North-West, The (Newspaper) - November 2, 1865, Freeport, Illinois NORTHWEST 1 w M INDEPENDENT IN IN VOLUME NOVEMBER THE PUBLISHED lOO and 108 WRIGHT 0 per in to and mail One inch or twelve lines of Nonpareil make a square lw J 4w 2 Squares I 3m 6m lyr 3 Squares Column Column Business and Professional Cards not exceeding five lines inserted at f 5 per annum five 50 cents per line THE RIPENING How to walk through the When the teeming of Heaven drops The waving crop with its bursting ears A sea of gold on the earth appears No longer robed in a dress of With tabes the fields are Been A sight more welcome and joyous far Than a hundred victories Beautiful custom was that of When the Hebrews brought with a joy untold The earliest ears of the And laid them down by the altars horn priesthood waved them before the While the harvest all hearts adored What gifts could man impart To express the flow of heart A crowd awaits the cottage To cut the corn and Wnd the Sheaves At length is heard the expected Put in the the cord is browned And the reapers go forth with us blithe a soul As those who joined tho jonl And sorrowless and To swell the shouts of the harvest And there is a reaper on earth well Whese deeds are traced on the burial stone He carries a more deadly and keen Than eer on a harvest field was seen lie cuts down the earliest ears in spring As well as the ripest that time can bring he gathers to flames are The wheat is laid in the garner of Farmers THE HOUSE OF HAPSBURG IN BY ANDREW TEX From Hunts Merchants C Francis the present by of his and the renuncia tion of his came to the throne in 1848 when but 18 years of His dominions must first be conquered before they could be and but for Russias aid the Em pire would have been The re bellion once he annihilated all con and precedents and incorporated Hungary into the Empire as an integral part of and rendered more especially in he has greatly modified his so as to rhake the which we cut from a religious true in its full sense Within three years Austria has adopted a securing perfect religious free dom to and admitting the Bible in all A place of worship has been given by the Emperor to the protestants in Instead of the words Austria has His Imperial Majesty has graciously granted his people a constitu and then remember that he who can give a constitution can revoke or disregard of perfect religious freedom to religious freedom under certain defined provisions to all existing The statement that the Emperor lias given the a place of worship would seein to imply that hitherto there had been no protestant worship in that But there were several such before this impe rial It be admitted that there has been greater progress in Austria for three years past than in any country in Eu and the true American will set it down as a balance against many weaknesses of Francis that he is with us in our present As a true he is op posed to all rebellions even in a But it id tho Emperors brother on whom our interest is now His Impe rial Majesty was in a tour with the young empress in his tian This was characterised by the publication of amnesties and the distribution of His the ArchDuke now on the Mexican was in his He had been married but tho year and perhaps felt no aversion to becoming tho center of a viceregal court at Field Marshal in his had to relieved of tho cares of the and the Emperor inclined to grant tho veterans and put his brother in tho It may not nave been their fault that tho court of this young couple was less brilliant than that which surrounded a man of about his and his in tho same just 60 years Ho may not have boon at fault that ho failed in his attempt to govern Loin hardy and for a good government from Austria would scarcely have boon tol by thoso loft them and was placed over tho Austrian In this character ho did little that wo know except write a letter to Maury a compliment which we value loss now than did before tho latter became a he worlds Tho motives which led the French Em peror to this choice of a for our on tho were doubtless some what He who is most recently from the ranks of the is most tode fend the prerogatives of the class to which has just His own rank has been and he must lay by a store of merit so that other sovereigns may feel bound to admit his divine right to their Mexico has been over forty years without a More than seventy different chief executives nearly two have attempted in turn to administer its af and have If Maxmilian should the world would attribute to Napo leon the singular merit of giving a govern ment to a land which had never been well and for forty years not at If he should fail it would only be as all others had failed before And Why should we be willing to allow that true benevolence may play its part the motives of this ambitious man V In this respect the pamphleteers and news paper correspondents who give to the public the key note upon which they chant the praises and the curses of the worlds generally commit a grave They ad mit too little influence of higher motives in those whom they rightly represent they al low too little of baser metal in the composi the the the and the may not even feel in his exalted position some of the im pulses which lead to and yield them a place in his plans Why may he at wise enough to perceive that the ends ambition would be more surely attained in the path which leads to the worlds highest weal He had not foiled to notice the wrecked condition of anarchy and violence which have long pre vailed to feel the importance to that country and the world of some effort to introduce law and their We had lost our and certainly Napoleon cherished in the weak and spasmodic efforts of a turbulent Virtue is wanting is wanting remaining hope is in a strong and vigorous Napoleon lias hope that by establishing such a government may still save Mexico and merit the The motives which sway the imperial mind in this matter are the same in general which rule He wishes to furnish a gov to Mexico just as we would like to The same motive leads us to desire his His own and that of his may indeed be a more immediate motive with him than personal and family considerations are with Refused admission to the circle o royalty by European denied by them the epithet of in his efforts to connect himself by marriage even with the princely houses of Ger many and much more the greater he must finally take up with a Spanish prin whose only hope of escaping a return to the ranks of the vulgar lay in this This alone would not rank him with much less do what he raise him in the princely ranks far above a questionable posi He must be not only of the princes but the lawgiver of the His success at and his merits in the Crimea and in were not exactly of the kind to secure the personal favor of the except that of Victor in the un settled state of is of little What can he do The success of the American revolution re acted upon This reaction concurring with elements existing there and already in came near overthrowing the mon archies of the Old When Napoleon was finally put the sovereigns of Europe had just began to raise their heads above the receding waves of the terrible revo lution which had well nigh they saw their greatest danger in the Ameri can Reflecting on their peril and narrow and deeming thai they saw the cause of their danger still in vigorous action in they formed whal has been called the Holy so called perhaps from the personal character of the class of men whose functions hat been their occupation their very existence put to so fearful a hazard and their persons so often forced into degrad ing contact with common These men are declared everywhere to have by the grace of proposition we must in fairness since there is no other way to account for their reigning at all Tho words of scripture where sin abounded grace did much more favor this an every one must perceive who reuda tho history of To sustain this institution in and gate it on this was tho main object of tho Holy It would restore to land in which this institution had attained its highest posses sion in and thus spread tho tion of royalty over tho whole I was and when governed by the which developed the greatest activity of tho holy and at in Spanish the and Italy reduced all to tho unity of tho This country the first claim on the services of tho Holy but President in his message for forbade its This compact of sovereigns was dissolved but now the last born and most remarkable o that race who reign by the of i man who has passed through so many trans formations that wo scarcely know whore to rank is slanderously said to hav belonged once to a lower but very useful or der of the ruling London police and to have boon afterwards a great patron o he same class in New man has aken up the work1 of the defunct Holy Alli ance in The motive which swayed of doubtless its also in this imperial contemned is he has been by his royal One vould naturally suppose that after rising so ar above them would scorn to descend to their level and accept the lood which they at first much more to become its He knows that he would not been so safe in New York if a Bourbon or a Hapsburg had reigned orer these and that his whose granddaughter he has now established on the hrone of might have been worse off than in or sleeping in hay with stage He risen above the fear of a return of such Even if he feared he might hope that a throne created by him would furnish an We may justly attribute to him a desire to restore hereditary monarchy whore ever he can conveniently do The his By the overgrown of the in the advance of protestantism in Eu rope and and the utter nothingness of the Spanish catholic States of the western as well as to make amends for the contempt has shown to the Holy he may feel himself called upon to do something towards the equilibrium of the forces and his own credit with the Ro man What have been called the Latin in contradistinction to the Teu tonic and have long been on the wane in regard to their influence in the family of civilized from her endless divisions and her subjection to was either lost or was on the wrong Napo Icon restored it mostly in 1859 to its natural alliance with the Latin The effort to regenerate Mexico another movement in the same the augmented dignity which he had given to his own Em pire of To le From the Commercial TRADE WITH THE The removal of the by the war has been followed by a lively demand from the principal Southern ports for clothing and other indispensable articles of Our jobbing houses are busy meeting orders from Mobile and Jacksonville and Sa Beaufort and Wilming City Point and Alex The trade in boots and groceries and merchandise oi all is equally tural household chemi and even school books enter into the composition of the assorted The Southern people are not teto and accordingly liquors of every char ale and wine are in active demand from every The opening of the Southern fall trade must be dated about the eighteenth of During the entire till that little was and no provision had been made for the present The amount of goods in hand was The manufacturing States were afflicted by a one of the most severe on which restricted work at the mills and perhaps accounted in part for the that goods ready for the market were held back in the hope of retain ing higher Importers dur ing the earlier months of the to prepare for a greater trade than the last three or four Early in the month of July tho Chronicle called attention to the of the stocks in and assured our readers in so many words that there existed a better demand for goods than was apparent on tho We observed that the transactions were principal ly managed by owing in a grout measure to the uncertainty which then existed in regard to It seemed not to be cult to perceive that the Southern demand bo added to that of the Western States and we remarked that there had not been goods and merchandise accumulated to fulfill tho indications of the August and with it merchants from the The limited supply of goods was speedily Importation now became active of a the rumor was started that market was Purchases fell off for some and prices were somewhat Immediately after ward came tho Southern and business was resumed with greater activity than Agents and jobbers found their preparations fearfully The market was cleared of all tho leading and manufactured goods were sold largely in advance of their There was a general delivery oi goods in bond and our new Collector of the Port of New Preston re over nine hundred thousand dollars ir one day from Prices now rose to Speculators who had pur chased with reference to began tosel and their stocks were not adequate to tho Tho foreign trade swelled beyond the di of any of the throe previous years us comparisons will Thus the value o at the European gold for the month of September in each 8 fol lows in in 074 in and in For tho first nine months of thoso years tho aggregate of tho importations wore a European gold as follows of those entered for consumption in 200 in in and in Entered foi warehousing in in 1868 in and in The imports for the week ending 5th amounted to entered for consumption and for Tho vessels that cleared at New York for the Southern ports had cargoes very and miscellaneous beyond The South was apparently in great want of every The commerce thus newly opened does not yet approximate the traffic of the years previous to the Our merchants dealing in domestic goods assert that the volume of their Southern trade is only about onefourth of what it was in But the prices are much making the difference The interior of the South is not yet opened however many Southern buyers assure us that the former business will not be equalled for owing to the exhaustion of the country and of cotton This will upon the in habitants of the Southern States The issue of the war has been the determina tion of all the old political controversies and the only question of interest is that of speedy The President is affording them the means to rehabilitate their State trusting them with the As they discharge that trust they will be re by their brethren of the other Early State reorganization will be followed by rapid emigration from Europe and the Several thousand of Swedes have already set tled in and colonies of Poles tare making arrangements to emigrate to The inhabitants of Schleswig and eager to escape Austrian nation hastening to be out of the con trol of foreign Swedes and Ger driven from home by short harvests and cattle are preparing to make their homes in the Now With suitable en and the restoration of civil au with ample protection and they will settle in the Southern The addition of such a will give commerce a stimulus it never The freedmen are also to become consumers to an extent not before The way is for a trade and prosperity surpassing all BELOIT 35 40 Eggs 25 Cheese 20 Potatoes per bushel 40 Apples Lard BELOIT STREET GRAIN No rejected 80 Rye 48 50 Oats 13 10 old 30 35 Barley 45 The Synod of the Old School Presbyterian Church has been holding its annual session a Mitchell of Kilbourn city was elected and Dins The Synod embraces 35 minis ters and 55 The Southern Wisconsin Universalist As sociation held their annual meeting at this commencing and closing on Sunday There was a goodly attendance of the and we noticed among the num ber formerly pastor of the society in The Fond du Lac Press says tho people are going to coal this In most of the towns in tins State coal or is an even thing it requires the profits of an oil well or a stock of bonds to buy enough of either to keep A sensible man ought to know better than to set a boy eight years old to feeding a straw cutter but Hart of Calu met did and so his little son had his thumb and two fingers cut off while SOME La Crosse can says that E raised 400 bushels of potatoes on an The crops of all kinds have been so largo in the Northern part of Wisconsin that it ha been impossible to got enough machines to do the threshing as fast as tho farmers The sorghum crop this season has been all With their improved machinery and greater experience in farmers arc becoming more am more alive to the importance of the The Wisconsin is arguing the eight hour Tho results of tho adoption of th eight hour system would bo to reduce all labor to piece work that was possible to bo so done and work that could not be dono by tho piece would be by tho The Beloit for October has made its NUMBER meeting for ho organization of a Horticultural Society upon the call of several in Council Willis shange that had taken place ia Lyons during last eight was confident that n the next eight years every yard would be filled with fruit and inquired whether fall or spring s the host time to plant After some expression moved we discuss the subject at pur next meet The following subject was also recommend sd for discussion at our next What of grapes can recommend for gen sral cultivation in this Dayis said the fact had really been es that we had as good a locality for grapes as can be had had total failure of the grape Ennis thought this locality particular y favorite for table and tho ques tion was settled that our grapes would make a 1 all the bluffs here would soon be planted with were and fruit well which was not the case in most grape growing dis r Wallace Ibs of grapes was a Safe estimate to the and 600 or vines could be grown to the hun dred vines would be 20 cents would amount to This safe his Catawbas were 41 feet each wayand had he too Willis had one four year old Concord vine this year produced forty pounds of well ripened EXPORTS seem yet Understand it is a fact Iowa is exporting molasses tp has made much from this season is obliged seek a market This is indeed a new thing in and yet we are the opinion she may event do much of We believe the busi ness may be so systematised as to enable us to manufacture sorghum molasses for export at a profit present process of manufacture it can hardly bo but with enlarged facilities and improved mode of op a great gain will be yet be known as a sugar and ex porting City In the Editors ant This Magazine is under tho con trol of students of tho and its succes sive numbers present articles of various merit many of them eminently and giving evidence of ability and promise of future emi Wo are credibly informed that farmers ro siding within five miles of this go to Waupun to soil their to twelve cents per more than can b had in this They go to to Hi and to in the same way Cause The combination of wheat buyers in this to keep tho price of wheat down which they do most They making a nice thing for but ruining the wheat trade of tho du iue The same difficulty is said to exist The census dogs in the and worth of by dogs and wolves in the during the The Davenport Democrat says that one mil lion bushels of onions were raised this year in Scott at an average of four hundred bushels to the MARSHAL NEYS DEATH ven gance of the Allied powers demanded some victims and the intrepid had well nigh put the crown again on head of was one of Con to be he was led to on the morning of the 7th of and placed in front of a file of soldiers drawn up in a lino to kill One of the officers stepped up to bandage he re him saying VArp you ignorant that for twentyfive years I have been accustomed to face both ball and bullet Ho then lifted his hat above his and with tho same calm voice that steadied his columns so fre inthe roar and tumult of battle said I declare before God and man that I have never betrayed country may my death render her Viva la France He then turned to the soldiers striking his hand on his heart gave the soldiers fire A simultaneous discharge and the bravest of the brave sank to rise no He who had fought five hundred battles for not one against was shot as a traitor 1 As I looked on the spot where he fell I could not but weep over his ho broke his oath of did the carried away by their attachment to and the enthusiasm that hailed his approach to Still he was no ENGLISH AMERICAN English girl spends more than onehalf of her waking hours in physical which tends to develop and invigorate and ripen the bodily She rows upon tho jumps tho throws the hurls tho all this without having it pressed forever on her mind that she is thereby wasting her She docs this day until it becomes a habit which she will follow through Her as a natural is her muscular system hotter nervous system in bettor her strength more and tho tone of her mind CROPS IN is com a now State and but inhab Her people have boon laboring undor great difficulties and embarrassments in their agricultural pursuits yet it is estimated that tho wheat crop of the State will thresh out nine millions of The and po tato crops will bo equally This show ing will give that State a large surplus of grains to after meeting the demands for homo The wheat is claim ed to averaged about twentyfour bush els to the or about double the amount of that raised in Tho number of pupils studying Gorman in tho public schools of Cincinnati is
