Sheboygan Mercury, The (Newspaper) - September 28, 1850, Sheboygan, Wisconsin THE MERCl SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN SATURDAY SEPT 27 1850 No 1 1 II V i i I r TOST u ir I I AGNES OR Tlie Wife's ji r K fit t y V i L i I i i T 1 y i i ii IN t N it r r LI s LIT u i r i i- t i an ill i o ii A c- V n i VI I Dm J I iss co i or I i j tl 1 I Mf nu ij T 11 i r 11 c- S I....V ui u I tv i ll N i I i i I j i V HI ii mil ti I Ml r i i r i r rt I K IKK I A nl n i i i i i c i 11 in i n s- c 1 i n II 1 I- n i r i A N I Y r I I V n it ri ni i n I i I T VCo 0 I ril Si Ti 1 v w 11 I in ire Cn 1 i In ov 1 U L Ill 1 L J HILL l Ml Ill L til i I US He blushes for the j wife I saw it yesterday as he inn 1 me in his friend Gertrude and wil 1 painful he re oil riled the interview fearing that her lect nnd quick would long in the deficiency I he alas feels as se as IIP bo done 1 can lure the just pride which sin naturally glow from ins conscious superiority should he s crushed by the inferiority of his Yet what ran I I who never idea in idl my life and t been to consider exterior of lion Thus milled 01 I nes Clifton She had been six i and more six h been made to feel that though tin not the companion of Iu She had been early t ivre of one believed conscientiously discharged his duly I he placed her ample at sal on her wedding iuj had the graces without maturing one germ naturally mind When becom the nurseries oi When v ladies ei Ironi them lilted to become the ei men When will become convince it is more important to lay the Com of a firm menial tincture than ti in which 50 many devote their exclus i Most arrived Frank know not what a dilemma your poo in is in Not jealous I trust Agnes No I in but my idt infinitely approach it In love with what the latest P Mrs splendid yesterday took so many captive I have solved on belter things I have si thought of the fashions for a niont as for Airs I did ir know was sporting a new one 1 urn it lint j ii as an and I know IMI how to plainly for be 1 resolved h and weaker i I of to at if you will tell mo how and v here U ill can brought you to You have the blue as them to unmercifully that I heartily I iem i I as much as I now 1 have lo think differen had not been many weeks i discovered that Henry's tastes iv literary He would be so n when wu had an evening to our that he read to some ilr author v hat 1 alps could nor and tho hard to be interested for he would often when he looked make a remark find that his on At fir t he seemed ID excuse it and niv bad ii in the fa from my new cares an of excrement which up but now I believe lv 1 me lur what I am for after e kindly me for a few minutes -n to his book and devour it the whole And then in he society of his f v here the com visually 1 than the mere 1 of the day I have his brow crimson and his whole r become restless and confused from to rny part even tol Frank 1 am resolved if Lib can make nn I am he not blush for inr It is a noble my can avail von voc n M nd upon most v A Frank Vt will be invaluable i as 1 do not to in of my to Henry if any improvement not to it so by t I whether my effo o in purpose We lo follow through a course j study prescrib periled energy parsed awa found her slill intent tins object 1 while husband had become n honors and exciting of r political contest led not tht fiercer passing of his wife a contest hope and c and despair I learned to her as a mere bi of For a while her rare endowments and wit had c led his fancy and ike too many be paused not to enquire chains which then held him a live were strong enough lo bido and wear of daily intercourse U radially anil a crept over h aa day after revealed mor character of her ai and si If waa task to call into exercise thoi and nobler ties he much admired in character he turned from her feeling little shorl of I of his i what nut IK which lot so iis own liud in o she wife r 10 had u hen The of her of her in pan- s o 1 ig 1 that excel nu to vc at- You 113 SO ow to hearts ly re- i 1 r d t even oil mrst once to be- I uch a i term you them j 1 re favrr- ir un- sake up to -t i ears would 1 con- so kes c will i e n dies a ins or seen rainier in- and ion lo and if ay ur moie part a for if ic will at lest is are d and and I in he no- m the e had these if cap- B rust lily lo fully g to e rare he with a it her to the overwhelming conviction of lug in- difference and the full consciousness that it was result of her own incapacity lo retain his affection Had he but a fractional part of zeal which characterized his political pursuits into his domestic arrangements he would have secured a triumph though it had failed to add Honorable to his name had stamped it deeply nnd more upon his character than the most closely contested political Let me beseech you ye who arc ly yoked for many such ere you turn from the domestic I crushed and desolate the heart yon have vowed to love and to arraign your tlie tribunal of own heart and ask yourself if the 1 iws of ture and humanity sanction such a towards her whose only fault consisted in b ino subjected lo a false tem oi education Had Clifton done this he had spared wita many a heart pany for he but have witnessed her application and as its reward the gradual of those faculties he so highly prized while with her one grateful to her improvement had more than all her toil Im saw it not He sought companionship elsewhere an I intent upon the ments of he had no thought for her whose cheek had pale and heart faint from toil and anguish Tho election was at length decided in his favor and flushed with a sense of the importance tin I would attach to his station h- commenced preparations i for winter's campaign No allusion I to Agnes him no regret expressed at his leaving her till one evening a few days before his ure a friend was present carnally ro- lv of course wife with him lo Agnes en- tered the room at the moment and was slung to the I cart as she saw ful expression which gathered around her md's as he prepared to noticing hi r presence he merely said Agnes would hardly at home among I ilie intelligent and educated j she would meet there She wdl be j happier here consulting fashion i and the night Agnes her with every noble aspiration and high re- solve crushed her heart Fur days and she was a mere automaton then her pride again to the CUB and shu bant her energies with all j the desperation of to a renewal of her task jt was a fearful struggle for j one so in her as i lies Could unwind the tendrils of her crushed heart which so to their stronghold and entwine them fie poisonous sprung nu ill of It nut HIT nilufej must bo guide she was i d from her husband's heart slie was still his and she leave no untried lo render hers If in iho most point of view Thus she found a solace for her ded heart grew cheerful and full of hope from the conscious purity of her own motives Thus in tlie beautiful language of one who w s familiar with sorrow bti is ill the ol j herself with history of mankind both sacred and fane She took up the great chain and examined lii k by link iroin tho est ages of ant down to present linv it be said she no stone unturned Mho studied with anil ed the fields of and chanted with the classic of id and solved with nicest precision the most difficult Ijms of while husband was gaining fresh in the halls of Congress she n and alone of her cousin Frank to linn and deep the for the superstructure which at the proper and place had been so sadly How much easier had been the task it been commenced in childhood grown ivilli hi r growth and strengthened her strength Think of it ye who are ch the education of the young and ponder well the ties which upon yon How j many arc there in this our land lain the relation of wives and mothers i without one idea the important and sacred care of that relation or being capable of reducing to a system even the minoi transactions of How much less of guiding and directing aright the wayward aspirations of childhood or contributing to the enduring happiness of a companion i1 life And why is Is it to he to mental incapacity A New England woman will hardly ad- mit that May it not rather be charged lo their who neglected to adopt a system would call into exercise and energies of the mind? Airs Clifton U was most ly so as result of her self-education will prove Had she lacked the moral courage to the task which at formidable she would have groped h r way through life in an intellectual darkness casting its shadow over her social and domestic circle and purest enjoyments of her life She not only gathered knowledge from the of others but it was col- and arranged iii vast storehouse of the memory side by side with the ture reflections and unprejudiced sions of her own And she not only thought much but she wrote much now and then the spring of her genius found their way inlo literary world where the name and acknowledged talents of the fair authoress became a matter of speculation even among tho members of halls of Congress where her own husband became one of her warmest and most enthusiastic porters Curiosity was on tip toe and de- bate and ui d vague tion were afloat but imid all no one could discover ire iden y of the fair if fair she Some even ed the productions coir ing from a female pen while not a few o literary celebrity would have proudly ac them their own The gay world wond red much at nes Clifton's withdrawn from their circle and her more f Sends shook their head with portentous as they marked the color gradi ally from her cheeks and her fi rm growing still more slender and altenu Where were the jo spirits with which she was to reet them in for- mer ready est and repartee which made her such a with Tis true her quiet dig of character became her quite as wcl but it was so unlike herself and so n nch of her lime was spont in solitude s- re she must be from disease fi r no cause could effect so great a change said she her 1 ued absence for most his time was spent abroad When not employed n his others of pel import ed him from home for hs was fast in- in consequence and popularity both in his own opinion and that of the public consequently le haJ less time than ever to notice ife's appearance Sometimes it is tiue he marked thai her cheek was very pale bu she never com- and was discharged with unvarying prom pin ss and alacrity so with liar presence it passed from his mind and amid his grossing pursuits he found few leisure to devote to her whose was s-i king within her under a sense of c d neglect and in- difference His congressional ter i of years was fast drawing to a close Agnes was waiting with womanly i come him home lite coldness she loved him still It was some thing to enjoy Ins to minister to his to sit in the same room and listen to the tones of his voici even though he was so wholly en with others iis not lo her In justice to Henry CI let it be said thai he was never nally He was possessed too nice a sense of honor lo speak or conduct with towards any male Mrs C was trea ed tlie same and respect he tended lo all and a won d luvo found no ground for a reasonable to com- plain It is for a c be- attentions by common civility nnd J he chilling for- of society whu continually ad- towards her by 1 er husband tile In in the of I worn down and weakened long labor was scarce blo to the nate of hopes md fears which his anticipated called Would not her be at least ated or she to perpetual banishment from for this one limit of her ea ly She shrunk forcing her upon him or exhibiting o him the of liar hard earned knowledge Shu must wait result all to him on whom she had learned lo lean f r strength It was a few daj s his arrival when a select circle of literary I lends were round him in his own pleasant ins ooms when thing arranged with taste and the claims of the new au to public Caver were introduced f id Most present expressed t ly in favor of those claim while some ex- pressed th it one who had evidently thought so dee dy and so well conld write so ably shuu d thus choose to shroud herself in mister to which Mr Chiton warmly replied tat he considered that one of tha strongest that could be adduced of her ent and delicacy of mind I can scarcely le how a woman of refinement y can trust self before the public ject to the less criticism and which a man is almost Mire to nn et when she at- tempts to reform wny im lorUnt error in HOCK ly The work on 1 emide education which has been so ably written by this unknown in anil will doubtless much good but it cann n fail lo draw down upon her the uy of a certain class of society w hos principles and prejudices are so opposed For one I esteem and I might say love a woman all tin bettor ho thus shrunk from public exhibition of herself Agnes heard all this w ilh a palpitating heart The warmest ci which the press and public had in ing upon her labors we e nothing com- pared this simple of tion from the lips of ier 1 She longed to tell hi i all how she had toiled and wept and still toiled on to render herself on his bi som and there vent the pent-up feelings f years We Will ml o say that Mr Clifton had never need misgivings wita respect lo his co irse of conduct towards wife but he was first aroused to a effectual consideration of the matter when the w s prostrated by disease and lamp of Ii e that had waned so low that the gentlest might ex- tinguish it He stood bj her bedside and witnessed her grief He heard her call upon him in the most in accents him not lo ci st her from heart forever and she w juld be worthy his affection she would I any thing for him if he would but i mile upon her as in former times Then he would weep over his neglect while she told of the laurels she had so h ird to she had toiled and pray that yet she might become his wifa ir deed aa well aa name He heard all this while she was laboring under the of the irain Cover nnd it pierced like a J dagger through his heart How had he his marriage How had he loved and cherished her who had never tingly offended him 1 What return had he made Cor all her self-sacrificing tion Alas coldness and neglect had been the only requital and now he ed it was too late to seek even her pardon He watched in vain through long days and weary nights for one ray of reason that ne might implore forgiveness ly leaving her bedside for a moment lest that moment of absence might deprive him of the privilege forever But a good con- triumphed and the repentant band rejoiced in the prospect of atoning by Cum re assiduity for past He knew not a wife was restored to him erery whit his equal in intellectual ments She had told in her of toil and study but he little dreamed of the heights and depths which she had scanned Yet he received her joyfully with deep gratitude to God that she had not been to go down to the grave a hearted wife The he felt as he led her a bride to the alter six years before was compared with that lie experienced as he led her weak and trembling from her sick room for the first lime the pure air of heaven His tears attested his penitence and as he be- sought pardon for all the suffering he had caused united with her in returning thanks to Heaven for their spiritual ion We leave it lo the reader to fill up by his own imagination the measure of happiness when all waa disclosed to him or the rich reward which Agnes realized of all her bors in the full fruition of happiness with which her cup was new filled henceforth she was a bright particular star in the erary world as well as the presiding ge- of a domestic paradise INCIDENTS A DEATH this head the Christian Register relates the following remarkable incident We do not think it improper to stale the individual referred lo ia the late Mr Greigg who was lost at Gloucester day August 1850 by the capsizing ot a in a squall It was at ter also on the day to the alty thai his adventure with the robin curred and it was at in our neighborhood thai his family mot wilii a similar The following is a statement of facts as they simple and shorl as we can make It would be easy to give wide play to sentiment and fancy in connection so striking and unusual an occurrence Superstition might to it irrational fears or hopes as groundless We confess we hardly know what to do events like these ing in- as they do upon tho settled order of our experience and startling us with some new exception to the common course of our observations evidently be- long to no system of distinct and ble communication from the other world lo this It is not easy to imagine a factory plan of spiritual disclosures on which they would be harmoniously ed In that sense they te.ic.ii and yet us they appear in- explicable and exceptional us they ly are and though we cannot take the first step towards interpreting pear capable of leaving us more pure more and more than they find us rejoice in a Religion which does not exclude from its subordinate the vaguest and most unintelli- gible mysteries nor forbid even creatures less than human to be bumble and dumb witnesses lo its spiritual promises A gentleman with some friends lately rambling over the rocks near the water in our towns His was presently by a robin full grown and apparently quits unhurt running in his path flitting about his feet and contrary to the proverbially shy in- stinct of lhat bird keeping vety near him He took it up in hand fondled ii led its feathers and after showing it to the party and remarking on its lameness tossed it inlo the air The next day this gentleman having put out from the cent beach in a boa with four others lor a his return and when within sight of land by the capsizing of the boat or a sudden leak sprung in her was ed with all his companions His body was recovered and a few days afterwards was buried iu a cemetery some twenty or thirty miles distant from tha of the disaster The day after the burial the grave was by his wife and daughter As they approached spol were in tion for a being with the of several new made graves was the one they wero ing At this instant a tame but sprightly robin ran on the ground before them and stood by them before the grave of the and father One of them took it up and caressed if and after somo remarks about the singularity of its conduct let it it flew down alighted on the raised mound over the grave and laid il- self close lo the earih The daughter im- mediately took it up again and it was POPULATION OF GENEVA N The census just completed gives ants in thai village The increase has been 800 since 1845 The Gazette says it is bound lo be a city as as the Railroad is constituted At a of from the several counties in the third al District held at Waupun on the lath day of Sept 1850 the convention was temporarily by the appointment CHAMBER WASHINGTON Aug ai 1850 S How J R I have received from A Hyatt Smilh Esq late U S District At- lorney for Wisconsin one of iis mott in- and respectable citizens a letter f YT 11 J of Harrison dale of the inat me as chairman and J A Hadley of on were about lo depart for En- son County as secretary On motion of business connected with Mr struc ion of a railroad through the Valley Resolved I hat a committee of three be I ih ROCU in the State oC to examine the credentials and consi my opinion on the report the names of officers of the con- facts to vention The chair appointed as com Messrs Butrick Williams and The committee reported the following lamed delegates ia attendance Conklin H Whitney S Hinckley A II Atwater L Prentice W D Carlton D O'Connor Rich Fan du Williams L B S Turner W J H J R Me M Shafter W vV King Reed E L The committee reported as officers of the HARRISON REED County J A county The report of the was ed and After a few appropriate remarks from Ihs president upon taking the and a Iree of opinions on the question of nominating a candidate to represent this district in the next convention determined by a vote of 17 to 5 not to make such nomination On motion Resolved That a central committee for the district lo of five members be by the chair The chair appointed as such J M Gillett I J C i- Fond du Lac Henry Conklin J J A Hadley Watertown H S Green Bay On motion oC Mr Resolved That the central committee be instructed to prepare an address to of this district On motion the convention adjourned die HARRISON RECD J A HADLEY River river enters the St Lawrence 110 below and although a mile wide it appears narrow when compared with he mighty St Lawrence which at that point is more than 25 miles in width he Saguenay is one oC the most tributaries of the great its i me of water is immense and depth rnd force of its current is so sensibly felt nt its confluence the St Lawrence that for a distance of several miles vessels are obliged to yield to ita influence It is 1 river past of the jany mountains the St Lawrency From the inky blackness of ils wa- t rs and the strange wild and romantic of the scenery along its banks it may ba considered unquestionably remarkable river on this continent Whilst we are approaching the lofty tds of this mysterious stream a brief of the region from whence it de- rives ils source will enable the reader to form a proper estimate of this great der of nature In an immense valley forming part of 1 The productiveness of the soil of the counties tributary thereto 2 The increase of he population as comp ired with the census of 1840 3 capability to a and it profitable o ers This will of course only an ion on the above alluded to Te the firat interrogatory I answer that the of the soil if the ties in the valley oC the Rock River h which the Railroad run is equal to of any of the United Stales The rage i ield of the wheat is from ty to bushels lo the acre and I hare often heard it said that some yaara the yield has gone up to fifty to the acre Indian corn grows well whilst and of almost every de- scription especially those oC an esculent kind are produced in the greatest dance und perfection to which like cles are grown in any portion of America 2 I know not how I ran more fairly answer ibis question than by a reference to the last two censuses which were ken population of some of the est unties in the Rock River valley or near which the proposed road run Rock county according to the of 18 tO contained a population of but hundred and one The amc county was shown by a census taken under territorial authority in 1810 a little over five contain thousand four hundred and five county contained in the year 1810 nine hundred and four 004 in- habitants and in 1815 eight six hundred and eighty Dane county had in three dred and fourteen 314 inhabitants and in 18 16 eight thousand two hundred and 8289 county contained in 1840 hut sixty-seven 07 souls and in 1840 the was shown to contain nearly fight souls 7787 Thu total population oC iu 1840 was and her population in beginning of the 77 At the same ratio oC it about 80 per cent pur our population would now six hundred and twenty-two thousand anil influx oC em gration since 1840 is believed lo be equal to lhat of any previous given ber of My own opinion j that we new have about 3 No portion of Wisconsin contains a greater amount of good agricultural taint than he counties in tho valley oC Rock river nor is any other part of the Slate more filling up with an enterprising and intelligent population as is shawn by the census of the few ties lo which I have In addition to the agricultural wealth oC this cent valley I lhat iron ore in Urge depos les has recently been discovered in many of Rock river so called The position of these lion which already contain and tho vast population they are to con- liu towns and villages spring ng up along tlie of the posed rail road are such in my opinion as would now support a rail road and very territory belonging to the Hudson Bay ln n itm luau arid Te Company and about 42 leagues north of its hi lie St Lawrence is the lake of Uic holders Its Corm is nearly circular its i the only on del by which this Illinois VERY Kneeling a com- positor in the Oneida N Y Herald of- fice set up in six working days last week ems the average time of ing not ten hours each day remarks in relation to the etiquette of a dinner party appear in a fashionable London Married ladies precede the single The lady of the house is the last to enter dining room People who are engaged walk in together Ladies do not dine gloves on and are not asked to take wine by gentlemen There must bo a lar for every two persons ago The towns which l water finds its way lo Urn Si are alll the most populous Lawrence Its scenery is of the wildest in and most startling description through length which ia about 130 miles Lake St John to Tadousac Day first of its course lies through a of covered with pine the fir and spruce and formidable rapids the navigation hazardous except to experienced canoe man Hul balow which is 08 miles rom ils mouth i is for the largest vessels From down wards the si gc of ils is through solid l lins of granite which seem to have been split asunder by the of an thus forming an immense canal ith perpendicular rock towering up to inland towns in Wisconsin lts alread a population more 3000 witli a water on ther or feet above the water which i about 150 fathoms deep nearly the whole distance Its depth at different points has never been ascertained it has been plumb ed with a lino of 330 fathoms feet and lhat too immediately at the base of the clifT and no bottom he found The power of is inadequate to cribe this great specimen of nature's nor is it possible to convey to the leader any conception oC it by adducing any other river scenery as u simile Cor nothing like it can be found ia iea WORTH olas called connected the U Bairk t was an old negro named Harry who used lo be loafing around tlie One day in social mood Diddle said to 1 Well what is your name my old friend T Harry sir ole Harry eaid the other touching his sleepy hat Old said that is lie name that they give to the Devil is it not? Yes said the colored Sometime ole Harry and nlo Nick Rock at that town which is ed as one of the best in and which been extensively Watertown and Jefferson are also with excellent hydraulic power are many other points in the vicinity of contemplated Rail Road The towns mentioned and others which would spring up immediately upon thff construction of the road would depots for the millions of surplus products of the rick surrounding country whose agriculture and com- merce would receive an impetus from this road a ich as no other improvement lo them The whole stale is deeply interested in great work oC internal ai it will when other ches o it nre completed connect the com- merce of Lake Michigan that of the Mississippi River thus greatly adding lo the future growth and tance of the of Thi stock on the from to Gal -na which has only been completed to said tn yield a often per crent anil ness he rapidly augmenting ists in Europe it is hoped and will eee the importance of si Railroad through the vailey of the Rock er embrace the present opportunity an investment of capital for ils which I doubt not wilt prove to be one of vety which our it this affords Withing you success in the negotiation of lite contemplated lonti I have the honor lo be With great resect und Your servant HENRY DODGE Hon R J Latt T
