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The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

A Sensible Serrnon.

The Rev. Mr. Bacon in a sermon on
Sunday evening, at the Church of the
Messiah, pronounced tie newspaper as
second only to the Bible in Representative
government as a moral force. With its
twenty FIVE millions Of papers issued an
nually, it penetrates every house and
reaches every reader. If the preacher,
with his hundreds Of hearers, has COM
manding influence for good upon his con-
gregation, moulding their morals and en-
tightening the understandings, how much
greater must be the influence and the re-
sponsibilities Of the press, which tails
daily to its fifty or an hundred thousand
readers? 1t is good sign to see the
preacher recognizing the Importance of
the secular press, and taking liberal views
of its usefulness, and the purposes wich i:
subserves in promoting the great work Of
civilization, and of human rights and hap
plness. The following remarks from the
sermons s are appropriate andjust:
The newspaper, quite as much as our
public schools, is in America the great
creator of a nation of thinkers and debates
The American editor aims not at the
choice diction of an essasist, and pays
little attention to mere distractions and
vain theories. He writes as if he would
give the greatest quantity of thought in
the briefest space. He excels in para
graphs, which are like the sharp shooting
ofrihemen; his heavy artillery he reserves
for occasional editorials, but he seldom
plies the cannon where bullet will do the
work. But, as characteristic of our
people, he is ever ready to lay aside bis
editorial matter to make room for news.
He knows men, and not deeds. His Ian
guage possesses clear and concise utter
ance. Every write and public speaker
might find model Of style in the produc-
tons of the American editor.
The pulpit must first labor to effect an
improvement in the character of religious
newspapers were far behind the secular
press, in breadth Of views and compre-
hensiveness and iberality, of action, and
he might venture to say, in religion itself
They take most Of their news from the
daily press, and even their reports Of re-
ligious meetings-while it is not unfre-
quent for them to turn around and charge
the reporters with irrelgion. The religi-
Gus press is to often narrowminded--it
does not seem to understand It's true policy
and duties; and the violence and animosi-
ty that pervade its columns are even
worse than that Of political editors on the
eve of an election.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15
Homo and Memory.

AN old Poem Of the North tells OF a
brave boy, who in his earlier days found
his mothers cottage too narrow, mourned
offending the goats on the mountain side,
and felt his heart swell in him like brook
from the me lting gofthe show, when he saw
ship shoot like an arrow into the bay
He ran from his mother and the goats
The Viking took him on board. The wind
swelled the sails. He saw the hilltop sink
in the blue deep, and he was rotously
glad. lie took his fathers sword in hand
and swore to conquer him houses and land
by the sea. He also is Viking. He has
been all over.thc Mediterralean coast, and
conquered hins houses and land by the
sea. But now, in his old age, his palace
in Byzantium is WEAKNESS to him, and
he longs for the cottage of his mother. He
dreams of the goats; all day the kids bleat
for him. He enters. a bark; he sails for
the Scandinavian coast, and goes to the
very cottage too narrow-for his childhood,
and eats again the barken bread of
Sweden, and drinks its bitter beer; bares
hisforehead to the storm; sits on the rocks,
and there he dies.
BURY me not, pray thee, in Egypt" ;"
said old Jacob, "But l will lie with my
fathers; bury me in their burying place"
The scholar become antiquary; he likes
not youngmen unless he knew their grand
fathers before. The young woman looks
in the newspaper for the marriages, the
old man for the deaths. The young mans
eye looks forward; the world is call before
him, where to chose" 1T hard world !;
he does not know it he works little, and
hopes much. The middleaged man looks
round at the present; he has found out
that is hard world; he hopes less, and
works more.
The old man looks back On the fields
he has trod; ''this is the tree [ planted;
this is my footstep; and he loves his old
house, cat, dog, staff and friend.
In lands where the vine grows, have
seen an old man set all day long sunny
autumn day, before his cottage door, in an
old arm chair, his dog crouched at his feet
in the genialsun The autumn wind play
ed with the old mans venerable hairs;
above him on the wall, purpling in the
sunlight, hung the full clusters of grade,
ripening and maturing yet more. The
two were just alike; the wind stirred the
vine leaves, and they fell; stirred the old
mans hair, and it Whitened yet more.-
Both were waiting for the spirit in them
to be fully ripe. The young man looks
forward, the old man looks back. How
long the shadows lie in the setting sun;
the steeple miles long, reaching across
the plain, as the sun stretches out the hills
in grotesque dimensions. So are the
events of life in the old mems memory
Theodore Parker.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15


MULrUM IN PARvo.--Pcrhaps the brief
est personal memories ever written were
the Memories of Count Rostopchin."
witten in ten minutes. We subjoin few
paragraphs, each of which constitute a
chapter
"MY BIRTH: On the 18th day of March
1865, I emerged from darkness into tbs
light of day. [ was measured, I was
weighed, I was baptized. I was born
without knowing wherefore, and my par
ents thanked heaven, without knowing for
what.
t:MF SUFFzR1NGs: [ was tormented by
masters; by tailors who made tight dres-
scs for me; by women; by ambition; by
self-love; by useless regrets, and by re-
membranes.
"MEMoRABLE EPocHs: At the age of
80, gave up dancing; at 40 my endeavors
to please the fair sex; at SO, my regard of
public opinion; at so, the trouble of think
ing; and have never become true sage,
or egotist-Which is the same thing.
sREspEcTABLE PRINCIPLES: have ney-
er meddled in any marriages or scandal.
[ have never recommended a cook or
physician; and consequently have never
attempted the life Of any one.
ssMY D1sLIKEs: | had dislike to sots
and fops and to intriguing women, who
make a game of virtue; disgust for af-
fection; pity for made up men and painted
women; an aversion to rats, liquors, meta
physics and rhubarb; and a terror of JUS
tice and wild beasts.
"ANALYs1s OF NY LIFE: I await death
without fear and impatience. My life
has been a bad melodrama on grand
stage, where have played the hero, the
tyrant, the lover, the nobleman, but never
the valet.
"MY EpIrAPH: Here lies in hope of re-
pose, an old deceased man, with a worn
out spirit, and exhausted heart, and a
usedup body. Ladies and gentleman,
pass on
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

and the mask and hood fell, disclosing a
splended head of blonde hair, and the
count, stupefed, recognized the countess.
The actress shared his surprise, and sa-
luted the discovery with burst of joy
laughteri Bat tie count did not laugh.--
Cor. " Y Tribune.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

CANADA RAILROAD TRAGEDY.-The ac-
cident in Canada, on the Cd, near London.
by Which three passenger cars where
thrown down high embanllment, was
terrible IN its results. In the second class
car were number of Norwegian en-
lgrants, who it is reported were travelling
East by mistake. The scene in this car
was horrible; six persons, FIVE men and
one woman, were instantly killed, and
four others so much injured as TO die the
same night.
In the first class car several persons
were slightly injured. One gentleman
residing interior of New York State was
standing on the platform, form which he
jumped down the embankment and the
cars falling on him, killed him instantly.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15
The Circumsta ntiaI Eridencc.

SOME years ago l went specially to
Conmell assizes, and accidentally witness
ed a trial which I never shall forget. A
wretched man, a native of that county,
was charged with the murder of his neigh
Dor. 1t seemed that an ancient feud ex-
listed between them. They had met at a
fair and exchanged blows; again that
evening they met at low pot-house, and
the bodily interference of friends alone
prevented fight between them. The
prisoner was heard to VOW vengeance
against his rival The wretched victim left
the house, followed soon after by the
prisoner, and was found next day on the
roadside murdered, and his face so barbar-
ously beaten in by stone, that he could
only be identified by his dress. The facts
were strong against the prisoner; in fact,
it was the strongest cast of circumstantial
evidence | ever met with. AS form-of
his guilt there was no doubt-the prisoner
was called on for his defence. He called
to the surprise every one-the muir
dered man. And the murdered man came
forward. 1t seemed thatanother man had
been murdered-that the Identification by
dress was vague, for all the peasantry of
Tipperary wear the same description Of
clothes-that the presumed victim had got
hint that he would be arrested under the
White Boy act-had fed, and only re-
turned with a noble and Irish feeling of
justice, when he found his ancient foe was
in jeopardy on his account. The case was
clear; the prisoner was innocent. The
judge told the jury thatit was unnecessary
to charge them. They requested permis
sion to retire; they returned in about two
hours, when the foreman, with long face,
handed him the verdict guilty" Every
one was astonished. "Good God!' said
the judge, "of what is he guilty? Not of
murder, surely!,, ''No, my lord" said
the foreman, ''but if he did not murder
that man, sure he stole my gray mare
three years ago."-Danid o. ConneN.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

GgT The French Government hoont,n5 ),
daunted by an expensive war, is spend
ing some millions offrancs upon the build
ing of cheap Iodging-houses at Paris, for
the poor. They are to be completed in
1865, and to be rented at the lowest pos
sble rates.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

TERRIBLE ToRNADo-The Gosport
Chronotype says, that a heavy tornado
visited Owen county, Indiana, on Wednes-
day night last, tearing down timber and
buildings, killing one young woman, and
badly bruising many other persons. A
singular circumstance of the storm was,
thatit kept no general course for any con
siderable distance, and spent all its power
in compass of eight or ten miles. A fall
Of hail of extraordinary size accompanied
the hurricane Four or FIVE houses in
ruins could be seen from the road to Mt
Pleasant, and the road itself was SO block
ed up by timber, as to be impossible.
[o4o MaI PiSh6,,o Misc
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

THE ROLL OF THE DEAD.-The Tribune
of Saturday contains an entire list of the
passengers by the ill-fated Poachattan,
which ship, it will be recollected, was
wrecked on the coast of New Jersey in
April last. The number of passengers
and crew were three hundred and twenty- -sar,
and not one left alive Of these, twenty
nine were from Prussia, one hundred and
five form Baden, one hundred and eight
form Wurtemberg, twenty-one form
France, forty-one from Bavaria and three
from Hesse.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15
Take the Paper,

THERE is one important reason, if no
more, (and there are hundreds, why
every family should be supplied with at
least one good substantial family newspa-
per; namely, for the sake ofyour children.
It is your duty to educate your children,
to create in them, if possible, taste for
reading; not novels, but a style of compost
ton that will teach them to think, to act,
to turn over matters in their own minds, to
reason from cause to effect. This you can
not more easily do, than by throwing be-
fore them reading Of a proper character.
Experience and observation have taught
me. thatthis is neefectual means of teach
ing the child to read.
The child must read well, before it can
learn much else from books to advantage
I have uniformly found it the same advant-
ages at school, possessed of equally large
minds, and quick perceptive faculties,
though deprived at home of proper read,
ing matter, differ, materially in point O
good reading, good taste, and conse
quent ability to learn rapidly. This is one
of the many reasons, why each kitchen
diningroom and parlor, should be amply
supplied with books and papers.
A friend Of mine who had not taken {
paper for long time until within year
says, ''By taking one paper the past year
have saved in shoes and clothes for my
children, sufficient to pay for five papers.
It is paving business.-Rural Aeac- Yorker
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15
FnebrieGys

When this vice has taken fast hold Of a
man, farewell industry-farewell emula-
tion-farewell attention to things worthy
of attention-farewell love of virtuous So
ciety-farewell decency of manners-and
farewell to even an attention to person.
Everything is sunk by this predominant
and brutalappetite. Inhowmanyinstances
do we see men who began life with the
brightest prospects before them, and who
have closed it without any ray of comfort
and consolation! Young men with good
fortunes, good tempers, good hearts, good
constitutions, only being drawn into the
vortex of the drunkard, have become by
degrees, the mostloathsome and despicable
of mankind. In the house of the drunkard
there is no happiness for any one. All is
uncertainty and anxiety. He is not the
same man for any one day at time. No
one knows Of his outgoings OF his incom-
ings. When he will rise or when he will
lie down to rest, is wholly matter Of
chance That which he swallows for what
he calls pleasure, brings pain as surely as
night brings morning. Poverty and misery
are in the train. To avoid these results,
we are called upon to make no sacrifice.
Abstinence requires no aid to accomplish
it. Our own will is all that is requisite;
and if we have not the will to avoid con-
tempt, disgrace and misery, we deserve
neither relief nor compassion.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

THE WHEAT CROP OF VIReINIA.-The
Richmond EaQirer says it has distressing
accounts of the ravages ofthe fly and joint
worm in the wheatcrops of ofFauquier, Cul-
pepper, Spotsylvania, Orange, Albemarle
and Augusta counties. The prospect, a
month ago, of the most cheering character,
has been wholly destroyed. In some in
stances, wheat fields have been ploughed
for other crops.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

On, SHAME!-A man named TAYLOR,
near Winchester, Ia, has son only, ,four
gears old, who is a common drunhardi
The Emblem says that, on the 18TH, ''his
father, who had been fishing, gave the
child a bottle of whisky to carry; 'he drank
too much and was taken very sick, then
with a twitching in one arm and side,
which was soon followed by the de!irian'
tenaens, that lasted for twelve hours. 1t
was horrible thing to see the little fellow
screaming at, and jumping from the snakes
that he thought he saw
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15
Which is Correct!


Astronomers tell us that the earth has
triple motion-one on its axis, second
n its orbit, and third through universal
space towards a remote part of the heay-
ems. If we read Alright, they seem to diff
fer in their estimates.
DR.. Hershel scenes to have made GER
tain observations whereby he concluded
this third motion exits. The Russian as
tronomer, Argelander, arrived at the same
conclusion. Struve confirms Argelander,
and Mitchell, of Cincinnati, sums up the
whole in this wise:
"The sun, attended by all his planets,
satellites and comets, is sweeping through
space, towards the star u (p) in the con
stellation Hercules, at the rate of 80, $780,
900 miles in every year."
A writer in the american Aiscezzany
makes the number Of miles 146, 100000
annually.
DR.. Nichols, Of Edinburgh, represents
our rate as 400, 900 miles an hour towards
the star 81 Cygni.'E This is equal to an
annual progress of 3,5o6, 400, 600 miles.
Bessel, the Konigsberg astronomer, de-
clares the velosity of the solar system
through universal space, such that the
relative motion of our sun and 81 Cygni
is not less in a day than 1886, 900 geo
graphical miles. This is equivalent to
about SO, ,OOO,o 600 miles in year for the
passage of the solar system.
Whichever of these be right, if we Sc
lect Mitchell's estimate of 1886. 600
miles, and add the annual travel of the
earth in its orbit, 598, 778, ,O27 miles, then
increase it by tie number of miles ac.
complished by the earth on its axis, a
this latitude, annually, 4,278, $50 miles
we have an aggregate of 636, ,4O6, 56t
miles, or over 636,6O0,OOO miles. W.
are carried this prodigious distance ever,
year Every man seventy years old ha
thus been transported A, 548, ,459, $50, O
nearly forty five thousand million mile
during his lifetime. His railroad, stage
coach and other modes of daily travel o.
the ground, would present diminutiv
result in the comparison.
But it appears more probable that tn
, amount predicated upon the relative an
proper motions of 81 Cygni, as given b
Bessel and the American Miscellany, i
nearest the true calculation. Boston Pos
81 Cygni is a double star, appearin
to the naked eye like single one an
yetlts components are over million mile
distant from each other. It's velosity
about 40, 200 miles an hour, over &C, 90
miles faster than the planet Mercury
speed.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

SAL said lisping Bill, 'ifyou don't love
me, thay tho; and if you do love me and
don't like to thay tho, squeeth my handth.
L have bought a barrel of fionr for a
p':l :Ah h?'jos5 just Hk! you. Who is that you
have made happy by this charity?'
My wife
MURDER AND RoBBERY.--On Tuesday
night last, Mr.. George Frank, living near
Mauckport, in Harrison county, Ind, was
shot dead while returning from that place
10 his home. He had just returned from
St. Louis, and hadwith him large amount
ofmoney, which was taken by the murderer
Iri beautiful to see ladies riding a
horse back; but t4rniag back saaeaserset
over the saddle is rather injurious to shoaI
derS,
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

NEVER HOPE YOU'D ON t INTRUDE. Read
er, word-serious, sober heartful word.
This is it: Never think you don't in
trude. You do. You pop into a parlor,
perhaps. There sits in the twilight and
bliss, lounging on sofa, loving couple.
Of course you hope you don't intrude.
But you do, though. You drop into an
editorial room. Business is driving Eve
ry man is busy to his uppermost hair,
You hope you don't intrude. You do,
and most confoundedly. Youhappen into
a neighbors, just as the set-down to tea
takes place. The fayorite company Ito
themselves) is gathered, and for special
sociaEty. You hope you don't intrude.
A great mistake. You do intrude. Put
it down for a certainty that you do. Call
upon lady while household duties claim
her attention, and every moment is a
golden one. Just hope you don't intrude.
But don't you think you don't, for you do
any part and parcel of yourselfis an intru-
sion, and almost unwelcome one. So on
and SO forth. You, your friend, your
companion, everybody intrudes when they
interfere with the time, business, pleasures,
places, &c. of others. Bear it in mind.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

Kate Hayes, Madame Bishop, Miss Heron
and the .Batemen children, have been at
SanFrancisco.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

A CALIFORNIA paper states that poor
italian, who was bagging for dollar to
buy a meal ofvictuals, the day after found,
at Yankee Hill, near Columbia, lump OF
nearly pure gold weighing twenty-seren
pounds. The lump laid about eighteen
inches below the surface, and had the ap-
pearance of having been in the fire, the
outside being both black and burnt. It
Yuadrangular in shape, and rather fiat.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

ONO IN CH1NA.---There never was fight
anywhere, we verify believe, in which an
American wasn't somehow mixed up. One
turns up in China, a DR.. Martin by name,
who says he is a physician, from Carthage
Ohio, and was in the Mexican war. He
was prominent in the occupation of Shang-
hal, and frequently headed sally from
the gates, with a handful of men, against
thousand Imperialists. In no instance
has he been captured, or received other
than flesh wounds; of these he is full.
Who is DR.. Martin? and is he from our
Carthage?
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

ABOUT eight years ago, Horace Ray
died in Connecticut, (Jewet city, of con-
sumption; since then two of his sons have
died of the same disease, and another son
being also sick ofconsumption, his friends,
under the belief that the dead brothers
were feeding on the living, went to their
graves on the 9Th, dug them up and burn
ed the corpsesl This is an instance of
superstition such as missionaries tell us of
among "the Boston Post.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

&9 Great excitement is said by the
Dadeville Banner 10 exist in Tallapoosa,
Alabama, in consequence of the silver
mines existing in the southwest portion
of that country. Silver has been known
for years to exist there, but the people
have just found out how to separate it
from the ore. The other day, says the
Banner, a company extracted sixteen
pounds of pure metal in very brief time.
''This has set the country in a rage"
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

6l Cygni is double star, appearing
TO the naked eye like a single one; and
yetlts components are over a million miles
distant from each other. It's velosity is
about 10000 miles an hour, over so 900
miles faster than the planet Mercury's
speed.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-06-15

Don't believe it. There's two sorts of
SORROW" fat sorrow,' and clean sor-
row." and fat sorrow has darned sight
the best Of it.--N y Log Book.