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The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-10-26
Japan the Great Britain of the East.

Japan is the Great Britain of the East.
Its three islands-one, the chief. giving
the name to the em2ire-lie off the con :
tinent OF Asia. opposite China. which is
its France, with its Denmark. Sweden and
Russia in the Cores, Mantchooria. the
region Of the Amoor and the south.
seeking Russian. The sea. coast Of China
is mostly fat, though in some parts high,
bare and rugged but as you draw into
the coast oi Southern Japan, scenes are
disclosed like those which meet the eye
on the south shore OF Cape Ann, the Isle
OF Wight, Staten Island, or on the woody
hill-sides OF the coasts of Devonshire.-
The shore is bold, and the waters deep,
and there is a beautiful diversity of hill
and vale /; and, taking your double-g glass.
you see groves of evergreens, hills cult
vated TO their tops, deep, rich dales.
rounded billocks, fields deep green with
blades OF wheat, and brilliant with the
yellow Of the rape seed. On closer in.
specIion, you see the fields divided, and
the lanes and roads lined with aedge,rows,
straight. close clipped and towering as in
Warwickshire, while the Euglish ivy aud
:he creeping box, and the creeping pine,
enshroud The trunks Of the trees, garnish
the branches. cover the stone walls, creep
up the sides, and over the roofs OF houses.
and peer forth through crevices in rocks,
between tiles on house-tops. and through
the joints OF solid masonry-all indicating
a climate humid, temperate and equable.
-R. II: Dana, Jr.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-10-26
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

LAW FIRM.
A LFRED PHELPS & Albert G. Riddle, com e.
"a posing the old Law Firm OF Phelps & Riddle
connection for the Practice OF Law, under the
name OF Phelps. Riddle &, Phelps, at the old Office
Of Phelps e. Riddle, where they viii attend to all
law business which may be entrusted to their
caro-. ALFRED PHELPS,
ALBERT G RIDDLE,
ALFREO PHELPS, in.
Churdou, December 9th, 1859. 5l7H
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-10-26
Phenomenon OF Rain;

Not less than two pounds of moisture are
daily expelled from tho skin and lungs OF
most individuals; and II q porson happens
TO be flung into a particularly delinquent
stress of heat and exercise, he may coz.
tribute Ave pounds to the atmosphere within
twenty -four hours. Were this rendered
visible every one would appear to be en-
Veloped in little cloud. l remember, says
Watson. having been greatly heated in
ascending the ladders from the bottom of
copper mine OF Ecton. When got to tho
top. l observed by the light Of candle.
thick vapor reek ng from tho body, and yis-
able around it to the distance of foot or
more. Yet such ia natures wonderful al
chemy, that the same effusions-the sweat
Of sea and land, of herb and beast and man
NAV shortly reappear as the tender dew.
tho fatteninP shower, or the limpid gush Of
the mossy fountain. Reckoning the moan
annual evaporation ell over the globe 1t
thirty Ave inches, II has been computed that
tho total quantity of water poured into the
air would hli cistern ninety-four thou sand
four hundred cubic miles in capacity. This
estimate, however, founded upon Da!tons
data, 10 assuredly for the mean animal Issue
of rain from the clouds all ovpr the earth.
and is now cslcul at five feet
TIE chief secret Of comfort lies In not
suffering trifies to vex one. and 10 prudently
cuItiyatInR an undergrowth of small pleas
ures, since very few great ones are let on
long leases.
WHEN Jemima went to school. she vas
asked why the noun Bachelor was singular.
Because" she replied, ait is so very sfHgu-
Tar they don't get married"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-10-26
THRASHER, DURFEE & HATHAWAY,
Attorneys & Councillors at Law,

CHARpoy, GEAUGA COUNTY, o.,
viii give prompt attention to business entrusted
70 them, In Geuuga aud adjoining Counties.
9rOfics over DR.. J. Nichols Drug Store.
A. H. rHRAsuER, L. Z. DURFEE, I. ". HATHAWAY.
Chardop, Nov. 25th, 1859. 5l5u
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1t Is curious how little We feel the bur-
dene we put on the shoulders Of others.
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Best maple molasses. @ p Haskins Balm
bridge; swarm of bees. d Merriman Bur
ton; show dried fruit. Mrs John Brown
Burton; pies. Mrs ! W Pope, Troy
preserves and sauces, Mrs c Luther, New
bury; 8 lbs maple sugar. 2 K Eggieston
Auburn; show of pickles, Mrs 8 Pitkip
.Munson.
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Best single varie,y.J s stockwell. Bur-
ton 30
Best 10 varieties winter DOC Dean, I
Troy i so
Best single variety do. S Boduap,
Huntsburg 90
Best fall pears. 6 varieties. s. E Bodman l 90
Best single variety do, G w Dean, so
Best variety winter pears, Russell.
Burton 90
Best exhibition OF peaches, A Spencer,
Claridon 90
2d, N Fish. Auburn so
Best ounces. Stephen Ford l 90
I'd, VIM Jonss. Newbury so
Bost grapes. Sheldon Allen. Wiloughby 90
I'd, Geo Sheffielton, Newbury so
Best exhibition of fruit by ono exhibi-
tor, Ashbel Spencer, Claridon co
Best show Of cranberries, n Truman,
Burton 80
Best grunge. Miss Mum. Newbury so
CLASS XII.
Best rose, Mrs z Mouithrop. Burton, 30
Best fuchia. Mrs A s Stickney. Burton, so
Two best house plants, Rev ID Witter,
Burton, 90
Basket and wax fruit. Mrs S R Peck.
ham. Burton, 80
Mrs G W Jaques and Mn B S Stick
ney. design cottage, so
Miss s Pitkin. Caridon, century plant, l 90
Same exhibitor, cactus, so
Mrs Willis Cay, Burton, best geranium, 90
Mrs Harrio; Hale. Burton, best bydraa.
gia, 90
Best show Of living flowers, Rev D
Witter 30
I'd, Mrs E A Hitchcock, Burton 90
Best and largest collection by one ex-
hibitor, j WeltoD, Burton 90
Discretionary premiums were awarded by
the committee as follows;
Floral design, Miss Nsttie Ford. Burton so
Ornamental basket, Miss z Allshouse,
Newbury 90
Ornamental dosign, Miss II Maria En-.
sign, Auburn 30
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-10-26

Fastest pacing Mare or gelding. Henry B
Hickoxi ID, Black Dave, 8 A Brady.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
REPUBLICAN MASS CONVENTION.

A Mass Convention of the Republican
party of Meigs County, Ohio, will assem-
BILE at the Court House in Pomeroy, on
Saturday, the 9th day of June 1860, at
eleven o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose OF
electing delegates to attend the State
Convention, which commences it's session
on the 18th of the same month, at Col
umbus, Ohio, whose duty it will be tc
nominate the following officers:
Attorney General of the State, Mem
Der of the Board of Public Works, q
Judge of the Supreme Court, and also a
ticket Of Electors for President and Vice
President of the United States. Meigs
County is entitled to FIVE delegates in
the State Convention. Cali who are at
tached to the principles of the Republi,
can party, as heretofore announced or
many occasions, and all who desire the
election Of an Independent and honest
Judiciary, and a faithful and efficient ad
ministration of our affairs, both State and
National, are cordially invited to attend
and endeavor by good counsel, and ex,
ample to secure the triumph of theil
principles, and through them to preserve
and perpetuate our free institutions
ARTHUR MERRILL,
Chairman of NJ G. Central Committee
W. H. LAsLEY, Sec'y,
PoMERoY, May 26th, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
Washington and Democracy.

There is nothing which so much dis
turbs the Democratic leaders, as the ex-
pressed opinions Of Washington and his
contemporaries of the Revolutionary era,
on the subject of slavery. Knowing that
the popular mind still .cherishes a pro-
found respect for the opinions of these
founders of our Government, and knowing
that modern Democracy has placed itself
in direct opposition to these sentiments, it
causes gnashing Of teeth to have these
sentiments reproduced. In letter to
Gen. Lafayette, Washington uses this
language, which is now held to be trea-
sonable by the Democratic party. He
says:
II agree with you cordially in your
views in regard to negro slavery. have
long considered it most serious evil,
both socially and politically, and Ishould
rejoice in any feasible scheme to rid our
States Of such burden. The Congress
of 1887 adopted an ordinance which pro-
hibits the existence of involuntary serv-
itude in our North western territory
forever. [ consider it wise measure.
1t met with the approval and assent of
nearly every member from the States
more Immediately interested in slave Ia
Dor. The prevailing opinion in Vir-
ginia is against the spread of slavery in
our new Territories, and [ trust we shall
have confederation of free States"
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
They Ought to b. Seen to.

These are certainly trying times to
the Democracy. An Ananti-disunion meet
ing was actually held in Parkersburg
not long ago, at which the following;
among other resolutions, was passed:
"Resozued, That the freedom ofspeech
and free exercise of opinion are guar
anteed to US by the Constitution of our
country and the Constitution Of our
State, and we will regard any legislation
seeking to deprive our citizens of the
legitimate exercise of these, as an un-
wise and unauthorized invasion of their
constitutional rights-'rights inestima-
BILE to them and formidable to tyrants
only and we pledge ourselves to use
all lawful and honorable means to arrest
and defeat such legislation
Just read that resolution again, and
see the treason" which breathes in ev-
cry line! treason, we mean, to the Dem
ocratic party. How can that party be
maintained if the wild heresy of the
freedom of opinion and speech is held
and exercised by any of the citizens of
the great Democratic State Of Virginia?
And then, only to think of the utter fa-
naticism of these men when they say
farther, that they twill regard any leg
islation seeking to deprive them of the
legitimate right to think and speak" as
an invasion of constitutional rights!
If that kind of talk is permitted in
Virginia, then indeed is the Democratic
party at an end. Where Is Governor
Wise?
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
Ratification

Ratification.
On Friday night, large audience of
Republicans and others, including fair
proportion Of ladies, met at the Court
House to ratify the proceedings of the
Chicago Convention. Hon. V. B. Hor-
ton, who was one of the Senatorial dele
gates, gave full history of the Convention
and the influences which resulted in the
nomination of Lincoln and Hamlin.-
He was listened to with profound atten-
ton, and the universal sentiment seemed
to be that the right men were put into
the right places. That the ticket will
be elected is one of the fixed facts. All
that is wanted is, that the Republicans
do their duty, that the majority may be
so large as to put down, by the unmis-
taxable exhibition of popular sentiment,
the plotters of treason, who threaten to
overthrow the Government, if the people
in their sovereign will wrest the Admin
istration out Of their hands. Let every
good citizen see to it that so far as his
influence can aid in the result, the des-
perate men who now revel in corruption,
are ousted from power, and that they
meet their just deserts if they attempt
to put their threats of disunion into
effect. Let the watch word be 'Liberty
and Union-now and forever-one and
inseparable."
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
WILL THEY DO 1T!

The Democratic Legislature of
Louisiana, at the late session thereof,
passed the following resolutions:
"That in the event of the election of a
Black Republican to the Presidency of
the United States, Louisiana will con-
slider it cause for dissolution of the
Union, and will promptly cooperate
with her sister States in calling a gene
raj Southern Convention.
''That should such an event happen,
the Governor of the State be, and he is
hereby, authorized and required to is
sue writs of election for the choice Of
delegates to such convention, one for
each Congressional District, and two for
the State at large"
Look at the insufferable insolence of
these sef-confessed traitors. A grave
Legislature of a sovereign State, belch-
ing out her impotent threats of treason,
in the low-fung slang of the grog shop!
'Ttat IN the event Of the election Of q Black
Republican to the Presidency Of the
United States, louisiana aciW consider
ita cause for dissolution Of the Union, and
eciU promptly cooperate acith her sister
States IN calling a general Southern Con-
uention. +"
Let them try the experiment of dis
solving the Union? A Republican
President will be elected in spite of their
threats. The people are not yet slaves,
although we are ashamed to acknowledge
that we have in Ohio party which still
dances to the music of these desperate men.
How long will honest men, who love
their country, act with, and by their
votes, give strength and power to an oil
garchy which proclaims its purpose
either to rule the country or ruin it.
What are our instit utions worth if the
people can. only vote under the insulting
threat that if they do not permit an
insignificant faction to govern, the Gov
ernment itself shall be disrupted? Will
our Democratic readers ponder this state
of things? Can you longer act with a
party whose controlling leaders avow
such purposes? We know the Democrats
of Meigs county have no sympathy with
these proceedings. But so long as they
act with that party, their influence goes
to sanction them, for tn ese men control
the party.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
THAT ..1RREPREss1BLE CONFLICT,

While there was probability of the
nomination of Mr.. Seward by the Chi
cage Convention, every Democratic pa
per III the Union sshriek ked" out "irre-
pressible conflict" and swore that Sew
ard was the author and originator Of the
idea, and that the safety of the Union
depended upon his defeat. But now,
that Lincoln of Illinois is nominated, the
tune is changed, and with equal una
nimity they are filing the "afidavits'
that Lincoln, and he alone, was the au-
thor and first promulgator of the dread
full heresy. The Cincinnati Enquirer
says:
"He enunciated the ''i,repressiJle con-
fict'' doctrine bet,ceen the North and the
South at the opening Of the campaign IN
Illinois, several months before the same
ground aoas taken by Seaoard, IN his Roch-
ester Speech" so says the Enquirer. And
he would no doubt have said the very
same thing, and repeated it every day,
no matter who the Convention might
have nominated.
But neither Lincoln nor Seward are
justly entitled to the "tntaney," or
the honor, of originating the doc
trine, which is as old as our his
tory. The writings Of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Jay, Nor
ris, Otis, Adams Hancock, and all such
fanatics are full of the doctrine It
was incorporated into the ordinance of
1887, which made Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Michigan, &C., free States, and per-
vaded every department of Government
from the time of its organization, until
the ascendancy of modern Democracy,
under the lead of nullifers and dis
unionists.
It is true, that Lincoln uttered the
sentiment in the Illinois campaign, as
Seward did in his Rochester Speech
But when they said in the same speeches
that "a free Government is better than
Despotism," it would be just as honest
to declare that the idea was original with
them, and that they ought to enjoy the
honor, or endure the disgrace of it's
announcement. We honor them for
their affirmance of the old-time senti-
ment, but cannot accord to them the
praise of it's origination. That is. due to
men who served their country, and whose
sentiments passed into its history and laws
before either Seward -or-Lincoln came
into public life.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

B9If "a thing of beauty, is a joy for,
ever" then will we evermore be joyful
For the bouquet sent to our sanctum by
Mrs. D. is in very truth thing Of
beauty.
By the way, why don't everybody cul,
tivate flowers? They are the alphabet
in which the poetry of Heaven may be
written all over the earth. It wants but
the pure taste and skilful hands Of
Earth's Angels to form them into songs
whose fragrant melody will charm tc
their hearts and homes, though all un,
seen, the Angels of the "Better Land.
The correspondence between the OBJ,
jects of the outer world of matter, and
the States of the inner world of mind is
so perfect that it needs but a slight
knowledge of the science, to enable one
to read these States in the surroundings
of those about us. Low, grovelling, i'm
pure thoughts can scarcely be harbored
in the mind interested in the cultivation
of beautiful flowers. Either all such
thoughts will be banished, or the flow
ers will die from neglect.
Every rose bush, therefore, planted by
the window Of house, however humble,
becomes guardian Angel to the inmates
of that home; and every additional shrub,
and flower, and grass plat which is so
planted and cherished, gives out its
sanctifying influence with an accelerated
power until all come to live in sphere
of mental and moral life corresponding
to the beauty and fragrance of the out
ward surroundings.
Such home can never be forgotten
by one so fortunate as to have lived in
it's influences. And the remembrance
of its pure delights, and the lessons there
learned will SAKE the Wanderer from it in
many an hour Of temptation.
But we did not intend to preach or
moralize, but only thank our friend for
her beautiful present. We would say
to every one, however, who has an inch
of vacant ground, go and plant shrub
or flower. 1t will do you good in all
time to come.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

nearly so safe as he imagined. He, no
doubt, thought that the Northern wing of
theparty was so tt o:oughly subservientto
the will of the leaders, that anything
was safe which could win the smiles Of
the Shareholders His declaration that
"this IS nigger era," he then believed
to be true. But he has since learned to
his modification and chagrin, that thou
sands of Democrats in the free States
could not be transferred, as he supposed.
The Democratic party was triumphant
in nearly every free State, when Douglas
made that declaration six years ago
Now, it is in hopeless minority in
nearly all of them They have taught
him that his 'nigger era" was of short
duration, in the North. And to add to
the bitterness of his self-reproaches, he
now has the not very pleasant reflection,
that after sacrificing the party in the
North, to the supposed exigencies Of the
''nigger era, he is repudiated, contemned
and spurned by the very men who then
played upon his insane ambition, to use
him as a tool for the accomplishment of
their purposes. The retribution is
righteous one. The 'nigger era" has
about expired, and Douglas is subsiding
with it. Some attention will be be-
slowed upon the interests of the country
at large, by the incoming Republican
Administration. The lesson taught by
the changes which have occurred, ought
to be a caution to others.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
THE NIGGER ERA.
A correspondent of an Eastern pape

A correspondent Of an Eastern paper
says:
'sI remember very distinctly to have
heard that little gentleman, of whom
Mr.. Benton used to say he wore his
coat tail too near the ground ever to be
President, make the observation, in 1854
in reply to remark that the projected
repeal was bold experiment upon pop
ular forbearance: Not at all, said
Mr.. Douglas, mot at all, it is perfectly
safe; this is q niger era
We rather think Mr.. Douglas, the
man who "wears his coat tail too near
the ground ever to be President, is be-
ginning to realize the fact that his ex-
pertinent was indeed a bold one, and not
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
Sherif's Sale.

slothower, Mathews & Co. vs.. George Downing and
Peter Alkire.
Dy virtue of an execution to me directed from
ID the Court of Common Pleas of Meigs
county, 1 will offer for sale, at the door Of the
Court House in Pomeroy, at O clock P. M,
On the 23d day of June, 1860,
the following described lands and tenements,
to wit: beginning II rods east from the north
west corner of section No. seventeen; thence
south about eighty-fve rods; thence east one
half rod; thence south thirteen rods to John
Pages line; thence east seventeen degrees north
to a certain Beech tree about seventy-nine and
one-half rods; thence east about sixty-seven
rods to the center line running north and south
through said section seventeen; thence north
seventy-three rods to the north line of said
section seventeen; thence west along said line
to the place of beginning, containing 769 acres,
in town No. seven, range fourteen of the Ohio
Company's Purchase. Sold as the property Of
George Downing, at the suit of Slothower, Mar
tin & Co. Appraised at 81, ,453.OO Terms of
sale cash. ]. J. WHITE, S. NJ. c.
May 10, 1860.-20-5t 800
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

1ehFO bLACAN STATE CONVENTION.
A Convention of Delegates of the Re-
publican party of Ohio will assemble in
the city Of Columbus on
Wednesday,, the 18Th of June meet,
at 10 o'clock A NJ, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the following
offices:
Attorney General of the State.
Member of the board of Public Works
Judge Of the Supreme Court.
Also ticket of Electors for President
and Vice President of the United States.
The ratio of representation will be as
in the Convention of March last: one
delegate for each 400 votes given for
Governor Dennison in 1859, and one for
each fraction of the ratio larger than one
half
The several County Committees will
make the necessary arrangements for the
holding of the County Conventions for
the election Of delegates, and we suggest
that they be held on the 9th of June, the
Saturday preceding the day Of the State
Convention.
We cordially invite all who are at
tached to the principles of the Republi-
can party, as heretofore announced on
many occasions, and all who desire the
election of an honest and independent
judiciary, and faithful and efficient ad-
ministration of our affairs, State and
National, to attend the primary meetings
for the election of delegates, and en-
deavor, by good counsel and example,
to secure the triumph of their principles,
and through them to preserve and per-
petuate our free Institutions
GEO. M. PARSONS,
Chairman State Central Committee.
w. T. BAsCoM, Sec'y.
COLUMBUS, Nav 2, 1860.