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Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
How to make the Good Time Come.

Give all the editors "a dollar or two
to carry in their pockets, and hopeful
ray of mental sunshine will soon Tighten
up their depressed and desponding
spirits, and directly you may read in their
papers of ga favorable change in the
financial condition of the country. This
will induce the timid capitalists and
bankers to put out their funds, which
they have called in, manufacturers to
hoist the gates and start the wheels OF
their machinery, and thus give honor
able employment for honest hands
This will create demand for agricultu-
raj produce, for home consumption, put
money into the hands of farmers, and
they, in turn pay the printer, the store
keeper, the tailor, blacksmith and shoe
maker, and ''thc rest Of mankind. =
Try it!
There is no less money in the worlt
now, but much more than at any prev
Gus time. And all that is necessary t,
restore business, is simply to restore
confidence, and to put the money int
active circulation, that is now burie(
away or laying idle.
| If you owe the printer a dollar fo
his paper or for advertising, pay hin
promptly-the whole if you can, par
anyh0v, and he will, in turn, pay thos
to whom he is indebted, aud thu
throu shout all the ramifcations Of bust
ness, new life and activity would at ono
be manifested Send us a dollar or tw
and you can try Monmouth 1AEs.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Night in an American Desert.

| know of nothing in the world more
melancholy than those vast solitudes
seen on fine summers night, when the
moon, shining in the midst of the stars,
sends forth the reflection Of its silvery
light over this boundless plain. The
view is lost in pale twilight, with
an echo; light transparent mist how
ers in the space. Scorpions, in crawling
along, make their scales creak; large
green and yellow Lizards move slowly y
in the burnt grass. The melodious
murmuring of flowing waters is nowhere
heard, nor the joyful rustling of the
leaves. The birds having no branches
whereon to roost, enliven not the all
with their songs; the breeze whispers
not in the foliage; nothing disturbs the
silence of night unless it be the monot-
onous cri-cri of the solitary cricket
This silence oppresses, overwhelms you,
like the thought of the infinite. You
fancy yourself wrapt in shroud of Grape
which envelopes the whole world; fo1
life is only revealed by the twinkling Of
the stars; moving is only manifested by
the motion Of the moon pursuing its
tranquil course through the celestial
spheres. Nature seems plunged in an
awful slumber, dismal, mysterious, full
of sadness and pain, like the sleep o.
the dead in the presence of eternity
A6bc Elm DomJech.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
The Old Church at Alexandria.

4 letter writer from Alexandria says:
The next day we were enabled to ex-
anime the old church. 1t was built in
1856, of brick brought from England
A magnificent ivy festoons the rear and
the side adjoining the street. The in
terror has been much altered, except
the pulpit and pew in which Washing
ton sat. 1t has been kept in good re
pair, both within and without, and looks
comparatively new. On each side of
the pulpit-placed there when the
church was first erected-is marble
slab; on one engraved the Ten Command
ments, on the other, the Lords Prayer,
the Confession of Faith, and the Golden
Rule
On the left hand side near the pulpit,
is the square pew, just as when Washing
ton left it. With uncovered head we
entered and sat where he did, and
thought if "Angels and spirits of just
men made perfect could weep in the
paradise above, what burning tears he
must shed for his bleeding country.
From the vestry room the sexton
brought his family Bible, printed in
1772, presented to the ''pasish of Fair
fax" by George W. P. Custis.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20

In Mrs. Stoves new novel of ''The
Minister'S Wooing," )" occurs the follow,
ing beautiful passage:
| AS there was an hour when the fisher
men Of Gallilee saw their Master trans
figured, his raiment white and glistening
aud his face like the light, so are three
hours when our whole mortal life stands
forth in celestial radiance From our
daily lot falls off every weed of care,
from our heart friends every speck and
stain of earthly infirmity. Our horizon
widens, and blue, and amethyst, and
gold touch every object. Absent friends
and friends gone on the last journey
stand once more together, bright with
an immortal glow, and, like the disciples
who saw their Master floating in the
clouds above them, we say, "Lord it is
good to be here!'' How fair the wife,
the husband, the absent mother, the
gray haired father, the manly son, the
bright eyed daughter! Seen in the ac-
tual present. all have some fault; some
flaw; but absent, we see them in their
permanent and better selves. Of our
distant home We remember not a dark
day, not one servile care, nothing but
the echo of its holy hymns and the ra-
dance of its bright days-of our father,
not one hasty word, but only the full
ness of his manly vigor and noble ten
derness-of our mother, nothing of NOR
tai weakness, but a glorifed form of love
of our brother, not one teasing, pro
voking ward Of brotherly freedom, but
the proud beauty of his noblest hours
of our sister, our child, only what is
fairest and sweetest.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Black Days.


Have you ever known days that were
black? Have you ever known days in
which everything went wrong, as though
some invisible hand turned your whole
life topsy turvy? Did every sharp in
strument you handled pierce or cut you
of its own accord? Did some undis-
coverable individual throw your neatly
arranged work into confusion, and alb
stract the book in which you were deeply
interested? Did the current of your
thoughts, which usually flowed with
pleasant freedom, suddenly become stag
nant? Did the persons you least wish
to see force themselves into your pres
ence, and those you loved best remain
absent? Did you labor with more than
wonted zeal, yet accomplish nothing?
Such unbalanced days, when life seems
all game of cross purposes, will come
to most Of us; and how is their unholy
spell to be broken? Very often the
presence Of some being gifted with a
strong, pure heart, genial temperament
and sympathetic nature, will chase al
the shadows, restore serenity to the ruff:
fled temper, and evoke order out of con
fusion, even as the voice, the look Of
one single. angel can put to flight le
gion of evil spirits.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
An Honest GrOwl.

l am sick of politics. I am sick O
torchlight fzzles. [ am sick of "tht
Prince" am sick of men who mover
talk sense to women. / am sick ot
Hgloomy Pharisees, and wordy, idealess
sermons, and narrow creeds. [ am sick
OF lawless Sabbatarians, and female in
hdels, and free-lovers. | am sick of un.
healthy, diseased books, full of mystif.
cations and transcendental bosh. I am
sick of "chaste ribbons" and 'eravishing
lace [ am sick, in an age which pro-
duced a Bronte and Browning, of the
pirate of men who assert that every wo.
man should be perfect housekeeper,
and fail to add, that every man should
be perfect carpenter. I am as sick of
women self-styled 'literary," who think
sta proof of genius to despise everyday
household duties. I am sick of schools
for the manufacture of bent spines.
am sick of parents, the collins of whose
children are already being made, asking
teachers to add "another branch to the
already suicidal pile of lessons. I am
sick of over-worked, ill-poid female
operatives. I am sick of seeing tracts
distributed where soup and bread should
go. am sick of seeing noodles in high
places, and intelligence and refinement
sitting in glorious ease by their own
tresides. am sick of the encourage
ment held out to women by the other
sex to remain pretty idiots, followed by
long moral essays upon the enormity of
being such. I am sick of fummery and
nonsense and humbug and pretension of
every kind. am sick of this everlast-
ing scrambling, and crowding, and push
ing, and jostling, on the edge Of the five
feet of earth which is all any one of US
can have at last, after all our pains.
Now, don't lay this growl to indiges-
ton, for never had it, or biliousness,
for feel as if I were just made, OF long
arrears of unpaid bills. because 1 pay as
l go. No, sir-as the Episcopals have
1T, call this | do steadfastly believe. -
[ feel better.
FANNY FERN.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
True Patriot..-A Good Reason for
VOlunteerfmR

DIR. Sherwood of this city has Just re-
ceiyed letter from his SON, who was /.
teacher In out public schools, and had
gone to Indiana to spend the vacafio4,
from which we have been permitted to
make the following extracts. After ex-
plantations of some delay ia writing, he
says: =
And now I come to the serious part
Of my letter. scarcely know how TO-
tell it, but, an short, I have volunteered
for three year. | know this is rather
sudden news to come when you have
been looking for me to come home; but
know what my father is, and how he
feels, and think my action will meet
his full approval. / need not try to
disguise the fact that IL has taken con-
siderable meditation 10 bring myself ND,
to the scratch. The first great obstacle
which presented itself to my. mind was
the thought of leaving parents with
whom have always lived, and to whom
| owe all ! am or expect to be. Bat to
counterbalance this, comes the question,
"What are the ties of kindred worth If
the enemies of my country ara allowed
to triumph in this struggle" ard I can.
almost imagine that I hear the voice Of
our country calling for more men to
come to her assistance. So s.e
l have not been coaxed into this, but
it has been done from sense of. dig
If you have any serious objections to
my going, I shall not be s,corn in for
week, and you can mail an answer on
Wednesday, and I will get it on Friday,
but not if you mail it later. Our regi-
ment is going into camp at Anderson, on
the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad,
and if | can get furlough, I shall come
and see you. l shall stay here till Mon
day, September 9th. Please answer
Immediately, as 1 desire to know how
you feel on the subject. All my pay
will be sent to you, to use as you see fit.
Please hand in my resignation to the
School Board. Your afeetionate son,
j. E. s.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Judge Bate. ON M.nu., L.bos.

Judge Bates, in speech conanenae-
rating the death of a young member Of
the st. Louis bar, referred to the great
mortality of the profession, and added:
"Allow ME to suggest that there is n
lesson connected with this fact, " hich il
would be we'll for US to heed. We are
too attentive in our active and busy pur-
suits for fame and wealth-we are too
little attentive to the Keeping of a sound
mind in sound body. We sacrifice
the one thin@ in the hope Of raising tho
other. | will state, so far as regards
myself, that for nearly forty years, (anl
| [ believe laborcd as much as any man
ought to labor) I have made ii a rule to
work from one to three hours each day
in the garden, and thus, though my
star has long eliminated. and am 60
ing down the western slope of life With
increasing impetus, find myself in a
good state ut health, and [ attribute it
to the fact that have exercised my
arms to labor in tillins the earth on
small scale; and advise all my young
friends to do the same thing.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Extraordinary Discovery OF an Ancient
Printing Press I'm India. -

When Warren Hastings was Governor
General of India, he observed that in
, the district of Benares, little below the
surface of the earth, is to be found .
stratum of kind of fibrous, woody sub
stance, of various shicknesses, in hori-
zontal layers. Major Roebuck, in
formed of this, went out to spot where
the excavation had been made .display
ing this singular phenomenon. In Dig
ging somewhat deeper for the purpose
Of further research, they laid open =
vault, and on it movable types, placed
as if ready for printing. Every inquiry
was set on foot to ascertain the probable
j period at which such an instrument
could have been placed there, for it was
evidently not of modern origin, and from
all the Major could collect, i, appeared
probable that the place had remained
in the state in which it was found for at
least one thousand years. We believe
the worthy Major, on his return to Eng
land, presented one of the learned aaso-
| Citations with memoir containing many
curious speculations on the subject
! Paper we know to have been maAufac
tured in the East many centuries before
we had any knowledge of it; and we had
many reasons to think that the Chinese
had been acquainted with the mode Of
printing they now employ many centu-
ries before Faust invented it in Europe.
1t certainly does no credit to the insen-
| tive genius of the Romans, to know that
while they approached SO near as to'en-
grave, in style not to be eaualled IN
the present age, on gems and stones,
and, Of course, the taking of impress
sions from them, that they should stiH
have remained ignorant fthe art whicls
has bestowed so many blcssings'oE mar
| kind
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Whales and Flint.

It is well known that flint occurs il
nodules or globular masses scattered
through beds of chalk, and the orr gir
of these nodules was long a mystery
But the microscope has unraveled it.
On grinding down piece of flint to al
exceedingly thin lamina, and placing i
under the microscope, it is found to con.
sist Of organic matter, spicules Of
sponges and valves and fragments of an
organism that has been the subject of q
great deal of discussion, the order oi
diatoms or diatomacea.
1t We take a small drop of water,
from almost any stagnant pool, drop it
upon thin plate of glass, cover it with
another thin plate, and place, it under a
compound microscope, we shall find it
filled with little green crescent shaped
organisms, SO small as to be entirely in
visible to the naked eye, and swimming
about in their tiny pond on the glass
These belong to the order of diatomace@,
which embraces many other kindred
forms of microscopic organisms. The
name comes from the Greek dia
(through) and ten,eo Ito cleave,) from,
the fact that those forms which grow
into clusters may be easily cut or broken
through. For the same reason they
are called ''brittle worts." Ehrenbsre,
the father Of microscopy, called them
animals, but nearly all the English and
American microscopists regard it as en-
tirely settled that they are Vegetables
One of our importing merchants-Mr.
Edwards-before he embarked in mer-
camille pursuits, devoted several hours
a day for more than ten years of his life
to the study of the diatomacea.
1t is found that a diatom is simple
cell covered with an exceedingly thin
scale Of silex, which is the principal in
gredient of flint. In some portions Of
the ocean these minute vegetables are
found in incenceivable multitudes, and
they form the food of soft, jelly like
moluscous animals. Some Of these null
usca, as the salpad@, roam though the
ocean in such countless hosts, that the
water is sometimes found to be thick
with them for many degrees of latitude.
The salpada feed upon the diatomS,
and whales upon the salpade. The
mass of the diatoms is digested in the
stomachs of the salpada, but their
sillicious envelopes are almost wholly
indestructible. They pass through the
stomachs of the salpada, and through
the stomachs, arteries, veins and intes
tines of the whales without injury
When they are dropped in faecal pellets
by the whales, if these pellets happen
to fall upon broken mass of coral
which is hardening into bed of chalk,
the soft mass closes over them, and they
become nodule of flint! In the pro-
cess of time, the chalk bed Is heaved up
from the bottom of the ocean by the
force of the internal fires, the chalk is
quarried from the cliff, the flint nodules
are extracted and broken up to be fitted
into the locks of muskets, for the pur-
pose of enabling human beings to blow
the souls out Of each other. Thus, in
the course of long ages in the destiny
of the ancient diatom ful6lled.-.Scien-
ifc american.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
A0etrp.
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
THE NATIONS SILENCE.
BY BURNS JUNIOR.

Pause, ye nation, pause and think,
This silence is not death:
A mighty power on ruins brink
Is. nervous as q breath.
Then hold the heart in tender tune,
For soon some latent heat
Will warm its darkest, coolest room,
And muffied drums will beat.
Hush-e'en now my fancy hears
Their rolling echoes come
The smoke unto her view appears
Her fear is dread and lone.
Another of gore and blood ss r-lA-~@-s,s
Must be enacted soon;
Such rains to fall without food,
We burst not once presume.
The great event which seals our fate,
Which makes us rich, or poor,
Has cast this shadow, grand and great,
And cast it just before
The mighty stroke, which turns the scale,
Which brings the captive's glee,
Or which will lodge in iron chains
The freest of the free.
Then, wait! in silent patience, wait
Great loads our cannons bear,
And when they speak-and soon they will
The spoken word is Var!
This silence, then, as still as night,
And solemn as her frown,
Is but Vesuvius' gathering might
10 hurI the despot doaen!
Fond Retreat, o., Sept. 13, 1861.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Gov. Todd's Letter of Accept
anCe,

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 9th, 1861.
Hon. David Todd-Dear Sir:-zI have
the honor to inform you that you were
unanimously and most enthusiastically
nominated candidate for Governor, at
the Peoples Union Convention, held in
this city yesterday, and it is to be hoped
that you will speedily signify your ac-
ceptance of the position in such manner
as may be consonant with your judg-
ment
With sentiments of high regard, &c.
THOS. EWING. President
J. NJ. CoFFINBERY, Sec'y
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
A. KOHL.

Dealer in and Manufacturer of Umbrel- <T~
.as. He holds himself in readiness toSST
make Umbrellas to order, or repair old *
ones in the most substantial manner lie will
!, also, buy worn-out Umbrellns at liberal prices
Shop On Linn street, north of Smiths Shoe
Store. ~,
He would also inform the public that he pre-
pares SALVE, which he will warrant equal
to any in use, for the cure of Felons, Catarrhs,
Burns, Bruises, Sprains, Cuts, Salt Rheum,
Ring Worm, Rheumatism, White Swellings,
and many other diseases of the kind. Price.
25 cents per Box. Jan. 8, 1860-3-1tf-
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
ssg-"That is a new article for beaut

a@~"That is a new article for beauti-
flying the complexion" said Mr.. Bib,
holding up a small bottle for Mrs. Part
ington to look at. She looked up from
toeing out wooden sock, and took the
bottle in her hand. els it, indeed?
said she; well, they may get up ever SO
many of these rostrums for beautifyins
the complexion, but, depend upon it,
the less people have tc do with the bot
tie for it the better. My neighbor, Mrs
Blotch, has been using bottle good
many years for her complexion, and hei
nose looks like rupture of Mount Fo
ciferous, with the burning lather run
ming all over the contagious territory
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
"Ho,v nre You going to get Them Back'"

This is the stereotyped interrogatory
of Secessionists when speaking Of the
seeded States and restoration of peace.
They are "back" already. When the
traitors and precipitators have been
subdued and punished, the men they
have deceived will be quite willing to
obey the laws and Constitution. The
majorities that were overawed by vio-
lence, will go on and elect their civil
officers, and administer the affairs of
State as they did before the failure of
Breckenridge to be elected President
The JEFF. Davis constitutions and ordi-
nances of Secession are mere cobwebs
which the spiders of Secession have
woven over the Constitution. The Gov
ernmcnt will sweep them away, and the
Constitution will remain in its original
vigor and purity. The great mass of
the people will become tired of politi-
clans and their ruinous schemes, and
will return to their allegiance with
threefold alacrity and fidelity.
That's how We are "going to get them
back Ky. Commonwealth.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Keeping the Law.
d Quaker, who had a n
reference:

There was an old Quaker, who had IN
unfortunate reputation of non resistance.
1t was said that any one could jostile
him, tread on his toes, or twcak his
nose with impunity; until one market
day a clustering fellow, being told
that yonder was Il man who, if he was
smitteu on one cheek, would turn the
other also, thought it would be sport to
try him. Stepping up to the sturdy,
good -natured Friend. he slapped his
face. The old man looked at him sor-
rowfully for moment, then slowly
turned his other check, and received
another buffet. Upon that he coolly
pulled off his coat II have cleared
the law" said he, land now thee must
take it, And he gave the cowardly
fellow a tremendous thraahins,
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
j. w. c.. STACKPOLE
POMEROY. o.,

MANUFACTURES to order, of the best ma
lYA terial and workmanship,
Stationary Steam Engines,
Sac and Grist HILL Crqmks, Spindles,
Gndgcons, shafting Pulleys, Spur s. Bevel
Wheels, &C.. SC.
Also Iron and Brass Castings, Forgings for
Coal and Salt Works, and heavy Trip Hammer
Forgngs
Plows, Plow Points, Wagon Boxes and Hol-
low ware constantly on hand.
Repairing for Steamboats, and Mills done at
short notice.
OF IL 1SG0-40-tf.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
Young America Abroad.

Edmond About, in his new book, the
''King of the Mountain, gives the fol-
lowing account of John Harris, an ad.
venturer in Greece: f....-..s..
The first time I saw this strange fell
low I comprehended Am ,rica. John
was born at Vandalia, in Illinois. He
hailed at his birth that air of the Now
World, so vivacious, SO sparkling, and
so brisk, that it goes to the head like
champagne wine, and one gets intoxi-
Gated in breathing it. l know not
whether the Harris family are rich or
poor; whether they sent their son to coll
lege or left him to get his own sduca-
ton. 1t is CERTAIN that at twcnty-se
years, he depends only on himself, is as
tonished at nothing, thinks nothingsim
possible, never Hinehes, believes all
things, hopes all things, tries all things,
triumphs in all things, and rises up
again if he falls, never. stops, never
looses courage, and goes right ahead
whistling his tune. He has been a
farmer, school master, lawyer,
| journalist, a gold hunter, seen every
thing, practiced everything, and travelled
over more than half the globe. When I
made his acquaintance he was COM
n,anding steam yacht in the Piraeus,
with sixty men and four guns; he was
discussing the Oriental question in the
North American Rerie'e; he was doing
business with an indigo house in Cal
cutta, and he found leisure three or
four times week to dine with u.s.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-20
PIANOS! PIANOS!

T WILL furnish Pianos or Melodeons as low as per-
J. sons can buy them in the cities. l will put up.
tune, and kcepin order all Pianos Melode0ns sold
by me, and guarantee them for two years. Time
given good security. l deal in the following
make of Pianos:
~ J. & C. FISHER. New York;
HALLETT & DAVIS, Boston;
e HURTSMAN & HINE Buff;
- tB0ARDMAN IL GRAY, Alb;
CHlCKERINGf. Boston;
And GEO. A. PRINCES Melndeona.
.H GIVE me a call, or write to me before you buy.
All letters addressed to P. 9RuKER, PomerOy, O..
will meet with prompt attention. -
Oct. 10, 1S60.-4l-Iy. $50.