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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13
The "Gallant and Gifted Goggin" on
the Character of Mr.. Lincoln.

The Hon. w. j.. GoGGIN, the oppo-
ncnt of John LETcHER, in the last Gu
bernational contest in Virginia, made a
speech the other day, in which he gave
his opinion of all the candidates for the
Presidency. He said of Mr.. Lincoln:
There is another candidate before yon.
daughter, and cries of "He is a smut
ty one Oh, do not suppose that Abe
shall be forgotten. shall now come to
him, and, let me give the devil his due.
During the whole course of my connec-
ton with him in the House of Repre-
seutatiyes, | must say that L ever found
him a gentleman; he is not what the
Breckenridge party insinuate him to be-
wish to do justice on all sides.--
[Cheers.l If you want to know who
Mr.. Lincoln is, go and ask Stephen A.
Douglas, with whom he stumped every
county in the State of Illinois. Yes, go
and ask Mr.. Douglas whether Abe Lin
coin is a rail-splitter or not. Laugh
ter. Ask him whether he is a Demo-
cratic, n mauler, or not? Renewed
laughter. 1t was my good fortune,
while | was a member of the House of
Representatives, to be member of
Committee with him; / was Chairman,
and must say that no man on that
Committee worked moro industriously
than he did lie was man Of high
order of talent, aud when he spoke, no
man was listened to by those who were
in that House as visitors with more sat
isfaetion. His private as we'll as his
public character was free from stain or
blamiqh ..." ..HI .H.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

The st. Louis News says operations
have been commenced by the Western
Telegraph Company, for extending their
wires to Fort Kearney. The poles are
already planted distance of 160 miles,
and it is thought the line will be com
pleted to Fort Kearney by the middle
of November. From Fort Kearney it
will be extended, as speedily as the
means Of the Company may permit, to
Denver City; thence to Carson Valley;
and thence through the towns in Eas.
tern California to San Francisco-giv-
ing us instant communication, by light.
ming, between the Pacific and the At
lantic coast.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

The Superior of the Missionaries in
Syria, the Pere Estenc, has just arrived
in Paris, to report to Government on
the late bloody events in that country.
Five of the priests under his orders were
murdered, and, according to his account,
5000 victims had been butehered in
Damascus alone, and not less than from
$4,000 to 10000 throughout Lebanon.
Another authority says that more than
5000 Christian women have been sold
for the harems at 25 piastres a head.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

Mr.. Smith, chairman of the recent
Republican State Convention in New
York, made the following capital hit
the America Hibernian coalition of I
Bell and Douglas men in that State:
'Let the Democrats and Americans
unite and inseribe on their banners the
motto, Erin go Uaam h Plaribm Braghi'
Loud laughter and cheers and we will
scatter the coalition to tn e"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

Gen. Cameron, who has just been to
Washington, assures the Republicans
there that Lincoln will carry Pennsyl-
vania against all combinations by 3d.
600 majority.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13
WHAT WE MAY LOOK FOR AFTER THE
NEXT DRED SCOTT DECISION.

any friends, I have endeavored to
show you the logical consequence of the
Dred Scott decision, which holds that
people of a territory cannot prevent the
establishment of slavery in their midst.
l have stated what cannot be gainsayed,
that the grounds upon which this de-
eision is made are equally applicable to
the Free States as to the Free Terrific
ries, aud that the peculiar reasons put
forth by Judge Douglas for endorsing
this decision, commit him in advance
to the next decision, and to all other de-
cisions emanating from the same source.
And, when by these means you have
succeeded in dehumanizing the negro,
when you have put him down, aud made
it impossible for him to be but as the
beasts of the field; when you have ex-
tinguished his soul aud placed him
where the ray of hope is blown out in
the darkness that broOds over the spirit
Of the damned, are you quite sure the
demon you have reused will not turn
and rend you? What constitutes the
bulwark Of our liberty aud independ-
ence? II is not our frowning battle.
ments, our bristling sea-ooasts, the guns
Of our war steamers, or our gallant
srmy. These are not our reliance
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

The Cincinnati Gazette learns that
Mr.. r. NJ. Skinner, Mail Agent, on the
Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad,
has been decapitated. He was in
love with Douglas and lost his head.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13
0Ortrp
IFrom the Atlantic Monthly.
MIDSUMMER.

mlDO
Around this lovely valley rise
The purple hills Of Paradise.
o, softly on those banks Of haze
Her rosy face the Summer laysl
Becalmed along the azure sky,
The argosics of cloud-land lie,
Whose shores, with many a shining rift,
Far of their pearl-white peaks uplift.
Through all the long midsummer-day,
The meadow sides are sweet with hay.
seek the coolest sheltered scat,
Just where the field and forest meet
Where grow the pine trees tall and bland,
The ancient oaks austero and grand,
And fringy roots and pebbles fret
The ripples Of the riyulet
I watch the mowers as they go
Through the tall grass, whito-sleevcd row;
with even strokes their scythes they swing,
In tune their merry whetstones ring;
Behind, the nimble youngsters run,
And toss the thick swaths I'm the sun.
The cattle graze, while warm and still
Slopes the broad pasture, basks the hill,
And bright when summer broezes break,
The green wheat crinkles like lake.
Tho butterfly and humble-beo
Come to the pleasant woods with me;
Quickly before me runs the quail,
The chickens slulk behind the rail.
High up the lone wood-pigeon sits,
And the woodpecker pecks and fits.
Sweet woodland music sinks and swells,
The brooklet rings its tinkling bells,
The swarming insects drone and hum,
The partridge beats his throbbing drum,
The squirrel leaps among the boughs,
And chatters in his leafy house;
The oriole flashes by, and looki
Into the mirror of the brook,
Where the vain blue.bird trims his coat,
Two tiny feathers fall and float.
As silently, as tcndcrly,
The down Of peace desccnds on mel
Oh, this is peacel I have no need
OF friend to talk, Of book to read;
A dear Companion here abides;
Close to my thrilling ear lie hides;
The holy silence is His voice
Ilie and listen, and rejocel
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

ANOTHER RECRUIT.-J. II. Tyler,
Esq, an old and prominent Democrat
of Napoleon, is among the Republican
accessions in Henry county. We have
known Mr.. T. for sixteen years as an
earnest and active Democrat, who never
wavered in his attachment to that party,
until it had abandoned every semblance
of its original faith Toledo Blade.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

The Memphis Avalanche keeps the
following paragraph standing at the
head of its leading column; r..
awe understand that the Hon. Emer-
son Etheridge made a speech at Dres-
den, Ten uessee, during which he read
the Black Republican platform, and
asked if there was any man there who
could fnd fault with it. lie further
said that the election Of Lineoln on that
platform would give peace to the cOun-
try, whilst Breckenridge would dissolve
the Union. --..
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13


BB-The New Albany (Ind.) Tribune
which supported Fillmore in 1856, is
now doing good service for Lincoln and
Hamlin. The editor, A. NJ. Hancock
is one of the sharpest writers in the
editorial corps. Some of his shots would
do no discredit to Prentice himself
For examples
DOUGLAS at twenty-an example for
young men.-[Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Douglas at flty-a 'oarniag for young
men. ...
We believe in fighting the devil with
fre.-IState Sentinel.
Yes, that's the way the devil will fight
you.
The only way to cool the brains of
some hot headed people is to scalp
them.-T Lou. Journal.
Then we suppose you would recon-
mend the cracking of skulls to ascertain
whether some hot-headed people haze
brains?- Owen County Journal.
That you have none is diseernable
without cracking your skull.
Douglas eaid in a speech in the Sen,
ate that he didn't care whether slavery
was uoted up or down. For that saying
aud many others, coupled with mos
disgraceful acts, the people are going tC
vote the little giant dOi0R.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

CoLoRED ZoUAvEs. -.-About so col
ored men in Pittsburg, Pa. have formed
themselves into Zouave company, un-
der the name of the Fort Pitt Cadets.
Their uniform will be similar to that of
the Chicago Zouaves.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13

Truth telling. in its highest sense, ro-
auires a we'll balanced mind.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

WAsu1NGToN, April 5.--The Post-oficc
Committee finally decided this morning to
reduce the rates on the Pacific Telegraph from
four dollars to three dollars, and Government
aid from 500, 900 to $4,000. These modifica-
tions will be gladly accepted by the Company,
Notwithstanding reports to the contrary.
The principal parties have signed their ac-
quiescence already. The Pacific Railroad
Company will meet tomorrow morning to
determine in what manner the road shall be
brilt--whether by grants of land or money to
individuals acting as commissioners or in
cooperating a company.
a case occurred about q month ago which
involved most an identical question between
England and the United States as that which
recently occurred near Vera Cruz, except that
there was no capture. An American vessel
near the Isle of Wight was brought to by a
shot from a British man-of-war for not show
ing her coIors-at least such is the allegation
of the British side, though contradicted on
ours. The British officers subsequently apollo
gized for the accident, but the fact stands,
and has led to correspondence between the
two Governments.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

An Engiish Jbtfhal contributes the follow
ing to the anecdotes already in Eogte respect
ing Thomas de Quincey; 'n 1t".
In recent leading article in your journal
you have ably pointed out the grievous defect
in several Of OR most eminent literary men,
lately deceased, Of the Christian element in
their distinguished writings. Atfiohg those
was my late beloved school-fellow, Thomas
de Quincy, OF as we more familiarly called
him, Tom Quincey. knew him well, both
at school and college. While lament with
you this Christian neutrality in his writings,
feel it my duty to rescue his memory from
any approach to infidelity. His mother was
most excellent woman, the intimate friend
of Hannah More. His sister was the first
wife Of the Rev. Phillip Serle, son of that
eminent Christian writer, Ambrose Serle.
can well remember a warm discussion with
him at college, on the merits of Southey and
Coleridge, in which / rashly charged him
with some leaning toward deistical princi-
Piles. He was so much affected that he burst
into tears, took up his cap and suddenly left
the room.
He never forgive that insinuation, and we
ceased to correspond in after life. But few
months ago it occurred to me that would
endeavor to renew our friendship, as we were
both in our seventy-iifth year. Ny letter
reached him ust rs he was dying, and il was
thought best not to acquaint linn with its
contents, as he was already delirious. But
his daughter, Mrs. Craig, wrote to me the
day after his decease, giving minute ac-
count of his last illness. In his wanderings
he was frequently talking of little thildren,
with an evident aluson to the children en-
braced by our Savior. Very shortly before
he died he complained that his feet were
parched, and desired the clothes to be re-
moved. While examining his feet he said to
his daughter, "You are looking at the feet
which Christ has washed" / mention this
anecdotc to show that his dying thoughts,
though delirious, were engaged on his Re-
deemer. There can be no higher evidence of
the secret thoughts and instincts of the heart
than that which voluntarily transpires
through an expiring delirium.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06
An Amusing Masked Bali.

The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Traveller says: CbG.5
One of the most amusing masked balls was
given by M. Louis Fighter, the adversary of
Mons. Claude Bernard the Psychologist, and
the. scientific editor of la Presse. Here are
some of the newest costumes seen this win
teri Watteau's shepherdess; Moorish girl; Rus
sian peasant. girl; Muscovite voinufi; Snow
Queen, beautiful, all white, the dress and
head covered with fakes of very white cot
ton "wadding,n hair powdered, and adorned
with, diamonds, shoulders bare and dress fort
decoHetee6 Turkish women, (their feradia is
an excellent disguise, and is worn by persons
who do not wish it to be known they are in
company; tits in great request among widows
whose husbands died inconvenently near the
tours grasi the costume is white cameps hair
domino, which covers the whole person ex-
cept the eyes). There was greater variety
among the, gentlemen's costumes: Blue
Beard, 1.-THE beard dyed indigo blue, the seven
dead wivesPheads in pasteboard, hung around
his waist--oneof the heads was negressG
the new Diapazon; cook solar specter; village
dandy; almapch; and Mayor of the 18th Ward
(where unblessed and unlicensed marriages
were supposed to take place). ~ 4 .st III
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

ARREST OF TRIPLE MURDERER. The har-
Dor police of Boston recently arrested man
named James johnson, on board the ship
Bretoster, arrived at that port from Calcutta,
for killing three seamen belonging to the
British man-ofwar Retribution, the deed
having been committed in a saloon where
Johnson was employed. There had been
some trouble between the parties, and the
Englishmen being intoxicated, johnson struck
them with glass bottles over the head. He
with him, and smuggled himselfon board the
ship CldriSsa Currier, bound to Boston
While the vessel was on her passage down
the river Hoogly he was discovered on board,
and put on shore. Notice had been previ-
ously sent that he was on board the Brewster,
and he was accordingly nabbed.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

NATURE ApD PEcuLIARITIEs oE AMBERaRIs.
The recent finding of large quantity of
ambergris in the body of a dead whale dis
covered floating on the ocean, has attracted
considerable attention to the nature and
peculiarities of the article. 1t is solid,
Opaque, fatty substance, found on the sea-
coast, or sometimes floating ON the sea,
chiefly in the tropical regions. 1t is of
various colors, but chiefly of deep ash
colored yellow. 1t is most frequently found
in small fragments, and usually in the in
testines of the spermaceti whale, and is sup
posed to be the cause or the result of disease
in that animal. After a short exposure to
the air and washing, its odor is fragrant, and
is increased by heating. If thrown on hot
Goals it burns, and is entirely dissipated. It
is not soluble either in water or the acids.
Ether, ammonia and oil dissolve it but
alcohol acts only on a portion, and is there
fore useful in analyzing it. Caustie alkalies
combine with it and form soap, and it is
also used in perfumery. Tx. .
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06
A Toxp FORA AGREArLYRIc ARrrsr.--Costa

A ToMB FOR A GREAT LYRIC ARTIST. Costa,
a sculptor of Florence, is at present engaged
in modelling a tomb for the lamented primd
donna, Bosio. A correspondent of the Boston
Transcript says: "Out of the various draw
ings, monumental, sent to Paris for her
husbands inspection, Costa's gave the most
According to the design, the monument will
consist Of dropping female figure, draped,
representing music weeping, with Tyre in
right hand the left arm surrounding bust
of Bosio placed upon pedestal. The artist
has but just commenced upon the clay, and
is uncertain whether it will be put into
marble or bronze. Bosio, being q Catholic,
could not be buried in Greek church, and
the climate of st. Petersburg is so severe
that marble is supposed to be too fragile for
outdoor treatment. Poor Bosio left fortune
of three hundred thousand dollars, divided
between her husband, sister and brother"
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06
Arrest of an ExtensIve Lynn shoe Dealer
Alleged EmbezzIemeut of $40. 600

A Boston detective arrived in that city the
other day, from Scott County, Iowa, having
in custody Edward A. Oliver, of Lynn, Mass,
on charge Of embezzlement in the sum of
$4,000 Oliver disappeared very suddenly,
between two days. ON the 21st Of December
last. He had previously failed and gone into
insolvency. He purchased about $4O,0 600
worth of goods (shoe manufacturing and a
short time afterward failed. The assets were
found to be only some $4,000. One hearing
was had in the case, which appeared so dark
that Mr.. Oliver concluded it would be easier
to clear out than to clear up. So he fed.
His whereabouts lad been suspected for some
little time, but a Lynn officer who visited
Davenport, was unable to learn any thing OF
him.
Mr.. Lynch, who is a quiet but a very
shrewd officer, only succeeded after nearly a
weeks planning. The prisoner was finally
arrested just as he was coming out of church
on Sunday forenoon last. On being taken into
custody he stated that he had Intended to
start for the East soon, and was merely wait
ing to get together sufficient money to pay
his expenses. This was mere g7tse OIL
ver's father and two brothers live in Iowa,
and have afforded him home. He has been
in constant correspondence with parties. in
Lynn. ',. -
I Oliver was arraigned in the Police Court
at Salem, and for want of sureties in $40, ,OOC
was committed to Jail to await an examina-
ton, ".r
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

WELSH LAWS RESPECTING CATS AND KIT
TESs.-Among the laws of Howell the Good,
one of the Princes of Wales, there was sim
gular law regulating the price of cats. The
price of kitten, before II could see was to
be penny (be it remembered that a penny,
at that time, was q considerable sumG till it
caught q mouse, two-pence; and when it
commenced mouser, four-pence. II was re-
quired to be perfect inits sense of seeing and
hearing, to have its claws whole, and to be a
good mouser. If it failed in any of these
qualities, the seller was to forfeit to the buyer
killed the cat which guarded the Princes
grOnary, he was to forfeit a milch eve its
fleece and lamb or as much wheat as, when
poured ON q cat suspended by its tail, (the
head touching the ground,) would form a
heap high enough to cover the tip of the
former. 1t'Glr .H ,sI0f'p "'
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

A DREss-ADoRING DUCHESS AND HER UoMBI-
NATION MAZDA certain Duchess, noted for
the magniticence in which her stately person
is arranged--so stately is it as TO bear down
even royalty itself in queenly dignity--is so
aware of the Importance of combining colors
well, that one Of her .femmes de chaatbre is
combination maid," selected on account of
her judgment in colors; thus every toilet for
the day or night is submitted by her, the
shawl is confronted with the gown, the bon
net is made to suit with both. The wreath
of flowers is to be in keeping with the rich
bodice; the bodice with the sweeping train;
the rich jewelry, taken from a casket almost
unparalleled among the subjects of country
must not eclipse, but highten the tints of the
dress. The whole is placed for inspection, as
an artist dresses up lay-fgure, and the re-
pute of the maid is staked on the result
White was that gorgeous lady's favorite
attire; white scarce purer than the face. 30,
call it pale, not fair" white, which "combines
with every hue, ornament or flowers; but the
loveliness may now have fled before the ap-
proaeh of time, and rich colors have been
selected as the appropriate tints for the mid
die age which is so beautiful in English
women alone.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06


NJ Theirs, in his History of the Consul
late, relates some very strange, and previ-
ously unknown particulars of the early life
and penury of Napoleon Bonaparte. After
he had obtained subaltern's commission in
the French service, by his skill and daring at
Toulon, he lived some time in Paris, in OBJ
scure lodgings, and in such extreme poverty
that he was often without the means of pay
ing ten sous Give pence) for his dinner, and
frequently went without any meals at all.
He was under the necessity of borrowing
small sums, and even worn out clothes, from
his acquaintances. He and his brother Louis,
afterward King of Holland, had at one time
only one coat between them, so the brothers
could only go out alternately, time and time
about. 'i p
At this crisis the chief benefactor of the
future Emperor "at whose mighty name the
world grew pale" was the actor Talma, who
ofen gave him food and money.
Napoleon's face, afterward so famed for its
classic mould, was, during this period of
starvation, sharp and angular in It's Inca
ments with projecting cheek bones. His
meagre fare brought on an unpleasant and
mighty cutaneous disease, Of type so yiru-
lent and malignant that it took all the skill
and assiduity of his accomplished physician,
years. t....
The squalid beggar then, the splendid EN-
peror afterward, the threadbare habiliaments,
the imperial mantle, the hovel and the palace
the meagre food and the gorgeous banquet,
the friendship of poor actor, the homage
and terror of the world, an exile and prisoner
such are the ups and downs Of this changeful
life--such are tights and shadows of the great
and mighty. .I
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

VOLUNTARY RETURN TO SLAvERY.--About
five years since, VIM. Burnett, of Mecklen-
burg County, Va. left his slaves free, and
provided for their removal to Ohio. The win
was contested, but the counsel for the negroes
carried the case, much to the joy of Isaac,
who was foremost among his felfow-servants
in pressing the suit. Last week Isaac re-
turned from Ohio, and applied to be enslaved
was tired of freedom after years experience
in, free State, and that the other negroes
who went out with him were anxious to
return to Virginia on any terms IL they could
get the means to travel.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-06

TERRIBLE SICKNESS ON A BRITISH TRANS
FoRT.-The ship Great TasHania, which had
arrived at Liverpool from Calcutta, with over
one thousand men, who retired from the In
dian army on the transfer Of the East India
Company's services to the British Govern
ment, had fearful amount of sickness and
mortality on board. 1T charged that, owing
to bad and insufficient provisions, and the
want OF proper accommodations the ship be-
came perfect floating hospital. There were
OF one time four or five hundred sick men on
board, ofwhom sixty died at sea, and large
number were landed at Liverpool in a dying
state. A Government investigation into the
matter had been commenced. q. ~ =