Prairie Du Chien Weekly Courier (Newspaper) - December 11, 1856, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin PRAIRIE V A W MERRELL PRAIRIE DU CHIEN WIS DEC 11 1856 VOL V NO PRAIRIE DU CHIEN COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY A W MERRELL TERNS 6 1 50 3 mail 1 year 1 50 6 mouths J Leu time months 5 cts per number OF One column One column sis 55 OQ K 12 oo advertisements at thereto of 00 per square for the first and cents subsequent insertion Wharf cts per folio for thu first and JO cts subsequent insertion JO II Whale sheet Bills first hundred OC Each subsequent hundred on same form 3 01 Bills first hundred 5 01 hundred Bills first hundred Oi Rich subsequent Hundred Bills first hundred 1 SI Each subsequent hundred Ball Tickets common paper per hundred 2 OU fine note paper from J to S UU Business cards first hundred 1 50 Each subsequent hundred 1 ou from a accompanied by Sha cash will be promptly attended to VTe ask of the Public Prairie du Chien Wisconsin CRAWFORD CO BANK or Brokers Exchange Office Will buy approved rafts certificates of deposit Town and County or ders uncurrent money Land Warrants Ac Special attention given to collection o Notes Drafts and other dues and proceeds re mitted nt Current rates of Exchange Money loaned to our customers in sums to suit In- terest at he rot of 6 per ceat paid on Special Deposits Prairie du Chien is TERMS OF THE CIRCUIT COURT jK roe JUDICIAL or JUDGE Monday in May and fourth in November BAD Monday in June and oad Monday iu December LA Monday in May and second Monday in November Monday of March and the fourth Monday of September i A Monday of April ad fourth of October of April and Monday of October and CLARK county is at- to Jackson county for judicial First Monday after the fourth Monday of April and the first Monday after the fourth Monday of October CRAWFORD B County Judge SAMUEL Circuit Court J H FONIM I P Treasurer IRA D of Deeds S of the Board nf Supervisors SOCIETY NOTICES 8 V CARDS G B KANE KANE BROTHER Illain Town BY E W Corner of Bluff and Minnesota Streets lE DU CUIES will convey and tt free of Charge BURNETT HOUSE T- THO'S street Upper Town J L FRENCH Terry Street lower Town TUlLEE HOUSE u r STEPHEN LONG Proprietor Cor 7th and Jackson Sts HAMILTON HOUSE PROPRIETOR of Monroe Co ff Adjoining Hie Galena and ton and bui a dis- tance from tlie and Milwaukee Cars CHICAGO LAWYER'S CARDS Hi e a F every Friday evening at on opposite the Burnett House in good standing are welcome to attend t SOS A C BOTTOM W R Secretary CIRCLE B U H So 5 O of be State Wisconsin und No of the Comment meets every Wednesday evening Odd Fellows Hall Brothers in good ing are invited to 0 w H s K N A E WEIGHT and in all kinds DRUGS MEDICINES PAINTS OILS Store 2d door Sooth of Kane's Hotel DU CHIES WIS or Dealers in DRUGS MEDICINES PAINTS OILS A N 03 At the OLD on Water Street Prairie du Chica Wisconsin and Retail Dealer in DRUGS WINES OHO Church St Prairie du Chien Wis O B SPRAGUE a v TX s M i CONTINUED at his old Writer make and repair to S A CLARK Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Grocer lea Hard ware fte du E O RG E JO H N SO ARTIST -Ko street Catena 111 Pictures in this Gallery are not in the world and examine for yourselves O All kinds of material used in the art for General Dealer in VTIIfES 4 East side of Pram du 9 ly J E St JOHA ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN AND IS O P A C B E PHILLIPS HUTCHINSON aufr AT LAW Office Cor Church and Wisconsin Sis Uu CHicn Wis o ef WALLER R BULLOCK COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS For tHc ot Ohio Illinois and the Territory of Minnesota Prairie Aug 13 1356 ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT attend punctually to all business en- trusted to their care in this and the icg Counties Office corner of Bluff and Church Streets BENJAMIN BULL RUFUS KING Prairie du WILLARD MERRILL ATTORNEY Notary Public Real NO 2 BLOCK PRAIRIE cuC REFERENCES Jons Y SMITH Hsn In Chien Ohio HON M GATES Warsaw SLOAS 4 TATIES M B E D S O N FOR CRAWFORD CO WILL take acknowledgments and Draw Deeds Mortgage and Laud Contracts on application at his office opposite the nix Hotel JOHNSON BULLOCK Attorneys and at Office First floor of Case's new buildin south of Knowlton's Bloc CHURCH STREET Frairie da Chien Wisconsin REFERENCES H St Paul Minn S M St Louis J B BECK Esq Lexington Ky Judge IKA B BRUSSON Prairie du Chien D H JOHNSON W R BULLOCK Real Estate Agent AND NOTARY PUBLIC ATTORNEY COUNSELLOR AT LAW d SOLICITOR IN Office on opposite Knowlton's Block PRAIRIE L L BOLERO JUSTICE OF A H D TJ S Public Public Auctioneer Office in Knowlton's block Prairie du Chien Wis A S BLAIR ATTORNEY AND AGE An old man sat by the chimney His face was and fiane And he leaned both hands on his old oak As if all his work was done His coat was of good old fashioned gray With pockets both deep and wide Where his specs and steel tobacco bos Lay side by side The old man liked to stir the fire So near him the tongs were kept Sometimes he mused as he gazed ou the coals Sometimes he sat aud slept What did lie see in the embers there Ah what pictures of other years Aud now and then they awakened smiles But started tears His good wife sat on the other side Tn Tou see neath the frill uf her muslin cap The sheen of her silvery hair She wears a blue checked apron now And is knitting a sock for him Her pale blue eyes have a gentle look Aud she says they are growing dim I like to call and tell the news chat an hour each dny For it stirs the blood in tho old man's heart To hear of the world away Be kind to the old my They're worn with this world's strife once perchance the foughty The battle with life They taught our youthful feet to climb Upward life's rugged steup Then let us lead them gently down To v here the weary sleep KISSING The all behind Kate Twill take them long to 2nd us Kate There's a world of bliss in a harmless kiss And no one near to mind us Kute Her sweet face took a ruddier hue A hasty backward she threw She did uot speak but ou her The crimson tint still richer grew Then mute she stood with downcast eyes As fair as nymph in maiden guise Just then some evil disposed young devil My lips possessed by some surprise And stole a kiss before I Prevent the if I would Why Barry Brake how could you take Such in this wood V It's quite too bad besides how queer That we're together hore Coine let us well you know I'd rather have the others near A glance gleamed from her bonny eye That tempered well the reply With goatle haste about her waist My arm crept eagerly but shy Don't Barry dear twist soft nnd clear But how it thrills my heart CO Ah Barry Kate I won't Alas but yst I did I fear I kissed her hands I kissed her brow I kissed her dewy mouth and now With this for as kiss for kiss She paid with usury I trow Then all her form grew love possessed And closer to my heart she pressed With blushing and free embrace She clasped me to her hearing breast The was behind us Kate It took them long to find us Kate We proved what bliss might grow from And none were there to mind us Kate When a storm overtakes the bird he does not fly in the of the tempest he sits qui etly among the branches letting the raindrops roil from off his and tho storm is over burnishes las plumage afresh and for joy May ivo not learn something from the bird 7 be prophet south said lately in one of his sermons that lie was sent to the and all things Upon hearing this a native pulled out five dollar bills on broken banks and requested him to fork over the specie for them a cl vou am a stranger in a strange said on entering a printing office and will be a stranger in a better re- plied the typo if you do nut practice closer what you preach nature had desired a man to bo a kard she would constructed him like a churn so that the more he drank the more firmly he would stand editor out has married a girl of the name of Church He says he has enjoyed more happiness since be joined the Church than he ever knew in his life before No ger of falling from grace there senior editor of the Dis- patch lost his a crop of fire year's growth on the recent election REAL ESTATE AGENT r IOWA man who couldn't trust his feelings is supposed to do business strictly on trie cash principle O A descendent of Solomon very wisely remarked that those go to law for dam ages are to get them The Herring Pic A OF AMSTERDAM It ft cold winter's evening The rich banker Broker had drawn his easy chair close to the corner of the stove and sat his long clay great complacency his intimate friend Van Grout employed in exactly the same manner occupied the opposite cor- ner All was quiet in the house for wife and children were gone to a ball and from fear of interruption the two friends indulge in a conversation J cannot said Van Groto why you should refuse you consent to the marriage can give his daughter a good fortune and you say that your son is desperately in love with her I don't object to said Bronke It is my wife who will not hear of it reason has she far One which I cannot tell you said his friend sinking his voice Oh a Come out with it You know always been frank and open with you ever giving you my ion of your abused jealousy of your wife Jealousy of my wife Have I not just sent her to a masked I don't wonder you boast of it I should like to have seen you do as much when you were first To be sure you had reasons to look sharply after her for she was the prettiest man in Amsterdam Unfortunately she has become the better horse and you refuse fin match for your son to gratify her You are quite wrong my riend I never allow any one to be master here myself and in the present instance cannot blume Clotilda The secret of her refusal lies in 1 herring pie A herring exclaimed Tan Yes a herring pie You may re- member it was a favorite disl of mine and that my wife would even the smel of it Well during the first j year of my I was a very of situation obliged me to keep open hovise and among the young sparks who us none gave me such uneasiness as the Col The reputation that he had already for ry was enough to create alarm and the marked he my wife ced me it was well founded It was impossible lex forbid him the house for he his power to deprive me of the Government contracts in other words to ruiu mo After dering deeply on the subject I decided on doing nothing until the cangor should imminent all necessary was to know how things leally stood Having just purchased house I a secret closet to be made behind the stove here I communicates with my private room and from it I could everything that passed in this apartment without risk of being discovered Thark God I have use for it those last twenty years and indeed I do not ever know what has become of the key Satisfied with this precaution I did not hesitate to leave Clotilda when any of her admirers paid her a visit though I promis rou that some of the gallent speeches made me wince mv word his friend you showed a most commendable In your place I should have contented myself with forbidding my wife to receive his visits There spoke the bachelor As I want to drive her into his arms I went a different way to word Day after day was I forced 10 listen to the insidious argument ot the seducer My must own she Made stout de- one time tried ridicule at an- entreaty to deter him from the pursuit of her He began to lose hope in proportion as I gained it lill one day he bethought himself of threatning to blow out his brains if she would not show him some compassion Moved at this proof of the strength of his passion she burst into tears and pleading that she was not short she gava him to under- stand that I was the to his ness was too well skilled in the art of seduction not to see that he had gained a point He raved cursed me as the case of his misery and tried to obtain a promise from her in case she be- came a widow She stopped him but I never closed an eye that night and Clotilda though she did not know I watched her was as uneasy as myself On the following day a circum- stance occured that increased her tion While st breakfast a message came from the cook to see me alone I desired him to come in as I was not in the habit of interfering in domestic and communicate his business in my wife's presence When the man entered he was as pale as a ghost and scarcely seemed to knew what he was about At last be told me he hud received a packet containing a small bottle three hundred a note in which he was re- quested 10 put the contense ef the former into the first herring pie ha should pre- pare for me He was assured he might do so without fear as tho contence of the bottle were quite harmless and would giTe 8 flavor to Aa ad- reward was promised if he com- plied with the request and kept his own council The honest who was much attached to me said he was con- there must be something wrong in the affair and not be happy till the bottle and money were out of his hands I poured a few drops of the liquid on a lump of sugar a gave it to my wife's It fell into sions and died in a few minutes The case was now had been an attempt to poison iie Never s hall I for- get Clotilda's pale face as she threw herself weeping into my arms Poison A murder 1 she exclaimed clasping me as if to shield me from danger ful Heavens protect us both I led her with the that I was thankful to my unknown enemy who was the means of showing mo bow much she loved me That day came at the usual hour but in vain did 1 take my seat in my he was not ad- mitted I afterwards found that she had sent him a letter threatning if ever he came again her husband should be in- formed of all that had passed He made several attempts to soften her resolution but to no purpose and a year afterwards he married No acquaintance has ever existed between the families and now you know why my wife refuses her con- sent to our son's marriage with tlie daughter of i cannot blame said Van Grote Who would though that a soldier a man of honor could have been capable of such a rascally ha ha laughed Bronke and do you reall think it was tho General who sent the why who Myself to be sure Tho whole was my own and it cost me three hundred guilders in a present to my couk but 1 saved my wife and got rid other troublesome at same time Do you know Bronker I think it was rather a shabby trick to leave under such an imputation and now that your son's depends on 5 our wife being 1 am aware of all that but to her cow is not so easy as you think How can I expect her to disbelieve a iu which for the last twenty years she has put implicit faith He was interrupted by the entrance of Vrow Bronker her cheeks were flushed and she was saluted by Van Groto rather stiffly What not at the ball Clotilda ed her husband 1 had a bad she re- plied and Maurice had promised to take care of his sisters But 1 have come to that I have been thinking over marriage with Mina and I have altered my mind on the subject In short I shall withdraw my opposition to the match The friends looked at each other in astonishment she continued here is a key I found sometime ago 1 think it must belong to you Well said her husband striving to hide his confusion as he took the key this is good news about the Suppose you and your f riand celebrate it by a supper There is a herring pie in the house and you need not fear that it is poisoned She left the room Bronker looked foolish and Van Grote rubbed his hands as he exclaimed Caught in your own trap He who digs a pit for his enemy shall fall into it himself replied Bronker I think I have got well out of mine PETRIFIED eler Mr Ritchie who proceeded some years since with an expedition from Tripoli for the purpose of exploring the interior of Africa wrote as follows one of my friends desired me to give him in writing an account of what I knew touching the petrified city teen days journey from Tripoli by a to the and two days journey south from I told him what I heard from different persons and particularly from the mouth ot one man of credit who had been on the spot that is to say that it was a spacious city of a round form having great and small trees therin furnished with shops with a large castle magnificently built That lie has seen the several sorts of tree the most part olive and palms all of stone and of a blue or rather lead color That he saw also of men in postures of exercising their different employments even women their children all of stone That he went into the castle by three different gates though there were many more that there were at the gatts with pikes and javelins in their hands In short that he SAW in this city many pins of mals as camels horses and sheep and various birds all of stone and ot thu color above-mentioned A man tried in Boston for ing a horse and wagon being called on to speak for himself said 1 have nothing to sav in particular Tho fact is when I get half or two-thirds drunk I think everything belongs to mo Whereupon the Boston Post this parenthesis There ara some ry sober people who act as if they think Jw iie U A In one of the northern towns of mont lived a young man Daniel Bryan A lawyer by profession No one ed the confidence of his friends more than he did und no one was better lated to secure good will and friendship of all with whom he came in contact poured in upon him and he failed not to utmost At the age of twenty-seven Bryan took to himself A wife from the most favored ones of the country Mary Felton experienced a strange pride when she gave her hand to thu young lawyer and if none envied her many at prayed that they might be as fortunate But ere long a cloud come over the scene run high among the members of the bar und Bryan ed one of those peculiar temperaments which nt length gave the whole body and soul up to the demon appetite three years he followed the custom of the times without neglecting much of his business but finally ho sank into the lowest pit of degradation When at the nge of he had become a confirmed drunkard He now neglected his clients altogether for he could not remain sober long enough at any time to carry any case through the court Tho only business hu nosy had on his hands the collecting of some debts On the evening of his thirty-fifth ay he joined the and once moro his bright genius shone out upon thu world But ic could not amid of those who were constant companions lie went back to his cups down he sank rapidly as IKJ had risen In one short year from that time he was a miserable degraded thing People who had left notes with him to called nt his house and his wife where he would be found she would tell them ho was away Poor woman they could uot to dispute her and they would go their way though they knew full well that the re- mains of Daniel was prostrate his bedroom One day a Mr Vinson went to see him Vinson had notes and accounts to the amount of several thousand dollars with Bryan to collect and he was anxious about them His poor wife answered him as her husband was uot ut home My dear returned Mr son I know your misfortune and I your feelings but I must see your husband If I can see him for one moment I can learn all I wish to know Mary Bryan spoke not a word but with a tearful eyo turned away and Mr Vinson followed her He found Bryan in a back room upon floor with a jug of Medford rum by his With much effort Vinson aroused the poor inebriate to a state of and asked him if he had done anything about the notes and account which he had lef thim Yes answered the la wyer in a weak hiccoughing voice I've had the money for you ov er a month I've deducted my per centage and find the rest in trunk Mary's got the key Mrs Bryan was called in the key was produced and Mr Vinson found his thousand and some odd hundreds of dollars right and safe In his worse moments Bryan never used for himself a single penny held in trust Hundreds there were who worked hard to reclaim the wandered but without effect Years Vent by and he sank lower and lower yet his wife left bira Her brother a young lawyer earned Moses Felton often urged her to forsake her husband at tho same time offering her a comfortable home beneath his own roof but she not listen At length nil hope was givon up Week after week would the fallen man be drunk on the floor and not a day of sobriety marked his course I doubt if such another case was ever known was too low for conviviality for those with whom he would associate would not drink with him All alone in his own office aud ber be still continued to drink and even his very life seemed the offspring of his jug in early spring Before he set out he visited his He offered to take with him but she would uot go But why stay urged the er are all faded away and dis- ease is upon you Why should you live with such a Hush Moses speak not answered the wife keeping back the tears I will not leave him now But be will soon leave me He cannot livo much longer moment Daniel entered the Ho looked like a wanderer from the tomb He had hid hat ou and his j ig was in his hand are he ed for he could not speak plainly The visitor looked nt him for a few ments in silence Then as his features assumed a cold stern expression he said in strongly tone Daniel Bryan 1 have your nert best friund but one My sister is an an- mated with a demon I loved you David as I never loved man before you were noble generous and kind bui I hate you for you aru a devil incarnate Look nt that woman She is my might now live with me in comfort only she will cot do so while you live yet when you die she w ill come to me Thus do 1 pray that God will soon give her joys to my keeping Now Daniel hope that the first reaches me from my native place after I shall have reached my new home may be Bryan gazed upon the speaker some moments with speaking Hoses he iU length said you nre not in earnest As true as Heaven Daniel Dankl I am When I know that you are dead I shall be happy and not until goon Fill your jug Stop stop I can reform You cannot It is beyond your er You have hud inducements enough to have reformed half the sinners of creation and yet you are nnw lower than ever before Go and die sir as soon you can for moment that E see you thus you shall not find me iha mourners Bryan's eyes flashed and he himself proudly up Go bo said with a tono of powerful sarcasm goto find I'll send you news G sir and the post With these words Daniel Bryan ed his jug into the fire place and whila yet a thousand pieces were flying over the floor he strode from the house Mary sunk fainting on tho floor Moses bore her to a bed nnd then having called in a neighbor he hurried for the stage was waiting For a month Danial Bryan hovered over the brink of the grave but ho did not die One gill of will save said the doctor who saw that the abrupt removal of nil stimulants from a system that for years had subsisted almost on nothing else was nearly sure to prove fatal You can surely take a gill and not take moro Aye gasped the poor man ft gill and break my oath Moses Felton never linil brandy or nun led me If want of it can kill me then let me die And I won't die I'll live till Moses Felton shall eat his words lie did live mi iron will conquered the messenger death hud sent and iel Bryan lived For one month ho could not even walk without help But he hud prayerful help ry helped him A year passed away and Moses ton returned to Vermont His entered the court house nt Burlington and iel Bryan was upon pleading for a young man who had been indicted for forgery Felton started with surprise Never before had Bryan looked so nobla and commanding und never before had such torrents of eloquence from his lips The case was given to tho jury and the youth was acquitted Tha successful counsel turned the courS room and he met Moses Felton They shook hands but did not they reached a spot where nono others could hear them Bryan stopped lie said do you remember the words you spoke to me a year 1 do Will you now take them back Un- say now and forever Yea with all my heart Then I am in that part repaid And what must be the remainder of the asked Moses must die an honest and uninjured man oath that bound me thus far was made for life That evening Mary Bryan was among thu happiest of happy No allusion was made in words to that strange sceno of one year before could road in both the countenances of his sister and her husband tho deep gratitude they did nof spent And Daniel Bryan yet lives ono of the most honored men ir Vermont Five times has ho sat in the State Legislature thrice in the Senate and once in tional Congress and he is yet an ment to society declining ull of public office from fact that his is more lucrative while plenty of others want he cares not for OF TITS a to the Scientific American Mr T of Dedham alluding to the intense cold of last winter states that he never saw the sky so brilliant and clear by day and by night before Ho attributes tho cause of the cold to the hundreds of thousands tons of powder which have been burned at Sebastopol and other places having put into lation 1 irge quantities nitrous gas If saltpetre and sal he says be put into a given of at fifty degrees Fah it will reduce its ture lifty Ho therefore con eludes the gases of tho ed gunpowder named have a great cooling influence upon thu at- both in and America On account of the pure cold aiv last winter he is of the opinion that cholera yellow fever and thu rot will not be so prevalent during the present as in former years UNITED STATES INSTITUTIONS are in the United States one hundred and twenty-two colleges with more than a thousand professors and having more than twelve thousand dents They have extensive and instruments and ies containing more than a million of umes Then are about fory medical schools with about two hundred and fifty professors and live thousand students There are theological schools with o iu hundred and twenty-seven and betwen thirteen and fourteen hundred
