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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
An Irishrnan Arrested as a Fugitive
Slave.

The Fugitive Slave Act is a blessed i.sti-
tuition in the eyes of the pro-savery Democ-
racy, and case under it has just occurs ID IN
the Egypt portion of Illinois, that must make
white men of dark complexion stare 3. 4 iire
H!StmGn has been seized in Richmond county
of that State, and he'd for some time by his
captors on the enormous charge of being flu
gitive s!avcI According to the Olney Times
of Nov. 25th, the man arrested was brought
TO Olney for the purpose of securing him in
Jail until he could be delivered up and the re-
ward obtained, but such were the evidences of
his Irish blood that the iailor refused to re
ceive him. He gave his name as Thomas
Leary, said he was Il native of Ireland, had
been twelve years in America. and the last
year had been in Chicago The Times de
scribes him rs q nam Of dark complexion
straight black hair, black whiskers aud nous
tache, with the true characteristic Irish brogue
Hon. Martin O'Kcan, a Democratic State Sen
ator, on inspecting the alleged fugitive declar-
him to be IAN lrishman of inferior intelli-
gence" aud yet so determined were the fugi-
tive act kidnappers To run him Off into slavery
that Judge Kitchcll had to be applied to for
a writ of habcas corpus to save him from the
hunted ncgro's terrible fate!
After uarrating the narrow escape Of poor
Leary from perpetual bondage and the slave
drivers lash, the Times pertinent'y rem rks
We have no disposition to interfere with the
institution of slavery where ii exists; but
when it comes to this, that men must be hunt
cd down in the free State of Illinois, it is high
time that the people rise in the majesty of
their strength, and say such things shall not
be DONE
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16

/ In the same year there lived-and, no doubt,
: still Is living-in Lyons an invalid and pen
stoned captain of the Napoleonie wars. AT
/ ter a life of vicissitudes, he found himself in
] his old age, alone, forgotten, poor. Men no
better and braver than he had achieved dis
/ tinction by some lucky chance fortune had
come to Others, and others had begotten chill
dren to cheer and vitalize their declining days
Him the world had passed by, and for years
he had been living quiet, silent, pinched life,
by the aid of his scanty pension. His daily
resort was cafe, where he could see and read
the principal European journals, and perhaps
measure the changed politics of the present
time by the experience of his past life.
One day in Nov. 1856, he entered the cafe
as usual, took his accustomed seat as he was
wont to do, and picked up the nearest paper.
1t happened TO be the Augsburg Alleneine
Zeitung but he had spent some years in Ger
many and understood the language tolerably.
His attention was attracted by letter dated
Jena. Jena !" he thinks-':T was there too !;
what is going on there now?" He reads
little further Celebration at Waldrof. Wal
drof The name is familiar when have ]
heard it ~ As he continues his perusal, the
old captains excitement, so unusual cireum-
stance, attracts the attention of all the other
huG.tues of the cafe. "G,and Dieu, Davoust
Waldrof-the ten men-the pastors son =
Did l dream such thing, or is this the same ?'
Forgotten for years and years-effaced by
hundred other military adyentures-overlaid
and lost in the crowded stores of soldiers
memory, the scene came to light again. The
pastors son still lived still remembered and
thanked the prcserver of his native village =
Many long year had passed since such a
glow warmed the chambers of the old mans
heart.
That evening he wrote to DR., in
Leipzig. He was i'll, and but a few months
distant from his last hour but the soldiers
letter seemed like Providential answer to his
prayers, and frightened the Pickering close of
his life. A manly and afftctionate cores
pondence was carried on between the two
while the latter lived. The circumstances be-
came public and the deed was officially rccog-
nizcd in way most flatteriEg to the pride Of
Capt. Lamotte. The Grand Duke of SAKE
Weimar and the King CT SaXony conferred
upon him the orders of their respective houses.
which were followed soon afterward by the
cross of the legion Of honor from Louis Nap0-
leon, and an increase of his pension which AZ
sured him ease and comfort the rest of his life
A translation of the doctors narrative, pub
lished in the late French papers, drew atten-
tion to i'm, and he was no longer a neglected
frequentcr of the cafe. He was known and
honorcd, even without his three orders.
Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou
shalt find it again after many days"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
HOW DOES your FARM Pay.

A very important question this, which every
farmer should be able to answer with good
degree of deliniteness. 1t is not enough to
know that one is getting along in IA general
way, without knowing what part of the farm
is profitable. and what is not 1t is possible
to know how much profit there is in raising
and fatting steer, how much in field of corn
or wheat. how much in the annual produce of
the whole farm.
A good way to do this, is to keep an account
of the farm from the beginning to the end of
the year. Under the head of debtor, put down
the interest on the cost of the farm, the money
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16

A scientific gentleman in Illinois thus gives
the origin of this celestial visitor:
When the melofygistic temperature of the
horizon is such as to caloricize the impurient
indentation of the hemisphere analogy, the Co
hesion of the borax curbistus becomes surchar-
ged with infinitessimals, which are thereby de-
prived of their fissural disquisitions. This eff
fected, rapid change is produced in the thor
ambumpter of the gyasticutis palerium, which
causes a convalcular in the hexagonal antipa-
thies of the terrestrum acqua verusli. The
clouds then become a mass of deodorumized
specule of cermocular light, which can only be
seen when it is visible
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
NO. 81.

paid out for the new buildings, fences, drains,
for manures bought, for implements, seeds,
live stock, hired work, taxes, ETC., III short all
the expenses of carrying on farm for year
Then, on the credit side, put down all that the
farm proc 6uces for home consumption and for
market, and that is added to its real value in
the way of Improvements. If il supports a
fumiiy comfortably, besides furnishing some
thing to be expended in Improvements, it is
undoubtedly paying well. And if besides this
general profit, each crop and animal raised, af
fords clear and known profit the farmer is
doing well and knows how it came to pass.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
EDITORIAL LIFE.

But few readers ever think of the labor and
care dcvolving upon an editor who feels
his responsibility. Captain Msrryatt says !:
81 know how periodical will wear down one s
existence. In itself it appears nothing; the
labor Is not manifest nor is it the labor; it is
the continual attention it requires Your life
becomes, it were, the publication. One
. days paper is sooner corrected and printed
than ON comes another. 1t is the stone of Sisy-
phus an endless repetition of toll and constant
weight upon the intellect and spirits, and de-
manding ell the exertions of your faculties at
rest drudgery. To write for paper is very
: wells, but to edit one is to condemn yourself to
. slavery
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
A Word for eiddines.

We find the following unexpected piece of
decency in a latter to the New York Times,
on political affairs: 1t is a mistake, however,
to state that Giddings was Whig up to the
time the Republican party was organizcd.--
He refused TO support General Taylor. and
never afterwards acted with the Wings:
There is another man in Ohio who is as well
abused as anybody You can find, and as much
talked about as men who have much greater
talents and position in public lifc,-I mean
Joshua r. Giddings. 1t is u remarkable fact
that SO few people really understand Giddings.
He was never an Aboltiouist in a political
sense. He was elected to Congress near thir-
ty years since, as a Wing and has been
Wing ever since, till the formation of the Re
publican party. About twenty-five years
since the Democratic party in Congress (ruled
then, as it has been ever since. by Southern
politicians, rash!y and absurd,y expelled Gid
dings from the House for some ultra and heed
less speech. The consequence was his district
reelected him by 5000 majority, and kept him
in for twenty years. 10 all that time he was
Wing. voting steadily with the Wing party
His views arr undoubtedly ultra but they are
such as he has a perfect right to hold. The
language held by many Southern papers and
orators, and might add, by two or three in
your city of New York in reference to Gid
lings and others, is the very essence of folly,
ii not of madness. Have they vet to learn
that an American citizen has the right to speak
print or vote as he pleascs? D. they think
that this is country where slavery, like the
Inquisition, can make an amo-dc.fe Of those
who oppose it? If treason is to be punished,
we shall begin in a latitude considerably
South Of this l shall take the liberty of ad-
vising the gentlemen who are airing the vo-
caGulary of treason-whethcr in the fifth ave
nue. of New Y ork or on the Virginia planta-
tions--to be a little careful in ,lenouncing the
people Of the Northwest We are thoroughly
Anti-slavery."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
Connubia1 Sharp Shooting.

My love- said an amiable spouse to her
husband, don't sell that hores, l like him, and
want to keep him.
He's my horse, and I'll sell him, replied the
loving lord didn't buy him?'
: 1t was my money that bought him. rotor
ted the aristocratic lady.
Yes, madame said the husband 'and by
Jupiter! your money bought me, or you never
would have got me!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
DELAWARE, OHIO, DECEMBER is, 1859.

name; but he is ever remembered in my pray
ers- Most probably he died soldiers death
on one of the many fields of slaughter which
interviewed between Jena and Waterloo but
if he should be living, it would cheer IN; last
DAYS on earth if could reach him with sin
gle word of gratitude
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
FRET NOT rHYsELr.

And then the fears, the jealouses of section
al interests, and the portentous dangers which
cannot be concealed in connection with slavery.
Magnify and multiply all these occasions for
alarm, much as you will. What then? Shall
we give up the ship? What shall we do p
Let everything go by the board, and sit down
in blank despair Let rather initiate that
noble class of men who show the best qualities
of our nature, on the deck of the ship when
the storm is at its worst, whose bravery when
driven from one expedient to another, inspires
the timid with hope. The idea of abandoning
our Government a failure, Constitution
as q rag of worthless paper, let it not be
much as mentioned, but let us rather cherish
more of that cheerfulness of spirit which indi
Gates faith as to the issue. EXcitements do not
imperii it, provided the temper be right. When
the temperature of Individual commu-
nifty is raised, everything which belongs there
unto comes out with tie greater force; and the
peril is always and only from that which is E.
vii. Let there be nothing but what is humane
and kind and good in nature, and danger
is not to be apprehended even if we be excited
to white heat. Reformers who have succeed
ed the best in Church and State were of a mos t
hearty cheerfulness. In Luther it amounted
very often to jollity. Old Samuel Adams, of
Boston, was renowned as much for his sonorOus
singing of hymns for his patriotism. Sup
pose that affairs should wax worse and worse,
never will they be mended by impatience, irri-
liability, and petulance- Fret not thyself .
is an inspired counsel for troublous times
Have a good heart, and do the best you can.
Trust in the Lord, and mischief will be avert
ed. Reformations which cannot be accom-
plished by good temper will not be brought
about by objurgations and wrath.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
WRITE, roE ruE DE1AwARE GAZETTE.
THE LADY ON THE RIGHT.
BY WARREN -


Sitting in the rail cars
4 bright November day,
Thinking Of the dear ones
At home, far, far away;
CHANGING tllr ougt the window
Looking every where
Glanced to seea maiden
.=--s- Sitting in the car.
Eyes of jet that spaTkied,
Raven hue. her hair
- Hinged her cheek with roses,
Lips of ruby fair;
Smiling, ever gladsome-
Pleasant to the sight
So thought the lady,
Sitting the right.
Speeding its journey.
Swiftly went the train,
], upon the maiden,
Looked and looked again
- And the merry iden
Saw the frequent gaze,
Read the tale unfolded
Ut ainiiring praise.
Stopping at a station .-=
- Peeping at the throng-
When again started,
q Lady fair u was gone.
Though ne'er may see her,
Mem'ry gives the sight,
30 Brings face before me RI.
Sitting on the right.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16

A couple of women were arrested in Column
bus on Monday, for extensive shop-lifting-
They had secreted their stolen goods in large
pillow cases, concealed under their crnolinea.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17

trembic with apprehension Confidence
in ihe durability of orr institution shaken
Now '-the pillars of the Uni on are rocking
at their base" and so deep gloom will spread
lie pail over lhe country" IL is great
pity the Union was not saved, BY such
~arning voice. Now when it is all oyer
and we sitting under the shade of that deep
gloom. being rocked upon the t5;,ering 'pil-
lars of The UHiUn in It's last convulsivc
throws We begin to renhze how important is
this great bugbear mat The Democracy have
ever err ed. The Union never was safer
than now when it is being wres;ed from
that power which only made the Constiiu-
tion an instrument of iniquiy. When the
policy of the country shall be shaped to
further the interests of the greatest number,
wheu the government is restored 20 the
hands of honest patriots who revere the
names Of the founders Of cur liberties, and
when the Democracy shall have been driven
from power then it is, and not Till ihel.,
that we may expect ''business to reyive.''
confidence TO be restored and the business
energies of the country to be reinvigorated
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17

@The centennial anniversary of the
birth of the German Poet friedrich Schil
Ter, " as celebrated in many cities in this
country on last Thursday by the Germans
This county was not alone either, for
wherever intelligent Germans were forna
there the day was celebrated. The Ger
mans have no military chieftaics to extol, OF
whose memory they go love to cherish, bu'
they have their Luthers, their Goethe and
their Schillers of whom every German is
justly proud. 1t is an index Of high attain
ments in morals and intelligence when the
people Of any country yield honor to literary
greatness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17
The Late Election.

The late elections have finished the good
work begun by Pennsylvania, Ohio, lows
and Minnesota. New York has done nobly
The Americans to show their power voted
one half the Republican state ticket, and
one hall the Democratic state ticket. The
result shows that they polled abcu: 90, ,O0O
votes, but not suffici lent TO elect their Dem.
ocratic ",ffinities " The entire Repub.
lican state ticket is certainly elected. The
Republicans have good msjority in the
Legislature.
New Jersey has stood right up 10 the
chalk lire. For the first time, the Repub-
licsus have elected Governor. We carry
the STATE by 1900.
Massachusetts, Banks are above par yet.
In that State four Candidates were run out,
but Banks was chosen Governor by 5000,
over all his competitors. The Legislature
is largely Republican.
Wisconsin has gone Republican by
largely increased majority. Gov. Randel
is re elected Governor.
Kansas has elected Parrot (Re2.) as Del
egate to Congress, by 5000 majority
All this upon the heels of Old Browns
Ghost, with which the Democ' acy have been
possessed, is indeed gratifying.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17
The Unicn gone Under, is II?

The Unicn gone Under, is il?
Jus, on the eve of the New York and
New Jersey election the Washington Con-
stitution (Mr. Buchanan's organ) uttered a
last agonizing "word" to the voters of those
States. Its ancient Editor seemed to stand
upon the crumbling wreck of this glor;ol 8
Union, and while "the pillars of the Union"
rocked upon their base, his patriotic hear;
all bleeding in forehodings of the appre-
nendeG catastrophe from the depths of 8
soul poured forth his last warning word as
follows:
These are now the SattIe fields of the
Constitution and of the Union, and the fate
of the country may coon be decided there
Their responsibility is momentous. They
may hold the fate of the Union in their
hands. If they should prove to be the great
b-eakwaters, arrest the ffcod of Anti-Slav-
cry fanaticism and rebuke the irrepressibe
conflict with which the Union is threatened
by Dir. Seward, all will be well. But if, on
the other hand, the surges Of sectional pas
sion and prejudice should roll over them also
they may have engulfed the liberties of our
country. IF these two States should decide
in favor of the Seward agitaters by eievat-
ing them to place and power, deep gloom
will spread like pail over the county
The heart Of the patriot will tremble with
apprehension. Confidence in The durability
of our institutions will be deeply shaken
The pillars of the Union will rock upon
their base, and many will prepare for the
apprehended catastrophe. But if, on The
other hand, victory should perch upon the
Democratic banner, thousands will feel as
if We bad escaped great disaster. Busi-
ness will revive; confidence will be restor-
ed; all our industrial energies will be rein
vigorated; the pulse of commerce will beat
with renewed vigor; the hand Of labor will
receive new .employments and augmented
wages; and all will feel as if New York
and New Jersey had resigned and re-sealed
the guarantees of the Constitution.
The "momentous responsibility" the
yawning gulf into which the Union was
about to be hurled, all failed to alarm the
people. They coo.ly disregarded the warn
ing voice of the Constitution. Its tears,
its anguish, its e!oquence, oil alike fail, and
and what it is pleased to call "the food of
Anti Slavery fanaticism," and Stewards,
sshrepressible conflict doctrine, and .sihe
sa.ges of sectional passion and prejudice"
has rolled unrestrained over these States
Now IN the language of the Constitution is
the .ime- Cor "thc heart of the patriot toi
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17

of the other, will quicken or deisy the inev-
liable consumation that is abroad. Mr.. Bates
regards the fate of slavery as out ofthe do
mair OF demagogues-uttsrly beyond their
reach-and impeIied by that power that
brings the times and seasons to their ap-
pointed course, and rolls up the Heaven as
a scroll, when He has done with hIs won
frous panorama. By his own example he
has shown that he prefers to five by his own
labor, and not on the labor of slaves. But
he claims to be, in this particular, only ga
law uu.o hilnself."
RIToRY FOR CoL0ElZisG FREE BLACKS.
He would never, under any circumstances,
countenance National organization hav-
ing in view the interferen e with slavery
in the Sia.e. The entire function of the
Federal Government in r'gard to slavery.
in his opinion, should be to protect it where
it is-not to extend it where it is not-snd !,
so tar as policy and ability may allow, TO
help those States get clear of it that may
wish to do so, by the procurement Of For
eign Territory suitable TO the ready and
cheap colonization OF Free Blacks, alfeedy
become grievous nuisance to every State
of the Union, both Free and Slave. This
is National nuisance, aud should begin to
find National remedy. The policy already
broached in some States Of selling again fu-
to Slavery the Free Blacks whom human or
grateful masters have emancipated. unless
those freed persons leave The Sfate-when,
indeed; all the salye States and many OF the
free, prohibit their entrance within their
limits under heavy penalties. is. in the high
est degree cruel. 1t is arborous.-And it
would disgrace the American Government
in the face Of Christendom, to permit such
policy to prevail. from the lack OF its own
Intervention to procure q suitable home for
these sorely hunted ard distressed feeemen
OF we'll worked and faithful servile race.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17

0rGen. Scott On ais route te San Juan
landed at San Francisco, where he was re-
ceived with a tremendous out pouring o
ihe-people 1t was the Sabbath, and VIII lie
the people seemed to forget it, the old veie'
ran did not. He refused to leave the ship
until carriage arrived when he went i'm.
mediateiy to his Hotel. The crowd fol
lowed and would not disburse until he made
his appearance on the balcony. He ex.
pressed his regret that he WIS compelled to
iand on the Sabbath, said, that for twenty
years be had always attended church when
possible, ind reminded them Of their duty to
do likewise.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-11-17
The Gazette and the Governor
Proclamation.

We have Sc idom seen SO low an exhibi-
tion of party meanness, as That disPiayeo
by the Gaaeiss in its treatment o: Gov.
Chase's Thsnksgiving Proclamation. Ii
is even below the Gazette to do such thing'
In:o,ber words the Gazette has outdone IL
felf in meanness. Hear it.
aGoy. Chase has appointed Thursday
he oath November, as a day of Thanks
gi,isg. The Newark Advocate THINKS IL
niabs BE- well Tor His Excellency, as tor
himself, to devote that day TO- implore- fof'
qiyeners of Almighty God for his share 10
maddeaing northern men into s,ich oeeos
ss haze bsough, BrowD and his Infatuated
eoui, eerysssto. The ga!lows "