Indiana Reveille, Volume 41, Number 22, Vevay, Switzerland County, 28 May 1858 — Page 1

OUR NATIVE LASD-ITS PltpSPEUlTY.

VOL. ILL—NO. 22.

VEYAY, INDIANA, FRIDAY,- MAY. 28. 1858.

SERIES FOR 185a

Til E IK UIA K A a E V EILLE'*

INDEMNITY.

{ For the Indiana Reveille. Lines on the Death of Wm. JT, Prolsman, They tell me that my brother's dcml, . - Con this indeed he line: Con lie vital spark have fled— ;■ Move I raid my loslitdteti f : It mml leso, fur oh I sea . 111. 1 ; i ifvl ess form before'.me Ro 't ill ;.s labor's done, he's safe with Thee, A holy calm resti on bis brow.

run through me, and my knees smote,to. | gctlwrliko a coward's. 1 shid’no morel V>ut went, witli my captor. ■ ■ ■ The fust night in jail! Ah, that was terrible! Tiic clammy, rchoingstoncs of the floor over which 1 pared in (be darkness »li.i not hurl nto by their hardness. The fonV coarse pallet on which, at interval?, J threw myself in my bewildered weariness did'not chafe me by its cofii'i f ; nn now ness. !■* was beyond .lmrl from j sntli tiling: for, in.-the five inimitevhe-.j tween my Jodi; mgs aiid .my cell, 1 had he- j come awnie thuf I was brought to a po-1 s it ion whose sublime awful ness could not j be. equaled by .anything else on birth. j hy hu than J ean write, yet iii i this channel had my tlmughts.itm. : My‘brother, tied; days ago, gave.me! in .private a heavy draft, to bp collected j at another banking-house, drawn in'.his | favor by one of. his correspondents, and j endorsed by another. .. I icnitiiiLcr that j ho locked restless- when he gave it to me; | that he hurried from.the room immediate-] ly after ward. 1 presented the draft; Ireceived the money;’ ti 'was’ pul ditto bids hands; the hooks whicli I kcep hear no account, of it. ; lid fprged tho paper—1 apt lho suspect cdone, I have; no' means of proving my innocence, unless, perhips, by proving his guilt. That, most likely, is impossible. At; any rate,, what a terrible slop for a : man to take against his dead mother’s, only; other child! Am he has a lovely wife whom it would s hy. VutT mystli have, oh GoJ! shut but her image' from mo 1- T I must not see i:; I shall go' inadi ; : ■’ In this groove Tny thonghls Tolledd ack and forward through the night.. Facing this alternative I stood till the dav of!mv

sullen, Mlcnt madness. A most dangerous ihadnois it ivaC From tfie tinm that X lost the IrCM, fTvo years were to elapse before 1 went out, ami if, in that time, a revolt had sprung up in prison, 1 had .lioii fighting in its irpnt—for I wad ripe fot any , crime. As.it was, 1 only.abode my time. Oiit'e oti! ( I should wreak condignest yengi'aiiiV on society— imMaw—on my own brother. , ‘ Thu five years passed—five years of dust, and clinking in llieynrd—of dark* ness, muttering, low, smothered heart* binning itt the coll.; At hist, one morning. the wflrden.tiirflW open my door, and 1 passed out with (ho ►low, lock-slop which I had been practicing neatly the tpiitiicr of a lifetime. I was going to chapel with the rest—to hear, of liuiTrudjigal # bon and the Magdalen—they,' the guilty,.hnl lhe‘welcomed—!, llicinnocent, ;Vet tim thrust out. Jlut the officer slop; Ipcd iiie with these throe words:—“You tire I free !” ' • ‘ v - ■ . ■

1 1 stood up and wandered back, moro Idre.imiug than awake,-to (ho spot where j'Ge-jrge Markham's (laughter still staid ’plaiting violets. She turned to me with smile, ami said, "1 did not mean to

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hurry : yon, .sir,-but my father is voiy, very unwell, and bought to bo at home.

Will you please tell mo how late it is For thi' first lime after those. fifteen pmon years, in which, knowing toil and

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darkness only, I had asked no other men*

MVve covered up the marble brow, Uul we hope to meet agein ; 1 Vet ob! Mhu tide of grief, will flow - hi emu unbroken strain. :

> tire men t of time, Imcchnnically put my hand to my brcuM, and drew out my res*

jtored w atch. Was I sano ? Tho second hand, stopped.at tlio last kiss of agony

51 y aged parents !—Hod of low : ileal lliuu tfu-ir wounded benilsi;' Their dear ion’s gone, butob! above Thcj’Il meet no mote to part) * ■

given me by my beloved, whether by rairacK ortho agitation of my grasp, 1 know not, suddenly moved on. Like a light*

Suing Hash rushed on me the mompry of

; my vow—"Till we mcct.'this watch shall : never count lijno again.” . ( ,Ycs, we had met—met in (hat voice of tpiict waiting—mot in this wondrous luniL'n or the watch—mot when 1 know

The staff of tlicir declining years, ’Twas hard to say farewell ; But Lord thou cansl dry up their teat?, - Portliuu dost all tilings well.

, 1 Lave one brolhi r only, now, ’ To cheer Lis sister’s.lonely way ; GL may i bold submissive Low, . And own Uiy sovetei£4j3way. When I Lave shed 1 be Instead tear. And ail my griefs are o'er; Oh may 1 meet my brothorfecar' On Canaan’s happy shore, • Mooreficld, hid. - Tabitha C. Fish.

I did not cheer/nor wring 1 the man’s Iiaml, nor even;Enii!e.' Onol grows «m:J to forget' theao : ways of the world, after fifteen years itt prison. .

it not —when she was scon ty none but (iuti nml her sister angels.. And'tho

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wrathful embers wont out in tho breast of

John Markham, and viewloisly hovering over him. the long .cherished dead smiled idissfiilly as-the *aw that in thatVnor meat tncro had entered into him a new soul. ■ ' ’ ■

Xhit the revenge which, littleby' little,, had stretched its fibrous roots through the roil of my Iieiuf till .every■drop of Hfo■jiiire went to nourish the plant; now begin'to pul forth its ‘blossom 1 ;, 'aml I loft them bud into an.ecstatic,‘poifono«a fragrance, My sweet>; 16ng ; ,hoped:f(ir hoin had comet-. In a few-moments inuro. llu despised convict should burst from himotley clnywlisland he rushing" like t winged Xoriiifsis to reille accomits- with t world which' had. the start bi;liim by (if tC-’rt years.■ - T*went to thtf prison wardrobe and goi _ back that dress which, in the days long gone, I hail .pill off with ;tho/rest -of tn> humanity. They'were clean, and'fastidiously gentlemanlike, as when 1. left them. I seemed,-, for a moment; at their sight; tc bo waking from the terrible eternity of a bad dream—to .bo’: 'litidingthem \ folded by my bedside, where tiiey had Iain only since last night.',, • V ; *_ • -- • i in with (ho majesty of the law—a guard.on cither side. '■ I went out ! alone; no danger was apprclv’udiid' of my Escaping from the other prison—llieworlJ. ’Leaving the high,-gray, walls behind mo, ; 1 struck into the road for Hartford. -Had II conic out live years before/ Iinight have } Iwen i uex pres sibly. so flen *• ! by t'io-1 ong, j unwonted music of the birds, that;, from | trees and-orchard-walls, miide l|ie air full j of their joy. Now -1 had lived jnist the time whcii.snch tiling canal touch mb>.Antl walkedstill-in tha Jock-step, looking nei* liter, about nor fbnvard/ but ever moodily on the ground. Aiid thus,.late lu.theat iernoon/1 came whither.tho/fcommcnco mqnt of my recital finds me, and stood ir the marketplace of the town which I hat last seen fade but behind me, ns-Xwen away: in scorn. ... \? Ko wonder .thut; by iill. nie.passers.] was stared at as an oddity—something U be suspected and shrank ;f ro.ni; for in j jgiizzled hair was of r lhe prisonven't/mr f clothing had gone' but of fashion when tin j fathers in the .street Were' children! am) not from * but1 ong use;' 1 i ooked n<

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F. J. WALDO, AGENT,

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I clasped the little ono in my arms.— ■. 1 told Iter tli at bar father was my only brother, and then waited humbly to see ber recoil from the loathsome convict.—

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The New Soul of John Markham.

i;7 the aimion of tub "dasueBsii eateu.”

.But with chtlddike joy. she bogged mo closer around the .neck, and cried, **Oh, l ain so gUd! Poor papa has.been talking about you llicso four days, and say*

Fifteen years had rolled away since, last I stood in the market place of the city of;Hartford,. I Jeff it when the turf was green, and the thrushes were making music in the elms; , the jLurf was green, the birds were singing now, I saw a staid man in black go by, gravely smiling to the children, and knew ho was the settled clergyman, but not the one 1 left there. There were countrymen standing by their carts in the market; women dial* taring with penny-worth purchasers in the stalls; carriages driving Into the street, filled with ladles on an airing, from tho watering place near by; old men and young men, women and girls—the manner of life was even ns when 1 left it; the form 1 ;, the faces of that once familiar life were forever gone. „ ' .

ing—hut oh, lie must not die!~'Tcannot ilic till John comes home!' ”

-.With a reverent step, and bowing low, J came into the room of'my . dying brother. His pate face flushed, and paled again .ns he saw me,- and then hiding it in.the pillow, he cried, ‘T*.ook not oh me. God is wreaking his wrath on the dovil who wasted-ydur. life!” - "Kot so my brother,” I answered, solemnly; "I from my fouI forgive .you.— How much more shall Ho who pittotb his children? Kor ine,Tie hath this day wiped out the past likp n tablet; and look*; mg' up to lli.m na;botIt of us condemned in his sight, let ns join hearts, racking no .difference, brotljor!** V I‘hehl him on my breast through the waxing and waning of that $lrahgo,night —my-/first night of liberty—my. first - night .with tho new sonl.And ho sorrowed with the sorrowing That' neodeth no repentance. .With a kiss which hro’t back the Hays of one childhood, at dawn Jr’s spirit parted from me. Then, beside the little girl wholiad-fallen asleep from . .weariness, 1 laid him who slept o calmer * i?lccp-r;ilie sleep of forgiveness and peace, Thp gentle child and I followed him to the grave. With her ! mourned for him in my now. soul. . . v Tho ' day earne for the reading of tho ■wilt. He!ativcs, friends, neighbors, were all collected in the parlor, whero my dead, mother used to sit pining remorsefully through tho Ipng evening with his motherless chijd. Yet tho lady sat apart from tho' returned convict, looking at me with an evil eye.. lint I boreitmeokJy, with littlCv'Kose, in her mourning dress, os it I were thoTast thing she had.on earth to cling to. •. ■ _ /, •' ■

J. H. Uoftcrts Sc ICrolltcr,’ SURGEON DENTISTS, WOULD ■ respectfully announce to the .citizens of Switzerland coinity.lESgV that.they have tpeated in VEVAY, for i;yift ? the purpose of practicing Ihe various branches of (heir-profession.-Teeth inserted, from a 1 single one to a fnlVset, in the best and most approved style; Teeth Plugged, Cleaned, and Extracted.,

t rial—j n s t one, mouth'; , My brolhcrciiine, often to see me; be lavished tears and embraces on me; he retained for me the best of council—yet he always scorned likelpnc in tho delirium; of a'fevcr, and over, jinst as the turnkeys strung .back the .heavy door to.lcl .him oyt f ~lic would stop fir a moment trcmbUng’nud with'his lips lalf opened, as if ‘about to say sdmotl irig more to me—then; without meeting my eye; be would rush from the cell. f?n tiering os I : was—buffering still ruOre,is l was about; to be, from the cohsequctices of bis sin—I eonld pity him deeply. 1 could forbear with!the cowardice.which could not confess; for 1; knew how price*, less liberty must bo! to a man who, losing it/leaves his .other soul: in that, most heattrbroken of all widowhood .of ii oonvict’s wife; i... . ' * 1

ROBERT K. LAJIB, .' ATTORNEY A COVXSKLI.ORAT LAW,

VEVAY. INDIANA,

WILL promptly attend to business in the Common Pleas and Circuit Courts of

All persons desiring flieir ‘fcrviccs will receive i mined rate alleiitl|>n. Ofiice, on Walnut street, nest door to the I residence of Geo, E. Pleasants, Esrj. J Veray, Jan. I, [£-rS.—If

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Ah! fifteen years make great differences for a returning Jijau. 'Wherever he may have passed them—do a home as cheerful ns the one abandoned, amidst the caresses of the beloved; surrounded by. pleasant prospects', fondled by prosperity—if be will go lack to the old place, let him remember that a chilly paid in tile bcait awaits for him time, when bV shall see how trees and houses and tho very street stonca stay;. but' the living pass and arc 'forgotten. . •

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She whom I loved visited me many times, always bringing’ mo*sweet niojisa* ges in.her presence from! ho birds, !affd the (lowers, and the free sky out side—always talking with a voice intensely, sustained into cheerfulness of my’acquittal, and restoration Vo pur old hopes.. 1 told her 1 was innocent, and she believed jmc.

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Hut p’heh o man lias spent his absence as 1 spent mine—for I liad not been on the continent, listening now to Roto dierie, rioiVi to, Thai berg, now (9 the cathedral cadences of Ycljno,; where the floods break from his rcso'unding lips .under the ever-blue .arch of the Italian sky; I had not been wafted to, the .Upper Cataracts, bathed in Ibe nepentheof that-air which hills the Howudji; 1 bad not been living with friends who, shoulder to shoulder, worked .with mo hope fully in the daytime, or .welcomed meat night to a glowing household hearth In ..a' room. where my children sat upon, my kneb; r where-the fpsy. firelight : danced..vyith the shadows’ oulhewall, where a womanbeloved; hushed .down the cclibcs iu.my heart:.with-..a richJold ‘in. a soft, young voice. .‘V.i;' I do not;often call,upon] those fifteen years, ‘ they’; are,, maddening ghosts'.; * v Bnt when F.do, the music with which they.Btalk into my.ih ought is suck os this:. A.monotonpQa sound of hammers -Relink, clink; cl iuk—al vyayalbthe tamo measure, apirbroken. only, by llio fall of .stone; fragmentar’a *,heavy, clang -of • irou doors mercilessly.shot to in reverberating corridors, ..with nbthing Imt.'tny. own breathing, my own .pnlso coining; afterword; for.Iripcnt; my fifteen years da prison.' . >;... - , ! !;/ Do you ask howTcarao there 1* ; The story is not a long one. ; I .wos a junior partner in the banking house of my elder, brother near. Hartford. . •<0no> evening about nine o’clock, ;as I was leaving the slops of my lodging, hlieavy| band foil upon and T’lumca to see - a sheriffs officer, with bis assistant; •'standing close by me.’>!On the;opposite ;eidc of the street the light shone-morrily from the wiridq’w of the.| w om an*I |lovedJ was on iuy ’way toj'answer thelr dnvilotion, and fell, as every. Into min feels oh siich an errand, gentle toward all human*, ily. So I did not roughly push aside the interloper's hand, as ordinarily I would have done, bnt quietly*-moved, out ffom pnder it, and said, "Myniari, ;thcro is some mistake hero. Yon* have taken the wrong person." * .. - >1— .! Any oua wbo knows what it is toloso so completely, in a fearful dream, the selfpossession on winch ho wonld steady himself, that ho can no longer say, “This is only n drenm," but. begins' to know that it is actual, will realize bow the awful truth broke on me in an instant, as the ofilcer answered—

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man ia*[lie face. ■ And herd and llicre; it knots,| the people whispered; .about me—someth fug j.w ith an evident cafelesriies! us to how. .loud. ’ But-1 - only nursed deeper imil moie (piiet ivraih.. ■ ; . There came along that Way a throng 0 children, just from school,'. Bteppitig uj to one of tliciri J' asked, -*‘Docs Cieorgi Markham t- till-live in this place ?’■ > Tfn little ghl turned up a fcunny spring-moni ing face, and answered, "l am. his daqgb ter, s i r-^-do : y 0 u want I os e 0 h i m ? Jt hellish thonglit: suggested ifself,-lit me, X said— ‘-Yca.you in ay fihtjw im the 'way to * Ins house.". I. know . Wt should take a dross path dyer* tho fields and pass u long reaclrof'lunely woods In thq most so I i til ry ■ par to f.t h tUpalhl might , wreak upon the guilty''-head ; o George Markham, the most ,lofriblo ven geanco which. cbu|d ; wipe pnt .his bittei wrong to me. I woiiM kill ins child, apt bring her homo to him,'confessing that did it, and, glorying in the end of ilia horrid gaiuq of quits, on'whose first, thro n he had stoked my heaven arid lost; it / ; The Iftilertiaided look my hQndj'cdnfi dirigly. That might 1 unnoryo me;,so- J loosed it, ond told.her to go boforcj jvhih X-followed. She-tossed back her curls and went ;boimding ahead at a rate m) strides were hardly equal to.. * Still 1 kep my eyes tin her. Alter a while wp-cami into a low b ro 0 k- con rsVbctween two.hilts over the forera03t ■ on0 0f which L 'cook jail eco the chimneys'of-my brother'! houspl 11 looked about ond wa.* in ! was itnpoisible. -,Tln devil’whiapcred—"^6wl’! :■ .Icall ed le the child tostop, caying lhatl mua look, for something X; had idrpppodv ■ She obeyed, arid stood smusXag.herseliwUI making wreaths of the violets whipt grew by the water-course, while I stooped tc find a heavy * stone which; might;! do'.my bidding of vongeauce surely and. silently All around mo : iri ( r tbe bed of ' the- brook wore nb thing but pebbles. I walked t few- steps - further’down in my-quest,.and went bht'of sight around n clomp ofaldora. J Tha .'little -gi rl most have thought mo leaving her, for all at once. I heard her call, gently, "! am waitingforyon!” Gracious God 1 Who spoke? Doth* loved that are forever lost cry to na out of paradise? * “I am wailing,for you 1"— the very message that, five years ago, floated down through my prison-bare fiom her whom tho Father had just numbered with his saints.

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I could not tell her who was guilty, j My trial came on. 1, need not pain myself with long recital of the thronged court, the weary, questionings and-criiss-questionings, tho audible* silence of the crowd * when the picas .were * made, and then the momprit| whose shadow fell upon me when, the foreman solemnly' feaid “guilty"—that other moment when Ijiva’-i condemned to the awful alienage of prison forthe fifteen years to come,, - 1 : Then I partciHrom home andfrjcmls. My ibrother did upt bid me good-bji he lay sick : of a: raging fever,. on whose chances’ hung Iifai; r Bnt.sho—the hbly, the heroic—had borno all things audcjiine to sec me go. .Shi'clasped my manacled hands'in her own.islie pressed one long, last kiss upon the convict’s lips, and suid, with a solemn Plicerfalness, -*'X will.wait for you !" * Then,: with a superstijicn which, frivolous though it seem, still crept into tho awfuluess of OiatTionr, 1 stopped iny watch,; and vowed ipwa -dly that its hands should never more move (ill we mot again. ! After that the’gates of. my prison opened to let in bat one message fromtheTiic outride. The chaplain brought me a lock of well-known, soft brown hair>land told me, with' a tear in his. eye, that an old man.had given! it to him for me, paying, “My daughter is. with God. died, whispering that she would wait fpr joMt Mafkham." t ' ’ | !

The lawyer. opened the, will, and la* •gan ; —. '• '• iV *' In the name of God. Amon. v I, ■ facoigo Markham, banker, of Hartford, ! being of feeble, body, bat of sound dia-* posing niind and memory, doTieroby con- | stitmo this tny last wilt and testament, j •; “1 boqncalh.my -soul to the infinite ; mercy of: God, if it bo possible. .vl be- '• Iqucath my: rnamoto tho oblivion of all ifirno men who ehnllknow tho trnth.—■ .;,Th«t IrathT bequeath to my brother John : Markham, not of bounty; but of iramoa-, - salable indebtedness,' in confession that I aloho, and unaided,,am the’author j of that damnable sin which brought tbo j shadow of a prison, (lie loss of all things,' ; on his-innocent head... And, Anally, I give and device, to John Markham,'all : my estate, both real and- porfional.lohavo |ahd to hold, to hitn/his heirs, and assigns jfqrevch, confident thot he will sfr-farhavo' rmercy.on my 'guilt us tb.be in all things ‘o fallief* Ip my only child." ■ j . like the friends, of Job, my.acj quainifiaccs cam6 back to mo, beboldlbg jhowT Was'prospered. Again I stood an f upright man in (ho-face of'earth os well jas heaven, oud none uttered an ill wbis'por of. mb, Now I live alone with Hose, i who has filled the. place of tho daughter ;I might have had but for the fifteen years. |Sho is my child, my companion, my | comforter, pupil. And never on ; earth; will 1 bring any other love between ■j us; for at night, when 1 look up into the | star?,-I hear o low voice saying— . { , '**! ;am ’waiting for John Mnikham!"

V L. Q III SARD & SOY,

- iiga'msbs 1.1 Iron, Hardware, Groceries,

' Agrlcaltnrn-l Implement*. S, E. Corner of Main and Ferry streets,- : . ' :" ' VtnrAtr, Isdiaxa. . • ; ’

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ENOS LITTLEFJELD.

Dealer in.Cabtnet Furniture, WILL keep constantly on'hand a general .‘osso.tmcnt of Cabinet, Furniture, con* staling inparl of Uureaus.UedsleaJs, ' ning, Breakfast, Center and Card Tobles, yl*» Stands, Wardrobes,: Safes ; :in, fact, hny-f yl thing requited in his.line. Tennt', Cath, jy , N. U.—Funerals attended with Hearse to any part of the country. Coffins kept on hand. . '

F. J. WALDO; . &ctU3jmj)er, 33ook anb Sob printer, -**■■■. S, B. Comer of Main and Fcny Streets, VEVAY, INDIANA* /. ;: , ALL kinds of Printing neatly executed, at short notice, and on the most reasonable terras, A forge supply of. Deeds, Mobtoaces, Notes, and, all kinds of Justices'.'Blanks, at* drays, on hana. . ' Vjant-'CS"

of .G roceries, Queens* Bools and Shoes, al-’ 2 and 3 Odd FellowsV nd Liberty streets. ucortahen in exchange u’ood d: Doan> '■

. 1 endured the kpoiylcdgo of her JtjatU with a benumbed patience; uncomplaining, rarely weeping a single drop.*^ ; I*. vyenc through the unvarying round bf day-libqr iuthu pr i s o n •yardlw H ba e i cady, leal imJiiJitry, wbith surprised my taskmaster—for h e re t o Iprc l b a d. been taunted ns 1 'the weak igentlcniaii,** whitejfingore,’’ and.wb’atever other epithets of insult'the hardened liuHics ol discipline are at- discretion, and; without fear ‘ of resentment, to confer upon I the wretched At byening-X held up the tressjnio that faints twilight which just filtcreJ through : my grates, and, hissing it.'eeemcd lo see her by me —for I could never think of her as dead. That realization was kindly spared j me by the. fact that no} new void can be.felt, □o new unnaturalness,.in the eternal void and unnaturalness if a prison. - } • But one'night, coming from work, 1 found the tress gone. Asking the turn* key for it, X was told, “Prisoners ,ard allowed bo useless articles.*' r>om that moment X knew, that she whom 1 loved was dead. Like a wild freshet, the agony; of that knowledge; gushed in upon !me/ With it came the memory of ray buniing wrongs—the ecombf man spent upon my innocent head— the perfidy of my only ; brother—the. irredeemable hopelessness of all things. And 1 shut Inysclf up |n a

• F. A, BOEBNER, , Watch fllahcr and Jeweller,

[rial Cases. SHORT, t and'will continue to sites of the latest im3ases, and also.Plates iplions. He will also rid all calls in Ms line inlly keeps on hand all

MAIM HTEEET, TKVAT, . Respectfully informs public that he has Jiist opened a store . on5U<K Main 'street, in P. DufouPS building,pV0 wfoerc be intends keeping on -hand. general assortment of Watches, Clocks and JkwELAT. gj* Particular attention paid to repairing Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry. jonI**68

■;■■■■■■ • ~ jesse v. TTNDERTAKER, ha keep on hand all' proved Jlelalic Burial I with all kinds of. attend to cementing, t of business. lie const sorts and sizes of ItEADV-7IAk>E COFFINS, lined and trimmed, cloth covered dnd plain, and will attend with j his Hearse nil funeral calls. Having purchased his metalic cases of the manufacturer, and all his materials at wholesale prices, articles in his line will be disposed of on the most reasonable terms. Residence and Shop on Seminary street, north-west of SchencWs Flouring Mill. Jan. 1, 1858.—If |

i tornado that swept through jIllinois so fearfully worked a gooddeol of •mischief in Iowa.. In Wapello it hlew ; idown two-brick buildings, upset a frame, ! 'and tore' away several.. oat houses/ and j scared a great many people/ withont jmrl* ,ing anybody seriously. -. - 7

KATE FIRENCH.

REGULAR 1SDEPESDENT PACKET I LEAVES Madison for Cincinnati and ail in termed Sale portion Mon-A days, Wednesdays and! Fridays, and carries freight and gets at old Wisconsin and Hoosier Stale rales. The patronage of Ihd public is solicile J, and businessentrusted lo our core will be promptly and carefully attended; lo. Out return days Cron} Cincinnati lo Madison ate Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

| , A^Horso'ihoft/’inRrdcT,and, every , kind of plunder, seems now to ba tho or- , i der of tho day in Kansas.: Sob&jb awri* ' tor from WeslpotL ; Great epontry-r-i Kansas. ■ ■. ■■S .. ’ ■

“That won’t do; you are John Markbam, of Hartford, In the name of the Commonwealth, I arrest you for forgery.” Just then, on tho opposite side of the street, tbo curtain went down at the window, and, knowing in my soul that it dropped forever between mo and tbo one being who in her heart held all things lor which 1 lived, 1 felt a quick cold shudder

j Core for Coofrc is Horses. —Taka 1 pint of pure ij6h"tmno,‘*Dddrencbthb horse witb'it r -aml‘in a ebart tinie ba will be licUPr.; ’ - v -K •-*

O0RN MEAL-For sale nt det» CDARKSO.t & WALDO'S.

leaving Madison at TO o'clock, a m,; Cin cinnati a', t? o’clock, tn.

. i DR. J. W. SLUUPIIY, • PHYSICIAN ft' SURGEON. MT. ST K RUNG, Switzerland Connly, Indiana. . PICTURE GALLERY. , IS OVER • TEATS’ STORE* tT Give him n call if you want your shallow caught. - ' , ' »p5S' :

a l Fii ED an aw, . iiK.u.r.n is Prn (Moolis nut) ffc> , Cornrr of Vrmj and Muriel Strceh, . VEVAV, IXIIIAXA. '

THE undersigned Having menced Ihe Iron Fonndcry business, solicits the palronoge of£HSaSa3 the public in general. Call and see. JOS1AH JACKMAK. Tcvay, Ind., April 7, 1858.~tf

IU>AC!iS1HTII SHOP! milE subscriber continues to carry on the jL .[ Blacksmithing Business at the same old stand on Ferry street) where all kinds of work in Ms line, is promptly attended to. (□* Particular attention paid to making Hay Press Irons, and Ironing Buggies and Carriages, etc., etc. A continuance of public patronage is respectfully solicited. JmWH JOSEPH JAG KBS.