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The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
hole Number 1913

could finish part of the business. 1t was rule
of law he said, that the Informant should in vari-
Gus cases receive half of what was atjudged. A
person convicted of witchcraft was by law punish
ed with twenty etripes. He should therefore or
der ten to the accuser. They were accordingly
inflicted on the spot. At the appointed time the
court was opened in Northampton, but accuser
appeared. This confessedly Illegal but exempla-
ry, wise and just administration, smothered the
evil in its birth. Had measures equally just and
wise been adopted throughout the colony, the sto-
ry of New England witchcraft would never have
been told. ---'
From this period, the belief of wtchcraft seems
gradually and almost entirely 10 have vanished
from New England. There is perhaps no coun-
try in the world, whose inhabitants treat the whole
train of invisible beings which people the regions
of superstition and credulity, with less respect or
who distinguished religion from its counterfeits,
with more universally correctness
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
RAvENNA, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 80, 1858.

world Priests and prophets desired long to see
the nations drink of Litsrature's holy fountains,
but died without the sight. but the dsy will
come when its waters shall fill the earth and rep
ovate perverted man. How beautiful. then, shall
seem renewed and glorifed this " great globe, the
world" The promises, of ten thousand days of
lovliness in the past. of nnumerable mornings and
evenings or nights scintillating with starry pulses
of glory, shall be realized in the permanent aspects
of earth and sky. Will there not then break forth
from our land, "a seeming Heavenly strain of
song holier than Amphon's tones and sweeter
Than the enchanting measures of Orpheus? Will
not earth again be saluted rs when first she ap-
peared in ceruleap skies, by the singing of the
morning stars and the shouting of all the SONS of
God Will not the Bible be pressed to every
breast and its truths engraved on every heart
On this eternal rock we may plant our feet: upon
it we may wage the last mortal struggle with the
embaftling hosts of error Ii is the only torch Of
truth which throws its rays upon the gloom which
broods over this fallen creation. OF old has the
great Father of all seen the moral gloom OF
world filled with wanderers from the path of peace
into the domains of delusonand error, and for their
restoration has he breathed his mercies forth in
the sweetest and purest Literature. His pate-nal
voice was first heard IN the outrageous bowers of
Eden then in words which were waited by east
ern breezes the plains Of Maplre. 1t was
heard in the far-echoing of Sinai; in the Proph-
cts appeal on Zon's mount, and in his cinenta-
tons amia Babylon's stately palaces and idelarous
fanes. 1t was heard in the accamations of shep-
herds ip Bethelehems wales; in the celestial
teachings of the Son of God in the suppressed
groans and intense agonies of Calvary, and in the
fearless and moving preachngs of inspired apostles
and martyrs. Thus our world that once was
veoped in thickenng gloom, and no SUN of glory
shone in upun runed to throw around him
the rays of peace and mercy, now is illumined by
the word of truth and the glitterng coruscaons of
Sacred Literature. Nature speaks TO man and
Heaven smiles upon him with inviting lovelness;
the earth s cheered and morta!s tune their heaits
to sing in sweetest praises to their God.
o then awake. TO j-,in in anthems sweet,
Ye lovers of the holy and the pure,
In Heavens city at Redeemer's feet,
Well drink streams of Sacred Literature.
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
On Che Death of MRS. Haw.kesyisort1i.
By HER HUSBAND.

Whoe'er like ME, with boding anguish brings
His hearts whole treasure to fair Brsto's springs;
Whoe'er like me, to soothe disease and pain,
Shall pour these saluiary streams in vain;
CONDEMNED like me to hear the faint reply.
10 mark the flushing cheek, the sinking eye.
from the chill brow to wipe the damps Of death, !
And watch with dumb despair each short'ning
~ breath.
If chance direct him to this artless line.
Let the sad mourner know his pangs were mine.
Ordained to lose the partner of my breast,
Whose beauty warmed me aad whose virtue :
/ blest;
Formed every tie that bids the soul to prove
Her duty friendship, and that friendship, love;
But yet, remembering that the parting sigh
Ordained the just to slumber-not to die;
The falling tear check d and kiss'd the rod
And not to earth resign'd her-but to God.
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

INFANTS in HEAvKN.-Beautiful is an infant
whatever way we picture it to ourselves. Beau
tiful in the crade-Beautiful upon parents knee.
Beautiful' awake or asleep. Beautiful at play, in
the corner Of the room, or under the shade tree
before the door. Beautiful as lamb in the Sa-
ver's arms. Beautiful beneath the coffin lid -
les, beautiful even there, in the loveliness of
deaih-wi,h hands folded peacefuliy.-with brow
like moulded wax-with eyes closed in Sleep
" Perchance to dream,"-with lips so gracefully
composed. as if to say, I murmur not,"-and
with its entire face radiant witha smile. which ii
the imprint of it's dying vision!
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
Sacred Literature.


The world has never been without a hero.
Each successive age for six thousand years has
transmitted its representative TO smiling posteri-s
ty. The voices of the truly great have rung in
rapturous melodies from every cline since time
began and first Of all the Eternal spoke, and the
gloom of chaos rolled back obeying the command,
oIet there be light That sentence, spoken by
God himself, is the choicest gem in every tongue,
the brightest jewel in the literature of every Ian
gua7e Thus, in the first moments Of time, the
sweetest and hoest strain that angels ever sung
or that man has learned to lisp, was addressed to
the awful gloom that shut in the universe. God
its author first brealhed it the page whereon
the words of angels written. and the language
of Patriarchs and Prophets is transcribed, of
which we speak to-day. Sacred Literature. thou
offspring of Heaven, parent of earthly beauty IN
thee is ceu,ered the wisdom of all the mighty of
earth, at thy shrine worship the devoted lovers of
purity and peace. On thy altar the fires of fervent
| eioqueuce forever burn, and incense sweet is
breathed in thy inspiring breath to the very cham
bers of the soul. From Adam to Noah rolled the
softening tide, swelling with the effusions of the
ten antedeluvian patriarchs, apparently quicken
/ ing Inc 1DIHnt WOtIu loi uio pSuulLS uS-
luge. And down through time. as age on age is
piled, sweep the silver current, cleansing the world
! of its poIlutions. and enrching the hearts of ma
tions, as the Nile makes verdant the arid plains o
Egypt. In Egypt, where first the tapers ofsuper-
stitou began to blaze and shed forth their pestifer
GUS rays upon grovelling nation, where Horus
Tboth, Scraps and Anulis received the homage O
all hearts, the mild influence of lsrael's example
softened the hearts of many Pharaohs, and taught
the sons Of the Nile that one greater than mar
/ rp,ed the destinies of the world. The settlement
of the Jewish people in Egypt. tended in some de
gree to recall them from their pomad state, ant
during the. eighteenth century before the Christian
era; for The frst-tine IN the annals of-antquify
was witnessed communication betweenthe He
brews, Greeks and Egyptians. Joseph ana TN
s twelve Patriarchs on the one side, q King OF nes
sally and the Titans on the other, sought an asylum
in Egypt The Israeiites were then noma
tribe like the Arabs at the present day; In
, Greeks were Scythians Pelaegians; both wsr
- new people while the Chaldeans Sidoneans an
; Egyptians were skilled in astronomy and naviga
tion learned in theology morals, politics, the III
d Of war. and maritime commerce. At an earle
o period than this. the primitive leaders of mankint
/. bearing with them the worship of Ammou an
Osiris, the arts Of fife, the habits of trade, an
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
GREAT TEMPERANCE TALE.

TIE Senator's Son, or the Maine Law, last
6e Hefuge. By Metta Victoria Fuller: :.
This anxiousiy looked for. and powerfully writ
ten work, is. to the Temperance cause, what Un-
Gle Toms Cabin is TO the Anti-Slavery cause, and
is destined to produce a great sensation, and TO
exert an immense and saiutary Influence. slsss
Anew supply just received and going off fast at
March 2, 1859. HALL's BOOK STORE.
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g We Must ALI Pass Away

8 We Must ALI Pass Away
| saw rose at morn,
Upon its parent tree,
~ With it's richly-tinted petals,
So beautiful to see;
I looked again at eve,
When silence reigned around,
And there 10 wasted henuty,
Twas withered Cd the g. ound.
l saw bird, whose plu-nage
Outvied the rising sun,
Whose joyous life aud music
AS yet had scarce begun;
Aud while it gaily warbled
A wild and joyous lay,
An eagle, in his talons,
Soon bore it far away.
! saw maid, whose beauty
Was lovely to behold.
Whose sunny, auburn tresses
Outshone the richest gold;
looked again around me
Among the blythe and gay,
But looked in vain for Ada-
She, tco, had passed away.
saw brook, in spring time,
In beauty ripping by;
looked again in summer,
And its pebbIed bed was dry;
And us l sadly pondered
On beauty's swift decay,
Some unseen spirit Whispered:
" We all must pass away
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

g The following original produetion has been
communicated for the Ohio Star. 1t was written
by Mr.. w. D. HARRAH, of HepedaIe; HDrrison
County, Ohio. student in the Hiram Eclectic
Institute, and spoken by the author at the last
Commencement exercises Of that institution
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30
VOLUME XXIV~Number 81.
7----.-- n = 1TO0s NE A7EtrAUVOcz
The Old Grist Mill.

s
The Old Grist HIili.
The grist mill stands beside the stream,
The bending roof and leaning wall;
So that when the winds are wild,
The miller trembles lest it fall,
But moss and ivy never sere,
Bebeck it Ger from year to year.
The dam is steep and weeded green. @
The gates are raised, the waters pour,
And tread the old wheels slippery steps,
The lowest round forevermore.
Methinks they have sound Of ire,
Because they cannot climb it higher.
From morn till night in autumn time. +
When yellow haryests load the Ilains,
Up drive the farmers to the mill,
And back anon with loaded wains;
They bring heap of golden grain,
And take it home in meal agaiD.
The mill inside is dim and dark,
But peeping in the open door,
You see the miller fitting round,
And dusty bags upon the floor;
The yellow meal comes pouring out.
And all day long the wiunowed chaff
Floats round it on the sultry breeze,
And shineth like a setting swarm
OF goIden-wiDged and belted bees;
Or sparks around bIacksmith's door,
When bellows blow and forges roar.
love my pleasant. quaint old mill /!
1t minds me of my early prime;
IT'S changed since thee, but not so much
AS am by decay and time;
Its wrecks are mossed from year to year,
But mine all dark and bare appear.
stand beside the stream of life,
The mighty current sweeps along,
Lifting the foodgates of my heat,
1t turns the magic wheel of song.
And grinds the ripened harvests brought
From out the golden field of thought.
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

The following beautiful Epitaph on the death
Mrs. Hawkesworth, was written by her husba &C
DR.. Hawkesworth, and is, we think, model OF
this species of composition
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

Intelligence miscellaneous Reading Rights
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

Lilly Dale. Answer to wait for the wag
Katy Darling, songSquar- on
tatte Uncle Toms lament fol
Home Again---song and Eva@W oodbury
. ouartette ; : Old folks at houe :
Rem Bolts reply Young folks at home. a
RiIty Grimes Mountaineers FAREWELL
Sailor boys last dream Bakers
Woodbury. Chllds Prayer, &C, DC,
Wait for the wagon
With good assortmentof waltzs, polkas' quadri
&C., may be found at
The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-30

Bsunswiek, NE. Jan, 1852.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20
Good News.

1t is generally a very easy thing TO see
errors in others, but it is not quite so ca
sy to correct them in ourselves. IL is an
incontrovertible fact that the late admins
tration of Mr.. Fillmore was very lavish of
expenditures. This was regretted by all
lovers of probity, and economy in the 60
yernment, and we are well pleased to
learn that the administration of General
Pierce is likely to redeem its promises of
reform. The following from a general
ly well informed correspondent of the
neutral Baltimore Sun. we deem reliable:
The financial transactions which re-
ferred to yesterday as having attracted
attention in New York, are not probably
either of q novel or an improper charac-
ter. Seven or eight fnanciers in New
York have been employed at different
times, of late, in the purchase of stocks for
the Government at the market rates. 1t
is probable that the recent transaction,
referred to was of this sort. BY this
operation, which is conducted with great
deal of secresy, the Government and its
agents are both benefited. And no COM
plant can be made of the preference which
an administration may, in such matters
give to their own friends.
But it is said that, under the new ad
ministration, such strict regulations will
be adopted on all subjects respecting the
Sub Treasury, that it will be difficult for
the best and most influential democratic
fnancier to make copper by handling
the public money.
II lis stated that certain California con-
tracts respecting the mint, custom-house.
and other public establishments, have all
been annulled, and will be re-opened for
competition. under such regulations that
no money can be made By the contraet
brokers and their agents.
This will break up lucrative branch
of business, and arouse great outcry
against Democratic nlisrule. New brooms
they say sweep clean. and it may be the
intention of the new administration to
carry into effect the promise of the Har-
rison administration, which was to open
a new set of books and keep stricter &C
counts, and guard better against leaks and
loses.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20
Democratic Meeting.

At meeting held at the Court House
of Harrison county. in the LIST election
district of said county, pursuant to previ-
Gus notice, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to general county convention
to be held at said Court House on the 18th
inst, to select two suitable persons of the
Democratic party to be voted for as re-
representatives. in the next General Assem-
bly, of Virginia. On motion of Col. D..
I. Hewes, Col. G. G.. Dawson was called
to the Chair, and w. P. Cooper appointed
Secretary. Col D. r. Hewes offered the
following preamble and resolution
Whereas, This meeting approving of
the suggestion of district meetings to ap-
point delegates to attend county con-
vention of delegates of the Democratic
party of this county. to be held at the
Cont House on the 18th inst, 20 agree
upon two suitable persons as candidates
to represent US in the next House of De-
legates of Virginia, do hereby
ResolVe. That eight persons be appoint
ed as delegates to represent this district
in said county Convention.
Whereupon, the meeting preceded to
nominate and appoint the following
named persons as such delegates. to wit !:
Aaron Barnet, J. w. Harris, Arthur
Cowan. David T. Hewes. VIM. Lee, Geo.
Cork. J. B. Wright and Truman Gore.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned
sine die.
G. C. DAWSON, Pres't.
w D Coopep So.,s,
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20
The New Congress sionai Districts.

1t will be gratifying to the Democracy
of Virginia to know that the yexed ques-
ton of the Congressional appportionment,
which threatened to destroy the Demo
cratic organization on the heel of ses-
sion, and on the eve of an election is
amicably settled. The majority and mi
nor;ty Of the Democratic members of the
Legislature have each, in the spirit OF
compromise and of fraternal duty to the
common and good causes, yielded to the
other a part of their preferences, and
have fixed upon an equitable, just and
satisfactory family adjustment
The result of this honorable and credi-
table action is found in the apportionment,
which. for the better convenience of the
reader, is spread out in tabular form be-
low To those true Democrats in the mi
nority, who sacrificed their warmly che
Iished preferences to the superior will of
the majority, the party in Virginia will
owe a lasting obligation. Whatever as
perities may have been excited by too
earnest and stern adherence to those pre-
ferences on their part, and by a too harsh
animadyersion on the other, are now mn
tually and forever forgotten and all will
90 into the Spring contest, determined to
Show by the efficiency of their service,
their devotion to the Republican cause.
In vain may the opposition, unable to
do else, console themselves for their own
Impotence by proclaiming disastrous
dissentions in our too numerous ranks
The spring elections. under the happy
auspices and clear skies that now overhang
our cause, will soon reveal where disas-
ter, discontinue, and hopeless impotency
belong. We doubt not that the same spi-
rit which in the Capitol has secured the
following admirable apportionment, will.
equally gratifying triumph for the repub-
lican cause.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20

can wing his flight to the blue skies. of his
native home with renewed and holden
wing. and glance with proud and un-
dazzled eye upon the soil of Young Anne
rica from the regions of the rising to the
setting sun. Fellow citizens, go for the
acquisition of Cuba by Young America,
and repudiate Old Fogyisin throughout,
so far as this question is concerned. In
the administration of our Federal Govern
ment l go against the extension of Execu-
tive power. and go for watching the Pre-
sident all the time to prevent him from
filching power from the hands of the peo-
pie. l go for the compromise measures.
and for the Union and nothing Lst the On.
ion. go for the rights of the South, 1
go for the distribution of the proceeds of
the public lands, or the appropriation of
public lands amongst the States, so that
Virginia shall receive the quotas to which
she is Justly entitled, and which when
received. will tighten and relieve us from
the awful burthens of taxation which are
soon to be visited upon US forinternal i'm
provements. l go for the Monroe Doctrine
to the fullest extent. 1t is not in my
power. within the narrow limits of cir
cular to express myself more fully and at
greater length than have done-so soon
as can spare time from my professional
engagements, will endeavor to visit all
the counties if possible, in this district, to
address the people. In the meantime. 1
rely upon the justice and merits of my
cause, and the good sense of the people,
far more than 1 do upon my own humble
pretensions. and with bold reliance and
an abiding confidence in the brilliant des-
tiny of Young America, march as de-
voted soldier under her spotless banner.
prepared to do battle in her sacr ed cause
for the right of the human race.
FLEET w. SMITH,
JACKSON G. H., April 5th, 1853.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20

VIRGINIA AND THE BALTIMORE AND ONO
RAlLRoAD.-The committee of the Virgin
ia Legislature, to which was referred the
com plants against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, have reported resolution in
structing the Commissioners of Public
Works to collect all the information touch
ing the administration of said road within
the commonwealth, in regard to the rates
charged from different points of the said
road. and generally to enquire whether,
in the management of said road, unequal
burthens are imposed on the citizens OF
Virginia, and report to the next legisla-
ture. The committee themselves now fur.
nish some testimony on the subject. as
we'll as on the charter. but yet think i. de-
sirable to get more. A minority report
was also made.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20
s The New York Tribune speak

Eg- The New York Tribune, speak
ing of Mr.. Soule's appointed as Minister
to Spain, says that on recent occasion
"Mr. Scuie declared that he would not
accept the Spanish mission except on one
condition, and that condition he did not
suppose the administration would grant.
Upon being questioned as to what it was.
he replied that it was that he should haze
unlimited poger for tile purchase Of Cuba"
eve infer, therefore, that MIR. Soule is
invested with unrestricted authority to
bargain for that island. This is the object
for which he goes
We believe no such nonsense as that.
Important as is the acquisition of Cuba.
we very much mistake the character of
General Pierce il he has given any such
power to any body, much less to such
free eater as Senator oule.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-04-20
JACKSON C

Democratic Meeting in Mason County.
AT large and respectable meeting of
the Democratic party of Mason county,
held at the Court House on Saturday the
10Th of April, 1858, for the purpose Of
sending delegates to the convention to be
held in the town of Winchester. on the
28th inst, to nominate a candidate for
commissioner of the Board of Public
Works of the Sd district,
On motion Of Captain Alexander Nc
Causeland, VIM. Neuman was appointed
chairman, and Andrew F. George, secre-
tary.
The object of the meeting having been
explained by the chairman. r. F. Jones
offered the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted
Resolved, That the chairman appoint
twelve delegates to represent this county
in said convention.
Whereupon. the chair appointed the
following gentlemen: Captain A. Nc
CauslanL, s. F. Jones, And. Roseberry,
G. F. Hory, J. G. Neuman. A. G.. East
ham, j. G. Henderson, John Waugh,
Lewis Brenneman, Samuel Yeaser James
NJ. Choir and VIM. George.
Reso1ved. From the confidence we have
in the integrity and the superior qualifca-
tons of our fellow citizen, Col. James NJ.
H. Beale, for the important post of Com
missioner of the Board of Public Works,
we recommend him to the convention as a
suitable candidate for Commissioner for
said Board, and unanimously instruct our
delegates to vote for him in said conven-
ton.
On motion of Andrew Roseberry,
ReSolved, That the Chairman and Sec
rotary be added to the list of delegates.
On motion of Captain McCauseland,
ReSoived, That the Secretary furnish
copies of these proceedings to the papers
of this district. and request the publica-
ton of the same.
On motion of VIM. V. Lynch, the meet
ing adjourned.
WIN. w. NEUMAN, Pres't.
AND. F. GEORGE, Sec'y.