North-West, The (Newspaper) - December 21, 1865, Freeport, Illinois VOLUME INDEPENDENT IK EVERYTHING THE 108 100 M in to office and mnil of One inch or twelve of Nonpareil make a 2w Siace j A 00 I I i I Column I 1 Column w Ml 00 00 00 i PO no nml Professional not exceeding five linen inserted at per annum over live 50 cents per line Written for tlie Sunday CHARGE OF THE OIL BY TOM OF Oer the in tho Oer the liars Thundered with One There rode those anxious Greedy One for oil in inin The oil it still a sound from one List 1 to that hum From each and Of thu unctuous One Oil Creek they Grasping old brokers For up dirties a rumor which these new Forward the Oil Take the said Pitched now the lie the Oil Brigade Gods what a charge they made Kach handled pick and None of them Theirs but to pel their T heirs not to let it they must make their Speculative One Derricks to right of Derricks to lelt of Derricks in front of All named and Nobly they sought a There many met a Covered with Dirt that of He did One now each Khoft in See what Is yonder there A which sinks God knows To strike ile for the More eager the Brigade each s ekers For nary there The pump only water Disappointed One Hundred Derricks to right of Derricks to left of Deserted and An order now came BO quick To countermarch up the That in each hat a brick Could be found in that When they got home Doth pocket and limb did No person Pity the Oil As also the charge they Bankrupt One Hundred test the strength of the and ycl never do we find that the King of England Both in his foreign and domestic as honest and sincere as wise and di he was equally successful in over throwing the schemes of inimical sover and in controlling the factions by which his own nation was lie subdued every was victorious over every advancing with the progress of the age not only freed England from the authority o the but before he died placed her in the foremost rank among the Protestant Surely such a achieved for a country the greatest by any A NEW CHARACTER FOR ANALYSIS From the Louisville HENRY OF AVas Henrys work the work of a a our a V No answers Had a weak man been seated upon the throne of England in the age of Henry the Eighth age of universal of universal and of universal regeneration that age in which not England but en tire shaken to its deep was struggling with the throes of the of in which all Europe was the battlefield of tremendous meeting and contending in England with especial it is but from whose desolating conflicts not a kingdom of Christendom was obscure enough to escape lie would have been Like a leaf before a he would have been swept away be orc a current of events to him as as irresistible and in volved m the destruction of her instead of assuming the position which she did as sume as the leader of a European revo would have been trampled upon bv It was owing to in that universal upheaving of established in when all breaking loose from a dead were drifting desperately into an unknown that lid should be enough to win for him the gratitude of posterity as for his what ever his deeds may have that he did not transcend in them the legitimate exercise of his authority is proved by the fact that he never lost the love and veneration of his and never ceased to command in creasing respect of foreign powers S tern and unrelenting he may have been as time rolled on it was inevitable that he become for the times were stern By the record of deeds of violence the annals of his reign may be but in periods of revolution what is called mercy more often than other wise is but another name for weakness and The scaffold at his command may have been stained with but we must not when principles are at stake the blood of the noblest victim may be sacrifice and not glancing Henrys career remaining for Froude argues that if the facts of history sustain him as a far more explicitly do they clear him from the charges that have been brought against him of cruelty and prof in his domestic Faithful for thirteen years to an unlovely and unloved he finally sought a di vorce from Catharine of not merely on the ground of but at the eager de sire of people and who saw in a second marriage the only hope of saving England from the most imminent perils and his once it was made by the position Clement assumed in the scale in which the interests of Protestantism and Catholicism hung It became the motive power enabling the Reformation to lift itself from the inert body of a O And as for Anna for seven while his suit fora divorce was waited with unexampled in order to elevate the woman whom he loved to his throne without And three years after her convicted of crimes so atrocious that the pen shrinks from recording she was condemned to not by the but by the insulted majesty of the represented in her case by a judge and jury consisting of all the noblest peers of the Surely not to Henry should be charged thi terrible any more than the trials of later which he was pursued bj a symmetry of only how absolutely he was victim of an ble be attributed to him When a dynasty is about to for some mysterious cause unknown to i house for long centuries prosperous and pow is about to become about it lingering representatives darkly clouds before the setting dismal and gloomy pre cursors of that supreme tragedy about being enacted by nature herself for their final loss Such were the tragedies that darkened th life of Henry the The hand of fate rested the haughty race of The decree had gone forth and they were to pass Vainly die Spelling Have you forgotten them When from all the regions about they are gathering to the log schoolhouse with its huge fireplaces yawning like the main entrance of How the sleigh big in the middle of the and growing small by degrees and beautifully less toward the broad brass buck chimed in every direction long before the gathering of the There came one to the give him a capital for he is entitled to Master and all bundled into one double an abundance of and tucked up like a Christmas with half a score of buffalo There are half a dozen each with a young man and they two and no And there again a pair of mounting a great heaped pressed and running over measure with a small collection of humanity picked up en route from a and all as merry kittens in a basket of And the bright ripe red lips that one caught a glimpse of beneath those quilted and silvery laugh that escaped the mufflers and fur tippets they wore then who does not remember Who can ever for get them The schoolhouse destined to be the arena of the has been swept and garnished the The pellets of that like difficulties was His resources interminable war with Scot with he drained by an l J V his authority denied by curring rebellions in to a to check civil re lions and subvert domestic treachery in by Uyo Popes and excommunicated by bv all the Europe whom ho trusted Inly to oe and to meet all the it was his hard task i to subdue e his own such a combination was enough England passionately sigh to see her king sur rounded by royal the noble pledges of the perpetuation of his line and vainly did looking forward into the yearn to behold his own crown encircling the brows of his It was not to By i second strange fatality his only succes sors to the throne were the two daughters both of whom he had and both of whom were themselves childless and the curse of domestic diaster pursued him to the But it is inconceivable that for such a cause his great deeds should be lus great qualities and his name covered with obloquy and Apart from the unique excellence of pre senting faithful portraits of the character that ho History is so ad mirable in so just in and smirch ing in whatever we may think of his we cannot say too much m its Wheatstone ascertained that the du ration of the electric spark does not exceed the thousandth part of a A cannon ball would appear stationary in its flight if illuminated by the spark and the wings of an insect that move ten thousand times a second would seem at A woman in New York recently obtained a divorce from her The husband married another woman soon after the decree was The first wife tlun petitioned to have the divorce set claiming that it was not nor at her but to humor the whim of her she was and with the hope of his The Court lus decided that people must not play at and that those who divorce in haste may repent at leis The shadow of the Times always falls back Many persons mostly under that boughs of evergreen adorn and battered chewed paper have all been swept from the and two pails of water have been brought from the spring and set on a bench in the with an immemorial tin wise provision for warm is that spelling room The big boys have fanned and replenished the fire till the old chinney fairly jars with the roaring and the sparks fly out from the like a an of the The two are the two schools are and such a and such a mov and fro Will they swarm The ferule comes down upon the desk with What the roll of the drum is to that rule is to this laugh ing young The challengers arc on one side of the the challenged on the Back middle and front are all Some of the fathers and grand who no upon occasion Shoulder the And show how fields were occupy the bench of honor near the Now the preliminaries the best speller on each side Susan Out comes around eyed little blushing like a Such a little Moses Out comes an awk vard with a shock of red shock ingly surmounting his broad The girls laugh at but what he doesnt know in the Elementary isnt worth know Jane Out trips fluttering as a and takes her place next to the Shes a pretty girl but a sorry Dont you hear the whispers around the house NORTHWEST Your correspondent mis himself in a most singular place as com pared with other western For those who find pleasure in studying the beauties of nature I would visit to I picturesque scenery hereabouts the fact my descriptive powers are not as well devel oped as some others I description is not my but as in other perhaps I may improve with prac It is an easy matter to describe the ap of a section of country like that through which the Racine and Mississippi between your city and Clinton simply now now roll prescribe a summer cannot describe the el ion is more closely about us little protection we could from night winds blowing gain and m almost breathless silence e listening to the sound of hoofs cracking until with occasionally a grove to be seen that describes the face of the though one inclined to be might find ample material in describing the dull town of Beloit and Rock River flowing through Durand and show evi dence of thrift and but poor Beloit deeply in and lacking in is only regarded as a proper place to send the youth to be where they may be re moved from the excitement attendant upon the busy scenes of the One thing I noticed in traveling over the which struck me so favorably that I am compelled to mention and that there are no cars attached to the passenger in a gentleman may not ride glided and we came near the shore of ice appeared more tno pony Expressions of gratitude to ft 1 rapidly from tho lips of that we had passed worst of the route in when we were informed by the Ice I t 1 1 man if he The unfortunate old or married business man attempting to take a seat in the rear car of the is not here met with the crusty salutation Ladies go it would be better to reserve all ex pressions of that character until we had reached the Iowa as we had yet the worst to This was indeed refreshing to the who felt that a situation behind a pair of runaway dashing through Stephen son street at was infinitely prefera ble to that he was now placed when friends began to inquire as to the of the contended was and at the same time assuring us he never let a man drown yet that he would send a man ahead with a lan and try the pony but should he go through he could pull him put him m the boat with and pull the boat over to hard hitch him on and try it his lines to enable him drive at a distance from the we again started at a very slow following the light from our cx he lantern in course toward the from a break is thats Johns John the and a battle lost with Jane by his side would be sweeter than a victory won without And so they calling until fire or six champions stand forth to do battle and the contest is fairly Down goes one after as words of three syllables are followed by those of and again by words of similar pronunciation and diverse signification until Moses and Su san The spelling book has been yet there they Dictionaries are turned memories are for Words of length and by and Moses comes down like a and Susan flutters there a little leaf the forest and the fall have for Polysyllables and by and Susan just a breath or and twenty tongues are working their way through the labyrinth of letters in a Little Susan sinks into the chinck left for her in the crowded and there is a lull in the Then they all stand in solid phalanx by schools md the struggle is to spell each other And down they go like leaves in winter weath and the victory is declared for our district the school Then come the hurrying and the whispering and and pairing off and may be found necessary by Railroad officers to sep arate ladies from gentlemen on their but do not believe a man does not so conduct himself that his presence is not ob noxious to the ladies in a why not eject him at once They have an undoubted right to do and I am informed that this is the course taken on this I suspect the fact that not all officers of Railroads as thor understand their business as those having the management of this which fact may account for the excellent selections made by them for Station Conduc tors and other the mention of tho names of Martindale and Field alone being ample proof of this to the citizens of your cities and along tho line of your If this road has to the citizens along its un pleasant reminiscences connected with and if it has coit them money which it ought they certainly have consolation in a glimmering from the windows of houses high on the McGregor The ice no longer but seemingly ben m every and the boat rocked as though upon With what interest we watched the pony as he cautiously and steadily stepped over the bending frozen surface may be imagined there were no remarks made that I our guide ex m their interests tumbling There are pairing hearts that and hearts that ache mittens that cannot e and hopes that are not There is jingling among the bells at the one after another of the sleighs dash receive their nestling and then Our Master covers the fire and the you remember how he used to inch the smoking wick with his forefinger nd and then thrust each helpless lu head first into socket we vait for The bells ring faintly in he in the road managed with a view to and The North Western Wisconsin from Clinton Junction to Milton Junction in in most excellent smoothest piece of road I have ridden over in many being heavily ballasted I believe it is called with the track straight and a train glides over it beau is a pleasure to ride over but I could not repress the that this excel lence might have been attained through the earnings of the Galena and will here take tho liberty to suggest to tho officers of that that if they would make the nec essary improvements upon their lines in Illi and leave their patrons a few shillings with which to support their families after pay freight tho road would have infi more friends and I hope not less money with which to pay The Milwaukee and Prairie Du Chien from Milton Junction to Prairie Du is much arrived in Prairie Du Chien as very blackness but as a party were to cross Suddenly tho light which had been and we heard the significant vehemently uttered Jim fm pony stopped as though he understood but too well its his driver rushed forward to assist his unlucky brother in time of By means of the pole he our guide kept his head above the water until a strap was put around him under Ins when he was hauled out by our but minus the lantern A short was held between the be done ice would not bear the pony and our unlucky or as I thought lucky guide was freezing but a moment was required for them to pony fy it rom a miserably uneven very like tho Illinois main I arms our the the passengers crowded to the stern and the pony took possession of the ly ing as and keeping as as any of his fellow which was still enough I assure Long ropes were at once fast ened over the shoulders and under tho of each of the Icemen when by started our and it slipped gen tly along over the new smooth ice for several until the men at the ropes had sufficient time to separate a sufficient distance when they almost simultaneously gave a shout and started at full speed directly across the chan load now kept our boat steadily side but it pitched as though it would through the thin ice at every and this manner we almost flew over nearly or quite a quarter of a such I never nor wish under similar Having crossed the tho ice became bicker the pony was again attached to the and in a low moments wo readied the shore in though nearly frozen during our WILD My letter being already too will doubtless excuse any remarks relative to Mc Gregor until next go in the ice for Two the The over schoolhouse a dark and and we alone with the carefree company Some of them D sorrowing some are dead and we are changed Ah the as come over that crowd of over Will it ever be dissolved V In he while radiance of eternity The French newspapers announce as a ru ious of that for the sale of as has just been opened in by the permission of thu tho Mississippi that I resolved to accompany After a little time spent by tho Iceboat man in making the we were with buffalo robes and snug ly in tho which is a very large boat set upon low strong with shafts attached to into which a small pony horse was and away we went with pony at full tho ice bending and cracking at every stop taken Four of the party were re turning but oven they drew instin c nearer other as though not fully that the they were now not more hazardous than re pelling a charge of our erring southern For about half a mile tho pony was not allowed to decrease his ami be ing consoled by the driver that if the pony wont through the his weight was dent to drag down the boat wo drew tho Over bales of cotton wore received last Tho manufacturers haw buen laying in large A Vigilance Committee has been formed at The whole oil region is in by who rob and Tho corn crop of Clinton county ted to forty bushels per iwu public reading embracing Tho latest fashion in Paris for be in the by immense Ono great attention on account of a lows her It is like and imported from the nico is nearly Tho Queen has band to play at for the first time private n Windsor
