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The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
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The Gram Question in Europe.

The Paris correspondent of the London
Times, under date Of June 9th, gives the
following account of the harvest prospects
on the continent Of Europe:
"The weather has changed considerably
for the better within the last two days, and
it is to be hoped that it will cossa;Ena as fno
as it Is at present. This is q critical mo-
mcnt for tho wheat crop, which 10 now in
blossom. Tho accounts received from the
south OF France continue 10 announce tho
favorable appearance of tho growing crops.
Tho reports from the wheat growing dis
tricts in tho neiehborhood Of Paris repre-
sent one-third OF the whent crop TO be excel
lent, one-third passablo, and oDo-tbird bad.
All will depnnd on the weather o ascorching
sun is new as much dreaded as rain. Let.
tors from Algiots state that the wheat crop
in the province Of Oran was much injured
by tho excessive hoat, which set in at the
nc ment it was arriving at maturity. Tho
last accounts from the north of Italy aus
nounco that the wheat crop is ripening, but
that tho present harvest cannot be reckoped
among The most abundant. The news from
Germany announces that the constant rain
/ has seriously injured tho rye crop. This 10
| the moro unfortunate as tho people Of Ger
many rely upon that grain for their subsst-
ence."
Ono Of the London journals says, on the
same subject:
"A good deal has been said about tho
prospect of late and deficient grain hsr-
vest, but sufficient attention docs not seem
TO have been directed to tho effects-less
important, IL is truo. yet still considerable
of prospective deficiency in the hay crop.
Owing to the long continuance of cold, wet
weather, the grass has acquired neither the
hight nor tho weight usual at this season.
aud there is reason to apprehend that when
the hot weather now due sets in, the forcing
process to which il will suddenly be subject
cd will no. do much to improve the pros
poets of tho farmers and graziers. But here
is another feature which points in an equal
" strong manner TO a deficient hay crop.
/ The stocks of fodder are so completely ex-
hausted that it has become necessary TO
have recourse already, to M unusual extent,
to the growing crops Of grass.
There is one consolation, however, to q
tf.mishing people, which the same paper
thus ai,ades to:
"Sn2ud, unhappily, our harvest fail, and
it be necessary - import large supplement
tary supplies of grain, we can turn al once
with confidence to the barSs ana store
houses and elevators of the Westero e'a'e''
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
From Theodore Parker's Sermon on
Old Age.

Tho very old man, ho said, loves tho sun
shino aud the flower, the arm chair and the
shady nook. A rude wind would instlo tho
full grown apple from its bough, full ripe
full colOrcd too. Tho internal charactcris-
tics correspond. General activity is less
Salient love Of now things and new persons
which liz the young mans heart. fades away.
llo thinks tho old is better. lie is not ven.
turcsome; he stuys Mt homo. Passion once
stung him into quickcncd life now that gad
fly is no moro buzzing in bis cars. Madame
de StaCl fools con pgusation in science for
tho decay Of those pussions that once fired
her blood heathcn Socrates. seventy years
OLD, thanks the Gods that he is now froo from
that ravunous beast which hud disturbed
his philosophic ncdtations for many years
Romance is the child of passion and imagi-
nation tho sudden father that; tho long
/ protractod mother this--Old age has littlu
romance. Only some rarO man like vii.
/ holm Won llumboldt keeps il siill fresh 10
| hit bosom. Ia intellectual matters the mar
: loves to recall old times, to revive bis favor
ito old mcn--no new ones half 80 fair. s,
in Homer, Ncster, who is tho oldest of tn,
Greeks. is always talking of tho old times
before the grandiatheIs of tho men nov
living came into being; mot such as live il
these degenerate days" Verso.loving job
Quincy Adams turns off from Byron an
Shelley, and Windland and Goethe, and re
turns to Popo Elder Brewster expects t
. hear ST. Martin and Old Hundred chante
in heaven. To him heaven conos in IN
long used musical tradition. Tho middl
aged man looks around on the present; h
has found out that il is hard world h
hopes less and wobs more. The old ma
looks back on the field ho has trod "Thi
ls the tree planted this 10 my footstCp ;
and he loyes his own home, his old carriage
cat. dog staff and friend In lands wher
tho vino grows. | have soon an old man 81
nil day long. u sunny autumn day. botor
his cottage door in II great arm chair, hi
dog crouchol at his feet. in the genial sun
The autumn Wins played with tho old man
venerable hairs; above him, purpling IN th
sunlight. hung The full cusivis Ht the grape
ripcning aud mature yet more. ne I"
were just alike; the wind stirred the vim
leaves and they fell stirred tho old man
hair and it whitGned got moro. Both wer
waiting for the spirit in them to be full
, ripe. The young man looks forwurd-tf
old man looks back. How long the shadow
, lie in the sotting sun tho s.eeple u mi
long, reaching across the plain, as tho su
stretches out tho hill in groresquo diner
s;ons. So are the oyonts of life in tho 0
I mans consciousness.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
Peter Cartwright Baptising Ferry

A remarkable character was Potor Cart
wright. He was great anti slavery man,
and struck right aud left to all who opposed
him. Ono day. on approaching ferry
across tho river Illinois, he heard tho ferry
man swearing terribly at the sermons of
Petor Cartwright, and threatening that if
ever he had to ferry the preacher across and
know him, he would drown him in tho river.
Peter, unrecognizod, said to tho terrvman
"Stranger. | want you to put inc across.
"Wait TILL am ready" said the ferryman,
and pursued his conversation and structures
upon Poter Cartwright. Having finished ,ho
turned to Petor and said
Now I'll put you across.
Ga reaching tho middle of the stroam
Potcr ;hrew his horses bride over n stake
in the boat, and told tho forryman to lot 60
his polo
"What for :" asked tho ferryman.
"Well, you've just been using my namc
impropsrlko; aud said if ever came this
way you would drown mo. Now you've
got chance
"Is your name Peter Cartwright; :" ask cd
tho forryman.
NV name is Peter Cartwright.
Instantly the ferryman seized tho preach.
or /; but ho did not know Peters strength ;
hand on tho nSpo of his neck and the other
at the seat OF his trowsers, aud plunged him
in the water, saying:
~ baptso thee (splash) in',he namo of the
devil whose child thou art"
Then lifting him up. Petor added
did you evor pruy:
mo"
"Then it's timo you did,"
"Novor will" answered the ferryman.
Splash splash and the ferryman 10 il
tho depths ngain.
"Will you pray now" asked Peter.
Tho gasping victim shouted:
"I'Il do anything you bid mo-"
Then fellow mo. Our Father which ar
in Hcavon.' &c. Having acted as clerk, ro
pcating after Potter, tho ferryman cried:
"Now let me go"
mot yet" said Peter. "you must maxi
mo three promises :-First. that you vii
say that prayer morning and evening whit
you live 4; secondly. that you will hear ever.
pioneer preacher within five miles of thi
ferry and thirdly. that you will put over.
Methodist preacher over FREQ OF expense
DO you promise and vow Z:
Il promise" said the forrymau.
And strange TO say, that man atterWard
became shining light.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

The Trades Honored,

81. Paul WA a sailmakor, Franklin
printer, Roger Sherman shuOmakor, Bur
ritt a blacksmith. Tho world honOrs them
not the less on this account. You NAV give
digDity to any useful employment to which
YOU shall decide TO devote your energies -
Making shoes or hats is just as respectable
business, whatever snObs may think or say
to tho contrary, as sOlling them. Ii we
were 10 make distinction ut all, we should
place the taJrlcatOr above the nero seller
on our roll of honor. Do not, therefore, We
beg you, permi: any feeling OF faso pride to
influence you to decide against tho business
OF q mechanic, If YOU have tho proper quail.
hcations for IT, 1t is IA great mistake to
suppose that it is more truly respectable to
be poor lawyoTor phys'cian,or Clergyman,
or shopkecper, than good blacksmith, car.
penter or shoemaker. IL is tho man who
gives dignity to tho employment, and not
the empIoymcn which enuoblcs the man
except 81 far as il has an oiCvatug aud ro
tiping influence upon his character RnC
habits.
| Every rich or poor, should know how
to earn asubsistencc-shuuld bo trained t,
some useful ard reliable pursuit. "Woiko,
the .4mtTican PhScaoiogicd Journal says
Tho sense aud spirit of tho rich man who's
daughter was sought in marriage by youn,
man who was also rich, but who had beei
educated to no profession or trado BY who
he could support u family. The old gentle
man SAID, i have only one objection to tn
matt ch, viz you havo no trade. If you wi
} learn some useful trade, you may have IN
daughter. Surprised at 80 strange dec
aration. yot determined not to lose tn
|, object Of his affections, the young man ha
the sense and maDllness to undertake I'll
task and in fower months than Jacob serve
yrHrJ iog Rachel. ho returned with u beau
tIfui willow basket made by bis own hands
and claimed his bride.
The bridegroom invested his capital i
the mercantile house Of his father-inl Law
aud in u fow wears, by unfortunate event,
they lost thoir entire property. lIo the
foil back on lis trade. and soon had so ox
tended his business tha. he kept larg
manu.uctory aud orc,supported both fam
ilios, aud accumulated large fortune
Thon he understood tho value of such
tIado, as poverty would not prevent hin
from setting up, aud fully recognized tn
wisdom of tho restriction laid on him by hi
father. in law TO learn trade.
! In n free country like ours, where so niue
work is to DO done, no one need 10 idl
hungry or dsreputsble, who is able
work
. We say ihon 10 parents, give your boy
somo good. s. u bstantial tradc,it you would il
suro success in life, aud guard ;hem ugaiuI
vicc aud degradation
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
A Democratic Lament,

Tho Chicago Hrraid. an anti-DouglaS
Democratic Journal, thus sentimentally
mourns over the demisc of its party:
Sadly and slowly this lamp of tho patriot
ba5 grown dim and shadowy. Long con-
tiuued peace and prosperity have planted
the canker at the hear: of the groat National
Democracy. Personal ambition, factional
hate and the spoils of Office have been at
work. The cid giant that has SO often
crushed out opposition. totters and reels
like drunken man. Disagreement, strife,
hatred and revenge sit in the holy seats
torn from the hands Of inpartiality and
friendship. The times are very sick, almost
unto death Reason has succumbed 10 pas
sion, and seIishness has triumphed over
love of country and loyalty to party prin-
cipIes. Tho democracy at Baltimore, aa
well as Mt Charleston, have shown sad evi.
denco that we have fallen on evil times
Discord, sclfshness, envy and violence have
met US at every step. The fraternity of the
party has been destroyed, its prestige ami.
Inflated, and Its organization disrupted
Such has beeen the goal to which The men
/ Who now have tho the lead OF tho Demo-
cratic party have Mt length hurried the party
of Jefferson and Jackson.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
HOPE ON.

Hope on How oft the darkest nigh,
Proceeds the inirest day
o, guard thy soul from Sorrows blight!
Clouds may obscure the Day gods light,
Bui he will shine again as bright
When they have passed away
Hope on ! Though disappointment's wing
Above thy path may soar--
Though Slunder dive her ranking sting
Though Malice all her venom triug,-
Though lss,ering darts tetrnction fling
Sill must tho STERN P'ss ger,
Ifslave 10 Poverty thou nrt
Bear hravrly with thy lot;
Though Keen her Calling chains may smart,
Strive still to rcnd their links apart
Ilopo on for the despuiring heart
God surely lovcIh not
Hope on, hope on, though drear and dark
Thy iutute may appear
The sailor In his siorm.t1sscd bork
Sill guides the helm, hud hopes TO mark,
Al mid the gloom, some beacon spark
His dangerous way to cheer.
Though wealth take wings or friends forsakC
Be not by gre oppressed;
Stern winter binds with ice The lake,
But genial spnng its bonds shall break.
Hope on A 6rmcr purpose take,
And leave 10 God The rest.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
Mistaken Calculations.

Somo persons mako great mistakes In
calculating percentages, and oven some
practical merchants have fallen into the
same error. II a man sell goods ut fifty
por cent. profit aud takes off thirty seven
and halt per cent. for prompt cash pay
ment, he often thinks il will leave him q
margin of twelve and a half per cent. oi
profit. 1t does no such thing, aud he will
find on reflection thot no is selling below
cost. For example, he buys u hundred dol
lars worth of goods and sells thom at fifty
per cent. profit. realizing ono hundred and
fifty dollars, But a discount of thiry' seven
and Il half per cent. for prompt payment
would amount on hundred and fifty dol
lars to fiftv.six dollars and twenty Eve ceniF,
leaving him six dollars and evenly five
cents less than tho goods cost him. Men
who make analogous deductions for prompt
payment, or with view to hold on cusio'
mer any how, are constantly guilty OF such
errors. They deduct from what they have
mover received-tho profits of tho sale. II
any ono puts on profit of fifty per cent,
and deducts Ihrty-thrce and third fol
cash payment, he lands just where no started
and sells at a bare first cost, allowing moth
ing for tho cost OF doing tho business
Young clerks and those commencing bus
moss should remember these facts. They are
tempted to forget rents, and all other ex
penscs of living. and sell goods, in fact, iol
loss than they can afford, aud less than II
would cost them to replace the samo goods
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
Singular Preservation of a Body.

Not many years since, Gays Frazer's Maga.
zino certain miners, working far under
ground, came upon tho body OF q poor fell
forty wears before. Some chemical agent
to which the body had been subjected. an
agent prepared iG tho laboratory of nature
had ctually arrested tho progress Of
decay. They brought il up 20 the surface.
and for while, I'LL it crumbled away,
through exposure to the atmosphere. it lay
there, the image of u fne sturdy young man
No conyusion had passed over tho face Of
doath--thc features were tranquil the hair
was black as jet No one recognized tho
taco--a generation had grown up since the
day on which tho miner went down his shaft
tor the last time. Bat totrering old wo-
man, who had hurried from her cottage at
hca,lng the news. came up, and she knew
again tho face which through all these years
she had never quito forgotten. The poor
minor was to have boon her husband the
day after :hat on which he died. They were
rough people of course, who were looking
on u liberal education and refined feelings
are not deemed essential TO the man whose
work il is TO get up coals. or even tin 4; bu
there were no dry eyes there when the gray
headed old pilgrim cast herself upon tht
youthful corpse, and poured out TO its dea
oar many words of eudcarmcni unused fO
forty years. IL was touching contrast
tho ono so old, tho other 80 young. The,
had both boen young those young years ago
but time had gone on with the living, anC
stood still with tho dead,
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

A LEAD BALL FOUND IN A MANS HEART
EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER He WAS SHOT On
Friday, Juno 18th. 1860, post mortem ex.
animation was made upon the body of MIR.
John Kelly who resided in the town of Black
Brock. In 1872 he was shot at Chatham
Four Cornors. Tho bullet passed through
three boards before striking him; it entered
his right shoulder, passed towards the. heart,
and lodged under the collar bone, where it is
unitcd to the breast bone. The veins we're
closed and the artery ossified ut this place.
Tho heart resembIed a stomach as much Hs
a heart. The right side, especially, was very
changed, and seemed to be undergoing fatty
degeneration. While examining tho heart q
large lump wns found in the lower part Of it.
and was found to be leaden bullet. Four.
teon years ago he was worry dangerously i'll.
and not expected TO recover. His difficulty
at that time WIS inflammation on the lungs
and most extraordinary disturbance OF the
hearts action. Since that illness, his heart
difficulty has continued TO increase gradu'
ally; at times its beatings could be observed
ton or fifteen feet distant.-PiaAs5srgh
Express.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

THE British inch had its origin, says TaJ-
Tor, high authority, in the measurements
ot tho earth by the founders of the Great
Pyramid. They determined. with great ex-
nc iness, tho proportion which the diameter
of a circle bears TO its circumference, and
having asccrtained tho measure OF the cir
conference OF tho earth, supposing it to be
a perfect sphere. they divided the diameter
into 100000, 600 of units, which We call
inches. This appears to cave been the ori.
gin of our inch. The polar diameter of the
earth, according to Mr.. Airy's calculation, ID
equal to 500, ,49I ,440 of these inches, which
measure SO little exceeds the moan dame-
ter of tho earth, according to the ancients,
as to require the addition of only one-thou-
sandth part TO render it, with all but math:
ematica precision. the 60o-millionth part OF
the earths axis of rotation.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

Coon OPINION OF OEEs SELF.-If whitc
people sometimes think negroes Incapable
of taking care of themselves. negroes some
tines think themselves smarter than white
people. Hero is an amusing instance:
Tho late Chief Justice Marshall, while
riding one morning to Court in his single
carriage, his horse fell and broke 4 shaft
Ho was puzzl cd what to do. Tom. neigh
boring negro WAGNER, happening to drive
up, he asked Tom if he could help him ou
OF his difficulty.
20. yes, massa, II you'll lend me you
knife"
"Tom took the knife and cut saplinl
pole and grape vino from neighborinI
thicket, with which he speedily splced VI
the tho broken shaft.
Nov, Tom" said tho Judge, "why didn'
think of that?"
40, massa, replied Tom, "yoT kHov som
people v,lt kdb more Sense dan 0dsvs."
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

Nor LOST Tho following beautiful sen.
timent in regard to the future condition of
children, is from the pen Of Heury Ward
Beecher;
When God gives me q babe. ! say. Il
thank God for this lamp lit Ia my family.
And when, after il has been q light IN my
household for one or two years, It pieases
God to take it away, l can take the cup
bitter or sweet. I can say. My light has
gone out; my heart Is sacked; my hopes
arc desola,ed; nv child is lost-my child ia
Ios,l' or can I say iu the spirit Of Job. The
Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.
blessed be tho namo of tho Lord II has
| pleased God to take Ave children from mel
but never lost enc, and never shall.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

THE CENsus,-The population Of New
York is s62 900; Jersey City and Hobo
ken. 10000, and Brooklyn, 800 ,ouo.-
These are SO close together that they may
be considered one city, with population
equal to Paris. The population OF Gin
cinnati is ITO, 900.
The addition of "ah" to sentence IN ex
hortaticn, is considered BY somo an essen'ia
aid, but sometimes it has a very ludicroul
effect, as in case of tho man who said, though
in tho early part of life he had been opposes
to good. for twenty years ho had boen liyinI
on the Lords sde-ah
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
LAW FIRM.

LAW FIRM.
A LFRED PHELPS s. Albert G. Riddle, com
n posing he Old Law Firm of Phelps & Riddle.
AMI Alfred Phelps, Jr have formed Copartncrship
connection for the Practice Of Law under the
name oil Phelps Riddle g. Phelps nt the Old Ofice
Of Phelps & Riddle, where they viii attend to all
law business which may be entrusted TO their
enre. ALFRED PHELPS,
ALBERT G RIDDLE,
AI.FREO PHELPS, In.
Chardon, December 9th, 1859. 5,7tf
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

THE TOMATO AS FooD DR.. Bennett. a
professor of some celebrity, considers the
tomato an invaluable article of diet, and as
cribes TO 1t various important medical prop
sortic.
FIRST, that the tomato is one of the most
powerful aperients of tho liver and other
organs; where caiomel is indicated, is prob
ably ono of tho most effective and least
harmful remedial agents known to tho pro-
fession. Second. that a chemical extract
will be obtained from il that will supersede
the use of caomel in the euro of disease -
Third, that he has successfully treated dar-
rhea with this article alone. Fourth. that
whom used as an atliclo of diot il Is an al
most sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and
indigestion. Fifth. that it should DO con
stantly used for daily food other cooked or
raw. or In tho form OF catsup; 1t is the most
healthy article now in use.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

WrH baser metals the workmanship is
everything but when 1t ID a question of
gold, we do not much care whether We get
IL in the dust, the nugget, or the sovereign; |;
so, too, the grandest poetioal IDEAS are iDde-
pendent Of their vehicle.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10

A GOOD story 10 told of a sohooima'ssr
Who had an inyeterate habit Of talking 20
himself. When asked what motive he SouIo
have in doing so. bo replied tbstibe Gao a. swo
good and substantial reasons. 40 'ns n'ss -
nIace. he liked to talk to sensible @ani I,, -
he second place. he liked to near : sens''''
nsr tsIk." Good resSons, certainly
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-08-10
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