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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
LINCOLN AMONG THE
CHILDREN.

Probably no attribute of our candidate
will, after all, endear him so much to the
popular heart as the conviction that he is
emphatically zone of the people" His
manhood has not been compressed into
the artificial track of society; but his
great heart aud vigorous intellect have
been allowed generous development
amid his solitary struggle in the forest
and the prairie. With vision unobscured
by the mists of sophistry, he distinguishes
at the first glance between what is true
and what is false, and with will and
courage fortified by his life Of hardship,
he is not the man to shirk any response
bility, or to shrink from any opposition.
Moreover, heis peculiarly ono to win our
confidence and affection. To know "hon-
est Abe" is to love him; and his neigh
bors liz the West, although voting for
him to man, will mourn the victory
which is to DEF rive them of bis presence.
The following incident will EXHIBIT
Lincoln in one of those unobtrusive acts
of goodness which adorn his life.
The circumstance was related by a
teacher from the Five-Points' House of
Industry in this city. "Our Sunday
School in the Five Points was assembled,
one Sabbath morning, few months since,
when [ noticed tall and remarkable
looking man enter the room and take
seat among us. He listened with fixed
attention to our exercises, and his coun-
ternance manifested such genial interest,
that approached him and suggested
that he might be willing to say some
thing to the children. He accepted the
invitation with evident pleasure, and COM
ing forward began simple address, which
at once fascinated every littlo nearer, and
hushed the room into silence. His Ian
guage was strikingly beautiful, anil his
tones musical with intensest feeling. The
little faces around would droop into sad
conviction as he uttered sentences Of
warning, and would brighten into sunshine
as he spoke cheerful words ofpromise.-
Once or twice he attempted to close his
remarks, but the imperative shout Of go
onr ooh, do go on! would compel him
to resume. AS | looked upon the gaunt
and sinewy frame of the stranger, and
marked his powerful head and determin-
ed features, now touched into softness Ey
the impressions of the moment, felt an
irrtpressble curiosity to learn something
more about him, and when he was quiet
" leaving the room, I begged TO know
his name. He courteously replied, 1t is
Abra'm Lincoln, from IlIinoisr
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

The Democratic prints say that in the
coming canvass the Democrats mean to
concentrate their efforts on the State of
New Y ork, "where there will be strong
Seward disaffeetion." To this the Albany
Evening Journal replies;-
Let the Democracy, if they please, con-
ceutrate all their power upon New York.
Mr.. Stewards friends would be happy to
have their patriotism brought to such a
test. The greater the pressure, the great
er their power; and if it shall be under
stood that their metal is to be tried in the
way indicated, the Republicans of the
Union will see such a battle as has never
been fought on this continent.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
BAD Conference.-The inheritance {

BAD CHARAoTER.-The Importance OF
preserving good reputation for truth
and honesty, is quite strikingly set forth
in the following illustration.
A mortal fever prevailed on board ship
at sea, and negro man was appointed
to throw the bodies of those who died
from time to time, overheard. One day,
when the captain was on deck he saw the
negro dragging out of the forecastle a
sick man, who was violently struggling to
extricate himself from the negro's grasp,
and demonstrating very bitterly against
the cruelty Of being buried alive.
"What are you going to do with that
man, you black rascal 2" said the captain.
"Going to throw hin overheard, massa.
cause he dead"
"Dead! you scoundrel, don't you see
be moves and speaksw
eyes, massa, / know he says be no
dead, but he always lie SO nobody knows
when to believe him."
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
From the Milwaukee Free DemocuSt
The Agitation Of Slavery.

The agitation of the slavery question,
which timid politicians deprecate as pes
tilential, is not only unavoidable and nee
essary, but in spite of the terrors of Con-
stitutional towards, it is in all its bearings
essentially and entirely proper and COM
mendable.
If slavery is right. is natural, is in har.
mony with the civilization and christian
ty of tho age-it will stand. But if on
the contrary, it is wrong, is unnatural, is
opposed to the enlightenment and ad-
yancenent of the nineteenth century
then 1t must fall; and there can no bene-
fetal result be obtained by seeking to
avoid this issue, or ignore from the arena
of politics that vital question, which of it
self forms the very life-blood of political
organizations. If slavery is, as its advo
Gates claim for it, of divine ordination and
sanctioned by the universal law of
nature, then surely nothing of God or
Natures contriying can be injured by the
magic touchstone of investigation. 1t
was not the stars, Sparkling in the mid
night numberless," that trembled at the
telescope of Calico, but the monks. who
saw therein waning of the power that
superstitious fears conferred upon them ::
the centripetal and centrifugal forces new
er ceased their action because Newton
discovered the secrets of their motion, and
anything in human institutions that is in
itself right, can never fear tie test of log
ic, of argument, and discussion. And
this question of slavery extension is one
that attacks every man, sooner or later,
and comes home to his heart and his
hearthstone.
The merchant avoids it in his counting
room and it awaits him in the shape of a
gaunt, trembling fugitive in the hold of
bis ship. The lawyer who shuns it in the
arena of politics has it thrust upon him in
the brief of the slave hunter. The time
serving parson, who to please his rich
parishioners, ignores both religion and
politics in the pulpit, finds it beside the
Lares and Penates of his household
and why! Because the opposition to it
is a part of that spirit of progression,
which ignoring established institutions
and personal prejudices, appeals directly
to the conscience Of the individual man.
That spirit of progression-expansive as
the atmosphere, searching as heat, invul-
nerable as the sunlight of God, which
never stopping to cater to taste or
prejudice, but wrapped in the spotless er-
mine of justice, goes ever onward in its
right royal mission of beneftting and ele
waiting humanity.
In vain do cunning politicians attempt
to gloss over, or uld-be-statesmen COW
sr from the public eye this conflict be.
tween freedom and slavery; which being
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
The YOUNG LINcoLNs.-An account

The YOUNG LINcoLNs.-An account
of the official visit to Mr.. Lincoln to notify
him of his nomination, has the following !;
"As they were passing in at the gate
and up the steps, two handsome lads of
eight or ten years, met them with cour-
teous good morning, gentlemen Are
you Mr.. Lincoln's son!' said Mr.. Evarts
of New York. yes sir said the boy.
Then let's shake hands, and they began
greeting him SO warmly as to attra;t the
younger ones attention, who stood
silently at the opposite gate post and he
sung out rm Lincoln, too whereup-
on several delegates, amid much laugh
ter, salutsd the young Lincoln"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
Sslfttto Galt,


N . q " eS'orh 'i'"'' "''u '''0
~ to give vent to my enthusiasm
over the nomination of the Hon. Abra-
ham Lincoln for President of the United
States. NJ. Lincoln, or, "Old Abe" as
his friends Familiarity call him, is a self
made man. A Kentuckian by birth. he
emigrated to Illinois in his boyhood
where he earned his living at the anvil,
-dovoting bis leisure hours to study. Hav-
inc chosen the law rs his future calling,
he devoted himself assidnoasly to its
mastery, contending at every step with
adverse fortune. During this period OF
study, he for some time found home
under the hospitable roof of one Arm
strong, a farmer who lived in LIGHTHOUSE
some eight miles from the village OF
Petersburg, Menard County. Here, clad
in homcspun with elbows out, and knees
covered with patches, young Lincoln
would master bis lessons by the freight
of the cabin, and then walked to town
for the purpose of recitation. This man
Armstrong was himself poor, but he saw
the genius struggling in the young stu
dent, and opened to his rude home, and
bid him welcome to his coarse fare
How Lincoln graduated with promise,
how he has more than fulfilled that
promise, how honorably he acquitted
himself alike on the battlefield, in de-
Tending our border settlements against
the ravages of savage foes, and in the
halls of our national legislature, are mat
tiers of history, and need no repetition
here. But one little incident of q more
private nature, standing as it does as a
sort of sequel to some thing already al
luded to, l deem worthy of record
Some few years since the Oldest son of
Mr.. Lincoln's old friend Armstrong, the
chief support of his widowed mother
the good old man having some time pre-
viously passed from earth-was arrested
on the charge of murder. A young man
had been killed during riotous melee,
in the night time, at camp-meetlng, and
one of his associates stated that the death
wound was inflicted by young Armstrong.
A preliminary examination was gone in
to. at which the accuser testified so posi-
lively that there seemed no doubt of the
guilt of the prisoner, and therefore he
was held for trial. As is too often the
case, the bloody act caused undue degree
of excitement in the public mind. Every
improper incident in the life of the pris-
oner-each act which bore the least SEM
blance of rowdyism-each school-boy
quarrel-was suddenly remembered and
magnifed, until they pictured him as a
fiend of the most horrid hue. AS these
rumors spread abroad, they were receiv-
ed as gospel truth, and feverish desire
for vengeance seized upon the infatuated
populace, while only prison-bars prevent
ed a horrible death at the hands of a
mob. The events were heralded in the
county papers, painted in highest colors,
accompanied by rejoicing over the GER
tainty of punishment being melted out to
the guilty party. The prisoner, over
whelmed by the circumstances under
which be found himself placed, fell into a
melancholy condition. bordering upon
despair; and the widowed mother, look
ing through her tears, saw no cause for
hope from earthly aid.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

The FIRST ACT OF LINCoLN's ADJ
MINIsTRATIoN-When the news of his
nomination first reached Springfield, Mr..
Lincoln's friends rushed to his house, and
asked him how many guns they should
fire, whether one hundred or one for
each State. "Well," said he, II must
begin my administration on the principle
of retrenchment and economy. Ycu had
better fire but one gun for each State.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

THE CRoss.--The following striking
passage is from Henry Ward Boecher's
sermon preached last Sunday in the pull
pit of the late Theodore Parker at Bos-
ton:
"The cross has twined around it every
association of dignity and beauty in the
world. Not one other thing has received
from the fertile minds and the all-fashion-
ing hands o men Of genius so many ex-
trinsc beauties rs the Gloss of Christ
Millions never hear of it without throb
nor see it without g nsf ct on. 1t
dawns upon the child in the cradle next
to its own mothers face, and it is the last
thing from which the light disappears
when this chi il old age is dying. The
GRO is now rs universal and is beautiful
to the assc Citations and the mcNorics Of
men, as then it was rare, peculiar and
odious; it is that which now to us is not
only suggestive of a fact in Christ's his
tory, but is also a memorial to two thou
sand years of history. Around that
simple cross wood the heart of the world
| as gathered for tw nty centuri,s its
stores of admiration, of love, Of devo,
ton"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

A correspondent asks why marriage
and death notices should be paid for
For the very best of reasons: one is an
advert sement of co-partnership, and the
other is notice of dissolution. Business
is business.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

Willis describes lady whom he saw
in an omnibus, as excessively pretty and
the dimples at the corners of her mouth
were so deep and so turned in, like in
verted commas, that her lips looked like
a quotation"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

AT an asserndlage ola few friends,
one evening, the absence of a lady was
noticed, which was apologized for by an
acquaintance, who stated that she was
detained by an interesting little incident.
"Ah yes" exclaimed Mrs. John Smith,
"and beautiful little incident it Was
too--wsighs just nine pounds and
halfF'
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

The Times seems to exult over the fact
that Mr.. Lincoln is poor.
The people know, from this fact, that
he is with them always Chicago Jour.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

A Connecticut editor says, that in the
whole course of his political life, "his
mouth never uttered lie." Probably
the gentleman speaks throug b his nose.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

The fact that Mr.. Lincoln is six feet
four inches in height, is fully conclusive
that "the Republican standard will not
be lowered" IL his hands.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
In Alexander Hamilton's first political
peech, occur these eloquent words.

The sacred rights of man are not to
be rummaged for among old parch-
ments and Inusty records, they are writ
ten as with sunbeam in the whole vol
ume of human nature, by the hand of Di-
vinity itself, and can never be erased or
obscured by mortal power.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
1.-THE thoughts of mer

Are widened with the process of the suns"
We are all the more anxious 10 speak
thus, because we were among those who
preferred the nomination of another to
that of Mr.. Seward, and who labored in
the interest of our own candidate to pre-
vent the nomination of the latter.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

A person being asked why he had CIV
en- his daughter in marriage to man
with whom he was at enmity, answered,
81 did it out of pure revenge"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

When is man cut Of date ?-When
he is weak back.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

Why is tooth drawn like thing fors
got,en' Because i is qqt IF he hea3t
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
4oetrp.
HEAVEN

O, to be there,
Where never tears of sorrow
Shall dim the eye, nor aching pain nor care
Shall overcleud our morrow!
o, to be therel
o, lovely homel
Thy fragrant, thornless flowers
Droop not nor die, but everlasting flowers
Crown all thy golden hours:
O, lovely hemel
o, let me gol
Death shall not there dissever
Our loving hearts. Rivers ofpleasure flow
At Gods right hand forever;
o, let me go!
For thou art there,
Who unto me hast given
Eternal lite, making me pure and fair;
And this to me is Heaven,
For thou art there,
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

SENATOR SEWARD. - The Missouri
Democrat, in an article on Mr.. Seward,
says
The United States cannot afford to lose
the services of their wisest, most accom-
plished, and most far-sighted statesman,
nor Congress the protoundest thinker in
its walls. Nor however willing he may
be, like great men before him, to await
the vindication of his principles for anoti-
er age, tens of thousands, ourselves includ-
ed, arc not without the strong faith that
these principles will yet be vindicated and
crowned in his own person. for
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-01-19

from which mankind suffer over large part of
tho globe, is the consequence of diseased action
in the system, induced by the poisonous masm
Of vegetable decay. This cxhalatiOn is evolved
by the action Of solar hoat on wet soil, and rises
with tho watcry vapOr from it. While the sun is
below the horizon this vapor fingers near the
earth's surface, and tho virus is taken with 1t
through the lungs into the blood. There 1t acts
as an irritating poison on tho internal viscera
and cxcrcting organs of the body. The llvei be-
comes torpid and fails to secrcte not only this
virus, but also the bile from the blood. Both
tho virus and the bile accumulate In 2hc clrcua-
ton, and produce violent constitutional disorder
The spleen, the kidneys, and the stomach SYM
pathizc with the liver, and become disordered
also. Finally, tho instinct Of our organism, as
IL In nm attempt to expcl tho noxious infusion,
concentrates tho whole blood of tho body in the
internal cxorctorics to force them to cast 1t out.
The blood lcaves tho surface, and rushcs to the
central organs with congestive violence. This Is
tho CHILL. But in this effort it fails. Then tho
FEVER follows, in which tho blood leaves the
central organs and rushes to the surface, as If
in another effort to expcl the irritating poison
through the other great cxcrctory the skin. In
this also 1t fails, and the SYSTEM bandons the at
tempt exhausted, and waits for tho recovery of
strength to repeat tho hopeless effort another day.
These are tho fits or paroXysms of FEVER AND
AaUE. Such constitutional disorder will of
course undermine tho health If 1t is not removed.
We have laborod to find, and have found, an
apttJoto
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-01-19
Ayers Ague Cure,

which ncutralizcs this malarious poison In the
blood, and stimulates the liver to expe 1t from
tho body. As it should, so it docs cure this af
flictivc disorder with perfect certainty. And 1t
docs more, or rather docs what is of more SER
vice to those subject to this infection. II takcn
in season 1t cxpcs 1t from tho system as 1t Is ab
sorbcd, and thus keeps those who use 1t free from
Its attacks; keeps tho system In health although
exposed to tho disease. Consequently 1t not only
cures, but protects from, the great variety of af
fections which arc induced by this malignant
influence, such rs Remittent Fever, Chill Fever,
Dumb, or Masked Aguc, Periodical Headache,
or Bilious Headache, Bilious Fcvers, Neuralgia,
Rheumatism Gout, blindness, Toothache, Ear
ache, Catarrh, Asthma Paptations, Painful Af-
fcctlons of the Spleen, Mysteries, Collie, Paralysis
and Painful Affections Of the Stomach and Bow
els, nll of which, when arising from this cause
will bc found to assume moro or less the intormit-
tent type. This "AoUE CURE" removes the cause
Of these arrangements, and cures the disease.
This 1t accomplishes by stimulating tho excrc-
these organs by degrees become hablted to do this
their office of their own accord. Hence arises
what we term ncclimation. Time may accomplish
the same end, but often life Is not long enough or
Is sacrificed in the attempt, while this :" AGUE
CURE" does 1t at once, and with safety. We have
great reason to believe this is a surer as well as
safor remedy for the whole class of diseases
which are caused by tho miasmatic infection,
than any other which has been discovered; and
It has still another important advantage to the
public, which is, that 1t is cheap as well as good.
PREPARED Dy
DIR. j. @. AVER & 90
JnwEJT MACc
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-01-19
Howard Association.
PHTLADELPHIA

x0kkAUEIf6 6lAs
A Benevolsnt Institution established By sps.
ciol Exdoyment, for the Relief ofthe
Sick and Distressed, u6iated ss,th
Nralent and Epidemic
,.a a4., Diseoses. agti y,
THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION, in view
4 Of the awful destruction Of human life
caused b, Sexual diseases, and the deceptions
prnct,oed upon the unfortunate victims Of such
diseases by Quacks, several years ago directed
their Consulting Surgeon, as CHARITABLE
ACT worthy Of their name, to open a Dispense
ry for the treatment Of this class Of diseases, in
all their forms. and to give MEDICAL AD-
VICE GRATIS to oil who apply by letter.
with description of their condition, Gage. oc-
cupation, habits Of life, &c. and in case Of ex-
treme poverty, to FURNISH MEDICINES
FREE OF CHARGE. 1t is needless to add
that the Association conn ands the highest
Medical skill Of the age, and will furnish the
most approved modern treatment.
| The directors Of the Associ ticn, in their
Annual Report upon the treatment of Sexual
Diseases, express he highest satisfaction with
the success which has attended the labors Of
their Surgeons in the cure of Spermatorrhoea,
Seminal Weakness. .Gonorrloea, elect, Syphilis,
the vice Of Of Onanism Of Self. Abuse, Diseases
Of the Kidneys and Bladder, &C., and order n
continuance Of the same plan for the ensuing
year.
Address, for Report or treatment, pr. j.
SKILLIN HOUGHTON, Acting Surgeon,
Howard Association, No. 2 South Ninth Street,
Philadelphia, ia.
By order of the Directors.
EZRAD. D.HEARWELL, President.
10. FAlRCHILD, Secretary.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-01-19
JEROME MURRAY'S
0OQANA ANNAAAsSM0NAa
Maumee City. Ohio.
YAc o uLTY.

FACULTY.
JEROME MURRAY, lnstructorin Accounts
81 snd Lecturer on Business Customs, &s. s.
3. @. GORDANIER, Teacher Of Double and
Single Entry Book Keeping. !.
Miss R. p. BRAlLEY, Assistant Teacher In
Accounts. and Principal Of Female Depart
HORATIo PITCHER. Teacher Of Practical
and Ornamental Penmanship, Pen Drawing
Flourishing, &c. =
James Ashley, Asher Cook, James Murray, H
H. Dodge. N. R, Bradley, Lecturers on Com
mercial Law.
Rsv. q. A. Adams, Lecturer on Commercial
Ethics.
Rev C. Richards, ,Lsct urer on political economy
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