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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
A THOUGHT FOR YOUNG MEN.

. More may be learned by devoting few mo-
ments daily to reading, than is commonly sup
posed. Five pages may be read in fifteen min
utes, at which rate one may peruse twenty-six
volumes of two hundred pages each. in a year.
You say you have none to guide you. The
best scholars and men of science VIII tell you
by far the most valuable part of their educa-
tion is that which they have given themselves.
Volumes have been filled with the autobiogra-
ply of self-taught men. Think of Franklin,
the printer; of Lime, the shoemaker; of John
Hunter, the cabinetmaker; of Herschel, the mu-
scian; of Donald the weaver; of Turner, the
printer; of Burritt, the blacksmith. Love
learning, and you will be learned Where
there is will there will be way.
Begin at once, take time by the forelock,
and remember that it is only the first step that
costs, and having begun, resolve to learn some
thing every day. Strike the blow, and avoid
the weakness of those who spend half of life
in thinking what they shall do next. Always
have volume near you which you may catch
up at such odd minutes as are your own. 1t
is incredible, until trial has been made, how
much real knowledge may be acquired in these
broken fragments of time, which are like the
dust of gold and diamonds.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
The Yankee in the south.

Probably no animal known to natural his
tory is regarded with such aversion as the
Yankee in some portions of the South. The
phrase is rarely employed in a complimentary
sense, or without the addition of an adjective
more emphatic than refined. He is supposed
to have been born in a bed of Wethersfeld on
ions, raised on Goldfish, trained to sing through
his nose, by which be is always to be distin-
guished from his carnal fellow-men, and taught
to amuse his juvenile hours with wooden
nutmegs, which are conceded to be the chief
staples of the New England States. Nogood
thing can come out of his land, no generosity,
no chivalry, no honesty, no frankness. He is
habitually mean, calculating, avaricious, and
inhospitable.
Now, it is very remarkable that those por-
tions of the South happily few in number and
growing less every day where the Yankee is
thus regarded, are conspicuous in bestowng
upon the despised Yankee nation what would
generally be considered the most solid testimo-
mails of good will. They are the chief patrons
Of the Yankee race; they fill their law, med-
cal and theological schools; they pass by
Southern cities to give to the hated Yankees
their trade; they are the first to go to the
Yankee springs and the last to come away :;
they eat with Yankee forks, dig with Yankee
spades, wear Yankee shoes, sit on Yankee
chairs, and are buried in Yankee cofins. As
Brother Jonathan looks more to substance
than ceremony, he probably regards the actions
of the Yankee haters as better index of their
feelings than their words. At any rate, we
see that he is multiplying his steam conuec-
tionswith them, and drawing them closer to
his forgivipg heart Rqitimcre American.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
sucH a MN.

+ Who is rich? He who is contented with his
lot.
r Who is happy2 He who loves everybody
Who is honored !? He who pursues the'ever
tenor of his way.
Who is good He who has the fear of Got
before him.
How easy then to be rich, happy, honorec
and good. But yet multitudes, in striving fol
these blessings, take the very steps that are
sure to defeat their objects In getting rich
they find no end to their desires. In striving
for happiness, they hate everybody who does
not follow in the steps they have chosen. II
gaining honors, they push themselves forward
crowding aside the most worthy, until they
have outstripped themselves and sink. II
their desires for goodness they forsake the
source of all good. and hug the most evil pas
sions to their bosoms.
Thus is poor feeble man. He labors for
what he can never obtain, and at last dies with
vanity-all is vanity-upon bis lips.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
ROT ALONE. WHEN ALONE.

Alone say not am alone! Do you not
see that little sunbeam dancing so gracefully
It peeps ever and anon over my shoulder, and
now shrinks back as If blushing to see itseli
the subject of eulogism- Welcome, sunbeam
for thou hast come from a world far brighter
than this It's thou who glidest on the angels
crown, and throwest halo of light where'er
thou dwellest The ocean welcomes thee. and
ceases for while its heaving; for to its bo-
som sacred guest is clasped. The sea-nymphs
WOO thy gaze; the untold wealth of the sea
thou beholdest, while man cannot give one
glance at the many mysteries and beauties con-
cealed beneath its profound depths. Thou
bsst come to bring good tidings to the weary,
and thou whisperest, There is rest in heaven y
And thou hast visited the lonely cell, too,
where the poor criminal is incareerated in
chains thou art kind. indeed, to think of him;
to cheer the unfortunate.-[ MISS HAINEs.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
How Indiana .s Going.

At the opening of the present campaign
we regarded Indiana as a somewhat doubtful
State, though we had strong hopes of Re
publican triumph. With the progress of the
canvass, however, it has become more aud
is going on there. All the external signs
have indicated that the Republicans would
elect their State ticket in October. and give a
handsome majority for Lincoln and Hamlin in
November. This result is now as certain as
any political calculation can be. In Southern
Indiana remarkable change has been going
ou, and the vote there will astonish those peo-
pie who look for any indication of its charac-
ter TO the returns of two Pocket" -connties,
in particular, 10 which according to reliable
information the vote will be almost as one
sided for Lincoln as it was four years ago for
Buchanan.
To show something of the state of affairs in
Northern Indiana, we will give the aggregate
result of a careful canuGSs Of eight counties in
that section, as compared with the Presidsn-
tial vote four years ago. We have details be-
fore us, giving in these counties a total ma
iority for Lincoln of $500 In the same
counties four years ago, Fremonts majority
was only 5,3S5. These are facts. not conjec-
lures. 1t is beiieved that every county north
Of the National Road, viii give majority
for Lincoln. Should the balance of the State
give the same relative gains as the counties to
which we refer, the Republican majority in
Indiana will exceed 10000. Half that will
answer every practical purpose.-C Cincinnati
Gazette.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
why Prices will De Low.

The strange perversity of the advocates Of
that commercial policy which requires fam
inc in Europe or short crops at home, 10 give
our farmers remunerative prices for their la
Dor, admits of 10 explanation. In all the
/ West the grannd =gEeaps beneath the weight
Of the crops, cut and grow ing. But if
the European harvest is not destroyed by cold
and rain, and if the effects of tue drought in
the Southern States are not as severe as are
now anticpated-what, we ask, will the con-
tents of the Western granaries and cribs be
worth to the men who have toiIed early and
late to keep them up? The object of the
government uuder successive Democratic Ad-
ministrations has been to discourage manuEac-
| lures and stimulate agriculture and commerce.
ibis has been because the South, the ruling
power, has found her gain therein But the
consequences to the North, often forctold, will
soon be seen. There is surplus of food
For the first time in three years the crop is
full, and SO great is the number driven from
manufacturing pursuits to agriculture, by the
press of foreign competition, that the area de-
voted to wheat and corn never was so large
before. The surplus regulates the price; and
if no foreign demand arises, the price will
open the eyes of the West to the imperative
necessity of such an alteration of our CON-
mercal policy as will bring the workshops of
the artisan and the fields of the farmer side by
side-that will afford not only protection to
the infant Industrial enterprises. but home
market for everything that the farmer may
produce-and that will withdraw a part of
the men now engaged in tie cultivation of the
earth, and convert them into lsborers in new
and more profitable field. If the market
price of wheat is but fifty, and of corn but
twenty cents per bushel, let those who raise
and sell these grains remember that the diff.
erence between what they have earned is q
tribute that they pay to the shareholders of the
South for managing the government exclu-
sively for their own benefit and that nothing
but the election of a Republican President
and revision of the tariff, will prevent un-
rempperative prices whenever crops are full
or even fair.-PresS & Tribune
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31

Row the Bite of Dog should BE-
Treated. b rs aINass

Dr. Stephen Ware. Of Boston, in bis testi-
mony IN n recent case which grew out Of iu-
jnries from the bite of dog, furnished the
following valuable advice:
In the case of the bite by dog where the
teeth of the animal penetrated the Hesh, whetA-
er the dog was known TO be mad or not, be
should use the same precautions. He would
wash the wound with warm water, extract oil
the virus possible by sucking the woand
with his lips. and then cauterizc it deeply with
the caustic most readily obtained, but should
use potash il it could be procured at once
The time in which the effects OF the bite Of .
rabid dog would be seen, varied from two TO
three days to as many years. but ii no effects
were telt after two or three months as gene,-
al thing the patient might feel himself ssis.--
Bites made through clothing are seldom pro
ductive Of much harm, as even if The dog Is
mad, the clothing absorhs the virus before the
teeth reach the flesh. Most Of all the real
cases occurred where the person was bitten on
some naked part Concerning the possibility
Of cure in a real case of hydrophobia nothing
csp be said.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
Lincoln in Virginia.
The Wheeling IntelIlgencer says /:

Ine w heellng lntelilgencer says
q We announced on Saturday morning that
a Lincoln and Hamlin pole would be raised
near the La Belle Rolling Mills, that evening
at five o'clock. At that hour large crowd
collected, and everything for raising the pole
being in trim, it was heisted with rapidity
and enthusiasm that never was disianced in
these parts. The pole stands ll2 feet from
the ground, and from its top swells to the
breeze beautiful penpon and a streamer
bearing the honortd names of Lincoln and
Hamin. A temporary flag of stars and
stripes was run up, which, in a few days. will
give place to newer one of the same kind
Between three and four hundred persons were
present. Among them we discovered, pretty
heartily at the ropes, some persons whom We
had supposed belonging to the other parties
but who, without making any noise about it
are going in strong for Lincoln and Hamlin
and who, in company with lots others of thc
same SOFT, will be found voting the rlcriou:
Republican ticket on the 9Th day of next No
vember. After the pole had been raised
speeches were made by Messrs. Caldwell
Campbell, and E. M. Norton, and it was moi
until it began to grow dark that the enthusias
tic crowd were content to break up and dis
perse. Three cheers and tiger, say we, fol
the gallant Republicans of South Wheeling
Another pole will be put up this week neal
the Fifth Ward Market"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
Remarkable Attack by a Swarm of
Bees

"A singular occurrence took place OF An
trim. Mich, on the I'd inst, which is thus re
lated by the Detroit Tribune:
A swarm Of bees, belonging to Mr.. Beck
er, come out of the hive in great fury, and at
tackled man by the name OF Munger, who was
crossing the field at the time some thirty or
forty rods off. He undertook to flee to the
woods, but the bees were before and behind
him so thick that he found it impossible to
run. He then commenced a fight with hat in
hand, but he was very soon overpowered, and
fell down with faintness, and would soon have
died, had not son of DIR. Decker-who was
at this time approaching from another direc-
tion-rushed to the rescue, when the stingers
left Munger and commenced an attack upon
young Decker, who fed with all speed to a
shed or granery, in which was faVorite shep-
herd dog chained. The bees Immediately left
the young man and attacked the poor dog with
such fury as to deprive him of life before be
could be let loose. It is said the dog actually
kiita more than quart of heas in his vigar-
Gus defense Mr.. Munger and Mr.. Decker
were in dangerous state for some hours, but
arctnow recovering.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
CONSTANT EMPLOYMENT.

The man who is obliged to earn the neces-
saries of life and support his family knows not
the unhappiness he prays for when he desires
wealth and idleness. To be constantly busy
is to be always happy. Persons who have
suddenly acquired wealth, broken up their ac-
tive pursuits. and begun to live at their ease,
waste away, and die in q very short time
Thousands would have been blessings to the
world, aud added to the common stock of hap
piness, if they had been content to remain in
an humble spere, and earned every mouthful of
food that nourished their bodies. Persons who
are always brsy and go cheerfally to their dali
. ly tasks, are the least disturbed by the fiucta-
tions of business, and at night sleep with per-
feet composure- ~,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
THE PAUSE IN LIFE.
Wes.Neld. Ohio

There are periods. perhaps, in every mans
life, at which he pauscs, fearful to make anoth-
er step forward He becomes timid, irresolute
and discouraged. His eye looses its wonted
light; his step is no longer elastic, and his ex-
preston is one of wearines and irresolution.-
A sickness not of the body, but of the mind
has seized him. Discouragements manifold
and heavy have arrested his progress. and be
pauses in the midst of the great highway of
life, without the heart to lift up his eye to the
prospect in advance, or move outward in the
toilsome journey. He sees the masses of his
fellow men pushing beyond him with bound
ing step, their echoing laugh comes back
to him as the mockery of past happiness
The heavens above him are sad, gloomy, and
nature around him, although its melody is low
ed by the myriads of earth has no voice of
Hainstrelsy to inspire his bowed spirit, or ava
ken emontions of pleasure.
1t may be that all men have not suffered
thus. The man of giant frame, aud heart of
roughcst mould, may not pause thus when the
storm and the night gather about him, but
there are many sorrowing ones whose energies
and whose sufferance-tried through years of
patient toll give way before the tempest; and
hard by the spot where there is no running
brook, or crystal fountain, or leafy tree, they
pause in anguish, fearful TO venture longer on
the way. Even a star would guide their wea-
~ feet;-but the lights of heaven have gone
out IN 6arkness. The voice of sympathy would
caeer them; but they are alone. The throb-
t,ing of their own sick hearts is the voice they
hear, and communion with agony that may
M, have expression, is all the fellowship that
cal, l,c claimed.
God hep these way-worn pilgrims. wander
er, the day will draw to thee Gird on thy
sandals, and prepare still for the race. Cast
irresolution from thy heart; throw thy dis
cour;lgements far behind thee into the deep
tempest that howls along tly way. call up thy
courage from the depth of that heart which
ere-whiie laughs at danger; lift up thine eyes
fo-a region of beauty, still in the distance, and
whtc the night Is ahbut thee, and while the
ebon tempest sweeps wrathfully from its home
of storms. move cheerily, hopefully, trlistfully,
on thy Journey If thou hast enemies live
down their hate by life of principle, but
pause not in all thy course. Ii friends have
betrayed thee, forgive them, but move along
thy journey. If hopes, brilliant as the Jasper
walls OF Heaven, have been blishted by disap
poin,ment, hope thou again. but continue up
ON thy journey. If thy business has been
blasted by the blighting stroke of misfortune.
pause not durnbly, weariy on the way, but
move forward hopefully towards the star that
still shineth beyond the gloom and the dark
ness. If the dearest ties have been sundered
by the death of the noble aud the loved, shed
thou tear on the sepulchre, and hasten away
TO meet the dead in higher and better sphere.
ID. ii. Dixon.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
Final Abandonment of the Atlantic
Telegrph Gable.

/
Mr.. Varley, the electrian of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, who has been engaged
in the late fruitless attempts to raise the cable
has made a report to the Company, in which
he says AFTER repeated attempts to raise
the cable by grapnelling, in order to test its
electrical condition. and with view to land
it at New Perican, as instructed BY the
Board, We have on many occasions been able
to raise the blight, and to get on board at dit-
fere1t times pieces OF cable, in all amounting
to about seven miles, we have invariably found
it broken again few miles off" Mr.. Varey
proceeds with detailed account of the differ
ent voyages that have been made, in the hope
of recovering the cable Writing afterwards
of the bottom near Newfoundland, he says -
Although mud is shown on the charts, there
are most unquestionably rocks also, as was
too plainly indicated by the state of the cable
rock weed and sea aninalcula adhering to and
surrounding it in many places, showing that
it had been suspended clear of the bottom
The cable was invariably hauled in by hand
to avoid unnecessary strain. The recovered
cable varied in condition very much, and
what is most important is, that even those
portions which caDle out of the black mud
were so persisted in numerous patches that the
outer covering parted on board during the
process of hauling in, and but for the dcxterity
and courage Of the men in seizing hold of ii
beyond the break, where the iron wire struck
out like buDches of highly sharpened needle
points, we should not have known so much of
its condition. Those portions of the recover
ed cable that were wrapped with tarred yarn
were sound, the tar and hempz having preserv-
ed the iron wires bright and free from rust
This will be further reported on. when the
pieces of the recovered cable have been more
closely examined. 1t is with deep regret that
we have to inform You that it has been neces-
sary to abandon the cable"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
TIE BREcKINRIpaE MEN.

The Breckenridge men come out avowedly
in favor of slavery everywhere, claiming thai
this government was founded simply for the
purpose of establishing and preserving and ex
tending the institutions of slavery in this coun-
try. As do not suppose Mr.. Breckinridge
has any other followers here than those who
love slavery better than liberty, do moi
choose to take Issue with them, and will cease
to address myself to the Breckenridge party al
together. They go it blind. They acknow-
ledge no other God but slavery. They have
the virtue of frankness, however, and I have a
sort of respect for them. If they think abso-
lutte despotic power is the best they are right
in avowing the sentiment. They have told me
in the South that they wanted king. "De-
mocraey wont pay say the shareholders, "let
US have a king and strong government
Give us an aristocracy with landed estates, and
let the landless Democracy defend us in their
possession" Cicero tells of people prognos-
ticating the destiny Of nations from the color
of calf silver, and he wondered that these
prognosticating philosophers didn't laugh in
each others faces when they met. So with
the shareholders if they didn't come out thus
consistently and plainly, they must laugh in
each Others faces
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
Negro Conspiracy--Eour Killed and
one Wounded.

The Richmond, Virginia Dispatch says:
Oneof the most daring conspracies by ne
groes to murder white man that we have
ever heard Of, came to light in Halifax county
about fifteen miles from Danvilie, on Wednes-
day or Thursday, for the particulars OF which
are indebted to Conductor Cheathem, of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad.
Dir. Samuel tlairston, q wealthy farmer in
Halifax. has an overseer on one of his panta-
tions who is a strict disciplinarian, and a man
of great firmuess. On the day in question,
while. the ovsrseer was sitting in his office, six
stout negro felloH5s employed on the farm call
ed upon him, ,and after informing him that a
party ofnegnoes in the woods near by were pre-
paringF for an ninsurreetion, invited him to go
with then and witness the plan of operations.
Not srlspecting that they had any design upon
him, bpf being anxious TO capture the ring
las6ders4ssthe rehelssilie should see them, he
sfepped5fnto a1otter. room. armed himself with
= Eve shooter, and then started off miiL-sAs.-
assassns. thy not 1sltlssiisg that he fully
prepared for an emergency. @
: ltI'fc negroes led the way until getting into
the forest SOME distance, when they suddenly
stopped near newly dug pit, when the spokes
man confronted him. and pointing to the hole,
said to him: There you---son of
-, is your grave. You have but fifteen
minutes to make your peace with God, or to
land in hell" Quick as thought the overseer
drew his Colts revolver. killed four of the ruff
Guns dead at his feet, and shot the fifth one in
the abdomen, seeing which, the sixth man took
to his heels through the woods, and the over
seer having no other weapon be escaped.
The impression prevails that the six negroes
had determined to murder the ovcrseer, be-
cause of some deserved punishment one or
more of them had received, and laid the above
plan to get him off in the woods to effect their
ends. E is presence of mind in taking his pis-
tol, and his GOODNESS in. the hour of danger,
when no white person was nigh to aid him,
doubtless saved him from horrid death.