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The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

New CouNTERFEIT.-A new counterfeit has
made its appearance, and is well calculated to
deceive. The bill is of the denomination Of
$40, and is purported to be on the City Bank
of Cleveland, Lemuel Wick, President, and
W. H. Stanley, Cashier. 1t is neatly altered
from a one.dollar bill Of the same bank. and
has for its vignette a female, sheaf of grain
and agricultural implements.-TOledO Com
12ercisL,
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21
J. A. ScoTr.

How TO Produce LARGE FRUIr.-A cor
respond, mt of the Gardner's Gazette says, by
a very simple and easy process, fruits Of many
kinds may be raised about one-third larger
than is usually the case, and Of greatly i'm
proved quality. The secret consists in sup
porting the fruits so that they shall not be
allowed to hang the whole weight upon the
stalk, or twist about in the wind. The Ga
zetts states that when fruit is allowed to hang
naturally upon the stalk, the increasing weight
strains the stem or twig, and thus lessons the
quantity Of nutritious food flowing to the
fruit. The fruit may be supported either by
tying it to branch with piece af mating
or by iuclosiUg it in a small net. Flowers
such as dahlias or peonies. may also be rem
dered much larger by the adoption of thii
system.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

A BORROWED CoUNTESANcE.-A Gascon
officer. demanding his salary from the Minis
ter of War. declared that he was in danger
of dying with hunger. The Minister who saw
that his visage was full and ruddy, told him
that his face contradicted the statement. "Ah.
SIR" said he, " don't trust to that tits face
is not mine; it belongs to my landlord, who
has given me credit for long time past"
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

A PASTOR EXPELLED. Rev. Geo. D. Board
man, son of the reverend missionary Board
man, remarkable for his quiet and amiable
disposition, has been expelled from his church
at Barnwell, court House. South Carolina,
under the following circumstances:
A public meeting was recently called at
that place to express sympathy and spproba-
ton for Mr.. Brooks, in the shameful assault
upon Mr.. Sumner. Mr.. Boardman, the Bap-
tist pastor, having no wish to participate in
the meeting, was not present; whereupon a
committee vas dispatched 10 his residence to
inquire the reason. Mr. B. ep'ied that he
was unaccustomed to meddle with political
agitations, and preferred to have no part in
the proceedings. Upon this, he was required
to give categorical answer to the question
whether he sympatized with Mr.. Sumner and
his views. To which Mr. B. answered in sub
stance, that he wished not to be thus cate
chzed, but if he must answer, he could do
no otherwise as an honest man, than to say
Yes This was enough; and he was at once
told that he could have twenty y-four hours tc
leave the place Resistance or refusal wa:
useless, and making such arrangements as he
could in that brief period, Mr. Boardmsr
took his departure for Il North Ciucinna
ii Journal 4 Messenger, Baptist.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21
No. XIV.

EE The letter from The editor of the Agri-
cultural Department, was received last week,
but not in time for publication. 1t may. how
ever, be read with nearly as much interest,
in this weeks number.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21
KIND WORDS.

As stars upon a tranquil sea,
In mimic glory shine.
So words of kindness in the heart
Reflect the source divine
o then be kind, whOe'er thou art,
Thai breathest mortal breath,
And it shall bright all thy life,
And sweeten even death.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

What is companionship, were nothing that
improves the intellect is communicated, and
where the larger heart contracts itself to the
model and dimension Of the smaller?
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

All that is truly good and beautiful in
life blooms around the altar OF domestic
love.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

Why is an egg like colt? Because il
has to be broken before il is used.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21
UaLINEss AND BEAUTY.

AS we pass through Cheapside, and note
the multitudinous ugliness Of the crowd, we
shall be none the worse if we remember that
there is scarcely door-knocker Of griffin Of
face, which is not beautiful to some one or 9TH
er. This is positive fact, and very curl
Gus fact, too. When you consider that per-
sonal beauty is thing which may be brought
almost to the line and plummet; which is
brought Tin your drawing book to the COM
passes and the I square that is thing to be
Judged Of by those omnipotent eyes of which
we boast 30 much-"Slr, am | not to believe
my eyes ?"-and that said eyes can be i'm
partial as well as omnipotent; it will appear
a wonder of wonders that love can transform
the deformed as it does. How could Mrs.
finding him repulsively ugly? How can your
friend Mrs. Thompson think that wizzen. faced
or pudding headed baby of hers beautiful? Is
not petted child very commonly an ugly
little imp? Yet, who would dare to tell pa
pa as much, or ever so slightly to depreciste
the curve of the dear boys nose?
Nor is this the whole mystery. For every
body knows, as a matter of fact, that human
affection has this trans forming power; knows
that oar eyes are Lot to be trusted when our
silly hearts whisper privately TO the optic
nerve. A knows that knows, and knows
that knows that be knows all this, and the
rest of the alphabet know it of A and B, and
themselves occupy similar predicament; and
yet the mystery goes on. Bacon says that,
"deformed persons are commonly even with
nature" meaning that the y are generally ma
lignant and hateful, ii. e., full Of hate); but
may we not say, on the other hand, that the
Great Soul of the universe makes it even with
the ill-favored, by amounting them with love,
so that it runs down to the very skirts Of their
garments? When Charlotte Bront was writ
ing "Jsne Eyre" her sister told her PLAN
hero and heroine could not be interesting
The world knows better-it knows that never
were two human beings in fiction surrounded
with SO intense an atmosphere of love as Jane
and Mr.. Rochester. Nor is Lord Bacon rule
without exceptions, for have known them,
and l suspect Mrs. Gaskil's Mr.. Benson was
drawn from life. And l remember an article
in Chambers Journal" special addressed
to The lame and the deformed, assuring them
in the kindest terms that they might rely upon
it physical defects would never interfere with
anything that goes to make the real value Of
life think have my self noticed that lame
people commonly make very happy marriages,
not excluding lame women. So that if Il is
should meet the eye of the most mis- shapen
mortal in the census. will venture to address
him in the language Of Longfelow's Endy
moin -
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-08-21

No one is so accursed by fate,
No ODe utterly desolate,
But some heart. though unknown,
Responds unto his own.
As the song says
For every Jack there is GIL.
And that love is blind is at least as old as
Horace, and at least as new as Cowley as
much older and newer as you please. "Let
u.s." said the pagan
Let US At least in friendship prove 40 mild
As a. fond rarpnt to his favorite child;
Ifwith distorted eyes the urchin glares,
90, the dear hoy, how pre- tily he stares r.
Is he of dwarfsh or sbortive size
"Sweet little mOppet l' the fond father cries.
Or, is the unshapen cub deformsd al lame
He kindly sps him Ger some tender name.
And thus, Mr.. Cowley:-
Color or shape, good limbs or face.
Goodness or wit in all find
In motion or in speech grace:
If all fail yet it's woman kind.
Iftall, the name Of proper stays;
If fair, she's pleasant as The light.
II low, her prettness does pleas;
If black what lover loves not night;
The far with plenty fills my heart;
The lean with love makes me too SO
II straight. her body's CuPid'E dart
To me, if crooked, tits his bow.
Thus, there are compensatiOns, even though
personal beauty is, and always will be. {
great tidal inhuance in human affairs anC
neither age now wisdom can emancipate mai
wholly from its power. ltis the same story
from Sampson to Antony. and from Antony
to our own glorious Nelson. Yet it is clea
that beauty can only bespeak love, cannO
fix it beyond the period Of its own duration
Eager youth will not believe it, but it is Ger
tan as arithmetic, that beauty only is N
foundation for lasting attaehment.-7dir
Mog0ziRe.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

AToUcHIsG SCESE.-A correspondent of the
Elmira Republican says that in a recent trip
over the New York and Erie Railroad, an in
cident occurred that touched every beholder's
heart with pity. comparatively young lady,
dressed in deep mourning-her husband hav-
ing recently died-was travelling southwark,
having in her care and keeping young daugh-
ter of some six years. The little girl was
mild-eyed as an autumnal sky, and as delicate
as the hyacinth-her emaciated fingers trans
parent as the pearls of Ceylon. Touchingiy
beautiful was the affection of her heart for the
mother, whose solicitude for the daughters s
comfort was increasingly manifested. Look
ing ever and anon from the car window, she
turned to her mother, saying ''Mother, am
weary-when shall we get home ~ After
time she fell into a slumber, then awakening
suddenly radiant smile overspreading her
features-she exclaimed, pointing upward !:
s.Mother-there is papa-home at last 2" and
expired It was yet many weary miles to the
mothers home, but the angels pitying the lit
tie sufferer, gathered her to the paradise of In
nocence.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13
VOL. 2.---NO. 27.
WINTER IN ST. PETERSBURG.

To defend ones self from the weather the
most constant and minute precautions are re-
quired. In October the Russians, and all who
have been in the country, assume fur clothes,
and keep them in continual wear until the
month of April, after the ice has broken up on
the Neva. Stoves are lit everywhere, and
each family lays in stock of brentwood, the
braise ofwhich is more abundant than any
other wood. There is servant especially
appointed to attend to the stoves, and his duty
is to keep up, as much as possible, an equal
heat throughout the house. The best stove
keepers, whose fame procures them high
salary, are generally from Moscow. Twenty
degrees of cold do not appear astonishing TO
an inhabitant of ST. Petersburg, though he
then casts a curious look at the thermometer.
at % or "a degrees, constant rounds arc
made during The night to prevent the police
and sentinels from falling asleep on their
posts. Should the cold bring on drowsiness,
and the sufferer not be able to prevent him
self from yielding to its influence, he must
perish, as he can only wake from his sleep in
the other world. At 25 degrees, the theatres
are closed, and all those who are obliged to
go out on foot, hurry along with their utmost
speed, most anxiously looking at the noses of
all those whom they meet in the street. If a
sudden paleness-of which no intimation is
given by any physical fceling-shuuld appear
on that part Of the face the passer-by rushes
forward, and commences rubbing the afflicted
feature of the alarmed passenger with snow,
to produce animation. The same thing may
occur to the operator himself before the hour
is over. At 80 degrees Of cold, the poor pop
ulace alone go out doors; entire families shut
themselves up; and not single sledge of any
appearance or fashion is seen In the Streets
Yet even then the military reviews are not in
terrupted, and the highest dignitaries, up to
the Emperor himself, repair to them without
q cloak. 1t must be evident that, with cold
of such intensity, the suferings of the poor
must be dreadful; yet it may be affirmed with
out exaggeration, that the lower classes, in
large town of the empire-public establish
ments, heated by large stoves, where every
person that plcases may take refuge.-Trarets
in Russia
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

~ DISCOVERY IN PERU.-The Hon. Thomas
Ewbank, in letter to the National Intelligen-
Ger, communicates some interesting informa-
tion in relation TO recent discoveries in the ex-
cavaton of Peruvian tummuli. 1t was re-
ceived by Mr.. Ewbank from w. Evans, Esq,
engineer of the Africa and Tackna railroad, in
Yatens for the railroad at Africa, hundreds of
graves are demolished, in which are numerous
Indian relics. The excavations are seventy
feet deep, and as the soil is loose sand, and as
the work proceeds, everything from the top
comes sliding down-dead Indians, pots, ket-
ties, arrow heads, &c. Among other interest
ing mortuary relics, au Indian was stirred out
of his resting place, rolled up in a shroud of
gold. Before Mr.. Evans had knowledge of the
incident, the workmen had cut up this magni-
ficent winding sheet, and divided it among
themselves. With some difficulty, Mr.. Evans
obtained fragment, and dispatched il to Mr..
Ewbank. Mr.. Evans notices as 3 very remark
able fact, that in hundreds of Indian skulls
which he had examined, not one has contained
a decayed tooth. Mr.. Ewbanks thinks the
weight of the entire shroud must have been
SiSoHh Va AiaHS PSN"NS, ei< A'S.eA - DSS.i PAS-
served would have been the finest specimen of
sheet gold that we have heard of since the
fme sn9fs Of Of the he saana ad M fluffy 81 &
tempting to secure the great dead from con-
tact with their native earth, Mr.. Ewbanks says
it is the folm or features and not the body or
substance of the dead that should be preserv-
ed, and adds:
s.The mumnies Of Egypt are quarried for
fuel, and whether those Of the PharaohS, their
wives, their priests or their slaves. are split
open and chopped up with the same indiffer-
ence as SO many pine logs. The guns and
balsams used in cmbalming them have made
them good substitute for bituminous coal;
and thus the very means employed to preserve
them have become the active agents for their
dissipation. So it is when materials of collins
have high marked value, they are then seiz-
ed as concealed treasure, and their contents
cast out as rubbish. Like heroes in the East
ern hemisphere, the descendants of Nauco
Capoe were sometimes, if not always, entomb-
ed in such, and with considerable treasures
besides in vessels of gold and silver: hence we
learn how the Spanish conquerors sought,
often found, and as often plundered rich In
can sepulchres."
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

SINGULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL FACT.-The trans
ference Of vitality which appears to take place
when young persons are habitually placed in
contact with the aged, is not nursery fiction.
It is well attested by very competent authori-
ties. ga not uncommon cause, ,"observes DR..
Copeland, ssof depressed vital power, is the
young sleeping with the aged. This fact,
however explained, has been long remarked,
and it is we'll known to every unprejudiced OBJ
server. have, on several occasions, met with
the counterpart of the following case was, a
few years ago, consulted about sickly and
thin boy, of about four or five years of age.
He appeared to have no specific ailment, but
there was slow and remarkable decline of
flesh and strength, and of the energy OF. the
functions; what his mother very aptly termed
a gradual blight. After inquiry into the his
tory of the case, it came out that he had been
very robust and plethoric child, up to his
third year, when his grand mother, very aged
person, took him to sleep with her; that he
soon afterwards lost his good looks, and that
hecontinued to decline progressively ever since
notwithstanding medical treatment. direc-
ted him to sleep apart from the aged parent,
and prescribed gentle tonics, change OF air,
&c. The recovery was rapid. But it is not in
children only that debility is induced by this
mode of abstracting vital power. Young fe-
males married to very old dmen, suffer In SIM
liar manner, although seldom to so great an
extent; and instances have come to my know
ledge where they have suspected the cause of
this debilitated state. These facts are often
well known to the aged themselves, who con-
slider the indulgence favorable to longevity,
and thereby illustrate the selfshness which,
in some persons, increases with their years.
Every medical practitioner is well aware Of the
fact, and parents are generally advised not to
allow their infants to sleep with aged persons.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

THE SIZE OF LONDON London is now the
greatest city in the world, and far surpasses
all the great cities of antiquity. According
to Gibbon the population of ancient Rome, in
the height of its magnifcence, was 200 900;
Nineveb is estimated to have had 6OO, 900; and
Or. Medhurst supposes Pekin to have 2,000,-
OO0. The population of London, according to
recent statistics, amounts to 2,500, ,0O0-414,-
722 having been added to it during the last ten
wears. The census shows that it contains SO1s
1872 inhabited, and l9, 3s9 uninhahitcd korses.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

Harry Erskine, of facetious memory, was
retained for female named Tickle, against
whom an action had been brought. On the
trial he commenced his address to the court
ssTickle, my client, the defendent,my lord. ;,
The audience amused with the oddity ofthe
speech, were driven into Mysteries by the
Judge replying
ssTickle her yourself, Harry, you are as well
able to do it as I.''
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

1 found relief, and became composed and calm.
I know not how long l had been kneeling,
when 1 was startled by deep drawn sighs and
sobs, proceeding from the direction of the
seven sorrows altar, which is at one side of
the chapel door, under the choir. Fearing OBJ
servation, l arose, and fastening down one
side of the chapel, reached the stairs leading
to the choir. AS 1 entered the choir, saw
dark figure glide past me, and go into small
passage behind the organ. Probably this per-
son was in search of the poor heart-broken
creature whom 1 had left weeping so bitterly
at the foot Of the sseyen sorrows altar. For
tunately l escaped notice, and, softly closing
the door behind me, reached my cell just be-
fore the bell rang for morning prayers in the
chapel.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

new in my mind as yesterday. White, freshly
fallen snow lay on the ground. 1t had come
early that year, and many leaves were still
hanging crirnsomed on their boughs. The
trees were loaded with light feecy fragments
of snow, among which these brilliantly dyed
leaves cleaned out in the sunshine like blood
on woman's fair face.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

John Randolph was one of the most sarcas-
tic men that ever lived. One time young
man attempted to make his acquaintance. He
obtained an introduction and among the first
remarks said:-sI passed by your house lately
Mr.. Randolph ssI hope you always will"
was the reply.
Another once twitted him as to his want of
education. ssThe gentleman reminds me-"
said Randolph in reply, 'sof the lands about
the head waters of the Montgomery, which
are poor by nature and cultivation has entire
ly ruined theml"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13

OK THE OUrsIpE.-A man with an enormous
ly large sucker, called on a dentist TO have
tooth dlawn. After the dentist had prepare
ed his instrument and was about to commence
onerations. the man began to strain and strech
his mouth till it got to afrightful width. Say
sir" said the dentist, ,ssdon't trouble yourself
to strech your mouth any wider, intend to
stand on the outside of it to draw your tooth. F"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13
TRIP LIGHTLY OVER TROUBLE.

geo Trip lightly over trouble
Trip lightly over wrong;
We only make grief double
BY dwelling on it long,
a. Why clasp woes hand so tightly
Why sigh DER blossoms dead -
Why cling to forms unsightly?
Why not seek joy instead! !!
Trip lightly over sorrow;
- Though this day may be dark,
ssi The sun may shine tomorrow,
And gaily sing the lark;
Fair hopes have not departed.
- Though roses may have fed;
Then never be down hearted, tr
But look for JOY instead
Trip lightly over sadness,
Stand not to rail at doom;
We've pearls to string of gladness,
d On this side of the tomb;
7-f5 Whilst stars nightly shining,
And Heaven Is overhead,
-ili Encourage not repining,
Bat look for joy instead.
The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-08-01
RnrIinramn M nrnnks.

The notorious coward Brooks chal-
lenged Burlingame to a duel. aud was
accepted. Place, near the Niagara Falls;
time, last Saturday at noon; distance,
City PAGES; weapons, western rifles. This
looked rather dangerous and according,
ly, as was anticipated, Brooks backed
out; alleging as an spology that ke would
be in danger Of being mObbed, should bS
attempt to pass through the Northern
States, We viii probably hear but little
more Of this cowardly ruiIian brayado a.
Washington.
The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-08-01

A FAaLE-A youug man once picked up a
sovereign lying in thc road. Ever Afterwards as
he was passing along, he kepthis eyes fSed stead.
ily upon the grOuud, in hopes Of finding another.
And in che course ofa long life he did pick up,
at diHereu, times, goodly number Of coins, gold
and silver, Bes all these years, while he was
looking fOr is, he saw not that she heavens were
bright above him. He never once allowed his
eyes TO look up nom the mud and 6l,h in which
he sought the treasure and when he died--a rich
old mamie only knew Ibis fairearth ofours as a
dirty road IN which to pick up money as you walk
along.
The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-08-01
Sheriff Sale

Fillmau Lewis and Sarah m Lewis his wife, Cal
vim billings and Msry NJ. Hilings has wife, Christian
Dysnger and Eslherl nysinget, his wife, Richard King,
Johnaihan King William King. and Louisa Rish Wild
ow ofGoofre King, deceased. Seneca Common Pleas.
DH virtue Of an order Of the court IN the above for
ID partiuon 10 directed, will offer for sale at the
door OF the court house. IN Tn, Seneca county Ohio be
tween the hours Of 10 O'Clock and p m, Of the 25h
day Of August A. D. 1856 the following described lands
and tonemsnts, TO wits The northwest quarer ofhe north.
quarter ofsecon orreea ttf) In iange sixteen ti6)
In township one, % containing forty Of land, al sub
icct to the dover estate Of Louisa Rist 'Nercin.
iu2530dsgaO T.. q. WELLS. Shin
The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-08-01
Shannon Ramnvaa.

This miserable drunken villain has at
last been removed, after ne had by his
dsbauoheries become incompetent to do
further mischief, aud JoHN w. GEARY. Of
Pa, appointed in his place. What Gea-
ry may do, it is not possible to coujeo-
ture.
shannon's political and personal eau
yass win come back TO Ohio 70 be a stencil
ia the posirils Of the people.
or The Toledo Timas-Fillmore aheet--Aas
Cor its m0it0--
WAIT FOR THE WAGON.
Rather significant As snat DagoH Is so far in
the rear itis no use 10 loaifi-indeed lis passen-
gers are ali getting osl ana going ahead, on foot
to get into some Othervehicle.