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BMj.hr MiRO., ATTORNiES AND COUNSELLORS A I A W GENERAL REAL ESTATE AGENTS, MAIN STREET, McGregor, Iowa. mil. POTTER* A Y A N U S E AT LA W Solicitor in Chancery, NOTARY PUBLIC. 4 MAIN STREET, MeGrofSr, ml* 1ME RICtMJY MMOL'SMuy BY W. H. HARDING, Main Stroe|p MnGi IOWA. JtMcGREGOR MMOf/SE, INGEUSOLL & VANVALKENRI RG. STUEET, MADar MCGREGOR, SELECT STORlliS. SHOT THROUGH THE HEART. A OEHMA.V ROMANCE. 1 have a talo to tell, with a true Ger nmn flavor, of a huntsman of the olden time, and of the ringing of a shot in the recesses of a forest. It is a tale taken from the lips of the people, and it may be true. I have its kernel from a German writer, Kdmund Hoefer. From village to town, And back from town to village—no matter where—the narrow footpath runs at one end through smooth nvadows, then descends into a wide hollow, of which the whole sweep is filled with a glorious old wood but at the other end the path runs through the standing corn. From village to town, or back from town to village, men, women, and children hurry through the wood.— No trodden grass betrays feet that have an iron forest lawn of grass and flowers in the little open glade there is no sign of wav ering in any wayfarer—-no turning aside to be detected. There was assuredly plot IOWA. tfir.i JR. II*, were dancing i IOWA. MMO*UE, By JULIUS BOFHTHER, MAIX STREET, E O I O W A JPJPJBJK O U S E By J. McMULLEN, tain Street, McGregor, Iowa. JFfJLjT MM E Ml & MI O .11 E .« By A. WANSEY, 'Ha in #Urec t, McGregor, .- -Iowa. MMEmYR 1* €. Jf.UT, Dealer in dumber, Vjatli, Lovco, e o I o w a m*m:.mrs.mlMj sp vmmm rvmm Livery Statole, MAJ-N STREET, ,, McCfcr, low* another path here once, for here there was near it a half-knitted stocking. Out of set up a guide-post, unless for such pui»- this room a almost a century untouched by man. It next St. Bridget's. My happiuess is com- re &oox mul ce ni„,r a\^ us it seemed, to the best of pic-nic dining rooms. Only their own servants'went with the holiday makers, who had dined well, and ed. The wood, he said, is never safe for Christian men, aud evil things lie yonder. His hand waved hurriedly towards the shall be called Gertruth ancient avenue, and he stepped on apace, for he had been venturesome in making aCy half at alL Why, there is a full moon to-night," said Clara Hough, one of the party "the best of the pic-nic is to come walking to see one days What says the calendar "It is the Feast of St. Egidius," said Eus tace Wenn, who hoped in due time to con cert Miss Hough into Mfs. Wenn. "St. Egidius' day is nothing in. particular. Of course we shall go home by moonlight, but I vote for an adventure. Let us break open the path-way, and find out the de mon of the wood. Something, of course, lies yonder. Who joins the exploring party Women, and men too, grow su perstitious in the twilight, wise as they may be. There were no volunteers.— My dear fellow," said the host, "join our next dance. ,The path, you see, is impervious." Mr. Wenu leapt among tho trees, and shouted back intelligence that it was easy The green loaves, the gleams of sunset coloring, the twiltering of birds above, the moss and flowers uudcr-foot, the picas Wit exercise of lighting down such obsta cles as thorns and tendrils offered, the young gentlemen smoothing the way for the young lady, as he hoped to smooth her way 011 other paths, when she was an older lady, and they traveled over years of lite, that seemed to be before them—all —all such things made the little expedi tion as agreeable as might havo been de sired. There was another small break in the wood, and a broader avenue of smooth turf pierced the trees beyond it. Upon a hillock of large mossy stones, that seem ed at one time to have been assembled there together by an idle man, the lovers gat to rest and talk, for five minutes or longer, of their own affairs. The gentle man spoke with one pair of hands to cutaway there, companion. Tho door led to a narrow even for a lady. "Then," said Miss! stair perhaps the trail was there, but Hough, following his lead, by all means there was no light by which it could be let us go." Let them alone," said the I seen. The stair led to a room that had host they are lovers, and they would been prettily furnished, and of which the not thank us for our company." The dance, therefore, was formed, and the young people wont .alone into the wood. most the lady looked much downward, and trifled with her little foot among the moss upon one stone larger than the oth.-rs. Why, there is a great cross, and there are three unreadable let ters scratched upon thii st-n buidsthc. Tho first, 1 tbiuk, is 4k wm "am WE MARCH WITH THE FLAG, AND KEEP STEP TO THE MUSIC OF THE UNION. M'GREGOR, FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1856. on i let us on This heap is siia|"-ur 1 think, like a grave. Or shall w go back I have a dread upon me." But the way forward was easy, and the sky was light, and to goon was to remain qui etly together. The young people went on, with their hearts open to each other, impressible enough, and quite as serious as they were happy. One or two fallen trees were the otilv difficulties in the way by which they reached a third and larger open space.— Passing by a carved stone fouutaiu, full of the guide post, a dry growth of moss, they collar, been truant from the beaten path. Not tached the skeleton of a dog. All was si far from the bottom of tin1 hollow there is lent, for the twilight had set in the birds an open space in the dense forest, and the were in their nests and in the old house trees on one side stand apart, as if at the entrance to a narrow avenue but the av euue is no path now, if it ever were one. It is choked up with underwood, matted with brambles and wild vines, and the narrow footway strikes directly across the room, of which the window was darken ed by the foliage of an untrimmed vine, had two soiled cups upon its table and a rusty coffee-pot door merrily when first the shad-j bless him. He shall bo called after my Nothing—at least foolish. I was ows on the turf began perceptibly to brother Peter Michael." A cross fol- thinking only of this stocking that I am lengthen. The few rustics who came to {lows, and the note Died on St. Walpur- about, because it is so difficult to match and fro upon the path, had all day long gis, 1757." jmv colors well, and I am tired of rod and looked more or less aghast at their pro- 1725. St. Hubert's Day. Won the i green." ceedings. The last who had passed by silver cup with a master shot. The lord Tho old man suddenly rose and said— even presumed to stop and urge that they I count praised my shooting before all the The count will b« here to-day or to mor would return home before twilight elos- gentlemen." saw a deca\ wood, and we ed house with its out-baildings. The them, it will be a pretty midsummer's house was of grey stone, and seemed I night dream." Shrill whistling and loud lean against a slender round tower, bound shouting presently grew to be the whole with ivy to the topmost turret. There was amusement of the company, and were kept a terrace before it with grass, and there up until the missing pair appeared. "But were vestiges of flower beds. Over the you do look as if you had been seeing arched entrance-gate were set up three ghosts," somebody said to them. "What pairs of decayed antlers into the wall at are they like?" the side of it was fixed a rustv chain with to which there was yet at- it was evident that no man lived. The door stood half open. The two entered. Though uninhabited, the house was not unfurnished. Rusty guns and hunting knives hung on the walls mouldering benches were in the outer hall an inner led into a smaller eham- pose now, and overgrown with ivy. One jber, full of hunter's tools, in which there of its three directing boards being de-1 was a bed still tumbled and there was, atroyeif," or having rotted off, it looks like amoilgr.ll the man's furniture in thrtt room, a mdo cr^s set up in the forest and the a chest containing a woman's clothing and peasants of the district—though they are tho clothes of little children. In the re by this time all Protestants—look up at cess of the window a silver cup was set looking man "your thoughts are as it with a prayerful ejaculation as they hur- up, as in the place of honor and on a ta- tray. You have been re uling those detes ry by. jble by the bedside la v an old hunter's cap,!table red books. ^You mu&t get married A party of English travellers dwelt for i a hymn book,and a bible. The books" be a housewife, girl a few days in the adjacent town, and soon 'said the young Englishman, will tell us discovered that the grand old forest oaks who lived in this house." Opening the were good to dine under. They knew bible, he read to his companion the house generally that the place was accursed and hold chronicle set down on its first leaf: Was believed to harbor spectres, if not "1744. St. Bartholomew's Day. My worse things. Before this generation father, Hans Christoph, died. The lord was born, a lord of the castle had gone couut, who was present, suddenly abroad, and his lady-mather, successor as head forester. who remained at home, had cursed the Ducker." I One may breathe the more freely in forest, and permitted no wood to be felled 1752. St. Favian's D*y. I married the open land, girl though for that I! no labor to be done in it. This curse the Gertrude Marin, peasant Seinfttrt's daugk wouldn't leave the forest. Let it pass.— family kept up, and except the use of the Iter. Was, on the above day, thirty-one Marry Gottfried Schluck, who lives close nac-.'ssary paths, the forest had been for years old, and my wife will be nineteen was the more luxuriant for that and th? plete. May Heaven bless our union 1" He has been marriod twice, father smooth of grass in which the guide-! 1754. On the twelfth of July our first and no man loves a second wife." post stood, with broad boughs and blue i child born. He shall be called Hans "Bah!" said the huntsman, scowling' Christoph." Across follows^and the re- suddenly upon his daughter's face. "As mark—" Died at midnight on the first of! you live, tell mo the truth, Gertrude Anne's Day. A dau 1756. St. Anne's Day. A daughter born to me. Heaven bless her. She Joanna." "1756. St. Gertrude Egidius' Day. My wife Maria died huntino- of a shot in the wood. I will not curse her. God be a merciful judge to us both."' 1771. Mv lord the old count died on The youiiif Lord If any St. Valentine's Day. The young Lord I have mado his bed,'the girl said, fairies should appear, we'll join ourdance Leonard Joseph Francis takes his place." and lighted his fire. Arnold helped me. to theirs, and as for ghosts, I should like I There was no more to read. One en- But Arnold does not treat me as a little Is this one of their still in the window, looked at it, and re turned into the other chamber. Another door seemed to lead from it into other rooms. They walked in that direction, and the young man saw that they were following a trail of dark stairs ou tho floor. window opened at once upon a broad ter race that swept back towards the wood. The moon had by that time risen, and shone through the window. Ono pane had been broken. Splinters of glass lay close under it. The table was overthrown a broken lamp was on the floor also a book, handsomely bound, which seemed to have been ground under the heel, rath er than trod upon, by a strong man. The English lady stooped to pick it up, but as she did so she saw, by the moon-light, stains upon the oaken floor, which made her suddenly recoil and lean, trembling, 011 her lover for support. They looked towards tho sofa, an old piece of furni ture covered with blue damask upon that, too, there was a huge dark stain, and over it the bright 1110011 cast the shad ows of the two young people. The shad ow of a young man erect—the shadow of a young girl clinging to it, violently trem bling. Look look try in the list excited tho same thoughts girl, now, father, and you'— Again the old man stopped with a stern face before her to ask—' What were your thoughts, then, Gertrude in both the lovers. This man, it was ev ident, had killed his wife 011 St. Egidi us' day and they had 011 the same day whispered their heart's love over the murdered woman's gravo. Then, again, why did the old huntsman register his sons as born into his household, but his are too hard to me.. nv .-nut poiiu supernatural. i lie y ii ng in i,i ji n i v eil out that this was n 11in Besides an impressed bed in one corner of the room, there were some more hand somely bound books upon a table, all in gilded and morocco covers. One of them lay open, and the evening breeze that en tered through the broken panes of glass had touched some of its leaves. The lovers are a long time absent," whispered partners to each other, as they danced their 1,-ftt dance on the grass about "The nearest thing to a ghost that we have seen," said Mr. Wenn, "I seized and brought away with me. Here it is." He took a little book out of his pocket— a book bound in red morocco, and beset with tarnished gilding—which he offered for the inspections of the company. "Why, what fruit is this to bring out of an oak-woodI" cried mine host "a corrupt French romance!" The account brought home of the for ester's deserted house, that had been at last actually seen by an English gentle man and lady, was in a day two town news, There lay on a chair and the story to which it belonged, had by that time been duly fitted to it. This is the story Conrad Ducker and his daughter ono morning sat at breakfast, many years o You are spoiling my coffee, Ger trude," said the forested, a stern 'dark* "I, father •'Yes, you. Peter from beyond the mountain came to ask for you this morn ing. A husband like that would be good luck for a princess." "But I cannot leave you, father, and made me his i my heart is in the forest. I should not Hans Conrad like marrying into the open land." 1 January anno 1755." What made you spoil my coffee 1755. Annunication Day. Our sec-j "Father?" ond son born. 1 am very triad. God! What were your thoughts by, and has gone down on his knees to you fiVo times over." row, Gertrude." The girl's cheeks flushed as shd replied, I know it." How, girl, how Francis, father, brought me word he was to come on St. Egidius' day.' Ah, does he so murmured the for-1 ester, pacing the room thoughtfully lie E_ridiu8' day comos on St When, father When you spoilt my cofi|e.* Oh father,' she replied soVbing daughter as born only to himself? These is Egidius' day, and nineteen years ago things the lovers noticed as they read the my mother died, as you havo set down in little chronicle but they spoke only of the Bible. And I thought how it was the cup, the marksman's prize, that she should die of a Shot, and you nevr er speak of it, and you even forbid me 9 speak of it to others.' e did not point them out to his drew her towards him, and said, in a hoarse voice—' Hear me, child I will be licvo you, and it is well. Do not be eager for that story it is not good for your cars or for my ears. Why return to that Eustace," cried the girl. "Th*esc are not our shadows!" Indeed, lovo,they are." Did you not toll me this was St. Eg idius' day Both started for there was a sudden U us f»{ flutter distinctly'litsml. man's siiowii1 r. You You know that this The fixed glow of the old man's eyes upon her checked the girl's utterance.— Silently he turned to take from the wall his cap and gun then returning to her, There might come up with it stuff that would sting you—that would take away your sight and hearing. Only mind this, You think too much of—somebody who should be as far from you as sun from moon, from whom you should fly as the hare from the wild cat. I tell you, girl, he is false. He would betray you as sure ly as to-morrow comes after to-day If you have done already more than think of him, God pity you, for'—the man's utter ance was choked his bony hand was cold and damp—' you would be better with a millstone round your neck, under ten feet of water.' He turned suddenly away, whistled to his dog, aud left her. Gertrude had never seen her father's gloom so terrible but she soon found a girl's rclidf in tears. The forester went out into the wood, and sat for a long time motionless upon a grave-like mound of stones under an oak-tree, his gun resting on his shoulder, his dog's nose thrust in-1 quiringly beneath his arm. He sat there till twilight, and went slowly homeward 1 when the moon was rising, rom the ter-1 race behind the house he by chance raised his eyes towards a lighted window in the corner of the tower. There was alight] burning in the room, a tire crackling, aud $ir! WW* weeping on tt'$iNig! yyw At last in my arms again, my fore.st flower Lord Count, Lord Count!' said Ger trude, let hopo fte at an end between us.' But I am still your Leonard, and you are to be my little wife.' My father frightens me jrcmr mother will oppose you.' 4 If they be lost in the have to go a hunting for My mother yes. To avoid lief anger we must wait. But your lather V Lying on his shoulder, she began to tell hint all her fears, which he endeavored to allay with knees. A flash and a loud re port. Glass breaks, and the young no bleman is sprinkled with tho blood of Gertrude. She can utter but a single cry before she lies upon the sofa, dead. A few minutes afterwards, the old huntsman entered slowly to the door. in agony, here is murder done Your beautiful Gertrude shot!' Ay, to be sure she will not stir again' said Ducker. 'It was a shot well aimed —through the centre of the heart.' The count was bewildered at his cold ness. This is your Gertrude, father—-my Gertrude!' Your highness's Gertrude! I thought she was only mine •He is mad!' the count cried. Ger trude Beloved Gertrede! from whatever quarter the shot cam*, my vengeance on the assassin We were betrothed. ed her." The old man pointed to tho body, and laughed aloud. "Her? You should have said that to her lady mother at the castle yonder." "To my mother ?—the countess The young count, with ashen face, re- he had told, and what had been the end it, her limbs became stiff as with death she spoke, only to pronounce her curse upon whatever foot supped in that hunts man's den of crime—upon whatever man entered that wood to touch a stoue of it.— And then she died. the mountains, never was seen more. The howlings of a dog wero heard for a few days in the wood they became weak er aud weaker, until all was still. And from that hour the stillness was unbro ken. We request as a particular favor, that every man who takes up this paper, should read carefully and thoughtfully, the article following. It is not taken from partisan sheet, and therefore its position can not be call ed Democratic or Republican. It is sound ly Xational throughout, and we hope ar guments in advocacy of tho Union of tho States, are not only in order but that they are tho political food demanded by *1 •. ir 2* tniiv ivw-aru Whence the shot came,* said Ducker, I will show you.' And he led him to ment, it is plain, that, as each is a repre the window. It came from beside yon- tentative government, neither will trans dor pine-tree. A maa sat there who sus pected mischief'— W retch Madman Take your hand your highness, if need be, in the other bar rel. Wait—with your hand off—while I tell vou an old story from me !, You have murdered your own that these ideas should be sanctioned by daughter 1' the popular voice, that injustice should Take your hand also from me said be attempted by a temporary majority,And Ducker. I have powder and shot for th:it disunion should result. There was a forester who loved a!s^lou^ b® continually expounded. For countess. That he did secretly, and with- ollice the independent press is pecu out speaking, for he thought much of the liarly constituted. Partisian journals aro difficulties in his way. However, he was often tempted to misrepresent eonstitu. prudent, and all ended well, and no man tioual questions, forgetting that a tempo was the wiser. But there was a count1 rary success is dearly purchased, if at tho who loved the wife of a forester and that cost of the truth. The independent press, ended not well. For when the forester however, has no inducement to garble or discovered it, ho took that which belonged conceal but, on the contrary, as its per to him, And the count had a son, and manent popularity depends on its inttex the foix'ster a daughter. The old man |ble impartiality, every inducement to bo preached her many a lesson about rank, ju»t- It is on the independent press that aud frivolity, and betrayers but she loved the correct understanding ot tho consti that son, and he pretended equal love for tution must principally depend. The in* her. So, thus—I took that which belong-: dependent press can never be too earnest ed to me." in recalling the true landmarks which "Miserable assassin!" cried the count. divide the reserved powers of the States •'She was mine, mine, mine! You tell from the powers delegated to the federal me of sin and passion, but our hearts were government—in reminding tho people that before God, and our love was unspotted, doubtful powers must be construed against coiled, and hurrying out, called tohisser- 'course." But if false principles of con vants, and spurred his horse home to the stitutional interpretation are to prevail, castle. His mother, the countess, heard all from him. When she knew what the ments permanently transgress on tho fierce huntsman had said, how dark a storv rights ot the other, then indeed disasters of Hans Ducker carried his daughter down, and buried her among the flowers of his garden. The shouldering his gun, he went out of his house and, except when he spoke a word to Peter beyond ground should have been furnished for every Patriotic man whether he hails from ^°l! Saeoor Galveston, St. Paul or N. Orleans, Massachusetts or 2|jssouri Front the Feu Ijsdget. HAVE WE RUN OUR CAREER. A Canadian Journal says:—"The Uni ted States has about run its race as a re public. Its democracy is ripening into anarchy, the fruits of which will inevit ably be despotism of some sort or other." It is not improbable that this opinion is sincere. But it is also certain that it nentof Eur coinin is false. We say it is not improbable and liquors. For burns and scalds, keep that it is sincere, because hasty thinkers, NO. 3. fc »1 y (TERMS IN ADVANCE 1 $2,00 PER ANNUM. them as moments'r\ abbe ra tions, the suit of transitory circumstan ces of the short-lived triumph of bad men, or of temporary misapprehensions of right. The great body of the people remain uncontaminated, and not only re* main uncontaminated, but improve in tho vigor of their political life yearly, so that America is very far from having run her race." There is hut one serious peril, indeed, which threatens our experiment of self gov* ernment, and it comes from an entirely dif ferent quarter fr«»m that hinted at by tho Canad ia n ed i! or. The real danger o A me rii'a lies in disunion. The danger of dis^ union lies in the attempts, which may arise, as indeed, they have arisen, on the part of the Federal or State governments to transgress on the powers of the other. Dueker Ducker "the count shouted jOur Federal government is a peculiar one, because possessed of certain absolute pow ers delegated by the States, aud being sovereign only in regard to those powers, while, as to other powers, it has no sover* eignty at all. Our State governments are also peculiar, because part r.f their original powers they have parted with to the Federal government, so that they are as deficient as to those powers as the Fed eral government is to the rest. A citizen, in these United States, owes a twofold, but not a divided allegiance. Both tho Federal and State governments make to gether, as to him, only one complete gov ernment. As long as every citizen un derstands the province of each govern- gress on the rights of the other bttfe tho danger is, lest false ideas of the powers of either srovertnne^t should Q-et afloat, To avert this peril, it is necessary 'that the true character of our governments, and especially our federal government. I would have marri- general government—in enforcing tho vital point, that new questions must be settled according to the spirit of the origi nal compact. If the independent press does its «'uty, if the people stick to the spirit of that great compromiee, tho Constitution, tho republic is very far from having "run its ,ftud either the State or Federal govern- will come, for then the balance of the Constitution will be destroyed. Washington on Geographical Parties. llero is a passage of the great Fare well that rebukes the terrible appugi I# local passion nnd prejudice:—• "In contemplating the causes which may distract our Union, it occurs, as a matter of serious concern, that any characterizing parties by geographical discriminations northern and southern— Atlantic and western— whence design- :ng men may endeavor to excite the belief that there is a real difference of local in terests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within par ticular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.— ou cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresenta tions They tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound to gether by fraternal affection." HiW oung men, who are toiling up on the comparatively sterile farms^of the East, tor a mere pittance, should come to the young and growing West. Here, can Ct 1 in 1'.nand REMEDIES a unaccustomed to tho working of our in- health, work hard, avoid the gin-bottle stitutious, are apt to confound temporary and card table, and spend the leisure agitations with personal diseases of the hours in making your wife and children body politic. Such observers see revolu- comfortable and happy. lion in every riot, and anarchy in every Jail, be a Man, pay your debts and be spasmodic popular excitement. The late honest. To euro ti e blues, driuk less, events in Kansas and California are sure work harder, eat regularly, and "be early proofs to such persons of the approaching to bed and early to rise." To make mon disintcgiation ol our political sv stem, be- ioy, advertise your business liberally, in cause similar transactions, on the conti- the North Iowa Times. Mind your own good wages in ready a s o o n i e i o o K cash, good diet, good health and hosts of true friends. Come to the fair and fertile prairies of Iowa, come now, aud if you are upright, persevering and industrious you will acquire wealth, aud a position in life better than you can ever attain un aided, in the older states. Any person who will wort, can find plenty of employ ment and first rate wages now, in Mc GltEGOR. THAT NEVER FATU -For the cholera, avoid vegetables, fruit meats proper distance from the fire. For Europe, would luuc been sigus ot business and pay the printer, aud vou will anarchy. But those who know 11,0 loved l»\ every body and have a clcj iU V IW, MAML. better thq eltABieier ftf ««r peo^e, moreJqoQ^ie^ TQ ri-HLvf keep out of