Wisconsin Democrat (Newspaper) - August 14, 1847, Madison, Wisconsin WISCONS CRAT PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY BERIAH TWO DOLLARS PEl DOLLAR FOR SIX CENTS FOR THREE MONTHS VOLUME 31 MADISON WISCONSIN SATURDAY AUGUST 14 ISi WHOLE NUMBER 83 Thy mother she was the anil to feel life li ipc through a Uic fi anguish tlic r aims the agony oj u in a Jo li t il Mi I Kd lulled 1 lo thv lest 1 in 11 it- fledgling Horn Ker nos ri 1.11 ore her bt y e thine in leeble day fiom the Boston Chro Anderson and his feon on %s Tt was a clear frosty Thanksgiving day The clock upon a certain village short comings It was a fruitful source of agony to the reverend man to be thus commented on to his face but neither brute force nor persuasive had accomplished an ioia in checking this leading characteristic of the tolled forth the hour ol eleven as as this might have j erend Jacob Anderson glanced into a jn the latter it was nevertheless to himself that his of results At this moment the j age he commenced rubbing the entered und whispered something in his ear aused an angry flush to overspread his s larp pale features and without le hastened from the room person and were in prayerful slowly his from good At the close of the long and eloquent petition a expression curled the ti y ef thc time i in: will claim ilic cave si deep and thrilling in 1 ie Let US Pray I 1 liy oil her ii 1110 m Hut slie could lay her he ail oo J Turnip lier precious dead r thy Or u will give a pang J o loud bosom lliou ait enshrined in unutterable Ol hind thc crimson velvet hangings of a of tho yon man and he sat high and somewhat down with indicated drew out his long sharp features to still somo sudden resolve At length j greater his eyes imp the congregation dispersed to their various ingly to out his thin I soon the tables of Parson soft white hands as if to in the Anderson to groan beneath thc arms of his paternal love the few presents poured in from of his numerous fold and in a The I was in his study Mrs the words Anderson busy with her kitchen i her daughter entertaining a guest in the With a simultaneous movement the and it fell to the lot cf Lawrens to congregation arose and bet t their heads receive and arrange these gifts reverently to unite tli sir Pastor in out the least hesitation he threw open that Prayer which immediately precedes trie door of a large tumbled its tho sermon in which it was contents into the smallest possible supposed that he would exert the utmost and with a sharp knife severed power of his eloquence m his fervent each article brought as near tbe centre as pleading with the Almighty possible placing one half in the Parson Anderson his and the other at the disposal of his hope Jbr peace when she is bass voice resounded through his er when the proper time should arrive I in thc j most vacant church Lice thc subdued peals j NO had these presents ceased to I j of distant thunder In long than Lawrens filled an immense beloved! Oh may 1 forger j and well measured terms he describes the to overflowing with his reserved IT or what my ioy CT i inextinguishable debt but my sweet lo bo a1 In ab lliou ait to mo 3 to II F And arc von n lovo my dour Anil can v inr be an oa tu can nji ihr of Can MI 11 lor r too to l noose o'er v our head 30 i Inn U a ft v i car attention And you lovo anil f s oi lit that I mention n aUe bow and viii th t she a slocking If slit make or pic bin li i vtr beer on the sly toon oi tho weary U j out ic e c die hrr j t ai HIM nice A I'd L jru ticar upon su il MI 1 shors and poke 1 1 f n ho on i vc j l t 11 hi r U it f s C u MI- a d i in our eTr I en she their heart s sincere imploring was tilat day cheered a morsel from his the divine blessing upon Christians basket as with patience he throughout the world but especially into the dark alleys nooks anil invoked 1 corners where lived these sons and and on those ol and noble 1 most besought the Lord to visit with I retributive justice the haunts of poverty degradation and vice with which our i abound Here the Reverend paused i dark eyes beamed willi inward joy as he his steps homeward where the annual dinner was waiting his return Mrs said the parson as wilh a solemn dignity he raised the cover what is Haifa j Is it possible that my prayer and from pure necessity Lis voice in tho i sermon to-day have been of the hour had forg its formerly that half tho usual cmn and legitimate bass and ascending is Explain it Mrs step by if during thc prayer the jf you Almighty Ear had receded farther and it is mystery to replied farther from the mouth of the the disappointed and somewhat angry he had at length terminated a beautiful quite busy I deputed rounded sentence in a sharp shrill scream to receive the gifts and thank Here as we remarked he paused inhaled j friends He went out immediately one long full breath and with a cambric after sending me word that all had arrived of spotless purity removed tho you may judge of my surprise to find tion from his wrinkled brow And he everything in halves proceeded We bless thy name O Lord that a- mid the numerous bounties of thy echoed the divine tily rising from his seat and catching off the various covers and napkins i arc not forgotten upon quiet and sat upon 1 day especially open our heurts to feel i the features of tho son and when the dis- for the of the pooi I he sick concerted father had resumed his and the us to seek chair al the foot of the table Lawrens them in their own homes to n lieve their clasped his hands slightly raised distress to console the mourner to clothe handsome face and with a si the naked lo foed the to smile subdued emphasis repeated the words cf the upon tho obj cLs of thy compassion O morning Incline vs lo seek and lo hem thc feed hungry and to the At this of the a bonnet this 1 do not often pray as you understand continued this son but I t s on the a 1 or n i c a i in o M v i- i i I Ii i n i ia II a i- q cue or n il II l willi a il or il is pen ii on nl my Harry i s t chain she lios M iv u 1C i found is wretched invention a of roinse nU I in lake 1111 liv force Corn mil 0 say u in n lo an on It i- to supply rue lo M i HiV -as to iraKo a s v two i how iho pi ce cd ti a in 1 j to 1 -i in Ayrshire left tiie in front pew was and a pair of bright black cs pepped to note tho sometimes assist in an were to Those eyes to thc the I hear You sir believe in Parson's lady who was noted the of the and for tho peculiar and with which con- trived to eke the of hei husbands salary As usual on Thanksgiving only a 1 thai of tlu believe only in that ii followed by immediate and action You have for the them The parson felt the justice of the act si and dinner had been ami smothering his vexation beneath a pared the fives an I tho good i of gravity replied The lady with her son and v had is to whom it is lowed the devout preacher to church at manded to give i an early hour While inhalin r But of the Lord ceases to food so abundantly she never he less re- j mer jt such gifts when his table is ladened served a thought for the worldly silver and pursued the with which she had reason son bestowing a deliberate glance know that thuir wealthy were upon the wen appointed dinner supplied and of which experience more 1 beseech you sir yon taught her to anticipate in ample share it continue to pray so often as was therefore a very natural thing that a within my power your prayers shall pleasant though somewhat sanctified suitably answered A slice of that smile should creep over her round turkey sir if you please my walk pled face met a few glances quickly has tie a sharp I thrown from surrounding With a fierce scowl the father seized cos that she was not doomed o Uhc carving knife while the scheming Mrs Anderson bit her lips and bent her Among this bowed anil worsh pfu eyes upon her son with a look which one yount man of plainly said What was the use of the only son of the Ki v Jacob ing away those nice things proudly erect his arms domestic clouds at last gracefully folded across his bread chest the cheering influences of his glossy black hair slightly curling n Thanksgiving dinner and the brushed carelessly back from his noble sation upon a select party brow and his largo lull eyes of they were to receive that evening ling brilliancy bent earnestly upon his arui which for the first time was permit father's His falling cellar was tcd lo displace the accustomed meeting knotted with a band of dark silk his for prayer and exhortation 1 t J J frock coat fitted his elegant figure with an easy grace and his boots were ol that de- gree of polish that indicated sel respect Shortly after dinner the rooms were properly evening x in order fresh fuel heaped upon rather than extreme anxiety for the coals and Mrs Anderson's f t t I face was everywhere visible while i to Lawrens Anderson had been or years am n iic tael MIC 01 i mil s ai I dwelling of a c v ie functionary m p implicit and s JL favor that he would sive T his advice The iv lit markets were his pious father an compass of whose study would have bore witness to many acts of discipline both temporal and spiritual to guide his unsteady feet into the narrow and well beaten track of popular ortho- doxy But as yet all those effort proved unsuccessful Lawrens hnd reached TO at this time tmt thc age and of manhood almost make up my wi the meal at Cs I'd j purely a child of nature I see would at two Thoughtful sagacious dependent of occupied his arm chair in ungodly son by dignity secretly enjoying the far and narrow ilp Tn put likely to cisc ov Ji a and bat uh 111 uo aboon creeds careless whom he pleased or dis- noble generous an I loved to trace out v hat he 16 a 1 i i t voin it cr 1 you art considered to be the numerous i i i between his father's and lifc more than he considered proper to allow Jj Lawrens had not been seen since his ty departure from the dinner feble but Arriving at he kitchen he was prised and fora dismayed to find Lawrens had i with somewhat more than a do en persons who moving in the humbler nd poorer walks of life had been red unworthy of tions to the mini terial party My friends ly dear friends claimed the g man without giving his father nn o of speaking i me introduce anil quickly pre- each by lame they proved out exception to members of ety which he was wont so fondly to term his flock I hive been gathering the long lambs of fold continu d the son and I have j brought them he -e that for once they may least upon t ie good things and be merry I The Parson i ns lady I was beside to admit these among arist cratic was not to be thought of am yet the character of good be sustained j My sly commenced the ter drawing him one It will never do to introduce trese people among our consider it a nal insult still as I recognize them my hearers I e no wish to treat them rudely Give tram a supper in the kitchen and them I pray I he added with a ing eye as he reat the refusal on ingenuous counte lance No commands will be of any avail to alti r my replied the son firmly Con e my he ad- ded suddenly rail smilingly appearing among them vvi wi I enter parlor depend upon rae to make you Presently Anderson entered the ed rooms itli a bloom icg girl on each a cm one the daughter of a washer worm n who in the of most o thc persons present the other a young apprentice delicate as the silk and ers which she wove snch ex- forms With elegant and easy condescension LE wrens presented his friends to his father's guests and despite the freezing cold the distant and dignified bows t ie smothered ers the half he continued lo introduce his little party and in half an hour they were me rily engaged in games which attracted the attention of all cnt Deeply at so unwarrantable a proceeding Pi rson had seized an op- to withe raw to his study for a few moments to jain that of mind which had tv ice that day been taking advantage of his absence Lawre is gathered his friends into aback c the folding floors led his sister to piano and with a who consented lo join them were soon thc mazei of the merry dance the vc ccs in the front par or subdued urtil silence supreme by the folding doors unclosed wilh ces peeping throng i the aperture iher hey open and in rushed a to join ie revellers leaving those only wl o wev prohibited from cing by church me v v v Ah this is real exclaimed Lawrens as after bis sister to play spirit am without fear of con- sequence Jif seized the hand of the liner and with her li d off the dance The unwonted i oiso at last fell upon the ear of the Anderson and com- overthrew a 1 his late attempts ot equanimity or spin Starting suddenly from his easy chai he descended the stairs with hasty ani unministerial and passing the group of wonderstruck spectators presented his solemn phiz among the wild dancers With an imperious 5 he ed his daughter ease playing and in an instant all stood i item and awe-struck before him the brave but unchristian alone confronted the pious rage of Pa -son Only a little hari sport said he as carelessly as ii no angry eye rested i upon him The BI le you know gives j us time for dancing as well as praying come be sc good is to join us cheer you Go on Mary go he ad- ded a meaning glance of his black eye and if father c looses to join us we VA ill make room foi him I dare say he can find a partner mong these go on nd in the twinkling of an eye the Parson ige again shook be- marry feet Parson Anderson twice essayed to but his voice was drowned in the wild burst of merriment and turning away he said Jy tone of voice to those beside him boy will sure i ring my grey hairs with to the grr line soap of the ship into his hair and skin with commendable vehemence He had cause to take a great deal of pains for he observed to himself he had an acre of barrack mud on him It must be observed that all this while the vessel was ploughing the sea and by the lime the Alabama rose had soaped himself the Mississippi wa- ter in the wash room had become ex- hausted and he threw his bucke over the vessel's side to replenish his basin The first dash he made was at his hair the turpentine of the soap and the saline cf the water instantly formed a chemical combination and the oily of the unhitched he's overhead and ears in the water After gettin out and feelin about in die dark a little they got together agin takin another drink they sot out for cussin the fences and the brunches an j helpin one another up now and then but they hadn't got twenty yards they in the middle of another branch After gettin the branch and gwine bout ten they was brought to a hall by another funce Dad blame my ses in think e is bewitched Wh u is bewitched Who upo don yearth would build fences all over tion this was about an hours job lo get ove soap disappeared and left in this one but after the top jts stead resembling tnr Two or three found ground on tether side rakes of the fingers through the I much trouble This time the bottle broke and they come monstrous near in a light about the Km a very good thing it was for after ing or four more blanches and cli it upright about the head stiff as the quill of the porcupine There's another trick played on scid the unwashed in a hair growing still fiercer At this moment the water dripped across his face and he commenced spitting as if nauseated lo the last degree Coolly and a hundred from ly he went to his belt took out a bow first cum to it ie inches delivered I Sweeny says he can't account fo himself of thorn thar it no other but that the licker sou o has played tricks turned lhar anil he says he ill than one innocent man pe punished Louisiana affords a most striking tration of this position We quote front recollection some volume A view Tho tragedy occurred on the Mississippi Louisiana Suspicions wore upon a young man of having murdered a at a tavern The young man was found guilty nnd condemned when upon the he rend nn vindication of again in the name of God that innocence which his refused to believe When in- that liis lime come he broke wildly loosi from those he was on the nnd rushed in among i lie multitude in the most us manner mir for help nnd repeating the he was innocent He soon secured by sheriff d raged back to the and in the midst of piercing cries and heart-rending launched into eternity A few t and they found out hit i eil his guilt nnd proved of 1 Evt new Igt him fotch out the one that put salt in this here A Coon Hunt Tis really astonishing what a strous sight of mischief there is in of rum If one of em was to be subjected to as the doctors call it would be found to contain all manner of devilment that ever entered the head of man from cussin and stealin really if it hadn't gin out been climing same fence and tbat same branch till yet his wife to jine the Temperance Society she wont never say no more bom ihtu Coon fiunt Silos Wright The Cleveland correspondent of tin Ohio Statesman relaies the mirable and characteristic up to murder and whippin own 1 heard an anecdote about Silas Wright ther and nonsense lo turn all the i which occurred recently Men's in they should net put into the until it is fully mid no cessation of In m until the cooking is done I in n are to be boiled quito an is lo 10 Ix put into tho il is cold or in the cnse of fowls while water is a lillle warm Then vapid boiling the water should bu liy this process meat is lender while Ly nnd made uC easy seen lien PHI ure of the operation is under- ad- ie is m B ii is ha tickler it'll bring out all It is it lull of ficht and sorie it I cowards some it rich and thc j hc ment nnd which is in olo other is albumen makes some men rons Silns t nol to the white of hardened by the same and some poor and t has a different oyes somu it see double and soine it makes so blind lhat they can't tell on his shoulder lo a ditch said a whig n present he going to die for loco focos More up ilie fleshy fibre in anil the Albumen begins ID at nnd at selves from a side of bacon One of tbe vas lo worst cases of rum foolery that I have of in n long time tuck place in j Pineville lasl fall I tnat leaves Sweeney and Tom Cullpepper is soine ono dry in The sf of I ii of the parly in tins mem would make a first rale sexton for on u boiling too the rummies tr v-i fly about just After a horn j r of fire will keep it I -1 Iko I I li I I 111 11 they went ont oil their hunt t not only cook ns well torch and the do-s a man any woy you cnn fix hut and us fast a though whole ol I lie is to dance l and like ust the lhaL t Evry now nnd then lo wait for for the doe thoy would ono or s they to reel and chatted away about one is copied the Aew thing and another thont much Orleans Delia ol where hoy was they cmn to a frnce W 11 over gut much Whose fence is M- Taint no ses TORI TRIAL OK P i uu trial of Win P ror the murder of Joseph Fox on iM nil took in lie The jury n of of without pun take to drink After takin n they went on what on That is we the Next thing come lo as a terrible murder provided the penalty be roi branch After pullin through briers and on lot her side they tuck another drink and after a liitle further they cum to another monstrous one this lime If water in cooking boils away fiJI up if possible warm not wilh cold wa- 1 a is better than soft for Clinking purposes Soft water ex- juices while hanl preserves in cooked Hence iho lea codec an 1 are made with ill or lain while vegetables mill isli nre best in hard of n little in lie of libh and iv in Life tlic connive to n upon is we got to society to repeat with tal most wise venh What docs That juries arc loath you the money in to convict in capital it is that courage to do without thai so who would under a inch milder code be restrained nre turned of ses I never seed sich a heap of branches and fences in these parts says Tom it's all know he's always bildin ces and rnakin infernal improvements as he calls em But never through em now need however much our i limy covet it lo speak your mind vhon M ic you t wr when it is prudent you link lo thai chain of argument in favor of a milder penal code which is Have to speak a in a wrought from the changes made in t seedy coat even though you are in vilh rich one und richly perfect impunity their deeds of darkness of crime and death This adds another especially in some of our stoles approximating to a total of that relic of the courage to own you are poo The devil we ses here's j holler Such decisions as the above ndd a j disarm poverty of m his absence excited no surprise The scene was become brilliant From respect to their minister mirth was restrained was a re- fined and subdued gayety among the egant and wealthy who alone J composed tho party that rendered it attractive to all Where is your inquired a lady of the Parson I hope he will not deprive us of his society the whole evening I cannot answer for him madam re- plied thc spi guide his professions in public and his yet break my heart The Baton Conservator relates the following anecdote of an abama volunteer at on his way to Cruz One tall volunteer rom tbe pine lands of Alabama was unh ppy for the want of employment he sain tered about looking for something to do when it occurred to him that lie might as he expressed it take a good wash He was a fellow with a s head of dried hanging down his sho With a de- liberation n th an idle sea the tall fence yet Shure that they was right ngin another fence By this time they begun to be considerable tired and limber in jints and it was sich a terrible high fent e it will i Tom the last piece of the torch and thar they was all in the dark you is done ses Pill Tom he had but he thought twas no use lo grieve over tbe spilt m lie so ses he Never mind old ahead and I'll take you and the next he went into thc wa- ter hung on to tho fence wilh bo li hands line he thought it was ront d to throw him off Hellow ses ho where in tl e world has you got Here I ses Tom thc ter out of his mouth and coffin like he'd swallowed something Look out thar s another branch here Name where is sts and the highest and deepest and thickest that I ever seed in my born flays Which way is ses Here right over the branch The next mi nit in went up to his middle in the branch Cum ses and let's go home Cum in sich a place as v here a man aint got his coat tail of weight to thc persuasive eloquence Livingston who labored so strenuously Have the courage to make a a before the Louisiana legislature lo bring about a milder punishment says he the efficacy of milder punishments they have succeeded in other try the experiment in this Do not you when fear lhat thc murderers from all quarters y u ore convinced he lacks principle si one Have the courage to tell a man why you not lend your money courage to cut thc meet of the earth seduced by the mildness of friend should with a fr our enal code will choose this as the but not wilh your theatre of their exploits 1 courage your Nor is the fact that juries are unwilling honesty in whatever guise it to convict the only argument fur doing a 1 your contempt for dishonesty and with the Witnesses are by whomsoever yoar old for new mm your Maker erroneously intended to prevent Indeed by man tho courage lo lake a good paper I I n f -j this taking of life is to the an i to piiy for it annually in advance mindes own consciousness of right when unbiassed bv education Reader think when you hoar of a horrid dcr would you be the occasion of the culprit's death as C of fhz from the West seen many other great and which arc soil from 20 W U I l I I O M II you not rather 7 W him he reflect on tbe and bushels of strawberries in inch j him were he might reflect prepare foi the that great maxim of it is that two
