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Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20
RIoire Antique. sI!!.s.

\ SIOVh U -TIIHI'IINs Is NOW COInpTtFc, conn
III prfsing the newest and most fashionable
Gvs. gus OF
Moire Antique, SiE!.s,
Chantilla Lace and Applica Work.
The styles for Spring and Summer are choste
and elegant, far surprising in beauty the de-
signs OF last year, and admirably adapted to our
climate.
PATTERNS
For Mantillas. Ladies' Waists and Sleeves, do
Ha,ks Morning Gowns. Also. Patterns for Boys
and Misses suits can be found Mt either of my cs.
Establishments, oceycry desirable styles.
GEO. LEWIS,
Manufacturer and Exclusive reaIer in MantiIla,
aud Patterns ~ Fourth street. ) doors from Vine
ana 90 fIith street, corner Oi Lodge.
May 10 lSj5.-tf.
Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20
Sale OF Real Esiate--by order of
iisc Court.

M Saturday the Gth day Of October, 1865, be-
Otwecn The hours of 10 O'clock A. NJ. and 4
o'clock p. NJ. Of said day on the premises will be
sold to the highest bidder the following Real Es-
tate as the property Of squire L. Taylor, decd,
to wit Situate in the county of Preble and
State of Ohio and described as follows, to wit ::
Being lot No. 93 as known and designated on the
plat Of the town Of Winchester. Prcble County,
Ohio, said premises to b. sold subject to an an
nnity of seventeen dollars, to be paid annually to
Parthena Taylor, during her natural life.
TERMS OF SALE.-Onc third cash down,
one third in one year, and the residue in two
years from the day of sale. with interest on de-
tcrred payments the SAINT to be secured BY mort
glge on the premises Appraised subject to the
said Annuity at $4,000.
WILLIAM j. KELLY.
Admir-. Of Squire l.. Taylor, decd.
W. ]. & J. A. GILMORE. Atty's.
Sept. G. 1856.
Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20
w laite Fish.

am now receiving a large and chSice assort-
L ment OF White Fish, which | will at the
loves; rates. Gail and examine they are
Fresh and good. Il. S.CUNNINGHAM.
Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20
Pure Liquors
Roots a. Shoes.

'ALF, Kip, Stoga and Congress Boots, Pat.
\ ent Leather and other Fancy shoes. Ladies'
aud Children's shoes of all styles at the New
Store Of STEPHENS d Co.
Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20

T'llE snbscriberis now rcceiyiugand openings
L large assortment Of English Tapestry Vel
Tapestric Brussels, Brussels, Thice-piy, In-
grains, and
Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20
MANTILLAS,
Es~@
S Q II MER.

! Y stock of MIntillas is now complete, com.
II prisiug the newest and most fashionable
Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-09-20
Trcble co. Probate Court 1853

FELIX MARSH, President.
G. w. CANS, Secretary.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20

disturbed by the passage of the lightning,
and wind is the result of the disturbance.
In summer, Lightning is frequently unatl
tended by thunder, because the clouds are
so far distant the sound of the thunder, is
lost before it reaches the ear. Sometimes
the earth is overcharged with electric fluid
and returns some ofit to the clouds; this
is called the "returning stroke" There is
more lightning in Summer and Autumn,
than in Spring and Winter, because TIE
heat In the two former seasons produces
great evaporation, and the conversion of
water into vapor always develops electric
ity.
There are two kinds of electricity, posi-.
t've and Negative. The flash always pro-
cee's from positive body; that is one
overcharged with electric fluid. When the
clouds are in positive state Of electricity,
the lightning passes from them to the
EARTH when they are ina negative state,
it passes from the earth to them They
are said to be in a positive state when they
contain more of the electric fluid than usu-
al, and in negative state when they con-
tain less than usual. t>
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20
Till all the human race shall be
One, in n universal speech!

Science will also add to the almighty pow,
cr of steam. Not only will it ''drag the
slow barge, or drive the rapid car" but it
will accelerate and facilitate the tolls of man
in every department of life. Like electric
ity, it will annihlatc time and space, and
bring within our reach the most distant
portions of tho world. Not only will the
earth trcmble beneath its thunder, but the
ocean waves will rock and roll before its
power, and it will recoil from its vast ex-
pansc, and become but firth dividing us
from our brethren orthc Old World. Who
will deny that ere one hundred years roll
round aerial chariotswill vie with the pow
ers of steam and electricity in the transpor-
tation Of produce from place to place? and
who, looking from the past to the present,
shall dare to say that century hence will
not confirm the prophetic musing-
"Or on underwriting wings extended, bear
The plying charots through realms of air
Fair crews Triumphant. from above,
Shall wave their nuttcring kcrchcfs as they
move,
Or warrior bands, alarm the gaping crowd,
And armies shrink beneath the slladowy cloud"
Would that our ability were commensu-
rate with our themc-that we could IN re-
atty unfold few Of the mysteries that re-
ality must ere lors iSclose--but we shrink
from the task, ere We become lost and be-
wildercd amid tue many labyrinths Of fut'. =.
rity. "Sorn.'
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20
WHOLE NUMBER lis.
Our Internal improvements.

In 1928 there were miles of railroads
IN the United States in 1880 Al: in,
3l7. ~
IN 1863 Great Britain had 1855 miles
OF railroad; Germany 5,s4o; France e.
4eo. According to this estimate. wa bod'
IN 1854, at the time the census report was
made up, over 800 miles more of railroad
ths? :7re't Britain, Germany and Franco
combined.
The number of miles of railway now in
operation on the surface Of the glole is 35,-
4eO, and of this amount the Eastern Hem
isphere has 1880 the Western 1s $500.
Africa has 25 miles of railroad; Spain.
go; South America go; Panama 81; Swe-
den IS; Italy 10; India 100; Island Of
Cuba $50.
New York! has expended over $94,OOO,-
QUO IN railroads; Pennsylvania over $685.
100000; Massachusetts over $55, 1000. 900 ::
Ohlo @ over A, 100000; Maryland over 2e,-
ooo,o0o; Illinois over rs and Indiana over.
SZ2,o0O,OoO; Georgia over Sle,OO0,0OO ::
New Hampshire over. $l8,OoO,ooo; Vor.
mont over s. 100000; Virginia over SI2-,
100000, and South Carolina over s11 ,oo0.-
600.
The total cost of railroad construction in
the United States is s4s9,6O3,l2s. The
funded debt was sl3O,OOo,OOO. The pross
earnings were S5e.s56,832. The number
OF railroads in the United States is 39e.
Miles in construction now 1886.
Ohio has in operation, 1897 miles of
railroad; New York, 2,345; Pennsylvania.
l,464 Massachusetts, 1888; Indiana, l.
l27; Illinois, 1899; Georgia, ss4; Viz
g'nla, 673; Connecticut, 689.
Illinois is now constructing l,e45 miles
OF railroad; Ohio, 1878; Virginia, l,ls0 :.
Missouri, eos; Pennsylvania, 9s7; Indi.
ana, 74s; Tennessee, $50; Alabama, $50;
New York, SAG. Z
Pennsylvania has "a railroads: Ohio.
46; Massachusetts, 43; New York, So; H.
linois 25 Virginia .21.
New York has $50 miles Of canals:
Pennsylyania, 936 ), Ohio, a2l; Kentucky.
4s6 Indiana, 3e7; Virginia, ls9; Mary.
land, 1874 New Jersey, l47; Massachu-'
setts and Indiana, each 100; Louisiana,
1O1.
There are 4,7es miles of canals in the,
United States. A report of 2,a5e miles Of
canals shows-a rutal cost Of $50, 4,a7e,aa6.
There were in 1853, 80 telegraphic lines.
with 2s,26l miles of wire, but at the pres
ent time it is supposed, that there are over
10000 miles of wire.
Montgomery (Ala.) Times.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20
a Beautiful Sentiment.

''Ihe moon looks calmly down when man is
The earth still holds her wav;
Flowers breathe their perfume, and the winds
keep signing;
Naught seems to pause or stay" >.
Clasp the hands meekly over the still
breast-they've no more work to do; close
the weary eyes-they've no more tears to
shed; part the damp locks-there's no
more pain to bear. Closed is the car alike
to love kind voice, and calumpy stinging
whispers. s.~
Off in that stilled heart you have ruth
lessly planted thorn; if from that plead
ing eye you have carelcssly turned away :.
if your loving glance, and kindly spoken
word have come.dH too late then God
forgive you! No frown gathers on the
marble brow rs you gaze-no scorn curls
the chiseled lip-no flush of wounded feel
ings mounts to tho blue veined temples
now. tGg
God forgive you for your feet, too, must
shrink appalled, from deaths cold river,
your taltering tongue asks: ".Can this be,
death 2" Your fading eye fingers lovingly
on the sunny earth; your clammy hand
yields its last feeble futter. =
o., rapacious grave! yet another yictim:
for thy hopeless keeping! What! no,
words Of greetingfrom the household sleep
ers? No warm welcome from sisters low,
ing lpss No throb Of pleasure from the.
dear maternal bosom? ~
Silent all ~
0, if these broken limbs were never gath
cred up! If'beyond deaths swelling flood.
there were no eternal shore ;Ifs for: the
struggling bark there were no poft Of fpeaoe
If athwart that lowering cloud sprang no
bow Of promise! -
Alas for love if this be all
And naught 6eyond-on earth. -
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBr.--The new
law Of Massachusetts,, abolisbing imprison-
ment for debt, went into operation on the
4th instant. There weresnins poor debtors
set free by the new law,;to enjoy their free
dom and celebrate the sanniye yersary Of their
country's indepepde Besides the above
freed ones, over two hundred captives, i'm.
pfisoned for non-payment Of fines and costs
were set free: by orders from the police
court. .r
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20
ABbEVlLLE H. SOUTH CAROLINA MORNING. 90 1855

With my best wishes for your success,
am, very sincerely, A. G. SUMNER.
RAvENscRoFr, S. c., June 20, 1856.
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GALLANT RoBBER.--Accountsfr from Mex
leo state that the diligence Between ,Toluca
and Morelia had been stopped&by Yobbers,
and the passengers plundered Of about $2,-
600. The affair was done in the most. gem
teel manner: A lady passenger hsdea ring
of gfeat value on her finger which sspheSSl
the robbers stroYeih vain. "a get of Find.
ing he could not succeed, he begged the ,ias
dy to keep her baubls insHsHsmb bsanee of
him. ~ - - 8! i. ~. ,ts5aS...,
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-07-20

A lad in q state Of mental absence, gave
three cheers for stars. and stripes during
|sehoa hours, and perceived bis error when
he get'the stripes ithout tte etals. 81.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-24
ONE OF THE DARK SPOTS OF LoN-
s DON. SCI

The Duly Neacs, in alluding to the
low parts of st. Clements Lane as q
I" London fever hole,n thus draws the
abode of men and women of Merry
England )"
"A A track through the heart Of the
Black Forest or pass through the bow
els of a mountain In Arabia Petrea
could not be more close and dreamy
You might walk here in good stiff hur-
ricane, and hardly know It a summer
shower might pass and leave you dry
You are in the region of perpetual shad-
ow, and the women and children who sit
and sprawl upon the door steps are
scarcely less in doors than when languish-
ed in their dark and fetid rooms. And
no wonder, for, according to actual
measurement, the courts vary IN breadth
from six to twelve feet. Here are the
holes in which our human fellow crea-
lures swarm like virmin. According to
a report published in the Daily Wesos
of May /, no less than fifty inmates were
found to reside in one of the houses In
Middle Rerle's Place, formerly Lit
tie Shire Lane, and in Shipyard many
of the houses are built back to back, en-
tirely preventing thorough ventilation.
The gentleman who made the examina-
tion states that water butts are kept in
under ground cellars, the wall and floor
ing of which are continually damp to
the touch and where the water, imbib-
ing the filthy exhalation of the place, ac-
quires dreadful odor; that the ceilings
of some of these cellers are actually be-
low the level of the roadways, SO that
the inhabitants are obliged to burn
candles through the whole day, with the
exception of few hours, and that ter
rier dogs are kept in many of the houses
as protection against the rats. Yet
out of these hideous tenements consider
able sums of money are drawn every
year, by letting and subletting, Hideous
women, foul and slatternly, loll out Of
windows or lean against door-posts over
come with terrible latitude and indo-
lence, which they are surrounded; not
impudent and brazen, but oppressed
with the hopeless burden of their lives.
The children sullsn, dirty and fierce
young tigers, without their beauty or
their health-play or fight in the road
ways amid the cabbage-stalks, potato
peelings, oyster shells, and standing pud-
dies. Men are very seldom seen. And
over the young and old towers the mel
ancholy house fronts, shutting out the
sky and the beeze, and black and satur-
ated with the pestilent vapors which are
rising unseen around them.
"Hung their posions in the sick air."
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-24
PIONEER LIFE m KANSAS.

A private letter from Kansas, received
at the efice Of the Boston Journal, cen
tains the following paragraph, which will
give our readers good idea of pioneer
life." It is dated Lawrence, TX. e. ]
November 18th -
g It is quite cold here for the 18th of
November. Yesterday we were greeted
by pretty severe snow storm, for which
We were hardly prepared, our house be-
ing in no better condition to receive such
a guest than an orchard with the bars
down. This morning I crawled from
under my buffalo skin, after having slept
quite as soundly as any ono would sup
pose who could see the pile of snow I
had for bed / kindled fire in our
rough stone fireplace, but the smoke
were compelled to remove the fire, not
to the middle of the floor, but where the
middle of the floor would be if we only
had floor. By doing this we could get
to the 'windward of the fire, and thus
avoid the smoke. If you could see
true picture of US now, as we are seated
upon trunk beside the fire, with our
feet extended to keep them warm, and
a large tool-chest at our backs with the
lid raised to break the wind, and a buff
falo pelt drawn closely about US, each
taking good care to get his share, you
might be quite as good-natured while
looking at the picture as we are enjoy
ing the reality. But this 1 consider
one of the unaFoidahles of pioneer life,
and if you will wait one year patiently
as we do you may be permitted to draw,
1T least in your imagination, very
different picture. I believe, notwith-
all these disadvantages, which /
are to be met in every new country,
hat this is one of the richest, best and |
nnst beautiful countries in the world. |
If wood is scarce there is coal to take
ts place. I know this, for have seen
i. 1t is not because the place or the
climate is not good that some 60 back.
Such would not stop in any new country.
That there is much to be endured this
winter is not to be denied, but who that
lees the prospective riches of this land
Foqld not meet eur hardships that they
night afterward share the good that
Eill result ? I think, as this place is
ettling very fast, that it is highly i'm
,ortant we should build meeting-hou
his winter, which I hope, by the aid Of
Eastern churches, We shall be enabled
o do. - - rzs 80
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-24
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.

The editor of the Knickerbocker at
tributes the following to Jk. Marvel
Last evening we were walking leisure
ly along, the music of the choirs of the
churches came floating out in the dark
ness around us, and they were all new
and strange tunes but one, and that one
it was not sung as we have heard it,
but it wakened train of long buried
memories, that rose to us as they were
before the cemetry of the soul had a
tomb in it.
Itwas the sweet old " Corinth +" they
were singing-strains that we have sell
dom hhard since the rose color of life
was blanched: and were in a moment
back again to the old village church,
and it was summer afternoon, and yell
low sunbeams were streaming through
the west window, and the silver hair of
the old deacon, who sat in the pulpit,
was turned to gold in its light, who we
used to think could never die. so good
was he, had concluded the application
and 'exortation,' and the village choir
were singing the last hymn, and the
tune was. Corinth.'
It is years-we dare not think how
many-since then, and the "prayers of
David, the son of Jesse, are ended"
and the choir are scattered and gone.
The girl with blue eyes that sang alto,
aud the girl with black eyes that sang
the air-the eyes of one were like .
clear June heaven at noon.
They both became wives, both moth
ers, and both died. Who shall say they
are not singing !" Oorinth still, where
sabbaths never wane and congregations
never break up? There they sat, Sab
bath after Sabbath, by the square col.
umn on the right of the leader, and to
our young ears their tones were " the
very soul of music,n That column
bears still their penciied names, as they
wrote them in those days in life's june
49,, before dreams of change had over
come their spirits like summer cloud.
Alas that with the old singers most
of the sweeter tones had died upon the
air; but they still linger in memory,
and they shall yet be sung in a hall whose
are beams of morning in the
sweet reunion of song that shall take
place light, whose ceiling is pearl, whose
doors are gold, and where hairs never
grow silvery, and hearts never grow old.
Then she that sang alto, and she that
sang air, viii be in these places once
more.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-24
Select MlisftIIaug.
BRITISH COMMANDERS.
.rHE EARL or cARp1eAN.

TIE name of the Earl of Cardigan,
Nho commands the light brigade of cav
airy in the East, has been brought with
frequent and unhappy prominence be-
fore the public than that of perhaps any
other officer in the service Though
heir TO estates Of forty thousand year,
which bear on their broad surface not
ono Of those blemishes which, in the
shape Of fat mortgages and judgments,
disfgure most Of the great landed pro-
perties in England, and shear the high
founding incomes of the greater number
of her nobility of half their fair proper
tions, Lord Cardigan early conceived an
intense passion for the service, which
ho has sipGe Eetsiaed under circumstan-
ces calculated in general to strip the
young soldiers romance of all its gay
and gallant plumsge, Those who ere
aeq16inted with military life in England
know that the voice Of tho death bell
does not fall more heavily and sadly on
the ear of pleasant summer night, than
does the order for India on gay,
reckless, thoughtless regiment of British
light dragons. Those who have seen
such regiment embark in all the pride
of its youth, strength and beauty, and
witnessed its return, or rather the return
Of its remains, some twenty-five years
after. fthe prescribed period of service
IN India may understand the feeling of
condensation and alarm which such an
order creates. Twenty-Five years is
lapa period in most men's lives. A We
" Tong period in q life under the bqrn=
ing sun Of India. Not more than two
OF three officers who start with 2 .regi-
msnt for India ever return, and those
Who DO, present more the appearance OF
arrival Of the order is, therefore, as may
b imagined, the signal for every officer
possessed Of the means of living by any
other resource, at once bidding farewell
20 the Pomp and circumstance of glori-
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-24

the Marquis of Anglesea, Lord William
Paget, a gentleman completely daguer-
reotyred in that happy Amecican phrase
Is loafer who, being In temporary
difficulties, and having nothing to dis
/ pose of but his wife, invented this hon.
orable method of repairing his shatter-
ed finances, and sued for heavy dana
ges for the destruction of the honor OF
this ladyS1 Noso honor had been; un-
fortunately, similarly destroyed about
as often aszsrury- y-lane or San Francisco.
Lord Cardigan defended, and the pulse
beat high with expectation. Foreign
witnesses eff the mon mi yecordO, school
were produced, and ficticious scenes of
most thrilling character reluctantly
detailed; It was even said the injured
wife was prepared to own her shame,
when suddenly, on cross-examination, by
some arrangement in the machinery tho
whole fabric fell to the ground.
Thus Lady William Paget's honor,
and Lord Cardigan's purse were saved.
In all his gallantries, Lord Cardigan
has never even affected scintilla of
that sentiment which by relieving vice
of all its grossness is said to relieve it of
half its evil.
Some three years since we remember
he carried away from Doublin, where
his regiment was then quartered, a lady
of singular beauty, the wife of tho Cham
berlain of Dublin, Sir William Leeson,
whose outraged feelings were subse-
quently soothed by q compensation of a
very large amount. Taking her to
Scotland few months afterwards in his
yacht, whether from remorse or parting
from her children or some other cause,
Lady Lecson was seized suddenly with
illness and died under very narrowing
circumstances Within week after we
saw the spoiler in his accustomed spot
in the omnibus box, with his jeweled
lorgnett planted on some new beauty,
with a steady sensual stare. Thorough
ly heartless and selfish, he steps from
ruin to ruin without pang, and when
his passions pals, casts aside his victim
with the same graceful levity he does
his lance.
In appearance Lord Cardigan is the
beau ideal ofa light dragon. Arrogant,
gay and dauntless in bearing, he stands
about FIVE feet eleven, and his frame,
though slight, is we'll proportioned and
firmly knit. His light brown hair ho
wears in short curls, and carries a weigh
ty moustache of the same hue-his ex-
preston is sensual and selfish. His
wealth insures him companions, but he
has no friead. OF dress, and dash, and
glitter he Is passionately fond, and when
mounted in the gorgeous uniform of his
regiment, and leading charge on his
beautiful dark chestnut Arab, he well
looks the character to which he is said
to aspire,-tbe Murat of British cavel-
ry. High-bred and imperious, he little
differs from the noble animal he rides.
Like it he obeys every mute instinct and
passion-hke it he rejoices in the battle
and rushes forward with glorious ami
NAL courage against the foe but he is
nothing more.