Independent American (Newspaper) - April 9, 1852, Platteville, Wisconsin V J L MARSH PLATTEVILLE APRIL 9 1852 TOL 30 Cards r It 15 Post A v Kit HOIK IKS STOBE r n AVU I I'M j I i I IAB tun trim IM HY i Wit 1 S M r v v n Akron Ohio lina Ohio on 1 i 1 in t- ir i I r in MI i i i 1 1 1 I I Ml M r It lit llVr nl t i IM IHM V 4 I I in i i r 17 s -i i ir I Ml 11 pi a T u II AM in n 1 1 Selected From the California Courier THE EXILE A Pilgrim from the Eastern shores Stood on Nevada's strand A teat was in his hither eye A in his A tear waa in his hither eyo And iit his left n match There would havo been another tear Hut for a healing patch AnJ other patches too he wore Which on his garments hung And two were on that spot Where mothers smite their young llw Jmt fhat n Costar cuco AVas broken now and Atul wild his bearded features gleamed From out tho tattered brim The Pilgrim stood nnd looking down As one who is in Hu to sec how that pair Of boots wine wealing out And while he filled an pipe HH to cheer He slopped with haml to pick A llea fiom out his ear Then that Pilgrim from the I am a wretched man For love of gold hired mo to Tho ami the I in a pile of Ik No my unions arc of gold Alas my hopes are ore Thrice I loft this spot Hut mine it to learn That fatal truth that we aie we slmll retum Ko here by fates unkind I wretched And mourn too lato that e'er I took and the pan The for now he hoard con 11 ark's From his pipo ho drew a parting Ami knocked the out And stooping as he gathered up His nnd hib pan Tho IIH latest accent I a wretched man I PM LARKIN and i -I wis I M I II II i in- t A Drama In real Life A Scotch gives tho following story as true t In tho year 1837 a young woman of de- cent though humble parentage 111 the country became acquainted with and an attachment to a young man in tho neighborhood A child tho ro suit of this attachment was ultimately from tho inability of either of the parents it to tho caro of tho grandmother on tho The mother frequent opportunities of see ing ami of lirr boy whilo she re in that quarter of tho country but soino afterwards she left the neighborhood and removed to a distance Thereafter tho father left tho same district nho and removed to Ireland taking the boy with him Somo years passed numbered and recognized her countenance and if the would call at his office on the evening at 7 o'clock he would nake whereby her son would in attendance and she might see The interest and anxiety it may be ned of tho woman was great She had not heard of her boy after many vain en- deavors for the long space of twenty yean eTen by here by a single accident when she least expected it she was on the following evening to see and converse with him She ately went home and told tho circum- stances to her husband and deep was the interest he also took in the matter which so much concerned her for she had to him a good and faithful wife and if she had erred she had washed it away with long sorrow and repentance and he of all others had fully forgiven her The intervening time it may be supposed ed long and tedious and it was with an anx- eye and a palpitating heart that she entered the office of keeper the succeeding evening a few minutes before the appointed hour The man informed lior that tho lad had not yet arrived but would soon be there and handing her a scat told her that ho would close a half shutter of the side window when he caino in by which signal she would know that it tier son who entered People came and went for a considerable time and tho feelings and anxiety were every moment increasing when one of her workmen entered tho office She instinctively turned away her hoad for she not that one in her husbands service should observe her at such an anxious time but at that instant the half shutter was in- stantly closed for indeed it was her son who had entered She gazed at him as he stood in his and her wonder was great that she should recognize in one of her husband's workmen her long lost son but the proceeding anxiety and the shock were too much and as she looked sho be- came pale and fainted away Restoratives were immediately procured and on her being completely recovered the tion of tho extraordinary circumstances was communicated to tho son Although he had frequent occasion to speak to his mistress had not been the least on either side of the close ship They went home to her husband's house and his place of business together Her husband was amazed as well as he might bo at the turn matters had taken and it was a subject of deep inter- est wonder to all of them He was pleased to find that his wife's son was so well for of course as his master she knew him well and shortly afterwards having used influence with his friends on his behalf and knowing the lad's ability he procured for him a situation as engineer on ono of railroads which he still holds Only about ten months ngo the lad interceded and obtained for his father a subordinate situation on the same line of railway and grateful thoughts of the mother may be well imagined An absence ot nearly twenty years could not in any degree abate the feeling of and though she had of con deplored tho error of her youth u was with feelings of thankfulness and a heart the contemplated tho extraordinary chain of circumstances which under idence had restored to her after protracted separation tho child of her j I A YEAH I t work jut with III llf tl i I r nt faf Vr K the offer In tho prosecution of his Qf I t i I ami bump mutually others and f place of resilience the mother after using moans to discover whether her child had boon removed gavo up all hopes of ing tho much desired intelligence She herself well in tho family in which she served and in a few years thereafter an offer of marriage was made to her by a respectable tradesman which after candidly relating to him tho circumstances of her previous life ho was by reason of his attachment to her ntl to and accented I Uie JH tho prose F noM ne rei 5 sow whore ho commenced business as an IMON o Tho of tho to in the meantime had also married and by him the youth when he grew up was sent to I and completed his apprenticeship with an engineer in Ireland Subsequently the lad went to Glasgow in search of and ob- employment by a singular dence and without a knowledge on cither side of the relationship from the engineer who us wo have stated had married tho boy's mother and from the fact of her not having wen him since he was an infant she never suspected and indeed could not sibly have him as her long lost appears that a brother of the lads er happened to keep a booking for parcels etc in tho city and to him among others tho father hod sometimes mhu alluded to the mother of his and his natural curiosity to know bad become of her The young man was THE MODEL clorer writer in Boston Olive Branch gives the following She don't know a word of French Italian or German and never reads anything but Hints to Married and The Cookery play on the don't keep but one girl does half the ing and makes all the cakes and pies cuts her husband's her own dresses mends all the stockings turns her husband's pants inside out and before when they get shabby docs all the marketing buys the wood and coal never out except Sunday don't know nt T HI Masonic Hall No 6 every Friday at the Hall K A Itf MAS fTm 11 w LAR of flu town of on the fint and third tbe Em ana i K on vj of each calendar occasionally in tho habit ot calling on tan and reading or talking might month 8 r CLEVELAND rV of A in tho town of Platteville on tbe tutti 9 F MARINE INSURANCE WM K father's brother and reading over any mutual letters tne receive from his In chanced one day that well entered tbe office to book his eyes on her and are worn keeps nights never sleeps ways looks pretty never lookt tired wears a face though every bone in her body achea and presents Mr Snooks with an a year Wouldn't speak to any man but her husband for the likes to see him talk to all the pretty men Bocks the cradle and darns the stockings in the forenoon the stockings and rocks the cradle in the afternoon at home in evening and mends her husband's old trowsers whilo ho goes to hear Jenny up in the rocking chair half the night nursing Snooks for fear it will disturb papa a great inward of goneness in the morning nevertheless rises at 6 clock takes out a clean shirt for Mr Snooks washes the faces combs the heads On A INCIDENT OF LOTS Our noble ship lay at anchor in the bay of Tangier a fortified town in the extreme northwest of Africa The day had been extremely mild with a gentle breeze ing to the northward and westward but long towards the close of the afternoon the died away and one of those sultry atmospheric from the groat Sahara Half an hour before sundown the cap- tain gave the order to the boatswain to call all hands to go swimming and in less than five minutes the forms of our tars were seen leaping from the gangways the the nettings bowsprits fend some of tho more took their leap from the arms of the lower yard One of the studding sails had been ered into the water with its corners pended from the main j ard arm and tho swinging boom and into these most of tho swimmers made their way Among those who seemed to be ing the sport most heartily were two of the boys Tun Wallace and Fred Fairbanks tho latter of whom was the son of our old gunner and in a laughing mood they ed out from the studding sail on a race There was a loud ringing shout of joy on their lips as they put off and they started through the water like fishes The surface of tho sea was as smooth as glass though its bosom rose in long and heavy swells that set in from the Atlantic The vessel was moored with along sweep from both cables and the buoy of the board anchor was far away on the board quarter where it rose and fell with the lazy swells like a drunken man Towards buoy the two lads made their way Fred Fairbanks taking the lead but when they were within about twenty or thirty fathoms of the buoy Tim shot a- hoad and promised to win the race The old gunner watched the progress of his son with a vast deal of pride and when he saw him drop behind he leaped upon tho poop and was on the point ot urging him on by a shout when a cry reached him that made him start as if ho had been struck by a cannon ball A shark a shark came from tho cap- tain of the forecastle and at the sound of these terrible words the men who wore in the water leaped and plunged towards the ship Right abeam at the distance of three or four cable's length a shark wake was seen in the water where the back of the ster was visible His course was for the boys For a moment the gunner stood like one bereft of sense but 011 the next ho ed at the top of his the boys to turn but the little fellows heard him not stoutly the two swimmers strove for the goal all unconscious of the bloody spirit that hovered so near them Their merry laugh still rang out over the waters and at length they both touched the buoy together Oh what drops of agony started from the brow of our old eunner A had put off but Fairbanks know that it could not reach them in season ami ment he expected to see the monster from sight and then he knew that ill hope had gone At that moment a cry reached the ship that went through heart like a stream of boys had discovered their The cry started old Fairbanks to his ses and quicker that thought he sprang to the quarter deck The guns were all ed and shotted fore and aft and none knew their temper better than he With a steady hand made strong by a sudden hope the old gunner seized a priming wire and ed the cartridge of one of the quarter guns then he took from his pocket it percussion wafer and set it in its place and set back the hammer of the patent lock With a steady giant strength the old man swayed the breech of the heavy gun to bearing and then seizing the string of the lock he stood back and watched for the next swell that would bring the shark in range He had aimed the piece some distance ahead of his mark but yet a single moment would settle his hopes and fears Every breath was hushed and every heart in that old ship beat painfully The boat was yet some distance from the boys while the horrible sea monster fully near Suddenly the air was awoke by the roar of a heavy gun and as the old man know hie shot was gone he sank back upon the combing of the hatch and ed his face with his hands as if afraid to see the result of his efforts for if he had failed he knew that the boy was lost For a moment after the report of the gun had died away upon the air there was a dead silence but as the smoke arose from tho surface of the water there was at lut Hetty en Now said Aunt Hetty putdown your embroidery and worsted do something sensible and stop building castles and talking of lovers and moons it makes me sick iu perfectly an- Lore is a it a humbug husbands are domestic Napoleons Alexanders sighing for other hearts to conquer after they are tore of yours The is as short lived as a Lucifer match after that you may wear your wedding dress at the and your night cap to meeting and jour husband wouldn't know it You may pick up your own handkerchief help yourself to a chair and split your gown across the back reaching over the table to got a piece of butter while he is lapping In his fast as if it waa the last meal he should eat this side of Jordan when he sets through ho will aid your digestion while you are sipping your first cup of by ing what you'll have for dinner whether the cold lamb was all ate yesterday if the charcoal is out and what you gave for the last green tea you bought Then he gets up from tha table lights his cigar with tho last evening's paper that you have not had a chance to read gives two or three whiffs of smoke sure to give you tho headache for the afternoon and just as his is vanishing through the door apologises for not doing that errand for you it doubtful if he can so pressed with Hear of him at eleven o'clock taking an ice cream with some ladies at Vinton's while you are at home new lining his old coat Children by the ears all day can't go out to take the air feel as crazy as a fly drum husband comes home at night nods a how d'ye do boxes Charley's ears stands little Fanny up in the corner sits down in the warmest corner puts his feet up over the grate shutting out all the fire while the baby's little pug nose grows blue with the cold reads the newspaper all to self solaces his inner man with a cup of hot tea and just as you are laboring under the hallucination tha tho will ask you to take a mouthful of fresh air with him he puts on his dressing gown and slippers and be- gins to reckon up the family expenses ter which he lies down on the sofa and you keep time with your needle while he snores till nine oclock Next morning ask him to leave you a little he looks at you as if to be sure you are in your right mind draws a sigh long enough to inflate a pair of bellows and asks you what you want of it and if half a dollar won't do Gracious king as if all these little shoes and stockings and pinafores and petticoats could be had for half a lar Oh girls set your affections on cats poodles parrots or let matrimony It's the hardest way on earth of getting a never know when your work is done Think of eight or nine children through the measles rash mumps and scarlet fever some of cm twice over and it makes rny sides ache to think of Oh you may scrimp and save and twist and turn and dig and delve and economise and die and your husband will marry a- gain take what you've saved to dress his second wife with and she'll take your trait for a what's rho use of talking I'll warrant every one of you'll try it the first chauce you here's a sort of bewitchment about it somehow I wish one-half of the world fools and half idiots I Da Branch S PRESTOS AJTD nut Thorpe in life of the advocate Prentiss of Mississippi re- the following capital of hta lionizing Among the shrewd who took advantage of such exciting election to coin money was the proprietor of travelling menagerie who soon found out that the multitude followed Prentiss ting the list of that remarkable man's he filled up his own and It was soon noticed as a singular that the orator arrived along with the er lions The reason of this meeting was discovered and the boys decided that Prentiss should next time speak from tbe top of the lion's cage Sever the more crowded At proper time the candidate gratified his and mounted his singular rostrum I told by a person who professed to have been an eyo witness that the whole affair presented a singular mixture of the ble and tho comical was as um- al eloquent anil as if ignorant of the el circumstances with which he was rounded went deeply into the matter in hand his election For a while the audience and the were quiet the former listening the latter eyeing tho speaker with grave The first burst of applause electrified tha menagerie the elephant threw his trunk into the air and echoed back the noise while the tigers and bears growled On went and as each peculiar animal vented his rage or bation ho wrought in his habits as simile of some man or passion la the meanwhile the stately king of beasts who had been treading the mazes of his prison became alarmed at the steps over his head and placing his mouth upon the floor of his cage made thing shake with his terrible roar This joined with the already excited feelings of the audience caused the ladies to shriek and a fearful commotion for a moment lowed Prentiss equal to every occasion changed his tone and manner he com- a playful strain and introduced the fox the jackal tho hyena and capped the climax by likening some well known political opponent to a grave baboon that presided over the cage with The resemblance was instantly and bursts of laughter followed that ally set many into convulsions The oon all unconscious of the attention was attracting suddenly assumed and then a serious face when Prentiss ex- claimed I see my fine fellow that your feelings are hurt by my unjust comparison and humbly beg your pardon The effect of all this may lie vaguely imagined but it cannot be described of the nine little scrubs their eighteen little dirty hands and nurses the baby while papa is shaving for fear its ing will make him cut his fece with the Helps the nine and her husband all breakfast time then eats a cold egg and some burnt toast they are gone I Thinks husband an a mm a perfectly willing he engage to com- inr home Iron her and hopee No 2 of nob a than waa WAT Lewi of Pans seems with of first a low murmur breaking from the lips of the murmur grew louder and stronger until it swelled to a joyous shout The old gunner to his feet and gazed out upon the water and the first thing that met his view was the huge careass of tbe shark floating with his betty mantled In few memento the boat reached the daring and half dead with fright they brought on board Tbe obi man in ami end Own by the powerful be leaned soon the gun for support I men In all the ex- and bat never have I beings overcome by than right they taew the effect ef Bleeding Death Ben Brisk is now a leading member of the Sons and W P of a certain Division n the interior of Ohio He is a great friend to the cause and a better enemy to ardent spirits is Benjamin Brisk Esq high shoemaker and cobbler general to the s inhabitants of But Bon we are very sorry to say was not always so There was a time when he loved his tea as well as the next tell the truth he did get beastly times Reeling home one night as usual a tle too heavy with gin he blundered into his room and tumbled over a chair right on to the floor Did you ever know a man to enter a room in the dark without falling over every chair in it Well Ben like you and I had a nose upon his face and on himself to his feet he imagined e had done great bodily harm to his nasal projection and that the red wine was pouring therefrom in a perfect stream So up went the window and out popped his head It had been raining a little and a small stream was trickling from the eaves and fell upon the pavement beneath him patter Ben thought bis nose was doing the clean thing POT tbe space of half an hour he heard it dis- trickling down upon the stone He became alarmed He felt himself growing weaker and weaker until at last be sank down fully impressed with the belief that be was bleeding to death I He slept till morning and woke up a reformed man A following definition of a libel was given by Judge of case of the diner Fountain i This publication X am bound to matter of law a violation of law that it immoral be Ui character tbe die ant to prove the truth stand be the phai i let of vie is iu justification CHANGE OF writer from Paris It has been noticed for tbe last twenty years that the climate is gradually ing more equable and that of late the ex- tremes of heat and cold in summer and ter are decidedly evere A circum- stance somewhat of this ry is earthquakes are coining we are being treated to an acquaintance with some ot the monopolies of tlie torrid zone They have felt a serious shock at Bordeaux where never in the memory of man was one ever felt before It lasted eight seconds and did a remarkable deal of work considering the time it had to do it in It began with an and ed oscillations from South to North It was 2 o'clock at night ami tbe zon was a lurid red as it tho last rayt of a conflagration were still lingering in UM atmosphere In tho surrounding country the cattle were as frightened as the men and uttered low murmurs and complaints LOVE OF THE a much nicer sense of the beautiful than men They aro by far tbe safer umpires In matters of propriety and grace A men school girl will be thinking and writing a- bout the beauty of birds and flowers whOa her brother is robbing the nests and de- the flowers Herein it gnat natural law that the sexes have each relative excellencies and deficiencies in the harmonious union of which affl the wealth of domestic is no better test of moral than the of one's MOM and the depth of one's love of all that fe beautiful YANKEE ALL Yankee who over to the mother country tone time and who was asked on coming beek bow fee liked Great be said England WM nice country exceedingly fertile wall populous aad very t said the Yankee I never take a morning walk after be- cause the n to Imu ways afraid of Ac fife pen with Certainly i here it witt tl and returns in about half 1 air 1 devil has be been a defeat be wanted ft a ho tU o totte ha stands fa trath to A
