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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23
DT JOIN G. SAKE. /.

BY JOHN G. SAKE.
Come listen all unto my song;
1t is no silly fable;
sTis all about the mighty cord
They ca1 the Atlantic Cable.
Bold crRrs FIELD he said, sayshe. -.
p I have q pritty notion slT
That can run telegraph 'at
g Across the Atlantic Ocean.
Then all the people laughed and said,
They'd like to see him do if; ,-
He might get half-seas-oyer, but
He never could go through it. ,.q
To carry out bis foolish plan
He never would be able:
He might as well go hang himself
With his Atlantic Cable.
: But CYRus was vallient man,
A fellow ofdecision.
And needed not their mocking words,
Their laughter and derision.
Twice did his bravest efforts fail,
And yet his mind was stable;
He want the man TO break his heart
Because he broke his cable.
"Once more. my gallant boys!" be cried;
"7Nree timesl-you know the fable"
("I1l make it thirty" muttered he,
"But will lay the cable!")
Once more they tried-hurrah! hurrah!
What means this great commotion!
The Lord be praisedl the cables laid
Across the Atlantic Ocean!
Loud ring the 5ells-for flashing through
Six hundred leagues of water,
Old Mother England's benson
Salutes her eldest daughter.
Der all the land the tidings speed.
And soon in every nation, @sa-
They II hear about the cable with
Profound admiration!
Now long live JAMES, and long live VIC,
And long live gallant CrEus;
And may his courage, faith and zeal
With emulation fire US;
And may we honor evermore
The manly, bold and stable.
And tell our sons to make them brave,
How Cyrus laid the cable. -..
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

H "The discordant spirit which recent
ly prevailed in your party" said one politi-
clan To another, seems TO be passing into
ours" "Oh, yes, when the devils we're
cast Of the man. they entered the hsrd OF
swine"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

F.,rH AND WowKs.-Faith and works arc
as necessary to our spiritual life as Chris
t;aps, as soul and body are to our life rs
men; for faith is the soul of religion, and
works, and body.-ColtiR.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

H A lazy felly down South spells
Tennessee after this fashion-l0 c. And
spells Andrew jackson thus--&:ru Jax-n.
He will suit primary school.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

CRUEL TREATMENT OF LITTLE GIRL
About The lst Of July, woman named
Mrs. Foster, residing about four miles this
side of Fulton, went to the Orphan Asy-
lum, and through the recommendation Of
respectable citizens, obtained little gir
named Mary Bennett, about ten years old
whom she said she wished to bring up
The malron told her that the girl was ad
dicted to fibbing, and had been caught in
attempts to appropriate things that die
not belong to her. The woman guessed
she would get along with her. She tool
the girl and last week brought her back
The Girl was thin and emaciated, and &C
cording to the woman's own story had re-
ceived the most cruel treatment.
For the slightest offence she would whip
her in the most severe manner, and if this
failed TO make her cry, she would place the
little girls finger on the stove and hold it
there until it was crisped and burnt, and
the child would cry. At other times this
human tigress would seize her by the car.
tilIage of the nose, between the nostrils
and pinch her in the most cruel manner
and that to use the hag's own words,
"would bring the tears into her eyes," and
when the girl returned to the Asylum the
marks were still there, and her fingers all
crisped and burned. She gave her but
half enough to eat, and when one day she
put tin of apples into the oven, telling
the girl she might have one if she would
watch them until they were done, the girl
devoured the whole of them.
When the woman came back and asked
her what she had done with the apples, the
girl told her she had eat them. She then
gave her cruel whipping, burnt her fin
gers, and otherwise maltreated her, and
this not being enough to satisfy her, actu-
ally kept her on nothing but bread and
water for two weeks, making her eat in the
shed and sle,p on the floor. The woman
had two or three boys, who always gave
her slap or kick whenever she came
near them. This is the woman's own sto-
ry. The ladies at the Asylum represent
the girl as being very smart, active and
intelligent. Such brutality should not
pass unnoticed, and she should receive s
lesson that will inculcate little human
ity in her miserable soul.-Oswego Pal
ladiuna.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

Il love the silent watches of the night,
as the nocturnal thief said when he robbed
the jewellers shop. rr
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

And she stopped again, and left her kiss
upon his brow as of old.
And though he had lost his thousands,
though his heart was sore over the treach-
cry Of trusted friends, though his plans Of
future speculation had to be abandoned,
though his bank had suspended, and his
railroad operations dead loss-his heart
rose srom its despondcncy, and seating him.
self by his pleasant, vine-coyered window,
in his old arm chair, with his wife by his
side, he bade Carrie, the second, open the
piano, and play an accompaniment, while
he sang the following:
"when the bak iettered list to the Gods presented
A list of what fate for each mortal intends;
At the long string of ills, kind angel relented
And cast in three blessings wife, children, and friends
an vain surly Pluto declared he WAS cheated,
That Justice divine could not compass his ends;
The scheme of mans fall he maintained defeated,
And earth become heaven, with wife, children, and
friends.
The stock of our bliss when in strangers hand vested
The fund i'll secured, oft in bankruptcy ends;
But the heart issues bills that protested
When drawn on the firm of wife, children and friends
The storm cloud had passed over, and
the earnest, energetic man, full of power
and force, gathered up his strength and
went forth to his business, and righted up
in few days what he had, in his moments
of dependency, set down as an utterly
bankrupt concern. -.-....
There is many man who sinks down
in helpless dependency, for the want of a
pleasant word and cheering look; many a
one, ir time of powerful pressure and mis-
fortune, by cold words of reproach and
murmuring, has been driven from the paths
of duty and honesty, to crime, insanity,
and even suicide; many one, too, by reck-
lessness and wild speculation, by spurning
all counsel and help from her, who is COM
PEELED to be sufferer in all his mistakes,
has worn out cheerful and faithful heart,
and brought upon himself the torture of
wailing and cruel spirit, that goaded him
through all his future years. spirit that
might, had it been allowed to sympathize
and cheer, had slaid and strengthened his
steps through all the changing vicissitudes
of life, and gone down with him, in trust
ing, faith, and love, to the end of earth's
blessing and being blessed.
In time of trouble, let wives be cheerful
and ready to bear their part of the bur-
thens, and husbands fail not to trust and
honor them with confidence and love.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23
MIR. Summers Health-What is a
MOxa:

M OAds
The Paris correspondent of the Times,
writing on the 10Th of August, says:
Mr.. Sumner left town yesterday for a
season at Aix-les-Bains, in Savoy. The
cauterization of the spine has done him
good, and after a season at AK he will re-
turn to Paris again and to the naoras.-
Perhaps your readers do net know the
character of this remedy. A mora is thus
made and applied: 1t is composed ordina-
rily of carded cotton, rolled into cone, the
base of which may have an inch diameter,
and slightly pressed by and contained in a
piece of muslin, or other cloth. The cot
ton is saturated in some alcoholized sub
stance, such as camphor or nitre. 1t is
then placed on the skin of the patient, over
the diseased part, the cotton is lighted, and
as the flame reaches the bottom of the cone,
it is blown into the skin by means of a
blow-pipe. The skin around is protected
BY wet cloth. The greatest pain is expe-
rienced when the flame first reaches the
skin. Soon the cuticle begins to crack
the skin contracts into furrows, turns brown
then fries, and finishes by becoming black
and carbonized, like other burnt substances.
These moras must be repeated often, and
over the whole course of the spine, if the
disease be there, in order to produce a
permanent effect. They are thus called
from Chinese and Japanese tissue like
cotton, the -Artemisia Chinensia, which
they call in those countries mora for it is
from those countries that the practice of
the mora, is derived, and is as old as his
tory. 1t is, in fact, so old treatment,
even in modern times and modern nations,
that it has almost gone out of use; yet 1T
is sometimes resorted to in cases which
have resisted all the other counter irritants,
and not unfrequently with marked benefit.
The practice of burning the skin, or other
diseased parts, which somewhat out of use
few years ago, is now fast coming into
use again in Paris. Scarcely ward of
the Paris hospitals is now without its por-
table furnace of charcoal and red hot irons.
They are applied, as well in medicine as
in surgery, for practice in chronic, lily de-
fined affections. The practice now in
vogue, is that of stripping the patient ma
ked and drawing an iron, heated to white
heat, quickly over the body, parching the
cuticle brown in its track, and giving TO the
body the appearance Of a striped zebra:
If the iron is white and the operation is
practised cleverly, the patient does not
suffer from it enough to force cry; but if
the iron is only red, the pain is. of course,
xoru orraaf
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23
Memorable Sayings.

Let US not forget the following from
President Buehanan's letter to Prof. Sill
man, Angst 18th, 1857.
"SLAVERY existed at that period
1s54) and still erists IN KANSAS
H UNDER THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES. Thai
point has at last been EH FINALL Y
DECIDED by the highest tribunal
Judge Taney) known to our laps. How
IT EVER COULD HAVE BEEN DOUBTED rs
A MISTERY y"
Or from his message:
1t has been solemnly adjudged by the
highest Judicial Tribunal, that EF- SD
VERY EXISTS IN KANSAS By
VIRTUE or THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES.
"Kansas is, therefore as much A SLAVE
STATE AS GEORGIA OR SOUTH
CAROLINA"
Or this from the Dred Scott Decision.
'The African race was $50 far inferior
that that they had no rights Which achite
man acas bound to respect; and that the
negro might Justly and LAWFULLY be reduced
to slavery for has benefit"
Or, turning from these official declarations,
look for moment at the speeches of lead
ing men, champions of the Democratic par
ty. Read this:
From Albert G. Browns speech, Miss.
July llth, 1858.
81 heard it from the Presidents (Buch-
anan's) ova lips, that this SQUATTER
SOVEREIGNTY was ond of T H E
MOST DAMNABLE HERESIES that
was ever broaehed in this or any other
country, and that he scould leave nothing
undone to THROTTLE IT.
From Hammond's late speech.
AL the opposition measures Of sUhich
the South has complained an the last thir-
ty gears she herself inaugnvated.--
re- WASHINGTON AND JEFFER-
SON, IN THE MATTER OF SLAVE:
RY SET THE EXAMPLE. The
North borrowed it from thcm.'
From Hon. M. L. Kietts recent speech
The Democratic party, he thought, scas
sounder no,c than 1t had been for gears
1t was so because THE SOUTH WAS
NOW THE MAJORITY IN THAT
PARTY, and had driven off from its
numbers all the tainted, timid and feeble
members of it from the North. He would
not predict, but in his judgment, the Black
Republicans would win the election IN
1860"
ale went to Washington at the begin
ming of the last session resolved TO oppose
the Administration, but when he got
there he found Mr.. Buchanan upon The
platform of THE SOUTH. 1t was
then he determined to sustain the Presi-
dent co. daily and ungrudgingly."
From Col. Or's speech on the same oc-
casion.
"With regard to slavery; he thought it
better protected than at had been for thirty
gears. As for the future, he was for CO.
operation with the Democratic party. He
would go into convention, 60 into caucus,
seek to have an influence in it by ruling
and controlling 1t.
CD,-r, Tor,r ,r,rrr or yrrr T. Grpr
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23
gaetrp.
A BALD.

az 81 .t-z ha From H.rpers Weekly.
HOW C. FIELD LAID THE CABLE.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-23

"And is not this soft, cool air, this mel
low moonlight, and the star-spangled heav-
ems, a blessings" a q ..-a# -.
"Of course"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
What of Pennsylvania?
Forney's Press SAYS:

y
The hum of preparation for the October
election, though Lot yet midsummer, is al
ready heard in every Congressional district
in this State. This betokens an animated
and exciting campaign. Every hour will
add to the intensity of the struggle, ard
every step taken by those who have charge
of things at Washington seems to be taken
with distinct view to iI crease the bitter
ness which so widely prevails. The fact
that the fiagranl attempt upon the nonina-
tions Of the Democratic party in Illinois,
initiated and stimulated by the officp-hoId
ers Of the Federal Government, has not
been disavowed, proves that everything is
to give way to LecompIonism.
In Pennsylvania, for instance, there il
at this day spirit of resolute resistance
to this proscripiive policy. In every Con.
gressional district the Democrats are DIS
cussing it. and in most, if not all these
districts, they will fearIessly re1uke il.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
Hollo,oau,s Pills and Ointment The axe

is not more necessary il new settlements
than are these wonderful medicines, which
cure with rapidity and certainty all those
facilitating affections of the stomach and
the bowels which paralyse industry in un-
healthy regions. Passing through the ab-
sorbents into the interior organs, this Oint-
ment acts like magic balsam on the in
famed and irritated parts, while the Pills,
BY their action on the blood, neutralize the
elements OF disease. Caution should be
used IN seeing that the medicine genuine.
To do this, look narrowly for the Water
mark, which appears in ever leaf of the
book Of directions. They are not genuine
unless the words, "Hollouay, NeU York and
London" can be seen in semi-transparen;
letters in the paper itself when held 10 The
light.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

ONO WHIrE SULPHUR SPRISes-Our readers
will learn with considerable pride that we have
now in our own beautiful Buckeye State first
class watering place, the .'Ohio White Sulphu I
Springs" This new Und attractive place OF sum-
mer resor; is situated near the Springfield, Mt
Vernon and Pittsburgh Railroad, two miles from
Willie Sulphur Station, eight mics from Della
ware, land seventeen from Columbus. The Springs
were formally opened on Thur sday, the l7rh ult
An immense throng of good looking men and
.'fayre ladyes" from all over the Union, gracrd
the occasion. Among those present on the open
ing occasion, we flnd the names of K. M. Cor
WINE, Esq, OF Cincinnati. Hon. ALFRED p. STONE,
the State Treasurer, Hon. CHAs. SwEETzER, and
other distinguished OhiOans. ). GEBHART, ESQ.,,
OF Dayton, offered the following with respect 10
the mineral and nedicins qualities OF the Springs
which received an empha tic aye:
Resolued, That as regards location, and cunve.
nience the character OF the wHter ann the attrac.
live see merry, we have found lie White Su phuT
Springs, iuily equal 10 the claims that have been
mace ioT il; ana we unhesitarInlly recommend II
10 such persons smay desire quiet and secluded
summer retreat, aud the benefit OF mineral waters
hose medIeina properties not interior To those
O. The famed White Sulphur Springs OF Virginia
The editor OF the Cincinnati Ga2ette, who was
also present, says:
..There are two or three sulphur, besides several
natural, springs. The principal one the White
Sulphur is Immediately upon the bank of the
riser and jets up large and never al ling stream
Its strength Is such that the visitor wal smell it
a clear morning at the distance OF several hun
dred feet A bath-house has been erected clos,
b., 10 which the water is conveyed from tht
spring by pipes.
Those fond of seclusion and meditation car
find them in The solitude OF the surrounding fores
and walks along the banks of the river; while Il
the disciples OF IzAak Walton the Sciota offer
unusual inducements in the way of tine fishing.
Persons desiring to frequent place of summe
resort, will find in these Springs unusual atirac
tions, possessing the advantages they do, "ithou
the conventionalities and exIavngance OF Pric
of most Eastern watering places. We take pid
in directing attention TO them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
= it D

In Martinsvllie, June i5t 1888, OF Sersa ui
the stUmarh and throat, Mrs. MARY Ann SHIP-
MAN, vile OF Zeues Shipnan
In Jackson County, lewa, on the lst OF June. MIR
JOHN hAZLETT, formerly oi MOrriStUwn, aged
about 40 yeais.
ANN SNlDER, the subject of this notice, died
al the Residence oi i:er Father. III Smith Township
Belmont CO., } June %, 1855 IN the 3l5r gear Jt
her age. AT tina age OF l5 she united VITA tn, VI
b. Cnurch OF which shr remained a member
ui the Muster called her, 10 'loin tn, general
semby OF the Church of the first born, whose
names are written In Heaven " As a taper, that.
without being disturbed bv any blast Of wind, ex-
pifes OF its own accord, whCn the wax that KEEP
II alive, and nourlshed its fame is totally spent,
so she calmly fell asi eep-asleep III death
Weep OF tor her! She is an ange! now,
Aud treads the sapphire floars OF Paradise.
All darkness wiped from her re iulgcnt brow,
Sin, sor ow, suffering, banished from her eyes;
Victorious over death, To her appears
The vstaed joy of Heavens eternal years;
Weep not Tor her, S. Y. *.
June %, 1853
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
DISPATCHES TO LORD NAPIER.
NEW Yong June o6

I'VE" iohhi june 20.
Lieut.. Davis, of the British flag ship
Indus, who arrived in this city yesterday
with dispatches from Admiral Stuart, fcr
Lord Napier, proceeded Immediately to
Washington. He reports that the steamer
Devastation, which had been despatched
with pre-emptory orders to the Styx and
Blu zzard, not to overhaul any more Amor.
can vessels, had returned to Bermuda, and
reports having fallen in with those vesse le
and delivered the orders TO commanders.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

prWe tender our thanks 10 the Committee for
an invitation 10 "Independpnce Pic Mic Party
at GAINESVILLE, Saturday, July Sd. The enviable
reputation of your fair town for hospitality. your
beautiful ladies spd generous men will doubtless
make it a PHEASANT, gaia day affair. We wish We
could be with you, ladies and gentlemen. but
circumstances over winch we have no control,' s.
call us elsewhere. We hope you may all send a
haepy day pleasantly and proftably. Our good
look ing friend, the DR." has our especial thanks
for the favor shown US.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
More Of Secretary Floyd's Opera.

tlUuS.
The Swartwouts and the Galphins Of
former Administrations are put to blush by
Gov. F.ovd of Buchanan's. Every day the
Virginia Secretary is kept N office sinks
the administration lower in disgrace. The
Washington Correspondent of the New
York Times writes on the 18th:
1t appears as if we were never TO have
done with the very peculiar financial trans
actions which have distinguished Governor
Fioyd'S administration ol the War Depart
ment. have just discovered another OF
his operations in this line, almost rivaiing
the famous Galphin swindle. A man bv
the name of Gordon has been prosecuting
a Claim before the Treasury Department for
of depreGaions committed by Indians on
plantatio of his father-in law in A abamu,
Mr. Fisher. Hitherto he has been un-
successful, because Congress had paid him
S27 900. which the Treasury Department
he Id was full and liberal salts action Of
all claims which he could bring against the
Government Attracted, however, by the
reputation which Secretary Floyd has gain
ed in financial matters, he got an act slip
ped through Congress, referring his claim
TO the Secretary Of War to compute and
ascertain. if any. the amount due. The
claim thus went into Foyd's hands, and
under his manipulation. Mr.. Gordon has
obtained an award Of $4,000 in payment
of damages, which Congress anG the Tre-
asury Department for ten years past have
repeatedly held were al paid and satisfied!
The money has, believe. no: yet been pad
and the exposure ought TO prevent its being
drawn from the Treasury but suppose it
will not. Pat down the aff1ir along with
Fort Smelling. Lime P1ini. &c. &c
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

TThe Indianapolis Journal of yester-
day says: -s
"The Republicans Of the Lebanon, (Ohio)
Congressional District are determined 10
urge Gov. Tom Corwin to accept nom-
nation for Congress. His appearance again
in the councils of the nstion would be joy
fully hailed by thousands of friends and ad-
mirers all over the Union"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

Ho~ARD ASSOCIATION. fBILADELPHIA.-Ourb busi-
ness transactions with this Association lead US TO
believe that tits Institution of sound reliable
an d useful character. We commend to the aten-
q ticn of our readers the nual announcement of
the Directors IN our advertising columns
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01
erDAN RIcE,s beautiful trained horse. "E,

2TDAN RIcEs beautiful trained horse. Excel
sior," which was exhibited here to an admiring
audience last May, Ia horse, by the way, which
had more sensc than his owner.) learn fell from
the stairs which he was ascending. al some place
in Illinois, by which his leg was broken. and he
had TO be shot to relieve him of his misery. Good
old " Excelsior" left more friends here than did
his pedantic owner
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

INDEPENDANcE DAY-A Coop SUGGEsT4oN-
FoRNET's Press suggests that clergymen all over
the land preach patriotic sermon on Sunday
July 4th, from the text the ''nId bell'' now re-
p'sine in Independence Hall Pbiladelphia. "PRo
CLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, UNTO
THE INHABITANTS THEREOF" Let that ST. Glars
vile minister who wishes TO draw the largest
audience on Independence Day. adopt this text
Such q sefmen won III be refreshing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

Rats, Reaches, Bugs, Insects, &c
"CO TAR s. RAT, ROACH. &C., EX.
TERMGNATOR;
"COSTAR'S" BED BUG EXTERMI.
Major,
"COSTAR'S" ELECTRIC POWDER, for
Ants, Insects, &c.
See adverts ement in this DAVIS paper.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-07-01

nThe summer term of the ST.. ClairsviIle Pub
lie Schools closed this Wednesday noon. Those
in authority wisely concluded not TO have any
public examination. on account of the intense
heat The little urchins ard the more sedate se-
niors are now relieved of their books until The
first of fSeptember.