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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-08-19
CHESTER COUNTY BREED OF uoos.


HENRY S. EVANS, Editor of the viii
laee Record:-As you have requested
my views on the origin Of the Chester
county breed of pigs, I send you these
opinions as the best that I am able to
give, believing that you might have
found many persons in the county much
better able to do the subject Justice than
1 am. AS far back as I can recollect,
between thirty and forty years, the pigs
were what we would now call Indifferent
hardly any two farmers had pigs that
looked alike. Some run very much to
short ears and legs; others very diminu-
tive in size; while others again filled up
the intermediate places. While this
state of things existed, the Bcrkshires
we're introduced; a square-built round
body, but lacking in depth over the
shoulder-and withal black pig. Ches-
ter county had set her eye on a white
pig-and a white pig she must and
would have. Accordingly, some of the
old farmers began to pay more attention
to the old stock; they hunted the best
they could find to cross their stock with,
the change for the better was soon a
marked one-better feed was given and
more of it, which was a great help to
his better development The great ra-
pidity with which the pig reproduces
his stock, still kept the change in every
ones recollection. The shape and col
or were the great change peroeptiPle;
while you would find a great diversity
in the skin-some thick and hard, while
others Of the same lot would be thin
and pliable; better shelter was given
them and the thick skin has generally
given way for thin. And the similar
ity is now so great, that if you go to a
farmer and view his pigs, you may take
them as a sample Of all the different lots
in the neighborhood that receive the
same care. Who gave them the name
of Chester county breed? 1 am moi
certain, but I think it was Mr.. B. Hick.
man, Of Chester creek, when showing a
sample at some one Of the Agricultural
Exhibitions. The characteristics of this
breed as we now find it, are perfectly
white hair, thin skin, square build, small
head, fair proportioned snout, deer
sides, allowing large quarters with /,
great depth over the shoulders, small
ears standing erect while young, but
dropping after six or seven months
The weight varies according to his keeI
IF we'll kept he will average a pound
a day for near two years, if not longer
They may be made to exceed this and i
has been done, but not generally-noi
do they always reach it, as all do mo-
feed alike They have been made t.
weigh over nine hundred, but I do no
reoollect their age. There was grea
care taken to keep from breeding in anC
in, inperfecting this breed, which ha
long been known to have a deteriorat
ing effect. We consider the above nam,
Justly given and justly deserved; and 8,
satisfied are We that the above is th.
true origin of the above breed, that W,
consider we have a fair sample of tn,
above breed on hand-although wo d.
not reoollect having changed our stool
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-08-19
EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE AD-
MINISTRATION.
Speech of Hon. John Sherman,
In the House of Representatives, NM
27h, 1858.
ConcIudcd.7
ENpENDITUREs COMPAnED WITH FORM

YEARS.
i desire now to call the attention of
the House to a comparison of the ex-
penditures of this year, and of the Ad-
ministration, with past expenditures
l have a table, carefully prepared from
official documents, (Ex. Docs, Nos. 13
and CO., as f0llows:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-08-19

Increase Of Population and Expenditures Of
tins Governme ent during The years 790 1900,
1910, 1920, 1882, lSlO, 1850, and 1857.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-08-19

lNNMAfAa"N NN NN AN'AH'a
We we're told yesterday, by the
chairman Of the Committee Of Ways
and Means, that al these appropriations
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30
For the Chronicle.
TO MISS SUE. W***** ON HER
.J MARRIAGE.
CITIZEN

Thou art indeed, most beautiful and fair.
No shadow rests upon thy queeniy brow.
And will pray that never grief or care,
May dim the life so pure and happy now.
Thou goest from thy dear old parent home.
The house of peace, of happiness and love.
Yetstill twill be. wher'er thy feet may roam,
An ark OF refuge for the wandering dove.
Within anothors heart thy heart Of pride,
its sweeies, bliss, its dearest lif- has found.
And may thy deep devotion. gehtle bride,
Forever be with richest garlanis crowned.
My spirit fain would weave my'tie rpeil.
To bless thy lofty spirit. II would pray
That all the richest joys, that ever fell,
From heaven to earth, may fall around thy wa,
Thy face hath Weakened in my heart high
Bright dream Of beauty to my spirit dear,
And OH may behold thee In the sky,
AZ beautiful as behod the here"
CT ARksvILLE, April % 1858. az"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30
xxxvTH CoNGREss--FIRsT SESSION.
Fridoy's PROCEEDINGS.
Yours, respectfully,
Rio GRAND.
WAsu,NaroN Anr;l 3.

q
WASHINGTON, April 23.
House.--J. CLANCY Jones, of Pensylva-
MIA. asked the unanimous consent of the
House to print, for the use of the Commit.
tee on Ways and Means, the Indian Ap-
preparation and Indian Deficiency bills.
In order to forward the public business,
George Taylor, of New York, objected
Mr.. Jones said he wished this objection
noted.
AT one o'clock, on motion of Mr.. Eng.
fish, the Committee rose, when he made a
report from the Committee of Conference
on the Kansas bill 1t is signed by Mes.
srs. English and Stephens, on the part OF
the House, and Green and Hunter on the
part of the Senate. ava.Fsaa
Messrs. Seward and Howard dissented.
The report was read.
The majority report provides for the
admission of Kansas under the Lecomp,
ton Constitution, dependent on the accep
lance of the ordinance submitted. If re
jected, provision is made for the formation
ola new constitution.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

THE KANSAS BILL-Report from the
Committee of Conference. Washing
ton dispatch states that Mr.. English has
made report from the majority of the
Kansas committee. The dispatch is very
indefinite as to its precise purport, but the
New York papers have dispatches which
explain it more at length. The correspon-
dent of the Times gives the following sub
stance of its provisions: =.
Englishs bill substitutes for the ordi,
nance attached to the Lecompton constitu-
ton the privisions of the Minnesota bill
relative to grants of lands, and the sub
mission to the people be in the form of a
proposition whether they will accept those
provisions. Ifnot the language of the bill
is such that the refusal shall be deemed and
taken as against the constitution.
Also the enabling act, under which they
may then proceed, contains clause that
the State shall be admitted with or with
out slavery, as the people may determine.
Messrs Douglas and Crittenden are es
pecially indignant at Englishs surrender.
The correspondent of the Tribune says:
No doubt is now entertained that Mr.
English has been acting secretly with
Bright and others throughout and that his
professed concert with Lecompton
men was intended to be effective in disclo-
sing their purposes and inclination. His
good faith was suspected heretofore from
his personal antecedents, but he was spar
ed in the hope that he would do right
He is evidently but an instrument in the
hands ofthe Administration. His scheme
tenders Kansas bride in one hand and q
scourge in the othor. The one will be
spurned and the other defed.
1t seems that when Mr. Englsh's pro
position was made known to the Demo
cratic members, most unexpected opposi
ton arose to it amongst some of the
Southerners who regardedit as dishonor
able trick. Mr.. Quitman declared tina
it was mean contrivence with which be
would have nothing to do. Mr.. Over
Jones and two or three other anti Lecomp
ton Democrats, whose cooperation haC
been relied on, also secuted it.
A few of the most high. minded Southern
Representatives express their disapproba
ton at such a way Of evading an issue anC
bribing State to come into the Union
If they vote nay, its fate is sealed.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

DlsLocArFD JoiSrs.-Next in degree to the
pain cause by a disloca,ior, is that arising from
the settling Of blood around the part, aud the effu-
son of coagulaied lymph under the skin. he
proper treatment to remove this dissgreeable and
invarisbIs ate pdant upon disIccatons and bruises
Is to apply some powerfully penetrating and DIFF
fasiys Liniment with gentle friciiOns. over the
part The best Liniment now in use, for this pur-
poss. is Bssoe's AscTic LIsiMESr, which may be
obtsined at any respective drug store. II Is also
cooling and soothing in lis effect, and alisys the
pain almost Immediately.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

arIt Is our custom on the appearance Of t new
counterfeit bank bill to advise our readers, that
they may be on their guard. We deem 1t no less
our duty 10 guard them against frauds, which moi
only rob them of money, but Of hesl'h alSoi In
this connection, we call the attention Of the pub
lie 10 vile fraud In imitation Of DR.. McLane's
celebrated ysrmifuge and Liver Pills These
justly popular remedies are manufactured only By
Fleming Bros. Of Pitisbu g. Pa. who nrs the sole
proprietors. Purchases will notice the gennIn,
M'Lsns'. vermifuge sad Liver Pills ere env-lOpet
In fine steel engraved wrapper and signed Fiem-
ing Bros. None Others arc worthy Of confidence
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

same evening, TO accept, / suppose, the
propositions he had received.
Nothing would rejoice the good citizens
Of Brownville and Matamoras more than to
hear that these facts were true, for every
department Of business has been paralized
since the revolution; aud, until American
aid shall be called In, we have nothing to
hope for but continuation Of the same
state Of affairs In reality, commerce is
decayed, agriculture abandoned for the
want Of laborers to till the rich and fer
tile lands, and every element ofindustry il
completely destroyed.
Since writing the above, Colcnel----has
called at the Office, and informs me that he
will assist Vidaurri, and will enter the
country with the invitation of the people
of the Sierra Madre States. This is glori-
ous news. The Colonel says he will do
nothing but what is legitimate, and expects
to be on the Rio Grand in thirty days.
Five hundred men can be got on the river
at any time, and the best men in the
world-men who know the Spanish char
aeter, and viii be willing 10 become citi-
zen, asking only equal rights and privile-
ges under provisional constitution. The
Colonel leaves tomorrow for San Antonio,
Texas. | will keep you posted. / send
this in haste.
Yours, respectfully,
Rio GRAND.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30
Fridays Proceedings-- Concluded
WASHINGTON. April %.

iSeuate-Mr Green asked leave to make
report from the Committee on Con-
ference, on the subject of Kansas
Mr.. Stuart raised an objection which
provoked a long discussion on the point,
that parliamentary law gave to the House
possession Of the bill, and the Senate, not
having the bill before them, could not pro-
coed to its consideration
| Mr.. Stuart asserted his belief that the
bill was in the possession of the House,
but
Mr.. Broderick informed the Senate that,
within the last four minutes, TIE bill had
been laid on Mr.. Green's desk.
A member of the House, namely, Mr..
Harris, of Illinois, having informed Mr..
Broderick that twas surreptitiously taken
out of the House. ''
Mr.. Green repudiated the surreptitiously,
but the bill was on his desk, having been
brought from the Secretary's office.
After further discussion, Mr.. Stuart
moved that the report be not received at
present
The Chair decided that Mr.. Green had
the floor to present the report, which he
ala, with lew preparatory remarks. lie
said that the report might not come up to
the expectations of everybody; it was
founded on mutual concession. It was
proper that the Senate should not be die.
tated to by the House, nor the House by
the Senate: The Committee, therefore,
met in a spirit of Cancellation and tried
many propositions. Whether they have
arrived at the best one he cannot say, but
it sacrafced no principle. 1t harmonizes
with what the country demands and opens
a prospect of peace, and settlement Of the
pending difficulties.
House--Mr. English asked that his re-
port be printed and the further considera-
ton thereof be postponed till to morrow.
Mr.. Howard suggested postponement
till Thursday wOek for reasons stated
Mr.. Hill moved to postpone the further
consideration till the I'd Monday of May,
Agreed to-108 against 105.
Pending motion to reconsider the vote
of postponement and to lay that motion
on the table, the House adjourned
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30
sss- The Administrator has sufFcrt

ssS- The Administration has suffered
auother defeat on its Washington police
bill. The country should rejoice that so
nefarious an attempt has been defeated -
The idea Of taking the government Of the
city out Of the hands Of the municipal
authorities and placing il in the hands Of
the President with an armed force to- re-
strain the freedom Of the citizen is SO re-
pugnant TO the spirit Of liberty as to startle
the public mind and arouse its fears for
the safety of the people against the en-
croachments Of despotic power. Scarcely
year has passed since the President called
out portion Of the army to murder nm
offending citizens, and now he asks the
authority of Congress for a repetetion Of
the crime.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

In me course of a debate in the Heuse
of Representatives,, on the bill to increase
the police force in Washington City, Mr..
Stanton, of Ohio, said:
"Here Washington was the great GEN.
ter of political power and patronage; and
here ballotbox suffers, shoulder htters,
rowdies, and all other men who had con
tributed by one means or another to party
successes congregated to receive their re-
ward. He believed the country owed its
present political position to the great
fraud in N. York in 1874, by which a
President was elected in opposition TO law
full votes That affair was managed by an
outlaw band called tho empire Club, y
whose captain was now Marshal for the
Southern District of New york. The men
who crowded here, by hundreds and thou
sands,to gather the spoils, were men in
whose hands no gentleman would be safe
at night; and, as the vast patronage ofGov'
eminent always ran short, some of them
must find other means of livelihood. A
man now in prison for murder, was said Ia
have been but recently appointed on the
present auxiliary guard; and he had beer
told that the Captain Of the States Heus,
Company, to which many of the late dis
orders were charged, now holds an Office
under Government worth 81 200 or 81
400"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

bJ- The Union & american has found
"a mares nest, and thereupon gives the
keynote to the tune to be sung by the
poor devils subservient to its will. This
great discovery is a supposed coalition be-
tween the Black Republicans and such
men as Crittenden and Bell The coali.
ton is 6gment of dsordered imagina.
ton but the very absence of all truth in
the charge will commend it to the locofoco
party. These two great men voted with
the Republicans and few democrats upon
the Kansas question. And what did the
Republicans vote for? For the admission
of Kansas as slave State, provided such
be the will Of majority of its citizens
This is broad national ground, and the
very ground abandoned by the locofocos
when they attempted to force upon the
people of Kansas a constitution which
they had repudiated by an overwhelming
majority. If the Republicans remain true
to the doctrine endorsed by their late vote,
they are national and conservative, and
will ever be found by the side of such men
as Crittenden and Bell, whose lead it is
always safe to follow. We will go farther
and say, that if the Republicans are will.
ing to be led by such men, they are far
more reliable, as friends, of the South, than
northern locofocos, and, for one, we shall
be pleased to have their hearty co-opera-
ton in expelling-exterminating the
vandal horde that is warning upon the best
interests of the whole country. Had We
the choice, we would rather, to-day, see
the government in the hands Of Black
Republicans than in those Of locofocos
and for two reasons. First; the country
can't loose by a change of rulers, and
second, if the Republicans are bent upor
crushing the South we had better know i
at once than die lingering death unde
the slow, but sure, poison of locofocoism
An open demonstration from an opei
enemy would make the South husband il
strength and fall back upon its ample re
sources for protection; but the depletin,
policy of pretended friends is fast wasting
its energies, exhausting its resources an
brushing out that spirit of manly indie
pcndencc which is soon substituted b
slavish submission, under the tyrann
party discipline
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30
THE RAILROAD.

By reference 10 our business columns
It will be seen that the Directory have
advertised for contractors to build the
entire road to the Tennessee river. This
movement is the result Of an agreement
with the Board Of Directors Of the North
western Railroad Company TO consolidate
the two roads from the Tennessee Ridge
TO the point Of junction with the Memphis
& Ohio road This consolidation, by
dividing the cost Of constructions some
thirty six miles Of road, equally between the
two companies, and concentrating the two
appropriations, of 100000 each, upon
the construction of single bridge, will
enable the Directors not only to hurry the
completion of our entire Ene to the
Tennessee river, but ensures the stimuli
taneous construction Of the gap between
said river and the point Of junction with
the Memphis & Ohio road. The Cane
Creek route is the one agreed upon, as
equally acceptable to both Boards; and
indications now are that the joint advant-
ages to, and joint energies of, both Com
panies will ensure the completion of our
entire line by October, 1859, as well as the
intermediate link that is to connect il with
the Memphis & Ohio road
We say that such are the present in
dications; and making all due allowances
for the embarrassments inseperable from
such enterprises, and for the doubts and
fears that, more or less, paralyze the will
of those who control them, we believe they
will not prove deceptive. Our Board is
now in earnest. They see their way clear
through difficulties that have hitherto OBJ
structed their progress towards Memphis.
And in addition to this stimulus to the
most energetic efforts, they have every
encouragement to look forward to an early
connection with the Henderson & Nash
vile road at, or near, the State line; and
the efforts now being made, by Gov. Helm,
in behalf of the Branch road to Bowling.
Green, authorizes the confident belief that
the day is not distant when our connection
with Louisville will be secured. With
such prospects before them, the Directors
have every motive for prompt, persistent
and vigorous action; the friends of the
road, for renewed zeal in its behalf, and
the doubters and cavaliers, for cessation
of their ill-judged opposition
We do not deem it necessary to attempt
detailed account Of the conferences with
the Presidents Of the North Western, and
the Nashville & Henderson roads, during
their late visit to our city, and have made
The foregoing remarks merely to indicate
the resuls-believing they will prove in
tcresting TO the reader, We shall, how
ever, keep an eye upon the progress of
events, and lay before the public all facts,
not incompatible with the public vel.
fare"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

p@- An itinerant letter writer for the
Boston Post, supposed to be John G. SAKE,
tells the following story in one of his very
amusing letters written from Tennessee.
eNot less than four years ago Andrew
johnson (popularly called candy, y now
in the United States Senate, was the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor Of Tennes-
see against Gentry, "American." Parson
Brownlow, the notorious lighting Meth
odist," Of the Knoxville, Wing, was the
warm partisan of Gentry. Eastman, as
the conductor of the leading Democratic
journal, was, of course, with johnson, and
as is his wont, gave the enemy vigorous
and telling blows. Gentry was defeated,
but in honor of his "brave associates, part
ners Of his toll, he celebrated the event
by grand supper, at which Brownlow
was present. When the company had got
pretty deep into their cups, and were grow
ing rather boisterous, the parson (who hap
pened to be teetotaller) thought he had
better retire, and was making movement
to that effect, when he was stopped by
Gentry with the observation that "No min
lister of the Gospel should come into hi,
house and enjoy his hospitality and go of
without praying in the family" Brown
low felt the rebuke and at once set about
his duty. He read chapter in the Bible,
sang hymn, and commenced prayer
He prayed for Gentry and his household
and friends; for the welfare of Tennessee
of the national confederacy, the American
eagle, and the star-spangled banner; for
Christendom and heathendom; for the uni
verse and "the rest Of mankind" "And
finally" said the parson, 1--WE pray thee, 0
Lord, If it be possible in the plentitude Of
thy infinite mercy, to pardon and save An.
dy johnson and f. G. Eastman" 'Stop
stopl" exclaimed Gentry, "don't let him dc
that--it tOould exhaust the plau Of salca.
ton I"
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30

pay- The Compromise Kansas bill, got.
ten up By English, is another humiliating
evidence Of the corruption Of locofocoism,
and Of the dangers to be apprchended
from the influence Of an Executive who Is
restrained BY no considerations of in.
lividuai, or national honor Despairing
Of direct admission Of Kansas under the
Lecomption constitution, and resolved that
,aid constitution shall not be submitted to
! vote Of the people, this Compromise bill
contains land grant to the Territory,
with an indirect declaration that if the
people vote to accept the grant, it is an
endorsement Of the LcooBpton oonstitu-
ton, and makes the territory State; but
iif they vote against IL, then Kansas shall
continue Territory until its population
reaches $4,000. Such an attempt to carry,
by bribery, a measure rcpulsive to the
majority Of Congress and of the people Of
Kansas ought to arouse the Indignation Of
the whole country and bring lasting con-
tempt upon its authors. If the Lecompton
constitution affair and legitimate embodi-
ment of the will of the people of Kansas, it is
the duty of Congress to accept IL if it be
not, it should be rejected. That the former
is not true, is clear, or there would be no
necessity for trickery and fraud and that
these are resorted to, is, to us, conclusive
evidence of rascslity in the inception of
the whole matter, as we'll as in the means
contemplated for its final success
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-30
TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the Office Of
the NJ .mphis. Clarksvile and Lou sville Rnilrosd
Company at lsrksviie, Tom. til tho ist day Of
July next. for The grading, bri clog. ironing. and
equipment Of Forty two miles Of the road from
Ciark<vi,le to the Tenn. river. The Cumberland
ana Tennessee river Bridges will be- included in
these contracts, Previous TO the dag OF letting
the company will determine the policy Of putting
the remainder Of the rosd 10 contract, from Ten.
nesses River to an intersection with the Memphis
and Ohio railroad. All needful Information ss to
plans, quantities payments, &c. may be hsd, by
addressing Geo D Fleece, Chef Eng ineer. or BY
calling at ihs Railroad Office where plans, profiss,
&C, may be seen. ..t
w. B. MUNFoRD, PIes't,
NJ. G. l. l.. r. r. CO.
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