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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-26
The GREAT MEN OF A GREAr CoUs.


The GREAT MEN OF GREAT CouN-
TRY.-A young American exchange
sums up our human greatness as follows:
"The greatest man, take him all in all,
of the last hundred years, was Gen.
George Washington-an American
The greatest Doctor of Divinity was
Jonathan Edwards-an American
The greatest philosopher was Benjamin
Franklin--an American. There has
been no English writer of the present
age, whose works have been marked
with more refinement, or more grace,
than those of Washington Irving-an
American. The greatest photographer
since the time of Johnson, was Noah
Webster-an American. The inven-
tors, whose works have been productive
of the greatest amount of benefit to
mankind in the last century, were God
frey, Fitch, Fulton and Whitney--all
Americans. And the greatest humbug
Of this or any other country, Of the last
or any other hundred years, is Barnum
also an American.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-26

.
LAST Hours OF A LEeIsLAruRE.-
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin
speaks in the following terms Of the
closing scenes of the Louisiana Legisla-
ture:
"We learn that the saturnalis which
usually accompanies the adjournment
of the Legislature far exceeded in wild
excesses any that were before witnessed.
The Legislative Hall was like German
lager beer house, the scene Of drunken
orgies which would have astonished
even the habitues Of these disorderly
houses. The master Of misrule was let
loose, and allowed to run riot. Officers,
members, pages, servants and outsiders,
were on an equal footing, and the scene
would have symbolized the grand feat
ure of pure democracy-perfect equali-
ty-had there not been master spirit
among them, ruling with despotic and
arbitrary sway. King Alcohol was su-
preme in this representative assembly of
the people. 1t is great pity that there
cannot be found some faithful reporter
who would give a true and daguerreo-
type picture of the Representative Hall
on the last day, and many of the legis-
lators. What panoramic exhibition it
would furnish for the moral and reflect
ing portion of the people of Louisiana" "
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-26

BEAUrIFuL--It cannot be that earth
is mans abiding place. 1t cannot be
that our life is cast up by the ocean of
eternity to float upon its waves and to
sink into nothingness. Else why is it
that the glorious aspirations, which leap
like angels from the temple of our
hearts, are forever wandering about un-
satisfied? Why is it that the rainbow
and the clouds come over with beau
ty that is not Of earth, and pass off to
leave us to muse on their faded lowell
ness? Why is it that the stars. who
hold festivals around the midnight
throne, are set above the grasp of our
limited faculties, forever mocking US
with their unapproachable glory? And
finally, why is it that the bright forms
of human beauty are presented to our
view and then taken from US, leaving
the thousand streams of our affections
to flow back in Alpine torrents? We
are born for higher destiny than that
of earth. There is realm where rain
bows never fade, where the stars will be
out before US like islets that slumber on
the ocean, and where the beings that
pass before us like shadows will stay in
our possession forever.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-26

The EXTENT OF THE LATE CEssIoYs
OF THE INDIANS WEST OF THE Missouri,
&c.-Under the treaties made by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs with
various tribes in the last year or so, the
United States have obtained lands from
the Indians located west of the Mis-
souri,, and the Missouri State line, as
follows
From the Omahas about 600, 900
acres.
Ottoes and Missourians, 5000, 900
acres.
Shawnees, 1,6o0,0O acres.
Delawares. 275,OOO acres.
Sacs and Foxes, 435, 900 acres.
Kekapoos, 1853, 900 acres.
1owas, $4,000 acres.
Kaskaskias and others, $4,000 acres.
And from the Miamas, 395, 600 acres.
Individual reservations are provided
for in these treaties, and also some por-
tons of the lands above mentioned are
to be sold for the benefit of the Indians
ceding them. This is the case with the
Delaware's lands. Such tracts are not
subject to be squatted on, as this Gov
eminent cannot, by act of Congress, as
sign lands held in trust to be disposed
Of for the benefit of others, to squatters
Washington Star.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-26

THE CASE STRONGLY PUT.-A friend
of ours, in conversation with an anti.
Know Nothing in our presence the other
day, advanced an argument that there
is no getting away from, and one that
ought to be universally enforced. The
anti was objecting to the disfranchise,
ment of foreigners. and their prohibi-
ton from Office. Our friend sustained
the American doctrine thus:-"Do you
suppose" said he, "that if you were
to cross the Niagara and become sub
ject of Her Gracious Majesty, Queen
Victoria, you could so far forget the
country OF your birth-your fatherland
--as, in few years, 10 sever the last
link that bound you to it, and swear to
adjure its laws and its usages, its insti-
tutions and its customs and be ready at
the command of the Government to
which you have sworn allegiance, to
point your musket at, and fire your bull
lets into the breast of your conntrymen,
brethren and kiedred? Could you do
this thing! asked he
After moments pause, the anti re-
piled, "No, / could not" We'll, then,
resumed our friend, chow can you ex-
pect the Englishman, the freshman, the
Frenchman, or the German to do it?-
The thing is preposterous. If man is
base enough to forget the land of his
birth, the graves of his fathers, the hills
and the wales upon which he sported in
childhood, and the streams in which he
laved his infant feet, he will be traitor
to the country of his adoption. Even
the lions whelp loves the lair of its
nativity, and the wolf the cavern in
which it was born-the sons of the soil,
therefore, should rule
This was sensible talk, and right to
the point. We would abridge the for
eigner of no privilege, of no immunity
he enjoyed in the country from which
he comes. We offer him more--we af-
ford him home, the protection of our
laws, education of his ofsping. and
every comfort and luxury our teeming
land supplies; but we are not willing
for him to select our rulers, nor are we
willing to make ruler of him. 1t is
not the policy Of the American party to
disfranchise man Jorever-but it is its
policy to require the foreigner to serve
as long probation as the native born
a period when he may become Ameri-
csnized.
This is all that the American party
contends for as far as voting is con
cerned, and'what reasonable man ought
to object to it.-A6ingdon Virgi1idn.
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DoEsTIoKs ON THE OHIO.
srEAxBoAr Bur Wro, Oct. /, 1854

Which said boat is very much the
shape of the Michigan country-made
sausage. and is built with hinge in the
middle to go round the sharp bends in
the river. and is manned by two cap
tains, four mates, sixteen dsrkies, two
stewards. q small boy. big dog, an
opossum, two pair of grey squirrels,
one clock, and cream-colored cham
bermaid; fog so thick you couldn't run
locomotive through it without snow
blow; night so dark the clerk has two
men on each side of him with pitch-pine
torches, to enable him to see his specta-
cles, Che wears speetacles;) pilot so
drunk the boys have painted his face
With charcoal and cokeberries, till he
looks like rag carpet in the last stage
Of dilapidaiion; and he is fast asleep,
with his legs (pardon me, but-legs)
tied TO the capstan, his whiskers full Of
coal-dust and cinders, and the black
end of the poker in his mouth; boat
fast aground, with her symmetrical nose
six feet deep in Kentucky mud; there
she complacently lies. waiting for the
mail boat to come along and pull her
out. Passengers elegantly disposed in
various stages of don't-care-a cent-itive-
ness, and the subscriber, taking ad-
vantage of the temporary sobriety of
the clerk. and his consequent attendance
in the after-cabin to play poker with the
mates. to drop you line. I he silence
is Of brief duration, for l am inter-
rupted by grand oratorio by the mig
gar fremen, much to my delight and
edi6cation.
Have got over on the Indiana side;
principal difference to be noticed in the
inhabitants is in the hogs; on the Ken
tucky side they are big. fat and as
broad as they are long; on this side
they are shaped like North River
steamboat, long and lean. I just saw
two of them sharpen their noses on the
pavement, and engage in mortal COM
bat; one rushed at his neighbor, struck
him between the eyes, split him from
end to end; cart came along, ran over
the two halves, cut them into hams and
shoulders in jiffy-requiescdt in many
pieces. This is decidedly rich coun-
try; the staple productions are big hogs,
ragged niggers and the best horses in
the United States. The people live
principally on bread made of corn;
whisky ditto, and hog prepared in vari-
Gus barbarous ways. They give away
whisky and sell cold water. The dar-
kies are mostly slaves; they nail horse
shoes over their doors to keep away the
witches, indulge in parti-colored hats in
the most superlative degree of dilapi-
dation; barefooted, and have large
apertures in puppis pantalooni. 1t is a
perfect treat to watch their entertaining
performances. At the hotel, the allow
ance is fourteen niggers to each guest,
and as each one seems to be possessed
of the peculiar idea that his province is
10 do nothing at all, with as many
flourishes as possible, the confusion that
follows is far from being devoid of en-
tertainment.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-26
AN IRISH LETTER FROM New YoRz

An IRISH LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
John O'Conner, late of Parsontown,
Kings county. ireland, addresses to the
London Times the following letter under
date of New York, March 9th:
/ In the name Of God and humanity !
entreat you to use your powerful and
influential paper to stop the emigration
of my miserable countrymen from dear
old ireland. They are suffering all
kinds of privations here-thousands
supported on public charity, lodging in
the station houses, and the thermometer
10 deg. below zero; no work, and no
chance for any. In the midst of this
distress, ! 200 people landed to-day and
thousands are expected. Are the peo-
pie mad that they thus rush on. death
and destruction? The Americans are
liberal people; they do all they can, but
millions will not sustain the poor for
eigners here. Soup-houses in all the
wards are daily crowded with poor
How can it be otherwise? The emf
grants land here at the rate of.10, 900 q
week. 100000 arrived last year, and
there will be more this year if not
stopped by the Interference Of men in
England. The scene here is heart.
rending. The work in the ware-rooms,
canals, and factories is suspended, which.
adds to the misery ! describe.
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was beyond the amDiuon OF otner men
Yet England worshipped him. Nc
memory Of Poland then intruded on
this carnival of Joy. On the night on
which he went to the great National
Theatre, battalions of guards were
posted to hold back the worshipping
crowds which swelled around and thun-
dered at the gates for enterance. And
when the national anthem of Russia
was sung and the house rose, and every
eve in a mass of beauty and chiyalry,
such as its walls had never seen, was
fixed on the one great man, to whose
cheek the enthusiasm Of the scene and
the memory of his own distant land
brought, for the moment, manly tear,
such shout arose as England has sell
dom uttered, and women wept and men
threw up their hats and cried ''God
save the Emperor Nicholas" J"
Within reach of the shout that night
sat another man in respectable but
not costly lodging, No. 8 King street,
st. James. He had none of the spirit
ual beauty and look Of command which
send their calm yet terrible shadows
over that face which looks down from
the wall of every Frenchman's cottage,
but he bore that talismanic name which
finds a home in every Frenchman's
heart. Upon the Corsican blood,
stained with Creole, were marked the
impress of his Dutch nativity, and the
cosmopolitan touch Of his loafng life,
stamping him as a thoroughbred gypsy,
the incarnation of all that was bad and
wicked in many races, and of nature
too Emphatic and phlegmatic to de-
velop any germ that was good. His
exploits ridiculous. His associations
and habits at the time even coursely
profigate. His exile not surrounded
with one single appliance which could
lend dignity to misfortune. Circum-
stances which have changed his position
have not changed his character.
Napoleon. the pennyless roue, and
Napolean, the perured Emperor, are
still the same. Three times he has
shivered, with triumphant scorn, oaths
which were built up in the most binding
cement, and broken loose from obliga-
tions of honor and truth, whose sacred
ness even the most reckless profigates
respect. Yet, while we write, this man
is doubtless receiving a counterfeit en-
brace at the postern Of the Queen of
England's palace, and will sleep tonight
in the chamber in which, in 1914, slept
Nicholas, the Car. Some few years
since at this same postern, Victoria well
coined Louis Philippe; to-day she well
comes Louis Napoleon; few years
more, and she may welcome Louis
Blanc. So much for royal principle
and royal truth.
Doubtless the air will glitter with
light, sparkling gossip and pretty pratt
tie, of how Victoria kissed Eugene,
and Eugenie kissed the Princess Alice,
and they all kissed each other all the
way round. The one will show her
Jewels in the boudoir, and the other in
the nursery, and the world will be told
of the undying love of England for
Louis Napoleon, as before for Louis
Philippe, and her undying friendship
for France, as before for Russia.
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re- The New York Spirit of the


Times has "New correspondent" q
lady, who writes delightful letters
From the last esprit" we extract from
one of her letters, the following sensi-
BILE remarks upon the much mooted sub
ject of ladies dresses. We wish there
were more of her opinion:
Dear P.-I wonder whether any OF
you man-men, who patronize horsefesh,
delight in fishing, hunting. and shoot
ing, and take kindly to the esprit, "
feel any interest in the great subject,
now so intensely agitated in the "Home
Journal" of how much it costs lady
for one years wardrobe7 If the ques-
ton were propounded to me, should
reply, "Just as much, or as little, as
the means or inclination of the one she
loves best could afford her" But in
this age of high pressure extravaganza,
such an answer would warrant the i'm
mediate application of straight jacket.
Willis has some eloquent pens engaged
in the discussion, and while one, whose
tastes and habits have been formed in
the Eden of Fifth Avenue luxuriousness,
contends that nothing short of one
thousand dollars can furnish lady's
wardrobe for one year, another, with a
less exorbitant conscience, is equally
certain that seventy-fye is sufficient for
all purposes of necessity. No wonder
our nice young men say they can't af-
ford to marry, when they hear of eigh-
teen hundred dollars being expended
upon the trimmings of single dress!-
The wise onesl To suppose for an in
slant that happiness depends upon forty
dollar brocades, hundred dollar furs.
and thousand dollar laces! i know Of
woman (about my size, there or there
abouts) that can make money fly faster
than Tib Humans heels did in that
90 race, and at the same time, if ne
cessary, can dress elegantly. l won't
say extensively flor elegance and ex-
pense are words Of very different mean
ing) upon a hundred year, furs and
laces included. This expensive dress
ing. so great hobby among our fash
ionable ladies, is the greatest humbug
going. l don't exactly believe "that
beauty unadorned is adorned the most, :"
but l do know that many beauty has
disguised herself by an oVer load of
costly and snowy material. If l was a
man would keep long distance from
your thousand dollar women. Give me
the airy lawns, the soft tissues, and the
lnerusha6Le merinoes, in which you can
snoozle right up under the wing of hus-
band, lover, or brother, and come out
of the ordeal with no tell tale crinkles,
and LA Mosquire" is welcome to the
brocades, the moir antiques, and the
velvets; though from her saucy-sensible
style of writing, doubt if she would
wear them with a greater degree of
dignity than could your humble servant.
This mania for expensive adornment
like Burnham's Hen Fever, costs more
than it comes to, in the end.
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well-paid people to raise the same
amount of similar food. This consid-
Grafton surely should induce them to
enter upon its cultivation the present
year with industry and energy. The
prospect of reduction of prices should
be considered quite too slight by every
man of sense and forethought to neglect
any opportunity to raise a patch of
wheat. corn. barley, or rye. Every
where in the North all these grains will
grow and flourish, excepting corn in the
most northern part Of Maine. Let
every one then try his hand at one or
the other as occasion may present. Let
every man who owns an acre of arabic
soil at least raise as much bread as-he
and his family require. In this way
starvation prices may be remedied and a
possible famine be ayerted. But if
things go on in the old way nobody
knows where we shall come out a year
hence.-New York Tri6une.
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STARVATION PRIcEs.-It is the duty
and interest of every man who owns a
piece of land whereon he can sow a
bushel of grain, not to allow the Spring
to slip by without doing it. We are at
starvation prices in breadstuffs as well
as in meat. We shall have famine If
we do not look out. The nations OF
Europe are engaged in the amiable bu-
siness of butchering one another, and il
the half dozen gentlemen at Vienna
and their hackers do not come to terms.
this state of things will continue, and
perhaps for half dozen seasons. The
fertile plains Of that continent, instead
of being used for producing what will
feed its population, will be scenes of
havoc and bloodshed, and death alone
will reap a harvest therefrom. If, in
addition, the crops in the islands OF
Great Britain should be cut short, (and
it must be remembered they were very
abundant last year, it will be left to the
valley of the Mississippi. mainly, to
supply the immense vacuum abroad
Under such circumstances, the drain
upon us for foreign consumption is like
ly to be greater than it has ever been
before. Our present reserves of bread
stuffs must be light, as the high prices
of corn and -four plainly enough de-
note. Our corn crop last year was won
derfully small, as was well established
at harvest time, without aid from the
prices current.
Entering upon the year with exhaust
ed granaries at home, with a poor crop
following, and an immense European
demand, grave apprehension may well
be excited as to our circumstances a
year hence. We have had hard win
ter and enormously high prices through
out. But what is all we have seen to
what we shall see, if we should chance
to have bad summer, and the war goes
on in Europe? We may then see suf-
fering and starvation in earnest.
It is in view of this not merely pos
sible, but too probable state of things,
that we invoke the attention of farmers
everywhere, in the East as well as the
West, to omit no effort or opportunity
to swell, in large and in small quantities,
the product of the soil the coming year.
New England, especially, should bestir
herself. At dollar a bushed for corn
and ten dollars for flour, these articles
can be raised at very great profit all
over the North. The low prices for
many years have diminished the cultiva-
ton of the cereal grains throughout the
northern section of country immensely.
and New England has learned to rely
on Illinois and Michigan, on North Car
olins and Maryland, for her supplies Of
breadstuffs. The amount of corn and
-four taken into Boston and other East
ern ports from the Sodth and West, for
consumption at home, is wonderful
Whole lines of packets go freighted
weekly to the East with grains and -four
from New York, Philadelphia and Bal.
timore, poured into those markets
through the great arteries Of trade from
the West, to be distributed over the in.
terror. AT Atpresent prices, the drain upon
the Eastern States to pay for these vast
supplies is serious hindrance to then
prosperity. Millions. of dollars have
thus been required during the last year
over and ADORE the sum that it would
have cost even that generally thrifty and
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There is not the least doubt in the
minds of the citizens of Wabash, as to
who the perpetrators of this horrid deed
are. The Hubbards are still in jail,
awaiting trial.
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iFrom the Louisville Journal. ]
TWO YEARS. OLD.

Is there on this cold, selfish earth
One heart SO cruel as to scold
A roguish boy, brim-full Of mirth.s
And, like my pet, Just two years oldf -
For fun and mischief seem to leap
Through his blue eyes from Robby's heart,
as from harebell chalice deep,
The half imprisoned sunbeams dart.
/ got a switch the other day,
Just half inclined to whip my pet;
But on the mantle slowed away,
That switch, unused, is lying yet;
For when shook it Ger his head,
He danced about half-wild with glee,
Then quick behind the table fed,
And, feigning fear. PeePed out at me.
What could do but laugh at thatf
Nor did my fit of laughter fail
To make him worse-for to the cat
He sDeaked, and pulled her long sleek tail
Until poor pussy mewed aloud,
And then shook the switch once more,
And HaGHy whippings inly vowed
For little Bob were still in store
But when cried with half frown,)
"You'n hurt the cat, you naughty boy!"
He hugged her up and smoOthed her down.
Until poor pussy purred with Joy,
For Loue through all his mischief flows,
And gentle feelings softly beam
Through his wild mirth, like some sweet rose
Reflected from gushing stream.
From mornings dawn till set of sun,
His feet and fingers never tire,
He steals the poker for gun,
And takes the broom to poke the fire,
Then with cunning look he'll stand
Upon the highest chair in reach,
And shouting loud, with outstretched hand,
Pretend to make mighty speech.
In every nook or corner sly,
His roguish eye is sure to peep,
And Grandma's pocket he will try
To fathom--be it e'er so deep,
He pulls the buttons off my dress,
And then says "loOkl" Ny pretty boy!
When l might scold, l pause to bless
Thy uptuned face, SO full Of JOY.
His fathers hat he loves to wear,
And hiding half his tiny head,
A glow of beauty, rich and rare,
Upon that old black hat is shed,
q For meath its brim so dark and deep,
His dimpled face all bright with bloom
Peeps out, as rosy vapors peep
Sometimes from clouds of wintry gloom.
He'll slyly pull his brothers hair,
Or steal their toys and run to me,
But when they gather round in prayer,
Hetoo will bend his little knee:
And though he scarce can speak a word,
There's soorship in his speaking eye,
And Robby's prayer know is heard,
When he looks up to GoD's blue sky.