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The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
Poverty runs strongly to fun. A

Poverty runs strongly to fun. A
man is never SO full of jokes as when he
is reduced to one shirt and two potatoes.
Wealth is taciturn and fretful. Stock
brokers would no sooner indulge in a
laugh than they would lend money on a
second mortgage. Nature is great be-
lever in compensations. Those to whom
she sends wealth she saddles with law
suits and dyspepsia. The poor never
indulge in woodcock, but then they have
a style of appetite that converts A num-
Der three mackerel irto salmon, and
that is quite as well.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

Ey '.EIow dill You sleep last nigbt."
asked an anxious lady of new ledger.
"Whv, madam, if the inmates Of your
house were only Democrats | should have
been taken out q bed" "What do you
meant 1.-The fleas to be sure. Union
is strength, is maxim they do not un-
derstand, for if they had been unanimous
they coald easily have carried Inc off,
Il was not aware that I had s. single ono
in the house." said the lady. 81 don't
believe you have" rctorted the loiger;
.'thev are all married and have uucom-
monty large families"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
Beautiful Sentiment.
TX MARVEL, in his "Reycries Of a
Bachelor thus writes:

TX MARVEL, in his "Reyeries Of a
Bachelor" thus writes;
"a MAN without some sort of religion,
is at best, poor reprobate, the football
of destiny, with no tie linking him to IN
finity and to the wondrous eternity that
is begun within him; but WOMAN with
on. religion is even worse-a flame with
out heat--a rainbow without color-a
flower without perfume.
A man may in some sort tie his frail
hopes and honors, with weak, shifting
ground tackle, to his business or the
world; but woman without that anchor
which they call FAITH, is adrift and
wreck. A man may clumsily contriye
kind of responsibility out of worldly
motives but q woma1 has no basis for
any system of right action but that of
spiritual faith. A man may craze his
brain in theughtfulness for such poor
harborage as Fame and Reputation can
stretch before him; but woman-where
can size put her hope in storms if not in
Heaven?
And that sweet trustfulness-tha abb
ding loyc-that enduring hope, mellow
ing every scene of life, Lighting it with
the plcasantest radiance, when the
worlds cold storms break like an army
with smoking cannon-what can bostow
it all. but holy soul-tic to what is
stronger than an army with cannon q
Who that has enjoyed the love ola Chris
tan mother but will echo the thought
with energy, and hallow it with q tear?"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
Republican Caucus.

The Republican electors ofthe town of Riv-
Falls are requested to meet at the District
School House in this village. on Thursday,
Sept. 9th, at two o'clock, P. NJ. for the pur-
pose of choosing two delegates to attend the
Comfy Convention to be held at Trmbelie,
October 2nd. which Convention wsAl nominate
condi1ates for County officers and choose three
delegates to attend the Assembly District
Convention to be held at Menomonee, Octo--
Der 9th.
HI. A.FARNHAM, I Republican Town
A. d. ANDREWS, Committed.
River Falls. September IL, 1860,
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

BE- Senator Seward says that the
present political agitation is seausel by
the country turning over. 1t has lain on
It's South side a long while and it is now
turning on to its North side aud the
change Of position necessarily causes
somo agitation.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
Duoson Correspondence.
HUDsoN, Sept. II, 1s6C

HUDsoN, Sept. II, 1860.
Mr.. EpIToR.-It would seem that q
new era of prosperity is commerc ng
for the West. England wants bread
stuffs-sixty million bushels of wheat,
according to one stat ement, coming from
quarter entitled to confidence.
The West overfows with the needed
commodity. The financial men OF the
scaboard cities will see again, this fall,
how important an clement in the COM
mercial transactions of the country, is
supplied from the Mississippi Valley,
and will realize, it is to be hoped, that
it's region of vast present resources,
and Of yet more prodigious promise. l
say, as to be hoped, for it appears that
very many of the solid heavy men
whose opinions upon business matters
are received almost as oracles, have been
wont to treat with an incredulous ir,not
only the accounts of the actual growth
and development of the West, but the
well sustained estimates of its possibili-
ties.
But will not these old fogies be aston
ished, to wake up some fine morning and
find that the sceptre has departed from
their hands, that some of our Queen
cities have become, as well the sovoreigns
of finance; that exchange on st. Pail
and st. Louis is selling in New York at
at a premium.
l have no malicious design, I assure
YOU to unsettle by these suggestions, the
rates ofstock or real estate, in the East
ern States. [ am not IN league with tho
bulls hero, nor tho bears there; simply
wish to throw out reminder, that some
things can be done as well as others-a
truth which it might be well for anybody,
in almost any circumstances, to tear in
in mind.
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week
are the days of our County Fair, and
LUTTE, l earnestly bespeak your attend
anee on the occasion, for you may depend
upon it "the FAIR" will be there. | can
imagine your comments upon the exhibi-
ton. With your hand upon a huge
pumpkin, end your eye upon some red
cheeks, you excIaim; "How smooth and
lustrousi" Gazing intently upon the
hand that proffors for your inspection a
sample of needlework, you say; "Er-
qusite" Watching the lips and eyes of
some fair critic as she descants upon the
merits ola picture, you fervently ejacu-
late; "BeautyMt the tints are very fine
and the expression charmtagly natural"
But can tell moro and better about this,
after the Fair.
Hon. J. D. Reymert hear it said,
expects to be elected, but cannot believe
that he so deceives himself. Mr.. Reymert
is well known in this community and
enjoys here the esteem of all his acquain-
tances; at least know no one whose re-
latisns give him right to express an
opinion of Mr.. Rsymert, bat speaks well
of him.
Unfortunately he is very bad Dem
ocrat and for that fault his fellow citizens
owe it to him, as we'll as the country to
keep him away from Congress, where as
Democrat, he might do mischief.
#s*
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

sW~We would request all our friends in this
and adiacent towns to aid us in giving interest
To our paper, by furnishing us with items OF
local news, articles on any of the industrial
interests of the community, or of Literary
character. -
No communication will be inserted, unlesa
accompanied by the real name of the writer.
not Unnecessarily for publication, but as a gusk i.
anty of the writer good faith.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

Ag The invincible strength Of the
Republican party may be read in the
willy tactics of its foes. The Democracy,
at first boastful, confident, claiming to be
able to carry the whole Northwest, have
been forced to surrender this claim and
the theater Of the fercest conflict has
been changed to New York.
Lincoln will bo beaten if he does not
carry New York; no one wing of ,oppos-
ing parties could think of cont ssting the
State with him, so the whole of the train
bands have been organized into one
squalid squadron, and prompted by a
common weakness, q common hate and
common greed, the leaders of the va
rious factions have formed q succotash
ticket, and will put forth desperate efforts
to have it carry the State. But after the
conflict no doubt Wood, Richmond, Gag
ger, Dickinson, Brady, Brooks and Hunt
can saw as old Jack Falstaff once said !;
81 have led my ragamuffins where they've
got peppered."
Republicans everywhere will rejoice at
this alliance Of their foes. It will give
sublimity to the struggle, and added gio.
ry to the victory which awaits US.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
WHAT WE ARE MADE oF.-The fol-
lowing is from an article by DR.. HOLMES


WHAT WE ARE MADE oT.-The fol-
lowing is from an article by DR.. HOLMES !;
Ifthe reader of this paper lives anoth-
err year, his self-concious principle will
have migrated from his present tenement
to another, the raw materials of which
are not yet put together. A portion of
that body which he is to be will ripcn
in the corn ofthe next harvest. Anoth-
er portion of his future person he will
purchase, or others will purchase for him
headed up in the form of certain barrels
of potatoes. a third fraction is yet to be
gathered in tho Southern rice field The
limbs with which he is then to walk will
be clad with flesh borrowed from the ten
ants of many stalls and pastures, now
unconcious of their doom.
The very organs of speech, with which
he is to talk 50 wisely, plead SO eloquent
ly. or speak SO effectively,must first serve
his humber brethren to bleat, to below,
and for all the varied utterance Of feath-
cred or bristled barnyard life. His bones
themselves, arc, to q great extent an
posse ard not esse. A bag of phosphate
of lime, which re has ordered from Prof
Mapes for his grounds, contains O large
part of what is to be his skeleton. And
more than all this, and by far the great
err portion Of his body, is nothing at all
but water, the main substance of his
scattered members is to be looked for in
the reservoir, in the running streams, in
the bottom of the well, in the clouds that
float over his hoad, or diffused among
them all.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

~ Probably most of our readers
have seen the details of the loss of the
Lady Elqin. 1t was the most horrible
catastrophe which has ever happened on
our western waters. Probably near
three hundred lives were lost.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

Go 1r.-Op the 22nd inst, two Abo-
litionists and political preachers, w. R.
Stevens and w. G. Denisson, are expect
cd to address the Black Republicans of
River Falls. Go on in your pretended
negro philanthropy.-Prescoh Dem.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

@ See the notice for caucus next
week Thursday. The delegates to the
Assembly District Convention to be held
at N 'nomonee, Oct. 9th, will be chosen
by the County Convention at Trim
belle.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

Eg~ There has been glorious Re-
publican sunrise down east" The Dem
oerats made desperate efforts to carry
Maine, but she has gone Republican by
increased majorities. The day is break.
ing.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

Nor APPRECIATED. - Sex eral nice
young gentl ;men went to the residence
of n young damsel to give her serenade.
After some time, the servant stepped out
and walking up to the harpist, exclaim-
ed; my friend the folks are abed; you
can't get cent here tonight"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

What do you call this 2 said Jones tap
ping his breakfast lightly with his fork.
Call it9' snarled the landord-swhat do
you call itF We'll, really said Jones,
L don't know, its hasn't quite enough
hair in for plaster, but there's leetle too
much in it for hash
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

E Peterson's Ladies Magazine is
always first of the monthlies to greet us.
The October number is full of the usual
interesting matter.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

PIERCE COUNTY FAIR.-The Fair of
Pierce County held oil Wednesday and
Thursday Of this week, was very credita-
bic. We should give it an extended no.
tice but our space forbids. The show of
stock was small, especially of horses
We believe there wore no hogs or sheep
on exhibition. The display of grain of
all kinds, and Of vegetables, was very
fine. We do not believe it will be sur
passed by any County in the State. The
wheat was the finest we ever saw. The
Ladies and Fine Arts departments were
well represented. Although the weather
was very unfayorable, yet there was a
large number in attendance. We pro-
nounce the Pierce County Fair a suc-
CESS Hudson City Times.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

The richest possession we can have, is the
full confidence ofa noble heart that implic-
1t trust, so confidentialy imposed by low
ing friend, is a treasure which radiases and
glstens in the archery of life like a golden
orb OF beauty. 1t is an honor to possess an
others trust and confidence.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
Republican County Convene
ton. -sa

Republican County Convention. for tho
purpose of nominating candidates for the
County ofices,to be supported at the ensuing
election, and the transaction of other business,
will be held at Trimbelle, on Tuesday, Oct.
End, at one o'clock P M.
Each town will be entitled to two delegates.
1t is recommended TO the towns to hold their
caucusses on Friday evening, Sept. 2sth.
The County Convention will also elect del
egates TO the Assembly District Convention
to be held at Menomonee on the 9th of Oct.
CHAs. e. YOUNG. , Republican
Lutte A. TAYLOR. County
JOHN L. DALE, J Committee.
River Falls, Aug 18th 1860. a
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

There are some men so coldly correct
that they leave no ono to regret their loss,
not even creditor.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

Gy Tho Prescott Democrat calls
P. V. " Use "depraved Infidel." 1t is
not the first time the pot has called the
kettle black.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

The poorest education that teaches
self-cont oil is better than tho best that
neelects it.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

A Republican Convention for the Assembly
District comprising the counties of Pierce,
Clark. will be held at Menomonee, on Satur-
dav, Oct 9th at ten O'Clock, A. d., for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for the AS
sembly, to be supported at the ensuing cleo
ton. 1s393b AAt
Each county will be entitled to three DEL
egates.
E. B BUNDY, hp %~.',..!:,,,. '''
H. A, JAY,
Dated Sept, 9Th, 1860 T
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19

To thine own self be true; .hou eans't
not then be false to any man,
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15
NEVER GIVE UP THE SHIP.

The true sailor is tried amid the fury of the
storm or the battle-the true Democrat in the day
oftrial. Neither will giveup the ship-neither
will strike his colors while plank remains or there
is a shot in the locker.
+ The good old Democratic ship has been in little
gale-a slight breeze, but her flag is still there
she still floats and aoU foat the noblest craft that
has breasted the storms of ultrasm on the one
hand, or fanaticism on the other Shall we give
up that ship now? Shall We fail or faiter in the
hour Of trial? Shall we leave the gallant barque
to seek for safety in eock-boat? Are ffty-two
seceders the Unconstitutional Democracy" simply
because they choose to assume the name? Not at
all!-Not at all! We will never despair of the
Democratic party. until we also despair of the
country, with whose history it is intimately allied
and of which it forms so important feature.
But We must not be understood as meaning to
intimate any desire for the sake of mere expedien-
cy to wave the demand for the recognition of any
of our just and consttut ional rights. We would
insist upon these where they can best be obtained
and guaranteed in and through the agency of the
National Democratic party Wilmington Journal.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15
SENIOR FESTIVAL AT CHAPEL HILL

The Raleigh Press publishes the proceedings of
the Senior Festival or Senior Speaking which took
place last week at Chapel Hill. The class numbers
eighty-two members, and their efforts are said to
have been very fine indeed On Saturday MORN
ing President Swain read out the distinctions
awarded to the Seniors, which were as follows:
those who received the first distinction were Messrs
Battle, Bryan, Hale, Pool, Register, Strong, Woos-
ter and Wilson. The second distinction to Messrs.
Bond, Brooks, Bruce, Cooper, Kelly, King, Thorpe,
Scales, and Wier, and the third to Messrs Baird,
Borden Daniel, Fain, Graham, Hardin, Headen,
Martin, Rial, Smith and Fogle.
The first "Mitemed' Immediately afterwards re-
tired to room when they decided by chance who
should have first choice of the different speeches
for Commencement, whereupon E. j. Hale, Jr.,
of Fayetteville N. c., obtained the Valedictory,
Mr. j. NJ. Register, of Raleigh, the Latin Salutato-
ry, McHugh Strong, offs e., the Greek Grafton,
McGeo. l. Wilson, the German Grafton, and Nc
Jenius G. Battle, of Chapel Hil the French.
The other first "Mitemed' will deliver Orations
also any subject they may think proper to select
as also will those who obtained the second dis
tlnction. The presence of Archbishop Hughes is
expected to attract large crowd at Commence
ment.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15
POLITICAL.

WASHINGTON, May S.-The movement which was
started to urge upon the seeding delegations
TO the Baltimore June Convention, s every hour
gathering strength. The address which has been
prepared and now in circu'ation among Southern
Senators and members, is able and
document 1t aliudes to the unhappy division at
Charleston and regrets its occurrence speaks of the
seeding delegations and expresses admiration for their
uneompromisng adhesion to the constitutional rights
and honor of the South. 1t next audes the Southern
delegations that remained in the Convention not
they differed in principle with the seeding States but
only because they believed in the end the Convention
would recognize the just rights of the South, and
reasoned that the South should be divided
by mere circumstance of this character The seced.
ers are urged to forego any action in Richmond and
go into the Convention at Baltimore where the united
South should make another effort have their consti
futional rights recognized. Should they fail they
can take such action duty and honor may seem
to demand at their hands 1t has been largely signed
by such names as Davis of Mississippi Hunter Breck-
&c.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15
From the Newborn Progress
WILL THE SOUTH FOLLOW?

Is the South prepared to follow in any political
movement where w. l.. Yancey is to lead We
think not. His object is to agtate, excite and
revolutionize the country. Here is the letter of
his which appeared in the Washington States of
the 9TH inst. Read and ponder it, ye Southern
men who are prepared to go with MIR Yancey in
his reasonable secession movements:
The Scarlet Letter In our issue of Saturday,
we proposed to lay before our readers to-day the
James S. Slaughter, ESQ. Here it is. We shall
take occasion to pay respects to it again at an
early day:
MONTGOMERY, June 49, 1858.
Dear Sir: Your kind favor of the 18th is re-
ceived.
l hardly agree with you that general move
ment can be made that will clear out the Augean
stable. If the Democracy were overthrow, it
would result in giving place to greater and hun
grier swarm Of flies.
The remedy Of the South is not in such pro-
cess 1t is in dligent organization of her true
men for prompt resistance to the next aggression.
1t must come in the nature of things. No nation
al party save sectional party can ever do
it. But if we could do as our fathers did-organ-
ize COMMITTEES of safety" all over the cotton
States (and it is only in them that can hope
for any effective movement)-we shall fire the
Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind, give
courage to each other, and at the PROPER MOMENT
by one organized concerted action, can precipi-
tate the cotton States into u OLUTION =.
The idea has been Swallowed forth in the South
by Mr. Rufin; has been taken up and recommended
in the Advertiser, the Montgomery organ of Mr.
Yancey,] under the name of League of United
Southerners,' who, keeping up their old party
relations will hold the Southern issue paramount,
and will influence PARTIES Legislatures and states
men. have time to enlarge, but to suggest
merely. In haste yours, &c,
w. l.. YANCEY
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15
To JAS. S. SLAUGHTER. ESQ"

The Crop PROSPECTS. We learn chat at this
time, Notwithstanding the drawbacks of the cold
and wet weather of the early part of the season,
and that thereby many planters somewhat be-
hind hand with their work, the aud cotton
prospects in this county, the whole, are better
than they have been for many years before. The
stand of corn generally is remarkably fine already,
and some planters have very good showing for
their stand Of cotton
The prospect for wheat, rye and oats is very
fattering, not we'll, however, for the latter as
for the two former.
The fruit prospects also very good FADES
Loro Argus.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15
Candidates for Sheriff.

We are requested to announce ROBERT H. MAX
WELL as candidate for Sheriff OF Mecklenburg
ty at the ensuing election.
We are requested to announce ALLEN II. BROWN
as candidate for Sheriff of Mecklenburg county, at
the ensuing election.
We are requested to announce STEPHEN J. BERRY.
at the ensuing election. e..tat
We requested to announce W. w. GRIER as q
candidate for Sheriff of Mecklenburg County.
We are requested to announce SAM'L A. HARRIS
as candidate for Sheriff of Meckenburg county.
We are requested to announce WILLIAM
MAXWELL, Esq, a candidate for Sheriff of Meek
lenburg county Election first hursday in August
We are requested to announce r. NJ. WHITE
as candidate for Sheriff of Mecklenburg county the
ensuing election.
We are requested to announce JOAB P. SMITH as
candidate for Sheriff of Mecklenbarg county.
We are requested to announce JAMES WALLACE
candidate for Sheriff of Mecklenburg county the
ensuing election.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-15

HIGH PRICES FOR BANK STocK Thirteen
shares of Bank of Cape Fear Stock, sold at
auction in this place at 1927 IS per share. Last
week stock in the same Bank was sold here at Sl23.
Dividend off in each case.-Fay Observer.
SHOCKS OF EARTHQUAKE IN HAYTI.-Capt
Lavender, Of the brig Foster reports that violent
shocks Of earthquake were felt in various portions
of Hayti from the 9Th to the 18th inst At
Gonaives and Port au Prince many of the inhab-
tants fed to the open country. Merchandise was
removed from the stores and temporarily sheltered
No serious damage, however, occurred. Reports
from the interior state that several buildings were
Frustrated and some lives lost.
DEATH ON THE CARS OF APoPLExY.-A gen.
tleman named Sykes. who lived at Enfield, n c.,
died in the cars on the Wilmington and Manches-
ter Railroad, near Wilmington, N. c., while re-
turning from Charleston. He had been asleep,
woke up and turned over remarking that he had
been sleeping one side and was going to sleep
on the other side some; the words had just escaped
his lips when he fell dead.