La Crosse Independent Republican (Newspaper) - December 20, 1854, La Crosse, Wisconsin LA CRO i to no itr af no but to to tiff VOLUME I LACROSSE WISCONSIN DECEMBER 20 Or H w BY WM i- CO AT Cor Two pur nnd no wilt paid for HIM I I I II I II lr I r I i f -I Iff ft t-l i on Front direct over N R stori the upper landing w ST the Agency of H so 11 no A GIFT ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION One nf A A Share in tlw lilOs for One I Hi mil HX of tl in I am It worthy a prominent in i or Jl ut nt in Hie of Mr The itli it llni tittle fellow in froni n upon u ut mid in hi hair lu i- Inn while of not full In of the if them nt the nml on to f of the I rann in Illinois 1 line tMrii n ol fruit it al 1 front M the ii nearly anil fruit inul i T A A ill J 00 I WO I t 1 pallor In line I In I i OU h vot IStH 10 Si N I cluster line niiH WO 0 with with VIM Ladles HI CuM pens 2.000 loo Turk pui 100 Ladies pearl inlaid UiO I I'M itiin I Set hunting I Hewing 100 ill Ladies silk A Mil ID D HI silk WO loo eanes no Ladies fans various 600 III Ladies XO 1 Ladies Tf work it W I Splendid uur 1000 literary works plat 1.000 of Clay 1.000 In Hi has been included that is not highly UK fit I mid desirable There are nearly w as in IT b seen by the n tine farm house i pianos u pins rings cases I iy ono you a line fleet plate i purchased ut retail for less than u 01 and n recept the holder ton in the abort cif in anil examine the engravings nt JT in Market street which the lire of causes the undersign to Ilial he will be to pi is n n successful ill few weeks To out errors n rile your plain and in full or enclose mi eti with written upon All by letter with I ho money will meet with prompt The and a numbered receipt Hie holder to u in the properly and a toward the manner Its distribution forwarded by return null to L W x id Market street Si Mo the be had OREY a Makers and ST i or is MO to a to for and Iron Work on the plan we are now to t our ten cent cheaper than nin other establishment in ihu AH who nrc in want of i our of will U their to N R SMITH CO IN Jc Fancy Dry Goods Boots ami Mali ami Caps Clothing crockery Nulls SmA Notions TAKK In announcing to their they huve removed to their new and STOHK No 10 street where they will lie pleased to their old customers HH tunny new HH limy favor us with u call Our slock of Groceries is large complete und by the of month our stock uill be complete in every shall our friends the titul stock of Dry ever offered In thli to we in- vite the public In general to call and ex- amine before Our terms null rendy pny for which we will sell than any other house In this vicinity Cross August 23 SMITH 1 A W In Store and for Sale BY N H CO n N O 21 ed nnd louf augur 20 bUs and Ut 10 jul Syrup Syi up 10 Vinegar 20 Tallow 10 Mar candles nice 200 bill's Dairy Suit 2.1 bags A cut Nails 10 SvIO 1.1 12 candy pat 12 nests Tubs 10 2001 and window Hush boxes V II Imperial und Tea August A and nnd dealer In und Krunt central landing His stock consists hi part of he 100 barrels 12 lied cords 10 me'S pork mackerel laid 21 20 bowt butter mould 10 0 10 star 10 A do 100 sticks salt 10 U do JO G Ado 4 rice ilo lu buckets 10 S 11 w V kegs do I DUO lights 20 IB pure lead sucks rio colle 2 liud oil 5 Java 3 do imp tea 2 do V If do 2 catties blk do and fl hi ooms wash boards 100 Ohio whiskey 12 nests tubs ive do bows to keirs lucks shot I pipes do 10 M 2 do fiOD cans oysters loo boxes rum ap's 10 brandy 10 s I I matches i wini tlo 10 line cut lob I do 20 choice plus Claret do 10 bis tin 10 b ti London purler La Crosso Sept I I Ml on the no- ou variety of and of notice if 11 1 or nl and rt X very in on hand ami for Terrible Half of York City In lew city Xew York luen with i of which the lo and Ihr merchant to of Hre and many a poor mother to her child from the uf nil tion Among from were n few SKIN'S which I am lo make im in u lion t manlike manner To Lumbermen 1 t am n in to and trom of the kind In of the country A good of hand for sale Ion and Shoe paired and all done at fair living nt thi tint building below Hotel Front st K Aug 28 SAKK OF SCHOOL 1 111 Jackson Monroe nnd Ar Aug IS f of school aud totally will meet in the at the and places following to In County at City on Saturday tho fourth duv of November next ut o'clock A M In County at ou day of November next o'clock A Jl In County at Uiver on ninth day of November next at A M In Clurk county at on tho loth day of November next at o'clock A M In IM al La on Saturday tho 11 III day of November next ut A M Iu county at Sparta on tho day of ut 9 o'clock A M lu Had Ai at on the day of November o'clock A M the of hearing and mining for of prv to any of the Lands in Munition for lie of noli of said to nl public unction mid ill each from day in day tl nine o'clock in the forenoon mid telling of vin until nil n have been tor mle w by law T SMt H iSfalt H VV received n Urge bv SMITH A co I which offer l for- vii direct front the mill vile at the To who At the witching hour of midnight as o'er our fertile prairie on the er's swelling Rood wishing as I Mood there on its mit mid lone For tho of one loved me for the music of her tone Silently there stole before me like n or's rny An Angel sweetly whimpering mer 1 am MAT my eyes upon her features then and there one moment dwelt that being ill my 1 knell Kor I knew that figure standing thus before my the my fancy pictured ever as destined bride And my in faltering prayed that might with me stay Till my upon Ut gras cd the image of she her voice won touching and her were with tonri Ai she gave into Keeping the hand iu I'd clumped fur years Then he gently Mil that rough and lucky And the sho faintly uttered caused my joy to thy sorrow for the it me stay And we walk lion and M iv then vinto my with my arm thrown I felt more than half of ready was my low upon I left one holy She slightly her dreamy to thank me for the Then her heml hope and joined with me lo pray That Clod and e'er would lucli love iw mine to Our two full for in union run w f felt peace ot knowing our iti now were one And oh my grateful that it hai proved The perfect pence of bliss of he ing loved And in my lo clasp her as lay I woke loudly culling upon my M iv Had not that no Unit vision Down Jly life Imd then nn path been Now my heat t cold and carclets and mj lile not an aim And tho of Cupid aro shot at me in vain the only 1 worship once mj Tii my dream on yo my MAV LA CHOSIK Dec The Light at Homo The at Home how bright it When evening around us And fiom the lattice far it greams To love in to all When tiled with of day The strife of glory gold or How to seek the quiet way Where loving lipi will our name light it When through tho d uk and stormy night The weary I low cheering ii light Which through tlic gloom lie spits It is the at he cell Thai loung will greet him there And willy his bosom The joy and los e w hich banish care the light at The light at home at last It the through the Monn He feels no more the blast That boats upon his manly torm Long years upon the sea have lied Since Mary gave her But sad the which then shed Wilt now be paid with the light ut The Light at how still and It from yonder collage The weary to When the tolls of are id is the soul that docs not Know The that its impart Tho cheerful hope nnd joys that Bow And lightens up ihc heaviest heart Around at The Won Witt and Fortune In Bleep It so that Medlitz being stationed with his in the old city of Strasbourg fell iu while there with the pretty of n wealthy old banker an early friend of his deceased father who had died a bankrupt Major poor but he admired the bunker's daughter nnd the daughter whether captivated by the military rank of our tiero or not soon came to love the lant major But the banker was one of those sensible men who would to no mention of a son-in-law who had trolled himself and hazarded only a simple and firm denial The banker smiled witb air of a knows and lifting with his cane the upon the table asked how the major had come so suddenly into session of so large a of The major was he did not know The bunker left him with the assurance that all must now be at an end between his daughter and himself nnd begging him on his re- turn to Strasbourg to discontinue visits major was overwhelmed bat only stoutly insist innocence At another hotel in baden within a second floor corner room passed a little family scene on the day between the banker of not cither a fortune in hand or one in c i Strasbourg and his daughter expectation The knew this and It ere ii a great deal of poetry nnd n deul more of truth iu the God und the doctor we adore Just on the brink of danger not before The danger parsed both nrc alike Cod is and the doctor LA AND R been informed from a source to credit upon this rond will be steadily carried on during the winter nnd that in nil probability the road will be ed to this place in the next ncr Tlie work in our immediate has been and o be continued until tbe grading is completed The work upon the and rood is ng steadily the road will be ably graded as far early in u f f he pears that they Imd arrived twenty-four hours before the father being decoyed thither by au invalid plea of liis ter He knew nothing of the presence of Major aud on passing through the Conversation Koonis at a Into hour on the previous night he had caught sight of that military playing with great ardor and cess at roulette Tie had ad- dressing Lim ut the time but had de- layed his rebuke till the following ing when it was conveyed in the ner we have described florin a The nml apial fortune he would was by the recital of the affair of the evening before mid of the morning interview It is needless to say that the poor girl in an excited state and be- her father had been tho victim of some strange mistake To quiet her aggrieved feelings and to satisfy her more effectually of justice of the charges he determined to delay the de- parture he had previously and further That very evening at an hour ing upon midnight the father and tho daughter were in the Conversation Hall in attendance upon a concert when who should enter but Major lite Ue traversed the stlon without looking to the right or left passed in- to the adjoining room took his place pt the table linked rouleau uf- tcr rouleau of and ished every one by the success ami ness of his The banker with his frightened daughter clinging to his arm had followed the major thither and looked on with amazement for a therefore made this appeal to him I value your daughter for have no wish to enjoy her fortune let me her without a dowry we can live comfortably upon my army pay and should you be disposed ever to show favor let the fortune you have intended for your daughter be settled upon her children The old banker thought the sal romantic he disliked romance he had no regard for it Every woman should have a HOT lie should give his daughter on her a dred thousand when a suitor offered with an consider his application The major took life leave ly of daughter of the banker who still however ventured encouraging words and withdrew himself to the baths of Wiesbaden to tion in cold water and to nourish ed hopes The sharpness of his regrets brought ou a fever in which he raved of money and as he recovered slowly the intensity of his thought was bent upon devising some scheme by which he might enrich himself and display to the hard minded banker tho coveted thousands of With such cies flaming in his mind he retired one night in July slept as it appeared to him soundly woke at his usual hour in the morning and upon looking round in his chamber was amazed to fee a pile of gold coin on the table he examined the doors they were ed as he had closed them the night be- fore the windows they too un- touched lie counted the was nearly ten thousand florins ing it iu his drawer he culled his vant lie asked who had entered his room during his sleep So one Who had come to visit him nt night Xo one lie suspected him of concealing the giver ho offered the servant bribes if he would inform hint by Thorn a packet been left iu the chamber The sen ant seeming bewildered could tell him nothing Two nights after the same extraordinary circumstance hap again Ton thousand florins and more in gold and bank notes were of Old Tea The recollections of the old family Tea Kettle call op from of memory of pleasing and associations Insignificant they appear they arc interwoven with atl the happiest and finest of childhood's history in every bosom for human ture m its original elements is always aud every where the same childhood's capacities for mental enjoyment are bnt limited trifles suffice bliss and the memory of past pleasures brings buck half our The song of the old Tea does call ries long past of the old log house the quiet fire place the crane in the jam the great logs blazing on the hearth of a cold evening house dog sleeping quietly in the corner and the cat ingly beside him Oh the days of They cull back the circle that old the days of old I with these memories gathered around the hearth of our homes when we were young mother brothers playmates i llow quietly some of them grew old and ripe and then dropped into the grave How silently others stole away in their youth homes of Ihc dead and how the rest have drifted on the currents of life lost to us in the mists and shadows of time Even the home and the hearth are gone They with and slow till at last they wiped out from the things that were The song of the old Ten is a pleasant memory but that of the cricket that madu its home in the ices of the jams of the great is still tic nas time ways there lie not silent as the crickets nrc through the spring months and dow to close ol August piping only iu when the still autumnal evenings close in their brightness and beatify over the earth Hut he sang always and his chirrup N as heard at all seasons In the winter the fire warmed him in the summer he had a cool resting place and he was cheerful and merry through all tlic long year And this reminds us of an anecdote of a venerable ister who passed years ago to his rest lie was a and when ing in his own church at Salem in Washington county he indulged in hand There will nothing fixed for centuries to come The tide of progress will sweep onward iu tlw future as U has done in the past on- ward is the great watchword of ica and American onward and onward over the ancient forests over that stood in the van of civilization over the great Ore over tho old Tea over the cricket iu the wall over tho old house dog that slept in the corner over the loved faces that clustered round everything primitive that you and I loved little children and that comes floating along down be tide of memory bright visions of a past Ah Jl is best that it be so It is best that the world move ou Best that there should be no pause no halting in the movement What arc that tho uni- verse should stand still at our bidding or pause to contemplate our Dust to dust is the great law but so long as n rises from the es of our hopes what have we to Time may desolate and destroy but man can build and beau- True his works perish as he but new works aud new men arc rising forever to fill and more than ill the vacancies and the desolations of the past Go ahead then world Sweep on mow away Time down temple aud stronghold level the marble palace nnd the log sweep away infancy and old age youth and manhood wipe out old memories and pass the sponge over cherished re- The energy anil the jf man is an overmatch cvsn for From the ruins of past from ths desolation of new structures will new harvest more abundant than the old will spring up the over which time's sickle has passed Recuperation is a law stronger than decay and it is alt over the face of the Albany Y in The Tree This is a very abundant timber many portions of Western Texas sessing some remarkable and valuable properties It deserves attention though a very compact und v from rot yet broad Scotch which to those who alul time until unable to contain his j wire used to it was exceedingly portion is generally nation at the recollection of his firm uut We were a boy then and were ei tts ncar as two or np to call his found upon tho when he rose in the morning Again every outlet of the chamber was examined be even searched the floor for some tiles bul all was firm nnd sound nnd thu matter us inexplicable as at the The servant subject to new inquiry could throw no light on the affair A week the circumstance was repeated again Tlie major grew ho observed or fancied he ob- served unusual attention upon the walks of the town lie fancied he was somehow become an object of con- versation lie saw men whispering and pointing after him as he passed lie determined with himself that on a renewal of the gift he would give in- formation to to the police The very next morning he was to put Itis determination in force and was counting with a distracted air the new supply of bills aud coins when he was stai tied by a rap at the door He had only time to cover the with a corner of the table cloth when the banker of Strasbourg abruptly entered lie seemed in uo very pleasant humor he looked very keenly and very at the Was the major's health bad that ic had come to Wiesbaden T The major blushed to lull of bis ly failing but nevertheless he did quaint the banker with bU fears of the out which had skipped one tion so might afflict him The looked incredulous he tbe major had more ed a great weakness of his The major it might be Gambling The major WM incensed but re- the pretty daughter returning from a visit to Vermont We stopped over the Sabbath at Salem cd by a tall gentleman in spectacles who placing his linger on his lip drew the bunker aside and whispered to him thus If you rouse him it may be his death 1 Watch his eye see how fixed it is 1 lie is As they lingered in a corner with looks fastened upon the ey towards him mechanically placing upon the largest venture without pause or was a sudden pause in the play and the mor flew around the bunk was broken The rumor proved correct the major his winnings gether seized them eagerly and ami attended worship iu the ncut church of that pleasant village There were no railroads iu those days The iron horse had not yet made his advent and the of the steam had never startled the echoes of thr gorges of the Green Mountain state Oh progress progress AVc have travelled same route often since more than once within the year and we flew over iu an hour what was thu work uf all that cold winter day that brought us at night to the neat little village of We thought as we flashed with a rush over the road that we then travelled so leisurely how cd out of the Hall without bestowing was a look upon a person present Thc next morning the banker again called at his time with a more kindly face than before The poor major however in view of the new pile of coin which lay exposed on the table could only say circumstances aro against me once more but I swear to you I have not the slightest knowledge of the quarter from this money has come Quietly and slowly the er ami the physician who bad attended him explained the matter to the jor the intent desire acting feverishly ou the brain had wrought itself out iu dreamy clairvoyance and the dred thousand florins were sec tired to It is true that the major insisted on refunding every penny of the sum to the bank but upon the of the prudent banker of bourg that the of the major bad lost double the money at the same table and the further consideration that it would make a very to join with the other hundred and which be was about to bestow ex daughter whenever the the major fixed the happy day he THE The district known as the Five Points in New Yort City at the late election as follows Clark 6 Bronson The venerable minister for hia locks wbite aud time hud ploughed deep around his checks aud drawn palpable lines across his brow was ns our memory paints him the sonification of earnestness sincerity aud truth The text and the drift of the sermon we hare forgotten save the little fragment that fixed itself in our memory from the singular figure of speech by which he illustrated his mean ing lie was speaking of the tion of the spirit upon the human heart and how gently it won men from their sinful ways He said it was not boisterous like the rush of the tempest it was not fierce like the lightning it was not loud like the thunder but it was a still sma voice like a w ce et in the We regard the cricket that ed in the wall as an institution One of the past to be sure swept away by the current of progress whose course is ward always over everything ating everything hurling tbe matters of to-day into history or burying them in eternal oblivion In this country there fixed since the first white man who swung Ms sxe against the outside forest tree the was op to tbe sunlight from deep of tbe old forests there solemn and j j since this earth u tho three inches of the surface It splits with remarkable accuracy through the center and although a scrubby low growth its great durability renders It valuable for posts and fencing al A considerable amount of timber may be procured from it atul tyt is scarcely any wood rior to it It takes a beautiful smooth polish never shrinks although put gether green The color is at first a bright brown and with age assumes a deeper bright brown Perhaps no wood yields greater heat lhan this when seasoned Tlic sap portion is very thin often not more than one- fourth of an inch thick If the tree is harked in the months of June or ly a gum issues in considerable tities and hardens from the of the sun having all the properties of gum arable The decayed wood by being burnt under cover yields a large amount of benzole acid The of this wood in stoves is very tive to them the grating ami sides nrc rapidly corroded both by the heat of the grato and acid vapor of the burning fuel To the it furnishes a material of The ashes instead of containing potash as most hard woods do arc carbonic acid and soda combined ting say a peck and half a bushel would do no damage of fresh burnt quick lime to the barrel of ashes it will yield caustic soda lye that Trill make the very best quality of hard soap Cattle arc very fond of the en as they lick them up whenever k tree is burnt upon the prairies An- other use it is probable could be made of the ashes which is to scatter say balf a bushel through each load of corn as it is housed to destroy the vit It would certainly do uo and would improve the shacks As a fertilizer there no doubt it give valuable results upon wora out but it is tbe application will made for years for which the grows is invariably fertile and of great tree to tit family fit Thank I don't if said a with pressed brick in M Indian Hut of Van Colt's tobacco store in 1 way bunch of east iu I'll t At one I lc reached wit to the proffered weed bat Uw wouldn't give it np Leok here oli said the fast none of that no tricks oa or there'll be a muss yew fall IBt will The Indian said never a but held on to the cast-iron He was calm dignified M an Indian should be his aut straight in the face and no mamic moving a single hair t Look at me old OM of cm I'm round I'm full weight tal o measure heaped and he cd himself in a position threw back kit coat ami off light AH the time the Indian said never a word looked without the least alarm straight into thu face of fact young man itill holding out the in a mighty friendly sort of way The young man as plucky aud juU in k condition o resent any sort of insult or no sort of insult at all lit wu ready to go but awl of the cowed him aud be n as disposed reason the matter I'll take said lie certainly I I freeze to a good cigar I an of the smokers My father was of the smokers k one of the oU and I'm number two vised corrected with notts on the pope ami wright secured YM All right rod I'll take one the Indian said not a all lime looking straight in ihc face of Ike fast young man and holding to tlw cigars Look here I'm getting riled my coming mp und you und I will have a turn of that old U thrust list under the of tte cast-Iron who Hot a word moved not a but kept right on looking straight into face cf fast young man as if not earring a IK for his threats or taking in at odor of his fist Very young man I an am around look to your ugly i old mod I c go tlw of the who never ed nn inch or stirred a with calm I dignity u be- fore in the face of his enemy cried Ihc fast mam in utter as he reeled back a- cross he sidewalk with the blood driving from his Hallo here's a an a thing to Lout fee round u comer I'm satisfied old I am said between tlemen Just then be caught sight of the k and in thv belt of he savage ami hair to rise The Indian seemed to up his to use them cried tho fast young man he the awning none of I knock under Hold on I be as the Inlian wetted lo with hoU on Very well I'm tali down the waiting for aad he bolted like quarter horte down Broadway and his cry of hokl died he up Columbia ny JIT learn that a few days tbe name of sent k Mr tin to survey a piece of Ok Dia- mond Hill near Point Tlie land Imd been in dispute R by the of Decker threats against hr Mr M veyor and when Utey Uw ground was shot bj j aud TW waa is isi ir rof mttf Much im tt the
