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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
The End of n Fashionable Lady

One vi the most melancholy events of
the old year was the decease in New ork,
on Friday, Dec. 81, Of Mrs. Hughes-the
widow of Col. Hughes of the army-but a
short time since amid the luxuries and splen-
dors of the Metropolitan and Prescott Hotels,
a lady of education, OF refuement,'o of beauty,
and but thirty five years of age, died in u
tenantless house the victim of rum. By the
testimony OF her little son of only eight
years, she had sold every article of clothing
to bur rum. This little innocent lad was
three days at one time without food, and in
the mothers madness she repeatedly had at
tempted to take his life. Read portion OF
that child's testimony on the Coroner's in
quest thus:
was one time three days with nothing to
eat except little piece of bread; my mother
used TO drink great deal; "a few days before
she died she wanted an ak 10 kill me; soor
after, she had another crazy fit, and wanted
to get knife to kill me: just before she
| died, she said she was very cold: she asked
me TO take hold Of her hands, and lead hei
to the fire; she then had a very wild strange
look. and soon afterward died; my mothe
took off all of her clothes, "every single bit,
and sold them to obtain rum; pledged
skirt for her at drinking shop for six cents
she took off her clothes one by one, an
sold them until all were gone, so she ha
nothing on her; she sold her chemise las
to an old woman that came in for thre
cents, and sent for brandy with it, nj
eight years of age.
How terrible such an end How awf,
such warning!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
cansss of Fertility IN Soils.

In recent letter to the New
York Farmers Club, Prof. S. W.,
Johnson, of Yale College, says:
The labors of chemists to discover
positively all the causes ot the fsrtili-
,y of soils have not yet met with con-
elusive success. The mechapical
structure of SOL Is is of primary inn
portance. Naked rock grows lichea;
the same rock crashed into coarse
grains grows a much higher order Of
vegetables; pulverized line, the cereals
grow in II. Geology, chemistry, So-
tany, physiology, meteorology, me
chqnics, hydredynamics. heat, light
and electricity are allintimateIy conf
bined in the grand process Of vegeta-
tion. There are sandy soils in our
Eastern States which without manure
Weld meagre crops of rye and buck
"a heat; but there are sandy soils IN
Ohio which, without mauure, yield
on average eighty bushels of lndian
corn an acre, and have yielded it for
twenty to fifty years in pnbroken
succession, ingredients Of these soils
being by chemical analysis the same.
Of Is Different soils, quarts sand ab-
sorbed in 80 days l-l0O0 parts foxy
GEN and no moisture, while humas alb
j Sorbed I3 of oxygen and l2O OF mois-
tuTe.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
Sorghum Sugar end syrup.

The experiments of the past Two seasons
have established the fact that the. Chinese
Sugar Cane can be profitabiy cultivated III
all the Corn growing sections of the coun-
try, and that Sorghum Syrup. at all events
will hereafter be more or less manufac ctured
in nearly every neiehborhood. That syr-
up will eventually take the place OF SJuth~
ern molasses in The West to co nsiderabe
extent, no longer admits of doubt. The
quantity obtained per acre, the case with
which palatable Syrup can be made, have
demonstrated lis utility and profit part
OF good husbandry. Could the correct stat
istics of the Sorghum crop in the country
the past season be obtained, the results in
infancy of its culture would excite the IN ar
vel.
The State Agricultural Society OF Hi
nois has been foremost in fostering the Chi
nese Sugar Care culture It's Board offered
liberal prerniums for sugar and syrup from
the Sorghum, the sugar specimens not less
than fifty pounds. Awards were recent
ly made, and DR.. c. B. Ostrander, OF
Pontiac. Livingston county, received the
first premium for sugar. 1t was equal to
the second quality OF New Orleans, and had
very p'uch the appearance and taste of the
new crop sugar. His success establishes
the fact that good suyar can be made from
this cane. Two other specimens were en-
tered, one by J. Sawyer, of Tazewell coun-
ty, and the other by E. Paine. Of Sangamon.
The grains were course, and clammy with
undrained moasses
The first premium for sugar from Impehe,
so pounds, was taken by Mrs. H NJ. Tracy
Cutler, of Dwight, Grundy county, the only
competitor. The sample had coarse grains,
with rather sharp, unpleasant acid, and
was badly drained:
There were numerous competitors for the
premiums for Syrup, some OF the specimens
being clear and Of excellent quality. NJ.
Van Houton, of Edgar county, received the
first premium. Several specimens were on
ly OF ordinary quality, but the corresponds
ent of the Chicago Press writes that the
most common quality is superior to molas-
ses for cooking. After witnessing the ex.
hibition he says-"We believe that in near
ly every case where the cane has been IrieL
in this State, it has given good satisfaction
and next year we may look forward to see
its culture extended, not in large fields, bu,
in small ones of Ave 10 twenty acres" The
writer has no doubt of the protitableness oi
the crop for syrup, but has only slight taitt
in lis profit for sugar.- Ciereiand Leader.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28

Lewis, the fun loving editor ofthe ". NJ.
Union, says an exchange, was candidate for
the Legislature. In the last number of his
paper he published a circular to his fellow
citizens of eight columns Whereupon he
says:
1t may be asked why | write SO long a
circular. An anecdote will illustrate my
answer Once upon time an old lady
sent her grandson out to set turkey. On
his return, the following dialogue touk
place:
Sammy, have you set her!'
Yes, grandma
Fixed The nest all up nicely"
Mighty fine grandma
How many eggs did you put under
her!'
'One hundred and twenty, grandma
why, Sammy, what did you put SO many
under her for!'
'Grandma, wanted to see her spreat
/ herself!'
My opponents will pitch in this circular
II hope they will have coed time in ma
king large per centoge of it. A short ont
would be as mnch as they could get over
but want to see them spread themselves
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
A WIFE's INFLUENCE.

Judge O'Neal in the Yorkville Enquirer
tells the following of Judge William Smith
of South Carolina:
He had the rare blessing to win the love
of one of the purest, mildest and best wo-
men, whose character has ever been present
/ TO the writer. He married Margaret Duff.
/ in his worst days she never upbraided him
/ by word, look or gesture. but always met
him as if be was one of the kindest and
/ best of husbands. This course on her part
/ humbled him. and made him weep like q
child. This sentence it is hoped, will be
remembered, was the language OF Judge
Smith to the friend already named, and
TO those who knew the stern, unbendng
public character of the Judge, it will teach
lesson of how much a patient woman's
love can accomplish. He was at last re-
formed by an instance of her patient love
and devotion. as he himself told it:
The evening before the Return Day of
the Court of Common Pleas for York Dis
trict, client called with fifty notes TO be
put in suit. Mr.. Smith was not in his Of
ice-he was on what Is now tashionaby
called spree; then a froilc. Mrs. Smith
received the notes and sat down in the Of
fee to the work of issuing the writs and
processes. She spent the night at her work
Mr.. Smith in rotous living. AT daylight,
on his way home from his carousals he saw
light in his office, and stepped in, and to
his great surprise saw his amiaole wife, who
had just completed what ought to have been
his own work. with her head on the table
and asleep. His entry awoke her. She
told him what she had done. and showed
her nights work-ffty writs and processes.
This bowed the strong man; she tell on his
knees, and implored her pardon, and then
and there faithfully promised her never to
drink anoihe- drop while he ived.' This
promise, So my friend Colonel Williams,
'he laithfu'y kept,' and said the Judge to
him, from that day every thing which | touch
ed turned to gold.' His entire success in
life,' says Colonel Williams, she set down
to his faithful observance of this noble
promise.
No better eulogy could be pronounced on
Mrs. Smith. than has just been given i'll The
words of her distinguished husband. The
reformation Of such man as William Smith
is a chaplet of glory which few women have
been permitted to wear. To the people of
South Carolina, and especially of ork Dis
trict, certainly no stronger argument in ia
vor of temperance and total abstinence need
be given.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28

EXTRANAGANCE OF THE DAY.
Theo. Parker says some shrewd things,
which go directly to the heart o! the popu-
lar folies OF the day. He has no exalted
IDEA OF the present system of domestic ed
ucation, as tending to frugality or economy.
He says in one OF his sermons:
sin the town of Somewhere, lives Mr.
Manygrls. He is a toilsome merchant, his
wife a hard-working housekeeper. Once
they were poor, now they are luinously
rich. They have seven daughters, whom
they train up in utter idleness. They spend
much money, but not in works of humanity,
not even in elegant accomp mplishments, in
painting, dancing, music, and the like, and
so paying in spiritual beauty what they take
in material means. They never read nor
sing; they are know -nothing5, shine only in
vain show, as useless ghost, and as ig-
norant as the blocks OH which their bon
nets are made. Now, as these "ladies," as
the newspapers call the poor things, so ig-
norant and helpless, are not only idle, can
earn nothing but consume much. What a
load of finery is on their shoulders and
heads and necks. Mr.. Manygirls hires
many men and women to wait on his
daua hters idieness, and these servants are
Withdrawn from the productive work of the
shop or the farm, and set to the unProduc-
tive work of nursing these eeven grown ba-
bies.
son the other side of the way, the Hon.
Mr.. Manysons has seven sons, who are the
exact match for the merchants daughters; /;
rich, idle, some of them dissolute; debauch-
cry coming before their beard; all useless,
earning nothing, spending much and vast
ing more. Their only labor is to kill time; /;
and in the summer they emigrate from
! pond to pond, from lake to lake, having
| a fishing line with a worm at one end, and
fool at the other These are fast faIni-
lies in Somewhere. Their idleness is coun-
ted pleasure. Six of these sons will marry
and FIVE perhaps of Manygirl's daughters,
and what families they will be found, to
live on the toll of their grandfather's bones;
until commercial crisis, and the wear and
tear of time, has dissipated their fortunes
and they are forced reluctantly to toll.
Besides, there is an enormous waste Of
food, fuel, and clothing, of everything. We
are the least economical, civilized people
on the earth OF course the poor are waste
full everywhere, they do not know how te
economic, and they have not the means
They must live from hand to mouth, unC
half of what is put into the hand perishe'
before it reaches the mouth. So likewise
are the rich wasteful who have inherited it
The great mass of the people are not econ
omical, but wasteful. II is the habit of TIL
whole country.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
NUMBER 43
TErPnEFamil,

! Deacon Adam Poe, worthy citizen o
Savenna, o., died in that place on the 5tl
/ inst In noticing his death, the Democra
gives the following interesting sketch Of his
ancestry:
Deacon Poe was born in Green Town,
ship, Beaver Co., Pennsylvania, April 4,
1871, and at the lime OF his death, had nesr-
y attained sixty-eight years of age. He
was the son Of Andrew and Elizabeth Rutan
Poe, whose .aniIy consisted of eleven chill.
/ dren, nina daughters aui two sons. Adum
was the sixth child and eldest son.
His father was born in Mary land in l743,
aud had two brothers named George and
Adam. George was the eldest, Andrew the
second and Adam the third SON In accor-
dance with the old law OF prmogemi'ure in
vogue in those days, the family property fell
to the eldest son. Goe. Poe was very
wealthy man, and the father Of The much
lame nted and brilliant Edger Alien Poe, who
was first cousin of the subject Of this
sketch.
The father OF Dea. Poe was very large.
athletic and active man, and quite popular
in the neighborhood in which he lived He
is the Andrew Poe, 50 famous for the single
handed conflict with the Indian, Big Foot,
Chief of the Wyandot tribe-a man of her.
culean strength, and an Inveterate foe of
the white man.
In July, 1882, 'Big Foot and his four
brothers were committing depredalioaS in
the vicinity, in which the Poe family lived,
and the brothers Andrew and Adam, in com
pany with others turned out to rout them |
Andrew Poe had a hand-to- hand encounter
with Big Foot and proved himself the best
man ofihe two. Big Foot was shot by Adam
Poe, who came to his brothers. aid, and by |
this death the Indian difficulties in that sec-
tien were forever quieted."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28

Our last issue contained brief notice of
two cases in which slaves were burned alive
for the murder Of their masters. These
events did not happen in the days of the old
Roman Empire, nor in the time of the dar k
ages OF the Spanish Inqusition. They did
not occur among the Apache Indians, or the
cannibals of New Zealand These deaths
by the slow torture Of fire took place few
days since-one in our sister State of Ala-
bama, and the other in Missouri. The per-
petrator6 were white men boasting of their
civilization, and exuIiing in the cultivation
and enRobling influences Of institutions
which they tell US are essential to the high
er manifestations of chivalry, and TO the
most refined and manly social culture.
The crimes for which these black men
suffered were attrrcious. They merited
prompt punishment. Their offence was
murder. These ignorant slaves were
made to undergo death of torture for what
they have repeatedly seen committed by
white men around them, without even the
penalty of life Imprisonment. Why are
these cases thus made to differ! Were the
black man brute he would be Euject to no
such treatment. A vicious dog or horse,
that should occosion the death of his master,
would probably be killed, but not with vin-
dictive tortures. AS much lower as is the
slave in intelligence and humanity than on e
of another race, just 50 much less is his
real guilt, under like circumstances. There
is no sound reason why black murderer
| should be roasted alive any more than :
white one. He really sins against less ligh,
and deserves greater compassion, if that
quality can be exercised towards either.
The reports we hAve of executions like
these, which have repeatedly occurred during
the last few years, leave an impression thai
this sort of barbarous revenge is not Ut al
frowned upon by the communities in which
they seem to occur. They seem rather IL
be unanimously approved; if not UNIVERSAL
ly participated in. Is such the sentiment o
all Alabamal Are these acts generally an
proved in the stronger slaveholding portions
of Missouri! Is there no law in any South
ern State TO be vindcated, against such hor
rid crueltes! Ordinary hanging by Lynch
Law is certainly unjustiiabie enough. Ever
in extreme cases it deservs unqualified cen
sure But when the most revolving of al
barbarities are added to this summary kind o
Justice, without exciting special remark, ap
Parently with general approval indeed, ant
very much as matter of course, we MAJ
well inquire what the world is coming to-
At least we must be permitted to doub
whether the original savages of this Country
have everywhere been succeeded by les
cruel and vindictive people.-Ctn Gazette
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
The Four IndIk1 States.

The New Orleans Picavune in noticin
The progress of civilization in several of tn
Indian tribes occupying Territories west Q
the States, remarks that it will soon bring ut
Il new question for the decision of Congress
That question will be, what shall be don,
with the Indian Governments or States tha
are fully organized! Are they finally 10 be
admitted into the Union! Is a new removal
at some future time to be made of the tribes
civilized and Christianized TO make room for
the Caucasian wave rolling West! Or are
| foreign governments to grow up in the very
heart of the territory OF the United States
! The Cherokees, Choctaws, Chicasaws,
and Greeks, are The tribes referred to by the
PIcayune. The Cherukees are living under
u regularly organized government, modled
much after the Constitution OF the United
States and the laws Of other States. The
tribe has improved in ali the arts of civiliz-
alton, until the Picayune declares that the
Cherokees have taken position which for
bids any forcible interference with their right
TO the Territory they occupy. They or
gaDized their government as early as 1899,
and few Southern States have fourished like
that of the civilized red men.
The Choctaws formed their government
in 1884, taking the institutions of the Unit-
ed States as their model. Only last year
they revised their Constitution, and adopted
more minute forms of government, and the
titles of officers which prevail IN the States
of the Union. The Chickasaws lately sep
arated from the Choctaws, and have formed
third Indinn government after the example
Af flto ftxyo rtf.
are taking steps to create the fourth inde-
pendent organization of State form of
Government. The Picayune remarks:
These Indian States are a strange anom-
ally. They are not part of the Union, nor
are they known in law to exist. The white
man cannot pass through their Territory
without permit, nor can he take with him
when he is allowed TO enter the Indian do
main certain. articles of merchandise, even
though the packages are unbroken and sim
ply designed for the New Mexican market.
This singular state of things cannot exist
for many years, without forcing itself upon
the attention of Congress. -a erase 80 s
The tide OF population is steadily rolling
West. In less than ten years it will be
against the burners now thrown up against
its invasion of the retreats Of those civilized
aborigines.5 Even now the emigration must
cross those Territories. Those Indian States
cannot exist when the Caucasian races press
against them as indepe ndent governments.
The people, civilized and attached to the soil
they have improved, cannot be removed to
remoter wiIds, nor, without serious discon-
tents, is it likely the United States can SUBJ
ject them to the condition of other organic
ations, by an abrogatiou of the constitutions
they have established foe themselves. =
What, then, is 10 be done with these Indian
States! 1t cannot fail to give greater in
terest 10 this question that each of these
Indian States have adopted the social inst-
tutioBs of the South. The Indians are
shareholders.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
GENIUS OF ENERGY.


There is n gcnius in life, like the genius of
all the traditions current among very young
men-that certain. grest characters have
wrought their greatness by m inspiration, as it
'were-grows out Of sad mistake.
And you will further find, whom you come
TO measure youseIf with men, that there no
rivals SO formidable as those earnest, determin-
ea minds, which reckon the value of every
hour. and which achieve eminchce by perss
Literary ambition may infame you at GER
tain periods: and Il thought OF some great name
win fash like spark into the mind of your
purpose; you dream until midnight over books,
yet set up shadows and chase them down; 9TH
sr.shadows, nnd they fly. Dreaming will never
catch them. Nothing makes the ''scent lie
welln in the hunt after distinction, but labor.
And it is u glorious thing, when ence you
are weary OF the dissipation, and the ennui OF
your own aiinless thoughts, to make up some
xIewing page CT earnest thinker, and read,
deep and long until you feel the metal OF his
thought unkIing on your brain, and striking
from your finty leJhargy, flashes of ideas.
that give the mind light and heat. And away
Won 90, in the chase of " hat the soul within Is
creating on the instant, and you wonder t the
' fseundity OF what seemed 30 crude. Tbs
glow OF toll wakes you to consciousness OF
your real capacities; you feel sure that they
have taken new step toward hnal develop
uent. In such mood it is, that one feels grate-
full to the nlusty tones. which VI other hour
stand like curiosity making mummies: with n'
warmth and no vitality. Now they grow INTO
the affections like new found friends, and take
hold upon the heart, and light IRE in the
brain, that the years and the mould cannot
eevsr nor quensh.--Ik Marvel
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28

SORGHUM SYRUP IN LAKE.-Llke county
probably takes the lead in the State in the
manufacture of Sorghum Syrup the past
season Mr. Coolidge, oil Perry, writes to
the Painsville Telegraph that in order to an
swer the enquiry of The Ohio Bourd of Sta
tislics, he has correspondent with the owners
or visited most of the Sorghum mills IN the
county, ami finds that there are about four
teen mills of different kinds--some Of iron
and some of wood--at which over Seven
Thousand gallons of Sorghum Syrup were
made the past season; and all that he has
seen is of good merchantable quality, much
better than tnat made in Lake county the
year previous.
MIR. VIM. Hanson, of Willoughby, has
the most extensive Sorghum Syrup estao
llshment in the Lake region, He manutac
tured some Two Thousand gallons the pas
fall. Sorghum is bound to become an in
stitution.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28

A Nut FOR THE SAvANs.-A Mr.. from
bly has been sinking we'll on the western
outskirts OF our village, in the progress OF
which the following astounding fact appear
ed. AT the depth oi twenty-five feet the
workmen came upon troz'n grouhd!-
Through this layer. some fttcsn feet IN thick
ness, they worked their way by d'nt o'
persevering effort, such as Is always ueces
sary in digging compaC'ly frozen Garth, Az
the depth Of forty teet water was obtained,
which nightly roze over-the ice forming
some three inches in thickness. wiz some
one account, on any known or unknown
principles OF philosophy, tor these Nstennd-
ing facts, We learn that the tree ziug o
the water continues now that'the well 1t
"s.oned up."- Northern Visitor, Brandon
Vi.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28

DoLEFUL TIMES IN THE WESTERN CoUN-
TRY.-The travelling correspondent of the
Madison (Wis.) Journal gives very gloomy
picture OF his experience in the country
He writes:
"To trave; round among the farmers as
we have done for the last four weeks, and
hear 'hard times repeated forty times day
as excuse for not taking paper, or paying
up old scores, to see men, women and chill
dren in threa3bare and taltered garments;
paper pasted, boards nailed up, or old hats
or clothes stuffed into windows where should
be glass; toitind country stores closed, or
doing very Mtle, men working for their
board, or IA mere trifie; promises 10 pay,
whether verbal or written, of no account; E;
men even denying their own notes; to see
the closest economy practiced by all, those
whuse large houses and barns Indicate cor
siderable means as well as those living in
cabins; to hear the dolorous complaints of
taxes; one realizes the severity with which
the financial pressure is felt