Beaver Dam Argus (Newspaper) - October 25, 1861, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin BEAVER DAM XXV in nide of of by W. Proprietor JUT To Clubs ol trill Brut at f 1 per in 1 tl BATES OF lw J In 2m 13m I 6m I ly i IS j 1 i i I 8 4 00 1 S II 4 V oo SB j 4 MU 8 00 I 10 I iO 00 4 li 00 15 00 i Wi i 10 j 15 00 2il I 00 6U_OJl Ten or a at Statute at SO cent over the above m and must be ur otherwise we will not Calendar Tor 1KG1. 11 i 2 4 j i LY i 4 f. H. II is 7 i IS in 14 15 1C, IT lv JO 4 i 7 S II U 10 i 1 4 3 4 5 fi 7 S 11 1 17 4 S 7 I -J 4, Cl 7 It IS 14 IB 17 1- ly ill 1A 16 17 IS i 4 6 1 5 7 H 11 li 7 d lull 12 BEAT DAM VOL. 1. BEAVER OCTOBER No. Tho regular meltings of this Lodge nre every Monday evening at Temperance Degree every third Wednesday of ench D. J. A. W. S. 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U U fe II X E L ami mi a I and carefully re- I Oil r AHO SALt CLOCKS on nml ink cl j on ror ink cl hU friends in- hV in C paid for old gold CUT nf nil to for 1ms and all firK A tram that will win L. al it of Done to on at the DRUG ltf W. ir. t s to mor H. 1HM. MILLINERY A. JUDSON IN AND J Musical Instruments of Every No. 4O Near change for nen Pianos to a ft of return for and announces that w for the Full Winter IM- at Old Pianos in 1 j A large assortment of Music and Music i on I Teachers and supplied on the most liberal I All orders to A. Soil i 4O wilf receive prompt Prices for fitr the of this Stoi e. 3th, 1861. 41.3ln I 4 Milwaukee R. I ALL BAIL ROUTE TO o u. trains irill leave Mil. A. r. Sundays lit AT MILWAUKEE o r. a ex- Junction trains on kt Junction with trains zo A at lacrosse fof 24th, H. Ball's Any Other BEAVER DAM Carriage W. J. 84 Spring South of the attention of purchasers to our before purchasing We make all our Carriages Irom tho anil are OUR As we keep the HEST OF and for Carriages of the AMI MOST 1'ATTER.NS, on tho MOST ACCOMODATING N. B. and particular attention TV ill to the ALL and done m the possible Beaver Sept. 12th, 41 From the Cincinnati OCTOBER 0 gorgeous r our thrifty won aVy and Consents at her year's rork To put her festive And hanest No as in midsummer We droop In noontide glare er on tlie ataj s Tlie autumn And rest is on the 0 month In bounteous stores the teeming sail Yields up its and w .in 1 Victorious The wages of hid of And signal of its the Mew our fields brown and and The orchards with burden sees hei summer at And into 0 peaceful month As as the s of on the air and veil the her life and Like of swift noiseless in a earthly pes And earthly lights but dimly too thankful to The of life And calmly 5! AFRESH supply of sive Clear as at 94 cts per at ine JUNEAU VARIETY A We suppose the way Major Casement slipped his four hundred of the 1 out of the clutches of Floyd with lis five at was one of the most brilliant feats of the was in command of the four hundred men separated from the rest of the had rallied within a circle that the enemy were drawing around On each side a regiment or more of the enemy were coming tho two to hern in the and cut off the retreat to the that being the only way the enemy supposed the Seventh could Casement saw the t ght place he was and a idea ed into his ready Tlie enemy on the one sido had p a little below and the force on the other about in front and sweeping around he waited until this last force had passed down from in then taking the back track from the the enemy supposed he would the with four hundred slipped the rear of column now on his a small hill and crossing their track in the ed out hilo he intently ed the The an admirable plan to a favorite horse from tlie Arriving at tiie top of a tain that seemed impassible the op save by men Lt down by thu aiose what could be dore Tim Major paw no way to get his pet and ing that lie should never fall into the horse brought to the pie and the Major with pushed the beautiful oft attlie funt of the he a uhin and tin re Casement's cropping grass he was a but nil five dollar valuation was put on the animal Clei eland Herald Poisons and It not happens ous and distressing results are occasioned by the accidental employment of occurred to us that we might sibly do a service to some of our readers by presenting them with a brief and com- list of the more common poisons and the remedies for most likely to be close at cause great and of burning from the mouth down to the stomach or dissolved in then use stomach pumps or is juice or afterward milk and or flax seed cleanse out the stomach by an then cold water on the and give ammonia of harts the first place evacuate the then give the white of lime or nnd charcoal and the preparations of Lead lead and sugar of such as oil nnd epsom salts poisons by carbonic remove the patient to the open dash cold water on the head and nnd stimulate nostrils and lungs by at the same titno rubbing the chest Corrosive white of freshly mixed with or give wheat flour and or soap and water of eggs and the or Give and then plenty of vinegar and with deses of ether if Initiate of Silver n strong solution of common and then give a strong emetic of i mustard and then strong and j HUNTING PARTY ROBBED St. Paul Pioneer learn from Capt. of the steamer who has just returned from Red River that a party cf English whom was was robbed the J the Indians about one hundred mile west of Devil's nnd barely escapee with their They came down in company of Capt. fully convinced that they had seen the and started for They left the Red River with George for a and near the cotean of Mis were attacked by a band of abou 250 They gathered the and one Indian knock ed off hid horse with the but o a and another fired at an English the ball grazing his then robbed the party of their horses provisions for three and in fact everything but UK clothing they had Afterwards they proposed to kill but a party of who were encamped a few ruiles uume and them to give up their The 1'anctonnais took charge of the and conducted them to to their and guarded them until next when they gave them two carts and a few po and escorted them about fifteen miles in the direction of where they arrived after a march of eight Their food daring this two a few and the meat of a pony killed by the The value of the articles taken from the party was over two thousand A RICH following ex tract of a sermon we see going tlie rounds of the press iiy makes the young man or woman in look And I tell you how I J uas coming to church to when I saw some men in the and i thought one of them was young man I ever in my And as 1 drew nigh unto I were and they all drew nigh union place called and they all And man was the last to when he marveled he jumped up and clapped his as a and said lie i be I fut And my then I thought that he was the ugliest young rnan I ever saw in all my And I opened my t man this is not the way to And says he Old if you had as bad as I yon wouldn't want to talk of And now my when that are yonng man said that he was he told a lie he was as lean as hungry miser over there that's always praying so piously when the hat is being passed my if that young man hadn't been blinded by he never could a mistaken me for an old THE FAITH THAT SAVES the Highlands of Scotland there is a moun tain twenty in and two hundred feet in Its perpendicular are bare of save in their in which grow numerous flowers of raie of ob- specimens of mountain beau- some scientific tourists once offered a Highland boy a handsome if he would consent to ba lowered down the by a end would gather a of The boy looked ful at the for his parents were but when he gazed at the yawing chasm he shrank and But filial love was strong in and after another glance at the and at the terrible his heart grew his eyes nnd he said I'll if mij father will hold the And with unshrinking check and heart firmly he his father to put the rope about lower him into the and to suspend him there while he filled his basket with the coveted It was a during but his faith in the love of a father's heart gave him courage and er to perform it. A Scotch old maid was asked to sub- cribe to raise men for the during the last answered I'll do nae sic I never could raise a mou for and I'm not going to raise men for King drinks dash cold water on the IK as opium then Oxalic mistaken for or soap and and other ing there is time ad- chloride in of soda or Hot and and turpentine aru uiso immediately and it internally also give oil and stimulants a ligature tight the part anil then apply a cupping HII gout tlen doses of wade of Peruvian barK or white oak I of white of eggs and In all rases of ics are highly and of one of the 1 most and is thu common flour or a of up in be given every or till free vomiting can be Emetics nud warm demulcent such as and seed or chalk should be without The sub- of thu case of be to a For insect stings and as and the take a piece of moisten apply to the pait once or and almost relief will be rrt 1 A PATENT ties of tlie present war are such as to call loudly upon the inventive powers of our and there have already been placed in the of the government foi the uso of the valuable and useful have among others cue which bears upon its and importance for army poses to such au extent that it is almost we allude to the invented and patented by Mr. J. B. dall which is so that tho horse may be sharpened by its rider or groom in five minutes with out the aid of a or and without starling the nails fiom the The shoo is in two the permanent part being secured to the foot by nailing in the usual and the other or auxiliary having toe and heel caulks can be put on or removed by means cf pointed spur screw A large squadron of may be sharpened almost instantly and be ready to respond to an immediate while by the old process of sharpening by removing the shoe to arrive at the same it would bo the labor of eral weeks during which time the whole body cf men and horses would be in grent peril if For nary particularly for horse team and hack horses is most as it saves the injury to the foot brought fibout by so often removing the paring the foot and making now We are glad to know that this invention meets the approval of all who have seen it. A SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF in his Military Dictionary says Battles have over been the last ces of good A situation where chance and often baffle and overcome the most prudential and most abla and where superiority of numbers by no means secures is such as is never entered into without a clear necessity for so The ing of a battle only because the enemy is or for having no other formed plans is not the way of making lost his life and crown by of did the and Francis the of lost the battle and his King John of fought the battle of ruin attended his enemy if he had not The king of Prussia lost his and the reputation which Prussia acquired from Frederick the by the battle of A skillful General will give tle when his army and situation cannot be if than if he does not fig lit at and when the advantage may be great and the loss No A musician ly undertook to trade cows with a certain neighbor H but after some II told the man that his old cow wasn't worth a song she was so old she had no front teeth in her upper and eat young friend looked and went But the remark of H hud preyed on his and he accordingly went and examined old dle's and to his horror and he found she was entirely destitute of front he drove old Brindle two miles to the house of the man he had bought her of through a driving lain with the mud up to his and after berating the surprised farmer for selling him such a de- manded his money back at As as he could get a word in the farmer told the angry man that cows never wore such teeth on the upper and to convince took Lira out to the after opening the mouths of a dozen or so young and the singing man drove old Bi indie into the and trudged home behind a sadder and wiser Ax OF Louis While thu Emperor was at ho was taking a walk on the banks of the Sichon and lost his A laborer chancing to pass at the his made the necessary inquiry of Second to the nnd then first to tho said the do yon know me and have the honor for some years Where Your of does not but yon were once the cause of ray passing two days in the black hole when you were at I was a soldier and was punished for passing you a pound of said the shall bo my turn nnd in a few days afterwards the man was installed in a well-stocked GOING TO HELP SAM one of the companies of the 8th sin regiment was a young under who enlisted without his father's and contrary to bis The a farmer residing in the northwestern part of the wrote several letters to his while the regiment were in quarters at Camp for the purpose of persuading him to At Jast lie wrote him that lie must he had a large amount of threshing to do he could not afford to if it were to be which was hardly owing to the number of that he must return home and help even if he enlisted again yonng man can't go home at I should be very glad to help but Uncle Sam has got a sight bigger threshing on hand than you nnd I'm bound to see him out of the woods IMPERIAL CBOWN OF The imperial state crown of her majesty Queen Victoria made by Messrs. dell in the year 1838, with els taken from old and others by command of her It consists of and set in silver and gold it has a with ermine and is lined with white Its cross weight is 39 oz. 5 The Following is a summary of the jewels com- in the crown 1 large polished 1 large sapphire 16 sapphires 11 4 brilliant rose 147 table diamonds 4 drop pearls 273 A young lady in Ballows Fulls of good looking and declares her readiness to wed tho man who shall shoot vided the lucbey one is not already en- How we regret being for must be a and we kinder feel she's an how is your sweetheart she says I needn't call any The bachelor has to look out for ber married men for number The Isle of Man derived its singular name from a famous chief who once ruled and possessed the The name of personage was and the island was consequently called the Isle of But this name being beyond the pronouncing capacity of mankind in it was gradually reduced to its pre- sent diminutive another proof of the tendency of humane nature to fly from one extreme to its A firm faith is the best theology a life the best philosophy a clear conscience the best law honesty the best policy and temperance the best A NOVEL oir cago Tribune vouches for the which beats story we had some time ago of a man's riding on the trucks of a passenger car from Shelby to this place the arrival of the Illinois train from at 9 o'clock on Tuesday a roughly constructed lammock was found swinging under the wherein two men had in obtaining a ride the entire dis ance from without any regard to he of Two ropes had been placed from truck truck with cross opes to which a board had On this single along within a few inches of the the two men had been carried 365 and arrived at their one will question that they earned their THE GREATEST editor if the Mercer Dispatch gives a of an extraordinary vein of oil the other day on the McElhany at a depth of 460 He watch was held while it ran into a by one hundred ind eighty and it filled tlie same n fifty-five At u fair estimate aking this as a those who were vorking and watching about it are ent that the first twenty four hours it two thousand four hundred barrels OF ruins when used by boys and youth t induces dangerous stimulates lie creates an thirst nd often leads to softens and injures the the pinal marrow and the whole nervous A youth who becomes early ad- to the free use of tobacco in any is never known to make a man of much energy of and generally acks physical and muscular as veil as mental Beware of 450 recently attacked the pickets of l. Geary at Md. The air was a spirited lasting about two The enemy were driven from y house and breastwork they or ten of them were and a umber On our side one was Three companies of the 28th Regiment and the 3th Massachusetts comprised our 11 of whom behaved The world is becoming a great deal oo fond of what you call excitement and Of course it is a good thing for rnan to make money by his nd a very hard thing when he can't do added Mrs. thinking of Id But if success in life means never knowing what it to sit quiet over his own I for ne would as soou manage to do without 'A GOOD Island M lyn set an worthy to be followed by every tn the take from a private Utter of the the following commendable 4 The regiment hat iU firat pay I have per Ex- nine to in amounts from tar thirty for ap to hundred dollars for officers and I have by mail and private banda tAree work keeps me busy day and bat if the men are disposed to tend money to their lies I don't know any better employment for me than to and Hvre is a single regiment their first pay the handsome sum of or thirteen thousand for the benefit of their If any regiment has set a better example than we shall be on bearing the facts to make them Y. WHERE is is Isaac W. Secretary of the Navy under President All his associates have all have taken their Mr. Cobb left early to join the rebel Thompson left Washington with the brand of on his after robbing the Government to the verge of went home to Virginia to cept an ovation and commission in tho Confederate Mr. Buchanan planted on the platform of the Mr. Holt is doing noble service in while Gen. Caw has turned emancipationist Why don't we hear from Toucey t What is be doing f Where does he stand f Has lie repented of the error of his or is his heart still in Will some of the Con- papers tell us something about this most torpid of ex Evening HIDDEN the in where for centuries the Saxon princes have gathered their gems and until they have be- come worth millions of may be seen a silver a present to one of the Saxon when you touch a opens and reveals a golden Within this is bid a whose wing being also flies disclosing a splendid golden crown studded with Nor is this another secret spring being hidden in the center w found a magnificent diamond So it is with every truth and promise of God's treasure within a The more we examine the richer it becomes But bow many to touch the A correspondent in Germany says lad the pleasure a few days of ing my face reflected in some of the silver mirrors invented by in which ver is substituted for They throw out such a clear that you see yourself from the further end of the room with as much d as if yon were standing and when one is newly hung itp against the it seems like an additional The rebels have resorted to drafting in the and Tennessee only in the first State by forcing every man that can bear arms into the In the others but partially as The best troops are the volunteers from the South Carolina and The drafted militia of Virginia are altogether the worst in the Gen. Price's Missouri Owing to information received by the Post Office Department that the bal and St. Joseph is entirely unprotected from the and St seph in their it has ordered the California mail to be carried via port and Council Tho Depart ment has also received information that all the officers and employees of the Over- and Mail Company are The following is a good story about a clergyman who lost his horse ohe Sunday After hunting for in ny with a until he gave up in The next he took for his text the following passage from Job Oh that I knew where I might find The who had just come supposing the horse Was still the burthen of cried out j know where he sir he's in Tom stable getting a circular from Dr. G. in behalf of United States Humane ed that there is no such and hurst is the name assumed by some dler who will pocket all the money sent him buy ambulances for the An old who became weary of his thought he might commit suicide but be did not wish to go without ing all his cogitating with he at last removed the noose from his can't I never can nor will forgive old for letting them copperhead snakes into the ark. The nasty varmints have killed two thousand dollars worth of my and when he and I I know there'll be u general See if there Ladies whenever they are so unfortunate as to their dress upon thm take fall prostrate and roll upon the An assistant can smother it then with a table or even with any other clothing at The flame will ascend if the lady stand erect and encircle her face and she will breathe in the to the destruction of her lungs and It is almost useless to tle with the fire in such cases with the OUR Louisville Journal says The Star Spangled Banner was a streaming meteor of freedom to our thers we are resolved that it shall be the same to their The white up its folds is the emblem of the red proclaims to the nations that we shrink not from and the the color of the tells whether in peace or in our appeal is to The Boston He raid says that farmers and other wise people in the rural dis- predict an early a long one and a strong One of the signs is that birds are already preparing for a flight and that the husk of the growing corn is very thick and and covers the ears to the very a never-failing proof that overcoats and fuel will be in gieat An being about to enter the was asked by one of the recruiting officers when you get into will yon fight or run 7 replied the with a comical twist or his I'll be after yer as the majority of ye does Mrs. Partington called on the Japanese at their and told 'em was mighty glad to see as she stood their President was she doubted was nigh kin to old Zip Coon that the Whigs run in 1840. they wanted him Ike would sing 'em a song about old An Irish soldier called out to his com- I have taken a prisoner along bring him alone Won't come won't tct virtue and be distinguished from each but not lie racist by a tual which gives a shadow of divinity even to onr human said M of seven trued bj you don't take that dog eat up all Little Tommy five yeaw Be was in a musing the and his mother ashed bint what be was waa thinking of ofc ssid a fad to his T often read of people poor but why don't they eay rich my f