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The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-11

WATcH THE GAME.--The Detroit Adver-
tiser of the I'd inst, says that the Hon. John
L. Dawson uttered in the presence of intel
ligent and prominent citizens of Detroit, on
board the steamer Illinois, on her recent trip
to the head of Lake Superior, the following
words, to wit: 81 now regret my vote up
on the Nebraska bill | consider that meas
ure as of most injudicious policy for the Dem
ocratic party and the administrations
an act OF gross injustice to the North, and
of glaring bad faith on..the part of the South"
Such repentance ofcourse comes too late for
any practical good, but for the credit of the
man. it is better late than never. Mr.. Dawson
dare not, thinking thus, go to Kansas and
face the brutal crew who compose the
trump Legislature of that territory.
Mr.. Pierce was aware, no doubt, that the
appointment would be declined, and then
he will be free to do what he is aching to do,
appoint Southern man to this vacant Gov
ernorship. That is the game now playing,
and the end will show it. Cleve. Herald.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-11


The great crib as it is called, for The
draw Of the new bridge to rest on, in the riv-
er at Rock Island, Illinois, is five hundred
feet long and forty feet wide, and requires
one million feet Of lumber to build it, and
sixteen thousand yards of rock to fill it. The
estimatad cost is 1875 900.
1t is said the next Freshmen's class at Ken
yon College will number between forty and
fifty students. This is the largest number
that ever entered that college, and is a fine
compliment to the popularity of President
Lorin Andrews.
ARMS IN PRUSSIA The Prussian Govern
ment is looking we'll to its arms Orders have
been given to convert, as soon as possible,
.28O, 900 weapons of the old system into Min
lie rifles. AS soon as this is accomplished,
600 900 others are to be altered after the same
fashion. A mechanic in Zelle has taken
contract, binding himself to deliver 10000
rifle sights within year.
HORSE MAcKEREL.-A monstrous fish of
this description was caught yesterday after
noon, off Richmond Island, by Mr.. Isaac
Cobb. He is eleven feet long, girts seven
feet, and weighs about one thousand one
hundred pounds. S.-[ Portland Advertiser.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

Tor them on this new years day Then they
let their iancios run and grow wild and revel at
they chose They looked at the glistening piece
There was bread, and fuel, and clothing and
every comfort in its depths. Thoy continued to
gaze upon it. Now they saw within its rim
pictures of delight and joy visions of long
rooms, all wreathed and decorated with ever
greens and flowers; visions of smiling faces and
happy children; sights of merry voices, and the
Ginning music bells, the accent of innocent
tongues, and the laugh Of gladstone hearts,
All what philosophers stone was that coin 1!
How 1t turned everything into gold and then
into happiness How it grouped around kind
and cheerful friends, and filed their ears with
kind voices How it garlanded all hours of
that day with evergreens and full blown roses !!
How it spread them laden table, and crowded
1t with mcrry guests and those guests too all
satisfied and happy 0, what bright rays shone
forth from that trding coin of gold Could it
have been as bright in the child's or man s dark
pocket No; else it had before then burned its
very way through and lent its radiance to 9th
ers. Could it have shone with such visions in
the rich mans hands, No: else his oyaric.
would have vanished at once, and his heart have
flowed with generosity! No, no it was only
to such as the widow and her child that it wore
such shine, and emitted such brilliant rays,
and revealeth suoh sweet and welcome visions
Only for such as they
That night returned this angel boy to the
bleak house then filed with happiness and light
ed with joy; but he was not alone-hs mother
was with him. Blessed boy lie passed the
whole of New Years day in making others hap
py. And how much happier was he himself
How his little heart warmed and glowsd to see
the child uncover the basket he had brought
with him, and take out one by one, the gifts
which were slowed there and how over;oyed
was he to see his mother offer the sick woman
work and II now home, and to SEQ the sick wo.
man grow suddenly strong and almost well un-
der the influence of kind offers He wondered
if their happiness could possibly be as doep as
his own, and if their New Year was as brigh tc
to them rs his was to him. He knew not how
any one could be happier than he WAS at that
moment.
Years have rolled away into the silent past
That little grl-Esie Gray-is lady. Not Il
lady only in name, but one in every deed, ii
heart, in conduct. She dwells in u su hurbar
cottage, and her husband is devoted only to her
The husband is no other than tho generous boy
who on the New Years festival accosted her &c
tcnderly in the street and went homo with her
Her poor mother sleeps quietly in the church
yard yRt she lised to lxno thsst God hrA przs
vided .or her child. She died resigned and hap
py.
Are tn coins, either of gold or silver, tha
must4be locked away from sight at the beginnin,
Of the new year
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25


John Endecott, " The Father of New Eng.
land" as he has been called by historians, was
born in Dorchester, Dorsstshire, England, in
the year 1888. That he was of respectable par
entage, that he had good education and re-
fined mind, that he was at one time surgeon,
as well as captain of trained band, seems to
be about all that is known of his life, previous
to his connection with the g Massachusetts Com
pany," who settled the colony first at Naum-
keak, or Salem.
Governor Endecott, seems to have embraced
Purtanism, under the guidance and through
the influence of Rev. Mr. Skelton, who became
one of the earliest ministers of the colony, and
between whom AMI the governor the most affec-
tonate relations existed.
In 1923, Governor Endecott, in company with
other influential men, purchased grant from
the plymouth Council in England" " for the
settlement of the " Massachusetts Bay" and in
June Of that year came over and took posses
sion Of the same, Endecott having received the
appointment Of governor of the colony. The
model of the government was formed in Eng
land and consisted of governor and twelve
persons, styled "The Governor and Council of
Londons Plantation in the Massachusetts, Bay
in New England"
None but stern men, moved by high rel-
gous purpose and sustained by IL martyr spirit
could have borne the sings and arrows of
outrageous fortune" which their new residence
invited. Disease, famine, suffering, hardships,
and death, filled the measure of their choice,
and yet they shrank not ut the trial, nor with
drew their hand from the lot that had fallen to
them. In a word, these men were Pwifans-
on'y the synonyme for endurance they gloried
in the cross as their crown. And among this
band Of hardy and pious men. Endecott was
an g ensample to the folks" In all their trials
they looked to him for counsel and direction,
and they found him always equal to tho elner.
gency. Bereaved of the wife of his boson,
whom he dearly loved, he moved among tht
sick and suffering, administering comfort with
his own hand, and imparting courage by the
example of bis own energy and lofty endurance
Governor Endecott was strict disciplinarian
lie could not wink at any fragrant violation o
the laws At Mount Wsllaston, Dorchester
ono Morton, notorious for his latitudinarianism
and contempt of law and the church, had col
lected a company of men of a similar spirit t.
himself, erected a Maybe, and christened thei
place Merry Mount. Their unseemly orge
were . stencil in the nostris of the pious Ende
cott, and forthwith he went there in 90 the pu
rifying spirit of authority" Morton havin
beon just before sent to England to answer t
tho charge preferred against him,) cut dow
their May pole, changed the name Of the plac
to Mount Dragon and rebukcd the inhab
tants for their profaneness, and admonished thel
to look to it that they walked better"
In the summer of 1880, the government wa
entirely transferred from England to the colon,
and John Winthrop was chosen governor, VII
! administered the affairs of the company in Il
: same spirit that had governed the conduct
| his predecessor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

EDUCATION IN TURKEY.-The Boston Atlas
gathers from a late English work some facts in
regard to the diffusion of popular instruction in
Turkey, which will probably be new, also, to
many of our readers In l846 a council was
formed by imperial decree, for the management
of all questions of public instruction, and the
supervision Of the new university. The state
Of the primary schools under their charge is Of
the most satisfactory description Elementary
instruction in Turkey is not only free, but obi
gatory' The law requires every citizen, as
soon as his sons and daughters have reached
their sixth year, to inscEibe his name in the books
of one of the public schools, unless he can prove
his means of educating them at home. In Con
stantinople, the most recent report shows the
existence of 800 free schools, frsquented by %
700 children Of both sexes After five years
passed in one of these schools, the pupil can
enter c secondary school, where instruction on
all points is also gratuitouss.
Theirs are now six of these schools, with about
thousand pupils. There is also high school
for young men intended to fill public appoint
ments, a college founded with the same view, a
normal school for the education of professors,
the imperial college of medicine military,
naval, and an agricultural school, Tho Sultan
is himself the superintendent of thcse schools,
and visits in person at their examinations. The
pupils are said to be devotedly attached 10 him.
The public libraries of Constantnople contain
10000 volumes During the reign Of the pres
eat Sultan protection and liberation have been
extended to all religions Christians have been
permitted to take their position among the serv-
ants of the state, and to share in the admin
stration of public affairs some have been at
tached even to Important enabassies. Old abuses
in levying taxes have been done away with ;
monopolies have been abolished. A national
bank has been established, and is now in sue
cessful operation, Railroads are in course of
construction.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

Governor Endecott wasIa9ain married, on the
18th of August, 1880, |abeth Gibson, of
Cambridge, England, who ne over with Win
throp in the Arabella.
Tie FIRST open act of defiance to kingly au-
thority of which we have any record in tho his
tory of the Colony, was performed by5Govcnor
Endecott. 1t was on this wise: He cut the red
cross from the king banner with his sword,
and declared that he woald dnever recognize such
relic of Popery. 1t Was q direct insult to
the king and the church pf England, and would
have probably cost him his head had not the
unfortunate Charles l., jasta that period, been
entirely occupied with aas storm which had
already burst on his head ssaid whicheventually
overwhelmed him in ruin, And brought him to
the block. 1t was dasing exploit, and al
though every true Puritan rejoiced in it, yet
their fear of the throne compelled the colony to
enter their protest against it.
Governor Winthrop died in 1919, and from
that time until his death, which occurred on the
18th OF March, 1865, at the age of seventy
seven years, Endecott held the Office of governor,
with the exception of two years, whom he was
elected deputy governor This was, perhaps,
the most trying time in the carly history of the
colony, and it needed that man of great en-
ergy and probity should be at the head of the
government. During his administration, Charles
l., su flsrcd violent death, Cromwell usurped
the government of England, and the Stuarts
were again restored to their legitimate authori-
ty. In every emergency and difficulty he was
found equal to the trial, and won for himself
the respect and love of all good and wise men,
and when !" he fell asleep in the Lord wasin-
torred, as tradition saith, in the I" Chapel bury
ing g-ground," with great honor and solemnity.
1t Is Il blot on the fair fame of Boston thatlsno
stone marks the resting place of the FATHER OF
New ENGLAND"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

AMERICAN NMoNUMENTs.-The mof4Aaents erec-
ted in America exceed in hight those Of the
Old World Thus, there is not q column, either
ancient or modern, in Europe, so high as the
Bunker Hill Monument. The highest column
in Europs-202 feet highs the one erected in
London by Sir Christopher Wren, in commemo-
ration of the great FIRE in 1865 Pompeys Pill
lar is only 90 feet in hight, and Trojan but llo
The highest monument in Paris is 1877. Tho
Alexander column in St. Petersburg, is LIS
feet inches. The Nelson Column, in London,
is III feet from the level of Trafalgar Square.
Bunker Hill Monument is 900 feet high The
proposed Brock monument at Queenstown will
be 1875 feet high. The Washington monument
is now $50 feet high, and when completed vii
be about five hundred. 1t is found that the
monument stands exactly in the middle Of what
was the -" ten miles square" It is of such gi-
gantic proportions, that either of the other mon
uments above named could be placed inside ol
it without much impeding the operations of the
workmen. and when it is finished, any two o
the monuments of Europe could be slowed away
within its walls without being noticed from thu
exterior.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

KossurH's ADVICE TO ENGLAND.-Don't fear
Austria-t throw her overheard and you are safe
If not, not. Referring to what was saying
about the comparative barrsnness of success
.at Sevastopol-a success, besides, sure to come
ut later period-I really believe, even now, it
would be better for you to shift the sheatre of
the war, provided it be not too late. Men who,
IA, 900 strong. have beaten 90 600 Russians, can
gain no more glory by the barren laurel gather
ed on the ruins Of Seyastopol than they have.
and can nothing loose in their reputation by be-
ing despatched to triumph on battle field rich
or in result
And what could be d ,ne with men like these
on ths right spot To engage in wrong d.
rection may be an error; to persist in the wrong
direction and to sacrifice life [and such hvesl to
obstinacy, looks like crime, the retribntlon OF
which may yet fall heavily on ysur head
Shift the theatre of war, insist peremptorily on
Aus.ria's evacuating the Principaities, and ST.
ding with or aganit you Advise the Sultan
to grant independence TO the Roumains and arm
them. Enlist the Polish emigration not in Tur-
key, but hsre, Mind where the weak point Of
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

ALONE AT THE JUDGMENT. There is no escape
alone or in the crowd ut the judgment-day. 1t
is not a multitude amid which we may
hide ourselves, and escape notice. At that
solemn tribunal, each man will be as transpa-
rent before the searching eye OF the Son Of
God, as if that man and Jesus were the only
twain in the whole universe; such will be the
intense light Of that day, that one reason why
the lost will call out for the hills to cover them
and the mountains to oyershadow thom, will be,
that they cannot bear the intensity Of that
searcing and unutterable spendor; and such
will be the dread silence of that moment, that
each nun will hear the very pulsation Of his
own heart, and if that heart be unregcnerated,
each pulse will sound a death knoll to his hopes
and prospects forever. There is no escape in the
crowd; there is no escape by wealth there is
no escape by talent; there is no escape any
way: for +" how, if we neglect so great saliva
tion,' says the apostle, as satisfied that there
is no occape whatever, shall we escape! -
DR.. Cumming.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25
VOLUME XII NO. 5.

Russia is, and strike there, and whensvers GOV.
ernment is playing false to you, call on the ma.
tions it oppresses; but remember that while in
matters Of internal progress you may say, By
and BY we may come to that" ia a war every
thing depends on moments. Opportunity lest
is campaign lost-nay be even more. Poland
is your only remedy even to-day; but how much
surer and easier would it have been six months
ago.
l repeat my words of yore-come what may
in this war, England stands in need ofsPoland,
and Hungary more than Poland and Hungary
stands in need Of England With US victory
without us defeat, or disputable, insufficient
armistice. You know the tale about the nine
Sibiline books. Three already are lost, hasten
to buy the remaining six Or else, like the aoman
King of old, you shall have TO pay the price 0 (
all nine for the last three. Mine is the advice,
yours the choice.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25
HARD TIMES.

The following sensible article, upon the pres
cut condition of our monetary affairs, we take
from the Hartford Christian Secretary
Nobody likes hard times there is nothing
inviting about them and yet in spite of u uni
yersal antipathy against them, they will visit US
occasionally. 1t is some twelve Or fifteen years
since the country has been visited with "a
pressure in the money market like the pres
ent The money market is tight 49, the
banks don't discount" and similar expressions,
are on everybody's lips. The consequence of
this state of things is, that the manufactures,
pretty generally, are stopping their works, or
only doing u reduced business consequently,
operatives are thrown outof employ, and for
aught we can see there must be some suffering.
during the winter; especially should tho pres
ent high prices of provisions continue. y
What is tho cause "A stase of thiugsl
Most undoubtedly the fist U ID chief cause has
been extravagancs Extravasance in building
railroads--in building costly houses--in dress,
and in the general style Of living, Millions
upon millions of dollars are due from this conn-
try to England for railroad iron alone. Millions
are due to England and France for cloths, silks,
watches, diamonds, brandy, wine, &clnearly all
of which we could have very easily dispensed
with But as long as as money was plenty.
no matter where it came from--exthvagaaos
reigned supreme. In New York and srlarg'
{ cities, fashionable parties were'all - ge, thc
folly of which may be seen ftoal lot, sh
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

PUTTING FORKS FOR THINGS The man who
anxiously avoids the shadow Of a granite post,
but dashes against the post itself, is not whit
more witless than he who fears the appearance
of doing wrong, but is not afraid to do the
wrong he thinks will not appear. When Lord
Chesterfield counseled holow-heartod politeness
--advished the forms of courtesy and gracious
ness instead Of the things themselves-he must
have seemed to amy superior order of moral be-
ings as silly as the ape, who puts d wig upon
his head and expects to be reverenoed as Il judge,
Horace Manu.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

Hoes LARD.-It is stated that one establish
ment in Cincinnati last year tried out thirty
thousand hogs. To carry on this immense busi-
ness, they have seven large circular tanks OF
sufficient capacity to hold fifteen Thousand gal
Ions each. They receive the eatire carcass with
tho exception of the ham, and the whole is
subjected to team process, under pressure OF
seventy pounds to the square inch, the effect OF
which is to reduce tho whole to one conscience,
and every bone to powder. The effect is drawn
of by cocks and the residun, mass of earthly
substance, as far as made use OF, Is taken away
for manure. Besides the hogs which reach the
factory in entire carcasses, the great mass OF
heads, ribs, back-bones, tail pieces, feet, and
other trimmings of the hogs, cut upat different
pork houses, are subjected to the same process,
in order to extract every particle OF grease.
This concern will turn out this season three
millions six hundred thousand pounds Of lard,
6ye-sixths of which is No /. Nothing can sur
pass the purity and beauty of this lard, which
il refined as we'll as made under steam processes.
Six hundred hogs per day pass through these
tanks one with another.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

ANECDoTE OF WEBSTER.-A New York cor
respondent of the Detroit Inquirer relates the
following anecdote, concerning Daniel Webster,
which we do not rocolect ever having seen be-
fore. 1t illustrates the almost idolatrous deyo-
tion with which the great statesman was regard
ed by many Of the people of Massachusetts,
Mr.. W. bought portion of bis Marshfeld ss-
tate from a Mr.. Thomas, plain farmer and
fisherman, but shrewd and well informed They
became afterwards very intimate, and Thomas
subscribed for the lntelAgeucer to read the
speeches Of his friend. One day along came
Col Haynes speech on Foote'S resolution
Thomas read it by his freside, one winters af
tsrnoon; when he got through, he folded the
paper up, and said, Boys pull off my boots
am going to bed Daniel has been used up;
he will die he will never come home and |
had about as lief die as not pull off my boots"
The old man was as good as his word--he kept
his chamber for days in the deepest detection
for his ideal man-his human idol was, as he
supposed, prostrated forever. Days passed on
when one day the Intelhgencer arrived, bringing
Webstsr's reply; the Oldest boy, then young
man of twenty, read the speech in reply before
aking it to his father, after which he carried it
up stairs. Take it away" said the old man,
" can't read it, and won't take it away 4"
The boy placed the paper on the table and left !;
The old man crawled towards it after while,
and left it not out Of his hands till the last word
was read, when loud call was heard for his
boots he left the house, and returned not till
every frsside within circuit of two miles had
echoed to the burning deathless sentences OF
"W ebster's Great Speech"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-25

fore these growing evils are checked. Men and
women, miserable from constant over exertion,
restless and feverssh from disordered nerves, will
inevitably resort to these things. Whatever
may be the eventual effect, they derive monen-
tary comfort from them, and beyond that, un-
fortunately, they are not disposed to look. The
true way to reform ID to mend our wretched
habits Of straning ourselves to such extreme
lengths; to take labor and recreation together,
to cultivate the art of life more, and the art of
living less.-N. Y. Times.