Oshkosh Democrat (Newspaper) - June 21, 1850, Oshkosh, Wisconsin The Democrat Is published at every Friday morning by JAMES DENSMORE SUBSCRIBERS who haws their papers their dwellings a year CT and MAIL payable in TERMS OF ADVERTISING One Square 3 weeks Each additional insertion 33 cents For six months By the Year One square of a Column One-Half Full Hi Yearly the privilege of exchanging their advertisements every wot months atthe ute Prices From the New York Evening Mirror Capital Substitute BT A COMPOSITOR feave a few that will still to old notions be The bulk of our folks are a man's swinging They thi nk that though one may bo ingly do him much good though another be strangled And you'll will be wholly this kind agitation is totally ended The most difficult questions however to answer Is what shall we do with a man-killing man IBre capital punishment grow quite a fiction Let's hit on some feasible tower casn in- Let the murderer then though by all men abhorred He saved from the procession and cord Nor deliver him up to your cried Miss H- DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF EVERY THING TO THE PUBLIC VOL II OSHKOSH FRIDAY JUNE 21 1850 NO 16 I couldn't find any plates to suit me exactly but I mean to have a trial at any rate The best I dirty onea piled which Mrs S is could find away in were some one corner for the But kill him in anJ of the dread caper Just make him a hand on a morning PII papir W II D MYSTERIES OF MESMERISM A Seme at a Patty BY WHO WAS THERE A merry was in the parlor of a good of not finer nnd A lime had the guests if nr may the continual was up by pi in- of the occasion Many food joke find many n one was enjoyed at the expense of s irr cnt Among the f r of the guests was one Miss Sirah who is be- loved nnd by fill foi her and of while she is dreaded for her keen nnd her at the execution of nnd practical Miss had reigned supremo in the evening and nearly every guest present had suffered from her A- inong those whom she had treated m the most was Charley who was not at such innocent ments himself and who resolved to repay Sarah H in her coin The conversation turned upon ism Charley said he had put to sleep any quantity of ladies and strong ded young gentlemen in his remarked that he fluttered self on being as good at it as Parson echoed Charley ing a sudden earnestness: perhaps you think I can't put you to sleep Perhaps I cried I think I could convince you in a few That you could put me to exclaimed Charley n ith rable enthusiasm And if you uill let rne trv I pledge myself to accomplish the task or to furnish the oysters for the com- pnnv cried Miss I take you at your offer And you will give me a fair Yes Agreed And Charley to the delight of tho whole company who were of fun and oysters commenced making tions for the apparently hard task of ting the bright eyes of the wide-awake Miss a mesmeric sleep Charley said that he operated with plates He also remarked that some plates were better than others and Charley must go with Mrs the lady of the house to her pantry to make choice of euch specimens of crockery as would best suit his purpose Charley was some lime in making his selection of plates and the company whose appetite for fun and ters was becoming very acute began to grow impatient At length however Charley rd with a very sober face and said in a serious pose While she is producing them we may as well choose a good position Miss H said Miss H pertly You can hold your 1 believe I rather think I can Well you must or I cannot put you to sleep If you the charm is ken The company may laugh at the dity of my motions and I presume they will but you must not for if you do I shall be under no obligations to the oysters Miss H thinking the whole trick con- in this nnd supposing Charley felt sure of making her laugh by the of the scene readily entered into the arrangement Charley placed two chairs facing each other directly in the centre of the room took his seat in one of them and requested Miss II to occupy the other According to my improved method of said Charley you Mill be requited to Jook me intently in the eye and imitate my motions invariably Yes said Miss H Charley then took hold of her wrists and looked her in the eye while the frankness apd a cheerful smile and king Charley by the hand acknowledged the fairness of the joke and ed his ingenuity nnd skill The merry company sat down to the oysters VY rach none enjoyed with a er relish than she who had contributed so to the entertainment of the that night dies and gentlemen about them eager for the fun The Cried Charley with a grave face The echoed Miss H with Mis S came forward with a ofthe required articles Charley took one and held it on hands in his lap Miss H made n similar use of the other still ing Charley in the After a pause his right hand from beneath the plate and with a slow motion passed his fingers across face Miss H gravely imitated the ment As she drew her delicate fingers from her blow to her chin a yell of liter burst fiom the out smiling Chailey placed his right hand under the plate and rubbed the left over ins face Miss H as loued the example and another burst of followed Cl arley then turned the plate in his hands and with bis made across his brow crosses on his chin a I ing line down the middle of his nose cue about his eyes and ail sorts of imaginary grotesque ures on his cheek his hands occasionally as if to invest the ny uith additional mystery Miss H him scrupulous exactitude ind the mirth of the spectators become more and more excited find seemed some of them would die laughter Some rolled upon the sofas some hung powerless on chaus almost dead with mirth nnd fell upon the floor and held their KIND OF HAD HIM FOUL Some people have a Very ugly way of laying violent hands on small that belong to them which cost others money and which they don't think of ing for Now ills very well known that groceries pay about the smallest profit of any other merchandize hence the habit some folks have of going into a store to purchase ten lo twenty-five cents worth of be sent home while they wait the goods to be put up they amuse themselves oy a mouthful of sugai gormandise ah apple or two or guzzle a bunch of raisins figs slice of cheese plug of tobacco biscuit or ever else lies around temptingly exposed to view You may rest assured that ple don't trade and traffic for the fua of it and if you the grocer he'll be justified in keeping square with you by sending light weight and scant measure A facetious old mercantile friend of ours up town was thus bled by a customer who used to come in daily to order gathered l Cl fi thing or other in the grocery line and who having an amazing swert tooth in his head thought nothing of nibbling chunks of sugar bunches of raisins Ooa morning Nibble came into the store before breakfast evidently disturbed in mind Mr you sent my quarter sir Well i-o don't under- nibbles thiee u What the do you mean by You keep a dry good store Mr Yes I do Now suppose I cams iti every day to buy two or three shillings worth of goods and each lime 1 should levy on a spool of cotton a paper of needles or n piece of tape which I never of course of accounting Oh ah yes I take the force of what you are about to those little things do count up You've got me now The was paid The dry did not take the matter as an insult and what is still more quit nib bling continued to the i ions passes across his face and Miss ti o his movements until the to such a pitch that the poor gnS be- gan to suspect that it was occasioned something besides the mere oddity of Charley's motions Sha grew uneasy She feared some trick upon her self The ninth She could endure it no resolved to feit the oysters Amid loars of laughter from the sheened out Theie I've withstood tins long e- arn going to know what there is to laugh at Look in the Look in the cried the mirth spectators Miss O before a mirror in a A cry of and shame burst her lips Her her pretty be- witching face was covered with black streaks with every diminutive Over her nose around her eyes across her forehead up anJ down diagonally and on every portion of her face were the marks of her own fingers just as she had touched them on her skin The bottom of her plate had been While Miss H covered her features with her to another room and while the company was near giving up the ghost in a perfect of laughter Charley said without a smile I won this time but I think I can ford the oysters at any rate The oysters ley's expense not think of touching his until Mis H and sent a committee of the girls to bi ing her in These reported that she had not got the smoke off her upon which he Lade them return In a few minutes the committee once more accompanied by Miss H The smoke still showed itself upon hei lace in spots and hei eyes glistened with tears but she advanced with admirable were brought in at Charlev said he could LOLA MONTES ON BUSINESS The principal of a banking house in Paris sitting in his office a short time since saw a lady enter who had not waited for the usual ceremony of sending in her name by the attendant She had a remarkable physiognomy a piquant and style of dress and a manner of that was very awakening to the beholder She ly returned the salute of the mah of ness You are the she en- Yes madam What can I do to o- I came to deposits this with eaid the upon the table package of papers lied with a red tape And what is that if you Four hundred thousand replied the lady Look for yourself Four hundred thousand To whom have 1 the honor of Lola Montes At this famous name the banker fixed on his visitor a gaze of inquisitive ny She stood it with the proof in- difference of one who has little left to learn and is used to producing surprises The banker counted the money I have other funds to bring she added carelessly at present I have a house to purchase furnish and wish this sum kept at my disposal I will take fifty thousand francs at present for some little shopping and leave you the rest subject to my The money was all right and the bank notes foi fifty thousand francs were paid over Lola did not herself to count them but tied up the crushed cel in the corner of her embroidered et handkerchief and with a alight salute lounged indolently away humming a Spanish Journal The Lincoln Mercury mentions a new mode of extracting confessions of Two juvenile offenders who have for some time been the tills of the men in Spa aiding market place have at length been detected The tradesman with a view of extorting confession from the them to the action of the vanic A few shocks had the ed effect FROM LAKE SUPERIOR A correspondent of the Detroit Daily Advertiser writes to that paper an inter- esting letter from the a part of which we copy Marie May Si MR Business on Lake has fairly commenced for the ssn and is very encouraging The peller of 320 tons burden is r ow at the edge above the fire distant one mile It takes Captains and to a vessel from i s element and sail on the land It impossible to accomplish what has 1 done here in the last ten days The Manhattan arrived this month with a very heavy load f freight returned to lake arid brought one hundred cords of wood was then taken out of the water and is ay nearly ready to launch in the waters of Lake Superior one mile distant I have frequently looked at the modus of propelling this large vessel counted twenty remarkable stout and s dive men at work in the operation two i and two fine horses are d Largo square timbers called ways re laid upon solid foundations other of the same width and eight inches i hick are laid upon those ways the sel rides upon the flat pieces the ways ire all covered with tallow immense hain rabies hold the ways a strong i ope passes through the blocks and round the capstans and tho horses draw the el This is a fine vessel and will add to shipping of Lake Superior The Napoleon arrived last evening rom above The Ontonagon mining Companies are very much encouraged i his Spring At the Minesota Mine a nass of copper weighing 100 tons was separated from the rock 35 tons n masses had been taken out a short nne previous Other mines in this region ire very promising The Ontonagon is to be the copper region of he world The Independence bi ought tons from the Cliff Mine a few lays since On Isle Royal the Company mve done well The business is on the increase The warehouses here are filled with bar els and of and white ish The Franklin took 600 barrels on ier way to I wish members of Congress could this and see the importance of his canal and the need of some ments to the harbors and rivers Turner informed rne it would cost to take the Manhattan across the Portage If the aid of the is needed anywhere it is on Lake Superior appropriations will save human life and add to the wealth of he The Napoleon left this afternoon for the copper and iron country with an immense load Masters and miners women and children gentlemen exploring horses oxen cows calves pigs and merchant's goods flour pork and beef butter tea sugar and everything to tain human life wagons carts fixtures for mining hay oats and corn comprise the loading this spring STEAMERS ON THE UPPER A correspondent of the St Louis Re- publican writes from Minesota under date of May as The Steamboat called the QoV sey left the Falls of St Anthony on the Mcty 1830 for Sac Rapids heavily laden with boat is of kee imported from Maine nnd officers and crew from Maine nnd none distance of some 100 miles above the Falls and after fulfilling her engagements to deliver a certain quantity of freight at Sac Rapids which will take two or three trips will with the intention of ascertaining the Mississippi can be navigated above the Falls The owner of the Gov Ramsey confidently expects to ascend up as far as Ft Gaines and some distance above This boat looks like Wiggins ferry boat draws eighteen inches water when loaded and is worked fay a tive engine and machinery and cannot consume more than five of wood a day and runs rapidly I met her on her first upward bound trip in the neighborhood of Lake some teen miles below Sac Rapids and about eighty miles above the Falls There is no doubt of her success and DO possible difficulty of connecting below and above the Falls with a short railroad say two miles and the Mississippi navigation is extended some two hundred miles further north Boats this the martine and Anthony Wayne both ed within half a mile of the Falls and discharged some freight without the least possible difficulty From the of tha rapids the from which the Gov Ramsey and the spot where these boats unladed their cargoes does not exceed two miles This little boat has some children now in rearing at the Falls to connect above her limited running and are so constructed as to be able to run upon place without river lake or running brook JUSTICE AT THE GOLD MINES The following account of trial am execution is from a volume published by Lea Blanchard of Philadelphia tled Six months at the Gold Mines A scene occurred about this time that exhibits in a striking light the summary mariner in which justice is dispensed in a community where there are no legal tribunals We received a report on the afternoon of January 20th that five men had been arrested at the dry diggings and were under trial for a robbery The were A Mexican bler named Lopez having in his sion a large amount of money retired to his room at night and was surprised a- bout midnight by five men rushing into his apartment one of whom applied a to his head while the others barred the door and proceeded to rifle his trunk An alarm being given some of the citizens rushed in and arrested the whole party Next day they vere tried by a jury cho sen from among the citizens and ced to receive lashes each on the following morning Never having witnessed a punishment inflicted by Lynch law I want over te the dry diggings on a clear Sunday morning and on my val found a large crowd collected around art oak to which las had a man with a bared back while another was plying a raw cowhide to his already ed flesh A guard of a dozen men with loaded rifles pointed atthe prisoners stood ready to fire in case of an attempt being made to escape After the whole had been flogged some fresh charges weie preferred against three of the named Garcia Bissi and a Chileno named These were with a robbery and attempt to murder on the Stanislaus river during the previous fall The unhappy men were removed lo a neighboring house and being so weak from their punishment as to be unable to stand were stretched upon the floor As it was riot possible for them to attend they were tried in the open air in their absence by a crowd ol some two hundred men who had themselves into a jury and appointed a pro tempore judge The charges them were all substantiated but amounted to nothing more than nn nt rob bery and murder no overt act being even They were known to be bad men however and a general sentiment seemed to prevail in the crowd that they ought to be got rid of At the close of the trial which lasted some thirty the judge put to vote the question whether had been proved guilty A universal affirmative was the response What punishment shall be was asked A fellow in the crowd cried out Hung them The position was seconded and met most approbation I mounted a stump and in the name of God ty and law protested against such course of proceeding but the crowd by this time excited by frequent and deep tations of liquor from a neighboring grog gery would listen to nothing contrary to their brutal desires and even threatened to hang me if I did not immediately de- sist from any further remarks what that such might be rny fate and seeing the utter uselessness ol further argument with them I ceased and pre- pared to witness the horrible Thirty minutes were only allowed the unhappy victims to prepare themselves to enter on the scenes of eternity Three ropes procured and attached to the limb of a tree The prisoners were ched out placed upon a wagon and the ropes put round their necks No time was given them for explanation They vainly tried to speak but none of them English they were obliged to employ their native tongues which but few of those assembled understood Vainly they called for an interpreter for their cries were by the ol 1 now infuriated mob A black chief was bound around the eyes of each their aims were pinioned and at a given signal priest or the wagon was drawn from under them and they were launched into Their graves were dug ready to receive them and when life was entirely extinct they were cut down and buried in their ets This was the execution ever witnessed God grant that it may be the of is related that when the British soldiers were about to maich out and lay down their arms at town Washington said to American ar my My boys let there oe no insults over a conquered When they lay down their arma will huzza for E Tho New York and Erie Railroad passes through a portion of county traversing a where and pa rested secure until the snort of the horse bade before the progress of enterprize At the time when the cars commenced running daily over this portion of tho road it so ed that a friend of ours who had never the voice of was busily en- gaged in trapping for wolves in one of those large s warn pa so in that part of the country Uncle Josh was one of our best hunters and in his opinion which is duly corroborated by others knew it all One evening ha was from his walk to see that all was right thinking deeply upon tho ties of this life and of trapping in lar as he was passing along through n deep black swamp a scream the moat un- earthly greeted his ears Dumb with astonishment the cocked his gun and quietly awaited the of the monster that had so un- ceremoniously his ogam it comes ringing through the forest and still the peered through the darkness to get a glimpje of the After waiting till darkness forbade all expectations of n shot the hunter returned to his home re solving on the morrow to give tho new comer a race with his hounds The next day he nnd without success When nearly as he was about to relinquish hU ful chase the same unnatural cry canio tinging through the woods Thwarted in his hopes the old man again turned ward unable to conjecture or what wild animal had taken up his n bode so near his own Lie de- termined now to try thp traps were accordingly set and with different kinds of bait and shifted from swamp to swamp but with no success yet daily the same suspicious voice would come to his ears At length ilm hunter who was a firm in tho supernatural became convinced that fm Satanic Majesty or some of his fayorito imps wera rusticating in the neighbor hood Upon tho strength of this con- he called in a few confidential friends and with the utmost proceed to relate his adventures Our readers may judge of the surprise ho was laughingly toM he had been trapping a Pike County Democrat DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Shortly after midnight nn alarm of fire was sounded in the Ward It proved to be the of Mr E D Holton just of Spring street and in close proximity to the row of buildings fronting on that street and to the extensive Lumber of Clark and Loomis in the rear Tho flames rapidly and though the Fim was speedily on tho groun I and worked with a will the fire by a strong westerly breezy buim to Spring street destroying he tus Factory The a well eating kept by Mr Belden tno Grocery Giore of Dunn and the Mont Market of Mr somewhat damaging the rear of Mr ton's large brick block a few Messrs Claik Loomis Lumber Tho fire burnt for an hour or two with greni fury and it was not till broad day light that the Firemen were released from their arduous labors The losses wore nearly as follows The Saleratus Factory in which the fire originated with its contents was ed at to Owned by E IX ahd not insured The Home a two story frame build ing occupied by Mr Belden was owned by Mr John Tanner add insured worth perhaps Mr Belden himself was insured which will cover his loss He had ot stock landed from tha Globe an hour before fire broke out which fortunately ed on the pier The building occupied by Durin was owned by Mr Burton In- sured loss The corner building occupied by Ro- dis wag owned by Mr insured 8400 Less Messrs Clark Loomis sustained a by the burning of lumber not insured The largs brick block of Mr Holton's was damaged to the amount of or by the Burning of window frames which is covered by insurance The inmates of several of the stores and rooms in this block H 8 tou Co Boyd Ledyard the tors of the Free Democrat more ot less damage by the removal of goods but they are all fully insured The members of Noy 2 who after doing excellent service at the fire were kept on tho watch in their were liberally and handsomely invited by Messrs Clark Loomis to a break last in the morning at the American Mil Sentinel I've heard it is impossible to eat turf toy lord I never tried 1 ways eat mine with spoon Paris hta no less than thousand male professors of music
