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Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
CuAs. DoRLAND, Sec'y.
A Challenge Given and Accepted.

IhaLLCRSe GlNclR ssuU htCcPaCu'
On Wednesday last The following article
appeared in the Fact in Columbus;
We learn that G. J. Beebe, editor o.
the Banner Of Liberty, a semi-monihy peri
odcaI published at Mddle;own, Orange
county N Y, has authorized M. Ashbrook
Esq, at Ashvile, Pickaway county, in this
Stale, to offer challenge IN his behalf to
any respectable advocate Of the Maine law
to meet him at the following places on the
days affixed, to discuss the Maine INV ques-
ton. on constitutional or any o.hcl grounds:
In Columbus, on Tuesday, Aug 23d in
Lancaster, Thursday, 25Ih in Circleville
Friday. 26Ih in ChIIicolhe. Tuesday, 80
Mr. Beebe is said TO be a strong reasoner
and thoroughly conversan' with the subject
in hand"
The Chairman of the State Tempera nee
Committee has handed US the following, by
v hich it will be seen that the Challenge has
been accepted, and, if somebody don't bacI,
out, we shall have n public discussion about
The esd of this month, in this city. We
lIke TUE bplIll VIII WHlCH llS uultSt uuo
proceeded, SO far. and trust, if the Two sides
meet, they will discuss principles instead Of
personalities. Lei there be light:
AccEprED.-- The Executive SIae Tenn.
perance Commiuee, relying upon the known
responsibility and responsibility Of Mr.. Ash.
brook, on whose authority tho above cha.
lcngs is given, hereby accepts the same, and
promise that the lecturer shall have cham.
pion worthy Of his steel. Mr.. Ashbrook
will please call upon this committee, or in.
form them when and where meeting can
be had 10 agree upon preliminares, so that
The discussion may be held in an orderly
and satisfactory manner. If our cause will
not bear the light let it be annihiated.
The Committee further agree 10 meet Mr..
Beebe, or any other respectable lecturer, or
any number of lecturers, that the opponents
of prohibitory law will bring in,o the field
at any time and place which may DC desig.
mated by sufficient notice, and they invite
any and all persons Of responsibility, who
are willing to discuss the question candid.
y and orderly, TO meet any Of our lecturers,
at any time, on condition that they give sui-
fcienI previous notice, SO that suitable ar.
rangemen,s can be made.
WARREN JENKINS, See'y.
[ By order Of Tie Committee.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
WnsIlinStOM Items.

The Washington Star, OF recent date
has the following paragraphs:
Posi- OFFICE STAINED ENvELopEs.-
The Post Office Department has recently
had occasion 10 instruct deputy post
master upon the subject Of the use Of The
stamp OF the NesbiI envelope cuI from the
envelope and pasted on another. We have
procured copy of the official letter in
question, and herewith present it 10 oul
readers, who will perceive that the Mes
BIZ envelope aud stamp can only be used as
a whole, without muIilaIion--as follows
sin reply 10 yours OF the 22d instant
informing me that "leuer with STAMP
cut from stamped envelope, was dropped
into your office, and that you had forward.
ed it as US unpaid'" is received
Your action in the premises was correct
The act authorizing stamped envelopes &c
be provided and used, authorizes them 10 be
used only as whole, as union Of the
stamp on and with The original envelope
and privilege is granted either by the
law, or by any instructions Of the Depart
menI 10 use them in our mails in any
other manner
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

NAME LAW IN VERMoNT.-The Yer
mont Chronicle, published in Windsor CO.,
in speaking of this law, says:
"When the law was first published, not
a few very worthy cIizens had doubts
about it. In many cases, these doubts so pre-.
vailed as TO prevent their voting in its IA
vor. But it has now had a brief trial
among US. So far rs the questions raised
respecting it have come before the courts,
il has been sustained as constitutional law.
such as it lies within the just discretion
of the Legislature to enact. 1t has empded
at least three of our county jais. The tes'
limony from every pau OF The State is, that
it operates luvorabiy-thaI the w5lI.being oil
the community is promoted by it. Even in
Windsor county, where its administration
has been in un(riendy hands In a most i'm.
porant particular, aud needless inconve-
nence may have resulted, and where the
opposition has been exceedingly active. we
believe the conviction of its value has been
constantly extending and becoming more
fixed. We do not believe that the county
is in favor of repeal.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
National Affairs.

The Washington Union Of July 26lh
has long editorial article in condemnation
of the correspondence in one Of the news
papers of This city, attributed to Kossuth
Il approves of the act Of Commodore String
bam in firing salute from the friga.c
Cumberland in recognition OF the arrival
of Bruck, the Austrian Envoy, at Con.
staninople, and characterizes the same as
an " ordinary act OF civiity and courtesy"
The Union concludes, from the tenor OF
the correspondence, that kossuth was nc
goliatng an alliance between the Sultan
and the United States. which the guns oI
the Cumberland premaurely exploded, and
announces lha, Kossulh is not an agent oI
the United States Government, nor Of the
democracy, for such purposes. The tone
of the article is adverse to intervention in
European affairs. As. at the present time,
the Union speaks for The administration,
the information furnished by it on this oc-
casion may be taken as olicial.-N. y.
Courier.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
[By order qfM Comm;ttee.l

GoLp IN BRIcK.-Ohly think Of a brick
house whose walls within and without con-
tain any small } quantity of unwaShed
gold Gold in. the rough !" Ii is no
fable, either. The Edorndo News notices
the manufacture Of brick in PIacersviIle
from clay that contains considerable
gold.p One day last week" it says
. miner took a. wheelban ow, and convey
iug the dirt some distance, made three
md a half ounces out Of the clay" What
next
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

Our contemporary of the Lexington (Va.)
Gazette says that that section Of country is
very much infested with Norway rats, and
he makes the suggestion that any body that
would introduce there species Of the ter.
rier dog, having the same aculencss in
seeming out the rats and destroying Them
that President Pierce has in finding out
aud rewarding Fepsolers. would make a
frtuno of Iho people Of Rockbridge. No
body vii attempt 10 gel reward in that
way since Mr.. Pierce has secuted ont and
drawn from the grave of political oblivion
thar Freesoi Brown Of Indiana, Of speaker-
ship memory, and rewarded HIM with a fat
ollice.-Kdadcka ReP
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
POMER0Y TUESDAY AUGUST Is, 1853.

justice and moderation of the demands ol
Russia, and the dsnlefesed and fraternal
friendship she feels for Turkey. And these
considerations Mr.. is charged 10
represent 10 the government he is accredited
10, under The signature of
NESSELRODE.
The Waluchian corps of occupation is
TO reach Bucharest on the 9Th inst. 1t wns
believed the British would leave on the ar.
rival of the Russians.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

/ WI otiu "uifiNy ~ SciVC III VIC CVuboCAuu'
This is bilter language to employ towards
the head of ones party. The Sun is pro.
fessedlv neutral, but it took decided ground
| in favor Of Pierce before the late Presden-
lial election. 1t is cured of its folly, and
wishes to forget its help in that campaign.
In the course Of late article on lhe Presi-
dents appointments, il says:
Since weread the official announcement
of the appointment by the Ptesdcn,,' Of
Daniel r Sickles of New York 10 the Secre-
lary Of Legation of the United States a
FLondon new ligh; has broken in upon oul
mind We think we now understand wha
the president meant when he said in his In.
augural, "A claim for office is what lie people
of republic should never recognize, 1t is
for the President, not the people, to recognize
the claim; and we are very certain but few
Of the people will recognize Daniel SickIc'
claim Iolhe Secretary obligation al London
These are bu, drops from the buckle
in atde of nvectve agains! the course o.
the administration that augurS any thing bu
pleasant sailing for four years to come
How can it be otherwise! A dozen factions
united to elect Pierce. Each one hope.
and expected TO control him and secure The
spoils. Eleven Of the dozen must be dsap
pointed, and as that bond Of union is sever.
ed, what can be expected but contentious
and hard words and new combinations.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

STARK CoUNTY.--A call, immensely
signed by men of every party, has been is
sued in Stark Co., urgingi the people TO meet
in Convention on the 9Th Of August, to de.
wise wavs and means for arresting the evils
oil ramselmg. OF the necessity Of doing
something the Canton Repository. of the
eth. discourses in this wise =" Nearly all
see the absolute necessity Of something be-
ing done TO stop the tide Of dissipation in
our land. That tide must be slopped-or
ruin and crime mus, follow in its train.
Almost every village is filled with doggcr'
ies-dssipalion is on the increase--Sabbalh
is violated. Even in Canton, on last Sab
bath, we learn more than dozen drunken
men were seen on the sreeIs-two fights
cccuned-a boy was made drunk, and dis
,urbed The congregation of one ol our
churches. "--Cia. Gag,
DISTRESSING CAsuALTY.-Mr. John Hat
ton, highly esteemed and useful citizen OF
Jackson, Jackson county, Ohio, went TO
Portsmouth to purchase Iron on last Tues
day. On Wednesday morning he, 'ogeIh'
er with several Others. were examining one
of Colts Revolvers, which, unknowingy,
loadened. and accidentally went off, the con
tents Of which entered his eye and came
out at The back of his head, His corpse
was brought TO Jackson on the cars he same
Il
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

We give below the Russian Commanders
proc amaIon TO the Moldavians. the inhab'
ilan,s of one of the Dunubian provinces
together with a resume Of Count Nesscl-
rode's last mNnifes,o
Prince Gonschakotl, the Russian Com
mander in Chief of the invading armies
has addressed the following Proclamation
to the inhabitants of Moldavia and Wal
Inchia.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
S1.5O in Advance.
! T0I. 5sN0. 81.

Prcovrpv ov m p,onv - oNp rtIr. Mr,,
LosT Az NYta,p, FTIs .The bodv II
Andrew Hermanns wbose rats q, ,he Falls
eHc,'ed so mqen attention. has been recov-
',n1 e,eu.s ~ was ,ouna near me 'and'ng OF me
l..S Ma'u u .rn me Ti's', oe,o~ we suspension
= D'aase. vi, ), = w neau anu Oou9 were ,nucn
p'a,'s y Js s1ufP s,o"e or o'ner oolFc';
Sss .sa ''seu MS oopy; y, ei,nel IN 'ts lear,ui
sia;,o i1'e 'ac's ., '"e ease'
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Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16
one ov five hundred free men.

PUTTlN5 IT THROUGH - Passengers now,
leave Chicago at 8 80 p. NJ, and reach BuC.
ia,o the next evening in time for the II
o'clock rnin Az go he mex, moroing
they ere in New York Cily--iime 80 hours
linm Chicago 10 New York--d disIrn ce over
1000 miles, rhswil dolil We get some.
thing bcl,cr.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

u y " = ~
The kind brotherly feeling inlhe loco.
(oco ranks, nbont sbese days, gels 20 bsue,
fast. The New York Evening Post. The
most influential and substantial Locoroco
paper in Ihat city, and edited by The poet
bryant, has the following comment upon the
late appointments
/" REcoM7tENDATloH FOR THE PRESIDENT.
The Sun of this morning, after considering
the appointments of Belmont and SickIes %
important positions abroad, recommends
Captain Isaiah Rynders for the mission 10
3Ffance, with Joe Jewell as The secretary Of
lsRaaienksAlike Walsh as charge 10 Vienna,
1|' 'i6e Sullivan lor ihecommissieher.
shlf k!aniihohls Tho seIec.ionsore
.'I'|'H s 7 '|.'..'' .'.R'
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-08-16

GOLD IN lowA.-GREAT EXCITEMENT -
The Athens Messenger publishes 'he follow
ing extract from letter received by one o!
the students in the Ohio University, from his
brother in Tuscorora; Iowa, giving an ac-
count Of the discovery Of gold in Hardin
county, and the consequent excitement Of
the people on the ubject
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02
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The most remarkable feature in the produc
ton Of gold and silver, since the year 1900. is
the almost fixed receipts of silver. and the very
great increase Of gold. The product of the
whole world in silver for the first thirty years.
was nearly at a fixed point; though slightly and
gradually decreasing in America, being nearly
three millions of dollars less than in the year
1890. The variations has hardly exceeded S.
000,000 in Europe and America. Whereas the
increase of gold has been gradual during the
first forty years of this century-the whole in
crease being from$ 5, ,23S, 900 to $34,202,0 ,000.
The annual product of the world in l84S was
estimated, in gold at S46.l6l, 900, in 1913, at
$l3l, l,0O0 900, and in 1852, S224.000 of gold
the astounding increase of nearly 20 per cent.
in Que year. The product of gold being nearly
fifteen times the quantity of that mineral in the
year 1893 or 1899.
With regard to the effects, it is contended
that there will be a general rise in prices and
an expansion of trade, especially in the United
States. The writer concludes:-
The effect of excessive issues of paper, with
the rapid influx of uo,d. viii canse an
rise In property; though 1t may be slow IN eN-
panding. il is sure; and the direct effect upon
property will be the depreciation of all kinds
of personal property, like mortgages, bonds, isl-
nuites, &c. payable at a future day; and
gfauual rise IN real properly. Inc eHect may
be thus,-it You have bond payable 2e years
hence You are, unless stipulation to the con
trary is made, bound to take, at its maturity,the
standard currency. If, therefore, when the
payment natures, gold has fallen to ten, fifteen
or twenty per cent. YOU have no remedy but to
pocket, your loss, You will propably fud your
self in the position of Bishop Latimer, who had
his salary raised in the course Of time, found
/ be was no better of. His loaf for which he
| paid four pennies, was no larger than that he
formerly paid two for, and it took double the
money 70 pay rents He consequently delivered
several sermons, portraying the evil times into
which he had fallen. He complained that rents
had risen 400 per cent in the course of fifty
years; and that corr aad bread were enormously
dear He charged the rise to certain evil dis
posed persons in the kingdom Of combining to-
! gether to forestall prices.
The learned Bishop never apprehended that
his king for long period of years, had caused
laws to be made e.debasiag gold.arsd saOer coias,
which was one Of the principal causes of the
great rise OF rents, and other commodities; it
reqairing twice as much coin at that day to pur-
chase any given quantity, as it did fifty years
previous.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

Rain in the United S3ates.-A paper sub
mitted to the Association for the Advancement
of Science by professor Blodget Of the Smith
sonian institute, states the following interesting
facts
The portion of the continent east fthe Rocky
Mountains differs essatially from the Western
portion and from Europe, in regard to the distri-
button and amount OF rain. Its fall is symmet-
rcal and general, not irregular and local.
The acturl amount annually falling is greater
in low countries, and decreases with the eleva-
-ton.
1t is less on the Alleghanies than on the At
lantc coast in the same lattudes, by about one
eighth.
The law of distribution is deduced as one of
regular decrease in temperature; wheather that
decrease of temperature is due to increased ele-
vation or higher latitude.
The Sources of supply of moisture are con
sidered as lying beyond the surface atmosphere.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02
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Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

Tie Iron Tlq9e.-Aecording to a calculation
in the PittSPurgh Post, the iron manufacturers
of this country have sure demand before then
of nearly $500, 100000 for fabrics to be turned
out from their mauu5actories-a demand that
viii require all, end more bian all their capci-
ty to supply fast enough. The calculations up
on which the statements are based is the extent
of railroad now in course Of construction
With one hundred tons per mile, single track,
It will require 100000 tons Of iron rail TO CON-
plete the thirteen thousand mics of railroad,
either in progress. or which will be in progress
ere long, including the Pacific railroad. At
$50 per ton this would require an outlay Of S65,-
0,6OO for single tracks alone. But many OF
these roads viii be double tracks, besides turn
outs &c. Then follows a vast outlay for cars,
locomotives, and other iron works about such
roads, to say nothing Of ocean steamships, iron
buildings, machinery, &c.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

Sugar Of MN for Iea7ids.-A short time
ago Dr. Turnbull, OF Liverpool, read to the Lit
erary and Philosophical Society . paper on the
use of sugar of milk as an article of food IN con
sumption and other pulmonary diseases. 1t
now appears that whey is coming into extensive
use in Germany in the treatment not only OF
consumption, but also of gout and rheumatism,
and that some German physicians entertain
opinions as to the beneficial properties Of sugar
of milk (the ingredients to which whey owes its
virtues) similar to those lately put forth by DIR.
Turnbull. In the cheese daries of this country
the whey is frequently given to pigs, or other
wise wasted, and the lactine, or sugar OF InuA'
now met with in commerce, is bFolght ehure'E
from Europe, being prepared chiefly in oWitz''-
land. Its present high price Is, however, "a
GREAT obstacle to its general use as dletete
ranedv. but it is most desirable that so valuable
an article of food should no longer be wasted,
and that therefore the attention of those engaged
in making cheese should be directed to the
manufacture of this other product from milk,
which must sooner or later become an impor
tant articleof foodand Of commerce. Scientific
American.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

E9fett Of Frat on Hsalh That ripe friit
is generally agreeable to the system and con-
ducive to health, is siot disputed. But there
: writer u the n. !. Observer, who goes lnucls
farther and contends, thai unripc fruit is .sst
injurious. He admits, that great increase Of
disease and death in the city of New York is
synachronous with the appearance of green fruit
in the market but insists, that it is attributable
to the excessive heat of the season, or to other
causes than the fruit, which is then consumed.
This he attempts to establish by showing from
the bills of mortality, first, that this increase
takes place almost exclusively among children
under five years OF age, principally under two,
and therefore the free use OF fruit can have moth
ing to do with it. simultaneously with this the
number of deaths between five aud twenty years
the period especially exposed to the injurious
effect of fruit, if any such exists-is less than in
the winter months. This point he seems to
establish by the comparative reports OF the City
Inspector for the three summer and three winter
months of the last three years
lie moreover adds, and fortifes by the table,
that the whole adalt mortality Of the city is unnu
ally as great, and frequently greater in winter
than in summer. In confirmation of this view,
he cites the third week Of June this year, which
was marked by extreme heat, and a greatermor-
tality than the first week of July. The former
was very fatal to children under five years of
age, but not characterised by an unusual mortal
ity from ordinary diseases in the adult popula-
ton. An analysis is also given of the weekly
report from July 9th to l6th which confirms the
facts in the former reports, showing that the in
creased mortality was, as usual in summer, con-
fined, to children under FIVE years of age.
We have not had the opportunity ourselves to
test the accuracy of the writer's statistics; but
assuming them to be correct for the present,
as no more than reasonable in case where
there is no suspicion of pecuniary interest," it be-
comes an important inquiry, whether the current
opinion of mankind, the faculty itself included
ought not TO be revised, and tho L,,rtfllnaSs- of
consumed green fruit either established by the
tables Of mortality, or else entirely exploded
Green fruit is pleasant TO the taste and if agree
able to the human system, the public ought to
know it, and not neglect a gif of Providence,
and suffer so much of it to 90 to waste at the
sacrifice Of so much property as well as pleasure.
The question has heretofore been subjected, we
believe chiefly, if not exclusively, to a physio-
logical investigation. This is well; arguments
from the nature of our own functions, and the
qualities Of food taken into the stomach, are
good. But, those drawn from their actual ef
fecls upon the body, as illustrated by facts sup
Piled by tables of mortality, perhaps are better.
We should be glad to have both. The matter
is worth thorough examination by every pos
sible test Newark Daily Advertiser.
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

The Plant That Cures the TtZo,c Ferer-
The Washington Union publishes, from the
Department of State, copy Of a despatch re-
ceived not long since from Mr.. /. Nevett
Steele, Charged, Afaires of the United States in
Venezuela, in relation to a subject possessing un-
usual interest at this time. As the Union well
remarks, if the plant described in that COM
municaton is in fact remedy for the frightful
disease which is now desolating some Of our ei-
ties, and which is an annual visitant so unwel-
come, and so destructive of human life, infor-
nation now presented to the public is in the
highest degree important. Mr. Steele suppos-
es that if the plant is not actually indigenous
to the United States, it may be be readily re-
produced here under favorable circumstances
Ifso, Its virtues as a medicine can, and we trust
viii be speedily tested. The Secetary of State has
directed part of the seed to be placed in the
hands of the government horticulture ist in
Washington city, and the remainder to be for
warded to distinguished professional gentlemen
connected with the Medical University in New
Orleans:
Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-09-02

There are one hundred and forty-one locomo-
tives now in the employ of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, The Wheeling Ga,
zette says that if hitched together they would
form train over mile long, and present the
imposing spectacle of the age. Several OF them
are capacitated to run eighty miles per hour.