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Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-06

CHICAGO JoURNAL.-Of all the Republi
can papers published in Illinois, we prefer
the Chicago Journal. 1t is edited by our
former fellow townsman, j. L. Wilson,
Esq, and bears evidence of the good sense,
ability and conservatism which distinguish
that gentleman. Unlike its Republican co
temporary, the Tribune, 1t is free from Alb
olitionism and expresses broad national
views on most subjects. Republicans who
do not believe that this war is being waged
for the emancipation Of the slaves should
support the Journal Its circulation in this
city is double that of any other Chicago
Republican paper.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-06

Moving for new trisl-s0arting Sec
ond wife.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
Strange Incident.

A correspondent relate the following
circumstance to the st. Louis Republican.
In the early settlement of Denver City
difficulty arose between two prominent
citizens, which resulted in the sending of u
challenge to fight duel. The parties met
in deadly conflict. The weapons chosen
were guns, with ounce balls. Al first fire
one of the parties fell dangerously wound
ed 4; the other escaped uuharmed. The in.
jured man was conveyed to n hotel where
his wounds wero dressed and cared for by
n young and talented surgeon Of the city.
From the effect of that gun.shot wound
the wrelched man fingered in great agony
for over year, helpless and penniless.-
| The charity of the friends and neighbors
Of the unfortunate victim to a most unfor-
tunate duel, supplied him with all the nee
cssaries, and rendered all the aid in their
power to render him as comfortable NJ pos.
! sibe under the circumstances. The young
! physician WAS an almost constant attendent
upon tho sutterings of the poor man, and
minstered to them, well knowing that his
patient WAS poor and would not be able to
pay him for his services yet he stood by
him to tho last, as a true friend of suffer
ing humanity, and after his patient was
dead and buried, the young Doctor unex-
pectedy found himself heir by will to one
fourth of the estate of the deceased, which
consisted of only few gold claims in these
mines, worth not over hundred dollars
not enough to defray the funeral expenses.
Yet the young man was satistied-he was
conscious of having done his duty, and
that to him was sufficient reward.
Months passed away, and it was found
that one of the gold claims belonging to
the estate of the deceased on the Bobtail
Lode was very valuable, and only few
DAYS since, the heirs received ten Mopsano
dollars cash for the claim, and the deserv.
ing young Doctor received his pecunary
reward of nearly twenty five hundrd dol.
lars, and yet has claims which sre located
on rich gold lodes, that are very valuable.
ale cast his bread upon the waters, and
verify he has his reward.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
An Acorn freIn the Tomb of
WashingtOn.

On the 22d of February, Gov. PToKENs
Of South Carolina, (who was recently min
| lister to Russia,) made short address to a
military company in Charleston, in the
course of which he made the following hap
! py alusion to the universal respect for
General Washington:
81 remember while in distant court of
Europe and at the most despotic of all
Governments, that on memorable occa-
sion | visited the magnificent gardens that
surround Peterhotf near st. Petersburg.-
The gardens and grounds were dedicated
to the enjoyment and peaceful pursuits of
the greatest and most brilliant of courts
On remote island of these magnificent
grounds that uad been set aside for the pr-
vate enjoyment and private walks of the
Emperor am Empress, tree was pointed
out to IN, u that garden, cultivated by par
licuIar and devoted hands surrounded by
wire wicket work, ard flowers flourshing all
around it. There stood on Que branch of
the tree large brass plate, and on Que
side OF that plate, in German, and on the
other in ScIavonic, was written, ---"This
tree was planted in 1889, by Nicholas, from
an acorn that grew near the tomb of Wash
ington." This was the inscription upon
that tree, placed there by one of the most
absolute rulers that ever swayed the sceptre
OF empire. And yet in his private seclu-
ded gardens, he paid this deep and heart
felt tribute to the memory Of the greatest
and purest man the world ever saw.
"lIe did not !ake M acorn from near the
tomb of the great Elizabeth; nor did he
take it from the garden Of the Tulleres
grown in the time of Louis the XIV; nor
did he take it from the tomb of the
great Napoleon; nor did he take it from
the garden of the Caesars, near Rome; but
he took an acorn from the tomb of "A pure
and mighty man, in the wlds of America,
who had planted the seeds of govern
ment consecraled to the freedom and nde-
| pcndcnce of nations whose every principle
was directly at variance with the principles
of his own government; and yet so great
were the virtues and integrity Of Wash
ngton that even this mighty monarch, in
private and in secret, paid to him his heart
felt and deep tribute. The treo was wat.
cred and cultivated with more care than
any other tree in that garden. 1t was
ilourishlng and green, and | trust in God
it will continue TO flourish green and frosh
until its branches oyerrun tho civilized
world.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

JERrsALEM.-W Within the walls, Jerus-
alem is the most picturesque OF cities-
1t is very small. You can walk quite
round it in less than an hour. There are
only seventeen thousand inhabitants, of
whom nearly half are Jews. The mate
rial OF the city is chiefly stone, and SO
massivoly are the blind house walls laid
that in pacing the more solitary streets,
you seem to be treading the mazes of
some huge fortress. Often the houses
extend over the streets, which winds them
under their dark archways, and where
there are no overhanging building there
are often supports of masonry thrown
across from house to house. There are
no windows upon the streets, except few
picturesque, projecting lattices. Jerusa-
lem Is an utter ruin. The houses so fair
in seeming, are often crumbled away up
on the interior. The arches are shattered
and vines and flowers wave and bloom
down the vistas. The streets are never
straight more than fifty rods; but climb
and wind with broken steps, and the old
buildings thrust out buttressed corners,
graced with luxuriant growths, and arch
ed with inches for statue and fountain.-
1t is mass of beautiful bits," as the
artists say. And you will see no fairer
sights in the world than the groups of
brilliantly -draped Orientals emerging in
to the sun, from the vine -fringed dark
ness Of the archway.-The Howadji in
Syria.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
One OF Daniel Wcbsters's Anec.
IOIcS.

Webster had an anecdote of old Father
Searl, the minister ofhis boyhood, which
has never been in print, and which is too
good to be lost. 1t was customary to
wear buckskin breeches in cold weather.
One Sunday morning in autumn. Father
Searl brought down his from the CARROT;
but the wasps had taken possession of
them during the summer, and were hav-
ing nice time in them. By dint of ef-
fort, he got out the intruders and dressed
for meeting. But while reading the
Scriptures to the congregation, he felt a
dagger from one of the enraged small
wasted fellows, and jumped around the
pulpit slapping his thighs. But the more
he slapped and danced, the more they
stung, The people thought him crazy,
and were in commotion as to what to do
buthe explained the matter by saying:
Brethren. don't be alarmed; the Word
of God is in my mouth, but the Devil is
in my breeches!' Webster always told il
with glee to the ministers Boston Cor
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
The Guns aud MOrtars Of Fort
sumter Declared Incapable OF
IuJUring CllarlestOn.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Erpress writes on the evening
OF the 7th inst:
The distance from Fort Sumter to the
point Of Charleston which lies near st to it
the lower end Of the lower dock--is n.
bout three and three-eighths statute miles,
or, more exactly, is 5,940 yards. This ex.
ceeds the capacity of any known mortar to
throw shell 1910 yards. speak upon
best aud highest authority Therefore, il
Major Anderson had in Sumter mortar
capable of throwing a shell 4,6oo yards,
(the largest capacicy of any mortar) the
shell so thrown would fall short of the near
est point of Charleston l,340 yards. But
he had no such mortar.
The largest guns in Fort Sumter are
eightinch and teninch Columbiads. The
range of the former, or capacity to throw
ball or shell, is 4.800 yards; that of the
that of the latter $500 yards. The range
or capacity of the eightiuch Columbiad is,
therefore, l., 40 yards short of the nearest
point of Charleston, and that of the ten.inch
$40 yards. In fact the largest Columbiad
known to our service is but twelve inches,
Of which, think, we have but one, and
that not at Charleston, with range or
capacity of $500 yards-24O yards less
than the distance between Fort Sumter
and Charleston.
Had Sumter been provided with the effec-
tive gun for great distances, with which it
was possible to have furnished it-Dahl.
green's rihed cannon-made on hand Mt the
Navy. yard here, it would have been posi-.
be for Anderson not only to have thrown
balls to Charleston, but into the city,
and, if necessary, quite over it. Tests have
established the superiority of range Of this
cannon over every other. Its limit is not
less than five miles.
But no such wisdom has marked the ad-
ministra,on of the War and Navy Depart
ments as was necessary to render them ca
pable of answering demands that might be
made for service in connection with one or
the other. Hence in that great and impor.
tant fortifcation, Fort Sumter, there is not
one rfled cannon-and, therefore, there is
no power therein to throw shell or ball
therefrom TO or into Charleston. Fort Sum
ter can not, then, visit any direct scourge
upon Charleston, either in return for an at
tack by the secession forces, or any other
cause. q" Impossible is the reply to ev-
cry intimaton of the sort.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
Items.

The wree,hs surrounding the chandelier
in unitarian church in Bangor, Me-, on
Good Friday caught fire, and the flames
rising some fifteen feet, dropping burning
embers into the pews threatened to destroy
the building, and a number Of the pews
were nearly consumed before sufficient
snow could be brought in to quench the
flames. train of cars near Portland Me.
on the Sd of April, became imbedded in
the snow, aud after being dug out the snow
banks were higher than the roofs of the car.
-One half of the village of Mt. Solon
in Virginia, was consumed BY fire that took
from hot ashes thrown into box.-
In Bristol England, woman six feet two
inches tall, was married TO dwarf only
three feet two inches.--At Bangor, Me-,
they have had one hundred and twenty-six
days of good sleighing, and there was
then three feet six inches of snow in the
main street.-A man near Pittsburg, n
few days since,pretonded to have discovered
oil on his farm, and actually got 5000
bonus from u party who intended to test
the spring. 1t was discovered, however
that all the oil came from an artificial res
eryoir buried in the side of ravine.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

The echoes of the cavern made a report like
that of a cannon.
We did not stay down longer than
we could help after firing. Henry pulled
vigorously, and with the aid of our hands
on the rock were soon up. For little
while we could hear the panther strugg ling
in his blood. We let down dog. No
noise followed. Then was lowered. l
saw the game was dead. crawled in assoon
could. A barrier of rock obstructed me.
Over this reached my arm and got my
finger in his mouth, but could not move
him. Drawn up again, took my tom.
hawk and cut some pieces Of wood to clear
away the snow. This done, we succeeded
in finding place where the rock to some
extent moved. A pole with hook at the
end was prepared. This we managed to
to fasten to his hind legs and pulled him
out.
1t proved to be a male panther Of i'm
mense size, nine feet and one inch, from
nose to end of tail, fat, and very heavy
Late as it was, worn out and far from
home as we were, we wished to carry him
home bodily. Tried to shoulder him but
failed. We took off the skin with the paws
and scalp, and hung the carcass on tree.
Henry said he had seen the small one es.
cape through the rocks beyond.
The following spring some Government
man came along and said he would give me
five dollars to see the frame of n panther.
Wa wont Ha fnund oil the honee and
put them in a bag and carried them away.
And that's the end of my panther hunt
Harper'S Magazine.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
An Appeal to the Union Men of
the Border Stules,

The Louisville Journal makes the fol-
lowing appeal to the Union men of Ken
lucky. AS the Jonrnal was very severe
on the Proclamation of the President, the
reader may wish to know what advice the
leading Union paper of Kentucky gives to
those with whom it has been acting. 1t
says:
can attempt is now made by the Seces-
sonists to take advantage of that grievous
and inexcusable bunder, Mr.. Lincoln's
Proclamation, and hurry our people away
upon the rushing tide of excitement. We
advise them to be calm. 1t is time for
deep, stern thoughts, not for loud yells,
and shouts, and huzzas. Men can better
make up their minds in the silence of sol
emn reflection than in noise, and tumult,
and confusion. If any man, who was not
Secessionist, has been made Secession
ist by Mr.. Lincoln's Proclamation, he is
guilty of weakness and imbecility that he
should blush to acknowledge to tho world,
or even to himself. Mr.. Lincoln i S not the
United Stats Government. The Govern.
ment, we hope, will last forever. We
would sooner acknowledge kinshp with
Insects and reptiles than permit ourselves
to be driven or influenced by Mr.. Lincoln,
or any other officer, into vioatian of our
allegiance or into an attitude of the Gov
ernment that has held its broad egis over
us from our infancy.
"Friends Of the Union! we earnestly in
woke each and all you to stand to your
integrity. lftemptaton beset you, think
of Washington and Jackson, and Clay, and
all the other mighty patriots whose awful
dust has mingled with 'he common dust
of earth, and spurn the tempters behind
you as you would spurn the spirit of per-
dition. Be true to your country, true to
yourselves, true to your fathers, true to
your posteaity, and true TO God, and all
will soon be well.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
ESTABLISHED A. ID. 1861
nottrp
WAITING FOR HER LOVER.

Every eve when I'm returning
From the labors OF the day,
As pass lonely cottage
That is falling to decay,
behold patient woman
Through the little window pane,
Looking with an air expectant
Down the narrow grassy lane.
White as snow her scanty tresses,
Wrinkles on her thoughtful brow,
And her cheeks are furrowcd deeply,
With the lines that Time can plow.
Seventy winters long and dreary
From their heavy clouds have shed
Flakes of never changeing whiteness
On the patient womans head.
F fifty wears ago her lover
Stood beside her in the lane,
Saying as they parted-"Hannah.
Sunday night III come again.
Let me see you at the window
As hasten up the lane.
God be with you dear. Remember,
Sunday night Ill come again"
But before that precious evening,
Sweeter to the maiden's mind
Than bed of carly violets
Kissed by the gentle April wind,
Came to bless her with its presence,
LongngIy for which she sighed,
He, the most beloved lover
That e'er blessed maiden-died.
We'l.a.day for loveing Hannah,
-. When they told her he was dead,
Her devoted mind forever
From its shattered mansion fed.
Gentle as an April sunbeam,
Patient as mothers love,
Hopeful as the earnest christian
Who has moored his hopo above.
She through all these fifty winters
Hath believed herself again
Loved and loving ms of old time
When they parted in the lane.
Every day to her is Sunday,
And behind the window pane
Every eve she sits and watches
For her lover down the lane.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

The first district shall be entitled to
three Senators for the decennial period
and one additional Senator in the fifth
session of the decennial period.
The seventeenth district, composed OF
the counties of Knox and Morrow, hav-
ing less than three.fourths of senatorial
ratio of population. is, as required by the
Constitution, attached to the adjoining
district having the least number of inbab-
itants, which is the twenty. eighth district,
composed Of the counties OF Wayne aud
Holmes. The twenty eighth district,
with the seventeenth district so attached
as aforesaid, shall be entitled to one SEN
ator for the decennial period, and two ad :
dtional Senators, one in the third and
one in the fourth session of the decennial
period.
The fourteenth district, compose of the
counties of Washington and Morgan and
q part Of the county of Noble, and the
nineteenth district, composed of the coun-
ties of Morgan and Monroe, and part of
the county of Noble, remain as during the
first decennial period, the Constitution
not admitting of any alteration of the ter
ritorial limits of said senatorial district.
In tes tmony whereof, we have hereun-
to set on names, and caused the Great
Seal Of the State Of Ohio to be affixed, at
Columbus, the second day of April, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty y-one, and of the Inde-
pendence Of the United States of Ameri-
ca the oighty-ffth
w. DENNISON.
r. w. TAYLER,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
Odds and Ends

A printer on seeing bailiff pursuing
an unfortunate author, remarked that it
was new edition of the Pursuit of Lit
erature," unbound and hot pressed.
A MAN who covers himself with costly
apparel and neglects his mind, is like one
who illuminates the outside of his house
and sits within in the dark.
He must be very thorough fool who
can learn nothing from his own folly.
A SHOT that hits is better thun a broad
side that misses.
Envy no mans talent, but improve thy
own.
Judge Low, ofthe Land court St Louis
has decided that paper published in the
interest Of religious sect is not news
paper, and that legal notices published in
such journals are null and void.
WHO is it that is in two situations at
once? A lover, for when he is beside his
fair one he is usually beside himself.
SIX children, all of one family, recently
died within Pennsylvania village with
in week, of diptheria.
Ir is supposed that the fellow who left
the house was not able to carry it along
with him.
PEACE is the evening star of the soul,
and virtue is its sun; the two are never
far apart.
The best penance we can do for envy
ing another's merit, is to eadeavor to sur
pass it,
REFRAIN from bitter words; there is on
ly the difference of letter between words
and swords.
The Human heart, like we'll, if utter
ly closed from the outer world, is sure to
generate an atmosphere of death.
He that buildeth his house with other
mems money, is like one that gathereth
himself stones for the tomb of his burial.
SEWING girls cannot be expected to
compete with sewing machines, for they
haven't such iron constitutions.
Why is the Union like crab-apple?
Because to be worth anything, it must be
preserved.
A cotemporary says that error alone
is mortal!' 1t must be allowed that it
has mortal long life.
EXCESS of ceremony, like excess of Or
nament, shows want of breeding. That
civility is best which excludes all super
huous formality and action.
TRUE friendship increases as life's end
approaches, just as the shadow lengthens
with every degree the sun declines toward
it's sesting.
FRIENDS should be very delicate and
careful in administering pity as a medi-
cine, when enemies use the same article
as poison.
LADIE who have disposition to pun
ish their husbands, should recollect that
little warm sunshine will melt an iciole
much sooner than regular north-esster.
The greatest pleasure in life is love;
the greatest treasure contentment; the
greatest possession health; the greatest
ease, sleep; and the best medicine. true
and faithful friend.
A German journal speaks of young
authoress who has distinguished herself
in the literary world. She is called the
Baroness de Clokekrakerstocae pickhol-
Observation-Disclosures. .-v
A bashful printer refused situation in
printing Office where females were en-
ployed, saying he never "set up" with
girl in his life.
The fellow who is courting Miss-De-
meanor, thinks very seriously Of breaking
off the engagement. .f|
A fellow that don't benefit the world
by his life does it by his death.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

WHICH ONE?-Most of our EXCHANGES
are saying that James A. McDougall is The
newly elected United States Senator from
California. A few have placed his brother
John, former Lieutenant, Governor, in the
same place. The former is the man. In
1s44.5 he served as Attorney General of
Illinois, and was the Democratic opponent
of the gallant Hardin for Congress in his
first race for that position. He left Spring
field in ls45 and located in Chicago, where
he practiced his profession for some time,
when he emigrated to California among the
first emigrants to the new Eldorado, after
its acquisition by the United States. Mr..
McDougall in California, at once took
high position as lawyer, and was elected
in 1853 4 to the lower House of Congress
in which body he served with marked abil-
ity.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
A, j. BELL,

COUNTY RECORDER AND NOTARY
~ PUBLIC, Millersburg Ohio. lie is at all
times ready to furnish fill up, and take acknowl-
edgments of all kinds of Deeds, Conveyances,
mortgages, and powers Of Attorneys, and Record
the same, take Dispositions to be used in any of
the courts of this State Also, Protest Notes, Bills
of exchange, &C. ~ His Office is in the County
Recorder office. n2tl.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
One Drop at a 7ime,-Have you ,

One Drop at IA 7ims,-Have you ever
watched an cce rs it formeda You no.
tced how it froze one drop at time until
it was foot long, or more. If the water
was clean, the icicle remained clear, and
sparkled brightly in the sun; but if the wa
ter was bat slightly muddy, the icicle look
ed foul, aud its beauty was spoiled. Just
so our characters are forming-oue little
thought, OF feeling at time adds its ipfu.
ence. If each thought be pure aud right,
the soul will DO lovely and will sparkle with
happiness but if impure and wrong there
will be final deformity and wretchedness.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
JAS. HEBRON a SON,

DEALERS IN English German and Ameri-
- can Hardware Cutlery, Oils, Paints Glass,
SASH Pine Doors Saddlery, and Coach Trim
mings. mutt
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

MEN are sometimes accused of pride,
merely because their accusers would be
proud themselves if they were in their
places.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
DIR. A. A. CRUMP,

ERMAN Il ENGLISH Botanic Physician,
" Millersburg, o. Ohce-on the East end OF
Main street, four doors above the Public square.
n20tf
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

I HOXWORTH, Proprietor, west end Of Mair
i street, Millersburg, o. 0TStage Office
Daily Line of Coaches to Coshocton. n2Otf
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02

AYANKEr doctor has got a remedy for
hard times. II consists often hours hard
labor we'll worked in.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-02
:. q. v. BOILING .
J. O. DiGHAM
T. M. EBRIGHT, M. ID.
Physician y Surgeon,

NTILLERSBURG, o. Ofiice-on Jackson st
wi nearly opposite the Empire House. Resi-
dence-on Clay street, opposite the Presbyterian
Chu ch. n2Otf.