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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26

gaming has been transmitted. The tendency
to violate the laws for the protection of life or
property is transmissible. Suicides run in
families.
The. offspring of young, immature parents
are wretched and unhealthy. Old age is also a
direct heritage the children of the aged are
old at their birth. So also certain psycol-
ogical conditions are heritable Insanity, a
condition but imperfectly defined in our com
mon law. proneness to yield to peculiar forms
of temptation, producing almost complete ir-
responsibility, may be transmitted through
many generations. Hence the existence of
:" dangerous classes people set apart to fill
| cur prisons, at war with their kind the PART
abs of humanity whom philanthropy and leg
! siation fail to provide for properly. Such
cannot be reformed but measurabiy genera
| tions must pass before the stock can be regen-
| Grated.
| The question whether marriages between
members of nearly-alled families result in de-
terioration Of the stock has not been settled
Certain it is that the union of human types
widely distinct will effect a mongrel offspring,
which nature hastens to rid herself of as dis
grace. Examples sustaining every view of
this subject may be literally quoted.
The law that +" like produces like " exists
every where, while, nevertheless, children, in
obedience to the law of diversity, differ from
their parents and from each oIher. Every for
ma ton of body. internal and external every
deforl,lity or deficiency, from disease or acci-
dent every habit Or aptitude, is liable to be
transmitted to offspring. Where, however, the
specific type has been modified, the tendency is
to return to the original form. Intellectual
endowments and aptitudes are in like manner
heritable, even to the accident of mental culti-
vation or neglect as are also moral qualities,
with the important addition that the simple
practice of the parent becomes the passion, the
mania, the all but irresistible impulse of the
opportunity of escape, so that healthy children
proceed from unhealthy parents, &c. The off
spring of that large portion of our population
who are given up to intemperance aud other
forms of vice inherit from their parents strong
impulses and feeble wills so as to become more
or less irresponsible, and bear peculiar rela-
ton to the law, WHICH urgently claims an atten-
ton and investigation which it has as yet very
imperfectly received.
It is not probably desirable that matrimoni |
al alliances should be formed, as some physiol- |
ogists would insist, with exclusive reference to
the scientific princip es herein involved, though
due consideration of them may be of advan-
tage. Human nature instinctively repels arbi-
trary regulations in such matters; and it Is |
by no means certain that physiology, as now
understood and taught, could supply rules tc
avert the hereditary Transmission of certain !
constitutional inirmities Nevertheless, the |
whole subject derands attention infinitely be-
yond what it has thus far receiyed.-Neiv York t
ErsaiRg Post.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
FLASH NEWSPAPERS.

Perhaps the most marked exhibition of a
taste for the horrible is seen in the fash news
papers which attain such wonderful circula-
tier: No city in the world-not even Paris
deals more extensively in what is called the
blood and thunder literature, than New York
It requires some nerve to walk through our
streets, which are fierce with horrors. We
cannot pass by even a dead wall or a board
fence around vacant lot without having a
| vision of blood glaring out upon u.s. Flaming
handbills announce some heart-rending tale, set
off by figure of an Indian with his tomahawk
raised above captive maiden's head, ready to
sink it in her brain Or the tables are turn
| ed, and some hapless woman, who has been de-
ceived, turns upon her betrayer, and has her
arm upraised, about to plunge dagger into
his guilty breast. With such startling ap-
peal, all the world is invited to read the horri-
BILE tale of love and revenge.
| This is the stuff which is printed by tons
and sent abroad all over the country, to form
the reading of thousands of the young. What
must be its effect upon the national taste
Even though it teaches no immortality, its in
, 6uence is most pernicious in the craving which
it produces for the excitement of tales of hor
, ror. 1t destroys the pure taste of the youn:
} the taste for quiet scenes of nature, and th
: simple incidents Of domestic life A bo.
uses TIE relish for home. He Graves theatri
I cal exeitemant--t gas-lighls and the foar
, and Jury of the stage. Nor does the evil en-
:, with this corruption of taste To fill the in
7 animation with scenes Of horror, IS to amial
i g. Jl' nn, With daeds of p.aad, ana to pr,
or Ha ac ng oi a fra e,d.ts /
l. .--aa ~ sum -. 4-aca rA-cA WIS .-u =
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Remarkable Statement

We are indebted, says a Cincinnati paper,
to 7. Mcfarland, Of Urbana, for the following
highly interesting facts, which are also sub
stantiated by another gentleman Of the same
place
Messrs. Eds: There is living in Concord
tp., Champaign county, Ohio, remarkable
colored gentleman, named Richard Stanhope,
now in his ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH YEAR:
He is very active, both in body and mind, for
one of his years: His herd Is as white as
wool, and with the exception of slight de
feet in his hearing; he retains to a surprising
degree the Use of all his mental and physical
faculties. He was born the first day of March,
l748, in Fredericksburg! Virginia, and is be-
yond doubt, ore Of General Washington's ser
wants, as he has in his possession certificate,
in Washington's own band writing. He was
with his master in several battles of the Rev
olution, and shows honorable scars received IN
the bloody conflicts of that day. He was also
with the army in the last war with Great Bri'
tain at the time of Hull's surrender. He was
then driving team and when ordered to drive
to certain point, positively said be woulo
not, but unhtched his saddle-horse and made
his way back to this county. He is now llv
ing with his third wife, who is eighty year
old. He is the father of twenty-eight child
ren, most of whom are living. Mr.. Stanhop
has been citizen of Champaign county 70
49 years, and has always sustained the charac
ter of an honest man and good citizeu. II
has been n member Of the Baptist CAurc
, : r.i;-e ri gears. I. 5. MCFARLAND.
. Urbaua, March, 1879.
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w1sDonE IN eEz.-crrou.

A great deal of skill and sound Judgment
may be exercised by the farmer in selecting
the crop suited to his soil-in selecting va
riety and seed--in choosing the right time to
plow, plant and harvest. There is call, TOO,
for wisdom in selecting of the knowledge OBJ.
tained from books and papers, that best suited
to our soil, climate and circumstances. Unless,
a man has sound judgment in selecting, it
would be better to follow the example Of
poor farmer we have heard of whose crops.
were always poor, while his neighbors on the
next farm, were always good. He resolved to
do as his neighbor dd-plowing, planting, cul-
tivating at the same time, and, as near as might
be, in the same manner. He did SO, and had.
equally good crops: asa
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
RREso1uTIoN.

Irresolution is habit which creeps upon its
victim with fatal facility. 1t is not vicious.
but it leads to vice, and many fine heart has
paid the penalty of it at the scaffold. Trifing
as it appears in the wavering steps of the young
as they grow older its form changes to that of
. hideous monster, which leads them to des-
{ truction with their eyes open. The idler, the
spendthrift, the epicurean and the drunkard,
8 are among its victims. Perhaps in the latter
= its effects appear in the most hideous form.-
& He knows that the goblet which he is about
to drain is poison, yet he swallows it. He
knows, for the example of thousands has paint
ed it in glaring colors, that it will deaden all
his faculties, take the strength from his limbs
and the happiness from his heart, oppress him
with foul disease, and hurry his PROCESS to a
2 dishonored grave, yet he drains it under spe
e cies of dreadful spell, like that by which smal
q creatures are said to approach and leep into
the laws of the loathsome serpent, whose hend
ish eyes have fascinated them. How beautiful
end manly is that power by which the reSolut'
{. man passes unmoved through dangers
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
Witchcrafts

In the course Of the century during which
the persecution against so-caled witchcraft
was at its height in Germany-from 1880 to
1660-it is calculated that more than 100000
individuals, nne-tenths of whom were women,
were its victims. To the honor of humanity
be it said some voices were raised against this
blood thirsty practice but they were drowned
in the general camor. In every part of Ger
many, Protestant or Catholic, the same atroci-
ties were oorfmitted' AT length, in the year
1871, the noble-hearted COUNT Fredric Stein,
himself member of the order Of Jesuits-an
order which had been among the most violent
denouncers Of sOrcery-ventured to step boldly
forward and declare that, q among the many
whom he had conducted TO the scatfod, there
was not one whom he could confidently declare
guilty." "T1eat NE so,' he added, =" treat in
this manner the judges, or the heads Of the
church, subject us to the same tortures, and
see if you will not discover sorcerers in us ALL.
Despite this burst of generous Indignation,
it was rot until 1854 that this ncomprehensi-
bic insanity began to abate. The last socalled
witch burnt in the German Empire was poor
nun, aged 20, III the year l749, at Berg. But
at Glarus. in German Swift eriand, an eXecIl-
ton of similar nature took place as late as
1894. This time the victim was a servant
girl, accused of having practised dabolica
arts to lame child of her employers. Ger
many, indeed seemed to live in AN atmosphere
of sorcery. The ground which faith had lost
superstition made her own Poets and poctrl
Of Ger,pdnu
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
New York Homes.

There is probably no city in the world where
the dwelling houses Of the more fortunate cias-
ses of citizens are so pleasant and commodious
as New York In London the merchant gen
orally lives over his store the nobility have
their city mansions and their palaces in them
selves, bat mona besides those possessing here
dtary wealth and title ever dream Of occupy
ing such ediiceS.
In Paris few families have a whole house,
people of wealth ard title living in content
mcnt in their own suite of rooms, and Hardly
knowing the names of the other otcupants Of
their houses: On the gFound floor is store );
in the entresol, a little half story above the
store, lives the doorkeeper his wife and child
ren, in a space not much larger than that of a
state room in an Albany steamboat ; on the
next floor lives baron, then above merchant
then a series Of young dodgers, then some gri-
settes or poor traders, and in the attic perhaps
poverty-stricllen author or artist: Even the
palaces of the old aristocratic families in the
Faubourg St. German are gloomy and unin-
viting in exterior, and surrounded by forbidden
walls of brick or stone. The Paris Rothschild
lives in house standing in what would be
called g the rear" his banking rooms occupy
ing the front part Of the building.
In Rome there are gorgeous gloomy palaces,
but half furnished, dismal and uncomfortable,
while the ordinary houses are entered by en-
tries and stair-cases that would often disgrace
one Of our tenement houses.
In our American cities, also, New York
takes the lead in its home conveniences. Phil
adelphia with its formal rows of red brick and
green shutters, Boston, with its clean, retiring
but far from elegant dwellings,, offer nothing
as attractive to the eye, or as really convenient
and commodious, as the long rows of stone
front OF brick houses that adorn our uptown
streets: Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth street
are unsurpassed anywhere for the magnificenct
of their private dwellings. 1t is in this way
that We atone for the lack of those superb ed
ifices that so characterize most of the cities o
the old world. In tho-e towns architecture
magnifcence has been concentrated in 0n'
stately cathedral or regal palace here it i
dffused over thousands OF happy homes
New York Post
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
Tie Sea aari,ent canAhts

The Yarmouth Register says that the far
famed sea serpent has lately visited that port,
and was chased up narrow creek and caught.
He turned out to be Horse Mackerel, meas
uring over eight feet in length and weighing
BIG pounds. The Register says:
1t is the opinion of experienced fishermen
that this is the fish which has given rise to the
belief in a sea serpent. When it is running
at its ordinary speed, in search of prey, it moves
along just under the surface of the water, pro-
ducing wave which rises up in a series of cor
rugations for about one hundred feet in a
strait line, before it falls off into the ordinary
spreading wake produced by body moving
through the water. This appearance in moder
ate weather SO closely resembles that of hugt
serpent moving over the surface of the watel
that it is difficult, even for those accustomed tt
the appearance, to realise that it is nothing
bnt a wave and it is NOT strange that, whal
seen Tor the rs time it should strike the be
holder with terror.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
T1MGs

What blessed order of nature it is that
the footsteps of time are inaudible, and noise
less, and the seasons of life, like those Of the
year, are so indistinguishably brought III III
gentle progression, and are so blended, the one
with the other, that the human being scarcely
knows, except from faint and an unpleasant
sensation that he is growing old!
So day steals into night through the critns
son curtains of twilight So the golden gttes
r of dawn swing around noiseless rs the portals
of heaven. Even the beat of the heart is nluf-
fled, that we may not know how fast it strug-
"a giles out. From the building of the oak &c
the rolling of the world, there is no clink o
the machinery. There is no noise save the
helpless waves, or the rent air groaning with
81 the Hghtnings bolt, or now and then the play
of volcanoes valves, or of the puny cries of III
sects or of men in all this world Of ours. The
past is dumb--the future silent, and the pres
ent makes but a slight ripple, like the trailing
b of steamer quiet sea.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
AL Milmankea the dncline has heen

At Milwaukee the decline has been equally
great. On the 10th of May last, No Spring
sold at about 81 43 while on Saturday last
it sold at roc.
This altogether outstrips the decline of 1857
which has hitherto been quoted as the sud
den decline" In that year, standard spring
wheat rose on the Sd of July to 81 80 f o. b.
and fell to SOC in store on the 24th of Novem-
Der followihg-a heavier but more gradual
fall. u
The result of the recent decline has been
very disastrous to grain dealers and specua-
tors all along the lakes. Commission mer-
chants, bankers, and nearly all concerned have
suffered more or less. True a few have
come out of the struggle unscathed, but it has
been to the sacrifice of the many. The losses
at Chicago, Milwaukee, Racine, and other
points cannot be less than half million dol
lars 1t is a lesson not to be soon forgotten !;
and we trust that the spirit of speculation will
never again be allowed to run wiz dfas it did in
May last, leaving its track strewed with bank
ruptcy and general ruin. Some no doubt
think that extreme prices benefit the producer.
It is mistake. The reaction which generally
follows an unnatural advance, sinks the mar
ket as much below its natural level as it was
above it; and 10 be ter example of this can
be cited than the simple fact that corn sold i'll
this market yesterday at price elepen cents
per 614sheI higher than Standard Whedt.-Chi-
ergo Tribune 10Th.
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NO. 81.
How a Soldier Feels in Battle.

A young French officer thus writes Of hi
hrst experience in battle:
=" Our officers kept Us back, for we were no-
numerous enough to charge upon the enemy
This was, however, most prudent, for this mur-
derous fire-so fatal to the white coats-did us
but little harm. Our ccr.ical balls penetrated
their dense masses, while those of the Aus
/ trlans whistled past our ears and respected our
/ persons. 1t was the first time had faced fire.
nor was | the only one. Well l am satisfied
with myself True, lodged the first balls
| but Henry ", they say did the same thing at
the beginning of every battle It is
physical effect, independent of the Will.
" But, this tribute paid, if you could only
feel how each shot elcctrifes you 1t is like a
whip on a racers legs, The balls whistle bv
you, turn up the earth around you, kill one,
wound another, and you hardly notice them
You grow intoxicated, the smell Of gupowder
mounts to your brain The eye becomes
bloodshot, and the look is fixed upon the enc
my. There is something Of all the passions in
that terrible passion excited in soldier by the
sight of blood and the tumult of battle.
Everybody who has tried it testifes to the |
peculiar intoXication that is produced by being |
in battle. There is an inlatuating influence |
about the smell Of powder, the shrill whistle Of |
Instantly transforms men from towards to he |
roes--from women to monsters. None can |
tell of the nature or mystery Of that influence |
but those that have been III the fray them
selves"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
Disastrous speculations in Wheat,

At no period in the history of the grain
trade Of our city, has the wheat market under
gone such Sudden fluctuations as have occur
red duringfhe past eight weeks and in no pre-
vious year has there been as much money lost
on the same amount of wheat.
On the 18th of April last, Standard Spring
Wheat sod at 90c in store. Shortly after this
date TIE Essropean war broke out, and bread
stufs all Ger the world advanced. so that on
the 1st of-May the above grade sold at ST 90
to $l.05-daily advancing till the 16th when
it reached 81. 80. Since that date. its course
has been steadily and alarmingly downward
On the ist of June, it was 81 Is; on the 1st
of July, 92c and yesterday it closed dull at
56c--a define Of seUenty5our cents per busAel
in sirtyfWo days. We give its downward
course in the following table
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
wAsgERUL rARO1aas.

Eerhaps IN nothing are farmers more wszta-
iui tnan IN the management, or rather rra,,s g,Sv
management OF their manure Shop1d o,s
na naNe MS granery robbed every week or so Of
Ni'een OF twenty dollars worth of grain. ha
"oulu make great fuss about it, a,ld uron,. Is
Dy oner liberal reward for the detection Of d.
lhe thief yet this same man viii, aD,o,v -
tN'uuie 10 lie spread over his cattle ward er.
pose 20 'ne bleaching rains of spring which
frequently carry more than the above arno,,,t =
u the elements Of crops contained in his ma, g
nnre forever beyond his reach-and he aIlowa-
tuis waste TO occur year after year, as if it was
no sort OF consequence to him. IF this nrsc~
rice vas true only of the owners Of prairie son
the Case would be different, but it is TO he saay u
IN parts Of the country where manure ia moaess
needed, yea, where its preservation and econo--s.
my III It's use is VI The utmost Importance To a
the success Of the farmer. Farmers have been,
tod OF this thing so often through our apri-
cultural press, that one would think It need ma ~
longer be reiterated. Why is this Has the
suoject become such hackneyed ore that they q.
10 longer give attention to it, or do they n1ost-e
, belong to the class who take no paper de-
'oted to the interests Of their calling? The
'oice OF the agricultural press has for half a
century or more been raised against this waste 3
OF manure as well as against the skinning pro-
esS OF cultivation so universally practiced in
lany parts Of our country. Their empty =
arms and graneries should appeal to them in
way not to be misunderstood Their fields o.
barren looking, all overrun with sores, sbould 20
prove them for such dereliction of a dItvsfG
ley owe to their children and TO their country
well as to themselves! But farmers waste
so in the application of manure-puttinS It's
ground which needs draining, when half the
l'ue OF the manure expeniel in draining s-e
ou'd produce almost infinitely better results %
gain, they will lavish it on to fields already
ch, while they have others sluTarinr E5r w5ntSp
1t. But it seems impossible almost tooG
ange the course of many, however plejudi-
al to their interests that course nav be-and -
e Country Gentlcuah, together with our ae.aaI
cultural press generally will still need to reit~ess
ate the oft repeated injunction Farmers
We yonr manure Country Gentleman. Z 7lss
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sAvzNa POTATOES rRom ao-L

AS the farmers of Ohio and elsewhere. have
sustained great loss by reason of their potatoes
beng affected with the rot, after losing nv
whole crop for several years, ! fell on the fol-
lowing plan, and therefore saved them: On
the 28th of September, lS49, discovered that
my potatoes were commencing to rot, there
fore dug them, threw them on the ground and
let the sun dry them, throwing away all that
were affected. I then spread them six inches
thick in my blacksmith shop, and pounded
half a bushel of charcoal fine spread it evenly
over them, let them lay till fear of frost iniu.
ring themj when buried them, covering them
well. They saved as well as any potatoes I 2
ever had. The next year they commenced to
rot as before, dug them and placed them in q
the shop, but put no pulverized charcoal on
them, they ceased rotting as before and saved
well. My potatoes have rotted more or less
every year since, but by digging them and
spreading them on some dry 1oor where the
sun cannot shine on them, those that are part
ly rotted, will dry up and rot no more Last
fall at least one fourth of them were rotten be- <
fore L discovered it, yet L saved the balance
good and sound as any l ever had Farmers
If you find your potatoes commencing to rot,
try the above experiments JOIN YoUSG
Richland Co., 1859. -
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HAPPINESS.

Madame Giradin says Of Happiness =" For
ages happiness has been represented as huge
precious st, ne, impossible to find, which peo-
pie seek for hopelessly. 1t is not so 4; happl-
ness is MOSAIC, composed of thousand little
stones, which separately and Of themselves have
little value, but which, united with art, form a
gracefQ l,s,gn. Set the .mosipc carefu y, and
you have. a beaatif2rlI ornaments learn to IN
dsrstand int ligently the passing enjoyment;
whieh chance. which your character gives you
or. Which hea, en- sends you, and You have a
-arreeable ex steuce Why Always look 70 tht
horizon, when tfiere are such fine roses in tn
garden you i've in?"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
cRrcuzruza oR CALIFORNIA.

The estimated number of acres in cultiva-
ton, during 1858, is given at about 186,-400.
Bushels of wheat raised, 3,568.669. Barley,
1882, ,718. Oats, I,322,23I; The amount of
land in the State adapted to agricultural pur-
poses, not including the swamp and overaowed
lands, is estimated at Al ,622,4O0 acres. The
swamp lands that may be reclaimed, are esti-
mated at 100000 acres. The amount Of
grazing is estimated at 3O,OOO,000. making a
total of 76.622 400, other than mineral and
sterile lands