Wisconsin Enquirer (Newspaper) - August 4, 1841, Madison, Wisconsin POETRY IV -i on ear Ul t f ir 11 by inai y a tie Uj f t tear hy a It is my mother's N I r urn or 1 1 r 1 t ik r i ij is ji mi round fortune claim I i flu s r fi o ily t i it v 1 My lowly grave Lr ui fond t t M-i r thr lights respond vi loud r nt 11 y tl oughts I In told -i Celt r jvi 1 1 rn i ii lie I i moon nlc hat i 11 i I j on iny j i nomine t s l italic if 1 ir 11 n worn en Aiv pear borne ONSIN ENQUIRER GEORGE PUBLIC ER [Upon a general diffusion of 3 depends the safety of our DOLLARS PER ANNUM VOLUME III MADISON W AUGUST 4 1841 NUMBER XXXVI you to an angry letter w h catting epithets than i is for him But Mr I do you my youn said the lawyer interrupting liii that I am acting in this case for your b and not my own and as your adviser you submit to rny judger ent or I cannot consent to go on If 1 will promise not to use iny harsh language not consent o kt me the letter urged the clic t You and I in the present st eol your mind could not possibly come tc the same conclusion iu reference to wha is harsh and what is said Mr the letter My old friend Thomas liams the best follow in the world he continued his feeling under- going a sudden and entire What a fool I have heen w hat a fool I have been said Thomas Williams advancing from an ad- joining room at the same time extending his hand towards Singleton God h ess you my old friend ex- claimed Si igleton grasping his Why has been the matter with us both laudable and submission he arose On my way down stairs Mrs put her nig out of the door and addressed Doctor yoa havr t surely got to go out such a night as tidt I we you Yes eig t miles in the tion of F Toe bad too bad Wont dor in 1 le case of life and death sik she with an air of My young said old Mr tery who is i i Wl at's the matter man one of the kindest hearted men in the world rising and advancing towards them i ore 1 cannot consent that you shall I have kn jwn you long and have always ilo one word of the proposed reply I esteemed you both This pleasant t f hi li 111 I iv u ID know d s tin Viv ur 1 I rl L A Y i A 1 k 1 A Jf 11 V U i i-ii In 1 K conli nl Mr Singleton 11 d in a stale of na nos Mr looki ig i p in fore lam and that 0 lllll in I he CI M to a ill i n r i nil 1 r 10 tk ly for di f parti IT i li u 1 or i- ul Mr Trt e- ii I reason or and 1 I use in I ul lUe m 1 onal co lie calmly him a -ol i i ID your List i Mr that loiter ci not write it Well I suppose then I sha I have to submit When will it be ready afternoon and will give vou the draft which you can copy and sign In the afternoon Mr Singleton tame and received the loiter prepare I by Mr Trueman H ran thus after th date and formal address regret that rny did not meet your approval The moue of which 1 suggested was the of a careful consideration of our mu aal inter- ests Be kind enough to to Mr Trueman my lawyer any plan hich you will lead to an early and amicable adjustment of our business Yo i may re- ly upon my consent to it if it neels his approbation lh it possible Mr Trueman that you expect rue to sign such a Idler as said r Singleton uh owing it down and walking backwards ane forwards with of manner Well what is your i to replied Mr mildly fi r lie was prepared for such an n of ing Objection How can you isk such a question Am 1 to go on mj knees to him and beg him lo do me I'll sacrifice every cent I've got in the world fisst the You wish lo have your bus tled do you nol asked Mr looking him steadily in the face Of course I do honorably so Well let mi hear what you by an honorable Why J The yt ting man hesitated a and Mr True nan said moan settlement in w ich your be equally red with that of Mr Williams Yes certainly And And Mr Mr in the nf shall consider and treat yon as a nan Certainly 1 But that bi ore than he Well never mind Lei whi I is past 140 for as much a- it is worth I be cipal point of action is in the nt Bui I'll never send that mean cringing letter though You its whole tenor I do sure you Mr You inve lowed your angry feelings to b ind you You certainly carefully J before you adopted it the proposed bas s of did you not Of course 1 did the letter which I have for you slates Now as an In and ns j honorable man you are I am willing I grant to him same e which ing and reconciliation you perceive is of my arrange nent Now let me give you a precept that will both make you friends and keep yo i It has been my to through ife and i know that I have an enemy in the world It is A soft answer turneth away wrath but words stir up anger the Albany Evening FOOLING THE DOCTOR Who not be a pleasures or ten mil winter's an one as The way known by i lido in a stormy as Greenland would in to only ho realised by How immeasurably is that enjoyment upon ing at the end of your journey that tlie patient is only a little aid by having a request made that you will not charge any thing 1 tho The Doctor tells a good story on this It was al night in bitterly cold The Mercury sunk below zero and w thrown into the air froze before it reached the ground The N E wind blew gale bearing with il clouds of drifting siow and obscuring the phere with a white haze rendered visible by the dim light of the moon After hours of actual toil and suffering during the day 1 was dozing in my slippers before a good hickory fire having suffered the book which I was to fall from my hand But not even the ample jambs of the old hoUie could on that night The wind found its way through ev ry nook and cranny and tain sensations in the region of buck shoulders made me sensibly aware of its effects The old shortly after striking ven and the family having retired I arose Ah i I know not what the matter is A Varner lies very ill Well v ell you r ust make yourself as comfortable as kit Doctor tell Flam to put Turk in the su iey He's a cr tc have next to your feet You'll find yo ir red tippet hangin over a cheer by the kii I'm afeard you trod on the cat as you come up didn't you me how cold it is How the vind Having Mrs not to stand talking in th cold I hurried into my office prepared a few medicines en- ally had a wonderful appetite to eat Bi t this evening he was stomach sick an J thought that he required doctorin t at present he was in a sound and t sleep and perhaps it wouldn't be best 13 disturb him You can look at him said if you reckon it will do an good but I spose you charge you don't do nothin It is hard to tell whether I was mor 3 j hurt or indignant at this reception and replied with as much spirit and severity a it was proper to use in speaking to a man I however insisted on looking at th rnan If he were ill he would require assistance if he were not would requite me for having come to Rock away that night THE WALTZ As many of the retired matrons of thi i city unskilled in gestic are doubt less ignorant of the movements and figure i of this modest exhibition I will to give some account of it in order tha they may learn what odd capers daughters sometimes cut when from under in 3 overcoats their guardian a signal tippets and and seizing a robe weni to the s tabl to assist My poor old horse h d just got upon his legs and us he did si he shook himself and fetched a he groan It is a cruel on all hands said I bet so for Codger Yes pret y hard for Codger and for you too mask In i -as drove out of the gate at a pace having Turk with me This a young bull dog that I though ag od deal of 1 liked the idea of soi ie living thing near me on tha nis it and the warmth imparted to the feet -as not a secondary consideration It impossible to see beyond a few rods o ving to the drifting snow and sleet how the winds given by the music the gentleman the lady round her waist the lady ing to be in courtesy very takes the gentleman round the neck one arm resting against his shoulder to pre- vent encroachments Away then they go about and about and About what sir the room madam tc be sure The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step and it is truly astonishing that this continued lution does not sot all their heads swimming like a top but I have been positively sured that it only occasions a gentle sensa- tion which is marvellously agreeable In the course of this circumnavigation the dancers in order to give the charm of riety are continually changing their relative struggle ensued between the American and British armies These guns will decide the battle they must be regained or the army of Britain will be cut to peices and if regained the Americans will be ed Such were the thoughts of each Ge- Now came the iron grape of war A terrible raged upon the height and when the morning sun rose upon Bridgewater soldiers friends and foes Jay sleeping in gory death upon the hill side of Lundy's Surely tlie tle of Bridgewater will never be forgot on by the patriot the historian or the poet and while the laurels of a Scott and a Ripley are green and unfading let us uot forget that the gallant alive and that his country owes him a debt of gratitude which she never can repay She however oan say with her children when asked him ns the hero said at Bridgewater to his com- mander when called upon to render him service I will try sir Let her try for the sake of her honor and may the day never dawn when the hero of Lane shall be forgotten by an American zens We glory in the services of the brave May the laurel circle the victors brow in life and at last hang upon a broken column over a deathless raved and how ed an I swept through the t the gentleman meaning top of my sulkey as f they would have J no harm in the world I assure you actually carried t and several times am about the lady's my horse trough to a stand unable neck with an air of celestial impudence to oppose heir 3 find bent his head and anon the lacly meaning as little harm to the earth they should have passed as the gentleman lakes him around the by He had carried me about half the waist with most ingenious modest beer upon the road an ment to the great delight of numerous hour or more -n h suddenly stopped spectators and amateurs who generally not by the force oi llu winds but of his own accord and noli my up the embers very gent refused to advance tering something about the iire j another step he pi ce was a cold bleak and to my chamber When the meadow far fr jm hu nan habitation and Mi r i an- wiid i on ha e both allowed n come anil are be til if I in 1st speak y in reasonable in Two men oan or You havo n ilv -ed the OS i speed v M by i MI ang letter which bo lo in a unhappy temp j i yi u letters thai pass to i can you properly express I do it io vs i as they now -o of Iho 1 shot Ul vil n Ibis letter u ul thai havo m1 sueli sr to lollor to I i m In or i of in Iho tinn 1 MUM a you asked foi yourself viz tha of posing a plan of Yoi r sition does not to please him now it is but fair nit bo should be 1 to state how he wishes the settlement to ie made And in giving such an invitation i man should use gentlemanly laug sage Uitt he deserve to be tn like a In fact he has no claim to the said the young man If he has none as you say yr i profess to a gentleman and all n should prove by their actions and their w uds that they arc I can't say that I am conv need bv what you say hut as you seem bent on having it in own way why here let me copy the and sign said the suddenly changing his manner there HOW he added passi c across the tab low after he that But he en Afier it's all over Til take g care to tell him that it contain i ly Mr Trueman smiled as he too the ter and went on to told and direct it to-morrow afternoon ar 1 1 think we'll things in a pretty fair he the brief letter he had ci I think me a low sp oi for omo time before Ho 1 iu rid bitter oil lo tl it Mr it ul said looking up with his usual smile as ho the directio of the letter iod afternoon Mr Single he that entered his on of a he th IIM the i Vr w i hero aro so 10 to him iha 1 sec m 11 which ho 1 obi upon 1 prompt tl e young man Well are you hoard Vom the milk atvl of yours r 1 call it mine Yes here is ho Ta e and 1 w ill read ii to said thi old Well lot's hoar il IV have in reply shock of jumping into a cold bed had a tle subsided and a universal shivering en place to a genial warmth I took a liar pleasure in listening to those sounds which the intensity of the cold the cracking and snapping of furniture in the room tl e creaking of trees and fences out of and the blast as it screamed in the distance or came rushing in fitful gusts drivin j the snow and particles of ice against the pines of glass Then I thought of tho poor md friendless and who would be slain that night by the wintry weather and I up a prayer to God for thu mariners on tho coast Oppressed with weariness I could have sunk at once into a nd sleep but dallied ly upon of slumber forgetting all l i r 3 only to be to ad- vance or perish on the I jerked the reins and applied the w lip but when every endeavor to urge him r i proved fruitless I sat still in and looked at the cold moon struggling dimly at intervals through the he ivy d clouds and spoke to Iho wh lay whining and whimpering at riy feel At last summoning up energy This will never I and I sprung out I examinee the harness in every part by the light of a err I had with It was all right I th n seized the horse by the head but hi dre v back with a spirit and determination whi h I had never seen him manifest before Happening to cast my eye I sc w the tide coursing things else in a delightful sense of personal j at my very feet on its bosom large rest and security cakes of ice which wi re carried along by Perhaps I had remained half an hour in the force oi the The bridge had this state when I was startled by the j been carried away by be late freshet and ing of a men's footsteps upon the porch i I remembered the messenger had ad- below followed immediately by three dis- I vised me to tike a ent road raps at the door I could scarcely believe my senses It is said I tha any one could want the tor ami I drew in my lay still in perfect desperation But an and knocking succeeding without intt reminded me that ing a kind Providence f r having preserved me from 1 my steps a mile to another branched off and here I seriously de the propriety of prosecuting any farther but a sense of duly me on to contend against all obstacles was so fortunate o J form a ring as tho mob do about a pair of amazons pulling caps or a couple of ing continuing this divine interchange of hands arms el cetera for half an hour or so the lady begins to tire and with eyes in most be- witching languor petitions her partner for a little more support This is always en without hesitation The lady leans gently on his shoulder arms entwine ina thousand seducing mischievous curves be alarmed and closer they approach each oilier and in parties being overcome with ecstatic fatigue the lady seems almost sinking into the arms and Well what then Lord madam how should I know ILL TRY SIR An incident oj the Bailie of On the of July 1814 the bloody j battle of and Lundy's Lane took place near the banks of the Niagara j It was six o'clock and a sultry evening when the British forces under Gen mond advanced to meet the American col- ami a more deadly contest never raged on the soil of our beloved than that which then commenced the roar of the neighboring cataract lost itself in the booming of the voices of many and the voices of battle sang BASS the dead slept in sweet for- upon the moonlit hill The first le under Gen Scott with Towson's though I might be very warm the however sis to meet v ith nothing serious artillery and a of cavalry sustained without was very cold and I sprang out of bed ith I looked out of the ment and a man standing on the porch below stamping his feet and slapping his arms against his sides What do you said I in a tone as cold and severe as the night air Doctor want you to come right off to Warner's to Rockaway South He's very How foi is Eight miles How have you come On horseback You have come afier me in a carriage K ow do you expect me to travel that distance on such a night I w in my unable to endure the catting blast and requested the messenger t ait until I came down I was not hope that after inquiring the sympton s of sick man I should be able to despatch some w ould afford him relief remedies Inspired by this re hope I hurr ed down stairs let the man into the kite icn raked up the coals and began to him forthwith But he could not give the least information lie was only bearer of a peremptory message doctor to come -right off This settled the whole matter and pat i of duty plain I had a grand IK fore me and felt the calmness and resolution of a martyr sacrificed by the compact which he has made with the lie to the co union good I dismissed the messenger and told him that I would low him presently Then seizing a lamp We and treading on a tail in my to bo gore I went directly to the where Klun slept Tre little old ed since 1 got ur mile man on 1 is back with his open until reaching i gate which being thrown wide open never stopping to the toll But the pikeman had heard the ra f wheels and ed out anc clad only in along shirt I halted an pence into lis i in an eager voice counted out three hand the attack of the British army for an hour Ripley with fresh troops now arrived and relieved General Scolt while the latter with his exhausted brigade formed a reserve in the rear The British artillery had taken post on an eminence at the head of Lundy's Lane and were ing forth a most deadly fire on the cans General Brown the commander of the American forces seeing the terrible voc made by the enemy's cannon ded that it was to them or retreat It was a dreadful duly The troops that were to march up Lundy's Lane might as say their prayers and make cm My kittle Turk in I their wills before moving It was certain like am giving any death to every second man of the forlorn oJ he was to do sprang hope As the commanding fode from the sulkey ai d se zing j along the foot of the hill in thoughtful I verily the ight that he would 1 he saw the brave Col Miller advancing at have it his back The man j the head of his newly raised regiment for hopped ir his i ire feet frightened further order He rode up to him Will out of his an senses and raised a great j you advance and capture that alarm which lis wife out also i said the General I will try said and at the nt tani he og returning to his the modest Colonel The General on place under tue skin I inflicted on and the regiment gallantly wheeled and Codger a terrible k and j moved up Lundy's Lane At every rod Onward onward i -ent at the rate of the on the height sent its cold said he ing up the pennies clo e to his eyes and turning them over in t ie dim light of the moon replied I la in spite of at the is figure he your V nd iint goni note of y to my unreason jle and of the day Iwf re- haw boUi the fool but you I aro of me i i sane t e tenor of oar snoring heav ly and it vi as not without re- J i T I 1 1 four miles an ho ir bu were now happily approaching end for I heard the boomin of the Ada itic waves as their deep bass the wintry winds ed 1 speaking to Turk and to Codger o J arrr ing at the place of destination seeing x light in the dow of the hous 5 her we are at last in of all d for myself 1 be nga life gers of death through the dense column but still there was no flinching The voice of the noble Miller as he waved his sword before the bloody gap was heared uttering the short and expressive orders Around him the flower of his regiment fell like the ered leaves of autumn but he heeded not FRENCHMEN BY W Ill my mind there's no position more positive and unexceptionable than that most Frenchmen dead or alive are born dancers I came pounce upon this ery al the assembly and I immediately noted it down in my register of ble public shall know all about it As I never dance cotillions holding them to be monstrous distorters of the man frame and tantamount in their tions to being broken and dislocated on the wheel I generally take occasion while they are going on to make my remarks on the company In the course of these ob- I was struck with the energy and eloquence of sundry ed lo be nourishing about without to any body Afier much gation and I at length traced them to their respective owners whom I found to be all Frenchmen to a man Art may have meddled somewhat in these fairs but nature certainly did more I have since been considerably employed in lations on this subject and by the most accurate computation I have determined that a Frenchman passes at least three fifths of his time between the heavens and the earth and partakes eminently of the nature of a gost Jrn or soap bubble One of heroes in taking a figure which neither Euclid nor goras himself could demonstrate wo mean his his better a lady's cobweb lin robe but perceiving it at tho instant he set himself a spinning the other was like a top unravelled his without omitting one angle or curve and extricated himself without breaking a thread lady's dress he then np like a geon his feet four times and ished this wonderful evolution by ing his left leg as a cat does her paw when she has accidentally dipped it in man of woman who was not a Frenchman or a mountebank could have done the like HOME heart bas that cannot die The rough rubs of the world cannot obliterate them They arc memories of home early home There is magic in tho very sound There is the old tree under which the light hearted boy swung in many summer river in which lie learned to the house in which he know a parent's love and found a parents there is the room in which ho romped with brother or sister long since laid in yard in which he must soon bo gathered overshadowed by yon old church whither with troop tike himself he has often followed his parents to worship with and hear the good old man who gave him to God in baptism Why even Ibo very school house associated in days with thoughts of ferule and tasks comes back to bring pleasant remembrance of many an attachment there many an occasion that called forth some generous exhibitions of the noblest traits of n nature There he learned to ferl soru of his best emotions There first met the being who by her love and tenderness in life has made a home for happier oven than that which childhood There are ing of and those too that can find an appropriate place for only by lire Mi There is a In the privacy of that spot which it were a species of tion to violate He seeks wantonly to invade it neither more nor less than n villain and hence there exists no Mirer test of the debasement of morals in a com- munity than the disposition to tolerate in any mode the man who disregards the tilies of private life In tho turmoil of the world ict there be at least one spot where the poor may find that IK 1 o may indulge a confidence that iu not v to abused his loss he was ordered to take the on the hill and ha intended to do it He Stavet xp by ope I pulled the I advanced therefore coolly and steadily to of the r and went iu his object Amidst a tremendous w first object was to lery and at the point of the bayonet he f anding every pre- j riod the he It a gallant deed 1 cat lion in 1 s my fingers burn- i have never heard of its except at the i i the Owt is J tr i ms in ul f i- Mr o- app i- It t n away i up I lou ul t i life thi i 1 your to lv o 10 o anil h s Mr is v i an i i- d V s it niu ed and PE i i me to such a seige of San Jt was superior in 1 ii i tion for i Coition e it and it moots r y views that shook him by the head and My f kept 110 from Perhaps ho was of i decree that I coi Id hai 2 wept as 1 have j temerity to Bonaparte s attack upon it Lot our mutu friend j some heavenly kitchen where ell should I often Vice a chil 1 on the same GIbralter at Toulon because had Mr Trueman the matter bo an 1 quietness and tie voice of count A over the fire j to the plan and I si most I scolding and complaint should rever come Yours Ho never that I Flummery said I in the and sulkey I my horse Singloton st to Ho started and brought his slumbers to his foot by an abrupt then 1 is writing 1 sunio r j rig ap he tore a cotton handkerchief from said ilr hiir t e j anc rubbing his eyes appeared lo It's Thomas own h nd as 11 exactly tho stato of the case Yes replied he and vrith a no covering for his troops in of a re- half stuping by lie hi it answered treat It was a dead march to glory yea my inquiries as he could rubbing at every step the rear rank trod upon the his eves his lists Presently a j dead and the dying and the groans of a c.iiie witl a dim light in her fering humanity mingled with the hoarse hand bu oia le mor of me than if 1 had rattle of the drum come only y rds She said the When the conqueror with his remnant bind failing for a week of a regiment trod upon the heights of the or more and to have any bead Lundy's Lane and turned the for hs whereas he non upon the astonished enemy a has tho earth sweet sounds The un- forest the notes of the wild bird nmd habitations f men arc made the son of the feathered above all the human voice that with she of is fj no ordinary of In its whimper how In jtt expression of religions devotion how For its For ilb in joy how u If not to be too poor not to tw ri Ji he is rich not that much but he that covets no more and he is poor not he that enjoyn little but he much mind vantH which it hath not the not only il hath not hut likewise it hath I nun of Amer I XTE NT OF THE RU INS 1 have now given c a full d jrm c I 1 repeat wW I dated t more a ter a close of the f arts current n the village WI t ed that no more been e 1 and from repeated inquiries of v ho had traversed thn forest in every di- rection iu the dry season we nre believe no more exist The whole ex- it nt of ground covered those as yet k as appears by he is not larger tl an orr Park or Battery In slating f ol 1 am very far froi i wishing to detract fi Jin the importance or interest of sub- I give our opinion with the grounds 0 it and the reader will judge lor h w lav those are to r ition It is proper to add however that ei ing the space now bv of palaces and b Hidings nml the of tha ir habitants to liet n cf tho and the race of of ai s of frail and materials and at Memphis and Thebes to have p< ired may have ci xl an The reader is is disappointed but TV not There vas IKI for to tho ruined oily ei tent or an of th i Egyptians or of any ancient und known people What we had before our was frind curious and remarkable were the remains of a cultivated isl ed and peculiar people who had passed th all the stages incident to the rise an 1 fall of nations ag and perished entirely unknown The 1 in ts which connected tho m n family and lost nnd these wi re tho only memorials of their up in earth Wo lived in tho of i heir we went up to their desolate teviples and fallen and we moved we saw the evidences of their tas e their skill in arts their wealth and ver In the midst of desolation and ruin WL looked buck to the past cleared away gloomy and fancied every ing perfect with its ton aces and pyramids ts and d ornaments ami imposing and overlooking an me ise plain we railed buck into ife tho strange people who at us in sad icss from the walls pictured them in costumes and adorned with plumes of bathers ascending lite terraces of the ml ami the steps leading Vo tho temples anc often we imagined a of unique and jor beauty and magnificence ing the creations of Oriental poets the very spot which fancy would have selected for the Happy Valley of In tha romance of the world's history nothing over me more forcibly than the tnc e of this once and lovely city ovi desolate loht jy overgrown with trees for ire md and without evi na name to gui h il Apart from lser it a mourning witness to tho mu ations Na molt Fro n cr's y felt ino mi J i Nil stopped to copy the inscription on a cro s and while so saw a ing party ami knowing UK of the shut my notebook ant rode on The parly consisted of two me i with their mid n Th younger man mo mid said that he ud seen im at and tha he not of my jou From the style of his and 1 supposed lint lo Uc a ma i anil was sure of it from the circ stai ce of his carrying i his inn As we rod com tur upon hose birds mill nod that my now vas to Leon to fight -i of which ho to give mo wh cii had von matches its reached Leon and forth pi ice It v roiled up as carefully as a log with nothing but the ami tail ible and u string as easily a baskel Tbe cd 01 or the miseries if the country nud caused by the wars nnd rep the pit at us being in acli condition but in Leon he aid very -in of its the of the too honor to the city it only upon on but ho knew the and at time make an for a match llu node inn y about Iho tin noe in i ly country told me that lie had ted two from which verc gai 10 enough but not for and gave mo ual lo information on subject of which I ii to make any he of mo her tho mind of a i with a fomi It is the tirM thought stai our infant hearts when yet soft and capable of receiving i and of t 10 world arc more in par Mill I do not in our old we do not look back to that as we through lift Ou and our w may lead in ir frr m the lilial lovu we lea n evi n to pain her lo her wit to violate her we bee wild ig and angry at or but kath hat stilled and but calm memory remi us her virtues and good lower to the ground f y a up 1 amid her tears BS the mind th even when earlier of the uf tw the I of witli of I ami bi not T timorous affection h itself llu eye of the sun md of not daring to of joyn ent nve in remote and seer sy yet if torn ruddy by BOOM duel chat ce into light will thow more com trong and than my of 01 r ami if the awl joy of mind
