Manitowoc Pilot, The (Newspaper) - July 29, 1859, Manitowoc, Wisconsin BE TO gentle arc hoars when ho By care is tossed And deep lie on his brow By business triaU crossed Be tis for you he toils And thinks and strives to gain Home comforts and home happiness let bird strive ia vain Be some ty word Should fall was not A smile a kind word And many more prevent Be Oh twill soothe much care And make each burden light A tone will the brow And driw an answer bright Be bough it may To check an angry woid Yet try li will surely bring A full and rich reward I UNION CONCESSION FOB THE C FOR MEN BY C ROWLEY JULY 29 1859 1 NO 3 Sweet earth that holds my brightest prize Be wept upon by gentle skies Blest grave that keeps the lovely thing From his sweet dust let violets Dear that sweep the tiny bed Breathe lulling music o'er his head Hush thy wild voice of fear great Fright not the little sleeping form Beit not the turf to cause him pain Weep quiet tears soft summer thou a fairy shroud dear show For the bright flower that sleeps Drop richly hero sweet light And dress boy in raiment bright Green leaves make whisper o'er And soothe his dreams on cold breast O gentle water running near Murmur comfort to his car Build here thy 0 ringdove Talk softly to my lovely child Dear dove too a moan For the sad mother left 0 angels softly be ir My darling child up heaven's Pear Oort the little child Tuke to thyself my Sweet Christ the cry haste to hear molest I farm were up I was awakened by t these three words close by me in the The furry man waits So perfectly conscious was I of Laving been really addressed that I sat up in my bed at once and Well and what is that to before the absurdity of the intimation had lime to me The curtains of the little bed were completely so that no person could have been hidden belli rid them though it was broad day light every ob clearly and through the half opened window came ilie cool delicious summer air with quickening grance I heard the dog rattle his chain m the yard sis he came out of his kennel and shook himself and then returned to it lazily as though it was riot time to be up yet A cock crew but very leaving the middle of his as though he had mistaken the hour Mv a more reliable informed me that it wanted a ter of four o'clock 1 was not accustomed to be awakened at a time as that and I Master Phillip turned myself somewhat indignantly on the pillow regretful that I had eaten ted cream for supper the From Journal A SPIRITUAL Some years ago T le of summer months in Devonshire one picturesque scene of u that sport for another ah s 01 11 fit i should find so fan a place scratching their I onn say is j 11 its 1 was roused at half past or so by nf rts YOU I a friend of yours saying ns though you would be me in a little on the north batik What friend was enquired I sir for that matter I can't say as I didn't see him but heard him well enough and ns plain as I now hear you I asleep when he first called me from the outside yonder and could scarcely make any sense of it but the second time I was wide awake and the third time as I was undoing the window there could be no mistake ready for Keaton on the nor he said And how was it you missed seeing un- inquired I as carelessly as I could lie in such a hurry to be gone I reckon that ns soon as he heard my dow open and know he had roused me he sot off His voice came round east taking out my purse been found upon the prisoner's person LI had a j time of his apprehension TME 11 All V Didn't you say you A cousin as is a javelin man yes I don't know but what it be done sir if you'll just wait till I've cleared away There they're at it he spoke a fanfaronade of Within some live minutes in short the feelings of iho jury and spectators entirely changed and the poor young low at the bar instead of having he sen tence of death passed upon him found end of the cottage as though he went Ex- eter way I wouldn't have got up nt such a time and nt such a summons for many other folks but you I do assure you aster Phillip Thank said I though b i its without proclaimed that the judges himself through my means set very soon at liberty lie came over to me at the inn to express his sense of my prompt inter- ference and to beg to know how he might show his gratitude not so mean a fellow as I said he and hope by blessing to be yet a credit to the parents to whom I have behaved ill What is your real name inquired 1 struck by a sudden impulse My real replied the young man blushing deeply is Courtenay and my home where 1 hope to be to night is at Farm across Kxe And so I had not been called so were about to take their seats and in minutes the and I were among the crowd The turning out to be amenable to reason and the ties otrela as well as not averse to small recompense I soon found standing room for myself in the court house where every seat had been engaged hours before As I had been informed proceedings were all but concluded save some portant indirect evidence and the speech of the prisoner's counsel This had been assigned to the accused by the court since he had not provided himself with any advocate not attempted to meet the tremendous charge laid against him except by a single denial All that had means quite convinced you're a good ellow and here's five shillings for en elicited from him since Iris sion it seemed was this that the no i wife was mistaken in his identity cre T t I lay perfectly still with my eyes And now put me across and show me the shut endeavoring since I could not get to sleep again to account for the peculiar ture of my lute nightmare as I had made up mv mind to consider it until the oo clock on the oaken stair outside struck four The last note of the mechanical bird had scarcely died away when again close to my pillow I heard uttered not only with distinctness but with a most takable earnestness the same piece of in- formation which had once so started me already The ferryman waits way by winch I can get to the Now if bv some inscrutable means tl nearest he had led a wandering life of late and could not produce any person to prove an alili that he was in Dorsetshire when the murder was done miles away from the scene of its commission but at what place on the particular day in w n y v aiji J i u tii 111 uo i j had become the leading olh of could not re- in my mind because of the the any accomplice of liis call to mind This taken in connection with strong lenous vi had played mo a trick and trumped up a condemnatory evidence it was clear would story for my further bewilderment I go sadly against him with the jury ns I 1 i I 1 1 n 1 1 1 I nit rvl if IT Another little wave Upon the of Another soul to save Amid its toils and strife Two more To the dusty To choose where two paths meet The narrow or the broad more little hands To work for good or Two more little Another will Another heart to love Receiving love And so the baby came A thing of joy mid pain I1 JIB 51 L at four o'clock in the Irreverent chap prostitutes the sacred out a and sufficient reason after all baso uses had not I flattered myself very much Then I little bed got for boasting I had evinced but curiosity about the unknown man who had heralded my approach at cause and looked under the daylight and I had given them to under and behind it into the small stand that I had a object i cupboard where my one change of boots were kept and where there was scarcely room for anything else I Founded the wall nearest my bed's bend and found it solid enough it was also an outside wall nor from any of the more remote ones could so distinct a summons have come Then I pushed the window casement fully Ss i deed an almost inexhaustible treasure of delicious nooks in that fertile country which comprehends every element of scape and inland hill and vallfcv moor rind excels in more curved What and full banks their sources and what rich sprinkled wilh kine as they broaden towards the At the close of my tour I was lodging in a farm house near a branch of the Kxe rather regretful at the thought of so soon having to shoulder my knapsack turn Dorset near a certain town of which county a neighborhood without a Ireo within sight or A stream within sound it was my lot to dwell AVc had lately thrown out a bow to tho drawing room there but why I cannot tell but there was ly nothin to see from it a determined to wake myself and then if I should hear the mysterious voice again I was determined to obey it I was not alarmed nor even disturbed in although greatly interested Tiie circum- stances position precluded any terror Tho animals in the wore lying in the tumbled straw close by and near enough to be startled at a shout of mine Some pigeons were ready circling round tho dovecote or pa sentinel like little be- fore their domiciles and the sound of the that of reaching the capital city at least ten miles away Hut my own brain was for all that a prey to the most conflicting suggestions not one of which was of final service toward an explanation of tiie events of the morning There waa J at a little after 5 A M with a walk before me of ten and a walk behind me of thice good Devon miles without ibe least deMre to reach the place I bound all because of a couple voices between them I consumed the way in mentally reviewing all the circum- out a good and sufficient reason after all Extraordinary A MAX OK exhibition of a very remarkable and unnatural character attracted a small but highly respectable audience at the Melodeon on Thursday evening last A young man by tho name of James Stevens advertised that he would do many wonderful things in the way of cutting up with knives ing his feet arms and legs lo chairs to the wall etc which astonishing exploits ho proceeded to exhibit at the appointed j hour in presence of a number of go sadly against him with tlie jury aa a of including members of lame defense indeed as it struck of Transylvania Uni- mc who had only Cleaned this much from and j to the stand that they might detect any fraud or deception if practiced He by sticking n handful of pins up to the head in his legs then drove an awl the mid do of his wrist into a chair drove n through the muscle of his leg nailed his fool wooden shoe nail or I in an editor's bed night And others sny what they I say tin re's one editor in the world That takes his ease When T thought cf my humble cot away T not repress n sigh But as I rolled in feathery nest easy editors LIGHTS AND SHADES From Life that a journeyman carpenter who had not diary should not recollect what he had tramped though upon 1 1 1 1 T any particular date U hy myself been on of March thought It took me several minutes to remem ber and I only did so by recollecting that I had left Dorsetshire on tho day following partly in consequence of some going on at home Dorsetshire by by did the prisoner Why surely I had seen that face somewhere before which was now anxiously and hurriedly around tiie court and now as it ashamed of meeting so many eyes concealed in his tremulous hands i Robert 1 a T had certainly never heard that name and V i l It was the brightest coziest little roon in New Cheerful with the gleam of liro light and the chiming of a musical clock and the halt twitter of tha canary just composing himself to sleep in hi engs among the very sor which liio wearied business mai would long to call provided wife's had an er different idea of things said laughing He looked half mused I did not ladies cm themselves said We iro obliged to study economy you don't belong to the ort of ladies who it to ouch their while fingers to a cooking F1 slie said opening her eyes in astonishment keeps me thy and happy and as Charles has to work bard in the store day it is only fair that I my part are foolish enough to think such things below he said almost with t i said she smiling I think nothing below me that helps to make my happier or to brighten my home was a simple little saying but nard pondered on it- long Was it the secret of household lie looked at her Tittle well and pile of in the exquisite drawings hanging on the wall ly told him were Amy's pine eone temples and moss baskets and little womanly she had amused herself bits of stand of geraniums and the piled up work in himself how a true woman graces and glorifies everything on which her hand may she came in from the kitchen white apron exchanged for a tinier one of black silk and sat down by the table to work every now and joining in the converse with zest and a spirit that seemed the life and spirit of the whole How proud was of her he appealed to her judgment on every and how fondly his eyes rested on her blooming She wasn't doing crotchet work she wasn't ering web like was just ing her husband's stockings and as the shining needle gleamed in an ont among the interlacing warp and thought he had never seen a prettier or more graceful employment For Amy brought a spirit and soul to her homely work that would have made tlie coarsest fabric bright with the tint of Persian looms And when at length Maynard took his leave the reflection What a happy II US LO it wl passing through the mid- hero about to sor walked about the chinery me iho there was nt way n revewng a ma stances of the case again and gain and by yet I begun to watch the poor fellow credulous spirit but when j a singular interest begotten of tne between such a spot and my then abode from the windows of which a score of miles of and varied scape could be discerned with the old lowers of capital city ing grandly up against the southern sky not true that people who live in picturesque places do not appreciate them but only that they require to be made to understand their good fortune lasher by whose circling eddies I had often watched for trout came cheerily and no means in a I at length arrived at the city upon the hill I was as far from the solution of the mailer as when I started That man himself a simple countryman should that lie was not ing conv a stranger to me The evidence went on and counsel for the prisoner did his best die of cut his dexter finger through part exhibiting the naked bons by knife his cheek the blade protruding from his mouth In all this but lillle was drawn lie also lo drive a knife through find hang himself from wail which tiie audience mercifully excused him from doing feeling thai he could accomplish whatever he proposed About the procedure there no sort of hum bug as eyes of divers gentlemen who we're upon ths stand were fixed upon and any unbelieving Thomas M man a j j be concerned in any practical joke upon but his speech was ot necessity 1 f i 11 of a me a mere fly-fishing couple of weeks standing or that such persons ns the should have permitted of it up a guest at i -.1 i n ft 10 o with tone across the dewey was only less astonishing than landscape seemed in- I the perfection of the trick trick with new born life audio have shaken t ft iho solemnity of dreary ght i surpassing Courtenay the good man of the farm and like nil his class a thorough could not discover what I found in that lookout from his house to make such a fuss about but his whn hnd once paid a visit to her son when in at perfectly well ing which son Robert by the by there a sad tale Mo was the only child of the good pair and one who should have I at the hand of nels so entirely took possession of me in- deed that contemplation I forgot inexplicable occurrence which had brought mo lo tho window I wrapped endeavor lo make out whether those tapering lines supporting ns it appeared a mass of southern cloud were indeed pinnacles of ho cathedral when close by my car close by ns though tho speaker had his face at the casement likewise the words were a third time The ferryman There a deeper in ils lone on Una occasion an i t w it real I v was But neither my feelings ot I looked on the mailer in that light nor those of mystery took more supernatural view ot it in wise interfered with gradual growth of appetite and when I turned into a vate room of the Bishops Head in street the leading idea in my mind tO mercy rather than lo justice All that had confided lo him by his client was this that the young man was a vagabond V to touch the knife lade on opposite side to that into had been thrust of wrist leg or hand lie used a few galvanic more there was a sunshiny household an expensive article rosewood chairs cushioned in mosaic rugs or costly agate a neat little all sol with plain blue ware as shining as the most transparent of gold veined china could bo and a carpet which seemed to sny know I'm not make no pretence here I am and I mean to be asset ns Everything else was just as neat find as plain and if there bad boon one solitary grain of dust any where within the four walls it must have pined away and evaporated out of sheer Mrs in hei this that the young man was a h was v who had his parents and run I -1 n's tl ft after all my was breakfast If ui iui -i seven mysterious voices formed mo that the ferryman waiting then I should have Ihen let all I eat a breakfast and Exeter is ns picturesque and ns any raven c ould to it is not a lively town by any awny from and was so far de- j serving of little pity that he hnd however only been vicious and not criminal as for the murder with which ho now charged the commission of such a hideous outrage had never his brain lad look like a Or did ho not rather resemble the Prodigal Son penitent for his misdeeds indeed but not weighed down blood of a All this was powerfully enough ed but it was not evidence and the jury without retiring fiom their box ed the young man amid a seem ad lo corroborate dict Then the judge put en the terrible cap and solemnly inquired for the i last whether Robert Moles had any why should not bo passed could effect nothing Mr Stev as er domains now placing her slippers where they could warm wondering looks now selling a tiny bonnet of roses and buds in n to be about twenty or years of f 8 uf snowy into line plummet and Wilford was accompanied something very likis n home was different far lie breakfasted alone the next wife liad been out tats at a ball and seldom rose before eleven Tho coffee was cold and muddy even in tho frosted silver urn the toast was ed the steak sodden and raw the fire smouldered away under its accumulations of ashes and he read the morning paper alone no bright face fo share his interest in each paragraph The button was oil his wristband but no matter Clara must he could just pin it over for the toes peeped out as he changed slippers for boots but never mind he would ask lo night where the others were he could not lie cravat to suit him i jmd it into a limp knot there 011 tjp too arrange it and then get a kiss for her ngo closing ho proposed to ate in similar manner upon any of tho nu agreeing to forfeit if he in- This however was declined AVc saw this man of leather yesterday morning looking as fresh and or nail had never body Lexington whole as though knife penetrated his Observer which I never forget 1 lid not hesitate another moment but dressed self Jis illicit ns I arn to days in j My replied iho lad in n nigh he would probably rind them low soft voice which AT A PATS HIS AND Jacob Aslor used to sny that all he got for taking care of his properly was his board and clothes One of tho uf nati fares no bettor and yet counts his notes by Mr Longworth gets his board and yet he among the longest in his it i i J i f to my recollection on and the comfort of his loving but the young man had decided lie had never taken lo ing but had grieved his father hugely by -i hankering after mechanical studies the agriculturist most wilh the black nrt itself Thinking himself lo have a gift for practical ences Robert had gol apprenticed at ami for bid fair to nc well it had not been farmin to was in averse as lo ol anj ami after a little that in- not his own master at iho lathe any more I lhan at iho plow he forsook likewise This had justly angered Michael and drawn from him on the re- Mirn of tho lad certain expressions which his voung undutifully a violent in that peaceful homestead of cue day and the next morning when ths house was astir it was found that had gone away in tho nor he since se Jis ns tnu j the stairs took down the vast oaken door I to that end in its very great bar and let myself out as I had been wont benefit of episcopal clergy but for a to do when a fishing young gentleman of nineteen to find I strode the self at nine o'clock on a flue sum path leading through the fields to where msr morning with nothing to do i f i 1 t ii river furry three miles ofi dny to do il in was an uow doubting now believing that the j ferryman wait there at such an i early hour and for me I made such unusually good of that it was not five o'clock when T reached the I am wholly innocent of tha dreadful crime of which I am accused although I confess I see in that is about lo be passed on me fit recompense for my wickedness and disobedience 1 until of it by the t i boarding and clothing The extent of Mr may be judged by tho number of pieces of real estate which he owns in that city alone tn over the las snys Cincinnati we found thai he was assessed upon three six pieces of property in his own name now listening with her pretty head against the mantle shelf to merry song of shining as it bled joyously on iho lire breathing out a dense white from its at length the footsteps ded below the key turned and clicked in the he came not alone There was n good deal of very excusable pride in his manner as he presented his fair young wife to an old school friend ho hnd not mot for several years before and doin prosperous business Il hnd been a casual encounter on way such aa oftentimes happens They hnd walked along together conversing cordially until at the corner was reached where their paths diverged But their RUV was not half and in the i warmth of his heart ford invited his to tea with him Mr uard accepted the offer Six o'clock Nothing raring on as I a yawn nt the waiter when I had finished a vast refection Coins Yes sir City very gay voces property in Ins own name who took me as gno ut jd I this poor man s existence as ot i J last meadow that lav between me and iho j indeed sir just now Assizes sir now stream it was higher ground than the j sittin Murder interesting neighbor hind and I took I fur a young like yourself interesting sir How do you know is retorted I with tho indignation of at having its manhood was looking engerly to come in sight of iho which was site Lank and by within distance At hist I did ni lu my that the j ju boal was not at usual It am a man sir lint what about must needs have been already murder 1 Is the prisoner convicted brought over my own tide A lew Convicted sir not yet My cried I with au taxes and distinctness that young man has spoken the truth as I can testify There was a tremendous in the court at this announcement and it was some minutes before I was allowed to lake mv place in witness box The hundred and twelve houses and lots and vacant lots in The total value of this property now can be Six years ago 1553 when the was made for assessment the 300 lots ed up an aggregate A tion of in price sinc Y i 1 tion Ot UiO lots linve m M cu lor the crown objected others have advance that period of the lt gentleman indeed and throw into the i the i tion with all the indignation winch he had if returned home or written of his brought me view of it hope the Manding in tlie stern j sir leaning on his looking A my lie gave a great been am hallo when he me and I returned it lor we wore Id Well master cried he as I drew near you arc not very much betimes after all 1 have vailing for you nigh upon half an hour for MI- echoed I I don't sir ho will be this a very bad indeed sir an carpenter one Hubert Moles murdered a in the lend of night sir with a and witness him very remarked I I didn't know a could give evidence not his wife sir the wife nir She swears to this TL was a more by this lime during which period Jro had j b i jt happened two months grown than m halt be- j L didn't know i rigo Sr Murder will out they lore while the old man himself i i I previously practice of midnight murder but eventually the court overruled him and t was sworn i I that 1 did not know the j erby name but that i could swear lo I how upon jth less remained at about the same ns in His on Tike Street is put down on the tax roll at On Mon day he paid his semi-annual tax e to c of March hist the builder being i want hands had hired iho accused o assist in the construction of a i in the drawing room house in The counsel fur the prosecution ing to disbelieve my sudden recognition of farm people had altered loo full as much as she far his part he to it It was not he who told me was com And stopped and how trae his He'll bo hung in very verge of confers of jail sir in a hoden upon lo have been fooled by a j iin ill so as almost everybody will be able -1 t Jt 1 the prisoner here requested to know er any had recalled him to my wind or whether 1 had only a vague mid general Tn addition to property inside the cor- he owns a considerable amount the His personal i taxed at To look af houses and the and pay receive the thousand grievances of dissatisfied labor enough and hard labor loo for even an energetic Our western certainly earns his broad and clothes him until ferryman himself may be nt I ami is being Urn I slept n t formerly Usen her hoists comfortable little room si Here it was vory ire even the his i tu a lo see it blesa ye 1 should like to hear the end of much indeed Should you fondling his It couldn't be done could not bo the court is crowded into a mash and be cure I've a a one than that j no Mr it could not be lone common tu hi of the land j I suppose it's merely a question I had only prisoner spoke his voice is peculiar and I remember very distinctly to have heard it upon the occasion speak of he chin had the misfortune to tread upon rule and break it while at upon the j A powerful English writer says in the course of an editorial It would not be range than probable if St Helena received another Napoleon the pet of ropn to its rocky bosom before the world is much older his own fashionable dinner hour but ho did not say so neither did lie mention that his wife was nt a and probably wouldn't be home nt present And the manner of his friend male him and think of old limes when lie had been wont to sit down lo dinner just as the creeping sunshine reached mark on the old kitchen and when supper wasn't association of gas lights champagne and cy game but n quiet meal taken just when reddened the crest of the tall lar trees on thy hill Ah good old limes It wan long since he hnd been in such a tiny room as thitl where he now sat accepting the cup of fragrant tea from Amy Willard's dexterous hand Vet everything was so bright so neat so tasteful the lire glowed so ly and the rosebuds in tho vases gave such a refined grace to the little blue service HI id waiter that he fall at was in at- of 11 a never missed iho silver urn or the china of his own stately ble never noticed thai his feet lid not rest among velvet crimson shades of his own carpet nor perceive the wide difference between Amy's linen collar and shilling delaine mid and brooado that his fashionable helpmate wore but he knew there charm here that was lacking his own hearth stone It was a old-fashioned lie went silently away with no light footsteps tripping after him to the door the shadow of no sweet good-bye lowing him like angel on his Way for Clara was a wife At dinner time ho came homo half ping that there would be a glance and a smite like Amy's to greet a home influence around his luxurious apartments Where's She lounged on a damask sofa Hashing on her slender fingers and her delicate figure arrayed in folds of silk whilst the slippered foot peeping from beneath seemed rh only to tread the ro- ses of life She hardly glanced up from the novel she Was reading us he entered why should she? he was only her band Hi sat down and began on tha with his fingers Isn't dinner nearly ready J don't know It's tlie cook's ness Bui she ought lo be more fie can't help that I wish you wouldn't plague me about such things The tone was a litlle pettish as Clara brushed away her brown curls and ed her book and relapsed silence again another idea him you play something to night The piano has not been opened for an Come sing me some of tho old ballads I she taid out I'm of practice entirely Do let me you'll lay your book after ner ami old ing of talk and music gossip I'm engaged for every ment after seven the opera first and t them o for one indow and I ov that occurrence him j A youn the i ply the mam court that a fool rule hnd intoxicates him so i man to uo law lo Ins hot preserves delicate pink shadings of dried beef and cake that would make even a dyspeptic smack his lips Maynard could nut help complimenting edibles lift get any a I the ho wd his the fancy ball yon 1 O no it would never dol lie was there was a dull dead pain at his void which rt could never fill The silent dinner waa over she went orth in her shining robes and pearls in icr hair and bracelets clasping her o an evening of reckless dissipation and with for the beau but none for home While Maynard afier a long and mv reverie by his lonely fireside took his nit and went away to the club that ant place of gaiety and mirth through whose portals so many 3 foot lias trod tho broad path of had no home has aunty got bees in her No why do you Cause that lettle man hold of her and said lie war a going lo take the honey from her and haste
