nil! mm r A Family Nwspaper Devoted to Democracy, Literature, Agriculturo, Mechanics, Education, Amusomonts and Gonoral Intelligence. r : I . ; fe VOL. 2. BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24. 1858. NO. 31. 11 gtlltbnt (gajtitt. PUBLISHED EVCBT THURSDAY AT BELLE VIC CITY, N. T. IT Henry M. Burt & Co. Terms of Subscription. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN AD . VANCE. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Square (12 lines or lm) 1st Insertion $1 00 50 2 50 4 00 6 00 10 00 5 00 60 00 35 00 20 00 10 00 35 00 20 00 10 00 8 00 20 00 13 00 10 00 00 00 E.BCU suoseqiiem mwriion" One square, ene month three months-" it M air " " one year. Bnine cards (& lines or less) 1 year One column, one year One-half column, one year fourth " " " " eielitn " " " column, six months half column, six months fourth " " . " eighth " " column, three months half column, three months fourth iwlith " Announcing candidates for office JOB WORK. For eighth sheet bills, per 100 ... 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Office .on Mub Street. 2l-6m THOfl. MACON. ACS. MACON. Macon & Brother, ATTORNEYS AT LAW fe LAND ACTS., Omaha City, Nebraska, Office on cor ner of F am him and Fourteenth Streets. 42tf Greene, Weare Benton, I O ANKERS AND LAMT AGENTS, Council VI 9 chills, Potowattami comity, Iowa. Creene fe Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, greens, Weaie fe Rice, Fort Det Moines, la. . collections made; taxes paid; and Lands Jffirchased and aold, In any part of Iowa. 1-tf i D. II. Solomon, I ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prae- tees in all the Courts of western Iowa and fbraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa. Land Agency not in the Programme, no 4-tf U vT. LEE'S j, "CUSHION ABLE Hair Cutting, Sha X Dving, and Bathing Saloon, third west of the Exchange Bank, Omaha, N, Shaving, door T. 47 Omaha, Oct 1, 18J7 BELLEVUE HOUSE. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE LARGE AMD POPULAR HOTEL, OFFERS EVERY To the Public, and will reader ASSIDUOUS ATTENTION To the wants of I1IS GUESTS. J. T. ALLAN. Bellevue, Oct. 23. 18.VI. 1-tf J. II BUOWX, ATTORNEY AND COtXCELOR AT LAW GENERAL LAND AjENT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, rialtsmouth, 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 of debts, ane taxes paid. Letters of inquiry relative to any parts of the Territory answered, if accompanied with a fee. REFERENCES : Hon. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S, Hon. James Knox, M. C. from Ills.; . Hon. O. H. Brownlnc, Qnincy, " Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa. Hon. H. P. Bennett, Del to C. from N. T Green, Weare Sc. Benton, Council Bluff. T. Nuckolls fe Co., Glenwood, Iowa. 23 If. Ira A. W. Buck, J- AND and General Agent Pre-Emption J Papers prepared, Land Warrants bought and sold. Office in the Old Statt House, over the U. S. Land Office. REFER TO Hon. A. R. Gillmore, Receiver, Omaha. Hon. Enos Iowe, " Hon. S. A. Strickland, Bellevue. Hon. John Finney, ' Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska Cifv. Omaha, June 20, 1857. 33" M. T. fLASKE. A. M. CLARKE. CLARKE & BROTHER, GROCERS, F0RWAHDIN3 AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Steam Boat and Collecting Agents, BELLEVUE. NEBEASKA. Dealers in Pine Lumber, Doors, Saiih, Flour, Meal, Bacon, fee. (JDirect Goods, "Care Claiii fe Bao, Bellevue, Nehroka." v2nl BOYES & CO'S WESTERN LITHOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT, Florence, Nebraska, in Main St. Town Plats. Mans, Sketches, Business Cards, Checks fe Bills, Certificates, and every description of plain and fancy en graving, executed promptly in eastern style. 3m3i Thomas SarviS, - ENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE vX Agent, Columbus, Piatt Co., Nebraska. Having traveled extensively over tne urn an a Land District, will enter land at the ensuing Land Sale at reawnnable rates. Taxes paid. and money loaned for hastern capitalists. Western rates on Ral F.s'ate security n2'.My GEO. SNYDEB. JOHN H. SHEBMAN, Snyder & Sherman, A TTORNF.Y8 and COUNSELLORS AT 2. LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun cil Blulfc, Iowa, will practice their profession in all the Courts or Iowa 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, Mortage, and other instruments of writing drawn with dispatch ; acknowledg ments taken, fee., fee. gT Office west aids of Madison street, lust above Broadway, nor 13 1-tf. P. A. SARPY. FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Still continues the above bnsinesa at ST. MABYS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE, a. T. Merchants and Emigrants will find their goods promptly and carefully attended to. P. 8. I have the only WAREHOUSE for storage at the above uam4 landings. St. Marys, Feb. 20th, 1857. 2 1-tf -1 Tootle & Jackson, T70RWARDING fe COMMISSION MER J: CHANTS, Council Bluffs city, Iowa Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse on tne Levee at lh Council Bluffs landing are now prepared to receive and atore, all kinds of merchandise and produce, will receiv and pay charges on all kinds of freigths so tost bteain Hosts will not be detained as tney have been heretofore, iu getting some one to receive freight, when the consignees are absent. Rtrtar-NCES! Livermoors fc Cooler, 8. C. Pans fe Co. and Humphrey, Putt fe Tory, St. I.oiiis, Mo. Tootle fe Fairleieh, St. Joseph, Mo., J. S. Cheneworth fe Co., Cincinnati Ohio: W. F. Coulbougb. Burlinro. Iowa. 1-tf POETRY. Tell, Ye Wild Wuvca. it Ralph turrit. Tell of the sunken gold Tell of the treasures old Riches of worth untold Tales of the deep unfold t Tales of ths waters wide Tales of ths ocean tide, Tell ns ys waves that roar I Tales of the ocean shore. Tell of the rotting hulls Tell of the grinnii.g skulls ; When shrieking sea blast lulls, Darkness tl vision dulls, Whisper, ye waters wide I Tvles of the r lling tide. . Tell us wild tales of yore I Waves of the ocean shore. Tell, ye wild waves that swell I Tell of each coral cell ; Tell of each hidden well Wonders that ever dwell Deep 'neath the ocean tide, Where the still waters wide Heed not the waves that roar Loudly on ocean's shore. Tell of the missing crew Sunk 'neath thy waters bluet God and the sea-wave knew When, on the wild blast flew, Cleaving ths leaden air, Many a poor sailor's prayer. Heard not forever more, Far on the distant si. ore. Tell of that northern brave Lost 'neath the icy wave, Where no kind hand could says t Tell us ye waves that lavs Now, as in days of yore, Ocean's rock girded shore ; Tell, O ye waters wide ! Tales of the ocean tide. Tell, O thou wondrous deep t Tell of ths wrecks that sleep Low where the sea-vines creep) Where the huge monsters keep Watch 'neath the ocean tide. Wheu the blue waters wide, Swell, as in days of yore, High o're old ocean's shore. Lissom of Ike Street. BT r. X. WATKINS. Wa'king through life's dusty highways, Mid the tramp of hurrying feet, We may gather much instruction From the ' lessons of the street." Now a beggar sues for succor Nay, repress that look of pride I 'Neath that wrecked and shattered body Doth a human soul reside. Here's a brow that aeems to tell you, " I am prematurely old j 1 have spent my yonthft I vigor In an eager aearch for gold." On the cheek of yon pale student Is a divorcement most unkiLd 'Tis the cruel separation Of his body from his mind. Hers a painted child of shame Flaunts in costly robes of sin, With a reckless mir.b that cannot Hide the smoulderlg fires within. And her- 's a face, so ralra and mild, Mid the restless din and strife j It seems to say, In every line, " I'm aiming for a higher lire." Just then I caught a mournful glance, As on the human river rushed, A harrowing look, which plainly said, '- Ths music of my soul is Lushed." Look on that face, so deathly pale, Its bloom and flush forever fled) I started, for it seemed to bear A message to the silent dead. Thui hurries on the stream of life, To empty where Death's waten meet ) We pass along, wt pass away Thus end the lessons of ths street. History of Life. r lAiay coinwall. Day dawned. Within a curtained roem, Filled to faintnesi with perfume, A lady lay at point of doom. Day closed. A chi'd had seen the light i But for the lady fir ind bright 6he rested in undreaming night. Spring came. The lady'a grava was green And near It oftentimes waa seen A gentle boy with youthful meln. Tears fled. He wore a manly face, Aid struggled la ths world's rough raee, And won, at last a lofty-place. And then he died. Behold before ye, ll,imnity's brief sum and story Life, Dealh, and all there is of Gloat. MISCELLANEOUS. " Awful iinrdiicr." The renders of the Messrnypr will hnve leennccounts of the conversion of thi notorious prize-fighter on J trainer of prize-fighters. It u out) of those instan ces of almost miraculous power which shuts the mouth of the ravilvraml slicptic And now what is Gardner going to do? Mr. F.ditor, Ionider his experience duiiug the lust ten or twenty years, one of priceless value, in a certain point of view ; u iid 1 inu.'h dislike to see it thrown away. (He knows how to train men's bodies, ii i id there are a thousand plau where just Mich men are wanted.) Sir, 1 pro test nyninsi our rutigmn all lh-se strong, Sainton men to the service of the devil. 1 dislike to see Sutaii's body-guard llach'guards though they are six feet high, and forty-five inches about the chest J while the servants of God go creeping about little shnd-ballied fellows scarce able to walk under the Christain armor, much less fight in it ! " I hope that Awful Gnrdnf r'if he re main firm in the faith, may have a pro. fessortii z some great theological fdiool, where he may bring forth fruit meet for repentance in the shape of strong-lunged and strong-armed ministeres of God ! Thus only can he give indemnity for the past and security for the future." Mr. Editor, we want more muscle as well as more mind in our pulpits. When Henry Ward B -echer went to be examin ed by the phrenologist, Fowler walked around him, and eyed him as aiickey would eye a fine horse, and said. " You're a splendid animal " " That's just it," ha replied ; " that's the lecret of my u cess !" Truth ! When a man's body is vigor ous, his mind is vigorous, and iiis thoughts u re energetic, searching and clear, I don't know whether our Christain churches have grown weak because our milliliters have grown lean, ' or whether the minis ters have grown lean because the churches mve become weak ; but of thi I nm sure, that many of our miin.-ters to-day weigh too little in the pulpit because they weigh too little on the scales. Mr. Kditor, have you noticed how much smaller veals our minister! wear to-day thau they did twenty yean agoT Sir, Joseph Badger's jacket would button round a half dozen of them ; yea, and you could tuck in a Culvir.ist under every button. I cun recall many of those old ministers whose muscle and limb would take " Aw ful Gardner'a" eye. Christian JUesstn- Mammotu Oplba Scheme. We men tioned some eight or ten days ago the grand projects which P. T. Ikrnuui, Esi. has on foot lor the establishment of a grand opera in this city duriug the next seas n, and to-day we lay the otiicial pros pectus before our readers Barnuin has iitereu tne neiu in enrneM, ami mere is nt much doubt that he will give us next fall a series of operatic representations of the very highest character. He has but ut emancipated himself from Ins clock difficulties, the last of his obligations hay ing been canceled yeerday, and he it now about to commence a new musical enterprise on a scale of grandeur that will l.is.u an . I tiia uviil..ila tilth ilia .X n a li.ri i Mgtuiugaie into me maae. uurmg las late visit to England he made his arrange ment with l.uuiley, who ha a mortgage on all the finest artists of Europe, wan the exception of Mario, and, and in con nection with that celebrated manager, he proposes to bri ig over to New York, in Sept., the ent re company attached to Her Majesty s Opera, lingers, orchestra drop and scene painters, numbering some 1200 persons among whom will be l'lccolomini, ruiens, Urtolam, and the great tenor Giiighni, Belart, &.c. Among the corps dt ballet will be Focchini, Rosati, and An nette. The great Lumley himself will accompany the troupe, to give the repre sentation the benefiit vf his personal super vision. The arrangements have all been made on the other side, but before the signing and sealing takes place, and the Academy is secured, Mr. lwrnum requir es that the puldio of New York shall do their part towards securing him from a pecuniary fa.l re The cost of the twenty four representations is estimated at not less than 8300,000, and as a partial se curity for the enumeration for this great out-lay, the projector requires eight hun dred subscribers at five dollars a night for twenty performances, the tickets to be delivered by Mr. Lumlev on the arrival. A". Y. times, .May 31. In Florida aud in Texas cotton is be gining to tlootn. The crop in both states promises welL Tut First White Man Bonn in Kentucky. The first white man birn ia KoiitUwky, is still living in thut State. His nnme is Captain Enoch Boone, a nephew of the greut pioneer Daniel Bonni. His farm is on tho Ohio river above tho mouth uf Otter creek, a few miles below tho mouth of Suit river. He was born Miortly after Col. Bounu's sec ond expedition to Kentucky, and is conse quently greatly advanced in years, but is hale and hearty nnd very cheerful, and is fond of relating the thrilling scene! which he wittnesed during the early days of the "dark and bloody ground." He is n id to resemble, iu a trkimf degree, hit re nowned uncle both in form and features. Fnct Laiioh in Texas. The New Orleans 11 :e of a late dale thus speaks of the rapidly growing strength of free labor iu Texas: " We have recently conversed with an intelligent and ob.servant gentleman, who has travelled all over the northern and western portions of that State. He in form us mat throughout ihoie sections of country, tho immigration is nearly entire ly derived from foreigners, of whom tieven-eighths aro Germans. Excellei.t agricuhurii-ts, hardy and patient tillers of the soil, sober, temperate, industrious, peac ful, and obedient to law. this popula tion in many respects cannot be surpassed but they are, from birth, breeding, and habits of thought, invincibly hostile to slave labor. Not one in a thousand owns a negro, and there nre whole tiers of counties in certain parts of Texas which cat, in the aggregate, many thousand rotes, where one may travel many a day and scarcely see a black skin, or hear the accents of the English tongue. " Our informan. states, as the result of personal inquiry and observation, that if no marked change occ ur, before ten years elapse Texas will be divided into four States-one ilaveholding and the others free." Death or John Fame John Frink Esq., who was stricken with paralysis a1 Chicago, a few days ao, died at hi resi dence iu that cry, on Sunday, at the age nf 04. He leaves a wife nnd five chil dren. Mr. Frink had been for many years an extensive contractor for the trans portation of the mails, and owned numer ous lines of stiges in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Miuue sta, and Iowa. He had amassed a large fortune in th business. He had been a resident of Chicago for twenty-five years. Fun should be cultivated as a fine art, for it is altogether a fine thing. Who ever knew a funny man to be a bad one ! On the contrary, is not he, nine times out of ten, generous, human? and good t To be sure he i. Fun it is a a great thing. It smoothes the rough places in life, it makes the deposition as iweet and rosy as a fresh maiden's "kiss; scatters sun- 9hin and flowers wherever we go, gives the world a round, jolly countenance ; miikes evil the girls as pretty as June roses, and mankind one of the best famil ies out. We so in for f in. The man who won't cultivate it deserves to have the blues, dyspepsia, melancholy feelings, and a scohliug wife and crying babies! Splendid and Eiormous Chubch. A letter from St. Petersburg says " Ifcaa-'s Church, in this city, has just been , comp'eted, after 32 yars' labor The . Quantities of eold. marble, malachite, and jasper, have been employed in it. i he frescoes are irom the pencil of Bruni. NefT, Basin, and Stuben. The inauguration of the Church will take place very shortly, and on the occasion 900 singers will assist in the ser vice. The Church ran conveniently ac commodate 6000 persons. Not so Bad. The Albany Transcript, which has a schoolmaster among its edi tors, is responsible for the following: The principal of one of our select schools hns been sendin? rirculrars to the parents of the pupils, which, signed and returned will authorize him to inflict such punish ment, corporeally or otherwise, as may in bis judgement be proper. The following answer proves that some of the parents are pleased with ibe.ulea ; mDeeb Ma. Ratten. Your flogging ciiklar is duly received. I hope as to my son John, you will flog him just as often as vou kin. Heas a bad boy is John. Hitho I've bin in habit of teachin him milf, it aeems to ine he never will larn anything his spellin is ottragously defish ment. ailup him well, ser, ana you will receive my thanks. " P. S. What accounts for John bein sich a scholar is that he ia my sun by my wife s fust hushand The Territory of Anion, u 640 miles long, and 60 miles wide.. Benton's Fcaoctovs Sarcasm. Seme years ago, while speaking in Scott county,. iMsoun, Mr. Dames, the representative of that county, sat directly in front of him for the purpose of putting question! to him, nil, it need be to insult him. Bentoa was reading the names of those who voted for the " Jackson resolutions," and com ing to tho name of Darnes, he stopped, mi In his own peculiar way said, H I mtll a nullijirt '' This man Darnes was promising clnhl, but this is not the child iat was born. When he was three years old his mother took him to a corn-husking. The boy Darnes was stolen : this brat waa substituted." He then came to O'Banyon, who was hi linz himself behind a tree. Thii O'Buny n was a contemptible pup. maiio nun what he is ; I gave him oriict. At he had the impudence to rise nd present me several questions to an swer ; I told him to stand and hold them. lie did, three hours and twenty minutes by my watch, for which service, I owe him one dollar. Here is a one dollar note.' gned by John Van Dyke, a Democratic sausage maker; take it, sir, to Mr. Darn es, and pay him, sir ! L)arn"s telli the story, and says he was never so used up in his life. The ErrtcTS or Tobacco. Halle Journal of Health, mentions what it call n " instructive and alarming fact " in re ference to the Wall Street forger (Hunt ngton) recently sent to the penitentiary. t was proven that he was never stea down town without having a cigar in hie mouth: that he never was well. Oa en tering the prison, smoking was absolutely -J T iiu ai once prutiioiieu, oy an innexioie ule. In three months he trained nfteea pounds in fleth, and hi eeneral health was improved in proportion. ' Down went the Cbinoline. Oa Saturday last, a lads and gentleman were uietly sauntering up,dmond Street, lit thinking of the danger before them.--'hn lady in rr Jer to prevent getting her feet in the mud, essayed to walk upon the curb stone, which she did successfully for short time when losing her ballance. she was attracted to the mud (which standi in a deep hole right at the identi cal spot she fell) face and ha; ds foremost. while her attendant was so convulsed with surprised and laughter, that he forgot te render, any assistance until she had ex tricated herself while did our share ef laughter also at the ludicrousnesi of the lady's sensation and situation. : i SI. Jos GaztlU. , " Please, sir, lend pappy your knife t " make a pen with V - . " Certainly, my eon. here it is." Youth returns with the knife. . . t Pappy'a done with it." ..' . . , " J should think he was. Why. what the dickens has he been doing with it : era .v thought he wanted to make a txn with it?" " So he did ; but I for got to say that it was a pig pen. Exit youth a little in advance of an old boot. A Child on the Etebnal Fitness or Things. Mr. P.'s little daughter came running to her aunt one day, saying, " Aunt Kate, lirle Mattie has swallowed button !" Seeing her terror, her aunt cahn'y replied, Well, what good . will that do her !" The child replied very se riously, " Not any good as I can see. un lest the swallows a button hole I" The river reporter of the St. Louie Democrat tells the following good one : - Air. A., storageman, called upon the house of B., yesterday, in pursuit of busi ness, and waa informed that on board the Imperial were 800 post boles awaiting storage. A., in the ueconsciousness of his heart, suspected no " sell," and stepp ea on ooara, quite eiaiea witn tne expecta tion of getting a big lot of freight. and was not undeceived until after having made particular inquiries in regard to the nature aod dimensions of the post holes. Bowlegs on the Stomp. Before Billy Bowlegs left New Orleans he took the stump, under the influence of an ex tra glass of fire-water, and cave the fol Iowiiuj sample of Seminole eloquence: - ' 1 stand up here big chief, brave war nor. I kill heap you people before. I can do hitn again easy. Give Billy seven good men to follow on the war track, and he lick all the United States, scalp big father at Washington I Whoop T An old lady being a (Bided withhyster ics, imagined she could not breathe, and appealed to her husband with, "Mr. , I can't breathe." Well, my dear." returned the afflicted husband; 't I woukl not try, for nobody wnrt yon V i,' I f 5 '! . if I . t- .:! .! . a. r v .1 j l! ( ! ' f t V r I J.