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The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-03-19

a'RE5H GARDEN SiEDs.-I have just
tecelFed an assortment Of the cele-
o.atea SHAKERS Garden Seeds, and vii, con sRs<&
s,5Re y receive fresh supplies direct from s{Aa&&r
opeIousas, October %. 1853.
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The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-03-19

StoP THE REPoRn!!-Rnmor with her
~. ~ nllhdned ioasaes Is circulating the report that
inc nayoa belle will no, remain in the trade the
LII seAsoh; / deny tie assertion and assure the
p III. 'hat she wild remain permanently in the
b. - ,o., &C. BRIDGES, Master.
The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-03-19

Il NiVES! kNiyEst!-A new assortment Of
~ 'IenHiine Rodgers aud wostenholm., pen and
Pocket Knives, ior sale bv
=. hEoNCE HEBRARD.
The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-03-19

y oflChmHaving located in opelousas,
a. ttsPef'!uilf Offer my professional services to
We We citizens OF the village and vicinity. i can. far
NJ - PRESENT, be f2nad at Mr. John Possy's Drug
f1nrion.'s ~ Man and St. Landry SIS.
- JOHN TAYLOR, NJ. D.
The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-03-19

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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
A Curious Case.

The Cadiz (Ohio) Republican says lha
Mrs. Birney of Tippecanoe, Harrison county
Ohio, highly respectable lady, and /.
member of the Presbyterian Church, du
ring peculiar condition of her pbysica
and mental organization has preached &
sermon half an hour long, every other Sun.
day at ten o'clock, for eighteen years.
While preaching she reclines upon bed
Her instructions are generally excellent
and abound in scnptural quotations; but
when she RECEIVERS her consciousness she
has no recollection whatever of what she
has been saying. Several years ago hel
case excited the attention of several med.
ical gentlemen who, while they had the ut.
most confidence in her sincerity, could give
no satisfactory explanation of the mystery
-.Sandusky Register.
During our residence in Cadiz, some IA
years ago, we twice visited the residence
of Mrs. Birney, and on each occasion there
must have been over five hundred persons
there to hear her "preaching.' In the
morning, about or o'clock, she becomes
sick at the stomach, and goes to bed, and
for while means and twists herself as if
suffering great pain. She then falls into
what appears to be natural sleep and re-
mains in that condition some Is or 20 min
utes occasionly manifesting sudden jerkings
of the body and contractions of the mus
cles of the face, when at length she rises
up in bed, and opens her eyes, which have
wild, CLASSY appearance, similar to that
of persons in mesmeric or clairvoyant
state. She then commences speaking,
first in low and rather incoherent tone
of voice; but in few moments her utter
ance becomes clear and distinct, and her
manner quite animated. Her diseourses
are from an hour to two hours in length,
and are fully equal, in matter and manner,
to the average pulpit sermons of coun-
try preachers. She quotes the scriptures
frequently, and always accurately. When
she is about closing her voice assume the
same peculiarities as when she commenced,
she finally closes her eyes, and falls back
on the pillow into state Of apparent sleep,
as at first. She remains in this condition
but short time, when she awakens into
her natural state, greatly tatigued, but un-
conscious of every thing that has taken
place.
We have never yet seen or heard sat
isfactory explanation of this most singular
case; and We believe nothing precisely like
it is reported in any of the medical books.
That this strange phenomenon is the result
of disease there is no doubt. We were
told that before it manifested in its present
form, Mrs. Birney greatly suffered with
pains in her limbs, like rheumatism, which
first began near her ankle joints, and grad
ually travelled upwards until they reached
the spinal column; from thence they con-
tinued 10 work their way up until they be-
came seated in the brain, and soon there
after the disease assumed its present type.
She is lady of natural good sense, Of in
dustrious, domestic habits, and ordinarily
enjoys good health. Her husband is
well-to-do-farmer, in the western part of
Harrison county.-M. Vernon Banner.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
A Beautiful incident.

Wllllam If. expired about midnight, j
we remember right, at Windsor Palace
The Archbishop Of Canterbury, with 9th
er peers and high functionaries ofthe king
dom, were in attendance. As soon as the
''sceptre 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 that time of the Princess (al-
ready, by the law of succession, Queen
Victoria. He arrived long before day
light, announced himself and requested al
interview with the Princess. She hastily
attired herself, and met the venerable pre-.
late in her room. He informed her of the
demise of William, and formally announced
to her that she was, in law and right, sue
cessor to the deceased monarch. "The
sovereignty of the most powerful nation
of the earth lay at the feet of girl ol
eighteen. She was, de jure, the queen OF
the only realm, in fact OR history, "on
which the sun never SETS"
She was deeply agitated at the formid-
able words, so frought with blessing or Ca
lamity. The first word she was able to
utter were these 81 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 the Most High who ruleth the king
doms of men, "an understanding heart to
judge so great people, who could not be
numbered nor counted for multitude"
The sequel of her reign has been worthy
of such beginning. Every throne in Eu-
rope has tottered since that day. Most of
them have for time overturned. That of
England was never so firmly seated in the
loyalty and love of the people as at this
hour. Queen Victoria enjoys personal
influence, too-the heartfelt homage paid
to her as a wife, mother, friend and
benefactor to the poor, a Christian woman
-incomparably wider and greater than
that of any monarch now reigning. She
is loved at home and admired abroad.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
From the Ohio Statesman.
The Productions Of Ohio.

The State of Ohio is a magnificent herit-
age and truly may it be said that the
lines of her children have fallen in pleas
ant places. The Annual Report of the
Commissioner of Statistics, excellently
printed by Col. Nevins, lies before US
Few, We believe, have an adequate idea of
the immense resources of Ohio-of her al
most boundless capacity TO produce the
great staples offood-of her vast exports,
already greater in strictly agricultural pro-
ducts than those of any other State in the
in the Union-of her large system of
roads, canals, and navigable waters, where
by her commodities are sent TO the best
markets-and of the great amount of intel
ligent industry and ingenuity, engaged
within her borders in supplying mos. of
the necessaries and some of the luxuries of
life. By few extracts from, and obser-
vations upon, the report of the commits
sioner Of Statistics, we shall endeavor to
give some idea of these things.
The following table shows what Ohio
exported in 1852 and in 1858, the articles
being the products of the soil, or immedi-
ately manufactured from them:
Va1-,a Of al, If
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
The New Wheat CrOD.

During trip North, Saturday, on the
well-conducted Mad River Railroad, We
gave particular attention to the growing
wheat crop on the road, and obtained what
information we could from farmers liv-
ing in the vicinity of it. The crop ap-
pears generally in good condition, and
where it was otherwise, it was evidently
owing to unskillful or negligent tillage.-
The winter, which we supposed to have
been trying to wheat, seems not to have
injured it. In many places it has suffer-
ed from standing water. Except in such
cases, and where it was sown very late, the
crop promises fair yield at least, and some
farmers say it is uncommonly promising.
We notice that where the ground had been
well ridged in plowing and the dead fur
rows carried out to the borders of the field
so as TO give an outlet to the water, the
growing wheat invariably looked well.-
Farmers might take hints from a general
observation of this kind that would be
worth more to them than several agricultu-
raj shows and conventions. The benefits
of early sowing would also be quite as ap-
parent as surface drainage. On the whole
the growing wheat now offers a flattering
prospect that the judicious and energetic
labors of the farmer will be well rewarded,
while the negligent and uuskillful will have
the usual complaints agsinst TIE season
and Providence. - Columbus Journal.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
Was he Insane.

DR.. Wayne, of the New York Medical
College, in a lecture upon the Importance
to the pedical profession of careful study
of legal insanity, with view to their often
being called to give testimony on very diff
ficult and delicate questions, quoted the
following well put case from Knagg's work
on unsoundness of mind:
'There was an old man well known in
London during the last century, who was
of an ungainly appearance, and subject to
occasional attacks of hereditary melancholy.
So inconsistent was he in his habits, that
sometimes he practised great abstemious-
ness, and at other times he devoured large
meals with british slovenliness and vora-
city; sometimes he would persist in drink
ing nothing but water, but occasionally drink
wine by tumblers full; his income was far
from large, and not of certain amount,
yet he kept set of old men and women
about his house, whose chickering's and dis
agreement now and then drove him out of
doors; he was in general very loquacious,
but he has been known to sit in company
and drink dozen cups of tea without
speaking syllable; when not engaged in
discoursing, it was his custom to keep NUT
tering to himself; in walking he performed
strange gesticulations, and would not go in
at door unless he could effect his entry in
a certain preconceived number of steps,
aud so as to introduce himself on partic-
ular foot-turning back and recommending
until he succeeded as he desired. There
was row of posts near his house, which
he would not pass without touching singly,
and if he omitted one in the series he re-
traced his steps to remedy the neglect; he
boarded up orange skins for some myste-
rious purpose be never would divulge; he
suffered remorse of conscience for having
taken milk in his coffee on Good Friday
he believed in ghosts, and went ghost hunt
ing in Cook Lane; and maintained that he
heard his mother calling for him in the
other world. Yet DR.. johnson was so far
from insane, that, by common consent, he
was regarded as the most vigorous think
er and greatest sage of the tilne." .t
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17

face was as calm and sweet as ever, and
her husband carried its image away with
him, to haunt him all the rest of the day.
"Well, l do declare" exclaimed Miss
Sally, the neighborhood gossip, as she
watched from her window the corners and
goers, 81 do declare there is John Eastman
gone right by Smiths without stopping
Something must be to pay with his folks. T"
Smiths was the village grocery, and as
a sign over the window declared, the post
Office, a favorite resort for that class of male
gossips SO numerous in most vicinities, and
it had long been habit with John East
man to call in on his way to and from his
shop. This day, to the astonishment of
Others besides Miss Sally, he walked rapid
ly past. Something was evidently "to
pay" as that lady confdentially asserted,
and as the young man took up his tools
and set himself earnestly to complete long
neglected job, there was look of resolu-
tiou in his face that was an encouraging
promise for the future.
Towards evening the gentleman who had
broughtth work to be done, came in evil
IDENTIFY surprised to see it nearly completed,
as he had been put off so long. Before be
left he mentioned, in hesitating manner,
that he had some more that he wished
done. al like your style Diminishing rather
better than Jonea', but" and be seemed
unwilling to finish his sentence.
81 understand you sir" said the me
chanic, you fear it will not be attended to
in time. assure you that 1 am deter
mined for the future to confine myself
strictly TO my business, and whatever l en-
gage to do shall be done. l have waited
for luck long enough, and now am going
to make some myself"
'That's right, that's right" exclaimed
the gentleman, grasping him cordially by
the hand, 81 always said there was no bet
ter workman in the land than you, if you
would only stick to your shop and let spec
ulating alone, and now am sure you will
succeed"
And he did succeed, although not with
out good many hard struggles with his
beseting faults. Several months after the
conversation with Uncle William look place
the old gentleman looked into the shop
where he was busily at work, and called out
in his cheerful voice, "Well, friend John,
what are you about now?'
Learning to handle my wooden spoon,
Uncle William, and 1 find it does very well
since l gave up all hopes of finding sill
yer one" was the young mans laughing
answer. 1t seems to be pretley generally
understood that John Eastman's luck has
turned.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
Qndrp.
From the Cleveland Leader.
THE FARMERS DAUGHrERS,

y 4 e a.
We love to keep the farmers house.
We love to milk The farmers cows,
We love to make the fai meris cheese,
We love the honey Of bis bees,
We love to cook the farmers food,
We love 10 make his butter good;
We love to knit the farmers hose,
We love to wash and mend his clothes;
We love his apples, nice and fair.
We love his peaches, plumes and pears,
Welovc his cherries, they are fine;
We love his currants, grapes and wine,
We love the farmers life so tree,
We love its quite scenery
We love its shades, its hills and dales.
We love its cheerful, freside tales
We love to see the focks and herds.
& We love to hear the singing birds,
We love the sweet, salubrious air,
u We 1--we the prospects. wide and fair
We love to see them pillow and SOW,
/; Weluve to see them reap and NOV, #
ii We lore the new mown grass to smell.
. WeiUye to hear the tinkliug bell, .r
We love to tread the grassy lawn,
r. We love the brook, the fields, the corn.
= We love fhe whole, il is sublime, -a
7 We lore to tell it all in rhyme. 9 -a
; We love the farmers boys, you see. '7e
We love their pleasant company
= We love 10 have them ask to marry,
We love to tell them then to tary.
RockroRT, Feb, 1859. 7''i
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
The sourHxRS SUGAR CRop.-Tb,

The SourHERN SUGAR CRop.-The
New Orleans Delta of Feb. 22d, sums up
the sugar crop of 1859 at s26,4s2 hhds..
of which 1s4,62l have already been receiv-
ed, leaving l44,ss1 yet TO go forward
Of the number received, s5, $40 hhds. were
shipped BY sea from franklin and New
Orleans, and 96,l up The river. As
suming that the balance Of the crop will
be shipped in the same proportion, the
True Delta calculates that the amount Of
the crop yet to come up the Mississippi is
$4,000 hhds. sugar and 10000 bbls mo-
lasses.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
4 Modern Nemesis.

The Bucyrus Journal tells romantic
story of a w:fe's devotion and perseve. ance
Some five years ago, carpenter moved
from Bucyrus to Missouri, where, becoming
pecunarily embarrassed, he sold pair OF
horses to a stock buyer, receiving all his pay
in new "tens'' on Kentucky bank. At
tempting to pass them, they were proven
counterfeit, and the unfortunate man was
arrested. He told how he come by them,
and appealed to the horse dealer, who, to
his utter dismay, declared that he had paid
for the horses in Indiana bills. The car
penter was sent to the penitentiary.
His wife, firm in her belief of his inno-
cence, applied to tho governor for pardon,
in vain. Satisfied that the householder
was the real counterfeiter, she determined
to follow him. She followed him from
place to place, tirelessly, from State to
State, from west to east, confirming her.
self all the while in her impression Of his
guilt. Two years aud half were spent
in this chase; when at last she come upon
him in Newton N. j., where he suddenly
fell sick. His malady was not dangerous,
but she impaired her story to the ply
sician attendant upon him, who consented
to dose him heavily, and then to inform
him that be was about to die.
A. was frightened, minister was sent
for, who, in good faith, prayed with him,
and pointed out to him the necessity of
immediate repentance and preparation for
that other world into which he must soon
pass. AT this moment, Mrs. p, the shad-
ow that had followed him for two years
and a half, stepped into the room. She
entreated him to repair the wrong he had
done her husband, before it was too late
not to die with that great sin clinging to
him. Thoroughly frightened and penitent,
he consented to ali she required. ~ mag
istrate was sent for, and he confessed that it
was him that had paid the spurious money
to P. He stated moreover that he was
connected with a gang of counterfeiters, and
that his real business was distributing spu-
rious money among eonfederates in differ
ent portions of the Union. To keep him
self above suspicion, he paid for all he pur-
chased in good money, and only used the
spurious in that one instance, because he
happened to have none other with him, and
wanted the horses.
Armed with these proofs of her hus-
bands innocence, Mrs. P. returned to Mis-
souri, as fast as steam could carry her, and
laying them before the Governor of that
State, had the satisfaction of carrying a
pardon 10 the prison herself. They now
reside in Knoxville, I'll. .
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17

The HOMESTEAD BrLL.-Mr. Grows ex,
cellent Homestead Bill passed the House
By vote cf 12O to 76. 1t was wise
measure of land for the landless. The
Democratic majority in the Senate STAYED
off all action on the bill. On one occasion
consideration of the bill was postponed by
the casting vote of the Vice President
Mr.. Pugh, of Ohio, moved to take up the
Homestead bill on Monday, but it was
lost by vote of 26 to 29. Thus the ben
Efficient measure goes over to the next SEES
sion. A veto may be anticipated should
the bill yet reach President Buchanan.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
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AGGREGATE 7,53l. ISL 1895. .63s A. 4.4l3 2O7

1t is to be hoped and expected that the
increased production in the counties that
are advancing will go on, and that those
once so famous for that crop will again at
tain their former quantity.
The crop of corn reported to the Audi
tor in 1857 was S2,555,ls6 bushels
This is an enormous yield. 1t is the larg
est ever raised in the Sta'e save in '55. Th.
quality of the corn was not good in 1857.
Mr.. Mansfield, the Commissioner, thinks
the corn crop cf ur State is heavy and light
year by year in succession. The following
tables for eight years prior to 1858 seem
to verify the theory, as follows:
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17

RICH CARao.-A steamboat arrived, a
few days ago, at our wharf, from the Red
River, with large party of gentlemen Of
the northwestern parishes, who are visitig
our city for pleasure and amusement
Among them are eight widows, whose ag-
gregate wealth amounted to IS, 100000
One of the said ladies is the owner of six
hundred slaves, and the others make crop
of 100000 bales of cotton.-New Or
leans Delta.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17


To this add the following: q
Z 400 horses S S740 600
| 100000 sheep. 100000
Coal, 100000 bushels,) -------- $4,000
This makes two millions more, which,
added to the aggregate, brings the exports
| independent of manufactures and the arts)
to $50, ,35O,OOO.
Notwithstanding the short crop of grain
last year our exports of the above COM
modities, it will be seen, exceeded the val
ue of s5O,OOO,OOO in the grand aggregate.
In flour and wheat and other grains our
exports diminished last year, as compared
with 1852, above six millions of dollars
In beef and cattle, however they more than
doubled, the increase being nearly four mil
liens; and in pork, lard, lard oil and hogs,
the increase OF export was nearly six mil
lions. The exports of whiskey also more
than doubled; and the exports of alcohol,
burning fluid, high wines, DC, is not given.
Perhaps, however, the importations of
raw whiskey from Indiana and Kentucky,
is sufficient TO counterbalance the exports
of the last.
The wheat crop reachsd its greatest de-
cline in 1854; it is now increasing. The
crop of 1857 was 25,397,6l4 bushels
The crop Of last year is estimated at a
fourth less. The great wheat growing
counties have fallen back in their wheat
crops, with the exception of Stark. "Old
Molly hollis her own. The deficiency in
the wheat regions is more than made up by
the increase in the Scioti and Miami dis.
tricts, whichwere formerly more devoted to
the corn crop. The following tables show
the increase in wheat since 1850, the year
of the greatest wheat crop ever reaped, in
eleven of the corn counties; and the de-
crease in eleven counties of the former
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17

UGLNEss.-It is curious 10 observe that
an ugly face is generally the indication of
of a humorous and witty mind. 1t sug-
gests innumerabe exhilerating witticisms in
the wearer himself, and is the cause of wit
TO Others. There is scarcely merry, shrewd,
witty fellow, even in fictitious history, but
has the honor of ugliness attributed to him.
Esop was very ugly little hunch- back.
Uglier still was Socrates, no less a man of
wit and a man of humor than a philoso-
pher. The heroes of Rabelais were IA
nous for personal deformity. Sancho Pan
Ia, his master, and Rosinante, were, in their
several conditions, absolutely patterns of
this interesting qualification. Hudbras
and Ralpho were still more conspicuously
ugly. Falstaff, Bardolph, Ancient Pistol,
and almost every character of wit aud hu
NOR in dreams of Shakespeare, were emf
nently ugly. Scarron, the favorits wit of
France, was the most deformed little crea-
ture that lovely woman ever allowed her
self TO be coupled with.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17

A VALUABLE PRIzE.-The bingham
(Mass.) Patriot states that Mr.. Morse,
while upon the shore near Green Hill, at
Hull, few days since, observed someth-
ing projecting above the sand which proved
to be six plates and a large platter. Mr..
Morse carried them home, supposing them
to be pewter, but afterwards ascertained
that they were solid silver and worth be-
tween 5000 and $500. '~
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-17
Ag'gate- -224,759.19l
3041llg92

Last year the crop was short, in accord
ance with this rotation; and this year, be-
ing in the odd numbers, we may look for
an abundant yield. The general yearly
average per acre in the eight years was
S1.02 bushels in the one class, and 1926
in the other. The average production Of
the whole State per acre, and of ten of the
corn growing counties, in 1857, is shown
by the following table: