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Newspaper
Geneva Express
Location
Geneva, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1856
Page
5
The fragmentary verse to a person named Zana exhorts noble calling and inner truth. It references youth, dreams, longing, and a mission, urging tune and echo in song. The passage emphasizes purity, kindness, and moral motivation, with emphasis on spiritual direction and lyrical guidance.
The Philadelphia Convention adopted a platform denouncing the Ostend Circular and endorsing California statehood while urging a Pacific railroad and federal support. It condemns slavery expansion in Kansas, defends constitutional rights, and calls for unity across parties to uphold republican ideals and liberty.
Excerpted reflections frame intellect as scattered pearls and wealth as war funding to unlock global education. The speaker urges universal schooling, academies, and churches, contrasting surface agitation with deep underlying repose, and notes tears, virtue, and mercy in human conduct.
Dr Kane declined Lady Franklin's renewed offer to command a British backed expedition to seek Sir John Franklin's remains and ship relics. The plan called for a steamer, with the search limited to a region about 150 miles in diameter, promising quicker, safer work. The offer was described as a high compliment to an American.
Describes the Dacotah Indians name Minne ha ha for a waterfall between Fort Snelling and St. Anthony, and details a scenic drive from St. Paul to the falls. Recounts the bluff, the stream, the plunge, and visitors passing behind the fall, noting Longfellow's naming of the Squaw in Hiawatha.
The piece explains how General Washington's reliance on Governor Jonathan Trumble of Connecticut led to the term Brother Jonathan for the United States. It notes the alias arose when the army faced shortages and the governor aided, creating a phrase for national unity akin to John Bull for England. It closes with a regional quip about seating and vantage during travel.
From a Theodore Parker sermon the text extols the minister with unique public reach to shape morals. It contrasts political figures who appeal to selfish interests with a preacher whose weekly audience gathers for uplift, rebuke, and guidance, sharing confidences and aiding moral transformation.
A Harris excerpt urges forming strong habits to achieve success, citing Franklin and Girard as examples of virtue and frugality. It argues that consistent effort over time builds character, with parables on daily acts of kindness and their compounding impact. Also notes Mexican intelligence on Spanish expedition actions and U.S. protection considerations, plus Tehuantepec route accession debates and a spate of horse thefts in Grant County.
The piece laments six months in session with eleven weeks spent selecting a Speaker and calls for urgent legislation on Pacific railroads river and harbor improvements and western waterways. It pins most blockage on the Kansas slavery fight led by Douglas, arguing popular sovereignty is ignored and predicting no major action until Kansas is resolved, per the Chicago Press.
A Milwaukee Sentinel correspondent argues Wisconsin is rich in copper and lead beneath Lake Superior and iron ore near the region, with limestone sandstone gravite potential and rail links needed to develop these resources. He cites ongoing geological surveys to justify capital investment and asserts Wisconsin could rival western states in prosperity. The piece also notes high water on the Mississippi and booming lumber shipments downstream, predicting over a hundred million feet of lumber to move this spring.
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