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J H CLARY.
VTTORNF.Y AT LAW, Mineral Point, Wi*. Of
fice in Thomas* Stone Block. [ul-ylj
MATTIIEw BISHOP.
Has furnished his liar with a re-w assortment of liq
uors. He has also a good RillitfiA Table. Give him
. call.
J R. ROBERTS.
NOTARY PUBLIC. Deeds, Mortgages, Ac., drawn
with accuracy, at his Hotel on Main Street,
Dodgeville, Wfs. [nßv4-Ifj^
R AjRUNDELL.
Cs ENER.AL DEALER in stoves. Hardware. Tin,
J Sheet-Iron, and Copper ware, Ac., lowa Street,
opposite the old Post Office, Do- geville. \\ is. [ul-yl]
WHITNEY SMITH.
rjvWNER AND CURRIER. Mineral Point, Wis,
1 Leather of nil kinds, also Hair for Plastering, al
ways on hand, cheap for cash. Job Work done at short
notice and on moderate terms. [n2l!-tf]
S W REESE
VTTORNEY AT LAW. Land and Collecting Agent,
Dodgeville, Lava County, Wis, Particular at
tention given to coileating and agencies, and payment of
faxes in lowa County. Office hi the Post Office Build
lug. ' [Hisylj
Li. M. STRONG,
VTTORNKY A f LAW, Notary Public, Land and
Collecting Agent, Dodgeville, Wig. Particular
attention given to the settlement of estates in the
County Court. Office in Court House. [Up Stairs.]
nyfi-y!
Soldiers claim agency”
DODGEVILLE, WIS.
C tolled* back pay for discharged Soldiers. Bounty
/ JJoney and back pay for heirs of deceased SoßJ.ers.
Pension certificates procured, Bounty claims aeulud
t prices establised by Law.
nVI-ly SAMUEL W. REESE, Att’y
sctialjL’s house,
NO. 207 A 309 Randolph Street. Chicago Illinois.
This house is centrally located, in Ihe business
part of the eitj, near the Post Office, the Court House,
and all tiie principle Rail Road Depots The accom
modations are e od, *ncl cheaper than most of the
Hotels in this vicinity. [nU-tfj
(j(sl GST.CBN I) OTS
DODGEVILLE, - - - WIS.
a THE undersigned would respectfully ask a
share of the public pair mage. Ills table
■ IlSvjLt will always b-- furnished in good taste and
• iIB bis rooms .are large and airy, and in every
department the intention will bo to consult
the comfort and wishes of his patrons. Good stables
and attentive ostlers always in readiness.
B -ardsrs by the day or .veek furnished with all ttec-
Mary conveniences and at reasonable rates.
Mages leave Ihi* house dailv, north and south
ni-ly JOHN R. ROBERTS.
MASONIC
Regular meetings of Dodgevin- Lodge, Ko
119 of A. K. A A. M, on the first and third Fri
day evening* of each . ninth, at their Hall on lowa
treet. Transi t brethren visiting Dodgeville, are
ordially invited to aUeud.
Urxtn Dcnstas, Scc'y.
To widow’s tears to orphans’ cry.
All wants our ready hands supply.
So far ns power is given ;
TUo naked clothe, the prisoner free,—
Such are the deeds sweet masonry
Revealed to us from heaven.
I O OP G T
VMICITIA LODGE, No. ICI, Independent Order of
G,hkl Templars, meet* every Monday evening in
B. F. Thomas' Hall, ai 7Sj o'clock. Members of this
order visiting this Village are cordially invited to meet
with us, THOMAS LEW If, W. C. T.
Janes Bates, W. R. S.
L. M. STRONG.
ComiQt’rr.iul Broker.
(LICENSED BY THE U. S, GOVERNMENT.)
Sells Real Estate.
Pays Taxes in all Parts of the State.
Take* charge of Lease, and Collects Rents for im
proved and unimproved Property.
Buys & Sells Bonds, Mortgages,
Notes, &c., &c.
A LSO
Soldiers* Claim Agent.
Gdlcetn hade pay for Discharged Soldier*,
pay for Heirs of deceased Sol
diers, Pension Certificates procured, at
prices established by Law.
Office ia the Court llca*o, DodgcrllJo, lowa County
wiwxia
The Little Pilgrim,
The way to heaven is narrow,
And its blessed entrance strait (
But h .w safe the little pilg-ims
Who get within the gate!
The sunbeams of the morning
Make the narrow paths so fair,
And these early little pilgrims
Find dewy blessings there
They pass o’er ragged mountains.
But they cl mb them with a song;
For these eaily little pilgrims
Have sandals new and strong.
They do not greatly tremble
When the shadows might foretell
For those early little pilgrims
They know the path so well.
They know it leads to heaven
With its bright and open gates,
Where for f,ilhf'u! little p Igdms
A Savior's welcome wait.
Recollections of Boys.
JOSEPH C , THE MECHANIC.
Some of the boys that were rny school companions I have long
since forgotten, time has great power in effacing scenes ami cir
cumstances from the memory, and although forty years ago I was
a boy, and associated with boys, and was familiar with boys, the
names of many of them have passed from my recollection. There
are some, however, that 1 remember distinctly, because
they were a little eccentric in th ir boyhood, others of them
because they had some peculiarity either good or bad when they
became men, among these is Joseph C the mechanic; Joe
went with me to school, but he had neither good traits nor bad
traits any way remarkable. If he played truant once in awhile,
that was nothing more than what the rest of us did; if he made
little lame apologies for his truant playing, others of us did the
same thing; if he m glee ted his studies, here too many of us
must plead guilty; and if he was, per force, made acquainted with
the philosophy of hirch on the hod, we all, or pretty much all,
had some experience in this philosophy, not much to our liking
however. It is not in ins boyhood but in bis manhood that we
must look for what is excellent in the character of Joseph 0 ;
he became a man not so remarkable for great sayings as for good
doings, and his good doings have made him a man of mark, and
the mark will stand indelible when he is gone.
When he was about fourteen years old, Joe was apprenticed to
a millwright, lie served his apprenticeship with ordinary credit
and had become a healthy and active young man. To make him
self more fully acquainted with the trade he had learned and pur
posed to follow, he traveled some and worked in several places, in
this way he p nt two or three years; and during these two or three
years he lived as young people generally live, not very wicked,
and yet making no special pretensions to piety ; upon the whole,
heresp ‘Cted the Sabbath day. lie bad been taught to do so, and
he considered that the Sabbath day should be respected; he at
tended meeting gem rally when meetings were convenient; this
was about as far as he went towards being a Christian, and this
he did not make any claim to Christianity at all so far as its saving
power is concerned.
it came to piss however, that there was an alteration, In the
fall of ilie year 1836, Joe had located in a village which promised
to be something of a place. There was good waterp wer there,
and the waterpower was being used to propel machinery ; em
ployment in Joseph (J ’s line of business was plentiful.
Joe made up his mind to settle here and give attention to his
business, and, as he was considered an excellent mechanic, busi
ness multiplied on his hands. But what concerns our story more
is, that iu that same fall what the world calls ( “a religious excite
ment,” was going on in that village, it was in fact a good deal of
a revival; Joe became interested, he attended the meetings, he
became concerned, —he became still more concerned, and ultimate
ly he joined the little band of praying people that were striving to
raise a cause in that place. They were Primitive Methodists, and
at that time Primitive Methodism knew what it was to be perse
cuted, ridiculed and traduced. All this did not effect Joe any
other than to induce bun to be the more firm and the more true
to toe infant cause, ana lie became a kind of center around which
the little band rallied in the dark hour, ft was not any shining
talking talent tuat made Joe a man of importance in Primitive
Methodism ; in fact he was not a man of many words nor loud
words, it was his liberality—his giving that made him notable.
He was generous m his giving. Some people thought altog ther
too generous for his means, and some of these gave him intima
tions of it, and offered him a little counsel as a caution, lest he
might injure liiiusi.il or iiuit his family. “Joe,” said tails friend
ol his, “it is possible to give too much, you must be more pru
dent, Joe. A man's family has h'.s iii st claim,” Joe looked at
tAis man, who was, by tiie by, a religious professor in another
denomination, and said Joe: h. it did you get your gos
pel ? my gosp. l teaches me that my God has the tiist claim, my
l.jijM the next." This was Joe’s oehel and he acted upon it, and
soipeuow Joe was not reduced to beggary, nor did Ins family sut
ler, lb - contrajy are the facts ; tie prospered m his business, he
has property enough to serve him, tie is not a broken down man
yet, tje is hale and nearly at tifty-uve, he is sail in business, he
still gets, he still gives. A latuuy of six boys and two girls cull
him father, A man of belter standing, or a family of better
standing is not in that section, though there may be some richer
in money. Joe has lent some of his money to the Lord, he draws
the interest in celestial coin. Many a struggle the little society
had to get a church, they succeeded, in three or four years it was
taken from them through some blunder in the writings; “let it
go,” said Joe, “we ll build a better, I'll be half of it myself;” it
was built, a handsome commodious church, and nothing on earth
seems to suit Joe better than to be in his pew worshipping, with
the people and his family around him.
Tiie Highest position in the Primitive Methodist denomination
that Joe has attained is that of class leader and chapel trustee,
and these he has filled for over twenty years, and very likely will
as lung as he lives. The society was*weak at first, it is strong
now; Joe is looked up to as a father; an experience of very near
thirty wears has seen many a storm burst on that society and on
the connection; Joe has seen spine hard sieges; atone time
through the conduct of a reckless preacher and some hotheaded
| men that would meddle, and meddle miserably, there cajne ot it
S an ugly mess; Joe clung to the cause, all had left but him, hi
wife and another woman ; Joe prayed, he paid money, he kept
it going when nearly dead. It survived, it prospered, and Joe’s
heart has many a time been made glad in seeing its progress for
several years. There is one spot made green and kept green bv
the earnest soul-effort of one man. He don’t boast, don’t Joe*;
j all he says is, “we have tried to keep the thing along, and God
| prospered us.” Aye! God never fails to do what he promises
1 when men work and tru>t him. Tell me, is there no heaven for
I such men as Joseph C ? I won’t believe ye if ye do tell me
there is not!
Boys, read this story, it is a true one; Joseph was a school
fellow with me; he has made his mark, has Joe m :• verv quiet
way ; the mark be has made will last when he is gone away, away
high up and taken his place among the exalted. Boys* aim at
making a mark—a good mark ! *
The Send at-schools of London. England.— ln the city of
London there are 893 Sunday-schools, 3 7,039 Sunday school
teach rs, and scholars. There L a "training college for
Sunday-school teachers,” conducted by means of two evening
classes, which meet altcrnat ly once a week. In one of these
classes “Biblical Illustration” is tie study ; in the otl r th-- "Prin-
Iciples and Art of Teaching.” These are said to be w. 11 attended.
The raothc-’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
A REPUBLICAN AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE.
DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1863.
Rich Fruit.
One day a teacher came across a little Irish bov, covered with
filth and rag?. He took him to the Sunday school with him.
The boy was ignorant of almost everything. Could not read a
syllable. The teacher taught him to read, and Sabbath aft r Sab
bath told him of Jesus and a Savior’s love.
“Will he be a friend to me?” inquired the litttle fellow.
“Yes.” >
“Ad will he love me as you do?”
“Yes.”
“How can I get him to be my friend?”
The t;acher answered all his inquiries as well as lie could, vis
ited him at his home, prayed with him, and in a very little time
that boy give his heart to the Savior. One day, while visiting at
his home, the teacher inquired of his mother about him.
“Oh,” says she, “he’s so changed ! He takes care of his dress,
I don t hear him swear, and lie works all the time, and reads to
me, and prays every day. I don’t know what to make of it.”
Here was more work for that teacher. A mother to be saved.
He told her of Jesus, prayed with her, often visited her, and
shortly she too became a Christian, and united with the Church.
But there was work for her to do. Her husband was a drunkard.
The gospel must be preached to him, for he was not beyond all
hope. But how should she approach him ? Easily. Every meal
was prepared in good time and in the best style; the table-spread
was clean, and if the whole meal was but a crust of bread, it was
ready for him on his arrival. So with everything. All his little
wants were attended to cheerfully and promptly." He noticed the
change in his treatment. It seemed strange, and one day he
asked,
“How is this ? Why are all these things done for me !”
How quick the story was told. The Sunday school taught
them to be kind. Now, all this time this good woman had been
preaching to her drunken husband, though never saying a word on
the subject. A few weeks later this father united himself with
the Church of Christ. A vvhold family saved! Think, teacher,
and take courage.— S. S. T. Journal,
Certainty of Pnalshoient.
In the days of Queen Anne, dur ng the war in Flanders, when
the Duke of Marloorough and Prince Eugene commanded the al
lied army, a soldier under the immediate department of Eugene
was condemned to be hanged for marauding, The man happened
to be a favorite with his officers, who took great pains to save his
lile ; and for this purpose interceded with the prince, who refused
absolutely 10 grant their request. They then applied to the Duke
of Marlborough, begging his grace to interfere. He accordingly
went to Prince Eugene, w>>o said he “never did and never would
consent to the pardon of a marauder.”
“ W hy,” said the duke, “at this rate we shall hang half the array.
I pardon a great many.”
“Fuat is the very reason,” replied the prince, “that so much
mischief is done by your people, and that so many suffer for doing
it. 1 never pardon any, and therefore there are very few to be pun
ished in my department.”
“Fhe duke still urged his request, on which the prince said;
“Let the matter be inquired into, and if your gaace has not ex
ecuted more than I have done 1 will consent to the pardon of this
fellow.”
Fite proper inquiries were ac orbing made, and the number
turned out very Highly in favor of Prince Eugene; on which he
to the duke:
“There, my lord, you see the benefit of example. You pardon
many, and, therefore, you are forced to exacute may ; I never par
uon one, therefore few dare to offend, and of course few suf
fer.”
The reasoning which may he drawn from the above, on the
side of strict discipline, is not applicable to fleets and armies
alone, but to till governments whatsoever. The civil interests of
society cannot otherwise be protected than by a due and certain
execution of the laws. The Marquis of Bee aria observes very
truly, that "a less punishment which is certain will do more good
than a greater which is uncertain.”
It was a fine saying of the great and good Chief Justice Hale:
When I find myself swayed to mercy, let me remember there is
likewise a mercy due to my country.
Asia—Success of a New Baptist .Mission.
Mu. Cross, of the Toungoo Mission, bears the following testi
mony to the work of Mr. Bixby among the Slums :
“I have an opportunity to observe what Mr. Bixby is doing. I
am prepared to say that the Shan Mission has greatly surpassed
all my highest expectations. Mr. Bixby will no doubt give you
his own reports. But lam happy to hear rny testimony to what
I see. I feel that Go I has in a remarkable manner manifest and
his favor on Mr. Bixhy’s labors. I confess that when 1 learned
that he was to leave th place of great usefulness which he occu
pied in Providence', 11. 1., to commence a Shan Mission,! felt that
it was a matter of doubtful expediency. But about the begin
ning of January, 1863, a work wa- commenced among the Shams
which now promises to spread among the whole race. It begun
in the conv rsion of Mr. Bixhy’s teacher, and spread in Ills neigh
borhood or village, until Mr. Bixby was led to build a chapel in
that place; and tie soon found it filled. The Sharis seemed to be
stirred up to receive the Word of God. Yesterday a good num
ber ofShans, Red Karens, and Tonngthoos were collected on Mr.
Bixby’s verandah. The spirit of inquiry and interest has extend
ed abroad. Many of the Slums are from the regions fur north,
and by receiving the truth they become well disposed, and de
velop the condition of their own people and other tribes in that
region. Thus facts are obtained which show that the work of con
version here is rapidly connecting itself with vast multitudes in
those distant regions, who are evidently prepared of God to re
ceive the gospel.”
“Mr. Bixby has a class of seven or eight men studying the
Scriptures with him. They seem to be the promise of a great
work among the Shuns, They have mostly been converted with
in a few months.”
Beniarhable F'esentlment,
During the funeral services of a little boy about six years of
age, who died in our village a few days since, the minister re
lat and the following somewhat remarkable presentiment of the lit
tle boy.
Several weeks before his death, while his cheeks were yet rud
dy, and his eyes bright with the lustre of health, he came down
from his sleeping-room in the morning, and told his mother he
had just seen the most beautiful lady he ever saw, and that she
was very anxious that he should accompany her away tea beaut
ful land.
The little boy felt somewhat inclined to listen to the persuasive
pleadings of the beautiful lady, but finally told her that his mother
could not spare him, and lie must be excused.
In about three weeks the same vi.-ion was repeated, only with
more clearnees and Kauty.
She endeavored to persuade her little boy that ae had been
dreaming, ut he could not believe this asserting that he really
saw the beautiful lady, and that her persuasiveness was almost
irresistahle. In about three weeks the “beautiful lady” app.aren
the third time, and renew ed her earnest entreaty for the compin'.,
of th little boy. He u> a the same childlike argument this tim
asserting that his mother could not spare him.
In about three days from this last interview, the little boy \vr.
taken sick and ver}* soon died. He had gone to that beautiful land
where sickness is n -ver known. Strange and tnyst rions are t
links which un't ■ us to the Atpirit world, and touchingly b autif
are the ministrntl ms of pufe spirits to the vision of little children
—Lidporl J•> u met I.
ShS- Beasou can tell how love affects us, but cannot te..
what love is
Goughs Apostrophe to Cold Water.
Look at that, ye thirsty ones of earth !
Behold it! See its purity! How it
glitters, as if a mass of liquid gems !
It is a beverage brewed by the hand ol
the Almighty himself! Not in a sim
mering still, over smoky fires, choked
with poisonous gasses, and surrounded
by the stench of sickening odors and
rank corruptions, does your Father in
Heaven prepare the precious essence of
life, the pure cold water ; but in the
green glade and grassy dell, where the
red deer wanders and the child loves to
play —there God brews it. And down,
down in the deepest valleys, where the |
fountains murmer and the rills sing—
and high up in the mountain tops where
the naked granite glitters like gold in
the sun, where storm clouds brood and !
thunder storms crash—and away far
out on the wide sea where the hurri* |
cane howls music, and the waves roar I
the chorus, sweeping the march of God i
—there He brews it, that beverage of i
life—health giving water ! And every
where it is a thing of beauty—gleam
ing in the dew drop, singing in the
summer rain, shining in the ice gem.
till the full trees all seemed turned in
to living jewels ; spreading a golden
veil over the setting sun, of the white
gauze over the midnight moon, sport
ing in the cataract, sleeping in the
bright snow curtains, softly about the
world, and weaving the moon colored
iris, that seraph’s zone of the sky,
whose warp is the rain drop of earth,
whose woof is the sunbeam of heaven,
all checkered over with celestial flowers
by the mystic hand of refretion. Still
always it is beautiful, that blessed liie
water, No poison bubbles on the
brink ; its form brings no sadness or
murder ; no blood stains its limpid
glasses ; broken-hearted wives, pale
widows and starving orphans shed no
tears into its depths. No drunkard’s
shreiking ghost from the grave curses
it in the works of eternal despair. —
Beautiful, pure, blessed and glorious—
give me forever the sparkling, pure
Cold Water.
The Horrors of War.
Nothing but a visit over the battle
field will convey an intelligent idea of
the horrors and desolation of war. Not
until we see the ground strewn with
the mangled corpses of those who a few
moments before were buoyant with life
and who although engaged in deadly
conflict looked upon each other as
brothers and kindred, can wc realize
how cruel is the war in which we are
engaged. Dead horses strewn in every
direction, fences leveled to the earth,
fruitful fields of grain trampled beneath
the soldiers’ feet, verdant plains made
desolate, houses and barns, which a few
moments before furnished peaceful homes
lor happy families laid in ruins and the
inmates turned upon the cold charities
of the world, the long trains of ambu
lances, bearing to the hospital our
wounded heroes, the shrieks and groans
ol the dying, as their thoughts turn to
their homes they left to defend, the
surgeon with his instruments and the
diggers with their spades, are sights
which can alone convey to the minds
of our readers the horrors of the’battle
field. These are sights which have
met our eyes during the last few weeks
on every side. it any wonder the
mind grows sick and the heart sad ?
May we never be called upon to witness
the iike again.— Gettysburg (Pa.) J\ r ews.
“Greenbacks.”
Few people, perhaps, arc aware why
the National currency is printed with
greenbacks; therefore a contemporary
explains the reason. Ever since the
adoption of paper eurreny, it lias been
the constant study of bank note engrav
ers to get up some plan of printing bills
that could not he counterfeited. In
this they only partly succeeded, till, as
late as 1856, a man named Stacy J. Ed
son, invented a kind of green ink, which
be patented June JOth of that year
Iris called anti-photographic ink, be
cause it cannot bo photographed on ac
count of its color, and cannot be dis
lodged by counterfeiters, to get a com
plete fac-smile of the bills. As it is a
secret only known by the American
Bank Note Company and the inventor,
it is impossible to counterfeit .he green
back money. It was used by many i
banks before the war, but was never a
leabing feature in the bill; but oven if,
the compo ition of the ink was known,
St would be of no use, as the work {
could not be copied from the genuine
bills as with any other description of,
ink. The date of the patent can be
'•eon on all the hills in small print.
Artemus Mar l is preparing a
!<■*•,v lecture entitled “Brigham Young's
■luiher-ia-law, shoA’.ng how many there,
is of her ”
Terms: I
( it paid in advance.
Devil’s Lake.
A correspondent who was with Cnpt.
Burt’s command, which captured the
son of Little Crow, gives the following
description of Devil’s Lake :
“Devil’s Lake we found to be much
larger than we expected. It is fully
sixty-five miles in lenght,.and its wa
ters are nearly as salt as those of the
Atlantic. These is an island covered
with scrub oak at the south-west end,
containing 4,000 acres. The immediate
shore is about equally divided between
prairie and timber, but after passing a
half mile from the lake the country is
one vast rolling prairie, as far as the
eye can reach, dotted all over with nu
merous small lakes of salt water. The
lake abounds with fish, and has a pretty
shore, from which we picked many spec
imens of petrified wood, bone, etc. We
find nearly everything of this character
rapidly petrified in this region. The
seagull and many different specimens
of birds that we have seen along the
Atlantic and the great lakes, are here
found in great numbers; flocks of great
white swans are cautinually found flying
around the shores and swimming over
the surface of the lake.”
Poor Miserable Bachelors.
Appleton’s Cyclopedia contains the
following hint to bachelors :
In the good old times it was consid
ered unpatriotic in a citizen to remain a
bachelor all his days. By the Spartan
laws those citizens who remained bach
elors after middle age were excluded
from all offices, civil and military. At
certain feasts they were exposed to pub
lic derision, and led round the market
place. Although, generally speaking,
age was usually respected at Sparta, yet
this feeling was not manifested to old
bachelors. “Why should I make way
tor you I said a Spartan youth to a
gray-haired old bachelor, “who will nev
er have a son to do me tlie same honor
when lam old. ’ The Roman law pur
sued the same policy towards bachelors.
j hey had to pay extra and special tax
es, and under Augustine a law was en
acted by which bachelors were made in
capable of acquiring legacies and devises
of real estate by will, except from their
near relatives. In cannon law bachel
ors are enjoined to marry, or to profess
chastity in earnest hy becoming monks.
“The Smiths.”
John Smith—plain John Smith—is
not very high sounding; it does not
suggest aristocracy; it is not the name
ot any hero in die-way novels; and yet
it is good, strong and honest. Trans
ferred to other languages it seems to
climb the ladder of rospeetability. Thus
in Latin, if is JohannesSmithus; the
Italian smoothes it off into Giovanni
Smith; the Spaniards render it Juan
Smithus; the Dutchman adopts it as
Hans Schmidt; the French fiat fen it
out into Jean Smeets; and the Russian
sneezes and barks Sonloff Smittowski.
Vi hen John Smith gets into the tea
trade at Canton, he becomes Jahon
Shi mm it; if he clambers about Mount
liecla, the Icelanders sa he is Jahne
Smithson ; if he trades among the Tus
carorus, he becomes Ton Qa. Smittia; in
Poland he is known as Ivan Scmitti
weiski ; should he wander among the
Welsh mountains, they talk of Jihon
Schimidd; when he goes to Mexico, ho
is booked as Jontli F’Sraitti; if of clas
sic turn, he lingers among Greek ruins,
ho turns to Ton h'niiktoh; and in Tur
key, he is utterly disguised as Yoe Seef.
An Interesting Relic.— One of the
most interesting relics of the Pilgrims
has been recently uncovered by the
ever-moving ocean, on the eastern shore
of Orleans, Cape Cod. It is the hull of
a small vessel which was wrecked in
that harbor in HJ27 —of w T hich a par
ticular account is given in Bradford
and Morton, under that year. A por
tion of it was seen about eighty years
ago, hut has since been entirely cover
ed by the sand and salt meadow, most
of the time twenty feet deep.
Gen. Logan of Illinois, in a
recent speech, and his words should bo
| duly pondered :
| "The government is worth fighting
for. —It is worth generatioos and cen
turies of war. It is worth the lives of
the best and noblest men iu the land.
We will fight for this government for
the sake of ourselves and our children.
Our little ones shall read in history of
the men who stood by the Government
in its dark and gloomy hours, and it
shall be the proud boa-t of many that
their fathers died in this glorious slug
g!e for American liberty.”
Whisky has killed more persons
than the -mail pox; yet the latter is leaf*
ed more than the former.
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