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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
SLAVERY THE STRONGEST BoHD
OF UNION.

Our Union would not have lasted TWEEN.
ty years But FOR SOUTHERN SLLvKRY,
The North has ever been dependent on
the South, and other slaveholding coun-
tries, for cotton, rice, sugar, wheat, corn,
coffee, tobacco, and hundred other nee.
essary agricultural products. The South,
from the character of her soil, her eli-
mate and her labor, has found it land viii
ever find iD 10 her advantage. if the
North viii be Just to her, TO buy manu-
factured articles, and foreign meIchan-
dize from the North, and employ North.
ern shipping.
England avoids war with Us, ayowsdly,
because she cannot dispense with the
products of our slave labor. Our North
is dependent on US as England is, and In
a hundred ways in which England Is not.
Unless she should come under the rule
of the mad, senseless and desperate mob.
there is no danger of disunion. She and
England are as much Shareholders, 20
far as profit or convenience is concerned,
as we are. They have lived chiefly from
the products of slave labor, without have
ing the trouble and responsibility Of man.
aging and taking care of the negroes.
| All sensible men at the North understand
this.
But we write for the especial benefit Of
the croaking old fogies of the South, who.
SEQ in Slavery only an apple of disccrd.
Without Slavery there would be no
mutually of interest, no dependence be-
tween North and South.
Slavery, and nothing but Slavery, has
preserved our Union so far, or can pre-
serve it hereafter.
Without this institution, there would
be no good reason for keeping together a
Confederation so inconyiently large.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
SPOILING THE MARRIAGE CERE,
M0NY.

The following statement is no jest, but
a positive fact: AyOung man in business
in Liverpool, led his blushing bride to the
altar in the Old Church in that town /;
and when the question was asked, "Wilt
thou love and cherish?" he answered as
is customary, and added, "When she
needed, he would bang her." The girl
Immediately stopped the clergyman, and,
turning upon her heel, quietly walked out
of the church, saying that GA man who
could say what he has said, in such a
moment, in jest. was most likely to put
his threats into execution" and bade
him choose another mate.-EnglisA pa
nor
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
INDIANA STATE ELECTION TO BE
CONTESTED.

We find in the indianapolis Journal Of
Friday, document signed by John D.
Defrees, Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, addressed 10
the Republicans of Indiana, from which
we quote as follows:
From every portion of the State the in
telligence thickens upon US, and the evil
dence increases, showing most conclu
sively, that the vote of The State has been
decided against you by imporlations Of
fraudulent voters from Ohio, Michigan,
and more especially from Illinois and
Kentucky. In all the border counties of
the two latter States, and in other coun-
ties accessible by Railroad, the vote has
been enormously increased, and the Old
Line majorities largely augmented. The
aggregate vote of the State has been
swollen nearly fifty thousand since 1854.
Much of this increase has been owing to
the vote of transient laborers upon our
public works, many of whom have not
scrupled to commit the II cs barefaced
perjury to accomplish their design, and to
rob you of rights solemnly guaranteed to
| you by the Constitution of your country.
These spurious and Illegal votes, by
which Old Lineism has achieved tenn.
porary triumph, are believed to reach
near TwENEY THOUSAND in number, and
have been given by men whose names do
not appear upon our TAX lists, who con-
tribute nothing to the great interests oi
the country, and who have neither hab-
itatien nor name among you as citizens.
So astounding is this fraud, so gIaring
this corruption, THAT THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY HAVE RESOLVED TO CONTEST THE
VALIDITY OF The ELECTION OF GovERNoE
AND THE ENTIRE STATE TICKET, BEFORE
THE ENSUING LEGISLATURE.
The returns in the office of the Seore-
tary of State, so far as received, show
the unprecedented fact, that in four-fflhs
of the State, while the Republican vote
has increased twelve thousand over their
poll Of 1854, the Old Line vote has been
thus fraudulently inereased TWENTY
EIGHT THOUSAND over its aggregate
Of that year. So in the Ninth and
Eleventh Congressional Districts, where
the vote has been ascertained, it has in
creased, in each, about six thousand,
which would indicate that in two years
the population of the State has increased
more than a quarter of million =
Every citizen knows that such is not, and
cannot be the fact.
The result therefore OF all our exami.
nations and information is such as 10 con-
firm US in the belief, that, if the polls
were purged of fraudulent votes, our
entire State Ticket would this day be
successful by majority of more than ten
thousand.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
CHAPTER II.

"Do you see that open space across
the road ?" inquired the bald pated man,
who was R. H. Horne, the dramatic
poet.
I" Certainly! We cannot help seeing
it when we look at it."
ga wonderful sage remark" observed
Leigh Hunt, who was the gray-haired
gentleman in black.
The dark-eyed -visaged gentle
man, who was Robert Browning, the
poet, smiled as he said
But, my dear Mr.. Horne, why do
you call our attention to that vacant
piece of desolation 90
/" You shall know" replied Horne,
and then in solemn tone, said: "Do
you perceive there is sort of mound
overgroWn with grass, and presenting its
ragged ends That is the ruin of an
old Manor House"
"The devil it was ?" replied Dick
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

WoLF SHOT IN STREETsBoRo. Last
Saturday, Joseph Parker shot large
grey wolf in Stree;sboro. He had been
brought from the west and kept in Man.
tua, where he escaped. This is the Sec
ond imported wolf, which has been killed
within a few weeks, each having killed
his due quota of sheep. The County
Treasurer has paid $3.50 each for the
scalps. Importing wolves and Buchanan
voters is getting 10 be quite a business.
-Ravenna Dem.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
CHURCH ETIQUETTE.

"Letthelady advance one pace beyond
the door of the pew she wishes to enter,
halt, about face, and salute. The pew
must then be vacated, by such gentle
men as are in it, by flank movement.
The squad should rise simultaneously
when the lady presents herself, and facs
by the right flank, then deploy into the
aisle, the head man facing the lady, and
the rest passing to his rear and right,
the direction of the line being changed
by right countermarch, and forming
again a line up and down the aisle, still
faced by the right flank. The lady,
when she sees the coast is clear, com
pletes her salute, and advances to her
position in the pew. Tbs gentlemen
break off by angles from the rear, and
resume their places. Great care should
be taken of course by other parties, not
to enter the aisle when this evolution is
in progress, until it is completed. II
the lady has any claim to aristocracy,
the preaching had best be stopped to
avoid insult"
We have never seen the ridiculous
ness of emptying whole seat full of
gentlemen, to give a lady the inner place
more clearly illustrated than in the aboVo
military 'evolutions. Why will ladies
insist upon slip disgOrging into the
aisle its gentlemen occupants, before she
will take seat? 1t is not so at concerts
and other assemblies. The present
church fashion in this respect is su
premely foolish. and sensible women
should put an end 70 it.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

BELlEvErH.-Mr. James Ruthven. Of
New York, not long before his death re-
cited slowly, emphatically, and with
great weakness of voice, "He that be-
Eeveth on the Son hath everlasting lifss,
and he that belieyeth not on the Son sill
not see life; but the wrath of God abidstk
on him." "What contrast ?" said.
he, "thsre is none in the universe Ike
it. What vast consequences hinge on
the questionl-BELIEvErH-I would Ike
to see that word printed in capitals
How simple and easy is it; and yet how
many refuse to believe. and perish. Un-
belief is the only sin which the gospel
does not meet. For this, it has no cure.
'Ye will not come to me that you might
live"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

Look out for counterfeit two dollar
notes on the Bank OF North America,
Seymour. Conn, also on the Bank of
North America. Providence. r. l., Of
the same Issue. They have spread
eagle for vignette. with the portrait of
Clay on the lower right handcorner, and
a figure of Justice on the left.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
SPLITTING.

OHIKr! ana tnere goes some OF MS
constitution, scattering in nasty brown
gravy over the sidewalk. A politician
might say he was celebrating a consti-
tutional solution" He is dissolving his
constitution, at any rate.
1 awOke early one morning unrefresh-
ed, in berth on canal "packet," some
where between Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh. No wonder that my sleep was
not very sweet. The atmosphere of the
little cabin was fairly thick with purified
animal matter and stale tobacco poison.
I'll go on deck, 1 said to myself, in spite
of frogs, raw autumnal air, and colds; so
out 1 jumped upon the cabin floor
Splat! went both feet into great pool of
the constitutional solvent" The whole
floor was afoat with tobacco spit.
That was a very revelation of nssti-
ness.
And Mr.. Curly Hair-cHIRr again,
another instalment of your strength
squirted out through your front teeth in
the gutter. Mr.. Curly Hair, let me tell
you that you are not bit better than
that unutterably filthy cabin floor. Into
what a foul, reeking. noisome cavern,
are you transforming the mouth that
God gave you as passage for cleanly
food and sweet BREATH Why, man, you
might as well establish a guano depot in
your house.
CHIRrl There it goes! What pity
that you couldn't be made to carry a
mug, and keep the liquor that you brew
long enough to see what your days work
is. You spit, say an ounce in fifteen
minutes; call it fifty times a day
About a dessert spoonful each time
Twenty tablespoonsful. A tumbler full.
That is a very moderate computation
Three hundred and sixty five half pints
in year-more than twenty gallons VI
that nauseous collection and just SO much
Withdrawn from healthy muscle, close
brain fibre, elastic bones, and complexion.
Everybody does it!' What if they
IS?-Ixsevr "a. L rannennbe- look;ns,
down from my fifth story Office upon
Broadway, in the emptiness and quiet Of
a Sabbath afternoon, but Immediately
after its whole enormous length from
Grace Church to Trinity, and especially
near the Park, in my vicinity, had been
densely crowded with the multitude that
waited upon the funeral of Bill Poole,
The street was all speckled as far as 1
could see, with dark spots, as if autumn
leaves had been thickly strewn on it
A moments thought showed me that it
was tobacco spit. An American crowd
blackened the whole roadway and side.
walk of a mile of street, with tobacco
spit, in two hours!
CHIRrl Ny dear fellow, vomiting nor
splitting are inviting operations. Circum.
stances may render the performance of
either of them before witnesses necessary.
But l must say that ordinarily speaking.
the very faintest PERCEPTION of common
decency would teach you to avoid such
demonstrations when there is any body
in sight.
Spit away, my boy! Smell bad; look
dirty; be dirty; weaken your health; un-
dermine your strength; dim your eyes;
unsteady your hand; stupefy your INTEL
lect; shorten your life. Do all these
things if you choose; the triiing conse-
quence Of your making filth-nill out
of your mouth, munching your consti-
tuition, and squirting it out wherever you
go.-Lys illustrated.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

LITERArURE.-It opens a back door
out of the hustle of the busy and iGs
world into delicious garden of moral
and intellectual fruits and flowers, the
key of which is denied to the rest of
mankind. Our happiness no longer lives
on charity, nor bids fair for fall, by
leaning on that most precarious and
tborny pillow, another's pleasure, for our
repose.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

"No one would take you for VII a
you are, said an old faehioned gentleman
day or two ago to young would be
dandy who had more hair than brains.
"Why." asked Joe Immediately. BE
cause they can't see your ears.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

BARN STRUCK BY LIeHTSINe.-Last
Wednesday evening. during a thunder
storm which passed over this village,
the barn of Capt. J. B. Coleman, two
miles east Of town. on the Chsrlestown
road. was struck by lightning. and en-
tirely consumed. Loss, s5OO.-Rdvensa
Democrat.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

To tell our own secrets is generally
folly, but that folly is without guilt. To
communicate those with which We are
entrusted, is always treachery, and
treachery for the most part combined
with folly.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

We soon grow tired of the medicine
we take ourselves, but somehow il
dosen't seem to be the case with the
medicine we give TO others. Il would
almost appear as if there was an inborn
desire in the heart of every man to ply
sic another
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

ii is the part OF a wise man to foreses
misfortunes, and to prevent them before
they come of valiant man, to order
them well when they do come.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

When Socrates was asked why be had
built for himself so small house
" Small as it is. f" he replied. "I wish I
could Eli it with friends"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

Why is it not to be wondered at that
your teeth cause frequent disturbance in
your mouth Because they often make
there more than one roac.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

The Lond5n Times says that the sei.-
ure of the Isthmus of Panama BY the
United States. could not possibly be al
lowed by Great Britain. @"a
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

Why did the songster ask the wood
man to spare that tree ? Because be
thought he was q good fsHer.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

TIE REAsoN WHr.-Why are energst-
ic men like smeticss Because you cane
keep them down. e4 80
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12
4oetrp,
(For the ChrOnicle.l
BOAT SONG.

TOT Tue
BOAT SONG.
When far from shore well drop the oas,
And bresses gently blowing,
Mid light and song wen Aoat along,
Zach heart with joy o'erHowing.
The moons soft light, the stars so bright,
The broad, blue sky above US,
The deEs, the breeze from flowers and trees,
And all viii seem to love Us.
While we will know to the feel the flow,
The thrill no art can smother.
Whether forgot by all OF not,
We dearly love each other.
The gliding wave our bark shall lave,
As gently rolls the billors,
In moon-lit rest each heaving breast
Shall be the others pillows.
As the op'ning lips Of the foWret sips
The falling deEs of even,
30 ours shall meet in kisses sweet,
And pure as those Of Heaven.
FROM passion free as kiss can be,
--- Yet fall OsthriIling power;
The Ive-lOng night in its rapid fight,
Shall seem passing hour.
And thus through life, its toll and strife.
WhateTsr fate be,ide thee,
Ny Joy shall be, through rough the sea,
u To ind myself beside thee. IA.
osKRLIE, Sept
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

A man may have the constitution Of
a horse" but that's no reason why q
Doctor should treat him Ike an ass.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

They who respect themselves will 90
honored: but they who do not care
about their character, will be despisad.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

A dead wall never looks so dead as
when there is row of broken medicins
bottles on the top of it
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-11-12

To the well-brsd Doctor, all BsbisS
are Angels.
The Empire County argus., 1856-02-09
ADVERTISEMENT.
Quacks aud their Victims.

On several occasions have called the attention of our
readers to the iretrevabe injury they likely suffer
at the hands of professional empires and contemplate
quacks, and the incident that occurred few days ago is
but illustration Of the truth of statements. The
facts as Cleaned from the victim, Mr.. Wech are fol-
lows: lie had contracted disease; and induced
through the flaming advertisements of Drs Youeg and
Josselyn to apply TO them for relief bargain struck
between the parties BY the of which Welch was to
pay fifty dollars in advance, they cure For
some time he subjected to their treatment during
which lie found his health rapidly decayng his strength
failing, and his disease rather than In this
strait he felt impeed to apply regular physician by
whom he was eventually relieved but still weak and
eniacated from former malpractice. Considering that
Dr. Josseyn had not fulfilled his part OF the agreement,
Wech waited him 10 reclaim the fifty dollars paid in
advance when he received in manner that added
insult 10 injury" Smarting under the outrage and in
censed beyond endurance, he attempted TO inct corpo-
real punishment his deceiver, when Mr. Josseyn
seized his pistol and shot Welch in the neck We can
very well conceive the ir'ated feelings of the victim of
quackey; his health destroyed his strength wasted his
tuition undermined, and his money appropriated by
ignoramus who dares to the title of Doctor,
slow degrees This calls for the percmpory inter-
position OF the powers that be- by the enactment of a
strict penal law prohibiting the practice of medicine
the selling and compromising Of drugs bv other than reg
uar physicians of school, duly authorized apoh-
ecares. So great is horror and de esta0n of men
who regardless OF every moral conviction and totally
fitted by education, would trade away the health and hap
pness of their fellow creatures, that have ever sren-
uously refused TO admit in columns the advertise
mens of any hut regularly authorized practitioners in
medicine and surgery. We have been assured that the
above is but one OF many cases of like nature all but
The attempt TO kill by Violence that has occurred in this
city through the same operator-S f. Sunday Times.
The Empire County argus., 1856-02-09

A SHRoUp OF GOLD. Hon. Thomas Ewbank, of
Washington late Commissioner of Patents, COM
municates to the National InteNgencer some inter-
esting information in regard to recent discoveries
in the excavation of Peruvian tumuli. The infor
nation was received by MIR. Ewbank from w. W.
Evans, Esq engineer of the africa and Tacua
Railroad in Peru. MIR Evans states that in making
excavations for the railroad at africa hundreds of
graves are demolished in which numerous In
dian relics The excavations are seventy feet deep,
and as the soil is loose sand the work proceeds
every thing from the top comes sliding down--dead
Indians, pots, kettles, arrow heads, &c. Among
other interesting mortuary relics, an Indian
started out of his resting place, rolled up in
slroud of gold! Before MIR. Evans had knowledge
of the incident the workmen had cut up this mag
nifcent winding sheet and divided it among them
selves With some difficulty Mr.. Evans obtained
fragment, and dispatched it to Mr.. Ewbank
Mr.. Evans notices q remarkable fact that in
hundreds of Indian skulls which he has examined
not one has contained decayed tooth. MIR. Ew
bank thinks tho weight of the entire shroud must
have been eight nine ponds, and had it been
preserved, would have been the finest specimen of
sheet gold that we have heard of since the times of
the Spanish conquest. In some eloquent remarks
upon the preservation of souvenirs of the departed
and the futllity of attempting to the great
dead from contact with their native earth, Mr.
Ewbank says it is the form features, and not the
body or substance, Of the dead that should be pre-
served, and adds:
The mummes 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 Indifference as so many
pine logs The gums and balsams used in embalm-
ing them have made them good substitute for
hituminous coal and thus the very means employ
ed to preserve them have become the active agents
of their diss patton. So it is when the materials of
cofins have IA high marked value; they are then
seized concealed treasure and their contents cast
out as rubbish. Like heroes in the Eastern hemis-
phere, the descendants Of Nance Capec were some
times, if not always, entombed in such, and with
considerable treasure besides in vessels Of gold and
silver; hence we learn how the Spanish conquerors
sought for often found, and as often plundercd
rich lncan sepulchres.'
The Empire County argus., 1856-02-09
Affairs at the Capitol.

WASHINGTON, Jan. G, 1856.
snow Storm the like of which has not been
seen here for many years, has laid an embargo on
travel and interrupted mail communication. The
members of Congress who are now absent may find
it troublesome to reach the city in time to profit by
the expiration of their pairing-off arrangements.
We are now entering upon the Siath ueeE of the
session without having advanced step toward or
ganization. When Mr.. Cobb was elected under
similar circumstances, three weeks were consumed
in such efforts have been recently expended, and
that was the longest period in the whole history of
the Government But it has nearly been doubled
already, and the prospect of termination is barely
encouraging The great mistake made in this
canvass was in not urging protracted sttings from
the start, and cutting off all debate. In this way
only can the Lower House ever be brought to its
work or to a sense OF the proper responsibility
which now appears to be entirely kept out of view
But oneffth of the Chamber is required to call the
yeas and nays on the shameful motions of adjourn
ment which are daily proposed after three hours
are squandered in a nominal session. and the failure
to make that demand hereafter must implcate the
majority in this prodigal waste of time, by their
indirect countenance of it. in not insng upon the
record going before the country. Scores of mem
bers arc willing to aid in carrying these adjourn
ments upon the ordinary divisions, who will take
special pains to keep their names off the journal
whenever the test may be applied in that form;
so that in point of fact this contrvance of carrying
on system which not be avowed or defended
is dscreditable mode Of dcceiving the public, by
those who practice and yet who dare not stand up
to it openly There has been more than enough
of this unworthy system, and means may be found
of enlightening the country as to the individuals
who habitually figure in the costly farce
Tuesday, Jan. 8.
The action of the Democratic caucus refusing
to djourn till the election of Speaker will pre-.
ciptatc the result Absentees should hasten back
Immediately. An early consummaton is now
probable, either by plurality or reduction of the