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V Ml ) r A Family N wspaporDovoted to Democracy, Literature, Agriculture, Mechanics, Education, Amusomonta and Qonernl Intelligence VOL. 2. BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1858. NO. 36. rVBLIIUEO EVESY THCftSDAT AT BELLETCE CITY, N. T. BT Henry M. Burt & Co. Terms of Subscription. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Square (12 lines or leu) 1st Insertion. $1 00 ou 2 50 4 00 0 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 A 00 5 00 t-acu sunsequent insertion' Ons square, sne month thrss montns .1 M ,1X " " one year Business cards (6 lines or less) 1 year One column, one year One-half column, one year fourth w " eighth " " ' column, six months " half column, six months " fourth " " " eighth " " " " ' column, three months " half column, three months " fourth " " eighth " Announcing candidates for office JOB WORK. For elrhlh sheet bills, per 100 Tor quarter " " " " For half " " " " For whole " " " " For colered papcr,half sheet, per 100-- For blanks, per quire, first quire Eech subsequent quire Cards, per pack Each subsequent pack For Ball Tickets, fancy paper per hun'd Each subsequent huudred v $2 00 4 00 8 00 16 00 BUSINESS CARDS. Bowen As Strickland, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Real Estate, City Lots and Claims bought and sold. Purchasers will do well to call at our office and examine our list of Citv Lots, A-c, before purchasing elsewhere. Office In Cook's new Building, corner of Fifth and Main streets. Ij. L. Bowen. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf S. A. Strickland, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf T. B. Lemon. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Office, Fontenelle Bank, Belle vue, Nebraska Territory. Iy51 C. T. Holloway, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf W. H. Cook. G ENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, Bellevue City, Nebraska. 1-tf W. H. IiOngsdorf, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office on Main, between Twenty-Fifth and Twenty Sixth streets, Bellevue City. 33ti W. W. Harvey, COUNTY SURVEYOR OF SARPY CO., will attend to all business of Surveying, laying out ai4 dividing lands, surveying and platting towns and road. Office on Main street, Bellevue, N.T. " 20-tf B. P. Rankin. ATTORNEY AND COUNSNLLOR AT LAW, La PI itte, N. T. 1-tf J. P. Peck, M.D. SURGEON It PHYSICIAN, Omaha, Ne braska Office and residence on Dodge Street. (ly6) Peter A. Sarpy. FORWARDING It, COMMISSION MER CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale Dealer in Indian Goods, Horses, Mules, and Cattle. 1-tf D. J. Sullivan. M. D., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Head of Broadway, Council Bluffs, Iowa, nov. 13 1-tf. WM. m. SMITH. S. H. SMIT& Smith & Brother, A TTORNEYS. COUNSELLORS at LAW xi. and Dealers in Real Estate, Bellevue, Nebraska Territory, will attend faitniuiiy and promptly to buying and selling Real Estate, City Lots, Claims, and Land Warrants. Office on Main Street. 21-6m THOS. MACOW. ACS. MACS. Maoon & Brother, A TTORNEYS AT LAW A. LAND AGTS., XX Omaha City, Nebraska. Offioe on cor aer of Farnham and Fourteenth Streets. 42tf Greene, Weare & Benton, n ANKERS AND LAW AGENTS, Council .1 Ulutts, fotowattamle comity, lewa. Greene Av Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Greene. Weaie fc Rice. Fort Des Moines. la. Collections made j Taxes paid t and Lands purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-tf D. H. Solomon, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prae tlces in all the Courts of western Iowa and Nebraska, and the Supreme Court of Iowa. Land Agency not in the Programme, no 4-tf 1 FASHIONABLE Hair Cutting, Shaving, . Dying, and Bathing Saloon, third door west of the Exchange Bank, Omaha, N.T. Omaha, Oct. 1, 18J7. ' 47 BELLEVUE HOUSE. THE PROPRIETOR OF THE ABOVE LARGE AND POPULAR HOTEL, OFFERS EVERY To the Public, and will render ASSIDUOUS ATTENTION To the wants of HIS GUESTS. J. T. ALLAN. Bellevue, Oct. 23. 1856. 1-tf J. II BROWN, ATT0RXEY AND C0CX( EL0R AT LAW GENERAL LAND AGENT, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Plaltsmoulh, 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. Lyraan Trumbull, U. S. S. from Ills. Hon. James Knox, M. C. " " Hon. O. II. Browning, Quincy, " Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa. Hon. H. P. Bennett, Del to C. from N. T Green, Weare fc Benton, Council Bluffs, I. Nuckolls Si Co., Glenwood, Iowa. 23if. Ira A. W. Buck, J- AND and General Apent Pre-Emption -J Papers prepared, Land Warrants bought and sold. Office in the Old State House, over the U. S. Land Office. REFER TO Hon. A. R. Gillmore, Receiver, Omaha. Hon. Enos Lowe, Hon. S. A. Strickland, Bellevue. . Hon. John Finney, , ' . Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska City. Omaha, June 20, 1857. 35 H. T. CLARKE. A. M. CLABKE. CLARKE & BROTHER, GROCERS, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Steam Boat and Collecting Agents, BELLEVUE, NEBEASKA. Dealers in Pine Lumber, Doors, Sash, Flour Meal, Bacon, fce. (J"Direct Goods, " Care Clarke &. Bro., Bellevue, Nebraska." v2nl BOYES & CO'S WESTERN LITHOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT, Florence, Nebraska, in Main St. Town Plats, Maps, Sketches, Business Cards, Checks A. Bills, Certificates, and every description of plain and fancy en graving, executed promptly in eastern style. 3m32 Thomas Sarvis, GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE Agent-., 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 on Real Estate security. n29iy OIO. SNIDEB. JOHN H. SHERMAN. Snyder & Sherman, A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT A. 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 to promptly. Especial attention given to buying and sell ing real estate, and making pre-emptions in Nebraska. Deeds, Mortage s, and other Instruments of writing drawn with dispatch 5 acknowledg ments taken, lc, fcc. fctT Office weet aids of Madison street, just above Broadway. nov 13 l-tf. P. A. SARPY. FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Still continues the above bnsiness at ST. MABYS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE, N. T. Merchants and Emigrants will find their roods promptly and carefully attended to. P. 8. I have the only WAREHOUSE for storage at the above named landings. St. Marys, Feb. 20th, 1857. 2 1-tf -I Tootle ft Jackson, FORWARDING fc COMMISSION MER CHANTS, Council Bluffs city, Iowa. Having a Large and Commodious Warehouse 00 the Levee at the Council B'uffs landing, are now prepared to receive and store, all kinds of merchandise and produce, will receive and pay charges on all kinds of freigths ao that Steam Boats will not be detained as they have been heretofore; in getting some one to receive freight, when the consignees are absent. RirERENCESi Livermoore fc Cooley, S. C. Davis fc Co. and Humphrey. Putt Jl Torv. St. I Louis, Mo. 1 Tootle ft. Fairleirh, St, Joseph, Mo. jl J. 8. Cbenewortb A Co., Cincinnati Ohio J W. F. Coulbough, Burlingtoa, Iowa. 1-tf POETRY. A Woman's Question. BT ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER. Before I trust my Fate to thee Or place my hand in thine, Befcre I let thy Future give Color and form to mine, Before I peril all for thee, question thy soul to night fer me. I break all slighter bonds, sort eel A shadow of regret ; Is there one link within the Past That holds thy spirit yet ; Or is that Faith as clear and free as that which I can pledge to thee? Does there within thy dimmest dreams A possible future shine, Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe, Untouched, unshared by mine? If so, at any pain or cost, oh, tell me before all is lost. Look deeper still. If thou canst feel, Within tby Inmost soul, That thou hast kept a portion back, While I have staked the whole 1 Let no false pity spare the blow, bat in true mercy tell me so. Is there within thy heart a need That mine cannot fulfill ? One chord that any other hand Could better wake or still ? Speak now lest at some future day my whole life wither and decay. Lives there within thy nature hid The demon-spirit Change. Shedding a passing glory still On all things new and strange ? It may not be thy fault alone but shield my heart against thine own. Could'st thou withdraw thy hand one day And answer to my claim, That Fate, and that to-day's mistake, Not thou bad been to blame ; Some aootha their conscience thus t bntthou, O, surely, thou wilt warn me now. Nay, answer not I dare not hear, The words would come too late j Yet I would spare thee all remorse, So, comfort thee, my Fatet Whatever on my heart may fall remember I wovld risk it all. MISCELLANEOUS. Noted Characters. All large cities have prominent feat ures, in scenery, in public edifices, and in peculiar men. The former are known to the public at large, while a knowledge of the latter is mainly confind to residents. Many men have no character at all. They glide along on the surface of society like a ship on the tide. Others have character, but it is so near like that of the great mass of men that it does not distin guish them from the rest of the world. A tree, standing on a par with its breth ren of the forest, does not attract atten tion ; but let it tower above all others, or, without great height, acquire an unusual thickness of trunk ; or, let it attain all he Eroportions of a well-developed tree and e dwarfed in size ; or, let it be crooked and gnarled, whatever its size, and it ar rests special attention, and becomes in its day and generation an object of notoriety. It is precisely so with individuals of the human race. Sharon Carter was born at Chester, Delaware Co., Pa., Feb 15, 1772, and consequently is now in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He has a strong frame, a florid complexion, which is very fair and youthful, and a predominance of the vital tempennent. He is straight as an arrow, broad-shouldered, deep through the chest, has a full developmergof the abdomen, the region of those organs which manu facture nourishment for the bodysj and has, on the whole, just the organizaQn for health, longevity, activity, and power. He is a picture of perfect health, has rarely or never been sick in his life, and to all appearance may live twenty years longer. His habits of life, which have contribu ted so largely to the maintenance of his health and vital force, afford a temo for profitable contemplation, which we will re vert to after glancing at his history. He was instructed io the coopering business, and worked very bard io early life, which served to promote development and physical vigor. In 1799 he was mar ried, and had five children, who are now living. In 1809 he engaged largely in the china business in Philadelphia in 1815 traveled through Europe and in 1824' failed in business in consequence of losses on large purchases made during the war. . . .... He has since followed the occupation of vonscior, wnicn nai required mm ta be much in the open air, and to walk constant- He drinks nothing b it water, retires to rest at nine o'clock in the evening, and rises at half past four, the year round. He washes himself all over every morn ing, in cold water, and rubs the surface dry with a crash towel. He sleeps with his windows wide open in the coldest weather, and one morning last winter, he says, his housekeeper carried out of his bed-chamber three pails full of snow which had blown in during the night. He never wore undereloths nor an over coat. He wears light cloth goes with his shirt-bosom open, not even leaving buttons on it so that it could be closed. He has not worn a glove or mitten for thirty-years; seldom carries an umbrella, and is out in all weathers. He never rides, even though he should have three miles to go. Not lung since, having, about sun-set, paid over a sum of money which he had collected for a gentleman, and having three miles to go to reach home, the man insisted on paying his fare in the stage. ' He took the amount, paid it to the driver, rode out of sight of his friend, got out of the stage and walked home. " I could not," said he, " be boxed up and jolted about in a stage." His ex tremities, unlike those of old people gen erally, are warm, plump, and muscular. His blood circulates freely, and tinges the surface with tho hue of youth. His eye sparkles with playful wit. and seems to relish the pleasures of life with as keen a zest as the youth of eighteen. With such habits as his, should we be surprised at his health, endurance, and high spirits f Sharon Carter, as we have said, is very extensively known in Philadelphia ; yet, among the thousands who know his person familiary, there are comparatively few who knew him as Sharon Carter. He has a '76 stylo of dress that attracts uni versal attention, and his pedal extremities are ever encased in buff-topped boots that double over like the cuff of a coat, accord ing to the Revolutionary pattern, people know hi in by them, and he has thus ac quired the soubriquet of Boots." Of course ice do not approve the application of this name to our venerable subject, nor do we commend such a singularity of manners or of dress as shall provoke wits and urchins to apply a nickname. But we are writing history, not creating it. He has, of course, the right to wear small clothes, and such boots as he thinks proper to do, and he can not seriously complain of the irreverent wit which provokes a name for h imself suggested by those same boots. He is certainly dhtingvished by them, and nobody else in this creat city has so good a right to the "appellation. In these, " He stands alone There is but one in all this world, but one Such pair of boots." Little things often make or mar a man's fortune.-. These boots have been serviceable to friend Carter above and be yond the ordinary use of boots, viz, in a business aspect He is a collector, and has followed this pursuit more than twen ty years. It has passed into a proverb, that if he can not collect a bill, U is beyond the reach of hope ; and he is mainly em ployed in desperate cases, the boots, com bined with the quiet, pertinacious patience of their wearer, become omnipotent. Wherever they rove or rest, there the eyes of all are concentrated ; and as every body knows their owner's .business, and the kind of subjects he renerally has to deal with, the debtor " forks over " with out delay, when sheriffs and executions would be powerless. In a city like Phil adelphia there are sufficient number of slow paymasters to keep at least one man employed as collector for this class alone, and he who can extract moisture from a dry sponge can command a generous per centage. As no man who sees these boots on his track, and knows the character of their owner, never delays payment an hour longer than it is necessary for him to earn, borrow, or beg the amount, friend Carter drives a prosperous business. These facts justify our assertion, that the boots in question are pre-eminently ser viceable to their weaker. His manner of doing business is peculiar, and may be profitably copied by others. He uniform ly exacts his per-centage of the creditor, in advance, if the case is very desperate ; for says he, " Now, John, thee has tried My best to collect this debt, and I may not get it, but I shall work just as hard if I fail as if I succeed, and I can not afford to work for nothing. If I work long and faithfully, I shall, thee knows, earn my pay, and therefore I must have it in ad vance." Armed with the bill, and more than " doubly armed " with dignified manners, amiable imperturbability, and last, though not least, those same buff-topped boots, he calls on the delinquent and says, ' Friend, does thee owe this man that sum ! He of course get an affirm stive answtv, Well, eta thee pay it now V If the man knows little or nothing about the collector, fie answers indiffer ently that he must call again. " Very well, when shall I call ?" If he is told a week hence, he replies, " This day week I will call for the money." If he don't obtain it at sight when the set day arrives, the peaceful battle for victory then begins in earnest. " Boots." " Well, friend, I have called according to thy promise, to get the money for the bill." Delinquent Debtor. " I haven't the mon ey to spare to-day ; you must call again." B. ' Thee promised it to day, thee knows, but all are liable to mi-takes j but as thee hasn't it by thee now, thee may re ceive enough to-day to enable thee to pay it. I will call again in the afternoon." D. D. (In a pet.)" No, you needn't come again to-day I tell you I can't pay it." B. " No ono knows what may hrppen ; thee may receive the money in the courso of the day. I'll look in toward evening. Farewell." True to his word, he is on hand toward evening, and if he finds the man busy with customers, and he tells him that he is engaged, and would prefer that he should call again, he replies with the most perfect blnndness, Oh, never mind, I am in no hurry I can wait until thee is disengaged." He seats himself as if determined to sit it out ; the debtor becomes confused and irritated, and when left alone with his good-humored tormentor, he brakes out in a rage, and says he will not be bored in this manner for a small sum ; thinks it mean, and tells our friend he can not and will not psy him to-day. B. " Very well, then I will see thee to-morrow." With this consolatory de claration, friend Carter leaves him with a gracious smile. Before six o'clock the next morning, at a cost, perhaps, of two miles' walk, an aged and venerable fig ure, with drab hat and coat, a snow-white neck-tie, light vest, brown small clothes, and the same buff-topped boots, may be seen sitting on the door-steps of the de linquent debtor's house. When the maid opens the door to clear the steps, he gives her a gracious smile, (for, be it remem bered, our hero is as gallant as he is ami able, healthy, and good looking,) and in- Juiring kindly after the health of" friend nines," the master of iho house, with whom he tails her he has some business, finds no difficulty in obtaining from her an invitation to sit in the parlor until said James shall make his appearance. Im agine bis surprise to find the same unruf fled face and that same pair of boots, which have followed him like a shadow to his own parlor. Lest his wife and friends should see his pertinacious vistor, whom he has tried in vain to insult into anger, he purchases his peace by paying the bill, even though, by so doing, he is obliged to appropriate the market money of the day. Sometimes he does not so easily obtain his claim, but, having exhausted all appli ances at the shop, is obliged to haunt the house morning, noon, and evening. He is told by the maid that the man is in the house, and soon after by the mistress that he has just gone out, when he tells her he will wait his return. Thus he will sit and wait for three mortal hours, until his caged bird " shells out " the money, or, if he ii really short, he goes out and bor rows the amount and cancels the debt. In all this our peaceable hero never uses any angry or ungenilemaDly words, nor can any amount of abuse or delay ruftis bis temper, exhaust nis patience, or divert him from his course. Sharon Carter has as perfect a physi cal organization as can be found, and a well-balanced mental development, lie is very warm in his social attachments, courageous and energetic, yet equable in temper; and is dignified, persevering, and ambitious. He is honest and kind, but not very devout; has an excellent memory, good practical sense, and is a first rate judge of character. He gives promise, even at eighty-seven, ol remain ing with us yet many years, but when he shall leave us, " Take him all In all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again." Life lUiulrakd. Tux Gloucestet News tells the story of a boy in one of the schooU.in that Iowa who is an inveterate rbymster, ana wno laughed one morning during prayers at the sight of a rat. Jieing asked woy ne laughed, he replied: u I saw a rat upon ths stairs, Coming up te hear your prayers." Being told that he must immediately make another rhyme or be flogged, he quickly answered: Here I stand before Mies BWge t She's rolnf to strike, and I shall dodge tt," and took his seat, the whole school being to a roar 01 lavgmer. Tho Complete Man, William II. Burleigh, Esq., of Albany, (says the Kllenville Journal,) has deliv. ered his lecture on Ths Complete Man before Lyceum and Literary Associations in other places, and" we were prepared, by the many complimentary notices it has received from the pres to expect a rare literary entertainment ; it is hardly doing justice to the lecture to say we were not disappointed. " Where," asked the lecturer, 11 may the perfect man be found ?" We have glorious fragments of the perfect man, scattered along down through the ages, in some of tho noblest specimens of our race. Strength was represented in Sam son and Hercules ; Faith in Abraham ; Wisdom in Solomon, and so other single qualifications have been largely exempli fied in the character of distinguished in dividuals. But time has yet to furnish us an example of complete integral manhood. We find the animals in our menage ries complete and perfect in their kind, unless they have been too long under our, s uperior training; the horse superbly ex hibits his qualifications of strength, speed, and docility, justifying the grand descrip tion communicated to the man of Uz: " Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?" etc.; the elephants and lions exhibited are in general complete specimens of their kind. Why is not the same completeness found in individual specimens of the hu man race T The " complete man" is essentially an ideal creature, an embodiment of the tri une principles of Wisdom, Power, and Love, so unequally and inadequately re alized in our disintegrated humanity. Ia him are these principles developed ia their largest and purest sense ; his wis dom) puts hiia in communion with the noblest, best existent things, and by that communion is he exalted ; it lights his way to the goal of noblest purposes, which proceed themselves from his large, loving; nature. His love ii more and higher than the mere love of " ladie faire ;" it embraces all the rsoe in its scope, endear ing to itself the inanimate things of , Na ture by its warm.etherial sympathies. . It takes in the love of God, of God the Father, and the benefactor : " no arbitra ry, capricious tyrant, thronged in the uhU mate heavens, and grinding mankind on the wheel of inexorable fate." To him God is an object of love, whether reveal ed in the sublimer aspect of things ; in the night, within its million high-hung lamps, like golden censers swung by some giant angel before the supernal throne ) in the hushed noonday ; in the gorgeous sunlight ; and the multitudinous things of the living world, or in human nature struggling up through its imperfect frag mentary developments to a nearer approx imation to the . ! , . , , First Good, first Perfect, and first Fair.'. His power flows from a combination of the other principles, manifesting itself in true chivalry ; not that conventional chiv alry that consecrates the murderous hand of the duelist, that exalts brute over mor al courage ; that steals upon its unarmed victim in the Senate Hall and lavs him low with the bludgeon of Cain ; but a chivalry all kindness, and tenderness, and honor, and yet terrible to avenge and swift to redress the wrongs of outraged humanity a chivalry that faces the ills of life uoblenchingly, and faces the last dread enemy with calm composure. nut man must be a magnificent animal before he becomes the perfect man. Therefore physical training must not be neglected. It is not impossible that a mind of great power and capacity mar be enshrined in a feeble body. But the mind needs a sound, healthful physical organism te put forth its full measure of fervor and energy. The great charac ters of ancient and modern timea had hardy, robust bodies. He would have his heroes vigorous, athletic, as well as ac complished scholars. A good story is told of a Bostonian's first appearance in polite society in Ar kansas, which might be applicable to this city: The company were engaged in dancing, but the loveliest of the females present, occupied a chair near the win dow without a partner. Stepping up to the lady, with a palpitating heart, he ex claimed : " Will you do me the honor to grace roe with your company for the next setf" Her lustrous eyes shown with unwonted brilliancy, her pearly teeth glistened, her heavy snowy bosora rose and fell with joyful rapture, as she replied : 1 " Yes-si r-ee ! for I've sot, and sot, and sot, till I've bout tuk root f The New Orleans Crescent utters tho following prediction ; Wra. II. Seward will be the noit President of the United States, if ha lives and the Union lasts.1