Wisconsin Argus (Newspaper) - May 20, 1845, Madison, Wisconsin JOHN Y SMITH Editor VOL 1 IX MAY MADISON S MILLS Proprietors and Publishers NO 40 WISCONSIN ARGUS S MILLS J T SSITH B HOLT Proprietors The ARGUS will ho to Mail Office Subscribers at per annum payable in and 10 whose sent bv the Currier Tiro Dalian and Fifty tf mi paid in ad- vance Three lie harmed Will he inhered nt Hr per square teen linea or Tor tho firu lion nnd cerrs ror each advertisements publish at the rates scribed by law REMITTANCES For ice mail lit ihr risk of the Tim on all I otters to thia must bo PAID in order iu nt Physician Surgeon Wisconsin Office next door hut one the Argus Office Sopt 4 A T T O K N E Y S AT LAW And Solicitors in Elk Horn Wai worth County W T j SiTS Doctor Bristol may be found fit the Residence of MAR c i N A i r T J MADISON W T C ABBOTT Attorney and ut Law nnd in MONROE GREEN CO W T Attorney antl Counsellor at Law W T or 1 n n e s v 1 I r Would aay to lie ami la for tH 15 Ap il 19 18 nf J U HOLMES SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY Jefferson Jefferson Co T Gl L LETT K N A P a nt SOLICITOR IN C It 4 N C R Y W T Practices in and District of tho August 3.1 MIL DRS B S CURRIER J G WOLCOTT Mil W AUK Will hn nt nil t tin ir old old Opposite dales Hook One of firm wilt Mn twice ewh Ml 17 New At T is nil kimls of nml nnd M to country dien M Iroin t will br will A toys am Citing kept on nnd others visit of to Wisconsin MLL On Token Creek THE inform ho puli IJo in A GOOD SAW MILL ten from nnd vril to Good will upon ho p for done for ft M ai r will bft for M in ra pr 410 in R M Nov 12 1844 JOB PRINT I N GT OF with nnd h on nn ps ni other in the BLANKS AND DESCRIPTION OF for work will A off to POETRY From Columbian Magazine FOR A UDI'S Y the enow heaven Fair mny these btj Calm as the stilly brenth o When the light breeze flitt the tea Soft u mildest ray bulmy gentle Holy ns tears to pity given And guileless the just iu heaven of thine own bright page true joy May Hope's and pence divine And Jove nml be ever thine MISCELLANY TUB TRAPPER A Legend of the Hudson On the of the Hudson in limes long since pissed an being bearing iho mme of Nick WoUey His solitary homo WHS in iho valley of the about n mile from the river's bank his occupation consisted in Mi g and for furs with ibe Indians No was mil find guant with a peculiarly stern and sion of feature nm his lonely gloomy habits to cluim no kith or kindred with any living creature The only com of his hours was a grisly deer hound whose speed and strength often over- the buck and once hi closed with arid despite the ferocious tore the pipe from his throat before the tiro in the log Im would watch each move ind gesture of his master be as rendy us his shadow to obey the beck and took Thus years had como and gone and still found no change in the home One day a of Indians of the iho dwelling and proffered for the white man's fer and gunpowder Among I horn was a girl of singul.ir and with her Nick suddenly and deeply As he looked at her full round and faultless form his flashed witli the in his veins mid the volcano of pension burst finch fibre of his frame No was this tooling engendered than hw strove to win lilt a one has been pouring gifts into her lap and long before cessation of his pro look dozens of strings of were twined u round her and neck and tings and baubles of kind her person Then the gratuitously to he puny imd twit progressed with the brightness and velocity of a In a short time a dem md was for the red man's daughter accompanied by a ent of a and a knife to the rind a willing consent obtained A chief whoso fiery glance showed the effects ol iho potent dram bent his bow rind an arrow perpendicularly to the clouds and as it drove into thu earth ering with the force directed the tripper to remain by iho side of the weapon Then he shot one some hundred yards in a direct line and the expected brido was conducted to thu apol it full by her and friend A third was Ihon driven into ihv ground u lew fuel from where she stood tin chief acted ns a priest in the ceremony Nick by say ing ns he again pointed an arrow upwards If my while brother win bird he must win her ore she gains her nest And drawing bis bow I he arrow twanged from the string and rushed the per ui he signal for a brief second he seemed resolved to reach the goal which would have freed her from her ed but slopping suddenly in bet rapid path sho turned on her heel find throw herself with a ringing laugh into Nick's arms A shout of triumph announced the success of his suil and to nil save one the com- appeared lo give great satisfaction This wits tin Indian youth and undeclared lover of the brido Iu secret he had worshiped the idol of his affections misting time would enable to gain iho prize and when his hope seemed ed ho saw her thus lost tu him and lost forever the grenr spirit strengthen my said Ho dashing with nil his ngo nature roused him like a tiger springing upon his prey he was about his knitt between the shoulders of the trapper when backwards he went to us if a whistling let crushed through his bruin in the grip Nick's deer hound 14 the trapper ing hid wife from an embrace resembling n grizzly in tenderness Why this The drawn knife in the fallen Indian's grasp and his ferocious aspect quickly re- the at fhe who continued to pin him tu ground in his torturing hold Art jealous Nick laughing ami bestowing a kick of no force on Art And lifting him frum the earth after ing from cuffed iiim amid jibes ami of his tribe faraway the of his Months rotted loaf wore tin brown tint of expiring autumn nnd Nick was a rougK Holing father Upon returning from examining his traps late one evening somewhat vexed his wife's neglecting him according to her wonted custom some short distance from the Ing cabin is J said he striding towards the door and as he ranched the he stumbled ily something across it Upon ing ascertain the cause ho discovered the life less body of his faithful dog he shouted stentorian lungs Sea and how did this Miiinroee I exclaimed a voice in a per you'll wake my child Wake your repeated her nestling her child to her bosom as he threw open the door ibe w is Foil horror pet rifted him with sight that elf hia lower jaw dropped and his eyes to atari from their strained sockets blood cun led in his veins and the pulse ceased its Sitting before the hearth upon the floor there waa the young mother bearing marks of cruel lence in her features wnd her disordered dress arid pi easing to her breast the less trunk of her infant Pale was bar and the fixed glassy stare betokened madness in all iis horrid form screamed the trapper rushing to the side of his wife say done all replied Do you not see he of exclaimed he she's and scarcely lens so himself the strong hold hunter in his misery For days he was unable the of the terrible catastrophe At length a change look place in the blighted reason of hia wife but like the remaining in the ember it was the lasi effort of eie death expunged its It appeared that at sunset was preparing to set out to meet the husband after rolling her charge in a buffalo skin and him on his bed of straw when the long shadow of a man was suddenly into the entrance and as quickly disappeared The deer hound sprung from the flour on he hud boon lying and as he leaped to followed by Ins the sharp crack of a was hoard and tho noble dog tell her iu an instant afterwards the form of an In- dian whom at recognized as the foiled her ed into the cabin and despite the mother's cinched bur child from his couch and his knife with savage his innocent head from his body said ho pitching the corpse towards the mother there is my revenge Blood to the red man's wrong is us water to thu fire I am satisfied And turning on his heel he quilled the spot tike one who had accomplished a noble deed with ft slow and haughty fall The hitherto happy and contented home of the trapper was now desolate It WMS a long long limo tears had fallen from Nick's but as he watched the ing moments of his dying wife they each other down his furrowed cheek in streams and showed the floodgates of his wore open As the rosa the spirit of find trapper ing from iho body of his wife over which he hud mourned for hours I'll ve such that in tale and story nono can equal I'll be more bloody thin more cruel than beasi or a of any kine or time con- he with a convulsive hugh The white man's vengeance shall at least match the red 1 Mounting his fleet horse caught from the wild prairie the trapper turned his head toward the west and driving hin heels inlo his flunks galloped like one reckless til life und limb lo the of the Mohawk There ae he anticipated he found iho tribe from whom wife had been chosen Brief was the horrid tale of his wrongs and as brief hia demand for Give said the derer and lot me deal with him as I list The chief listened with that seeming apathy with which they listen to every re- lation whether of good or evil and contin ued to send ihin volumes of smoke ing upwards from their lips as they sat in a circle about fire without a emotion of any kind At length the elder a long silence My while brother Let it he so Deal with him M you list Take him ho nee Tho consent obtained a howl of savage delight burst fiom tho breast as he pounced like a galled tiger upon the victim YouVe cried he clutching the remorseless wretch by the throat and ing him from tho earth in his brawny grasp lika u weak puny child You're wine repealed he and ns yu guve me no none shall be given Winding narrow strips of hide round the shoulders arms und wrists of the prisoner ho bound them tight to the body and one end to his rude threw himself upon his horse nnd re- traced hia steps at a slow and pice The appeared even to select the path with care so that the prisoner might not bo injured by brake or in their In one word kwn long long ued on through waste and wild The fled Hudson reflected the clear rays of the moon bright and unbroken as a looking The refreshing mists rolled along sides of the highlands in folds and nothing broke on ear but the wt sh of waters and the melancholy note of the Just as the first of light iho east the per arrived tit the door of hia cabin and after securing his prisoner beyond the chance of escape to the trunk of a prime val willow hard by ho at once began the tank of his unparalleled unheard of venge With a hatchet he cut long and stout branches from iho willow and lying them together with pieces of dried skin formed R sort of rough strong basket re- sembling a large cradle When this was he threw bis captive in- to ii length with hn upwards and passing strips hide through the of from his fuel to his nt ek bound him fast that not even a gle sinew might be Then the corpse of his placed it face to face with his er Tho horrified wretch clenched and ground his teeth as the body pressed upon but no groan escaped his tits bloodshot eyes iho anguish of his soul still he would not In a few minutes tho living and dead were lushed The breathing man and iho putrid corpse festered in corruption were as one When this much of horrid work was finished the trapper stood with folded arms and with a fiendish smile surveyed tho ad vancement of his task And now to complete ho ing load lightly in his arms and placing it longways on the buck of hh ered on the greensward The animal fed tha air and would have plunged from his burden hid no iho well known voice of hi 3 master soothed and quieted him hf stood with fiery and diluted nostrils ready to fly from his own shadow as he smelt the stench issuing fro ri the cradle Girding it in tho samo fashion as the bodies were bound together round the loins ribs and nock of the horse be so to lix it thai jolt nor jar could move it Irom its firm tion Now my eagle of iho said the trapper addressing hia my un tamed unicorn you shall for the first since you left the prairie grass feel the of- frots of the lush and taking a punishing switch in bis hand he struck the animal sharply until wrought to a pitch of fury and pain Flakes of fourn hYw from his und streams of perspiration rolled pUUr in Looping rrt the air like a stricken stag ho strove to snap the bond which held him Al length with one plunge and cry of terror lie broke away with the spued of thought and swept through he forest swamp und wild with madness in every stride On on he went Tho flood was passed the prairie gained still on he went A wild shriek broke on the ed lent new fear to the ett horse On on he went The tide sun darted his rays unbroken by or bough upon the floeting o'er loaded but still his gallop was L His skinning shadow became gigantic in the falling light and still he continued on The pile moon tipped the thin clouds with her silver light and yel his stop was unabated Tis ever in a of the far west that the may still be seen scouring the plains whore footfall of m in is seldom hoard with his loid ot the living and tha From tfic ADVENTURE llY MISS AUGUSTA The professional life of the celebrated John B Logier has been ore of a most diversified character and passages of exciting inter- Through every difficulty and ch has he pursued his enthusiastic arid toilsome research after the grand tal principles pf science which to understand intim requires a ledge of all the other his has been long since crowned with the fullest triumph Iti truth he has been to whit Sir Isaac Newton was to a disseminator of light on subjects which before were shrouded in mystery The life of a true generally ing is ono of constant and unappreciated it d Lutle do the public ening to a soul stirring composition or irg with delight on 01 speaking marble of the brain labor that Ins been expended on it Could en- ttr for one moment into tho of an author as he presents with tho of hope his they would ly be so chary of a few words of which fall so sunshine on his But to return to At the timo of the occurrence of which we now was of tho parish church his family resided Thin as is very often iho case lit country towns was at a considerable distance from miy dwelling house and was approached wily through an extensive To add to ila loneliness it stood naar soa shore U was also reported to bo Ktd by thn ghost of a suicide who was buried without the fenco of the and who nightly frequented church to sue ft r Christian burial It was even by the peasantry that the belt hnd been icard to toll at midnight probably his thought that it he could in- duce he people to como and hear his j case they might grant hia request but a I lo no purpose he still performed his sad peregrinations it may be in cum p ny with a select coterie of other un- fortunates noble proprietor of the Uio Marquis of S had just presented to the c a lino organ und on g Sabbath it lo be opened and perfor ued on for the first time L had b ten on business to n city dis- tance arid did not return homo until late on when learning that some of tlu arrangements were incomplete he de ermined iu spile of all dissuasion to proceed to the church himself so ing in hand a be set forth Such a night elements seemed com- to deter him from but on ha went boldly whistling aloud to keep iis courage up true now nml then s omu wild Germ in cross his m nd but ho only whistled tho morr herno illy at last he reached long grave yard and through the long grave the whose lower was occasionally amid of lightning its usual y noisy inhabitants the rooks wen usly still only uttering at intervals a distressing caw as if the and the hands of the old clock pointed to half past Still L was nut afraid Oh it was chilly and any teeth would chatter besides organ would alee but a few to Jiv and i hen to think of laurels 30 lie just glanced carelessly toward iho side t f the where suicide was said lo bo interred and opening iho door with a key that he kept himself en- tered closing it after him and ascended lo the ot gun loft The of the church was not mow cheering than the o The lantern he carrird did more than make darkness but the lightning discovered many a ment and grim old and many a coal of arms with its banners pendent D Kirs croaked mid windows cl And night's foul bird in Sen aloud Amid tho pealing of iho thunder ling of iho tempo si and the routing of wilii Atlantic L sol to however ibid lima Old or sumo r tune and soon so in hid occupation tint lie look no of though busily on oilier notes AND THE CLOCK It to lum every loll calls u spirit Tito storm increases md low sounds scorn to forth low vaults thu mansions of the dead Elid whistle gradually nnd vory with a closo is It is lol by uid hair Mauds on end his whistle aw iv in a alse cadence great drops of stand on his forehead and his dle fl in tts socket This was loo fearful as ho to suirs with the intention of m iking iho best of hi way out a blow in iho faco from some spectral hand u accelerated his and horrors just as ho the t oor the skirt of hia coat with frantic energy by an hand himself away loaving iho skirt banned tho door after him and d out into tho followed by the despairing of and tho wild mocking In the he his w i y and stumbling over somo he hud resource lo his and knees In this altitude pursued way jru length of a fl i of to liis vision ihu of tke suicide's He could act through the piling that i looked discomposed its tenant hid left it for his and might bo oven now returning Here was a no time lo loa i resumed his iric in the g tie arid making use of vehicles most in de nand sel out for ui u rate which home drenched for- lorn ono coal tail plus sundry in his oilier garments tiie of and with a firm lief i i ghosts ho reached as the clock si rue c one to liis wife who of course Was hlesl with an inquiring not a word of his for the sub- ject too serious to besides do not like to he nude a common subject of so he went lo Nothing could exceed in sub- the effect of the organ under his I singing loo was wore enchanted After vice he attention of the assembled was called to robbery of church had been t In- flight previous sexton corroborating f ict a stray which he had found fastened on a nail near the from door ha had found a lantern m tho lofi which the sacrilegious had left behind on Bunic sudden aUrn of the windows were broken but whether by the rubbers or the storm not be ascertained Some owl's thers were likewise strewed around ami a dead bat waH lying near them The blow of a wing does very likely feel to ibut of a spectral hand bis p and as soon as he reached homo dark y hinted that it might be as welt to say nt thing of liis I ist night's to tho cl as ghosts might not lit o it 1 Adventure in tnr Mammoth The following incident 10 Advertiser IB related of a puny who vi the went lo this cave lo -nd honey moon While w nt to visit i host1 of the Cii which lie In order to do this u person to tail di wn 11 in r the whit h If ads fiom ri er to the opposite side lor ts no ah or place tlm point ih it is bolow on tin for fills of one of is several feet tli walls into the wau-r The party liver ibo had on n ill water for their return I After th y haii the river h ilr way so tie of the puny who were tit t inlo n fiolic nml overturned T were nil their in itches wet boat fil ej with saik they th ol up tu cl ins in water ail have en lost h d it not boen for ei ce of lo re- m lit still nr ti n a si step they out of their dt in anti swimming would not il for they not w he rrt to swim to Fie knew if th coldness of iho water fur ol would be sale f gi ide would be to see what had And JO ih S perilous up lo in in ot th in four under ground v re upwards of five nt ibi end of which time another came to their or Mtt the whu them told when potto s fellow Mephen t K1 Columbus of the cavo m the of he hem and r w itle by the I vi h were mu all in pr enJ Thn ihi fallowing account of 1 b four negroes two nien and it John on Senet i i Mj ohi with of Jus c the ni Jik liad youe alter he I time on ibr n fht ot the u i te flit Tor tt i1 of hauling he reine Al iiut 11 e hour of 11 buj lei rj oi to the house tlu- of h s mazier und of h -s mistress who had iu bed nnd Vk is but was t I by iLe ni ide ns the boy o door w uch ind I was n cl air In to dem md nho is he Jus ht r that hia r kid hi tt la pro Ci re fiom the Shn A IB by sudden ft di kindle a I of ing which ver and tf n ilh an he ae Iu i gi d her fiom Ued nil I until si e lift vv s cut foui two of M itch been in yd e in terror of he m fnt during n hich she di fended he self w her einy o is about the liy the 10 is of I'm villain who en -i to ha e til leader m this three ol lers jit the oJ a wound upon in order that each thereby in neither be md d lo others Having m they accomplished pi they left ffi blood airl lo their lli washed which haJ ei in the nud re- st other of e of Mrs M f er not dead After 1 brief period e recovered front of h T first e upon her n all her and u irh a firmness and a she to BI ek her aod believing it him who hrr BI in order ai aho it that no innocent person p cled of the On her way the e which if only a few hundred nnt Trorn the she parsed by iht 11 to which the four hid retired n td was by them it it be- lt that pursued het for the o the bloody purpose in which they had been to unexpectedly v The unfortunate Indy tn rt aching her affd n ely put under nnd happily recovering Strange m at had been uniformly k nd to them and that they bad no for tho act The Odd Fellows in Bocton arc about Hall lo coit
