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IIUHINKSS CI A It OS.
Bowen & Strickland,
TTORN'KYS AT LAW. Ileal Kst.Ve,
City Lots and Claims bought and Bold.
Pitrcha.sn will do well to call at our office
and Hxumine our list of Citv Lots, ice., before
purchasing elsewhere. 0:lice iii Cook's new
building, corner of Ftf'.h and M iiu streets.
L. L. Bowen.
A
TTOHNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, tellevue. N. T. 1-tf
S. A. Strioklmrl,
A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
JV LAW, Bellcvue, N. T. 1-tf
T. B. Lemon,
. A TTOltNCY AND COUNSHLLOR. AT
A LAW. Office, Fontenelle Bank, Belle
yut, Nebraska '1 crritory. lyfll
C. T. Holloway,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf
"W. H. Cook.
GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE
' AGENT, Bellevue City, Nebraska. 1-tf
"W H. Longsdorf, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on
Main, between Twenty-Fifth anH Twenty.
Siifth streets, Bellevue City. 33tf
W. W. Harvey,
COUNTY SURVEYOR OF SARPY CO.,
will attend to all business of Surveying,
laying out and dividinir lands, surveying and
flatting; towns and roads. O flics on Main
trset, Bellevue, N. T 28-tf
B. P. Rankin,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSNLLOR AT
LAW, La PI itte, N. T. 1-tf
J. P. Peek, M.D.
SURGEON & PHYSICIAN, Omaha, Ne.
br ska Olhce and residence on Dodge
Street. (lvG),
Peter A. Sarpy,
FORWARDING &. COMMISSION MER
CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale
Ueater in ludian Goods, Horses, Mules, and
Cattle. 1-tf
D. J. Sullivan. M. D.,
1JHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office
. Head of Broadwar, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
nov. 13 ' , 1-tf.
. E. SMITH. 1. H. SMITH
Smith St Brother,
ATTORNEYS &. COUNSELLORS at LAW
and Dealers in Real Estate, Bellevue,
Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully and
promptly to buying and selling Real Estate,
Citv Lots. Claims, and Land Warrants. Office
on Main Street. 21-6in
TIICS. MACOttT. ADO. MACON.
Macon St Brother,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW i. LAND ACTS.,
Omaha City, Nebraska. Offics on cor
tier of Farnham and Fourteenth Streets. 42tf
Oreene, Weare St Benton,
BANKERS AND LAW AGENTS, Council
Blulli, Potowattamie conuty, Iowa.
Orsene Sc. Weare, Cedar Kapids, Iowa.
Greene, Weaie tc Rice, Fort Des Moines, Ta.
Collections made Taxes paid; rind Lands
purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-tf
' D. II. Solomon.
TTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT
LAW, Gltnwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac
tice In all the Courts of western Iowa and
Nebraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa.
Land Ageucy pot in the Programme, no 4-tf
IASHIONABLE Hair Cutting, Shaving,
A Dying, and llathing Saloun, third door
west of the F.xcbares Bank, Omaha, N. T.
Omahi, Oct. 1, 157. 47
BELLEVUE,
BELLEVUE HOUSE.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE
LARGE AND POPULAR
HOTEL,
OFFERS EVERY
To the Public, and will render
ASSIDUOUS ATTENTION
To tht wants of 1JIS GUESTS.
J. T. ALLAN.
Bellevue, Oct. 23, 1S56. 1-tf
J. II ItKOWlV,
ATT0RXEY AM) 1 01MEL0R AT LAW
GENERAL LAND A3ENT,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC,
Pliih-movih, Cats Co. JV. T.
ATTENDS to business in any of the Courts
of this Territory. Particular" attention paid
to obtaining and locating Land Warrants, col
lection of debts, ane taxes paid. Letters of
inquiry relative to any parts of the Territory
answered, if accompanied with a fee.
REFERENCES 1
Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from Ills.;
Hon. Jnin"s Knox, M. C. u "
Hon. O. H. Browning, Qulncy, "
Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa.
Hon. H. P. Bennett, Del to C. from N. T
Green, Weare St Benton, Council Binds, I.
Nuckolls &. Co., Glenwood, Iowa. 23tf.
Ira A. 7. Buck,
T" AND and General Afent Pre-Emption
J Papers prepared, Land Warrants bought
and sold. Olfice in the Old State House, over
the U. S. Land Office.
REFER TO
ITnn. A. R. Gillmorc, Receiver, Omaha.
Hon. F.nos Low. "
Unn. S. A. Strickland, Bellevue.
Hon. John Finney. "
Hon. .1. S'rriinp Morton, Nebraska Ciy.
Omgha, .lime 20, 1S37. 35
H . T. rt.ADKF..
A. M. CLARKE.
CLARKE & BROTHER,
GROCERS,
rOLWAEDINQ AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
Steam Boat and Collecting Agents,
BELLEVUE, NEBEASKA.
Dealers in Pine Lumber, Doors, Sash, Floun
Meal, Bacon, &.C.
fTDirect Goods, " Care Clarke St Bao.,
Bellevue, Nebrjflca." v2nl
BOYES & CO'S
WESTERN LITHOGRAPHIC
i:sriniisii.ni:T,
Florence?, Nebraska, In Main St.
Town Plats, Maps, Sketches,
Business Cards, Checks & Bills, Certificates,
and every description of plain and fancy en
gra vinsr, executed promptly in eastern style.
3m32
Thomas Sarvis,
GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE
Affenf, Columbus, Platte Co., Nebraska.
Having traveled extensively over the Omaha
Land District, will enter land at the ensuing
Land Sale at reasonable rates. Taxes paid,
and money loaned for Eastern capitalists, at
Western rates 011 Real Estate security n29iy
OIO. SNVOEK.
JOHN H. SUEBMAN.
Snyder & Sherman,
A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT
ii. LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun
cil Bluffs, Iowa, will practice their profession
in all the Courts of Iowa and Nebraska.
All collections entrusted to their care, at
tended ta promptly.
Especial attention jtlven to buying and sell
ing real estate, and making pre-emptions in
Nebraska.
Deeds, Mortals, and other instruments of
writing drawn with dispatch acknowledg.
ments taken, Ac, 4c.
(J. I?" Olfice west aide of Madison street,
just above Broadway,
nov 13 1-tf.
P. A. SARPY.
FOR WARDING & COMMISSION
MERCHANT,
Still continues the above bnsiness at
BT. MARYS, IOWA , & BELLEVUE,
N. T.
Merchants and Emigrants will find their
goods promptly and caref'illy attended to.
P. S. I have the only WAREHOUSE for
storage at the above named landings.
St. Marys, Feb. 20th, 18j7. 21-tM
Tootle St Jackson,
1 FORWARDING A. COMMISSION MER
CHANTS, Council Bluffs citv, Iowa.
I Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse
' on the Levee at the Council Bluff s landing,
are now prepared to receive and store, sill
kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive
and pay charges on all kinds of freigtba so
that Steam Boats will not be detained as they
have been heretofore, in getting some one to
I receive freight, when the consignees are absent.
KirKBrKCESt Livertuoore .V, Cooler, 8. C.
DaiitA. Co. and Humphrey. Putt fc Tory, Kt.
Louis, Mo. Tootle & Fairleieh, 8t, Joseph,
I Mo. . J. 8. ChenewortU Co., Cincinnati Ouio;
' W. F. Coulbonsh, BurUntt'on, Iowa. 1-tf
NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 1858.
POETRY.
For the Bellevue Gazette.
The Prairie Do re.
BY A. E. D.
Oh, fly away, e'er the prairies roam,
Thou beautiful bird of the West
Oh, fly away, to my native home,
Thou'lt be a welcomed guest.
Bear a message from us sweet dove,
To that long-loved cheerful spot,
For there are friends whom we dearly love.
That shall never be forgot.
Oh, tell them we oft grow sad and lone,
When we think of the days of yore,
We miss the familiar smile and tone,
Of the friends we loved before.
Ob, tell them that absence, nor change
of clime,
Can sever the sacred ties,
Of love, of friendship, for is not oura
A love which never dies.
Oh, tell them, we would be happy here,
Yes, wo would be content,
If those we loved in youth were near,
Pleasantly would time be spent.
Then fly away to my once sweet home,
Thou bird of the airy wing,
Bear this message to that loved dome,
Aud hear the songs they sing.
Oh, then return with the speed of love,
When night grows dark and chill,
And tell, O, tell us thou innocent dove
Do they love, do they love us still.
We know there are some in that distant
home,
Who love and remember us yet
And though in the far off west we roam
We know they will not forget.
Ob 1 there is a pure, a constant love,
Which lasts and lives forever,
Time I know its strength may prove,
But the chain it cannot sever.
Though we iny never meet on earth,
There is a brighter boms
Where we may meet, and ever dwell,
In tl.at celestial dome.
Oh, may we soar on wings of love,
Beyond the azure vaulted sky j
Reign with the angelic hosts above,
Around God's thrown on high.
My Treasure.
BT AUGUSTA MOO BE.
A little lovely Baby Boy,
With features soft and fair,
With smiles upon his dimpled cheeks,
And sunshine in his hair.
With kisses on his rosy lips,
And love within his eyes
This is my last year's jewel bright,
The treasure that I prize.
Tbe New Year hath no gift so tweet,
Nor halt so full of joy,
Nor half so good and beautiful,
As my dear Biby Boy.
The Western Man.
He rolled the prairie up like cloth,
Drank the Mississippi dry,
Put the Alleghany in his hat,
A steamboat in his eye,
Aid for his breakfast, buffaloes,
Some twenty-one did try.
He whipped the whole Camanche tribe
One day before he dined j
And for a walking cane be look
A Califori.ia pli.e (
And when he frowned he was so black,
The sun it could not ahine.
He whipped a ton of grizzly bears
One morning with a fan
And proved himself by all these feats,
To be a western man.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Great Writ.
Little do we, of the present generation,
imagine what an iiea is yet to be convey
ed ly the term " Great West." . Indeed,
this miht Le said of every part of our
country, but particularly of the Yest, the
South-we&t and the North-west. It is of
the Wet we speak, and wo mean by that
word, the country west of the Allegha
nips and the Mississippi river, extending
to the far reaching Pacific, whise shores
already begin to teem with Anglo-Amer.
ican life.
! The old Thirteen," grand and glorl.
ous in the records of the past, can no
, longer compete in civilization with the
i march of progress iu the ruighty West.
And this we:iern empire, what was it
half 1 a century ago? A.n unbroken and
bawling wilJermas a royal hunting.
ground for the untamed savage, who has
melted away before the science and art
or the White Man, like the mountain mitts
before the summer's eun.
Great and marvelous as has been its
development, we do not yet conceive the
nature of the Republican Empire that is
to rise in the Great West. If our wes
tern cities have not been, like those of
Sardanapalus, built in a day, we may
point to Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville,
St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwau
kee, Detroit, Keokuk, etc., with their
hundreds of thousands, and say (hey have
been built in the life of a man. Aye,
the very spot from which we now write,
wns " three score and ten" years ago,
shaded by the primitive groves first seen
by the old French voyagers! Where the
fnthers brought down the noble deer and
the subtle turkey, where they met and
c mtended with the Read Man for the
right of possession, the sons are piling
stone on stone, adding houso to house,
block to block, and street to street ; where
the wild whoop of the savage, the howl
of wild beasts, and the sweet song of the
native bird were mingled in a common
chorus, we now listen to the clank and
rattle of machinery, the roar, bustle and
life of a mighty city, containing a quarter
of a million of busy mortals, each pursu
ing in peace his chosen avocation.
May we not, then, even in this simple
aspect, be proud of the mighty West ?
May we not point with exultation to the
triumph of labor, end peace, and safely
predict a brilliant future for this vast re
public? No matter what demagogues
may say, we are one people, indissolubly
united by the strongest bondo and inter
ests known to men. The South and the
East have sent hither their sons and
daughters, and nobly have they repre
sented the old commonwealths. Until re
cently, the people of the West, like a
new married couple, coi stantly looked to
the old homestead for every assistance,
but nqw we have come to feel as heads of
families that we must rely upon our
selves. We have learned to build cities,
railroads, etc. Western rivers are navi
gated by Western Boats, propelled by
Western Machinery. Our miners have
gone down into the bowels of the earth,
and brought forth specimens of our vat
Mineral Wealth. The black smoke of
the furnace and forge rises like ominous
clouds, revealing to us that Science and
Art have at last begun to exert their sway
over the progress and development of the
Great West. It is now to the West that
the East looks for a markat, and to it for
provisions, and the great elements of
wealth and national greatness.
The ever potent Press is radiating true
and noble sentiments to every family, and
our public schools are directing our chil
dren's minds into pursuits of practical
utility. Scitnlife Artisan.
ScMMta Complaints.-Why should
there be summer complaints and winter
complaints, apri ig diseases and autumnal
disease? Simply because people live in
defiance of physiological laws at all sea
sons. In the various seasons of the year,
the different circumstances of temperature, i
diet, exercise, etc., determine the way
and manner in which nature makes the
remedial effort to free the system of its
accumulated impurities, and this deter
mines the form and charcter of the dis
ease. In the relaxing heats of summer
the processes of depuration through the
skin and lungs are much less vigorous
than in the more bracing at uospbere of
winter, hence all irregularities of life,
and all improprieties in eating and drink
ing, affect the bowels as the chief depur
ating channel. This is the rationale of
the prevalence of choleras, dysenteries,
and diarrheas in the warm season.
We have long been of opinion that the
doctrines taught by medical men, and the
measures recommended by Boards of
Health, in their application to the preven
tion and cure of bowel complaints, are es
sentially erroneous in nearly all impor
tant particulars. Rice, fine flour, farina,
starch, and animal food are recommend
ed as the proper dietary to prevent or cure
all diseases which are attended with loos
new of the bowels.
We hold to the contrary doctrine. We
regard the safety of the patient, and his
exemption from any fatal or even very
severe malady during the hot season, to
be associated with loose bowels. The
great error and danger is in constipation.
Constipation is itself the cause of the rio
! lent struggle which so frequently results
111 the death of some form of bowel com
plaint. Tbe dietary should, therefore, be
just the opposite. Instead of being re
atricted to fine and concentrated prepare
tions, all of these should be excluded. It
cannot be too coarse, or rather too natur
al. Uubolted bread and mushes, plain
vegetables, and ripe fruits are the pre
ventive remedies. We know scores of
families in New York city and elsewhere
who feed their children 111 this way, and
who religiously eschew flush, fish, fowl,
nne flour, all greasy and starchy prepare
tions, as well as candies and confections
of every sort, and their children never
have any serious bowel complaints.
Convulsions, of which children die in this
city at the rate of fifteen huudred a year
or more, are produced solely by coiistipa
ting and indigestible food.
Life Illustrated.
A VtNKBABLE NeWSPAPCR. -Tll6
Newport Mercury, published in Newport
Rhode Island, completed the hundredth
year of its existence last Saturday, the
first number of that journal having been
issued June 12, 1768. It was founded
by James Franklin, and his press- the
one on which he and his younger brother,
Da. Benjamin l rakklim, sooften work
ed has remained in the oflice to the pres
ent day, as a venerable relic. The Mer
cury was afterwards published successfully
by Mrs. Ann Franklin, the mother of
James and Benjamin; Samuel Hall, who
married her daughter, and others. The
present publishers are F. A. Pratt &. Co.
They stereotyped for circulation, on the
centennial anniversary of the Mercury,
a fao simile of us issue for December 19,
175o the earliest perfect number in their
I osseseion. it is a dingy little sheet, about
7 x 12 inches. The contents are letters
from London, tlescrptive of the then polit
ical alfurs 111 Europe, a short essay on
agriculture, an account of the taking of
1 1. Duquesne from the r rench in Novem
ber, 1758, sixteen ordinary advertisements
and one special notice most conspicuously
across tbe editorial page, to wit : " Any
rerson who playa well on a violin, on ap
plication to the Printer hereof, may be
informed where he will meet with proper
Encouragement."
Tut Prirter. The printer is the
Adjutant of Thought, and this explains
the mysteries of the wonderful word that
can kindle a hope at no song can that
can warm a heart as no hope that word
" we," with a hand-in-hand warmth in it,
for the Author and the Printer are En
gineers together. Engineers indeed !
When the little Corsica n bombarded Ca
diz at the distance of five miles, it was
deemed the very triumph of engineering.
But what is that paltry range to this,
whereby they bombard the ages yet to
be?
There at the case he standi and mar
shals into line the forces armed for truth,
clothed in immortality and English. And
what can be more noble than the equip
ment of a thought in sterling Saxon Sax
on with the ring of spear on a shield
therein, and that commissioning it when
we are dead, to move gradually en to
" the last syllable of recorded time."
This is to win a victory from death, for
this has no dying in it. - -
The printer is called a laborer, end tht
office he performs is toil. , Oh, it is rot
work, but a sublime rite he is performing,
when he thus H sights" the engine, that
is to fling a worded truth in grander
curve than missiles ere before described
fling it into the bosom of an age unborn.
He throws off his coat indeed ; we but
wonder the rather, that he does not put
his shoes from off his feet, for the place
where he stands is boly ground.
A little song was uttered somewhere
long ago : it wandered through : the twi
light feebler than a star ; it died upon the
ear But the printer takes it up where it
was lying there in the silence like a
wounded bird, and he equips it anew
wih wings, and be sends it forth from
the Ark, that had preserved it, and it
flies on into the future with the olive
branch of peace ; and around the world
with melody, like the dawning of a Spring
morning. Bayard Taylor.
A Fair Divisior. A lady tells this
story : " I have been out to Indiana on a
visit, and while there I found a kitten,
which I bought and brought home for a
plaything for my two children. Te pre
vent a dispute about the ownership of puss,
I proposed and it was agreed, that the
head of the kitten should be mine, the
body should be the baby's, and Eddie the
eldest only three years should I the
proprietor of the long and beautiful tail.
Eddie rather objected at first to this divi
sion, as putting him off with an extreme
ly small share of the animal, but soon be
came reconciled to tbe division, and quite
proud of his ownership in the graceful
terminus of the kitten. One day soon
alter, 1 heard the poor puss making a
dreadful mewing, and called out to Eddie I
" There my son, you are hurting my share
of Ute kitten I heard her cry. ' " No I
dido t, mother: I trod on my part, and
: your part hollered."
Boston appropriates 2,000 this year
for open air concerts. .
NO. 37.
"DocToa," said an old lady the otlu
day to her family physician, kin you tell
me how it is that some folks is born
dumb?" "Why, hem! why certainly,
madame," replied the doctor, " it is owing
to the fact that they came into the world
without the power of speech." " La, roe,
remarked the old lady, " now just see
what it is tO have a nhvalcal eiiiralinn.
I've axed my old man more nor a hun
dred times that are same thing, and all I
could get out on him was, " kase they is."
Well, I'm clad I axed vou. for I nrr
should a died satisfied without knowm' it."
To Arm Tinv ItnPnt tl. tm
wr t AS ,
Tvnsr and Pn hnvm t-aronlltr n,al. a Am , .
monst ration against the use of tobacco.
The Episcopalain pronounces cigars lo be
" devil a playthings." The Presbyterian,
who IB Cnlfthfatoil fnl till ITf-nti, Mn4a Am-
clares the weed to be a hateful offensive
ptyalism with concomitant dirt ineffable."
Some one has observed that if the devil
could be killed with hard words, Dr. Cox,
would prove a dead shot.
Kossuth, when in America, wrote a
private letter to an English friend, which
is just made public, and from which we
learn what ha thought nf mi, tr.t.ni
of him. He said ! They have bored
me with triumphant entries, and invita
tions and addresses, but by submitting to
1111s annoying part or my mission, I bad
opportunity of drawing their attention to
their foreign policy."
Grasses. Over four hundred varieties
have already been noticed by the natural
ists. Over two hundred varices have
been cultivated in England. A dozen
sorts cover nineteen twentieths of &12 the
meadow land from Maine to Texas.
Herd's grass, whose other name is Timo
thy (derived from a man by the name of
Herd) a hundred and fifty years ago,
was a wild plant growinj only in Maine.
: A MobiL CxaTincATE. The follow
ing certificate speaks for itself
M Dear Doctor I will be one-hundred
and sevecty-r.ve year old next October.
For ninety-four years I have been an in
valid, unable to move unless stirred by a
a . a
lever; out a ytar ago last Thursday.!
heard of the Grancular Syrup. I bought
a bottle, smelt of the cork, and found my
self a new man. I can now run twelve
and a-balf miles an hour, and throw nine
teen summersets without stopping.
P. S. A little of your Alicumstoulum
Salve applied lo a wooden lei reduced a
compound fracture in eleven minutes,
and is now covering the limb with a fresh
cuticle of white gum pine bark."
"Jerome! Jerome!" screamed Mrs.
Butterfield, the other day, to her bicirest
boy, "what afe you throwing to those
pigons ?" . s
" Gold beads, mother, and the darned
fools are eatin 'em ; 'spect they think it's
corn." -
An attorney lxfnra a Kanrh nt mant.
j .
trates. a short time ago, told the bench.
wua great gravity, that - he had two wit
nesses in court in behalf of his client, anil
they would be sure to speak the truth, for
ne naa, caa no opportunity to communi
cate with them V
Mistress. My goodness alive. Bride .
et, what are you doing! here's my fine
newtsa kettle with the bottom melted out
" Didn t yeee tell me to put it on the
fire for tea, an' I did, an' I thought it was
strange that yees said nothing about put
tin aweataasa im at
a srv ta hv l iu tt
An old msid speaking of marriage.
says it's like any other disease, while there
is life there is hope. - - ;
- 1 4
" I say, friend, your horse is a little
contrary, is he not?" , . . M
No,Sir-eer
" What makes him stop, then I" - 1
" O ! he's afraid somebody '11 say whoa,
and he ahant hear it"
Some genius has conceived the brilliant
idea to Dress all the lawvers into millitanr
service, in case of war because their
charges are so great that no one could,
stand them. - ,
" The devil's in my teat," exclaimed
Bill, when, in the haste of putting it on
be tore a big hole in the sleeve.
" You are right for once," quietly re
plied his friend Jim.
An Irishman was told that a friend eC
his had put his money in the stocks..
" Well," said he, I never had a far
thing in the stocks, but J've had my htga
there quite often enough."