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The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-04-15
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FLORENCE SEFTON.
A Tale Of Border Warfare in 1912
BY MISS b. GARTLAND
CHAPTER |.

CHAPTER l.
"DO not move tho boat from under the
shadow of these trees, said a tall figure,
OIL night in August, 1872, az lie sprang
lightly from small boat on the waters of
the Niagara, to its high bank MY stay
will be brief, and this place seems too Sc
cuded to be in danger of attracting notice.
81 will keep her in the shade, sir, if you
wish" said the person addressed, Il man
apparently about forty or forty-tive years
of age, with cheerful, sunburned cOun-
tenance, a clear, piercing gray eye, above
the middle hight, 'his frame apparently
combining great strength with elasticity.
lie wore the dress of an American rifle
man--a green cotton shirt and trowsers of
the same material, trimmed with yellow
fringe, the upper garment reaching below
the knee, and confined round the waist
with Il leathem belt, to which was attached
q cartouch box. He was fully armed; for,
besides his trusty rifle, which lay across
the seats in the boat, he had pair of pis-
tolls thrust into his belt. 81 will keep her
in the shade, if you wish but, if We only
had four or five of our good marksmen with
us, should not fear to be discovered by
half score of Brooks men,"
but you know, Gotiieb, was the reply
4" that do not wish to be engaged in any
skirmish tonight; SO you will do as de-
sire" And, folding a large military cloak
round his person-ior, although it was the
middle of August, the night, rs is often the
case in our variable climate, was damp and
cool-he pursued his way, keeping his path
by the river, and was soon lost 10 the view
of the marksman who stood with folded
arms gazing after him.
Yes, there he goes" muttered he to
himself, rs noble Il fellow rs ever drew a
sword for his country, if it was not for his
folly in falling in love with that English
gal. To be sure, she was born here; but
what signifies that when she is relation
of old Isaac's, and her father and all his
kith and kin are real EHgliSherS? All but
her brother, had most forgot him. They
say he is fine lad and, in spite of his
father, has joined the army under Van x
but, if he does no better than old Hull, the
poor boy might as we'll have stayed at
home, for all the credit he'll gain under
such gineral. By Jabers, it was too bad
to keep us a whole month in Canady doing
nothing, when we might have marched
down to Maiden, beaten the Britishers. and
had the whole province by this time, in
stead of being led back 10 Detroit like so
many April fools. But, howsolndever, if,
as he says, lie only wants TO take Brock and
his men at one stroke, when they follow us
to Detroit, and let them see then what our
brave boys can do, why mayhap it may all
end WELL
Then. musng for a time, he added
AS for the gal, it's more her misfortin
than her fault that she has such relations,
To be sure, she is pretty critter, aud if
Captin Howell will take to her, why there's
10 help fer it as | knows on. Well, well. "
] sGen. Van Rensselaer,, stationed at LewistOwn.
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! further up into the thicket, came leaping
and barking furiously towards them
Down, Nestor down, sir !" said Howell
But instead Of minding his master, hc
again ran to the thickct. and in few mo-
ments, returned again, barking violently
but, as no came near, he put his head to the
ground and commenced low whin ny,
looking up piteously into llowell's face, and
then returned again to the thicket.
" lie has seen some animal in tho bushes -
said Howell IL will place you in safety
dear girls, and then return to see what it is II
There is no occasion for that said
Florence. Only call the dog back, and
let us Join papa. Nester Nostor she
cried but Nestor did not come.
IL is, perhaps, only y fcX,' Howell re-
marked. al do not think bear woulG
venture so near the town"
And, hurrying the young ladies' forward
TO the rest of the company, he called Henry
to follow; but Henry, who was arming
himself with good stout club Of hickory
was like Ncstor he did not choose to FOL.
low, notwithstanding Florence kept calling
on him to do so.
" He will be in no danger said Howell
seeing how faint and pale Mary Aylmor
looked -" the deg will keep the animal at
bay until wo can assist him"
On hearing Howelrs account, Colonel
Seton broke large branch from the tree
above him, saying:
&C. will leave you to guard the ladies',
Mr.. Meredith; ; and, with Howell aud Henry
to help mo, to say nothing of Nestor, we
shall soon dislodge the enemy
" Do DO careful, Gerald, said Mrs. Seton.
u DO not fear my love- he replied and
then added, laughingly, 1--WE will soon
return, fair ladies', like valiant knights, to
lay our trophies at your feet He thcn
followed Howell alta quick pace toward the
thicket.
In tho meantime" said Mr. Meredith.
let me, too, find sturdy pieco of oak, to
give tho enemy a salute, should he be driven
this way And he began stripping the
leaves from large stick he had broken of.
TO RE CONTINUED.
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sslett sNistrllanp.
Position I'm SIcepiny,

1t is better to go to bod on tho right side.
for then tho stomach is very much in the
position of bottle turned upside down,
and the contents of it are aided in passing
out 10y gravitation. if one goes to sleep
on the left side tho operation of emptying
the stomach of its contents is more like
drawing water from well. After going
to sleep let the body take its own position
If you sleep on your back, especially soon
atctr hearty meal, the weight of the di-
gestive organs. and that of the food, rest
ing on the great vein of the body. near the
backbone congresses it, and arrests the
flow of the blood moro or loss. If tho ar
rest is partial the sleep is disturbed, and
there are unpleasant dreams. If the meal
has been recent and hearty the arrest is
moro decided and tho various sensations,
such as falling over precipco or the pur-
suit of n wild beast, or other impending
danger and the desperate effort to get rid
OF ii, arouscs rs, and sends on the stagua-
tod blood and we wake in fright or
trembling, or persplration, or feeling of OK
haustion, according to tho degree of stag.
natiCn, and tho length and strength of the
efforts made to escape the danger But
when wo are not able to escape the dan.
ger-when we do fall over the precipice-
| Nh'h llo lhIubIlilS bullllIlS CINSneS us
what then? That is DcaM That is the
death of those of whom it is said, when
found lileless in the morning-"That they
were as well as they ever were the day be
fore, and often it is added, "and ato heart
ier than common" This last, rs a frequent
cause of death to those who have gone to
bed to wake no more, we give merely as
private opinion. The possibility of its
! truth is pDouph To dotpr any rational man
from late and hearty meal. This we do
know, with certainty, that waking up in
the night with painful diarrhea, or cholera,
or bilious collie, ending in death in very
short time, is properly traceablc to a late
large meal. The truly wise will take the
safe side. For persons who eat three
times a day, it is amply sufficient to make
the last meal of cold bread and butter, and
a cup Of some warm drink. No one can
starve Oh it; while perseverance in the
habit soon begets vigorous appetite for
breakfast so promising of day of comfort
HdHS Journal Of HeuiM.
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ENGLISH GIRLs.--The English girl spends
more than one half of her waking hours in
physical amusements, which tend TO de-
velop and invigorate and ripen the bodily
powers. She rides, walks, drives, rows
upon the water, runs, dances, plays sings,
jumps the rope, throws the ball, hurls the
quot, draws the bow, keeps up the shut
tle-cock-and all this without having it
pressed forever upon her mind that she is
thereby wasting her time. She does this
every day until it becomes habit which
she will follow up through life. Her frame,
as a natural consequence, is large, her mus
cular system in better Subordination, her
strength more enduring and the whole tone
of her mind healthier.
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The MAN WHO WON'T PAY THE PRIMER
country editor, who works for glory
and prints on trust, is responsible for the
following mathematical aspirations on the
man who won't pay the printer:
May he have sore eyes, and a chestnut
burr for an eye-stone. May every day of
his life be more despotic than the Dey of
Algiers. May he never be permitted to
kiss handsome woman. May his boots
leak his gun hang fire, and his fishing lines
break. May his coffee be sweetened with
flies, and his soup seasoned with spiders.
May HIS friend run off with his wife, and
his children take the whooping cough.
May his cattle die of muryain, and his pigs
destroy his garden. May regiment of
cats caterwaul under his window each
night May his cows give sour milk, and
rancid butter. In short, may his daughter
marry one-eyed editor, and his business
go to ruin, and he go to - the Legislature.
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NOTICE TO FARMERS.
THE PEARL MILLS

With new and improved machinery, are now in
the most perfect condition to do your grinding of
all kinds, in the best manner, at the shortest no
tice. With many years experience in the business,
the best OF machinery, and experienced and COM
petent mers, we will not fail to give good salts
faction to all who may favor with their patron
age. And, while we gratefully acknowledge the
generous patronage extended US during the past
many years, assure you no effort shall bespared
TO merit continuance of your favors.
s=y- The highest market price at all times paid
for Wheat. DICKS 4 JOHNSON,
4sH Jfaumee City, Eet. IA. '62.
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The Gastalian :fonnt.
For the Perrysburg Journal.
AT CORINTH.

A chaplain stood beside cot,
On which soldier lay,
Whose life--a noble sacrifice
Was ebbing fast away.
For long and nobly had he fought
On Corinth's bloody plain,
And many foes his prowess felt,
Who lay among the slain.
Calmly he stood, where leaden hail
Fell thick and fast around,
Strewing with death on every side
That fearful battle-ground.
At last, he fell, and comrades bore
His bleeding form away
On either side the loss was great,
But Freedom won the day.
His chaplain sought him out and asked:
What message wouldst thou send
What record of thy dying hour
Shall on this sheet be penned ?"
"Writc," said the almost palsed lips,
"Write to my mother dear;
Tell her my peace is made with Cod
OF Death have no fear;
AMY country called, and obeyed-
My life was freely given;
Say to the loved ones far away,
Ny home is noc in Heaven"
The eyes soon closed, the pulse stood still,
Angels drew near at even,
Ard from the din and strife of war,
They bore that soul to Heaven.
NELLIE.
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No WONDER He STRUCK HER.-In the
Hartford Police Court, the other day, a wife
was called upon to testify relative to a vio-
lent assault made upon her by her husband.
The case looked so badly that her woman's
nature was aroused, and she said she had
provoked the assault-that she had called
her husband the worst names she could
think of. "What did you call him ?" de-
manded the Justice. ~ called him mean
copperhead," said the wife, feeling that she
had by this painful disclosure triumphantly
vindicated her hard-handed spouse.
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singular Forecast of Events.

The following striking passage from one
OF the works of George Lippard, written
some twenty years ago, is prediction of
now pending events wich is singular and
remarkable. The language quoted appears
| in u conversation represented as occurring
between South Carolina gentleman aud
the Catholic Archbishop of New York. The
former speaks as follows:
am native of the South myself. Nv
| name belongs to the oldest and most noble
OF South Carolina. But sold my planta.
ton, set my slaves at liberty aud quilted
my county. And why? Because | see
slowly but surely the calamities Of my
country approaching.
hear tho coming storm which will des.
olato the paradisiacal plains of the sunny
South. 1t is Slavery which brings up this
calamity. This is the demonacal spirit of
tins beautiful, this happy country--this bull
wark OF liberty. To escape the terrible
fate see only two ways. The first is the
voluntary abolition of slavery by the slave
holding States. The other is the forced lib.
Grafton of the slaves by the people of the
free States. The way is now impossible.
The doctrines of John c. Calhoun have daz-
zIed the eyes OF the Shareholders have
covered with flowers the precipico that is
opened at their feet. The other wav-the
forced abolition of slavery by the North
is already commencing.
a small but determined party, with the
purpose of liherating the slaves. is spread
ing over the New England hills. and never
will stop until it occupies the wide plains
Of the West, and is covering the whole area
of the free States. 1t will grow in strength
and extend until the South fearing for her
slaves and her supremacy, commences the
long prepared fight. The laundering of
cannon and the war-cry of the excited peo-
pie will be the commencement of new
era.
Slavery will bo subdued after u hard and
bloody struggle. and Ito stars of liberty
and peace will make the again United Suss
the bost country in the world.
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The STARS IN Our FLAG.-In recent
speech in New York, the eloquent James T..
Brady alluded to his visit to room in the
Vatican at Rome, upon the ceiling of
which flags of all nations were to be seen.
He looked them over from the oldest to the
youngest When he saw the Stars and
Stripes, he asked himself the question why
our fathers were the first to put stars on
their flag? The only answer that could be
given was that our fathers looked up TO
God for help, that they saw the stars and
planted them in our banner.
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Law of Newspapers.

|. Subscribers who DO not give express notice to
the contrary are considered wishing to continue
their subscriptions to the paper.
2. Ii subscribers order the discontinuance Of
their periodicals the publisher may continue to send
them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the office to which they were d-
reced they are held responsible till they have set
tied the bill and ordered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other places without
informing the publisher and the papers are sent to
the former direction, they are held responsible.
5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take
periodicals from the office or removing and leaving
them uucalled for is prnia acic evidence of inten-
tiOnal fraud.
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4 GREAT MAN.-rhc author of the " MAJ.
aronc" thus speaks of President Jackson;
"He was man Well remember the
day | waited upon him! He sat there in
his arm chair-l can see him now. We
told him of the public distress-the manu-
tacturers ruined-tho eagles shrouded in
Grape, which were carried at the head of
10000 men into independence Square. He
heard us all. Wo begged him to leave the
deposits whore they were, 10 uphold the
great bank of Philadelphia. sill he did
not say u word. At last one of our mon-
bcrs, more fiery than the rest. intimated
that if tho banl, was crushed rebellion
might follow. Then the old man arose.
can SEQ him yet
Gomez! he shouted, in voice Of thuu.
der, as his clenchod hand was raised high
above his white hair, come with bayonets
in your hands instead of your petitions s-
surround the White House with your le-
gions-l am ready for youl With the peo-
pie at my back whom your gold can neither
awe nor buy, will swing you up around
the Capitol each one OF you on gibbet
as high as llaman's!"
"When think says the author, "of
that one man standing there at Washington
battling against all the powers of bank and
panic combined, betrayed by those in whom
ho trusted-assailed by all that the snake
of malice could hiss or the iend Of false
hood howl-when think of that one man
placing his back against tho rock, and fold
ing his arms for the blow, while ho uttered
his vow - will not sworve one inch from
the course have taken-I must confess
that tho records of Roue-nay, the proud
est days of Cromwell or Napoleon-cannot
furnish an instance Of II will like that of
Andrew jackson, when he placed life and
soul and fame Oh the hazard Of a die for the
peoples welfare
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WHEN you hear woman exclaim, Oh,
what fool | was to reject so many lovers,
and then take up with what did !" be as
sured she married the first man that made
her an offer, doing more than half the court
ting herself; and many time her hen
pecked husband has wished she had re-
jected him
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last time, and had come home with Henry,
who was to return for another year, to pre-
pare for voyage to Gottjugen. Mr.. Mere
dith preferred that University to an English
one, as he wished his son, who was already
something of a German scholar, to acquire
y thorough knowledge of the language, and
to become acquainted with the works of
the mighty master minds of Germany.
Florence, too, who had now attained her iif-
teenth year, was. for the first time in her
life, to leave her happy home. Colonel
Seton thought it necessary that she should
finish her education at fashionable board
ing-school in the metropolis, and the two
families were making arrangements to go in
company to New Iork-a journey that, in
those days, was considered something of an
undertaking, when there was no locomo-
tive, as now, to pant and puff, and fly along
with you at the rate of twenty-five or thirty
miles an hour, and the Hudson Canal had
scarcely been thought Of.
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A Good SToRY.- A good story is told of
one of our country constables, who was di-
rected to serve an execution. He was told
that the property to be levied upon con-
sisted OF three heifers, and after taking
charge OF them he must indorse a return
describing the property. With view to
be entirely correct, and not finding "au
hetiers" he specified as follows 81 went to
level on 3 heffers, but they wont aul heifers,
only wun wars she heffer, and the other
wun wars moody bul, and the other wars
a bully mule. ."-Du5ugue Herald
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EoRT MEIGS RsERY,

As the season is approaching for the transplant
ing of trees &c. we beg to call the attention of those
Interested to our large and well selected stock of
Trees and Shrubbery,
Consisting in part of Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum,
Cherry, Apricots, Ounce, Raspberries, Blackbees,
Goosberres, Currants, Pie-Plant, Grapes, &c.
We have full assortment of Fruit, Ornamental
and Evergreen Trees, which we will sell at war
prices. P0MER0Y Il BROS.
Office at the Postoffice PerrysDurg, Ohio. Give
us call lStf
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"You might buy mo somo gloves as you
come up the street" said blue-eyed wife
to brute. "You profess to like Shakespeare
Do you remember what Hamlet remarks
Buy and buy is easily said" Augusta
looked scissors.
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JOB PRINTING.

We are prepared to execute all kinds of Job
Work, such as Posters, Sale Bills, Programmes,
Invitations, Cards, Labels, Pamphlets, all kinds Of
Blanks, &C., in the most satisfactory manner.
Orders filled at short notice, and on the most
reasonable terms.
OBLINGER & CHAPLIN,
Publishers and Proprietors.
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THE Louisville Democrat has been sup
ping full of horrors" Listen to it:
"Over us, as over stricken Sodom, pours
the merclless vengeance of an offended
Heaven, while fiery serpents trail along the
ground, and earth bursts her heaving boz
som in gushing fountains Of sulphurous FIRE.
Above, nothing but the red terror of a
burning sky; around, nothing but the crack
ling embers and ashes of flaming nation
beneath, the quaking crust of an uprising
hell"
We can imagine no picture more terrible
than the above, except that of tho fellow who
at one and the same time was afflicted with
red pepper in his eyes, 4 flea between his
shoulders, cholic In his belly, and hor-
Union.
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MORO for the entrances to omnibuses
and railway carriages, intended by Dante
for the ladies' abandon hoops, all ye who
enter here"
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Brooklyn doctor vouches for the
facts in the following
"An anxious father not long since dis
covered his only son and heir" engaged
in pitching pennies with several ragged
urchins who had just initiated him in the
mysteries of the all-absorbing game. He
gave the little gamester long lecture on
the sin of gambling, etc, and finished by
telling him that ifhe ever caught him pitch
ing or gambling in any way, he would give
him severe whipping. The youngster
stood with his hands in his pockets, coolly
jingling the half-dozen coppors he had won ;
and at the conclusion of his fathers remark,
little Bob drew a cent from his pocket. and
balancing it on the thumb and index finger
of his right hand, said
dad, III go you head or tail for lick
ing or none "
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WHEN is flock of sheep like our climate?
When it is composed of all wethers.
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Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-02
COMMITTING CONSCRIPTS CREDITED
TO A STATES QUOTM

WASHINGTON, November l.
To Colonel Robert Nugent, A. H. +. Gencr-
al Neio York;
The representations made by Dean Rich
mond and Peter Cagger in printed circular,
dated October 27, 1863, in re1pect to the acton
of the Provost Marshal General, are untrue.
1t is not true that the State of New York is
charged as with deficiency for every citizen
who has paid the 5000 commutatiou money,
receiving no credit therefor On the con
trary, the State receives the same credit for a
man who has paid communication as if the man
had gone in person or furnished the substi-
tute and in like manner, towns that have
raised the money to pay their quotas, receive
the same credit as if actual substitutes had
heen furnished. The President has ordered
that every citizen, who has paid the $500 com
mutation, shall receive the same credit there.
for ns If he had furnished n substitute, and is
eNonerated from military service for the time
for which he was drafted, to-wit for three
years. As the misrepresentation of Dean
Richmond and Peter Cagger have been pub
hshed aud circulated for electioneering pur-
poses, it is proper that you give them imme-
diate correction. JAMES b. FRY,
Provost Marshal General