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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26

! 'em,' returned Ben; 'but hain't heard nj
more
-sWeIl-I was there, and heard the wbols
ont-so | know-I never would have
thought it. An orchard turn out like that!
a But how much was It?
~.Wby-W alden was ofered-cash righ'
down-fve hundred an thirty dollars for che
apples he IS got on hand; and he tells me
that he sent nearly two hundred dollars
worth of early fruit off month or more
ago.
Il was wonderful--more than wonderful
But they had to believe 1t
| 'Anj jes' look at that twenty-acre held
said Bancroft. Ten years ago it wou.dn'l
hardly pay for moving. 1t didn't bear much
else but podgum Now look a; il. Think
o. the corn and wheat he's raised there; and
this year he cut more'n forty tons Of good
hsy rom ii.' ....
But that aia't half, Interrupted Sawyer.
Look at the stock lie keeps, end jes' see
what prices he gets for his cows and oxen.
We laughed at MIN when be paid so much
for the new breeds 0! sheep and cattle ne
go, sope years ago; hut jes' look at 'em
uaw. Why, he tells me he cleared over a
thousand dollars this year on his stock.
At this moment Mr.. Walton came IN. He
had grown elder. and was somewhat stouter,
than when he first setled upon the ridge,
and became farmer; and his neighbGrs
had ceased to question his capacity, and had
come TO honor and respect him.
We was jest talking about you, Mr..
Walton said Sawyer.
'Ab,' returned John, as he took seat by
the FIRE. i hope you found nothing bad to
say of me-
Net Bit of it. We was talking abou;
the wonderful improvements you've made
ON the old place, and of the money you
make
'And do you think i; wonderfully
But ain't ;i'
Well replied Walton, Il don't know
about that; but I'll te 4 you what do know :.
know there is no class of people in The
world who NAV study the arts ana sciences
to better advantage than farmers; and yet,
am sorry 10 say, there is no class, occupy
ing the same social position, who read and
study-less. Forming is a science-one OF
the most deep and intricaye--and he must
be man Of more than ordinary capacity
who Can master il all. have but just be-
gun to learn what may be learned in .arm-
ing. In slort, there is no branch ot IN
dns'ry in the world which may not be fol
lowed to better advantage without good
education But farmers must not be afraid
OF books. They won't. if they are wise.
follow every advice which experimentalists
give; but they may study, and reason, aud
experiment for themselves. So have done
and so | mean to do
'He's right remarked Ben Grummet,
after Walton haf' gone. iWhat fools NE Tus
that we didn't 60 into that grafting opera
tion.'
'And that undertaking, added Bancroft.
And that mud and compost arrangement
Sawyer.
Well said Ben, with serious face; 'it
isn't too late now. Trey say. it's never
too late TO learn; and I'm sure it hadn't
ought to be too late to commence to improve
after body has earSec.'.
That's so,' replied Eben Sawyer.
"True as book!' added Bancroft.
And I'm gong into it,
so am L.
sAud L.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26
A String of En-.
FROM the La Enyette Journal

MI eli DiotCh HdS recently duueu 10
his English racing stud promising young
horse named "Chiel " We presume il was
a progeni,or Of his that Burns referred to in
the line,
"a chiefs amang ye taki2' oats"
They have green peas in abundance in
Florida. The Tallahassee ADJ cate men
tions the deaih of a prominan, citizen of
that place, from an immoderate Indulgence
in this delicious but indigesiible vegetable
1t might with great propriety be said of him
that "his end was peas"
Some one advert;ses in the Indianapolis
papers for "Lost Minutes" He will jly
recover them. We lost ours once and have
never seen anything of them since.
An editor out West has discovered a Sc
crre defence against the annoyance of these
pests Of modern crviizstoH-dun>. He has
printed and pasted over his desk in Iro~n-
ing capitals, "Stick no Bills Here!'' 1t
acts like charm. Even the mosquitoes
avoided him.
CONTRADICTIONS IN TERMs.-A Mr. Au-
guste Apple was married N Memphis, on
the Sd INST, and The Enquirer in noticing
it mentions that the happy pair Lad LEI: for
the North on Il bridal tour.
Those wooden statues of the, "eary set
tiers" of the country, TO be found in frrnt
OF tobacco stores-"big injuns" With hand
fui of cigars Iimitation) extended t. passers
by, are sometimes very gn fcanty labeled
" Havana (haue ami?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26
Sweet Old Age.

God sometimes gives TO man a guiltlsss
and h9ly second childhood, in which the
soul becomes ehidlikc. not chil6ish--and
the lsc,,Rics, in full fruit and ripeuess, are
meHaw, without sign Of decay. This is that
fought far land OF Baulah. where they who
have travelled msn.ully the Christian wsy
abide awhile, to show the world q perfect
manhood Life. with its battles and tsos-
ross, lies FAR behind them; the soul hss
thrown off his arnor, and sits in an even
ing undress OF calm and holy leisnres-
Thrice blessed the family or neighborhood
that nun bsrs among j, one OF these not yet
ascending saints. Gentle are they and
tolerant, and art 20 play with little children,
easy TO be pleased with little pleasure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26
April {, 1859.
AN ACT
IN one oi all act p;
leniary 10 au aci Z

No. lS6. AN ACT
To aTntH nd section one OF all act passcd March 3i'
lo5y, supplementary to an acI entitled an act
d iinirg lie Jurisdiction and regulating the
pIaciice Ui probate Goa. is in the counties u Erie,
1.ucIs, kicnia!d, HotTnsS. Montgomery, Della
wHge. franklin, acioto and Jeff.rson," passed
-AI.Il -, ISIS, sIid to extend the operation OF
said sci to the counties OF Meigs, Mercer, Au-
gaiZe, Lawrence, Harrison, heny, Licking.
Belmont, Stark and Wiiams. l
Sec. /. BE j, enacted by the General Assembly
0: In State c! Ohio, fIst section OF the ubove
reciscG aci be so al ei.ted to read as follows:
SEC. l. Inn; lie provisions OF an set entitled an
act ds timing the Jurisdiction and regulating tho
practice ot probate coIrtS the Counties OF Eris,
Lucas. Richiand. Holmes Montgomery, Delaware,
Franh la, Sciolo andJsfftrs M" passed April u.
lo5S, be and the same h,reby extended To tho
cnuuiies of Meigs, Mercer, Auglaize, Lawrence,
HARRISON, hen.y, Belmont, stark, Ottawa and
NiihaIns.
sec , That said section one OF the act passed
as Aforesaid th- 3ist dav OF March, 1853, be and
the same Is hsrepy repeated.
Sec. 3 I hat this ast saali take effect and be
in iorce irom and alter its passage.
WILLIAM g. WOODS,
Speaker of the House OF Representatives,
MARTIN WELKER,
President of the Senate.
Ar II i.jl
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26

6TIn New York there has been formed
Young Mems Esrly Rising Association
all the memhe'. OF which are piedged to be
Il, g, q certsin hour. !, origin a,ed with
about half dozen Young men. who. hssing
kept up this habit for some yvar-. ", 70 sur
,,-issd at it, beneficial effect, at the suecess
iurlifs OF their a,soeintes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-26

CyA yesr OF pleasure pssses Ike hoat-
ing breeze, bu, a moment Of mis'or,nns
seems an ags OF pain.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02

into bigger ones, and these are pour
ing into other streams and everything
seems hurrying and Fastening as if
universal activity had inspired the
year.
All this, poor Office Editors, you
must cen imagine-but ! see it. All
day long, in endless succession, scenes
of incessant variation pass before the
windows--for it looks as though they
moved, and not We But then, you
can look out of your back windows
and cheer your eyes with the works
of mems hands F! am bound for the
prairies Think of that But only
their vast reaches and their green un-
dulations will be visible. 1t is too
early for flowers. Something may be
CLEANED, however, for another letter
to you. Meanwhile, dear Doctor, turn
over that huge heap of newspapers.
Mark and cut. And thou younger,
God-given, ply thy task, nor think of
birds, flowers, streams, budding birch,
and fragrant spice-bush, but only of
copy, items, and proof-reading.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02
"DEAD-HEADS" OF THE PRESS.

A few years since the great Mr..
Moran was elected President of the
New York and Erie Railroad. Mr..
Moran was paid the enormous salary
Of $4,000 per annum, and Of course
Mr.. Moran felt bound to do great
things for the road. His first step
was to withhold free passes from all
editors and reporters. Consequently
editors and reporters have ceased to
talk about the road, and the result is
falling off of the passenger receipts
of the road half a million of dollars
in one year since Mr.. Moran Inaugural
ted his policy. The Railroad Journal
has sensible article on the subject,
in which it says:
1--WE think the best investment the
Erie Railroad can make, to-day, would
be to issue fifty free passes to editors
of leading newspapers, on condition
that their use should be always accom-
panied by notice of the road. Ad-
vertising is the secret of success,
where one depends upon the public
for patronage. The most valuable
kind of advertising for railroad is
not the publication of time tables, but
a spirited description of its route, of
the work on its line, Of the country
and community it travcrses. These
are always eagerly read, and always
create a desire to visit the scenes
described. \ description Of capabill'
ties of the country or of the cities and
villages, or Of the industry and pro
duce of the people upon the route o'
road, will be often the means o
sending large parties over it in scarcl
Of location for themselves.
More particularly is such kind o
advertising necessary for the weaker
of the competing lines. The latter
should be kept constantly before the
public eye Otherwise its eXiStenc'
will soon be forgotten. As passcn
ger road this Erie Railroad is now al
most lost sight Of Few newspapers
now refer to it, except by way of dis
paragement. The public catch The
same unfriendly feeling. No one pas
ses over it unless compelled to do so
No road can afford, rightfully ol
wrongfully, to incur the hostility o
the public press. To it our road com
pauies owe debt that never can b,
paid. Without it our railroads coulc
never have been constructed. Ih'
Erie is, more than any other railroa'
in the United States, the creation c
newspapers. Not cent could hav
been had from the State, and not
loan from the public, but for their goo
opinion. For Mr.. Moran OF any othe
man to affect to dcspisc them, is
commit mistake sufficiently grav
to threaten to destroy the very wor
they have created.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02
A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT.

William " expired about mid
night, if we remember right, at Wind
sor Palace. The Archbishop of Can
tcrbury, with other peers and high
functionaries of the kingdom, were in
attendance. AS soon as the "sceptrc
had departed" with the last breath of
the king, the archbishop quilted Wind.
sor Castle, and made his way with all
possible speed to kensington Palace
the residence at the time of the
Princess, already, by law Of success.
sion, Queen Victoria. He arrived
long before daylight-announced him.
self, and requested an immediate in.
terview with the Princess. She hasti.
ly attired herself, and met the venera-
BILE prelate in her ante.room. He in~
formed her of the demise of William.
and formally announced to her that
she was in law and right, successor
to the deceased monarch. The sov-
ereignty of the most powerful nation
Of the earth lay at the feet of girl
of eighteen She was de Jure, Queen
of the only realm, in fact or history,
"on which the sun never sets" She
was deeply agitated at " the formida-
BILE words, so fraught with blessing or
calamity The first words she was
able to utter were these ask your
prayers in my behalf" They kneeled
together--and Victoria inaugurated
her reign, like the young King of
Israel in olden time, by asking of the
Most High, who ruleth in the kingdom
of men, AN understanding heart to
judge so great people, who could not
be numbered or counted for multi
tude.'
The sequel of her reign has been
worthy Of such beginning. Every
throne in Europe has been tottered
since that day. Most of them for a
time have been overturned. That Of
England was never so firmly seated
in the loyalty and love of the people
as at this hour Queen Victoria en-
| Joys a personal influence, too and heart
felt homage paid to her as wife, a
mother, q friend and benefactor to the
poor, a Christian womaR--incompara-
| bly, wider and greater than that of any
monarch now reigning, She is loved
at home and admired abroad. In
America there exists more profound
and abiding respect for Victoria than
perhaps for any other living person.
Being practical people, we recog-
nizc and appreciate the value Of her
example to rulers and tue ruled,
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02
dolestuaro The Course of empire tahes its adap.'

get piece or butter, Wnlle ne Is lay-
ing in his breakfast as if it was the
last meal he should eat when he gets
through he will aid your digestion,
(while you are slipping your first cup
Of coffee, by enquiring what you'll
have for dinner, whether the cold lamb
was all ate yesterday, if the firewood
is out, and what you gave for the last
green tea you bought Then he gets
up from the table, lights his cigar
with the last evenings paper, (ten to
one it's the Intelligencer,) that you
have not had a chance to read gives
two or three whiffs of smoke, sure to
give you the headache for the forenoon,
and just as his coat tail is vanishing
through the door, apologies for not
doing the errand for you yesterday
thinks it doubtful if he can to-day
so pressed with business. Hear Of
him at eleven o'clock taking an ice
cream with some ladies, while you are
at home, new lining his coat sleeves.
Children by your ears all day, can't
go out to take the air, feel as crazy
as fly in a drum, husband comes
home at night, mods how dye do,
Fam" boxes Charley's ears, stands lit.
tie Fanny up in the corner, sits down
in the easiest chair reads the news
paper all to himself, solaces his inner
man with a cup Of hot tea, and just
as you are laboring under the hallu-
cination that he will ask you to take
a mouthful of fresh air with him, he
puts on his dressing gown and slip
pers, and begins to reckon up the
family expenses, after which he lies
down on the sofa, and you keep time
with your needle, while he snores til
nine o'clock.
Next morning, ask him to leave you
ga little money" he looks at you as il
to be sure you are in your right mind
draws a sigh long enough to initiate a
pair of bellows, and asks you "what
you want of it, and if half q dollar
will do Gracious king as if al
/ these little shoes and stockings, anC
pimaforcs, and dresses could be haC
for half a dollar. Oh girls set you
affections on cats, poodlcs, parrots, o
lap dogs,-but let matrimony alone
Its the hardest way on earth to get
living-you never know when You
work is done up. Think Of carrying
eight or nine children through tn,
measles, and chicken pox, rash, mump'
and scarlet fever, some of 'cm twice
over and it makes my side ache t.
think of it. Oh, you may scrimp AM
save, and twist and turn, and dig an
delve, and cconomisc and die, an
your husband will marry again, tax
what you've saved to dress his secon
wife with, and she'll take your pol
trait for frcboard d,and-but what
the use of talking? ? Pll warrant eve
ry one of you will try it the frs
chance you get, there's q sort of be
witchmcnt about it, somehow. wis
one half of the girls warn't fools, an
tother half idiots. ;.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02
Misttllanp.
SYMPATHY FOR EDITORS.

While on his recent journey to the
West, Henry Ward Beecher sent back
from Rochester the following express
sion of sympathy for the Office edit
ors of the Independent
But, yc Office editors how do
pity you !-cramped up in your mar
row den--poring over exchanges "
scissoring for the item columns-read-
ing long-winded communications, and
cutting down articles to their unspeak-
able advantage. OCCASIONAL you look
out of a window. Few editors have
the privilege of gazing upon such IA
refreshing scene as that which opens
to the eye from the rear Office of the
Independent Or perhaps you are
enjoying visit from one of the daily
hundred that flock to the editorial
sanctums as villagers to the town
pump-a thing that works for every
body but itself, and holds out an arm
for every living creature to shake who
is thirsty
But am whirling along the Hud
son, river that never wears out any
more than it runs out. If any othcI
land has more glorious river, | an
glad OF it i! The ground is all dis
robed of snow Willows are yellow
ing the edges of low woods. Bud
are making the forests look purplisi
Grass is everywhere starting, and II
favored spots it has lifted up tha
green which all summer long shal
not wear out. The plough has a
ready been at work. Farmers are a
astir, Barn-yards are vocal with hen
celebrating the earliest achievement
in the egg spcculations of anothe
season. Calves and lambs are COM
, All, you do not know, poor creature
. that live in citics,--yo do not kno
that spring has come. But the sigl
of the year are for the country. No
> the peony is pushing up its rudd
+ knuckles, honeysuckles are leeriu
c out, flags are drawing their sword
: the swamps are full of blackbird
wild duck are on the ponds, trout a
> ready for the angler, long wedge linz
I of wild geese stream northwar
o trumpeting as evening comes on, al
I they are wing-wcary. Brook-willov
= are downy with their velvety catkil
-mosses in the damp woods are gre.
o with the leanest, moistest, and l
S tensest green. Streams are full al
o turbid, little ones are racing dow
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02

THE CHARLESTON CoNvENTIoN.-The
New York Herald, paper which has
sustained the Administration of James
Buchanan throughout, has the follow
ing significant paragraph in refer
encc to the Presidential nominations
by the Democracy at the Charleston
Convention
"Some of the regular democratic
organs are questioning Judge Doug
las, Chevalier Forney and their anti
Lecompton popular sovereignty
newspapers, whether they do OF dc
not intend to abide by the nomination
and the platform Of the Charleston
Convention All such questions, WI
presume, will be answered in the Con
vention, and not before. We suspect
too, that the upshot of the Convention
will be the final dispersion of the dc
mocracy, and two or three scrub tick
cts for it is manifest that the fiXe'
policy of every prominent clique o
the party jugglers for the succession
is rule or ruin"
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02
THE EVENING.

The evening is beautiful and the
heavens are full of stars, mirroring
their silvery faces in the snow ; and
the still woods are jewelled with ice
diamonds, and waiting waveless the
rising moon. And the the Northern
Lights, like zephyrs zoned with rain
bows. are waltzing on the pearly pave
ments of the polar sky And the
mountains look like waves of a silver
sea, rising heaven-ward to greet the
stars and the sky like sea of molten
sapphire, with its golden caresses
dropping fondly on the brow of the
mountains. 1t is beautiful too beau
tiful to be shut out of our sight. Let
us all go out of doors and read few
paragraphs in the heavens. Creator,
and the suns are the syllables, and the
stars are the letters, with which he
registers his handiworks. And the
first man, on the first evening of this
new creation, looked up in the same
sky record, and tried to read the iIlu-
minated manuscript of his Maker.
And the generations before the flood,
gaZed at these same stars and men
that saw the evenings of nearly a
thousand years on earth, looked up at
these same golden eyes of heaven,
which now look down upon us and
they called him by name, and by their
light they drove their hocks to new
pastures III the old world. And when
the fountains Of the great deep were
broken up, and the windows Of hcav'
en- were opened, and the floods came
and long night Of darkness, the good
man in the ark remembered the stars
! that studded the armament in his boy
| hoods time, and the names they were
called among the fathers of the hu
man race. And when the deep black
clouds rolled away they shone again,
/ though without compass, chart or
helm. There they were inst as they
set in the sky on the morning of the
creation The waters that had washed
from the earth every trace OF mans
existence, had not qucnched one of the
lesser lights of heaven, or moved ;
star from its place. The splcndiC
Orion had not lost jewel from hi
belt neither the deluge or the dark
ness had "loosed his bands.' Ill
walked the same king, and wielde,
the same scepter among the starr
this evening, as in the first evening
that shone with the same red brillian
cy, and the sharp-eyed Rigel gloweC
in the left foot, celestial diamond o
the first water There were the littl
Pleiades, and the great Dog Star, an
the Scorpion, trailing its gems a'oni
the southern sky and the Eleve
Stars, that the young Joseph saw I
his dream and the Seven Stars, whic
the first born child of Adam saw i
his infancy. These were the home star
to Noah ; they were all that was lei
: of the drowned world, that he ha
seen and loved in his youth. He kne,
not whittier the sailless, unruddere
ark had borne him the taIlest moui
, tains on earth were buried beneat
: the waters everything had bee
" swept away but the stars he ha
! learned by name, perhaps in the ter
1 of his grandfather Methusclah, wh
: remembered Adam. And he felt ;
K home.-ELIHU BuRRT.
St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-06-02
PURITY OF CHARACTER.

Over the beauty of the plum and
apricot, there grows sloom and bean.
ty more exquisite than the fruit itself
a soft, delicate blush that over.
spreads its blushin@ cheek. Now if
you strike your hand over that, and it
is once gone, it is gone forever, for it
never grows but once. The flower
that hangs in the morning impearled
with dew-arrayed as no Queenly wo-
man was ever arrayed with jewels
once shake it, SO that the beads roll
off, and you may sprinkle water over
it as you please, yet it can never be
made what it was when the dew fell
silently upon it from heaven. On a
frosty morning, you may see the
panes Of glass covered with land
scapes, mountains, lakes, trees-blcnd-
ed in a beautiful fantastic picture.
Now lay your hand upon the glass.
and by the scratch of your finger, or
by the warmth Of your palm, all tho
delicate tracery will be obliterated.
So there is in youth IA purity and
beauty of character, which, when
touched and defled, can never be re-
stored, fringe more delicate than
frostwork, and which, when torn and
broken, will never be reembroidered.
A man who has spotted and soiled his
garments in youth, though he may
seek to make them white again, can
never wholly do it, even were he to
wash them in his tears. When q
young man leaves his fathers house.
with the blessing of his mothers tears
still wet upon his forehead, if he once
lose that early purity OF character, it
is loss that he can never make whole
again. Such is the consequence oi
crime. .--Heary Ward Beecher.