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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
Perils of Being Rich.

Among the items Of news from Char.
lesion floating around in secession circles
there is a story that Hon. VIM. Aiken has
been made to "disgorge in aid of the cause
much against his WILL" rs follows. He
was notified that he was expected 10 ad
vance $4,000; 10 that he plead his right
to advance or not, as he might please,
adding that be did not have the money
He was then promptly notified that he
had been assessed that amount and must
promptly pay it, under penalty Of having
it raised by immediate confscation, and
sale Of his property in Charleston, worth
many times as much. To save that from
utter destruction, be did raise the amount
demanded, and in paying remarked that
his lot would be better if he was journey
man carpenter at the North, showing a
jack plane at 50 per day wages, than the
South Carolina millionaire be was before
it was essayed to reduce the South under
military despotism. He is now zone Of
the suspected" his course in refusing to
seem to be placed with paying the forced
loan having earned him the dagerous rep
utation of being disaffected to the cause.
- Washington Star.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31

had approached his wife so silently, that
until he laid his hand upon her shoulder
she had not been aware of his presence in
the room. She believed him far away, and
a sudden fear fell upon her. And that
scream Of terror, followed by long and
deathly swoon, was the immediate conse-
quence. When she recovered, however,
to find her head resting upon her husbands
shoulder, and TO bear his words of tender
affection, mingled with prayers for forgive
ness, whispered in her ear, her mother saw
that she needed no better remedy.
An hour later she summoned the pair to
a nice supper prepared under her own su-
pervision. Arthur brought bis wife down,
in his arms, and she sat at the head of the
table, propped up by pillows, affectionately
waited on by her husband, and, though
pale and languid still, with brighter smile
upon her faded features than they had worn
for many a month.
When Mrs. Jones returned to her home
she took Alice and her babies with her
Free from her most burdonsome cares, en-
liveued by her frequent visits from her bus
band, with plenty of fresh air and leisure
to enjoy it, and with the happiness of see-
ing her children improving in health and
beauty, she seemed to renew her rudely
shaken hold on life. She returned to the
city, after a few months, in the good
health that had formerly been usual for her.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31

The BUTTER FA1R.-We looked in at
Tappan Hall, on Wednesday last, and our
eyes were greeted with the largest and
finest display of Table butter that we have
ever seen. The fair was a complete sue
cess. There were over 500 rolls of superb
butter, varying in size from one to ten
pounds, large proportion elaborately or
namented, on exhibition, and the hall was
well filled with competitors for premiums
and spectators.
The original committee, consisting prin-
cipally of our merchants, declined serving,
and new committee was elected from the
audience, by vote of the exhibitors, as
follows; Mrs. Houston Sisler, Mrs. B. F.
Wheeler, Mrs. A. H. Eldred and Messrs.
J. W. Shook, Hiram Viele and F. Schu-
maker.
The Committee, after carefully and pa
tiently examining each and every lot,
awarded the premiums as follows: First
premiums splendid set of white Iron
stone China dishes, 80 pieces, worth $l5.-
90 to Mr.. Caldwell of Fredericksburg,
wayne County, entered by A. P. Cooper.
Second premium similar set of dishes,
60 pieces, worth $1,000, to ]. Randall of
Tallmadge. Third premium-a like set of
dishes, so pieces, worth $500, to Uriah
Ebbert of Norton.
The entire lot of butter, weighing 10
the aggregate, 1920 pounds, was at the
close Of the exhibition, purchased for cash,
by the getters up of the Fair, Messrs. John
c. Baxter & Co., at IA cents per pound.
The exhibition elected general commend
alton from the many citizens who dropped
in during the day, though as q matter of
course. many were disappointed at not get
ting one or the other of the premiums, for
the really prime lots of butter presented by
We regard such fairs, however, notwiih-
few ouly will draw prizes, where
all are deserving, as extremely servlceaole,
in stimulating our dairy friends 10 their en-
deavors to improve and excel in the prepa'
ration of that great luxury, as well as IN
necessity to the American peo-
ple-rood butter.-Akron Beacon.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31

with his torch, laughingly heartily at the
fright he had given US. He had lodged
behind screen of bones, and thus alarm
us; he now rejoined US much amused at the
fun; but his hilarity was of short duration
for an Irish cousin of mine instantly knock
ed him down, and, as he Law sprawling, the
the light rolled from his hands, and had
not fortunately snatched it up, we might
all have been lost in the dark and puzzling
mazes of these fearful subterreanean laba.
rynths.
The guide was raised and soothed; a five
franc piece restored his good humor, and
in few minutes we reached the ascent
which led TO the free air of heaven. l was
glad had seen those strange excavations.
They are now shut up, probably forever
and aye, but when they are again open, it
would require rich bribe TO tempt me to
revisit them.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
How CharIeston Looks.

The Charleston correspondence the N.
Y. Evening Post gives sketch q Char
lesion, from which we extract:
"Charleston. then, is an old-fashioned
town, without broad streets, its general
aspect qniet, respectable, sombre and un.
progressive. Many of its best houses are
solidly and sometimes heavily built, of d.
verse material, often weather-stained, and
even dilapidated in appearance, almost
always the reverse of snowy or pre-
tentious. No dazzling white mable, six
stories in height, inficts Temporarily oph-
thalamia on the spector, no arrogant sharp
ly-craven and heavily corniced "brown
stone" announces recently and rapidly-ac-
quired opu.ence. Perpetuity, competence
gentility-the latter rather decayed in
soms instances, but therefore the more in
clined to stand on on their dignity-these
are the attributes involuntarily suggested
by the better class of Charleston houses.
There are newlooking ones, of course, and
mean abodes of various degrees of shah
biness of these we speak hereafter.
The private residences of the colonial
period Il give the precedence due to their
seniority have, as implied, very Queen
Annish look; generally they stand apart
from Others, their privacy secured by q
walled, rallied or board enclosure, adjacent
to carriage enterance, guarded, perhaps,
by heavy columns or battered pilasters
surmounted by big stone globe or fam
tastic iron work. Peeping inside you OBJ
tain glimpses of broad flights of stone-
steps leading upwards to central door
of mansions of dark brick, with stone
dressings of lighter color defaced by
green strains; sometimes of neglected, Of
ten of trimly-kept gardens. almost monas-
tic in their seclusion, where the sunlight
shines idly and pleasantly upon the bright
evergreen, clipped edges of box and laurel
leaved magnalia trees, perhaps with great
cracked stone urn nesting under the latter.
In some cases later additions, generally of
wooden balconies and piazzas, Ito which
Charleston architecture is universally prone)
have given these old mansions hybrid
character curious to contemplate. 1t is as
though Sir Charles Grandson were offering
his arm to Mexican donna, the Spectator
with lady out of Gil Bias.
Steep pediments, columns of bastard
classic order and elaborately formal win
dows alternate with jalousie blinds, Mores-
co arches, suggestions from Seville and
and bits of the Alhambra, affording sort
of transition to the directly Spanish-Amer-
lean houses, some of which might have
been transported bodily, like the Chapel Of
Loretto, from New Granada. As in Char
lesion, each private house of any preten-
sion generally differs from its neighbors;
you NAV behold in one street or row an
English country mansion of the time of
George l., seaside villa, Spanish-Mex-
icon house, and trim, white, wooden
American one, the last of which run to
and increase in numbers and
newness on the outskirts. In the city some
of these are very handsome, and surround
ed by ample pleasure grounds. They
seem to endeavor to look as old as pcs
sible, as if in Difference to its prevailing
air of antiquity"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31

The frown on Arthur Jones' brow was
black as night. He pushed his cup Que
way and bis plate another, then rising he
sent his chair, with bang, against the
wall.
Gas usual, when come home tired and
hungry, and nothing fit to eat or drink up
on the tablet" be exclaimed, in harsh,
loud voice that expressed, quite as strongly
as his words, his inward irritation.
"Why Arthur" was the only reply of
the pale, weak-voiced woman who sat at
the opposite side of the table, and was the
nominal mistress Of the house.
"Ob, you needn't exclaim in that tone,"
the husband rejoined, holding the door in
bis hand as he was going out. "Talk of
Job don't believe be ever knew what it
was 10 have his patience tried as mine is.
A home thoroughly uncomfortable from
top to bottom, insolent servants, and every
from bad 10 worse, smoking fires, ill-cook-
ed food, and coffee and tea that would poi
son horse, and, to crown all, wife that
is nothing but nerves, and" he added, as
the bright drops began to flow down the
poor pale face, land tears"
"Oh, Arthur" was the piteous sound he
heard, accompanied by sob as be crossed
the threshold. He closed the door with
bang, mutteripg that be would 60 down to
Barret's and see if be couldn't get meal
fit to eat :here, and was proceeding 10 put
on bis coat in the hall, preparatory to go
ing out, when he felt touch upon his arm.
He turned and saw bis mother standing be-
side him.
If there was any person in the world
whom Arthur Jones thoroughly loved and
respected, that person was his mother, or,
to speak more strictly in accordance with
fact,-his stepmother. She was, in truth,
q most admirable woman; and entering her
husbands family, when his children were
very syappe. bad fulfilled all her duties in
the most-exemplary manner. Her nature
was large, genial and loving. Love was
| the handspring of all her actions, and when
it is added that she was strictly just, and
possessed of well-cultivated mind, and
most excellent judgment, it will readily be
perceived that she impresses all who knew
her as person Of singularly harmonious
character.
II is inevitable that such woman must
WELD an important influence in whatever
sphere she enters. And this was eminent
ly true in the case of Mrs. Jones. At the
time our story opens she was a guest be-
meath Arthur's roof, and had been pain
ed witness of the scene just described. 1t
was she who had followed him into the
ball, and who now laid gentle hand up
on the arm Of the angry man.
Habltual respect compelled all external
restraint of Arthur's irritation, as be turn
ed and met the sorrowful gaze of the clear,
serene eyes that looked into his. He wait
J ed moment for her to speak, then said,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31

CoULpN'r KILL HIMsELF.-A French
man resolved to be rid of life, went lit,
tie before high tide to post set up by the
sea side. He had provided himself with
a ladder, a rope,a pistols bundle of matches,
and vial of poison. Ascending the lad
der, he tied one end of the rope to the
post, and the other end round his neck !;
then he took the poison, set his clothes on
fire, put the muzzle Of the pistol to his
head, and kicked away the ladder. In
kicking down the ladder he sloped the pis-
tol so that the ball missed his head and
cut through the rope by which he was sus-
pended; he fell into the sea, thus extin-
gushing the flames of his clothes, and the
sea water which he involuntarily swallow
ed, countsracted the poison, and thus in
spite of his precautions, he remained IN.
hanged, unshot, imprisoned, unburned and
undrcwned. --f
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
Qoehp.
THE SOWER.
When the sunbeams shine and the free wind,

When the sunbeams shine and the free wind.
blow -.I
Across the fertile plain,
With sunbrowned cheek goes the farmer fortl
To scatter the yellow grain;
Sowing the seed that, blessed by dews
And cheered by the smiling sun.
Shall clothe the fields with golden garb
Ere the summer days be done.
Shall waken the millwheel's CHEEKY clack.
And spread the swelling sail
That speeds with its freight Of human food
Before the favoring gale;
Shall feel the myriad streams Of Life,
The wheels of Commerce speed.
And make a thousand bless the day
When the farmer sowed the seed.
Unfanned by the breeze, in silent room
Where sunbeams rarely fall,
There's another sower busy at work,
Though shut in by roof and wall.
Be the weather foul or the weather fair.
To the sower it matters not,
For the grain he scatters are leaden types,
And the field is the field of Thought.
He sows the seed of the Good and True,
And though the storm may pour.
The lightning flash of Malice scorch.
OF Falsehoods thunders roar
Though stump and rock be scattered round,
And weeds possess the soil,
The crop will grow and the harvest come
To reward the lsborer's toll.
He sows the seed of Human Rights,
And though years may first be past.
The germ will quicken and bursting its tomb,
Spring into lie at last.
The tyrants heel may crush the soil,
And bayonets pierce the sod,
But the field is watered with hopeful teas.
And warmed by the smile of God.
He sows the seed of purer Faith.
And Supcrstition's clod
Is shattered to dust by the piercing blade
That upward points to God.
The stem grows strong and the head fills out,
Needless of tempest strife,
And million fainting souls are fed
With the saving Bread of Life.
He sows the Iced of blessed Peace,
Mid steel, and fire, and blood,
Planting the grains with trustful heart,
Even where the cannons stood;
Dropping them into gaping rift
Ploughed by the death winged ball,
Scattering them with lavish hand
Over the frowning wall.
Moistened by blood of the brave who fell,
And tears by the living shed,
The quickened seed sends up its shoots,
Hiding the CORY dead.
Twining around the rusty gun,
Smoothing the rugged scene,
Clothing the wall of sullen stone
With mantle Of living green.
Where Vice and Ignorance taint the air,
This sower takes his stand,
And the seeds of knowledge stepped in Love,
He scatters with lavish hand.
Barren The soil and rough with thorns,
But the plant shoots up to light;
knowledge thrives, whilst Ignorance dies,
And Wrong gives place to Right.
By night, by day, on land, on sea,
He scatters the precious grain;
Trusting to God for the shining sun
And the quickening kiss of the rain.
Be the weather foul or the weather fair,
To this sower it matters not.
For The grain he scatters are leaden types,
And his field is the field of Thought.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
Two MANY DouBLEs.-A trial too

Two MANY DouBLEs.-A trial took
place in Lancashire, England, in which
man named Wood was a witness. Upon
giving his name, Ottiwell Wood, the Judge,
addressing him said: "Pray Mr.. Wood,
how do you spell your name"
Mr.. w. replied: 20 double I double
double double double d."
The Judgc laid down his pen and look
ed over his gold trimmed spectacles, and
said:
"Really, this is the most extraordinary
name ever met with"
After several subsequent attempts to re-
cord it, he was compelled to abandon the
effort, the Court in the meantime being
convulsed with laughter.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31
Mis1sllaneous.
MERE NERVOUSNESS.

A SKETCH FOR LIEGE LORDS.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-31

EA man in the finest suit Of clothes
is often a shabbier fellow than sno'oss
dressed.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-26

FIRST time they meet the enemy. They will
either not take the place, or they will not
come up to its requirements. 1t needs few
chances in ones favor to make him brave
danger and exhibit the phenomena called
coursge; and when going into battle is
equivalent to being led to execution, very
few indeed will care to put themselves. in the
way of glory at an expense so extravagant.
The ideas ofmany gentlemen in respect to
war are drawn from what they have OBJ
served of military psrades in the country
in which, perhaps, they may have partici-
pated. They suppose that on the occasion of
battle, it is the duty of the commanding
officer, dressed in full regimentals, and
mounted upon the gayest stallion of the
country, to ride some forty or fifty yards in
advance of his army, swinging his sword
around his head, inviting them to come on,
and cutting down those who venture to op-
pose their progress. 1t is probably ideas like
those that form the basis of the Gazstts's
knowledge of military affairs, and which
prompted its criticism of our paragraph in
respect to Colonel Baker.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-26

TIE ENGLISH WHEAT MARKET.-During
the eight months ending August 81, Great
Britain imported, from various countries,
wheat to the amount of nearly one hundred
million dollars. In the corresponding period
of 1860, only thirty-fve million dollars
worth was imported; and in 1859 forty mill
lion dollars worth. The entire importation
for eight months in 1859 was 1856, 246 quar-
teIs; for 1860, 252s, $40 quarters; and for 1861,
4,90S 208 quarters.
In 1859 we exported no wheat to Great
Britain. Russia and Prussia furnished to-
cether BIZ per cent of the total amount,
and France 37H per cent. In 1860 Prussia
supplied 81 per cent, Russia 49,. the United
States l51z, and France only per cent? of
the whole importation. In 1851 the United
States furnished (for eight months) 36H per
cent, Prussia IA, Russia l2}1, and France
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Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-26
The Gazette's Military.

The Gazette seems inclined to contradict
us in that we said of Colonel Baker--that
it might have been brave, but was not very
prudent in him to go into battle "dressed in
full regimentsls, and mounted on a splendid
charger, thus making himself a conspicuous
mark for the enemy's bullets' 1t may be
that the Gazette is right, and we should be
sorry to dispute SO learned an authority. II
struck US that the loss Of commanding Of.
ficer, even Of regiment, is more injurious
than the loss Of several men-involVing not
unfrequeDtly the generalization of his COM
mand, and the loss of maryland that, there
fore, such loss should, in every wsy consist
emily with discipline and efficiency, be
avoided. .- ar
We do not know what the army regula-
tions or the rules of the profession are in
such cases. Modern warfare has brought
into use muskets of longer range than here
tofore, and it seems certain that in every
battle where the parties are brought fairly
70 face each other, the mounted officers who
are conspicuous by their dress will fall. II
is said that one hundred Mississippi rife:
were pointed at Colonel Baker when ho fell
This may be an exaggeration, but there may
be some little truth as the foundation of tht
story. Now, how is this vast disparity O
risk on the part of officers to be avoided
Colonel Baker went into battle firmly b'
Ieving that he should be killed. but ho'
many are there who, with such convictio
strong upon them, will expose themselves
he is said to have done?
Men will not become ColOnels with d
knowledge that, by doing that which is e.
I,s.,1 Vi .Islu, theJ NM Inevitably ia.I a
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-26

A CORRESPONDENT of the Gazette, writing
from Marietta, details the processes by which
the Government is swindled by its officers,
in the purchase of horses-animals picked
up about the country at a cost of $50 to $50
being passed off at 500 to $l2O. Lord bless
you, Mr.. Correspondent it isn't necessary to
go all the way to Marietta to find that busi-
ness going on. 1t is being done all about us,
and some of our fellow-citizens here are said
to be making piles in the same trade. We
have heard of honest gains as high as $50, 900
upon one contract
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-26

THE more there is known of the affair near
Leesburg, in which Colonel Baker lost his
life, the less it looks like victory. In fact,
it begins to take the appearance of defeat
and pretty severe one at that. Who is to
blame, Of course nobody knows, although
somebody is supposed to be; andas the affair
is to be investigated, probably nobody will
be much wiser upon the subject than he is
now