Prairie Du Chien Leader (Newspaper) - January 2, 1858, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin VOLUME I PRAIRIE DTJ CHIEN CRAWFORD CO WIS SATURDAY JANUARY ft Iu TIIK OK TIIK X M Tnr is TIIK STATK OK TIIK CAPITAL TMK every nl tlie Iu City one 00 To Oilier Mull 160 for n or time will be Ihi lamu KATES OF t 1 00 I M t IS t fcf m I i Mill i r f r on four ill O Hon IIIA n A Clerk Court I 1 County IltA II of Clerk f It K M II Comity Surveyor II at In for Block in dry mule Ill the ilu II V In Ac At Old Staml In Wl n i mid In tutu tl thf Kline's Hotel A anil Store Su I rt Town ilu Wli Keep on fnr country salt lard etc o n THOMAS nt In promptly trf jll lo It If II LAND AWD OFFICE A K ill In St Will nll I lonn il to all Hail Ax ami mill i V V M Wl Mi Main tor nl Law of the In Will lo Ami nil lo bin faithfully KM I uv to In mul ll Cur mul 1 A C n PHILLIPS St at Corner n ami ilu I A Store Pr can or ill nil of Hie in Hi Hr be In tin linn 1 III tin In Hie town j ui nml t near Hi n V m I IIM 1.1 Ill ut Unix M- w I ilu lil KII VAN unit uf Yankee Notion M.-.K.-ine ce Opposite Hie Depot of tile Jill Ml IS I p ilnK IN f er of j r In ami elc curli N A v Again the of Tuts Their annual round have run Again his silver bugles Another begun I But hark upon the air in tones of woe Thu viewless spirits ponr thu requiem For the OLD that's fled on pinions fust Into the chaos of the mighty Pust Clone down into mighty tomb With not a tear to lighten up its gloom A weary worn old man of ninny Vith bleared scattered silver hairs Vith furrowed brow and feeble palsied frame Alone unto his grave lie trembling came Ho had outlived all tics for one by one His fair-haired daughters and blooming son Had smiled upon him for n little day Then in his arms had breathed their life And now with fluttering breath And shivering limbs he lays him down with DEATH t OLD Upon thy icy bier Vo lain would drop one sympathizing tear And pale-eyed fondest of thy rain Shall yet awhile our listening hearts detain And write thy name in History and Song As one to whom some noble deeds belong Tis meet kind Patrons on this morn Mack through thu PAST a hasty glance bo borne Yet vain the labor for ye know full well Of all the changes that t fain would tell How Civir raised its hydra head In our fair land where has spread Her wings above us Ah she blushed for shame To see her followers so disgrace her name How gladly would we note the storm abate I And now another guides the Ship of State Pray Heaven may a bettor Pilot prove Than ho who last as her Commander moved Our fair is with blessings crowned And and guard our borders round With friends abroad and gallant hearts at home So may she thrive as each shall To we turn our eyes the mystic chain Vith which mind has thought To bind the rolling main Oh mighty enterprise vain The lightning's fiery wing Shall swiftly cleave the briny foam And hourly tidings bring Jons across the dreary waste Shall greet his brother And gossip news and speculate Each day with one another I From INDIA'S desort plains and burning ikies Ve hear the sound of dreadful carnage rise There black-browed urges on the strife And fiery guides the gory knife Tlie groans of victims sweep along the gale And Nature shudders at the horrid tale And CHINA too must needs her mettle test To keep her valiant sons from slothful rust Bids them prepare the din of war to meet And throws her gauntlet at the Lion's feet That royal beast in his short breathing space Since he escaped the RUSSIAN bear's embrace Has sunned himself iu witching glance And pledged his faith with that of la France Hut we can forget that death has hud Sonic noble spirits cypress shade Some shining lights brighter than diamond's rays The year has quenched iu full meridian Oun COUNTRY mourns her Wise and Great and Good long in ranks have nobly And has wept a gifted Son of Song Whose lightest word she'll fondly treasure And tears have upon the turf rest her great cues in the silent earth But why prolong the owns Some household grief making tho fireside Silent gono tho gleesome merry voice And bounding step that made all hearts rejoice The vacant chair a sad memento That voiceless speaks of hearts of hopes bereft But still some found amid the pain Not wholly bitter is thu draught we Tims ever TIJIB shall mingle joy and woe As long as his dark stream shall onward flow OLD YEAK tis time that With gladness all elate merry greetings welcome in Young I We hail him now our And faithful subjects pray His reign with blessings may And brighten every day But dear Patrons for fear that your patience may tire And your present good humor be changed into ire Just a low moments more and I'll out of your way Make you my bow and have nothing to say But in mercy be kind to this my poor verse the news I have tried to rehearse view it with favor twill die in an hour I gladly would mend it if it lay iu my power But my MUSK wants a wing ami has grown very tamo And good steed though willing is lame I've left much I'll acknowledge is true Of Presure and Panic and notes overdue Not a hint of the matter I've suffered to fall Believing your purses would tell of it all And I hope iu lank silence they never will pine But their voices still ring with the merry old chime And here let mo whisper a word in your ear And ask you kind patrons to tenderly hear I've they're not few But they'll fly at the sight of a quarter or two And now my kind friends I you adieu May the YBAR with roses your pathway bestrew By and from still free May your barks ever glide o'er n sea And TIMH pour you draughts that are brimful of joy Are the wishes sincere of your BOY are rich wo are pendent What do you mean my You must be going returned my wife In reply I threw her the letter to road 1 could perceive the dear girl's eyes brighten as she read for after all she was but human Oh how nice she exclaimed when she had perused it Now athan clear what shall we do I returned I suppose in the first place up practice Certainly throw physic to the dogs returned Jane my wife's name is Jane We will then make a tour of the United I added No said we will go at once to Paris Paris I replied nonsense I 1 ami r Mil In II fully i fruit mill cr of TIIK Ob Oh how I wish we were said I to my wile one day My she replied you must not be discontented we have every can we Oh are a hundred a large house a carriage a line ry and 1 know not what It is a sin to lly in the face of God's replied my wife Our house is plenty largo enough for our small family and as for a riage we should have no use for and I hen we subscribe to the cantile Library You can get any book you want from there Believe me my love we have every reason to be with present lot and instead of repining ought to thank God for it And the dear little woman came over to her I must leave it to the readers struck me was that it Tuesday v ro nil III opposite the l r JOHN V III Bv T W M ilu iMI mill An will convey 1 n I uf Jty ilu Win to ami from mul 1 n Py Clark A M K 11 lit nil Street Hie 1 n il I r li lit ncur II H WU A M ill mul Killing Million A ami lit of attention given t of to ami lo anil of Nu I Lower nl So S Block M at to K of fur Nw lork Ohio no 1 make a mistake she is too short for my face down to and kissed me Dear reader I must tell you that my name is Jonathan and that 1 have the privilege of ting M D after my name as a diplo- the University Medical Col- lege in New York hanging in my amply testifies 1 was born in Virginia of course be- long to the If I hope you will make no mistake upon this point At the time I commence this I had been living for upwards of four years in Madison street in the Baltimore I had ed together a very fair practice and as my wile said we had every com- fort But still I was not satisfied there was Dr kept his riage Professor had a largo line house with ever so many vants and Dr had a very hirso library while I could get all my books in a moderately case I wanted to jump to tho top of the ladder at did this waiting for was gether too slow too tedious a process lor me The result of all was I be- came cross peevish I was easily annoyed and my naturally temper stood in great danger of being forever destroyed My wife however exerted a good deal of influence over ml Deafer In Recli elc fk and 44 OMm Wk imagination to the belonged to F F had been brought up together from childhood had always loved each other and you might search all United States through and you would not find a happier marriage than ours The conversation opening my ry occurred of her We were undressing for bed and had had a few friends to spend the evening I had been beaten three games of chess running and that might perhaps have had something to do with in- creasing my discontent Well as said my wife came over and kissed me this ed my feelings a little and without I jumped into bed I scarcely know what I dreamed that gold silver were all mixed up in a terrible confusion At last I thought I was dead and some one was nailing down my coffin Rat tat tat Perspiration bursting out from every pore of my body Intense agony of your humble vant Rat-tat-tat A fearful struggle in which I knocked my wife over the eye with my elbow fortunately not hurting her but causing her to give me a kick of course not know what she was doing which awakened me It was broad and some one was knocking at the door which explained the able sensation 1 had experienced of being nailed down in my coffin Come I exclaimed The door opened and Bridget made her appearance I should say that Bridget was a recent tion from the Emerald Isle and our maid of all work I assure you we have had hard work to ti ain her To give an idea how exceedingly verdant she was when she first came to us we asked her one hot scorching day to pour w filer on some ice she did so only the water was boiling If you please said Bridget the mate's cooked and breakfast is don't want to go and live on French kickshaws We'll go to I say returned my in a loud voice at the same time stirring her with so much energy that i she threw the cup over and broke it all to pieces It was one of our best set too We'll go to Paris Paris I replied it shall be Paris I say Paris I say it shall be Niagara I grew very angry and with my last words in my rage kicked over the breakfast table scattering the cups plates on the table in every direction of course breaking them all When I saw the disorder I had occasioned I became ashamed of self My poor little wife burst into tears the quarrel we had ever had Never mind I ed approaching my wife and kissing You shall have your own way we will go to Paris Jane through her tears re- turned my embrace ami AVU good friends again I started the same day for maok C II and in a week was in full possession of my property In days we were in New York and on the fourth we were on board the go and on the fifth out of sight land I shall not attempt to describe the miseries of that voyage The can realize I tell him I sea sick from the day we started to the day we landed Oh how I ed the sea Paris and our recent for- tune heartily I wished I was back again in good old Baltimore at- tending my patients I begged ed implored somebody to throw me overboard but the savages laughed at me My on the er hand was not sick at all but ed to enjoy herself thoroughly while I lay rocking in my berth I could hear and joking with the rest of the passengers The sound was hateful to me and I upbraided her very much with it She ed high words ensued and we hac another desperate quarrel It was some time before we made this one up This quarrel was succeeded bj others in fact they became now most of daily occurrence and I ly saw we were growing to hate eacl each other We lauded at Havre at last we had been on shore a few hours began to feel better and could lool around me The thing I I was grievously but do not let me anticipate As I have before stated things went on in this manner for more than a month until I became perfectly dis- gusted with the whole affair and would spend my whole day in while Letoux gallanted my wife about This be- came so regular that my wife never saw me till late at night and never expected me during the day It was a relief to both of us to see each other as little as possible for now there was no sympathy between our thoughts ideas and wishes were entirely opposite How ent from our modest homa in more There we had agreed in rything and our whole life had been one of unalloyed happiness and love Oh fatal fatal Why was I cursed with a fortune of a the first of January 1850 I forgotten it was New Year's day I determined I would turn over j was a young Frenchman paying as a new leaf and endeavor to be more I thought too much attention to mj satisfied with my condition for the en- wife suing year My eyes then ran down the fist of advertised letters I saw one for there it was than M right before my eyes Now is not a very common name to say nothing of the prefix Jonathan I ately surmised that the letter must be intended for me I set my wits to work thinking who it could be from I have said I to myself it's from Aunt Margaret Slie has sent us a handsome New Years gift in the shape of a bank bill and my true address has directed the ter simply Baltimore I scowled at him One day I went to the reading room as usual but while there I was taken with a violent sick headache I to return to my hotel and go to bed Acting upon this idea contrary to ny usual custom I returned home in the middle of the was just entering my when I leard voices in the parlor which was situated on the same landing with he sleeping apartment I cautiously approached tho glass door and peeped over tho green blind Oh God what did I see 1 believe my Yes there was Monsieur Letoux kneeling at my wife's feet kissing her oh horror of horrors she was lovingly and smilingly in his face My brain was my heartbeat tumultuously Her indifference 1 could bear but dishonor never rushed into my and seize a revolver I carried with me With one bound 1 was in the room confronting the guil ty pair you must die I ed and discharged my at Le toux the ball entered his heart reeled at me with a stare and fell at my feet Now is your I ex claimed facing my wife you must rejoin your vile paramour mercy Jonathan she show mercy to a vile man like I placed the revolver to her heart and discharged it She died without a groan work was now and I gazed stupidly around me My ings underwent a revulsion There lay Jane Jane my own dear wife weltering in her blood and I was her murderer With a cry of horror I threw myself on her prostrate body and lost my consciousness When I came to myself I was in the hands of the gendarmes and on my road to prison Three months of dreary captivity followed How shall I describe the anguish of mind I My heart was broken One morning I was informed that my trial was to take place that day I heard the news with utter ence for I cared not what became of me I was tried and I made no defence and after a long investigation a dict of wilful murder was rendered mo I was condemned to be tined in a week The fatal day at length The execution the Place du NUMBER 25 A WITTY certain the proprietor of large estates in the habit once every year f inviting his tenants among whom vas a Quaker to vith him The Quaker not anxious o brave the senseless ridicule to hich members of the Society of fiends were at that time declined the honor At his lordship pressed him as a favor to attend ami for lice lie consented to do so On the ight of the host sat the Vicar and the left his Curate After dinner he Vicar who stuttered painfully attempted to put A question by way of banter to the Quaker The ker stared but made no reply The clergyman repeated in the same in- comprehensible manner his query Still the Quaker made no Then the Curate who a glib md ready tongue interfered and aid I do not think you understand the Vicar do not sec I should quietly replied he Quaker Oh he simply asks you you can tell him it was hat Balaam's ass am had an impediment in Ais speech ass spoke was the conclusive rejoinder TIIK BOSTON EXQUISITE VXD amusing colloquy camo oft recently at the supper table on of one of our eastern boats between a Boston exquisite reeking wild and cologne who was demining the waiters and wise assuming very consequential airs and a raw Jonathan seated by his side dressed in homespun ing to his vulgar friend former pointed with his jeweled linger and I see it coolly replied Jonathan sah I say fiercely re- the dandy I know good a first rate article I elf thundered the dandy in still louder tones pointing with slow finger like and scowling upon his bor as it he would annihilate him Well gosh all Jerusalem what of yelled the go his dander up in turn didn't think I took it for lard THE Plover thus disposes of the story industriously circulated by the Sham Democracy that Mr and his friends had not cor- reported the Republican ticket at AVo arc informed who were at Wausau on day of election th at the Republican ticket was well sustained by Mr and other leading not only voted but worked The suit at this lo shows the there were nearly four hundred votes polled and the Democracy but one majority for Governor We like to see honor given to whom honor is due We have this to say but in no unkind spirit that if all the ing Republicans in other of the Slate had gone to the polls and done their duty as Mr did the whole Republican ticket would have been elected and in conclusion we must bo permitted to remark that Democrats have looked to the wrong for Highland was never known to falter He advanced to mo with the most j prison at an early hour and soon pleasant air in the world and I reached the spot There before mo Monsieur has been very sick 11 stood the hideous black guillotine A Wonderful Lyon a strolling player performed I year at Edinburgh and was to take place in j 1 most excellent representative Trone We left the of in Tlie Wonder this man hope Monsieur feels better Yes I I growled Who is this fellow I whispered to my wife Oh that's Monsieur Letoux our fellow passenger from Now York you were so sick all the way over that you did not sec him but 1 assure you he was very polite and attentive to me I was so convinced that my s Letoux sition was correct that I could not longer restrain my impatience but jumped up hurried on my clothes told Bridget to delay the breakfast threw into a Howard street stage and in about a quarter hour found myself at the Post Office window In another minute the ter was in my hands I opened it and lo my ment read us ACCOMACK C II Va Dec 24 55 DEAR regret to inform I have no doubt he I said 1 Monsieur and Madame so to I shall have the of accompanying them There was no help for it I could not have been so unmannerly as to repulse polite attention so I bowed my head in acquiescence We were soon on our road to Paris I sat coiled up in one corner of the carriage while my wife and M Letoux conversed in French Now and see the knife glisten in the rays of the morning sun The proach to the scaffold was ed by soldiers A passage was ed between them and I ascended the steps An immense concourse of people tilled the square and when they saw 1110 a fearful cry was raised sympathy or disgust 1 had no means of telling I glanced around me for a moment and then kneeled down and prayed fervently I rose up and prepared to suffer the extreme penally of the law I bared my and 1 placed my in fatal niche I heard a rustling sound and felt a violent shock I opened my eyes and a well known voice greeted my ears Now master will ye get up and sure the coffee's and the mate's done to rags my spirits and pouring oil on the troubled bhe was a dear good girl I don't believe was possible for there to be another man like her in the world She was the epitome of goodness She was but why should I go on words cannot express half her good you of the of your respected aunt Margaret By her will our possession you are appointed sole heir to her property amounting in real estate and al property to per annum Hoping to suo you immediately we remain Yours very respectfully Co To Jonathan D Baltimore Md Poor Aunt Margaret was dead then In spite of the wealth she had left me felt sorry she was such a kind good old lady but then I reflected we cannot expect to live forever and eighty is after all a- And there was Bridget shaking me I then of the nearly ready Bridget is from Cork and her cent is rather broad All right we will gek up directly Give me the Sun paper Bridget did as and I propped myself up to peruse it The first tiling that wealth she had left me and the new comforts it would bring how high WR could now hold up our heads That we get a carriage as some as Dr s a house as fine as Dr C- as Dr D s and a library as large like it but held my peace We arrived in due time in Paris and under the Frenchman's advice took apartments in the Hotel Then followed a long dreary month of Oh how tiresome it was We visited the Louvre Pan- theon Catacombs Versailles St Cloud and a hundred places that I don't remember We ed home every day tired to How I wished And then my wife became more dis- to me every day it was evident she took no pleasure in my society not a day passed but we had a lent quarrel and not an hour passed that 1 did not curse my recently quired fortune I ceased at last to go out at all with my wife but my place was very filled by Monsieur Letoux who took her everywhere was always By the time all these things had passed through my mind I had again reached home iVI JUM Joy joy I exclaimed as 1 opened the door my wife was sitting waiting I was so pleased I looked around there was my own little wife in a calm placid sleep by my side There had been no ter no fortune and what was still better no murder Oh how happy I was It gave me a good lesson and that The secret of is Con- A worthy old farmer who detested was onSe called on by a collector tor a tax was himself a for strength of memory the following surprising One evening he wagered a crown bowl of punch that next morning at the would repeat a Advertiser from beginning to At the opponent ed him of his wager imagining that he certainly must have forgotten it Lyon very coolly produced the paper handed it to his adversary and the little connection be- tween the paragraphs the variety of advertisements and chaos repeated it from beginning to end without the least hesitation or YANKEE OF following is related of the late Chief Justice Story who when he was a young man practised law in Essex county In a Marblehead case which was tried in one of the courts a witness was called by the name Floyd who did not answer to his name After several ineffectual at- tempts to obtain a response from Cap lain Floyd Mr Story said that he would call the witness and he ed out of the man within a few feet of him who had not recognized his own name as it had been by the of the court Skipper Flurry 1 Oi oi was the response i- i which he but tor which he had mislaid the receipt and as he told the story to a friend Would you believe it sir the with paid assiduous court to Jane but I did not mind it much for of all the differences between me and my still had faith in her honor I did not believe she was vulnerable on that point low to abuse me said his friend what did you Do why I remonstrated with him And to what Well I don't know to what effect hut the poker was dent DIVINE light is not as the light the sleep by but as the j Very see your wife wrestling with a third rate clerk in a bewildering polka in such guity that the bystanders can't tell which of moustaches be- ong and be restrained by custom from tearing off her corsets or iny the seat of his pantaloons with your boot Also to take letters from the office for your wife directed in a hand and be obliged to deliver them out perusing to your moiety out or taking the of a public swear at the writer says that every family the work by JL ought to keep a kitten to children They should also Keep children to
