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American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
ESTABLISHED IN 1925
From the cincinBrtl Gazette.
A Slrnnge History.


Fiction has her marvellous heroes. hut
now and then some plain creature CT every
day fact surpasses them in romantic adven-
tnre. ~
In 1855 young man was arrested at
Cleveland on charge Of passing counter.
felt roney, and on evidence which many
Il ought insufficient. was convicted and
sentenced to the Psnitentiary. He was
brought to Columbus and incsrcerated;
escape and successfully eluded pursuit. He
fed without daring to show himself to any
one, until about thirty miles from the city
when, spent and famished, he ventured 10
apply at q house rather remote from others
for shelter and food Both were prompt
ly afforded him. The poor woman who
dwet there alone with her two children.
was true to the generous instincts Of ber
nature. and admitted to hearth and board
not TIE escaped convict, but the weary.
hunted, tungry wretch, who claimed from
her that boon.
(which all the happy to the unhappy owe."
He rested aud refreshed himself, and
when he again set forth upon bis wandsr-
ings, she gave him suit of citizens
clothes. Thus disguised, he travelled
northward, until within a short distance
OF Cleveland, when he obtained work;
and earned forty dollars. which he sent 10
the woman who had saved him. He then
went to New York, engaged in business.
and prospered.. Sill he remembered his
benefactress, and recently, she received
| from him three hundred dollars. -
The truth, meanwhile, came TO light,
1t became apparent that be was Guiltess Of
the criGie with which he had cen charged
and bad suffered for crime that be had
never committed.
A petition signed by the Judge who had
passed sentence upon him. the jury which
had found him guilty. and sixty six mem
bers OF the Cuyahoga bar. and authenti-
Gated members of the Legislature from that
county was sent to the G; vernon praying
for the pardon Of the escaped convict. -
Here a difficulty arose. He could no!
be pardoned as long as he was not in tn,
custody of the State. He was communi-
Gated with. and came 10 Columbus, within
a few davs past, and gave himself up
to the Warden of the Penitentiary. Ee
: was once more placed i1 the prison, and
the key turned upon him. -.
There his pardon was handed 10 him,
and be came forth-no more guitless
than before-but certain in his liberty and
the esteem OF hls fellow men. CHIsPA.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

A LESSON FOR LAWYERS. When Judge
Henderson, of Texas, was first a candidate
for office, he visited Frontier county, in
which he was, except by reputation, c
stranger. Hearing that trial for felony
would take place in few days, he deter
mined to volunteer for the defense. The
prisoner was charged with having stolen a
pistol; the defense was mot guilty" The
volunteer counsel conducted the case with
great ability. He confuted the witness,
palavered the court to make an able, elo-
quent, and successful argument. The pri-
soner was acquited-he had not stolen the
pistol. The counsel received the enthusi
astic applause Of the audience. His inno-
cent client availed himself of the earliest
interval Of the hurricane of congratulations
to take his counsel aside.
"My dear SIR" said he, "you have saw
ed me, and l am very grateful. have no
money, do not expect me to have any, and
do not expect ever to see you again; but
to show that appreciate your services,
you shall have the pistol"
So saying. he dlew from his pockst,and
presented 10 the astonished attorney the
very pistol the attorney had just shown he
had never stolen, or had in his possession
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

THE REASON WHY.--The New Hamp-
shire Patriot, the leading Buchanan paper
at Concord, frankly confesses the cause Of
the recent overwhelming defeat OF Democ-
racy in that State, as follows. 1t contains
a significant warning to its party in other
States:
"The defeat of the Democracy is suffi-
ciently overwhelming to satisfy our most
bitter opponents. No one can fail to see
the cause; all admit it. The Kansas ques-
ton has again crushed US with its ponder
GUS blind, unreasoning power. Before the
Lecompton Constitution was brought be-
fore the country, our prospects for sue
cess were highly hattering; our triumph
seemed to be certpiu; that matter, with
the course of the administration upon it,
fell like a wet blanket upon the rising cour-
age and earnest zeal of our friends, and
from that day zoe wsrS doomed.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

inhabitants, but must soon export them to
the country it has enriched by the export
Of its fertilizng atoms in the shape Of food
Thus Ireland, for ten years prior to 1916,
exported more bushels of grain than all
the United States. Her lands became ex.
baustet--the potato was imperfect--the
rot followej-iamine ensued-and thou.
sands perished with hunger.
Virginia, besides sending abroad the vi
tai blood of her soil, in the tobacco keg,
sends annually million bushels of corn to
Massachusetts, All the atoms os fertilzing
matter. drawn from her soil by this corn,
is thus sent out of the State, and lost to her
farmers. II she fed this to hogs. and cat
tie, and exported the meat, the manure de-
rived from the grain consumed would re-
plenish her exhausted fields, and fit them
for grain instead OF broom grass.
No nation SO much neglect their soil as
Americans. They seem to think that Ma.
ture will farm sixty or eighty bushels of
corn, and thirty bushels of wheat to the
acre, from nothing. The result is, Vir-
ginians, that are scarcely near enough to
each other to make good neighbors, are
obliged to abandon the soil that will not
support them. Ifher population, to the
square mile, was as great as that of Bel.
gilm, she would have twenty-five millions
of inhabitants-a number about equal to
that OF the whole United States.
Massachusetts, with a population of on
ly 1875 TO the square mile, is seeking
place in Central A erica in which to store
them, and has to procure her food from
the other States; whils Belgium, with a
population of 336 to the square mile, feeds
them all, and exports large quantities OF
pork, mutton, butter, cheese, and some
grain, and over 100000 head of cattl-, an
nualiy. This is done by her system Of til
lage and manuring. She exceeds all 9th
er nations in making and applying ma
nures. The farmers pay SO year for
the liquid excretons of single COW.
The more fat cattle, fat sheep and hogs
a farmer keeps. if he saves the manure, the
more grain he can raise-as they return in
the manure, the (ertiIizing atoms taken
from the ea.th--anG thus become the man
ufacturers of manure, that cannot be dis
pensed with, for that purpose, till popula
tion becomes so dense that there is bu
half an acre to each person. After that
man will furnish the fertilizng atoms fol
which we are now indebted 10 the brute
creatioH.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
An Indian wedding.

The Nebraska CRY News Of the 81 inst.
contains long account Of the marriage
Of a Pawnee eheif to blood royal squaw
Of the Otoe tribe. The bridegroom was
named Whitewater. and the bride Wah-
mush>fa,sbiuga. We extract the follow
ing.
The Chsiftsins daugI ter was elegantly
dr,ssedin in a red flannel shirt with deep
bl:e calico border, check apron, a sum
mer.killed buffalo robe and white fel!
hat. Herjswels were magnificent. From
either auricular depended bright Orniments
Of brass. tin snd, copper.
We must not omit tomention that Miss
wa-mush-pe. shinea also. wore "rsd pet
ticoat," embroidered according 10 d$jgu
of her own. with porcupine 4ui!ls repre-
sentins a desperate dog fight. Her eKlire
wardrobe and jewelry could not have cos
less than six thousand dollars in Fon!en'
ellie money. The bridegroom was atiiret
in all the magnifcence which his rank ant
wealth demanded. He wore standing
shirt collar, medal of President Pierce
blue straight-collared soldiers coat. will
brass buttons and an elegant pair Of Span
ish spurs, while his stalwart lions were ad
miraby clothed ir an ancient coffee sack
Altogether the appearance of both the brid'
and the groom was appropriate to thell
high sphere in life.
The most sumptous feast awaited tn
guests at the residence Of the brides father
1t was spread in camp kettle and suspen
ded over the FIRE that burned in the centr
of that princely lodge. 1t consisted
young dog meat, very tender, blue corn
and old dog meat, beaver tails and mule
steak, fresh fish aud sugar. making alto
gsther, one Of the mt st palpablG and nour
ishiDg compounds that ever graced royi
camp kettle. The horn spoons Of occider
al luxury seldom convey to the educate
palate viands more tempting and deliciou
As Tor drinks, corn whisky. made of re
pepper tabacco plugs and rain water. t
gether with molasses- es-sweetened cotf'
made up the list.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

SMALL TALK. But Of all expedients to
make the heart lean, the brain gauzy, and
to thin life down into the consistency of a
cambric kerchief, the most successful is
the little talk and tatte, which, in some
charmed circles, is courteously styled con-
versation. How human beings can live
on such meagre fare-how continued ex.
is!ence in such famine of topics and on
such a short allowance Of sense-is great
question, if philosophy could only search
it out. All we know is, that such men
and women there are, who will 60 on from
fifteen to four and nevera hint on
their tombstones, that they died at last OF
consumption Of the head and maramus of
the heat! The whole universe Of God 4,
spreading out its splendors and terrors,
pleading for their attention, and they
wonder where Mrs. Somebody got that
divine ribbon to her bonnet?" The whole
literature. through its thousand trumps Of
fame, adjuring them to regard its garnered
stories of emotion and though, and they
think. "It's high time if John intends lc
marry Sarah, for him topop the question:!
When, to be sure, this frippery is spicet
with little envy and malice, and prepares
Its small dishes of scandal and hits Of de
traction, it becomes endowed with Sigh
venomous vitality, which does pretty we'll
in the absence of soul, to carry on the ma
chincry of living, if not the reality OF life
E. P. Whipple.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
From the Wheeling InteliIgeneer.
CHARLEY DOANE.

Thou art gcnei Thy gentle spirits fed!
Thou art Numbered with the sacred dead;
Gone from those who loved thee, far away
To realms OF happiness and eternal day.
EArth's Heeiing Joys no more can thee allure.
Its cares and sOrrOws never more endure;
But with bright spirits in the world above,
wilt learn true bappiness-trse peace and love.
Tho blest thou art. yet We can but mourn
That thou hast left Us IN the hopeful morn
or life, never more shall we listen 10 that voice,
Whose loving accents made our hearts rejoice.
The fairest flowers those which nrst decay.
Eauh's fairest sons are fret TO pass away;
The brightest genius .noblest minds find one sad doom
E'er manhood's prime, they're carried 70 the tomb.
Boyhood's bright dreams are o'er; thou'h gone tc
sleep
Whilst thou art happy, only weep;
Each day we see more sorrow, tnen more grief:
Sweet s0ngs ih0u :ing's cares our time employ. T.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

The Revival Increasing in New York.
The New York Evening Post Of Mon
day has the following:
"The Revival is extending. In no less
than fifteen churches in this city are noon
prayers held on secular days, not to speak
Of Burton's old theatre, which IS so crowd
ed that negotiations are pending IL obtain
some larger building, like the Museum
In Brooklyn also an increased number OF
churches will be oOened for those who are
concerned upon religious matters, and all
the signs portend that the excitement has
not reached its elimination. Legislative
prayer meetings are held at the Court OF
Appeals daily in Albany; merchants and
lawyers have prayer meetings, ladies have
their uptown prayer-meetngs, and there
is some talk Of brokers' prayer meeting
at the Exchange, between the First and
Second Boards.
One great auxiliary to the spread OF the
revival is the notice taken of it by the
secular press. Column after column is de.
voted to the record Of religious experience
es, and Revival Intelligence is made as
much "a feature" as financial or political
news. This is qnite unprecedented, and
shows the extended usefulness Of the press
Of late years.
Cetainly never was religious propagand-
ism so thoroughly carried out. Printed
hymns, tracts, placards. everywhere re-
mind the inattentivs oftheir duties. Girls
and young men visit families by the block
giving them taacts. urging Nhem to repent
offering them free seats in u neighboring
church. aud taking an inventory or spirit.
usl census Of the number and condition Of
the households, Altogether the revival
may be pronounced the most striking phe-
nomenon of the day.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
A MOTHERS LOVE.

Its the twilight hour
The daylight toll IL done:
And the last rays are departing
Ofthe cold and Wintfy sun.
II Is the time when friendship
Holds converse fair ahd free;
Ills tho time when children
Dance round the mothers knee.
But my soul is faint and heavy
With a yearning sad aud deep
By the hr@side lone and dTeary
sit me down and weep. Kr
Where are ye, merry voices,
Whose cleaTand bird-like tone
Some other ear now biesses,
Less anxious than my own?
Where are ye, steps OF lightness,
Which fell like blossom showers!
Where are yc, sounds Of laughter
That eheered the pleasant hOursY
Through the dim light, slow declining,
Where my wisIful glanees fall,
can see your picture hanging
Against theSilent wall:
They CLEAN athwart the darkness
With theirsweet and ehaDgeless eyes.
But mute are ye, my children
No voice to mine replies.
Where are YET Are ye playing
By the Strangers blazing hearth;
Forgetting in your gladness
Your old homes former mirth?
Are ye danciB9Y Are ye singing?
Are ye full Of childish gleef
Or do your light hearts ssdden
With the memory Of met
Round whom Oh, gentle darlings,
Do your young arms fondly twine?
Does she press ye to her bosom
Who hath taken you from mine?
Oh, boys, the twilight hour
Such u he ayy time hath grown;
II recalls with such deep anguish
All used TO call my own;
That the harshest word that ever
Was spoken to me there
Would be trivial-would be welcome
In this depth Of my dispair!
Yet, no; dispair shall sink not,
While life and love remain;
Though the weary struggle haunt me,
And my prayer be made in vain,
Though at times my spirit fail me,
And the bitter tear-drops fall;
Though my lot be hard and lonely,
Yet Ihope-l hope through all
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

BITE OR BE DAMNED.-A writer in the
Atlantic Monthly, Speaking of New Eng.
land ministers, gives the following auec-
dote of DR.. Bellamy, which some of our
preachers at .he present day would do well
10 profit by:
"a young minister who had made him
self conspicous for severe and denuncia-
tory style of preaching, came to him one
day to inquire why he did not have more
success. why man said the doctor. cam
you take lessen from the fisherman ?
How do you go to work if you want to
catch trout? You get little hook and
a Gne line, you bait it carefully, and throw
it in as gently as possible. and then you
sit and wait and humor your fish till you
can get him ashore. Now you get "a great
cod hook and ro % line. anb thrash it into
the waiter, and bawl out Bite or be dam
ned!'
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
h7rA worthy old citizen of Nawnor

EEA worthy old citizen Of Newport,
who had the reputation of being the lszi.
est man alive among 'them hillocks"--so
l'zy, indeed that he used to weed his gar
den in rocking ch,ir, by rocking forward
to take hold Of the weed, and back to up
root it--had peculiar way Of his own
used to drive bis cid white faced mare tc
the spo. where the tautog black fish mig
be dep,nded on for any weight from two
to twelve pounds back his gig down tc
the waters side put out his line and
when the fish was safely hooked. start thu
old mare and pull him out.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
REFun should be cultivated as a

EFFun should be cultivated as a fine
art, for lis altogether a fine thing. Who
ever knew funny man to be bad one
On the contrary is not he, nine times in
ten, generous, humane and good? To be
shure he is. Fun-it is great thing.
1t smooths the rough places of life, makes
the disposition as sweet, as rosy as fresh
maiden's kiss, scatters sunshine and flow
ers where ever we go, gives the world a
round jolly counteuance, makes all the girls
as pretty as June roses, and one of the
best families out. We go in for fun. The
man who won't cultivate it must keep a
good sized rod between US.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

REIn bis second card on Kansas affairs
John Calhoun "regrets" that his party has
been beaten in the 4th Of January Kansas
election, and gives list Of the members OF
the State Legislature elected according to
the Lecompton schedule, allowing Free
State men a majority. The chivalry is
said to be exasperated. Calhoun does not
say to which party the State officers elected
belong. On this point he is still mum.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

ET John L. Robinson, Of Indiana. an
ex-member Of Congress, present U. S.
District Marshal, and prominent appli-
cant for the clerkship of the national house
Of Representatives, made a speech at a
Democratic meeting in RushviIle. Indiana
lately in which he belabored the Douglas
men most soundly, Of which fact the fol-
lowing sentence is specimen: say lei
them go, and may God pardon heir poor,
contsnap Li6le. pusiLaimous souls.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
HEA contemporary saws: TT

ETA contemporary says: There is a
man in our county who always pays for
his paper in advance. He has never had
sick day in his life--never had any corns
or the toothache--his potatoes never rot
the weeviI never eats his wheat--the frost
never kills his corn and beans--his babies
never cry in the highland his wife never
scOlds, and always wears moderate size
hoops What happy man!
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

E%T The Utah expedition fOolery is grea
gain to the Administration just now. The
N. Y. Times Washington correspondent
says:
There are some Eve millions of dollars
worth of contracts in connection with the
Utah campaign, which are being used as
levers, as far as possible, 10 affect votes.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

EF There are six Southern Know
Nothing votes in the House. says the
Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Tribune, firm in thvir opposition to Le-
compton. Pendleton and Burns, of Ohio,
are in favor of amendments-after the
manner OF the Prghs amendment, we
presume. The Administration is despon-
dent.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

The New York papers inform US thai
the Five Points are being invaded BY
prayer meetings. II the Five Points are
converted, the DEVILS citadel will be ta'
ker sure enough.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

EET The two n ost precious things this
side of the grave are our reputation and
our life. But it is to be lamented that the
most contemplate whisper may deprive
us of one and the weakest weapon Of the
other.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

EwA Yankee lady pictures a good
man as 'one who is keerful Of clothes, don't
drink spsrits, kin read Bible 'thout spell
lin the words, and kin eat cold dinner
on washdays to save the women folks
from cookin."' 7--- a..e..rat r..
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

EwDotry to talk little common sense,
said young lady to her visitor. 'Oh! but
wouldn't that be taking an Undue advan-
tage Of You?'
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

Senator Green. in his closing harangue
on the Lecomp,on question, gave in few
words the essential creed of his party
that is "a lie well stuck to is as good as the
truth'
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
yWo remember once of seeing speci

Ey We remember once of seeing speci-
men Of sailors letter, which ran as fol-
lows:
DEAR JAcK-I want you TO send me
some extra pigtail tobarco, taupalin hat
and pair Of duck trowsers. You must
be sure and send the pigtail. Ifyou forget
everything else, don't forget the pigtail.--
Send me lots Of p gtail.
Your friend, ToM.
N. B.-Bs sure to remember the pig
tail.
Don't forget the pigtail.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

Two Of the items by the latest foreign
mail are, that a fire in Coustantinople had
destroyed three hundred houses. and that
an earthquake had laid OOrinth in ruins.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

CoRREeTIoN does much, but encourage
ment docs more-encouragement after
csnsure is as the sun after shower.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

EyAp Eastern editor heads his list OF
Births. Marriages and Deaths, thus:-
'Hatched, Matched and Dispatched
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01

EB- Bad for the head-one hickory club
or four whisky punches.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
Practical Preaching.

Here i, ,a paragraph from Henry Ward
Beecher:
"We have no doubt that rigorous
landlord, having sharked it all the week,
would be better pleased on Sunday, to dose
through an able Gospel sermon on Divine
mysteries, than 10 be kept awake by a
practical sermon that, set forth the duties
of Christian landlord. A broker who
has gambled on magnificent scale all the
week. does not 60 to church to have his
practical swindling analysed and measured
by the "New Testament spiiit." A mer-
chant whose last bale of smuggled goods
was safely stored on Sunday night, and
his brother merchant. who, on that same
day swore false invoiced through the GUS
tom house-they go 10 chbrch to hear a
sermon on faith or angels, or the resurrec-
ton! They have nothing invested in these
subiecs; they expect their minister TO be
bold and orthodox. But il he wants res
pectable merchants to pay ample pew rents
let him not vulgarize the pulpit by intro
ducing commercial questions. A rich
christian brother owns largely in distille.
ry, and is camorous against letting down
the pulpit to the vulgarity of temperance
sermons. Another man Guys tax titles,
and M ses about all the week 10 see who
can be slipped out of a neglected lot. A
merchant that plies bis craft with unscru-
pulous appliance of every means that wins
he too wants "doctrine" on ths Sabbath,
not those secular questions. Men wish
two departments in life; the secular and
religious. Between them a high wall and
Opaque is to be butt. They wish 10 do
what they please for six long days. Then
stepping the other side of the wall, they
wish the minister their fears, to comfort
their consciences, and furnish them cloar
ticket and assurance for heaven. BY such
shrewd management, our modern finan-
cers are determined to show that a Chris
tian can serve two masters, both God and
Mammon at the same time"
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-04-01
Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,

Alternate prayer and exhortation follow
ing until one o'clock. AS soon as a speak
er had taken up the allotted FIVE minutes,
bell was struck as signal to cease, such
being the rule Of the meeting. At its close
it was announced that if any person de-
sired special instruction or counsel. any
minister present would receive and con-
verse with such persons in the area behind
the platform Some forty or fifty persons
acted accordingly.