M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-02-23
Awfai Dealh--seryed R.ght.

some time since as Know Nothing OF.
IgsE, closed its brief career few days
since. We publish the yalsdictory OF
Mr.. Sheps I'd below, snd wish better luck
and better business next time, and no
doubt his fate will be thai Of many more
who unwittingly embarked in such an
anti'American calling Where the con
siituliOn Of a thing is unhealthy, it
must necessarily have both a pIecsTious
life and some " hat speedy dissolution.
When truth has not unfreqsntly hard
path to travel in such world as this,
error must have, az . matter Of course. a
very uness! sea 10 sail upon. and So
has Mr.. Shepard found it, Msdary.
From the last number II the RSvsiIIO.
To our PATRoHs.--This is the last
number OF the Columbus Rsvsilis, The
announcement will not astonish many
hereubout. las death has been p,ognos.
ticated for a long lime by many disin.
Ierested friends ~, and their prophecy
has been verified. The Revsille is dead.
When. some four months since, in
|coanection with Messrs. Bradford, Bur.
ger and Bryan. We commenced the pub.
lication Of this journSl. We did SO las
ia our rural veTdAncy thnughD under
the mos. flaiIeTing auspices. The Know
NoIhing party vas then in the flush Of
lis success. IL appeSfed 10 be meet tha,
a joumSl advocating said parI, s doc
TINS should be established in this, the
Ca piiaI City Of Ohio. We eudesvored
FIRST to examine the minds Of many prom
inent citizens who had, on divers occa.
sions. ayowed themselves Know Moth.
ings TO the back. bone. They thought
The idea an excellent one. They prom.
ised their support. One prominent gen.
tleman assured us that we should have
from him FIVE hundred subscTibers!.-
Many Others were alike enthusiastic
"Go iu!" said everybody. and in We
went!
We were peculiarly dnfOftunSte in
our selection Of pnTtneH--wi;h the eI.
ception alone OF Mr.. Burger, who, We
are pleased to say, we ever found TO be
q gentleman. But the other two indi.
viduals, although very good fellows in
their way, were i'll calculated 80 con.
duct daily paper. We think. then,
we are warranted in saying that they
materially injured the paper.
One Of our "co mates" dropped OF.
and Mr.. e. II. Bliss dropped in. Lack.
j ng principle and bruins--wiih DO more
owledge of business ihaD an ordinary
idioi--he has been curse 10 the inter
esls Of the paper; and finally. be has
damned himself and disgraced his kin BY
running OFF with . gang OF besoited
Sretches, yclepi the Ihielman Troupe.
The support OF the Rsrsiils has from
the first been medgre. The aid so stout.
ly promised has not been rendered. In
stead Of beins pAHoDiaed, we have been
damned, We have la6ored 10 nuke o
readable journal; wherein we have lail.
ed, we plead the un.oward circumstan.
ces which have lrom the tIst surround.
ed us.
The newspaper business in COLUMBIA
has seen its BEST days. There is DOT q
journal in town thar pays ekpeuces.--
'ol. MedaIy, in his salustosy, spesks
ana ct lsns,h on this point
81 nd when old and hitherto Improbable
estdbl lishwenls are losing money, II ~
utter lUnecy 10 suppose mat new pa.
per, lacAiDg capital and support, tan
live.
In entvm hing the Reveille. we eanno,
exuress rearetv We donot feel nor thank
those who 90 rot deser'si il. Our friends
all know HE, hNye our gratitude; OuT
e nemies. that ne rsIs nothing Sbou,
them.
To our bre thern Of the press. heres
bout and abroed. who have spoken hind
ly words to us, we wish Sny amount o /
good luck. snG beg Of Them to look up
ON us as "wictin Of misplaced conf
dence."
With these few, hastily written lines.
we make our bow, while ihe curtain
falls to slow and mourniul mpslcs pap
py In the belief that
"---whatever sky above,
Here's heart Ior eTery fate"
l. S. SHEPARE,