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Nebraska advertiser., 1859-02-17
Office to RentI

The room on Main Street, formerly Oceupied nv Rror,
K Hallam an anankins House, isfOF renL SuSly ~
Brownville. Feb. eo, IT. nth
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-02-17
naiIY Line Of ROatS.

The St. Joseph Gazette informs Us that
we are to have a daily line of steamers
from that city to this, and as high up The
river as Council Bluff; to commence with
The opening Of navigation. Good enough.
FL 3Seedsi Seeds!! RI
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-02-17
Claim Notice,

To IRA Packard, and ali others whom il nav IN,
You are hereby notified that l viii appear a 49,
Once in B~rOwnville, On the 4th day Of kareb iS
prove up my right to the south half Of the n "
ter aud the northwest quarter OF the soutbrse
ter Of section no. s Township no. s, NORTH AZ r,v
Feb II. 1889.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-02-17
EeOru1ry ~, ~ moo ~
BallOn'S Dollar Monthly Aas'g

Inc ChenpeSt .hdg0zlne lh NC
You need no longer pay three dollars f9I 49,
elegantly illustrated aud earefullg edted
Balloons Dollar Monthly contaibs one hupI
original matter Ia each number and f5ry
ensravines, issued on the finest Of paperA"~
style, for one COLLAR ? year. n,itG|
Ma. %. Winter street.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-02-17
Later from the Mines,

Another Arrival at BrOwnsiIle,
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-02-23
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Pom The London Time.
TINE PAST AND FUTURE on MgyIro

TIE PAST AND FUTURE or MEXICO.
When. some fonr centuries ago, The enter.
prise II Spanish nasigators opened the vast
continent % America 10 the admiratian Of Eu.
rope, the civilization Of the New World was
found to be concentrated in two spots. and
two only 81 that enormous territory. tine
Of these favored regions was Peru the other
was Mexico. ], WIS in Mexico especially.
that nri, politics anil science had received
their greatest development. Al the rest Of
North America, from the shOres Of Iludsan's
Bay TO the mouths Of the Mississippi. was
,lcsolatc aud barbarUus, diversified only by
swamp. forest Or prairie, Or populated by
sayages without knowledge Of laws. Mrxf.
co alone redeemed the character oi the new
continent. and presented 70 the eyes Of The
invaders spectacle 80 marvellous III 10 sat.
isfy even the expectations which tie great
discovery had raised.
There the spaniards found an organized
State, a. ancientpnllty. an 0pulcni capital, an
exaltcddynasty, formidable priesthood, and
people well skilled in mechanical and de.
corative arts. SO great, in fact, was the
proficiency of the workmen, 50 elaborate the
system d government. aud 30 impressive thc
whole evidence Of wealth and grandeur, that
Tor some time the civilization of Mexico was
regarded as superior 10 that Of Europe. Al.
though, indcrd, tie researches OF modern
inquiries have enabled us to apply some COR
rectiye TO these IDEAS, II 10 really probable
that % certain respects the spaniards found
Mexico more advanced than spain and We
have been assured, on the authority of com.
prehensiye history, that this civilization was
the necessary incident Of geographical and
natural advantages. Such was the situation
and conhguration Of Mexico that IL could
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-02-23
From The Richmond Enquire.
WAR WITH EUROPE son rms SAKE a, GINA
WHO WILL BEAR THE BRuNT or ITi

WIZ Will DbAh THE BhuAT OF IT.
In our editorial ~ yesterday We exposed
The state 0f affairs, which not only renders
the acquisition Of Cuba impossible, at this
time, but which NAV entail war with mari.
lime Europe, even % the occasion II an
empty handed grasp, On our part, at terrific.
rial cnrrUachment
We propose nov, very briefly. 10 consider
The nature o. such war, and is probable
consequences
The Presidents message already involves
an attitude Of open menace towards FIVE A.
meriean nstions, very pal psble hint 10 Spain
that The acquisition Of Cuba, BY violent meas.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25

Faction IN CoNNEcTICUT.-Abouta month
ago, the Republicans of the first Congression-
al District, embracing Hartford and Tolland
counties, nominated Dwight Loomis for Con-
gress. He is a man of excellent talents, we'll
grounded in the Republican faith, and in every
respect worthy of the place to which he is to
be called. Ezra Clark, Jr., the present incum-
bent first chosen in 1855, when members of
Congress were selected at random, and re-elect-
ed in 1857 for the sake ofharmony, has made
his defeat in the convention personal griev-
ance, and, through the advice of quarrelsome
friends, has announced himself as an indie
pendent candidate for Congress. If his mis-
chievous movement should have the effect it is
designed to have, it will secure the election of
Mr.. Hyde, the Democratic candidate Fortu-
it of fretfulness and chagrin that it will repel
rather than conciliate those who would have
supported him with pleasure under any other
circumstance than that of a factionist and a
bolter We can conceive of no hallucination
more melancholy and absurd than that of one
setting himself up as a candidate on whom all
the opposition may unite, within less than a
month after the opposition has expressed its
intelligent and decided preference for some
body else. The Republicans of New England
desire that no district may be lost through fac
ton, and confidently anticipate that such sui
cidal folly will meet with instant and positive
rebuke
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25
ITEMS.

A meeting of citizens of Hardy County,
Va, was held at Port Royal last week, for the
purpose of giving notice to a fellow named
Hardy, who had been tried for shooting his
wife, to quit the country Notice was also
given to a gang with whom he was associated
to quit in given time, but on their refusing,
fight ensued, and a man named Porter was
badly wounded. The gang, seeing the exas-
peration of the people, decamped.
The Bey of Tunis has been distinguishing
himself by personal effort in saving seamen
shipwrecked within sight of his palace, going
to their relief and stripping himself to cover
their cold bodies. This is the same Tunis,
where, not many years since, to be driven on
the coast was to make sure of robbery and en-
savement if not death. Who says the world
don't move2
A police officer in New York, last Monday
night, saw a man with a drove of nineteen
hogs, which he was conveying through the
street. Being struck by the circumstance, the
officer spoke to the drover, who Immediately
fled, leaving the swine with the guardian of the
night The hogs were taken to the station
house and kept till morning.
AT late meeting of the Harvest Club in
West Springfield it was said that John T. Nor
ton of birmingham sells butter made from AL
derney cows at the hotels in Boston for forty
five cents pound, and that a hotel proprietor
in Springfield has offered to take twenty
pounds week at forty cents, of butter of SIM
liar quality.
The race of the Montreal Snow Shoe Club
last Saturday, for a silver cup, resulted in the
victory of Mr.. Stanley over twelve gentlemen.
He made five miles in 46 minutes % seconds
with snow shoes on, and received the prize
cup from the hands of Lady Eyre, who hon
ored the event with her presence.
In 1921, citizen of Columbia, S. c., loaned
to student of the South Carolina College the
small sum of ten dollars, which remained I'M
paid for thirty-two years, when he received
through the Post Office the sum of thirty dol
lars from an unknown hand.
On the night of the 9Th inst, the dwelling
OF Mr.. Zimmerman, in Clark's Valley near
Queenstown, Pa, was destroyed by fire, and
three children, the eldest about 10 years old,
were burned to deuth.
The returns show that our commerce with
the Amoor country, last year, when the trade
was first opened, amounted to one million of
dollars The Amoor is rich in furs and agri-
cultural and mineral resources.
On Monday, brown bear, weighing about
three hundred pounds, was seen on the track
OF the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad. He
IS supposed to have come out of the Dismal
Swamp.
Pixies new opera house in Cincinnati of
which such wonderful stories are told, was
lighted for the first time last Saturday. Eigh.
teen hundred burners gave II a fine appear.
ance.
The McMicken bequest of 100000 TO the
city of Cincinnati has been declared valid
against the suit Of his relatives who will carry
the case up to the United States Supreme
Court.
Washington's birthday was celebrated in
New York with such unusual public demon.
stration, that the New York papers think il
will be recognized holiday by another year.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25

HE GOLD HUNT.-It is estimated that not
less than seventy-fve thousand people are pre-
pairing to emigrate from the Eastern and Mid
die States to the gold-bearing regions of the
West during the coming Spring. We hear of
parties of emgrants forming in various sec
tons of the country, while travellers and army
officers report that towns are rapidly springing
up in Western Kansas, and wherever the
slightest indications of gold deposits have been
discovered. There can be little doubt that the
Western territories will, during the next few
years, develop an abundance of mineral wealth.
The testimony of cautious observers, and of
scientific men, fayors the supposition that il is
vast auriferous country, which reaches from
the Western rivers to the Rocky Noun
tains, and from the mountains to the Pacific.
But there is no reason to suppose that COLDS
concentrated any where, not even in the neigh
borhood of Pixies Peak, or Cherry Creek. in
sufficient quantities to reward the labor of one
single-handed miner out of one hundred.
The reports from the favored regions are er-
parte, and contradictory. And any one who
expects to find Walhalla, or even place as
promising as the poorest of the towns in
Worcester county, in any of the gold-bearing
attitudes, this side of California, may be GER
tain of disappointment Unless tempted by
some better reason than to improve condition
which is now tolerable, stay at home. At
least, do not rush upon certain ruin by invest
ing in the new mines, of which everybody is
talking, but upon which no one can put his
hand.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25

FEARFUL ExPLosIoN.-A singular accident
occurred at the South end of Rush street
bridge, on Saturday evening, about dusk. As
the lamp-lighter was lighting the gas at the
East side of the South abutment he was star
tied at results not contemplated, in an explo-
sion, which in violence and noise would have
done credit to boiler explosion.
The gas had escaped from a leak in the
pipe, and had filed the space, some thirty feet
long, in depth increasing from six to twelve
feet, and about six feet in width between the
outer and inner wall of the abutment and COW
cred by strong, stone tagging, six inches in
thickness, inclosing thus in masonry a volume
OF over one thousand feet of gas, which was
ignited at the top of the iron column of the
lamp post.
The effects of the explosion were terrific. the
heavy fiagstones being thrown into the air
like shingles, and in their descent breaking
them asunder by the force of the fall. Fortu.
nately, but few persons were in that immediate
vicinity, though three CHANGED to be passing
on that part of the sidewalk at the time. A
Mr.. Mott, employed at the car repair shop Of
the Illinois Central Railroad was hurled from
the sidewalk nearly across the street, and Sc
verely bruised.
A bricklayer, named James Reynolds, re-
siding on South Clark street, was taken into
the air and fell into the chasm thus opened
among the rubbish and broken stones, falling
distance of over twenty feet. He received
severe, but it was not thought dangerous
bruises, and was taken home in a wagon. A
third man, an employe in the fremont House,
was also injured slightly Chicago Tribune.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25

THE GRAND "TIGER BALL."-This great
military festival will be held on Monday even
ing next, at the Boston Theatre, and will un-
doubtedly be the great affair of the season.
The pit will be fioored over level with the i'm
mense stage, forming, probably, the largest
floor in New England. The view of such an
area, from the boxes, crowded with splendidly
dressed ladies, with their partners in the vari-
Gus uniforms of all arms in the service, must
constitute an exceedingly brilliant spectacle.
Gilmore's immense band, numbering eighty
pieces, furnishes the music, while the splendor
of the decorations, added to the other ample
resources of this well known establishment,
promise to the visitor such an entertainment
as is rarely to be, seen or enjoyed.
We understand that a limited number OF
tickets have been forwarded to Capt. Edwin
Bynner, to whom those intending to be present
had better make early application.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25
A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE ON Pr,

A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE ON PRAIRIE
S. H. Packard, Esq, an Iowa editor and law
yer, was recently lost in snow storm between
Sioux Rapids and Fort Dodge. About three
hours after he started, a heavy snow storm
burst upon him, accompanied by high wind
from the Northwest. Knowing the danger of
attempting to cross those large prairies in such
storm, he turned back and attempted to re-
trace his steps, but soon found it was impossi
BILE for man or beast to face the storm. He
therefore proceeded on his journey, confident
that he could ride to the house. forty rniles, by
nighttall; but his horse, having broken through
the ice several times, became afraid to 90 upon
the ice, and he was delayed many times at
sloughs, until night overlook him at slough
about half way across the prairie. Here he
found it impossible to induce the horse to go
upon the ice, and while searching for better
crossing, the ice broke with him into the wa
ter above his knees. He endeavored to get
to the shore, but the ice broke at every step,
and he struggled on through the ice, snow, and
water, distance OF twenty or thirty feet, be-
fore he came to firm ice. He at once attempt
ed to remove his shoes and stockings but they
were so encased in ice that it was impossible
Convinced that he must remain where he was
until morning, and that his only safety was in
keeping in motion, he commenced running
upon the ice, and continued to do so until day.
light the next morning, when, after he
had succeeded in getting his horse across
the slough, he started, on foot, as he sup
posed, in the direction of Fort Dodge.
After walking about two miles and half, he
found he had turned around and was going
back; he Immediately retraced his steps, and
walked all day, dragging his frozen feet
through snow ankle deep, and at times knee
deep, his horse following him, and was again
overtaken by night, about three miles from
house. Here he left his horse and started on
hoping to reach the house in an hour or two
but he was SO faint and weary, that he fell
frequently, and was nine hours in walking
the last three miles. His sensations during
this time, as described by him, were peculiar
and strange; the road appeared to be en-
broidered in most beautiful colors, and he
stopped and reached to pick up a specimen
several times. Satisfied that his mind was
wandering, he endeavored to divert himself
from the consideration of this subject, but in
vain; if he looked at the side of the road, it
appeared to be walled up, and to be covered
with hogs lying on their backs Raising him
self, he proceeded, and at length reached the
house of Mr.. WEIGH, at about four O'Clock
in the morning He was taken in and careful
ly cared for, until the arrival of friends from
Fort Dodge.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25

GREAT SALE OF WooL-The largest sale OF
wool ever held in Boston, took place Thursday,
at the extensive warehouse of Messrs. Bing-
ham, Joy, & Co., % and "a State street block,
by John Tyler, Auctioneer. The spacious
wareroom for the sale, was completely filled
with buyers from all parts of the country; the
bidding was very spirited, and prices obtained
were very satisfactory The whole amount of
the sale was rising 100000. A part of the
sale was as follows, and this will serve as a
specimen of the whole:
1000 lbs. of unwashed Mogador went to Messenger
& Wright of New ork, for 1Ssc; 1000 lbs. unwash-
ed California fleece went to j. D. Sturteyant for 20I:
5000 lbs. unwashed do went to Mr. Lemmis for 25c
5000 lbs. unwashed medium do. TO Mr.. Lemmis for
oOk 1900 lbs. do extra, to Charles Ingalls, for SO
5000 lbs. anwashed fine California feeces to Mr.
Sturteyant, of the Norway Plains Company, Roch-
ester, N H., for 263 and also to the same gentle
man. 5000 lbs tub-washed for 335; 10000 lbs Maine
No. fleece, for AZ; 1900 lbs. No Maine fleece for
Wooden Company, 10000 lbs. Maine No feecsefor
46!, aud 900 lbs Maine, fine and very light for So
Messenger & Wright 10000 lbs Maine No fleece
for 3d. 10000 lbs Maine extra, light and fine 50k, to
Sales, Cook, Co; 900 lbs. Ohio medium TO BAY
Chaplin of Providence, for AZ 1900 lbs. Ohio me-
dunn to same for AS; $4,000 lbs. Rochester extra
pulled to j. Townsend, of Milton, for $751; 1900 lbs
Ohio extra pulled to W. Merrill, of Providence for
4St; 1000 lbs. Albany do. TO W Morrison & Co for
81; quantities of white wool, (E India dark white
oh. yellow, do. reddish do. fleece do. &C.. sold to
Geo W Bond, of Boston, for prices ranging from
1000 lbs. do, for 33I; 1000 do. New York for 80
5000 It's. Ohio fine fleece for 3d. 5000 lbs Vermont
fleece for 4Sk; 10000 lbs. New York and New Hamp.
shire and Ohio selected feeces for Sc; 10000 do for
DOT; 10000 do. 56; Walpole, \. H., Boggy Meadow,
extra, for 561.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25
HAMPDEN COUNTY.

Two well dressed young men, giving their
names as Robert Bowling and Edward Moore,
alias Willis, who have been hanging about
Springfield for several days, called at the
store of Henry Avery a few nights since,
Moore engaging the attention of the person
in charge by getting measured for a suit of
clothes, so as to give his comrade, Downing an
opportunity to appropriate an overcoat which
the latter did, and left without at the time
exciting suspicion. On Tuesday the coat was
recognized upon Bowling while walking the
street with Moore, and both were arrested
by Officer Holcomb and received on Wednes-
day each six months pass to the House of
Correction.
Nine pairs of cattle belonging to Frederick
Fowler of Westield, were exhibited on the
green in that town last week, six pairs being
on the fat list and weighing 1850, 4,375
a, 40, 1910, 1000, and {, 400; and three pairs
kept for work, weighing $3.50, 9,254 and
A 100.
The Normal school exhibition at Westfeld
on Monday and Tuesday, was as usual an
occasion of interest, and among those present
from abroad were ex-Mayor Davis of Worces-
ter, and ex-Gov. Boutwell,, Secretary of the
Board of Education.
Caleb Eddy, an old and honorable Boston
merchant, died at Chicopee on Tuesday, of
apoplexy. He was of the firm of Bemis &
Eddy, Long wharf merchants, many years
ago, and the democratic candidate for Mayor
of Boston in 1928 and 1888.
a citizen of Wales, rs years DID, after being
an inveterate tobacco chewer for 55 years, has
been converted to cleanliness and comfort, put
away the weed and found improved health,
and expects to add 10 years to his life in CON
sequence.
Many persons came 20 and 25 miles to hear
Henry Ward Beecher's lecture at Westtield
last week. The News Letter says one old
lady nearly 80 years of age, came 80 miles,
determined to hear Beecher before she died
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25

TROUBLE AT LAWRENCE AcADEMY.-On
the 10Th inst the Trustees of the Lawrence
Academy at Groton suspended nine young
ladies and gentlemen, students at that institu,
ton and children of the residents of the town.
because at their parents desire they continued
to attend dancing school. There is a rule
for the government of the institution that no
pupil shall attend any dance, party, or ride
without the consent of the Principal The
Principal forbade the scholars in question at
tending the dancing school, but gave their
parents leave to withdraw them for while, so
that they might come back again after they
had concluded their lessons in dancing. This
the parents declined to do, and the children
were sent both to the academy and the school,
and were expelled as before stated. The mat,
ter has made considerable excitement in the
usually quiet town of Groton. boston Jour.
al
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25
w ORCES TER:
To ADvERTIsERs,
JOIN MINOR BORIS on PoLrrrcs.-Tt

JOIN MINOR Boris on PoLITIcs.-The
"Order of United Americans" in New York,
ought to be grateful to the Hon. John NJ Bolts,
for bringing them before the country in SO re-
spectacle manner as he did on the 22d. His
speech on the evils of the country, and the
remedies to be applied, will carry the name of
the "0rder" into thousands of places where it
has hitherto been unhonored and unsung. On
account of the source from which it springs,
and the magnitude of the topics it discusses
with so much fearlessness and candor, it is
worthy to be read by every one who is inter.
ested in the welfare of our common country.
That's all that can be said for it. He speaks
as Virginia gentleman, from Virginian
point of observation; and beyond his just de-
nunciations of the corruption of the Demo-
cratic party, and the innumerable evils it has
introduced into every department of the pub.
lie service, we find no recommendations worthy
of implicit confidence, and no theory of reform
so good or so promising as that which is al
ready carried into the practice of nearly every
free State in the Union. His platform is pure
ly negative, ON all subjects but the most trivial
1t has not even the strength Of the Wing plat
form of 1852, through which the Wing party
fell to perdtion, leaving men like Mr.. Bolts,
Mr.. Winthrop, Mr. Washington Hunt, and
the like, clinging to its plausible planks and
imaginary timbers, with faith that is little
less than sublime, They positive refuse to
acknowledge that there was moral as well
as a political, necessity for that spontane-
Gus union which bears the name of the Re-
publican party, and which, in the first year
of its existence, without order, without dis
ciplne, with only common sincerity of
purpose, to save the country from the ruin to
which it was fastening, achieved a degree of
success to which the history of political parties
can furnish no parallel. And yet we are ask
ed by these politicians, who are standing out in
the cold to give up the organization to aban-
don the purpose for which it was made, to
adopt the creed and the measures of parties
which have perished-for the simple reason
that we cannot otherwise succeed! Don't be-
lieve them. The platform, as it stands, is
broad conservative, secure. 1t cannot be tam
pered with with safety.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-25


MR.. PRESCOTT AND HIS PuBLIsHERs.-An
interesting statement has been made public
reiauFe 10 the circumstances under which Mr..
prescott formed the relations with Messrs.
Phillips, Sampson, & Co, which existed at the
time Of his death. When his contract with
the Harpefs, under which they used the s,ero-
otyPe plates of his earlier works, was about
to expire. Mr.. Phillips opened correspon.
dence with DIR. Prescott, which resulted in a
definite ofer--the firm agreeing to ensure the
sale of certain number of copies of phillip
IT," then just ready for publication, and GER
tain Number of bis other histories, allowing
him liberal percentage on the copies Sold
Mr.. Prescott was pleased with the offer, but as
an honorable man, chose 10 consult with his