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Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14

Seventy four cows, four valuable horses
! one mule, four calves and two goats were
| destroyed recently, near Cincinnati, by q
fire in extensive dairy stables. Two horses,
two COWS, one mule, two goats and two
calves, only, escaped, but they are 50 badly
burned that it will be humane TO kill them
The scene in the stable in the midst of the
conhagration was most piteously and III
describably harro wing. The live stock
were tied in their stalls. When the flames
first commenced, the poor animals snorted
and beloved with hideous and frantic force.
As the heat increased their cries and
groans and furious struggles became as9-
nizinQ Some tlife " tIi1nls6l IVES 5eai long
Ton the hoofof leapcd uprigh At fulf length
with frenzied energy, and vented their
agony in fearful screams.
The horses broke from their halters,
and dashed through the consuming blaze
in desperate dismay. The tortured and
suffocaLing cows tore away their horns
and rushed through the blazing piles, and
encountered each other III destructive col
lision, their flesh broiling and cracking in
the heat with sickenng effect upon the
sense of human beings, who gazed horror
stricken upon the Wretched scene of suffer
ing without power to mitigate the agony
of the tortured brutes. The yels and
despairing cries of the different classes of
animals commingled with horrid concert,
and broke through the roar of flames and
cracking timbers upon the still night air,
and were borne away in terrifying echoes
to the ears of persons two miles distant
from the dreadful scene.
Two or three horses, and as many COWS,
plunged through the flames and burst in
wild alright through the sides of the con-
suming structure, and fell headiong, whi
ming with misery, upon the ground outside
sprang again 10 their feet, and sped with
frenzied fury across the fields until they
dropped lifeless from sheer exhaustion
Some rolled upon the floor of the stable,
screaming with unmitigable pain, until
suffocated and destroyed by the fierce
heat. Their contortions, their awful walls
of distress, infinitely more piteous and
narrowing than those of human beings in
the dire extremity of torture, and de-
scribed by those who gazed spell-bound
upon the terrible spectacle, are surprising
the power of human imagination to con
ceive. The flesh of the carcasses quiv-
cred, and blazed and broiled all night, and
filed the atmosphere with sickening
effluvia.
Some of the COWS stood upright at their
stalls, their flesh barbecued others were
without heads, others without limbs in
one instance four or five carcasses together
with their horns interlocked, forming a
circle. 1t was a ghastly scene to con-
template.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
Democratic Orthodoxy.

Mr.. Bonney, of Peoria, is leading
Democrat in Illinois. AT the recent Dem
ocratic Convention for that State, he de-
fines very precisely the elements neces-
sary to constitute Democrat of the true
orthodox church. The Anti-Lecompton
Democrats of Meigs County will please
examine themselves by this authoritative
standard, and if they have departed from
the faith, by timely repentance, humble
acknowledgment, and obedient submission,
obtain absolution and return to the affec-
tonate embrace of the offended, but for
giving, Mr.. Bonney. dere is the creed:
"a Democrat must sustain the plat
form, and the pledges of the party. He
who dares not do both, is not Democrat.
Republicans profess to decide measures
according to their right or ,Orong; Demo-
Gratis always decide according to erPedS-
ency. Republican orators and editors talk
continually about what is right or wrong.
We have no such questions to discuss.
We must maintain the doctrine of expedi-
eucy in opposition to the doctrine of alb
stract right and wrong. Applause. Re-
publcans who pirate about the will of the
majority, talk about principle which has
no existence in our government. 1t is a
government of law. Amy other principle
would make the President mere clerk,
doing the will Of his master"
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
A Singular Family.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati ga
zette," writing from the White Sulphur
Springs, in Ohio, says:
On the bank OF the river above this
place about mile, in a rude tenement
built of stone, there lives family whose
history and characteristics constitute a
curiosity.
The members of this family consist of
two brothers and one sister, ranging in
age from seventy to eighty years. None
Of them are married, and they have lived
where theX.now reside for fifty years,
and own two farms. None of them have
ever visited Columbus, or even Delaware,
the county town, or seen aTailway, locomo-
tive, or steamer, though the Springfield
and Mt Vernon Railway passes within two
miles of one Of their farms. They haYe
three old-sashioned flint guns, each oI
which they say has done good service il
the staying of deer and Indians, each CUR
being remarkable for some one particular
exploit In this line.
I Uis almost needless, after what hav,
written, to add that these singular peopl
emigrated to this place from Nortl
Carolina.
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UMWrHtIeHl Poetry.

Far down in the depths of the human
heart, there is fountain of pure and hal
lowed feeling. from which, at times, swells
up a tide of emotions which words are
powerless to express-which the soul alone
can appreciate. Full many hearts that are
overflowing with sublime thoughts and
holy imaginings, need but the "pen of
fire. to hold and enrapture thousands in
its spell. The Thoughts that breath" are
there, but not the "words that burn
Natures own inspiration fills the heart
with emotions too deep for utterance, and
with the poetry of the heart lie forever
concealed in It's own mysterious shrine.
Unwritten poetry 1t is stamped upon
the broad blue skies, it wrinkles in every
star. 1t mingles in the oceans surge, and
ghtters in the dew-drop that gems the
lily's bell. 1t glows in the gorgeous
co:ors of the West at the decline of day,
and rests in the blackened crest of The
gathering storm cloud. 1t is on the noun.
tain's hight, and in the cataract's roar-ir
the towering oak, and in the tiny flower
Where we can see the hand of God, there
beauty finds dwelling place.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14

How TO PRoDucE LARGE FRU1T.--A
correspondent of the Gardeners Gazette"
says, by very simple and easy process,
fruits of many kinds may be raised about
one-third larger than'is usually the case,
and of greatly improved quality. The Sc
creG consists in supporting the fruits SO
that they shall not be allowed to hang their
whole weight upon the stalk. or twist about
in the wind. The Gazette states that
when fruit is allowed TO hang natural upon
the stalk, the increasing weight strains
the stem or twig, and thus lessons the
quantity of nutritious food flowing to thu
fruit, which may be supported either by
tying it to branch with piece of string
or by inclosing it in n small net Flowers
such as dahlias or peonies. may also b
rendered. much larger by the adoption q
tits system.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
WHOLE NUMBER 5lS

I best. for we have no power then u inter
fere with the subject. There il no ques-
ton what the result will be. If there Is
no slavery in the Territory, there will be
none when the people come To make
State. ! want to appeal to the cador of
those who are honoriug me with their at
teutiou. whether they be Democrats ~
Republicans, for there are but two parties.
1t is idle to talk about a third party--a
Douglas party or anything OF that kind
There is no middle ground; you must take
one side or the other. If you sustain the
measures Of this seIf.styled Democratic
party, you are one Of them; il You sustain
the measures of tie Republican party, you
| must 60 with them, and there is no third
party to unite with We wish to ask YOU
-men ofall parlies--if you are opposed
to the introduction Of slavery into Illinois.
| apprehend that you are--that all this
audience will respond, we are opposed
to ii. If that is so, You have your reasons
for it. You think it better ior the white
race that there should be no slavery here;
entertaining that view. you will exclude
it. Now is there father who would do
less i'll the formation Of government for
himself. Is there aU honest man here
who can say, Il will exclude slavery from
the State and locality where live because
it is an evil but l will suffer it to 90 in
where my children are to go He:e is a
common territoy. You are the Congress
of the United States. The Constitution of
the United States says that Congress shall
make all needfuI rules and regulations re-
tlNa IS thn
States. Here is Territory about to be
settled. You are called upon to frame a
government for the people who are to go
there, which is to last So long, aud only 80
long as the territorial condition continues.
Now what sort of a government is it your
duty to frame? You will readily ad-
nit that it is your duty to form such gov
ernment as will be for the best interests of
the people who are to go there. Is not
that 50? Cries of yes, yes, that's the
truth! You believe it to be for your best
interests to exclude it from Illinois, where
you live. Is it not, then, for the best in
terests of your child, and sister, aud
brother, and neighbo- who are going to
the Territory that slavery should not go
with them? Will you do less for them
than for yourself? a man is not deserving
the name of man who is so selfish that he
will protect himself from an evil, yet will
not raise his arm when he has power to
protect his child and his friend from the
same evil. Great cheers.
Because the Republican party proposes
TO confine slaves within the States where
it exists by the local law, they are ma,
ligned as secLionalists, negro worshipers,
enemies of the constitution, etc. We are
for leaving slavery where the trainers of
the constitution left it, and are opposed to
.he modern Democratic policy which de-
,lares that slavery is carried by the con-
ititution into all the Territories where the
sag of our country floats. ."-.State j OurnaI.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
Tears.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are
not the mark of weakness, but that of
power. They speak more of eloquence
than ten thousand tongues. They are the
messages of overwhelming grief, of deep
contrilion, of unspeakable love. If there
was wanting any argument to prove that a
man is not mortal, would look for it in
the convulsive emotions of the breast, when
the soul has been deeply agitsted when
the fountains of Feeling are rising, and when
tears are gushing forth in crystal streams.
o, speak not harshely to the stricken one
weeping in silence! Break not the
solemmity by rude laughter, or intructve
footsteps. Despise not woman's tears
they are what make her an angel. Scoff
not if the stern heart of manhood is some
times melted to sympathy; they are what
help TO elevate him above the brute. l
love to see tears of affection. They are
painful tokens, but still most holy. There
is pleasure in tears - an awful pleasure
If there was none on earth to shed a tear
for me, should be 10th to live; aud if no
one might weep over my grave, could
never die in. peace.-Dr. johnson.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14

The tomb of Moses is unknown, but the
traveller stakes his thirst ut the well Of Jacob.
The gorgeous palace of the wisest of mon
archs. with the cedar, and gold, and ivory,
and even the Temple of Jerusalem, hal
lowed by the visible glory Of the deity him.
self, are gone; but Solomon's reservoirs
are as perfect as ever. Of the ancient
architecture of the holy city, not one stone
is left upon another; but the pool of Be-
thesda commands the pilgrims reverence
to thepresent day. The columns of Per-
sepolis are mouldering into the dust; but
.its, cisterns and aQueducts remain to chal-
ieIlgc cur admiration. The golden house
OF Nero is a mass of ruins, but the Aqua
Claudir stills pours into Rome its limpid
streams. The temple of the Sun, At Tad
NOR, in the wilderness, has fallen; but its
fountain sparkles as freely in his rays as
when thousands of woxshipers thronged
its lofty colonades. Itnay be that Lon
don will share the fate of Babylon and
nothing be left to mark its site, save the
mounds of crumbling brickwork, but the
Thames will continue to flow as it does
now And fany work of art should rise
over the deep ocean Of time, we may well
believe that it will be neither palace nor
temple but some vast reservoir. And if
the light of anybody should still flash
throug h the midst of antiquity, it will
probably be that of the man who, in his
day, sought the happine-s of his fellow-mon
rather than glory, and linked his memory
to some great work of national utility and
benevolence. This is the glory which out
lives all other. and shines with undying
luster from generation ipparting to its
work something of its own Immortality,
and in some degree rescuing therefrom the
ordinary monuments Of historical tradition
Of more magnihcence.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
A CaIllorssIa Tree.

! A giant tree, known as the Father of the
Forest, is thus described:
! This monster had long since bowed his
head in the dust but how stupendous in
his ruin The tree measures one hundred
and twelve feet in circumference at the
base, and forty 1.-TWO feet in circumference
at distance Of three hundred feet from
the roots, at which point it was broken
short off in its fall. The upper portion,
beyond this break, as greatly decayed
but, Judging from tbe average tuper of the
totherss this trse nust, severed to the
hprodigi0lls highf a feqf hl1nslled
aud & ~ '<i a l..Iiis Der b4thsd
6atity 3 x1ends through the trunk two hum
dred feet, broad and high enough for a
person TO ride on horseback through :; and
a pond deep enough to float common river
steamboat stands i'll this great excavation
duriHg the rainy season. Walking on the
trunk, and looking from its uprooted base,
the mind can scarce conceive its astonish-
ing dimensions. Language fails to give
an adequate idea of it. 1t was, when
standing, pillar of timber that overtopped
all other trees on the globe. "To read
simply of a tree four hundred and fifty
feet high" observes the Country "Gen-
tleman," "we are struck with large figures;
but we can hardly appreciate the hight
without some comparison. Such an one as
this would stretch across field of twenty
seven rods wide. If standing in the
Niagara chasm at the Suspension Bridge,
it would tower two hundred feet above the
top of the bridge if placed in Broadway,
New York, at the head of Wall street, it
would overtop Trinity steeple one hundred
and sixty feet; and would be two hundred
and thirty feet higher than Bunker Hill
Monument, Charlestown ; or TWO hundred
and seventy feet above Washington Monu-
ment, Baltimore. If cut up for fuel, it
would make at least three Thousand cords
or as much as would be yielded by sixty
acres of good woodland. If sawed into
two inch boards, it would yield about three
million feet, and furnish enough three inch
plank for thirty miles of plank road. This
will do for the product of one little seed,
less in size than grain of wheat"
These trees are not the California red
wood, rs has been affirmed of them.-
They are a species of cedar peculiar to
the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada.
The growth, bark, and leaf are different
from those of any other tree. Botanists
class them, and probably correctly, among
the Iaaoiiums. Foreigners will doubt
less continue tc rechtfsten them after this
or that European celebrity All who write /!
of them should avoid being thus led, and
the glorious name given them
shortly after their discoverJ-WAsHING
ToHIA GIGANTEA
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14

DEATH OF AN OHIoAN IN SIAA.-Capt.
Pres. Duval, is announced as having re-
Gently died in Siam. 1t appears that Cap
tain Duval died near Mallaland Siam, on
the eth of April last, of the jungle fever.
Several months since we announced his
success in capturing piratical fleet in the
Gulf of Siam, he being a commissioned
officer in the Siam navy. AT the time Of
his death he was engaged with company
in mining in the mountains. He left Gin
cinnati for China in 1854. The deceased
leaves wife and child in Lancaster, Ohio
Captain Duval was a brother-in law y
Captain JAS. Il. Fisher, OF the firm o
Isham 81 Fisher, OH Front street, Gin.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
I'an Going to Sec Mother.

In the beautiful Mesilla Valley little
boy died from grief at the loss of his
mother She had left few days before,
and gone to the country extending inward
from Deaths Gate. "I'm going to see
mother" said he, softly, and shut the door
Of life and walked up the stairway leading
to Paradise. What sweet words he spoke!
How grandly their echoes must have
played along the walls of angel chambers! !
Such gentleness and purity of spirit as
that child possessed are transcendent.
Such tenderness of soul, such hope, such
desire, have never been mentioned in the
pathetic stories of those who died Of love.
Men have expired while speaking words
of sublimest import, words carrying
thoughts into the world as imperishable as
it's highest hills! Washington expired as
the calm and assuring words, at Is aoeU, !"
issued from his lips; and the "Old Man
Eloquent" exclaimed as the vital spark
was about leaving its frail yet noble tene-
ment-"This is the last of earth" The
great and heroic have stepped into the in
visible existence without fear; the Chris
tian has rejoiced at the certain coming of
his final hour; martyrs have perished
while asserting their Interchangeable faith,
and patriots have answered death strokes
with defiant laugh, and scaffold victims
and self-destroyers have ceased to breathe
without murmur or sigh. But all the
instances of heroism, all the shining heart
sacrifices, all the mysterious alliances of
the mortal and spiritual, are dim when
near the soul-splendor of the child dying
to see it's mother! The powerful are weak,
the great becomes less, the brave lose
their prominence in the vast aggregate OF
men, and all of mortal grandure loses
beauty beside that young passion flower
that little sensitive plant i'll the devastated
garden of life.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14

One strong thing find here below; the
just thing, the true thing. My friend, if
thou had all the artillery of Woolwich
trundling at thy back, in support of an un-
just thing, and infinite bonfres vlsibly
waiting ahead for thee, to blaze centuries
long for thy victories on behalf of it, L
would advise thee to call halt, fling down
thy baton, and say, "In Gods name, No"
Thy success 2" What will Thy success
amount to L? If the thing is unjust thou
hast not succeeded no, not though bon
fires blazed from north TO south, and bells
rang, and editors wrote leading articles,
and just thing lay tIampled out of sight,
to all mortal eyes, an abolished and ami
hilated thing. Success ? In few yeaI 8
thou wilt be dead and dark-all cold, eye
less, deaf, no blaze of bonires, ding dong
of bells, or leading articles visible or au-
dible to thee again, to all forever what
kind Of success is that ?-IhonaaS Carlyle
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
A vVOman's GrOxvtla in Beauty

If women could only believe it, there is
a wonderful beauty even in the growing
old. The charm of expression arising
from softened temper or ripened intellect
often amply atones for the loss of form
and coloring and, consequently, to those
who never could boast of the these latter
years, give much more than they take
away. A sensitive person often requires
half life to get used to this corpnreal
machine, to attain a wholesome indiffer-
ence, both to its defects aud perceptions,
and to learn at last, what nobody would
acquire from any teacher but experience,
that it is the mind alone which is of con-
sequence; that with good temper, sin
cerity and moderate stock of brains--or
even the two former only-any sort of
body can, IN time, be made useful, lespec-
table and agreeable, as a travelling dress
for the soul. Many an one who was plain
in youth, thus grows pleasant and well
looking in declining years. You will
hardly ever find anybody, not ugly ia mind.
who is repulsively ugly in person after
middle life.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
Speaking We'll OF Others.

If the disposition to speak we'll of others
was universally prevalent, the world would
become comparative paradise. The op.
posite disposition Isl "a Pandora box, which,
when opened, fills every neighborhood
with pain and sorrow. Ho" many enml-
ties and heart -burninge flow from this
source How much happiness is inter-
rupted and destroyed Envy, jealousy.
and tho malignant spirit of evil, when they
find vent by the lips, go forth on their
mission like foul 6ends, to blast the repu-
tation and peace of others. Every one
has imperfections, and i'll the conduct of
the best there will be occasional faults
which might seem to justify animadver-
sion. 1t is a good rule, however, when
there is occasion for fault-inding, to do it
privately to the erring one. This may
prove salutaiy. 1t is proof of interest
in the individual, which will generally be
taken kindly, if the manner of doing it be
not Offensive. The common and unchrs-
tian rule, on the contrary, is to proclaim
the failings of others to all but themselves.
This is unchristan, and shows a despica-
bic heart.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14

The HEART AND HoME.-Home is the
spot where hearts are to be cultivated
Where the affections are 10 bloom in their
highest beauty, and TO be taught to en-
twine their tendrils about worthy objects.
A home where severity OF even formality
reigns, is like garden III winter--is like
turning a hot-house into an ice-house.-
Such a home will be the nursery not Of
noble men and women, but of mere world
lings at the best-more likely of the openly
vicious and criminal. We find among our
clippings this sentiment:
We sometimes meet with men who seem
to think that any indulgence in affectionate
feeling is weakness. They will return
from journey and greet their families
with distant dignity, and move among
their children with the cold and lofty
splendor of an iceberg, surrounded by it,
broken fragments. There is hardly s
more unnatural sight on earth than one O
these families without heart. A father
had better extinguish his boys eyes thar
take away his heart.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-09-14
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DIsAPPorNTMENTs.

I saw youthful mother,
Once on Il summers day,
Set down "A smiling infuut,
To watch It's frolic play;
1t gambolcd on the flowers
That deckcd the carpet O'c-,
And seemed, with childish wonder,
Each object to explore.
something on the instant
Its glad career arrests,
A nd earnestly IL gnZes wherc
A golden sunbeam rests;
While on the new found glory
IL fixed its wondering eyes,
And trustingly reached forth its hand
Ts seize the glittering prize.
And now its tiny fingers clasp
Tho treasure rich and rare,
Which, in its baby innocence;
II surely thought was there.
But, nbi that hand uncloses,
And To its earnest gaze
Reveals no gem of beauty
No bright, imprisoned rays!
Aud then the first of many tears
Fell on the cherub face
The first sad disappointment
In life's uncertain race.
And thus IL has been with us all,
Who its dark game have played
We've sought to grasp the sunshine,
And only y found the shade.