Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-09-24


nent, excep; a certain quantity of goods
we're purchased.
The tortiicadoas about Richmond,
IS they learned by the Richmond pa
Ders, had been completed u few days
before their escape, and the negroes
who had worked upon Them had been
discharged.
NAHtNG 3IIscuIEr. r.-Thefollowing
which we clip from an exchange,
should be read Is all, as il is opposite
10 all localities
When | was eleven years old, my
mother removed 10 the country. Our
nearest ntjIaLor was q minister by the
name Of Nayiand, who, III addition 10
his minister's duties owned and cult
waited large farm. One night my at
ten,ion WAS attracted 10 Il bright light
IA one OF Tho uPperrooms OF our neigh
bor's house Ia a moment | saw the
wife fly past the uncu-Iaiued window
closely followed by the husband, who
was armed with 4 huge tire-shovel--
round she went, slliI pursued, and as
listened brcaiAiessiy, 1 thought | heard
scream.
/ FASTENED 10 my mother and told her
wha, l had seen, and we both looked
oul bat the light was gone, and all was
quiet. misunderstanding my mothers
JudIclous warming, :" 10 say nothing
about i. - any one before school was
out the next day coufded II 10 my
bosom fries. and IN a wc ek, half the
village knew 1t, and great talk Il
made. | assure You.
Finally j, reached the ears Of the
deacon, who proceeded at once to IN
vesiigaje the truth. NJ mother look
"a grave aa5 ,roub,ad when they call
"a ua. la, conscious OF having told The
tru.A | m-l t4-m fearIess,y and related
leaving " haeiiae" for the minister's
10 call him TO account. With many
apologies ,aey made know shcir errand
WAeu 10 their surprise, the minister
b.o,e in.o hearty laugh.
(" Wait 4 moment, said he, "tiIl |
call Polly. You see that night found
tig raj il tie meal chest, and came
down for a shovel, and bale her hold
the Iigal, while | killed him Finding
+ no o,.er place 10 hide, The rascal tool,
refuge ia Iao folds Of her dre-s. -
She ran screaming till M ~''a
dIzlolra and XII. nm --"a%eu 70
AaYa ~r..-
r.-,,.at since oeen careful hot 10
+, "a a-i-''o'a'''e IepotI aOol't my
heis s. al lI"-'' until KNOW Ino
HACte fcEolI.
NTTFANY VALLEY HE lands ape
seeAe.y OF tehsy 'fduIH IS theme on
.'"i-d il1 F)"aFS OF inscription n-igh'
o. exhausted, leaving hAlI the pictures
uu'oaeAe|; wherever the citizens may
-oJonrn "I.hia tae stale, be viii find
himself surrounded WITH o'Jeeis Of PIC
turesIue Interest or industrial utility,
2Hortlac pleasure 70 the eye and salts
iact'oa 10 tat understanding; and he
VIII return aom5 inrlgocaied with new
thoughts and fresh memories Of scenes
and incidents gratifying TO his State
PRIDE
Among the plctnresqe aad productive
. valleys which are huggsd and squeesed
between mountain ridges, The valley Of
Auang, wilA us sioping SIDES and DIM
and prosperity, IN the arms Of the
mountain ridges which bound it upon
tie horizon. in irregular straight lines
Oh either side, but uniting at It's north
east end bv a great scmI-circ!e which
gives the avail. the appearance Of a
great auphuhearre. in which cultivated
fields riza III terrace one above another,
giii the forests which crown the sum-
NETS are reached, and the rocks ex-
c.uIe the p.oughshare from the soli-
,uIe which physical nature resa rves TO
herself, a5 a rendezvous TO meet and
rect the clouds.
MS "deep vale" is entered on either
size through a notch or gap in L e en-
circ.lug mountain, the gap on the east
being lhe gateway Of entrance from
sugar Valley, aad the gap Oh The west
at Mil Hall being the route Of commu-
uicaiol w.th Bald Eagle Valley.
These TWO caDes are cleft down to the
mountains las. and through ihem,
over stony su7llce, a wagon way