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Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
THE GOLDEN HAND.
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From out of the City's heat and dust
= Golden Hand is ever thrust,
Uplifting, from spire, on high
A golden finger in the sky.
see it when the morning brings
Fresh tide of life in living things,
And tile great world awaKes: behold
That quiet Hand in morning gold!
see it when the noontidc beats
Pulses of fire in busy streets;
The dust flies in the flaming air:
Above, that Golden Hand is there.
/ see it when the twilight clings
Around the earth with rosy wings:
Flushing with the last tiuttering ray
That Golden Hand remembers Day.
The midnight comes-the holy hour;
The ity like a = lant flow er
Sleeps full of dew. That Hand, in light
Of moon and stars, how strangely bright
Below in many a noisy street
Are toiling hands and striving feet.
The weakest riSe-the strongest fall!
That Golden Hand il oyer all
Below men wage the war of Trade,
Fortunes are lost and fortunes made;
The rich the poor their slaves enthrall;
That Golden Hand is over all!
Below, in courts 10 guard the land,
Gold buys the tongue and binds the hand;
Stealing in Justices scales the gold,
That Golden Hand above, behold!
Below, the Sabbaths walk serene
With the great dust of Days between;
Preachers within their pulpits stand,
And over all that Golden Hand!
The week dust, in the crowded air
Below, arises never there:
t.,ke oHe whose language cannot speak
That Hand makes Sabbath all the week
'-LOutsyWe ',y0vn0l
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
Whittlings.

A rare kind of tea is honesty.
To parties about to build we would suggest
that the best plan, in all respects, is the cash
plan.
The Insurance Secretary undertakes a
mournful joke by saying that he has laid ont
large number of policies expiring about this
time. All we can say is that he is death on
puns
Cackling may be termed, POLITICALLY, the
"Lay of the Hen"
The glass that makes the most satisfactory
spectacles is the looking glass
A ship seldom makes good headway under
an auction sale.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04

~ "Burleigh" 0he Rev. Mathew Hale
Smith, the Industrious New York correspon-
dent of the Boston Journal, asserts that the
woman who was named in connection with
Mr.. Sickles, as at Barnum's Hotel with him,
was "of much standing whatever that
NAV be that her husband was in Court
that if the matter had been made public he
would have shot Sickles on the box where he
stood on trial. So, to save double bloodshed
and murder, the matter was hushed up"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
JUDGE NOT.
BY c. II. WEBB.

"The greatest of these is Charity"
Bride your virtue. tether the tongue;
Pity the fair vine blighted so young!
Why rot the tomb? Sad, shattered life;
Think of her doom-widow, yet wifet
Tears, like sad rivers, roll through all time |;
lie his heart-torreIt poured for its crime.
Hillows of sod swell DER his breast,
Pleading with God-there let him rest.
Still to another life is as death;
Home and its idol gone with a breath!
Blood on his hands, stain on his bed
Pity them all-living and dead.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
"THE RATTLE OF BLRNHEIM."

In all probability sanguinary conflict is now
aging In southern Europe. The fair valleys o
ally will be devastated by fire and sword and the
'on hand of war will fall heavy upon the peaceful
nd helpless 1t seems to us that SourHEY's fam
us lyric, "The Battle of Blenheim," /" will be good
sading this morning and We therefore print it.
1t was a summer evening";
Old kaSper's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting In the sun;
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild, Wilhelmine.
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found
He came to ask what he had found
That was SO large, and smooth, and round.
Old kasper took it from the boy,
Who stood expectant by;
And then the old man shook his head,
And with a natural sigh,
Ills some poor fellows skull, y said he,
''Who fell in the great victory"
~ find them in the garden,
And there's many here about;
And often, when go TO plough,
The ploughshare turns them out:
For many thousand men," said he,
"Were slain in that great victory"
Now tell us what twas all about"
Young Peterkin he cries;
And little Wilhelmine looks up
With wonder-wating eyes;
Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for
1T was the Eaglish," Kasper cried,
.'Who put the French to rout
But what they fought each other for
| could not well make out;
But every body said, quoth he,
That twas famous victory"
'My father lived at Benheim then,
Ion little stream hard by;
They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
."d he was forced to fly;
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
''With fire and sword the country round
Mas wasted far and wide,
And many childing mother then,
And new born baby died;
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.
"They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won;
For many thousand bodies here
Lay r0tting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be,
After .s..:n!.ons victory.
Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won,
And our good Prince Eugene"
Why twas a very wicked thing"
Said little WilheimiEe.
"Nay-nay-my little girl" quoth he,
at was famous victory.
'And every body praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win"
But what good came of 1t at last?"
Quoth little Pcterkin.
''Why, that | cannot tell, said he;
But twas Il famous victory
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04

eBe No situation is so exposed to perlls
and evil as that of one who has to conduct
others, unless he himself has God for bis
guide.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
All Weather GOOd.

The following happy allusion to the weather
was made by Edward Everett, at his recent
speech in Birmingham
"To speak seriously / should bo ashamed
Of myself if it required any premeditation, ANY
forethought, to pour out the simple and honest
efi'usiOns of the heart on an occasion so inter-
esting as this. A good occasion, sir; good
day, sir, Notwithstanding its commencement.
have heard from one friend and another this
morning-knd enough to pay his respects to
me, knowing on what errand | had COME
have heared from one and another the remark
that he was sorry, that we hadn't a good day.
1t was, it is true, raining in the morning Bat
it is good; rainis good. Not good weather,
sir? Ask the farmer into whose grains and
roots there YET Ienlalns some Of its moisture,
to be driven cut by tO-mOrrow's sun. Ask
the dairyman and the grazier if the rain, even
at this season of the year is not good Ask
the lover of nature if it is not good weather
when it rains. Sir, one may see in Europe
artificial water works, cascades constructed
by the skill of man, at an enormous expense
at Chatsworth, at the Hesse Cassel, and
the remains of magnificent water works at
Marty, where Louis XVI, lavished uncount-
ed millions Of gold, and thus, according to
some writer's, laid the foundation of those de-
pletions of the treasury which brought on the
French Revolution. The traveller thinks it a
great thing to see these artificial water works,
where a little water is pumped up by creak-
ing machinery,o or painting steam engine, to be
scattered in frothy spray; and do we talk of
its not being good day when Gods great en-
CINE is exhibited to us. His imperial water
works sending up the mist and vapors to the
clouds, to be rained down again in comfort and
beauty, and plenty, upon grateful and thirsty
man Sir, as mere qualification of the
taste, | know nothing in nature more sublime
more beautiful than these descendingin abuE,
dance and salubrity from the skies.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04

~ Santa Maria" exclaim good Hi
bernian, i" is it possible that this gentleman
was an ould man when his father was
born !"
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
yN A PRETTY WOMAN.
She's as good as she Is prsttyi

Foolish only when she is witty;
But, as if the deuce were in 1t,
She is witty every minute!
-OLp HUNX-Rcst0n Post.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
Little Sins.

Let us be on our guard against little sins
against what men call little sins, for there is
nothing really little in the way of sin. Watch
against anything that wounds the conscience,
however slightly. Conscience is sacred
thing. Guard well your spiritual life. Watch
against the little sin that insensiby may
wound and thus in the end destroy You
can easily kill man by stabbing him with
one blow to the heart. But may you not easily
kill a man also by opening little vein in his
wrist The blood may only flow drop by
drop, but if you don't stop that wound you
will bleed to death, just as surely as if one
plunged dagger into your heart and sent
you into eternity in q moment. Beware, then
of the little things that keep the wounds of
the soul open guard against little ns,which
if not guarded against, will as surely destroy
the soul as one great SIN.
John Newton says, Satan seldom comes to
Christians with great temptations, or with
temptation to commit great sin. You bring
green log and candle together, and they
are very safe neighbors. But bring shavirgs
and set item a-light, and then bring few
| small sticks and let them take fire, and the
| log be in the midst of them, and you will soon
get rid of your log. And so it is with little
sins. You will be startled with the idea OF
committing great sin, and so the devil
brings little temptation and leaves you to in.
dulge yourself "There is no great harm in
this" "no great peril in that" ana SO by
these little chips we are first easily lighted up
and at last the great green log is burned
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temp
tation,
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04

~ What is that which shows others
what it can't see itself? A mirror.
Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-04
Republican Tract No. /.
HOW WE ARE GOVERNED.

PubIished by the Republican association of Wdah.
ington, under the direction Of the Congress
SsiondI Republican Executive COMMITTEES.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
BrOWnyiIIe, Nebraska, Fair.

We are indebted to the Hon. r. w.
FURNAs, President of the Territorial
Agricultural Board, for complimentary
tickets TO the Brownville Fair, which
commences on the 2lst day of September
and continues three days. We are advi-
sed that preparations have been made for
an exhibition which will be creditable to
the Territory and the Furnishing town OF
Brownville. This town has exhibited a
most c~ommendable enterprise IN It's
prompt attentions to the agricultural inte-
rests of Nebraska, which after all are the
foundation of all substantial prosperity
st. Joseph Gazette, 23d.
While we thank the Gazette for the
compliment paid our city, we are at a loss
to know how it made such wide mistake
as to the point at which the Territorial
Fair is to be held. The Fair istO be held
at Nebraska City! AS the notice might
mislead some, will the Gazette please
make the correction?
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
Territorial Fair.

On the first page of to-day's paper will
be found the remainder of the Territorial
Premium List, together with the Rules
and Regulations of the Fair. Farmers
and others would do well to preserve this
and the preceding number of the .Adrer-
tiSer for reference.
While our farmers are preparing for
the Nemaha County Fair, they should
make equal preparations for the Terrific
rial. Being held at Nebraska City, it is
so near, our county should not fail to be
represented. Such an opportunity may
not again present itself for many years to
come /; embrace the present, and show
Nemaha in her "true colors."
While speaking of the Fair again, we
take occasion to say that the Steam Pack
cts st. Mary and Campbell will run during
the Fair so as-to accommodate those 60
ing to and returning. Thus, stock, I'M
plements, products, and passengers, can
be conveyed to and from more convent
emily, in most instances, than by land.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
Kansas constitutional Convention.

Hon. S. A. CHAMBERS, one Of the Del
egates from this county to the Kansas
Constitutional Convention, has returned,
and paid US a visit this week. From him
we learn that the Convention is progress
ing slowly. In regard to annexation,
there was a large majority Of the Dele
gates in favor of the movement, but a
difference of opinion as to howl it should
be accomplished Some are in favor of
inserting the boundary in the Constitu-
ton, as the Iowa Constitutional Conven-
ton did while others are for memorial
izing Congress to make the Platte River
the Northern boundary. Outside of the
Convention there was a very general
feeling in favor of annexation.
The Republican party is splitup on the
negro equality question. Quite a number
of the Republican Delegates will hear to
nothing short of c%onfering upon the mig
ger" all the rights, privileges and bene-
fits of the white man.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
The European War.

The anxious watchers of the. European
war are just now suddenly set back by the
intelligence that an armistice has been
agreed upon, extending to the 18th of
August. 1t stipulates that commercial
vessels, without distinction of flag, shall
be allowed to navigate the Adrlatic I'M
molested.
The Paris Moniteur cautions the public
against misunderstanding the armistice,
and says that negotiations may be recon-
menced, but it does not see how the war
may be terminated. Prior to the declar-
alton of the armistice, the Sardinians had
proceeded vigorously In the siege of Pes
chiera. But this and other movements
have now lost their interest.
The London Times says with regardto
the armistice, that there is little to COM
municate beyond what the public already
know. All that seems to be well anthem
ticated is that the proposal came from
France, and was the result of the Empe-
ror's own determination. That the En-
peror Napoleon should stop short in a ca
reer Of victory and make Overturest to the
foe, whom he has defeated in two pitched
battles, and hurled back to the limits of
Lombardy, argues the moderation or the
necessities of the French ruler, and we
can hardly believe that the latter have
been the cause of this sudden resolve.
While the action of Louis Napoleon
in this movement may be astonishing and
inexplicable to us, yet, in the language Of
fhe London Times, "there Is probably
concealed under it some subtle scheme
the nature and scope of which will bt
seen. only as the events he has prepared
shall develope themselves. Meanwhile
it will no doubt be fruitful in conjecture
and speculation-airy fabrics of the mind
which will be d~issipated by the next new
astonlshment which Napoleon is probably
now busy tn preparing, quite as much tt
his own aggrandizemen as for the world
wonder" 1t is but in keeping with hi
adventure at Boulogne, the similar ONT
at Strasbourg, his demand to legislate fo
France in the face of a standing Law
which had banished him from that coun
try forever, his elevation to the Presid
ency, his coup d'etat and Imperial domi
Mon, his New Year salute to the Austri
an envoy, Baron Hubner.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28

own interests, they will no longer tamely
submit to being cast aside as the flag
end" Our local interests are equally as
valuable as those of any other point, and
there is no reason under heaven why we
should fail to take care of them. Other
localities allow nothing to rise above or
conflict with their local interests. True,
they sometimes talk of party lines, of
differences among leading men, and such
like; but when they come to act, all else
is laid aside, and they "get at their wOrk"
as one man.
We shall refer to, and urge this impor-
tant matter from time to time, from now
until the election, and hope to be able to
convince the people of the vital import
ance of action, energetic, united and
prompt.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
DOY EScaDed.

boy, who was a short time ago convict
ed at St. Joseph for negro stealing, and
sentenced TO the Penitentiary, made his
escape from the St. Joseph Jail on Satur-
day last, in a very ingenious manner.
A party of his friends, in num-
Der, called up the j~ailor at a late hour Of
night, saying they had arrested a horse
thief, and desired him confined IN jail !
The jailor opened the door, when the
party changed their notion, and instead
of putting in a prisoner, took one out
boy, and escaped with him. Shrewdly
managed, surely; yet very %imprudent and
unfortunate, as will be seen in the end.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
SiCkIeS the Murderer.

1t is both tiverting and disgusting to
see how THOSE editors who supported the
murderer Sckles, and did what they
could to prevent the law from doing its
duty, now eheavor to "cIear their SKIRTS"
Hear the Now York Times:
"This, of burse, is purely personal and
private matter, with which the public have
nothing to do. But it is due to the lead
ing personal and political friends of Mr..
Sickles, who honestly believed him to be
a man madiened by intolerable wrong,
and in that belief i~nterposed their nhu-
ence between himself and the hasty rage
of public feeling at the time of his trial
at Washington, that they should not be
made responsible, as by the journal in
question they are, for a step taken enti-
rely on the impulse of Mr.. Sickles him
self, without their knowledge and in the
face of heir positive remonstrance and
disapprOEal."
No, nd, Mr.. Times, that's too poor an
apology. Now, don't Insult your readers
by asking them to believe for one moment
that a man who all his life-if one half
that is tod be true-had been giving 9TH
ers cause to become "maddened by intoI-
cradle wrong" should be unprepared to
meet a fate he could but know awaited
him! You, gentleman, have given coun-
tenance II the establishment of the 'new
principle in American law" and you
must face the music. You have been I'M
fortunate truly so, in the selection of a
case with or by which to ~exemplify the
"new prilcipIe;'' but either back square
down from your position, or $50 the
whole figure"
The New York Sun in speaking of this
affair, sayi:
at will interest, though it will scarcely
surprise our readers, to learn that Daniel
E. Sickles and his wife have h~armonized
their little difficulty-if a difficulty ever
existed between hem-and are again en-
joying each others refined and e~levating
society. Mr.. and Mrs. Sickles have, we
are informed, been residing for some
time past ii the BIoomingdale district,
and a few evenings since, that Mr.. S..
was observed taking Mrs. S. out in his
boat for q sail on the beautiful waters of
the Hudson. Yesterday we learned from
a source likely to be well informed, that
Mr.. Sickes has notified his more intim-
ate frienls, that be and Mrs. S. have
been recjnciled.
Perhaps the Christian influence of the
clergyme1 who manifested such a deep
interest ID Daniels welfare during his
incarceration in Washington, and his trial
for the murder of Philip Barton Key,
has kindled in his breast the spirit of cha
rity. Or the music of the young Jury
mans violin may have reawakened these
earlier sentiments of affection which had
been temporarily raralyzed by the suppo-
Ised ~"dshonoring of his bed" The only
regret that the public will have is, that
his vengeance proved so fatal, and that
Mr.. Keyis not alive to witness Mr.. S.
restoration to sanity, and his full condor
nation of his wife's 'indiscretions." She
confessed all, and her husband, it ap-
pears, has forgiven all. Would that he
had earlier learned the prayer, Forgive
US our treSSpasses, as we forgive them
that tresspass against u.s."
The finale is in keeping with the en-
tire drama.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
VIII the Farmers aid us

We mad an Intellectual effort last year
to secure statistics showing the exact
agricultural condition of Nemaha county.
We are still extremely anxious to know
how many acres of land are under cult
walton; what the surplus product was last
year, and what it will likely be this
Five or ten minutes time on the part of
each farmer will furnish US with the de-
sired information. Shall we have it,
We hope %. When you come to town
call up in oar office, and let US know what
you are doing. If you are not in town
soon, write a line by your n~eigEbor.
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
Killed by the Indians,

We see by the following, which we ex-
tract from a letter written at Denver City
July 6, that two Nebraskians have been
murdered by the Yute Indians, and the
third, our old friend Slaughter, of Platts-
mouth, very narrowly escaped:
CDR. L. J. Shanks, Niobrarah, Mr..
Kennedy, Plattsmouth, n. T., and a Mr..
Slaughter, went out prospecting on the
Doth about 90 miles west of Gregory dig
gings. On the following Sunday five
Yute Indians came to their camp, and
we're kindly treated, having received
some provisions and other cOurtesies. AT
that time there were no unfavorable indi-
cations on the part of the Indians. Mr..
Slaughter and party left their camp at
noon, and travelled a short distance to al
open or grassy space in the mountain,
where their pitched their tent for the
night. DR.. Shanks took a walk on the
hill to view the surrounding country.
while Mr.. Slaughter and Kennedy went
out to prospect. Shortly after the latter
had left the camp, ten rifles were fired,
one of the balls striking MI. Kennedy in
the side, passing in range of his heart.
Mr.. Slaughter drew him down behind a
rock, when Mr.. K. remarked that he
could not last long. MI. Slaughter then
left him and went in the direction the
Doctor had gone, and saw the Indians
scalping him. Mr.. S. then hid himself
in a cave, where he remained until night
when he fed for Gregory's diggings, ar
irving safe but bereft Of everything
Great excitement prevails in the mining
district, and a number have left to seek
revenge"
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of an ex-
eeution issued BY Jesse John, justice Of the peace
IN and for Nemahae county, Nebraska Territory, ag-
ainst Georges Frederic and in favor. of Heath
Nuckolls, administrator Of the estate of joseph De-
roin, deceased, for the sum of sixty-eight dollars
and ninetyce /, Davidson Plasters. Sheriff Of
said county have levied upon, and, from the door
OF the office of the said jesse John in Brownville
IN said county, Cd Tuesday the 9Th cay of August.
A. d.. 1859, between the hours Of ten o'clock w
and three o'clock, P. NJ, will sell at public sale. to
the highest bidder, for cash in hand. the following
property, to wit: one sorreI mare and one rome horse,
as the property Of said Georges Frederic in. salts
faction Of said execution.
DAVIDSON ~PLASTERS-.
Sheriff Of Nemaba county.
BrOwnville, July 9th, 1859. n2-Sy'e2
Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-28
Hold Him, Somebody!

Mr.. ]. Z. Pugh, of Eufala, Ala, can
didate for Congress from that section, re-
Gently held forth as follows:
"To-day l fling my banner to the
breeze, covered all over with the motto,
Union, among ourselves for the sake of
the South. Come to its support, and if
the Stale Rights Democracy of Alabama
disbonor themselves and degrade their
State BY permitting it to remain in the
Union after the election of a Black Rep
ubican President, then I pledge myself
TO join you in raising an Alabama regi-
ment to light the torch of revolution in the
at Washington"