Superior Chronicle (Newspaper) - March 31, 1857, Superior, Wisconsin VOLUME 2 SUPERIOR WISCONSIN TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 31 1857 NUMBER 43 IS AT Superior Douglan county Wisconsin on 111 Iw M Hi rule iif nnu fur mill fur icli the Kill ho charged nt following fine 00 column tM V UO can liy mull tit mir risk Jf AMITON WISH OFFICE I SI with Office we nn a Hint welt or lir JOB ltd In up In guml style anil nt Ihr AC infilling In our line mil WISH Verger was seized with a violent The executioner in tying his arms behind his back said to him Try and be calm so that I shall not hurt you Be replied Verger I should like to sec you until he felt now changed seemed to fall n profound dejec- tion llo declared that he would submit without further resistance The Abbe took advantage of this moment to hiu exhortations Verger now listened without interruption A sudden revolution seemed to have been operated in thc mind of tho prisoner His features became more calm and after a moment of silence and as if collecting himself he suddenly raised up he 1 deplore the scene of violence of which you have just been the witnesses it is nature which re- volts against a premature end From this moment I will only listen to my soul I will only occupy myself with remit it into the hands of the worthy Listen all you whom I hare scandalized I retract i all thut I have said I declare in all the that I wish to die a last hurried look to thc side where I stood I shall never forget this hist glance of the criminal His face was doubt from being pushed forward so denly on the board As he made this r it f the of the Archbishop I as u a as a preacher 11 5 new trial j he only ground of j 1 have committed 1 ofter freely sincerely hupo for it was that of insanity Eminent j ST CLAIK General Cass writes to the Detroit Press an arrangement is about to be made will ensure the opening of a It will be recollected by our readers that Inflation iY not confined to the hooped -i a ance some particulars of the softer sex but extends its of the trip of the Deau all society in a i i 1 1 j 1 B J t nu U- i Q I i i 4 T T- inent thc executioner pushed his shoulders I of thc pioneer vessel in thc direct European trade hardly down on the board and this move inent served the double purpose of bringing the body flat and of sliding under the axe The little wheel at thb top of the upright turned half round and the knife mng season is and tone of that rampant oligarchy whoso THE Senator is a striking tion of the of Talleyrand that ing is successful in this world but success The work to immediately thirty cents per cubic yard for the removal of the obstruction The contractors to be allowed the t ic United States dredge boats now at De- Mr Broderick left here some six or seven j but to furnish own expense other dredge boats tugs etc The operations to bo superintended by an officer of the United States years since to seek his fortune in nia after having mado an unsuccessful at- tempt to be elected a member of Congress He had been a a keeper and foreman of an engine company employments which indicated plenty of bodily stamina but the qualities to tit a for the duties of a Senator for the duties of a Senator However it is one of the blessings of a free country that anybody may be anything and Mr who has heretofore been better known as Dave keeping this in mind determined to be a United States Senator that he was not so in- j KHH to be irresponsible for his nets and he at ordered to execution lie had not expected to bo executed at once ami on the morning that he was Jiu would nut believe that he was to bo A correspondent ted with the welcome of a hundred guns We never have heard of any eminent vices or brilliant exploits by Mr in California what of that? th i i i i tk 1 line in the crowd my life in expiation for all the harm I have After pronouncing these words he fied a desire to commune alone with thc chaplain The prisoner threw himself his knees confessed and received Then when the chaplain recited the prayer of the agonized Verger listened with satisfaction and made the himself in Latin When at thc end of eight or ten ho had finished and risen up with i orally paid their respects to him none of tears in his eyes he affectionately thanked I whom thought it worth while to bid him all the of the prison and Godspeed when he his adventures If the quantity of earth excavated docs not amount cents per yard to the appropriation then the contractors to c live from the United States pay at that If it should exceed it as it will do then the United States are responsible only for the sum appropriated and the tors to depend upon the means they can from or corporations for the completion of the work No payment bo made ly the United States until the is finished The Secretary of War has considered the n alter and has come to the conclusion that tie plan of operation is the best that can be adopted and the proper notices inviting upon this basis will be J t i and in so i f1 a as to biasthe feelings A good carrying fourteen i wno n sufficiency of individual thonsand wheat through and it rejoices in fhb mils fair England fulfilment of its own ominous and forty cents per bushel arid per j with flutter of cargo four months nf striking episode of would-be time to compete a trip round and perhaps some sooner with dis- patch in loading and unloading But a larger profit realized by buying the caigo for vessel's account both ways as there is generally a wide margin for our products and be- tween the two countries Vessels could leave hero in October to go out and be employed during tho winter from and to foreign ports and return here on thc 1 t i I u WU He has shown himself abundantly capable published The sum however ot taking care of he is Senator for to the is instead six years and that is Yesterday he held a levee in the Governor's of the City Hall and a flock of distinguished gentlemen men Judges and admirers of success j orally paid their respects to him none of hi the court or that hait been signed The to tho reality of bis tho guillotine huur and a half that wo in runk the man was soundly in his cell but fifty yard cl for all thc trouble he had given Senator we believe to be about perfectly that his hem j the best man of his party who could have The scaffold is erected about eighty feet keen elected and those who knew him best from Hit front door of the or four entertain the best opinions of his abilities blocks of stone in the of I Wo hope he will disappoint their ex- been At seven tnL roadway leading from the prison to the he of tho prison and j street The square is planted with trees cell to convey to him sides of the roadway stood a double the I file of soldiers presented arms When My my said the Abbe Burger issued from thc gate purpose is instead of as the balance of thc ti in will be needed to meet con- ti igent expenses ing of navigation if they thereby earning something instead of doing nothing one third of the year TACTS It has been reported that the Dean mond was sold because the trade was i practicable or she could not get I This was not the case Our intention from tho start was to sell her at Liverpool if a fair price could be obtained She could have returned to Chicago before m T closed with offered car ease had oes at good on we chose 1 prices from Just before leaving for California lie said in a half desponding tone to a more supported by tu who bad obstinately re- executioner and the chaplain and saw sec him since Sunday tho fatal standing before him the fatal lias arrived you have no longer cut anything to expect I run justice or from the j Wlls passage of eighty fee worry ot there no lunger for you i terrible for the criminal for he but l justice the mercy of God to ho I have come tu exhort you to um l's would fall into arms Verger was hurried tt his force forsook him and he sank down It this of feet that was ho knew that i before I him his head would fall ful politician You have field for the exercise of your talents but I have not He has now found his Held and remains to be seen what he will reap in Times The Legislature of following tie treasonable example of Massachusetts an net nullifying the fugitive slave law and making it criminal for any to assist in reclaiming fugitives service in other States Tlie following is the substance of the It is made the duly of all Judicial in thc State who may hear of thc arrest of a fugitive to immediately in- fo the district attorney for that county This attorney must on being informed of tlu arrest defend and protect such fugitive ye The application of this attorney to a of the supreme circuit or stating the of the arrest shaft authority to authorize returnable thc the becomes I you how it would be Verily there be some lo whom Iho ment of evil is as meat nnd drink they juice at the weakness of men and inflated with the of their own infallibility seem to exclaim We thank God we are as other men extortioners Well fitted to points they can wisely discern the of and stand ly aloof from the taint of sin wrapping themselves up in a 11 CSS Tho knowledge of passing events by this inflated class of individuate is not confined to any particular it is universal Wero t liny the of a body of secret police they could not be better informed than they are sors of mercantile failures prophets of changes of corrupt nf points Inspectors of j the writ tac court in session or to any of pcs n If in vacation to him his order of feet from the ground In the director the last step he fell Arrived on next to on his knees on the which must bo obeyed Ami tie director renewed his Verier who until then had been uttering Hounds you must not allow me to be let me alone if I must die 1 to die I am 1 wont nor 1 have nothing with which reproach myself and wish nothing in with men Llanio fended or mado sorry tell them that I de- mand pardon of them as I pardon them self J offer my life in expiation of my faults Ho then kissed the crucifix and turned and gave a hasty embrace to the chaplain but ho never rose to his As he attempted to do to the executioner who stood behind him pushed him forward on which carries his head under tho knife which is so placed ait all guarded the of this scene Verger flew into that state upper tho chest of necessity leaving the neck and head projecting beyond As tho criminal m 111 1 AAO of he had so dtten since falls upon it instead of being obliged to tie him there as was formerly the custom an i tltllt n 4 1 air was his eye hLs features decomposed like nil in his position ho made great to respire and to recall saliva which secretion was then given to the soldiers ia to and raise him from UM bed The hour approached Thc di- rector to Verger in a more severe ordering him to get up a the Mixing thc bars of the bed A soldier him around the body while five others ou pantaloons Verger all thc time ng violently fie still had on his jacket but with one arm at liberty Jiu during this time resembled iap to much had his voice altered Whenever he in uttering an his voice was no longer he cried Oat account of the cold they wished to to liim other clothes but it was Four seized him and ried bitu tho room for the last On tlie way they passed before the pen door of the and the usage is to allow the condemned to retire here for a lor prayer In tho situation of the the Hugon was the first to the order to cm without stopping at the tie from It assistants cut neck and he fiaH cold scissors On thc baie skin nal pushes it forward and places his neck in the notch which the knife falls A man ia on the other side ready to seize his head as it passes in order to steady it while another stands ready to pull thc rope which lets tho knife fall Thc knife is in form like the knife of a box only much heavier It is placed diagonally in the two uprights along the side of which it glides like mill gate its diagonal position gives it a sawing motion in cutting through the nook It falls about twelve feet and so nicely is thc weight adapted to the force required that it not much more than cuts off thc head without noise The moment the knife fulls the springs relax by a quick movement the body is rolled off on to a at thc side which in turn tumbles tho on a board at the end of which stands two men ready to seize it and slide it into a close carriage which stands ready backed up for thc In like ner the man who is charged with thc ing of thc head it drop into a basket at his feet seizes thc basket and hands it to a man thc scaffold who immediately places it in a wagon with the body the door of thc wagon is closed precipitately and at once moves off the ground All this is but the work of an instant When Verger was pushed forward on tho board ho raised up his shoulders as if to try to release himself from the clamps His head was bare and as he did so he turned his feco upward sufficiently to take or A hid named Tracy fourteen years of age was passing through Colt's Hartford carrying tlie dinner of one of the workmen and was parsing along the snow was about a foot deep when he denly found himself going down down down he knew not where but to use his own expression he thought he was to heaven or the other place sure When he bottom he found himself in five feet of water at thc bottom of a forty well with a smooth brick wall all the way up Fortunately in-coming to tho surface of the water he found a stout upon which himself for half an hour t calling for help but no help came Getting defendant is entitled to replevin desperate the boy out with knife and while holding on with one hand to thc plank cut oil his boots tore his coat and vest and then bracing his back against the wall and feet on tlie other side he com- confidential repositories of ily secrets bosom of the tinman or tobacco manufacturer who may be rupt to-morrow they keep up a j continual strife agitation and f hension tu minds of thc community the background UP the troubled waters nies who wrote me letters that au J ever coming to insure her and her eago us A No to tiny conclusion tha port I chose to scud her wiio seek solace from them that She measured American measurement Concealed four hundred i and seventy-nine tons by j change o i three good Liverpool Insurance Companies y in examined her and reported to the bul thc new measurement two to suit the uf the U Jl Wk tons I could net bv patriotic find 1 rt I the ton for much as for any dinner ship cither for the vessel or for i e p hc Tho of furtive shall be entitled to an the nest session of the circuit court that trade to the best ad vantage v inly U hen the trial is held a shall the lakes to England when be allowed for all questions of i so that vessels of one thousand tons and importance of they mako the Tho expense of the Dean constituents n means of Luke Ontario into the I of piloting tho crew was two dred and forty-five dollars dock and light dues and incidental expenses Liverpool two hundred and ten dollars DISADVANTAGES The canals and lucks at their A smile which has become habitual as second nature continually rests upon tho countenance of such men while inflated for the public good but when grin of content at thc success i deception darkly us masks of those of innocent and it is worthy of note how they arc impressed with the wrongs CM wv in a be a hen on any real foreign port without them T i i f and il chattel property is levied on months extra month of which B nnd logical J ui in ne 1 goes to the seaman Consul and one month to the anj working his way up by inches After struggling in this way for an hour he succeeded in reaching daylight com- exhausted but thankful to escape with his life Legislature of Michigan has divided tin lands donated to tlie State among the folowing companies The amount is three and four lions of are us list For thc scarlet fever which is now Detroit and Milwaukee Port Huron and Mi waukee Amboy Lansing and Traverse Flint and Perc Grand act mis and Indiana over ten cents per bushel made by the as their charges All of the arc in the Lower in our town an The following are in the Upper fl 1 il I i ins ila bordering on Lake Superior and State Line ant State Line Bay do and Ontonagon 1 of tho Louisville the author of the We sec that the sprightly though naughty authoress who calls herself George Sand has herself very strongly in favor of being burned after her If is truth in the scriptures we sho will havo hpr I particular that shippers may I do not know that these charges arc universal but they are what were exacted from of a insufficiency of its that these wiseacres in tho their wisdom don't tho entire removal of tho tho prevention of dent of the Post gives the as a certain preventive Globule belladonna taken every by each and every member of a adults children servants and all will certainly prevent tho spread of this dreadful disease in every that may adopt it as certainly as vaccination will prevent thc small pox Ten cents will chase a year's supply from any thist A wet finger applied to a globule and placed upon the tongue of a child or an adult is all that is necessary to be done to prevent the spread of this disease COLONEL BENTON AND Tho old Colonel was asked the other day to take a cracker and a glass of wine at thc house of a friend Unleavened bread said the Sir unleavened word cracker is nut to be bread found either in thc Scriptures or in any of my works It is unleavened bread Latin to lift or nise sir and and Saxon brail a species of bread that has not been raised sir Yes thank you sir I will have one or two pieces sir of unleavened bread and sir a glass of wine sir and shall be if any woman here will take a glass of wine with Y Picayune Mr the Washington banker entertained Mr Peabody with a splendid dinner party a few evening since Tho for- eign legation and the various departments of the government arc said to have been well represented A letter writer says that three gentlemen at the table including the host guest and a mutual friend from New York represented in their own persons quite ten millions of dollars Such a trio has never one time occupied seats under the same mahogany at Washington Why they charge more for L business there than here I don't know tW rents clothes and almost mc ght Take away from man thc necessity of committing a being dishonest and lie ii thief for the mere pleasure attendant on operation him a sufficient sation as an equivalent for labor to enable him to for tho absolute wante of irill wish J CELEBRATED dandy was one evening in company with a young lady and ing her kiss her favorite poodle he advanced and begged the favor remarking that she it to have as much charity him as she has shown to the dog said the bell never kissed my dog when he was A WISCONSIN bachelor is said to have perpetrated the following is the bridegroom more expensive thai the Because the bride is away while tho bridegroom is Hy SOLD ALL that a man has to do in these days for a genius is to button his coat be- hinc and wear his hat wrong side out If lie can upset an two or three times it will help the matter vastly A SMILE is the most bright and with a tear upon is the daw without the dew The smile is by the tear precious above the smile isel men nor women become what intended to be by carpeting their progress with real strength is tested 11 cheaper there C commanded the Dean Richmond from Chicogo to Liverpool will fully endorse the foregoing statements Y OF Indianapolis Journal mentions the death in that city oti Sunday Thomas Mag ruder an old negro aged one and ten years He is supposed have one who suggested the name and the leading features of the character in Mrs Cabin This supposition on the dence of name and and on the fact says the Journal M that Henry Ward during his a constant visitor of Uncle well history and a sincere ad- mirer of his many virtues We have been told that Mrs Stowe herself sometimes called to see the old man Uncle Tom's was the name of his house all his acquaintances and was a familiar phrase here long before Mrs Stowe it At nil events wo know that it is tho impression of all the friends of Mrs Stowe and in this city that Old Uncle was tho original or at least thc suggestion of the hero of the bin family and he will fingers by of his employer for or cry tiling IB unworthy Button hand make a and wards sit in judgement upon the criminal yourselves While inflated with your own importance and you can only see the legal offence without any extenuating circumstances however another tribunal in the Loud of thc THE Garroters get speedy justice from Judge of New first one caught was immediately tried and by him to the State for life Three more wero brought before him on Friday and hy Saturday night wero on their way to Sing Sing one for ten and two for fifteen years WISDOM without an inheritance than an inheritance without wisdom MKN OF THG We clip following froni Horace last letter from the West in The never t filling up and and improving so rapidly as at this moment I estimate that half the increase of lion throughout the Union years will to thb rise northwest of Indiana Wero the lie lands inalienable except to tiers in limited be still But the of inhabitants in these new Western not fully relative aod power The inhabitants and Territories are nearly all in the prime of life rarely meet here a woman fifty years of age rarely old a man and a large portion of i neon are too young to have children In u village moneyed and chief of the thirds of them will often be twenty-three apd thirty years of- i wives of still younger Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota murt day have an aggregate at least two and a half minions who in industrial capacity to an four millions in or K in: r correct in
