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The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22
Lupatic Verses.

Miller, who shot at Judge Fitch OF Toledo. |
" in the Newburg Insane Asylum. A fsw dsv
ce he wrote the following verses, and sent then
a friend in Toledo, who.had them inserted In III
ads.
Gods Philosophers aud Kings
Devils Angels, minus wings
Material and spirit things;
What nom mind and matter springs,
Confusion Ia profusion.
Laughing men and crying men.
Lotharlos aud dying men,
Preaching praying, lighting, pryine.
SShoanng, singing swapping, buying,
In our Institution.
Lords Of castles in the air.
Builders In hydrogen rare.
Light heads, light sbsot bent hair.
Draws well here a. anywhere;
Rats, plug uglies, also share
Our hospietabls fodder.
III the visionary lights.
Men OF Justice, dreams and sights
Kansas screamers--peoples rights,
Men OF colors-msn of plights.
Drinking, thinking, lazy wights,
Hallueinated plodds,.
Lunstic Hotel, heiloi
Counties Of North Ohio.
Saudusky. Cleveland, Toledo.
Send your Quxotes here, you know.
lodgings cheap-the grub so, so.
Bring 'eIn ON and tile 'eu.
Lot them fancy what they will,
Gill 10 Jack and Jack IL Gin.
Here we make, mend. cure, or kill,
Clothe' feed physic; Doctor Pin
Looks TO the State TO foot the biit
VI our Insane Asylum.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

eloquent, especially on hoops, aud that fact alone,
should cover q multitude OF sina There, I'm
growing tsdious-I know sm--you are noddiug
too. You aio not 7 yes you arc. Don't see
your Dear me |, as usual, have failed to come
to the point t--indeed never shall como to point
until il il quite too late. GossIp.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

AwF OATH 1t appears that on the arri-
val of the detachment OF the 18th Highlanders
at that "plsce of skulls Cownpore, after thu
massacre o. our countryman. women and chill
dren. they by some means or other found the re.
mains Of one Of General Wheeler's daughters.
The sight was horrible. and aroused them 10 that
pitch, that gathering around they took the hair
from off ,he poor girls head. portion Of which
was carefully selected and sent home to her sur
viving friends. The remainder they equally di
vided amongst themselves; and or each man
receiving his carefully served out portion they
all quietly and very patiently applied themselves
20 the tedious task Of counting out the number
Of hairs Contained in each individuals lot, and
when this task was accomplised they one and
all swore most solemnly that for as many hairs
as they held in their fingers SO many Of the
cruel and treacherons mu;inseIs should die by
their hands Ian oath that they will no doubt
most rsligiously kesP.--Hong Kong pcper,
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

Sin has many tools. but a lie is the hsnil., !,
which fits them ALL
--Modesty. says cotemporary. adorns NO.
man, but ruins d man.
Thou leornest no secret until thon knowesI
friendship since to the ursOund no heavenly
knowledge enters.
:" friend is he. who, hunted as a foe
SO much the kindlier shows him than before
Throw stones at him, or ruder javens throw,
he builds with stone and ste Ell trmor hnor.M
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

"A couple were recently married in Tusca.
rawss county who, il is said. received baptism
in the church in the evening. aud were msrried
the same night, The bride was minor, and her
parents not consenting to the union, she obtain
ed me iieense bv putting the number l9 on her
head ani l9 in one OF her shoes and swearing
that she was between l8 an 10. Young Amsri.
oa is still ahead. ~ Progressiue Ass
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22
The Parson aud the Rustic.

\ lovesick young pair who had only dollar
To pay to the priest for q conjuga collar,
Were told by the parson, " his regular fee,
For marrying people, was always We"
Nay, then" quoth the swain. good parson, nov
come!
dollar, Pm sure. ought 20 marry us somei
'Fis all have got; you can take 1t you know,
And marry as far as the money will go!,
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

We understand that the Attorney General.
in answer to inquiries addressed to him by tbe
Warden of the Penipntisry and the Acting
Commissioner OF the State House, have Official.
lylAdvised those officers that in his opinion, the
acts of the late Legislature appointing Commis-
sloners 10 appoint new Boards Of Directors Of
the Penitentisry. and Of Commissioners of ths
State House. are clearly unconstitutional, end
are therefore inoperatiye 10 repral the acts in
force prior 10 their passage % S. yoMrnal
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

III you would have an idea of the ocean In
storm, just imasine ten thousand hills and
four thousand mountain, all drunk, and chasing
one another over newly ploughed gfound, with
lots ct caverns in II tor them to step into now
aud then.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22
" Somebody's Coming"

Well let him cont but what need Of all thi .
furry! Bauny's apron Is clean; Susy's dress
was from the drawer this morning; why change
them7 they are very neat, aud just such as
children need to play in You do not wish them
TO sit like so many dolls while Mrs. Bird is
here A restraint will be put on them with
these new dresses they will neither move grace
fully nor play freely, lest they fumple or soil
their fine things
No fanciul fxings can beautify child. It's
beauty is all innate it can not Be put on. Every
thing about it which diverts the eye from ITSELF
by so much diminishes its lovliness.
A CHILD why, tn. words are only form Of
beauty. The word child is only synonym Of
bsauty--it suggests nothing else. There put
away these things--made and kept for show |;
now, the children are sweet. We recollect a
proof OF sterling sense. noted in the family of
one Of the Senators of Congress from Maine
the children are dressed in just the simple way
in which hese ore dressed. The material neat,
plain, and strong, what they need 10 play in,
running about in the air, as free as lambs and
kittens, they were allowed to be children--no
attempt was made to show them off
Nay-- do not change your own dress; ii is at
| tractive in its modest graceiulness Tue pretty
figure on calico dress is becoming. Yes, it
certainly is cotton, and admirably adapted to a
tidy house keeper. No; your friends will not
feel that you are wanting in respect for them
. II you TeCeIY0 tUem III suCU UTtS5. IL sUOWt
that you receive them as friends, and wish to
place them at ease.
Aud you will retain ease and self-possession in
that simple dress, to which you are accustomed
that would be somewhat modified by the stylish
one made for state occasions
Your husband will be proud FOR his friends Il
} see that his wife is agreeable in common gown
, and that she does not depend, for ornament or
; swels, and the Celebrations Of dress.
, A new idea? and will you try it, Do. You
will enjoy the society your visitors twice as
; we'll. They will feel less restraint and NOR
cordality. You will thus, at the outset, de
stroy in them all inclination to criticism an(
/, you will, all, be happier.
What is the use OF having rich dresses, il on
q is not to wear them, when company comes?-
= Truly, uhat is the use? except to benefit ~
a merchant and mechanic Nobody loves you NOR
for your magnifcence of apparel. All these ex
traneous ornaments are only so many things in
e terpossd b tween you and the hearts Of Others.
The same idea applies to your table. fev
: dishes simply prepared, are more enjoyed thai
y the costly viands which empty the purse an
i make one lament the toll Of getting up dinners
t Only remember--never apologize as if smplicit
e of food and dress was not just what is needed
: the very best. So you will health, spirits
and purse, while promoting social enjoyment
: hundred fold.--Life illustrated.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

--One Of the Western editors speaking OF a
large and fat contemporary, remarked that if all
hsSh was grass. he must be load Of hay. Il
suspect ana said ths fat man, " from the way
tie asses are nibbiing at me-"
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

FINE PREACHING curse of the age is fine
preaching; il is morbid and pestilential. The
age needs plain, intelligent preaching preach
ing suggestive and illustrative preaching alb
sorbing all that eloquence can offer. but elo-
quence adapting itself (without which it ceases
to be eloquence) to the wants aud states of the
people; awaiting itself of the lights of history
for illustration, or of science for confirmation,
or of philology for elucdation. and holding also
aloft that they may reflect their rays upon the
genius of Christianity, and develop its superb
orluster, adaptability, and power. The attempt
to say fine things in the pulpit is a solemn sin,
and fine ssrmons (ike all other fnery) are very
evanescent in their influence. 1t the fine SER
mon system die out US fast as possible, useless
as 1t is to God and man. 1t devoves upon a
few to show to those not gifted with so much
moral courage, that there is every thing to gain
aud nothing TO lose by the adoption of more
honest system of instruction. Intelligence will
never hide away to the man able to teach Cos
pei Messenger.
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

why is an overloaded gun like an Office
AoldsrS B-csuss hs kicks nightly when Sis.
charged
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-04-22

EFFECTS OF ENcoURAaEMENT.--Fhe celebrated
Benjamin West related that his mother once
kissed him eagerly when he showed her like
ness he had sketched Of his baby sister; and he
adds, "That kiss made me painter"
Infants count by minutes; clldren by days:
men by years comets by revolutions of ages
nature by revolutions of systems; the Eternal
meditatss in perpetual present.
1t is little trouble to tell lie, but it is a
great deal Of trouble to conceal the fact that
you have told one.
The call to religion is not call to be better
than your fellows, but to be better than your
self. Religion is relative to the individual.
How wisely Nature. ordering all below,
Forbade on wonans chin beard to grow;
For how should she be shaved, whate'e the SKILL
Whose tongue would never let her chin be still
NO humility is perfect and proportioned,
but that which makes us hate ourselves as cor.
rupt but respect ourselves as immortal ; the hu-
mility that knees in the dust but gazes on the
skies.-Archer Butler.
That PoUaAKEEPsIE GIRL.--rhe Buffalo Com
ntcreiaL Advertiser, one of the editors Of which
is a medicine man, says of the girl at Pough.
Keepsle who fell into trance at revival meet
ing and saw great many things which sstonsh-
ed the natives
Every physician OF any experience has seen
twenty such cases as this. The disease is we'll
known a hysteFical coma The talking parox-
ysms are more frequent and far less remarkable
than the half catsleptic condition which previ-
Gus accounts have mentioned. in fact there IS
nothing at all remarkable bout thp case, except
the fuss made over it. A little harshness, few
buckets of cold water, for instance, would be
far more likely TO put an end to this trance than
the constant inducements held out to her 10
stay in il. That she has never been nervous
before is about as wonderful as that person
should have he itch for the first time"
The Poughkeepsie Eagle pronounces the story
FIRST Of April hoax.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

MANNERs.-I make it a point of moral
ity never TO find fault with another for his
manners. They may be unpublished or
graceful, blunt or polite, | care not what
they are, if the man means we'll and acts
from honest intention, without eccentricity
of affectaiion. All men have not the AZ
vantages of ''good society, as it is called,
to school themselves in ill its fantastic
rules and ceremonies, and if there is any
standard of manners, it is one founded il
reason and good sense, and not upon these
artificial regulations. Manners like CONVEX
satior, should be extemporaneous, and mo-
studied. l always suspect man who
meets ne with the same perpetual smile OF
his face, and tie same premeditated shake
of the hand. Give me the heaLry-it ma,
be rough--grip of the hand-the csrless
nod of recognition, and when occasion re-
quires, the holnely but welcome salutation
How are you, my old friend Z
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

FooLIsH METHODS OF EDUcATIoN.-Cat-
ting and caustic were the words of Spur
helm, the Phrenologist, in relation to the
educational imprisonment of children.
They ate not less applicable to those OF
larger growth. you have little boy
he may b. four years old-you think there
is no time to be lost and you send him te
school. There lie is confined for hours and
compelled to sit upon ii bench, and look up
on look. lie hears the voices ofcliidreE
playing without--he half rises 10 look from
tie window-a rap upon the teachers
desk recalls him to his seat urou the bench
a glance shows i'm the kite sailing in the
air, to the delight, No doubt, OF its happy
little Iroprietor-ihe poor child is almost
invoIun'arily again upon his feet-another
rap, ami be again drops into his seat, upon
the bench. bay after day, week aitei
week month .fter month, the little fellow
returns 10 his prison, and sits upon the
bench. At length he becomes pale and
languil, loses his appetite, grows restless
at night, has cough, and loses his flesh
and spirits. Ought he not to be taken from
the bench The consequences of this would
be terrible-he would lose his rank in tina
school, So he continues to sit upon the
bench. After a few weeks more, he j:
brought home. He tainted, as he sat upor
the bench Matters begin to wear seri
Gus aspect. The doctor is called pronoun
GEES hin very i'll. A great pity he had
been compelled to sit SO long upon the
bench 1t is all over with the poor child
Ere long he dies. A sad calamity
BIT, thank God, there is oae precious
consolation before he died, he had learnet
his A B g
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17
A NOVEL PERFoRMANCE.-The Topeka
Tribune of recent date says:

A NOVEL PERFoRMANCE.-The Topeka
Tribune of recent date says:
Our streets were enlivened on Tuesda,
last, by an original Indian war dance. A
party of Kaws, among whom were severa
chiefs, begrimed with paint and bespan
gled with trinkets and jewels, visited the
place on trading expedition, and Were
induced to perform their war dance. The
performance was utterly Undesirable. :
Of all the outlandish grotesque and riiicu
lous positions it is possible for the body t.
assume, or the grunt!ngs, howlings ant
yellings, of which the human tongue i
capable, this exhibition surpasses every
thing we had before witnessed. 1t was
sight, however, which it will be we'll t.
treasure up in our memory, as not many
years will elapse before the wild haunts o
the savage will be converted into the thrift
ty farms and cities-comes of industry ant
intelligence; while their original possessors
shall be known AS people that were, ans
legends of the war dance will be a thrill
ling theme for the NOVELIST and the anti
Quarlan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17
INTERESTING TO FREE MAsONs.

First word on new discovery. Why
is it that the present century is so far In
Iferior to the centuries of the dark ages
For long time it has been an opinion
that the singular harmony which reigns ii
the proportions of the architectural mon
uments of that age was not the result o.
mere accident, and that there must beer
!! some mathematical secret unknown to the
| present age This secret, German, Mr.
/ Hanzlemann, has found. 1t was secre,
which belonged to antiquity as well as to
the Greek and Roman epochs. 1t presi
ded as well at the construction of Solo
mons temple, as at the Parthenons OF
Rome and Athens. The discovery of Mr.
Hanzlemann was the result of study
With his plumbline, square and compass
he travelled through Germany, Italy,
France ard England, measuring and cal
culating, and finding in all the structures
of the different ages of the past the same
harmonious lines. He has demonstrated
beyond contradiction, the correlation of
The Greek with the middle age architec-
ture.
The secret which was the property of
the Brother Masons, free Masons of the
present day. from the time of the build
ing of Solomon's temple down to the ff-
teenth, perhaps even TO the sixteenth cen
fury, was at last lost by them, and the
sublime art of architecture entered its age
of decadence. The Greeks and Hebrews
took great pains to keep this secret. Py-
lhaporas in Greece and Moses, Davi.i and
Solomon among the Israelites, were of its
number of its possessors, The Free Ma
sons, were undoubtedly the heirs of the
art of Hiram, the great architect, but I'M
fortunately they hade lost it. In the Par
liponenes we see David is giving to his
sons the plans and descriptions which he
had received from God, to raise to him
temple at Jerusalem and in the proper
tions and forms indicated by the different
books of the Billie, we trace the elements
of the harmonious system recognized by
Mr.. Hanzlemann.
The discovery of the German architect
has excited so much interest in France,
that H. Lenoir, an architect of this city,
has made report on the subject 10 the
Minister Of Public Instruction and Wor-
ship. This gentleman not only approves
the discovery of Mr.. Hanzlenann, bnt sup
ports lis truth and CORE ctness with addi-
iional proofs. = Paris Correspondent Of the
n. Y. Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

CAPITAL REMovAL.-We are told thai
the project of removing the Capital from
Madison to Portage City, is not a mere
buncomte matter, but will be pressed with
earnestness and with fair prospect of sue
cess. Liberal offers are made to the State
by those interested, for the location Of the
Capitol on the designated site near Port
age, which coupled will the fact that the
State will be required at once to commence
the erection of new Capitol building at
Madison are not without their effect
Should the bill pass, is is to be submitted
to vote of the people before it becomes
a law Milwaukee Free Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

The MONSTER GuN-The monster G III
of the U. S. corvette Plymouth, weigh
10000 pounds avoirdupois. 1t is covered
with coating of vermillion and beesw ak,
and, therefore, has red instead of the
usual black appearance of ships guns.
The heavy dahlgreen guns have two
vents, which facilitate their rapid and safe
firing. The weight of each shell they
discharge is about $50 pounds, and that
of each solid shot ia pounds. The sound
of the she'll and shot. traversing a distance
of three miles, is lost in the enormous space
which it traverses. One popularity of the
dahlgreen gun is its enormous strength and
thickness, where The greatest force OF pow
er is expended. In experiments made to
test the strength of these guns, one of them
had been fired nearly 1000 times, with a
large proportion of solid shot, without burs
ting.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

Gov. WIRE AN EMANcIPATIoNIsT.- Ill
is stated by the Washington correspondent
of the New York Times, that the oppo
sition of Gov. Wise, OF Virginia, to the
Lecompton swiude, is attributed to the
fact that he has within the last year be-
come proselyte to the Emanciptior
movement, which has fer some time
past beer rapidly gaining friends and ad
vocates in the Northern line OF Slave
States. 1t is stated that Gov. Wise is
strong supporter and advocate OF El
Thayer's white labor colonization scheme
which he regards as the only hope for tho
"Old Dominion"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17


We hear of a piquant correspon-
dent that has just passed between two cler-
gymen in city where a considerable
awakening has taken place. In substance
the correspondence ran as follows:
BAPTIST TO METHODIST CLERGYMAE.-
Dear Brother-I shall baplise some con-
verts tomorrow if any of your converts
prefer to be.baptised in our mode,l shall be
happy to baptse them, as candidates for
voul church.
METHODIST TO BAPTIST CLERGYMAN
Dear Brother-Yo Yours received. | prefer
to wash my own sheer - Springfield
Mass Rep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17
MCFFAYS LIFE PILLS
t-AND-t
phnniX Bitters.

yJyHE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE NOW BEFORE THE
| public for the cure ofScrOfnia, Ulcers, scuryy
or isruptions of the skin, Fever and Agues, Dys'
pcpsia DrOpsy, and in fact most all the diseases soor
Yield 10 their curative properties
1t has been computed that during the last Twenty-Five
benefited by the use Of these medicines fact sfthei
curative propertes-a single trial viii place them be-
yond the reach competition in the estimate OF every
natient Nv their use the BLOOD Is RESTORED TG
4 HEALTHY STATE and freed from all inoarlies-
The system is reduced during their operation but
nvigoraed and they require no restraint from business
or pleasure.
TIE afflicted hare in these medicines remedy tadt Stf
do for item all that medicine caH possibly eject.
PREPARED BY
W B. MOFFAT, NJ D., New York.
AND FOR SALE BY-GEo. FL. Cox, Lancaster, ant
druggists generally.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

The Horse SECRET is OuT.-The Eng
lish papers are discussing the question Of
the secret by which the .'Ohio horse tam
err is able to subdue the most vicious aud
intractable of the horse species. The Lon
don Punch says: "Rarey whispers in the
ear of the vicious animal, now, be quiet
or I'll read you an article out of the Morn
iao Star, and the horse obeys, partially
through terror of the punishment threaten
ed, aud partly to to show that he hasn''
the tastes of donkey"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-04-17

-NrRDEREks BODY on THE GIBBET.-
-e long narrow spective Of this val
io lndistinct object, elevated over the
| Of brnshwood, looking like something
fans handiwork, came now in view
|oAed like a cross of unusual height.
ca the whole, Of q strange appearance
Se came nearer, something like a body
PED attached to the cross; we spurred
lorses, and in reality it proved to be a
ban body. 1t was an object quite in
pony with the scenery. On high the
Fdahed form of 4 man, tied firmly by
neck to beam, hung suspended
skin vas that of a brown man, now
y sud transparent, like parchment
lace hung down, hidden by a shock OF
! hair, coarse and bristly. A mouldy
P wss attached to the foot of til,
a. on which a few halfetfaced words
\ Of justice having overtaken the
'-'sr, guilty Of many murders commit
% this spot. This horrible object ex-
= 10 wonder in us at the time; it
ned SO in accordance with the place, to
., I. upon the footsteps of the demon
= haunted 1t. No signs ofputrification
: perceptlble. Was this owing to pre-
: : PREPARATION, or to the peculiar quail
I Tue atmosphere at some distance from
round: But, strangess of all, no vul-
bad come to the feast-their ever
oeaks had spared this solitary mon
|. q Mexican justice; or had even
SI a loathing at the poisonous flesh
~e murderer ~ Travels In Mexico.