construction of a foolish
law, but the day will como when the
South viii make it the right arm of her
legitimate commerce.. And then there
may be some chance for even us poor ed
itors to own sooty skin or two! Who
knows!
Comment is unnecessary, We only
remark that the Mercury and the Seati-
mel are national Democratic" papers.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
HHit Him Again.,

Porter, of the Maiden Rock Correspond
of the Transcript, has been pitchin into P.
'. Wise. He calls him by the name of
a stubborn quadrapsd, more remarkable
for ears than intellect. He assures Mr..
Wise, that he( Porter has probably written
more columns than he (Wise,) has ever
read.
If Mr.. Porter is not careful his idle
boasts will lead others to entertain the
the same contempt for him, that he evin-
ces for Mr.. Wise.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

De Bows Southern Review, in noticing
Eli Thayer's scheme Of organized emf
grafton, makes q criticism which shows
how the slaveholding aristocracy rank all
who labor with the slaves, and would re-
duce them to slavery if they had the pow
er. 1t says. e
eve should like Messrs Summer and
Thayer's plot better, if they would
dispense with common schools, rifles, and
the right of suffrage for their laborers /!
These things are not useful or necessary
to mere common laborers -beget idleness
and discomfort, and in time generate in
surrections, revolution, anarchy and agar
rlanism?
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Mount Vernon Matters.

MOUNT VERNON should be, and by
many is, regarded as hallowed spot
The home and burial-place of freedoms
greatest Apostlesand, Defender, Fit IS the
Mecca to which lovers of liberty make
hallowed pilgrimages. The very air of
the place should be filed with the inspir-
ation, of liberty. and all its associations
suggestive of Freedom. How is it,
In q late copy of the Alexandria Gazette
the following advertisement appears:
CONTIGUOUS for HIRE.-FIvE Wo-
SMEN and GIRLS and TWO BOYS.
Among the women are Cooks and House SER
wants. Apply personally, TO the unders gned
on Monday and Tuesday, the 9th and 20th OF
December; at Mount Vernon, where the me-
groes can be seen and examined.
s2@8 = JOHN A. WASHIN GTON,
Mount Vernon, Dec. 21-dlw."
This advertisement is dated at the place
where Washing. on wrote to Robert Nor
ris as follows:
ssThere is not q man living who wish
es more sincerely than do to see plan
adopted for the abolition of Slavery. -
and to John F. Mercer: at is among
| my first wishes to see some plan adopted
by which Slavery in this country, may be
abolished by law"
The ladies of the land have undertaken
to purchase Mount Vernon. 1t is a good
cause, but would it not be we'll if some OF
this philanthropy was bestowed on those
give women and girls" Women that
do the work of the housewife and are en-
| titled to the wages of their hands, are hi
/ red ont and the proprietor of Mount Yer
non lives on their wages.
Edward Everett delivered a eulogy or
Washington, in many cities and gencr'
ously devoted the proceeds to tho pur
] chase Of his burial-place. Some people
thought that son of New England
should have alluded to his anti-slavery
sentiments, which Mr.. Everett did not
| do. '-'ss' = t..'
He is now engaged in writing a.serie:
of "Mount Vernon Papers" Will he
take that advertisement for text for one
of those papers' VIII he give the inhu
ence of his high position and eminent a
bility to the cause of freedoms Writing
of the great Apostle of Liberty, will he
dare to improve this favorable opportu
nifty to give a scathing rebuke to that sys
tenn of slavery which desecrates Mount
| Vernon by its presence? We shal
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
s!PoliticaI Preaching

Our neighbors of the Prescott Demo
crat, are alarmed at the state ofthe Church
and the awful deprayity ofpoltical preach
ers. Hear them talk;
We do not say that all those who in
dulge in political sermons, are of necessl-
ty, rouges or Villains, but we do say, that
the clergyman who engage in politics,
stoops from his high and holy calling, to
engage in kind of controversy which
has never failed to blacken his clerical
character, and injure the cause of religion
such at least has been the history of
the past few years-and at no period in
the history of the church during the past
half century, has infdellty made such
rapid strides, and never, within that pc
Rod of time, has the church suffered 80
much in character and reputation.
The devil in the church disguised as a
political priest, has done more to advance
the cause of the Prince of Darkness, with
in tho past four years, than all the irrelig-
ious publications and infideI productions,
that have been uttered and circulated in
the last fifty years. Satan never invented
a more perfect machine to drag souls down
to perdtion, than political priests-artful
and designing under the garb of chris
tianity, he can appeal to all the worst pas
sions of the human heart, and while os-
tensbly serving the cause of religion he
dose more to corrupt public morals, and
debauch the human heart, than any other
possible way.
No doubt the pulpit has done much
for the success of the Republican party,
and we are uncertain whether the Demo-
crat is opposed to tie application of the
principles of tho Gospel to politics, from
a desire to save souls, or desire to save
Democracy. Our utmost charity, is, that
its anxiety is divided between these two
objects about shalt and half
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

GREAT SALE OF LANDS IN WIsCoN-
sIN.-Washington dates of the Doth say,
the President has signed proclamation
ordering a public sale of 300, 900 acres
of land in Wisconsin during April and
May, including the alternate sections
which belong to the government along
the Railroad lines. Such of the lands as
may not be sold will be subject to private
entry.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Chess.

We hear of chess clubs being formed
in many places in this State and it is be-
coming a very fashionable game. The
Club in Milwaukee meets twice a week
in one of the parlors of the Newhall
House. The privileges of the Club are
extended to all editors in the State.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Home.

A bed to sleep in and table to eat at
do not constitute home. Any old
bachelor, with a salary, can purchase SO
much of the worlds comfort. But the
magnetic fire side circle; the smiles of a
mother or wife; the talk of the sensible
old folks; the songs of a sweet-voiced sis
ter; the affectionate good nights of chill
dron, (who should be put to bed early, J
the wholesome occupation of heart and
mind, in social and intellectual enjoy
ments these are home.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
Illusion.

There is nothing SO real in CHS world
as illusion. All other things may desert
man, but that fair angel never leaves
him. She holds star billion miles
over baby's head, and laughs to see
him clawing and batting himself as he
tries TO reach it. She glides before the
hoary sinner down the path which leads
to the inexorabIe gate, jingling the keys
of heaven at her girdIe.- The .Autrocrat.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
The State Journal.

10 ali our readers who wish paper
from the Capitol we recommend the
State Journal. Its reports of tho doings
OF the Legislature are full and reliable
and it is edited with care and ability
Atwood and Ruble Madison Wis. Pub
liehers. Terms 1.so per aanum.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
New Years Advice.

The Wisconsin closes an article or
New Year. as follows.
In whatever path you go,
In whatever place you stand,
Moving swift or moving slow,
With firm and honest hand
Make your mark.
Life is feeting as a shade
Make your mark.
Marks of some kind must be made
Make your mark.
Make it while the arm is strong,
In the golden hours oil youth;
Never. never make it wrong;
Make it with the stamp of truth
Make your mark.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
The Edit6riai Association.


In. accordance with a previous call
there was. 4 raeetingsof the Editors of the
St.-Croix Valley st the. J6eRNaId oficeq
River Falls, on Saturday Jan. sth. P.
V. Wise, was chosen chairman. and p.
Daggett secretary onitaking the chair,
Mr. Wise made sonne.inscrestihg4 remarks
on the rapid growth of the newspaper bu-
sinesS in the St. Croix Ya'ley, and from
this fact ,lrew. a pleasant picture of the flu
ture.of the coqptry and Of newspaper pub
fishers. aasSf- ,Sss.D sE5 uo9f aid
,J..S. Elwell being called upon stated
tho object of the proposed Association. al
]. s. ElweIl, and Il. a. Taylor being
appointed committee for that purpose
presented some resolutions as basis for
the Association, which were adopted and
tho Association was formed under the
name of the "St. Croix Valley Editorial
Association."5a hs8 aa1d 81 s.jo
c. +. Young, S. A. Clewell & L. A.
Taylor were appointed aecommittee to fix
II table of uniform rates of job work and
legal and transient advertising which is to
be submitted at the next meeting Of the
Association. The Association then adj
iaurued to meet on the second Monday
in May next, at the Star office in Hudson
There vii, 30 Il business meeting in the
afternoon and in the evening a public
meeting when an Grafton and Poem will
be delivered, 2. Y. Wise has been appoin-
ted to deliver the Grafton. ,aq 7e.Hss
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

The Illinois Legislature meet on
the Sd inst. The Democrat have NOM
mated DOUGLAS.
There are now eleven projects and
bills before Congress for the construction
Of a Pacific railroad. We fear the null
titude of counselors will not prove mat
ter of safety in this important subject.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

The Humboldt (Cal.) Times tells of
the won derful exploit of California
marksman living in that vicinity. In adj
dition to nine hundred snipe killed at
four shots, it says the air was full of fall.
ing birds for some days.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12
THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL.
Great inducements to Clubs.

WE DESIGN to improve the appearance
w of the SENTINEL. thus rendering it one
of the cheapest and most desirable Business
and Family Newspapers published in the
whole Northwest We expect, under our new
rates, to receive large additions to our
present list, and hope our friends throughout
the State will interest themselves at once in
getting up clubs.
GY Remember, with ten names we send the
eleventh copy to the person getting up the
Club, or to any one he may designate.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-12

THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN contains each
week over forty columns of reading matter,
including all the News of the Week, local.
general and foreign. carefully condensed and
arranged for its pages; A review of Money
and business affairs, with the latest Boston
and New York Markets; A summary and re-
view of Religious Affairs; Agricultural Facts
and Hints L nder the head of The Farm and
Garden, by practical cultiyator; An Account
of all the new Patents and Inventions Origi-.
nal Boston and New York Correspondence
Six or eight columns of independent Editorial
Discussions of the Politics, News and Litera-
ture of the day Original and Selected Stories.
Poetry, and Briefer Miscellany, for the Family,
making altogether the most perfect, various
and readable Weekly Newspaper published in
the country.
sW THE REPUBLICAN has large and rapid
ly growing circulation in New England, New
York and the West, and is an especial favorite
with emigrants from New England in all parts
of the country,
SAMUEL BOWLES & co.
no IS Springfield, Mass.