The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-12
Duoson Correspondence.
HUDsoN, Sept. 8, l8 20.

WONDERFUL ALCHEMY Inc alr, ZIG
earth, the sunshine and the rain. by the
honest conjuration of labor, have been
transmitted into gold,-tangible, glitter
ing, jingling gold. Daily now, trains
of farm-wagons heaped with plethoric
bags, defi.e through our streets, and run
ming the gauntlet of competing buyers
commit to the destinies of commerce the
precious grain, which for 80 many weeks
has been the subject of the farmers toll,
care and hopes. But here, as he pockets
his well earned dollars, ends his concern
with the crops for this year. Now let
him with an extra flourish, crack his
whip. and as his team moves briskly off
with the unburthened vain, whistle such
accompaniment to the noisy, rafting
wheels rs beseemeth his pleasant mood.
With Iigh. heart and conscience let him
90 home, hand to the children their new
toys,-to his wife her new cloths,-go
and pay up bis subscription for the jour
NAL, and when election comes. vote the
straight Republican ticket. doing what in
him lies, meanwhile, to turn from the
error of his ways any benighted, Doug
las-struck neighbor, and so may he add
to the prosperous and well spent year, a
worthy and befitting finish.
The approaching campaign for the
election of our county officers, bids fair
to be close and exciting. Naturally, the
''Outs" find a great deal of fault with
the Sins" This is to be expected, but
some Democrats here, have certainly
gone to eccentric lengths, in their zeal te
find flaw in the conduct of Republican
officers. Not merely do they claim tina
the County Treasurer did wrongly ii
doing precisely what was required of hin
by the letter and spirit of the law, which
charges him with the duty Of getting th'
delinquent tax list printed, but tho7
insist that he ought 10 have gone beyon'
the law, that he ought to have managed
to deprive the printer of a portion of hi
regular legal fees for doing the work.
and then what do you suppose they wan
done with the part so abstre cted from tn
printers dues? Why, Of course, yo
say they want to have it RENTED to tn
delinquent tax payers against who's
lands it is charge, and who alone, with
out such remission, must eventually pa
it. But you are wrong; guess again
Well, you think perhaps they want
given to the poor, or devoted to buildin
churches. a disposition Of it, TO he sure
entirely Illegal, and indeed not enjoine
by any clause of the Democrat
platform, but which, nevertheless, migt
promote desirable ends. N, nothing
the sort. Well, then you guess the
wish 10 have it sent to tho Tycoon IT ia
pan. Wrong again; 10 4" ihHno juste'
they don't intend to have the fund (,
so far beyond the Argus eyes aud Bril-
rean hands Of the Democracy. No the
want TO have it given to the County I
St. Croix, a pary, which. | submit, h'
just rs good tito to it, in a Iegal or mo
al point of view, as the Tycoon; mn
which, as it not 80 far off as that Potter
tate, wonder you should not la,
thought of in preference to him.
But there is sad as well rs a lud
crous aspect to this matter. Such an al
vocacy. open and apparently earnest,
such policy, furnishes fearful warnin
against dishonesty in politics. For VIII
but long schooling in the practices
the SO called Democratic party, couI
have so DETECTED the moral vision, d
ranged the perceptions, and blunted Il
the sensibilities of these men.
"Quos vmt perdere Deus dement,
prius.' May they be born into nc
and purer political life.
A furious storm last night, occasione
the postponement of the BreckinridG
y and Lane meeting, at which Judge Flu
Ter was to have made an address. T
has several appointments to fill in IL
Chippewa Valley next week, after whic
tits understood, he will turn his attentie
again to this public. In favorable weat
er, undoubtedly a large audience W
greet him. a
The latest query is;-Have we 9
an Epigrammatist among us?-
The editor of the Star in attempting
decide that question blunde,s chats II
mildest term) as usual. II is moro the
probable that he never saw the article
. question elsewhere than in the JoURsA
and the sheet he mentions as hayin
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