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Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-04
FOR SALE.

Eyhst lot ground adjoining the north Of the block
OF buildings built by kirsnd Fitzgibbon, on south
Meridian street the Union Depot 100 f. front by 2l0
feet deep will be sold in 20 p feet lots the whole
in one lot. This is valuable locality for persons
wishing purchaa business property the Wholesale
business of the city will be this
and the property can be- bought for nearly one-fouth
prices of Washington street property Ii has been DEM
trated hy actual sales that there has been many
goods sold 10y houses this street. any Washington
street. and in branch Of the business sold. when
in business, tobacco OF wholesale than any three
houses on Washington Street The locality Of this
ground for Wholesale business, has greater advantage
in the saving of drayaee than any other location in the
city, goods be delivered the pavement by all the
railroads This advantage viii half the rent of
store room Washington street.
For Terms, enquire Of
2. KIRLASD
Or, T. F. RYAN. No. 3. south Of the ground
apr i5-d M
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
The Indian Rope Feat.

1 -.sr. A.. .a..f.H..... ~. r u -
The following communication appears IL
the London Field of recent Saturday. L
is signed F. T. Buckland:
RI have been requested to be present
at, and give my opinion on performance
which hardly know whether to call feat
of strength or feat Of ingenuity. I was
challenged to tie the performer of this feat
into chair with a rope, in any number Of
knots, in such manner that he could not get
loose. ..
! Accordingly, I presented myself at the time
and place appointed, and, half suspecting some
sleight Of hand trick, provided myself with
several yards Of very strong rope. The per-
former, an intelligent and rather good looking
young man, sat himself IN a common wooden
kitchen chair, and presented me with his rope
I asked if he had any objections to my using
my rope. None whatever" was the reply,
g and you may tie me in, any way and with
as tight knots as you please"
Having examined the. chair to see that all
was right and above board, I proceeded first
to pinion the arms of the young man, who
sat down on the chair, pinioning them " Jack
Ketch fashion" behind his body. I then llsh-
ed them tied as they were, tightly, with
many knots and twlstings. to the back of the
chair. then tied his two wrists tightly to
the legs Of the fhair, pulling the ropes, I fear,
cruelty tight, as the man afterward showed
me where I ha 2 cut the skin; but he did not
complain Of bis bit, as he had offered me
the challenges I then, by means OF double
hitches,P fastened each ankle to the CORE
spending leg of the chair, then tied both legs
together finishing off the rope with an at
tachment to the back rail Of the char. I
then tied up his body, twisting the rope round
and round, and fastening it wherever I could
get chance.
The performer was now, indeed, bound
hand and foot, and could hardly move in any
Observation-Disclosures A large linen extinguish-
er was then placed over him, tied as he was,
and I and the other spectators stood round,
at a little distance, to see that no ooIlusion
took. place, In four minutes and a half the
performer gave the signal, the extinguisher
was removed, and there sat the young man
perfectly free and unbound, and the ropes at
his feet. had tied him with seven pieces Of
usual number is four-and the
seven pieces ofrcpe lay at his feet, in no way |
injured or cut, except at the places where
had cut them off the main piece, and I had |
taken the precaution to mark my own cuts so
as to know them again. @ a
have not the slightest idea how the per-
50rmer managed to loose himself I fancy /
hat he must use actual physical strength in
20 doing, as hesseemed exhausted and in a
orofuse perspiration. Perhaps some Of the
Field who have seen the trick in India, where /
believe tits frequently performed, may be
lble to throw some light on the matter ]
that the performer of this Indian
oPe feat is. now engaged at Cremorne, and
hat he challenges all coners to tie him 50
ight in the chair that he can not unloose
limselE
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
The Noblest TempleE

r..
THERE is a very beautiful record of
the use of the precious metals in one of
the ancient religions Of America. We
read that the earliest children of the Sun
carried with them wedge of gold, which,
as seed sinking into the ground, brought
forth golden grains. These were tears
wept by the sun. These were gathered,
not for coming, but that the rulers might
adorn the temples of the Celestial Friend
The royal state was religious; the kings
wealth was Gods wealth. Enormous
planks of silver ,andoa cement mingled
with liquid gold were used in the beau
teous building of their sacred places. In
the garden of Yueay were golden baths
supplied by subterraneOus silver chan
nels. There was a fountain with jet of
gold; fish of gold and silver, birds of
gold, and curious animals carved in gold,
seemed playing in the water at its base.
These holy gardens were dug with silver
spades. Gold.and silver appeared in the
forms-o vegetable life. Golden corn,
with silver leaves and silver tassels, and
other plants of like skillful make, adorn-
ed that soil. On every walk to receive
the flowers, were vases of silver as tall
as a manyand twice the reach of his arms
in girt. Inthis western Mecca were near
ly twenty score of temples; one chapel
for the rainbow, with its7brilliant arch
all radiant with many-colored jewels; a
chapel built to thestars; one built to the
moon, adorned with polished silvery and
a silver shield to reflect her beams; there
was the temple of the sun, girt without
with broad band of gold, and within,
all its gliding, was the gilded
face Of the sun, which glowed with the |
rising light oi each new day till the light |
was reflected on every side by fine gold
and gems, filling the place with a glory /
IS Of heaven.
This was gold in the service of idol
TRY, though the children of the Sun
NEW it not. We know what we wor-
hip. Slowly and painfully, we viii gold
md silver to adorn the temples of our
9od, building up those charities in which
lis presence loves to DWELL
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
America as the Granary Of the World.

THE following extract IS from Mr.. TroHopes
recent travels in the United States:
I was at Chicago and at Buffalo in October,
1861. I went down to the granaries, and
climbed up into the elevators. I saw the
wheat running in rivers from one vessel to
another, and from the railroad vans up into
the huge bins on the top stories of the ware
houses; s;-for there rivers of food run up hill
as easily as they go down. I saw the corn
measured by the forty bushels measure with
as much ease as we measure an ounce of
cheese, and with greater rapidity. I ascer-
tanned that the work went on, week day and
Sunday, day and night necessarily; ; rivers of
wheat and rivers Of maize ever running I saw
men bathed in corn as they distributed it in
its flow. saw bins by the score laden with
wheat, in each of which bins there was space
for a comfortable residence. (. I breathed the
-four and drank the -four, and felt myself to
be enveloped in world of breadstuff; and
then I believed, understood, and brought it
home to myself as fact, that here in the
corn lands Of Michigan, and amid the bluffs
of Wisconsin, and on the high table plains Of
Minnesota, and the prairies OF Illinois,, God
had prepared the food for the increasing mil
lions Of the Eastern world, as also for the
coming millions Of the Western. I began
then to Know what it was for country to
overflow with milk and honey, to burst with
its fruits, and be smothered with its own riches.
From St. Paul down the Mississippi by the
shores Of Wisconsin and Iowa, by the ports
on Lake Pepin, by Lacrosse, Dunleatb, Full
ton and Rock Island, along the ports of the
great Lakes through Michigan, Illinois, Ohio
and further Pennsylvania, up to Buffalo, the
great gate OF the western Ceres, the loud cry
was" How shall we rid ourselves of our
corn and wheat?" The result has been the
passage OF 10000, 900 bushels Of breadstuffs
through that gate in one year. Let those
who are susceptible of statistics ponder that |
For them who are not lean only give this ad-
vice: Let them go to Buffalo next October
and look for themselves.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
SH surts of 6uaa gtaaing.
COUSIN SALLY billiard.
BY HAMILTON c. JONES.


soEu: A Court Of Justice in North Carolina.
A BEARDLEss disciple of Themis rises,
aud thus addresses the Court: aMay it
please Jour worships, and you gentlemen
Ofthe-JuFy; since it has been my for
tune Cgood or bad I will not say) to ex-
ercise myself in legal disquisitiOns, it has
never before befallen me to be obliged to
prosecute 50 direful, marked, and maIic-
iOus an assault-a more willful, violent,
and dangerous battery-and, finally, a
more diabolical breach Of the peace. It
has, indeed, seldom been your duty to
pass upon one 50 shocking to benevolent
feelings, as this, which took place over at
Captain Riee3s in this eoUnty. But you
VIII hear from the witnesses" " a 9
The witnesses being sworn, two or
three we're examined, and deposed. One
said that he had heard the noise and
didn'tsee the fight Another, that he
saF-fhs row, but didn't know who struck
first. And a third, that he was very
drunk, and couldn't say much about the
skrimmage.
LAWYER CHoPs-I am very, sorry gen
tIemen, to have occupied your time with
the stupidity of the witnesses examined.
1t arises, gentlemen, altogether from mis-
apprehension on my part. Had known,
as I do now, that I have a witness in at
tendance who is well acquainted with all
the circumstances Of the case, and who is
able to make himself clearly understood
by the court and jury, should not SO
long have tFespassed on your time and
patience. Come forward, Mr.. Harris, and
be sworn. a- -l-- a7 5fs
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
An Unsa7OTy Dish.


A WORK descriptive of the Glands
End" district of Great Britain, by R.
Edwards, just published at London, has
a full account Of the pilchard fishery on
the coast; whereupon the London Athe-
naum thus closes its review Of the book,
with warning to travellers to Cornwall
to beware Of pilehgds:
. %Gourteous reader, let US give you a
word of advice; # you do go to Corn
wall, do.not eat a pilehard rashly.r, Re
member the first cigar you ever smoked;
the first olive you ever tasted; the first
bit of tronoqge de GrHyere you ever smelt;
and beware ofa pilchard! Take fresh
herring, boil it, (what barbarian ever
boiled herringD soak it in eod-liver oil
for twenty-four hours, then serve It swim
ming in salt and water, and call it 'pil-
chardl ? That is just what the Cornish
woPen give you for breakfast Shall we
60 on? No, rather be advised let the
Pilchard be pressed, squeezed, trod upon,
sat upon, as they do with those they send
out to the Neapolitian lazzaroni, 50 that
not particle of that nauseous lamp oil
remains, then let it be kept in pickle for
a year, baked and boiled ad iafnitupe,
and served up with Cayenne pepper ad
ti5itan so may you eat it with impu-
nityl" al ts L1l
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
Mans Servants.

I
MAN has among his servants the air,
the brook, the lightning, the clouds, the
frost Before he was born, the sun stock
ed the world with light and heat, nodded
his land, decomposed rocks and covered
them with vegetable forms. Nature, like
cautious testator,z stores up her treas
ures SO as not te bestow them all on one
generation. Among mans servants there
are many laborers- -gra7itation, water,
contraction, air. These forces were each
illustrated, and the physical effect Of air
on man described What is true of the
laws of nature is true of the laws of force
that whenever a natural law is ennun-
ciated, a moral truth is enunciated in
the same language. All force is preser-
we'd what appears loss is merely trans
ference. Every talent is the sudden.
manufacture Of a mysterious force. tits
not where people are, but with what per
ceptions. The law the intelleetis that
it is ours when we use it. The custom
of men is to endeavor to pocket all this
force. They wish some service of the
spiritual faculties. The world is deliv-
cred into mans hand on peremptory
conditions, not for property, but for use {;
according to the noble end of the gifts,
and not for self-indulgence.-Eneerson
THB- -URBAEA UNION should be in the hands
of every family in Champaign comfy.
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Law aF HEWspAPER8.

/. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, considered as wishing TO cCn-
tinue their subscriptions to the paper.
2. II subscribers order the discOntinuance OF
their periodicals the publisher may continue TO
send them until all aTTeaTages are paid
g. If fsubscribers neglect or refuse to take their
periodicals from the office 10 which they were di-
rected, they are held responsible till they have set
tied the bin and ordered them discontinued
4 If subscribers remove TO other places with
out informing the publisher, and the papers are
sent to the former direction, they held respOn-
sible- 80
5. The Courts have decided that refusing to take
periodicals from the Office OF removing and leav-
ihg tEem uncaIled for. Is prtHd Jaeie evidence Of
Intentional fraud.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07
Daily, Tri-weskly 3 Weekly Ohio stats
Journal.


FoR TIE YEAR I863,-The wonderful events
which are now transpiring in this country
upon which the. eyes Of tbs world are. fixed,
renders good newspaper necessary m every
intelligent family.
Thankful for the increasing patronage that
has, attended their efforts to make the Ohio
State Journal, in its. various editions Of Daily,
Tri-Weekly and Weekly a First class Ns,,rs-
paper the publishers are prompted to continu-
ed efforts. in the direction Of progress and
improvements.
1t is their aim to make the Journal q CON-
Pendium of news chaste and pleasant FIRE
side companion; a faithful market guide, aud
a fearless and truthful exponent Of political
matters, punctual chronicle Of Legislative
and Congressional proceedings; and in short
weekly summary Of events in the political
social, religions, scientific and commercial
world. With this end in view, it viii con-
tain full summary of current news, Con-
gressioual Reports, Legislative Proceedings, F.
Market Dispatches, Political Intelligence, Lit
erary Gossip, Choice Poetry, original and Sc
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. Due attention will also be given to Agricul- ''
tural and Educational affairs. e= s- Tg
The News Department viii embrace the Il
latest Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, re-af
ceiyed by mail and telegraph, carefully eollat-s
ed, down to the hour of going to press. g. ...5.
The War for the Union win be faithfully
each important event down to
the latest moment being presented, with fun
details of Battles, and of Army and Naval
1oOvnnon,fs . .-r a.--er IA. B
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uetEg f0F TIE yOHr.
Low N AUTVMH

All day with measured stroke hear
From threshing Hoors The busy fail;
And in the helds Of stubbie near
In eessant pipe the speekled quail.
q An goldsn-Hpethea apples glow z .
Among the orchards russet leaves;
Southwark the twittering swallows go
That sung all summer meath the caves.
Across the far horizons line
The slender autumn mists are drawn;
The grapes are purple on the vine,
The sunfower shines upon the lawn.
And stretched athwart the burning sky
The spiders threads ofsilEer white,
Like melted yapors TO the eye g-T -rs7z
Hang quiYeriTng in the MONDAY light.
A year ago to-day we stood
Beneath the naples crimson glow,
That, like watch-ire in the wood,
Cleaned to the yellowing vale below.
t1slaCalm was the day without breath,
1An aIl.pervading stiffness deep
-g A calm that seemed the calm of Death
Hl-ns1 A silence like to that OF sleep
And only on the listening ear sTE- tF
Through the side wood the hollow sound
OfdroPping nuts and sweet and clear, q.
The spring that bubbled from the ground.
Close al our feet the brook slid down,
7'a Past tangled knots Of sedge and weed,
And under leaves of gold and brown,
Eosparkl -ttl-cugh the level mead.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

UNION
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OFFICE :-Coulson's Building, (second floor, }
West side North Main-street, near the Square.
TERMS 81 per ennum, invariably in advance.
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LET it not be imagined that the life of a
Christian must necessarily be a life Of melan-
eholy and glOominess; for he only resigns
some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely
greater.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

OUR age is disposed to sneer at high religi-
Gus passions; it is perhaps, the reason why
the pathos Of the pulpit has to such degree
departed. .r
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

AN illiterate man of great natural endOw-
ments is blind Samson, who, instead Of
choosing his work, must be led to it.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

The richest robes are often put upon the
most diseased bodies, and the sweetest names
upon the most horrible vices.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

A MAN isn't likely to die from having his
head carried away in fight if It's bis legs
that carry it away.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

AN Arkansas paper records the marri-
age of a rich white woman to a Cherokee
warrior. Perhaps they may get along
very well tOgethsr-she hopping, and he
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

ONE of the shrewdest, boldest and most
skillful scouts in the army of the POto-
mac is fugitive slave. He has done so
much mischief to the Rebels that they
have offered a reward of $1,000 for his
head. 5-- ai- ~.
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NO. Il.
A Thousand-DolIar EEt


TIE following story IS told Of greedy
minister in Western Massachusetts,: z John
]. Arnold, an old bachelor, who died At Pitts
field many years ago, had made his viii, Civ
ing certain reverend gentleman IN a coun-
try town where Mr.. a. owned farm, and
had formerly resided, one thousand dollars; as
testimony Of his grateful esteem and good
viii, During Mr.. Amold's last illness which
lasted some months, be sent for his clerical
friend, who came 70 visit him. Noticing that
the reverend gentemans hat was rather
seedy, Mr.. A. wrote an order for hat and
naaded It to the minister, saying that. he
should be pleased to present him with hat.
The divine gratefully accepted the order.
During that night Mr. A. had fresh attack
Of his malady, and was supposed to be dying.
When the minister was ready to 60 hOms, it
was announced that NJ. Arnold would not
probably survive many hours Determined
to make the most Of his order, the minister
went to the hatteris and asked him how ex-
pehsive hat he could get up? "A. genuine
beaver" he was told, would cost ten dollars.
9 Get me ready such a one, said the minis
ter. In a few days the hat was ready shd
in that time Mr. Arnold revived and got bet
ter. In short the generous bachelor htedsto
see the bill presented for that hat and lgazn-
ing the particulars from the halter, he wasso
diSgusted with the greed of the, divine that
he added codieil to his win, cutting off the
legacy he had made him. Thus, that hat
cost the minister exactly one thousand dol
lars. for Mr.. Arnold died within month af-
t2rward. . ad t5c5 ,sl5la9EoJ
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

Do not forget that the best job printing is
executed at the URBANA UNION Office.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

Our individual disappointments are seldom
more than excrescences upon the trunk Of the
general good. .... e.. r-..-- -.-
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

@IM dying for you" as the girl said to the
bachelor when she colOred his vest. hs}
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

COPS holy tOrtures are beautiful and
tender dreams, and sweet and pure haunt
ings Of beautiful thoughts, Sweet and
pure thoughts stab the most desolate and
suppressed heart with homeless regrets
and the divine homesickness, which is re-
ligion. -
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-01-07

" DAD can body think Of fox tail, and
never think Of the fox2 aaa i y8dT
Don't know my sonl why do you ask
such a question l...e-tE 7g9
Kase, Dick says he tried his very best
and every time he'd think Of the fox first.
"GO, son, and wipe the buttermilk of
your mouth.
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~
A REPREHENsTBLE PARAGRAPH.-Gen. Lew.
Wallace says that he 'zates bisaiigger5 Why,
tFeu is he not in favor OF putting him wIiesrre Isr
David put Uriah-in The fore front 6f tie hot
test battle and in positions of danger, where
be would be most likely to.be destroyed p
Free Nation. ~ 5.5fsF 5s-.s s1os-5r
The alIusion is very scriRsural { but Ne
would beg our reverend brother to reflect
that the cases are not parallel, II. was, not
because Of hatred to Uriah that David set
him IN the fore front Of the hottest, battle,
but because Of lore to Jriah' S wife. If Cen
eral Lew. Wallace, instead Of saying that he
hated Cufee, had stated that he lubbs1 d.
nah the indignant inquiry of the Free Nation
would have been entirely pertinent, and the
course Of treatment is suggests. according, 10
the most ancient and established precedent
CiRcinnati Enquirer - -. .f.--.-
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THR. URBAEA UMON should be in the hands
f every family in Champaign comfy.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-29
wear.
To the Editor Of The Freeman

DEAR SIR i learn that a communication,
recommending the Hon. Paul Dillingham; for
Governor, has been published in recent num-
Der CT the FREEMAN, over the signature " A. H.
b." AS these are my initials, and the signature
have used for great par: of my communications
for some thirty years, it is not surprising that the
article should be, as it. has beeu attributed to me.
You probably have seen the comments in the St.
Adams Messenger Of this week, which gives my
name in full as the writer. As do not happen
to agree with my duplicate in his arguments or
preferences and as have friends aud acquaint-
ances among your readers, who have been mised
by this signature, am under the necessity OF
rcpudiating the authorship Of that article.
Please allow me the opportunity thus given, to
say that am hoping for the nomination of Hon.
John G. Smith, of St. Adams, for Governor at
the next State Convention, believing, as do, that
he will do honor to the State, and give his friends
no occasion to regret their confidence and sup.
port. Yours respectfully,
A. II. BAKER.
Enesburg, June &c, 1868.