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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

The Christian InteHigencer has the following
under the above head:
Into each life some rain must fall
Sunshine is very beautiful and young hearts
revcl in it, but it is never so lovely as when
it wraps the earth in a robe Of light after
period Of storms. 1t is not natural for youth
with its bright hopes and ardent energy, to
rejoice in the day which is curtained by a
leaden sky, and fringed by the dripping rain.
Yet | wou plead for the rainy day. 1t
brings with it quiet home pleasures, which
should endear it to those whose chosen rest
ing place is by the 6reside. 1t gives space
for thought aud reflection, for, looking in
ward upon our own hearts, which cannot be
enjoyed when the flashing light, the sap
phire sky, and all the golden glory of a sun.
ny day, are dsSipating thought, and woong
US to enter the great world without. 1t
brings the members Of the family closer to.
gether, and unites them by stronger tie.
The little daughter Of fashionable mother
once said to me, on dull and lowering day,
i do hope it will rain fast this afternoon
'Whyr Because, if it rainS mother will
stay home with Us, and | can get her to
dress my doll' Music never sounds more
Sweetly than when, between each dying
chord, the low patter of the rain upon the
roof comes in for an accompaniment.
What is more musical than the rain it.
self? How it dashcs over your head, and
drifts you along to dream land when at
night its countless performers take up the
song of the stars! How it taps at your
window panes with its crystalline fingers,
and wakens you to earnest effort in the
morningl How sweet the ripples of melody
which it stirs in the brooks, when the drops
from above meet and shake hands with the
drops that are sleeping below? How soft
the lullaby with which it falls into upturned
chalces of the thirsty flowers.
A rainy day is very favorable for the
reading of old letters There is charm in
bundle of faded letters, paper and ink
alike yellow with age, that the most en-
chanting book and the brightest picture fail
to impart. You remember when the little
four-leaved folio was put into your hands,
like an angel missive, each word throbbing
with affection Perhaps the hands that
traced your name, with those little fond
love words attached to it, has turned to
dust in the grave. Perhaps the blight of
misunderstanding or harShness has fallen be-
tween you, and the page you are reading
comes back to you like the echo of forgot
ten love- Pehaps, the tiny missive is the
first link in chain that has bound your
heart to some kindred heart, and which
cannot be broken till death touches it with
his icy wand. You could not read those
faded pages when the sun was glarng in,
and laughing at your sentiments F.; but the
sky is in mourning, and the fearful clouds
are full Of sympathy
Our lives are better for the rain that falls
into them. They who have known no sor-
row have never felt the honey dropping balm
of consolation. We are nearer heaven af-
ter the ministry of grief AS the rain
drops fall gently from the skies, so may all
things lovely and Of good report, fall into
our human hearts,"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19
Virginia Jurors.

The Charlestown correspondent of the
New York Tribune gives the following de-
scription of the way jurors are qualified in
the treason trials:
A stolid and heavy man stands up before
the Judge to answer the necessary qnes-
tions. His countenance is lighted only by
the hope of getting a chance TO give his
voice against the wounded man upon the
ground. You can see this as plainly as IL
he told you.
Judge-Were you at Harper's Ferry, sir,
during these proceedingsl
Juror-No, sir.
Judge-You are freeholder of this
county?
Juror-Yes, sir.
Judge-Have you heard the evidence 70
the other cases?
Juror Eagerly yes, sir.
judge mean, if you have heard the
evidence, and are likely.to be influenced by
it, you are disqualified here. Have you
heard much of the evidence?
Juror-No, sir.
Judge-Have you expressed any opinion
as to the guilt of these parties?
Juror-Yes, sir eagerly again.)
Judge-Are you then, capable of judging
this case according to the evidence. without
reference 10 what you have before heard
said?
Juror-Yes, sir.
Judge-Have you any conscientious scru-
Piles, which will prevent you finding this
man guilty because the death penalty may
be his punishment
Juror-Yes, sir (promptly.)
judge think you do not understand
my question ask you if you would hesi-
tate to find this man guilty, because he
would be hung If you did?
Juror looks around puzzled, overcome by
the abstract nature of the proposition.
Judge-This man win be hung if you find
him guilty. Will that certainty of his be-
ing hung prevent you from finding him gull
ty, if the evidence convinces you he is soH
Juror Catching the ideal No sir--NO
sir
Judge-Very well, sir; you can take your
seat as juror.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19
'TIs Sweet to be Remembered.
! It's sweet to be remembered

o It's sweet to be remembered
In the merry days Of youth,
While the world seems full of brightness,
And the soul retains its truth
When our hopes are like the morning bean
That fash along the sea,
And every dream we know Of life
Is one Of purity:
'Tis sweet to be remembered.
As the spring remembers earth,
Spreading roses in our pathway,
Filling all our hearts with mirth.
o It's sweet to be remembered
10 the summer time OF life,
Ere we reach the burning summit,
With our weight of woe and strife
To look backward thro' the shadows
Where our journey first begun,
And the golden flowers of mem'ry
Turn their faces to the sun
T'is sweet to be remembered
AS the breeze remembers day
Floating upward from the valley,
Ger the pilgrims weary way.
O! It's sweet to be remembered
When our life has lost its bloom,
And every morning sun we meet
May leave US at the tomb
When our youth is half forgotten,
And we gaze, with yearuings fond,
From world where oil are dying,
To the deathless world beyond -
'ris sweet to be remembered
As the stars remember night,
Shining downward thro the darkness,
With a pure and holy light.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

The DuToH ON PIPES AND GIN.-Until
you come to Holland you never can know
how much humanity can accomplish in the
way of smoking. 1t is hardly too much to
say that every man, every youth, aud near
ly every boy smokes all the time he is awake,
at least The acts OF living and of smoking
seem synonymous. As soon as Dutchman
begins to live he begins to smoke, and as
, soon as he ceases to smoke he ceases to live.
The smoking of tobacco and the drinking Of
gin may perhaps be regarded as sanitary
precautions against wet climate and a
sodden soil; il SO the Dutch are to be com.
mended for the care they take Of theiI
health,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

na- Men seldom thick of the great
event of death till shadows fall across their
own path, hiding forever from their eyes
the traces of loved ones whose living smile
was the sunlight of their existence. Death
is the great antagonist of life, and the cold
thought of the tomb is the skeleton Of all
feasts We do not want to 60 through
the dark valley, although its passage may
lead to paradise and with Charles Lamb
we do not want to lie down in the muddy
grave, even with kings and princes for our
bed fellows. The fat of nature Is inexor-
able. There is no appealf for relief from the
great law which dooms us to dust. We
flourish and we fade as the leaves of the
forest, and the flower that blooms and
withers in day has not Trailer hold upon
life than the mightiest monarch that ever
shook the earth with his footsteps. GeR-
erations of men appear and vanish as grass.
and the countless multitude that throng
the world to-day will tomorrow disappear
as the footsteps on the shore"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19
Wishing.

OF all amusements for the mind,
From logic down to fishing,
There isn't one that you can find
So very cheap as "wishing !"
A very choice diversion, too,
If we but rightly use it,
And not as we are apt to do,
Pervert it, and abuse it.
! wish--a common wish, indeed
My purse was something fatter,
That might cheer the child of need
And not my pride TO Aatter
That l might make oppression real,
AS only gold can make it
And break thy tyrant's rod of steel,
AS only gold can break it
1 wish-that sympathy and love,
And every human passion
That has its origin above.
Would come, and keep in fashion
That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate,
And every base emotion,
Were hurled fifty fathoms deep
Beneath the waves of ocean
wish-that friends were always true,
And motives always pure
/ wish the good were not 50 few,
wish the bad we're fewer
/ wish that parsons neer forgot
TO head their pious teaching
wish that practicing was not
So different from preaching
wish-that modest worth might be
Appraised with truth and cAndor
l wish that innocence were free
From treachery and slander
wish that men their VOWS would mind,
That women He'er were roVers
l wish that wives were always kind,
And husbands always lovers.
i Iwish-in fne-that joy and mirth,
And every good ideal,
May come, erewhile throughout the earth
TO be the glorious Real,
Till God shall every creature bless
With his supremest blessing,
And hope be lost in happiness,
And wishing in possessing
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

Trains do not stop atStaons where the time is omitted
in the above tables.
through Taies going Westward connect at Cleveland
with Trains for Toledo Chicago, Columbus Cincinnati In
diaROpolis, &c.
And all through Trains going Eastward connect at Dunk
with the Trains Of N. Y E. r. and at Buffalo, with those
Of N. Y. Central and Buffalo N. Y City Railroads. for hsic
York. Albany Boston, Niagara Falls, &c, &c.
A. c. HUBBARD, Station Agent.
CLEVELAND November, 1859.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

The Albany Evening Journal truly says
that the Administration press are just now
doing more than ten thousand Ossawatta-
mle Browns could do to excite an insurrec.
tlon among the slaves at the South. Only
convince the slaves Gas these papers seem
determined to do) that all who profess Re.
Ppblicanism are ready to aid such an insur,
fection, and rising, at a hundred points. may
be very speedily looked for,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

DS- We believe, says on exchange, in
old fashioned girls-never could admire a
asp-Waist, or a sickly face. There are
two styles of beauty which we cannot ap-
preciate. One is the fragile, pale faced,
hysterical girl, who eats chalk, drinks vim
egar, aud poultces her hands; and the 9th
er is the gross, red-faced, pethoric creature,
who drinks beer, and talks vulgarity, and
who, to use Dutchman's simile, resembles
" feather bed nit string tied around
her middle"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

PARsoN BRowLow denies the newspaper
story that he has been 'struck with paraly-
sis" aud adds
"Should our Maker, in his righteous ad-
miustration of affairs, visit Us with any
such calamity, We will try and bear It with
out murmur, regarding It as our due. II,
however, we are allowed TO choose one Of
many evils, We shall pray TO be struck With
paralysis, blindness, dumbness. deafness, Ia
macy, the leprosy, or anything in preference
TO Democracy.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

B@r A lot of 1000 pounds Of African
cotton, imported at Boston, has been work
ed up into goods with a satisfactory result
The only objection to il was that Il was
badly prepared end imperfectly ginned, de-
fects that win be remedisd aa The Africans
become skilled in It's preparation.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

BRIGHAM & CO., Wholesale and retail
Dealers in Ready Made Clothing Furnishing Goods, Hats
Caps ke Ashtabula. ais
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19
Merchants.

U: GiLLETI, Dealer in Fancy and Staple Dry
Goods. Ladies' Cloaks, Skirts Corsets &C., &c. at Chap
mans Variety Store, few doors South of the Bank Ash
tabula Ohio. 500
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-19

s. BENHA AN, Jr., Dealer in Dry Goods, Groce-
e Crockery and Glass Ware and all those articles usually
found in complete and well supplied country Stores
Buildng I'd door south of the Fisk House Ashtabua 40
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-21
taxes. one Of them is cliarI.: unconst,tU,

taxes. one Of them is CLEARLY: unconst.tU-
tional and g~r;cvous wrong,
His very evident that PLANTER" is
teIind the spirit Of the age. The time
was, whcnnearly all the plantations III
the parish were owned by riparian pro-
priatcrs; now, the principal wcalth-o OF
tie parish is in the hands Of planters Iii
tha interior. There we find the popEia-
ton also. Take, for example, the pre-
sent Police Jury: how many members
are return cl from the river? believe,
the or four. That honorable body is
combuscd of fourteen members; three
fourteenth is the river representation,
and tlieir constituents have to make ali
the lcvces that protect and save the
parish lronrinundation.
Under the present system, the great
land owners (nQn-rcsidents) contribute
nothing to the work that makes their
lands valuable. Take away our l%evces,
their lands would be unmarkctable.
Justice and common sense should COM
pei them to assist as. They receive
protection and a rich harvest from Our
Iabors, therefore they aught to assist US.
g Your correspondents reference to the
M'Phaul Lcvee is equally foolish. If it
costs so'much to keep up the MPhaul
Lcycc, you; sir, will form some idea
what it costs TO keep up all the levccs
Of the parish. Is it just and proper that
this Lcavy expense be born by a minor
ity? How long can suclla system last?
Suppose others do as M'FlIauId did, and
abandon their lands to the parish, then
Mr., "Plantcr" must come to the rescue.
....# VILLAGE.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-21

We learn with regret that II able
Senator, Gen. B. 3. SHINES, declines be.
caming a candidate for reelection to the
Senate, or for amy other office, at the
ensuing c~!cction--lis private affairs re
quirinS his exclusive attention.
For tie interests Of our PARISH, n
We may say, the STATE at large, the loss
Of his services in the Legislature VIII
be deeply felt. That he possesses nn-
common energy industry and pcrscvcr-
ancc, ard that he is a most able, fear
less and uncompromising advocate o.
the staunch old-linc Democratic Prlll-
~cjDlcs, none will deny He has been
iudcfatigahlc in his efforts tdSpronote
t G interests of his constituents; and
the parish Of Pointe Coupcc, partlcp-
larIy. is indebted to him for many large
appropriations which have been made
Tor her benefit; and the State, alse, for
many useful and sslutary reforms which
he has been instrumental in cffccting.
His course in the Legislature, we be-
lievc, meets with the unqualified ap-
prevail Of his constituents; and he car
ries with him their confidence and es-
teen IN his retirement to private life.
Gen. SHINES is a fran and ultlinctl-
ing Democrat OF. the old-scilool, and in
his retirement, the Democratic party
will lose one Of its strongest supports.
But although no longer one Of ourstand-
.ard-bcarers, we know that heHvili always
be. found, as heretofore, battling in our
ranks, for the good old cause, with his
usual energy and zeal.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-21
,oial CORRESPONDENTS Ct Tic DCnCefa'
New ORLEANS, May II, 1859.

New ORLEANS, May II, lS39.
En-. DruocRAr:--Thc preliminary meet.
Iings heidi at the several precincts
throughout the city, on Monday night,
IN pursuance Of regular notice ny the
State Central Committee, were quiet and
orderly. The number that turned out
70 select delegates to the Baton Rouge
Convention was unusually large; there
vas enthusiasm, but no excitement, non
tcoulu there he perceived, at any Of the
polls, a solitary person Of the DcmocFa
CIV undcr.any undue excitement what
ever. At some Of the polls the Soule.
Wickl;nc faction strose hard for the
victory, and in but o!. instance obtained
it. The fact is, the number OF Demo,
Gratis that attended the meetings Of the
10th, as compared. to the attcI.dancc' Oh
the night Of the 18th, were as ten t.
one. In my precinct, the Soulc-Wick-
life delegate received "a" the votes
26 in number-wh:lst on Monday night
the Democratic candidate obtained lab;
his opponent, 6.
The latest news from Europe brings
Intelligence of hostilitics having com
mcnccd on the borders Of Sardinia
The French troops are Fastening: to the
scat of war, and before your next issue
we may expect to hear Of an extensive
battle or great preparations fol it.
The river has fallen here twelve o,
fifteen inches during the last week.
which fact has proved many to be false
prophets. met with Mr.. e. NJ. Bailey,
the accomplished engineer of. the New
Orleans, Opelousas, and Great West,
crn Railroad, the other day, who III
formed me that the crevassc on the La.
fous6e was about closed and the OBJ
structions to the road would soon be
removed The cars are again in com
%munication across the Bonnet Care
crevasse, which has not materially in
|iured the track of the New Orleans
| Jackson and Great Northern. Railroad.
Immense rises are reported on their way
down from st. Louis; therefore it is
well enough not to be too sanGuinc OF
entire safety.
1nEx1x.
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81
For Assessor,

.H ~l -+ .
Ny~We are authorized to announce
the name of SAVINIEN POURCIEAU
as q candidate for Assessor at the next
election, subject to the Democratic nom
i~nation.
.gG5-We orc authorized to announce
the name of ALEXANDER CHUST,
Sen, as a candidate for Assessor at the
next election, subject to the choice Of
the Democratic nominations.
gs- We are requested to announce Mr..
JULES PORC1IE as a candidate for Assessor:
at the next election, subject to the Democratic
nomination.
mr. WesaSe authorized to announce the name
Of =. 3. ST.. CYR as a candidate for reelection
TO the Office Of Assessor, at the next election, sub
jcct to the choice of the Democratic party.
Va Mn. LOUIS MAJOR announces limsel
as a candidate for the Office of Assessor, suhjec
to the choice of the Democratic party.
& gas- l.. ". POIiCHE, ESQ.,, announces himsel
4 az d candidate for the Office Of Assessor, at tl'
ensuing election, subject to the choice of tn
Democratic party. III
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-21

The FUTURE EMPIRE OF MEx1co.-The
New Orleans DeutsAe Zeituyg German
Daily Gazette) has the. following item
from the semi-oficial Gazette Of Munich:
Weirzbmg, Bavaria, April 7th.-Act-
i've negotiations arc going forward be-
tween the Court Of Bavaria and the SUI
preme Government Of President Mira
mon, for the purpose of selecting and
elevating the Prince Adalbert of Bava-
ria to the dignity Of Emperor of Mexico.
These negotiations are carried on
through the Government of Spain, and
promise a favorable result.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-21
State OF Louisiana.

Parish of Pointe Ceupee-Ninth District Court
Andrew q Sierau vs.. A. W. Ballard.-Ns. 1928
BY virtue of and to satisfy a writ of f. ia.
issued in the above. entitled suit and to me direct
ed by the; Hon. the 9th District Court in and for
the parish and State aforesaid, to satisfy plain
tiff demand and costs of suit, | have seized, and
will offer at public sale, on the Court House on
Saturday, the 4th day Of June, 1869,
at IL O'Clock, a. N. all the right, title and inter,
est that the defendant has in and to the following
described property to-wit:
Powell, negro man aged 45 years.
Terms and conditions OF the Sole:
The costs . cash, and the balance on a
twelve months credit; the purchaser to furnish
bond with good and approved security in solida
and bearing 8 per cent interest from day OF sale.
and special mortgage reserved on the property
sold.
SEVERN PORCgE, Sheriff
: Pointe Co,pee, May 9, 1859.
Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-05-21

BUaRD OBJ Pubic WoRKs.-Alluding,
says The Lake Providence HERALD to the
additional feature in the State Ticket,
rendered necessary by an act, Of the last
Legislature creating a Board Of. Public
Works to be elected by the people, in
lieu ofthc present State Board of Swamp
Land Commissioners appointed by the
Governor, the Baton Rouge Advocate
comments as follows:
Speaking of. the new elective officers,
reminds us Of a suggestion which has
been thrown out for the consideration OF
IF the Democracy in making their pom
nations. The plan seems to US the most
convenient and feasible that has been
mentioned. It is this: That the dele
gates from each District elected to the
State Convention meet each other in
District Convention at Baton Rouge, af-
ter making nominations fol. State off.
GERS. and then aud there nominate the
Commissioners This will SECURE a full
representation in every District Convcn-
ton, an end that cannot be obtained If
these meetings arc called at different
times and places. We submit the pro-
position to the Democracy, our delegates
from the First Swamp Land District,
and to our brethren OF the press, for
their consideration. Will they give
their views?
The plan proposed by the Advocate,
it seem to US would certainly prove as
~eficacious In the attainment Of the end
in view as any that could be adopted.
We do not know of any otilcs that could
more generally
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Highly Interesting from Europe.

Liverpool. NJ 4.-The most import
ant item from the Continent, is the for
NAL declaration of war by France. The
manifesto was published in the AL9Riteur
on the Sd May.
The Austrian manifesto, accompany
ing the declaration of war against Sar-
dinia, was issued on the 29th April.
The report sent out be the steamship
Adelaide, that the Austrians had crossed
the Ticino and commenced hostilities, is
fully confirmed.
The first engagement took place at
the bridgcof Bufalora, where the pas
sage of the Ticinos was vigorously dis
puted by the small Sandman force sta
toned there for its protection.
The Austrians, however, with their
superior force, took the bridge and cross
ed over into sardinia, after a sharp con-
flict, in which considerable loss was sus-
taihcd on both sides.
It is also reported that the Austrians
have taken Mortara, one of the principal
towns in the Sandman province of Ma
varo, and til. Sandman army sta
toned at that place had rctreated.
The Austrians have seized all the Sar.
d:n;an vessels on the Lake Maggiore
in the northern frontier Of Sardinia.
Fifteen thousand of the Imperial
Guard of France had arrived at Genoa,
making 10000 French troops now in
that place.
The French Minister had left Vienna,
and the Austrian Minister had left Paris.
The Emperor Napoleon disclaims all
idea of conquest in italy or elsewhere.
The Austrians impose heavy contri.
buttons on the Sandman towns they oc-
cupy.