Horicon Argus (Newspaper) - July 30, 1858, Horicon, Wisconsin eater c i s t a c le tije must Volume 5 HORICON Wisconsin Friday July 30 1858 Number MARK M POMEROY EDITOR PROPRIETOR ARGUS lumber 3 Vine Street A YEAR IN ADVANCE Of One square 12 lines or less one week subsequent insertion One column per I HA aares timber acres under cultivation log houses good pet AVM DECKER under cultivation log houses good miles from pc Enquire of water easy on Lalco Street z 3 in r 15 original town Price Low Enquire of 8 WM DECKER business Cards per year Advertisements at legal rates 38 40.00 f HE ARGUS is a newspaper has an circulation and is the attention advertisers All corporation proceedings and ments will be charged legal rates Transient advertisements must be paid tor m advance Yearly advertisers are limited to their lar nil Legal mutters Auction notices -or advertisements for other persons will be at regular rates advertisements ordered out before they expire will be charged full time or by the published A WESTERN VALLEY Fire and Marine Insurance Company CAPITAL 82 street Chicago III J Hamilton President T S Gilbert Vice President G B Armstrong Recording Secretary G Yerby Treas S JI Agent May IS AVM DECKER Agt HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE moderate JL 51 of AVM DECKER WANTED OO A A ON well insured yO UU twice the amount for one which n liberal interest will be paid Enquire of 51 WS1 DECKE quir square for the published A Notices of Marriages and inserted 01 gratuitously but obituary notices be gcd i advertisements not marked the number of times to be inserted will ba marked tf and published till forbid of a personal nature for the benefit of individuals societies or tions can only be inserted as advertisements The above rules and rates will be strictly adhered to in all cases j All yearly advertisements due from and after the i FOR SALE GOOb Store on Lake street Enquire of DECKER FOll SALE OH OF those lots near the of it F 51 FOR SALE fine lots near tlie Depot Enquire of 51 VM DECKER FOR SALE GOOD House and Lot near the LaCrosse 51 Depot Enquire of DECKER MARK M POMEROY j Deeds and other acknowledgements ly made out and certified to Office at the Horicon Argus Office 2 Vine Street is not a word thy lip hath breathed A look thine eye liuth given is not shrined within my heart Like a bright dream of There is not a spot where we have met A favorite flower or tree There is not a scene by the beloved That is not prized by I hear the linnet's song Or the With lay Or mark upon the golden west The rosy clouds decay I catch the breath of flowers Or music from the tws her way to distant bowers And to theel F H others I drew a distinction between mortgages on land given to secure the chase moneys and nil others To nary minds it was sufficiently obvious but it should have been broader Hud it bosn more definite 31 C perhaps would not gone blindly butting his own head against it The difference in relation to taxation between different classes of mortgages is so that no sensible man would call for I am aWarn ample consideration of it would i lead to many nice complicated questions would require bo Two extracts from my communication may here bo serviceable They will which to fully discuss more space than would For the Argus Editor Mortgage Tax sive Again Impositions upon Money A cause of its Scarcity Its The Lenders Mn editorial appearing in the Dodge County Citizen of 13th July iust in answer to my published in tho Horicon Argus of tho 9th under the head of Mortgages demands a reply and I would ask to refute through yout popular paper the assumptions and false operations of tho individuals ho treats with sneers and slurs merit contumely and why so many millions of specie are now lying idle in vaults in York and other great com- cities along the seaboard ney lenders may be n sort of necessary If not too exacting they may be convenient to They are among you who invited them? You and your former laws The tone of tho ple towards thorn is changing if wo may take as a criterion tho acts of their and the Vituperation of M C whoso puny efforts not necessary to drive out of the State capital and its laws are doing it tually and fast enough The tendency of lice to show conclusively my meaning capital is to flow to the most profitable misconstrued or deliberate falsehoods in quarter it is least my remarks I will allude FOK SALE EIGHTY Acre lots in County Enquire of WM DECKER M M Pomcroy Plain nnd Fancy Book A Job Printer Armis Vine St Having refitted and added to the office and having one of don's Power Presses capable of making 2500 impressions per hour we can turn ont better quicker and cheaper than any HOUSE TO RENT POSSESSION given April 1st JT doors from Lake sti per year 51 iho writer throughout to ns il C- much as it may tickle his ity but it may bo well to state that ho is not a Member of Congress and that such fellows who like worn out guns habitually go off half-cocked never arc sent to the Capital of the Nation en by a short-sighted Wisconsin M C obviously lacks natural sense and judgement and is too narrow minded sec and determine what are or would regard to tho character of tho mortgages I claimed should be exempted under tho present laws from taxation I said the Constitution provides that taxation shall bs Jaws enacted to and without regard to that instrument nre nugatory they cannot be binding on the conscience of any so should be considered by officials ingly the assessors should not notice the and there it will as surely find its way as tho magnetic will point to the North Pole Upon general principles legislative interference with the laws of trade and are unjust It tends to turn profits into channels where the ral laws would least have put them ney is as absolute a species of properly as any other its value therefore equally unworthy of legislative restriction himself of the plan of the con- elopement and he was satisfied She is going to run away is he said to himself I'll teach him a lesson I warrant me and for the little I'll settle her business very speedily After loa that evening Mary retired to her little room her heart beating with anxiety for the approach of Her surprise may be when half an hour afterwards she found herself a She tried tho handle of the lock It would not What was to bo Could it fastened on her by She called for her er and ho came What's tho matter was tho exclamation without however opening the chamber door My door is fast aud I can't get out was his reply go bod like a good girl and I'll open it in the morning Sho knew it was hot of the slightest use remonstrate Ho must by some means bavo discovered her design Sho could do nothing but weep and bite her lips with ho for the sake of mortgages to secure the payment Money as well as merchantable money for lands The tho subjects of barter is procured Locution ree of DECKER other office this 1 SALOON TO RENT T EXT of 51 WM DECKER I A J I Attorney and Counsellor at Law and Notary i Office on Lake st Horicon i Winter Mouse ST Proprietor This first class Hotel has just been repainted and fixed up and be kept in tip-top style train April 20 Omnibus to JIX acres and small house a mile from J wanted Enquire of WM DECKER FOR SALE Acres Prairie and Oak openings under improvement good from YTH DECKER 70 acres grass and 50 acres Hotel II S GILBERT Proprietor wishing j from Horicon En- to stop at a good Hotel at reasonable chav f jj DECKER i ges will find the Horicon Hotel just A KICK Proprietors Milwaukee Attorneys Counsellors at Law Wisconsin vf n n COSSIT QA ACRES Openings miles from OU Read Good buildings nnd wa- ter Enquire of 8 WM DECKER A LL per Jl villaK Physician k Wis Attends calls at all times N B Particular attention given to chronic of the lungs and fy Office under the old Printing Office Lake street C D Bavin Surgeon Office on Vino street one door from Lako All cases either Medical or Surgical attended Wis C J A Surgeon Office in Drug Store Lake street 1 Walker House it proprietors corner of East Water and Mason Streets Milwaukee William E Croft Justice of the Peace Office in Croft it Decker's Furniture Store Wis AMERICAN HOUSK PER DAY STILES Proprietors HOUSE T J MAPES Free Bus to and from every train Wis WM NOTICE persons having deeds of Lots in the of Horicon which are ord arc requested to put them on record im- mediately to prove their title and prevent abstract title DECKER for tho original property owners Horicon February 10th 1858 47 DISSOLUTION NOTICE The partnership heretofore existing between and Decker is this dav dissolved bv Croft tual consent The Business hereafter will be conducted by Win Decker Horicon June 17th 1853 WM E CROFT WM DECKER power to ascertain for what particular mortgages were given rests in purchaser of course pays the tuxes for improperly passed and will continue doing so Now upon of justice was it proposed to make their friend pay another lax for the same Yut I do nOt think it just that any valuable thing the representative of wealth should evade its moral obligation to contribute its fair and ultimately be advantageous measures of towards defraying public public policy nnd henco not competent to expenditures T important though not intricate nnt questions lie dares not even allude to the convincing points in my tion which upon a review would destroy I wish to bo understood as upon any mortgages being Every citizen should more easily and in greater quantites when tho prices are left to be determined by the supply and demand Legislative tion is a prolific source of present cial embarrassments here That there ib eastern capital here is what brought it here? Its value It there is a demand for more than is already here ind that demand is so urgent as to tain a charge of 5 per cent a month rest Sir will the banishment of it by such short sighted laws operate to sen the demand WM W NOTICE ALL persons indebted to Croft Decker either by note or book account that is past due are particularly requested to call and tle the same immediately and save cost WM June 17 1858 PIONEER DRAY LINE THE subscriber would announce to the siness Men of that he is on hand for all business in his line nt all times but I wish it understood that I do not vast to do work for who may prefer to do their own work but to all those that fool disposed to give me their business I shall endeavor to be On Hand at Short to time every time In connection with the above I run an the ho assumes Ho endorses and applauds tho suicidal and universally condemned of his friends who unfortunately so sented in the last Legislative Session the true interests of their constituents and wilfully nnd knowingly perverts and hides notorious facts I plainly recurred to From pride of place the citizens of Beaver Dam should fill with M C as far as his capacity goes the place of some pupil of their school who would make a desirable substitute in the Editorial Chair and would doubtless increase the circulation of the obnoxious Dodge Co before could write als commenting rationally upon measures affecting the welfare of the people at large Unless such change do take place I would advise him having the ment of tho obscured minds of his misled readers at heart to assiduously sot self to the task of acquiring tho habit of careful reading and correct thinking All but the sluggish readers and men who only think they think wonld easily digest the communication But M C made a signal failure in his attempt to en- lighten his Dam community in regard to its subject-matter Those who have considered it and read M com- ments would work a miracle in pointing a proper application With as little for truth and as we witness in an unprincipled pettifogger who for a paltry fee will protect doer by any mean quibbling chicanery or fice that their mind can conjure up their souls delighting technical advantages jH IfX Pomcroy Insurance Agent Office Vine street Horicon none bnt first class reliable companies Losses promptly ad- justed nnd paid in cash CD exempted bute to the revenue of Stato county according to his or her means but make them do so under laws passed in ance with your State constitution Reach tho mortgages iri question if you can they ought to be taxed the amount should be deducted from tho valuation set upon the premises But you cannot do it Tho wiseacres in tho Legislature neglected to make provision in the new assessment law authorizing it If the landed be assessed in its full ue and the taxes bn the law is aud I hold that mortgages collaterals mere pieces of paper with out any intrinsic value in themselves are not taxable matter they add not foot of land nor a dime cf capital Tho Supremo Court would decide the new law could not create for purposes ot double taxation artificial and imaginary wealth hence so far as it ro- lates to said especially given before its passage would bo de- clared null and void We will suppose a One piece of land is given in to the assessor by adverse both holding deeds for it One of the parties neglecting the other pays the taxes in full but the authorities not yet satisfied mine to compel the delinquent also to LOVE IN A STEEL TRAP Love laughs at we are old but no subjects of ter even to the himself as I shall show you in the sequel of this story But will you go I will And if I have old Bob behind the barn at twelve you'll be waiting inside and we'll drive to New York and get ried right straight off the Yes when nil the folks are iti bed and asleep I'll out of the door go to the burn get in and disguise self When you come put in your finger lift the latch open the barn door and IT drop into your arms like a ripe apple do so love to run Wont it bo delightful i The speakers were Joo Clavers atic Mary Miller I need not mention that they were lovers prosperous fanner Mary's father was in Connecticut vexation next hing tho farmer did was to visit tho bam As usual it had a large in which was cut for com mon use a smaller entrance Tho latter was only secured by tho ordinary latch inside which was lifted in the customary way by thrusting a finger in through a small hole inside in the door beneath tho or the Fanner Millor remained in the barn Ions enough to arrange matters to suit his private purpose and then corning out through the stable that or er lay partly beneath it he walked ly homo laughing to Ho first listened to his daughter's door and all quiet retired to his own room and went to sleep Just before midnight a horse and on drew silently tip ou the road behind Fanner Miller's barn Joo Clavers got out of the vehicle jumped the fence and cropt cautiously around to the door of the building in question How happy he In another moment Mary would be his In tho she would bo his darling little wife Farmer Miller would storm of course but the farmer loved his daughter dearly Ho was proud of her Ho wonld therefore re lent forgive nnd bless Full o these delightful anticipations Joe his finger in the hole of tho barh door tc reach latch but how he yel led with pain 1 A adroitly placed on the inside so as to catch any obtruding aMicle had snapped and his bleeding finger was held fast within its iron teeth It was a cold night and Joe's feelings may bo conjectured as he stood there ering and shaking hour after hour unable to move from the spot held a prisoner by the savage instrument his lacerated finger occasioning him exquisite agony and his heart fairly sinking into his boots with the conviction that daybreak would only ex- pose him to the farmer's indignation and the village ridicule Just at dawn Farmer Miller chuckling over the success of his ruse went down to Mary herself of one of the Wildest the barn still stood Joe aud not headed romantic innocent and j far off the horse and wagon I need not ate creatures ever made after almost say how Joe implored pardon and divine model of her mother Eve Joo everything that could be desired to was a generous impulsive youth whoso parents had once seen flattering but had of late been unfortunate and fallen into comparative poverty Farmer Miller as ho grew rich grew ambitious Mary was his only child he looked to her settlement in the world as ft means of his own social advancement and purchase it and silence Farmer Miller and he finally closed n bargain Joe was released more Farmer Miller gave him one hundred dollars and Joe was in New York before noon en route tor lowo As for incident two years ago and I have just kissed her irst baby She pleased her father had already selected in hia mind's eye a and seems to have pleased herself in con- pay The property is therefore advertised j for sale but they can go no farther The proper court grants an injunction ing the officers from further proceedings What is accomplished besides a gain to the courts members of the bar for match for her Of course Joe's sequence quite as much therefore did not meet with ad while be was unwilling to be thought sordid enough to reject him openly for his lack of means he had gested to that young adventurer the pro propriety of absenting himself altogether in i especial benefit the law was I to would not the collection of the posed tax on the mortgages in question feast the I be also ordered to be abandoned The from Mary's attractive presence of his This Line to and from each passenger train and all those with whom I have business connections cnn have a free ride to and from the depot ever they wish Orders left at the Livery Stable promptly attended to Xo G corner of Valley and ta Streets south side the river A April 8 1858 H AU 1 WARRANTS they gain their cli M C leaving out of view the pre- ceding parts of my communication quotes but the concluding sentence which were il usual lo consider the connected part of a thing separately would probably of it- self warrant his comments But such is not the case and as the communication must be considered as a whole each in its proper relation to the ers Whence come hia Not from what I want of spect as shown in his article is ble The going to work saw a good paper in sits in hand and Wni Decker Surgeon Dentist Office next to Reed's Drug Store Lake et Surgical nnd operations scientifically done and war ranted Particular attention given to ili Teeth also to of Children's Teeth AVis 1 Notary Public Dodge County consin 1 City Hotel Corner of llain and Ferry Streets Oshkosh Wisconsin CLARK Proprietor 50 X Kyle with the laws relating to Highways attached They arc indispensable to every overseer of For sale at the ARGUS OFFICE THE HIGHEST PRICK IK cash will lie paid for all kin produce at the Milwaukee C ds of Country Cheap Store by what? The Ko a single tence Persevering Ho is tho discoverer of a and cases arc analogous It will be the ber of the parties who may happen to hold claims upon it M C from the tenor of his remarks seemed to imply that in TOO ho What an ogre I never could insist upon having my pound of human flesh I have no in- in common with nor sympathy for Sharks My prefered pursuits are more active owned a mortgage this j sido of tho Rocky Mountains and never will Had not even listened to tha ing voice of tho money nor re- suggestions from him no pecuniary interests in Wisconsin and don't expect to have Am therefore a ested looker on in Vienna But let lion to dispose of her hand according to his own notions of feminine happiness I need not say that these facts ating upon the mind of a thoughtless eccentric and spirited child like Mary had a peculiar effect That very moment she determined to marry Joe He was evidently persecuted Persecution only made him tho dearer to her She liked him before but now she loved him In fact the more she thought GOOD OLD Dad of Vermont tolls the following Them ancestors of didn't do no thin But there's an awful lin off since them days Why in mj time when I was a boy things went 01 more economical than now We al My work was to take care ot Iho hens and chickens is famous for hia handling of the and I'll tell how I them You know a very and a thinkin cept when asleep Well it camo to me one night to raise a big lot of ens from ono hen nnd I'll toll you horr did it I took au old whiskey barrel aud filled it up with fresh eggs and then put it on the south side of tho barn with Judge who had recently od from a tour in tho West relates an anecdote illustrating the horrors to which travelers in that region are exposed Iti his passage to one rivers he fell in company with a talkative lady and to whom he was relating of his sufferings from mosquitoes said lady to the man owning that title you had better tho gentleman about the man met n Iowa Tho hint was sufficient and the proceeded to say that iu their els further west they had made the quaintance of a stalwart rollicking one of the who could his weight in wild but wha a Fund of On nc occasion they bad stopped at a hotel n the interior not of the inviting appearance They wera shown to their the booster in one end and the dy and gentleman at the other end of hall About midnight the drowsy couple wero startled by the report of inns proceeding from the end of the hall occupied by their traveling companion Both started up in the bed and began to speculate the probable cause of tlu alarm when they heard 1 ing of feet and confusion of voices in the hall On going to the door tho found the household headed by the landlord rushing in the direction of the report His curiosity led him to join this midnight procession and he arrived with the rest nt the door The landlord tried the latch but found the door fast whereupon in a loud he demanded admission What do you roared the voice within Want to come replied the lord Can't do was the response froni within It's my room and I'm in can't come in me shouted the landlord in a louder or I'll break the door down Hold rejoined the voice within I'll open the door The door was soon open and in tha whole party expecting to see tile whole floor covered with blood What was their surprise to see thing in its proper place and the Hoosier calm and unconcerned A revolver wai carelessly lying upon tho bed Who fired the demanded the I was the roply asked the landlord Tho Hoosier stepped to the bod arid open the covering Look here do you see Tho attention of the party was d to the point indicated and there 10 whole surface of the sheet ere scampering in every direction like a ock of frightened by a dog The was chagrined and puzzled and to his lodger for explanation began the Hoosier himself up height and ng with his right hand in yle these are my friends 1 I have ured an armistice with them and we are it friendly terms but on tho sill outside you will find two al big fellows that I do ling with so I put a bullet through em Jut it is nil right now it's all me and my friends here and wo hall get along well enough now It is needless to add that the landlord to his own bed visibly tho spectators enjoyed a hearty Telegraph iii of it tho more she was convinced that he on lie south aide or wo Darn WHO on some horsa manure around it and then set was an angel and that perfect idolatry on liar part would only be nn act of noble If farmer Miller had been a sensible man and at all disposed to study human nature he would have introduced his posed son-in-law and forbidden her at tho same time to indulge ih tho slightest for him The probability is that sbe would have fallen desperately in love with him at first and given Joe his conge without further but mer Miller had n way of his own in all the old hen on the bung hole The ok critter kept her and in three weeks 1 hoard a little peep Then I pin my car to the spigot when the a swarm of bees I say anything to the folks about tho hatch itig for they d all the time told me I wa a fool but the next I the head out of the barrel and the barn floor deep all littl chickens Now you may laugh as much as you please but it's is considerately crying out There is the i me add that if I had capital to loan I things and ho was satisfied that should point here is where tho shoe bring it to BUILDING Carr's Hotel CARR A CASE Proprietors Assisted bv Capt H G PENNIMAN Oak Street Monroe Conoty Wisconsin This bonne been put in complete repair and furnished in every and will be kept OB a first-class honse curried to from the Cars free BUir A BROOM But what is a Broom the Handle WE have now on about Broom ol white seasoned and polished we cheap for CASH S N ft BRO Horicon October 1807 PAPER id qualities REED'S DRUG STORE Oliver ALL colors nt of Pure Wines and Liquors medical purposes and pure 1 every time at DRUG STORE declines to proceed lo all sin so as the present laws into its inseparable relations until he gets some sugar plumbs Hopo I am now furnishing him with all he requires to persuade him to continue the work until ho can 0 skilful anatomist in order to comprehend ferring favors upon for she was tho structure and mechanism of tho money lenders by affording them every man system bad not only dissected and studied a single limb but Iho entire body and how lame and superficial would be tho theologian who while contemplating certain passages of the Scriptures could B y has deter he had in constructed that they can be used com i ii or naval purposes The objec ns C stor has in view is to several thousand suffering mechanic no j laying the collection of debts on mauner opened his interest remain j ed it to his he on her Statute books which tho ed oe en- Md out rf ent Whe intelligently understand it The M C was pleased to allude to as con Uchen JJ order to comprehend ferring favors upon mortgagers and for WM over tho them for I money lenders by affording them every European powers Any sur facility to collect when duo j but Farmer Miller did not many flf th tlin minutes to elapse before no 0 against his silly clamoring almost the en- minutes to elapse tire press of stand and reason will yet come to tho rescue in the adjoined the I cost of construction and n tQ alnon v n ii 4 i lerest wr jister iu workmen Tho cost will be abot passed between the lovers That I may the more fully reply to his HO did hear ths dialogue with which I not and define their just relations to article it may be well to inquire whether have commenced this He Justice to whom it is due tlie banks of five of the of the United States had in their vaults an amount of cie equal to The decrease since that time may be estimated at thing like The Boston Ad- alluding to these facts that he present plethora of gold is a enon which to actual extent was twenty years ago for the plain ind sufficient reason that there Was not a amount of gold in the country Jn the 1837 tho banks held about in specie tha circulation of old and silver was estimated at a little nore thau and the amount in plate for similar purposes vas set at appears to have been the entire amount of specie available for the pose of currency and subject to the dij of commercial influences It s computed however that the amount cf metals now in the shape of plate s whilo in the lost year the treasury had the and the specie circulation amounted to The whole amount of our specie currency and although its distribution hns since been changed verv materially the amount held by the batiks being increased that in the treasury haven fallen nearly to zero still the aggregate has probably increased the above estimates were Norway has u population of about d million and quarter The inhabitants are nominally Protestant Koman Catholic or priest iri whole Janil Neither Jew nor a is allowed by the constitution to set foot on the City Marshal of Kentuckey was murdered by a man ed Barker while endeavoring to arrest Writ on Saturday A crowd collected and hung che murderer a few
