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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-05-26
"PATCIlULY." " F"
A HUMOROUS SKETCH,

and his friends put up, are n number
Of servant girls. and it is the idosyn.
cracy of servant girls to take their
share Of toilet articles, such as hair
oil, perfumes, &c, while they are re-
juvcnating the apartments OF the
boarders. Dave and his friend Robert
were very careful of their respective
toilets, and being in n courting way
had been paying extra attention to
personal adornment.
They were in the habit of getting a
pint Of hair oil made up by the drug
gist at one time; and finally they were
in the habit Of finding that a pint Of
this cost oil would not last u week.
and that all the servant girls in the
house emitted the same perfume they
did. 1t was not long before they came
to II conclusion in the matter. So one
evening, when the hair oil cruise was
empty, they took the bottle which con-
tanned it, and straight they went to
the drug store. There was whisper.
ing conversation with a laughing
clerk, and mixing various articles il
pint bottle, and the following was
in the prescription book as the con.
tents:
OF Lac Assalrtida, which, for the
information OF our readers, we will
state is II highly concentrated extract
of that delicious drug--of this, one
on.
OF Liquor Potassc, ca fluid celcbra-
ted for lis corrosive power, having the
power Of taking the hair of a dog in
ten seconds.) one half ounce.
OF BnlSam of Fir, Che stckicst and
gummiest article known,0 or.
OF Honey, or.
Oh Alcohol, to make the ingredient
fluid, one half pint.
This was well ">huck,' and deposit
ted in the usual place occupied By the
hair oil.
The next day (Snnday) Dave and
Bob dressed themselves for church,
and finishing, travelled down stairs.
But they came back another way in
u few minutes, and sccrcted them
selves in II room adjoining theirs,
where, from a couple OF pancS OF glass
over the door. they could see every
thing that went on. After the people
Of the house had gone. two or three
servant girls came in Dawes room.
whilst. Molly, said II large red
headed one. 'Ml1lhr Dave has some
more Of the lie, and my hairs as dhry
as powdhcr; Its have IL regular fix
up wild the folks all away This was
acccdcl to, and they all went to oiling
their locks, being very lavish with the
Hand, which was quite thin il conSc,
qucncc OF the alcohol. In a lew min
utcS red head says:
Whrra, what smills sol" with her
nose turned skyward.
'Shurc, is the parlumc, interrupted
short and dumpy specimen, with her
hair down her back.
perfume, lndadc, says red head
that's not pagiumc--it's the ralc bad
smilI.'
"Mcbby, says the dumpy, it's Patch
Chuwly. Eve harrad folks say that
Patch Chuwly smiIIs dridtul at Iust;
person must git used TO the smiIl be-
fore they like it. Shurc it's parlumc
used by the quality
This satisfied red head, and after
tho ouyh ling they left the room.--
ln about two hours the boardcrS came
home from church.
,Good gracious. what is IL Bless
ny souI Mr.. g. Shall faint! Oh!
nv dear. there must be an unclcan
oni,noI in fine roo,uy" and a thousand
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-05-26
A MODEL SPEECH.

~ ~ al 81 EECl.
h'hGng t &c proceedings of the Mis-
souri, Legislature, we find the follow
.ng report Of a speech delivered a few
days before the anniversary Of the
Battle Of New Orleans. The ST..
Louis Democrat thinks that Mr.. Pitt
resembles Lord Chatham, at least. in
the particular of having "two legs
and nose on it,"
Mr.. Pitt offered the following:
Resolved, That the Speaker be au-
lhorlzcd to cause to be printed and
posted one hundred bills. announcing
the Sh Of January, 1859.
Mr.. Abncy-I move to lay that res,
olution on the table.
Mr.. Plt-Mr. Speaker, this House
passed resolutions, sir, to celebrate
in an appropriate manner, the 9Th OF
January. This is IA resolution simply
asking that notice be given 20 the pub
lie Of that day. We have declared
an intcntion and now whnn ~. conr
to nuhlish if soma nnn,lrm,, i .uJ.
deulv seized with The "rr,rcnchmrnt
crimes" and so,,ir,ns oro,nd like -
Ionr rod worm IN , n;uho,l, u,u,h.
trr2 Gentlemen Errn c,n>;nunII,,
talking obout cconouv myself do
NOT believe in tyj,r the n,Iblc nurse
with cob.weh s;rinrs but when re-.
,renchmrnt come, in contact with n,.
triotiSm il ,s<unesthn firm or..m',Il.
ne.s, Su,h cronomv is like that o(
old Sk;,njnt who had , n,;r or hoo,s
m,dn for hi, l;u,e bov ni,Lout SoleS
that lhrv uiybt LAST ,he lourcr-
T,noh,cr\ prvercnc. "the dav vc
crIebratr" Gis trought with rrmjn.
isccnccs the most stirring il brjuas TO
mind ono ,r ,ho pr,,dost evon.. .vnr
rnco,d.d in Ia,tors of liv;rp fire an ,he
yolls or ,hc ,em,lc of f,nn hv the
strony r;rht arm ,,' rbe ooI or war I
On snch orcas;on we shouM rise above
marty lines and no}i,irol distinctions
n.y,r rnuyht nnI.r tLo honnrror old
Uickorv b,.t .bv lLc eternal" | wish
| had. Unurbtrr and npDIauscO If
lhc old war horse WAS here now he
would NOT knov his own children
rrono ,Lo s;do ,r Iosonh', co,t or MANY
o,l,,, WL;ro E,,u, N,,h;n,. no,,n
Holo'S' W h'SS' hii"N 4'"'H''SN = ~ '''io
Gratis haro' Solt' boIlro' Scrainoieu ana
lrIed; L'nco,n'tes' DouglasIlcS ana
blathcrsN''cs! / belong TO no party; |
am llcc, uhDiid!tu, uilSauu'cu, III lic
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-05-26

HEadd'as.-We will supply either
Harper's Magazine, or Graham's, or Go.
dey's and the Home Journal one year, for
four dollars. Arthur's Home Magazine,
or Pelerson's, and the Home Journal, one
wear, for 8 25.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-05-26
ghe Monle gonrnal.
BY w. j. SLAT'rER.
"Pledged 10 no Parly's arbitrary sway,
We follow Truth where'er she leads the way
D35" Subscriptions for shorter time

shan one year must be paid in advance.
BeY- Hereafter no club subscriptions
at less than the regular price (s2) will
he received. However, when a club Of
five subscribers is sent US, we will allow
an extra copy gratis to the gettefup Of
lhe club.
E1P Single copies sold at 10 cents.
8Gy~ When credit for the paper is Civ.
en- to the end of the year three dollars
will be iapariaJly charged.
Postmasters throughout the country will
do US favor. as well as be doing lLcir
duty, to inform US when b subs, rlber re-.
fuses his paper, or when the paper lies
dead at their Office,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-05-26

(ConvuIslye laughter)
After the above speech, the House
refused to lay the resolution on the ta~
bic.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
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Mixing llN the RsA biGS.

The Weaverville (Cal. "Journa!" gives
the following accoant of an affair'which,
however it may move the laughter of our
readers, we fancy made some of the par
ties concerned, "laugh on the wrong side
of their mouths"
Some time ago, there was a dancing
party given cup north" most of the la
dies present had little babies, whose noisy
perversity required too much attention to
permit the mothers TO enjoy the dance
A number of gallant young men volnn-
teered to watch the young ones, while the
parents indulged in "breakdown." No
sooner had the women left the babies in
charge of the mischievous devils, than
they stripped the infants, changed their
clothes, giving to one the apparel of an
other. The dance over, it was time TO &c
home, and the mothers hurriedly took each
baby, in the dress of her own, and
started, some to their homes, ten or fifteen
miles off, and were far on their way be-
fore daylight. But the day following,
there was prodigious row in that settle
ment, and then commenced some of the
lallest female pedestrianism; living miles
apart, it required two days to unmix the
babies, and as many months to restore the
women to their naturally sweet disposi'
tons. To this day it is unsafe for any
of the baby mixers to venture within the
Territory.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
Douglas Stock Falling i'm 1nd1-
ana.

An Indianapolis correspondent of the
Washington "Constitution," who is evil
IDENTIFY Hendricks man and Lecomp-
tonl,e, writes: "Set it down as fixed
fact that the next State Convention will be
composed of reliable Administration DEM
ocrats, ands no mistake" The same ju-
bilant individual gives the following re-
port, at headquarters, Of the recent ex-
plot by which the Douglasites were
"squelched" in Marion county:
"The great contest was in the selection
of delegates to the Slate Convention,
which meets in January next, and part Of
whose duty it will be to select delegates to
tie Charleston Conveation. Here the fac
tioniss tried their best to get an entrance
to that Convention, but twelve solid ma
tional Democrats were selected, who will
see that the right kind of delegates are
sent to Charleston from this district.
"When it is remembered that this is
the head quarters of few noisy faction
lists, who have given the party so much
trouble in the State for the last two years,
by systematic efforts to pull down the Ma
tional Administration, the importance ol
the result will be appreciated. It's signD-
icance Is understood here, and will have an
i'm porlant influence in the State"
According to this account, the Little
Rebel may consider himself fairly done
for in Indiana,
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
TCorrespondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
The Public WOrkS-The PrOpOs ed
Lease Il Failure.
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. Is, 1859.

COLUMBUS, o., Aug. ID, 1909.
The day and the hour fixed by the ia
nous Canal Bill--concocted by our legis-
lative solons last winter--for leasing the
Public Works of the State to the hiahest
and best bidder, having arrived, the Presl-
dent of the Board of Public Works,
at half past P. NJ, this day, took
his stand at the South portico of the State
House and made proclamation Of his readi-
ness to receive bids upon each and all OF
the different divisions, in accol dance with
the terms of the law and the conditions
prescribed in the public notice issued by
the Board. Quite number of "musk-
rats" were present, but no bids were made
for any portion of the works, nor were any
of the securities required by the Act as
preliminary to a bid deposited with the
State Auditor.
Thus has exploded another grand hum
bug of the late Democratic Legislature
No sane man ever believed that bid
would be made under the law for leasing,
as the conditions prescribed by the Act
were such as to preclude shrewd bust
ness men from competing for the contracts
The serious apprehensions entertained
as to Mr.. Waddle being able to keep uI
his Divisions of the Canals, in conse'
quence of the blundering Act Of the late
Legislature, in appropriating but $1,000
instead of $4l 900, for keeping it in repair
l am happy to say will not be fully real
lied. By prudent management of his ap,
preparations, Mr.. Waddle has been enabled
to carry over some unexpended balances
with which he may, if no disasters from
floods or breaks occur, carry his Division
safely through until the close Of naviga
ton.
Yours, CLERIcUs.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
How Indians Made Stone Arrow
Heads.

The heads Of the Indian arrows, spears,
javelins, DC, often found in many parts of
our continent, have been admired, but the
process of forming them conjectured.-
The Hon. Caleb Lyon, on a recent visit to
California, met with party of Shasta In
dians, and ascertained that they still used
these weapons, which in most tribes have
been succeeded by rifles, or at least by
iron pointed arrows and speers. He found
a man who could manufacture them, and
saw him at work at all parts of the process.
The description which Lyon wrote and
communicated to the American Ethnologi-
cal Society, through Dr.. E. H. Davis, we
copy below:
The Shasta Indian seated himself upon
the floor, and laying the stone anvil upon
his knee, which was Of compact, talcose
slate, with one blow of his agate chisel he
separated the obsidian pebble into two
parts, then giving another blow to the
fractured side he split off slab some
fourth of an inch in thickness. Holding
the piece against the anvil with the thumb
and finger Of the left hand, he commenced
series of continuous blows, every one
of which Clipped off fragments of the brit
tie substance. Itgradually assumed the re-
quired shape. After finishing the blaze
Of the arrowhead (the whole being only
little over an inch in length) he began
striking gentler blows, every one of which
expected would break it into pieces
Yet such was their application, his skill
and dexterity, that in little over an hour
he produced perfect obsidian arrowhead.
/ then requsted him to carve me one
from the ramains of a broken porter bottle,
which after two failures, he succeeded in
doing, He gave as reason of his i'll sue
cess, he did not understand the grain Of
the glass. No sculptor ever handled a
chisel with greater precision or more care
fully measured the weight and effect OF
each blow, than this ingenious Indian, for
even among them, arrow making is dis
tinct trade or profession, which many at
tempted, but in which few attain excel
lence. He understood the capacity Of the
material he wrought, and before striking
the first blow, by surveying the pebble,
he could judge Of its availability as well as
the sculptor judges of the perfeetness q {
block of Parian. In moment, all that
read on this subject, written by learned
and speculative antiquarians of hardening
of copper, for the working of flint axes
spears, chisels and arrow heads, vanished
before the simplest mechanical process.
felt that the world had been better served
had they driven the pen less and Chi
plough more.-N y Courier and En
Quirer. W
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
Physical Benefit of the Sabbath

The Sabbath is Gods special present to
the working man, and one of its chief OBJ
jects is to proiong his life, aud preserve
efficient his working tone, In the vital
system it acts like a compensationR pond
it replenlshes the spirits, the elasticity, and
vigor which the last six have drained
away, and supplies the force which is to fill
the six days succeeding; and, in the econ
omy Of existence, it answers the same pur-
pose as. in the economy of income, is an.
swered by saving bank. The frugal man
puts away a pound to-day and another
pound next month, and he who, in quiet
way, is putting by his stated pound from
time 10 time, when he grows old and frail
gets not only the same pound back again,
but a. good many pounds beside. And
the conscientious man, who husbands one
day Of his existence every week--who, in
stead of allowing the Sabbath to be tram.
pied and torn in the hurry and scramble o.
life, treasures it devoutly up. the Lord o.
the Sabbath keeps it for him, and. in The
length of days, the hale old age gives i
back with usury. The savings bank Q
human existence is the weekly Sabbath
NORTH British Reriele,
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
WHOLE NUMBER ss6,
"Let Us All be Friends.

No sort of quarrelng pays. Il is al
ways more profitable to have the good will
and the good opinion of any man than to
count him an enemy. The humblest man
has some influence, and it is better to have
that on our side than against US. If we
quarrel with one who cannot himself injure
us, he may have relatives OF friends whose
good word might one day be useful, Or.
If he is such an outsider as to have nei:her
friend, relative or influence, it SCENE like
small business to quarrel with so rorlorn
an individual. Amiability is so lovely
virtue that men instinctively admire its
fortunate possessor, and when he comes in
contact with cross-grained, quarrelsome
individual, his own good nature shines
more brightly by reason. Of the contrast.
We may safely promise largely in
creased enjoyment to him who becomes
reconciled to an old foe. 1t is not wise to
nurse quarrel and keep it warm by
brooding over real or imaginary injuries.
And the road to peace is very plain and
straight; if we have been hasiy, or unkind.
or incousiderate, there is nothing SO manly
and honorable as prompt acknowledg-
ment of our fault or folly, and none but
brute will refuse proffered reconciliation.
On the other hand, if we have been in
jured, let us remember that we also need
pardon for many offenses, and we also
need grace to ask that pardon, and we will
find it hard to withhold our forgiveness.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30

When DR., Dodge, an eclectic physician.
was lecturing through the Stale on the
Laws of health, and particularly on the
evils of tea and coffee, he happened to
meet, one morning at the breakfast table,
witty son Of Erin, of the better Glass;
Conversation turned on the Doctors favor
ite subject; he addressed our Irish friend
as follows:
"Perhaps you think that I would be un-
able to convince you of the deleterious ef-
fects of tea and coffee?"
II don't know" said Erin, "but III like
to be there when you do it."
"Well," said the Doctor, eff convince
you that they are injurious to your health,
will you abstain from their use?"
"Sure and l will, sir"
"How often do you use coffee and tea?"
asked the Doctor.
"Mo,niug and night. sir"
"Well," said the Doctor, edo you ever
experience slight dizziness of the bialn
on going to bed?"
II do; indeed l do" replied Erin.
"And a sharp pain through the temple,
in and about the eyes, in the morning?"
"Troth l do, SIR
"Well," said the Doctor with an air of
confidence and assurance in his manner,
"that is the effects of tea and coffee"
"Is it, indeed? Faith and l always
thought it was the whisky | drank"
The &C mi any roared with laug hter, and
the Doctor quietly retired. He was
| beaten
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
Copying "a Blot.

"Mother, who of all the big boysshould
you like for me TO pattern?" asked a little
boy who was looking round for good ex-
ample.
"Wbo should you think" asked his
mother; "you know the big boys better
than do"
The little boy thought. Then he said,
"There's Dan Parker, he smokes: there's
Bill Parker, he swears; Tom Jones, he's
got horrid temper; Sam Jay. he sprees it;
Jim Wood, he hates study;G Cue Tying, he
tells whoppers. Mother, there isn't one
that, if copy, l shouldn't copy a blot
FROM" n 49,
Oh! how the ugly blots in our charac-
ters stand out. ''WeIl, "said his mother,
"there is aperfect pattern" "Who?" ask
ed the boy eagerly" Il should love to know
him." 1.-The Son of God" answered she,
"who did nossin, neither was guile found
in his mouth, who left us an example that
we should follow his steps" Oh, child
rem, God knew you would need perfect
patteru to copyfrom. Yolaeould not copy
God, because he is Spirit therefore He
sent His Son to becomes child in this
world, to show you the pattern Of heav-
enly boy and he wishes youAto begin when
achild 10 grow into his likeness. In his
character there ie no blot to copy. He is
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30

The following letteris said to have been
written to the Rural New Yorker"
"Mr. Editur, hav somethin to say
about yure paper. No doul but it is A good
won but papers amt no use, and ifenybody
spens much time in reeden them tha cant
urn thare lvin and SO don't lead en- and
so save time and expens. you sea it wood
cum to too dollars A yeer, an that wood
by enuf tobacker to last me munts at
eest. think foxes doant ort TO spend
thare munne on papers. my farther never
did an evry boldly sed he was the smart
est man in the countre, and had got the in
telligentest family of buoys that ever dugg
taturs. think foxes ort to kno enuf too
no corn and pix stun without reeding the
Rurel and other farmin papers, and if ev-
ryboddy wus ov mi mind, thare wood be
no such A thing es a paper in our united
states"
The above piece Of composition is proof
positive" that newspapers are of no use,
ard that they should at once be sup
pressed.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-30
Chinese ImmlgratiOn-What Will
be its Effect

The persistent influx of the Chinese
peasantry into the United States. is fact
which presses itself upon the attention
alike Of the political econ omlst and the
statesman. Three thousand Celestials are
stated to be at this moment on their
way to San Francisco. California already
has large Chinese population. Notwith-
standing their characteristic vices, the
Cinnamon, although not popular, are found
to be useful members of society. They
perform, with alacrity and intelligence. the
ruder kinds of labor, are marvelously fru-
gal in their habits, and are consequently
enabled to work for very low wages.
Indeed, it is not improbable that the
poorer inhabitants of that vast empire,
which contains within its limits nearly a
moiety of the human race, may be destined
to work great changes in the industrial
if not in the social and political condition
of America. The most obvious immedi-
ate effect of Chinese immigration, for in
stance, is to supplant the negro. The
Coolie in California has already made the
African impossible. There, as in the
West India Islands, the Malay laborer is
found to be. in all respects, preferable TO
his darker cousin.
The voluntary immigration from Cant on
and Shanghi into our Pacific States bids
fair soon to be enormous. Hitherto it has
mainly been directed to California, but it
will manifestly soon extend also. Nor is
there reason to doubt that it will soon
reach the Atlantic States as well.
Assuming that these natives of China
may one day become as numerous among
US as those of Europe, what shall their So
cial and political status be? Are they to
be regarded as whites. or people of color?
Shall they. equally with emigrants from
Ireland and Germany, be admitted to the
benefits of our naturalization laws?--
These are questions which fit and flicker
now along the political horizon. But the
march of events with US is rapid, and al
signs conspire to prove that we have seer
only the beginning of that strife Of races
and principles by which the institutions o
the United States are, ere long, to b.
proved as by fire.