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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

0uR PUBLIC LAsDs.-The Washing
ton correspondent of The Baltimore
Ssn says:
The General Land Office has done a
big business during the past fiscal year.
About $500, 900 acres have been sur
veyed, and of these, 1000, 900 have
been brought into the market, which
yielded a revenue of s9,950,OOO in
round numbers. This shows to what
extraordinary extent speculation in
lands and real estate generally has been
carried on the past season, and explains
in measure the tightness of the money
market in the Western States.
During the past fiscal year some
three and half millions of acres were
entered with military land warrants,
II ,000, 900 of acres were claimed as
swamp lands by the States, and $780,
600 1.-THE residue of former appropria-
tons were selected as donations for
roads by the General Government
showing upward of 10000, 900 of
acres were, in all, disposed of during
the last fiscal year.
The increased revenue on cash sales
amount alone to s6,OO0,OOO.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

The VIrRIoL MAN-An individual
by the name of Theodore H. Gray has
been arrested in New York, charged
with throwing yitriol upon ladies dresses.
1t is supposed that dresses to the value
of many thousand dollars have been
ruined by the villain. The prisoner
admits that he is guilty of all the
charges brought against him, and says
that he was led to commit the assaults
by religious influence.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

HA very loquacious lady once Of
fered to bet her husband fifty dollars.
that she would not speak word for a
week. ~
'Donep said the delighted husband,
stalking the money, which the lady i'm
mediately put into her pocket, observing
very gravely that she would secure It
until the wager was decided.
why, madam cried the husband,
Il have won it already
You are mistaken in the time,' said
the lady; 4 mean the week after ] am
buried
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

~We picked up good anecdote,
the other day, of an old Methodist
preacher. who road circuit few years
ago. While going to one of his ap-
pointments, he met an old acquaintance,
who was one of the magistrates of the
county. He asked the minister why he
didn't do as the Saviour did-ride an
ass. Because said the divine, the
people have taken them all to make
magistrates Of
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

SECOND CRoP OF PEAcHEs.-We had
the pleasurs (says the Loudoun Va.
Washington, of eating peach, pre-
sented US by Mr.. John Iseet, Of Lees
burg, which was of the second growth
Tor the present year. The tree bore
early in the summer and then blossomed
again and produced the peach presented
to us. 1t was small, but possessed all
the flavor and taste of the genuine ar
ticle.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

or boiled in pillows as he chose. Blu
his greatest triumph was to come.
His eyes began to glare furtively a
the assassin Hopkins, and his lean tapel
fingers slowly assumed the same direc
ton. He hemmed the wretch with {
circumvaliation of strong evidence and
impregnable argument, cutting off al
hopes of escape. He piled up huge
bastions of insurmountable facts.
He dug beneath the murderer's and
slanderer's feet bitches of dilemmas
such as no sophistry could overleap
and no stretch of ingenuity evade; haV-
ing thus as one might say, impounded
his victim and girt him about like a
scorpion in a circle of fire, he stripped
himself to the work of massacre.
Oh! then, it was vision both glori-
Gus and dreadful to behold the orator.
His actions, before graceful as the wave
of golden willow, in the breeze, grew
impetuous as the motion of the oak in
the hurricane. His voice became a
trumpet filled with whirlpools, deafen-
ing the ear with crashes of power, and
yet intermingled all the while with a
sweet undersong of the softest cadence.
His face was as red as a drunkard's-
his countenance looked haggard like
that of a maniac; and ever and anon he
flung his long bony arms on high as if
grasping after thunderbolts. He drew
a picture of murder in such appalling
colors, that in comparison, hell might
be considered beautiful. He painted
SANDER so black that the sun seemed
dark at noon-day when shining on such
an accursed monster; and then he so
fixed both portraits on the shrinking
brow of Hopkins, that he nailed them
there forever. The agitation of the
audience nearly amouted to madness.
All at once he descended from his
perilous height. His voice walled out
Tor the murdered dead, the living, the
beautiful Mary, more beautiful every
moment, as her tears flowed faster-till
men wept, and lovely women sobbed
like children.
He closed by strong exhortation to
the jury, through them to the by stand
ers. He entreated the panel, after they
should bring in their verdict for the
plaintiff, not to offer violence to the de-
fendant, however richly he might de-
serve it; in other words mot to lynch
the villain, Hopkins, but to leave bis
punishment to God" This was the
most artful trick of all and best calcu-
lated to insure vengeance.
The jury returned a verdict of fifty
thousand dollars; and the night after
wards, Hopkins was taken off his bed
BY lynchers and beaten almost to death
1 have listened to Clay, Webster and
Calhoun-to Dewey, Tying and Bascom
but have never heard anything in the
form of sublime words, even remotely
approximating the eloquence of John
as a mountain, and
wildly rushing as cataract of fire.
And this is the opinion of all who ever
heard that marvellous man.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

Is IT so?-The Cincinnati Sun fur
nishes us with the following paragraph:
Cincinnati, the Queen City of the
West is MISUNDERSTANDING in the
strictest sense of the word. Those of
her merchants who have not already
failed, have no money; while those who
have suspended keep their means in
their pockets"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07
Number 2.

~ The amount of gold shipped
from San Francisco in July was sS. $685.
lSS; in August $3.50 !,37'; and in
September, s3. .963. 447; making for the
three months sl3,794.960, Of which
e,6o9, 407 81 were destined for the
Atlantic States. and sl,Is5,5 $50 so for
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

DEATH OF JUDGE REEIcK-The Wy
apdOt Pioneer mentions the death of
Hon. Able Renick, at his residence in
Marseilles township. Wyandot county,
on the goth inst. Judge R. was native
of Yirginia-emigrsted to Ross county
in this State in 1902, and in 1897 re-
moved to his late residence. He was in
his S2d year at the time of his death.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

EE-0ne day, Dunning-whose exte-'
rior graces were by no means commen-
surate with his personal vanity-had
been cross-examining young woman
at considerable length, upon the age Of
a person with whom she professed her
self well acquainted. and asked her: -
How old now would you take me 10
be?' was considerably dumb-founded
by her prompt replying, to the universal
laughter of crowded court:
From your appearance, sixty; but
from your question, sixteen
HAt the U. s. Mintin Philadelphia,
there were coined in the month of 0cto-
Der, in dollars and bars, the amount of
S2,I45,5l0. The total amount Of gold
coined from 1898 to 30th of September,
1854. was s32s, % .597. with about
S95, ZOO, 900 in silver. Since the dis
coyery Of gold in California, there has
been coined in gold s25' .65i,20I.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07

"PHYsIcIAEs IN TROUBLE During
the late visitation of the cholera in
Genoa, nearly every shop was closed,
and not soul was to be seen in the
streets. Popular prejudice was strong
ly excited, and the druggists shops
were constantly guarded by gendarmes,
lest they should be laid waste as the
laboratories of poison. Physicians
were threatened as poisoners, while in
the performance of thsir duties, and one
of them was SO maltreated that he died
of cholera produced By fear.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07
MEDICINAL PRopERrrEs OF ARSENIC.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF ARSENIC.
Physician-in- Chief of the
military hospital du Roull, is said to
treat almost all limnenic affections, re-
gardless of symptoms, with arsenious
acid. This distinguished French sur
geon says that after having commenced
to administer the twenty fourth part of
grain, he gradually became convinced,
with many other physicians who had
obtained similar results, that arsenious
acid preserves, even at the small dose
of one hundredth part of a grain, all
its medicinal energy, not only in the
treatment of marsh intermittents, but
also in that of number of other dis
eases. DR.. B. says that with a single
dose of the one hundredth part Of a
grain he has often removed, radically,
fevers contracted in Algiers or on the
Senegal, which had resisted the sui
phate of quinine and change of climate.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07
RIt is now finally settled at Il

@ It is now finally settled at the
capital of Maine, that Fuller, Locofoco,
is elected to Congress, over Milliken,
Republican. 1t was so close that the
official count alone could settle it. This
gives the Administration one member
from Maine.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-12-07
A Nm ZOE NArrvE AfERrcANs.-

A Nur roR NATIVE AaERIcAEs.-
Americans are represented abroad as
follows: by a Frenchman in Spain. by
an italian in Italy. by a German Jew at
the Hague, by Scotebmsn at Naples.
and by an Irishman in Portugal. Sickles
AID Sanders, we are sorry TO learn from
the Boston alias, were born in this coun.
.rY.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

deeper and deeper sinking, began in giddy whtls,
a horror stricken dance--a few seconds more, and
il shot, with its hundreds OF human beings in vain
with deadly pallid and agonized countenances,
implorng heaven for deliverance, and clinging
convulsivey 10 The shrouds into The gaping abyss,
the foaming sea with loud and terrible gursIing,
forever closed over the black, yawhing gull and all
was SILENT
few moments sufiiced 10 complete the terrific
catastrophe. From all the neishborng vessels,
boats were sent out 10 attempt 10 save some OF the
drowning hundreds, but The vast whirlpool caused
by The sinking ship, preveped near approach -
Only few OF the most experienced sailors, who
cIiraed 10 he topmast The Royal George for the
last time heaved erect, were enabled to save them
selves by swimming. All the rest, in the midst OF
jubilee of pleasure, iell prey to,he yawnns sea-"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

deed what 'pon yarth aled her darter, when Beisey
up and whooped like a stunned dog. swan 10
man, il l coulI bare that, SO hoped up like bed
wenc and ses l.
guess I'll go now, for there's an old cow out
doors a holIern for me. Good nite
Good nite,' ses Be,sey, giglin' and lodged
out OF that door quicker than a swaller bird can
dodge stone, and then listened 10 the winder TO
hear what they'd say. Pooty soon the old woman
SEES
Belsey, wha, you snickern a,1'
No hin''
Why don't you stop, lhena'
Cause can't, ses Belsey.
TLen why don't you fix yourself for bedf
He he - ses Belsey Ned Albro has karricd
of my night gorn, and can't
I've seen liuIe bob tailed dogs afore now, run
like chain lightning, with piece OF stove Iipe
tied TO The slump Of their extreme end, but Jehn
you orter seen me leave Besey Daviss house. The
way tilted over fences, and Ih;ngs, would have
skeered the telegraph. But kept that night gown.
By darn it's The greatest curiosity this side OF Ja
pan. never went 10 sea-but | went to see that
'ere gall, tho, good mess OF times aer ha, time,
and arn The difference tween courtin and hookin'
gals night gown. Now, wan'l it comika?
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09
TO w A N ID A :
sotnroap alorninp, Derember q, 1854.
selsttea 4ostrg.
THE EVENING HEARTHsTONE.

Gladly now we gather round It,
For the toiling day is done,
And the gray and solemn twilight,
Follows down the golden sun;
Shadows lengthen on the pavement
Stalk like giants through the sloom'
Wander past the dusky easement,
Creep around the fire lit room,
Draw the curtains !--close the shutters:
Place the slippers by the fire!
Though the rude wind loudly mutters,
What care we for the wind-sprites ire.
What care we for outward seeming!
Fickle Fortunes frown or smile,
If around US love is beaming,
Love can human ills beguile!
Meath the cottage roof and palace
From the peasant to the King,
All are quaffing from life's chalIce,
Bubbles that enchantment bring.
Crates are glowing--music flowing
From the lips we love the best,
Oh, the joy-the bliss--of knowing
There are hearts whereon to resti
Hearts that throb with eager gladness-
Hearts that echo to our own
While from care and haunting sadness
Mingle ne'er in look or tone.
Care may tread the halls of Daylight
Sadness haunt the midnight hour
But he wierd and witchlng Twilight
Brings the glowing Hearlhstone dover
Altar of our holest feelings!
Childhood's we'll remembered shrine,
Spirityearning--soul
Wreaths immortal round thee twlne.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

ORIGIN CT THE TERM " OLD DOMINION" While
Oliver Cromwell was Protector of England, Virgin.
ia refused TO acknowledge his authority, and De-
claTed itself independent When he threatened 10
send fleet and army to reduce Virginia TO subjec.
lion, they sent messenger 10 the eXiled King
Charles II, inviting him to be King Of Virginia. He
accepted The invitation, and was about emba,kns
when he was recalled 10 the throne of England
In gratitude 10 the loyalty Of Virginia, he caused
her coat oil arms to be quartered with those OF
England, Ireland and Scotland, distinct portion
Of The - Old Dominion"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

Gum ARARic-In Morocco, about The middle of
November, that is, after rainy season, which be-
gins in July, gumny juice exudes spontaneously
fom the trunk and principal branches the acacia
tree. In about fifteen days it lhickens in The fur
row, down which it runs, either in vermicular Cor
worm) shape, OF commonly assuming The form of
oval or round tears, about the size o: a pigeons
egg, of different colors, as they belong 10 The white
or red gnm tree. About the middle oil December,
the Moors encamp on The border Of The fctes,, and
the harvest lasts six weeks.
The gum is packed in very large sacks of leah-
er, and brought on the backs OF bulocks and cam.
els to certain points, where ii is sold to the French
and English merchants. 1t is highly nuIFicious.--
During The whole time oil harvest, OF The journey,
and of lhe fair, the Moors of ,he desert live almost
entirely upon it, and experience proves that six
ounces of gums sufficient for the suppoT, of man
twenty four hours.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

A Coop REroRr.-A clergyman who las in the
habit of preaching in dia1feuI paris OF IIe country,
was not long since al an inn, where he observed a
horse Jockey trying to take in simple gentleman,
by imposing upon his broken winied horse for
sound one. The parson knew The bad character of
the j1ckey, and taking the gentleman aside, told
him be cautious of the person he was dealing with.
The gentleman finally declined 10 purchase, and
the Jockey, quite neuIed, Observed
Parson, had much rather hear you preach,
than see you privately Interfere in bargains between
man aud man, in his way"
Well" replied lhe parson, off you were where
you ough, to have been, las, Sunday, you might
have hear me preach"
Where was lha!" inquired the jockey"
In State Prison." replied the clergyman.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

SOMETHING To BE REMEMBERED.-We should
make it principle TO extend our friendship 10 ey
cry man who discharges faithfully his duties, and
maintains good order-who manilests deep in
teresl in the welfare OF general society-whose de-
portmen, is upright, and whose mind is intelligent
without stopping 10 ascertain whether he swings
a hammer or draws thread. There is nothing
distant from all natural claim as The reluctant the
backward sympathy, the forced smile, the check
ed conversation, the hesilating compliance, which
the well oil are apt to manifest to those little down,
with whom, in the comparison ofintelIect and prn-
ciples of virtue, they frequently sink into insisnif.
cance.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

EXCELLENT REPARTEE The Rev. Doctor NC
-, minister of Douglass, in Clydesdale, was ons
day dining in large party where The Hen Henry
Erskine and some other lawyers were present.
great dish OF crosses being presented after dinner,
DR.. NC who was exrdvaganIly fond of vegea-
bles, helped himself much more largely than any
other person, and as he ate with his fingers, with
peculiar voraclly of manner, Mr.. Eskine was
struck with the idea that he resembed Nebuchad-
iezzar in his state of condemnation. Resolved TO
give him hint OF the apparent grossness Of his
taste aud manner OF ealing, The wit addressed him
with
DR. NC, you bring me in mind of the great
NebuchadneZZar'
The company were beginning 10 titler at lle lu.
dcrous allusion, when The Rev. vegetable deyour-
er replied:
"Ay, do mind ye o'Nebuchadnezzar l-That'Il
be because I'm ealing among The brues'
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

or Sickness has wonderful influence on the
heart. If we feel like doing generous action,
it is while recovering from long course OF fever
and confinement. Health has its uses, but improv.
ing our virtue and goodLess is not one of lhem.-
All our crimes are committed by men overfoRing
with blood and robustness.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

o. Mrs. partington, while visiting The Museum
the other day, on looking among the old revolu-
lionary relics and Scottish claymoIes, asked The
superintendent. il he had among The famous cutlery
the axe OF the apostles"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

CINcINNArvs was tasmss, and oas Of the no.
b.es Romans
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-09

No body knows anything about what he is
doing. All know is, that when Squire Smith sold
him two cords of wood last week, and carried in
his bill, he couldn't pay it. He actually put the
Squire off till next week. Thai looks as though
they could afford thirty dollar cloaks, don't iW
With these sage reflections, Mrs. MAXWELL turn
Miss Viney 10 pursue her way and ponder upon the
exlravagance Of some folks.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-11

of old, " Unless 1 hold your son in the
flame and bury in him Goals Of fire, |
cannot mako him wholly immortal"
We say again. it is hard. 1t is this
that leads the good teacher often to
say, " Who is sufficient for these
things" ?" And any thing but an in-
domitable will, will sometimes yield.
But if you are endcavoring 10 inyigor-
ate your pupil with the power Of con.
secutive thought. you are in the right.
And whoever may doubt, whoever may
deridc, whoever may oppose, persc.
we're consider it as your " mission,"
to wake up human souls to the ability
and luxury of thought. Tire not 4; but
every day march all your forces against
the castle of Incidence i'll the soul, and
with your blows as heavy as sledge-
hammers, demonstrate on its never
opened doors the wonderful proposi-
ton to them, that the powers that
sleep therein, are capable of few
moments Of funbroken wakefulncss. it
is thus that we expect to give pcrre
tuity to our work.
" Tis thus. that painters writo their names
at Cot"
You might punctuatc the whole
earth with pyramids and obclisks, and
furrow out Amazons with the point Of
Joar cane, and ycur work would not
be so permanent as this True. your
famo or reward may not be present
community may compensate you but
poorly your pupils even may not es-
teen you nor. But it was a noble
remark of Kcl Ter, " God has waited
six thousand years for beholder
cannot Kcpler wait few years for .
reader Z" 1t has been the way viii
the worlds best heroes, to 90 through
scenes Of fiery tiial, and then suffer al
early apothesis for want Of bread.
Seven cities fought for Homer dead,
Through which, Homer living, begged hi
b. cad"
Nevertheless, the good teacher il
one Of socicty's best and most per
manent bencfactors. Then, fellow
tlaborcrs, linger here over this thought
and learn tho sustaining lesson, taugh
in the school Of the glorious prophet
and martyrs, and heroes of All time
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn 10 labor and to whit"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-11

able debts of her father from the prof.
its of her first work, and before thir-
ty, had published thirty volumes. "
DR.. Scott, the commentator, could
not compose a theme when twelve
years old: and even at a latter age,
DR.. Adam Clark, after incredible cf-
forts, failed to commit to memory a
poem Of few stanzas only. At nine
years of age, one who afterwards be-
came a Chief Justice in this country,
was during a whole winter, unable to
commit to memory the little poem
found in one Of our school books.
Labor and patience are the wonder.
workers of man the wand by whose
magic touch he changes dross into gold,
deformity into beauty, the desert into
a garden, and the ignorant child into
the venerable sage. Let no youth be
given up as an incorrigible dolt, a VIC
tim only to be laid upon the altar OF
stupidity, until labor and patience have
struggled with him long enough to as
certain whether he is a " natural fool
or whether his mind is merely cnclos
cd in a harder shell than common, re-
quiring only little outward aid to es
cape into vigorous and sysmmctrica
li(c.-Journal Of Education.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-01-11

No fact can be planned than this
1t is impossible to Judge correctly Of
the genius or intellectual ability of the
future man by the indications Of child
hood. Some of the most eminent men
Of ages were remarkable only for dull
ness in their youth. Sir Isaac New
ton III his boyhood was inattcntivc to
his study. ranked very low in school
until tie age Of twelve: When Sam
ucl Wythe, the Dublin schoolmastcr,
attempted to educate Richard Blinslcy
Sheridan, he pronounced the boy an
"incorrigible Ounce" Tho mother
Of Sheridan fully concurred in this
verdict, and declared lin the most
stupid of her sons. Goldsmith was
dali in his youth, and Shakespeare,
Gibbon, Davy, and Dryden DO not ap.
pear to have exhibited in their child
hood even the common elements of
future success.
When Bcrzclus, the eminent Swed-
ish chemist, left school for the univer-
sity, the words, " Indifferent in be-
haviour and of doubtful hope" were
scored against his name and after he
entered the university, he narrowly
escaped being turned back. On one
of his first visits to the laboratory,
when nineteen years old, he was taunt.
ed with the inquiry whether he sun
derstood the difference between a la
boratory and a kitchen" Walter
Scott had the credit of having "thc
thickest skull in the school," though
DR.. Blair told the teacher that many
bright rays of future genius shono
through that same thick skull"
Milton and Swift were justly cclc-
brated for stupidity in childhood. The
great Isaac Barrow's father used to
say that, if it pleased God to take from
him any of his children, he hoped it
might be Isaac, as the least promising
Clavius, the great mathematician of
his age, was 50 stupid in his boyhood,
that his teacher could make nothing of
himtill they tried him in geometry. Can
aci, the celebrated painter, was so
inapt in his youth, that his masters ad.
viscd him to restrict his ambition to the
grinding of colors.
" One of the most popular author
csses of the present day" says an En-.
glish writer, " could not read when she
was seven. Her mother was rather
uncomfortable about it, but said, as
everybody did learn, with opportunity,
she supposed her child would dc so at
last BY eighteen, the apparently
slow genius paid the heavy but newt