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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25

question, IN the confidence of private
intercourse; and for this reason we do
not wish to be moro particular as to de-
tails. We only vouch for the strict truth
/ of the narration.
Now, Mr.. O'Conor, yoH say Slavery
is just, benefcent, righteous. What do
you think of this storyg Can earth or
hell disclose blackeF picture9 Is a sys-
tenn whose daily history is illustrated by
constantly recurring deeds like this, such
blessing as you declare Slavery to be :
On your honor as man, what say you 7
Do not preyaricate. Do not palter IN q
double sense. It is no answer to say
that all forms of civilization have their
evils. Those evils are not inevitable. In
the system of Slavery, evils such as we
have depicted are inevitable. pcreniaiiy
inevitable, while the nature Of man en-
dures. 70 approve Slavery as you
approve it, is to advocate bell upon
earth.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25
TIE WIDOW sLEEG HING.

It was winter clear and cold, and tho
snow was finely packed, whom DIR. Mead
oas was one of a slcighing party, which
no describes, so far as he and the young
wiGoy Lambkin were concerned, in these
words:
The lively widow Lambkin sat in the
same sleigh, under the same buffalo robe
with me.
"Oh, oh, don't" she exclaimed, as we
cauo to the first bridge, at the same time
catching me by the arm, and turning her
vailed face towards me, while her little
eyes twinkled through the moonlight.
"Don't whats" l asked, II am not do
ing anything
swell, but / thought you were going
to take toll" she said.
"Toll! what's thatf'
"Well, ! declare" cried the Widow,
her clear laugh ringing out above the
music of the bells, "you say you don't
know what toll is?"
"Indeod 1 don't" I said, laughing,
spray explain, ifyou please"
"You neye. heard, them" said the
widow, most provokingly, "you never
heard that when we are on sleigh-ride
the gentleman always, that is, sometimes,
when they cross bridge, claims kiss
and call it toll. But never pay it."
II said that | never heard Of it before
but when We come to the next bridge l
claimed toll, and the widow struggles to
hold the vail over her face were not
enough to tear it. At last the vail was
removed, her round, rosy face was turn
ed directly towards mine, and in the
clear light Of p frosty moon the toll was
was taken, for the first time in bis life, by
DIR. Meadows. Soon we camo to long
bridge, with several arches; the widow
said it was no use to resist man who
would have bis own way, 50 she paid the
toll withouta murmur.
"But you won't take toll for every
arch, will you, Doctor2' tho widow said
so archly, that l did not fail 10 exact oil
my dues, and that was the beginning
But never mind the rest. The Lambkin
had the Meadows oil to herself in the
spring.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25
OF a truth, "thers is Providence that

OF truth, "there is o Providence that
shapes our ends;" Power that notes the
sinking sparrow and the rising sun; that
from all the noises that men call confus-
ion, and all the changes that fools call
chance, and all the forces that philOso-
piers denominato antagonistic, shall
educe tho sweetest Of hsrD1onies, the
grandcst of results, and the noblost Of
flights, even I'D astra;; forever teaching
the immutable lesson, that triumph even
tual and sunshine eternal, shall be the
part and lot Of all soulful courage,
sincerity, tortitude, faith and truth.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25
There seems to US, even at this far re-

There seems to us, even at this far re-
move of the editorial chair, no Office SO
grand as that he fills who stands in the
old bur unworn stereotype Of Sabbath
phrase, between two worlds wherein
dwell those we love, and those we hare
loved; nothing SO beautiful as the robing
of truth which contains no element OF
human frailty; but unsullied by the breath
ofhuman passion, unsoilod by the fingers
of mortality, is held aloft to the gaze Of
of the great congregation, pure as the
Southern Gross that bends in holy sign
over the humblest sailor upon the sea.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25

The difference between an oyster and
q chicken is, that is best just out Of
the shell, and the other isn't.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25

Toll and trial are grim schoolmasters.
hut q fl; sh of Hope cln make them beaut:-
full, even % sunbeam the rude noun
tain top.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25
,......, .QoI.erttg.... .. IS
GOOD NIGHT.

a.d GOOD NIGHT. - s~,..s
Is Good Might 1 have ts say Good Night
To such host of peerless charms
q. Good night unto the SNOWY hand 1aiE
49, Good night TO graceful, rounded arms,
Good night to fona, delicious eyes So
& Good night to chssnut braids of hair,
Good night unto that perfect rnouth
azarA And all the sweetness nestled there
- The snowy hand retains ne, then
III have to say good night again.
But there viii come q time. my love,
When. il / read our stars Alright,
shall not hnger near the porch sss 81
With my adieus. TIL then, good Right
You wish the time were near? And l.
1sz Y gu CO not blush to wash it so &. s...
You would have blushed yourself to death
- - To own much year ago
What but these snowy hands Alb, then,
III have to say good night again.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25

terchaDge of thought, should be-Is Ne
gro Slavery unjust9 The rational and
dispassionaye inquirer win find no diff
Gully in arriving at my conclusion. 1t is
fit and proper |; it is, in ite own nature,
as an institution, beneficial to both races !;
and the effect Of this assertion is not d.
minished by our admitting that many
faults are practiced under it. lis not such
the fact in respect to all human laws and
institutions? IS ot- -
, an, gentlemen, Yours Truly.
3. III - CHARLES O'CONNER.
tEs d s-Ts- e.se tHr r.. 81 s.s. e
The Tribune comments on the letter
IS follows: EzsI ..aE --rt -.--g ss-I
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

Marzeau, $1,000; A. Bernard, (HenIey) $4,000
S. Frilonder, $1,000 Mrs. Holm, $1,000; Mr.. Ga
roDza $1,000 Sol. Mills $4,000; John Colley, $1,000;
Mrs. Holley, $780, Mrs. A. G. Nixon, $500. A lot
of stores were entirely washed away and lost; in
fact all buildings near the water's edge were en-
tirely destroyed. James NJ. Bronsomine and Mr..
Cripple also lost their houses. At present, it is
impossible to estimate the amount Of loss: but it
cannot be less than 100000.
All the wharyes are gone, and the whole beach
is solid mass Of ruins such as SDuses, drift wood,
dry goods, ETC."
The only loss Of life that heard Of at Biloxi was
that of barber near Capt Browns hotel; butmy
friend, the Hen. James Beggs, who has been at
Biloxi since last night, and viii see you ere this
reaches you doubt not will give you full details
as to all occurrences in this vicinity.
At Mississippi City the wharves are all gone but
we found theindomitabe Col. Barnes perched upon
the " pferhead" of Tegarden's wharf, ready to
make fast our lines and receive US with hearty
greeting.
But, alas! the heart sckens at the surrounding
desolation Misery and destruction surround us on
every side. Truly, hath the wind raised and de-
molished houses built upon the sands, and great
was the fall thereof.
To Capt. Boardman and Capt Jack Otway, Of
the Alabama, too much praise cannot be given !;
having the large delegation Of firemen and great
number Of passengers unexpectedly thrown upon
their hands for forty-egh hours, insteadsof eight
hours, they fully succeeded in giving satisfaction
to ALL Whatever information ! can gather from
Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis will give you by
this conveyance or to-morrow's mail
Truly, yours
Z
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

GARIBALDI TO THE WOMEN OF S1CILY.-Accord-
ing to letter in the Paris Presse Garbaldi, hay
ing been somewhat disappointed by finding a lack
of selfrelance and energy in the scilians has is
sued spirited address TO the women of the Island.
In it he says:
Dear and gracious women of Sicily, hear the
voice of the man who sincerely loves your beauti-
full country, to which he is bound by the affection
of his whole life. He asks of you nothing for him
SELF nothing for others but for the common father
land he asks your powerful assistance. Call to
arms the inhabitants of this island, and shame
those who cling to their mothers or sweetheart's
apron strings.
La Carroll of Payia, rich, noble and beloved
matron, had four sons. One died at Yarese on the
body of an Austrian whom he had killed. the eld-
est, Benedetto, you have at Palermo, scared with
the wounds he received at Calatafimi and Palermo:
the third Enrico, lives, though his skull split
open in those battles; and the fourth has been sent
to join the same army by that incompatible mo-
ther. Women, give us your sons your lovers
Few-the struggle will be long and doubtful and
full of danger for ALL Many-we shall conquer
without battles; and you will see realized the
hopes of twenty generations of Italians; and
shall restore to you your dear ones bronzed by
the battle field, crowned with the anreoe of vic,
tory, and blessed even by those enslaved and suf-
ferng people who have sent forth their sons to
win back from you ysur country
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18
THE LATE GALE.

aSpondence Of the Crescent.

STEAMER ALABAMA, September 10, 1860
M'. Editor Il presume that ere this your
numerous readers are apprsed of the terrible
storm that has desoated our beautiful and popu-
lous lake coast; but, being on the spot venture
to give you such items as can gather by the way.
At noon yesterday, as the cars approached with
passengers for the mail boat, heavy storm was
found to prevail, and Capt. McBaker very pru-
IDENTIFY left as soon as he got the mails on board,
without waiting for passengers, as the wood work
along the line of the Railroad was washed up, SO
as to prevent the cars going beyond the Washing
ton Hotel. At O'Clock p. NJ. however, the good
steamer Alabama, Capt. Boardman, got under
weigh with good number of passengers, includ-
ing the gallant boys of Washington Fire Co. No.
20. The wind somewhat subsiding all went
merrly on until Bay ST. Louis was reached, when
the many passengers for that place began to stir
the boys stewards and waiters) up with a sharp
stick to get baskets, carpet bags, ETC., ready for
disembarking but to the general dismay and as
tonishment of all, there was no wharf to be found!
and after yany searching for that rather important
point of debarkation for some time, we steamed
away again; and on reaching Pass Christian, an
other fruitless search for wharf or landing place
was instituted. Again we bent our course forward
AT Mississippi City, at Biloxi and at Ocean Springs
the wharVes were entirely gone. The night was
excessively dark and stormy, and our course was
gloomy, desolate and even perilous. About ii
O'Clock we were hailed by the crew of the schooner
Oregon, capsized near Mississippi City. The crew
were elinging to the wreck and were all brought
safely on board the Alabama. During the night
we passed to other dsmasted sehooners names
unknown.
At daylight this morning, we found ourselves off
Ocean Springs, whariless, desolate looking place
enough but now we are opposite Biloxi and the
scene before US beggars description-not only are
the wharyes all gone, but the houses unroofed and
some blown down and entirely destroyed. Our
friends, the boys" of Washington 20, were to
have spent last night and to-day with their fellow;
fireman, Gus Riehards-but, alas Gus had no root
left his house having been almost entirely demol-
ished by the pitiless storm. The whole beach, as
far as the eye can reach, is one mass of wreck
and ruin. more desoate prospect 1 never be-
held.
The following statement is from well.known
citizen of BiloNi and give it to you as the best
as well as most reliable resume of this melancholy
disaster that ] am at present enabled to possess
myself of. Did time and opportunity permit
could give many incidents both amusing and pa
thetic, but leave these for future ocesion;
September l6 1860
g The gale yesterday was more severe than tina
of 1919.
The following were the parties who expe
rieneed heavy damages and losses in real estate:
Jacob Elmer, So ,0O0 John Brown, $1,000
| Jacob Wetzel, $4,000; R. Lameuse, $1,000; Gabrie
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

FARTHER POINT, Sept 1.-THE Montreal Ocean
Mail Company's screw steamship Canadian, Capt.
Graham, from Liverpool on the 5th inst. and Lon
donderry the evening of the 9Th, passed the point
to-day, bound for Quebec.
She brings two days later news than was re-
eeiyed at Cape Race by the steamship Melta.
The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New
York, with advices thence to the 29th ult., had
arrived at Queenstown.
The steamship Parana, of the New York and
Galway line, from New York via St. Johns, N. F.,
had arrived out at Galway.
Commercial Intelligence.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 6, tBy telegraph to London
derry. 1.-The sales of cotton for the week just
ended amount to a5 900 bales, of which specula-
tors took 10000 and exporters $500.
ALI qualities of cotton have experienced slight
advance. The middling and lower gra les are ID.
higher.
The Cotton market to-day Friday) was buoy
ant, while the sales embraced $4,000 bales, of
which spectators and exporters took 1000 bales,
at the following authorized quotations of the
Fair Orleans. . =. lid. Midding Orleans. Gid.
Fair Mobiles . I'D. Mid. Mobiles y. sd.
Fair Uplands.. SD. Middling Upls. s l5-led
The quantity of cotton in the port of Liverpool
sums up ,022 900 bales, of which S55, GOO are Of
American production
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 6.--The advices from Manches-
ter continue to be cheering.
The market for Goods and Yarns closed buoyant
at slight advance on all qualities.
The Flour market quiet. All qualities have
slightly declined during the week.
The market for Provisions closed quiet without
any change of moment in prices.
LoSDoS, Sept. 6.-The closing quotations for
Consols to-day were 93l.
PARIS, Sept. 5.-The Paris Bourse continues to
rule dull. The three per cent. Rentes closed at
eff. csc.
European Political Intelligence.
A telegram from Naples announces the arrival
of Gen. Garibaldi on the 9Th at Salerno, city and
seaport in the province of Princpato Citra 80 miles
southeast of Naples
The same dispatch says he would soon reach Ma
pies.
The King of Naples had embarked all valuables
on board Spanish frgate, which was to leave fol
Gaeta the same day.
It is reported that the Emperor Napoleon vii
not interfere with the progress of Garibaldi, o.
make any attempt at saving Naples.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

A DREADFUL AocIDENT--A Man Falls from the
Top of q iSteeple.-TwO men were this morning
employed in giving to the dome of ST. Patricks
church, West Troy, coat of white paint. Before
going up, one of them named John Fishback, was
noticed by his companions to have been drinking,
and was demonstrated with for ascending; but it
was said in reply that he was better able to go up
in that condition than though he was perfectly
sober, and as it appeared he was quite nationally
and but slightly under the influence of liquor, he
was permitted to go up. Sixty-one feet from the
ground is a narrow ledge or cornice from two to
three feet wide, running around the base of the
dome. Upon this ledge the two men had been at
work for some time, having previously finished the
painting above by means Of ladders fastened from
the cross on the summit of the dome. On this
narrow shelving, where the men were now at
work, Fishbaek would frequently let go all sup
port from the DOME and walk out on the very edge,
to show his nerve and brayado The entreaties
of his companions not to do so only induced him
to show still greater reeklessness, until all at once
his companion saw him going, when no power OF
him could save him. He had lost his balance, and
falling, struck first upon cornice quite distance
below, and then upon the ground, falling upon the
right side of the head and shoulder, instantly kill
ing him, cansing the blood to spout from his ears
and driving the right side of his head and face into
horrid shape. Coroner Whitbeek held an inquest
and the jury returned a verdict in accordance will
the above facts. TROY Times, Sept. l.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

QUARANTINE STATION, Sept. 1.-THE brig Hope,
which left the port of Vera Cruz the I'd inst. in
company with the schooner Virginia Antoinette,
passed this point this evening on her way to New
Orleans.
The Hope brings six passengers, seventy thousand
dollars in specie and sixty bales of cochineal.
A British steamer left Vera Cruz on the 1st inst
for Havana, taking out s4,000,000 in specie or
freight.
The U. S. steam sloop of war Pocahontas, from
New Orleans, arrived out at Vera Cruz on the I'd
inst. Every one board was well and in good
spirits.
in the direction of the City of Mexico.
Gen. Mramon, at the head of an army of 7006
men, was in the city ready for an attack.
The brig Hope encountered the gale eighteen
miles from the Southwest Pass, and was COM
PEELED to lay to for twenty-four hours. She bore
it bravely, and sustained no damage whatever.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18
Arrival of the Star of the West.

The steamship Star of the West Capt. G.
w. Brown, left New York September 6, arrived
at Havana September Is, in the morning. and left
for New Orleans at 4:3O P. NJ.
Steamer Empire City arrived at Havana 11:3O
A. NJ. on Saturday, and left for New York at 5
Pm.
The Sugar market is reported as being dull No.
Il at 81 reals. Stock l95,oOo boxes at Havana
and Matanzas. Shipped last week $4,000 boxes.
Freights dull and have declined to 10 shillings
on European and to American ports.
Exchanges, London Is to l5l per cent; New
York to Il per cent; New Orleans to 81 pei
cent.
The health of Havana was excellent for the
season.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

SHOCKING TRAaEpY.-Frank Miller, Orderly Ser,
geant of Company G, Fifth Inrantry, lately posted
IN Camp Floyd but now in New Mexico, recently
shot woman (name not giyen) who accompanied
the regiment from Utah. 1t appears that the par
ties were engaged to be married, and the ceremony
was to have been performed in New Mexico, but
after their arrival she for some cause or other
"bolted,' and while they were sitting in tent
together, he drew revolver and shot her. the ball
entering her throat. AT the same time he dis
charged the contents Of another barrel at his own
breast, the ball penetrating his heart. They both
expired at almost the same moment.
ISt. Louis Republican, 9th.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

A MONSTER PREss.- The Scientific American
thus describes monster steam press, upon which
Moses S. Beach, who has just retired from the
New York Sun, is at wosk:
He is even now just completing the construction
of monster steaR printing press, by which the
sheets are cut from rolls, dampened, printed upon
both sides, at the rate of forty thousand impress
sions an hour, folded up, counted and delivered
from the machine, ready for the carrier and the
mail This machine is as high as q common two-
story country dwelling house and it will when
fnished-if the expectations of the inventor are
realized-constitute most extraordinary speci-
men Of mechanical skill and ingenuity.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

FIRST ANSWER OF BELL AND EVERETT ELEeToR-
In answer to the question propounded on the cars
few days since by an inquisitive attorney, as to
how he intended to vote in the electoral college,
Judge Kent said he would adopt the words of Sir
Robert Peel, when similar inquiry was put to
him: When that question is made to me at
proper time, in a proper place, under proper quail
itieations and with proper motives, will hesitate
long before refuse to take it into consideration
I'm. Y. Evening Post,
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

DoSNYBRook FAR,-This annual gathering Of
infamy and reckless deprayity is dead-stone dead.
inst, was, or was to have been, & walking Sun
day. but the famed Brook was deserted, and
the " interested Individuals looked townwards in
vain for the arrival of their dupes and fools from
the city. dublin Freeman's Journal.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

In Syria the Turkish authorities had executed
one hundred and eighty persons engaged in the
late massacre of Christians. This wholesale retri-
button would, it was believed, entirely repress the
insurrectionary element and tranquilize the coun-
try. Nearly five thousand French troops had
landed at Beyrout
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18

FEDERALISM BRAzII-Singulap Gt,stosn.-Whena
person dies in Rio the front entrance of the house
is closed-the only occasion when such thing
happens. The law requires the body to be buried
in twenty -four hours. II the deceased was married.
festoon of black cloth and gold is hung over the
street door; for unmarried, lilac and black; for
children, white or blue, or gold. Collins for the
married are also black, but for young persons
they are red, scarlet, or blue. Fond OF dress
while living the Brazilians buried in their best,
and punctous to the last degree, they enforce
etiquette after death.
Formerly it was the custom in Rio, and still is so
in the interior, to carry young corpses upright in
procession through the streets, when, but for the
closed eyes, stranger could hardly believe the
figure before him, with painted cheeks, hair blow
ing in the wind, IN silk stockings and shoes, and
branch in one hand, and resting the other quite
naturally on some artificial sepport could be
dead child. Large sums are occasionally expended
in dresses and jewels for the head Mourning is a
long affair, and widows never lay aside their weeds
unless they marry yet clusters of small purple
flower are known as widows tears.'' They
bloom but once q year, and soon dry up.
New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-18
From New York.

New York, Sept 14.-P. Perritt presided at the
Republican ratification meeting last night, and
speeches were made by James .. Putnam, Carl
Schultz of Wisconsin, and VIM. L. Dodge, President
of the recent Bell and Everett meeting. The Wide
Awake procession numbered 10, 900 torches.
All the seats at Niblo's Theater, at Mr.. Forests
disappearance were sold yesterday, many of them
at handsome sums.
night to consider several violations of the rules
adopted at Saratoga One is against the Central
Road for carrying freight from Boston through
New York city TO the West cheaper than freights
from this city.
Letters from Paris announce the death oil Mrs.
NEw York, Sept. 1.-THE Douglas State Com
mittee met to-day at the st. Nicholas Hotel for the
purpose of considering the proposition recently
made by the Breckenridge State COMMITTEE VIZ ::
the adoption of ten Breckinridge electors on the
Douglas ticket and two Breckenridge candidates
for State officers, The proposition was rejected
by a vote of seven to FIVE
ELMIRA N. ", Sept. H.-Judge Douglas arrived
here at IL o'clock this morning, accompanied by
his wife. All along the route, Notwithstanding the
unreasonable hour meetings assembled al the de-
pots, and the Judge was called out and eompeled
to sneak a few words to the crowd This morning
he suffered from slight cold. mass meeting was
held at O'clock this afternoon, at winch 3Uo0 per-
sons attended. Notwithstanding the bad health OF
Judge Douglas, he spoke an hour and half, forel-
bly, yindicating the principle of popular sovereign,
ty He made no allusion to Mr.. Dickinson, and
very little to the Breckenridge men, simply charac'
terizing their leaders dsunionsts and secession
lists, and denouncing them as boilers from the Dem
ocratic party and Democratic principles.
CASAHDAidUA, N. Y, Sept. 14.-Judge Douglas
left Emira at o'clock. At oil the stations on the
road demonstrations were made. At Canandaigua
great demonstration was made, The Little Giant:
turning out in the streets with lighted torches
Judge Douglas excused himself from making any
remarks in consequence of his extreme hoarse
ness, through cold and repeated speaking.