Alton Telegraph (Newspaper) - August 15, 1840, Alton, Illinois Edited lif JOHN S i I THE ALTON h published every at BAILHACHE In 00 to o or to bo Wod nt ol per KUM to bo at any ut of the For one or 00 For GO A deduction made to tJ 0 C t V July you n tmo KAAL BACKWOODS To I hastened one To ice girls that were there And In ns ily M a And lal nut but just One I thought in my Would afford nto a journey pleasant So I thought I would find the slate of her By a whom 1 knew to bo Thli friend I took n rod or And to him tike I wish tny n to By you to thut fair little Anil ell her just I wish her to show Her face In this house one lime more This will when the scholars review Their bible class lesion at I went fo my dome o this school bach I And looking quite clever I thought end did there wits no excuse But walk to her mid sleeve When lessons were I o the And her arm offered to She refused this to in tt stole of high At if to you mistake I looked in her and the caio Out Jinny still replied am in my you now may I then left her beauty and A I tho R good one or not worth n farthing to me If shed give me a the Id wear In respect to her presents and K From Ladies Hook for THE ELDEST BY LYDIA As the importance of education becomes more and moro appreciated by the tho difficulty of obtaining well qualified teachers is proportionately Foreigners may bo profoundly learned or highly accomplish but political and moral idioms of our Republic aro to bo mind in some measure weaned from established trains of ere it can assimilate with whom it is expected to Tho inhabitants of different sections of our own Union must submit in some degree to the same subjugating Tho Northern who engages in tho business of in struction at tho sunny perceives a ne of conforming to now usages ero ho csn be in harmony wilh those Even natives of portions of tho samo must take pains to adapt themselves to tho new neighborhood or family where they are to if they would hope their efforts to be attended with full Is it understood that in every family brothers and there is a teacher whom it is not necessary to naturalize as a foreign erl or as a stranger to incite to While sho aids intellectual her in fluence on Iho disposition and moral and religious aro still more Visible and Sho enjoys and tho love of thoso who receive her les Year after year sho continues hoi It will bo evident that I speak of tho old est Her sympathy with her pu pils must doubtless bo greater than that o other They are her bone and he They cohio to her with moro freedom than even lo the parent so that the of her sway it is not easy to limit or com J Many excellent elder daughters has it my good fortune to who realized thai responsibility to the Great and wer filled with tenderness to the mother whoa mission they ond to tho dear ono who looked to them for an I thin moment of one who was the light am We of a circle of little The Qung on the lineaments of her sweet coun imbibed From her lovely winning they fashioned own it temporary sadness stole over sh approach to and he music and sweeter words cheered ther to If there were among Hem exuberance of or symptoms o or indications of si cm bed herself with iho temporary oi the antl When sick ness was among no eye save lhat o mother could so long hold waking a Wo other arm was so tireless in BUS the helpless form or tho weary head if infant seemed to havo two a w n m doubt which most lo Often IVIV lier I sai a preparation are you giv gf yourself for your own future duties tho man who shall bo to himself such a Still at her joyous bridal there wa 1 tears of the little The her in their tiny yj to resign Afte retired to thoy were heard la now ua we are sad and teach us play mado us wiser and I our who will help us to mem i em and when we aro who wil wing ut back I another elder t 1 caroa r j Ule With Si Wilh a dii i pt tlie gift Site opened he IU ifk ULto new Sho took babe to her lulled it to sloe m her shared her Soon ts lisping tonos mingled with her She fed the unfolding mind with tho dews of small rain up m the tender From her it learned to ove tho tho the hind pastor to seek for true penitence and perseverance path leads to Andit was early taken In tho arms of that its sou was rendered But ot until it had given proof for a few years f happy that it was ono of tho ambs of tho Saviours Afterwards saw that same eldest daughter in a fam ly heighten tho 093 and elevate tho character of those round woro her And sho for she had learned Thorough in the culture of the disinterest d gave her an immense vantage round for tho new duties of wife and mo Thoy were performed with case to and wore beautiful in the eyes of The children of others were in rusted to her husband to ho and ho became a mother to And I lot but bless iho every good and that tho hallowed influences to which daughter had given such under tho parental might now jo forth into tho bosom of take distant in uno her or in an unborn bring tha fruits of The assistance which may be afforded to by tho eldest daughter is What other hand could so effectually aid hem in the great work of training up their children to usefulness and Filial is among the noblest motives to his Many young ladies have cen thus actuated to become tho instructors n different of their brothers and or regularly to study their lessons with and hear them rocito ere they vent to their stated teachers or to assume he whole charge of their classical I was acquainted with an elder who every when tho younger chil dren were about to depart their separate took a room by thera and imparted most kindly and se such admonition or as had a visible effect on their in enabling both to resist and to be steadfast in truth and But I have been much affected with the of amid circumstances of peculiar not only those youn er than but to her and es to her widowed and sorrowing fa as a guardian It is more than a century since a native of moved with pity for the benighted Greon left a pleasant abode and an to become their lis wife and four young children nied Their privations and hardships it is difficult either to describe or imid an degraded and in terrible where darkness is to the bitter frosts of so that it is necessary to shrink into subter ranean and feed incessantly tho train oil lost the spark of life should be ex Little Ulrica saw her mother continually sustaining and cheering amid la bors which long seemed to be without She heard her read to by the glimmer ing neverdying from tho few books they had brought from father She observed how cheerfully she denied herself for the eako of anil with whit a sweet ami la she discharged her daily She perceived that light and warmth might be kept within the while all around was dark and and gave her young heart to tho God from whom such gifts proceeded When tho after long once more appeared over tho icy glorious as if now and in a few moments sank again beneath the the mission ary anu his wife sometimes climbed rocks to meet the herald and to wel come their first brief follow ing in their footsteps with the ear incited them to lova and revere tho Great who colled forth that wondrous orb with a and sent him on errands ol mercy to the and to tho children o And when tho light of whoso sun never was around and the few juniper and birch trees out into sud den and tho reindeer browsed among the and the long day which knew n evening fell upon the senses with a sort of oppressive she sometimes led hci little sister to tha shores of tho solemn sea and raising her in her as some towered along in awful majesty bade her to fear and obey the God who the mighty deep and alt that is The mother was Iho teacher of her chil during the long solitude of the Greenland was it her bus ness and pleasure to form am fortify them against ignorance and rica drank the deepest of this Often while the younger ones did she delighted to the legends of other days am bow herself to Iho spirit of Book which speaks of a clime there is no or or When the accompanied by the son older than was abroad in thu duties of his ro among the miserable inhabitants o tho squalid Ulrica sat at tho feet ol her solo surrendering t her her whole But what she learned was treasured fur tho little brother and sis Every lesson wan carefully and broken inly fragments for their weaker comprehension She dealt out to them daily portions of as the bread from She poured it out like wa ter in tho bidding them drink and It was in the spring of that the poo wore visited by a wasting epi Tho small pox broke out among with a fury which nothing could with assuming the benevolent of fice of was continually among He gave medicines to the infilled and night and day besought tho dying to took unto the Lamb of God who luketh away the sins of tho Dwelling after dwelling was left empty and ani the always thin in that sterile molted away as snow before tho vcr nal Orphans fled to pastor for and the sick to bo nursed and Every part of his house was an the sufferers lay side by omo who been his open and his were in rightful so bloated and disfigured scarcely to retain a vestige of no when came to with a penitent and broken confessing ho worth of that religion which could ena ble him thus to bless his I this fearful which lost id for many the wife of with icr patiently and kindly tended the sick who thronged their But tho judgment was and revisited tho and among the number of tho survivors were in of that religious sensibility which more than repaid all her sho herself the victim of sudden ms come for she said to her In tho cold cup which ha presses to my Ips there is no save that I must while your desires for the con torsion of our people are Lo her constant tireless both night and sho committed the younger towards whom sho had so long evinced a sweet combination of sisterly and maternal Sho heard these little ones wailing around her and comforted them vitli the hope wherewith she was herself comforted of Sho dictated messages if holy love to her eldest pursuing is theological studies in she must 10 more embrace on And in that ow Greenland she mot the last and with a gasp nnd mingled a lymn of victory and Around her there stood only the ono missionary and his three He vas borno down and bewildered by this rible In all his forms of adver and thoy Imd been it did not ap ear to have entered Ins imagination that ho beautiful so much younger than so firm in fresh in who from early youth had been to him as soul of strength and should je and he loft Then it way that Ulrica that her sacred charge comprised the motherless iiut the sorrowing Asking strength rom to tread in the footsteps of her sainted sho came and gavo licr arm firmly to tho bereaved man a rood shaken by the wavered to and on tho verge of the covered whore lay the lifeless form of its idolized It was most touch ing to seo the fragile nature of a beautiful young gird itself to shelter the blossom and prop the tree which the lightning had Suppressing her own sho taxed every energy to soothe and comfort her Strongly resembling her mother in she had the same blue tho same flaxen tho samo yet resolv ed cast of So much like were tho sweet inspiring tones of her hat the poor bereaved sometimes started om his with a wild that sank jut to deeper Hourly it was her study to minister to his Carefully did she provide his and when ho went so wrap his furs about as Lo defend him from tho for he seemed less assiduous than formerly to guard his own health and Sho spread his humble board as her mother had been accustomed to spread it but when sho urged him to take ho was os one who hoard and bowed himself down to Then sho knelt softly by his and her suppli cations ascended with those of tho He would sit for with Ins head resting upon his or during tho gazo motionless on tho seat his best beloved had so long A mazed at tho weight and endur ance of his the younger who strove to wait and cheer as thoy had seen their mother sobbed forth their as if they anew bade her But Ul rica never was never though her heart was pierced at his Ono morning her voice sounded in his cur like that of an angel Dear father dear father your son is here And iho next moment tho young Paul rushed into his He had returned his education to sharo in the labors of his Scarcely had lie embraced his ere tho bereaved parent tny and seo the grave of your Let mo hoar you pray Tho reunion with his first and tho tender assiduities of aided by the blessing of began to lift up his broken Ho him self in his parochial particularly jn translating into tho rude dialect of Green simple treatises and which he circulated as widely as possible among the Ho accepted with kindness tin attention of his and tender ly to them but it was evident that ho cd for consolation only towards heaven anil tho hope of meeting his kindred where they could bo sundered no Three years of his mournful widowhood hnd when a request came from tho King of that lio would no longer exile hut and accept a professor ship in K newly founded seminary for orphan Infirm health admonished him that ho could not much longer hope to resist Iho se verity of a Greenland climate and bidding an adieu to the among whom he had so painfully and in trusting them to tha care of his eldest he committed with his three remaining to tho of iho Northern What joyous filled their young at prospect of a coun try where there was no long where the grain would have time to cro the frost and where they bo able lu live on tho surface of the tho whole A return to tha blessings of the welcome of and tho re kindling of re the spirit of guvo him vigor for thu duties thut devolved upon Ulrica was in his as an while of intellectual with tho heightened advantages fur caled a of and a moment as tho ticking of iho watch became educating her and filled her with delighted and added nv radiance lo her exceeding Her irly and peculiar excited 10 interest of all while the loveli of her person and manners won many Yet she steadfastly resisted every allurement to 411 it her that lis enfeebled constitution required at tentions which sho best knew how to and tho light which teamed from her whilo thus devoting herself to ind to his revealed tho exquisite of disinterested But it was was con of oge demanded retir ed to a lovely island of Fal separated from only a nar row channel of iho amid tho scenery which he andin faithful discharge of every remaining duly S und he calmly awaited tho summons to another Ulrica read lo him that sacred book a for his failing sight was no longer equal to his office and no voico entered his ear so und so much like a as her With tha of her brother and sis sho cultivated a small and it was touching to sue in a dewy summers bearing his arm chair out among his favorites ond aiding his slops to a seiU among digni fied and like tho patriarch beneath oaks of ha communed with the works of or gave lessons of wisdom lo his Every new each that during night had thrust fur ther onward its little clasping to urn as living The freshness of a renewed seemed to en er into his aged and preserve there of iho lingering spirit of whilo Iho clay tended downwards towards tho When neither his nor tho arms of his children could support his droop ing and he went no more amid tho works of Ulrica brought her fairest flowers to his and duly dres sed Iho vase on tho table by his am Ins dim eyes blessed will slow and downy death and tins emotion that swept over like herself lo sing the hymn wilh which he had been won lo console tho and when his parting beamed und iho white fui tho last murmured she pros nod her trembling hand on his closing soothed Iho wild burst of of wail ing and kneeling in her or phan commended them to tha pitying who never It was affecting to see her forgetting her own when others were to be cheer ed or cared and attending with a clear mind to every however minute bui when was no longer any thing to her brother ami sisler had to their sho leaned her bountiful head on corpse of the old and wept as if the very fountains of her soul woro bro ken Sho mado the spot of his lowly slumber pleasant with summer and wilh the hardy Sho planted the grassy with tho enduring which rises sweeter from tho pressing foot or und the aromatic which al lures Iho singing at the close of she went often wilh her brother and enforcing tho precepts of lhat which had led their beloved father through many to rest with his as sho from her yet sweet visit to tho she was fnat by tha darkeyed clergyman of a neighboring who drew her arm wilhin his It would seem that his musical alluded to a theme nut unfamiliar to her why should you impose a longer probation on my faithful love lu whom you have boon us an is now with the spirits of just men let my home henceforth bo and this brother and sister mine The trembling lustre of her blue eyes moi of in tenderness and trust His pleasant and secluded gain ed a treasure beyond tried gold for who as a daughter and hud so long a goodness and piety could not fail lo sustain wilh dignity am beauty Iho hallowed relation of a wife tun GURUS OF THE DEAF AHD Turnbulls mode of restoring or oping tho senses of hearing and undoubtedly most wonderful discovery o tho On more than ono occasion wo havo laid before tho public accounts of tho miraculous cures of which wo have actually witnessed the und we hesitate not tn had we not seen we could scarcely have tu too much publicity cannut bo given tu a dis covery calculated to confer upon man beings scarcely inferior to blessings without which Ii lucks its chief d discovery by those excluded by absence of o hearing from the most desirable intimacy and with tho external an admitted to enjoyments previously unknown to lo receive Iho light of Heaven all its delighting free converse with their a too city cannot be given to such a discovery as we unhesitatingly lay be faro the public wondrous fuels which wo witnessed on last Two dcd lo Turnbulls coro by of named garet aged nino whoso pa rents thought sho Imd lost her hearing when an infant by oilier Mary thirteen of whoso parents say uhe was born and introduced into lio room where we attended to witness Turnbulls Into the curs of each of these tho operator poured a low drops of white liquid and added u small bit of lint lu prevent us They were then allowed to sit quietly fur about mi If an when the Ductor slowly and silently approached first the ouu and then wilh his watch in ami in both ca no did he wilhin two of patient than her cyo in mation of and assumed on nttitudo ol most anxious apparently dosi thoroughly to tho now mo simple sounds wero next uttered by o Doctors nnd woro immediately pooled by tho child upon whom nent wos Words wero next spoken n a similar and with a similar re ond even whole after boine by woro by tho who only half on our before was both deaf ond Tho In of f the meaning of tho but seemed to tcr them Iho delight of exercising a ow Such n wonderful result os As would altogether ill to convey an adequate idea of tho ons wo wo stale simple needs not any extra embellishments to heighten its inter Wo hove given the name and address of ho gentleman who recommended tho in order thot tho skeptical may lovo an opportunity of ascertaining million previous to tho operation wo have ust Morning groat in bearing lony lo tho above observations f our liberal who has od to odd thot people afflicted are flocking rom an and mony from tho Conti to ond deporting in gral ludo and joyfulness of heart at their happy Wo think tho Government ought w lop forward ond purchase this invaluable for Iho general benefit of f the mnn who caused a Mado of grass to Trow where niino ever grow beforo woa deemed o public how much great er is tho glory of him who unveils tho beau ly of day to iho bestows charm of on the and wakens Iho iy of sounds to the Lon A CX till ii in United nnd tba brick rowi South Juno I fora Ilia na nnd nl is by All nalil firm must ho to ii authorized ill W Juno s will continue Iho Practice of n the co u nly of n All to liis tli nil lie in Iho Sl COOLNESS ON THE FIELD OF BAT with the movements of the in 1813 and aro many though loo unimportant for Iho pages of general ore nevertheless highly om wull worthy of Some of these have been related by ond oilier brave several oro recorded in the narratives of Dawson and Hall a few may be found in tho newspapers of the times in which they occurred but of them dwell in Iho recollections o the surviving soldiers who witnessed them Some of them display on intrepidity passed in Iho history of warfare others ox a coolness in the moment of indicative of tho most resolution and the most extraordinary nervo Of this latter character aro tho two incident mentioned Wo find them related ir a letter from John Speed i friond of Iho ii Kentucky to a gentleman of this Col it will bo was ono of tb Aides of Harrison in of tli The writer lhat a moment befor tho Harrison rod up lo o majestic Seneca nnd took hi powderhorn his witnessing Smith him I to expected to come in personal contact wit ho enemy to which Iho General replied that it was proper to bo prepared for an that ho commanded on army of belle than Proctors ond that ho wo determined not to survive a defeat adding with a to Yon hod hot tor fresh as I shall expect my Aides lo die around mo Whilst ot tho Iho loft wing liad recovered from its momentary confusion and was joined hy iho ordered lo bring down Chile command lo support ho was giv ing Ibis nocks of two horses were interlocked mid soma twigs of a treo above which had a cluster of and around which Iho Aid hod to look at his were cut down hy tho Near the ot tho sumo a soldier was shut through the thigh and seeing tho Com ns ho swung round and foil ho cried Did you seo General they have shot me This man had been Iho day bo at tha Harrison directed him to bo taken buck lo hovo his dressed but finding thai his thigh was not the brave fellow bandaged it wilh his handkerchief lo stop liio up his swore he meanl lo have and tu fight A fow u young dashed up lo tho holding a scalp in his am sung Look ivo got it My father was an old Kentucky Indian tight or anil uhen I left ho made inc prom iso to bring him the sculp of a redskin by And hero it this is fur the old Now I want one for myself And away ho sprang in search of These Iwo Smith says amused when ho o dim nt closo of am tlie gallant sailor truly that an army u such men could not be And ho frequently on mooting with tils of would repeal Iho brave soldiers wilh great Do you sea General have shot nil again Sail WK urn iii of our full 01 u very our Im vvd l low I f lio Oats lal in ut Hit si A til fur I yi July 25 HOOK AMD FANCY JOB Attorney nml Counsellor ut QOmce on Second a few o ij WILLIAM in AH K in Iho by of Alton n Court Attorney nt to Conveyancing Und South of ami nt LOGAN OF Snto IN TUB OP MADISON COUNTY THOMAS WILL Iti Circuit Court of Illinois C Ht Will in counties of 10 tho of tlie Tu Van IN Siloes Hutu Mado Second DEAtER STOVES OP Hollow Wore ltd Krar Gilman A IIV si attention paid to an Forwarding if iir co COMMISSION Jj NEW K Mor Ilia firm of IB Ly New Tlic mid hu will tty the HKW AMI Foil Ml IICH A AND o lunst to mill hi Salos of on Jd July Deale in i i i in limits nnd ft ii Hi Di in mill Slati al In AT Till tiKiN UF Till A and in Dry Goods and Groceries Second n i Sic Shoe i Mien in ic ic kc AND Jt 1 Kentucky Alton VAN STONI fc nal and Slide AT at und and SAMUEL IN ASD AND COMMISSION York I Saint K NO U AND COMMISSION DAVIS present All D core will meet mid by to receive n of public Ins or LV to the ol and ut of ions fur t Drug df Second ii on tlie AI ami ils over of W HAVING his services to the of Alton ami mmml t ev i c i n i July Ins to ho Alton mid BOOK A on uti mentor of which lie Is ta rule nnd to mty Record UK Lcd nnd oti linnd ur to in n nnd or of works nnd ful Old rebound lo Funny Show nml 1 cuirns ty rilO rent ono JL of Stono Into Ann of landing nnd one of liu licit in rily fertile Apply lo 7 have Store In tlie corner of Second nru of nl fur cull ur country Juno 13 pir lu 5 10 S mill Missouri Tobac coi 5 Im 111 J ilo 5 Jo lo 101 tlo 50 ilo AO ilo lio Chambers nil ilo of tlw ALTON k COMPA aro notified the annual meeting of ho said Company for III election of nine will be it Hie inthe of on Monday 3d of wer n of 7 nnd 7 liy if July 10 IT MAY I linn day only ny l UKAI L bales ion anil J 1 o COUNTRY of tint Agents fur Salt I mj Sill I 700 lu will II al nm I Cuill lin Lii June 27 4
