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M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07

The GREAT EAsTERN.-On the 10Th
Of June next the Great Eastern will
leave London for New York, and may
be expected to arrive in that city Ger
tainly by the 22d. Great crowds will,
doubtless, be attracted from all parts
of the country to see her. Whatever
may be done hereafter in the way of
ship-building, there will never be so
great wonder as the Great Eastern.
The advance on all its predecessors
is greater than ever can take place
again, and, whatever the ingenuity of
man may contrive in the way of great
sea vessels, they must all more or less
be, to certain extent, copies of this
ono Hora is chip over four times
as great as the largest now afoat,
with deck containing a superficial
acre, and the sides that have to be
gone over by the paint. brush at least
two acres more. And this moving
Leviathan ofthe deep has a capacity
and accommodation for ten thousand
souls on board-a population equal to
that of a pretty good-sized city,
Then, as great wonder as all the
rest, there are four or five steam en-
gines, with a combined power equal
to that OF ten thousand horses, and
all this is obedient to the will and
touch OF two individuals who hold the
position Of chief engineers. Gin.
Eng.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
Fred Douglass, Paper for Lincoln.


Fred. Douglass paper of the 25th
OF May cordially endorses the nomina-
tion OF Lincoln. Although expressing
great admiration for Seward, it is con-
strained to say that "there are a few
of the more radical men, who regard
Mr.. Seward's defeat as a sort of polit.
icai Judgment upon him for his late
speech in the Senate. To them, that
speech was so full of concession to the
slave power, so clear bid for the
at Chicago, ard so nearly
sunk the progressive statesman in the
political trimmer, that they are well
content with his defeat" The editor
of this paper and the "radical men"
of the Republican party wanted a can
didate who had not made and would
not make any CONCESSION to the slave
power" Have they such a candidate
in the person OF Mr.. Lincoln ? Fred.
Douglass paper answers the question
fully aud satisfactorily. 1t says:
"IIe is a radical Republican, and is
fully committed to the doctrine OF the
'irrepressible conflict In his debates
with Douglas, he came fully up to the
highest mark Of Republicanism, and
he is a man of will and nerve, and
will not back down from his wn as
,ertions. He is not compromise
by any means.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07

Who WAS HE9-The body of a
stranger was found in the Ohio River,
near, Milton, Ky, on the 26th. He
was about six feet high, supposed to
be between thirty and forty years OF
age; had dark hair and small goatee.
A letter was found on his person ad-
dressed to w. M. Allison, signed,
"From your brother, Kcziah Allison"
1t is supposed that he was an Ohioan,
and was accidentally drowned. :
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
NINlOn anIiiIlY.

The Democracy Of Vinton county
held their convention and made up
their ticket last week. Nelson Rich.
mond is re-nominated for Auditor.
de is a good man and a competent
officer. For Sheriff, Thomas Nc.
Kean, OF fIamGen--iormerly OF Law
renee county, Ohio, is the nominee.
MIR. Mexican is very active demo.
crat, was especially and effectively so
in 1856, aud, is a thorough paced
business man besides. Ii elected, he
will perform his duties in frst.rate
style, possessing, as he does, the en-
ergy and capacity withSl. Few men
have worked harder or more disinter.
esiedly for the party, and none are
more deserving of its sudrage8.-
Ports. Times.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
From Cleveland.
CLEVELAND, June 9.

OLhFELAND, UH6 2.
S.G. Kennedy, who, some time since
ran away from Memphis with a young
girl, leaving a wife in that city, and
for whom requisition was made on
Governor Dennison by GOV, Harris,
of Tennessee, on the charge of stealing
slave property, which was refused, was
to-day taken back to Memphis by
Marshal Craw, the requisition having
been made in which Kennedy is charg-
ed with stealing jewelry from his wife.
Intellectual search has been made for
his paramour.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07

AN APPROPRIATE OPENING. G.-Since
the Chicago Convention is regarded
by all sensible men as a sort of men.
agerie or circus, the managers made
an appropriate opening OF it. At the
dedication ol the "Wigwam" from
seven to eight thousand curious peo.
pie were present, each being charged
twenty-five cents admission fee
That is better "draw" than the "ani-
mails" will ever make again Repub-
llcanism turns every one of its devices
to pecuniary profit for the managers
Of the concern. That, however, is
about all it does do, there being no
State in the Union in which it has Oh
tained power, wherein the interests of
the people have not suffered sadly by
its operations.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
HTThe friends of the Baltimo,

UThe friends of the Baltimore
Convention and the Secessionists late
ly held meetings in Huntsville, Ala
bama, to appoint delegates to their
respective State Conventions. The
number present, who were for Balti-
more and for its nominees, whoever
they may be, was seven hundred
The Secessionists had but thirty per-
sons at their meeting. This is about
the ratio Of strength of the two par.
ties in all North Alabama.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
Two Abe LincOlns AIrendY.

1t was authoritatively announced at
the Wigwam that Lincoln, the nomi-
nee Of the sectional concern which
metip Chicago, split rails for his hv.
ingin early life, but a writer in the
Cleveland Leader Of Saturday, says
that the Abe Lincoln who is now the
Republican nominee, migrated to
Illinois in his boyhood, where he
earned his living at the anvil, devot.
Ing his leisure hours to study" the
law being the branch of business he
selected. We have thus two Abe
Llncoln's before US already. 1t is not
unlikely we shall have them multi.
piled until there be one for every trade
and occupation! From his habitual
Incidence we are inclined to think that
Lincoln the nominee never hurt him
self at any honest manual labor.
Since we penned the foregoing par
agraph, we find in the Sandusky Reg
lister, another biography, quite differ
ent from the TWO above referred to-
Thus we have three Abe Lincoln's al.
ready. The Register says, she was
at times a boatman on the Mississippi
river, at others wood chopper, and
at others still school teacher.h What
a marvellous candidate. lie beats the
two Fremont's all hollow! Really,
gentlemen Republicans, you are like,
ly to overdo the thing in your attempt
to catch the working men OF the land.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07


MORE RAL-ERY.--The Black Re
publicans of Knox County, Ohio,
ratified Lincoln and Hamlin on Sat.
urday evening last, at which a Sew
ard admircr made a splendid speech,
setting himself mp as the successor Of
Lincoln on the rail argument. Here
is his platform:
lie (Vance) never had any Presi-
dental aspirations before, but he really
believed now that he might be the
candidate next time. He could beat
Lincoln all hollow at splitting rails,
and as to shucking corn, Lincoln
would be nowhere alongside of him.
For three years once he was the best
cOrn.shucker in his section Of country.
and whenever there was a big corr
shucking Joe Vance was sure to be in
demand. Besides, be had gone to
schoo! in his bare feet when the road
was covered with snow six inches
deep, Which Lincoln hadn't done.--
Now, if all this doa't make him the
Republican candidate for President
next time, he didn't know what would.
Luearty laughter by The Democrats,
and sardonic grins by the Rcpubli,
cans
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
Another Part OF his Record,

We give in another part Of our pa.
per the motions which Mr.. Lincoln
made while in Congress. Bat there
is another part Of his record which
will rise up like the ghost of Banquo
to trouble him and his followers 10 the
campaign. Mr.. Lincoln was a mem.
Der Of Congress during the Mexican
war, and voted for resolution intro.
duced by Mr.. Ashmun, (who wss
President ofthe Chicago Conventional
which declared that "the gar ooith the
Republic Of Werico IS unc0n8titu.
t0aah unnecessary and nnjust." He
also v0ted against the bill granting
16O acres Of land TO each Of The vOl-
unteerS aohO Served IN tile Var ayith
AerIco! We rather guess that the
old soldiers will recollect these votes
when they 60 to deposit their ballots in
November.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
GOIt Roofs.

The stationary bill of members OF
Congress comprises some strange
things, which are generally kept pro-
found secret from their constituents. -
Honest Old Abe" appears to have
got the hang Of if, in his short Con-
gressional life. as the following arti-
c!e from the Chicago Times will show:
"When Lincoln went to Congress,
he thought he would make shine;
fashionable boots were high, even at a
figure rather above the Springfield
rates, After studying the case for a
long time, he worked out how he
could supply himself with boots, and
yet not pay for them out Of hIs peck,
1t. lie first thought OF delivering a
lecture, but no one could be found who
would come down with the $780,
lie then thought Of making speeches
and charging 20 cents d head Just as
he did recently in New England, but
he could not get persons TO come to
hear him. In this extremity his iu.
tile genius suggested that he would
buy the boots and have them paid for
out Of the public money. lie, there.
fore ordered a pair at eight dollars;
they were sent up by Abe'S orders, to
the stationary clerk at tie capitol, and
Abe drew them as stationary. At the
next session he drew another pair Of
boots in the same manner--they being |
paid for ont Of the public money!
When he was leaving for home
quitting Congress torevcr-he ordered .
m extra fine pair at.mne dollars, and .
hey were boxed up with Lis books,
mi iranked to Hon. Abraham Lin.
'oln, Springfield, Illinois. ,"
The record of this boot transaction
stands thus on the books of the Clerk
If the House Of Representatives, and
n his vouchers in the treasury at
Washington:
Hon. Abraham Lincoln:
Three pairs OF boots. s25."
The idea that "thiG government
,annot permanently endure half free
md half sia2e," when members of
Congress can provide themselves
With boots-nine dollar boots,--at The
expense of thepeopIe, is preposterous.
'ust think Of Honest Abe having
lis boots sent up to the capital to be
rawn ont by him as "statonary."-
'ust think Of the simplicity Of the
onest man, who taxed the people to
ay for his boots when he was draw
ny eight dollars per day aud mileage.
Col. Lane Of Indiana, when speak ,
ng Of Lincoln in the Republican con-
entior, closed bis remarks by saying: ;
"Thirty years ago you might have
cen near the boundary Inc between '
indiana and Illinois, Abe Lincoln t
.ading barcfooted oxen to the pasture c
nd following them with the plow.n |
Lincoln's early experience with ,
barelooted oxen" might have given
i'm some strange notions about :
oots; but certain it is, that the first
loment be got to Congress he prcvi- ,
ed himself, at the public expense,
18th the best boots he could obtain.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07

Ross CoUNTY.--The democrats of
Old Ross have appointed the follow
ing named gentlemen as their dele
gates to the State Convention on tue
4th of July: Hon. VIM. Allen, Col.
Sitiord, Z, B. Esheman, Job E. Ste.
venson and S. II. Hurst. The Con-
venton resolved "that Hon. William
Allen is the choice of the democracy
of Ross County for the nomination for
the Presidency" A resolution en-.
dorsing the course Of the delegates at
the Charleston Convention was also
passed. We can most cheerfally sec
ond the domination of Col. Allen.
when it shall be rendered absolutely
certain that the nomination of Judge
Douglas is impossible.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-06-07
THE DEMOCRAT
FOR THE
e A PAEGN OF SEQ!
Now is the Time to Subscriber
only FIFTY CENTS till af:erthe
Presidential Election!
TERms-sTRICTLY IN ADVANCE.

The sooner the names and the mon
ey are sent in, the longer the paper
will bo sent.
viii our friends throughout the
County help to give the Campaign
Democrat a large circulation
a. PEARCE, Publisher.
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elsewhere, they will have to come from tho

elsewhere, they will have to come from the
North.
The South is strengthened in this position
by its unprcccdcntedly aourishing condition
There never WAS period whcnit was SO we'll
able to stand alone. This years cotton crop
amounts IN round numbers to 4, 800 900 bales,
of which 100000 have come to market
This is larger crop by 100000 bales than
was ever before produced in single year In
money value the yield represents about $780,
OGo,OOO, and rs the other crops have turned
out ProponionGtcly abundant, the South has
more reason than ever to feel contcutcd and
satisfied with its condition. Whilst the West
is still suffering from the depression caused
by the panic of 1857, the South has all the
time paid lis way, and now the supcrIbundancc
OF It's crops rcudcrs it more than ever prosper
ous and rich. With its immense yield of raw
produce, its young but promising manufac-
lures, and its enormous command of capital,
it can easily bccomc independent of the North
IT 1t chooses to give greater development to its
industrial resources and foreign trade The
Southern delegations, therefore, in their action
at Charleston, had no misgivings to perplcX
them ms 10 the results of the course which they
felt it necessary to take. They had but one
link to bind them to the North, and that wax
equality of rights and protection
This denied them, they found themselves
without motive for the connection. They
argued that partnership, in which all the
capital WAS furnished on onc side, and all the
arrogance and dictation on thc other was not
worth continuing, and they therefore felt jus
tilted in takirg steps to put term to such an
unfair and unequal condition of things. Tho
soundcr clements of the Democracy will back
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Education of Children.

We commend the subjoined judicious re-
marks, from the London Quarterly Review, to
the discriminating attention and regard MS
well of porentS as Of teachers They contain
an important principle in reference to the cdu-
cation of the young, and one which cannot be
100 carefully needed:
4" 1t is the vice of age to substitute lcarping
for wlSdom-to educate the head and forget
that there is more important education nee
csSary for the heart Tbercason is cultivated
at an age when nature does not furnish the
element necessary to successful cultivation
OF it; and the CHILD is solicited to reflect when
he is only capable of sensation and emotion.
In infancy, the attention and memory arc only
excited strongly by things which impress the
senses and move the heart and the father
shall instill more solid and available instruc-
ton in an hour spent in the fields, where wis
dom and goodness are cxemplifed, seen and
felt, than in month spent in study, where
they arc cXpoundcd in stereotype aphorisms
O. No physician doubts that precocious chill
dren, in fifty cases for one, are much worse
for the discipline they have undergone. The
mind seems to have been strained and the
foundations for insanity are laid When the
studies for maturcr years are stuffed into the
child's head, people do not reflect on the an
atomical fact that the brain of an iafant :.
not the brain of man--that the c;,e 10 oor
frlned and can bear exertcn-tbe Other l.
growing and requires repose /; that to force
the attention to abstract facts-to load tbs
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The Cotton Crop and the Secession Move.
ment.

The breakup of the Democracy at Charles
ton has given but little concern to the South
or to the friends of Southern interests They
regard it, on the contrary, as the best thing
that could have happened, for compromise
from the detection of few of the slave States
would have left matters in as unsettled a con-
dition as before. Now the issue is set fair
and square before the country, and there can
be no resuscitation of the Democratic party
except upon platform guaranteeing the full
est security for Southern interests. If there
arc any concessions to be made at Baltimore or
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have seen proper to remain in this Convention.
For one, sir, ! am more inclined to stand by
Virginia than hy Alabama, and in doing so
! think have wiser counsellor in danger and
difficulty
know full well that the Congressional
District which ] represent in this Convention
will approve and sanction the course which
have seen propcrto take, and shall remain
here and represent that District as long as
remain in Charleston. With this cXplana
ton of MY position, conclude by tcndcring
my thanks to the Convention for the opportu-
nifty offered lac, 50 cautiously, 10y them, of
dctining my position.
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Views from Bible Lands.

Thyarr. city on the northern border
of the province Of Lydia, is situated ON an
extensive plain, eighteen miles in breadth,
rear the head waters of the northern branch
of the river licrmus; into which flows the
river licrmus into which flows the brook
Pactolus, once famed in classic story for its
golden sands. Thyatira is between fifty and
sixty miles northeast from Smyrna, forty or
fifty southeast from pcrgamos, and about
twenty seven from Sards. 1t is an ancient
city, formerly known by the names of pelo
pa aud Euhpra. 1t is said by Strabo to
have been Macedonian colony The Ro-
man road from Perganos to Sadis passed
through it, la thc days of hcathcnism, it
was devoted, like Ephcsus, to the worship of
the goddess Diana.
yhyatisa vas celebrated for the skill of
the inhabitants in dycin3 cloth and il even
now retains, in some degree, its reputation
for tue manufacture of this article. Lydia
who was converted by the Apostle Paul at
Philippe WAS a natiVc of 9,yatira and it is
particularly mentioned that she was !; s'sollcr
of purple z" Acts xvi II, -, i0.)
The word purple seems to have been ap-
piled by the ancicnts to all the various hucs
and shades, both deep red and purple, which
they obtained from the juices of shell-fsh
Tyre WAS also famous for this peculiar beau
tiiul dye The ShcIl-fish yielding it is still
i0nnd in the Mediterranean but it is less
valucblc now than in ancient times, other
dyes more brilliant having been discovered
Thyatra is now called by Tic Turks Ak
Ilissar, or the "Whitc Castle" At dis
tancc it appears in lofty expresses and pop
lars, from among which are seen rising thc
dome and mimarcts of mosques and dwell
ing-houscs. There are about two thousand
houses besides small luts. OF ;Ic houses.
about three hundred arc inhabited by
Greeks, about thirty by Americans, and the
rest by Turks so that the proportion of
protesting Christians is very small. An
amphithcatrc of hill rises at a distance of
= few miles from the town, from which flow
abuadaat stcams of water, wondering the
pEAin fertile. Vegetation is luxuriant -
One traveller mentions having seen the
white rose, @!owing wid, in such abnn-
dance, as 60 scent the air With its delicious
perfume.
Thyatta carries on a trade with Smyrna,
to which city they scnd large quantities of
wool and scarlet cloth
There are few ruins to be seen in Thya-
tira fewer than in most of the other church
cs. Dr. Smith observed some ruined pillars,
which he thought had been once market
FSaee, but he could not End tho ruins of any
church
lie was told, however, ny the Turks that
there were great buildings of stone under
ground which hc supposed might have
been the foundations Of the great buildings
of the ancient city.
There are two profcssedly Christian clur-
chcs in the town-onc Greek and the other
armenian; but they are described as in a
miserable state.
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memory with chronological, and historical,
and scicntifc dctails--in short, to expect a
child's bran to bear with impunity the exer-
ton of mans, is just os rational Us it would
be to hazard the same experiment on its mus
ccs,
"Thc first eight or ton years of life should
be devoted to the education of the hcart-to
the formation of principles rather than to what
is usually termed knowledge. Nature herself
points out such course; for the emotions arc
then the livclicst, and most easily moulded,
being as yet unalloycd by passion. 1t is from
this source that the mass of mcn are hereafter
to dr.w thoir sum OF happiness or misery
the actions of the immense majority are under
all circumstances, determined much moro by
feeling than BY reflection in truth, life pre-
scutS an iuAuity of occasions where it is cs
scntial to happiness that we should feel rightly;
very few where it is all necessary that We
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POETRY.
The Lover UP q Tree,

Well heres " situation,
F"r young man up tree!
lcrking lovcingly at nc!
~
'rScu oN 'h 'hc a"r'S OF cupid
WIZ, ,,S" " po.s"'T' "r cow"
I'y the dim light of The moon
r
'iiv ~ .,'Snn"u ',M." ,IE ""'n
>, "t.,f 'u'""V" nv Snl''ln wall:
eonlcr where tac shadows fail.
Got aS far as Slccp my darling"
When deep base bow. wow wow ="
hc,r H. crhn ,,,y
Nnl n snrpping. close bciu nc,
Wnrnd me foe was near;
Nad found . ,ndrmrnt here,
As climcd this smooth alnnthus,
felt something tear;
know how came i, there,
Ionfcr Where tie snowy curtain
In the mellow moonlight shines,
Mn Julia dear rrclncs
would not now, for nj Tho wo,l
That She shoulI see me here
with ,I,;,o n,,' ',,',",.'wS,
Oh for n bit of snycluinc
Or some poison Of some sort,
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law Notice.

,bo 0maer1slgneS nrHa1g have formed partnorsrip in
n,. .ne practice of Law and Equity for pi@Isna 10
District Mr.. HADDES may be ooSsI,od iiekens 1,
ounce In Pickens and Mr.. ORn at AnderseS a. MS
JAMES l.. ORR
icAonS g. II May 10, 1859 VI LEE aS,t