Oshkosh Weekly Courier (Newspaper) - May 17, 1854, Oshkosh, Wisconsin READ WJI WHERE DEMOCRATIC TOW MAH TO 3 r-i R TO f i si i i VOL. 2. CITY OF NO. 51. HERRE I This beautiful written and composed by F. Nichols author of mot and other popular and which has been sung before Portland by the author and by Mr. been recently It is for sale at the music We are sorry that the words are not given in the quaint phy of the original manuscript by mission of the wo present This madrigal will undoubtedly become The words are brimful of music a melody in themselves united to the they form a harmonious combination rarely to be met with and when rendered with that of which both word and note are so eminently we venture to say in our no one can listen to the performance without a keen sense of en- We speak somewhat at length of this because wo doom it one of the most effective specimens of modern music that has been given to the public a loner The following the words in their Original orthography Home I a TNS je yn tlie lande Amle I w resly a on my As a my IV I all of herrc I Mat Ward I a Very a Where a shuttle yt antic foith tefora myna for As jt Welle 1 I ull v foote of 1 1 knone i Yt ji free from nrtc Aude I jt Torre all tj f jt tone an of Eier 1 I all aboie harte of hone I Tricks of Tho fertility of brain which characterizes this class of fanatics is very much opposed to that blindness which generally attributed to In Col. was running for Congress in a neighboring His district was strongly and it re- quired a perfect union of Whigs and and something more to secure his This was immediately after the of tho Fugitive Slave and tho hit upon an expedient which prosed 2iot only feasible but decidedly lie a colored individual to travel with hi n through the infected It was so arranged that tho sable orator should sue ik and w hilo speaking a boy o I for that purpose would como in ly in great and hand him a note which purported to warm him that the s were after and ho must for his Ho w ould read the note aloud and retit o in threat haste horn the leaving tho Col. to dilate upon tho which he do in very and dramatic Scarcely ingenious was an expedient resorted to by Booth and his a. few to or rather which has been raging in the eastern part of the An African was recently and sentenced m Milwaukee for passing counterfeit Ho had a wife living in Kenosha in destitute whom a gentleman in kee proposed to employ in his kitchen She was about leaving Kenosha when a pious wto saw nothing in hor color to repel his inordinate persuaded her to with him to parts unknown Of couise some must ho got up for this proceeding When Booth wished to revel in female society ho did it under tho ance cloak and his Kenosha disciple being with the charms of Ethiopia's accomplished his ends in tho namo of Tho Free and Sentinel very adroitly announced tho de- camping of the beautiful wonch and hor amour an attempt to evade tho Fugitive Slave when it was in fact an evasion of a law founded on tho seventh Wo are prepared to seo Booth and his lowers money and perhaps office out of but this smacks of a dity which improves ancient martyrdom and it a relish decidedly It takes Booth lifter all to out the good Tho Cincinnati papers give a telegraphic received in that announcing the acquittal of though perhaps not wholly ed of a trial by which justice is cheated of its the character of a State and the feelings of the whole try will be mot and ought to be met by an strained outburst of Here is one of the clearest cases ever put on record of a malignant perpetrated in the open face of com- mitted on the person of an ligent and most amiable proved by a weight of testimony that will carry ble conviction of tho prisoner's guilt to the mind of every impartial every impartial or is not absolutely reads and a jury is found to pronounce a verdict of on Shame on the of whose connivance they would not have dared to perpetrate this infamous mockery of The blood of poor Butler cries to an ing Heaven against A mark has been set upon tho State where this outrage was committed more indelible than that affixed to the first and if tho day of does not hasten on there is neither justice in Heaven nor recoil against wrong on I Amid the multiplied abuses which cling to j tho other departments of our republican I amid tho intrigue and machinations that deform our party and undermine the moral sense ot our motely herd of seekers and office our courts ot justice have in most of tho States maintained their character for and their hold on the confidence of A strong undercurrent of sound healthy feeling has always and we pray God may beneath tho agitated and infected waters that reek with the vile froth and scum of political undercurrent of sweet untainted lovo of justice and which has led TIS to re- gard an independent and an impartial administration of as the dearest and most sacred of our political Confidence in the purity of our courts is the great conservative principle of our That feeling of security v. hich reposes on tho complete and ing conviction that our uninfluenced by fear or to will out equal justice to the high and the the rich and the is the main pillar which supports tho attachment of our people to a government which they lovo to regard as a government of laws Let thU feeling be let this confidence bo under- and the day is not distant that shall behold tho downfall of our and tho tei reign of seeking its remedy in Ry this monstrous mockery of which has just been enacted in tho State of tJin people of that State will be led to abandon all expectation of seeing eous retribution inflicted by the courts on an offender who is supported by wealth and powerful The consequence will unless the great body of the people there are more hopelessly abject than we any reason to suppose that tho next time a criminal in high lite perpetrates some handed the community will take the cause of into their own and mete out punishment in ure more respectable if they Bee their own ought to first to denounce this gross outrage upon the demands of violated for arc tho class destine 1 to pay tho Unless they aro willing the next time there is a of their to trust the decision of their cause to tho passions of an The Jury in the Ward The moment tho jury was the honest portion of the citizen of Hartlin ty that twelve just such men could not anywhere else be and no matter what the testimony might a conviction was not to be looked for I A glance at their faces by as tranger would at once hare led him to conclude that it was iu and that the convicts of a protracted term had just been brought ont to receive There was but one man on the jury whoso face would not have condemned him in any civilized mean He looked like an honest We though with many that ho was but finding self in a den were going to say hut for the of tho penitentiary forbids such a ding himself with eleven such men as b.c he to be It was sickening to hear tho comments of the neighbors and acquaintances of the jurors upon their history and One had been indicted for turning his neighbor's and never Another was well known to committed base Another had visited the prisoners in jail ro- and had said again and again that the prisoners were and yet had sworn as that he had formed no Another had brought a boy with him from the country to take back his ling his family expected to be caught upon tho jury to try the Ward and vet when sworn as to having formed any with tho most air of ed what case it and had to study some time before he could remember whether he had ever heard of tho case comments and opinions were not tcd after the but from the moment the jury was it was the common talk of tho whole lift LOTUS of Hon. Luther says the Gospel reached Iris home in this city by the cars of Wednesday evening of last His wife and daughter accompanied The depot was crowded with people anxious to receive him but he was so feeble that the beat testimony of affection they could manifest towards was quietly to open a passage through the crowd for him to pass without with tears catching the hands of the loved ones as he proceeded to his We passed an hour with him alone on Mr. S. is a doomed he cannot and he knows and there is a sort of in the re- consciousness of his approaching which already seems to have elevated his soul to lofty and made him to the highest powers of the world to Four years when he started from Boston for the Sandwich as Commissioner of tho United States to that ho took some that prod need a slight cold on his upper This never got w but in the Sandwich Island resulted in a which was cut out a j ear ago last him in a mutilated The cent parts of tho under lip aro now swollen with new and spreading and base extended tho glands of tho where the is rotted out and requires constant It is a frightful thought for a and such a to bo eaten up alive by the ages of an incurable rtn ir Lhe N. Y. Courier Enquirer of the Ericsson Caloric ship which was in the storm in the Eaal Riv from her trial trip hie if ship left street a little Before bein uncoil n be detained in ing the working of n allowed the fires to she started she per As bei power so made eight of five milos boyond reached ten per mii creased as she p full twelve ured distance Governor's iii o being a little less per the the wind was which nearly of Ilai tide was passing n eight in Heft which are and admirably planned and construct ordinary precision ai 4 turning the centres so eye could not In to engineers well most beautiful ing pressure at any ten pounds per squaw This w ill be greatly being made in some o which it is confident jr give thirty or forty eyen more if V 1 And now ro come the most and distinguishing tical working of this of The great ques much coal will bo required to few nage 24 at the rate of twelve to fifteen was clearly solved by tho experience of this certainly ten to twelve requiring only 110 to 150 voyage to or less than the Arabia and only about of j force of those No comment on such results is That ete in steam navigation will be the is clearer The will be course of a few t- the of which a DEATH or A GALLANT re- to announce the in on Wednesday night of Lieut. Simon F. of the R. Lieut. B. was tho son of the late Dr. of and brother of Mrs. and iated who w ill of thu timo of the servile in- dent of tho II Mirror the When tho British were in 1776, my father was in a barber's shop waiting to bo shaved A British officer came in and wanted to bo provided tho barber could do it without drawing and saying that if ho did ho would run his sword through Tho barber was frightened and daro not undertake tho A littlo boy sitting there spoke up and said he would do it. Ho looked at the with but tho boy stripped off and told to take a Ho ino without and was paid a guinea for his Tho then how he ventured to do as he had boon to barber shop in town and no one dared to Tho boy re- I thought 1 would seo blood as soon sts you and if I I would have cut your throat to tho back bono in a The British officer hung down his aud left amid shouts of applause for tho THK steamer hot-air Ericsson was making good speed when tho accident happened to her in York on Hor wheels wore king 13 ro per No injury to tho and she will soon bo with no other damage than that sioned to hor ornamental works by salt the N. Y. Courier Enquirer that upon the in the of which the accident tho Ericsson ran IS mites in 95 Hor engine with working pressure at no time per The question of of fuel and she will only 120 to tons for a voyage to tho action of courts that e forfeited their it behooves them to protest earnestly against the disgraceful larco that has now acted A man who to have while on his way to tho scone of tho tho pistol with which he shot his is ted on tho ground that the atrocious flood was done in self defence What had ho to fear from a in an 5n- to take place in a school room where a sense of propriety would prevent a teacher from making any unprovoked demonstrations of in the of his scholars The pica of on which tho was acquitted was and tho with the testimony before must have known it to bo Their action has boon controlled not tho of but by improper influences which been brought to bear upon and every man of them deserves tho hempen halter which they have defrauded of tho neck of tins young sprig of Kentucky Deserved though slow of seldom fails to tho In tho long run states and as well as will pay the penalty of their of- and where justice allows the debt to become she is sure to exact Wo to that community in which tho people have lost their confidence in tho uprightness and purity of tho administration of Wo to those in high station who have purchased exemption from tho penalties of by trampling in the character of its justice now lot them expect more than justice hereafter from tho of the And as regards tho prisoner who by this perversion of is again let loose on lot no ono envy tho pillow on which ho IIo has the mark of Cain upon and though he should fly like a fugitive to the ends of the the ing ghost of murdered will sue to trouble and affright his guilty and harrow it with images of Amid tho splendors with which wealth may surround a wound at the core of his heart will always foster with and has already brod tho undying worm whose will render every cup of pleasure and his whole being in Com. surrection in 183J, he was quite a but acted with groat on the occasion of the attack on his house by Xat ner and his followers for which he received a warrant from General As an ho stood in the A cry first rank of his Mr. Blount married daughter of the late Francis S. tho dis- author of the Star Spangled and loaves an interesting family to mourn his untimely is truly tho ago for great here seems to ue no limit to tho ambition of They aim to eclipse each other in the gigantic speed and splendor of their Tho late English papers bring accounts of a gigantic ship about to bo constructed for the n Steam to carry passengers and freight between England and The vessel will be of tons burthen and composed Sho will have a pair of side wheels propelled by a sot of marine en- gines of horse she will also c a screw propellor at tho stern driven by another sat of engines of 1.300 horse The total power of her engines will bo 3000 horse and she is expected to run 18 miles per Wo believe a ship has been constructed on this plan Double driving MAN ITIE V the steamer Lady Elgin her way up tho lako with a freight and among wL a collection of animals for the wheelsman denly found difficulty in changing the tug and and bear on as much ns he he wheel would not budge an Port curd tho reip tho But still the helm w is hard a and the boat takii ga turn in the middle of tho lako Tho and the mate made for the wheel Pushing the man lie tool hold It was of no mate as no more successful than the Poi t for Can't j ou see where the boat is shouted the Cap- The declared hat something was the matter of the t he could not stir it Tho thing was ly The engine was md mate and all hands went below to seo what could he the After a search of it was discovered that Mr the of the me not liking the noisy rattling of s overhead had taken upon himself the responsibility of eh ing a now to With his trunk wound round tKo he w is holding on with the grasp of a and t was with some culty that the persuaded him that such liberties could i ot be It is said that he behaved quite well during tho rest of the Detroit Letters from allude to an Asiatic Sho has at Constantinople with six hundred horsemen as her She is an old woman of about sixty years of of a very withered and very like a As she passe I through the capital last seated on like a thousands of people 1 locked to have a view of especially won The Turkish males aro quite taken aghast at for the most and gerly pressed forward to catch a glimpse of adventurous old dame as she cantered past ah What a woman who shot a of the Hoffman in the S 2d inst. She says that endeavored v 1 seemed to 8y hto would of his ho d it to by .be that ho wished would no was knew Mr. and blasting my Baker would desert and glad come to him husband and my be nio on the street ma 6tF a did to user violence who it timS Hoffinan she hands of h the he still and she She was that her acter was ta resent oii sne narrates thus was Locust and Olive not very far cbK ncr of Olive and when Hoffman met of my side he spoke eaid r Fired by his manner I drew the and he ranj tried pose I did not I get it off till he ran into the I fired and did not attempt to fire A NOVEL A gentleman at Green lately left the and Congregational chui Tn worship he found it to repress those outbursts of religious feelings which were allowable with the sect he had and was quite often guilty of tho impropriety of out in to tho great annoyance of his new Ho was labored with affectionately upon the but it was of no use tho occasional and Glory to would slip out in spite of his He was finally prosecuted for shouting Glory to God un- der the influence of a stirring and and was fined throe dollois and the costs amounting to ten In the com- plaint against him he was accused bing religious THE John is engaged in extend o bering operations about tho upper waters of the writes to tho Farming ton one of his who ling a pine tree near the a hard substance which rendered his axe On examination it to be a when taken out weighed The stone was four feet from the in the center of the tree was smooth and over tw o feet in diameter at the place the stone was We heard an amusing as occurring on the hist arrival Mexico at It appears that among tho list on tho manifest the name of the Earl of was recorded The news soon spread and was promptly communicated to the English in the of his at once ed two rooms for his distinguished man at tho and then proceeded with a to tho steamer him to his when was The Farl of on tho Mexico proved to be a largo Jim ham Bull from Kentucky Tho Consul w as ins wpH M call of A using a Why a man who docs tad as a man Because bo's no belloi TO IHE alone in a I overtook an honest looking ae he told of the Lutheran I invited him to take a scat with and after a littlo hesitation he did so. On my asking where ho was he said he was just from Ar- and that it was a sickly country he had taken a exeat deal of calomel and quinine and had suffered a groat il a favorable time to spiritualize a 1 tele him these things must be expected more 01 less in this said there is where the inhabitants never say I After thinking a he looked up and eaid Tho Zoist that a well known who always indulged in and who adopted all the recent spirit has gone stark and hopelessly mad on the spirit nipping She was found other day in the open as her er bore except that she had a pocket in one hand and a card in the Sho said the spirits had informed that if she walked out so she would bo Sho is now in a mad A huge lying high and dry on a hill three hundred feet high and one thousand feet from tho at fearfully records the terrific explosion of one unfortunate while the half-finished frame work of now Turkish Corvette on the which ped all damage during and after tho forms a strange contrast with all this havoc and WHEAT CHOI FAILURE warm showery and weather of the past two hat worked a change in the appear nice of tho wheat crop in this country The farmers declare if such a state of things cont nue their crops will but a very forty to the Let us for the Co. GOOD yon M handsome price of per barrel was paid yesterday for 1000 of It was purchased for the many very sensitive to and by is says Mr. 11. L. that fish aro not possessed cf tho sense of smell from the following I am convinced they aro 1 placed hook well baited with an angle ingly before a perch weighing ono and a half pounds ho did not take the least notice of it. It was and a drop of i brought in contact with when it was dropped very carefully several feet behind ho immediately turned and seized the This experiment was several times re- with like It has been denied that luno tho sense of I find HOLFORD THE SON IN tbo rich who died on the 9th of has left his largo to the Prince of He accumulated the chief part of his immense fortune in the Russian in partnership with his He afterwards engaged largely in American stock and was at ono time a heavy He was in the habit of visiting the United States He was a man of eccentric as was bis who committed icide in consequence of a fear of though he was ton and the samo price offered for This flour made out of good consin winter wheat by Col and not be east or w 10th inst. 33F The steamer Ericsson is being pre- pared for A large canvass is drawn around tho the upper edge of which is above and foi ins a sort of a on- casing tho vessel When the open ports shall all bo closed by the then the steam pumps will got on board and the work of rising She will soon bo afloat much the worse wo aro sorry to for hor prolonged numerous experiments am convinced that their seme of hearing is In answer .to tne can ot the Madison Argua the State deposited with of itoc e basis of the Circulation of all which too be Banks bare description of from t. the Since ai as the r 1851 Much Fond da April 13, do da of such a statement as the 4preKohisf in each Vl r It abstract of and is made of He can take ho un- the most Stringent tbo constructed gs to permit of it. Under our lair there tle of the r TIMBS Oshkosh time has K says their en- their and citizens their with new steamboat almost to tho freight uT dod of tion Is more Aan doable of that hi tbs time last is destined to great there some morning by and tako a J ti t On tbo 22d as the young wife of Nathaniel Was passing through the woods neat her tor v purpose of calling her husband to re- pose of a which immediately its fang into her She was carried homo by her where she died in a few A new musical wonder has sprung up at It is said that her voico is more wonderful than that of Jenny She has taken the people of her tive city by and set them frantic from It is said that she so enraptures her hearers by her that the cians of her frequently forget themselves and Ktop Her namo is new An Oregon or was killed some time near C on the Columbia winch measured nearly eight feet from nose to Hunger had induced him to at- tack a largo near tho residence of a upon hearing the and sing iit the seized his gun and shot the Tho skin is being for the Smithsonian a respectable boarding house in New-York a number of years were fifteen young Six of them mly appeared at the breakfast table on Sabbath dressed and as to their for ance on Public They also actually attended both forenoon and All became highly respected and useful citizens The other nine were ordinary absent from the breakfast table on Sabbath At noon they appeared at the dinner shaved and Crossed in a decent In the afternoon they went but not to church nor were they usually toon in the place of One of them is now and in a reputable the other eight became openly All ed in and aro now Several of them came to an untimely and awfully tragic duly of its save In tho language of its shaM ride upon the nigh places of the a few days a coffee h mse caught and tho inmates were so stupefied by the smoke that many of them were aroused with and some of them n at Capt. Charles Mad is and two of hi 3 aged 6 and 12 perish Capt. M. served in the war of 1812 u ider Gen. by whom he was favo noticed in his for and prise man called in our office a few days since and informed us that a man named while digging a well on his place about between this village and St. discos ered a subterraneous stream ol water four feet in which flowed with great Its width could not bo After sinking a shaft down 53 feet Mi. M. struck a in trying to loose it foil with a quick plunge and was lost in the water Mr. M. felt tbo ground giving away under his feet and he called most lustily for which was almost instantly ered and he it just in timo to self from falling through into the turbid Hudson Mrs. Partington says she don't see whal they want with a grand She thinks that a common jury is grand as bor hubband felt so grand miou he was ov the jury that nobody dared to to him for a THE GOLD The following u a description of this Gold at submitted to and approved by the Secretary of the which is to bo put into circulation immediately Tho of this coin represents an ideal head with the feathered cincture bolic of tho word appeal ing en the band encircling the aud tho inscription United States of em On tho reverse is a wreath composed of tome of the staple of the United viz Indian corn and denont hnd data being in the A with other gold coins the are but not lea and together with the different In diameter of the will make ft from the quarter it most nearly ft on inch In and weight ov Com: Editor of Hartford writes from Wash The corruption which U Said one honest mem Congress to ua If the pco pie rottenness of of of the public ot- would rise and tear from Tho morality of many of thf whatever it may be aj is here below par. Gam and hard drinking are1 While all Of fraudulent are swindled through there arc in Washington hundreds of t who ask In vain that their just claims be attended rich with a forged claim stands a far better chance here than poor man with a just op A AT this the large t story building being erected by Mr. opposite tho In came down with not yot ed to their work after and none but tho and a were in building at the ft Biky escaped with but a tew slight They saving their The building had raised but a few and nothing was enclosing it except tho roof being placed upon the The cause of this at this time a fruitful source of speculation among our Some the roof spread while contend the wait upon which it built At the time of the fall the wind was blow ing quite fresh from the which undoubtedly was tho principal cause of The upper story of the entire building to have been finished off into a splendid and it had already been engaged by JIi Ward to entertain his company in on the 4th of July Tho large structure now in a most coh fused mass of shivered fragments A PORTRAIT or Siu Ai English paper uses a rather free pencil in tho following sketch fai with a fat thick and a nose covered with large like two flaps of a and like Uncle Ned in lyric with no wool to speak of on tho top of 1m although his phrenological ments an extensive where tho wool ought to the head on tLu body of a stunted whose clothe appear to been his had with one shirt foliar up and the other his waistcoat buttoned and his smeared with snuff and you have tho portrait of Sir Charles CHICAGO AXO Kru A meeting of tho of the panj was held at in city for tho examination of and for other We learn that forfeiture was of all stocks and tht payments on which the instalment duo the 1st of inst. was not stock thus we is in The grading upon this road is completed a distance of ten and the work is being prosecuted with an eJ ficient force of men Chicago Press fellow in town tho other evening swallowed dozen on a bet of ono and of won What Since the another individual used up AUT in ti similar in the space of about ten minutes of time which ho got twenty-five CAN'T M A When you a young lady so delicate that she can't make lor or put a couple of plates upon tho yet trots all over town with tho speed a to jumble nonsense with the and and just chalk it down that she's a piece of calico you can't invest a single or pulsation in. A girl who hasn't the muscles to lift three feathers and a but can tiro a locomotive and a whole omnibus lino out of is an institution like prussic acid and old had bo kept clear of. Young men will button up the fact in their FANNY FERN ON was Aer on an august school but it was I'd make a sine qua that no school marm should bo inaugurated who Irid not been a man I do not believe in old they know well that they fulfilled their family and I wouldn't have them wreaking their on my if I had No woman gets the acid effectually out of her temper till she has taken matrimony the natural THE SIXTH capital point was made by one of the counsel for tbo prosecution at tbo trial of in answer to Tom Marshall's allusion to Ward's travels and his visit to Mt. Sinai where God delivered the law to The counsel wondered if the when amidst the sublimities of where be in- iu a profusion of sacred bod ever LKT HIM GO was that Matt Ward was in town last night stopped at an obscure tavern in and was on for New to take a passage to jet him as good a as though ho hangman got SLK Ai new Pro which was reported ashore on Point iu Lake succeeded in getting oil without ami passed on her way last She has a full load reight and largo proportion for this Mrs. T says that the are called in She it is an for sonio iu the latter arc waiting ut hotels for tho I guess I'll get out and my always ends ill their having a drink somewhere in tho and intimates that it is perfectly astonishing with what un- checked ease and frequency legs are now stretched in WHY WOMAN w MADE OF A young lady having asked a surgeon w hy w o man was made from the rib of a man in pre- ference to any other he gave tho lowing gallant answer She was not taken from the head lest she would rule over nor from hie lest be should trample on but waj from Ms that she might from under his that Ha. from t and c K i
