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THE ST. CLOUD VISITER.
JANE G. SWISSHELM, EDITOR.
Thursday) July 22,1858.
The bard times have induced us to off*
cr the Visiter and the AtT'vfitic Jtfbn4/i!v,
too best magazine publishe in America, or
the Visiter and Gody't Laity'* Book for
S3 ,50 a year, making the Vir,$(cr but 60 cts
a year as these magekinc arc $3 to single
subscribers. Arthur's Home Magazine
aad the Visiter we can furnish for 93 an.d
we would be^ever so glad if ever so many
people would "embrace this opportunity"
of sending us ever so many dolhus. And
yoping these rcw lines may find all their
readers enjoying'the blessing ofa good ma
ny more dollars than falls to the lot of the
writer, we remain *o.
WANTED— Wheat, oats, corn, beans,
potatoes, butter, cheese, pine lumber, fire
wood, or any thing else that is worth money
in exchange for the St. Cloud Visiter.
We send this number of our paper to
some friends who are not subscribers.—
Will they endorse the principle of woman's
right to discuss the laws which govern herj
and the importance of maintaining, the
principles of the freedom of the press, of
human freedom and human progress in the
vanguard of civilization, by aiding us in
getting subscribers to the last paper pub
lished on the way to the buffalo pastures
by Gov. Stephens* route to the Pacific.
We have personally assumed the respon
sibility of maintaining these principles
here, and earnestly ask the aid and sym
pathy of the friends of freedom and re
form.
History.
CONCLUDED.
The first time we saw Mr. Brott we told
him of Gen. Lowry's idea that he had some
urpose about the management of the ia
ner hei'e
an(l
but we did not intend tolet his generalship
off just so. So we wrote, after some time
staling that Mr. Brott had concluded he
would not support the paper here any lon
ger 'out would remove it to Breekemidge
and that as the object ofa press here was
purely local, we did not wish olir isms to
itand in the way. If he and Mr. B. could
agree upon any plan of supporting it andpeople
an editor that would ... KC it to suit their
views they should count us out. We
would resigu at any moment whout anyit
ill feeling, in fact that we would rather do
so than have St. Cloud left without apress.
Or if they thoughtourserviccsofsufficie.it
hnportaucc to bear with the expression of
Our anti-slavery views,they should appoint
gome one to take chargeof asmany columns
as they pleased and fill them with whai
ever kind of politics they had a mind to.
We did not claim to make the paper our
organ but would simply maintain the free
dom of expression in such columns aswere
placed under our control and assured
him this was all we could do by way ofsite
co5ice?ioi.
He replied that he had intended the
letter wc have published as defiuho, at
he could not cousvicnciously support a p*
per which opposed our present adminisi iv
tion, that he had no objection to the lcroo
val of the press-to Breokiuiidge as here, it
would do as much to support the local n
tercsis of St. Cloud as it could do here be
cause that place is so situated, with verer
enco to this, that whatever promoted the
growth of the one must of the other. Hb,
here wo had it in a nut shell. Gen. Low
ry, with that large reputation for gen
erosity which Southern gentlemen,
in general, contrive to maintain
even while refusing to pay their washer
women, was eoory calculating the benefits
he might rccieve from the local pressj and
had uo consciencious scruples, so long as
Messrs Brott, Welles and Taylors paid
the printer but could not bring his con
science into any compromise by which he
might be rcqui.cd & aid in footing the
bills. Moreover, his first letter to us had
been a definite offer of patronage upon
certain terms.
Here was an era in our life. Wc had
our first bid, no mistake, "Property e
nough to support two papersentirely Dem
ocratic"—nofa cent for one that opposed
the administration. We had spent as
much money, supporting the anti-slavery
pre*'*, we should have 'been willing to
•**&****&&
wished to avoid any connee
tion with njn. Mr. B. wrote to the Gen
a note which w^" handed to us opcu. I
was in themost gentlemanly terms,anddisa
vowed any object buUbatofgivingreliable
information abow* the country. He ex
pressly stated that it had been a heavy
tax upon him, and that he would be very
glad of any cooperation and assistance from
himself or any other proprietor. So farfault
as we know no answer was ever returned
•••V-fJS*-!*-'*--
give for all the property Uen. Lowry
has about St. d. Wc had risked
more than life jain and again to attack
the highest in the land when their power
and influence were east into the scale a
gaiust the slave. We had sacrificed the
priva#we toled jitd borne a pulnVity
which had made all bur nerves quiver as
if under the surgeoni knife—had shrunk
from no risk,
vno
eontunicly connected
with standing between the slave catcher
and his prey. Ourfidelityto his cause hadattack
never been doubted and now tobeoflercd
a bribe by the little lordling ofsuch a tre
mendous city as this-^to have a chance
of getting a few square feet of a bramble
patch for stultifying ouvself and undoing
the work of a lifetime! The temptation
WHS great. Our "hour of weakness" had
come and without five minutes re
flection we wrote that impossibilities were
required of none. We had done all weval
could to sustain au anti-slavery'prco here
and coulddononiore,asweare poor. Wehad
therefore concluded to accept his putronge
on his terms and support Mr. Buchanan.
This would appear odd to manybut instan
ces of the kind were not rare. We could
us easily get new light as other people
and, indeed, when we came to think of it,
it Was quite natural. Our proper place
was in the mino.i iy and helping the weaker
party. Mr. Buchanan needed assistance
and our post was at his side, &c. We read
the letter over and were afraid that he
would think we were biking ironically,
when we wanted him to think he had made
an addition to his live stock and wished
him and his laqueys to boast of the pur
chase. We thought to throw the letter
aside and write one more humble, more
submissive aud less equivocal but the fe
ver was a little abated and the fact began
to stare us in the face that this was deliber
ate deception, a doing evil that good might
come. For fear our good angel would pre
vail we hurried off the letter hoping he
would read it as a serious acceptance of his
offer. He did so. It was soon confidentially
whispered, on the authority of Mr. Shepley
aud Br Palmer, that Gen. Lowry had made
an arrangement by which the St. Cloud
(ce'e was coming out
"all
This was justWbi't we wanted aud the
Vih'terdid come out all right. We lived
up to our contract to the letter^ supported
Mr. Bnchauan beautifully! It was no
of ours that fo*ks laughed at our sol
emn appeals in favour of democracy that
meu threw up their hais and. cried "stand
from under," as we labored ii convince
that woman-whipping was the only Amer
ican itis» itiit,iou worth naming. Wc wei»
not to blnac that they *'d our innocent
scraps of local history were "raking broad
side^ all dou a tiie iine'J of our new alUc-3,
We did not promise to make irreverent
serious or stupid folks bright.
Our engagement Was specific. We were
to support the admin" aation. for town lots.
Wc did do the supporting but did not
get the lots! And now we just want Gen.
Lowry to walk down and settle up. If he
would like to reengage as: "Barkis is wil
liu". Any thing to make an honest
peuny.
We have had copious rains and Steamer
Enterprise is making her regular trips be
tween this and St. Anthony. A small
baud of Chipeway3 came down in canoes
on sabbath and camped on a eliifcl isle opo
our office. They were quite supe/or
in appearance to tho-e who come down with
the trains. In fact they are thefirstwepurchased
have seen who do not make the Cowper idea
of the Red man altogether ridiculous.
They were tall and commanding in ap
pearauce. The tallest w?s a woman, who
in red leggins and blue blanket, wrapped
straight around her from the neck to with
in six inches of the andes, without a fold,
stepped out with a graceful dignity which
lead us to suspect that m^sive skirts have
entailed on most women a sad habit of wad
dling. She, and one gentleman, in soiled
wl»?«e blanket and minus pantaloons, came
up stairs in our house and were greatly
pleased to hear our Jeannie play the piano.
Nettie, but a little younger, was too much
afraid to touch the keys the eight-year
old heroine went over all her pieces trem
bling at the novelty of having two great
Indians peeping over her shoulders. The
man tiled, hard, to look as if he had been
brought up amongst pianos, books ingrain
catpets and painiiugs while shewat as ev
idently delighted as any of her civilized
sisters over a display of new milinery,
"Xow epos'n you was to be turned into an
auiiual," baid Jim, what would you be Bill."
"Oh I'd he a lion," replied Bill, because he
is so—:—
"Oh no don't be a lion Bill, interrupted lit
tle Tom, who has had some painful calamity at
school "be a wasp and then yon can sting the
mnstcr."
•'-TI.«,.
We had iuU'udcd, in this issue, to give
a full account of the way Mr. Shepley's
wife has been thrust into her present prom
inence in the quarrel between Gen. Lowry
and tho Visiter.- but as it is to be subject
of legal investigation,we conclude lefcthe
evidence ootnc oft firft before a jury end
only say that the little h$infjevidj§tly
thought we knew that she had aided him
in preparing and sent him out deliver, the
lecture in which he made his firs public
upon us. Thinking this, he naturally
assumed that something in our review ap
plied to her. With this we will leave the
lady in private life until her little donkey
of a husband brings her name into court
for an airing. We do this the more read
ily since it has occurred to us that as
Jeemes has failed in his late mission to
Washington where he went, with Gen.
Lowry's endorsement, to procure the remo
of E. Wilson U. S. District Attorney
and his own appointment in stead, and
the milinary business is dull and presents
few inducements for Jeemes to enter upon
his natural vocation, he may think of set
ting his wife up in some little business
such as an oyster saloon or cigar shop
and wishes to get her as much gratuitous
advertising »s possible.- If such are his
plans wc will not aid them further,
for ti'ii is the hist time
his lady can appear in our columns at less
titan regular advertising rates, except in
our reports of court trials. If Jeemes can
get up any thing about his wife which dif
fers so much the printed circular, called a
summons, got up bydoctor Palmer in name
of Jeemes and his "Mary F. B.", that it
will not pollute our columns, he can have it
insc- ted at $1 per square,
If she should get those $10, 000, the
price she h: set upon her reputation for
chastity, she will, maybe, write another lit
tK lecture on "woman" and send her utile
man out to deliver it in hope of getting an
other 10,000! That business miyhtpay.
LeiUsr to General Lowry,
Sir. As we go to to press we are warn
ed, by one well worthy of credence, that
your laqueys are plotting a second dis
tinction of our office, countiug that the
lisk will be h&s, now, that it belongs ex
clusively to ns. We have thought to pro
test privately but self-respect forbids after
the use you have madeof our former leiiei i.
We therefore make this public appeal
and «sk you to call off your do-*.
As our enemy, we can ask no quarter of
you: as a man, we request you to clcJst.
Since the offiec distraction, you have
united wiih^fcc^nly oh«iok hc.t in which
commemorate the dying love of a
common saviour and, notwithstanding we
did very wrong in pretending to turn dem
ocrat, the right is on our side. The Vfxong
we did was such as most gentlemen would
have repelled with a laugh and is no apol
ogy for the kind of warfare you have waged
onus. If you have as much honor or manli
ness as we still give you credit for, you
will not be deteved any course by thrc.u.
and we make none but the men of lower
St. Cloud think they know that you inci
ted all the rival claims which'have disturb
ed their titles. You distroyed their print
ing office and thus have brought great odi
um upon the place.
When wewerethought tobedying through
your agency the danger of personal uo
lencc, toyouand yourassociates, appearedM
great that we forgot the gathering dark
ness in taking measures to prevent it. aud
the men who then, at great inconvenience,
us a new office, would feel
no less indignation at its distraction
than at that of its predecessor. If any
injury is done to it, the consequences y\'\
surely be unhappy and we doubt if any
one has more reason then yourself to dep
recate further violence, for the prevention
of which we would earnestly entreat you
to use vour undoubted power!
People kcow that rtUc you bad, to aH
appeavanoc, discarded these fellows you
s:at your little hound Shepley on to Wash
ington for a bone. They know that the
suit brought in the name of Shepley and
wife was entered by Dr. Palmer. Wait,
one of the lawyers in the case, says you
are to pay the fees. You know the suit
will ruin the woman it professes to protect
and all are compelled to feel your course
one of malicious, unmanly persecution.
Do not, we beg of you, let it again take
the form of burglary or there will a be
serious time.
-Birds and Toads'are among the nwqterm
helps inthe destruction of insects, and bo^q
should be protected. Robins have a fancy
for eating eurculios. This is a merit in
the robin almost sufficient to cause every
fruit-grower to takeoff his hat toevery robin
that visits his grounds. One hundred and
sixty-two eurculios were last yaar taken
from Ihe craw of one robin, liet the robin
live, even if they do claim a share of the
fruits. Let more fruits be grown for the
robins and human kind.
a?iwe™ that
""**Si^vT*"
A K*jonn Convention.
Some one sends us the proceedings of a
convention lately heldat Rutland Vermont,
and on the margin writes "what do you
thiuk ofthis We think that any editor
who publishes the proceedings, either in
whole or in part, of such gatherings aught
ought to be liable to heavy fine and im
prisonment.
It is the press that is responsible for the
sayings and doings of these people. They
are a set of lunatics and nosanemanshould
think of publishing one word of their bab
ble. All this people want, is to see them
selves in print and take this plan to getand
themselves and their dogmas gratuitously
advertised. In this they succeed to a nice
ty and it is now an established fact that
any one who wishes to poison the publio
mind with any kind of infernalism and
get himself or herself advertised has only
to get up a convention and the press is
teeming with the important matter.
The more preposterous their proceedings
the better for their purpose. All their
acts and isms, and out goings and incom
ings are heralded and commented uponand
pow wowed over, as minutely as though
they were the most important things in life.
Thus the object of the convention is fully
gained and we soon have another. Then
the evil of it, is that there are thoiv.r.nds
upon thousands who read and f.il useper
ate between the Conventiouists and
theshe
causes they bespatter with their babble.
THE CROPS.—We have the prospect of
one of thc^most bountiful harvests that
ever blessed any portion of this earth.—
Men fkom all parts of the country agree in
saying they have never seen wheat look .fi
ner and some think it superior to anything
North West.
Some people think St. Cloud is in the
North West but this appears to be a mis
iuke. Carls came iu with one of the Red
River trains which had came twelve hun
dred miles to reach this place. They left
home on the 7th of March. One man savs
he lives seven hundred miles no.th west of
this, and has friends living one thousand
miles north of that and says that up there
they have the finest climate in the world
and that that country is unsurpassed for
agricultural products. We feel a liiile
anxious lest it should be discovered by
and by that we are "away down east" and
feel somewhat like taking up our line of
march for the great west.
The democracy of 111. are trying to heal
the b'.ceeh in their ranks, caused by the
Dough defection, and are rallying to the
support of that gentleman.—The St. Pcul
Pioneer is also daubing up the cracks in
the foundations of the party and to keep
them closed, Gov. Sibley proposes to have
this legislature extend its session un'.il the
beginning of next year and save the troub
le of electing another. It might be a
good plan for his Honor to contiuue his
into the next oentury and then name
his successor to avoid the uncetodnty of
elections.
—A father consulted a Mend as to
whether he had better give his daughter
in marriage to a man of worth of limited
means, or a rich man who had no other
recommendation. "I would give my daugh
ter," wasthe reply,"to a man without mon
ey, rather than to money without a man."
None have such cause todeprecate conven- 4hau a Presbyterian, and rather than have
tions as the sane and sincere friends of hu- iatitudinarian we should
man freedom, for to all the questions con
cerning it these notoriety hunters attach
themselves with the pertinacity of barna
cles to an old ship. We think of conven
tions, in general, pretty much as Col. Ben
ton did of the national article but the
very name of a womans right's conven
tion" ora "Reform convention," oran "anti
slavery convention," gives us the chills.-T
From all such agencies may the goodLoro
deliver his cause.
ever seen even in the finest wheat growing and set to work to test its quality. We
are glad to hear this as we have always
the Iron City apartfrom being the
most delightful combination of streets,
houses and people that stands any where
on alike surface of earth, is the best ma
chine shop in America. The proprietors
of this engine arc doing a fine business
and through all the hard times their prom
ises have been a perfect hive of industry.
districts of Illinois. Some of the spring
wheat was sown too late and will not dothought
well, and in other fields a little worm has
killed a portion of Jie ueads. It is descri
bed as a small white magot, half the length
id thickness of a jihod peg, and it is
found in the upper joint of thestalk. We
have found no one who can tell us what it
is, and when we say that the description
we have heard given of the
Hessianfly,all roundly assert that it is not
the Hessian fly. Those acquainted with
the "joint worm" say it is not that and
we have heard uo definite opinion as to mittee of stock holders to place the paper
what it is. Its first appearance created! on some basis where wc alone should be le
alarm, but the danger is past and the dam- gaily responsible for our words but they
age is inconsiderable. Our farmers gener-jjust laughed in our face and said "go
ally purpose to cuttiuato the winter wheat ahead." Last week when we found that
as be.st suited to the toil and climate.— 'Jeemes had reached the achme of imperti
That and rye aire now ready for the reaper I nance and entered suit against them for
and all other crops arein luxuriant growill. {slander, we positively refused to continue
our connection with tie paper unless they
would get out of*he way. They had nev-
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«S*»««#«w«««*rt*#SS3!i^ atejsgt^p:S^^P^^^r^S,^,
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, the great Englsh nov
elist, is seperated from his wife of course,
people said the cause was something par
ticularity scandalous. There is a stupidity
or malice for which wenevercould account,
that always attributes all serious domestic
troubles to the infidelity of one of the par
ties and we are truly glad to hear that the
trouble between Dickens and his wife is
a cause honorable to both parties. A Lon
don correspondent of the Boston Alius
thus explains it.
The scandalous reports about Dickens
his family have excited much attention
here, but the manly card of Mr, Dickens, pub
1' lied in Household Words, relieves him from
the impuutions ofinfidelity. I was yesterday
conversing with a gentleman well acquainted
intheDickensftt.nIy,F.ndhep-ii.vibuiei! the differ
ence between ihe novelist and wife to divcv5e
viewsthey Lakeiuregardlothereli^couseducaii
03 of iheirdaughi ers. Mr. Dickens is a decided
Catitudmarian in bis views, and generally at
V^nds theUnharifn Church, while Mr Dickens,
an Edinburg lady, brought up in the s. icier
doc-vjneof PiC-bytCi.-.^sin, 6.Ill clings he
reUgoius idcr ajmcricatcd inheryouih, audna
IU .a?1/ wishes la daugh evs brought up in »he
£. n»e wry. The fact of the daughters ud:«ig
iriih the failie:', merely shows tuf.t like mo^t
young people, they approve of those doctrines
that offer morefreedom,and are generallymore
attractive in appearance at leasi.
We pity the father but sympathise
with the mother. We should do just as
did only more so. No one should
bring up a daughter of ours any thing else
steal her, at midnight, beg a passage to the
other side of the world, change our nameto
avoid pursuit and support her by manual
labor.
MILLS.—We were this week through
the plaining mill, s?sh and blind factory
of Messrs. Raymond Owen and Co. and
the grist mill of N. N. and R. S. Smith.—
This appeared to be very well arranged,
but it was still having a belt adjusted.
The other was making the chips fly at a
great rate. The machinery is driven by a
Pittsburg engine of twenty horse power,
built by A. Irwin. It is considered here
a most perfect pcice of machinery aud far
superior to any engine that has yet been
brought to this region from New England
A Change.
Before issuing the Visiter on the new
type wc proposed to members of the com-
never regret it. We are now sole propri
etor and editor of the St. Cloud Visiter as
the result of the unremitting and desper
ate efforts of the Buchanan democracy to
get rid of our opposition to the administra
tion. If they are Hiot satisfied we hope
they soon will be.
Visiter Correspondence.
OFFICE OF STATB TREASURER,
MADISON JUNE, 3J 1858.
MRS. JANE G. SWISSHELM,
EDITOR ST. CLOUD VISITER :—I have
just received the first i\sue of the Visiter,
since its destruction, through the kindness
of a relative residing in your place, and
herewith enclose my mite in aiswef to your
elegant appeal for material aid for which
please send me the Visiter for one yerr.
I have read many statements in different
papers of the proceedings of these magnan
imous modern Jocobins, and conclude that
a more dastardly and contemptible outrage
never was perpetrated. Don't drive them
from the town as report says 'tis contem
plated, nor clothe them iu a coat of tar to
make outside and inside bear a correspon
ding likeness (although I will admit they
richly deserve it) hut let them "dwell on in
peace"*—yetmake that peace a living tomb
Let every man, woman and child of St/
(/loud treat these Vandals with that stf
nrenie contempt they so richly deserve."
Lit priest, laymm and citizen shun them
as they would the vilest contagion, and let
them be treated publicly, socially and po
litically as too vile for men to mingle with
until they shall say that "all the blood of
all the Kings" will not waefc out tin's vil
lainous act. 'Tis said that "conscience is
man's aeeuser," by this eovjse then, will
these dastards reap the benefit of their
cowardly deed yet, perhaps 'tis aw unfair
hypothesis to assume that they have a con
science, but if every citizen will treat them
as though he or she were the victim of
their malice and have nothing to do with
them but "pass by on t'other bide" then
they can't help but/re? their punishment.
I trust St. Cloud will purge itself of this
affair and let "justice be done though the
heavens fall."
Truly Yours
O. G. SCOFIELD.
For the St. Cloud Visiter.
Dear Mrs. Swisshelm.
AVILO
er made the slightest attempt to dictate or
control our course, but we like to feci sole
ly responsible for our acts and would have
ranted the office from them. Lcrruiu
our deci.ss*on they had a meeting and vo
ted unanimously to present it to us, thus
showing a continuance of that generous
confidence with which they have honored
us from the first and we trust they may tendiogalltheway,exceptatCh«ster,where,
a distance of about four miles, there is
no boi torn land at all. This immense tract
of rich couutry has all, or nearly all been
uuder water. The destruction of property
has been immense, and much distress ana
sn ftbiiog have been earned and hut for tho
exertions of the steamers Wm. Garviu,
\i
I have perused the
columns of your last week's issue, and cannot
refrain from expressing my heart-felt gratitude,
that the Giver of all good has directed your
steps to open afield of labor, in this our beau
tiful western legion, where those of sterling
woi«h, and undaunted courage, are so much
needed,
Your prospectus was read with deep interest
and satisfaction by myhelf and surely no one
capable of judging correctly, or poseseing
honorable motives can do else than justify,
andfair-1ahi you and (he principles which
constitute yovr creed from first to lasi. True
there may be some who m. call you ai.niatic
and make,your paper a subject of eaycasm. and,
ridicule, but we will look upon such in deep
comim .eiiu ou. knowing they are sadly dcaciant
in the development of those moral o. gans vhich
cou-»iiute a generous—unable, and noble char
acter you will most assuredly be sustr iaed by
those whose humanity makes iheai worthy the
n?me of man and woman. Lei this thought,
with-the ever supportingarm of Him whodoeth
all things well, guide and guard you in ihe noble
course you are pm-suciug, and never shrink
from publishing «he principles of justice aud
right which your irith, and conscience dieiate.
Yciw even i.' in so doing your -'path leaus into
the deep waters, go forward! ihe is. i»h
right aim shall divide the waves For unm
those who are fighting ihe gcod fijAi. shall
sufficient strength be given, and ibe IJOM uf&iu
sh..11 not prev?*'.
The Flood and its RffecOf
The great flood with which our rlv« r*
towns and bottom lauds have receutly bcc
devastated, has subsided, and we are le.^
without anyappreheusionsorfurther:rgj:vc
siou for this sc.^on but we have ..o mourn
overan amount of damage to life, to eovn!orrr
aud to propeity wholy incalculable. Whole
towns and villages located upon the low
lands have been depopulated, and. in some
Ciitcs, almost entirely destroyed. Farm
houses, fences, and othery/.• have! -eeu
.swept from their positions by the reuiora
le*s tide, aud some large aud valuable plan
tations have been entirely ruined by depos
its of sand upon what before was the rich
est alluvial soil. Thousands upon thousands
of horses, cattle, and other animals have
been drowned. Families have been driven
from their homes, and, in some cases, in
destitute and even suffering circumstances.
Agflwhatis lobe lamented far more, many
—very many lives have been lost.
No estimate has been or can be made as.
to the amount of pecuniary damage caused
by the flood. We have seen it stated that
the loss, below the mouth of the Ohio wilt
not fall short of thirty millions of dollars:
but this is only "guess work", and, we hope,
largely over-ynessed.
Between Alton and Cairo, on the Illinois
shore, there is a rich and deusely populated
bottom, from one to ten miles in width ex-
RodoJjht and others, the suffering and loss
of life would have been far greatar. To
the officers of the first named steamer par
icularly, too much praise cuuuqt be awar
ded. The WM.Gu.vih is, and has been
ibr over a year, a regular '-weekly packet
bcuWcen St. Louis' and Chester,and, as such
is one of the most popular boats ou the ri
ver. No sooner had the water risen aliove
the river bonks, thus rendering the bottom
residences unsafe and uncomfortable, than
the WM. 6rait m8iaitedoutonavoyageof
relief and mercy. Regardless of risk, time
or expense, Capt. ZKIOLEEtook up and con
veyed to places of safety evrey family and
every per.son requiting assistance, saving
also their property aud their stock too when
ever it was possible to do so. Such disin
terested conduct merits the .highest meed
of praise. Alton Courier
BEEDE & MENDENHALL,
BANKERS,
lOftTH-WESTEM UNDftCOUECTII*
I6ERTS,
I N N E A O I S M.
