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Real Estate, : City Lots and Claims bought and sold. Purchasers will do well to call at our office And examine our list of City Lots, fcc.. before purchasing elsewhere. Office In Cook's new building, corner of Fifth and Main streets. L. L. Bowen. TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf . . S. A. Strickland, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Bellevue. N. T. 1-tf C. T. Holloway, , A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT i. LAW. Bellevue, N.-T. iJ'- 1-tf TTT TT T G ENERAT. LAND AND REAL ESTATE A U E N T, Bellevue City, Nebraska. 1-tf D. P. Rankin, A TTORNEY AND COUNSNLLOR AT xjl LAW, La rl Ule, IN. T. l-tr S. W. Coesens, ATTORNEY AT LAW and General Land . AGENT, Omaha city, N. T. Office in Henry A. Root's new Brick Block, Farnham street.' " "" no 16-fim John W. Pattiion. VTOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE Vi AGENT. Fontenelle. N. T. 1-tf James S. Izard & Co. AND AGENTS, Omaha, Douglas County I Nebraska Territory. 1-tf Drs. Malcomb & Peck. "VMAHA CITY. Office on Harney street J opposite the Post Office. Particular at tention given to Surgery. 1-tf P. E. Shannon, R F.AL ESTATE AGENCY, Cerro Cordo Post Office, St. Mary, Mills Co., Iowa. P. E. Shannon, COMMISSION St FORWARDING MER V- CHANT. St. Mary's Landing Mills Co, lowa. 2-tf Peter A. Sarpy, TT'ORWARDING k. COMMISSION MER J-' CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale Dealer ' iu Indian Goods. Horses, Mules, and Cattle. 1-tf . D. J. Sullivan. M. D.. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. O.Hee X Head of-Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa, bov. u l-tr. T. B. CUMINS. JOHN C. T0BK CuminR & Turk. Attorney $ at Law and Real Estate Agents WILL attend faithfully and promptly t all business entrusted to them, in th 1 L I a . . . U - iciiiiona, or owa courts, 10 urn purcus v lots and lan4t, entries and pre-emptions, col """in, LCr Offic in th. ..AnJ -t II.--,, f, Ttnnl riew building, nearly opposite the Western " 'rniiam sireei. Papers in the Territory, Council Bluffs fit, and Keokuk Times, please copy chsrp Kebrasktaa eft.ee. Bu aad ' ii . Job Printing. NEATLY and expeditiously executed, I taionabls terms, at this Office. on BUIINES8 CAKDH. . D. II. Solomon, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac tices in all the Courts of western Iowa and Nebraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa. Land Agency not in the Programme, no 4-tf C. T. HOLI.OWT. C. P. BLLB Ilolloway & Keller, GENERAL LAND AfiENTS. Tielteviia city, N. T., will promptly attend to the collecting and investing money, locating Land warrants, onvinr and selling city lots, Ac Office at the Bellevue House. Thos. Macon. Alix. Macow. H. O. Jones. Macon, Brother & Co. TAW AND LAND AGENTS, Omaha City J Nebraska Territory. no 9-tf. Gustar Seeger, TOPOORAPHIC AND CIVIL ENGI NEER, Executes Drawing and Painting of every style and description. Also, all business in his line. Office on Gregory street reel, 1-tf st. Mary, miiis county, lowa. Greene, Weare & Benton, BANKERS AND LAW AGENTS, Council Bluffs, Potowattainie conuty, Iowa. Greene fc Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Greene, Weaie it Rice, 1-ort Des Moines, la. Collections marie i taxes paid; and Lands purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-tf W. W. Harvey, PURVEYOR AND CLAIM AGENT, will O promptly attend to all business of Survey ing laying out and dividing land, surveying and platting towns and roads, and will adcompany persons desirous of making claims, and will act as agent ror tne sale or claims, umce on Main Street, Bellevue, N. T. 2-tf GEO. SNYDER. JOHN H. SHEBMAN, Snyder & Sherman, A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT XX LAW. and NOTARIES TUBLIC, Coun cil Mulls, Iowa, witl practice their profession In all the Courts or lowa and Nebraska. All collections entrusted to their care, at tended to promptly. Especial attention given to buying and sell Ing real estate, and making pre-emptions in Nebraska. Deeds, Mortaees, and other instruments of writing drawn witn dupaten acknowledge Blent taken, te.. tu. KT Ollice west side or Madison street, just above Broadway. ' nov is ... i-tr. WM. B. SMITH. 1. II. SMITH Smith Ss Brother, A TTORNEYS& COUNSELLORS at LAW XJl and Dealers in Real Estate, Bellevue, Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully and promptly to buying ami selling Real Estate, City Lots, Claims, and Land Warrants. Office at the Benton House. . 21-6m j. ii nnowiv, ATTORNEY AND COLNCELOR AT LAW GENERAL LAND AGENT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, PhtUmouth, Cass 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 or debts, ane taxes paid. Letters or Inquiry relative to any parts of th'e Territory Biiswerea, u accompanied wiui a ic. REFERENCES: Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from IUs.j Hon. James Knox, M. C. " Hon. O. H. Browning, Quincy, " Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa Hon. H. P. Bennett, Del to C. from N. T. Green. Weare 4, Benton. Council Bluffs, I. Nuckolls t Co., Glenwood, Iowa. 23tf. Ira A. VT. Buck, LAND and General Agent. Pre-Emption Papers prepared, Land Warrants bought and sold. Office in the Old State House, over the U. a. Land umce. REFER TO Hon. A. R. Gillmore,' Receiver, Omaha. Hon. Enos Lowe, " , Hon. 8. A. Strickland, Bellevue. Hon. John Finney, " Hon. J. Sterling Morton. Nebraska City. Omaha, June 20, 1857. 35 H. T. CLABBE. A. M. CLABBE, CLARKE & B R 0 ., FORWARDING and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, BTEMBOAT AND COLLECTING AGENTS, BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA. Dealen iaP'ne Lumber, Soort, Saab, Flour, meal, Bacon, &c, &c. CP" Direct Goods care Clarke & Dro 1-tf FONTENELLE BANK OF EELLEVCE Bellevue. Nebraska. T8 prepared to transact the reneral business X of Banking, will receive deposits, Discount short paper, buy Bills of Exchange, on all nirf. nf Ik. Paii.I.. a.l ..II I ...i. Chicago and New York; make collections in the vicinity' and remit for the tame at Current rates of hxejiange. Pjj?" Interest allowed on special Deposits, JOHN WEARE, President. Twos. H. Benton, V. Pres. John J. Town, Cashier. 1-tf . Banking Honrs From 0 to 13, A. M., am I w j, r. ro. W. U. Iiongsdorf, M. D., "3 HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office en J. MJinetweenl wenty-riftD and Twenty Sixto meets, reiierm iity. 33tr P. A. SARPY, FORWARDING & COiMMlSSION MERCHANT, Still continues the above bnsiness at ST. MARTS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE, N. T. Merchants and Emigrants will find their goods promptly and carefully attended to. y. e. i nave me only w Aur.uuust. lor torage at the above named landings. St. Marys, Feb. 20tb, 1857. 21-tf-i Tootle & Greene, WHOLESALE fit RETAIL DEALERS, Glenwood, Iowa. We beg leave to call the attention of the Good People of Mills, Pottawattamie, Montgomery and Cass coun ties, Iowa; alfio, Douglas and Cass counties, Nebraska, to ourlargeand late supply or every Kind or Mc.KCHAINU.Sc.. usually kept In Western Iowa. Our stock of Groceries is large and complete, having been bought and shipped a little lower than our neighbors. enware, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps and Ready-Made Clothing, have all been purchased in the Eastern cities, at the lowest cash prices. Give us a call before you purchase, and if we do not sell you cheap goods, we will make our neighbors do so. (J27" Remember the cheapest house Intowr.. TUUTLei fc UKLfclNt.. Glenwood, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1850. 1-tf Tootle & Jackson, T70RWARDING &. COMMISSION MER- M CHANTS, Council Bluffs city, Iowa. Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse on the Levee at the Council Bluff's landing, are now prepared to receive and store, all kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive and pay cnarges on all kinds or rreietDs so that Steam Boats will not be detained as they have been heretofore, in getting some one to receive freight, when the consignees a re absent. KirEBENCES i Livermoore & cooley, s. U. Davis &. Co. and Humphrey. Putt &. Torv. St. Louis, Mo. t Tootle & Fafrleitrh, St. Joseph, Mo.t j. a. unenewortli Si Co., Cincinnati uinoi W. h. Coulboueli, Burlington, lowa. 1 FBANK I.. KEMP. WILLIAM raODSHAM. lew fork GUN AND JEWELRY STORE. KEMP tc FRODSIIAM, -v- e . t cna l. .t 1-- iir..k.. T . AS Musical Instruments, Hinet, Shot Uuns, and Pistols. CLOCKS, Thirtrhour and eieht day clocks of the two Dest manuraciories in me unions sieamuoat and ollice spring clocks. GUNS. Sinele ami double shot Guns, from five to fifty dollars; Kill's, or our own make; also, eastern make; ristois or ail kinds i pistol ,?':LbX common and water-proof caps; colt's caps, and numerous other articlee suitable for the Western trade, which neither time nor space will allow to enumerate. Ky All of the above articles sold on the most reasonable terms. Repairing done to order at short notice. no -tf Omaha Citv, N. T. JEW GOODS! NEW STORE! I THE undersigned have opened, at their new store on Douglas street, opposite the banks, a new and splendid assortment of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS and SHOES, BOOKS, STATIONERY,, Our stock of Dry Goods comprises all kinds of LADIES', GENTLEMEN'S and CHILD. RKN'S DKfcSS UOODS, ALL KINDS OF DOMESTICS and everything that is requisite to make up complete assortment or Dry ooous, j We have a lanre lot of Clothine that is weh and fashionably made, and out of the best material. 0rstock consists of all kinds of f ., .t u) Vnm .hill, flwwla " ' n, i ni. .,.) Kt.n,. i. ih. Ur.t SUUIO IIIO nuubO, ever offered to the citizens of Nebraska. Thevl are purchased directly from the raanufac- hirers, and are of the very best quality. h,.A in ti.. p.. ..p.. riHp.. ..,! w. -inf.B vur cihhis rm new, iiu ircciui. pnr- seiiii.i them at astonishing low prices. All the citizens of Omaha and vicinity are re- .V. . r...::..: .I j. lu ' Will lb t. UIE1I III.IKMV W M We study to please. no. 10-tf . PATRICK 4. CO. BELLEVUE HOUSE. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE LARGE AND POPULAR O T E L H OFFERS EVERY To the public, and will render ASSIDUOUS ATTEXTIOX To th vants of JUS GUESTS. J. T. ALLEN. Belleviie, Oct. 23. 1S.VJ 1-tf rnEA. TEA, TEA A tip-top article cf A YouBg Hyson, at M tts. per pound, at ths - ' JJEJLVUE STOPE. POETRY. From the Kansas City Enterprise Shaving A Farodv. BV II. I. MILLKTT. To shave, or not to have ? That's the ques tion! Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The brushes, raiors.'duns of barber-shops, Or to take arms against a sea of lather, And with a damask end it f To shave, to mow, To reap? and by a shave to say we end Our beards, and all the cruel pulls That beards are befrs to. 'Tls a consumma tion Devoutly to be wished I To shave, to shave, And have a barren face? Ah, there's the rubt For in that babbbb-ous state what colds may come, When we have shuffled oft the heavy crop, Mu,t Bv P"u,e- There's the respect That makes our ornaments of so long life. For who would bear the cat-o-ntne-tailed chin, The bushy cheek.the bristly, smothered mouth, The nick yonng lady's "pish?" the frequent wrench, The barbers' insolence, a slaughtering set I The ribald jest by boys at our expense, When he himself might his proud whiskers fall With a bare razor. Who'd these beauties sport, To groan and sweat beneath a mammoth load, But that the dread of hairless faces thin, That sterile plight from which there's no relief Until they grow again, puzzles the will, And makes us rather wear the ills we have Than to fly to shavers that we know not of, Thus fashion doth make lions of us all And each young face of scarcely eighteen years IiQsoftly shaded with impebial furs, . And phizes grand in symmetry and hue Are clad in hirsute drapery sublime And lose the name of beardless. A TIIUE TALE. Down Hill on tue Ilun In a few Sbort Chapters. THE BRIEF III80BT OP MY FASHIONABLE NEIOHBOR SMITH. CHAPTER I. I low beautifully our neighbor Smith lives : said my wite to ine one morning onlv three vears aro. as I was Wvinrr for my bark mill work, my regular round of , ,. . . ' . , , ., toil, my blind horse occupation, the daily drudgery of selling poods at retail. I hud jubt left the breakfast table and lin gereil on the door step a sei'onu or so, with my good natured but slightly envious better half, who could not help regretting that we were not able to ride an hour or two after breakfast, two or three times a week, as my neighbor Smith did with his wife. "How beautifully they do live!" repeated Airs. Jenkins (my name is Jenkins, dear reader, formerly known at No. 40 Buckram Lane, tape and needle dealer.) Mrs. Jenkins had no doubt intimated this pleasant fact to me, weekly, for year, and on the present occasion it was suggested by the arrival at the moment of a splendid pair of horses attached to an elegant phauon, which was to convey my noi rr Ii Vwb fimitk SB trwl iri fa i tnma Af tKa I iiciuuui tviiuui iiis st la. 17 v bviiiv vi itaw beautiful ana salubrious localities in the I the vicinity of Trumnetville. a fast bust ,,eM city iesa a thousand miles from I J ... IfZnlharn unit fnmnji. Fnr liivnrv Ann filfth, I. i i i e. l.-i J. ion, anu my neigniaor omun, mcny uoir who was dome a smashing business end fettinir rich, was one of its nabobs. Ah i indeed feU thoulrh mv con.iaut diff I rr i Kins ouxiu to aiioru us now anu men sucn recreations, nut it was no use. aimin I ofiened wondered the rich dog did not spell his name with a y,)was boru under a for I .1 , lunate star, ine lenow nau everyiuing to make earth a paradise ; rolling up man ey : a fine house, to be sure he hired that, but it was probably because he chose to keep the cash in' his business, shrewd fellow as he was, and the house elegantly turnisiu'd, pictures of high cost and rare value, (the rascal hud capital taste iu those things) nick-nai:ks of virtu, a good library, and last but not least, a refined, beautiful woman for a wife. Ah ! Smith was in deed a man to be envied. Mrs. Smith frequently honored me ivith her patronage, and many a snug little bill of goods nave I put up for her, and, to do the lady full justice, she paid me an honest proht, and cash down, but 1 wish 1 could say that Mr, and Mrs. Smith honored the plain, unpretending Jenkins, of No. 40 Buck ram lanc, with a social recognition or even looked across the street from their residence to mine in Chestnut Place, Alas ! to the mortification often of Mrs. Jenkins, they always cut us there, clear to the bono ; they never knew us, CHiPTCa I I tli ink it was about a I. year after the j artinilar morning I have referred to, that I gavo Mrs. Jenkins a surprise. I had come home from the bark-mill busi ness as usual, and glancing over to my rich neighbor Smith's I said, "my dear, supposing Smith should ask me to endorse his note for a couple of thousand dollars, ought I to do it I" Mrs. Jenkins wus in stantly in a flutter ; to think lliut the- proud Siiuili, the aristocratic bimtli, tho wealthy Smith, should ask n favor, was very kind and cordial, was evidence of a social rec ognition at last ; Mrs. Smith would cer tainly call on vs now. " Do it by all means, my dear," said my fluttered wife nattered through the extreme politeness or Smith &. Co., the great clothiers,'' to me, the plain, unpretending Jenkins, whom they honored by asking his name on their note for two thousand dollars. " Do it, in deed I would, my dear." " Hut I have refused, said I. My wife was petrified with astonishment, she was speechless, "Why, Adolphus Jenkins r -(Mrs. J., when she was very much astonished, generally snppeu in my eunnonious Christian name) " Why Adolphus Jen kins, I am perfectly astonished that you should lose to good an opportunity to oblige the wealthy Mr. Smith ; 1 am, in deed." , Mrs. Jenkins could have cried. " My dear," said I, "it enn't be help ed now. Smith called upon mo a week ago to endorse his note at ninety days for two thousand dollars ; he was very polite, and it was no doubt coudescending on his part to honor me with the privilege, but I had my reasons for a refusal, and con eluded not to inform you of tne interview till a proper opportunity occurred. I have long since known it would occur, and it has at last. Smith & Co., failed to-day for two hundred thousand dollars, and on the day before Smith asked me to endorse his bote the firm had confessed judgment to an amount double that of all the prop- perty they have in the world. Our neigh bor, our rich an envied neighbor Smith, has lost thirty thousand dollars in stock (rambling, and the whole concern are rot ten in moral as well as pecuniary resour ces. If I had endorsed that note I should have had it to pay, and never would have realized the first red cent from the high- toned firm of Smith & Co. Mrs. Jenkins looked at me with a most perplexed yet rather satisfactory express ion of countenance, drew a long breath, after listening to my recital, and left the room to attend to her domestic duties at the moment.witbout one word of comment. However, high as I had always stood in the opinion of my sensible . wife, I went up a notch higher that day. CHAPTER III. Just about three years after tho par ticular morniog in which this brief history opens, (and I beg to say to tho reader that this little picture is a truo one a thousand such can be studied any day in the present time of fluctuations and revul sions in trade snd commerce,) I was sit ting in my office, quietly attending to my duties iu a new field of operations, (1 have migrated to the busy world of huge Gotham,) when a visitor was announced whom I at first did not recognize. I had quit the bark-mill business and the fast city of Trumpetville, in disgust ; tape and needles did not pay, and Jenkins, of No. 10 Buckram Lane, was of the things of the past. The visitor was dirty look tug, threadbare and ragged ; yet rather gentlemanly in bearing, and a face which, after a moment, I recognized as an old and familiar one, told no symptoms of dis sipation, but the recognition stuggered me, It was Smith! He had always been the perfection of neatness as well as fashion, and dreued in excellent taste, and th most scrupulous regard to the purity of bis linen : a clean shirt and collar every day wus one of his peculiarities. But this individual, as Smith, 1 could hardly accept ; from his hat to his boots was dirt and rents; his .frock coat (a black one onco) was buttoned up to his thin, though the weather waj sweltering hot and albeit he had on a bright tflean dicky, the color of his shirt, which I glanced at under his rusty satin scarf, was that of brown paper It was the most abject picture of poverty in a respectable man I had ever seen, and as the apttearance of my neighbor Snath of Chestnut Place, Trumpetville, and his elegant style of life, came up before me in contrast to the evident position in me world of this individual, 1 was shocked the thought of his wife, too, stole upon me; was she alive? And if so, where! For two years I had heard nothing of Smith. -After his failure he had sold his elegant furniture, pictures, books, articles of virtu. Sic, and realized a handsome sum for thetn, though not over half what they cost, and had left Trumpetville with his beautful and ladylike wife, and taking but little interest in them, I had neglected to learn where they had cone to, jintt iu J my change of locality had about forgotten tliciu altogether. I looked at Smith, no doubt with a supriscd air, and unconscious ly my eyes wandered over his costume. He must have observed it, for with an embarrassed look and rather nervous tone he desired to speak a word to mo in pri vate, The purport of his visit was the loan of five dollars, and a haMy history of tho loss of situations, one and another, for tho past two years in this great city, from fuilures, he said, of tho two or threo concerns he had been clerk for, ami at lust ho liini run through with every dollur, could iret no place, was without a cent, could not pay his room rent nor in fact buy a ineiil j ho was reduced, in fact, to the last extreulity. VVhut a rapid tum bling down the grade of respectability was this ! and the smart, dashing Smith, too the Ninth who used to cut us, at Chestnut I'luce- tho proud Smi'h, to present him self to the unpretending Jenkins, and bejf tho loan of a five dollar bill to keep him from almost starvation I What a story would I have for Mrs. Jenkins at tea time ! , I ventured to ask hiin where his wifo was. ' " She is here, with me," said he. "What! in New York?" 1 ' " Yes, m this great city, in a small room, containing all we have in tho world, tho little remnant of our furniture, and here alio lives without a soul to speak tu her, except myself and the landlord's agent who calls weekly for the rent ho cunnot get; alio is broken hearted," ( Smith ,s voice was shakey at this point nf his story, and his eyes were filled with tears,) " in consenuence of my misfor tunes, and cries all day lung. I would have sent her home to her father's, but I hnve been hoping and hoping to get somo thing to do ;' she is without a garment fit to go into the street with, and to confess the truth, so am I ;" (ho glanced at his seedy and dirty costume,) " and, Mr. Jenkins, many a day in the past thirty we have not tasted a particle of food ' ' You - have no children P 1 ventured to say. . i .' a " None, thank God, none, said he : I am spared that sullering in my present condition." What a picture, and' his ladylike wife. too, literally starving to death in this great, cold, selfish city ! I resolved to put my hu miliated neighbor on his legs again, if possible, and our interview was about be ing closed by my handing him the five dollar bill, to keep soul and body together till something should turn up, when, as I stepped near him, I caught the smell of his breath. A ternblo suspicion flashed upon ine -he drank ! There could be no mistake in it thut peculiar smell was only observable in the class called soakers ; it was the horrid stench of a completely burned up stomach, the stench carried about only by the methodical daily tippler. I made up my mind in one moment what to do. I charged Smith with drinkimr: his countenance was one of those that never show dissipation, and he faintly denied the imputation. I, however, pushed the charge homo upon him, and he owned to me that trouble had driven him to it. I never do things by halves, and determined to save Smith if possible. He was made to listen to reproof and advice, imparted with that kindness and regard to his feel ings which a brother would have shown ; he felt it, was completely subdued, prom ised with the solemnity of an oath never to touch another drop I spoke of hi wife, his poor suffering wife ; of his du ty to himself ; of his only last resource by which to hold on to a respectable foot ing in the world, Ins character; I begged bim, as he valued his welfare, to never touch the poison cup again, and I would strive to get him, rags and dirt as he was, into a respectable clerkship. I accom plished it ; a friend to whom I appealed, as an act of kindness to me, to put Smith into a position, did so, and I once more saw him and cautioned him as to the fatal curse which threatened to blight hiin. Ha renewed his promise to me with a fervor and solemnity which I believed would save him, and I felt the proud consciousness of doing a good act ; restoring the happiness of an almost heart-broken weman, and in ducing a weak and tempted fellow-being to turn from the error of his ways, and become a true man once more. I had told the story to my kind hearted wife, and she had wept tears of womanly sympa thy over the fallen fortunes of the beauti ful woman whose fate was linked with poor Smith, but thanked Heaven that, at last, the husband had gathered himself lit his strength, and resolved to be a man anion:? men ajrain, and that sunshine would once more visit the desolate heart of his companion. . . vi think it was just one week after Smith h54-aken the clerkship I had obtained fur ' - - t M I LI' ii . .p vaueu upua me at my oince. The iiuufhe opened the door 1 smelted coxcLcrtD ox roraTU f-e- '