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Freeport Journal (Newspaper) - October 3, 1851, Freeport, Illinois Of sir or that int Nklan the american exploring exp Riibe 17th has been received in in a letter addressed to it by the or of the bark True the per Are belonged Pimmie Wirf David july it please your lord the u the Jot pc Lois in search of sir in i n w Phi i i at my hands the enclosed Lei on the 12th of of vessels of Ite they left Cape they not being enabled to air farther in a Westward direction fion a Harbor called unt discovered by thief of Cape was the place in selection by Thorn to Winter the Bay ice was forming very Strong at that Advance and up scum were determined to proved homeward up and drove Vliem up Wei Channel 50 and afterwards Tia Dpi Frozen the american Cap i Iii us Linvin told me that the Winter was vet v and that he can give no further respecting sir John a rankle than Ilia he said he was deter mined w to the scat of search after wintered and All Tho documents re Tom admiralty Atid others i gave o l on Tho 20th of traces Voto found to northward of port Iii Rota confirming those previously found Etc pc Wiley by Captain the so consisted of fragments of Brssi cd meat and scraps of be of those bearing the of officer in the expedition 2 on the Penny parties re tried these were at once visited l de and they bore respectively the names of it John o the Bre bus and John of Tho 1 the Dilc St death being the 3d of april added to these sad but unmistakable Evi dues were the remains of the ctnientors1 and armorer upon tiie Hill Side and Beach were fragments of Metal and with stacks of empty meat every thing indicated Parma and there can be no doubt that the Cove Between Cape Riley and Lwray facing Lancaster was Lirosi Winter station of the missing o i Alifi 30th of september the impervious ice of the Wellington Channel underwent a and by the oth several vessels penetrated to the Cornwallis was the impenetrable Char Ucler of the pack in Lancaster sound that the oth of september the entire searching Smi Jacun were again concentrated about eight Milost Pius of Griffiths this was the furthest Westing attained by the Ameri the latest dates from com Austin Are of lift 13th of septem Thuy were then in momentary expectation o making Winter it is probable big null Harbor discovered by Captain for a gent for Tho our of Carroll on Roll and the a joining n friends of f Are Retic std to want of Ovi authorized to Nonko Fml recept for the and pc read tub trip i him for tse journal permit me to give Youric Adeis 8 through the of Motif of things in this town of Yankees by looking away from Home once it left i totter How to appreciate veal Home and How to discover and remedy and to which to become 60 reconciled by that we hardly of their so while to it Fol on Hock hit let us look Boiu we act it Noble Stream is thu which surges through Tho broken timbers of Tho old and goes rippling Over the foundation of the now it la it i Whf to water the Moat Beautiful country in Wom at this Forti the Chicago daily about 5 Oclock this morning a fire broke out in it wooden building on Peacock in tha of the and in less than 0iianney about three Miles East of Cape will be the Haven thence he the american while proceeding wore Frozen in opposite Welling too Drifting during the ensuing Winter from a Luti Tudic of 75 25 throughout Tho Channel and sound to Baffin to Muir after much exposure and took place on the 10th of at a mint South of Cape Walsingham c5 30 linear Drift exceeding 150 the commotion of the ice with its attendant in or Dainty was their chief source of livery aftic Erand Man had marked scor Butic but no deaths have the Are now and the expedition Nili mooring to regain the seat of 1 t news in Jar cat Impi Aiice to these the whigs of the county of Stephenson afe Tel j m it use at the court House in the Ullh Clay of october 12 for the Pui Poso of Nati Nir candidates for c Unity Viz a county county school county to to supported of Tho election Oil Tho 4th Day of november let Tho whigs of the county turn out to Thia con and come with that determination that always Marks whig to the firm support of Tho questions and principles involved Inthis con two w Julius j a Strai committee John in Ltd at september the several town committees of the will give Tho necessary notice to the citizens of their several in accordance with the foregoing no Tice of the Central Charles of our Lub scribers who design pay ing in Wood for their will oblige us by mrs ing 03f a of other engagements has prevented us from devoting any time to Tho editorial depart ment of this the it Tho Board of supervisors of this county assembled at the court on organized and appointed their several business com Tuit tees and adjourned to meet at the same place of the first monday of Insl this adjourn ment was made on account of the circuit court to aug then in promptness of attendance on the part of persons having business to transact with Tho will con for a As Well As expedite the business of Tho Board and save the county we have an Abs and we Are confident Tho business will be prosecuted with the greatest whig state convention assembled at Madison on the the number of delegates in attendance from All parts of the was and the Best feeling seems to have characterised the deliberations of that Tho following ticket was put in nomination for Losard lieutenant Jamb Secretary of Jefferson attorney John among the following excellent resolutions were adopted that the of Wisconsin believe in and will the following principles of government e an pronominal fairs of both the state and Sfa Lional nov a strict accountability of nil Public Oft and intelligence of traces of sir John and his companions has been scan Ned with eagerness by the now reposing on Veteran Arctic their laurels at and Many of them Are sanguine in the expectation that they May yet have the pleasure of welcoming at least the surviving portion of the Noble Crews who left Woolwich in with the Erebus and it May be interesting to know that the Lyol Marino whose grave was found Ergeant so William of the Wool with who volunteered to proceed to the a a Tiu regions Wah the exploring he had Only recently returned from in would be curious if the american Diun should be the first to discover sir John or his with of St journals of published a list of the individuals und the firms who were assessed by the last returns 000 and on property Wilshi Imhee City the whole thus put of which there arc Tivo owning i seven Between three and four Hundred thousand six Between two and three Hundred Twenty one Between one und two Hundred thousand Between fifty and one Hundred thousand and the remainder be i Twenty and fifty thousand Tho As Oes the six is put Down at which o lax of is Oil acc in tile taxes paid on were Jan at at that time Lou i some Throe Hundred and is Sty and there were but sixt in the with this the need have no fear of the of our Railroad that Hundred and eleven gentle Lien Are y interested to future growth of to let her Trade go Down and her prop depreciate in for the Lack of moan ill few and a faithful usher acc to the limitations of is prescribed by the Coustie appropriations by for the improvement of important Rivers and the harbours on the sea and Lake so As to give increased safety to the Protection of american by Diacri minting Ulics on foreign so As to encourage mechanical and manufacturing thereby rewarding american beyond the pauper labor of furnishing a Home Market for the products of and promoting a spirit of nation Al Iuo Tion of a Wise and sound judicial win a impartial and less expensive of Justice throughout the a thorough system of retrenchment in county and slate whereby the exorbitant taxation heretofore imposed upon the May to Dimin the election to of honest and patriotic in both the stale and National a specie Homo whereby the mechanical and commercial interests can have facilities Lor business without o resort to Loans at exorbitant rates of from the agents of or from banking institutions located in other that we Are opposed to the Extension of slavery Over territories now free or the enactment of any Laws imposing in voluntary except for that we will support All the Luu Slub of Liliu Oul Mil i Iuva there was some years an attempt Nado to improve the water but owing to w nature of the it once during the High water in Tho Tho ground on one Side washed away to a great and again Tho dam broke in Tho a company was incorporated by act of last of several of the chief citizens of the with a capital of to build r new dam and dig they have commenced building a most substantial dam which appears Well listed to resist the Force of the the improvement of Tho water Pover cannot fail to Conduce most materially to the Prosperity of Rock and the citizens fully aware of its there is a Good Deal of rivalry Between tie East and West sides of Tho each cum Iii to to the nine and holding the other to be but an appendage to the Tho Niou of the rivals in building the great will lie Well calculated to compose these the dam is to Cost and the races More to Iasi As much this town is built with a Good Deal of Tho original Forest Trees Are in Fiat part left and Tho Cit Izais have planted Trees around their the streets Are so Diversi fied with Man and As in a town 1 know of not a thousand Miles from Nohava 1 noticed any accumulations d filth in Public places such As May to been any Day in the Middle of Bridge on Tho Wool do of the in this the chances to liquor Are not a place being visible where the Snake is the Crit abides on Tho East and there Tho victims of appetite can quench their Rockford is rather a Nice the people seem to got along dress live in style for a Little town and on the whole make much More of a swell than the Plain and honest Pennsylvania population of old in one thing they Are certainly far ahead of i moan in their Public they have a Safe and comfortable and a court the one is a Homo and not a and the other is designed for a better purpose than to Poison witnesses and with foul if it is possible to Poison a lawyer with any thing in hot or the same parties in cart toils properly afraid to contract debts for or to undertake anything not absolutely necessary which costs Mon ought to be ashamed of herself for tolerating any longer such an old Shell of a building on the Public in the the rats abandoned it in Long and never go there now except when they want to go to Tho Public buildings of a county give to Many persons a general idea of the character of the what an opinion must a traveler get of Tho character of Bur Stephenson from looking at that ghostly piece of architecture which constitutes their Temple of and then the jail the Black Hole of Calcutta is the Tho Model after which it was to put a human being in is a piece of inhumanity which can scarcely think our be guilty of in this nineteenth 1 sound sense of outlast grand jury who decided jail is Yuhi to Coirnne a Mai inv Uio do abated is the decision every Citi zen is ready to a follow calling himself or has been for the past two or Throe evenings to lecture to some of our citizens on this Humbug fifteen the Block of wooden build Figa Oti Rock and Pearl from the ship Yard to Erie and to Evans were in the fire passed Erie look in the Large planing Mill of thence crossed and burned the Erie Street sweeping every thing on the opposite Side of Tho and Owh Mechanic of Bith the number of buildings Burnt must have been and Tho ground burned some 30 or 40 the Large Brick Public school House in District on Erie was the amount of Lum Ber burned in and was very As also that in the Yards of s and Farmer and Rig Lon the buildings being nearly nil hew Froukh seem by the statement in National that the use of percussion Olps for is about to be sniper ceded by it new and far morn efficient which is reported As being safer than the easily undo stood arid test imaged with entire simplicity and ease by the most untutored when once plied to the lasts without the necessity Dura invent f being touched by the for thu Ion of Tho longest this new i lion has been tested for four in prac tical Field by the troops in and the result was highly so much that tha Board of consisting of distinguished officers of the army and reported in favor of life Pur Chase of the Patent right for Tho the which to said to be extremely simple it changes neither the nor action of the of were of Little the Lum the number of families burned out of House and was Many of them Bartly escaped with their so fearfully rapid was the Progress of the n ill the Salisbury and is applicable to any kind of lire increased Cost of the of five the very Sligh Arm is made upon the saving the Lato election held in the s for Cor Brution resulted in the cry Rico of the follow Ngab and Jons i Clark Paoti Hiram the persons Good business Ca and to Trust that under their has been chosen cd composing this Are men o the Best interests of our town will it in today paper will be of protected at All and of the thus coven new of hits Railroad conspiracy Case hits been decided jury finding 12 of the conspirators guilty among them arc James Liard Lyman Aaron Erastus Smith and Ebe Nozer Smith find Farnham Are recommended to the mercy of the statement of we Lind in the Mobile advertiser the state ment of do who acted for n time As the agent of Lopez at where he was the Noe ans of communication Between the general and the we copy the important part of the statement Lopez never Decie cd any one about the Revol Leonary feelings in and the co operation he hoped to meet from the my position near him for the last eighteen months his enables me to state knowing that letters from All parts of the Island have often called him and his what Ever might be their no letters or news have Ever been forged in this and i urn astonished that such an accusation should Ever have been made against the few devoted sincerely con Vinced of the Justice of have spa red no no to serve and have engaged in it their name and with no other guarantee than the word and Honor of one these letters have not been written with the intention of deceiving their Osly fault is not As the wishes and feelings of the cuban but As to the possibility of immediate but few cubans joined it is True but How Many tried to join the sailors of Havana May answer that question by stating How Many arrests were made on the roads since the 12th of August they can answer by Tel Ling what is the crime committed by Over wretches now in Spanish dungeons or transported to the soldiers also Cin inv buying now Many Nave been executed behind the Bushes of the Aguacate and the Pena jabs Funni Monib whose we lately was born in new Jersey 17 his the late was a native of in 1802 he entered Yale graduated in and spent the next six years of his life As midshipman in the he left Tiu service in and married a sister of Bishop his As an commenced in 18 his numbering nearly Are Well known to the american they were translated into most of the european and some of them into arabic per at in private the character Hundred Lliso costing less than As much is by this the gun is made to prime and the increase in rapidity of firing is reported to be from then Tyl ivc to thirty per in Dur some circumstances which pm brass the the increase would be some hundreds this invention has in Seye Ralin been applied to sporting gun has met an unanimous approval com those sportsmen who have used Lenin fell in we Sec by i table published in the to the Dupol of 3057 from the Lisl of january to the first in Only or three fourths of an Inch fell but in May mid Jun 22 inches and a fraction full the Quantity in each month being nearly equally july and there was a fall of 11 an half the Quantity thai govern b possibles alternative i e of the Oil owing few Days ng0 be hgr going at the to Miles an was the track it to c the Lionso and front tie Hind Wolret toned other and quietly not nonce nud Speed of t was scarcely to Drivers Surprise pass through Iris your poort old Ding Ash Biln paper the fall f senator clue senator Chase has mine we Takeoff his life i j f has fallen this is probably mire thai double the usual average up to this and from the succession of we Lias had this it is pro bal that lilo Quan Tity will not c me far from 7 in the Nve Ragu of rain ii Tho months of july and for the ins 27 by the at that i thus year in the same Only being inches less Tom the average from August i to september for the same the ave is 0 34 this inches than the average Quan Tity 1 the Commonwealth has sul the Story that the Dollar Mark is Aii abridgement of the letters meaning United the Mark was used Long be fore the United Stales of North America were it is probably the sign of a piece of 8 that is to nine pences and the crosses through it Are to show that the figure 8 is not to be counted As part of the the pieces of eight recollected by nil readers of Robinson Cru Wero Spanish and the Mark now used for the Dollar Means that the piece is Worth eight the National intelligencer has the follow ing following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman in new we what correspondence in England is rpm the Psi respectable and Well a formed i i have a letter by the last British which states that up knt nce and eng Are negotiating a treaty respecting the an named Church to says lit Hui priness syium he a Jned Iii he Ever did in his life Mirriel i in Tho Village wife of goo go Iowa of at Jamea Elfy now to it Jii Tion of a Fra by Wurfl Joist race Iva express j Aro offering at Elinor Diiuro w for Cash or Renty one of the Bent Timeir stoic following Broadcloth and Cisski of nil a Tyler and qualities Shet Fps Cia Jick and agcy silk kor a nines Wool in ifs of Mado 0 ver Coats dress c0j Cashmere do j Black and mohair v French 2mi i o All and top not 3i Biles ohm Lilea a Jami Cambric nud bios c g d til a Jurood Ilove Bablu i aug an of Brown Arij Toi wide 1illox v Saxony Ivel end plaid and i a of Xirui Ranty of the conditions Cuba shall have a local a representation in the Cortes provision shall be maf1 lion of slavery in the i consider n formation very what does England to to Mark her of Lelih Preston House of correction that out of criminals admitted in the year 936 Couch neither read nor write 535 Cotton i Harpie door Buwit cups and i line c of Alkim lift Glass and in order w be Brief to in tic to Call and examine our m f Congress passed on the subject of slave whig commit item of we in the into candidates for Tho moral Conkity the be supported it Tho ensuing Tho ii cars to be elected a treasurer and Suric Yor and school vote u to be Ken on Tho bunk which u a matter of vast in and should engage Tho i Tentou of every intelligent Locopo Ooisy in St Louis Republican says there is probably to be a Union of the bunion and ant Benton bran Ches of Locopo Chism in it they Are in a desperate state of Incerti Ludo and perplexity Benton ians standing quiet and receiving All the advances of the other the antics approaching and re As if apprehensive of a sound drub Bing if the match is made no one can fail at a Mere glance to arrive at the conclusion gift Iii Iii by in Louis of Cooper was irreproachable he was the Good the kind the affectionate the Honett Man and Christian could read 441 could read and write c cd read and write fluently so that Only 1 i to every 100 possessed what is clod a d proceed Little and we find who can not give the names the months ignorant of there Anong of such word As vice and virtue ii i 111 it i1 it i i our we would Imi cd not to undersold Unur business to to mib Tuin it by our Railroad Nis will and the jut useful for fun and declared by the Judi Lal tribunals of Tho country be deem it the unquestionable right of every to canvass Tho merits of every in and if found to be oppress or of doubtful to advocate heir modification or that Tho present National administration is entitled to the con Dence of Tho whigs of for the consummate manifested in the management of oui att tirs with foreign its sympathy with Tho oppressed of other am its advocacy of u Public policy so imperil Lively demanded by the manufacturing and commercial Inu reets of the a whole to mryt Tho Chicago that a Bank of Issue u about being establish at one of principal Points of Illi Nois it is to be conducted upon the of which in this ready to Cavo in and do Pennance As Long the free spoilers Raay require them to do in the country it is otherwise but a vigorous discipline May whip them and then Tho management of the party machinery will be Given to the called session of the governor French has signified in a letter to senator from his in Tention of not culling the legislature together until some time in june this will b better for the state than a Winter those who arc so fortunate As to get hold of this nud Road Tho Adver Tising Colun pcs ii mediately or own after will be in Tine to give Wajter Han n Call they to last Al Only that they to v and woman died about years ago kit no and gentle own have usurped the potato rot has not Beun so disastrous t i i a Neap Qilian Noble Majl fought duels to that was a greater poet than at Liis death is con us we believed a Short time probably be a two thirds crop lessor n of Dis ind Jim acknowledge the superiority Lwy it 00 cents per Efthi Pofi answered the dying Uvell you the Dante or the first settlement of Illinois was in by the and during the same Yar it Vas ceded to at the close of the War it remained american tar in 1800 it was included within the Indian at this period the number of Minlu Vitants was estimated ill in 1809 it was formed into separate Terri and in 1810 its population had reached an increase of Over 300 per in ten in 1818 it Lecaire a and in contained a population of being an increase of about 350 per by this number the state was Enlil led to one Mem Ber of in 1830 the population numbered 355 an increase of a fraction loss than 200 per tinder this Tho was represented in Fri free Mem in Tri population had reached 183 a gain of 200 per entitled the state to seven members of in 50 Tho population numbered eight Hun dred and fifty one Hundred and being u gum of 78 por with a representation of nine with the name of the reign Uig Sov Ereign 307 not Tible to count and 782 knew t i hts name of Clit Cit the two Young men arrested at this place several week Sago for steel Iny Ursus in step unison county acid for a hog a term of our circuit was or Nokal jail sheriff Churell and Bradley started on sunday last for with twelve representatives from this to the Stato institution there theirn Umes and qua Lilica Lions Are As follows and Mio Mol seven Morris for mans laugh years James Kerwin and Andrew know pm for year Patrick col for robbing a Man of no year orly to Tarraf Battles for the former Tho Jutter two Frank Lin Williaim Brown anti Thomas Plov one year ouch William for Mung from colonel held on were provided for As follows John Sweet Parker plead and was sentenced for years to to Tho Robert Hoy plead guilty and that lie was under i years of Atje whereupon he was sen to ipod county jail for 8 Ottawa free a mastodons us main few Days since Keno Wui Kmen who were logging in a of hog near a Small Stream in the town of Sussex came upon the Bones of hum enormous after a Deal labor they succeeded in a Tusk Miu Stiring ten fuel in Ami weighing one Hundred pounds some Titus weighing Over ten inches and Twenty eight in Circum Serenco and a Foro leg or Shin Mains using three foot six inches from the fetlock joint to the from these specimens to presume the remains to be those of some monster of the Mastodon As it is Woi known that the Valley of the Delaware am the tributaries of that River were frequent Tec by these and finding o their Bones quite a common of Nguot of the Washington Tribune says a letter Froni Loman in slates an Jii now spaniards Liiv by building Chat Relvi Frencha Biu room to Tav iwo St instant Firo of Tho with the utmost Rico merely became he bore Exi eid Estop Cri us Cash and Ore Arabi ill will by calling

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