Illinois State Chronicle (Newspaper) - May 5, 1855, Decatur, Illinois of I and Proprietors A LITERARY AND POLITICAL FREE PRESS MAKES A FREE PEOPLE Of VOL 1 DECATUR ILLINOIS FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY MAY 5 1855 Illinois State Ii Israel ewy CSAS H J format ye If Mid m First insertion lines All I CARDS PER YEAR not to five linn ten TtA BLT 10 IWM 1 M I 8 out ton lines IMS Ihin 20 lines men Mid sot forty ff Cub the in all 1 OFFICE door to Ae tn tAt VAT Winter i gloom way to bloom And May in robes of green nigh with tender ugh To chirm tlie happy roving on fight wings free Sipe nectar from tho flowers And birdi of long thr trees among Make gay the matin hours The nit so pure and itill in gentle dream While rustic from o'er the plaint in All thou May With all thy tram A hath given and Winter's To thi boreal mam MIT 1 It a if a thought deepest love or sorrow It is the bursting of a hope Doomed with joy or gloom to cope It it the startling of the soul tome beaming goal on tU wings of air Joy or sorrow lore or Ml SIC There's music in the sighing wind And in the passing gale In of low and kind In sorrow's mournful wail It lies around us everywhere its notes so rich and rare Tht weapons that coine clown ae still A- uow flakes fall upon the sod But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the trill of God from its force nor bolts nor locus thorn tis the Mine 10 the homage of a heart That lores thee dearer Ear than A heart in art W every generous passion rife Stewart When at a late hour aroi from hii task he complained of a head ache but he had cleared ten dollars by the cargo he had been disposing of and he was pleased That ten thou sand dollars did not help give him con only served to spur him on to re exertions said Mr Watkias after he hat closed his escritoire have you seen your Uncle Langrave to-day I am afraid he is going rather deeply into a dangerous speculation For a week I have been endorsing paper for him to a considerable amount He helped me without stint when I commenced business and I suppose I mnst help him now but hope will be careful Adam Langrave is a careful re- turned Lydia and I am sure he not do that which would cause jou to suffer O no I don't think he said Watkins and here the conversation drop pcd for the young man's mind became again buried in his business Adam was an old man and had been the of Lydia The girl had been left an orphan at an early age and her husband had commenced his career as clerk and thus he had become acquainted with the fair girl whom he had made his Langrave had lately entertained a great project for making money and it was in pursuance of this that he had called on Watkins for On the day following the scene bed above Mr Langrave called at kin's store and opened to the young chant more fully his project It was a vast one but it promised a golden vest and after much Lauson entered into it It looked feasible to him and he promised a rich return for iis venture A Blessing In Disguise you arc rich enough Lauson Let us leave this great city and seek some more home No no Business is my very ifc I must make a little more before I give it up Will jou tell me my husband how much you would have now if you were t settle your business alt up O perhaps two hundred thousand And think Lauson only tily how sumptuously we could live on jhc interest of that and have much too to bestow upon those who need our harity Come tell me that you M ill c your business at once I can see what you cannot see You are undermining your constitution and your health is fast ing you Pshaw Lydia you like a raven I should lose my health were I to leave inj business Don't say any more now you see I am busy As the husband spoke he turned lo the little which he kept in his parlor and commenced overhauling and studying the various papers which lay there Lauson Watkins had ween his thirtieth year and yeung as he was he had be- come what the world calls rich At an early age he had entered the mercantile business and fortune had smiled upon great city weary and sick at heart kirn He had already an dant competency but while he had been he had been losing his health Hat was one of those which not bear great mental excitement Lydia I am a rained This was the exclamation of Lauson Watkins as he entered the parlor one ening about a fortnight after his inter- view with Langrave He was paler than usual and nerve was shaken in Ruined repeated his wife Yui Lr e has failed he has ely sunk liven But na arc natal lost Something cm be No not a dollar Tool that I was I vent in with him to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars I trusted to his The young man did not finish the word He was excited but had judgement enough not to hurt the feelings of his wife by speaking harshly of her uncle He was for the w hile completely prostrated The blow had come upon him with a weight and he felt it keenly The gentle wife moved to her husband side and placed her arm about his neck She trembled and it was wit difficulty that she could speak Do not blame my uncle too murmured Everything is not lost am left to and I will do all that I can to help you In your business trials could help you not but in jour you will find that I am not useless D not despair dear Lauson something maj turn up to assist you The young gentlemen did not He returned his wife's embrace and that moment she saw more of real grate ful j oy in his eye than she had seen there before for months At the end of the week the mer business was settled up and he found himself the possessor of just the amount of personal property which thi law allowed him had been swept cent Yet there wa one thing that remained within his grasp His wife held by her own right a smal farm in the country It was her birth old house of her and her uncle had secured it to her in such a manner that no misfortune of her hus band could fall upon it Lydia of her husband to find a home upon that farm He hesitated a while and then he consented He had at first thought o a clerkship and trying once more to set Himself up in business but the wa looked tedious to seemed too hard to gain the place from which he hac fallen and he it up It was too much for his pride to occupy a menial sition now and he turned away from the had had Before winter set in the become a real farmer His crops been good and he experienced a strange pleasure in realizing that he had gathered to his garner more than sion enough for the year to come But who shall the happiness of the devoted wife when she her band thus returning to himself The bloom of health was hii cheeks hia step was firm and elastic his spirits were buoyant and free and hii soul had become centered in hia home Three passed away and the pale trembling feverish merchant had become a stont healthy rugged mam Hii home wai the abode of every heaven on earth It wai in the evening Mr Watkins The home which Lauson Watkins now received at his wife's hands was in truth a lovely abode The farm was an lent one bearing the choicest of fruit and capable of the most productive cultivation large and active his The dwelling was a sweet little cottage his mind easily and tortured and on the other hand his physical was slight and ut a highly nervous temperament For years he had applied himself to business without taking any respite and the faster money cane in upon him the more and nervous did he become in his bors Night and day he labored over his shipments and invokes and ly but surely the joy of health was de- parting from him Poor Lydia Watkins saw all this She the fearful that was growing upon her husband's countenance surrounded by great great elms with ry and plumb trees in front while at a little distance sparkling like silver in the sunbeams lay a lakelet into which aa hundred bubbling brooks pouted their crystal sou her jewels and thus At realized enough to purchase a choice for the farm besides having enough left to fire a trusty man to take charge of the grounds While Watkins was taking this step Adam Langrave wen toff south but where no oar himself knew It was early coring whan the fallen moved upon the quiet farm and bat she could not persuade him to feel as the wolf mast soon begin He was not she felt lie laughed at her for her fears i man who could remain kilo nd he took yet while he laughed he felt the hold to help his man do the work It was ease growing at his vitals As the new but he found it bv no means chant sat there at his work his anxious disagree grew sharp wife watched him with painful interest and ha began to hate a keen relish for face was pale in the extreme and the food The milk which came from his own Wue veins stood staringly out upon his t cows tatted sweat to him And then to high white brow and templet His eyes was large and brilliant but their cy was not was a false nervous light that gleamed there As he over a complicated invoice reducing to his currency large amounts of foreign long white fingers worked see his little wife mixing bread all own was aorel to him it possessed a charm too which wai Then he saw his children a girl boy playing upon the in the garden and he knew they were growing healthier nervously through hair and his children to studying A 9 not 0 that and he heard recite had heard his children recite their lessons and say their prayers their mother had blessed them and attended them to their bed They had just sat down husband and wife when some one rapped at the door Lauson arose and opened it and Adam Langrave entered the ment Lydia sprang to the old man's em- brace and she wept tears of joy to see her kind old uncle once more Langrave looked about him with thing like surprise depicted upon his tenance and ae he shook hands warmly with Lauson he seemed almost doubtful trusting his own senses Could it possible that the dying merchant had such a In ing man? The change him was more surprising than it was to Lydia for she had watched each slow de- velopment of returning health while he saw it all at once It was in truth a very vi underfill change Quickly did L dia prepare a simple jast for her uncle and the old scenes Vt ere alked about Lauson told how he had on his farm and Langrave told where he had been in the south The vening away pleasantly and bly At length the old man remained for some moments and Lydia began o tremble said he how would you like o yo back into the city and enter into I couldn't do gaid the young man ith a shudder But I think I could raise the means No no I im not fit for a merchant Vme is a constitution that cannot Ihc in ich business O I would not gh e up this home for any establishment in the ity Ah sir I learned a great lesson I came lesson of life I now that I should have been in my grave lad I remained in the city I did not see t tien but I see it now At first I thought lie loss of my property was a calamity it was a blessing in Look at us now and see if we re not happy And continued Lauson with increasing to-morrow morning you shall see my children You to rise early if you n ould hear their first shout of joy and see their first smile of gladness generous he added extending his hand to Langrave I must bless you also I cannot tell you all I feel That was an evening of joy and fulness On the nest uncle grave was up early but not early enough to catch the first smile of the children for he found them just coming in from the garden with their hands full of flowers for their father and mother The two oldest had a faint recollection of Uncle Langrave but they soon learned to love him and so well did he love them and all else about them that he determined to make the cottage his home Lauson Watkins was once more a rich man but he did not leave the home where he had so well learned the great of life He enriched it with rarer fruits and pleasing ornaments and then from out of bis bounty he sought to do good for his fellows She was a happy they had happy children and all of them had one of the most joyful merry loving old in the world John Alcohol ray JOB John we were first acquaint I'd money in my John Which now I know there unt I spent it all in treating John Because I you so But how you've treated me fohn Alcohol my JOB t John Alcohol my Joe John We're been too long together So YOU must take one road John And I will the other For we may tumble down John If in hand we go And I hall bare the to foot John my Joe Think God murmured the old man he turned towards his niece plan his been blessed Watkins gazed first at his wife and tien upon her uncle He was His wife hia eager gaze and will a convulsive movement she sprang towards him and threw her arms about his O me my while tears streamed down ha cheeks you what? What this gasped the young man as he his wife's arras from his neck and lookei into her face aid Adam Langrave ehe wants you to forgrve her for saving your Sit and I'll tell him all The into a chair and then the old man I'll the mystery to you in a few moment You know how deeply you had absorbed in business how unceasingly you de- voted your tine to the mere acquirement of money Sjur wife saw that you were losing your heUth and strength that you were lost to her and her children in th mazy depth of money king This later burden she could have borne without a murmur but when ehe saw that you vere surely making your own premature passage to the grave she thought to arres your steps She spoke to you and fears but yon heeded them not that the hand of the destroyer was you and that you on- ly plunged the into the excitement that was In extremity she came to begged to assist her in saving yin 1 knew of but one way and I told child that She made me promise that Would carry it into I work It was a vere task but I to perform it I drew all your away from you and when I knew that your last dollar in my possession I to fail When I your that occasion I was tempted to disuse to you the plot nit I resolved j would go through The Pauper Dead of Mr Neave to the Cincinnati Daily Gazette the following description of the manner of burying the poor of the city of Naples About two miles from the city is a large square space inclosed by a high wall There are 365 cistern shaped vaults or pits with an aperture on the top about three feet square These cisterns are some twenty or twenty-five feet deep by twelve or fifteen in diameter with the opening covered by a heavy stone tightly cemented One of these is re- moved by a portable lever every day in the j ear to receive the dead of that day and then closed again for a twelvemonth They begin to deposit the bodies about six o'clock in the evening and end at ten When I got there about ten or twelve people had already been thrown They were lying promiscuously as they chanced to with head body and limbs in every possible over and under each other An old priest two or three attendants and a few idle spectators of the common sort were ering about Shortly after my a box was brought in containing the body of a child some four or h e years old its hands held a bunch of flowers and arose was in its mouth The priest mumbled a sprinkled it juth holy wa- ter and turned A man then took the little fellow up by the neck and heels and pitched him in as he would a stick of wood Seeing the flowers that fell from its little hand he picked them up and threw them in after him His head struck the curb as it went in and he fell ing to the bottom In a few minutes moie a man was brought to the mouth of the pit the priest again prayed and sprinkled the attendants took him up by the head and legs and down he went also Then followed another child like the and I was about leaving the ground find Oysters Among the first class restaurants in bany is the Marble Pillar located the Museum and kept by Billy a gentleman whose good nature is only equalled by his tonnage Among visitors who entered the on Tuesday last was a looking gentleman who ordered up a boiled quail and a dozen fried oysters While sing these delicacies he touched the bell and requested the waiter to send the to him The i waiter complied and in a few moments afterwards the clerical looking gentleman wag in a cozy colloquy with about matters and things in general By way W what was the trouble with that young man I saw you in cation with on Friday evening He contracted a to the amount of eighteen shillings and then refused to pay up And what did you do with him Chucked him out of Nothing else to law don't pay To have obtained eighteen shillings money by means of litigation consumed ton dollars worth of time Then all you do is to chuck them out as you say That's all Well that may be a wise plan but I doubt it By the way what kind of wine have jou As good an article of Heidsick as you can find in this city Will jou have a On one condition and that is that you ll join me in its imbibition With pleasure sir The bell was again white jacket appeared at the white jacket vanished In a moment the I'd offer thee this hand of mine I but ton thee For pan and warm as thino Should new know distress Ify fortune is too hard mar thy deamfflft I'd rather weep nil nr Than win to 111 thee to thy At one too dear to lore ore I think of but to 1 While wretchedly I Bnt oh dear one i 1 know no joy I would not that Should give Urr 1 And when eup t All bitter though it be How aweet twill be for jut It holds no drop for thee But now my an sadly Fate bide them all depart And I must have my native abort In of heart Personal Cornelius Gi historical and Roman consul in thai the A will refuse a smila The sorrowing heart to And turn to love the And cheuk the falling tear f A pleasant smile face 0 tii a blessed thing It will the lines of i white jacket bringing in a silver top on a juvenile salver The wine was poured out duly iced and disposed of In a few moments after this Winne begged to be excused and left his friend to finish up the quail The friend did so with what I had at the same time earnestly praying it might all end for And now continued the old man when a fourth subject entered The hd of the box was thrown back it was the body of a young abd rather handsome female She was apparently about ty and had evidently died from some short illness Her arms and face were round and full aid she appeared more asleep than dead The prayers and holy water were again in requisition the at- tendants took her roughly up and tossed her in I immediately stepped to the mouth of the vault and looked down her limbs and those of the dead below she had disturbed by her fall were still in motion Her head was slowly turning and her was long black and settling in thick clusters across a very white and naked body lying near her For a moment the whole nd mass seemed instinct with life and crawling on the bottom of its loathsome charnel-house I had seen enough Sick and ed I turned away and moralizing on the difference between such an interment and a peaceful one in our own beautiful etery at Spring Grove I mounted my lants and returned to meeting on my road some half a dozen boxes great and small containing more victims for that insatiable maw that opens its mouth but once a year gorged with its dreadful banquet bodies thus interred are generally mm the hospital and the sight can be witnessed by any one 365 times a the pit is closed quicklime is and nothing but bones are left when again opened and then in the bar room Where can 1 find a little fa my In the washbowl by the looking glass The stranger walked the room took a wash brushed up his whiskers ad- justed his white cravat and once more sought the proprietor 4 Mr Winne I have really enjoyed self I cannot remember when I ever ished wine and quail with greater zest Happy to hear you say so sir As a memento of the little repast 1 have a little favor to ask Whatis Chuck me Chuck me You don't mean to say you have been doing me I don't mean anything else I have not the first cent and if you want pay for these quails you must do as I said be- fore chuck me out Winne could hear no more He made a rush for the kitchen to get the cheese knife While he was absent our clerical friend dashed out at the side door and when last seen was rushing north at the rate of fourteen miles an hour Should he atop this side of Canada wo will issue an drawing a heavy from his the lasted long enough Here are hundred and three dollars I them from you o your own make my dear hild happy I retun them to you be- that you blame me for what I have done Lauson Watkins at first rat gradually the cloud fas dispelled from yon us mind O me The redeemed man his wife to iis bosom and while tears ed down his i Forgive No i el of have only bless heart ind soul ny lore my an- ty forgive I you with ray GETS Dearest I will build thee a cot all covered with ivy in some secluded vale close by a ling brook meandering over its pebbly bottom babbling in dulcet tinkling strains love love where the atmosphere is redolent of soothing spicy aromas that makes the eye languish and the heart dissolve in the liquid fire of love where the balmy morning zephyrs sigh in the dense forest's leafy maze ting love's where the tiny sters that warble in ethereal space warble nought hut love I will plant thee a den of gorgeous called from most ardent designs and sweet swelling incense Dolphy dear don't forget to leave a patch for to nice pickled A Worcester Mass Transcript says the rumor that has been afloat for some days in that city of the fact that one of the oldest citizens in Worcester had been detected in the crime of forgery to a considerable amount is likely to prove true We forbear says the giving the name of the party interested this morning It is that the amount of his forgeries is not less than twenty thousand dollars It is in vain to stick your finger into too the water and after it ontr look fof Distinguished Sen As to Tacitus I did not even attempt to combat my partiality for him I pre- ferred him even to the De- of history Thucydides re- but does not give life and Tacitus is not the historian but the com- of mankind His narration is the of the lact in the heart of the free virtuous and feeling man The shudder that one feels as he reads not on- ly passes over the flesh but is a shudder of the heart His sensibility is more than emotion it is pity his arc more than vengeance they are justice hia indignation is more than anger it is virtue Our hearts mingle with that of Tacitus and we feel proud of our dred with him Would you make crime impossible to your sons Would you in- spire them with the love of Rear them n the love of Tacitus If they do not become heroes at auch a must have created them base or evil A people who adopted Tacitus as their gospel would rise above the com- mon stature of such a people would enact before God the tragical ma of mankind in all ita in all majesty As to me I owe to writings more than the fibres of the flesh I owe all the metallic fibres of my being Should our vulgar and days even rise to the tragic grandeur of time and become the worthy victim of a worthy cause 1 might exclaim in dying Give the honor of my life and of my death to the master and not to pie for it that Jived and in Raphael A southern planter offers to bet thaf Hw cotton crop vear wilt new idea in I A Happy In a happy homn 1 overbearing no peevishness nor f ness will not dwell in ound on the tongue sighs the wasting of life andj and time of all i ie desired in a happy home occasio merely by unkind The ed Mr Wesley remarks to this that fretting and scolding ike tearing the flesh from the bones hat we have no more right to be guilty of his sin than we have to curse and and steal In a perfect happy home all will be removed Even as Christ d not so the of a home will not seek first to please elves but will seek to other Cheerfulness is another ingredient in lappy home How much a smile from the heart fraught with love and kindness contribute to er a home How attracting how is that sweet cheerfulness that is on the countenance of a wife and How do the parent and child tue brother and sister the mistress and the servant dwell with delight on those cheerful looks those confiding smiles that beam from the eye and from the inmost soul of those near and How it the return of the father lightens the of the renders it more easy for youth to drawn by the cords of affection how it them with ing hearts to return to jte parent O parents would to that by un would so far render that their children and seek for happiness For What She is responsible rearing of her i constitution and and proper child left to groTi an object of n is responsible for i ing cleanliness i sleeping and ior A child dene these will prove 1 to parental regard 1 ers eon if they will control these matters She is responsible for their i m She can make them modest or imp nent ingenious mean or y clownish or She is responsibly for the principles tha her children entertain in early life For she is to say whether who go ford rom her fireside be imbued with of virtue truth honor ty temperance and morality or those of a vice fraud id you may 1 no lu She is measurably for their education The beginning of all wisdom is the fear of God and every pMJ mother is capable to a greater or law de- gree of promoting in the her offspring Train up a child in the way at go and when he old will not from it f A Costing no Met 97 Which will you aid make your household happy or be crabbed and make all those young gloomy and the elder ones miserable The amount of happiness you can produce is lable if you show a smiling face kind heart and speak pleasant Wear a pleasant countenance let jo beam in your eyes and love glow on bead There is no joy like that wl from a kind act or a pleasant 4 and you will feel it at night when rest at morning when you mt add C the day when about your and every from which i A lew falsehood It I am afraid said to her husband that at nt what yon I Why I gave her wilt counted them found i when worMi full oft
