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The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-26
Rg-A just mar q always simple. H,

@-A just mar fs always simple. He
is man of direct aims and purpe ges -
There is no complexity in his motives
and hence there is no jarring or discord-
ancy in his character. lie wishes to do
right, and in most cases be does it. He
may err, but it is by mistake of judgment
and not by perversity Of intention. The
moment his judgment is enlightened his
action is corrected. Setting dimsei al
ways clear and worthy end, he will ne v.
er pursue by any concealed or unwor.
thy means. We may carry our remarks,
for illustration, both into private and pub.
lie life. Observe such a man In his
home. There is charm about him which
no artificial grace has sver had the po ower
to bestow; there is swee.ness--I had al
most said music-in his manners which
no sentimental refinement has ever given.
His speech ever fresh from putty aud
reclltuds OF thought, controls all that are
within its hearing with an unfet and vet
resistIess sway. Faithful to every domcs
tic, as t. his religion and his God, he
would no more prove recreant to any 10y
ality of fhome than he would to blasphome
the Maker in whom lie believes, or than
he should forswear the Heaven in which
he hopes. Fidelity and truth to those
bound by love & nature to his heart are tc
HIM most sacred principles; they are il
the last recesscs of his moral being; the,
are imbedded in the life; and to violate
them would seem to him as a spiritual ex-
termination, the suicide Of his soul.
Nor is such man unrewarded, for the
goodness that Qcso largely gives is large
ly paid back to him again; and, though
the current Of his lifeis transparent, it is
not shallow. On the contrary, it is deep
and strong. The river that fills its chan.
mel glides smoothly along in the power oil
its course-it is the stream which scarce
ny covers the raggedness Of its bed, that i:
urbulent and noisy. With all this gen.
tleness there is exceeding force; with all
this meekness there is imperative COM
mand; but the force is the force of wisdom
and the command is the command of love
And yet the authority that rules SO effect.
nally never gathers an angry or an irrita.
BILE cloud over the brow Of the ruler; and
this sway. which admits of no resistance
does not repress one houestimpulsa of ma
ture, one moment Of the souls high free
dom, one bound Of JOY from the hearts
unbidden gladuess, in the spirits Of the
governed.
The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-26

A CASE For MEDrcAL AID.-Old Lady.
Oh! Doctor, I've brought YOU an old hen,
and please could you give her something
to make her lay Shanghai eggs-as many
as possible at time-it would be a great
accommodation to us?
The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-26
LANCASTER OHIO THURSDAY, july 26, 1860.

tried to perpose--but it warnt no use
Joshua Knocked him one way, and his la,
pother.
when We got home, gin yer Un,le
Joshua real lecter, and explained thing.
to him; and | guess he was a leetle asl4m
ed Of hissell.
"Wall Keziah," ssz he. I thought il
wouldn't do you any good to Set there
on them boards; and t. tell the plain
truth, l didn't like tie idea Of Deacon
Grant inviting of you to CO. II the dea
con is a married man, and church mem
ber, he's a powerful hand after the win
min
80, you see the whole secret was out
Joshua was jellusl Wall poor man! he's
dead and gone-and lh4 dsacon's wife is
dead, too. / hope | aint onfaithrul tc
Joshua's memory--but Deacon Grant.
children need mothers care awfully.-
It's dredful thing to be an orfun!"
The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-26

ES-A A little girl, showing her little cous.
in, about four years old, q star said,
"Thai s:ar you see up there is bigger
than this world"
"No, it sin't,' said he.
"Yes it is.
"Then, why DON'T it keep the rain off?
The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-26

RS- Here as good moral under the
guise of fable:
"a young man once picked up soy.
ereign in the road. Ever afterwards, as
he walked along, he kept his eyes fixed
steadily on the ground, in hopes of find
ing another. And in the course of long
life, lie did pick up, at different times, a
goodly number of coins, gold and silver.
But all these years, while he was looking
for them, he saw not that the heavens
were bright above him, and harure beau.
hful around. He never once allowed his
eyes to look up from the mud ani filth in
which he sought the treasure; and when
he died, rich old man. he only knaw
this earth of ours as dirty lead in which
to pick up money as You walk along"
The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-26

Bar Whatever lie may he now, Henry
Ward Beecher, according to his own con,
fession. wasnot a heavenly minded youth
In a recent discourse lie thus portrays his
early feelings:
"If | had not bsen more afraid of hell
than | was Of heaven, should have wish
ed not to 90 10 heaven. It was only sec,
ond in rank among the places where did
not want to bq.
The idea that | picture OF heaven is nc
more now than il was wh"n was young
BIT | have put away childish things
We are not to praise God as if We were SO
many parasites, so many courtiers, whose
interest and duty is to say grandloquent
things around the throne"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.

Summary Precsedings Of n FigilGnee Commit
tes-StGtiSttcS Of Lynchburg.
LYNCnBURG, VA, Sept. 4.
On last Saturday night three men, whose
names l was unable TO learn, were compelled
to leave Orange Courthouse by Vigilance
Committee. 1t has been known TO the citizens
of that village for some time past that these
men were engaged traficing with negroes,
contrary to law, but always managed their
business SO nicely as to eva0e legal prOsecu-
tiop. The gentlemen comprising the Vigil
lance Committee determined to rid the COM
murity of the parties referred 70, and accord
incIy gave them orders 10 leave the village
forthwith which they failed to do. On Sat-
urday night they were waited on by CON-
pauy of armed citizens, and marched at the
point of the bayonet TO the depot, while the
"Rogue's March" was played as befitting the
occasion. Here they were compelled TO get on
the cars and leave. One OF the party, formerly
& hotel keeper at Orange Court House, stop
ped at Char rlottesyille, and the other two came
10 this city, where they at present remain.
The HGs stings Court for this city convened
Yesterday. and transacted some lit lie business,
none Of which was of special interest 10 the
public.
There are within the corporate limits OF
Lynchburg 975 houses, IL schools. 425 pupils,
Q $50 volumes in private and public libraries;
: churches, which will seat i,7On persons
value OF church property, 500, ,GOC; p paupers
in the poor house. all of whom are natives; s
crimina i'll the city jail, convicted during
the wear There were 56 marriages for The
year ending the 1st of June, and lO6 deaths uI
10 same date. o. Il.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

RAILROAD OFFICERS IN TRoUBLE-Dsfal
cation i0n.-Exaggerate accounts have been cir
culated for the last few days, says the Harris
burg (Pa.) Telegraph, with regard to the loss
sustained by the usylvania Railroad Com
pauy through the faithlessness of some of the
officials on the line of the road. 1t affords us
pleas ure TO be able to state that the loss IN NC h
smaller in itself than generally reported, has
Deen recovered by the company. A general
examination has taken place in the last few
days in this city, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and
other places, resulting in the recovery OF cash,
stocks, property &c, TO considerable amount,
being the investments of the proceeds of tick
cts returned to ticket agents and others, and
by them resoid, and the daily appropriations
from cash collections by conductors. A mum :
Der Of the conductors and several agents have
| been discharged. 1t is supposed that the evil,
| in q few years, would have grown to be Sc
rous matter to the revenues of the company,
| snd il is therefore matter of congratuiation
that the whole scheme was discovered, and has
| been so completely checked for the future
| The Northern Central Railroad has also suf-
| tarsd considerably.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

PECULIAR MANNER OF FISHING IN JAPAN.
In walking along the banks, says correspon-
dent, we came upon man fishing In a most
peculiar way. He was perehed on low
bridge leading over srream that Joined the
canal. At first l thought he had hooked an
enormous fish, but on closer inspection found
it was merely live decoy. It's dorsal fin
side from these it was tethered TO what
tist took TO be his rod. The poor fish sported
about i'll the water. apparently doing its best
to attract the atten ton of its fiuny fellows
The man held a small arrow pointed trident.
with which he deXterously struck any large
fish that came wondering at the antics of the
teIhered decoy.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

MANIFESTO AGAINST WALKKR.-Waiker In
on his way across Honduras to Nicaragua.
Fernando Chamorro, his old Nicaraguan en-
emy, who is now Executive of that Republic,
has issued the following illumination against
him:
Compatriots-Wllliam Walker, the enemy
Of our repose, with a party of his robbers,
menaces at this moment our neigh Dor a nd sis
ter the republic of Honduras; the danger ID
likewise ours-th the question is Central Ame-
rican.
The ruins which his destructive hands scat
tered far and near are yet smoking these CON
tinually make us remember What we may
again expect from these hordes of cannibals.
The religion of our fathers, our paternal
heartbs, our beloved famiiies, the very soil
under our feet-all, all will be taken from 10
by force, should that heartless people (geats1--
whose professed principle is the destruction
OF our race-take possession OF The country.
Our past dissensions were the cause that in
the late invasion, the contest was prolong ged
and the idea OF our easy conquest conceived.
Now, united, We have but one standard, inde-
pendence-hut one enemy, hllibusters. The
time and occasion has come for to prove to
the whole world that we are able to defend
our rights, and that our territory is not to be
trUdden with imppniiy.
Clergymen OF the Republic! The holy re.
ligiot of which ye are the ministers is me-
naced fulfill your evangelical mission
Projectors, fellow-citizens all! You know
the StdFity OF tHe ndDSeF. lue government
reposes in The security that each OF you is pre-
pared promptly TO comply with the dates I'M
posed upon you by your country. .
Soldiers OF the Army! The miserable Van
dals whom you caused to bite the dust at San
Jacinte, Massaya, Rivas, and Granada, dare
again to challenge your ferocity (brarura y
Prepare yourselves. At whatever point of
Central America they may appear, il is to us
also that the challenge is extended. There is
the danger OF our country there honor and
our oaths call us, and there IA heretofore in
your ranks will be found your companion aud
friend, FERNANDO CHAMoRRo.
MIndgHd, July %, 1869.
Russian built brig, carrying the New Ora
madam nag, with about forty passengers or
board, principally Americans, from San Fran
cisco, had arrived at La Union, ON the Pacific
Their destination is said Io be Honduras. Pos.
slbiy they intend joining Gen Walker. n
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-Mr. John d. Fisher,
residing near Walksrsyille, Frederick county,
Md, met with a shocking death, in q well, on
the farm of Mr.. Worman, near Catoctin Fur
aace, on the 29th ult The Family Visitor
says:
He was let down by a rope attached to a
Wl3diass, and after descending some fifteen
feet ne was asked If he detected the existence
oi any ioul air. He replied that he sme.led
an unpleasant odor. but thought it was the
tar that had been burning the day before, aud
that they should let him down little farther
They thenlnt him Down q few feet farther
and called TO him again, but he being unablo
to answer, they immediately CONNIE nced
drawing HIM up, aud when within a few fee
OF the top of ibe we'll his hold broke and hs
was precipitated 10 the bottom, distance q
some sixty feet. Every eXer ton was made tc
rescue him, and alter Il three hours struggi,
they succeeded in getting him out with tn,
aid of iron hooks.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

SARDINIA.-The new Sardinian loan Of So
COO 600 has been closed, and three times the
req aired is said To have been subscribed. Thus
it appears that the bonds of the new Italian
Kingdom are rising in the market at the very
lime that Austria Is struggling III vain with =
debt whose magnitude ought to be measured
not by the resources Of the country, but by the
weakness ofits government, and while Russia,
mighty Russia, having been driven from the
European loan market, was forced 10 recur
Sti.i even in regard 10 Sardinia, the new loan
reminds US of the ugly fact that IN modern times
almost the first act in q peoples struggle for
freedom or independence, seems, by some mcn-
seryitude.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

FROM HAyANA.-Late advices from Ha-
CRUSADER, Capt. Maftit, captured a few days
since, on The coast OF Cuba, n steamer engaged
In the slave trade, and that the SLAYER had
succeeded in landing portion of the negroes
before being taken. Further particulars could
not be learned.
There was also q report in Havana thar the
bark Wiidfre "a slave prize. at anchor In the
harbor of Key West, had been stolen from her
went OF with the Wanderer some time since
from Sayannah. He was assisted by crew
which he picked upat Key West. A party OF
Wreckers armed with rifles, &c, started in
pursuit and succeeded in capturing the prize,
aud returning with her TO Key West.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

F5lony.-Iohn Burns, charged with felo-
nicusly beating and breaking the ribs of Jas.
ID. Kane OF the ilth of August, was examined
bef~re the Mayor yesterday on the charge
Kane lived on Byrd street, in the basement OF
the house occupied bv Burns, and had an al
tercation with Mrs. Burns, when the prisoner
rushed upon him, knocked him down, and
kicked ard stamped him in the most cruel
manner. Burns was reinanded TO the mex,
term of the Hastings Court to be examined
for felony.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

MADE MS Escape.-Joseph Summers, one of
the young men charged with engaging in a
shooting affair on Main street, last Saturday
night, and who was shot in the right arm,
near the wrist, and slightly injured, has fed
tue city, ana probably returned to Baltimore.
William Mullen, charged with shooting Ut
Summers, was before the Mayor yesterday,
but not examined He says that Summers
first threatened to kill, aud fired HI and stab
bed him in the left leg, during their reacontre
Other parties are believed to have bees indi-
rectly engaged in the afray, and the Mayor is
anxious 10 ferret them out.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

THE CASE OF CAPT. MElGs SETTLED.--The
Meigs case is at an end. The President, as
Commander in Chief, has ordered Capt. NJ igs
to obey his superior oLicer, the Secretary Of
War; and has declined 70 receive any comm u
nication from him except through the War
Department. Tue army and navy rejoice in
this decision, otherwise any lieutenant or mid
shipnau might bring his personal grievances
directly to the President, and make CORES
pondence with his contrary 10 the rules of both
SarYlceS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

Sta5biHg.-Stephen, 4 negro boy twelve years
of age, owned by James II. Leweilyn, was ex-
amined before the Mayor yesterday, on charge
of feioniously stabbing and woundirg Mich
ael Nurphy, white boy, The evidence of the
stabbing was conclusive, but the cause so uu-
satisfactory that the Mayor continued the
examination. The youth of the prisoner will
in all probability, save him from severe pun.
ishment, and it would, therefore, be as we'll tC
give him a switching and let his owner send
him SOUth
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

A SUGGEsTIOE.-Says foreign correspoa-
dent: What do you think of Sir Charles Ma
pier going out as Garibaldi's Admiral Such
q thing is far from improbable. i would not
mention it but for The consideration that
nearly q month will elap>e before the news
sent 10 your journal from England comes back
to us All this will imp.icate England, and
then what will Ma poleon do BY ali accounts,
he is furnishing munitions of war TO Pied
mOnt.V
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

Spots,cood House-This new and elegant no.
tel, corner of Sth and Main streets, is now be-
ing ma gnifcen,iy furnished, and will be open
to the puolic in few days. Mr.. Crenshaw
has engaged the services of Mr.. +. w. HGNNI-
GRR, formerly of the Everett House, New
York, as superintendent and manager, and
promises to make this hotel inferior 10 no
other in the United States. Its location, apart
from It's other advantages, Will make il very
popular with the travelling public, and cannot
fail to secure for il q large custom.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

IMPORTANT ARRRsT.-A man named Ed
ward Tode, who has been travelling in tnis
country under the assumed name of j. f. de
Pare was arrested in New York on Monday
charged with being defau ul,er TO the Russian
Government to an immense amount. On ex-
amining his room at the hotel, the officers
found about S50,G00, mostly in Russian bank
bills. A reward of $25,OU0 had been offered
for his apprehension.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

Nstv Triat Refused--The motion for new
trial in the case OF Edward r. Cooper. con :
victed OF attemnting TO murder his wife, ard
his punishment fixed at five years in the pen :
itentiary, was argued before Judge Lyons
yesterday, and the motion oyerruled. The
case is to be taken to the Court Of Appeals on
q w rit OF errors.
To-day the motion for new trial in the
case of VIM. ID. Totty, convicted of murder in
the first degree, is to De argued before Judge
LYONS.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

SAw-MILLs.-Within four miles of Will
Transport, Pa, there are twenty-fi five steam
saw-,niils, containing in the-aggregate about
one thousand saws, with capacity for cutting
az least one hundred and fifty million feet OF
boards yearly. The largest Of the mills recent-
ly cut seven hundred thousand feet of lumber
in five days.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

A FUGITIyR NJ DIR. David ID. WickhaIn,
formerly practiclng physician of the village
of Hamburg Sussex county, n. T., was appre-
hended in New York city on Saturday, on a
tie over a year ago the wife of Solomon Cole,
farmer, residing in Sussex county, died from
the effects OF dose of strychnine, and tie de-
veiOpments made at the coroner's inquest leo
to the supposition that the poison had been
admins tered by the prisoner and the nd
of deceased with the object of obtaining con-
siderable sum OF money for which the wo-
mans life had recently been insured. The
husband was tried for the murder, but acquit-
ted. Wickham, meantime, had been placed
under heavy bonds to answer a similar charge,
but forfeited his sureties and fed from the
State. He was sent back TO New Jersey.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

NAVAL PROMOTION AND APPOINTMENT
Passed Assistant Surgeon Thomas Il. Steele
has been promoted TO d srgeon in the Navy,
vice urgeon Addison, deceased aud Osborn
). Iglehart, of Annapolis, Md, has been ap-
pointed as Assistant Surgeon, to I'LL the va
cancy created by the promotion of Passed AS
sistaut Surgeon Steele.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

TRAGEDY Az DANvJLLE.-We learn that al
affray occurred at Danville on Saturday
which resulted in the killing of a gentleman
whose name we did not learn, by another
named Davis. The latter was connected will
a mercantile establishment, and the difficulty
grew out of au account. Davis seems To bay,
acted on the defensive, from what we learned
LyaehbHrg FtrginidH.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

RENDERING Jadgments.-The Mayors Court
situated as it is, is the T.ost unpleasant place
In the city that localiZers are required 10 at
tend. Apart from the crowd Of idlers that pen
them in and exclude the cir, they are forced
into close contact with all the foul vagrants
gathered up by the police, if they wish to
learn what is going on, and then. seven times
out ten are forced to guess 81 the decisions OF
the Mayor, Simply because he fails to announce
his Judgment when he has disposed of a pris-
oner. If, in the future, he will pass upon each
case as it comes before him. he will facilitate
the labors OF the reporters, and relieve the
minds OF prisoners examined before him.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

HOOPS AN OBSTACLE TO SUICIDE.-Mrs
Holmes, a lady twenty years Of age, while GO
ing with her banu and infant child from
Boston to Bangor, Maine, attempted to com.
nit suicide by jumping from III. steam boat
about o'clock in the morning. Sae laid hei
Child IN a berth, took of her hoop skirt aac
was soon overheard. Fortunately her tall
was observed aud she was rescued Mrs
Holmes has lately been subject to flts of in
sanity.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

WHAT'S DoING.-The Asiatc telegraph ha'
now been carried down to Jezrah, 4 hundred
miles north of Mosul. As the works along
this interval between the kurdish ani Meso-
potamia capitals are being rapidly pushed on
by Msssrs. MeCallum, it is expec ted that, be-
tore the end of this month, messages Will be
transnissabe direct from Stambou 10 Nine
vah. Shades of Jonas and Sardanapalus, -
says the Levant Herald, what an advance on
the slow couriers Of three thousand years
n
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

POPULATION. - Tie population of Great
Britain, England, Wales, Scotland and Ire
iand) by the Gems us of 1885, was 2o .G6i 1862, and
that of France, by the census of 1853, was
SO, ,205, ,792. The United States numbered 23,.
I9l, $40 by the census Of 1850, and the es Inmates
of the present census, now in progress, range
from 30 to 80 millions. In population, there
tore, the three countries do not very widely
QiIicI.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

NAvAL.-The number of men authorized by
Congress being now attached to the navy no
outside eniistments whatever can take place
Those ships ordered in commission will have
10 wait for the return Of hands having honor
able discharges. 1t is said that q bill will be
intr, duced next session providing for the ad
dition Of 1000 sailors TO me service.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-05

No Peace for the IFicked-Clinton James, q
free negro, and for many years the pest of
Fink Alley, was arraigned before the Mayor
yesterday, TO answer the charge of stealing
Sl0.75 from Robert F. Kirby, on Monday night
last. Kirby, it seems, is about opening the
house in Pink Alley formerly occupied by
Clinton, and on the night i'll question put
Clinton in charge of the place. AT late hour.
Clinton prepared to go home, and put the
drawer money in his pcckef, remarking to a
person present that Kirby had told him to
take it. Before he got out CT doors Kirby coll
Jared him, gave him blow or two in the face,
and made him disgorge. AS the offence was
merely breach of trust, and the negro had
been bea ten, the Mayor DISCHARGED him.