Mauston Star, The (Newspaper) - June 17, 1857, Mauston, Wisconsin F -A D 1A it WESTWARD THE STAH OF PROMISE LEADS THE 1 MAUSTON WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY JUNE 1857 M A USTON Y WEDNESDAY I WISCONSIN of Subscription and Advertising copy one mont Otherwise When by 25 cts will added One per year I Business Curds j Half square 12 I lines one insertion 50 Eight I Each subsequent cto 25 BUSINESS CARDS A A GIBES S and Conveyancer of needs I ALSBACHER Saddle Harness maker near the Pariah Hotel Mauston May 13 1857 M M Manufacturer at Mill's All kinds of Lumber on hand at the lowest market price Mauston May 13 M j Notary Conveyancer and Deeds at New Lisbon Co Wis to Agent for sale of Farming Lands Im- proved and unimproved ii co General Land of Deeds Office New Lisbon Co Wia PARISH Zi PARISH Proprietor Mauston Co CREEK By Q J ADAMS Wis Stages leave this house daily for La Crosse Portage City Bamboo and Madison G Iff RICHMOND Dealer in Groceries Liquors ters and Sardines Corner of Witt and Canal Streets Portage SINCLAIR fc TO TOUNG AND Wholesale dealers in ware Putty etc also agents for Knap Carters hot pressed Iron Nuts No 40 East Water Street Milwaukee Wis BRIGHT at General Land Agent Xew Lisbon County BALFOUR Carpenter and Joiners Wis There's So fair on every Her woods and oak openings Her prairies spreading wide Her island groves her shining rills blossoms on her sunny hills Ah there's nothing like Wisconsin Our wild home Thuru's nothing like In Winter or in Spring When the bright the poplar trues And all the glad birds sing Or when suns haste through the skies And snow upon the prairie lies Ah there's nothing like Wisconsin Our wild Wisconsin You'll not find brighter In any southern land When rustling In the prairie bland berries glisten in each glade Or ripen in the forest shade Ah there's nothing like Wisconsin Our wild Wisconsin home There's nothing like Wisconsin In the Indian When the distant hills are fairly seen Through blue and smoky When the hunters through the forest And wild birds seek a southern Ah there's nothing Our wild home renewed vigor whilst the wolves made a stop to gather round the dead body of their companion It will not last long murmured C- Rosko to himself know them j they will soon be close behind us again sight and through the blood I beheld the praying the hungry wolves through which a puff of wind parted the cloud of smoke which wont up and the wide waste of show Then from our fire the heavens one of the creatures got nearer to our I looked brightly down upon us A gave a fearful spring to clear fresh column of smoke was just about its my caught their perseverance will put the it in the flank as it sprang and it fell horses to shame j dead before it reached us had I I now had an opportunity of seeing j sank in terror by the side of the lady's i how great was strength of maid who had long since been I mind She sank on her knees in the j bottom of the sleigh and beside her I lady's maid but the latter was not of collecting her thoughts to pray j and she gave way to continual tations and to repeated denunciations of the journey itself By this time I reloaded my rifle and it lay against my shoulder in a state of diness whilst the horses were doing their best to escape from our pursuers Then the rushing snuffing and pan- king drew near the dark mass came on with wonderful speed and I soon perceived that a few of the tures had outrun the others and were approaching with their jaws extended A WOLF ing in the bottom of the sleigh Well cried Eosko to me with all the spirit of a young man Spare your powder and use your I can the hut now Hold out a little longer and then we shall be secure Then the blood veil fell from before my eyes and it became again light with me and around ko flogged the horses unmercifully and once more the faithful beasts made incredible exertions it seemed as if they felt that this was the last piece of service they should ever render their masters and were therefore willing to to whirl upwards when the uttered a loud shriek and pointing I had placed my whole confidence on the return of day I imagined that we were safe at home the castle of my father but now my hopes were destroyed now for the first time our destruction appeared to me to be certain and again all the with her finger to the roof fell horrors of despair took possession of less to the ground A fearful was before us Four wolves heads with bloody jaws and their tongues hanging out sji owing their white rows of savage teeth were ranged around the edge of the opening and looking down with glowing eyes into tho flames beneath Seen through the smoke as we saw them they looked like demons At this unexpected sight only Rosko retained his presence of mind He threw a fagot into the fire have nothing to fear from these four it dazzles them and they will not bo able to see us But suddenly there came a loud crash in the weak rafters of thc roof three of put forth their last strength tlle monsters but the roof meantime I had put the pistol in my j f Te the and FROM THE GERMAN OF GEORGE It was a sad journey we had towards us A second ball struck the and upright with down most daring to the ground I hoped the held up in my hand I ture vain to cling to the kept breaking around it make A few days before it had thawed and then again had by this again to gain time I hoped j ay to strike Whether it was that that favored by the frequent stoppages of the beasts over their dead comrades might be able to gain the outside n now vain 1 of thc forest and human hard now the fell in thick flakes n J and thc weal her w My anxiety about my father left me i remain near as long with their dead i in i no rest and loused to bo at a UUT ln om situation i -as piercing cold nmv was that we began to leave the savage m This time they did not j monsters a little behind and we gained this threatening attitude made an im- pression on our pursuers or whether the accelerated speed of our horses was the cause I know but so it was that we began to leave the savage home beside the sick bed We j mined to travel the night through and we were better enabled to do this as j companion as at first I had scarcely time to reload before were after toward it having ceased us again 1 It's of no whispered Rosko i i to me horses can't last much F Attorney and Counselor at Law Juneau Co Wis Also General Land Agent and Con- Deeds Land Contracts etc always OP hand and filled out at short notice snow we expected a moonlight night thon wc are and our driver sko was well I with the road j What is the matter I so gently to him that it was DUDLEY L Co LE Proprietor Mauston impossible for to catch I i said And it is true that by this there was a viable dec in the strength uf our their C became an anxious gasping and their ble advantage over them I looked around me There stood the hut the door was open and Rosko gave a cry of joy as with a powerful hand he drew up the horses and then sprang from his scat We are here i ickly out and into the hat there's not a moment to be But ready had Axi wonderful j gv sprang out of the and They did their best TV c You seem to be alarmed as if fm that the e unsteady into It was very evident that it must soon into thc flames beneath me I did not dare go near lest she should guess from the dis- turbed state I was in what was the truth as to our fate I wished it to be kept from her as long as possible that she might continue to enjoy the ing that she was safe until the danger was really near The hours anxiously and painfully by had fallen asleep and lay reposing an angel of a child who knows nothing of the dangers which surrounds it The too exhausted by her apprehensions and exertions had fallen into a kind of disturbed slumber or stupor from which she every now and then awoke in a fright raised herself up and ed vacantly at the hole in the roof and then sank down again seemingly I looked at and as I saw her smile in her sleep I felt oppressed within me as if a heavy load lay on my breast from which I could Away from the cried old inot Set In the meantime old Rosko to the two females who j Kusko silently went on keeping the fled fled into a corner Then he j appeared to be thinking turned to me and said Now Send a into the fellow's body Take good sure i He seized the gun himself and stood by with it ready to strike a blow with the stock We heard the creature groaning with fear It was of unusual about onr position he did not communicate his thoughts to us He was right in what he had said about the wolves not one of them appeared again during the night at the opening in the roof hut their scraping and pushing against the door and fearful size I obeyed low and their running cally the command of the old servant I backwards and forwards around the I took a true aim fired and at the continued the whole time same instant the animal fell into the j It is not surprising that even at this burning pile of wood beneath from i length of time I should remember j which flow on all sides j every particular of what we Co Wholesale dealers in foreign and domestic Dry East monien t and Milwaukee i in the tour wolves are upon our STEIN Baltimore House No 140 East Water St per Cheaper th tern Merchants itself to you The old considered for a then answered mo fear the the cold at their heels and track 140 Last Water n to sell 25 j has out 01 the and them follow us ami if the speed of tho horses not save LE 1 -j Wholesale dealers in and j US WC ire lost Agricultural j Water Street j leather Co Milwaukee i I They are coming they are com- Rosko saw and heard plainer than 0 in and j ing- whispered he suddenly the arid rtaatly on hand Bugs Cotton Yarn Wadding Batting Men's Vool Wool Yarn ana Buck Gloves GOT a low prices an Co of all kim Cigars Yankee X panting They look like a dark dow as they come up out of tho valley It is a pack of more than a hundred I now saw what quick sight had already scon With a strange enormous black mass passed so Foreign nearer and nearer it i ur ui Fancy Goods and also Hosiery i 1 and Embroideries Musical Cutlery Over the that one f'OT No Street up stairs A Milwaukee Wisconsin not exactly distinguish the G J Hanson J II of its motion and it became evident that would very soon overtake our horses the strength of which to MARTIN HART WELL HEWITT Produce and Commission Merchants dealers Groceries and Provisions Pork Fish Salt Water Lime Plaster also Dried i glve way Awful horrible Fruit Cheese lard and Hams at the Red i i ii jai T house foot of East Water St j bloke through tne of tho eral advances made on They seemed to be Sent forth from the depths of the chest and resembled sometimes a grunting noise and i times a painful hollow but yet partly agony EMPIRE block tip stairs I J FOR R repressed yells of one ffl destroyers that only speed but i J J cfl the gun out 01 their powers were becoming more and 1 j ed out again I looked after him in- more had one or the I T I saw cither of on us Knees and were coming up in enormous burning coals and sparks I started i i As I was going in the old man from tlle fiames but there lay aud i our bleeding and rolling itself tho howling i ribly and with pain Eosko kept his place and after then suffered the dangers of that ment were such as would make an im- pression upon a whole lifetime however long it might be Before Eosko told me what we had most to dread I had longed for daylight to return but then sprang up again with a desperate and j up having raised the stock of the gun now I could have wished that the night effort e were indeed in a i i iu a minute situation L trembled lor lue U i him to corne back but for my own Mv balls brought J c already with two cuts of thc two I called after was i2 t down again there a few more nf my but I L j whip he had set the off that no longer them in their run i i -i into a full and hnd cot liack chase were now close behind i again just -as two of the savage beasts us their was more heard could see their fiery eyes And what a multi- was there fif My last 1 made a spring towards tiie hut With j two blows of the of the i lie struck them both down and then charge was exhausted and I now J i ii fessed no means of defence against an was by my side again and just as the i j once or twice over his head and time with a lay the boast dead before us its limbs stretched out stiff from its body amongst the burning wood which being all wetted with its blood gave forth a smothering steam who always had his wits about him pulled it out of the fire and i ed it into the furthest corner where j foremost of the pack readied the hut T c f 1 I would have pressed in we attack of the animals except i J i cd to the strong oaken door and my two pistols had not yet been fired off my hunting knife and the of my rifle This Eosko had remarked There is still one hope loft said I remember to have seen he ted it with the iron bolt which we found still there Poor Alexander I all is over now with him Thc young beast was full of courage and fire and no doubt fought his our way here an uninhabited hunter's j i L T t i f TJ iy with his hoofs but he was obliged hut winch cannot now be far off If I J i to give wav the numbers we can succeed in reaching it we are i j f great safe for the if not the wolves i he that cry announced will tear us to pieces and relieve their were too Jies sir continued fierce hunger with our flesh If it us tho death of your favorite horse I conies to that sir continued he with have this tone which pierces to the very soul on tho field of battle Said land is by a her from the thoughts of i living stream of soft water and has a sufficiency of j c wood and ood hay marsh It is one of the first home which engaged her SO deeply and best in the far famed La Crosse ley A rare chance for a first rate farmer is ed Terms easy Also acres of TIMBER I A ST D Described as south quarter of Sec 24 a trembling voice have still the loaded pistols then b.c com- It is peculiar to strong I was not able however to leave her in that happy of thc clanger which threatened us I could is Range 1 west A good spaa of horses will be already distinguish the taken for nart pay J taken for part pay Mauston May la M M Manufacturer of uf 1 N E C v oT the eager monsters already several had burst forward of the mass and were within gunshot of our sleigh I HAS now on hand a large arnnunt of the qualities he proposes to sell at wholesale or retail to feet of inch boards of Flooring of Fence of and Scantling of Siding of Pickets Laths June 10 1357 raised my gun cooked it and aimed at the foremost of the creatures Stoop cried I to up as if frightened She looked at me in- but it was evident from my that this was no time for who had started out of a dream tions GREAT WESTERN ONE HORSE e and give your sister a speedy death that she may die by inches under the teeth of the I stared in speechless silence at the old a down his without speaking he looked at me and nodded his head as if by that means to add force to what he had said Never shall T forget flint moment a shudder ran through my veins I looked into the innocent face of my sister -I turned my eyes in desperation towards Heaven it scorned to me that verance ought to conic and must come from above that pure and pious being who forgot all her earthly dangers in her resignation to the will of the Sho instantly bent down her head mighty Then thc pan ting and and shoulders my gun wont off and ling came closer to us and I saw the foremost and the Ian ills fell to thc earth jest of the an- My shot had ESTABLISHMENT this method of i waked the lady's maid and she began miri the people of this he keeps I i State Street to WO were attacked to order every description SADDLES BRIDLES MARTINGALES all articles to the trade which he win sell as can be had in done on short notice with neatness And dispatch by a band of robbers It's only the said Rosko with astonishing coolness We are rid of one but will be our He said no more for lie did not wish thc females to hear the worst In the June 10 1 ISAAC ALSBACHER time the horses startled by the report of the gun with young horses which port hardly with their life and struggle with death to the last ment I will lay any wager it went easier with Cynthia she was weaker than Alexander and older too this much is certain the poor animals have become a prey to the wolves who are at this moment engaged in devouring them and therefore leave us in peace At this moment there are but few of them about the hut the great mass are engaged in their horrid meal They will return ever more ravenously hungry and more than ever for this slight repast is sufficient only to late their insatiable appetites The old man had spoken truly We sat still and as if waiting around the that the foremost of tho creatures had reached us and that they seemed to be smelling our carriage as if they wished first to see of what the freight consisted before they made the attack With my left hand I seized the ready cocked pistol and with a searching glance I looked at the head of my ter in order to select that part where death would reach her the safest and quickest My right hand had ically drawn my hunting knife a veil of blood appeared tn be drawn over my he left it lying saying at the same time that he hoped it would be the only visit of thc kind we should have during the night But the day the day added ho in a low tone of voice will bring us more of such customers than shall be able to master These words readied my ears only and the Frenchwoman looked anxiously at the roof to see whether any fresh danger us I near to the old man and led him away from towards tho dead wolf as if i wished to examine it and then I asked him in an what were the fears he entertained for the day as I had been in hopes that when morning came the wolves would forsake our place of refuge and be- take themselves to the depths of the forest And even if that were to be the said he gloomily of what use would it be to us The horses are dead and how is a weak tender male like Mademoiselle to reach thc outside of this forest on In the midst of our endeavor night would overtake us again and the wolves know well where to find us But any hope of thc kind is vain When the wolves have assembled in such an enormous mass as they have done here they are not afraid of light So long as our stock of wood holds out our fire will protect us from fire and a few moments only had any attack from above indeed I do passed when we again heard thc feet j not think another of the monsters will and the panting of the wolves close be bold enough to try the roof again outside then they came on bursting i to-night but by daylight thc flames against the door and the window ters then the growling became er and we could find that with newly excited rage they were trying to climb and the mud walls in order to get upon the roof We were in the most do not make so powerful an impression upon them We must summon all our courage and all our strength for what may happen and prepare to defend the women and our lives last moment But it will be of no of no added he in a tone would he without end But how less was such a wish for what should we have gained by Instead of be- ing torn to pieces by the wolves we should have suffered thc lingering sounded through and the ing of horses hoofs came fast us My maid started up we our enemies scrambling down from the roof we heard howling of the scattered in distance and we cried and looked through split in the door and f There is a j the have fled and thc hunters are just breaking out of the wood He threw the door wide open and we went out into the space before the hut freedom again ours and had the joy to see at the head of troop of who had rescued us the friend whose house we had loft when we started on our journey How is it possible to describe the delight of our meeting or our A The following touching and illustration of the power of WM given by Wendell Phillips the other daj in a public speech at New York Tht eloquence of is surpassed by I was told one day a story ing in reference to you must let It is a temperance caga but it will illustrate this just well It is the story of a mother on the green hills of Vermont holding by thc right a son sixteen years old mad with love of thc sen And as stood by the garden gate on thc green hillside of Vermont one sunny ing she tell tor saw the ocean that great temptation of the seaman's lifo is drink Promise yon quit your mother's hand that you will er drink And said he told me the gave her thc promise and I went he broad globe cutta the Mediterranean San cisco the Cape of Good Hope the north pole and saw them all in forty years and saw a glasi filled with liquor that my mother's form by the garden gate did not and to-day at sixty my are innocent of liquor Was not that sweet evidence of power of a single Yet that not half For said he yesterday came into my death of starvation or at least have man and me you know OJo I was once brought drunk into your presence on shipboard you were a enger tho captain kicked me aside you took me to your berth and kept me there until I had the cation you then asked me if I had a mother I said I never knew a word from her lips you told of youra at garden gate and to-day I am the ter of one of the finest packets in New Fork and I come to ask you to call and sec me How far that little dle throws its beams That word on the green of hillside Oh God be thanked for mighty power of a single A are you willing to be damned if it should be the Lord's inquired a pious friend 0 yes massa and more too I am willing you be too replied Pompey many wives would do well to emulate the virtue of the nee Indian woman who was met by a man who asked her to look on him My said she is ever be- fore my eyes and hinders me from you or any one else been frozen to death I now felt without hope and perfectly desolate The stars became paler thc twilight appeared above us the flames of the fire became less bright and thc day broke slept on the frightful howling of the wolves the increased energy which was evident in their movements around our place of re- fuge did not wake her but at one time I saw that her lips moved and that she was speaking and I drew nearer to hear what she said Fear nothing said she softly as if in a sweet dream God is watching over us a deliverer is I cannot describe the effect which these words had on me and how they instantly filled me again with hope and faith I suddenly felt myself by a supernatural power I felt quite culm with regard to my ture danger and seizing the hand of the astonished Eosko I exclaimed in a cheering tone Courage faithful We are too good to serve as food for the wolvos a deliverer is near And he tens near He appeared in the time of our greatest need when the fire grown pale under the light of day no longer alarmed our hungry ers who now clambered upon the roof in such numbers that it threatened every moment to fall in upon us and as we looked up we beheld twenty pair of savage jaws wide open ing for onr blood and eagerly to devour us had not yet she slept as soundly as if convinced that the angel of God was watching over her My whole being appeared now to have resolved itself into faith in our deliverance I looked no longer at the savage growling forms above I looked into the pure face of my sister She moved slightly and then slib awoke He are At that moment we heard the report pense Our eyes were fixed on the j ing fainter and fainter of no use at j of fifty shots in the a loud opening in the roof just above us all the barking of clogs re- Harry did you ask Hioki for that did he Nothing he just kicked ma inta the road all he said Why didn't you catch that coon when you got so near him in the tree Case massa one fell thump on the ground and looked round I dia nigger hisself An old negro crossing the river a dancing frolic lost oars and came near swamping la he went down bri his knees and O massa if gwine to help
