Crawford County Courier (Newspaper) - December 22, 1852, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin BY HURD HE 1ST THE OF THE SWEET WITH THE TWO DOLLARS A VOLUME I DU WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 22 1852 NUMBER 31 U V B E- Hf t at the usual in for TEUS1S OF From Graham's Magazine BAITS BV L A VERY i fi fas it a dream that came to rno 1 That men's faces seemed to be Clothed with a calm A holiness A voice that said no more Shall the blood of man like water pour flowers on floor fain his path would bless I ers on to keep their legs out of the way if they did not wish to become Davy is evidently consequent in the spirit world for he informed friend that he had plenty of rum gin and brandy to in reply to fin i inquiry as to his position there he said lam some punkins litre i This communication alphabetically From Arthur's Heme THE ROCK AN INDIAN BY AX OLD There is love and romance in real life or the Red Leaf there an India girl ed companion of die hateful Bear she known far and near amongst the j covered her face with her buffalo robe tas ailed as or and gave signs of indignation and disgust the From her birth she j This was too humiliating to the proud had enjoyed the affections of her family j and vengeful warrior and he was now and was the idol of the village determined to have her treated as hearted braves sought to win her con- meanest slave by acts of prowess and danger the and hunters brought to her rapped out with emphasis as well as in fiction and sentiment and er's lodge the choicest spoils of the chase Vexed with her obstinacy her father remonstrated in strong and resentful guage to which he added severe threats 18.00 at the i Was it a vision of the night for first an J y- j seem an angel bright n i Free from mildew sin's withering blight ix yoar I That falls upon the young rates i Graceful ami winning everywhere inserted at tin spirit world inquired u bereaved enduring affection as can be affection Tho feeling was zen who had lost a favorite horse This amongst the pale faces A and after repeated meetings question was put to Col Crockett residence of more than thirty years on the pledges of union in which all their j too for he was half boss on confines of the West and no small hopes centered were exchanged But return to him the pledge tokens of their and live and die a maiden But this only strengthened the ation to the union with folio for the j like Hovers liy God's own care j earth and it was presumed that he knew course with the trib Like thorn blooming as fresh and fair r hills and i all about it The response was m the aie away affirmative civilization have ma Was it 1 dream that men did feel Then Mr said the many a thc tribes of red men who Indian marriages especially among wall Her reply was solemn but AT LAW AND Ju Wis Brw F f fr K du 31 oit I Was it a droam that men did feel i Themselves as brothers for wo or weal Seeking wounds of life to heal With words of love as on he in every hand a friend's Southing the of lhat tends So are less tlie result of the at- mint have made the writer and choice of the parties than the j Since this is your love to me let it be Then Mr said the thrilling story of Indian cold policy and authority parents so but soon you will have no daughter character and suffering None Feeble as may be the bonds of local ad- to love or fear sister or relative er ivill you tell toe if the spirit of my favorite horse present possesses a deeper interest than the Ohi ii u as it a that lot Wis never That ne'er were sought To be as worthless Xo bnt twas a glimpse of years Whose coming bright as the sun appears Drying the tlew of earthly tears Kroni eves like unturned Jit AT LAW f r Wis f and of the of Deeds The feel its cheering ray j Though like pale stars at the break of day Its as they away Into a But may the live to Those days so lone to the fold Shall he reclaimed bv ministrations among Indians the law of to torment you with false professions of O nipped out Daw I own wc nre ahout to narrate j custom and established usage is so strong affection I and a horse he is too i the Mississippi beyond what aud executed with such unrelenting After uttering these words she Will Chub respond to me his old until past was the er that escape from parental domination drew and her parents and friends tired of civilization and about equidistant is seldom attempted and rarely with persuasive measures resolved to A knock in the affirmative j between Prairie du Chien and tit Paul compel her to marry the warrior that day Chub do you like Mr Crockett vour 3 Lake Pepin This body of water would her lover found a Indian women under the oppression master in the It you do i oe regarded merely as an expansion of j able rival in the person of or of their situation are addicted to suicide knock on the table Knock Chub if lt were not several fathoms the Bear who was twice the age of aud jealousy are the principle but There was a moment of destitute of a current rough in his manners not causes nd themselves are two modes selected by ordinary minds Those whose minds by nature habit or education arc more elevated and refined and of a romantic lany whew ub fly nyi u n i- u i j IIL t j inn t u Jil ino 11 mil I nui ls twenty-four miles long aud thirsty cruel and revengeful in his ing ar the two to live broad and unlike tlie sition and who had two wives already in vy had evidently backed Chub up to Uible and Chub was letting fly his heels destitute islands 1 Jus person was a succes ft i ASD AT LAV AND TJIE tfu IVis j f over Drug j OR AX WITH F AT LAW tor over went the table the mourners No description we can give will impress scattered chairs flew here and there the imagination of the with the i and amidst the din the neighing of a beauty and sublimity of the scenery j horse was heard It was greeting j to his old master When the table was set upright the print of a horse's shoe was distinctly seen deeply imprinted on its polished surface Consternation now I sat on every face The hand writing on the wall could not have struck a people j more aghast i Now wife said the late owner i now what do you think of all this j i Yes what do you think of UP ful and popular warrior in the Wabashaw band and could show more in scalps in his smoky lodge than any other tal and poetic spirit choose some hour of a summer's savage in his marauding tribe He al mode of ending life which is en the air is culm the sky clear and had acquired his popularity and fame by of their thought Those soft of the sun first the services he had rendered his village women who commit suicide by hanging when attacked by the He select the smallest tree that will barely the possession of sustain their bodies and perform its office as a third and of course an inferior for according to their superstition they that he might strengthen his position in will be sentenced to drag the tree by their cast and its waters the tribe by attaching to his interest her er in the spirit land ed with an amphitheatre of bluffs and father her younger brothers and a large j While her connections were busily en- cliffs presenting every form and family Her parents and gaged in preparations for the wedding encouraged this ill assorted match least who knew their de- the the tinges the water not a ripple disturbs tlie surface and the traveler exclaims Its course is from west north-west to ia Wisconsin PR E WOOD I was one of who congre gated around the mahogany appearing here in spirit and kickin of a is au something of a medium Why our tail has got a very j things of this sublunary sphere Jong cat jits who inhabit the undiscovered And so seemed to think most of tlie I cd several hundred feet and broken by a ravine or the indentation of a plateau of an alluvial deposit From the tops of these bluffs the view is grand and imposing The traveler un the boats while upward to these cliffs upward to these c feels his curiosity excited to know what i signs left the encampment and passed round to the rear of the cliff where in a circuitous route she could ascend to its summit and with tho loud shrill voice of despair called to her father mother and brothers on the plain below Wis iue in various branches ol f tiller the Hotel 1 W A BEMDICT ILL his profession iti the Town Sunday evening to hear j company for there followed a roar of manifestations or iu other laughter which was echoed back by the i mysterious to seethe table with a running accompaniment here and there and by all again I went ness other remarkable games of that home more convinced than ever There WHS a godly company of both i well no matter Museum sexes present believers and skeptics tiated an uninitiated searchers after of isso which aside from her sincere to the hunter was most disgusting to her feelings de- all her hopes of happiness In firm but respectful language to her parents arid relations she remonstrated j lies beyond A stranger to the structure against this outrage on her sensitive braided them for their cruel treatment to of this region would hardly imagine that ture gave an emphatic denial to the herself and her lover with from the summit of this region of citations of the warrior and persisted in deception and of falsehood and made on either side lies an extensive her determination to marry the hunter them understand she would defeat all country Those who having never To the entreaties of her friends and their their nefarious designs The whole band seen a prairie country and having im- recommendations of she rushed 10 stop her some with her the erroneous impression that it is gued that having chosen a man that was vents and brothers lo climb the low wet land may easily learn the a hunter for her companion for life his slope of rocks and brushwood where attention marvelous and seekers after troth and Surgery Office at Marlin's doubt and anxiety usurped the place of 1 DR J D services ro ilio reason and common good sense time and occasion to commune j the shadows of those who like poor old i Census f Chion and vicinity Nud llad to where I area of the United States has been in opposite j the good niggers j fitly chosen After u F H J 8 J C I A X AND S U R G E O i Bail Are ascending some pinnacle along the time would be spent with his family and she threatened to throw herself but a The reader will find a large amount of of this lake Looking in a his industry and skill devoted to secure larger number ran with their utmost curious and valuable information in a direction he will perceive a wide ex- her comfort and subsistence while the around the precipice to the table with i compact form in the abstract of the late of prairie rolling in gentle warrior would be absent intent on j land above all screaming and lations interspersed with groves of tial exploits and neglect her and his too ing her to and no further ber far as the eye can numerous family She added sion should be used The hardened C O f P T C O M M I S S i O N E n Of THE PEACE Prairie du Chien Wis Xir J the owns the mahogany ms 26.28 por way up the to height of four i i-J hundred feet one hundred and relative a less to the credit of the These figures probably of of stone and the bled to congregate around preparatory increase 28.81 per cent to the catechising willingly of frec colored reh crease a decorous manner after the ultimate destiny of the two a very abrupt i i breeze wafted the words towards friends persecutions and denials j as they struggled up the ascent in the of access to her presence they drove her rear Her father called on her in lover to the haunts of the and ing tones to stop and she should have moose on a long hunting excursion with her own way Her mother screamed the vain hope that his absence might and entreated but all in vain and precipitous slope which extends bring quiet to his betrothed in whose en- nah's resolution was desperate aud as from the base of the cliff to the fidelity he had the utmost the last words of her song floated by she Kv nf n h 1 ing school j t kmd The table of the of deaths and E Proprietor Strict clu Chien Wisconsin Shop on iJ repair of all kinds E AY PELTON Denier in IV B W AC Chien Wis O and Dealer in CRO St mess a table to and fro to convince them that tiie Union 10 anu tiu iu union -ij f i i j they were spirits and The entire capital invested in f the landscape I Ins I i 1 i been tn inn The medium informed the its in the out start that they were ex- to do and they did do their duty I make this admission believing that its who come at the beck and call of mortals and pound mahogany about for their edification should be encouraged In addition to the throng of family spir 1 OL tile Ul u Florida are apparently the healthiest in such a to Uic and purchased of the traders standing on the cliff and her death wail T------ i articles of finery so much is borne on the evening breeze to savage ndian damsels ears Even the hardy Canadian f as the Cape de Sioux and About that time and during the ab- genre believe in this fancy and speak in manufactured in the annals of her lover a party ascended the a low tone of voice to other as they as the yah river from Wabashaw village to Lake pass the Cap de is only pinto provide a store of the blue clay in found in bluffs which is used by the ing tares in the United States is estimated value of articles In Tennessee leads the column I dians in painting their bodies on gala days the rises the rough winds The way to success is to keep i variations but we have no doubt it and her friends were of the rush over the surface and lash the waters ROCK The interesting and gloomy le end has i the calm stillness of the ht But there are seasons when FAMECHON IX trying The desponding should substantially and that the tragedy party who encamped on the plain into foam navigation in the light bark Us many distinguished granger sp nts member that time and converts occurred the middle of the last the cliff There was an canoe becomes frightfully dangerous and were called atiu strange to say i I responded with alacrity and I still the spirits of some who yet deceased came forward and the responsive taps on the mahogany and I told how long they had been in the BRV GOODS PROVISIONS it world AC I The spirit of immortal Davy Crockett Chien Wis j was called and he came post haste from California where he had gone to look ter a gold mine to rap out his greeting to an old friend and the way he ed the table about was a caution to in Chicn WiR genius to become a frigate with two rows j have handed down to the present negotiations Here t T her and as is customary came into imagination in which the canoe A few years since at tiie x ue runs luus lodge after she had the geurs that of our national anniversary a poor tinker j This spot which for grandeur i lighted torch which if the visitor is 1 i But and the screams in of teeth j time A few years since at the celebration i The legend runs thus who was present being called upon for ity and wildness is now so much te emae ut ict an e me I toast offered the Here is ed was the scene of a most tragical firm in her purpose and resolved rather at the apprehended danger of her a Aiie 10 o win n A shrill hoarse laugh closes the scene as a the storm passes when all bis friends desert the villas tribe of with the hunter nnd become tba
