The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-12-12
CLIPPINGS.

Toombs tone of the Soutlj.@s
Gen. Lane has addressed letter 10
some friends, in which he declares the
present secession movement is 'srselys
and INCA iii for -
-Harper's publication viii not be sold
IN Charleston at present, because they arc
''tainted with aboljtionism.' This is bad.
after the Harpers have dismissed the
genial Curtis to please tho south.
The United States census show,
that we might better afford TO lose three
successive crops OF cotton, than one crop
of grass. 3 &.- jaw
Dean Smith said with much truth,
cit is useless to attempt to reason a man
out Of thing he has neSg been reason
ed into"
Montgomery, who makes SO much
noise on the Kansas border, is native Of
Kentucky, anl formerly Campbellite
preacher.
1t is an interesting fact that no GEN.
sus returns have been received from
South Carolina.-They have boon with
held.
Prentice says that the Southern Dis
unionist who talks of shutting up the
mouth of the Mississippi, 1aa better shut
up his own.
The fire eaters say that the northern
people depend on cotton. If these fellows
keep on, some OF them may find them
selves depending on hemp.
South Carolina has smaller white
population than the city of Brooklyn, with
a slave population of probably two thirds
more-a fact which alone makes the folly
of any attempt at secession from the
Union sufficiently apparent.
An Irish marshal, who directed the
late Douglas torch light procession in
PittsfeId, cried out to the troops in this
wise: "Now by's go two by two as long
as ye lasts, then single be one and mind
what I'm sayin' to yes"
The editor of tho Richmond Co.
Observer was son struck on the 2lst inst,
and says the tray was ascortained to
contain near nine pounds of gravitation,
avoirdupois."
The South Carolina papers say that
bill will be introduced into the South
Carolina Legislature, at the present sess-
ion, to enslave all free negroes found in
that State afte.' the first of January,
1862. The Mercury protests against the
measure as harsh in its policy.
In an omnibus the other day. pc
lictial discussion, rather grave in its tone,
was turned into fun by the remark Of nm
old man, who bad been listening in silence
for quarter of an hour :-"Thcy talk,
said he, "abodt dissolution. For my part,
[ say-let 'em dissolutc; let's al! dissolute."
GARIBALD1! history will take care of
| the name. ItaIy's ,hild, en- will bear it.
Freedoms heart will cherish it. Truth,
faith and loyalty will set it in their songs.
Patriotism will engraye il on monuments.
Religion will en9raft in upon sacred pla-
ces; it shall be amcmhcrcd in the peas
ants payer. and where they, hear re
! Dean under arches. A great name,
| that meanness never tarnishri, dishon-
e.ty never todchcd, and to which fear
and solfishness were unkuown.-N. \.
| II ortd. 7a# feai 5a-
The man who 'chaNengel' contra
fiction" got into 40 awful fight md WAS
severely beaten.
| He who possesses q susceptible heart
has an incxh ustiblo mine Of sweet emo
| tons.
"A fit Of thoughtess freedom hath
sometimes brol ght repentance for life.
Reflection is flower of the mind,
| giving out wholesome fragrance.
Praises arc yaluble only when they
come from lips that have courage to con-
| denim.
Very few practise charity; but al
most everybody seems to think he can
afford to give it good word
Men in the height of prosperity
should fear a change, AID be propared.
A young girl generally loses her
freshness by mingling with fashionable
society, as bright stream does by min
| Cling with thesea.
1t is a great blunder in the pursuit
of happiness not d know when we have
| got it; that is, Tot = b6 content with
reasonable and possible measure Of it.
THE grave is indeed hallowed, when
the grass Of the churehyard can cover all
memory save that of love. e *14'
A mans good fortune often turns
his head: his bad fortune as often averts
the heads ofAis friends.
/ 1t is mentioned as acurious circum-
STAGE iaat ; catch should be perfectly
dry when 1t has a running spring in it.
"A hushe nj tslegsssanLrci to his wife,
i Is ". sd hsyf p '' sn and B neE
I wheat cakes and tBs 1872 s."