Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 1

i 1 IM Published every Day except Sunday. $4 per Annum, in Advance BY DAVID ATWOOD. MADISON, WISCONSIN, SEPTEMBER 30, KUMBEKJ. 1 1 VOLUME 1. Mi llw From Arthur' Home Gazette.

dary lore of the voyagmri liavo handed dowti to the present time. Hie legend runs thai: This spot, which for grandeur, sublimity, and wildnew, how so much admirinl, was nccno of a inmi tragiad' event. In tho villas and trilnj of Wa-jmha, painting their bodies on gala days. Wcr no-n ah and her friend wercr oAhe party who encamjKxl on the little plain below the cliff. There was an arrangement for Muck- wah, tho warrior, to meet them at that pot, find 'to bestow, customary with di- tinjniWul braver, the wj.ldin trffu whkh itately dome, and benevolence ha1 coxxse- the fint specimens of architectural art Ik the cities of iho Old World 10 entirely eclipse that I herse saw? No, there was the Aaj- him fyr Orphans reared the munificencd of Girard, which would almost xia vith the.

known iar ana near amongsi mo uanih uoagam auurcea tier; una as custom-w wuMxrawi ers. cuca m.A mjw From her birth fehe had timl, with the lighted torch which, if the the toils of a once poorlalorer, devoted to the, cjoyed the alfections of her family and visitor accepted, the female extingukhcH. gocxl of homelm children. Then I went to wa4 tjl0jjoi 0f tbo village. Stouthearted Hut firm in her purpose, and resolve! rath- see the Water Works at Fairmount, and aa )Tim 80ught to win her confidence by tr to suffer death than violate her espousal tIie of day faded into the.

gloom acU of prowess and danger, and gallant with the hunter, and become the wretched I oftwil'ght, I looked down upon the waters hunters brought to her father's lodge the companion of the hateful Ikar, tdto covered wh their beautiful turroundings, and my choicest spoils of tho chase. A young her face with her buffalo robe, rnd gave heart said, never have I met in theold world -and hunter, graceful in hU jktju and ikiltfui signs of indignation and diagut. IHs Rueh a scene of iurpassing loveliness. his calling, won her regard, and gave was too humiliating to the proud and Then I again embarked uoon the jiver those signs which an Indian maiden, so vengeful warrior, and he was now deter- towards Xew York, beautiful and" Wt.R understands, of ardent, enduring af- mined to have her treated as the meanest c-nciianting as any of the OldWorld cities, (ximt Theieiltng was reciprocatd, and fur, though it cannot boast of its Champs de after reteated ineelings, pledge of that Vexed with her oktinancv, her fatller it can of its BatterjV unrivaled-la a union in which all their hope centered, remonstrated in strong and resentful lan- beauty all its 'A A were exchanged. But Indian marmges, guage, to which he added severe threats to It is Raid by some tourisi that the most -until especially among the Dah-co-ta.

are les comjK-1 her to In theso raea- beautiful fight that a traveler ever vitnesses, tie mut of Uie attachment and choice of surcs her mother, brothers, and the whole fint sight of his native Land on return-between the parties than the cold, calculating policy family joined. She even yielded far a 'lL 1 ara ure all travelers wjll i i I ttnnlnn tnv Pttravafarie- veri if I diL as I the Hed Lt-af, thero was an Indian girl, I ...1 1 may no tue iwius 01 jegai auinimsirawon ainong Indian, the law of cm torn and ublished mage so strong, anil execute! I) MAIDEN'S ROCK. AN INDIAN LEGEND. MX AN OLD riONEEIU tYHr.Il na lit) AVIiiltumn if ti I if it were not several fathoms deep, destitute of a current This lake is about twenty-four miles long, and from two! rive broau, ana, unlike tue MHsppt a i wholly destitute ol islands denption can give will impress the imagination the reader with the tx-auty and sublim- ityof its scenery, in the quiet hour of a ft summers morning, nen me air is cairn, clear, and the soft light of the as cending sun tirst tinges the water, not a ripple disturbs tho surface, and the traveler exclaims, involuntarily, How WautifulT Its course is from vuthtat, and its waters are encki with I as in fiction: and sentiment and des- IhfrA vo. irtVfr fintl rinun in roil lift fW I arc not wholly coufmed to civihxi4 tj1Q With all tho apathy and atoicim attributed to the Indian race, ther are few attested insUnev of an enduring utTec- refined pale faces.

A residence of more than years on the confines of the West, -no small intercourse with the tribe of ml-inen, who are fading away before jn inarcli of civilization, have nvh the familiar with many a thrilling, story Indian character and suffering. None, however ixjssess a deejer interest than the we are about to narrate. Passing uji the Missksippi beyond what Avithiu tour years pat, was the Wm- of civilization, and about equidistant Prairie du Chten and St. Paul, Lake Pcn.v. This body of water would tlio or ft the union with Mnrl-usl.

TI-r I mate the union with Muek-wah. Her Renting tower, that cscarie domination seldom at- ffom parental tembUxl, and more rarelv succtful Teoattf her lover, found a formidable rlVal in the jersoa of Mack-teak, or iU Pear, who was twice the age of Wec-no- rough his manners, bbxHl-Unrstv, cntel and vengvful in his dhpcitkn, and who had two wives already in his Tlib H-rson wm a successful and popular warrior in the Wapa.4ia band, ana could fthtiw iiiort ChintKwa pcaliis in hb smokv than any other savage in thb mar- ml hb village, when attsck by the ChiiqwM. lie 'desired Uie rebn tf mienor wnei inai no iingm siren giaen iw i In tL 1 5t.r!dJtn LU In. teret her father, her younger brothers, and I brL' family connection. Her rareuts and relatives encouraged thb ill assorted match, which, aiide from he sincere attach- i ment to Te-os-cn-t the hunter, nvt iinr.4nrin iwer.

that MAsnolmate amphitheatre of bluffs and cliffy pre- auding tribe. He had acquired his ropu-ating ever form, and elevated several Lirity'and fame by the service he had n- Official airwforij. T3 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT rrcsident-MlLLAKD FILLMORE. Sec'y of State DANIEL WKDSTKU. Seey Treasury--T110MAS COIIWIX.

Sec'r Interior ALEX. II. II. STUART. SecV of War CHAWXS M.

CONRAD. SecV cf Nary JOHN P. KENEDY. P. SI, GencrsS SAMUEL D.

HUHBARP. Att'y Geueral-JOllX J. CRITTENDEN'. jVice Pres. pro torn WILLIAM R.

KING. Speaker of the House" LYNN BUY D. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. Justice 110GKU It TANEY, Issoc Justice JOHN McLEAN, tt 41 tt tt tt tl It it JAMES M.WAYNE, JOHN CATKON, TETER V. DANIEL, SAMUEL NELSON, RORERTC.

GRIER, BENJAMIN 11. CURTIS, teprter BENJAMIN C. HOWARD. WISCONSIN STATE OFFICERS. loTensor LEONARD J.

FARWELL. cut. Governor TIMOTHY BURNS, State CHARLES D. ROBINSON. Wer EDWARD II.

JANNSSEN. U'y Gen. EXPERIENCE ESTABROOK. Superb, Tub. las.

AZEL I. LADD. SUPREME AND CIRCUIT JUDGES. EDWARD V. W0TO.V, of Jancst'iHe LEVI HUB BELL, if Milwaukee.

I II. III. IV. V. VI.

CI I AS, II. LAKItOEE, of I. WasVn. TIMOTHY O. IUIW2, of (Jreen Day.

MORTIMER M. JAtKSOX, cf M'm'i Ft. WYRAM Prairie da ChJen. UNITED STATES SENATORS. IENRY DODGE, of Dodgklo, Iowa Co.

ISAAC P. WALKER, of Mkaukee. 1 REPRESENTATIVES IN ONGRESS. I. CHARLES DU RK EE, teaoAa.

BEN C. EASTMAN, III. JAMES DUANE DOTI of Mt 80AR0 of pj3LC TETER II. FRAME, WILLIAM RICHARDSON', ANDREW FRoUDFl' UNITED STATES LAND cTTF MILWAUKEE. JOHN P.

SMITH. Renter. CHARLES II. WILLIAMS, Red MINERAL POIST. GEO.

H. SLAUGHTER, Registt-i STEVENSON, Receirer.i WILLOW KtVEK. MOSES S. GIBSON, Redder, 1 FRANCIS P. CATLIN, Eeeeirer.

ALEXANDER SPAULDINO, Kel -EDGAR CONK LIN, Kecdrer. STATE LAND OFFICERS, ''BENJAMIN 0. HENNING, Regaicr, JAMES MURDOCH, Receiver. STATE AGRICULTURAlSCCETr Hon. HENRY M.BILLINCS, rMdent N.

CLPP I 0. DENSMORE, I Vice PiidenU M. WEBSTER, ALBERT C. INGHAM, Rec (Jr. Sec'y.

SIMEON MILLS, Treasurer. I WAKREN CHASE, ELIAB B. DEAN, SAM. J. DAGGETT, Exctnre Cora.

J. D. MERRETT, II. B. HAWLEY.

Officer of Ianc Cothty. County Jud-e NATHANIEL B. 1)DY. Clerk of Circuit CourtELISHA URDICK. Clerk B'd Supervisors RYLVESDt GILES.

Shells'. ALFRED MAIN. I Treasurer EZRA L. VARNEY. I Proseaitin- Attorney GEORGE SMITH.

Surveyor DAVID B. TRAVIS, i Coroner CHARLES L. 'OFFICERS OF THE ICWN OFMA PHILO DUNNING, Ctv Ttvra ri 4 iii'iv I JAMES It ARK IV X.JORDAN. upefaors. x' JAMES DONELLAN, Town Clc CASI'KR ZWICKEY, Town CORPORATION OFFICER; CHAUNCEY ABBOTT, Prcs't HORACE A.

TENNEYt P. H. VAN BERGEN, EZRA L.VARNEY, 1 MEYER FRIEND, 5 F. G. TIBBITTS, JOHNSON J.

STARES, Treat ROBERT L. REAM, Clerk; NEW BOOK STtti; i "VTcw stoek at greatly rc caslu Havinsr dimsf(l of pri for at the Old Stand, I am now prfkjs Etri-t, with the best fielec 'I Books. Stationer. io be found the West All sold on Uie cose plan of "ginall iiaies. Cotmtrv Merchants Rrhnrl and all desirous of obtaining bars Miel lo call at the 15 Wisconsin ikying una I.

A FfcA river and to we ol A the well pair man. ycll 4 thirty tho write of one dary a Xt iU is a I 1 a I rt lr nsauons ana impressions return teinpUj of glory which Napoleoa intendcl: r.n.tl im rl Vi 1 WJ ma vm railway, give vent-to my motions in a faint 1 tTort txt IO the only true language cf emotion. Gszed je trer, paed ye erer Oa a geene so Ir as this, la ffe oi world wherejpu've iriadcrtd, Queitiozang cf himaa Teain not of palace graadetir, 1 ir Crowring tails slorsf the TiLiae, Where relics cfilit-jr HuUhner seca thro lajse cf time. 1 Tell me cot that France more lovely, fyresdi her valleys to the sky, -Where JTer towering treet of Freedcta, Lift tieirdykUoa Tbt her vine-ckd Li3s are fairer, V-ii With her peasant's lowly home That her eiiiei tn more splendor, Freer hiwmg. Fancy i Eaaad, whh ber soft pre.a hedges, Like a rardea all doth seen.

o-vr if 'I Where, thro taeadowi rich la Teadure, Courses raaay a blue waved sireaa Peaseat bornes whose lowly beauty, like the flowers that round tbesa twlae Tell of tboe who yteU meek daty, -To their lords of andeat liae. Here rie halls of princely grandeur, 1 CaJfdcs towers that jeer at time, Grar.d when reared, but wiih the ages Rendered even more cublhae. 3 t-- Ruins of the days of Gesars May grown abt-eys--iTy-twined Cities, their posip and pkndofi'- And tlieir squalor, and their crime. 1 i i Ireland, rldng like aa emerald, From the booai of the sea, I have marked thy hUIs of beauty, And the greenness of thy lea, But from all these To each far-famed foreign strand, Turns ray tovX, with kre enduring, To my thrice-deax native land! Homeward, over Ocean's bilSowi, -How the watcher's heartbeats wild, When the first land breeze that kisses WhL'pcrs "Welcome home my child I Where the Delaware throws open Her broad anna of livinr green Firts Capo May, and then Hcabpen, fl Stretched Tike welcoming hands they icera. Kow we mark the willows bending," Till they kls the laughing ware, And the broad green fields extending' i Till their rery lips they Istis.

And the fairy barks whose canrass Frrend like white wings o'er the tide, While, deep-mirrored in the waters, Like a double life they gii Porn amid the rugged mountains, Thro' rocky channel thrown, i Drt amed the first gush of its fountains, Thro' such soft pecnet e'er to roam? Like a childhood full of sorrow, StmggUng, tolling, onwartl, bne, 1 1 Strength came with the boding morrow, i Till all woes were overcome. Such thy childhood, 0 my nation, Pom amid the Old World's scorn, But thy present, like this river, Calm and mighty, glsdeth on. Fairer seem to me thy children Ls? Than the sons of other lands -Kone po proud, and none so ierTile, Stronger, purer, Virtua stands. Yonder rise their homes of lleared by I-ote and honest toil, Howers round them, trees embower them, Plcst, thrice bleat my nativo roil! XL il. TPwlCV always comph-te tho "negotiation.

Here .1... 1 1. .1 I uun ic piwjgo lOKens 01 meir union, and Hvo and de a maiden. Put tliisonlv fttri'ngthencxltlieirdetenninationtoconsujn- ply was solemn but fearfully indignant "Since this your love to me, let ilk so; but soon you will have no daughter to love or fear youno bter or relative to tonnent -you Villi faUe profoions of af! fecUon." tO tm COXTINCCD. Homo Impressions.

Mrs. H. M. Truer; now Mrs. 'Cctlkh, re- tunu-d a fvwdays ago from a visit of some thing over a year to Kumt e.

Slie ent out ti a deb-gate from Ohio to the Peace Con- remained in England andFnmeel' principally in the former "activelr cn-al tl i th edition, characUwucs, and priIect TUie Old World with the New. During her absence Mrs, T. wrote a serie of intcrvsting letters to the Ohio Statesman, nn. rn nn ua an epmiQ from ew York fiie thu ing to her native Land Put after wnnun md mir. selves in sight of land, American land.

I wouia not let my heart bound un as it wouki its defec ts against itsU auties, and then you can know more fully, whether you and your lAleware, 1 Iwkni out with the cold eve of a critic, comparing the shades of green, the forms of trees, the asjicct of houses in the distance, in short, the whole landscape, to bee if it were worthy the eulogiums that 1 1 i i i i C7. mugs raises), and its hundreds of happy loo' ing passengers liKiking out and wavm" i welcome, ot wiuio sa spread ton soft Hghing land brceso, seemed like a land of enchantment men rose i tic oeautitui city oi lenn umn tho geen banks, embowered in its shades of green, a city without smoke or dust, and as World. ino aencate oeatity ana grace ot tne wc- not faultless, but we possessed elements of I general iwipimu-ss ana rennemenim anigner degree than any other land. I went out through tho citr.into the midst of its green shade, and looked upon tho works of men's' hands, where wealth had reared 1 phatic denial to Uie solicitations otitic have delighted to, tor I said, You havuhwk- warrior, and iu her detenmnation as coldly as fsxible on other countri, to marry the hunter. To tho entreaties of seeking out their faults; now do not take it her friends and, their recommendations of for tTantel that all right at home iu5t be- Muck-wab.

she arcruwl that havmi? diosen caue tt i vuur native land, hut wes-h well it family, and his -industry and skill devoted country people are the egregious Wasters to secure her comfurt" and subsistence; they are said to be by their" transatlantic while the warrior would be absent, intent uncles and aunts. Sk as we came up the on martial ex feet; and broken occasionally by ravine, or the indentation of a plateau of i The traveler on the steamboaUwhleuinif upward to these cliffs, feels his curiosity ex- to know what lies krvond. Astran-U to the structure of thb region would i hardly imagine that from the summit of rrmmi fif Untn region oi i tun, on either siae, lies extensive champaign country. Tliose who, having never svn a prairie coun- try, and having imbibed the erroneous I impression tnat it is low, wet land, may learn tne tacts by ascending iwcme le along the shore of this lake eye can reach. Ikncath him several bun bun- ros dred feet, is the dt-p, blue lake and ac About half way up the lake, its north- eastern fehore rises to the height of four hundred fet; one hundred and fifty fiet is perpendicular cliff of magnesian lime- i through which small streams or brooks pas.

ine scenery is peculiarly wim, and me royager, who has gazed on the high bluffs ie has already passed, struck with pecu- Tlio seen ei voyager, iar interest in bclioldmsr.the spot In no instance alonir the banks of the Mississippi has he seen en a high, precipitous crag, resting on ed trat to the savaffo wihlness of the land- mm v. rg, iiivii a tav. i a vriiut i itii iaii- scape. This has Ion" been known to tho anations, but we have no doubt it is sub- tt in4 I'll Iff run -1 1. a ,4 uiat lI15 tragedy occur- about the middle of the last century, Vviiiic narrating the general charartM nl.

rciuly told by others, wo shall give such ad- di tions as Indian traditions and thclegen- uw wMjre oi uiis lake. ano wwterly direction, he will ikt- 'i a wide expanse ef prairie, rolling gentle interspersed with groves oi umoer, ana extending tar the lucoppoMie. range ot omiis eastward, is more rolling country, with the pine-clad hilUof the Chippewa river in the far db- uuii stuur, uimi iihj icmainuer is a very aorupi and precipitous slope, which extends from the base of the cliff to the water's edge; and covered with erratic rocks, and a scattered shrubs and trees. This point pro- iects some distance into the lake, and on eithcr hand "are of low ground, almost a steep bluff, whose base is wash- by a wide expanse of water, the calm- i.a tillMi 1 vAfiilnrtnl rtf- I 1 anauian voyaycun as the Cap de Sioux and has been much celebrated in the an- nab of Dah-co-to as the Win-no-kc-yah Maioknb Hock. The interesting and gloomy legend has Vceil told in diverst 'win tK i.i.-i dr Muy gin uum uv uiuuiuvti in nucu a n.iu iievii wvm io iavia upon in me Ola fancy as to marry a hunter, in preference world.

Nearer, nearer, our gallant ship to a great warrior ma4e for the land, and higher and higher By various persecutions and denials of rwcUcnI nh bosom with pride and gratitude access to her presence, they drove her lover that thb was my own country, my dear native to the haunts of the buffalo and moose, on land. Then as we nearedtlie city, vessel af- to all her 'hope of happiness. In firm, but ntM-ciful lantma-'o to her rarcntsand re- i btions, she remonstrated against this out- on her sensitive nature, gave an em- a man that was a hunter for her companion fur liff hb time would be sp nt with hb pioits and neglect her and his too numerous family. added ex- Kstulations, prayers and tears, but to not purpose. What folly," said her father, 44 that a km -i-i i s.i that hb absence might bring quiet to hb betrothed, in whose enduring fidelity he iijuiuim uHHwu.wHuuimr.

rrum umu hood Wee-no-nali had enjoyed the affee- tions of her father and family, and had re- cuveu iar moro mumgence man is coiuinon to females among Indians. She had been a favorite with her brothers and the other means rather than by harsh and compub wvo measures, in oruer to some by Indian damsels. 1 1 .1 a 1 .1 ivoout uiai time, anu uunng vuu uum-ucu of her lover, a party ascended the river from Wanasha village to Lako Pemn provide a storo of the blue clay found Muffs, which is used by the Indians to in in a long hunting excursion, with the vain hope ter vessel glided by with its graceful aw- 1 young braves of the family connection you passed its streets there seemed no pov- of whom were anxious to gam her con- erty, and none of those evidences of degra- Jm'IiL Uj LIIO lIIKA.Ht UIUIM1 I FI 5 Ui mil II HI! IllCt't 111 IlinClIU'S tI lllfl tlii 11 ll 1 1.1 I 1 1 ot Her onjecuons, iiiey nuomcu. measures men ana citiutren nrst strucJc me as 1 passed to provide for her comfortatlo maintiinance through the streets. What a contract to and pkslged their skill in supplying her what had daily seen in the Old World.

lodge with a hunter's share in all tlieir ex- Then I had not'yainly bbasteil, it was true, cursions and purchased of- the traders the all true, and more than true, what I said and t-ii-lAiia nrtilna r.f finrv sn mneh envete! hn.nsteil of in' tlm fllJ.