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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-04-30

CENTRALOHIO R.R.
Between Columbus and Wheeling,
CONNECTING VIA
Bellaire and Pittsburgh
WITH THE
Pennsylvania Central R. R.
BELLAIRE & WHEELING
BALTIMORE AND OHIO r R.
Washington City, Baltimore,
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK,
Boston, and All Eastern Cities.
THIS Route offers the ADVANTAGE of a
/ Through Ticket and Baggage Check to
| WASHINGTON CITY, and also gives the Pas
senger the privilege of visiting BALTIMORE,
PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK, at the cost
of New York Ticket alone; or the privilege
of visiting all of the principal SEABOARD
CITIES at the cost of BOSTON Ticket alone
via other routes.
Through Tickets to NEW YORK can be pro-
cured via WASHINGTON CITY, at an sddi-
tional expense of 81.
Time as Quick and Fare as Low as on
Other Routes.
SLEEPING CARS ON ALL NIGHT TRAINS
ASK FOR TICKETS VIA
e. o U m b u N d B e IL al r G
or wheeling
JNO. W. BROWN.
April 30, 1862. Gen. Ticket Agent.
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Master Commissioners Sale.
Isaac D Warner,
against
John Y. Shafsr and Others.

John Y. Shafsr and others
BY virtue of a mandate to me directed from
the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe Coun-
ty. Ohio, l will offer for sale at public auction,
at the front door of the court house, in the
town of Woodsfeld, in said county, between
the hours OF ten o'clock a. H.. and four O'Clock
p. M, on
Saturday. the 24M day Of May, 1852.
the following real estate, situats in said coun'
ty, to wit
The south end of the east half of the north
west quarter of section fifteen, in township
four, and range six, containing forty-foul
acres more or less.
Appraised at $500
JOEL +. RANDOLPH, Mas. Com.
Monroe Common Pleas,
April %, 1862. -ss,a0,
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The Cabinet Troubles.

The Philadelphia Ledger, in referring
to the rumored resignation of Secretary
Stanton, says:
The above rumor is probably prema-
ture, but it points to q conclusion which
seems very likely to happen. Mr.. Lin
coin, it is said, does not approve of the
manner in which Mr. Stsnton is represent-
ed to have rejected the advice of our be I
Generals, aud insisted on carrying on the
campaign according to his own ideas
Az an illustration of the disastrous re,
cults following from this system, it may be
mentioned that the pushing of Banks
across the Potomac was done, it is al.
legged, in the face of q decided opposition
ou the part of General Mcclellan II
may now be safely mentioned that it was
part of McCleilan's original plan to move
on Richmond while the enemy was still at
Manassas, and to cut them off and capt
ure them When be found that Backs
was to be made independent of him and
sent over the Potomac, he protested
against it, point out that such measure
would result in the Immediate evacuation
of Manassas, aud that the plan of the
campaign would be altogether broken up.
The event has justified the prediction
The troubles in the Cabinet, it is said.
grew out Of this difference of views in
regard to the Virginia campaign. Mr..
Lincoln bimself supporting Gen. McClel-
lan's plans Such difference cannot ex-
ist without leading to result such as the
above -umor probably anticipates.
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Donation Visits

The Springfield RspublicGn lcyotes an
admirable editorial to the consideration Of
the subject of donation visits to minister's.
1t inveighs severely against regarding the
gifts made at these visits in the light of
pay for services, and thus putting the min
ster in the light of a beggar, instead of
one who has fairly earned his stipend 1t
closes thus
Ministers ought to be treated like
men. The time has gone by for consider
ing them class separate and distinct from
the rest of humanity, They have the
same wants and necessities as the rest of
US, and the same means Will supply them
there is no objection, of course, to making
your minister present, as yeu would any
other friend, and the greater the value Of
such gift the better, if you can afford it.
But let him feel that it is free-wiIl cffer-
ing, a token of affection, and not that
something which may be of no pecuniary
value to him is being forced on him as a
part of his salary. This is the objectiona.
Bile feature of donation visits, as at pres
ent conducted in many places the gifts
are made to represent value which they
do not possess, and are used for the pay.
ment Of just dues for the liz uidation O.
which they are insufficient The very
thought of paying minister bis hard earn
ed wages in such manner should bring
the blush of shame to the cheek of any
man who wishes to be. thought honorable
or just. The proper name for such a pro
ceeding is cheating, and SO men would
consider 1t in reference to any one else bu
the minister. There has been a great i'm
provement in this matter of donation visit.
within the past few years, but there i,
still room for more. especially in country
parishes. If they could be abolished alto
gether, it would be a benefit to the people
in more respects than one, and the favora
BILE result on the pocket and self-respect O
the minister would be almost beyond esti
mate" a
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Carrying Pa His Dinner.

As we plod wearily along through this
busy world, with these tender bodies and
feeling hearts of ours, exposed on either
hand to disease and accidents which lay
waste the one, and sorrows which crush
the other, we, every now and then, meet
with incidents which touch the hardest
heart and leave lifelong impressions.
One such comes to our recollection at
this writing, which is worthy of public
mention. A sweet, active little girl, of
some seven or eight years, was accustomed
to carry to her father, who was laborer
in one of our depots, some part of his dai-
" meals. One evening as she was return
ing just at dusk, she dropped her pail by
the wayside to amuse herself with some
matter which had attracted her childish
attention. Thoughtless of danger, and
busy with her play, she halted on one of
the many railroad tracks that crossed her
paul, anu ~ cue uush; was HOb ulscuNCi Gu
by the engineer, who just then passed with
his engine, until it had run over and man
gled her in most shocking manner.
On the following day, we were by her
beside, with her physician. She was fee
Bile, but conscious and vigilant, and in her
debility suffered but little pain. Her left
arm was so mangled at the shoulder that
the physician took it away and passed it
from the bed under the clothing in such a
manner that she did not know that she
had lost an arm Efforts were then made
to remove the clothing from the right arm,
which was crushed and distorted SO as not
to have any resemblance of an arm feel
ing twinge of pain, sire raised her head,
and, for the first time, discovered that she
was armless. Looking an instant at her
armless sheulder-the arm gone-she turn
ed her head and saw the shapeless right
arm. and supposed that too must soon be
taken from her, she looked up anxiously
with an expression of great regret, and il
a most piteous voice. exclaimed !; "Oh.
ma! how can I carry pa bis dinner nos0 ,
We are no lacrbymose. in the main; WE
have little fellow feeling for those who are
pumping for our tears, nor do We sympa-
thize deeply with those whose fountains O
grief are so shallow that their tears ripple
ever the lids with every gust of sorrow
but we envy net the stoical soul that
could withstand such provocation unmoved
It has been our lot many times to wit
ness these scenes Of innocent suffering anc
they always awaken thoughts and inqui
ries which we can scarcely answer bu
we remember none more affecting than tn
one Just related The mangled frame 0
the innoeen. little sufferer; her calmnes
and patience the thought that it had beer
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WATERToWN, WISCONSIN, MARCH 81, 1862.

such degree against the suspected man
as to leave little doubt that he was deep
dyed criminal
That Sabbath, when Mother BIS seal
IN church was vacant, and the report buz
zed through the aisles that before daylight
that morning ber son had been lodged in
Jail will never be forgotten.
do not remember to have seen her
again in church again after that fatal morn
ing. Once in while her form, seeming
ly seized with sudden decrepitude, could
be seen vending slowly to the prayer meet
ing and one scene in that circle will new
er pass from the memory of those who had
witnessed it. After an oppressive silence,
when opportunity was given for remarks,
Mother B. arose in her seat, and with cho-
king utteranee said to the assembly, 8 Oh.
pray for my poor boy, and pray for me
that may bear the will of God" There
was little audible prayer in response for
hardly any one could speak. But if ever
fervent and concerted intercession went
up to the throne of the pitying God for a
mortal, it was when that weeping auditory
prayedi in silence for that broken hearted
widow and her wayWard son.
{ A few weeks passed, and we missed her
on the street; and the mufhled door bell
the frequent visits of the physician S chaise
at the door limited but too plainly the drea-
ry catastrophe of this great sorrow.
The communion season at her bedside a
few days before her death, the erring son
was present, permitted to go from prison
for last visit to his mother,-Will be a
monument among nay pastoral recollec-
tions. Up to this last interview she had
cherished faint hope of his innocence, as
he had pleaded I" Not Guilty" before the
jury, But in secret interview before the
sacramental service, she had adjured him
as dying woman to disclose to her the
truth, and he had confessed to her bis deep
guilt. What else transpired in that secret
interview, of admonition and prayer and
contrition, none but God and that wander
ing son can tell.
Not many days elapsed, and a messen-
ger summoned me at an early hour from
my chamber to the death bed of Mother
B.; the power of speech had almost left
her; but as I rose from MY knees after
commending her departing spirit to God,
she pressed my hand eenvulsively and
said " Good bye, good bye-my heart is
broken--my heart is broken
A few more pulse-throbs, and the bro
ken heart of Mother B. had found the
balm of Gilead.
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Baby Talk.

! am, generally speaking, well disposed
toward the language of my own, my ma
tive land Indeed [ have rather warm
affection for it than otherwise for is it
not the constant and laborious writing
thereof procures me my bread. my gar
ments, my tobacco, and beer? It is then a
matter of seeious concern to me. that
this language is rapidly degenerating, =
| hear nobody speak 1t correctly. The
conversation of intelligent people, even, is
a jargon of the most painful quality. On
ly yesterday l heard Parent say TO a
child, in moment of instructive wrath
''1'll learn yer ter tork bad grammer l"-
Comment is superfuous. | believe that
the great trouble lies in our early training.
The lesson is instilled into our young and
plastic minds while yet the bib, the cradle
and the diaper are our familiar surround
ings. produce far deeper impression than
many latter learned tasks The pre-
vious, in word stand greviovsly in the
hoary abuse, that time hononored falsity,
baby talk. I am sadly aware that | am
at this moment sowing the seeds of miser5
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her chief delight from day to day to have
the hour arrive when she could "earry pa
bis dinner; her regret, expressed in both
look and word, that she could never 90 on
that pleasant errand again: these coupled
with the thought that she had not long to
live made up case which was peculiarly
affecting.
She never carried pa bis dinner more.
She fingered little, still filed with this,
to her, all absorbing regret, and passed
away-went to that land where the weary
rest; nor do they hunger more; where
children have been invited to 90 and
where they play by the wayside unmoles-
ted; and it may be fancy. but we still
love to believe that her delight is still to
bring food to her parents from that am
brosial land to which she has gone, food
which is better than the perishing meats
which she SO delighted to carry here
Sandushy Register.
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Consumption.

What more impressive picture of Con-
sumption was ever painted than this by
Theodore Parker:
Consumption having long since slain all
my near klnsfolk horsed on the North
wind, rode at me also, seeking my life
Swiftly fed hither, hoping in this little
quiet and fair-skied Island of the Holy
Cross to hide me from its monstrous sight,
to pull its arrows from my flesh and
heal my wounded side.
Or when was the delusive hope that
browns the football of the pail messenger
with sweetest singing ever more impress
iyely set forth /: -
know well both the despond ency Of
sick men that makes the night seem dark
er than it is, and also the pleaing illusion
which fits before consumptive patients, and
while this Will-o'the-wisp comes Pickering
from their kindred grave. they think it is
the breaking of new and more ausp;c-
ious day. As indeed it is, the Day-spring
from on high. revealing the white, tall
porches of Eternity Said one to US as be
laid bis hand in emphasis on the white
counterpane. They say I have the con-
sumption-there are no healthier lungs ii
the country than my ownl In three hour:
the red lebes that had been so long with
ering aud rusting Ike a frost touched leaf
were motionless not futter of life
/ should ever stir them again he was dead
An Honest LIFE The poor pittanct
OF seventy years is not worth being vii
lain for. What matter is it if your ne; gh
Dor lies in splendid tomb Sleep you
with innocence. Look behind you through
the track of time A vast desert lies op
en- in retrospect; wearied with years ant
sorrow, they sink from the walks Of man
You must leave them where they fall, ant
you are to 90 little further and you vii
fnd eternal rest. Whatever you may bav,
to encounter between the cradle and tn
grave. every moment is big with events
which comes not in succession, but burst
ing forcibly from revolving and unknown
cause, fly OYER this orb with diversified in
huence.
l% We embark in the cradle for
long voyage /; in the coffin for longer one
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away from them; who rejoice to cut ot
any little enjoyment-rigidly carrying ou
into practice the fundamental principle o
their creed, which undoubtedly is tha
nobody should ever please himself, Meth
er should anybody ever please anybod,
else, because in either case he is sure Il
displease God. No doubt Mr.. Buckle
in his second volume, caricatured and mis-
represented the religion of Scotland, as {
country; but he did not in the least de-
gree caricature or misrepresent the reig
ion Of some people in Scotland The great
doctrine of all doctrines in the creed of few
unfortunate beings is, that God is spite
fully angry to see his creatures happy. and
of course the practical lesson follows that
they are following the best example, when
they are spitefuily angry to see their chill.
dren Eappy.
Then great trouble, always pressing
heavily on little mind. is that it is over.
tasked with lessons You will see hero
and there idiotic parents trying to make
infant phenomena of their children, and
recording with much pride how their chill
dren could read and write at an unnatu-
rally early age. Such parents are fools
not necessary malicious fools, but fools be-
yond question, The great use to which
the first six or seven years of life should
be given is the laying the foundation to a
healthful constitution in body and mind =
and the instilling of those first principles
of duty and religion which do not need to
be taught out of any books. Even if you
do not permanently injure the young brain
and mind by permanently everlasting them
even if you do not permanently blight
the bodily health and break the minds
cheerful spring, you gam nothing. Your
child at fourteen years old is not bit
more advanced in his education than a
child who began ski years after him; and
the entire result of your stupid driving has
been to overcloud some days which should
have been the happiest days of his life.
believe that the real depression Of
spirits usually sad heritage of after-years,
is often felt in very early youth. It some
times comes to the child's belief that he
must be very bad, because he is SO fre-
quently told that be is so. 1t sometimes
GENES of the child's fears, early felt, as to
what is to become of him. His parent,
possibly with good sense and kind feelings
which distinguish various parents, have ia.
ken pains to drive it into the child, that il
his father should die, he will certainly
starye, and may very probably bec3me a
wondering beggar. And these sayings
have sunk deeply into the little heart.
remember how friend told me that his
constant wonder, when he was twelve CT
thirteen years old, was this: If life was
such burden already, and SO miserable to
look back upon, how could be ever bare ii
when he had grown older?-The Country
Gentleman
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for myself, am mourning the wrath Of
the matrons of America, But / cannot
he p it. 1t is not that love matrons less,
but language more. How can a child
just learning the use of the larnyx, pbar-
ynx, asophagus and epiglottis. attain to
correcness in a language which he has
never heard spoken? How can he learn
to recognize as foot that member which
he has never heard mentioned only as a
teotsey?
What connection can this vague and un-
sophisticated mind discern between his
hand and ball? What would you think,
were your servant to announce the evening
meal to yourself and family in the obscure
formula of "wantee tuppers ?" Yet we
naltreat our offspring. The child, habit
ually addressed in this way, is bewildered.
1t opens its little round eyes. partly in as
tonishment, partly in grief, at the sudden
idiocy of its nurse or parent, but finishes
by adopting the idiom and the idiocy to-
gcther. In order to learn that certain
animal is called dog,it must have wrong
uition of calling it a bow-bow. In order
to acquir clean and clear pronounciation,
it must bumpee itty headee, mumuur itty
BOSOM, soee sood, Can anything be more
melancholy to one Who loves the well of
English undefled ~ Tanity Far.
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Sererf Ppefpl1.
REP ED FAD
BY MRS. A. F. GROVER.

7 was evening; in her cottage home
The widow was alone;
Without the dreary autumn wind,
With low and sullen moan,
In ftful eddies whirled and tore
The vine leaves from the cottage door.
A few short months before that eve,
Her husband, true and brave.
Had joined the gallant patriot band,
Our c6untry's rights to save;
From her blue eyes he kissed the dew,
Then bade his gentle wife adieu.
He fell upon the battle field,
Her best and only love-
He led the dreadful charge, and fell!
Poor bleeding, suffering dove,-
It seemed at first she must have died;
God only knows how she was tried.
She sits beside the cradle-bed,
Where sleeps her only joy;
And ever and anon she bends
To kiss her sleeping boy
Her tears fall thickly mid his curls
And glisten there like lustrous pearls.
Hush! bark, q knock!-the widow starts.-
Her cheek with crimson glows;
Back to her heart the surging blood
In icy torrents flows.
"Ahme," she sighs, he'll come no more
Why should fear to ope the door?''
An aged man with silyery hair
Without the portal stood, -Es-
And shiYering there in futtering rags,
He begged for rest and food.
Sweet pity warns her tender breast,
She bids him come and be her guest.
Now, seated by the genial fire,
While she prepares his meal,
From out those wild and shaggy locks
His furtive glances steal;
He notes the wasted dropping form,
The pale cheeks once with roses warm.
Ny darling!n said mellow voice.
With breathless lip she turned,
And on the wanderers sunburnt face
Her tightening glances burned;
Her changing eyes intense in hue,
Her breath in quick short gasps she drew
Swift as flash the long white hair,
The coat, the cap, the staff,
We're lying on the cottage floor
Then, with a ringing laugh,
He snatched her to his throbbing breast.
And on her lips soft kisses prest.
Look up, dear wife-it is no dream.
Sweet wife, l am not dead.
l, weak and wounded, fainting fell
Upon the earth's cold bed;
And tho they mourned their comrade slain
l woke to life and you again.
But l have been prisoner long;
Thank GodI I'm free once more
Once more restored to love and home;
Ourssufferings all are Ger.
Look up and smile. my own dear wife,
My kisses warm shall give thee life.
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Sorrows Of Childhood.
BY THE COUNTRY PARsON.

| There are parents who deliberately lay
themselves out to torment their children,
There are two classes of parents who are
most inexorably cruel and malignant
1t is hard to say which class excels, but it
is certain that both exceed all ordinary
mortals. One is utterly blaekguard .
the parents about whom there is no good
or pretence of good. The other is the
wrong-headedly Conscientious aud religious;
probably, after ALL there is greater rancor
and malice about these last than any other
These act upon system of unnatural re-
preston, and systamatized wedding out of
all enjoyment from life. These are the
people whose very crowning act of hatred
and malice towards any one is to pray for
him These are the people who, if their
children complain of their bare and ioyless
life, say that such complaints indicate
wicked heart, or Satanic possession and
have recourse to further persecution to
bring about happier frame of mind
Yes, the wrong headed and ong-hearted
religionist is probably the very worst type
of man or woman on whom the sun looks
down. And, Oh how sad to think of the
fashion in which stupid, conceited, maIic-
ious bloekheads set up their own worst
passions as the fruits of the workings Of
the Blessed Spirit, and caricature. to the
lasting injury Of lnanya a young heart, the
pure religion of the Blessed Redeemer :
These are the folks who infict systimatic
and ingenious torment on their children );
and, unhappily, avery contemplate parent
can inAict much suffering on sensitive
child.
You may find parents who, having start
ed from humble origin, have attained to
wealth, and who, instead of being glad to
think their children are better off than
themselves were, exibit diabolical jeal-
ousy of their children. You will find such
wretchcd beings insisting that their chill
dren shall go through needless trials and
mortifeations. because they themselves
went through the ike. Why, I do not
hesitate to say that the thought that
would most powerfully lead worthy man
to value material prosperity would be the
thought that his beys would have fairel
and happier start in life than he had, and
would be saved the many difficulties OF
which be still looks lack with pain. You
will find parents of the pharisaical and
wrong -headedly religious class, who seem tt
hold it sacred duty to make the little
things unhappy; who Systematically en-
deavor to render life as bare, ugly and
wretched thing as possible; who never
praise their children when they do right
but punish them with great severity wher
they Go wrong but who seem to hate tt
see their children living so cheerful in thei
presence; who thoroughly rebel all sym
pathy or confidence on the part Of thei
children. and then mention as to proof tha
their children are possessed by the devI
that their children always like to ge