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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
Giving sa4isfaetion.

An amusing scene, if anything can be said
to b1 amusing here these times, occurred yes
terdAy, OH the outside of the gallery of the
Senate, during the speech of Senator Iverson,
of Ga, or rather during that portion of it in
which he made relcrence-very distastegnl, if
not insulting reference-ts Douglas, an II inois
Democrat, sitting in the gallery, proceeded o
bcrate IvorSOn, to some of his companions, as
IA damned Niger driver" A few NON. cuts
after he was tapp1d on the shoulder by gen.
tleman, who requested his presence without
the galleries, when the fOilwing colloquv en-
sued:
STRANGER Ito Illinois Democrat) "What
did you mean, sir, by using the expression
damned nigger driver, IA few moments ago?"
ILL. DEX.-"I don't know as it is any busi-
ness Of yours Sir, what meant. My remarks
were not addressed to you"
STRANGER-"Yo spoke of Iverson rs
damned nigger driver, sir; and sir, am the
owner of niggers, and live in Alabama"
Ill. DEN.-"Well sir if you own some mig
gers, [ suppose you drive them; don't you?"
ALABAMIAN--"rhat is none of your busi-
ness, sir. | consider myself insuIted by the
remark that you made, anil here's my card
(taking it out and extending a finely engraved
peice OF enameled clrI;) give M. yours in re-
turn, if you please"
I'LL. DEM.-"I don't want your card, sir
live in Illinois, AMI we don't rccogn z the
cod. oat there. don't know any thing a.
bout your cards, and don't wa 1t any Of
them"
ALABAMIAX -"W ell sir. want an apology
or satisfaction for your RENT lrk."
Ill. DEN.-"If yau want any satisfaction
ont of M, you can have it. Here's Just as
god place. and rs good chance, as ever
-ou will get
ALtBANIAS THAT is not the way gentle
men do in my country. | want the Satsfac-
tion known am ing gentlemen"
ILL. DEM.-It's the way gentlemen do in
my country, and all other kinds Of people too;
and say to vnu again, that if you want any
satisfaction ont of me now's your tins, and
here's the p'aca. Right here sir"
ISy this TIM a large crowd hail gathered a
buIt both parties. wlIilc they stood for IL mo-
ing war,l. The AAbAmian WIS ut the eTd
of his string. To draw a klitc or pistol,
woul Int d., To pitch into his stalwart an
tugonist, wouldn't do either; and sn he stood
piizzlel ulron his point Of honor. Happily for
all concerned, his friends here interfcrcd, aud
ccrncd, and especially the NAtio nal Capitol
from a disgradtful row. Wust. Cor. Hhcef-
ing Intel
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

"What palace home we had My money
filed it with every luxury. but the gold did Mt
bring happiness and don't like to think of
that last hour of my wife's when she woke out
of her long fever, and gasped out, John, I'm
an old woman, and I'm going to leave you,
and my life's been a terrible mistake see it
nll nova terrible mistake"
al don't like to think of my children, either
There are my boys. miserable, dissipated spend
thrifts-eounting on the years before the old
man will be gone, so they can make his money
fly; there are my daughters, married to fops
and fortune-hunters proud, SNOWY, silly women.
their whole life consisting in dress, and parties,
and splendid follies.
"And this is to be an old man and mil
lionaire wonder if it paysl I wonder, if
l could go back to the years of my youth
again, il would give all my life to heaping
up the gold that has only wrought un old age
Of bitter memories for me, death of anguish
for my wife, and ruin for the children God
gave u.s.
"No IT DOESN'T PAY but it's too late to al
ter things now, and the best can do is to
leave a couple of hundred thousand dollars in
my viii to endow some orphan asylum.
'It'll make hot work among the heirs when
they hear Of it, but the "old man. won't sleep
the less sound for all the noise they'll make
over his will, and it'll seem like making lit
tie compensation for some deeds in my life that
I don't quite like to face. But, after all,
million of dollars don't pay-it don't pay! :"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
ANew Phase of Secession.

A venerable and wel-known citizen of Vir-
ginia, residing in the county of Ritchie, has
written to apprize us of a movement which he
says is already set on foot in the north west
ern part of that State, for the purpose of cal
ling a convention of the people to take into
consideration theexpediency of sepeaating from
Virginia in case of her withdrawing from the
Union to join in the formation of a Southern
Confederacy. Our informant adds that the
leaders in this revolutionary scheme contem-
pate the ersdiom Of nel0 Stale, embracing
that portion Of Virginia lying wea Of the
Blue RiIge, and destined to include as many
counties east Of said line, along the upper Po-
ton1ac and near it, as may be induced, by iden-
tity of interest, to cooperate in the project
Considerations of an economical character, de-
termined partly by the arrangements of the
present Constitution of Virginia, (deemed by
many in the western part of the State TO be
uneaqual in respect to rates and objects of tax
ation,) are represented to be at the bottom e
this popular movement, which, in the opinion
Of our correspondent, awaits only the opportu
nifty and the pretext to assume formidable pro
portions. National InteHigencer
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
8ural and 9nutrstit.
a gric ul urnl
T cts for Farmers

If you invest money in too,s, and leave them
exposed lo the weather, it is the same as loan
ing m0rey to a spendthril without security
a dead loss in both cases.
IF you invest money in books and never road
them it is the same as putting your money in
to bank, but never drawing either principal
or interest.
If you invest money in fine stock and 10 not
feed and protect them, and properly care for
thena it is the same as dressing your wife iu
silk to do kitchen work.
II YOU invest Your money in choice fruits.
and do not guard aud give them chance to
grow and prove their value, it is the same as
putting a good hand Into the Geld with poor
tools 10 work with.
n 700 inseSt your money in a good farm.
and do not cu tivate it we'll, il is tile same aS
marrying gnol wife, and so abJSius AN cn-
shaving her to crush her enetsi,S aal to
break her heart.
II you invest your money in u fine bo1se aud
do not so cultivate your mind aud taste as
to adorn it with intelligence and refinement, il
is Us if you were to wear btoadcloth and si:k
hat 10 mill.
fyOu invest your money iu Gnc Goth 5, AMI
do not wear them with dignity and case, il is as
If a plowman were to sit at jewellers table TO
make and adjust hair-springs.
Iryou invest your money in strong drink, IL
is the same rs turning hungcy h1gs ito a
growing corn-6ed-ruin will follow in bo;h
cases.
II you invest your money in every new won
der that flaming circulars proclaim. it is tho
same us buyin2 tickets at n lottery obee,
where there are ten blanks To one prEs.
If you invest your money in the last move"
II is the same as employing a tailor's dan ly
10 dig yoar potatoes PaRsy FnraT.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
.5l6ILIIlO OlS

TO this is to be added some hundreds Of
millions more, on account Of the cost of the
Post Office service in those States, over and
above the revenue, for seventy years on ac-
count of the enormous extra expenses
in that section for river and harbor improve
ments, military defcnces, &c; and on ac-
count Of extra protection to southern sugar
paid by the people Of the North, in the shape
Of 30 per cent. tariff which amounted to twelve
mill Of dollars in the single year of 1851
Now let any one contemplate the Cotton
States as fairly outside of the Union, and at
tempting to negotiate with their late partners
for their share in the territorial domain and
othar Federal property. Here is deb. ofup-
wards offve hundred mil ions aga nst: them, to
begin with. Is it likely that Il e non-seeedng
States wOnld view with much favor a demand
from the seceders who had successfully con-
spire against the common veal, to divide with
hem the territories? And if not, what pos
sible umpire could be either agreed upon or
obtained to decide the difference wide and ir-
reconSilablc as it would be Must it he dc.
termined, ut last, by an appeal to the bloody
arbitranlent Of the sword? And if so, which
section is most likely to hold the territories
against each other?
May not the South find. at last, that in
rushing out of the Union to secure the alb
straction of the right to hold slaves in the
territories they have lost all claim to any
territories in which to hold them? Would
it not do well to lay to heart wise old Esop's
fable Of the dog and the shadow.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

a mrEL7oNA1REs MUSINGS.

"Hem I've grown little hard Of hearing
of late, but caught that just as the two men
turned round the corner. There goes old
Morgan the Millionaire. rich as Crnsus and
hard as iron wonder what good the money
he grips SO tight will do him score of years
hence?" .
And so that's what men say Of me, is -
Morgan the old Milliona re-" And I've spent
my whole life-all the hopes of my youth, the
strength of my manhood, and the years Of my
old agc-for this
"It's a fact, I'm a millionaire this day
John Morgan, your hairs are gray, and your
face is scanned with wrinkles, and your life has
slipped over its seventeen birthday, and in
houses and lands, in bank stock and railroad
shares, in coal mines and heavy curgoes, you
can count down, this day, your hard million of
dollars
1T sounds strange enough as l repeat the
words over, and go hack to the time when |
worked on Squire Mason's farm for six dollars
a month and my board. | said I'd be rich
man then some day, and bent myself to the
task, soul and body, night and day. 1 tOied
early and late and I've got million OfdollarS
to show for it.
1t was hard struggle, but was sharp,
and watched my chance, and luck favored me.
don't like to think of all the strings pulled
to get money, for if mans bent on making
it lie mustn't be squeamish; and though was
sometimes little hard, and shaved here and
took advantage there, still, I wasn't worse
than other men, and was always certain to
keep inside the law.
and almost go down on their knees to get my
name to their paper, and say hard things of
me behind my back, and when die l don't
suppose there's a living soul that would shed
an honest tear over me. though shall be GER
| tain to lie under the shadow of a great mar
BILE monument.
| Somehow, sitting here in my Office this
morning aud looking back over my life, it
doesn't seem as if the million of dollars had
paid, after all but when the greed and the
thirst for gain get possession of a man, every
thing else must go-fcar of God and love OF
man his life and soul must be given up to
business.
"I am an old man, and a millionaire, and l
shall be dropping into my grave in a little
while, and I've got precious little capital to
take into another world. for | fancy "Rich
Man" don't read there as il does here
al don't like to think of my home, my wife
MY children! Poor Mary she was sweet
simple hearted girl when took her in her fail
Young girlhooGl, to walk with me all the days
OF my life promised to love. and cherish, anC
protect her, bat buried myself up in business
and seldom had loving word or a smile fo
the home to which went every night, cold
and silent, and erusty
"I can't blame her if she turned at last t.
the world, and sought refuge for her aching
heart in dress, and show and splendor, and be
came at last, vain, heartless, fashionable wo
man.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
THE rEANEsr MAN.
A PICTURE FOR EVERY COMMUNITY.


There lives in every community the Mean
est Man. He is not always vicious man,
swearing man, a dissipated character, glut-
tou-although he may devOur widows houses
on the sly-or be flowing bowl" fellow. He
may be church member, a life member o!
the A. B. G. d. E. F. g., and all that, and
man of great resPectability. In fact the
Meanest Man-Iike Select Man IS kind of
Office in every town, with this difference, it is
generally life Office, or what is the same
thing during bad behavior. The person is
elected to il By silent popular vote, and it is
the only impartial election We know of, be
cause it docs not go by personal favor.
Meanest Man, when once elected, bears the
burden, not only of his own mean actions, but
nearly all of everybadys beside. He gets
credit of all the small uuhandSome trasactioEs
in town. just rs the popular funniest gets cred
it of the brightest sayings. We make a kind
of pack-horse and scape-goat OF Aeanest Man.
We say of this and that, that it is as mean as
| ANYTHING old - (you know his name
ever did. If we wish to Islander q person,
abuse him. an;l tell an untruth about him, We
say he is meaner than old -
that is, not legally so. Bat he is stingy and
selfish His stinginess leads him to a thousand
contemplate thugs. They say, If he is
doctcr and visits yoang lady who rejects
him. that he retorts by charging for his visit.
He is the man Who when you stop at his
house to get Il vial of milk for q sick child,
| thinks it is wsrth cent, and takes his pay
H. is the man who sells an egg to the country
stnre-keep,r for daIning- needle, aud then
| Su !gy.siS to The storc-keeper to treat him TO
glass of wine, and also thinks an egg would
taste good in it. Breaking into the wine the
yeIy crg he hal id, he fOun1 it dDuble-
yolkgtl and insisted that the st0re-keeper Owcd
| him another needle A small, shrivellcd-up
! spul. which We think mist rattle in him some
where " like dried pea in gourd, We fam
cy he has. II he is farmer, and fOOts'r'
pellniIess sailor boy should come along on his
way 10 his moth3r, MeanesE Man 1--WE have
known Of a decd very like it, would get him
! to help pitch off load Of hay aud then send
him to u nsi ghbor's lDr breakfast. That l. the
I kind of nan we mean. Bat we nee,l not give
his history everybody can recognize him at
| once.
We often wonder If Meanest Man knows he
is the m.anest man. ami If he knows that other
p.ople know it. We wonder, too, if it would
not BE- right for som. one to tell him what Of
Hac be holds and give him chance to resign.
! Oar hlca is. however, that Mcanest Man don't
recognize himself, hut has his mcaneSt man,
and that he thinks he would not be as mean
as the other person for all the world. But he
| is mistukcn.-H Hartford Press.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
The French View of Secession.

The Paris Journal Ia Presse" of D,c. 4.h
closes an article upon American p litics IA
follows. 1t will be seen that the secedcrs re-
ccive no more favor from France than from
England
France has in the United States the ssu.s
Interest that these large towns have; sud ought
to folloS the sime line Of conduct. The ruD-
ture Of the Union will entail more risks thnu
benefits for while the commerce Of England
AID The whole Of Europe will be admitted,
with our own, to The free ports Of the new cui..
federation, the Northern confederation will
seek, in an exclusive alliance with England \
e1unterpOlse to the Southern agreement with
France. War will inevitably flow from this
antagonism. Having as allies slave propr;,.-
tors we will be forced, by the nature or hinxs,
u defend their institutions and to tolerate
their plan of anncxing Mexico and the I-a
OF Cuba, which the North up to this time hiss i5
alone prevented.
France will never lay herself open to such 3
course. She ought not to let The Southern
States deceive themselves in this matter
She cannot even lend such eohAeIrt rs si,csce
may afford; her duty is TO labor with all her
power to prevent dissolution. There ought
not to be for us, on the other side Of the At
lan'ic, either Southern Americans or Nor,hera
Americans, but States whose uniou is import
ant 10 the equilibrium of the world. The
American marihe. is not less necessary 10
France than the Russian, Spanish and Italian
navies, TO prevent single Power from scizin<
the empire Of the seas.
France was the first ally OF the q. S.; We
hope she will now be their roDnoaIJor ,nd ~
pose the abyss into which they are burrying--
an abyss in which will be buried forever n
past most glorious and future most hopeful.
For the American Union separation Is suicide;
it Is The mu rider Of a great nation and a great
princiIle- ] r, nee tul rot end a hand "a IL n
sui' i'le and this murder. She has hcIped ,s
m'ke this Iaop!e-sLe will never he to d -
troy them.
Such arc, We are convinced. the sentiments
of our Government.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
a Go6th Carolina commissionar IN
Wall Street.

Wall Street.
The run.or runs in WhI street that one of
the valient sons of the Palmetto nation came
on TO this city. the other day to raise the
means on the 100000 of bonds with which
that nation is going TO raise an army and rs.
w and engage in various other disbursements.
Promptly and gallantly the Bank OF South
Carolina had offered TO take some fifty thou,
sand dollars worth of the said bonds, wbich
i'll that region was universally regarded as n
" big thing" With such beginning there
could be no doubt OF the eagerncss o. tie
faithful New Workers to meet the ishcs Of
the new independent sovereignty.
The agent in due time made his appea ranee.
it is said, at the Office of Mr.. Belmont. bank
tr of well known Southern proclivities aud
liberal disposition but that gentleman, after
turning over the documents carelessly, said
he did not consider tRam worth the paper on
which they were written. At The same ti,ne
he kindly informed the Palmetto man that
Messrs. Duncan, Sherman & Co were in tho
same line Of business, were also remarkably
generous men, and might possibly aGir..::.isicr
TO his consolation. Forthwith be hied To- tie
Office Of those bankers. = uleriber Of flgs
firm rece.v.d him cordially, listened TO his tale,
and rcplied that at present they were dsiIc i
md to do anything OF the sort but that pro-
bably Mr.. Belmont, who was a great friend Of
the South would accommodate him, under the
circumstances
Ii is further told how that agent shook OF
the dust of his shoes against Wall sire, muI-
tered a few more oaths against Yankees and
departed for Washington to see if something
might not be done by Secretary Floyd, whe
sometimes does little in that line.-N. z.
Post.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

The North Carolina Standard Of recent
date says:
I'VE d4nounce and defy disunionists, an we
viii make war upon them until the p~Ope Of
this Safe, of all parties shall rise in their
m 5ht AMI teach them, and teach all profess
ipnal and designing politicians, that h,ir prop
erty, Their fortunes. their lives, aud the FEDERAL
Constitution shall not be subjected to the con-
troll of the dsm1goyues lusting for powar and
for new PAGES in Il Sou harn q iioh. Or reliS
alce is on the people. II they viii sald BY
us in this struggle. as we believe they viii, W
shall fear no consequences"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

A GALL for State Temperance Convention,
to be held at Columbus on Wednesday, the
23d of January, is issued. MondAy, the l4th
of the same month is appointed "for the friends
Of the cause to meet in every villiage, city and
township throughout the State, to appoint del
ega'es and deliberate upon. and take some de-
eided action on, the means best adapted 10 n.
rouse the Temperance mon everywhere to IL
mite in firm and determined effort to rid our-
selves Of the accursed traffic in Intoxicating
drinks, as a beverage"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

The country is curious to know in what nan
ner the South Carolina Commissioners will be
received ny President Buchanan. II cannot
be expected that sfler ItlviDg givien THE seces-
sionists all possible aid, he will turn the cold
shoulder TO their Commissioners. lie will
doubtless SO far recognize the validity Of their
mission as to refer thrir communication to
Congress The RepnGicsns declare that an
official reception will lJc treason on the part
Of the President, and merit impeachment.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
VOL XIII.

But a joiner was complaining,
That they wern't quite 50 good.
But stole away his appetite,
For the common kinds Of fOUd,
By performing all the labor
Which his mighty arm had done,
Ere the iron age had vanished,
And the cast steel one begun
But the happy project struck him,
At American I'll board,
Where eveFything's the incest,
That the country can afford.
Now to all, A Happy New Year!
And if you the Carrier Boy,
For his past years tolls and sOrrowS,
Would return cup of joy;
Thrust your hands into four pocket,
And from thence quarter bring.
Or iFt should be a dollar,
We'd think it just the thing,
FOR THE CARRIER BOY
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

PEKIN TAKEN.-The Persia brings intelli-
gence that the English and French have taken
Pekin the ancient and renowned capital Of
China. The mysteries of the famed and un-
seArchable metropolis of the Orientals will be
rudely exhibited to the world 1t has been
the metropolitan mystery and has been unlock
ed by the Armstrong guns of the English and
the rihed guns Of the French The Imperial
palace was sacked. The Emperor has fed to
TartaPy.-C Cin. COm
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
PapA from 6oFS asE and Leave

PapAr from Corn usx and Loaves
1t is announced in European Journals tina
by recent discovery, paper has been n ad: o,
the leaves and husks of Indian Corn, equal, and
in some respects superior to that made from
rags The inventor, Moritz Diamaut, Is a
Jewish writing master, in Austria, where IL Is
stated, satisfactory experiments on large
scale have been made. If this be true. it is
good news to the farmers Of this country, aiII
not less so to newspapers and book makers
The price Of paper, made from rags, has all
vaBeed SO rapidly, from scarcity Of raw mater
ia, as to form Il serious item in the expenses
of the publisher. American manufacturers
will not be slow to avail themselves of any ad-
vantages this process may be found to Offer,
and as this is the first corn-growing. aud also
the greatest book and DewspaFeF consuming
country in the world, the success Of the i1Feu-
ton is a matter Of the greatest interest.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04

The Detroit Advertiser publishes an inter
esting statement of the disasters upon the
lakes during the past year, and the loss of hu-
man life resulting therefrom. The aggregate
is fearfully large-larger, it is believed than
that Of any previous season. il not any three
seasons. Flee hundred and sirt y-t,Po persons
met their death between the 22d Of March
and the Oath Of November, by water, steam
and cold, and the casualties incident to work
ng sail vessels.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-01-04
What the Cotton States have Cost
the Union.

Some people are credulOus enough to sup
pose that the seeding States, having first got
out of the Union, can make settlement with
the renanining States which shall leave a
sufficient balance on the side of the seceder-
to entitle them to claim share of the terri
tories. Let us see. The followingis is a table OF
the actual expenditures of the Government for
and on account of the cotton States. The
Mexican war expenses are properly counted
in, since that war would never have been I'M
dertaken but for the claims of the extreme
Southern Stnfas
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-07-23
CANADA l.lQ UOk S'lOAk 4
.NiO. 81 brady Street.

A SPLENDID NEW ASSORTMENT OF
n ro.ois" ~nd Deuestie Wines and ussndieo
just received and Tor sale Low for cash, Wis:
Superior Ola Cognac, Of th- best brands.
Cstswb~ brandy, very 6ne and pure,
American lifandy, t~r oosking purposes,
Fine Did scotch whisky,
Old bourbon and Rye Whisky, guarantee pure,
Sherry, Port and Madeira Wines. old and rf,me.
Sparkling Catawha and Champagne vi ines.
Of tho very best brands
Cherry, Black berry and Raspberry Brandy
good for dysentery and diarrhos,
Cider Vinegar Common Vinegar sorghum syrup
Ac, Ae., Ao., &C., ~.
All oi which will DO sold st prices 70 salt the
times, either 1t Wholesale o. retail, BY
iso-cH III. y. RIDLEY.