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The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
ALEX. SCANNED, Adjutant- General

This return embraces the negroes with
the main army, under General Washingtou's
immediate command, two months after the
battle of Monmouth.
Similar returns from the other armies in
other departments would doubtless show
"A larger proportion in many brigades. The
black regiment of Rhode Island slaves is
not included in the above return, although
it had been already organized. Its history
is as remarkable as any part of the subject
under consideration.
Early in 1878 1t was proposed by General
Farnum to Washington that the two Rhode
Island battalions in Camp at valley Forge
should be united, and that the officers of
Colonel Green, Lieut.. Col, Oiney, and Major
Ward, with their subalterns, be sent TO
Rhode Island to enlist battalion of negroes
for the continental service. The plan was
approved and the officers were sent home
for that purpose.
The Rhode Island Assembly accordingly
resolved to raise regiment of slaves, who
were to be freed upon their enlistment, and
| their owners to be paid by the State &C.
cording to the valuation of committee (of
! five, one from each county)-oDe hundred
and twenty pounds being the highest price
| for the most valuable slave. Six deputies
protested against this act, on the ground
| that there were not enough slaves TO make
an effective regiment; that the measure
would be disapproyed abroad; that the
expense would be greater, and the owners
| be dissatisfied with the indemnity offered by
4 the State.
The preamble of the act recites the fact
! that history affords us frequent precedents
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
A Difficult question answered.

Can any reader tell why, when Eve was
manufactured from one of Adams ribs, a
hired girl was not made at the same time
to wait upon her?
We can, easy Because Adam never
came whining to Eve with d ragged stock
ing to be darned and collar string to be
sewed on, or glove to be mended right
away, quick, now Because he never read
the newspaper until the sun got down be-
hind the palm tree, and then stretched him,
self, yawuing out, "Aiu't supper ostready,
my dear?" Not he. He made the fire aud
hung over the tea-kettle himself, wen ven
tlrc, and pulled the radishes and peeled the
bananas, and did everything he ought to.
He MIXED the COWS and fed the chickens
and looked after the pigs himself. lie
never brought half dozen friends to din
ner, when Eve hadn't any fresh pomegran-
ates and the mango season was over! lie
never stayed until eleven o'clock at ward
meeting, hurrahing for the out-and-out can
didate, and then scolded because poor dear
Eve was sitting up and crying inside the
gates To be sure he acted rather cowardly
about apple-gathering time, but then that
don't depreciate his general helpfulness
about the garden. He never played bill
liards nor drove fast horses, nor chOked
Eve with cigar smoke. lie never loafed in
corner groceries while solitary Eve was
rocking little Gains cradle at home. In
short, he did not think she was specially
created for the purpose of waiting on him,
and wasn't under the impression that il dis
graced a man to tighten his wife's cares a
little.
That's the reason that Eve did not need
A hired girl and we wish il was the reason
that none of her fair descendants did.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
Chr Gastalian .fonnt.
THE OATH.
AA
BY THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.

ny THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.
le freemen, how long will We stine
The vengeance that Justice inspires9
With Treason how long will ye triAo
And shame the proud name Of your sires!
Out out with the sword and the rifle
In defense OF your homes and your fires.
The flag of the old Revolution
Swear firmly to serve and uphold
That no treasonous breath Of pollution
Shall tarnish one star ON its fold.
Swear
And bark the deep voices replying
From graves whore yonr fathers are lying,
"is'esaH 0h, sIocor!"
In this moment, who hestates barters
The rights which his forefathers won;
He f,rfeits all claim to the charters
Transmitted from sire to son.
kneel, kneel at the grave of our martyrs
And swear on your sword spd your gun
Lay up your great oath ON an altar
As huge and as strong as Stone henge,
Aud then with sword, fire and halter,
Sweep down 10 the field of revenge.
Swear!
And bark the deep voices replying
Frem graves where your fathers are lying,
" "Scedr! Oh, scedr!"
BY the tombs Of your sires and hFothers,
The host which the traitors have slain,
by the tears of yOnr sisters and mothers,
In secret concealng their pain.
The grief which the heroine smothers
Consuming the heart and the in
BY the sigh of the penuilcss widoT,
BY the sob of her orphans despair
Where they sit in their sorrowml shadow,
kneel, kneel, every freeman and swear
Swear
And bark the deep voices replying
From graves where your fathers are lying,
"Sccogi On, SyeGri
On mounds which are wet with weeping
Where a Nation has bowed TO the sod,
Where the nobest of martyrs are sleeping,
Let the winds bear your vengeance abroad
And your firm oatts be held in the keeping
OF your patriot hearts and your God;
Over Ellsworth, for whom the first tear rose,
While to Baker and Lyon you look
BY Winthrop, star among heroes,
BY the blood of oHr murdered McCook,
Swear
And hark the deep voices replying
From graves where your fathers are lying,
S,rear! Oh, spedr!"
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
Law of Newspapers.

j. Subscribers who o not Civ express notice to
the contrary considered as wishing to continue
their subscriptions to the paper.
2. Ii subscribers order the discontinuance of
ahcr periodicals the publisher may continue to send
ihem until all arrearagcs are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the office to which they were d-
Cected they held responsible till they have set
tled the bill and ordered them discontinued.
4. II subscribers remove TO other places without
Informing the publisher and the papers are sent to
she former direction, they are held responsible.
;. The Courts have decided that refusing to take
periodicals from the office, removing and leaving
fhem uncalled for is prDa Jacie evidence of inten-
tional fraud.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
Selett selistellanp.
The Age OF Man


Few men die of age. Almost all persons
die of disappointment, passOnal, mental, or
bodily toll or accident The passions kill
men sometimes even suddenly The com.
mon expression, "choked with passion,
has little eHaggo,atian IN it, for even thQugh
not suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten
life. Strong bodied men often die young;
weak men live longer than the strong, for
the strong sse their strength, and the weak
nave none to use The latter take care OF
themselves; the former do nor. AS it is
with the body, so it is with the mind and
temper. The strong are apt to break or,
like the candle, run; the weak burn out.
The inferior animals which live temperate
lives hayc gpreraiIy their prescribed term
of years. The horse lives twenty-five years;
the OK, fifteen or twenty; the lion, about
twenty; the hog, ten or twelvei the rabbit,
eight; the Gninea pig, six or seven. The
numbers all bear proportion to the time the
animal takes to grow to its full size. But
man, of all animals, is the one that seldom
comes up to the average. He ought to live
hundred years, according to this physio-
logical law, for five times twenty are one
hundred; but instead Of that he scarcely
reaches AN average Gt four times the grow
ing period. The reason is obviOus---man
is not only the most irregular and the most
intemperate, but the most laborious and
hardworked of all animals. He is always
the most irritable of all animals, and there
is reason to believe, though we can not tell
what an animal secretly feels, that more
than any other animal, man Cherishes wrath
to keep itwarm, and consumes himself with
the fire of his own reflection.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
Democracy and the Niger.
I From the Jackson Standard.


Who said that all men are created equal
Thomas jefferson. ,ho father of Dcmoc
racY,
Who gave negroes the right of suffrage in
New York?
The Democratic party.
Who presided over the convention which
gave this privilege to negroes?
Martin Van Buren,, Il Democrat.
Who alterward elected Martin Van Buren,
President of the United States?
The Democratic party.
Who married g negro wench, and bv her
lad uulattO children?
Richard NJ. Johnson, good Democrat
Who elected Richard NJ. johnson Vice
President of the United States.
The Democratic party.
If President Van Buren, had died and
Richard NJ. Johnson had become President
who would have become tho Democratic
mistress Of the White tiouse?
IAla same negro wench.
Who made the negro citizen in the State
Of Maine
An overwhelming Democratic majority.
Who enacted a similar law in Massachl-
setts?
An overwhelming Democratic majority.
New Hampshire?
The Democratic party.
Who permitted every colorcd person own.
ing two hundred and fifty dollars in New
York. to become citizcms?
a General Assembly purely Democratic.
Who repealed ihe laws of Ohio, which re-
quircd negroes to give bond and security
before settling in this State?
The Democratic party.
Who passed law by which, in Ohio, the
negro is placed on the witness stand along
side Of the white man
The democratic party.
Who voted for bill in the Ohio Legisla-
ture, repeating ALL laws making a distinc-
tion OH account Of color in this State
George f. Pugh.
Who afterward elected George Z. Pugh to
the United States Senate?
The Democratic party.
Who voted in the Constitutional Conven.
ton of Ohio against provision to prevent
negroes coming into this State?
Rufus =. R2nney,
Who ypted in the same Convention to per-
nit negro children to go 70 the same schools
with white children?
Rufus p. Ranney.
Who supported Rufus 2. Ranney for Gov
ernor of Ohio in 1859?
The Democratic party.
Who decided in the Supreme Court of Ohio
that mulattoes had the right to vote?
Reuben Wood, a good Democrat.
Who, after the decision, elected Reuben
Wood Governor of Ohio?
The Democratic party.
Who refused, in the State Convention of
1850, to remedy the evil established by this
decision?
The Democratic party.
Who, with the above facts, and many
others, staring them in the face, are con-
tmually yelping and hypocritically whining
about Niger Suffrage" and "Nigger
Equality"
The Democratic party.
All these things were done by the Demo-
Gratis, and yet they deny being in favor of
negro equality, and put it upon others
whose every action has been precisely the
reverse.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
GOING DOWN.

by ALICE CAREY.
Our hearts stand still with awe
Babes, men, women, ALL
Buried alive beaeath the Watery wall
OF the great sea;
Father we trust in Thee,
Who seest even the fall
OF the small sparrow, and whose hand doth keel
Within its hollow all the Vastly deep,
That through their faith they saw,
Among the yawnng graves,
Our Savior walking with them on the waves.
We know there is 40 d,e4d
To dread, but fear, and theirs is done
That only what was dead before, is dead,
And that which lived, lives still,
Redeemed from every ILL
Yet mercifullest One,
We pray Thee, while we weep,
70 save II, from their doom
Gently let - oAr hands, and give room
In the c.rths breast to Steep
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
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ESTABLISHED on THE FOREIGN PLAN |!
In Myers Block, Monroe Street,
TOLEDO, OHIO,
PERMANENT EMSTYTUTYON.

A PERlANENT LNSTITUTIOY
The undersigned calls the attention of those in
terested TO the fact that he has established suite
of rooms in Myers Block, on Monroe street, reg
ular Dispensatory for the treatment and permanent
cure of all known
PRIVATE DISEASES,
Whether of recent origin or of long standing, in
MALE OP FEMALE.
The success which has attended the practice of
the undersigned il the treatment Of diseases COM
ing under the above head Is Sufficient guarantee
that what he undertakes he performs, and in every
case effects a radical cure
Private rooms are provided where consultations
can be procured in the stTictest confidence,
General Office over Nos. "a and 36 Monroe street,
first room to the right at the top of the stairway
over "CornucopIa." All letters promptly answered
containing remittance or postage stamp.
tSg@0ffce hours from 10 TO and from 10 9.
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July /, '62. Toledo, Ohio.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
NOTICE TO FARMERS.
THE PEA RI, 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
tice. With many years experience in the business,
the best of machinery, and experienced and com
petent mllers. will not fail to give good salts
faction to all who may favor us with their patron
age. And, while we gratefully acknowledge the
generous patronage extended us daring the past
many years, you no effort shall bespared
to merit continuance of your favors.
i8- The highest market price at all times paid
for Wheat. DICKS * JOHNSON,
43f. Jfdumee Oily, Feb. IA. '62.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

GENERAL SCoTT DRAWING NEAR HIS End
General Scott's health is said to be fast
failing him now. He is confined TO his
apartment in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, al
most entirely helpless, and, what is worse,
it is said that his mind at length is break
ing down under the weight of years, and
mental and bodily trouble. He receives
few visitors, and these only his most inti-
mate friends.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
Molasses and Sugar !!
FROM THE
NORTHERN SUGAR CANE.

This machine is the cheapest and best that
be got up for the manufacture Of these two ar
tcles. This machine can be made any size to suit
the purchaser. 1t will make nice white sugar,
flavor similar to that of Island sugar. The molas-
ses made by this machine is of clear golden color,
and has delightful flavor taking OF the rank fla
vor that generally accompanies that made in com
mon kettles.
Farmers fill your farms with the Sugar Cane
and establish an independence on these two articles
that you have so long been dependant o the South
EN- states and Islands for To traders we will
sell State or County Rights for this machine on
reasonable terms.
Persons wishing to get in good business should
purchase State county right. This machine is
bound to sell, and will never get out of STYLE and
is within the reach of every Farmer.
Persons wishing for information can apply to l..
tor of the right for this and adjoining counties.
Particulars can be obtained from n. II. Callard,
at the Journal Office. Sy*
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
cHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE
Price ONLY SO!

The Best and Strongest Machine in Use !
WM. E. CRAFT, Machinist,
$50 Summit street, lover City Bank,)
TOLEDO, 0HIo
Having good engine and lathe, and all other
tools fitted for Light job work. would beg a share
of patronage, feeling confident that all work en-
trusted to my care will be done in prompt and
workmanlike manner, and on the most reasonable
terms.
l shall continue to manufacture my great Shuttle
Machine, the best in use for all kinds of sewing,
light and heavy. This machine Is well known and
bears good reputation.
eaY-SEWING MACHINES, of all descriptions
repaired on the shortest notice. Reference may be
had to j. W. Bailey, of Toledo.
noS'62ly WIN. E. CRAFT.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
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 filed at short notice, and on the most
reasonable terms.
OBLINGER 4 CHAPLIN
Publishers and Proprietors.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
EORT MEIds 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, Apricos, Ounce, Rnspbcrres, BlackbeTes
GoosbeFries, Currants, e-Plant, Grapes, &c.
We have full assortment of Fruit, Ornamental
and Evergreen Trees, which we will sell at war
prices. P0AlEROY d BROS.
Office at the Postofice, PerrySpnrg, Ohio. Give
sIs q call. lStf
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

The Lafayette Courier tells an amusing
story of some young ladies and gents Of
that place who were taking social walk
near the cemetery, when ghost appeared,
They all rau but one sturdy woman Of the
strong-minded class, who stood her ground
till the ghost got to her, when she seized it
and thrashed out of his frighttul disguise
mischieYouG fellow who had heard the pro-
iect of walking about the graveyard dis
cussed, and hid himself there to give the
party fright. She lod him back to the
house, and in reply to the questions that
poured in upon her, sald Can't fool me.
I've seen too many men in shirts TO get
frightened at them
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

THE RIGHT KIND or AN ORDER.-General
Loan, commanding the Central District of
Missouri, has issued an order that all bush
whackers, guerrilas robbers, Confederate
recruiting officers, emmissaries assuming to
act under rebel authority, found in that
Military District shall be promptly executed
by the first commissioned officer into whose
hands they may be delivered
And all persons knowingly harboriug or
in any way aiding or abetting such parties
shall suffer like punishment and their
houses to be destroyed and all the personal
property on the premises seized and appro-
priated for the indomnifcation of Union
citizens. Any officer failing to promptly
execute this order will be court martialed
for disobedience of orders.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

WE pity the family that sits down TO
a broil three times day.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25
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TERMS OF ADVERTISING,

The space occupied by ten lines of minion is one
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When yearly advertisements are inserted four or
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The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

A SPLENDID ear but very poor voice,
as the organ-grinder said of the donkey.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

THE principles ofa Just Love, warm with
affection for fallen humanity and for just
and good God, involve, permeate, and COM
prehend all other truth.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

My dear madam, can you give me glass
of grog p asked fatigued traveller in Ar.
kansas, as he entered a cabin on the road
side.
b" amt got drop, stranger replied
the woman.
:" But a gentleman told me that you had
barrel"
Why, good gracious' replied the wo-
man, what do you reckon one barrel of
whisky is to Inc and my children, when we
are out of milk ?"
The traveller sloped.
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

GLASS in the middle of Geography, stand
up! What's pyramid ~
"a pile Of men in circus, one on top of
the other"
Where's Egypt?'
Where it always was
where's WaleS?"
All over the sea"
every well-stay there till show you
aspecies of birch that grows all over the
country"
The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-02-25

AUGUST "a, 1888.
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-12

"a. conceived by Capt Post, of Decatur,
and he Immediately applied TO the clerks OF the
hoiel for candle he succeeded in bvrrosing
kerosene lsmp; taking Which in his hand, as
a lamp o. their feet" no cried cot 10 the boys.
"Come on." that would 20 70 the court house
The squid proceedei. psece,ied by N.l'F zen
eral. Colonel, Msjof. = Provost Marshal.
Lieutenant. and a certain defeated candidate Tor
Congress AZ large and then came small crowd
of Republicans. Union Lesguers. &c The
grand procession (sbout twenty feet long
moved towards IT, designs like ghost. Pas
ing by another side show in Attendance upon the
fair il attracted the straggiers ihereaboui~. and
the long procession thirty feet by this time on
ing was continued. Mjor Kuykendall Of
Jackson county. that can one man
dof) was calie1 10 the chair. aud somebody read
a long string of resolutions expressive Of their
"feelinks." whereupOn General McClernaud
mounted the stand and proceeded 10 address The
small crowd IN attendance He sad he had not
come there TO make a speechl BAIL What else
did he 90 tori But why dwell longer on so
small an atfAirl The result of the meeting has
no political significance whatever IL is OF mo
consequence" what they resolved and what they
and | challenge "A successful contradiction OF the
statement, that there were not two dozen War
Democrats At the meetingl IL a complete
bZZie. and have noticed II thus much, not on
account Of hat IL was. but from the fact that il
fell 50 short OF what even its enemies expected il
would be.
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-12
STATE ITEMS.

HANCOCK County The largest political
meeting assemble, in Hancock county was
held al Greenfield on Saturday. Ii exceeded in
numbers and enthusiasm the famous meeting a,
the same place in 1860 The Republicans had
met the dav before and the honest and candid
among them admit that the Democratic gather
ing OF Saturday doubled theirs in numbers The
procession was large and imposing. There were
seven wagons in it, each of which was drawn by
thirty four horses. and on each wagon were
thirty tour Young girls uniformly dressed in red.
white aud blue. In addition each township had
sent delegation Of thirty four young ladies on
horseback. each attended by gentleman.
The meeting was organized on the court house
square. Hon. AUGUSTUS HANDY was President,
with Vice President from each of the town
ships
The speakers were Judge LOGAN. of Rush
county. end Hon SAML II BuskiRK. of Monroe
The speeches of these gentlemen were eloquent,
patriotic and eminently conservative. and they
were received with hearty applause by the i'm
mense coneourse OF ireemen present.
Hancock county, if fair election is held to-
morrow. Will roll up handsome majority tor the
Union and constitutional liberty
Woo COUNTY AT meeting of the De
mocracy of Vgo county, on the 81 inst, the fol-
loving ticket was nominated:
For Recorder. Callum II Bailey; and for Real
Estate Appraiser, Carlisle Clark
The Shelbyville Volunteer hosts he name
OF Gen GEO B McCLsLLAx az its choice for the
Democratic nominee for President in 1864.
-A..PERTINENr INQUIRY Says the Vincennes
Sun:
HAD not Brigadier General Alvin Pike Hovey
better be in the army fighting the rebels than in
Indiana abusing and vilifying Union menf
-TIPPtCANoE County The following ticket
has been nominated for the support of the Dem
ocratic and conservative votes in Tippecanoe:
For County Commissioner, John Taylor; fpr
County Assessor, Thomas Smiley; for Coroner
W F Zersc
In this connection il may not he amiss to re
mark that the Republicans are sending large
number of voters from Tippecanoe into C,rroll
and Clinton. if possible to defeat the Democratic
tickets in those counties.