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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
A SCHOLARS OPINION OF THE
WORLD.

The Hon. A. B. Longstreet the President
of the South CaroiiHa College, at Columbia,
gave the graduating class of that Institution, a
not very cheering prospect of the world on
which they were about to enter, when in his
farewell address, he thus addressed them:
I" You are embarking upon a strange world,
my young friends. If banished Aristides, poi
soned Socrates, murdered Cicero, and crucified
the Lord of Glory The spirit of Themisto-
eles, of Meltds, of Anthony and Caiphas, is
still in the world greatly subdued and law
bound, to be sure, but not extinguished. 4ou
may expect, therefore, at times, to be depressed
by your rivals, condemned for your patriotism
and tornierited for yotr benefactio1is; to have
your confidence abused, your integrity derided
and to suffer thousand impositipi1s. in smaller
nsatters-from those whom you had right t.
expect better things"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
WHAT MAKES A NEAN.

a. man never knows what he is capable of
until he has tried his power. There seems to
be no bound to human capacity. Insight, en-
ergy and will produce astonishing results
How often modest talent, driven by circum-
stances to undertake some formidable looking
work, has felt its own untried, and hitherto I'M
conscious powers, rising up to grappIe and to
HTaster, and afterward stood amazed at its own
unexpected success
Those circumstances those people, enemies
friends, that provoke us to any noble or man.
Il undertaking, are our greatest benefactors.-
Opposition and persecution do more for a man
thana seemingly good fortune. The sneers
rdf critics develop the latent fire in the young
poet. The anaihemas of the angry church in
flame the zeal of the reforlner Tyranny
threats, fagots, torture, raise up heroes and
martyrs; sshe might otherwise have slept away
sh5thful and thoughtless lives, never dreaming
q what splendid acts and words lay buried in
their basenis. And who knows but the wrongs
of Society are permitted, because of the fine
. gold which is beaten out of the crude ore of
b humanity?
Here is truth worth considering. Are you
Il in poverty have you suffered wrong? do cir
5sseumstances oppose you? are you beset by en-
emies? Now is your time! Never lie there
{ depressed melancholy Spend no more days
Z III whining. Up, like lion! Make no com
plaint, but if difficulty fights you, roar your
defiance. You know not what is in you. You
are at school. this is your necessary discipline,
poverty and pain are your masters-but use
the powers God has given you, and you shall
be masters at last Fear of failure is the most
fruitful cause Of failure. Stand firm and you
will not fail. Accept the lesson; trust the
grand up and up again; strike and
d stfike again, and you shall always gain, what
ever the-fortune of to-days or to-morrow's bat
tie. hrev
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
SEVEN FOOLS.

l. The envious man, who sends away his
mutton because the person next to him is eat
ing venison. 2. The jealous man, who spreads
his bed with singing nettels and then sleeps on
it. g. The proud man who gets wet through,
sooner than ride in the carriage of his inferior.
A. The itigious man, who goes to law in the
hopes of running his neighbor and gets ruined
himself. 5. The extravagant man, who buys
a herring, and takes cab to carry it home
6. The angry man, who learns to play the tam
BORNE because he is annoyed by the playing OF
his neighbors piano. I. The austentatious
man, who illumines the outside of his house
most brilliantly, and sits inside in the dark
Punch,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03

If a man faints away-says Halls Journal
of Health-instead of yelling out like saw
age, or running to him to lift him up, lay him
at full length on his back on the floor, loosen
the clothing, push the crowd away so as to al
low the air to reach him, and then let him
alone. Dashing water over person in a sim
pie fainting fit is a barbarity. The philoso-
ply of a faintiug fit is, the heart fails to send
the proper supply of blood to the brain; il
the person is erect, that blood has to be thrown
up hill but if lying down it has to be project
ed horizontally, which requires less power, as Is
apparent.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
The Candidates Gr1ndstone.

A neighbor of Col. Baker, the warrior states
man of Wyndham, tells the following story =
The Colonel's old grindstone, which had long
done good service on the farm, having become
pretty well worn down, he bought and brought
home a nice one. A poor neighbor-con-
ceiving that the venerable Colonel could have
use for tco stones, but could get along very
well with one-asked him to give him the old
one. The proposal, however, was not eagerly
embraced, but was, on the contrary, decidedly
negatived An effort to buy the stone also
failed owing to disagreement between them
regarding the price and the man having asked
him for the stone, and been given decidedly
cold shoulder, went away exceeding sorrowful.
A day or two after the Colonels nomination
for Congress- he fell in with his neighbor, and
after shaking hands and inquiring after each
member of his family, he took occasion to say,
in the most friendly manner,
BY the by, you were speaking to me the 9TH
er day about old grindstone of mine | don t
know as | shall want it for anything, and if it
will do you any good you can take it along
with you at any time when you going by.
1t lies out there by the wood-pile'
The Colonel paused to receive the warm
thanks which he felt that his noble conduct de-
served, but was trife set back by the following
blunt response -
Bett 5eep it yourself, Colonel, you' got more
ares to grind than hare G-Neo London ChrOncle.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
GRASS UNDER TRHne.

By sowing nitrate of soda, in small quanti-
ties in showery weather, under trees, most
beautiful verdure will be obtained. / have
used it under beech tres in my ground, and
the grass always looks green. Having suo-
ceeded so well on small scale, have now
sown nitrate of soda among the long grass in
the plantations which cattle could never eat.
now find that the herbage is preferred to the
other parts of the field
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
POTATO PLANTING,

Professor Mapes one of the, most successful
agriculturists IN the United States, recon-
mends very deep plowing for potatoes. Plant
them in rows three feet apart; each potato
about one foot from the other in the rows, and
never hH them. Killing makes more potatoes
but always of a smaller size and poorer quality.
Use, if possible, large potatoes for seed as like
beSets Ike.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
DELAWARE, OHIO, JUNE 8, 1859.

Rough hands had roughly tended him, and pal,
and death-like as he looked, it seemed as if il
mattered little what care he had now. In the
agony with which the parents bent over the
unconscious sleeper, and marked the sunker
cheeks and wasted form, there was but one ray
of comfort they could watch over him-they
should not hear of his death with the sad
thought that none but stranger had snoothed
his dying pillow.
The sufferer awoke from a troubled dream to
find his aching head supported by his father,
and see his mothers eye resting on him with
look of unutterable tenderness. So faint was
the smile of recognition with which he greeted
them, that only parents eye could have
caught the expression.
Cant live! can't liyei" said the doctor,
with carelessness, as he entered the house
next morning.
But his mother has come y said the land
lady.
THAT alters the case; he may get up again"
| answered the doctor; than whom none knew
better how much mother could do.
But how frail seems the thread that held
that young and promising life. For days it
quivered and trembled with the slightest breath,
aud the mother tearfuly prayed that it might
not be broken A gentle care and kindly
watching as ever blessed sick bed had AL
fred Heath, and not in vain gradually he
grew better, and was able to walk with his pa
rents and asked them how they chanced to
come to him in the hour of need.
:" 1t was the newspaper" said Mr. Heath,
just three words in the paper told us your
ship had come. You didn't arrive at home,
and so we came to see if you were sick. You
will soon be well enough to go home, my boy,
God be thanked, he added fervently, for
sending us to take care of you. :"
At length Alfred was pronounced well
enough to ride, and in a few days the pleasant
old homestead gladdened his sight. How beau
tifIl it looked as the sun shone Oh the vines in |
which it was embowered, with their wealth of
grapes, just purpling in the autumn sunshine.
No one so joyful as Mr.. Heath, who, after |
being gladdened by hearing Alfred say he
would not go to sea again, expressed his opin-
ion of newspapers i'll general, and his own
newspaper in particular in this wise:
. am 80 glad, Milicent, that you took that
paper, for l count paper j.st the most ne
cessary thing in family We should never
have had boy here strong and well, if it had
not been for it. Tt is an excellent thing and 1
shall subscribe for it as long as l live"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03

ts 1t is with books as it is with women, where
a certain plainness of manner and dressing is
more engaging than that glare of paint and
airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but
"a reaches not the aiaections.-Hume.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03

Last season, DANES & Kenfield msAnhctvsr.
ed and sold 1000 rods of draining tile, mt
Woodstock, Champaign county, in this State.
This year they viii make over ten thousand
rods, The demand for tile is beyond their
power TO supply
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
FIRNINEss OF A LOVING GIRL


Well, let him go, or let him stay
.I-- do not mean to die
guess he'll ind that 1 can live,
Without him, if try.
He thouglE to frighten me with frowns,
So terrible and black
He'll stay away d thousand years,
Before / II ask him back
He said that had acted wrong,
And toOlishiy beside
| won't forget him after that
lwouldn,t if l lied.
If l was wrong, what right had he
10 be SO cross with me
know Pm not an angel quite
l don't pretend to be.
He had another sweet-h heart once,
And nov when fail out,
He always says she was not cross,
And that she didn't pout.
1t is enough to vex saint
It's more than can bear
wish that girl of his
Well, don't care where.
he Gays that she was pretty, too
Was beautiful as good,
II wonder if she'd get him back
Again now, if she could?
know she would. and there she is
She lives almost in sight,
And its after nine O'Clock
Perhaps he's there tonight.
I'd almost write for him to come,
But then I've said won't !;
do not care much, but she
Shant have him. if don't;
Besides, l know that was wrong,
And that he was in the right
guess III tell him sc-and then,
wish he'd come to night
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03

The Chinese are queer people to so to mar
ket A friend at Canton writes thot neighcor
of his had just laid in his winter provisions-a
hind quarter of horse, two barrels of bulldogs,
and barrel of salted rats
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Written for the Delaware Gazette.
A & q II Il HIL ..
By GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR

By GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR.
-19-s Il stood beside ctyss crowded street,
With close folded oer gIooming breast
Ny sad sonl, fettered, chafed in quick unrest,
Unheedful of the busting tramp Of men,
Unheedful Of the breathless hurrying throng,
And strong high hopes, crushed, often and AGAIN
Ny eyes, but not nay mind, saw each new guise,
- Until, along the walk, a blonde haired child,
= G-a With lneless brow, and face 50 sweetly mild
Es4F And deep joy swimming in her soit: brown eyes,
Came tripping lightly past, as h,a,oa half on wing
n An angel Of her PinOns only; ;t;0g shosni ,h;rv
Soon she danced by but till gaze met gaze
Responsive to the mystic sympathy
Or spirit chords when struck in harmony;
And two quick, tremuous streams of liquid light
M Es roneh % he chnRs Of Dungeon wall
On some strong captive, bound in iron night
No words may tell the rich and rapturous thrill,
- That warmed, electric, through my soul andframe,
- As flashed the memory Of an olden name
- Like zgzag lightning, down the clouds that stu
bsss ButgIowed, dissolving at that magic glance
And grim Despair, touched by that quiyering lance
z Dropped with dull sound his eaden chains, and fed
Then ss.sansd through al my soul the old light,
with old time energy & swSke q from 1.a dust a,..
b. The old-time glory lit the self same earth,
That shone so brightly in the golden yore;
And face of man shone radianty once more,
With all the generous fire of oden WORTH
e9 3, sTheneame dear memories of bygone time,
"a With all their holest influence Ger my heart,
-2A Bidding old feelings into life start,
Like echoes, answering long husht chime
And old emotions crowding thick snd fast
Struggled for mastery in my heaving breast
And tears unbidden, aye and unreprest,
Wet my hot cheeks with precious rain, at last
God bless thee Angel child my full heari said
cs1 Hence be the guardian genius Of my life
Shrined soul, when sharpes Earths strife,
- ~ Then most thine influence my heart be shed
rsy Thy gaze shall make struggling spirit strong,
And calm me to serenest trust sublime,
- To hew my destiny and wait Gods time,
osss sHeBng il better, if that time be long.
o Campbell say not few and far between
Z. Are.s angels visits ~ Thick around way
They throng through all iife's pilgrimage. each day,
They watch For themselves uDfrequent
Earth hath her angels. oh for vision
-@sas4 By Gods own spirit clarified for then
~ OFT should them where men,
And find ourselves transformed to angels too.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
The T1enchnlan and his English
Studies

The T'rench1nan and his English
/. Studies
Frenchman-Ha my good friend, have met
with enc difficulty-one very strange word
How you call H-o-u-g-h
Tutor-Hutf.
Fl Tres bien, hut, and snuff you spell
s-n-o-u-g-h, ha
Tuter@evoh, no, no, snuff is s-n-u-doublef
The ftct is, words ending in ough are a little ir-
regular
Fr.-Ah, very good. 'Tis beautiful language.
H-o-u-g-h is huf I will remember, and
Cough is cuff have one bad cuff, ha?
Tutor.-No, that is wrong We say haIf,
not cuf.
Fr-KauG eh, bien Huff and ko,f and par
Tutor.-No, not d,ff
Fr.-Not dgGf All, oui =; I understand, it
is dauf, hey!
Tutor-No, do-u- g h spells doe.
Fr.-Doe; it is very fine, wonderful language
IT is doe, and t-o-u-g-h is toe certainment. My
beefstake very toe.
Tutor.-Oh, no. no, you should say tuff.
Fr--1gCf2 LIE Diable. And the thing far
mers use, how you call him. Plough piuff
Ha you smile; I see l am wrong; it is pla,tf.
No, ah, then it is ploe, like doe; it is beautiful
language, YER fine--1p1oe!
Tutor.-1ou are wrong, my friend. 1t is
ploo0.
Fr,-Pzow Wonderful language 1 shall
understand yer soon. Ploso, doe, kat1f and one
more. Rough what you call Gen Taylor ?
rae9 and ready No, certainment is and
ready?
Tutor-No. Rough spells raf.
Fr.-R,gf, ha. Let me not forget, R-o-t-g h
is ruff, and bong h is buff, ha.
Tutor, r,--No, bow.
Fr.-Ah, tis,ver' simple, wonderful language,
but [ have had what you call Enough. .Ha!
what yeu call him
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
The rheae war Chiefs of Eurona.

The following brief sketch of the three SOW
ereigns of Europe, and chiefs in the present
European war, we copy, with the exception OF
some slight alterations, from the Phladel phia
Press
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03
Taking the Census.

| Taking the Census.
never gave you history of my census ia
king, L believe. Well, took Jim Walker:
place while he was laid up in Chicago, and
had some tough customers, / tell you. came
along one day to a cabin some four or five miles
! from any neighbors in answer to my knock
an old woman about forty came to the door
| g How d ye do ? Walk in folks all gone
take cheer; were you wantin' to see my old
man Z" ..E.. - =F- f
g No madam, said I, after accepting her in
| vitation, g l am taking the census
The who p said she
g The census of the people, the"
g Oh lor we'll, you won't find much sense
in the people about here, fever n ager shocked
it all out on em. -
j proceeded SO explain
. Dear sus [ thought you might be mag
netisIn man or a frenoledger'' -..-.
proceeded to get her husbands name and
age, also the children but when L asked her
age, she came down on me fiat; [ smoothed it
over however, and let it go. Rising 1 said "Is
there any one else III your family?''
s'There S Aunt Sally, but you don't what her
name, do you?'
Certainly, ma am, I replied, and proceed
ed to take it at once.
Then there's old Jerry, but he's e'enamost
gin out this fall. / don't think the poor fell
Ell II last to another spring. -.
jerry what is his other name % al -
oh he haint got no other name; never
call him nothen else
How old is he p
why, let me see fifteen twenty twenty
six-he must be hard ON to thirty - ~
. An old man at thirty ?'
''Old man Who's talking about an old
man? Use telling you bout the ole hoss. .
Perhaps didn't pick up my hat perhaps
didn' take very hasty leave; perhaps not
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-15
The Dutch Monopoly In the Indian Seas.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

NEW YORK, Jan. Z, 1907.
When, in your estimable journal of the 25th day
of November last, i was reported that Jambi was
taken by the Dutch, "Oceanicus" gave to your read
ers some geographical, statistical and political in
formation about that State and in the meantime told
them thatitwould probably be matter ofinvestiga-
ton in the present Congress whether American in
PREVENTION is necessary or not for breaking up the
Dutch monopoly in the Indian Archipelago, for
opening its ports for the American trade and Ame-
rican missionaries Of the Gospel.
The Singapore Free Press, well known by its
insidious envious and ambitious spirit against the
rights Of sovereignty of the Netherlands some
of the magnificent and populous islands in the great
Eastern Archipelago, made Oceanicus believe
that Holland exercises no authority whatever
over the island Of Bali, and that she
has no more right of jurisdiction over the
northern portions OF Java, Sumatra, Ceiebes, &C.,
than the United States. BY this authority Oceani-
Gus, in his first so-csllcd correction made com
plant against the Dutch monopoly iNbehalfSof two
Of the mightiest matters ofhumaiinterc't aud pas
sion--in behalf Of wealth and eligontrade andehe
Gospel. As for the trade, he blamed the policy Of
the government Of the Netherlands in excluding
from its eastern possessions the settlement OF
foreigners without permission OF the Governor
General; and as for the spreading off the Gospel
he says:"The possessions of the Dutch in the East
are now the only portions of the earth under q
civilized or semiciyized government which the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-15

when applied to for dissolution by the disappoint-
ed partners-an undignfied act, certainly, for Sir
Edmund Head, but undoubtedly historical fact.
to the whale 81 opposon went back to p power
and announced that the seat Of government should
remain in stdtu quo; that Parliament should decide
when the oflicial pendulum should cease TO vbrate
between Quebec and Toronto. And so the whole
question was left open again. But it happened that
MI. Cartier, who was Premier for Lower Canada,
went to England after the Parliament had adjourn
ed; that he had there many discusses with the Co
lonial Secretary the relations between the good
and the beautiful and the infinite and the ofy that
not only did he set at the feet of Buwer Lyton and
list bis rhapsodies but Mr.. Cartier-George Etenne
Cartier as he wrote his name when he signed his
name to the petition for annexation to the United
States-was permitted to gaze full on the bright
ness of majesty. Mr.. Cartier dined with the Queen,
Mr. Cartier slept at Windsor Mr. Cartier listened to
the ontpOurings of decorous religion from the mouth
of the Royal Chaplain; and Mr. Carriers eyes were
opened. How large Ott0wa City doomed up from
the dinner tablet how central its location, and
how defensible The last lingering prejudice against
Bytown has vanished; and straightway he hurries
home, summons his colleagues, and imparts to them
the discovery he has just made, that Bytown is the
Ararat on which the ark Of government must rest.
But it don't go down with all his associates. They
did not see the affair in Windsor light, and
MI Scotte. the best man in the Cabinet-resigned.
Inc curtain has not yet risen on another act In
TINS iudicrous drama. However, the present Minis
w oic near ~ ueau, ther eXtrenties are cou tneV
have just health enough to last till Parliament
meets, and then they viii give up the ghost
What will be done with the seat of government
question it is impossible to conjecture. Montreal
is undoubtedly the place that would command the
second voice Of all Canadians, for many and good
reasons. II was once the capital; but some Of its
citizens had the audacty to throw brickbats at Lord
Elgin stave in the hat of his aidede camp and per-
form variety of practical jokes, including burning
down the Government House; and for this Montreal
was deprived of the little rivuets of Provincial
expenditure that trickle down on hotel keepers.
But by this time the citizens have learned to pay due
respect to the representative of their sovereign;
and if the seat of government should he located at
Montreal, they would he innocent of mud balls and
guiltless of brickbats. But nous uerrons-soon we
shall know ALL
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-15
A French View OF the Duquesno Letter.
Translated from the Paris Consttuonne Dec 49, for the
New YORK UupArn1

When Washington, after eight years Of wise admins
traon President Of the American Unon resigned the
bonors and the burden Of power he addressed athery
adieu TO the young republic. 1t the political WILL the
venerable legacy Of him TO whom the ensuing generations
to award the title Of Father Of the Country Now,
that solemn manifest, Washington above all exhorted
his countrymen to cherish and maintain the unity Of
government which constituted them in single nation.'
That is" added he, Zone Of the principal pillars Of the
building OF your true Independence. II Is the paila-
dunn Of your political security and Of your prosperity.
Repuse with Indignation the shadow Of an az
tempt separate any part from the rest Of the
country, or 70 impair the sacred bonds which unto tho
different parts of the republic" Such the supreme
advice of that experienced patriot.
Sixty years have scarcely elapsed, and now, already,
the word dsunion, which would then have been con-
sdered national blasphemy, 10 openly pronounced:
Now newspapers and pamphlets printed 70 discuss and
support the idea Of complete separation Of the North
from the South. What is even the successor Of
Washington, the present President declares openly that
he despsrs Of the maintenance Of the Union.
Does not Mr. Buchanans letter 10 the committee for the
celebration Of tho evacuation Of Fort Duqnesne tho
alarm cry of discouraged statesman One percevcs
that that anxious patriot Of whom no speaks no other
than himself II s he who wanting, with the experience
or the past and the present. to cast glance into the fu
turc spccuntes IT, in century, the republic shall still be
united shall not have been violently divided and
separated into hostile groups, nuay IT, after terrible
struggles, shall not have fatally bent lie head under mill
tary despotsm. hepresen generation says he must do