The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-08-22
9uoson Correspondence,
HUDSON. August Is, 1860.

will attach to the year of grace, 1860,
which so far has developed series OF
rather extraordinary eyents,-or adsehts'
is perhaps the more appropriate word.
First, from the farthest Orient came
the Japanese, challenging with their old
traditions and punctilious Journalism the
spontaneous life and rollicking manners
of Young America. And if the Prince
| of Amadsi, Moon A-eA-KI, { No-Ra'ns)
| did not turn around to go back, with a
sensation as of bis shoulder tingling from
too familiar slap, and his dignity inn
pignsd by information con6dentially vol
unteered, that he was ''high old Jap"
I am afraid it is because he fortunately
left before be learned to understand En-
glish.
Next the Great Eastern, looms up In
| our Notwithstanding of our wonder
and curiosity q tribute in dollars, and
offers her huge SIDES Il. e.. her outside
and inside) to the ''sharpened, sly inspec-
ton" of Yankee craftsmen, and conceals
not even her domestic polity from the
"critical dissection of crowd of excur-
| sionists, who made her British saloons
ring with indignant Yankee protests.
Next comes my Lord Repfrew. pru-
IDENTIFY shielding in this title his princely
dignity, which indeed it might not be
safe to expose to the atmosphere of re-
publican lcence.
In the natural world also, phenomena
and prodigies have abounded. Terrific
tornadoes have carried destruction over
path that extended through States, and
lately the glare of flaming meteors has lit
up the heavens, as the startled star-gaz-
| ers from different quarters inform us.
All these thugs, together with the po-
litical conventions and sectional agitations
keep the public mind well awake to the
| fact that this is fast-stirring and lively
epoch, and portend, in my humble opin'
| ion, that before the year closes, some
thing is going to happen which some
thing, I divine, is nothing less than a rev.
| oIution 10 these United States-a revolu-
ton in which the old States will be radi-
| caly subverted, but new economy of
peace. safety and liberty, at the same
| time inaugarated- other words, Abra-
ham Lincoln will be elected to the Presi-
dency.
One promising sign of this result, we
have in the dismal deprecations of the
Democrats, threatening that in such an
! event the South will dissolve the Union.
When they begin to play on that string,
we may know they are in desperate
staaits. And the joke of it is, that few
of them, as | think, seriously look for
such catastrophe to follow Republi-
can triumph. For my part fguratively
speaking,
81 should like to see snake
Get up in August out of brake
And fasten with all his teeth and caustic,
Upon the sordid villain Off rustic"
or whatever other person will malicious
ly aid in giving currency to such pre-
posterous idea.
When the proprietary classes of
large and prosperous community, with
out grievance to incite. or an induce
ment to stimulate them, deliberately set
on foot and prosecute violent civil rev.
olutiDn, then Solomon, who says there is
nothing new under the sun, and the les
sons of all history, stand belied.
Judge Fuller, of the old Adlainistra-
ton guard, has gone to Superior to hold
Court. The Douglas Democracy, taking
advantage of his absence, have advertis-
ed a meeting of that ik for to day at this
place. AT this present writing, there Is
room fer more of them in town than
have yet appeared. TIE Hudson City
Times has opened its columns to polem-
les, and publishes to day au able article
from the pen of Rev. VIM. Speer, in vim
dieation Of the American Tract Society,
and in reply to a sermon by Rev. Mr..
Cunningham. The end suspect is not
yet, and if either one of them accom-
plishes more than to confirm the other ip
his declared convictions, I shall have
another wonder to chronicle.
Yesterday, a big dog went into butch
er's shop here and took and carried a
way and appropriated to his own use
large piece of meat, proving that the ca
nine race have love for their kind, and
will eyince it, even at considerable risk.