Calumet Republican, The (Newspaper) - August 4, 1859, Gravesville, Wisconsin J N Editor and Proprietor O N W A- R D per in VOLUME 1 CALUMET CO WIS THURSDAY AUGUST 4 1859 EVERY g At countr Wis ptr v in Ad- vance on expiration oi week 2 1 4 year J weeks 1 1 -I year 1 t 1 column 00 If 00 IS 20 00 21 00 oo 00 00 00 00 to ASH on inserted nt tlic to no at tune of making affidavit ix HA new typo we are to ilo Job in nil -s -is m afforded in this oi Circulars ccc with dispatch when you we in of III Kon TIIK Si We we cheer thou friend oi brave Lous long may you stand in the proud nations With thy fair Freedom thy demons ye came Tho offspring thou he of what been Thou with the of the Pen Thy weapon is Though in thee Or when the ti a in our land Or by the worm that in the Or when written by or spoken bv the and over the -word great is thy power thou little sheet To tiie can our cause To combat with Emir is thine if ye will Or niter the mandate be peace be still we welcome truly in our little midst And la the W from the hern and doth sip Mav you find us a little Help to tear away thorns replace in the earth Tho rose of excellence much needed here Twill bud in our wildwood in autumn FO drear And I he snows of winter retard not its For tlie and noblest is tomb July LINA VICTOR STATIC W II Secretary I Associate unty 11 K of P Clerk nf F CALUMET U Attorney Wat Law will attend promptly all to his that of the iret Wis j Attorney Law II rml Maker Calumet co Wis of made to and tiou to T TI of I Calumet eo iy to ilie Payment of ana ail other be yj T H Makor I ami on rder U co Artist J dealer in Fine and Hair Work I A t at Law over r ler in Leather and Shoes My Tannery is in operation making excelled in the State i tiT Hides between and Wis HOTEL T Mouse is now in condition limn and travelers will it second to in A Li try VAT -1 in el at Wis side H- found a large assortment of low a visit I e Provisions Hardware and arni ete of ail work in is and of liis lie has of merit in un state he purposes bring out at i I The squatter sat in thf floor of his cabin the sun go down fur away over the prairie Hisi hard bronzed faeo red in the crimson light Dry lie muttered be as dry as an cow by the sign of the sun's going down so hot and red this is And he looked with some wards tlic field of stunted corn which lay at the of tho house Jle reason to feel troubled for not a drop of rain fallen fur three and the wimie dependence of his family for the ensuing year was in corn crop and the potatoes For if the i corn was scarce they would not even have the wherewithal to fatten the two ing lazily in a sty only a little hack of the in but pigs and children would have to stiller together There was no market within a hundred miles of the and but few neighbors within that distance lie settled in this spot because was rich and easily no wearisome of and he could help himself to as ninch us he desired His tent was is to say his was with ran discrimination fur a squatter in the i midst of a clump of trees on a slight rise of ground and but about a rod from a spring whose clear waters from the in a small stream which served to irrigate land somewhat This little through his was not enough to keep the broad leaves from turning through the for or three days he imagined that the spring had fallen considerably Jf its supplies give out through the of its be knew great would therefore he had been watching the indications of the with earnestness and was not a little troubled to the sun like a great ball of iron the son i I ho looking in- to his dwelling no more prospects of rain until the of The sun's gone down as n-d as the kiver of that bake kettle you're heatin on the coals thir The a wiltin like a girl that's sick with tho and it is nigh on to the middle of and the tallest of it aim as high as our uli iho L have mussy onus if the gins mill We'll have jo take the little ones on our backs and Mart for a new she replied in the patient tone of a woman win had been I wo years in anew country and become accustomed to all kinds of ters Xo great dangers of that I wered the lie was an energetic man will rose in proportion to the to be and iie was already recover Irom tlie of depression ed tho unusual His wife had groat respect for his abilities trusting in his judgment I you'd come here Melissy and see if you can make out what this is over the at such he said a few moments after i stopped to put the cover on iho so that the might lie cooking and hastening to his side laid her hand on his shoulder and peered out in the direction which he indicated Seems to me it's said she then I'll go and scare them from his direction or they'll be tearing through my said Peter arising yon think you had bottor try and pet fences around your fields another year i iv Melissy people on way too They'll stop here I j I haint seen n livin human being except vou and the children for so quite strange I I've got victuals enough for I low many do you make out two And alive of one isn't a man! How they do And she keeps even with She's a regular the squatter It they ing in this There a place 1 can think of to which they be now so them watched iu silence the near stranger's It was no wonder they wore dumb with surprise us a close approach made their features and dress distinguishable To their uneducated senses the woman appeared an vision of beauty She roJe her horse with enchanting ease and grace her ly fitting habit of cloth flowed down to her her small gloved hands grasped lightly tho reins and a A beaver hat with broad rolling brim shadowed her face Her hair hud apparently been closely knotted up but half of it had escaped in beautiful curls and tangles about her cheeks and neck cheeks glowing with tho exercise and fresh air She did not look to be more than eighteen years of age But what struck these simple people with tiie most admiration was that manner de- void of all affectation or coldness with which she reined her horse and bent to hear what I her companion and they should sav j Can you tell me how is to Beaver Creek asked the young man as they stopped before the cabin miles you going exclaimed the man in a tone of were told it but fifty from River and I am sure we have ridden full fifty to-day Uless my and soul that's bad Putter You've been ri- ding otT the if you have come from Bear You've kept away of wo.-t over tlie at right angles from where you ought have gone It's mighty navigating a stranger You should have ed by sun I had the land marks pointed out so that J full safe to attempt tlie said the tieman in a despondent 1 should have better as you to take the sky for my we do E siAcA the young wife turning her troubled eyes to her husband's face exclaimed Peter in his blunt and hearty way right off and havo an 1 lodging as wo can give You must be e'en tired to death re too delicate a for such a jaunt ns you've will mako vuu as comfortable a-i ill and rest you can better makeup your minds about a bo accepted as as replied the voung man from his horse and helping his wife to dismount Xo about it The is out of every man's cabin in this It's poor enough the best we've got to sot before our friends Hero Melissy take em in and see to that poor lady while I the horses You are indeed wearied to death my said her husband looking into her face which had suddenly grown pale when rim cx- of the ride was over with the est tenderness bitterly must 1 regret my selfishness in causing you to these mn only a fatigued I have ridden as far for sport only many a time when I was a girl yon E iwin A night's re- pose recruit do not speak of it The rough of cabin with its pen in background had promised much to travelers but the of their case had made any of shelter When they entered one ment however found it as neat woul i permit and not destitute of an air of The lady's ri- was laid aside and water brought in a woo en bowl in which she ed her face and then tlie good wife insisted her lying down on a lounge which her skill had and was especial pride in the way of The body was made of lings together firmly with bark Stout strips of the inner lining of bark were woven across the upon this not a cushion of an old with liay was laid indeed was tho weary to repose here while supper went briskly on I wonder where on arth my children Mrs Potter -is she I f'spef-t day get lost or nr Oh Dan going to tlic a as t vo led boys camo around tho cornfield put quick i for the blackberry mind pick thorn's to ton Company to AYhen ever they heard their mother say that Thov could not obey the mandate to hurry until they had stolen up to the door and peeped in like frightened wild creatures shy but Then when they had met the eyes of the beautiful lady smiling at them oft tliey darted as if her glances had been It may be that fifty miles riding with only a noon lunch eaten under a paw-paw tree is good for the appetite taking away all fastidiousness from epicureans Be as it will when our travelers took seats on the rough bench placed for them before which was drawn as near the door as possible to be away from the heat of the they ate supper enough almost enough to satisfy the hospitable desires of their host and hostess soned with rich cream and was not distasteful beverage The was yellow as gold light and nicely browned any one might truly call it There was fresh butter too and a huge dish of blackberries and cream Even the pork fried crisp and dipped in flour and butter was not scorned by the gentleman The two tined steel forks with horn handles the rimmed earthen plates and cracked cups were scrupulously clean and therefore good enough for lords and ladies These at the humble table of Peter Potter had supped of gold service in their tive but there was no hint of it in the manner with which they accepted the plain hospitalities of squatter life It was twilight when the meal was over The strangers sat in the door admiring tho magnificent of prairie over which they had passed while the hostess washed up the dishes and put her two sons to bed on a mattress which she spread out on the floor Peter Potter having milked the cow and fed the pigs seated himself on u log outside the door and entered into tion with his guests By means of his kee he soon learned that they were that they had been in America but a few mouths and that failing to get satisfactory employment in the Eastern cities Mr Lancaster for thus the O o his name had concluded to come to that of which he had heard so much in search of a home and means of living The honest squatter regarded the young couple so reared so inexperienced and now so nearly dispensing with a grave face I tell you what it is stranger it's hard for rough ones like my wife and me to put uj with the inconveniences of a new Sickness and hard work arc the lot of the though thank the Lord we pitched on a healthy no fever un ager here But bad Beaver Creek I see for tlie life of me hov you calculate to get Oil do not say anything to dis- courage my He is almost broken in spirit pleaded the voice of the wife as she stole her hand into her husband's while a tear wrung her mure by tho nervousness of fatigue than a failure of mental courage dropped upon her cheek She smiled and blushed and brushed it away Peter's generous heart dissolved within his breast at sight of that tear so wiped and he would have done anything in his power to aid the young le so won were bis sympathies by the beau- ty and gentleness of the lady 1 don't sec what on brought him out West unless he's got the raal stuff in him for a It takes considerable bodily strength and patience to wait to see things grow and a mind to put up with to make a good Oh has got a great deal of said the young wife nestling her hand closer in her husband's But he is not very and ho knows nothing about work you came out to asked the squatter looking sharply at his guest money to invest Beaver a good place You might set up a store or a mill or the like Mr Lancaster smiled at tiie with which his host was making himself familiar with his affairs but replied I am sorry to confers that I have not enough even to set up a small store I came here because 1 was poor and did not know what else to do I supposed it was easy for a man to make his fortune at tiie west was all a mistake of course stranger there's land enough to on ami yon can have ail you've a mind to squat nn You can raise victuals enough to and if ever your land grows and conies into market you'll a prospect ter but things may look more ful in the morning There's your wife a asleep agin your shoulder she's so done out poor tiling Melissy the bed's aint it for tho In It was vain to remonstrate against takin the only people Mrs Potter had put clean and prepared It for her guests She was to take the lounge and her i of some growing lie was aiGne husband brought in a large armful of prairie musician but his so fastidious hay and threw u over for liis the idea of enduring the mistakes of couch There was no curtain or division of schollars and of to teach what any kind to shelter the bed from general ob- but as the lady weary and sleep v to him seemed inspiration was Ho had however concluded to do this when a as she was stood hesitating what stop to take gentleman whose friendship he had gained towards preparing for slumber the hostess and whose sympathies were very Peter turn your lady j for the adventurers got him a wants to undress j situation as librarian in a celebrated public So Peter turned his back to the bed and j bravy with a salary of a thousand satin the door whistling and his partner j year The work was light and agreed with came and and set by him until the j literary inclinations and for he were safely between the then they endeavored to be contented and too retired and the cabin was hushed to love made amends for deficiency The new mode of life though was a greater v found repose Once during the night Mr Lancaster was roused by subdued laughing of his wife and whispered to her in surprise to ascertain the cause of her did not know but fatigue had rendered her hysterical have very little to laugh at I know Edwin but 1 was just picturing what the fect would have been if your haughty mother and sisters could have seen us retiring for the night And the young wife her silvery laughter in the They would have died of larly Arabella They would have fainted at the very least after the sank down in a graceful group into the arms of their dants It would make a pretty lableu virani would it not if the cabin and drawingroom could be combined in one grand The history of the young couple sheltered that night in his cabin had not all been con- to Peter Potter Alice Thornton was the daughter of a clergyman of high repute re- siding in Edinburgh In loveliness of mind and person and in elegant accomplishments she was the equal of any of the daughters of rank with whom she frequently associated by means of the honored position of her father But she was neither wealthy nor titled fore she was not considered a good match That Edwin second son of Lord Lancaster should fall in love with her when he met her during along visit at the a mutual friend was not surprising but it was surprising that he should think of giving way to passion and wooing her for a wife when his position as second son of a not cx- wealthy family of the nobility made it so desirable that he should at least marry a fortune His mother and sisters could have forgiven her want of a title in consideration of the respect paid to her er's acquirements if she could have brought a rich dowery with which to establish their darling Euwin splendidly in the fashionable but matters being just as they were their faces were set against his choice and they persuaded Lord Lancaster to threaten not to acknowledge him if he ried in so humble a way On the other hand Mr Thornton had his objections to the match There was no de- nying that Edwin Lancaster had been a wild youth too in his attachments to warrant that domestic happiness which his daughter deserved Besides Mr Thornton had too much pride to wish an alliance with a family who did not themselves desire it So that the young couple met with nothing but opposition tho consequence of were that they ran away were married and very full of love and hope set sail for America thinking that here plenty would be found for the asking and with their heads full romance in a cottage That Edwin was truly and worthily in love was proved in the change in Every tiling objectionable in his former habits was dropped and the noble part of his ture began to display itself The tenderness change to him than to his wife the domestic tastes of an Englishwoman could gather about her in their two small rooms her books drawing materials dery and spend the absence in fond thoughts of him When lie returned to her then she felt want in the fullness of her happiness had rented a piano which was to both of a source of pleasure for both had fine voices and highly cultivated talents When it was found that by their utmost forts at economy were still unable to keep within their income Alice proposed to take pupils in singing and instrumental mu sic declaring that she would bo happier and much better content to have something to cupy the leisure time during band was away Her refined manners at procured her as many she Perhaps the knowledge through the influence of a friend or two though they never referred to it had become diffused that Mr Lancaster as he now called himself was a scion of the nobility had thing to do with it Or it may have been ly the winning graces own sweet ways At all events Mrs Lancaster was liked asa teacher and had plenty of So the young couple might have prospered tolerably and lived as new beginners in ica liye nicely and comfortably had not win begun to grow impatient ed a recall or at least a remittance from his father but as none came neither any other token of reconciliation his feelings were d little embittered The of his life grew more and more distasteful to him while the pride and passion of an impulsive nature he resolved to make himself rich in some rich that when he ed to England with his immense fortune his relatives would be be only too glad to come him back Then he would have an op- of repaying their present ence in the same kind A want of capital and almost total ignorance of were not just the requisites to secure this wealth in a city crowded with keen and eager competitors and hearing some Arabian Nights stories of the West he threw away his Alice to bo of his mind and started for Occident fully convinced that he carried Aladdin's lamp with him It was nearly a year from the time of their marriage that this scheme was executed The money necessary for the cured by the sale of a few articles a hundred pounds which hud been sent to in the last letter from her er with whom she corresponded and to whom she always wrote glowingly of her happiness and welfare A stop at many thriving little towns and cities had not yst revealed to win tho Arcadia or 121 Dorado of which he was in search He saw men enough who wero getting rich but they cither had money to speculate in land and were laying out on per new towns anil growth of which was to make them millionaires or which he felt for his beautiful were engaged in hard practical shrewd ate young wife inspired him with courage to operations of which lie knew little arid meet all circumstances while she was not for which he cared less lie folt us lacking in those elements of quiet heroism out- fish out of large a part of a woman's j his nature was ardent and character but for which she seldom has any and he pressed on almost what acknowledgment made by others was then the limit of civilization Fastidious they both were accustomed to River where he had made the last pause he luxury and totally unaccustomed to take j had heard something about of thought for the future Strong only in I ging in the fur trade at a little out post called hope and affection they entered Beaver Creek and it was in trying to and bustling city York took rooms j this last forlorn lie chanced in a modest but elegant hotel and prepared Peter cabin liis to enter upon their new duties For I were most mournfully melted away when ho I time when going out without j sought his couch tions to seek employment congenial to his snow anr more tastes and at the same time remunerative did neath a summer sun than his beautiful it occur to tho son of a lord that although he castle had in the of was such a splendid and such a ic and all that he knew not enough about anything to make any -one art science or learned profession a means of living Of The nest morning Potter mercantile business of course he knew J which he made at the ing not even offer himself as a j table It was should pur teacher of the for although he stood j sue his journey Creek alone leaving well at college ho had been rather a j his wife looked with cial lit might teach to recruit to be sure but he could not gain a professor's not be away from her more than three or four T I J I r j something of an artist but much useles V r Hist could earn bit bread Continued on
