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From the Springfield MASS Republican,
THE SWING AS A CURE FOR CONSUME.
TON So

wish to say few words to "whom it may
concern" on the use of the swing--one of the
gymnastic exercises-as preventive and cure
of pulmonary disease. 1 mean the suspending
of the body by the hands by means of strong
rope or chain fastened to a beam at one end,
and at the other stick three feet long, conye-
nient to grasp with the hands. The rope ought
to be fastened to the center of the stick, which
should hang six or eight inches above the head.
Let person grasp this stick with the hands
two or three feet apart, and swing very moder-
ately at frst-perhaps only bear the weight, if
very weak-and gradually increase, the
muscles gain strength from the exercise, until
it may be freely used from three to five times
daily. The connection of the arms with the
body with the exception of the clavicle with
the sternum or breast bone) being muscular
attachment to the ribs and enlarge the chest;
and, as nature allows no vacuum, the lungs ex-
pand to fill the cavity, increasing the volume
of air-the natural purifier of the blood-and
preventing congestion the deposit of tuber-
culous matter. l have prescribed the above
for all cases of hemorrhage of the lungs, and
threatened consumption, for thirty five years.
and have been able to increase the measure of
the chest from two to four inches within a
few months, and always with good results
But especially a preventive would recon-
mend this exercise. Let those who love life,
cultivate well formed capacious chest. The
students, the merchants, the sedentary, young
of both sexes, aye, all, should have swing on
which to stretch themselves daily, and am
morally certain that if this we're to be practis-
ed by the rising generation, in dress allow
ias free and fall development of the body,
thousands, yea tens of thousands, would be
saved from the rayages of that opprobiuna me-
dicorue,:, consumption.
Holyoke, June 8. LAWSON LONG, M. D s
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ORIGIN OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD.-The
imperial Guard originated in the first campaign
of Napoleon I. after the taking of Milan, when
the French were in pursuit of the retreating
Austrians near the river Mincio. The circum-
stances are thus narrated by Abbott, in his
Life of Bonaparte:
Though the Austrians were some fifteen
thousand strong, and though they had partial
ly demolished the bridge, the march of Napo-
leon was retarded scarcely an hour. Napoleon
was that day sick, suffering from violent
headache. Having crossed the river, and con-
certed all his plans for the pursuit of the flying
enemy, he went into an old castle by the river
side to try the effects of foot-bath. He had
but small retinue with him, his soldiers being
dispersed in the pursuit of the fugitives.
He had just placed his feet in the warm wa
ter, when lte heard the loud clatter of horses
hoofs, as squadron of Austrian dragons gal
loped in to the court yard. The sentinel at
the door shouted "To arms! to armsi the Aus
trians! Napoleon sprang from the bath, hast
ily drew on one boot and with the other in his
hand, leaped from the window, escaped to the
garden through the back gate, mounted a horse,
and galloped to Massena's division, who were
cooking their dinner, at short distance from
the CASTLE The appearance of their comman-
per in chief among them in such plight,
reused the soldiers from their camp kettles,
and they rushed in pursuit of the Austrians,
who, in their turn, retreated. This personal
risk induced Nopoleon to establish body
guard, to consist of five hundred veterans, of
at least ten years service, who were ever to ac-
company him. This was the origin of the I'm
perial Guard, which, in the subsequent wars
of Napoleon, obtained such world wide re-
nown.
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4oftrg.
IDEAL AND>REAL.
BIT JOHN O. SAKE.

IDEAL
Some years ago, when I was young,
And Mrs. Jones was Miss Delaney,
When Wedlock's canopy was hung
With curtains from the loom of fancy,
I used to paint my future life
With most poetical precision-~
My special wonder of wife;
My happy days; my nights Elysian.
saw a lady, rather small,
"a juno was my strict abhorrenee,
With faxen hair, contrived to fall
In cariess ringlets a Ia Lawrence;
A blonde eomplexion; eyes that drew
From autumn clouds their azure brightness
The foot of Venus arms whore hue
Was perfect in its milky whiteness.
saw q party, quite select
There might have been bakers dozen
A parson, of the ruling sect;
A brides maid, and city cousin;
A formal speech TO me and mine.
(Its meaning could scarce discover
A taste Of cake; sip of wine;
Some kissing-and the scene was over.
saw a baby-one-no more:
A cherub pictured, rather family,
Beside pallid dame. who wore
ountenance extremely sanity,
1 saw-but nothing could hear,
Except the softest prattle. maybe
The nerest breath upon the ear
So quiet was that blessed baby.
REAL.
see a woman, rather tall,
And yet, own. comely lady;
Complexion-such as must call
tie be exact) little shady:
A hand not handsome yet contest
generous one for love or pity:
nimble foot and, neatly dressed
In No. 5, extremely pretty.
/ see group of boys and girls
Assembled round the knee paternal;
With ruddy checks and tangled curls,
And manners not at all supernal;
And one has reached manly size,
And one aspires to womans stature,
And one is quite a recent prize.
And all abound in human nature.
The boys are hard to keep in trim;
The girls are often very trying;.
And baby-like the cherubim- F
Seems very fond of steady crying =
And yet the precious little one,
His mothers dear, despotic master,
Is worth a thousand Eabies done
In Parian alabaster.
And off that stately dame and I,
When laughing Ger our early dreaming,
And marking, as the years go by.
How idle was our youthful scheming-
Confess the wiser Power that knew
How care each earthly joy exchanges,
And gave us blessings rich and true,
- And better far Than al our fancfes.
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ARE WE BETTER THAN THEY WERE 2-The
men who were parties to the Declaration of In
dependence, and who contributed to the success
of the Revolution, thought it neither sin
against the Supreme ruler nor humanity, when
they came to form Constitution for the Uni
ted States, to make provision in that instru-
ment for the return of runaway slaves. Are
we so much better, 50 much more humane, or
so much more holy than they were, that we
will not comply with, OF suffer that requisition
10 be executed.
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BLACK REPUBLICAN PRoscRIpTIoN-Th
Germans of many sections of the west having
protested against the action of the Black Re-
publican party of Massachusetts,, the New York
Enquirer threatens them with the open revival
of Know Nothingism if they do not Geese
their .impertinent and offensive interference
with the action of sovereign State"
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WOMAN AND CnRIsTIANIrY.-By Christi
anity woman was raised from an abject state
she became admitted to ali civil liberties; her
influence was exercised over general manners;
she took her share in the education of the fam
lily, and became the earthly providence of the
home. Holy magistrates of charity were in
trusted to her; she was invested with person.
al dignity and social rank unknown before
Since the Christian era, women have had their
share in all social movements; many have suf-
fered martyrdom for their religion; the mother
of Constantine (Helen) raised the cross'over the
ruins of Jerusalem. Clovis, at the battle of
Tolbiac, involved the god of Clothilda. Wo-
man took part in all of the ecclesiastical or
ganizatiens. Saint Louis was trained and
ruled by the wisdom of his mother Blanche.
The greatest of mime singers, Vogelweide,, be-
came in Germany the echo and the expression
of the initiating and purifying influence of
woman. Joan of Arc saved France; and Pc
trarch was to appear on the horizon soon after
Dante, and continued the hallowed ideal with
his beloved and respected Laura.-Life Of
Dante. t-7J s@ttet-
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Ya0ifs Department.
THE ExcITABLE WOMAN.

The excitable woman IS generally small,
sharp and wiry-quick in all her motions, and {
inclined to be contradictory, more especially
towards those whose domestic relations are
most closely interwoyen with her own She
delights in getting up scenes in which her
pentup powers of dramatic action may find ex-
preston. In society, her quick sasceptibiiities,
her lively repartees, render her exceedingly
popular; but in the quiet of home, deprived Of
the audience she delights to charm, woe to the
luckless woman, the thoughtless child, who
NAV dream that the charm which breathes
around her in public shall brighten the altar
home affections, yet she will throw herself into
violent spasms at the least shadow of danger
that meanaces them. i have seen such wo-a,
man sink into apparent insensibility when her
little son came in bleeding from triAing cut
on his forehead, to revive suddenly, and clasp
the infant innocent to her heart with frantic
gestures while she raised her eyes to heaven,
invoked a blessing upon him., and returned
thanks for the imaginary danger which he had
escaped. Servants were dispatched in various
directions for physicians, and no less than three
came in violent hurry to-apply piece of
sticking plaster to the wound, and admire the
heroics of the devoted mother, who resumed
her convulsive throes on their entrance, and
spoke in wild ejaculation of her darling sons
danger which would result from the injury he
had received p The physicians Wed with Z
each other in consoling her, and respectfully
took leave. The child sat in corner, looking
frightened, and so soon as they were gone, to
my amazement, she arose; shook him violently,
and said in an indignant tone, ssThis is foL
giving me such shock for nothing, you little;
migrate! Ny nerves are quite unstrung, and
all for a scratch like that L thought her
very unreasonable, but women of that stamp
do not pique themselves on their justice. The
husband of the excitable woman is continually
on his guard against arousing her susceptible
temperament; but the poor man leads a sad
life, for an inadvertent expression brings on !,
convulsive twitchings and singular contortions
of the face which are portentous omens to him;
yet he loves her; he thinks her charming
woman, whose nerves are too highly strung for
the exigencies of daily life; and he excuses
her wayward disregard of this happiness in
| the firm belief that the sensitively organized
being Providence has bestowed upon him for
his partner in life has too much ethereal fire
in her nature to accommodate herself to the
dull realities of everyday life Chapters on
Woman, by Catrina Yam '9Gssel.
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B@An editor of Indiana was attacked by a
man for some personal grievance. The editor
says: eTo avoid injuring him, and prevent. his
injuring us, we got out of his way"
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nea A man falls in love just as he falls dow

stairs. It's an accideht-perbaps very prob
able misfortune; something which he neither
intended nor foresaw, nor apprehended. But
when he runs in debt, it is done knowingly
and intentionally, and very often rashly and
foolishly, even if not ridieuiously, miserably
and ruinouslY. 10 asita.f. S - ..feF - I
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s@-Men rise on stepping stones of theiF
dead selves, to higher things ennyse' ~ y
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R~He who strikes terror into others, is him.
self in continual fear Claudicn. Tii1gv
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as@wrong is but falsehood put in prac-
tioe.-Esns
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MEW JEWELRY EsTABLLSHMbNl
I. WILLIAM OLDROYD,

VVRtC1anaa1kor 90 Jewe1er.
~ HTOULD announce to the citizens of Ash
EA w land that he has opened a Stock of
No. .ewelry, in the room doors west of the
Sampsel House, Main Street, where he can exhibit
choice and good stock of Watches, Clocks, jew
elry. &C., as have been brought TO this town.
HSr rGilcrists celebrated American CUTLERY
choice variety also PORTM0NIES.
sn4 REPAIRING done promptly and satisfac-
torily and at prices which cannot be complained Of
Ashland, May IL, 1859. 49tf
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OF &c e.

l.. l.. CRANE, NJ. D.l [J. P. cowAs, N.
Drs CRANE & CONAN
"AVING formed copartnershipfor TIE purpose
1 of pracfieing Medicine and Surgery, in Ash
land county, offer their services 10 all who may be
pleascrr ----->>n-0f 0fice aPnasite the
Town Hail. over the Post-Ofice where they may be
found at all times when not absent professional
N. B. Settlement TO be made once year either
by note cash. 5tf
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M UWs ID a FfoT.

TIME following papers will constantly be kept on
hand the Post-Ofice News Depot:
HARPER'S WEEKLY, -NEW-YORK WEEKLY
LADIES S4LLUSTRATED,F FLAG OF OUR UNION,
NEW YORK MERCURY, BALLOUS PICTORIAL,
NEW YORK LEDGER, STARS AND STRIPES,
WEEKLY CLIPPER, PORTER'S SPIRIT
NEW YORK HERALD, LINE OF BATTLESHIP,
and all other papers and periodicals for which there
will be demand in this community. -5rF F.
Ashland, April 25s 1859. 47f
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NOTARY PCBLIC.
TTNHE undersigned having received the appont-
ments of Notary Public, will administer uaths
take and certify depositions, Acknowledgements OF
deeds. Powers of Attorney, &c Charge reasonable
Office in the Recorders Office. G. JOHNSTON.
January 26. 1859. 34f
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WILLIAM RALsTON, JeweIer and Silver
w Smith, few doors west of the McNulty
House, Ashland. Ohio. Gold and Steel Pens, and a
choice variety of ewelry kept constantly hand.
Highest price paid for old Gold and Silver. Re-
pairing done to ord T, Oh reasonable terms-satis-
faction warranted
February 1857. 34tf<
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8asiness 9irfttOrg.
Judicial omcer,.

S51- Wa' dsveN dMsvs4eaNEDDEs' Com. Plea. Judges.
JOHN DsJoNES, Probate Judge. -
Il 81 SEE, Clerk Com. Pleas and Dist. Courts.
JOHN ]. JACOBS, Prosecuting Attorney.
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have ultimately proved incompatible with the
better organized politics on its frontiers. But
the Poles had a nationality which gave them
strength and purpose, and which for some gem
~erations enabled them to extend their terrific
ries at the expense of their ~neighbors. They
once partitiosed Prussia, and they once nearly
annexed Russia. Moreover, their ~disorganiza-
ton, extreme as it was, had been insome meas
ure artifcially created, and the spirit which
even to his hour is not extinct, showed what
a genuine vitality the nation possessed.
In Mexico there is not a vestige of national
ity. Of its seven or eight million of popula-
ton, about one million only are whites, the
rest being Indians, or mixed breeds; and these
Mexican SpaHiards have not succeeded like the
French Canadians in preserving the spirit which
they brought across the seas. Mexico has bro
ken up from pure incapacity for self-govern-
ment. TIL license which ensued on the ex-
%tinction of absolutism 40 years ago, has never
been exchanged for any regular or stable adj
ministration, so that what should have been a
mere temporary suspension of authority has
proved a permanent allegiance of order. Des-
potism might have relieved the country, but no
Mexican has been strong enough for a despot,
and affairs, therefore, have gone from bad to
worse, with interminable commissions, hopeless,
wars, losses of territory, and at length, with
such absolute political disorganization that no
stage of decline can be more ruinous, and men
are only looking to see what may follow.
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CORN STALKS.

The best time, place and way of feeding out
corn stalks, is in the coolest weather we have;
but as far as that is concerned, cattle will eat
them at any time, if they are fed to them in the
way 1 am about to state. 1 propose in the first
place to cut up the stalks with a straw-cutuer,
fine enough to suit the farmer; and when you
give the stalks to the cattle, or whatever you
see fit to feed them to, sprinkle meal on them.
Another way is to steam the stalks and meal
together, and then the cattle will eat all the
stalks up; whereas if you feed them out with
out cutting, the stock will only eat just the
leaves of, and leave the stalk, which is the
very best part of the corn stalk; and when the
stalks are out for manure, all farmers can plain
ly see that they will not rot or compost, and
therefore make it bad for handling manure ;
but where they are cut up they will not bother
the person in so doing. The best place and
form that 1 know is to feed them in the stable;
have boxes or troughs for the cattle to eat from;
and then 1 consider that they will not waste so
many of the stalks as they otherwise would
GeneSee Farmer.
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HOWARD ASSOCIATION

PHILA DELPHIA.
a BeRsuolent Institution. established 6gspeeiGie nd0rment
for the relief of kh5 sick and distress ed. afflicted vita
TiruLent and Epidemic diseases.
To all persons afflicted With Sexual Diseases. such
as SPERM ATOkkGA, SEMINAL tSS.
MPO IENCE, GUNURkHGA. GLEEF. SlPHl-
LIS, the Vice of IN or SELF dc
The HOW ASSOCIATION, in view of the
awful destruction of human life, caused by Sexual
diseases, and the receptions practised upoh the un-
fortunate victims of such diseases by Quacks, several
wears ago directed their Consult g Surgeon, as n
CHARITABLE G worthy of their name. to open
a Dispensary for the treatment of this class of dis
eases, in ali their forms, and to give MEDICAL AD-
VICE GRATIS. to al who apply by letter, with a
description of their condition, (nge, occupation, hab-
its of life. &c.) and in cases of extreme poverty. to
MEDICINES FREE OF CAARGE 1t
is needless to add that the Association commands
the highest Medical skill of the age. ana will furn-
ish the most approved modern treatment.
The Directors, on "a review of the past, feel assured
that their labors in this sphere of benevolent effort,
have been of great beneftIo the afflicted especially
to the Young, and they have resolved to devote them
selves, with renewed zeal, to this very important but
much despised cause.
Just Published by the Association. a Report on
SpermatorrEea, or Seminal Weakness. the Vicu of
Onanism. Masturbation or Self tse. and other Dis
eases of the Sexual Organs, by the Consulting Sur
ueon, which will be sent by mail, lin n sealed letter
envelope. FREE OF CHARGE on receipt of TWO
STAMPS for postage.
Address, for Report or tire atment. DR.. GEORGE r.
CALHOUN, consulting Surgeon, Howard Associa-
ton, Nc. 9 South Ninth Street. Philadelphia, Pa.
BY order of the Directors,
EZRA D. HEARTWELL, Pres't.
GEoReE FAIRcHILp, Secretary. ly2l
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SOW OATS IN MARCH.

Three of us-neighbors-concluded we
would sow our oats last spring as early as the
latter part of the third month. Sow it upon
stubble without blowing, and depend upon a
very thorough narrowing to cover it. We did
so, and the result was a good crop of grain on
beautiful bright straw. The success is no
doubt attributable to the early sowing, and l
have no question if the oat crop of Ohio should
be got in next spring as early as the latter part
of the third or first part of the fourth month,
the rust may be nearly if not entirely avoided.
I would recommend all persons intending to
sow oats, to have their ground ready to SOW
without blowing, next spring. If it is corn
stubble in good tilth, free from weeds, it will
do without blowing. If it is foul, or should it
be sod, it should be plowed this fall.
W. H. LADD, Richmond, Jefferson county,
Ohio.
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WINTER

Halls Journal Of Health gives the following
sensible advice:-"Like the gnarled oak that
has withstood the storms and thunderbolts of
centuries, man himself begins to die at the ex-
tremities. Keep your feet dry and warm, and
we may snap our fingers in joyous triumph at
disease and the doctors. Put on. two pairs of
thick wooden stockings, but keep this to your
self; go to some honest son of Saint Crispin, and
have your measure taken for a stout pair of
winter boots or shoes shoes are better for Or
binary everyday use, as they allow the ready
escape of the odors, while they strengthen the
ankles, accustoming them to depend on them
selves. A very slight accident is sufficient to
cause a sprained ankle to an habitual boot
wearcr. Besides, a shoe congresses less, and
hence admits of a more vigorous circulation of
blood. But wear boots when you ride or trav-
ell. Give direction, also, to have no cork or In
dia rubber about the shoes, but to place between
the layers of the soles, from out to out. a piece
of stout hemp or tow linen which has been dip
ped in melted pitch. This is absolutely i'm
pervious to water-does not absorb a particle
while we know that cork does, and after a
while becomes 'soggy' and damp for weeks
When You put them on for the first time, they
will feel as easy as an old shoe,' and you may
stand on damp places forhours with impunity."
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A SORRY PICTURE.

Mr. Greedy, of the New York Tribune, gives
a dark sketch-what's called a charcoal sketch
we supposed that portion of the West lying
West of the Lakes. In a letter from Racine
of Dec. 10th, he-sayes:
The West is very poor. L think a larger
proportion of the people of Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, are under the
harrow now than at any former period. There
is-no real lack of money, provided one has
wherewith to buy it and what passes for mon
ey is a better article than thatwhich usurped
the name a year ago.; but real estate, mort
cages, railroad stocks and bonds, notes of hand,
and promises of all kinds, are not the sort of
property that easily tempts a moneyed man to
open his safe or his pocket book. There is on
all hands such a sup~erabundance OF debt of
various kinds that promises are a drug, and
faith in human s~olvency sadly alleged by skep-
ticism. Very many want to borrow very few
are anxious to lend, no matter at what rate or
on what security. Railroads partly construc-
ted; and there stopped for want of means
blocks of buildings ditto-counties and cities
involved by the issue of Railroad bonds and
practically nsolvent-individu tryingto stave
off the satisfaction of debts, obligations, judg-
ments, executions-such is the all but univer-
sal condition. Add to this that very few
seem at present to be thriving-that travel on
the Railroads is reduced to a point that in
many cases, will not pay running expenses
that hotels (and Chicago alone has half a doz-
en- better than any New York could boast prior
to the opening of the Astor, while one, the
Newhall, in Milwaukee, is barely exceeded by
the very best in America or the world, are far
from fulr-and you have a faint outline of
the general depression. Among any other
people but ours, such a revolution from the
buoyant hopes and brilliant prospects of two
years ago would sink thousands into despond-
ency and utter mental prostration and drive
hundreds to suicide.