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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-09-19
ANYTHING FOR A CHANGE.

Said guest-at the table Of a landlord
who did not know how ito keep hotel
turning to the waiter and reaching out his
cup, Here, boy, if that is tea give me cOf-
fee. and if that il coffee give me tea; any,
thing for change" So it was in 1910
with large class of voters who we're iden-
tilted and had acted with the Democratic
party, but who could not sustain the cor
ruption of Van Buren's administration
than which none has been more corrupt
until that of James Buchanan. Those vo-
ters made no noise about the matter, gave,
perhaps, no public adhesion to the Wing
party, but quietly dropped their ballots for
Gen. Harrison, on the principle that there
must be a change. In no other way can
the vote that overW helmed the Little Ma
gician" in that memorable contest be ac-
counted for.
The same feeling is at work in 1860
With but rare exceptions, no man-saving
and excepting, of course, Federal office
hOlders-pretends to defend this Admins
tration, and no Democrat, of either wing,
save now and then an incorrigable party
hack, prctends, in private, confidential talk,
to sanction the course of the Democratic
party in relation to the Kansas-Nebraska
policy, from its inception in the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise down to its at
tempt to out Lecompton Lecompton by the
passage of the English" swindle.
Utter condemnation of this Administra-
ton. and distrust of Douglas, have work, d
the complete alienation of thousands of vo-
tiers. who will make it manifest only by the
silent but omnipotent power of the ballot.
They know Buchanan to be corrupt; that
Douglas is desperate and inconsistent; they
see that steadily, under Democratic rule,
does Involuntary Seryitude tread upon the
heels of Free Labor; they feel that the DEM
ocratic party have been the hewers of wood
and drawers of water to the Slavery prop
ogandists; that the blacks at the South are
Slaves, and the Democrats at the North are
perpetually enslayed. the other,
at least, temporarily bound to their exac-
ting masters.
Under this grcvious burden, even DEM
Ocrats groan and sigh to be delivered, and, !
for their motto anything for a
change" thousands will vote for Lincoln
and Hamlin who do not rank themselves
among Iepuoiicans. = c1eeeaus.1 Hcra'S,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-09-19
THIS IS THE ROAD TO HE'LL.

This terribly suggestive expression was
used the other day by one of the prisoners
now under seatence of death in our county
Jail. The occasion of its utterance was as
follows: ....
A party went to visit the prisoners in
Jail, one of the prisoners recognized one of
the visitors as former resident of the same
town in Ohio. His widowed mother lives
there STILL ard some of his sisters. Tie
visitor asked him if his mother knows of
his situation. He replied that she does AMI
he had received letter from her but
few days previously. Immediately upon
his allusinn to his mother, his mind seemed
to wander back to the scenes of his youth,
and the home Of his early affections, and
his face gave evidence of an intense and
anguish of heart. so painful
ard terrible, that he was pitiable to look
upon. He burst into tears and addressing
his visitor, who was lady, he exclaimed:
''Oh, Mrs, little did l think when
saw you in Ohio that would ever come to
the dishonorable death lam doomed to die
and break the heart of my poor old moth
er, and disgrace all my relations Oh, my
God! my heart will burst! l never killed
Wood but 1 was drunk and 1 was present
at his murder Had l not been drunk l
would not have been there. 1t is whisky
that has ruined me. Whisky led me IN
to the gallows. The temptations of whis-
Ky shops first led me astray. Yes. Mrs.
-, the WHISKY shop has been the road
to hell. and now if was able would have
printed over the door of every whisky shop
in Dubuque and elsewhere, in big lc ters
that everybody could see, these words of
truth: THIS IS THE ROAD TO HE'LL"
Here the poor fellows head sank upon
his hands, and his agony seemed terrible
He doubtless felt the truth and force Of
what he said, and all who saw him pitied
him. As the words of doomed and dying
man his forcible and agoniziug remarks.
made deep impression on all who heard
him Dubuque Herald.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-09-19
AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE NEXT
CENSUS.

Among the improvements introduced into
our next census. there is one which will,
for the first time, enable the statististi-
dian and statesman to make true and cor
root estimate of the strength, number. and
influence of the foreign element in this
country. Heretofore, the children Of foreign
born citizens, born in this country, have
always been classed with the natives, to
which. in fact. they belong 1t is now
suggested that in our next census dis,
elimination may be made, 50 that the num-
Der of direct descendants of Irish, German
and other foreign emigrants may be ascer-
tanned. 1t will not only be an interesting
item to show the value and importance Of
immigration in a political and national
economical sense, but ethnology and other
branches of science will derive great
many benefits there from. Medical men
will be interested to find out which Of the
various elements and nationalities, repre-
sented on our soil, tends most to natural
increase. Do the American, the German.
or the Irish, excel in that rcgard2 In our
opinion, the German and Irish immigrants
increase more than the natives. as the
greater part of them, when they arrive at
our shores, are either married, or at least,
of marriageable age. and, therefore, very
apt to be productive. 1t is estimated that
the number of foreigners and their children
(not even to include their grand d-children)
born in this country, will not fall short at
present from between twelve and fourteen
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HISTORY OF TOM HOODS SONG OF
THE SHIRT.

In the Memorials Of Thomas Hood, by
his son and his daughter, occurs the follow
ing interesting account:
In the Christmas number of Puch for
this year appeared the famous "Song of the
Shirt" 1t was. of course, inserted aaony-
mOusly, but it ran through the land Ike
wildGre. Paper after paper quoted it, and
it became the talk of the day. There was
no little speculation as to its author al
though several. l believe Dickens among
the number, attributed it at once to its
source. At last my father wrote to one of
the daily papers and acknowledged it He
was certainly astonished. and little anus
ed, at its wonderful popularity, although
my mother had said to him when she was
folding up the packet ready for the press:
''Now mind, Hood. marx my words, this
will tell wonderfully! 1t is one of the best
things you ever did" This turned out a
true prophecy. 1t was translated into
French and German, and even, l believe
into italian. Ny father used to laugh,
and wonder how they rendered the peculiar
burden,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-09-19
THE COLD WAVE OF JANUARY
1859.

The Smithsonian Institute, by means Of
its extended system of meteorological OBJ
servations, has been enabled to make some
very curious investigations respecting the
memorable cold days Of Janu ry. 1859
1t was found that the cold of the three days
above mentioned swept progressively over
the country like wave, coming down from
the Artic regions, an1 first entering the ter
ritory of the United States at the extreme
northwest, among the Rocky Mountains.
twas experienced at Utah some three days
before it reached the banks of the North
ern Mississippi, and was heralded by tel
egraph at Minnesota, some two Gays before
it reached Washington. At Buffalo it was
some :wo hours in advance of Boston, and
was felt last on the Atlantic ocean, where
it appeared to have auished. The cold
waves also swept South in a most remark
able manner. and progressively appeared in
FLORIDA and other Soutl ern States and
Mexico, and its last pulsatiOns, as it died
away in that direction, we're experienced in
Central America and among the West
India Islands. Taken in all. it was one of
the most remarkable meteorological phen-
omenOn ever noticed, and the facts collect
ed seem to prove that the originating i'm
pulse came from the extreme northwestern
portions of the American continent.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-09-19
MISTAKES OF PHYSICIANS.

/ Oliver W. Holmes. physician, philOsO
pher and poet, in lecture on physicians
gives the following accounts of some mis-
I ta .es which have been made in medicine
"Soonsr or later everybody is tripped VI
in forming diagnosis. saw Velpeau
tie one of the carotid arteries for a suppos
ed tam)r. aal kill his patient Mr.. Dease
Of Dublin vas more fortunate in a case he
boldly declared an abscess, while other,
thought it an aneuris.n. He thrust his
lance into II, anl proved himself in the
right. Soon after he nude 4 similar dag
noSis. He thrust in his lancet as before,
and out gushed his patients blood AMI his
life witt it The mex morning Mr.. Dcase
was found deld, floating in ais blood. He
had divided the femoral artery. l have
doomed people and seen other people doom
them, over and over again. on the strength
of physical signs, and they have lived in
the most contumaeious and scientifically
unjustiflbls manner as long as they live,
and some are living still. l see two men
in the street very often who were both as
good in the opinions of all who knew them
in their extremity. People will insist on
living sometimes though manifestly mori-
bund. In DR.. Elders Life of Kane you
will find ssory, .old by DR.. Kane him
self .
The captain of ship was dying with
the Scurvy, but mis- crew mutinicd and be
gave up dying to take care of them. An
old lady in this city, near her end. got a
little vexed at proposed change in h.r
Will and concluded she wouldn't die just
then; ordered coach; was driven away
twenty miles to the house ola relative, and
lived for four years longer.
Cotton Msther tells S, me good stories
which be. pi>ked up in his experience, or
cut of his books. showing the unstable E.
quihblium Of prognosis. Simon Stone was
shot in nine places, and as he lay for dead,
the Indians, made two haeis with hatch
ct to cut his head off. He got we'll, how
ever, and was lusty fellow in Cotton Ma
thers's time. Jabez Musgroye was shot
with bullet that went in his ear and came
out his eye on the other side. 4 .ouple of
bullets went through his body, also. ia
bez got well, however, and lived many years.
Per CoRtra. COL Rossister. cracking a plum
stone with h;ss.Cesn broke tooth and lost
his lie. We have seen physicians dying
like Spigeles. from scratch; and man
who had crowbar shot thrOug h his head
is alive and well. These extreme cases
are warnings But you can never be too
cautious in your pFOgnOsis, in the view of
the great uncertainty of the course of any
disease not long watched, and the many un-
expected turns it may take"
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For the Chronicle.
FOR MAGGIE'S ALBUM.

Say, Maggie, when this hand of mine
Is no more foRdly pressed 10y thine,
When thy true eyes no more / meet,
When we each other cease to greet,
When weary miles or death, shall part
From mine, thy faithful loving heart,
Can we the past forgetG
How many heart all crushed with grief
Has found a balm, a sweet relief,
In words of sympathy and cheer.
While cold. high words the heart will scar,
And force the noble impulse back,
The lofty aspiration check,
And drive the soul from Heaven
Maggie, bless thee for each word,
With which thou hast my BOSOM cheered,
When Borrowings dark, forebodings wild,
Each life -fraught nerve with madness thrilled
Those kindly words, that sympathy
Taught me TO hope, TO trust, to be
Resigned to Gods sweet will.
May Heaven attend thee, Maggie dear,
Shield thee from Ill. and dry each tear,
And when life's mission pure is filled,
The yearning, throbling heart is stilled,
o meet me 10y the crystal streams.
Who're youths bright hopes and gilded
dreams u ..5L.
Are more than realized.
Hartford, August goth, go.
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empty pageant should become living real
ity, and the sons and daughters of men
learn to enter into the holy presence, each
day, in harmony and peace; feeling in deed
and in truth, that God, "Our God" whose
name is love, is the Father of US all, and
no resPecter of persnns.
The ceremony was ended; the bells rang
louder and louder; the organ notes rose
higher and higher. till the old stone walls
seemed to tremble upon their base of CEN
turies; the women rose from their knees,
aud clatter of idle tongues, soon dispelled
all holy illusions.
Madame Fannie led me forth. and as
walked the time worn streets of that old
city, pOndered deeply the effect OF such
ceremonies upon the minds of the ignorant
and superstitious, and especially upon the
little children, who are brought into them
as soon as they can walk, and must receive
the teaching from the cradle to mature
years. that these are lifes highest duties,
and these observed, sin can be indulged
aud crime receive absolution. What effects?
need we ask? look at the condition of any
Spanish Province, Island or Colony.
Squalid ignorance, idleness. superstitious
mark their course with tyranny
and cruelty on the one hand, and seryility
and suffering on the other.
Wherever Spain has laid her Catholic
hand in the last three centuries, a blight
and miidew rest upon the physical, moral
and intellectual development of the people
Because their religion and faith is every
where a shadow without the substance, a
profession without a practice.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-09-19

HAPPINEss.-Now let me tell you a
secret-a secret worth knowing. This
looking forward for enjoyment don't pay.
From what | know of it I would as soon
chase butterflies for living or bottle up
mOOnshine for cloudy nights. The only
true way to be happy, is to take drops Of
happiness as God gives them to us every
day of our lievs. The boy must learn to
be happy while he is plOdding over his
lessons; the apprentice while he is learning
his trade; the merchant while he is making
his fortune. If he fails to learn this art he
will be sure to miss his enjoyment when he
gains what be signs fon Z saal J.
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"se.n ard sa.,.t .ad s.rarr
Stitch, Stitch. stitehi''

1t was printed on cotton pocket handker-
chiefs for sale. and has met with the usual
fate of all popular Poems. having been par
odied times without number. But what
delighted. and yet touched, my father most
deeply was, that the poor creatures to
whose sorrow and sufferings he had given
such eloquent voice, seemed to adopt its
words as their own. by singing them about
the streets to rude air of their own ADAPT
alton.
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Hartford, August goth, so.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-13
A YanLea YirrinIn Armory.

The Richmond Enquirer announces a ru-
NOR that the Commissioners for establishing
q State Armory, to prepare the Ancient Do
minion to take the field in case of the election
of Republican President are about to give
the contract to the Ames Company Of Mass
nchusetts. The Enqarsr says;
"Under any circumstances, il will involve
q humiliating confession on the part of our
State authorities. to admit that we have not
enterprise and skill sufficient among our own
Virginia contractors for the consummation
of this important work; above all, that in a
political crisis like the present, Virginia is TO
depend on Massachusetts, for a supply Of
reliable arms
However humiliating it may be, it Is only
applying to Virginia the ancient principle
Crinis cdnis eurdrs, or hair of the same dog To
cure the bite. Asinvasions aud Republicans
skill to make the arms to enable Virginia to
resist them should come from the same
quarter; and if Southern panics and crises
prove 10 be Northern opportunities, then the
favorite enjoyment will be turned to good
account. Considering the eminently peace
ful character for which Virginia is distin-
guished in time of war and invasion, ii will
not be necessary for the Massachusetts work
men to fix the Virginia arms with horn gun
Hints, or any Of those ingenious devices
which they used TO sell to the Indians in col.
onial times, and it is to be hoped, that ''in q
political crisis like the present." no Yankee
tricks win be played on the arms Of the Old
Dominion.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-13


"nne ouf m'o'e' On pt'yerrmeesps'
nave receiVeo 'ns colnmehoa'ioh o' many
gooo men, we ne aware .na' .oey nave w III
.ur0eo so.e VI 'he wesae. u,osnien, "no
nave mAnnss'eo iear 'na' II 'ne 'eA. "
common sense anu IeAson "ere aPpileu "
.nelr rehgion, IL woulo conspse' Inc aPpre-
nenSlonS OF inc WeAAes' sAe' o' 'neSe areproosOiy
expressed oy 'oe ptSyer-"ee''ng eoiVor oi 'ne
1mse'' aslono"s
,eslnvI eui'or ~ ~ yocd yo1d
Christians here consider them a blessed insti-
tuition. We may remark, In passing, that
although many Cnrlstian men iesr &c an muCn , ssll
- ;hs sr,;cias ~ Witch wa allude we have
no such fears. The DEVILS most dangerous
influence is sn6Hsty."
Let rs look at the sense OF this What
fears can Christian men have from our arti'
cles2 Fears that they will shut the gates oi
heaven 80 that God will not hear theiI
prayers7 Fears that Christians will relax
their praying efforts, and consequently sJuls
win be let slip into perdition7 Then God is
not the judge of the earth, but the DAILY
PREss Is fixing the eternal fate of men. What
absurd blasphemy, to suppose that Gods
eternal DEGREES can be knocked about by
every wind Of prayer, and by cent papersl
We have spoken of men, women and chill
dren, consigned to Inevitable degradation and
ruin bv our own institutions while men shut
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-13
Diyino Authority Subject 90 the Judicial
TribunaIs,

Divipe Authority Subject 20 the Judicial
Tribunals.
In another column will be found q singular
decision of an English Court in case which
involved the relative claims Of different re-
hgious denominations to divine mission.
A woman Joined conventual establishment
organized on some socialist plan, and gave her
property to 1t. The organization called itseli
"The Tabernacle Of God upon Earth" II
has been called free-loye organization, but
this term, like that Of socialism, is so indis-
criminately used as an epithet, that it has nc
exact meaning. Nothing was proved which
was contrary to law.
The woman died, and her brother sued tc
recover her property, claiming that she gave
it while In deranged state of mind, caused
by the influence exercised over her by thu
claims of the organization to divine mis-
sion The Court decided in favor of the
brother.
II will be seen that the organization
claimed no higher authority than is claimed
by all churches, TO whom bequests of prop
srty are common In England; and that th'
decision of the Judge was really upon thu
pretenhons OF this organization TO the SAINT
character that Is claimed by other religiou
societies. principle which may be carriet
TO an unlimited extent.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-13
w IL * I NJ SONS,
ITO West Fourth-street,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.

TUE UNpE RsIGN.ED. HAVING
side Of Fourth ST., between Vine and Rscs-l10-
HOTEL. AND REFEoI0RY alter the style is Of Z the s
best modern houses in the Eastern cities and com.
cinnati
THE BUILDING and It's extensive grounds have
been remodeled, refurnished and decorated In the
most recherche style, and every possible adjunct In
ti3n and s9mfoTt Of ysitors.
THE DINING-ROOMS, occupying a portion of
the first and entire second floor, airy, commo-
diops and tasteful and are accessible by private
THE 1UNcH-R0oM, situated upon the hrst Hoog,
fronting upon but receding from the fashionabls
promenade OF the city, and entirely secluded from
oDtrusipe opeeryation has no superior in the Union
THE ap pH2RBER viii Y s. sV constantly ro.eusOrcsd
with every optainable luxury IN the gastrunomic
world especial attention being give TO procuring at
the earliest possible moment, every kind of Game
their season, ffom the sea-eoast to the Mississippi
and from the Lakes to the Gulf.
THE KITCHEN Is under the superintenden of
chef de cuisine who has graduated in the best
hotels OF the Continent, with competent ASSISTANT
| THE CELLAR will be abundantly supplied with
the choicest Wines and Liquors. Of both foreign and
home productions, imported direct and selected
nom the stocks Of the most reliable merchants and
producers.
Experienced attaches and walters under the d.
rect supervision of the proprietor will give prompt
and polite attention TO the comfort of guests.
Meals, from the plainest hasty lunch to the most
elaborate epcurean feast, will be supplied upon the
brisfest notice, at any hour Of the day or evening
Tho proprietor pledges himself to devote hB un I.
tiring energies guided by long experience to rem
der his establishment model Of taste, elegance and
gentlemanly comfort. WIN. WILKINSON.
L I-Rl
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-13
Free Territories for Free white Men

Free Territories for Free White Mon.
Tnis was the motto over the speakers plat
form at the great Republican meeting on
Saturday night. Boon, we shall have the Re
publicans quoting from the Declaration of
Independence, that all white men are created
equal, and have the inalienabe right to
liberty. Republicanism leaves the poor
black no chance for life. 1t proposes to ex-
clude him from the Territories, either In
freedom or slavery.
II, to q subject race, servitude i preferable
70 determination, then slavery is just 90
much better than Republicanism, for the
same principle that would exclude black men
from the Territories would from the States
We have before commented on the fact that,
although opposition 10 slavery Is the only
sentiment that holds the Republican party
together, none Of them dare face the logical
consequences Of the right Of the black man
to freedom; but all mix up their anti-slsvsry
with exclusions and legal disabilities which
oonceds the wbole principle Of slavery, be-
sides being less humane to the negro.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-13
CINCINNATI FEMALE SEMINARY
Cor. Seventh and MOund.Sts.

RsTHE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING
3~EA leased the above institution, begs leave 70
announce that IL will be reopened ON MONDAY,
Sept 8 1860 under the superintepdence Of MILTON
SAYLER, assisted by Miss BAUMAN, Mise STEER
and other necessary teacherB. The number of pn-
pills will be limited, and the School will be strictly
private and select. n. l.
ToE' sAYLEB, at the Seminary Building.
NELSON SAYLER,
aull-cu. I,aaaaa and pronrfetor