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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-13

cy The Rockville (MiJ Journal says
that man was arrested near the Great
Falls, in that county, on Wednesday last,
for the expression of feeling OF sympa-
thy with the late rebellion ai iIaFpcr.s Fer
ry. He Is now in the county jail.
FRrGTrEsrD pr A BLIND GrBL---The
Wheeling Intelligenccr publishes the state
menf Of blind girl, who was recently ex-
pelled from Martinsburgh, Nao on snsPi'
eion Of being an Abolitionist. She says
Some Of the people treated me kindly
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-01-13

Tua WAY ABOLITION EuIssARIEs ARE
TnE4TED IS Southwestern VIRGINIA
"A philanthropic pilgrim from the land OF
wooden nutmees. supposed to be an agent
OF some Abolition Aid Sccieiy or under
ground railroad, was arrestcsl the other day
IN The neighbdrius county Of Pulaski, and
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
Mr. Reecher on Fault-Finding.

In recent discouse on the text, Bear
ye-@no another's burdens" Henry Ward
Beeoher said
The spirit Of this passage forOids that we
should make the failings of other men a
source of amusement to ourselves-and now
| am coming to it. | will admit that there
is Il playful good humorcd kind of JadinGge
that is harmless. TbG apprehension or cx-
position of mans faults in light genial
spirit, is often the best way Of telling him OF
them. ! do not. therefore, say that all in
nocent railiery and good.naturcJ repre-
hension is to bo disalowed. On tho con-
trary, it may be allowed. 1t must be gen
une, however producing good and not pain.
But no that makes the mistakes, the foiblcs,
tho faults, the misconceptions of men-the
ten thousand infelcties of human life-the
subject matter of comment of jest and
social enjoyment, ana of personal amuso-
ment, is simply barbarian. He is not a
Christian he does not belong to that cat
egorv. 1t is ono of those things that are
| monstrous in the sight of God. Could you
do it to your cEild : mother may tan
talizc her child. She may frolic with it
Sho may do u thousand things with it,
causing it to hover vibrating between tear
and smile, sometimes on one side and
| sometimes on the other, just Tor moment
but she instantly presses it to her bosom
and covers its face With kisses, so that there
are no shades left upon its spirits. And
there is such a thing as innocent railery-
But to watch to see what is awkward in
others; to search out the infrmties of mon
TO 20 out like II street-swceper, or universal
scaVenger, to collect the faults and fniling'
of people to carry thrsn things about as Il
they were cherries or flowers; to throw
them out of your bag or pouch, and make
them an evening repast, or MONDAY meal
or the amusement of a social hour, ,enlivened
by untoeIing criticisms, heartless josts and
cutting sarcasms; to taEo man up as you
would chicken, and gnaw his flesh from
his very bones, and then lay him down,
saying with fendsh exultation-"There is
his skeleton'-this is dovilsh You may
call it by as many pretty names as you
please, but it is devilish and you will dc
nothing worse than this when you GO to hel
for you may expect to go there if yor
have such disposition and do rot change
it. Talk about cannibalism Cannibal'
nevcr eat a man until he is dead. They are
nearer Christ than you are n great deal.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
The Theory a Central Fire.

Numerous experiments on various
spots Of the globe. and extending to more
than 10000 feet downwards from the
level of the sea, have demonstrat ted that
pressure and the density Of substances
are Increasing downwards. Experiments
made on the land appear to have demon
strated that in some shafts in certain To-
calilies the temperature rises in proper
ton as we descend deeper. Now it must
be confessed that it requires an effort to
imagine point-the centre of the earth
where we are TO suppose as existing
the maximum Of density at the same lime
with the maximum Of heat. Various
springs OF the greatest variety OF tenn
perature have been met with, and mines
in Europe, Africa and America have
been visited. OF the former, the water
of the warm springs has always been
found strongly mineralized, carrying
mostly sulpher, iron, &c. IE mines the
highest temperature invariably has been
in those that were situated in pyritous
ground; for example, at the mine o
Tharsis, in Spain, (in deposit of pyr
ties, the entry is made horizontally
through an adit, and traversing sever
al galleries, soon arrives at spot where
the heat is as intense as it is in an oven
and that spot is very few metres below
the surface; q similar phenomenon is OBJ
served in many other mines.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

A CURIOUS LITERARY DIsCovERY-A Gu
rious literary discovary was lately made in
an old house, formerly a religious edifce. in
WilIscott, in OxforGshre. While pulling
it down, the worEmen came upon secret
closet or orators hidden in the thickness of
the walls, and covered by the panelings of
the adjacent room. 1t proved to bo place
of deposit for a sma! library OF the earliest
Protestant Theology, of the time of tho
Reformation, concealed, no doubt, when the
possession Of such works was almost suf-
licient to doom the owner to fire and faggot.
Some of John Knox's writings are especially
mentioned, and Complete copy of the
First English or Coverdale's Translation of
tho Bible" If the latter work answers the
description the "fnd" will be more valuable
than was at first sight apparent, as no
perfect copy of this Bible has yet been
found to exist, and one, with the title and
first loaf wanting, but supplied in fac simle,
sold for E965, or 81, 500, in 1854.
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WHOLE NO., 524.
FUN ITEMS.

A WAC, on hearing that man had given
up chimney.sweoping, expressed surprise as
he thought the business sooted him.
do you think that raw clans arc
healthy ?" "Ycs mover knew one COM
plain of boing out of health in my life."
PATRICK OFLAHERTY said that his wifo
was very urgratefu for, "whin married
her she hadn't rag to her back, and now
she's covered with en-"
81 AN not afraid of barrel of,cidor," said
a topper to temperance man. 81 presume
/ GOT" was tho reply ;"irom your appearance
| guess Il barrel of cider would run at your
! Hpproach.'
"YoU are dear little rose" said lover
to his hearts dear, trying to kiss her rosy
lips. Every rose has its thorn" replied
the artlcss maid, giving him thrust in tho
face with a needle.
r A FARMER told barber that ho ought to
reduce his prices now corn was cheap. mo,
sir" replied tho shaver, "for when corn is
+ low. farmers make such long faces that
have twice the ground to go over"
THE man who thought he could learn to
make boots by swallowing sherry cobbers,"
has just Issued a work in which no attempts
to prove that by eating chops you will ac-
quirc knowledge of waltzng. Queer Old
customer.
WHY do you drive such pitiful looking
carcass as that? Why don't you put a
heavier coat of flesh on him :" said
traveller to an Irish cart driver "A heavier
coat of flesh Be jabers, tho poor crathure
can hardly carry what little there is on him
now y
JONI, while recently engaged in splitting
wood struck false blow, causing tho stick
to fly up. 1t struck hun on the jaw and
knocked out a front tooth. "Ah," said Bill,
meeting him soon after. "you've had n
dental operation performed SEQ" "Yes"
replied the sufferer. "axe idental."
WHAT do you think of that !" said an
enthusiastic tourist to pumpkin who was
looking at Niagara for the first time in his
life. well, there's a good deal o'water,
but know man in our neighbOrhood
that's got a calf with five legs" Evidently.
he thought Niagara no great shakes.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

THE ROMAN SENTINEL.-WheE Pompeii
was destroyed, there were some found who
were in the streets ms if they had been at
tempting to make their escape. There
were some found in deep vaults, as if ;hey
had gone thither for security. There
were some found in lofty chambers. But
where did they find the Roman sentinel?
They found him standing at the city gate,
with his hand still grasping the war
weapon, where he been placed by bis cap
tain, and there, while the heavens threat.
eRed him, there, while the earth shook
beneath him, there, while the lava stream
rolled, he had.stood at his post, and there
after thousand years had passed away,
was he found. So let reformers stand to
their duty.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
CHOICE VARIETY.

A GOOD WORD for bad one is worth much
and costs little
EACH Gay is a new lifo; regard it, there.
fore, as all opiome of tho whole.
IF thou wouldst bear thy neighbor's faults
cast thine cyos upon thine own.-.NOiRos
The gifts that circumstances mako in our
character we are apt to regard it as native
fruit.
THE highest panegyric that private virtue
can recoiyo,is tho praise Of servanls.--Dr.
| johnson.
| The apostles Of orror arc nevor so
dangerous as whom they appear 10 thu guiso
of gray headed old men.
OUR sorrows nro like thunder clouds
which seem black in the distance but grow
brighter as they approach.
TnE parent who would train up child i,
tho way he should 90, must 90 the way ht
would train up lis child in.
SEIZE the moment of excited curiosity OF
any subject to solve your doubts for if got
let it pass, tho desire may nevor return. anl
you may remain in ignorance. II Dr.. TCGd
In this world there is one podlike thing
the essence OF all that was or ever will be
godlike in this world; the veneration done
to human worth by the hearts of men.-
Carlyle.
Has it never occurred TO us, when sur
rounded by sorrows. that thNy may be sent
to US only tor our instruction, as we darker
tho cages Of birds when We wish to teach
them to sing Jean Paul
You have in yourself the thing most like
happiness in this world. and, thank heaven
see you will always have it; peaceful
conscience, and tho strong serenity of a soul
wholly devoted to duty The Romance Of
a Poor Young Man.
He that has no resource Of mind is more
to be pitiod than he who is in want Of neces
beg our daily happiness from Others, ,bospcakt
n moro lamentablo poverty than that OF hin
who bcgs his daily broad-CoIton.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
For the Jeiiersoninn Democrat.
is THIS THE TIME TO DIE?


/ asked loved and joyous child,
With ringlots fair and cyos SO mild,
And do,ing friends who ever smiled.
She answered, mo, not now"
Ambitious youth was hurrying by,
CHANGED to meet his glistcning eye,
And asked, as Ibis tho time to die :''
He, Smiling, answered, Nay"
Again, asked a man of care,
His brow revealed that it was thcrc,
But worldly things to him looked fair
AS he answered mo, 20 no !"
Tho man Of many years asked,
To whom tho world might seem unmaskot
AS with sorrow ho had long beon tasked
But, looking, muttorod, "No I!
asked bcggar for this worlds good,
Who scarce could get sufficient food,
Yet over seemed in cheerful mood;
She looked at mo with longing eye,
Which might attract passer by,
"The time" she said, for no to die"
Is when God opo's his Gate on high,
And bids my captive spirit hie,
This, o This is the time to die!
MINNIE MERTON.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
TOMORROW.

Whater the gric! that dims tho oyc,
What'or tho cause of sorrow,
We turn us to the weeping sky,
And say, well smile tomorrow"
And when from those VIC loyo wo part,
From hope we comfort borrow,
And whisper to our aching heart,
Wen meet ngain tomorrow.
But when tomorrow comes, tbs still
An image Of TO day,
Still tears our heavy cyclids fll,
StilI mourn wo those away.
Aud when that sorrow too is past
Ga yesterday Of sorrow)--
Hope, smiling, cheats us to the last,
With visions of to morrow
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

A COLLEEN THoUGHr.-Nature will be
reported. All things are engaged in
writing their own history. The plant and
pebble go attended by their own shadows.
The rock leaves its scratches on the
mountain side, the river its channel in
the soil, and the animal leaves its
bones in the stratum, and the fern
and the leaf their modest epiIaph in
the coal. The falling drop makes
its sepuchre in the sand or stones; not a
footstep in the snow or along the ground.
but print in characters more or less LAST
ing, map of its march; every act OF man
inscribes itself on the memories OF his
fellows, and in his own face. The air is
full of sound; the sky Of tokens the ground
is all memoranda and signatures, and
every object is covered over with hints
which speak to the intelligent
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
From the Homo Journal.
UNDER THE SNOW.

The sky looks pale, through misty veil;
The winter wind walls loud;
And cloud.shopes grievc, as they rapidly weave
Tho cold, still earth shroud.
Now, spirits in white, with footsteps light,
Come trooping down the sky
Like the shapes of dream, or like angels they
seem,
As they float so nirily 10y.
o, the winter snow the winter snow
We loved it onco full well
And with childish shout, ringing mcrrily out,
Hailed the Geecy shower as it fell
But now since we know that under the snow,
Hid from the light Of day,
There are treasures iair--treasures most rare,
In darkness hidden away;
Our glndness is 'er, and we love no moro
10 see the snowfall come;
For a heavy chill, and sense OF III,
II brings TO our heart and home.
o, the treasures fair the treasures 50 rare
Hidden under the snow.
Are not the sweet njwers that in summer hour
Set mount and meadow u.glow
Something more bright to our yearning sight,
Something far dcarer than they
Is lying low, under the snow,
On this bleak, sad winter day.
five think with dread Of the blossomo dead,
Under this covering chill,
What deeper woe must our sad hearts know
For that something dearer still
o, snow.h flakes fair! fall light as ar-
Fall light and soft pray,
On the treasures we yet so wildly regret,
Buried, anb hidden away.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
"Thiriy days hath September,
April. June and Noyember.n ~
"Low I lay me down to sleep,
was the next essay, when some erudite
gentleman remarked

was the next essay, when ..some erudite
gentleman remarked
He is not dead but sleepeth."
'Oh yes! oh yesr continued tho Squire.
A voice replied oh no! oh no! don't
let's
Some person out of doors sung out,
Come into tho Court!' and the laughter
was general.
The bride was near fainting-the Squire
was not far from it; but being an indefati-
gable man, he began again
To all and singular, the sher-'
Let's run, he's going to levy on US,
said two or three at once.
Here CLEAN of light flashed across the
Squires face; he ordered the bride and
groom to hold up their bands, and in SOL
emn voice said
"YOu. and each of you do solemnly swear.
in the presence of the present company
that you will perform towards each other.
all and singular, the functions of man and
wife. as the case may be, to the best of your
knowledge and ability. so help you God
Good as wheat! exclaimed the father of
the bride.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

with WHICH their Benchccnt Father had on
dowed them.


dowed them.
JOHN BROWN.
However varying the opinions Of tho
frionds of freedom and humanity may be,
with regard to tho act which brought this
hero to his tragical closing sconc, they must
all agree that no acted we'll his part. We
read with profound sensation the sayings
of the martyrs of other days, but how soul
absorbing has been this strange drama.
Having disavowed any rcvengoful motives,
nothing has marrcd tho unity of character
Of the principal actor, from his entrance to
his exit. No delays interrupted tho moving
scene, and no supernumerary actors, in the
shape of governors, judges, jurors, generals,
Sc, could for q moment divert tho attention
of tho audience from the hero. Having
given advice to his family respecting busi-
ness and education, comprising tho best
philosophy of the wiscst men, permcated by
common sense peculiarly his own having
consoled them by tender recommendation
of religion, and by the hopes held out in
tho Gospel, exhibiting faith the mos
simple, yet theology the most profound
he commends himself, and tho cause he
loved, to the caro- of tho Allwise Father and
as if all unconscious that no was observed
by tho ewes of tho whole civilized world
comes forth from his dungeon, with Christ
like simplicity admires this beautiful earth
and without fear or ostentation, takes his
exit. NJ.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

If AND ITS PRoGENY.-If every man was
honest we need not lock our doors.
If everybody would just mind his own
business, there would be much more busi-
ness done.
II we would only talk less of other people,
other people would see iewcr num6-skulls'
If you charge your servants with lying
thoy will soon be liars, if they are not SC
already.
If students would read less and think
more, there would bo larger number oi
great men in every community.
If girls nowadays, did not become
women at thirteen, men would have bot'er
wives.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

BLUNDERs OF VIsIoN.-One individual
in every fifty is decidedly colorblind, and
one in every twenty may be more or less
affected. Some years ago a party of
gentlemen were discussing the question
of blindness over their wine in the man
sion Of an English noble. i. was stated
by one OF the company that persons had
been known to lose the power of vision,
so far as one eye was concerned, long
before they had any consciousness OF the
defect. Polite doubts were expressed on
the point. Every one would admi; tha!
a man might labor under mental or
moral cataract without being particularly
alive to the affinity, but physical opacity
was too conspicuous an evil TO be long
concealed. More in Jest than with any
suspicion Of the result, the loudest of the
skepiics was requested 10 ascertain
whether his own organs were "all right
Closing one eye, lie exclaimed, with I
start OF horror: "Why, bless me, car
scarcely see at ali!' He himself was il
the very predcament lie had refused tt
accredit.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

Books TRUE LEvELERs.-God be thanked
for books. They arc the voices of the
distant and the dead, and make us heirs of
the spiritual lfo of past ages, Books arc
tho truo Jewelers.. They give to all who use
them, tho society, the spiritual presence, OF
the best and greatest of our race. No
matter how poor am. No matter though
tho prosperous of my own time will not
enter my obscure dwelling. If the sacred
writer's will onter and take up their abode
under my roof--if Milton will cross my
threshold to sing to me of Paradise. and
Shakespeare to open to me the words of i'm
agination and tho workings of the human
heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his
practical wisdom-I shall not pine for want
of intellectual companionship, and l may
become cultivated man, though excluded
from what is called the best society in the
place where live.-Dr Claiming.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
es-A witness called to givo testimony

c1-A witness called to give testimony in
a town court about shirt, came to his poinI
very abruptly IN the following manner
"Motber said that Sal said that Polly
said that Bob told her that he seen man
that seen feler that run through the
streets with red striped flannel shirt of 0
whito color, all checkered over in blue
spots-and our gals won't lie for the OLD
woman has licked 'em hundred times fol
lynn"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
A Georgia Wedding.

Tho preacher was prevented from taking
his part in tho ceremony, and a newly crea-
ted justice Of the peace, who chanced to DO
present. was called upon to oflicato in his
place. The good mans knee began to trem-
bic, for no had mover tied tho knot, and did
not know where to begin. He had no 'GeOr-
Cia Justice or any other book from which
to read The marriage service. The compa-
ny were arranged in q semiclrcle each bear
ing talow candle. IIo thought over eve-
ry thing he had over learned, even to-
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November
but al, all in vain; he could rocolIect moth
ing that suited the occasion. A suppressed
litter all over tho room admonishecd him
that he must proceed with something, and
in an agony of desperation he began
Know all men by these presents, that L
here he paused and looked up to the cell
ing, while "a voice in the corner of the room
was heard to say
He is drawing deed for tract of land,
and they all laughed.
In the name of God, amen! he began,
again, only to hear another voice in q loud
whisper say
He is making his will: thought he
couldn live long, he looks so powerfully
bad"
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Pun FOR PRTNTERs.-"F of my existence,
give me an. said young typo to his
sweetheart. She made - at him and
planting her Gi,- between his ii, nearly put
a to his existence. "Suoh an outrage,
vas the of Faust, looking ~ at her, sis
probably without a in this 5 of country,
and will furnish good subject for Il
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
LAW FIR NJ,

LAW FIRM.
A LFRED PHELPS g. Albert G. Riddle, com
n posing the old Law Firm of Phelps & Riddle,
aud Alfred Phelps, Jr ,have formed Copar tnershp
couhectiou for the Practice OF Law, under the
namo OF Phelps, Riddle s. Phelps, Mt the old Office
OF Phelps g. Riddle where they will attend to all
law business which may be entrusted to their
care. ALFRED PHELPS,
ALBERT G RIDDLE,
ALFRE } PHELPS, JR.
Chardou, December 9th, 1859 5l7tf
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

A MAN once asked a company of little
boys what they were good for One little
follow very promptly answered "We are
good to mako men Of"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27

Gs- Twenty-six persons, aged one hun
dred and over, died in the United States in
1859. The oldest was Ceasar, colored
man in Louisiana, aged 1873.
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Chardon, Nov. 25th, 1859. 5l5u
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