Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-11-23

growing districts in the State. 1t has
considerable celebrity as a manufaetur-
ing town, and some years ago was noted
as one of the busiest and most prouais-
ing inland towns in the State But 1t is
very much like the man upon whose
tombstone was engraved 'Was we'll
wanted to be better-took medicine and
died" Massillon was doing we'll, but
wanted to do better--exhausted her
means in building raIlroad-succeeded,
and-collapsed. There is not more than
half the business done here now that
| there was fifteen years ago. The whole
town has an appearance as if it had been
"6nishedd'' long time. Still it is
place of considerable business, ard ships
more coal than any other place in the
State, our own Pomeroy excepted
| There is blast furnace here, where the
pig iron is made with stonecoal instead
Of charcoal. The meal is said to be
more brittle than that made with char
coal, but does very we'll for many pur-
poses.
This is the largest town in the county,
although Canton is the County seat, and is
about equal to it in population. The
County-stark-or "Old Molly Stark
as it is commonly called, used to be the
Gibralter of Democracy. From time
out of mind, "Old Molly Stark and a
few adjoining counties was relied upon
to 'sset off, the Western Reserve But
those days have passed away never to
return. There is not now a more reli
BILE Republican county in the State
There are a great many German settlers
in the county We have been told that
out Of the towns, majority Of the pop
ulation are Germans. They are the
best farmers in all the region-industri-
Gus, economical and honest. They for
merly voted the Democratic ticket,
almost to man. But, like their coun-
| trymen everywhere, being laborious
themselves, they are in favor of uphold
ing the dignity and freedom of labor,
and therefore. as naturally as water runs
down hill, they grayitate to the Repub-
lican party. AS soon as old party pre-
judices are outgrown, and true issues
I fully understood, the entire German vote
will be cast on the side of free labor,
and consequently for the Republican
party. 1t is very largely with us now.
It is that vote which has helped to swell
Lincoln's unprecedented maj ajorities in all
the Free States. We werejust day too
late to witness. grand Republican jubi-
lee and demonstration in this place.
/ Since the election, the Breckenridge
wing of the Democracy seem to be taking
the lead. They have already, under
the name of the 'sNdtional Democracy
called State Convention for the 9th of
January. They will be the Democratic
party of the future in Ohio. MarE the
prediction. Nearly all the really strong
! men of the party are engaged in the
movement, and many of the papers which
supported Douglas, now assume the
ground of the extreme South on the sub
iect of Slavery. The shams wlilsbe dis
carded. doughfaceism will be spurned.
The true issue will be made and met in
the contests of the future. Many of the
honest Douglas men, finding no place to
stand upon, will join the Republican
ranks, as SO many thousands of them
have done already-many, and perhaps
majority will join the forces of those
they now denounce as disunionists, and
will fight for the spread of human bon
dage in the name of Democracy, and
some will still try to "fuse' with the fag
ends of all factions until they are
'sground between the upper and neither
millstones." sr
The papers of yesterday report Gov
,ernor Wise of Virginia as hopelessly in
sane. We have thought him so for
months past, and have so stated in the
Telegraph. That any man, not a fit sub
ject for Lunatic ASYLUM could gable
the compounds of blasphemy and trea-
son, which make up his late speeches
and letters, is simply absurd. He is the
very counter part of old John Brown.
If Brown was a fit subject for the gal
lows, so is Wise. But the truth is, a
Lunatic ASYLUM was the proper place
for both. Wise hung Brown. We hope
he may not meet the same fate. For
| while we think him a worse, and far
more dangerous man. than Brown, yet
we believe the peace of the country can
be preserved without hanging him, as it
might have been without hanging Brown.
Have you heard the crack Of the dis
solving Union down at Pomeroy? This
place Is SO far from the dividing line
that if the split has taken place the
shock has not been felt up here. If it
is dissolved, do the people Of our pleas
ant little neighbor-Mason City-let
you Pomeroy folks, still water your
horses in their River. If so, upon what
terms? Did it divide at high or 7osv
water mark? These are questions in
which we feel profound interest.
STEAMER COURIER, Nov. 2tst, 1860.
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