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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
Old Abe on the Battle Field.

The following story of the first and
las military exploit of Abe Lincoln is
told by the Toledo Times:
At the time of the Black Hawk war
"Abe" enlisted. The company number
ed eighty mounted men. They started
off in fine spirits to engage in the deadly
fray. Arriving at point on the prairies
about two hundred miles from the Indian
lines, the party bivouacked for the night,
picketed their horses, aud slept on their
arms. The method Of picketing the
horses was that in common use-fasten-
ing huge rope, some eighty feet in
length, to stake firmly planted, and
then using smaller lines of considerable
length, one end attached to the animal s
During the night the sentinel imagined he
saw the Indians, and Immediately dis
charged his old fusee The camp was
aroused in an instant, and each sprang to
his saddle. cold Abe" shot ont in the
darkness on his charger like lightning,
until the ropes shove taut," when over
he went, horse and himself headlong.-
Thinking himself caught in an Indian
ambush, he gathered up, mounted, and
putting spurs to his horse, took the oppo-
site shute, but soon brought up as before,
horse and rider tumbling headlong. "Old
Abe" got up, thinking he was surrounded
and shouted, "Gentlemen Indians, / sur
render without word. / have not 9
word to offer. All want is quarter.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
ESTABLISHED A. ID. 1861
Dottrp.
THE OLD CANOE.
BY MISS r.. R.PAGE.


Where the rocks are gray and the shore is steep,
And the waters below look dark and deep;
Whore the rugged pine, in its lonely pride,
Leans goomingly over the murky tide;
Where the reeds and the rushes are tall and rank
And the weeds grow thick on the winding bank;
Where the shadow is heavy the whole day through
Lies at its moorings the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like sea-birds wing that the wind hath lnp'd
And crossed on the railing one oer one,
Like folded hands when the work is done
While busily back and forth between,
The spider stretches his slvery screen,
And the solemn owl. with his dull too hoo"
Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
The stern, half sunk in the Shiny wave,
Rots slowly away in its living grave.
And the green moss creeps DER its full decay
Hiding its smouldering dust away,
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb flower,
Or the ivy that mantles the fallen tower
While many blossom ofliveliest hue.
Springs up DER the stern of the old canoe,
o, many time with a careless hand
have pulled it away from the pebbly strand,
And padded it down where the stream runs quick
Where the whirls are wild and the eddes are thick
And laughed as LEANED DER the rocking side.
And looked below in the broken tide.
To see that the faces and forms were two
That were mirrored back from the old canoe.
But now, rs lean DER the crumblng sidc
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there is graver grown,
And tho laugh that hear has sober tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skiff wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things,
But love to think of the hours that few, threw,
AS l rock'd where the whirls their white spray
Ere the blossoms waved. or the grass grew
Der the moulderng stern of the old canoe.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
Tile First Vote.

1t is great thing to start right in vo-
ting as in everything else. The young
man who gives the first vote right, has
the qualification to refer to it in after years
with pride and pleasure. The present is
an era in our political history much like
those of 1900 and 1928. The venerable
men of this day, few though they be, who
voted for Jefferson in 1900, and the nu-
merous body of men who 1923 cast their
first vote for Andrew jackson look upon
the event as the proudest of their lives
So it will be in after years with the young
men who in 1860 cast their first vote for
the man of the people, Stephen A. Doug
las. Hence all young men who will for
the first time vote for President in the
year 1860, should be careful to start right
and vote right. In after years to them
it will be an incident of which they can
speak with pride. Twenty years hence
the young men of this Gay who thus vote,
will be enabled to say, 81 cast my first
vote in 1860, for Stephen A Douglas,
the great Champion of Popular Sover-
eighty" Then young men start right,
and work heartily for the election ofthose
champions of the people, Stephen A.
Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
"I wish ! had Capital"

This was the exclamation of a stout,
hearty but lazy young man the other day.
Now, suppose you had capital--whst
would you do with it? Let me tell you,
you have a capital. Haven't you got
hands and feet, and body and muscle, and
bone and brains, and don't you call them
capital! Oh! but they are not money say
you. But they are more than money
1fyou will use them they will make money
and nobody can take them from you
Don't you know how to use them ? If
you don't it is time you were learning
Take hold of the first plow, or hoe, or
jackplane, or broadax that you can find,
and go to work. Your capital will soon
yield you large interest. Aye, but
there's the rub, you don't want to work,
you want money or credit that you may
play the gentleman and speculate, and
end by playing the vagabond, or you
want plantation and negroes-that you
may hire an overseer to attend to them
" vhile you run about the country and dis
sipate and get in debt; or you want to
marry some very rich girl who may be
foolish enough to take you for your fine
clothes and good looks, that she may sup
port you.
Shame upon you, young man! Go to
work with the capital you have, you'll
soon make interest upon it. and with it
to give you as much money as you want,
and make you feel like a man. If you
can't make money upon what capital you
have, you can't make it if you had a mil
lion of dollars in money. If you don't
know how to use bone and muscle and
muscle and brains, you would not know
how to nse gold. If you let the capital
you have lie idle and waste, and rust Outfit
would be the very same thing with you if
you had gold, you would only know how
to waste.
Then don't stand about like a great
helpless child waiting for somebody to
come and feed You, but go to work.
Take the first work You can find, no mat
ter what it is, so that you be sure to do it
like Billy Gray did his drumming-well.
Yes, manage the capital you already
have, you will soon have plen;y more to
manage; if you can't or won't manage
the capital God has given you, you will
never have any more to manage. Do
you hear.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
Return OF the lews to Palestine.

To the student Of the Bible and the
church history there are few current sub.
jects OF more absorbing interest or oil
deeper Significance than the events al
most daily transpiring, which point tc
the re-possession by the Jews Of their own
land. The tide Of progress after lapse
Of centuries, may be said to have fairly
turned in that direction, and the prayer
long offered by that chosen but now
scattered people. Judah may be saved
and Israel dwell securely, and that the
Redeemer may come to Zion" The
Philadelphia Press thinks is undoubtedly =
Fastening to fulfilment.
The Sultan os Turkey is encouraging
Jewish emigration to Palestine, and is
offering to sell them as much land as
they choose to buy and it is said, has even
expressed his willingness to dispose OF the
Mosque Of Omar to them, which, it will
be recollected, stands upon the very site
Of the Jewish temple of Mount Moriah.
This mosque is one Of the Mohommedans'
most celebrated shrines, being scarcely
inferior in national importace to those OF
Mecca and Medina.
Politicians and statesman look upon
these indications as a legitimate conse-
quence of the liberalizing influence ot
Mohammedan intercourse with Christians
and SO they may be; but, to the reader oI
the yet unfulflled pages Of Revelation,
they also point to what, as it respects
the Jewish nation, prophets and kings"
have long waited for, "but died without
the sight" That the Mosque of Omar
should be in fair way of passing into
the hands Of the people to whose fathers
the site on which it stands was once Civ
en- in an everlasting covenant, is what no
reader of secular history fifty years ago
could even have dreamed would ever
come to pass. Some Of the hills around
Jerusalem have already become Jewish
property, and it is by no means improba'
BILE that some of the present generation
will see the entire city of Jerusalem again
in the hands of its ancient owners
That mighty revolutions will follow in
wake of such an event is probably as
certain as that the Jews will return at all
at all events, affairs in that immediate re
gion of the East must ere long becom'
an engrossing theme among the nations
Of the earth.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

The CHRISTIAN WARFARE.-Among
the prisoners taken captive at the battle
of Waterloo, there was Highland piper.
Napoleon, struck by his mountain dress
and sinewy limbs, asked him to play on
his instrument, which is said to sound
delightfully."- in the glens and mountains
of Scotland. "Play apibroch," said Ma
poleon. and the Highlander played it.
"Play march," 1t was done. "Play a
retreat" "Na, nal" said the Highlander,
81 never learned to play retreat"
mo retreat" should be the motto en-
blazoned on the standard of every Christ
ian warrior as he goes forth to battle,
mot against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of spiritual wicked
ness in high place."
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

The SABBATH SoHcoL.--President Har-
rison taught for several years in humble
Sabbath school on the banks of the Ohio.
The Sabbath before he left home for
Washington to assume the duties of Chief
Magistrate Of the nation, he met the BIZ
BILE class as usual. And the last counsel
on the subject to his gardener at Wash
ington. it may be hoped, will never be
forgotten by the nation. When advised
to keep dog to protect the fruit he re-
piled: "Rather set Sunday school
teacher to watch the boys"
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
The Amazon.

The Amazon, the largest river in the
world, has an area Of drainage nearly
three times as large as that of all the riv-
ers of Europe that empty themselves in
to the Atlantic. This plain is entirely
covered with dense primeval forest,
through which the only paths are those
made by the river and its innumerable
tributaries. This forest is literally i'm
penetrabe. Humbolt remarks that two
mission stations might be only few
miles apart, and yet the residents would
require day and half to visit each 9TH
er, along the windings of small streams.
Even the wild animals get involved in
such masses of wood, that they (even the
aguar) live for long time in the trees,
terror to the monkeys whose domain they
have invaded. The trees often measure
from eight to twelve feet in diameter; and
the intervals are occupied by shrub-like
plants, which here, in these tropical re-
gions, become arborescent. The origin
of the Amazon is unknown; it is naviga-
Bile for two thousand miles from the ocean,
it is nearly one hundred miles wide at its
mouth, and in some places six hundred
feet deep; and its torrent projects, as it
were, into the ocean, more than three hun
dred miles, perceptibly altering its waters
at this distance from the American shores
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

Those are only some of the many
changes that have taken place in the op-
position to the Democratic party. T .e
Democracy have added all the new terri
tory TO this Union, They have fought
the battles of the country. They have
admitted nearly all the new states. Dur
ing the Mexican War Lincoln opposed
the American army, and for this and be-
cause he split few rails. when he was
young, his sectional followers ask the peo-
pie to elect him President of the United
States.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

Always speak with politeness and def
erence to your parents and friends
Some children are polite and civil every
where except at home; but they are coarse
and rude. Shameful. -. ..
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
The Changes.

We will present the various names and
chsnges that have taken place in the ranks
opposed to the Democracy since the or
ganization of parties in the United States.
We will classify the parties under their
appropriate heads, as follows:
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
REMEMBER!

The cheapest Watches, Jewelry, Silver and
Plated Ware, will be found at Cooks, in the room
ormerly occupied by the Post Office, where all
goods are warranted to be as represented, and en-
tire satisfaction guaranteed to purchasers.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired to order.
April 2lst, 1882 Il. COOK.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

THE Philadelphia Journal says Lincoln
is Seward without Stewards brains.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

DIR. A. A. CRUMP,
X ERMAN & ENGLISH Botanic Physician,
VI Millersburg, o. Oilice-on the East end of
Main street, four doors above the Public square.
n20tf
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

Too TuRE TO BE FUNNY-Tbe ties OF un-
happy marriages are cruel ties.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
DIR. EBRIGUT.

DIR, EBKIGHT,
M MILLERSBURG, o. Oflice-on Jackson st.
wi nearly opposite the Empire House. Resi-
dence-on Clay sheet, opposite the Presbyterian
Church. n20tf
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12

DIR. r. G. v. BOILING.
DHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Millersburg, O.
Il Office on Main street,-formerly occupied by
DR.. Irvine. n20tf
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
@nsineas @irettorg.

.. ID. y. UHL,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Milersburg, Ohio.
N Onice-In Mayors building, over the Book
Store. n20tf.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
Later from California.

ST. JosEPHs, Mo-, Sept. 13.-The pony ex-
press, from San Francisco the lst has arrived
The Golden Age sailed the lst with 222 pas
sengers and ST, ,280 757 in specie, including
$l,l9 1867 for w, Y.
The pony express and overland mail are
now arriving regularly.
The oppositiol to Senator Gwin's re-elec-
ton is vigorous. There are many democratic
conventions, who exact pledges from legisla.
tive Candidates to oppose him
Numerous valuable gold veins have been
discovered in Del Norte county.
Oregon dates are to the 28th ult,, and state
that the democratic state committee met and
divided nearly equally with the Douglas and
Breckenridge wings the former holding their
state convention on the 18th, and the latter
the 18th.
There is great excitement in consequence of
extraordinary mineral discoveries, in the
neighborhood of Rock Greek and Little River
Large numbers are going there. There are
also glowing accounts from Washington Ter
ritory mines.
British Columbia dates are to the 10th.
News is confined to mining matters
The schooner Paraguay, on expedition to
Bhering's Straits, has returned without finding
gold, but the ground was brilliant with mica
Japan dates are to July %. A Portuguese
ship of war had arrived, with commissioners
to conclude treaty with Japan.
The commander of the Candinmurrah, on
his arrival in Japan, made highly colored
report to the government, of the favorable
manner he and his crew were treated at San
Francisco.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
PAPER HANGlNGS.-

have ON hand a very large stock of French, English
and American Paper Hangings, Decorations, Borders,
Centers, Fire Board Prints, &C, which prepared
to sell at prices low that all will be satisfied.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14

T A L L 7 R A D E
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
LATEST NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY spy
LATER FROM EUROPE.

SANDY Hook, Sept. 13-The Asia. from
Liverpool, has passed this point.
Garbaldi has quilted Caabria His desti.
nation was unknoSn. 1t was reported, how
ever, that he had entered Monteone. Naples
was tranquil. Gariba dis whole army had
reached the main land
Perugia advices state that Lamoriciere d
rected lhs troops to plunder any town showing
symptoms OF lnSurrectOn.
The French ambassador obtained satisfac
tion from Naples.
Queen Victorta's speech relative to Savoy,
mad made an impression at Paris
A permanent French camp is to be estab
hshed close to the Swiss and German frontiers.
1t is reported that there are preparations at
Warsaw for an interview of the emperors of
Austria and Russia, and the prince regent of
Prussia.
Damascus advices of the 25th state that the
city was tranquil. The ex-governor and other
officials were undergoing a trial.
Perfect tranquility prevailed throughout
Syria. Fuad Pacha hung 70 and shot ITO
soldiers. Four thousand five hundred French
soldiers landed at Beyrout. There were threat
enlng manifestations between Christians and
Moslems
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
Wide Awake in New York State.

PLATrsBURG, N. Y, Sept. 13-The repub.
lican meeting held here to-day was great
success. Eloquent speeches were made by
Messrs. Stanton, Townsend, Taylor, and Chit.
tenden, from different stands erected in Cum
berland Park The number of people present
was estimated at $1,000 to $4,000 The ut
most enthusiasm prevailed, and there are
great preparations for grand torchlight process
sion of Wide Awakes tonight of which there
are about 1000 present
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
Progress of the Prince of Wales.

LONDON, c. w, Sept. 13.- The prince
visited Saranac to-day, and held evee here
on his return this afternoon. There is bal
tonight The fremen from all the surround.
ing towns are holding a tournament The
prince leaves for Niagara tomorrow, Uia Brant
ford, Fort Erie and Chippewa.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
New York auarket--sept. Is

COTTON steady and unchanged sales 700 bales at l05e
for midtling upands.
FIOUR-Receipts 20 2O3 bbls sales 10 200 bbls state
and western less active and scarcely firm; superine
state $3.50 q $50; extra state $500 a S60 round hoop
Ohio s6,l5 a 625 superhue western s. 65 a. sos COM
mon to good extra western $500 "a $40; southern
heavy, and in favor OF buyers; sales bbls mixed to
good S65 S6,35; fancy and extra s64O @ 49, Canada
quiet
GRAIN.-Wheat opened steady, and closed heavy q
&c lower; sales 80 600 bushels; Chicago spring $l27
Milwaukee club sl,30 q 1872 winter red western sS5
l,3si Indiana Sl45 Las Corn heavy, and lc lower
sales $1,000 bushels; mixed western 613 "a 69c ahoat,
and 50 q zoe in store; yellow western lie.
PR0VISI0NS-Beef quiet and unchanged; sales -
l4OO bbs; Sl937 q 1850 for new, and 1912 for
old; prime sl4l2 a l45O for new, and Sl32J for old
Lard dun and unchanged sales $50 bbls III D l33c
Sugars unchangcd Cuba Muscovado, at 81 7c; Porto
Rice a 7lc Coffee in fair demand Lagaayra 50 bags
ate equest Is hhds Barbados at 35c Cuba Muscovado
al hhdS at 2gc.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
Iterns

New YORK, Sept. 13.-There was a slight
fire at the St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Asylum
last night and during the alarm the children
to the number of hundred, being frightened
rushed to the hall, when one of them fell forty
feet to the lower floor, killing it instantly.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
New Hampshire DemOcratio State Convention

CONCORD, N. H., Sept. 13,-The democrat
ic state convention assembled here to-day, and
adopted strong Douglas resolutions, and nomi-
mated the following ticket for electors Hen
ry ?. Rolte of Concord, Geo. w. Stevens of
Laconia, Thos. w. Gilmore of Newport, John
G. Sinclair of Bethlehem, and VIM. G. Clarke
of the Hillsboro' district.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
Later from Pixies Peak.

Sr. JOSEPH, Sept. 49, The Pixies Peal
express has arrived with nearly $4,000 il
specie. No news.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
HOUSE AND LAND FOR SATE-

IL On THURSDAY, September 90 immedla,eIv .o.,
the sale Of the City Farm, will offer at public auction
upon the premises, my property situated upon NORTH
street, the City Farm, and adjoining that or II
Allen Esq, consisting Of House and Barn and abon,
OF ten years growth ~
The House Is and the Land in good state of eult,
vaon Persons desiring to purchase see the premis
at all hours of the day until the day OF sale II desr
ed, half Of the purchase money remain upon nort
gage shall reserve the right to stop sale ii the mice
be deemed by me inadequate.
SAMUEL OsGOoD
ANY person wishing information can get II OF j. II 0s
GOOD, at the Express ONCE s0 Main street. Worcester
Mass. dlw* si5 y
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
Meeting Of the Pennsylvania Union State Com
Yniffaa

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.--The union state
committee meets at Harrisburg on the 9th,
to complete the electoral ticket and nominate
a governor.
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
NEW GAS FIXTURES.

From the celebrated mandatory of Cornelius Baker
shall continue be in receipt of these Goods the
patterns out, at all times keeping on hand the
best stock to be found in the city and at the lowest
prices
Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-14
for Sale or a. Eet
10 SEE FIRST FACE.
"a COTTAGE HOUSE FOR SALE

N it'd IN MlLLBURY--A very pleasant and convenient
- ottage House situated on Maple street The lot
contains about hall an Ofand on which is choice
variety of Fruit Trees, in bearing condition This pace
VIII oe sofa very low, and favorable terms on apblc
ton to the subscriber, ON the premises
Milbury, Sept g. 1860. sS dam. IST7