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Matrimonial.

A LEAP YEAR CHALLENGE.-A voun
~ lady from the East, temporary reside
OF Mantowoc County, twenty years Of age
said by her friends TO be good looking; of
lively ard aifectionate disposition with cool
education, moderate accomplishments, and
pract cal knowledge Of the details OF housekeeH
ing and possessed Of about two thousand dol
lars of available means, desires matrimonid
connection with a Wisconsin gentleman, proyI
ded she can find one whom she can love and rel
spect, and can inspire with reciprocal attach
ment. The gentleman must not be under 2
nor over 40 years of age, must not be below til
ordinary height must have fair education an,
be foad of reading, have good health and habit
intelligence preferable to beauty, and goot
figure more desirable than handsome face.
Wealth Of no importance, but he must posses
business tact and qualifications sufficient to pro
vide FOX the support Of a family; and ABOVE a
other qualifications lie must love me.
Any gentleman Wishing to accept this chal
lenge can address L S. T., Manitowoc P. O
Wisconsin giving real name and address, per
sonal description, occupation, and such othe
details as he -nsy Sc ST. All communication
will be strictly confidential, and if the CORES
ponaence creates a favorable impression an in
teryieH viii te granted.
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Oshkosh Correspondence.
OSHKOSH, july u, 1850.

Oshkosh, July y, 1850,
-ur. Editor:
wish. to inform you that we had pic
mic Of the children belonging to St. Pc
TIERS and St. MARY's Sunday Schools, at
the County Fair Grounds, on the 10th
inst The day, as you are aware, was
quite favorable. The children, as on last
year. marched in procession from st. Pc
TIERS Church, preceded by the American
flag and PUsCH's Brass Band ; after which
followed the children, bearing their res
pective banners The sight was beauti-
full one, and elected the admiration of nu.
merous spectators, some of whom were
standing in silence, some laughing, some
singing, and some cursing. Having arri-
we'd on the Fair Ground, the children be-
took themselves to various amusements.
After partakiug of refreshments, some Of
the older ones amused themselves in dan
cling and singing, after which came the ex-
ercises Of the children, speaking, singing,
dialogues, &c, which were gone through
in an exceedingly mastery manner, taking
the ages of those engaged into consjdera-
ton. Amongst the boys who distinguish
ed themselves on that occasion were Mas.
tiers JAMES MCCoURr, GEORGE FTzsIM.
MONS, I. MCCoURr, J. VAENUs, J. MILMoE
and T. DALEY There was dialogue spo-
ken by Master J. KGEYAN, and Miss T.
McCoURT, which elected marked atten-
ton. 1t was entitled Mercury aid Ms
te$s MoaisA. The exercises Of tie chill
dren were concluded By play IN one act,
entitled TIE Orphan Girls, composed By
Mrs. ADAMS, whose exertions in preparing
the little ones deserves the highest praise.
The actresses were the Misses FTTzsIM>
MONS, BARRY, McCoUnr, and BLAKEs-
The singers were Miss NJ. MCCoURr and
Messrs. i. KEHNEY and J. PowaHs.-
There were many fill grown people pres
ent, among whom were many Of our most
prominent and respected fellow citizens,
who seemed highly pleased with the order
aud decorum manifested by every one on
Tie occasion, The procession was again
formed as before, and all marched to St.
NAAY's Church, where the people, Old and
young, separated for their respective
homes, evidently well pleased with the
days entertainment. T.
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Rust in Wheat Its Cause.

Tie cause Of rust in wheat Las general.
~ been attributed 10 Wet, warm, lowry
weather, at a certain stage Of is growth
that it is, when tie berry is iii ils milk.
Amember Of tie Winnelago QU) Farmers
Club gives lis theory thus:
I'VE generally fDd that tie rust makes
It's appearance about such time, and that
it is the extreme hot weather vhich we
have in the forepart OF July. Now sir let
it rain one hour either fast OF slow, then
let the sun shine out hot as it generally
does at that season Of tie year, and 50 il
may continue to do for half dozen times
a day alternately, and at night what is the
result? Why The rain has all run off the
stalk down into the roots to send forth
nourishment to tie stalk No rain ad-
heres to the stalk but let the night be
warm and close, there will lie heavy
dew, and this dew is called honey dew /;
it sticks to the stalk, or leaf Wherever il
falls, and hot sun the following morning
dries it on the stalk, or leaf, which proves
a deadly poison to wheat or oats. Now,
let it rain the following morning, after the
dew, and there Will be no rust to hurt the
wheat. would say to the farmers who
may chance to read this article, to cx-
anime for themselves | have never
known this kind Of dew TO fall except IN
the extreme hot weather in the month Of
July, and have known wheat entirely de-
stroyed by rust, when there had been no
rain to cause the rust Oh the grain"
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DovGL,s - NV Y"Ek.---The Eocles
'yr T"ion says: 1t is gratifying to
know that there is not in .he State Of New
York single Journal Of respectabiIity-it
We except single country week}y-or III
tl"enco that Sustain the Breckenridge or
secession ticket. The Syracuse C9urjer,
the only Democratic paper published at
the headquarters Of the State committee Of
the organization whose delegates were de
clared irregular at Charleston has from
the first sustained Douglas and Johnson.
50 with the Geneva Gazette and other
journals Of a similar stamp"
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Another Bloody and Revolving
Murder in EOyya--A woman
and two Children Nurdered--
A Tale Of shame and Guilt.
BUELINGMON. low. IuIv 3.

Another tragedy has Mortified the peo-
rle Of this section Of Iowa. We have Just
learned of the butchery of woman and
her two children, short distance north
west Of Batavia station, on the Burlington
and Missouri L. K, in Jefferson County.
Their dead AMI mutilated bodies were dis
covered on Saturday by fishing party,
in the Cedar Creek into which they had
Leen thrown by the murderer. The
murder porbab'y was perpetrated four or
tive days previously to the finding Of the
bodies. The woman was about thirty
years Of age, aud had two terrible gashes
in her forehead, cyl enlly cut with au axe,
and her skull was broken. One of the
children is little boy about five years Of
age; his heal is also terribly cut and the
,kuIl broken. The other child IS little
gl!i about three years of age; her head
ais" badly mntilated.
Hon. VIM X Alexander, Judge Of Jcf-
ferson county, Immediately offered re
ward Of 900 for the arrest Of the murder
or, "lo is suspected to be her real lru-
band, nalneI kcphcart, hia victims being
from Musct'ine, AMI known by the name
tf Willis. They we're going westward with
* teams, ADD It Is supposed that the tlend
- iam4n shape, l'econ!n5 tired OF the
woman aud her children, murdered them
to get rld II them. II has been ascertain
81 that the bloody deed was committed at
LddJ ',Ie thirty miles distant from the
Place "ne'e the bodies were found, the
murderer having conveyed the ccrpses that
distance TO dispose OF them II Is not
known ~ "! whether he had any aSsoGI-
ateo in the CRIME, bat it is believed that lie
Lai at least one assistant
Parties Immediately went in pursuit Of
Kepheart, and OH Sunday night they over,
took and capture him IN Missouri, and
brought him to Fairfield, the county seat
Of Jefferson, where lie is now in Jail. The
excitement against him is intense.
L,rER FROM ING SCENE or THE MURDER.
!, t,,r. ont that Tie man Jobn Ken.
b.,r, J,a. ~ arcamnIi.o lame. uaryoy
\y.,I;. o,. mi so, e H. ,,,,,,I.ra,'i
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--nz,a . ELs EAl

BURNT TO DEATH N A BoNFIRE.-A
Akron last night, in celebration of tn
Fourth, a young man named Samue
ONeil, carrying a barrel to bonfr
(Which was already blazing with tar bar
rels and pine boxes 10y accident fell head
long into the flames. lie was, for second
in the midst Of the flames, and crawling
out on his hands and knees, with not
shred of rairent on him. Kill me ~ h
shrieked, "for Gods sake kill me. "a
my throat-anything-only kill me-
After all efforts that medical or surgica
skill could give, had been rendered, h
died this morning after suffering phys
cal distress unspeakahle. Our informar
says his shrieks still ring in his cars
CcUelaad HcraN.
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JOHN WENTWORTH DIsGUsrED.-The
Chicago Democrat-the organ Of JouS
WESTwoRTH-speaks with considerable
severity of the frateruization of the LIN
coin and BHEcKEHRIDGE men in Illinois.
Tie Democrot states that the Republican
State Committee met at Springfield with
the State Committee of Dantes, and to.
gether made ont the DANTE State ticker.
The Democrat thinks that considering that
the Republicans profess to be anti SIaverv,
their sympathy with the avowcd pro sIa.
very party is very inconsistent. We think
JoHN WENTWORTH is sound on that ques-
ton, but lis course rather confuses his
Republican confreres.
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THE " AZ II GoLS- The nomination Of
Stephen A. Douglas takes like wild fiIe
with the people in ali parts Of The country.
Men and newspapers are leaving the Re-
publican rauh- throwing away the dis
union hag and A,ckiug to Standard Of
Douglas and true Democracy. John "
Fo,uey, of The Philadelphia Pres, has a
long aud ALLY written article declaring
himself and his PAPER for Douglas The
State Convention Of Alabama have put
D,ugL,s Democratic Electoral ticket i'll the
field and Douglas majority in that State
will be oycrw hrlm,ng, over Bell and
breckenridge combircl. Hon. Amos
togIswcli, the Republican Speaker of the
House Of Representatives Of Minnesota
last winter, has left the Republican party
and came ont openly for tie Little Gia~t
AMI Popular Sovereignty. Cyrus Lowell,
of Michigan Who wos tho FIRST Rnpubii,o 81
Speaker ever chosen by the House of lie,
representatives. in that State, avows himself
Tor Stephen 4. Douglas, Prominent lie
puolcaHs in Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, and
Iii fact ali over he North, candid, thinking
men are Convinced Of the utter folly OF
any longer following in tho lead Of Sec
tloral A5ila'o.s, and thcy will hereafter
act with tie Democracy rs the only party
that presents platform co extensive with
our common country. The Indications
upon the political horizon now, are that
Douglas viii double the Democratic vote
IN every fr"e State. and sweep his Slave
Code and Know Nathing competitor com
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Coon ADMINISTRATIONS three YEAR.
ago poor man came into this town and
managed to purchase a few acres of Land
at ten dollars per acre about a mile from
the village which was then thought an ex
travagant price, but within few days Id
has been offered forty dollars an acre, bu|
will not think of selling SO low; he ask
seventy dollars. Something of raise, bu
one item showing the growth and improve
ment here in two or three years.-Ke1ca,t
nee Enterprise.
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UNcALLED For LErrERs.-A new law
has recently been passed in relation 10 the
return Of uncalIed for letters. 1t provides
that when any person shall indorse on any
letter his or her name and place of resi-
dence as the writer thereof, the same, after
remaining uncalled for at the office to
which it is directed thirty days, or the
time the writer may direct, shall be return
ed By mail to said writer; and no such
letter shall be advertised nor shall the
same be treated as dead letters. till so re-
turned the post office Of the writer aud re.
manned uncalIed for one quarter. We I'M
derstand that to ADoLPu WraMANN, ESQ,
the Postmaster at Mantcwoc, tie credit
is due for the above suggestion to the
Post Office Department.
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OR ToH DoUGLAs-The Chicago Her
AID, which was tor a long time an ardent
supporter Of the administration, under the
editorial guidance of the U. S. Marshal
for Illinois. now hoists tho names of
Douglas and johnson. At the conclusion
of an article explaining its position, that
paper says:
"At present, without ordinations for
the past or useless regrets for the present,
and with the same devotion TO the Union
Of our party as ever, we unfurl our banner
to the breeze, inscribed with the names Of
DOUGLAS and JOHNSON, to do our
dcvoi, in the coming battle, in the ranks
of the great body Of the Democracy of
Illinois .-Mlwaukee News.
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Tue HERALD AND ITS CANDIDATE.--We
have learned upon reliable authority that
Mr. tiTCH was promised certain amount
of money, or patronage, for supporting the
boItera' ticket, providing he could get up
the evidences of some public feeling IN
this county, favorable to DRE cKESRIDGE.
aud thereby prove that he had-what he
claimed to have-a commanding influ-
ence over the Democrats of Manitowoc
county. His signal failure to make bolt
e-s and traitors OF our true and unfaiIino
Democracy, Is 80 evident that his employ.
ers will probably not fee, bound to reward
him for hi uselessness; and now that he
finds lie cannot lead away Tie people from
tie true faith, we predict that he will very
soon be attempting to creep back into the
party, by Withdrawing the names o.
BRECKENRIDGE and LANE
This result, which will surely come will
probably be fastened by the intelligence
hat poor old JOE LANE has been cleaned
ont in Oregon, and that the great massc,
of the Democracy are everywhere giving
in their adhesion to the nominations 0
DocGLAs and JOHNSON, and the alnos
certainty that BREcKENRIDGE and LANE
will not get electoral votes enough tc
bring them as candidates before Congress
If there should be no election hy the PEG
pie.
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Be CAREFUL WHAT YOU DRINK.-A
boy who lives in Sodus, near the Ridge,
drank from a spring, a few evenings since,
and very soon after was seized with violent
pains in the stomach which increased to
such an extent that medical aid was sum-
moned. An emetic was administered,
and the boy elected from bis stomach a
live black snake ABOUT five inches in length,
and about as large around as a pipe stem.
Persons who drink water in the dark will
please take warning. 4 live snake in
once stomach Is ~ 30 means an agreea-
Bic companion. II on Repuoiican
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IN UoHEsr OLD MAN ROBBED OF Ills
ALL,-An Old man, seventy years Of age,
who had by constant industry accumulated
one thousand four hundred dollars, which
he took to Knoxville, Iowa, few days
since, intending to invest it in home
stead for his family, was robbed Of it all
while he was cfecting a choice in the
neighborhood A young man Of the town
was strongly suspected and arrested, and
held in three thousand dollar bonds.
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.-1S . - 49,

Two BOYS PREVENT A RAILROAD AccI
DENT The Milwaukee papers give an
account of singular thoughtfulness on the
part of couple Of boys;
con Friday a passenger train coming
east on the La Crosse Road, broke a rail,
some forty miles west Of Milwaukee, one
piece Of which was thrown into the ditch,
leaving a bad break in the track. This
was discovered by a coupe Of boys who
were walking along the track, and they at
once resolved to stop any train that
might be approaching. Accordingly they
took their places, one on each side of the
break, and after waiting awhile heard the
train approaching, and when it came in
sight, commenced waving their hats to at
tract the attention of the engineer, who
seeing them, stopped the train in time %
avoid fearful calamity
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Early this morning, Mr.. Schoonmaker,
German, who keeps market garden ia
list street, took load OF Vegetables to
one Of The down town markets, leaving his
vii. and child in bed. On bis return, he
found his wife AMI child living oil the floor
Of the room. with their throats cut. The
child was quite dead, but the mother still
lrea.hel. The murderer IS a discharged
workman Of Mr.. Schoonmake-, named
Frank Holman. lie is in custody. He
a,s5 stole Si75.
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The Weather and Crops in Ire
land

For the information Of our Irish read
ers We publish the following extract from
the Agricultural Report of the LeiHster
ExpreSs, Of June 1Gh. The Express is
reliable Irish Journal published in the town
of Mas, Co. kildare:
Weather less proritious for agricultural
operations than during the last few weeks,
was perhaps never before experienced at
any corresponding period. From about
the 18th ofMay up to the present date, We
have never had twenty four hours dry
weather in continued succession the soil
is SO completely overcharged with super
fluous moisture, that even "a single shower
causes temporary suspension Of farm
practice. Mr.. Gillie, of Ballykilcavan
Mills, ascertained by his rain guage, that
be had rain faIl of six inches in about
seventy hours last week. Rivers, rivulets,
streanlets, ponds and open bitches are up
to high average Of winter level. But
Notwithstanding the superabudant moisture
with which the earth's surface has been
surcharged during The last few weeks, veg
citation mas by no means made such cor
responding progress. The temperature Of
the atmosphere has often been down to
a wintry chillness, causing both man and
beast to court retreat from It's inhospita
bic influence, and the June temperature OF
the soil has not been so low for many pre-
ceeding years. If it is the will Of Divine
Providence to bind up the clouds Of lleay
en- for a time, and to bless us with teryII
action of ssiar heat we have no doubt that
vegetation would make unusal progress.
We do not, by any means inslnuate that
present appearances denote an untruitful
season, for We have the promise OF buikier
crops of grain at least, than we have OK
perienced since the 81 On low wet
grounds crops of every kind are beginning
TO assume rather unhealthy appearance
from surplus moisture and from the low
ness of the temperature both above and
below tue surface In this part Of the
kingdom, embracing perhaps about fifteen
miles from where we write, IN every dlrtc
lion, there is not, We think, more than
about one twentieth part Of the turnip crop
vet put down, and of the ground is still 10
cross plough, 9Tuo, mario" ana cieah, ana
these operations for weeks past have been
almost impracticable. even on dry undulat
ing surfaces, aud up to the time We write,
tie soil is still replete with superintendent
water, accompanied with all the chiiluess
of a wintry atmosphere.
by all appearance there is some unusu-
al mysterious atmospheric disturbance,
which has caused and is still causing such
an interrogation Of the solar heat incident
to spring AMI summer. But who knows
but it may please Divine Providence 20
rednke these iuhospitsbIe Influences evea
before tits article is in type In our illlie
experience f1rners never before were plao-
ell in such ~ emergency AT such an al
vancel season Of the year; an! The unpre-
cedeutc,l scarcity Of cattle food last gin
ter has created an unusual anx.e'y to guard
against a similar occurrence.
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LARGE GoosEBERRY-On Tuesday ST.
ternoon Mr. c. Ii. Cunningham, brought
into our Office mammoth specimen Of
the gooseDerry which measured 3 inches
the smallest, and 2 inches the longest
way. Mr. G. states that tits native, and
that it grows upon bushes IS or 20 feet
high, which would look reasonable enough
if it did not appear that he brought this
in as a specimen to seIk.-Kewaunee En-
terprise.
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rgWe see oy AN advertisement in tn

Eg We see oy an advertisement in the
Daily Tribune that the article Of cOncen-
roted lye can be purchased at that Office
at a reduced price. As the editor Of the
Tribune has been dealing out concentrated
lie to the resders of that sheet for the past
four years, we presume the advertisement
nav be understood to mean that the sub
scription price Of the paper is reduced.
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The TENTH LEGION FOR DOUGLAS =
The Tenth Legion Democracy of Virginia
are ralIying with the greatest enthusiasm
under the banner Of Douglas and Johnson.
We received on yesterday evening, the
Democrat and Register, both published in
Rockingham, and both the old and time
honored organs of the Tenth Legion De
mocracy, and both flying at their mast
heads the name OF Stephen A. Douglas
The Legion gives from eight to twelve
thousand Democratic majority. 1t has
saved the Old Dominion for the last TWEEN
ty years. Chicago Times.
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Stephen A. Douglas Who and
What is He q?

What is He?
| Among the distinguished speakers at
The DoUGLts meeting in Philadelphia, Sat
urday, was General DODGE, of Iowa, ex-
Governor of that State, ex-Mipister to
Spain, and Chairman of the iowa delega
ion in tile Baltimore Convention. In
the course of his remarks, the General
said:
know that Henry Clay relied upon
him more than any. other man, entrusted
to him the drawiDg up of the Compromise
bills, aud called upon him when his voice
became SO weak that he could no longer
fill the Senate, to take his place aud fight
the battle for the admission of California,
Utah and New Mexico, Tgreat applause,
and for the establishment Of the principle
that the people shall be left free - shape
their own domestic institutions aud CON
! troll their own destinies Who WAS it that
dashed Sumner, Seward Il Co., and I'll
umph'd over them in the great debate
upon the Kansas Nebraska bill! which es-
tsblished living principle by which the
matter Of slavery is to be settled, and that
vsxed question to be forever baniahed from
! the halls of Congress?
1t was Stephen A Douglas Cheers
You AL know him. y voice, "and love
him." cheers | knew him when he was
an honorable pioneer with his pack upon
his back. | knew him when he pushed
tie jack-plane in village in Illinois. l
knew him as a village schoolmaster as
the Attorney General Of lis State; as a
Judge upon the Supreme Coarl bench, and
subsequently, when be vas elected 70 the
lower branch Of Congress, aud from there
to the Senate, where lie Is nov surviving
lis third term (Applause) AMI, gentle
men. if the boilers and political tricksters
who are now at work to defegt the choice
Of the people for the highest Office in their
gift succeed, he will grow upon their hands
just as Oh Hickory did, " len he was de
tcatel for the same position, and hy the
same means, in 1921. (CheeIs.) The IA
miliar name, by which he is known by his
countrymen, is that Of the Little Giant,
but if lie is cheated by these Seccssioni.ts
and Disunionists, lie v Il! be known in fl
tue as the Big Giant" before whom In
trguing politicians viii fly, az from The
wrath to come. tell you, that il lie ev.
or comes down on any one Of them tie
unfortunate man will think lie weighs "a
ton. (Great applause If he is beaten
! now, his success in the future is certain
while those who oppose tie party because
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Eg A young girl, who had become
tired of single blessedness, thus wrote to
her intended: Deer Gin, cum rite oph
eff VI air cummin at awl Ed Ceilings is
insistin that | shall hav him, u he hugs
me & kisses me so continnerIy that can't
hoIed owt much longer, but vii hav , KAYE
in. BETzEY.
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The Pennsylvania members of the Ma
tiJual Douglas committee have addressed
letters to the State electors, demanding
their position. 1t Is intended by the
Douglas men 10 call State convention
her mass or delegate to Oil the vacancy
OF tie electoral ticket. Mr. Forney an
nouEce> that Mr. Douglas cordially sus-
"a rs the policy Of non coalition with the
j e:Aenridgc;ies.