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VOL. I.
IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
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{^"Letters to the Editors must be POST-PAID.
EMERSON & CRIDER,
HAVE
now in store, a general assortment of
Cloths, Cassimers, S:.tinets, Ky. Jeans, Ca
licoes, Painted Muslins, Cheeks, Silks and Satins,
Domestic Linens, 13ed Ticking: Also, a general
assortment of
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
Books, Combs, Hats, Caps, Bonnett*, Boots, Shoes,
Tinware, Queenswaro, Hardware, Cutlery, Iron,
Steel, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Hand, Cross-Cut,
and Mill Saws, Hand, Cross-Cut, and Mill Saw
Files, Sledges, Trace and Halter Chains, Riding
Whips, Shot Guns, Powder Horns and Flasks,
Shot and Game Bags, Coffees, Sugars, Teas, Su
per-fine Flour, Mess and Prime Pork, Bacon, Lard,
Butter, Honey, Peach Pickles, Mowing and Cra
dling Scythes, Scythe Stones, Jefferson Oil Stones,
Hoans, Razors, Strops, Shaving Boxes and Brush
es, Coffee Mills, Bed Cords, Blasting and Rifle
Powder, Shoe, Cloth, Hair, Paint, and Tooth
Brushes, Shovels and Tongs, Castings, Steal Rat
Traps, Dried Apples, Soap, Candles, Collins' Ax
es, &c., together with many other articles too te
dious to mention, all of which will be sold low for
Cash* 5-3t Du Buque, July 1, 1837.
ALEX'K.W.MGR EG Oli,
Attorney at Law,
DAVENPORT, W TERRITORY,
WILL
attend to the business of his profession
in the Supreme and District courts of the
Territory.
JOHN TURNEY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
GALENA. ILLINOIS.
W. W. CHAPillAN A S. HEMPSTEAD,
ATTORNEYS AND COC'NSK'LI.OUS AT LAW,
DU BUQUE, WISCONSIN TERRITORY.
February 17, 1837.
T. S. WILSORT,
ATTORNEY AT LA W AN SO 1.I01T0 II IV CHANCERY
DU BUQUE, (W. T.)
OFFERS
his professional services to the citi­
zens of Du Buque and tho adjacent counties
of Wisconsin territory. He will also regularly at
tend courts in Jo Daviess count)', Illinois.
November 16, 183G.—'28- tf
P. H. Engle,
Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery,
AFFERS his professional services to the cit
v
izens of Du BUQUE, DES MOINE and IOWA
counties.
July 27, 1836. 12—tf
Clias. S. Hempstead,
ATTORNEY AT LAIV, GALENA, ILL.
1XTILL continue to practice in the several
courts in IOWA and Du BUQUE counties
W. T. Office on Bench street, adjoining
dwelling, in Galena.
August 17, 1836. 8tl5
William W. Coiicll,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DU BUQUE, W. T.
Du Buque, June 3, 1837.
DR. JOEL C. WALKER,
(Late of Circleville, Ohio,)
Physician and Surgeon,
FORT MADISUN,
LEE COUNTY,
WISCONSIN TERRITORY,
MAY
2, 1837. 52-tf
Doctor John Stoddard,
RETURNS
of Du Buque, for the liberal share of pub
lic patronage which he has received, and takes
this opportunity of informing them, that he in
tends a permanent residence in DU BUQUE,
and hopes, from skill and attention, to merit a
continuance of the patronage he has already re
ceived.
To prevent misunderstandings, and silence
false reports, he herewith presents a list of his
charges for medicine and professional services,
by which he has heretofore been, and will here
after be, governed.
Visits in town by day, 1 dollar: by night, 2
dollars: ex officio services, one dollar per hour:
obstetrical services and attendance from 10 dol
lars to 50, as the case may be. Consultations
with other physicians fee 10 dollars, adding
mileage when in the country, in all cases in
the day, 1 dollar, in the night, double.
The fees in suTgical cases, will be regulated
according to the importance of the case. Me
dicines, Emetics, «qd Cathartics simple, 25
cents, compound one dollar Febrifuge pul
ver
ized, simple, 12 1-2 cts., compound 25 cents
to one dollar Tonics, pulverized, 25 cents per
dose Tincture from 50 to 75 cts. per oz. E pis
past,ic from 50 cts. to one dollar all other me
dicines in proportion.
Those laboring under Cronic diseases of the
Liver, Dyspepsia, ScrofFula, King's Evil,
White Swelling, Rheumatisms, and particu
larly Females laboring under Uterine diseases,
may possibly derive
benefit by consultation and
advising with doctor JOHN STODDAOD.
Du Buque, May 11,1836. Itf
Provisions, Groceries,
THE
subscriber has received by late arrivals in
addition to his former stock of Goods, a large
and general aasortme.it of Provisions, Groceries
Liquors, Dry Goods, Hard-ware, Hollow-ware'
Boots, Shoes, Caps, and a variety
of Clothing, suitable for the season, which he will
•ell on moderate terms at his store in Peru, fcr
cash, mineral, or lead.
t» xr
M* w-
Wassortment
POWERS.
Peru, Nov. 23, 1836. 29-tf
PRINTED AND PI RI.Kmn WPEKI V «Y milirri TTLTI i
CUlilEIX, KIWG & RUSSELL. MAIN STBEET, *T
THE office of the 'IOWA NF.WS' being well sup
plied with Job Type, the proprietors are prepared
to execute on the shortest notice all kinds of
Ulafn, and jFaticj?
JOB PRINTING,
SUCH AS
Blanks of all kinds. Rills of Lading.
Rusiness and ViKitinir Cards.
Ball Tickets, Labels See,
03-OHers from a distance must be accompanied
with the cash, or some responsible reference [riven.
DR. WARSAW'S
CELEBRATED
Remedy for the cure of Ague
and Fever, Chills and Fever, Cake in the
side, and many other diseases of the West India
Islands, and similar diseases of the United States
—Price $1 25 per bottle, for at WM. MYERS'S
Stoie. June 17. 3-3m
A CARD.
RENDERS his services to the citizens o
Du Buque and vicinity, in all the branch
es of MEDICINE, SURGERY, and MIDWIFERY.
He may be found at all times at the DuBuque
Hotel, when not professionally engaged.
Du Buque, June 8, 183G. 5-tf
COIiN.
KA SACKS Corn, received per steam boat
*J\J Fulton, and for sale by
June 10,1837. SCOTT. & TAYLOR.
Miners' Bank of Du
NOTICE
E arc now receiving i ui e and handsome
of Spring and Summer GOODS,
to which we would respectfully invito the atten
tion of those who want cheap Goods.
June 3,183''. l-tf
NOTICE.
LL THOSE indebted to th firm of John Re
gan &. ('o., are requested to come forward and
settle their nccoiints.
March 8,1837. 44
CORN
LARGE assortment of Coarse and Fine
Boots, coarse nnd fine shoes,ladies' and chil
drens' 9hoasof all description, of a superior quali
ty, for sale by E. LOCK WOOD.
June 24. 4IF
EMBOSSED CASSINETTS.
RECL1Vhl)
Thin is one of the finest openings in the west for
a public house, and any one wishing to embark in
this business, can get a great bargain in the above
property, with immediate possession. For terms
apply to the subscriber in Du Butjuc, to E. Park
hurst in the town of Parkhurst, or R. W. Brush,
Esq. in Galena. Merchandise ai a fail price would
be taken in exchange for said property.
autrre..beheverin he
1
tuque.
IS HEREBY GIVEN, T.,AT FORTY
dollars on each share of the Capital Stock of
the Miners' Bank of Du llu|ue, will be required
to be paid, to the President and Directors of said
Bank at their office in the town of Du Buque,
on the second Monday in October next—fifty per
cent, of said instalment to be paid in specie.
By order of the Board.
E. LOCK WOOD, President.
Juno 3, 1837. l.tf
NEW SPRING & SUMMER
it withers down many a lovely woman into an
early grave.
Man is the creature of interest and ambition.
His nature leads him forth into the struggle
and hustle of the world. Love is but the'em
bellishment of his early life, or a song piped
in the interval of the acts. He seeks for fame,
for fortune, for space in the world's thought,
and dominion over his fellow men: but a wo-
look
O'FEllKALL & GRAHAM.
MEAL.
SACKS Corn Meal, received per s. b.
JU VF Fulton, and for sale low for cash by
June 10, 18.17. SCOTT & TAYLOR.
BOOTS & "SHOES!
A
JOHN
Du Buque, ICth, 1837.
or
captured,
hfs
per S. B. Smelter, 5 cases Em­
bossed Cassinetts, a new and fashionable ar
ticle for gentlemen*' pantaloons, which will be sold
cheap, by O'FIiltRALL &. GRAHAM.
June 3,1837. ].tf
PAINTED MUSLINS.
~t A PIECES of fashionable Painted Muslin,
A Vr for iadies summei dresses, just ree'd and
for sale by O'FERRALL &, GRAHAM.
une 3. ]_FJ
NEW GOODS.
E
LOCKWOOI) is now opening in the New
Store, opposito his old stand, on Main St.
a large and well selected assortment of SPRING
AND SUMMER GOODS, just received from
New York and Philadelphia, to which he invites
the attention of customers,
June 10.
his sincere thanks to the citizens
TBK
2-tf
Hotel for Sale*
subscriber will sell that largo and commo*
dious white frame house in the town of Park
hurst, VV. T. situated immediately at the head of
the Upper Rapids.
LUMBE, Jr.
3-tf
Y Bargains to be had.
r|lHE subscriber, being desirous to move further
J. south, will offer for sale to the highest bidder
on the twentieth of July next, his farm he is now
living on, and with it his crop. There is about 1 ~/v v.
five acres enclosed and all in cultivation—the crop I r?
is mostly corn, and stands well—the balance of 1
the crop is wheat, potatoes, cabbage and beets, per
haps as good as the country affords. This farm
lies one mile south-west of Durango,. half-mile
west of Mr. P. Samuels' farm—and one mile north
of his mill, and the location does not clash with
other improvements in the neighborhood. Those
that are fond of good water and a handsome situ
ation will do well to aall—for I will sell if I can
get two thirds value. I will take time to show any
person the range line about one mile north of iny
premises, and convince them that my claim is 011 a
distinct quarter. And after sale of premises, I
will sell one yoke of work cattle, one millh cow,
farming utensils, household furniture, nnd one chest
of mechanical tools, &c. all of which will he sold
either for cash or lead the lead must be delivered
at Du Buque, and I will allow the cash price for
said lead in exchange for my property.
RUES A G. ENOX.
Durango, July 1,1837. 5»3t
810 REWARD.
STOAYEDfrom
bout the middle of April last, a light Bay French Wa,ibesepii
h^°t?r'KieVen^rear8 °'1'l'''3 "P'i'ig, about 13i hands
high, blaze fece, short mane—no other marks re
collected. The above reward will be given to any
person who will deliver said horse to me at this
o PASCHAL MALLETT.
Du Buque, July 1, I877. 5.4,.
pe
Woman is like some tender tree, the pride
and beauty of the grove—graceful in its form,
bright in its foilage, but with the worm prey
ing at its heart. We find it suddenly wither
ing where it should be most luxuriant. We
see it drooping its branches to the earth, and
shedding leaf after leaf, until, wasted and per
ished away, it falls, even in the stillness of
the forest and as we muse over the beautiful
ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or
thunderbolt that could have smitten it with de
cay.
I have seen many instances of women thus
disappearing gradually from the earth, and
have repeatedly fancied that I could trace
their death through the various declensions of
consumption, cold, debility, languor, and me
lancholy, until I reached tho first symptom of
disappointed love. The canker worm of grief
grows slowly, but alas! too surely upon the
heart of its devoted victim. Its ravages are
unnoticed by the casual observer, but the keen
and discerning of human mind—that most mys
terious emanation from the creative powers of
the Almighty,—discovers, in the halt decked
sigh, the off starting tear, the heavy cloud of
sorrow casting its shadows upon the brow, the
occasional lapse into melancholy, and anon
the forced and unnatural bursts of apparently
high spirits, sure tokens of that mental con
sumption which bids defiance to the life-revi
ving powers of medicine, to the utmr«»«
and skill of the ablest physician VVo, then,
be to that man who trifW with the human heart
as it were a thinpr&f Iiglitimport—who having'
sought till he obtained the 'answering look of
Wornan,8. ey°'
IOWA NEWS.
DP BUQUE, UPPER MISSISSPPI LEAD MINES, WISCONSIN TERRITORY, AUGUST
MAN AND WOMAN—BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
it is a common practice with those who have
outlived the susceptibility of early feeling, or
have been brought up in
the gay heartlessness of
dissipated life, to laugh at all love stories, and
to treat the tale3 of romantic passion as mere
fictions of novelists and poets. My observa
tions on human nature have induced me to
tunic.otherwise. They have convinced me
that, however the surface of the character May
be chilled and frozen by cares of the world, or
cultivated into mere smiles by the art of socie
ty, still there are dormant fires lurking in the
breast of the coldest bosom, which when once
enkindled become impetuous, and are some
times desolating in their effects. Indeed, I am
blind deity, and go ta
the full extent of his doctrines. Shall I cot
fess it.^ I believe in broken hearts, and the
possibility of dying of disappointed love. I
l'icre
that
relurn of
h'-'1,u,ere
path.es on adventure and if shipwrecked, her lurrying up below
"»Pel«ss'
f»"«•
of fclipitv 1 u
J,
consolation'? If unhappy in her love,
heart is ike somn fortress that has been a tall tree first blaze and then smouldering at
and sacked, and abandoned, and the touch. A noble horse floated by, dead and
th° drSirCOftl,ChCar!' S^llcr!:
"'8 affections, cast aiide as
valueless the heart he then knows to be his
own! No word of reproach from the injured
one may assail his ear, and this absence of re
proof from without may lull the accusations of
his inward monitor, but he may rest assured
that, in the eyes of God, he is regarded as a
murderer. (lis strict tables of justice admit
not of the palliations that man will conjure up
in his own eyes and this ho will feel when
reason, asserting her sway over his passsions,
convince him of the cruelty and injustice ofhis
conduct. He will then seek to hide his very
head for shame. But his remorse is now in
vain for her whom death has already secured
as his prize: no earthly power can reanimate
the heart now cold in the grave, and the con
viction that she, whom his neglect has placed
where she is forover beyond the reach of repa
ration, embitters reflection to the last moment
°ChisLfiiiftence.
rVJ ovitvi iiuise was uiuu5iu
Indians about the 16th July. They
the stable of the subscriber, a- ^prese'ted tome that they found himnear the
lbesepinacon.
The hor e is large sorrel, 16 hands high, a small
star in the forehead, hipshot in the right hip, eight
or nine years old and clumsy made. The ownei
it requested come and pay the oxpenaes andjalse
A.VT. LI
him awav.
A-t-r. S. 19.17.
Davenport
When
nas failed, the great charm of existence is at of the river, it was as if spring had come in at
an end. She neglects all the cheerful exerci
ses whieli gladden the tide of life in healthful
currents through the veins. Her rest is bro
ken—the sweet refreshment of sleep is poison
ed by melancholy dreams, "until her enfeebled
frame sinks under the slightest external inju
ry. Loojt for her, after a little while, and
you find friendship weeping over her untimely
grave, and wondering that one who but lately
glowed with all the radiance of health and
beauty, should so speedily be brought down
to 'darkness and the worm.' You will be told
of some wintry chill, some casual indisposi
tion, that laid her low hut few know of the
mental malady that previously sapped her
strength, and made her so easy a prey to the
spoiler. IIow many bright eyes grow dim!-—
how many soft cheeks grow pale!—how many
lovely forms fade into the tomb, victims of
blasted hopes, and withered joys!
Q0T
undeniable proof
(Hx/t
rrn -WTlrwn„
SCENES ON THE Oil 10.
FROM 'SOCIETY I«F AMERICA.'
We arrived at Cincinnati
of June, as sultryas eve^oc-
curs on the Ohio. The glare
from the water
"with -i* Mindi™ a"?"
I could not bear to lose a sniffle Him"
tween the hills. It is hol£.£*Xe f"
have such a succession of nirniros
there made toT^^
eyes. There were ihSdS
J?'.1
with hor
was
bankruptcy of ,l,0
To a rmn tt,n 1 i Ppn('icularly into the forest and then anot
oecasio^Tn^o I f,
PP
e"
°.Ve
may
(lL[Vi:!)l-,„b"LhelS.an:_whirl,VCma-V
exl,lodin? ike
ltb^sts®°fTiePr"sPccts
feeliugs of tenderness
of felicity: but he is
dissipate his thoughts in the of varied a
occupations, or may plunge into the tide of
pleasure-—or, if the scene of his disappoint-
aCU
tn°
°f Painful associations, he can
shift his abode at all. But woman's is com
paratively a fixed, a secluded, and a medita
tive life. She is more the companion of her
flitting blue jay under the
cool shadow of the bank the butterflies cross
ing the river in zig-zag flight, the terrapins
(small turtles) floundering in the water with
On the afternoon of this day,' we were 1 of nniiT? °fa
raised «de,.h of the
So„
Marstiall, Bal.i,„„re, |,is japfc
man's life is hi?W of .ho slfrelion,. "fho Iprneh oT'the" Vl""""l! 1™.° A" old an'd emijLl'clor.
heart is her world: it is
^er ambition the while clouds was of a Hnrk mviv V'T i £yma"'
mIire~itistliereherav'*,rice8epks have been'mistaken for the IIPP^M
for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sym- »f twilight Then a mass of liHck pi i.rl
the four rays of a star.
». li 1 wveuing in ««11 11 iv une. straight a.®
„r.,
Aiwnrw IF PAID IN ADVANCE, OK §4 AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
refle.cted
w a
t0 heroes
1""ceboys.an(l
deed?
t0 a
1
9™ ar,°
8
the hill the horseman on the ridge, or the wa.
goner with his ox-team pausing on the slope.
'S° bL'
thegigantic trees on the bank, to see^helmJt cuZTnl th ,CSe^VC'may
i whe"s?,t
ier,
1 saw
jCross the river. Our boat was hurried "under
to await it. The burst was furious!
roaring gust, and a flood of rain, which pour-
s"••• ais mice 10 oe waueu
of thunder lasted long, and the lightning was get to the wicket. It was once averv dishon
abroad in the air. Faint flashes wandered |brable act to insinuate any thin* airainst fe-"
^ew out into ihe"mlddio
the heels of the dog-days all was so cool and
calm.
The company on board were of the lowest
class we ever happened to meet with in our
travels. They were obliging enough as eve
ry body is throughout the country, as far as
my experience goes but otherwise thoy were
no fair specimens of American manners. Ono
woman excited my curiosited from the begin
ning but I entertained a much more agreea
ble feeling towards her when wo parted, after
several days' travel in company. Her first
deed was to ask where wo wero going and
her next, to take my book out of my lap, and
examine it. Much of the rest of her time was
occupied in dressing her hair, which was, not
withstanding, almost as rough as a negro's
She wore in her head a silver comb, another
set with brilliants, and a third, an enormous
tortoise-shell, so stuck in, on one side, as to
remind the observer irresistibly of a unicorn.
She pulled down her hair in company, and put
it up again, many times in a day, whenever,
asit seemed to me, she«ouldnot think of any
thing else to be doing. Her young compan
ion, meantime,
gon-root. Th
much of thecla^PI was dressing 111 my state
romp between four and five the next morning,
wH$n an old lady, who was presently going
ashore, burst in, and snatched the one tumbler
glass from my hand. She was probably as
much amazed at my having carried it out of
sight as 1 was at her mode of recovering it.
I loved the early morning on the great riv
ets, and therefore rose at dawn. I loved the
first grey gleams that came from between the
hills, and the bright figures of people in white,
the men all in linen jackets in hot weather)
on the banks. I loved to watch the river craft
the fussy steamer making rapid way the fairy
canoe shooting silently across, the flatboat,
with its wreath of blue smoke, stealing down
in the shadow of the banks, her navigators
helping her along in the current by catching at
the branches as they passed and the perilous
looking raft, with half »-dozen people on it,
under their canopy of green boughs, their
shxneless
bending and walloping in the
middle of the stream. I loved the trees, look*
ing as if they stood self-poised, their root3
were washed so bare. I loved the dwellings
that stood behind their screen, those on the
eastern bank seeming fast asleep those on the
western shore gay with the flickering shadows
cast on them by the breezy sunrise through
the trees.
On passing Catletsbufgh, we bade adieu
to glorious Kentucky. At that point our eyes
rested on three sovereign States at one glance
—Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. We land
ed at Guyandot, and proceeded by stage the
next morning tr Charleston, on the Kanawha
riven
-*j
SVCIAL COURTESIES.—-"We noticed this sub
ject in one of our receut numbers, and now re
vert to it for the purpose of alluding to the
contrast presented by the past and present
modes of addressing ladies, and of giving a
sample of politeness of the present day.
An old Virginia slave, who had grown gray
in his duties as a house servant, recently,
18
,.jMMBbbing her teeth with dra-1 ^1' that it dared and could. And
cabin company seemed
in
our hearing, characterized his former mistress
as "an old-time ladv," and spoke ofhis pres
ent owner, the grand-daughter as "one of the
highflyers!"-—'There is no little discrimination
in old Sambo s titles. The old time ladies kept
up th®ir dignity, characterized the circles they
moved in, ana gave an influence of manners
and politeness to society^—They conversed,
too, and did not chatter they extorted from
gentlemen, the homage of the heart, and for
ced others to respect them, by respecting
them
selves. We hope we are not croaking over the
fancied "eclat" of the past but we put the
query, is this the tone of fashionable manners
-=S=
5, 1837.
of the present day? Or is it "highflying?" land in snito r,f ~n.
,A» not our married ladies liberally drive.? to fancy that I CM k™ f.1"®e,soffered»1
•™i' ..
3
r00m„f?r M.i9s,e8..in
blinding and scorching cassar oil and a pudding mustache, and who, and wished for.
!»!eir l^ards me with
lay as ever oc- teens, who prattle an infinite deal of nothing words toexnl-in "lch
suffering under the infliction of Ma°. that I was the Dosses^nf'"Bi. ''*h,told
ha,e ,ire„
a
youngsters to assert and brag
»h,cI* have no basis in truth? It is
,mortlJyinS
fact»
that the principal reason
not
now respect as they
do not mpet from
l'at
P°*
be found
iKi'lk-pail half nay up that thev canlTt^?'^^!?^S°y°,in^
hey cannot command
t,ieclT~
:espect
„f CkhfcjJK 25L3 V »™P«
First tl« oir.r „i. "i-ana eminent cler-
wrlh
ll
by the un-
ProPr,oty of thdfr deportment and
that the moment a young lady is married, she
is, lor most social purposes, defunct. We
have listened, ere now, to youngsters, who
should have been soundly spanked and sent
IJI10".1
t,ieir
suppers, prating of their
mer-
lacI^with
t!,e
»on-chalance
whom we joked over the city in
®"°lnn'1bus'
wl".c'1 W»S
distributing the con-
a Cilr
passengers from the West,
,°Wn
a,1
his
,lwM°ok
olThis hat and
"»d
,adi™
with whom he had travelled. "The next we
dropped was a young man, who trod on the
teet of half Si dozen in his anxiety to get out,
and without stnpping to apologise, damned
the driver for not giving him the right trunk,
and departed "sans coremonie."
-It was once the fashion when you entered a
now done daily, unblush-
mgly. ihese things should not be. Manners
go lar to create a nation. Foreigners judge
principally from the social intercourse with the
nation they visit, and how far this lias tended
to disgrace us abroad wo pretend not to say.
i I here is a further view of this subject we
reserve for another time.
Phil. Com. Herald.
ADI5L GORDON
I am an old man now—years have' passed
since the events which I am about to record
transpired, but they live vividly in my recol
lection, as though they were but things of yes
terday. Many may deem iny story a fable—
the creation of a heated imagination—would
that I could persuade myself it were so would
that I could persuade myself that the whole of
a long life has been but a shadowy dream—a
nothing, that I could wake nnd find myself a
gay and happy boy, with all youth's freshness
of feeling, and none of these grey hairs! Alas,
it is nil true! The burning brand was thrust
upon my brain, searing, blighting every vision
of youth, every happy and joyous aspiration.
My nature underwent a change, and now, tlio'
I strive to believe that the world is what it
seems, it is in vain. I cannot believe in hu
man honesty again. I look upon all who ap
proach mo with a cold suspicious eye, and a
heart which would fain open itself to kind-
l''e" to.avo!c'. l^e
SMPI was dressint in my state "8 causes me, I strive calmly to
bring before me the incidents of my blighted
life.
1 was a dreaming enthusiast from a very
child one that loved to sit alone hour after
hour watching the beautiful stars and the pale
moon, with her mild, holy light, which beam
it ever so brightly, still looks sad and sorow
ful, as though it were grieving for the sin and
eufferingafthe beings of the world it illumes.
agony which the knowledge
I had S'lWfrrite seat in a large wild space, they
call
a
garden (and truly was it an Eden to
me!) when I used to «it and inquire what those
orbs could be iny favorite conclusion was,
that Mill was U10 bright habitation of an angel
or guardian spirit, one of whom was allotted
to each human being that the moon was their
superior power, to whom the troubles of each
individual they watched over was referred to.
Only a romantic and visionary child like my
self could have formed Buch notions and re*
tained them after my own improved sonso had
explained to mo the folly of them for even af
ter childhood^ had passed away, I could not
quite forget tnem and I have often caught my
sell watching anxiously for the appearance of
the one star, which I called mine, and felt dis
appointed and unhappy if the night passed and
I did not see it.
Manhood came, and with it love I do not
believe that one of Heaven's creatures ever
passed through life without loving, from the
high and brilliant scholar to the untut
sant girl.
fo
large blue eyes, which always used to remind (wo
me of the stars I loved so well, and 1 fancied
not an unholy thought did lever entertain eon! iT,,at
AS»U
NO. 10.
8ee
mat beautiful face turned
re(luired
not
me
Wh,t 1 bad ho
hoped
^a?s:ssss:SHttr
trembles, and my heart strives to find rn ex
cuse for her error—her follv 1
don me! Her beauty was in", cures hMsJSS
The day
was
fixed for ourmarriage, and
all
was smiling happiness, when I received a
vale intimation that I was not the only one
whom Adel met in her walks, or correspond!
ed with For amoment this intelligence start
led me, but then I laughed at the petty malice
as I deemed it, ofthose who could thuiattemS
to disunite us. I saw her soon afterwards W
to me she had iievpr seemed so fair as I sa't be
side her the glowing sunset her rich clus
tering curls floating as a veil round her her
beauty was glorious! Almost unconsciously,
.murmured, 'What a libel on all that is pu&
and lovely it would be to suspect thee Adel"»
utlT .ad
scarce,y
passed iny lips, when
1 lei a convulsive movement of the small snowy
hand 1 held in mine, and her check grew pale
as death I was surprised, and a Lling of
libtrust or the hrst time entered my mind, but
[Kissed away when sho hid her face in mv
bosom, und whispered, 'Rather suspcct that
the mother could hate the child she bore thrt
Almighty hate the thing of his own creation
thc flower hate the dews that feed it, than that
I could deceive you, Walter!' No more words
passed between us then, my heart was too full
of joy for utterance. At length the darkness
deepened, and we arose as Adel lifted hor
head from my shoulder, a small folded paper
fell from her bosom heavily to the ground. I
stooped to regain it, and held it playfully for
an instant before returning it. Adel almost
screamed her anxiety to re-possess it. 'Give
it me lor mercy's sake, 1 implore you she
uttered in a voice so excited, that it sounded
strange aijd unlike hers my eyes then fell un
oii some written Words, 'To my own Adel!'
And this was not all, the hand that had pen
ned those words was my brother's! You are
perhaps surprised at my writing thus calmly:
my hand does not tremble, it is cold as mv
heart, and that is marble.
I heeded not the adjuration of Adel, but o.
pencil tho paper it contained tux miniature,
and hese words: 'I understand that theda via
fixed—so much the better, or the love-sick
swain might make unpleesant discoveries. I
think I had better withdraw for a few weeks
till it is all over, and then, nous verrons. Here
is the picture you begged so hard for by the
bye, Walter would give much for one of those
sweet persuasions you have lavished upon me.
FERDINAND.'
1 hus ended the scrawl. Have I written e
norigin Need I repeat what I said—need I
tell you how I acted? Were I to attempt the
recital, 1 should go mad. I have not seen A
del sinco that hour. From that hour life has
been to me a blank—utter desolation—still I
live on. Life!—a living death!
"Lonely I stocr my bark of lift
Towiuds a deathless land
It will not tear the seas of stnfo.
If it but reach the strand
Where all is peace—and angnlb comb,
1 o takc the outworn wanderer home.'
People may talk as they please about the
happiness of the rich, but after all, the working
man who is out of debt and has plenty tu do,
has the greatest cause to be contented. Hap."
py in the company of his wifo and children,
and free from all anxiety, hu goes from his
daily toil with the snii'siaction of knowing that
the day's lab« will bring along with it enough
to satisfy his wants and what further can he
Jusire. He only knows what a notary is by
hoarsay, and as for three o'clock, the soonei
it comes the nearer ho will be to the end of
his daily toil. The only notes bethinks about
are bank notes—and provided that on Saturday
night he has enough to lay in his store for the
ensuing week it is immaterial to him whether
banks grant discounts or not. He has no in*
surance to Watch after, nor does he care for the
rates of exchange. To him the present is eve*
ry thing—nor does ho trouble himself about
speculating as to tho future—for he knows that
the same kind Providence that has cherished
and protected him and his in by-gone days will
continue his fostering care in th JSO to come®
[Baltimore American
No fitwspAPERl—The time is coming when
the man who has the means and does not talra
a newspaper, will be looked upon by his neigh-
win/\a i r?h0,,t
a
fin'
,a
a
untutored pea-
For me, I loVe all and every one,
not a fond word was bestowed on mo that was
not repaid ten-fold and I may solemnly de
clare that not a kind look has ever through my
life been lost upon me. I created a world round
Wero
ero'
that they beamed more brightly upon me than ?uPP'ngfroin silver spoons, and purchasing:
on any other I listened to her sweet voice, and 'mPorte(i cloths and silks, and riding a bun
deemed that it grew sweeter and softer at my **re(* dollar horse, and—iorrom a newspapet!
approach and I loved her. I loved Adel Gor- —a newspaper that costs but two dollan ftr*
don till my very soul was wrapt in excess of! Pc"°d long enough for the earth to make are*
adoration. Ifever thoughts and feelinrswere round the pan! Seest thou the mailt*
uncontaminated by the World, thus were mine* ^ou *0' '^en
cerning her. spected and the children of that maa^tfwhaw
At length I confessed my love, bv word* j'"?1'1* P°*ets, but there will be »MDoiaiM
in the world's fash: lair in lh»ir unner storms, lswlr In
telling as if looks
if love could be
the lips pronounce
sured sentences!
sued for a return. I am now an old deserted
man. Years have passed since Adel Gordon
and 1 sat together in the starlighfe-but, atlll,
crow
men»
me of fancied purity and goodness, and the 'raln» but you, gentle reader, can point theia
queen was Adel Gordon. I looked into those
out
without a
k,lnj) h°fse, a mole, or what you
please. Such an individual might do well
nough to live in the manner of a Robinson Cm
»°e, but he has no excuse for thrusting hir#v
sell amongst those who do take newspapers?
and are better informed, to gather whatevetf^
cruntB of political or general intelligence they
may choose to drop for him. VVe know many
and might name them, but we ie»,,
y°uraelf. Picture for a moment a
g°ing to write tho occupation of out*
but we de3ist,) in opulent circumstance^, .,
Utiwept, onhonored and unsuilg."
4
mar'c W0R*8
prinUMt
man may hc. r\c}h bu! l'o
will neufcrie*
The Pennsylvania conventionl|av* M$aimiedHIT* -V,"
too of October. jPhevetSfMood