Independent American (Newspaper) - April 28, 1854, Platteville, Wisconsin VOL Curbs ENT K W UNITED At It tho fur this per 1 i APRIL ATTORNEY AT LAW al and LAND AGENT WIS C C CLINTON CO IJf ALL Wit AND KINO aunt at the of Dr Jahn rte Stor c T 01 Surveyor Engineer WM j a Win with B F Office AT AM Of THE PEACE AND LAND AGENTS MS C anb at Cum l J w ut Ills residence or lit AMU iy ALL or FURNITURE AND Corner of ami int GERMAN P H Y S I C I A JJ no Wain n tn thu nf H II i 1 r ir A ml r MAIN J It I AND WATCH KH Alain IS ll ITU i CLOT fx iii AMI IX II t or tc ALL or tiur noons STH Sur GALENA CITY Marble Manufactory THE undersigned keeps constantly on band MONUMENTS STONES 1 Bureau Table and Counter and Imposing Stones Is alno for tbo sale of for LotH French Stones Dutch end Com Milk Screen Wire and corner of Levee nnd Spring street near Lower It L April 4.1854 49 I 0 F Ims ro- JL n lot of nnd Silver Laco nnd and will tU a full supply of above when lie lindt what the public All thankfully received nnd faithfully ex- at thu sign of tho Golden No 120 Minn Galena FOR Gold mid ALSO GOLD RINGS And to order by A No 120 Main St the Stave Feb ISM AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDE W 120 STREET lim to very which to Mod to a And he it his duty to coll me elno in this city you will find a few f thu by mo old Duplex Dial Lever in and Silver furs In Lupine do De- arhed In hunting alid open Kdb alid Vest Chainn Chains nnd Fob and from to to Gold Pencil Spectacles and Eye Glasses har and Crowes lilver Tea Table and Denurt Tobacco Fruit Knives Nut d Ki THE AGO BV F TATLOE Oh 1 a wonderful stream is iTic riVer As it runs through the realm of With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme And a broader sweep and a sublime As it blends with the ocean of years How the winters are drifting like flakes of suow And the summers like buds between And tho year In the they come nnd they OH the river's breast with its ebb and flow An it glides in the shadow nnd sheen There's n magical ISLE up tho river Time Where the softest of airs are playing There's n cloudless sky and n tropical clime And n tong sweet ns a vesper chime And the Junes with the roses are straying And the name of this isle is the Aao And we bury our treasures there There were brows of beauty nnd bosoms of snow There are heaps of dust but we them so I There are trinkets and tresses of hair There me fragments ut song that nobody sings And a part of an infant's prayer a lutu a harp without nic broken and pieces of rings And tim garments she used to wear There are hands that are waved when fairy By the mirage in lifted in air And we hear thro tho turbulent roar Sweet voices wo heard in days gone before When the wind down tho river is fair Oh I remembered for aye bo that blessed isle All the day of lifo till r When the evening comes with its beautiful smile And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile May that greenwood of soul be in sight Ac GERMAN PHYSICIAN 117 intl In of will to nil at Aii I'M the Driek f nf No are at tbe Hall ill tbe town of on nnd third of each I U M D Regular of Chapter H A held the Hall in tho town of oil the of each month G WARNE M D I O O F ILLY OK THE MOUND LODGE I O O regular Friday at 7 o'clock at thu Hall STUART Stcy U on Cridar of faeh week and will who have it loft at their far and Turnly fire per and moil will be year taken unions accompanied tW moony or equivalent and no piper beyond tho time paid for i for Oac annum W Half 12 H CO 5 00 the charge 4 the term for which they at th be paid in Knives an Napkin and Thimbles Chains Card and Halt Plated Tea and Card Cake Candlesticks Snuffers Mid TrayR Spoons and Cups Spectacles und Tea of all kind by tho Single or in fiotts Oil and Tavern m ps Candlesticks Chamber nnd Tall Ac nnd Music oxes nnd V Violin own Strings Tail Ac Eye and Funny Pocket Cutlery and American lery oil FRENCH RAZOR best article ever put to the face full Jl Stt All kinds Ac warranted not tti cut in Hit eye C men and CLOCKS and t received d of nil which I offer at tail lower thu Unitar anil Guitar 1 roiling Gents do Pistols Powder shot Coral Beads and shell and other Combs copes nnd spy Glassed and curt Hazor Strops of a very peculiar aud To Watchmakers Tools and Materials of nil kind constantly on such as Culling Springt eft which I will noil nt thu lowest possible price A At Me nf Fitk OcloborSO 6 T Copper Tin Sheet Iron MORRISON WILLIAMS WOULD inform the public that be has chased tho stock in trade tools and counts of and will continue the business at tho old stand and lonos by mi tied exertion to merit a liberal share of lic Ue will bo in receipt of the most approved patterns of comprising all tho new kinds and mrae of the ld which have earned and maintained a good reputation lie has several varieties of very superior And intend to be supplied with every variety of Stove having sufficient merit to warrant their ready nnd giving satisfaction a Ho will koep on baud or make to order every variety of Tin Ware usually kept or made in an establishment of this kind and will also make ltd put up on tho shortest notice EAVE TROUGHS AND CONDUCTORS Copper and Sheet Iron Ware Such an Slum furniture SAot Iron on short notice Attended too promptly and all work to M as represented Those desirous of purchasing anything In our line would do well to a call before purchasing elsewhere accounts tin paid at the shop March 33.1654 due for work or Roods may of all for iale cheap at the Boauroai fl ANGLES for sale V sale br KEMLER CL from Pictorial A BV MHS E Tho first doop shadow thai over rested upon Henry Herbert's homo was east it by thu loss of his and de- voted wife It was indeed to him ono of those mysterious dispensations thu ing of which wo know not now for thuro she stood at tho domestic fireside idolized by her husband and seemingly perfectly indispensable to her two who wero just nt the to demand hor con- stant solicitude Such a loss seems ways doubly painful to bo borna by tho father while tho children are quite sible of their heavy bereavement nnd Herbert never felt it moro Intensely than when contemplating tho littlo volatile movements of his daughter Grace who stood arranging a bunch of natural ers to mako a garland for hor mother's grave True the child wept und called to her mother as If ah in its upward flight but then sho dried hor nnd stood before her mirror half an hour after parting her auburn locks and rolling over hur curls so as to produce n pleasing girls nt tun years of ago are not altogether insensible to tho budding charms which belong to period and young Arthur who WHS two years older than Grace had learned to put on his cap jauntily nnd to marks of pre- which only made it more to others than himself how much he ed tho moulding influences of a judicious mother to control his too ripened sities to It was a dark day therefore when wife and mother was borne forever from those loved for whom she had lived nnd prayed and so much und to whom her husband still turned as if sho wore oven now a ministering angel hoping by her and influences to bo still directed If it wore n more fancy who would wish to dislodge it from such a troubled But what was to bo done with this de- pendent household t Mrs Herbert was unexpectedly taken from a scene of labor and care over which hur supervision was supreme If her band was perplexed sho was his tor if he was sick sho was his nurse if wus dejected sho was his sun in fine one who smoothed all the thorny of man's troubled life and upon whom he always leaned and sought sel assured that only words of would direct him Of course the faithful discharge of the maternal relation was not wanting and while tbe feeling of tion bore no sadly upon Henry Herbert's heart let us hear the first letter bo ted to a very dear friend after his severe affliction Mr DEAR can never express to you in language thu painful sense of loss which every where moots me since my beloved Lizzio has gone from my Mover was it more intensely realized than the first morning our little family group ranged ourselves around the breakfast blo She who was ever the presiding ius at that board always made tbe most lowering day Open propitiously and hopeful was not instead a pert young housekeeper occupied her chair and by her attempts at affability nnd their and yot jin unhappy Was a ruth hero which Mrs Ag new presented but H did not take hold o tno us if uttered n a sympathizing spirit I wondered she dare express herself freely I felt her husband was never to her what my wire was to ma It was toi much and whet Maggy our old trusting domestic my room soon after will ft deep sigh i aid O Mr Herbert we have indeed met with n sod loss and I do not feel as if I c in stay with you under this now mistreat it woke up a tide o feeling perfectly irresistible and and master wept together Mrs Agnew is not a jing woman in her man nera Maggy SIPS she has already dicta tod very unwisely to her and as they hail some slight i she is about to leave And now if we follow the journal of this distressed widow sr wo shall have before us an exact -o of human nature in ha frequent Juno It is now a month since dear Lizzio left ma I begin to regain my composure but am terribly oppressed with a sense of A thousand objects of interest upon which she daily looked tend to 1 eop her continually in my thoughts ia her the unfinished mi lay upon the table a note to a friend but owing to never sent to her an piece of fancy work kept for a stray hour's amusement hur books everywhere the mute objects hur oyes or lingers upon An 1 whore is alia now comes to ma with appalling force Shall wo meet again July It is recommended by my friends that I su Mrs Agnow is co troubled with her summit the i hildren have grown very restless under her management and Ar- thur refuses to o her at all It is thought I had bet er send tho children to some good and find some homo for in where I shall bo subject to less per and sooner re- gain my former July 20 Tho decision is made and I have boon gall the relies of dear Lizzie's handiwork for her daughter Grace to preserve as a precious legacy The dear children are ct a well recommended school and I take to-morrow in public houso It is thought I shall b more in society in iuch a place and woa off tho effects of my groat loss But th idea of quitting u lomo whore I have en tho must exquisite pleasures u holy charm seems to pervade even th apartments which she so glided and adorned is indued painful liu then with such a housekeeper what left o mo but to this course cam Jt find ono huJ f tho nice materials up on which Lizzie expended so much time Mrs Agnew says tl o servants must carried them away What was in drawers weight of sorrow and fooling tho tion of a heart that turns to another for support I mot by merest accident a lovely girl who so strikingly reminded me of my early love that I sought an to her She stopped hero with hor father for a few days She is wull con- her father is cashier in a Lank in Western New York I have boon thero madu my proposals and have been ed Thus dear Anna you aro mado with this now feature in my histo- ry Do not ask me if lam demented far from it Amelia Blond is just about twenty years of ago lively fascinating perfectly charming in conversation tho idol in her home being tho eldest sweet tempered and a being as would make Grace and Arthur ono of the most accomplished of ions and the best of I van not for I dare not attempt to toll you how I of this beautiful being who has been raised up to mo to pour now life and happiness into my once bruised In personal beauty sho far exceeds my ted wife besides sho had all the modern advantages of a fashionable education which eminently qualifies hor to impart her gifts mid graces to my children I shall not bo married until rented a fino house and tho very prospect of being once again reinstated as a happy family quite my feelings and makes me enthusiastic in the Tho children too are delighted with prospect Do not chido my prompt action lifo is so brief wo must gather all the sunshine we can its parted clouds Your truly H H And thus tho dear Anna playfully re- ADDRESS OK THE MEMBERS To a Prohibitory taw To the People Slate of We the of the Senate aud Assembly friendly to tho age of Liquor Law after mutual consultation have concluded that in justice td and the of tho temperance reform throughout thu State a brief und correct history of thu action of the late upon this im- portant measure should bo published and through the columna of thu public bb placed within the reach son in thu State In accordance with this conclusion we have drawn up the ing statement of tho inception progress and final defeat of the for tho of the traffic in intoxicating drinks affected good humor strove to dissipate the sadness of our countenances Perhaps it was a kind act well intended but I could not bear it my coffee remained untasted my roll lay untouched upon my Toe of course partook of my emotion and the housekeeper being not of any too sensitive turn of mind began to chide ut she Mr bert do you think nobody ever buried a friend but Young M I am I have lost a husband but I was led by the grace of God to feel it was all right If I Bad yielded to the pressure of tho ty what would hare become of my No air I immediately summoned my energies broke up housekeeping put out my children to board secured a tion for myself and determined to look beyond the cloudy aspect I at length succeeded and you see the cheerful quiescence I have attained Mr Herbert 7011 still bare of means to supply is mostly I but thu mi of what tallied in trunks receptacles but gave all thu ku s to my housekeeper have no means of 1 what has buei purloined But wl cover is tho aggressor must suffer moro by tho gain than I cat by the loss Aug 8th I not exactly enjoy this bustling whirl in i hich I live 1 somu times picture to my a fain ily where wo can again garner up our wasted hopus and lit by our cheerful side If thuro won another Lizzie in this wide world who but supply the place of hur who w is havo I said It it scarcely five months since sho left me and I have every week since watered hur with my tears Supt visited my dear wife's grave for thiae weeks At I had a misgiving as if she wore conscious of the neglect but it is only tha material form which is gentle it would gladly spur J ma from all al grief How tho children need a home and a moth euro 1 Oct 17 When I was first introduced to Amelia Blond slnatotico reminded mo of my dear wife 1 rue she is a mere girl compared with ho fifteen years still i II the graces of manhood are fully developed ens I I blush to enti r it upon my How Mrs Agnow my old housekeeper would glory in tho fulfilment of hor mado in my d he your feelings will be materially chang jd in a fow months and in less than a yi ar I predict your riage violent grief never survives more than ono seaso u I could havo turn- ed her from my ahold tor such an mation but how little we know ourselves 1 Lizzie jour imago is still on- shrined in my heart but must I go ing through the rom under of my journey because you wora ta from my side I met Dr Frost he first ed to joke me upon being married again This led to a serious conversation upon tho doctor uts been through tbe depths f affliction three successive times and now is in the ft 11 enjoyment of bliss Ho no objection to Miss Blond but her i go tut at twenty are as fit rule a household as others at fifty I not myself think her age an insuperable abjection she will be more to Grace But how do I know that vould marry a man so much her doctor says how will you know you ask her V Nor 4th my last entry in my journal I have taker a great step The proposal to marry Amelia was accepted I find myf elf m world the old restless disconsolate feeling I have ed seems leaving me My weed is ble upon ray b it and outward marks of mourning are sup I have I would not use any more crape ings I must my feelings to ray dear friend to whoa I so recently com- my deep assured however that she reply Henry I tremble for you And let us heir 3 confession thus con- made I belongs to our manity that tbe sun should succeed tbe storm as much B the physical as the material universe Mr you have bean tbe faithful y of my sorrows it is but justice due to yc u to be made ted with my Inow then my rood friend that baring 1 eeo crushed by Havo I not tho evidence before mo lonry that you are a genuine Inconsolable tho first month of your not much relieved tho senond mite convalescent tho tho third ling to look round you tho fourth find a piece of human perfection the fifth to marry her tho sixth live on tho prospect tho seventh and outer upon tho glorious realization tho eighth 1 Vero you the first of your species who has over tho drama I could yon or hide gravely caution you But I fear lor thoso husbands nth overpowering griefs at tho loss of their early idols At the present period of your I shall therefore intrude no remonstrances for I am wull assured you are in a dreamy state of bliss that nothing but reality will equalize Lot me therefore wish you as much enjoy niont as you anticipate aud to ask mor would bo Truly ANNA On tho first of seven month from of his idolized wife Herbert und Amelia Blond wore united in for improper during the luto suasion since the State of Maine sot the glorious example of proscribing the im- proper traffic m spirituous liquors within hor and innumerable evils which follow in its train thu of a prohibitory liquor law has been more or less by the people of consin For two sessions of tho marriage tivo place Tho now was an attrac Graco and Arthur wore do lighted with their new mother thu rathe not think hor hi wife and tho manifest with which hi introduced his wife and the smile like OK which irradiated his features bo spoko the perfect satisfaction which per his inner being When wo of Herbert fully per that it was a wise dispensation which removed his first idol And ul though hor memory was atill fragrant ye ho presented a living memorial that tho crushed affection may bo ant that no heart however desolate if it boats beneath a manly bosom but may repair its loss And too often tho truth is dent the newly repaired seem to How out moro spontaneously and with deeper fervor than did tho old for ait an ancient writer quaintly remarks tho old rejuvenated by tho fires of a now passion becomes juvenile in its exhibitions of tenderness E br THE sonio queer in A fow days since an old toper diod rather suddenly The in consequence held an to the testimony of a and was rendering a verdict water on the when Mr Stocum to object Mr Coroner I havo known for ton mortal years and I know 10 has never seed a sober moment in that time To say that such a man can die on the is therefore nonsense It can't bo did Cause who Ho never took any into his system Tho true Mr Coroner should be gin rum or brandy on tho I cannot got such a verdict I am willing to plit the iring in a as Died from ho effect of brandy aud water on the rain The compromise was agreed to and the above verdict is part nnd parcel of tbe re- of Iowa HELPING is ed in Now York that Wesley Smith nnd onto twelve other Americans have gone to Russia to make a secret contract with Imperor Nicholas for the destruction of tie British and French Fleets in the Baltic Russian battery The plan we under- land is A portable torpedo of cient power to a man-of-war is to carried under tho water by a man un- cased in submarine armor He fastens tho attery to the bottom of the ship and re- urns to the shore when by of an wire the battery is fired and the Slip is blown up It is said that tho Sub- marine armor and battery Company are to one hundred thousand pounds sterling if successful in clearing out the Allied squadron and they are otherwise to receive a stipulated sum for every tile ressel which they may destroy RUSSIA'S CHIEF The by no means flush of money He has sued millions of a paper currency which is always a sign of financial weakness It farther hit new paper currency is already tailing into discredit gold ials and even the silver coinage being at a premium of one per cent you would become heartless and frequent you would get well out of I be world be upright while yeu are in it ture prior to the last attempts havo been made to pass a law of this acter Petitions wero poured in upon tho legislature during tho session of from all quarters of tho State and the measure demanded by a voice more tial than over for uny other law of body Hod it boon for tho tion of any other evil that voico would have boon obeyed at once but tho ture shrank from thu responsibility of passing what in tho mildest phrase thoy to believe an experiment in lation Tho only concussion which thoy condescended to make to tho demands of the people was to allow them the poor privilege of voting upon thu of such a luw at tho general election Lost November the people voted upon that question and by a handsome majority demanded of their representatives thu en- of such a law This question entered largely into tho choice for representatives und a decided majority of tho members of tho Assembly were from among tho friends of principle of prohibition In the Senate the case was Ono half of its members huld over from lust Thoy wuro elected with no to this subject nnd a majority of thoso who thus held over hostile to a prohibitory law Tho of party Is stronger In tho election df a Senator than u member of tho House Those o- looted last full wore mostly chosen with a view to the coming of it States Senator at thu session oF was consequence to their vote the measure in The result was df thu thirteen at wore friendly to the prohibitory luw and six were opposed to it A majority of tho WHOLE NO 395 safest and thu most likely to expedite In tho meanwhile thu Senate took up their on the same it Ity out all tho enacting th Houso as a to with the providing tho law should go into on tho day of Juno next stricken out nnd n now suction inserted providing for the submission of the law to u voto of people at thu unit fall If by ilium it was to take effect on first of January t not on tho first of Juno lowing tho in tho moan whilo an opportunity for repealing it In condition it wan of virulent of thu t u law for it mid into the Assembly Thuro it wan taken in preference to Houso in of tha whole tho Bion out nnd H members holding over froni being td it the predominating ili that Body td df the latter class of Senators o- in the full of represented or rather misrepresented districts which gave heavy majorities for tho prohibitory law at tho last general election Had those districts Senators at that time thoy would without doubt have chosen none but genuine of this measure This explains the course of the Senate on tho liquor and is a sufficient guaran- tee that hud tho Senate like tho Assembly been elected last fall when this question wus fairly before the both houses would havo to its sago and no difficulty whatever would have been found in enacting it During tho first week of the Into session tllo introduced u In tllo Senate to prohibit the sale and manufacture of intoxicating drinks The was very stringent in its provisions and provided for being ted to a vote of the people nt thu next No- election Tho last suction od td the next that n case a Of the votes be ast in favor of the that body should enact a law precisely similar to the in question with the exception of tion to such submission if a it that of course would tut an und to tho matter Somewhat tutor in tho the ion of tho Governor's Message which reta- ed td a prohibitory law was referred in the Assembly to the committee on ry a majority of whom wero in favor of he measure Tbe committee after a borough investigation of the subject drew up a with great euro and with thu light post in other status usly avoided all constitutional objections and impracticable or unnecessary ions contained in the similar laws which everal of tho adopted This till accompanied by report recom- mending ita passage and by four of the five of the judiciary com- was reported to the houso Soon after a the members of the senate and friendly to the lassage of the law embodying tho iles of the measure known as tho Maine was hold tho reported by the committee was considered and in detail rer the requirements of tbe people more than the introduced in the to and was accordingly fixed upon as the one to certain nents which were considered necessary to perfection wore agreed upon und a mutual understanding had that it should without any other material nent This was deemed proper in order o obviate the necessity for length ons on which might be d by the opponents of tbe for the of it Without some of the kind there was a that of tho ire might be led into voting for some a- thus a of its unless its impropriety should be exposed by a lengthy As good legal advice as any in lie state had been consulted upon the lie whole matter thoroughly investigated and it being considered as nearly as it would probably be in the this was adopted as viding the law should into on the first day tf Juno next in its lilt upon made the us passed und re- turned to the Senate for its That body concurred in all tho ments of tho House except the one ing out tho submission clause This was re inserted in a form still moru odious and unfair than before It provided fur thu submission of law to a the ple nt the November election ensuing and in case a majority of all tho cast at tho election not all tho votes cust oU this subject but a majority of the highest bor cast for any officer or on any subject wore for tho law it was to take effect on the first of January the law was to go into effect A U 1000 Assembly refused to concur in their action and tho Senate refused to friends of tho in both houses ered thu submission as ti cowardly und un- worthy attempt to dodge responsibility Overt at thu best Hut still stronger sons thum to insist upon its sion It was thought should tho law pass an earnest effort would bo mado at fall election to send to the Legislature who would repeal it If an attempt wore mado the would bo td void morii ly woro the law to prior to that election nnd afford them nn opportunity of something of itd practical Thoy willing to the at which it go into until tho first of September or but thoy wished the to too law fairly in force before thu election Thoy well understood tho strenuous tion which bo put forth at that for its They felt that human in- could not a law to that ingenuity could not raito ob- against it and by forced it popular assemblage in legal in establishing iv and of its ia Thu true test of any huv is an of It i operations the to judge of the law by its fruits If proved evil thoy felt assured that the ple would elect who would supply its deficiencies and correct ever improprieties it might contain lint to send it forth for its to resent mid misconstrue without giving thum an opportunity to test its merits or demerits they considered u great injustice Tho mass of the people do not pretend understand tho complexities nnd of the law Hence it is that a proposition to upon thum a species of tive Power by authorizing thorn to decide by vote what shall or what shall not bo- come the law is almost unprecedented It is true by tho constitution out- banking law was subjected to this ordeal but it is well known that a majority of tho framers df that Instrument were hostile to bunking They that provision through hostility to banks Thoy ed it us virtually prohibiting banks in thix state Thuy felt in belief that nothing but an unanimous uprising of tho in favor of institutions could effect the passage und endorsement of u banking law Thoy wrong in principle nnd though they hail placed next to an barh rr n Is way in a law in all its a vote of thu plo A popular movement of a unanimity which could not have been anticipated did occur The demand for bunks Universal and It all obstacles A Legislature wan elected which ted the question of Banks Jor Bank to the people That question was in the affirmative by mi The next a bunking law which at thu succeeding II election was approved by the people To submit thu liquor law to u ordeal would certainly have been nnd what had a still stronger upon tho action Of that in would be al Legislatures are expected to taku the re- sponsibility of passing such laws as tho people limy dumunil unless where tho constitution makes especial as in tho case of thu banking law even who urged the adoption of mission clauso in tho Liquor Law ted that they deemed it No one any opinion bf tho to the It hardly with what the friends of this doomed their after taking such an oath td vuW for provision which thoy and which in bo In addition to all this thero was u a such a sion would render the in the opinion of our courts should it escape the veto of the Governor Under them friends of the consulted together mined that their only was to this and wero firmly of the opinion far better to trust to thu people of would truly their on this subject in thd loture and past law out it liable U of W A
