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The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
Thrilling InCIdent. I.

The Lawrence Mass Sentinel pub.
fishes the following extract from a letter
received from Mr.. james Evans Fallou
Third Assistant Engineer on the steam
sloop Mississippi, when she was destroy.
ed at Port Hudson, on the I4th Of
March:
would give you an account of the
hight at Port Hudson, but you will have
read it in the papers ere this reaches YOU.
One fact | will state: was standing at
my station when shell burst beyond
me; piece of it hit my sword and kroke
it short off by the hilt, and sent The hilt
plump into my stomach, which sat me-
down alongside the bell.pull (Which was
against allrules), and made me see more
stars, &c.
Shortly after / was struck with a splin.
ter, which broke one of my ribs. and
made me senseless to all outside, but I
mad all my senses. l heard the order
given to take me below to the COCKPIT:
then Iheard the Surgeon ask them why
they brought dead man down; then /
heard the orders given to get all the
wounded out of the ship. There was,
laid out among the dead men and ampu.
tated limbs, unable to let them knowthat
| was alive; all the wounded were taken
out, was left; then they commenced to
hre the ship forward aud aft. The man
who had been detailed to Gre her for
ward passed by me; 1 threw out my hand
and hit him on the leg; he stopped; l
beckoned for him to put his head down,
and l whispered to him that l was not
dead; he took me up in his arms and put
me into boat, and took me to the Es.
sex; here I lay until daylight; then 1
was put on board the Richmond; there I
was understandable by Mr.. Dove, of
Andover, Third Assistant Engineer Of
the Richmond
| am still weak from my injuries, but
will soon be all right. am doing duty;
now ou the prize steamer Antona.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
EDITORIAL Delights.

If'an editor omits anything, he il
lazy. If he speaks Of things as thew
are, people get angry. If he CLOSES
over or smooths down the rough points,
ne is bribed If he calls thingsby their
proper names, he is unfit for the position
Of an editor. If he does not furnish
his readers with jokes, he is mullet. II
he does, he is rattlehead, lacking sta.
bility If he condemns the wrong, he
is good fellow, but lacks discretion. II
he lets wrong and injuries 20 unmen,
toned, he is coward, If he exposes q
public man, he does it to CRAFTY spite.
is the tool Of clique, or belongs to the
"outa." If he INDUCES in personalities
he is black-guardi If he does not, bis
paper is dull and insipid.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

Separation Of a Mother q Child
-.TerPible Agony of the Parent
Capture of the Fugitive Baby
After n Race of Eighteen Miles
On. the departure of the Cleveland
express yesterday. an incident occurred
involving baby romance purely afaire
du ceur, which was alike painful and
interesting to all who CHANGED to wit.
ness it,
A lady passenger from Cincinnati,
who subsequently proved to be Mrs.
Gray, wife of conductor on the New
York and Erie Railroad, stepped hasti-
ly to the refreshment stand of Omner &
Co., to get some delicacies, receiving as.
surances from the clerk that her train
would not leave soon. In the car she
had left her boy, beautiful child of two
years, in the care of al unknown lady
passenger. The train also contained
all her baggage and effects Warned
by the tap of the bell she fastened net
only to find that she was too late, but
her child moving off at fearful speed
amid total strangers.
The shock at the sight on her nervous
system was terrible to witness Not that
she was noisy or even wept aloud, = out
the agony depicted in her pale face, the
quiver of her lip, her starting eyes and
words of alarm and affection told of the
intense emotion Of a mothers love-
Already the train was beyond hail:ug
distance, and the only resort now left
was the faithful telegraph wires.
Fortunately the lady made her first
application to those capital gentlemen,
Messrs. I. H. Hutchinson, Agent Of
the Steubenville line, and Robert BIee,
conductor on the c., g. and,C. The
latter on learning the sad case, direct
ed, by telegraph, the operator of the
road at Lewis Center, to take the child
and baggage in charge till further Or
dered.
Mr. Patterson, the resident Agent eff
the Company, with all the kindness Of q
tender parent, informed Mrs. Gray that
he would place an extra train on the
track, and the moment return dispatch
was received from Lewis Center, pro-
ceed there.
A half.hour of anxiety to the mother
passed, when the following was received:
"Child and traps all safe at Dr..
Lady passengers on the train unwilling
to part with so good a child"
In thirty minutes the extra train made
the eighteen miles, and the ruby boy
was smiling in the arms of his dear
mother--a picture Of love and relieved
soicitude that seldom meets the eye.
The strange lady in the train--Miss
Holmes of Cleveland--exhibited more
than common affection, stopped off with
the child to watch over it until the pa
rent could be found. The joy of the
meeting, the slight alarm of the little
fellow in his new quarters, the thanks Of
the mother, and the parting ofth new.
made friends on the return of the extra
train were links in the romance that
might be easily extended.
The residence of Mr.. Gray and lady
is at Hornersville, on the line of the
New York and Erie Railroad. She is
lady of rare intellectual and maternal
gifts, and the "hero of the story" as
bright and interesting boy as ever
sought Schief--State Journal.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
Exciting Adventure.

About dark last night there was al
exciting adventure at the river, in tht
neighborhood of Court-street Bridge and
the aqueduct, and hundreds of people
gathered there, drawn by report that
three boys bad gone over the dam in q
skiff. 1t appears that three lads, from
ten to fourteen years ofage, named Con
nors, Maher and Sonny, got into a skid
to cross the river above the dam. The
river being high and the current stiff
they could not control the boat, and il
was swept over the dam into the rapids
toward the aqueduct How the boat
was kept upright all the way is mystic
ry. After passing Court.street Bridge,
OonnorS jumped out, or, as some say,
was pitched out in consequence of the
boat coming in contact with rock. AT
all events, he clung to the rock while the
skiff passed down the tumbliDg rapids
to the arches Of the aqueduct, and there
ran foul of lodged tree, upon which
the lads climbed and saved themselves
The rescue Of Connors from the rock
in the middle of the river was now the
sole objecto of the people who had begun
to collect. Jonathan Dresser, expo
licSman, who happened to be near by
when the accident occurred, with com.
mendable promptneSs ran to Oviatt's
mill and procured q small boat to rescue
the lad. policeman Monroe Green
was also at hand with the skiff. A rope
was procured, attached to the skifI, and
it was 6oated down from Court. street
Bridge to the rock. The boy caught
the rope, and it was then pulled up to-
ward the west shore. Before getting
the lad safely in, it was found that the
rope was over the. telegraph wire, and
there the boy hung in the water four or
five rods from the shore. Before an ak
could be procured to cut down tele-
graph pole, two brave fellows had gone
to the rescue--JOhn Wilson and George
Bayliss. They brought Connors to the
shore amid the cheers of the spectators,
and gave him to his mother, who stood
upon the shore witnessing the movements
to save her son and listening to his ago
nizing cries for help.
The boy was in the water three-fourths
of an hour, and was much exhausted
when brought to the shore. - Rochester
Union, AprtL 8. ~ 't
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
The Polish scxthemen.

A letter from Cracow thus describes
the dreaded scythemen of the Polish
army: ...- ...., .....
| believe the soldiers of Russia have
the credit of being able to stand bay
onet charge as well or better than those
Of any other nation except one, which
need not be particularized for the benefit
OF English readers. But at close quar-.
ters the Russian shrinkS from the Polish
Scythe as from death itself; and whom
ever it has been found possible to get
the Kossanieri-in however small mum.
ber-within something like reach of the
enemy, the latter has turned and fed. -
This, after all, is not to be wondered at.
The Russian soldier, who is only a Rus.
sian peasant, ShaVeu, shorn, and half
choked in a tight military suit, is a crea.
ture of habit; he had learned that to be
skewered on bayonet is the sort of
thing he has to expect, and to which the
men in his regiment have, in collect.
i've sense, long been accustomed. But
to be slashed in the face by people who
turn their reaping-hoOks into sabers, and
their scythes into two edged swords, is
more than he ever bargained for, and he
won't stand it.
On the other hand, the Scythemen are
said to have become quite unmanageable
when they were exposed for any length
Of time to the fire of the Russians, to
which they were of course unable to re.
ply, Accordingly, as general rule,
they have been kept out of Sight-either
in ambush or behind ordinary infantry
Until the moment arrived for them to
rush forward and strike terror into the
ranks Of the Muscovites. All the vic.
tories gained by the insurgents nuder the
command of Langiewicz (and l can not
think of one instance in which they we're
really beaten) have been decided by the
Scythemen, or the Zouaves, or the scythe.
men and zouaves in combination, and
generally by the Scythemen alone. At
Skala Langiewicznot only led the scythe.
men in person, but himself carried a
Scythe, which he took up at the last mo.
ment before giving the order to charge.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
The Conduct Of the-War.

Under the above heading the New
York Sun has an article from which we
make the following extract The Sun
is one of the leading war papers of the
East, and its censures Of the policy OF
the Administration show how blundering
: at headquarters is beginning to operate
on those disposed to be lenient to the
errors and weaknesses of those who have
thedirection and control Of public affairs
Says the Sun:
It now seems quite likely that the
American people may soon be obliged to
resolve themselves into q Committee ol
the Whole on the conduct Of the war,
that will arrive at very different conclu-
sions from those advanced by the Hon.
Benjamin Wade, of Ohio. 1t is useless
to conceal the fact that serious alarm
begins to pervade the public mind at
the threatening aspect of military af-
fairs.
There is unfortunately only too much
ground for these apprehensions Our
armies are, almost everywhere, involved
: in an apparently inextricable coil. They
are reduced to the defensive at nearly all
points. In this condition, it is time to
inquire who is responsible. Our people
have been hitherto too tolerant of blum
ders, and it is now no longer patriotic to
encourage the tribe of green back para.
sites that fatten upon our reverses, and
grow rich by applauding the official i'm
, beoility that is running the nation
O. The American people have deeper
stake in the perpetuity Of the Union than
any set Of officials or any clique of Gen
erals, and have right to demand that
the President shall no longer tolerate the
men whose counsels have driven victory
from our standards. General Halleck's
reputation for strategy and combination
has utterly failed to be supported by per,
formances. He has only succeeded in
removing every General whose fame and
services could outshine his Corinth per-
formances, and now employs himself in
exercising mysterious supremacy that
seems to paralyze our armies every,
where.
% What the people need is uncondition.
al success Unconditional loyalty" de-
mands this though the Loyal Leagues"
can not see it. Wegswant victory-suc
cess. Let the President call men to his
counsels who can accomplish this, or re.
quireit of those around him, and he will
then take away all occasion for the or
ganization by his advisers Of Leagues
for the support Of unconditional blum
dering.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

three weeks, and don't know what to do
We have no meat nor grain to live on
here, and no horses or mules to take as
away-nor no means to buy with. All
my papers, notes, accounts, deeds and
everything l had, burned up, and not
left any clothing even for change. l
am going to try and get through to my
family tonight, if can, and will, in a
few days, decide what we will do-for l
have given up all hope of any protection
from the Government here, and a num-
ber of families are bound to starvs.
"YourS truly, .e
..r ABIJAH GILBERT"
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
APRIL SHOWERS.
BY DIR. J. HAYNES.

u DAh' " hA1NEbs
On the meadows aud the mountains III
Fall the April pearly showers, |
Filling up the crystal fountains,
Calling forth the summer flowers.
And there's music in the falling
Of the soft descending rain,
As the echo sound is calling
To the mountain and the plain.
Der the valley, bill and prairie,
Flies the raven, swift winged cloud,
While the rainbow high and airy
Spans the roaring thunder cloud
And sublimely greats the roaring
AS the peeling grows more loud,
While the winged lightning's soaring,
And the tear drops from the cloud
Der the ocean and the rivers
Come the dripping Sernal showers,
Falling as the sunbeam quivers
On the blooming thirsty flowers.
And the drops in beauty glisten
On the hillOck, o'er the plain,
While the birds attentive listen
To the music of the rain!
Der the lawn, the field and woodland,
Come the sparkling diamond drops,
Dancing on the lake and island,
Spangling DER the tangled copse!
While above the verdant sprouting
Of the young and tender grass,
Forest kings with joy are shouting, 90
AS refreshing showers pass.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
s'. From the New York Express.
The Monarchy Spy System In
trOduced Here.

It is well known to everybody who
has travelled in the despotic countries o
Europe, that spys--Sbirri, in Italy, they
are called, Mouchard is the French name
Spaker-German; Spion, in Dutch
(Government Detective is now the name
here, in these United States, exist in
all continental monarchies and despot.
isms The Express, Friday, recorded
the acts of one Of these SbtrrG or Mou.
chGrds. A man by the name of Lyons
who swearS he is a Government Detec.
tive" insinuatipg himself into and upon
the premises Of "a farmer in Marion Town.
ship, Berks Oounty--hid himself 10 the
straw Of his barn, where other old fash.
ioned German or Dutch farmers had
gathered, seemingly, to raise money to
buy off from the conscription. Lyons
thus hid, Bwears they talked very impru.
IDENTITY, very rashly; doubtless, they did
talk. A man, in these times, here, ought
as in Europe, to look over his shoulders
twice, to see who is about him, when he
talks at all. Among other things, Ly.
'ons Swears they talked of abductiug
President Lincoln, and that they were
in favor of North western Confedera.
cy. Well, suppose they did thus talk
Such have been, and are, the free spoken
habits Of people in this country, that il
will take them at least FIVE years prac
tiee to hold in here, as in Europe, their
rather loose tongues. But what an alb.
surdity to think of eighty old Dutch
Pennsylvania farmers abdncting Abra.
ham LincolnTnow protected by an army
of at least 100000 men, and body,
guard in Washington of half a dozeu
regiments at least, one or two of which
is cavalry-abont as strong o body.
guard as any Emperor in Europe has.
This Government Detective, Lyons, then
+. further swears of another meeting
t"Msreh 21-Saturday: Huber Zone
of the Dutch farmers) made the speech
at the house; all The doors ,oere no,
shut; l was in disguise I'taIked with
no person III listened against the shut
tsrj 1 was pretty close no one accost,
ed me and / accosted nobody; / was
rugged up for the occasion; IaOds black.
.ened and IN disguise" '.' ' ''-.
:" Upon this sort Of swearing from the
SPY Lyons, first in the straw in the barn,
then with his face blackened, listening
to q meeting held with open doors--the
poor Dutch farmers, scared by the Con-
scription Act and this man Huber, were
dragged from their homes in, a country
township in Berks County, taken (afar
OF, to them, 10 P Philadelphia, and bound
over for trial III the sum Of three thou.
sand dollars each, Huber in four thou.
sand dollars; so that if men did not ex-
ist in Philadelphia abhorring this sort
Of espionage, they might have been in.
csrcsrated here for years, because of in.
ability to obtain bail. Lyons, we have
but little doubt, will tarn out to be a
new Titus Oates, and the whole a polit.
ical trick to scare poor PennsylVania
farmers. We shall see. ''"
os But, it is not the act of Lyons, the
spy, gin the straw" painted black, !"
',listenipg" to bad Pennsylvania Dutch,
that is SO much alarming, SO saddening
as thata great Republican party, with
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

the New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch gives the
following recipe for making money:
Talk about making money! why its
just as easy as Sliding off log" now
days, if you are only in the secret o. ,
have the Government favor. You can
not make "your salt" otheHwise. In or.
binary business you may toll from morn
till noon" and moon till dewy ever 70
very little purpose in these times; but il
yon can get the ear of a Government
contractor, or finger in the public purse,
You can dip your arms into it up to the
elbows, aud your fortune is made. You
may pull out the plums at your leisure,
and greeh-backs will spring up around
you like mushrooms over night, astonish.:
ing even your own cupidity, however ex.
orbitant. Let me give you an instance
of how it works, in this city, and have
no doubt it works iu somewhat similar
manner everywhere else.
Par example: friend of mine, whom
| shall call Captain Blank, is steam.
boat dealer. He has built and sold sew
eral vessels, at round price, to Govern.
ment, and makes--suppose we say q
thousand dollars day, in speculating in
sales of cognate character. The other
day he happened to drop into the Office
of o ferry company. sN .s
"Do you want to buy that boat ~ said
the treasurer, pointing to well-worn
ferry-steamer lying up in an adjacent
dock. ~,
"Well. l don't know. " replied Captain
Blank; whats the price2"
"You may have it for, $1,000"
"How long will you give me to an.
swer yes or no?"
"Will week do2" .t.
"Yes. / accept the conditions,p . said
Captain Blank; and off he started to,
see a Government contractor.
The latter was prepared. to buy any
thing with margin" 49,
"You can have the boat for $l2, ,0O0,
said the Captain.
And the niargin?"
"Well, just say half the proft.n ~.
GOOD again"
The Government was "let inn for the
boat at the price mentioned, and the
profit, $4,000, was divided between the
Captain and the contractor A pretty
nice three days operation, for it only re.
quired that time to complete it from the
beginning. 7
But the Captain is not always so for.
tunate. He gets "caught" occasionally.
He was offered for $1,000 another old
ferry boat, recently, and ten days given
him to reflect upon it. The contractor
was on hand, as usual, aud ready to pur.
chase, but thought the price demanded
by the Captain $3.50, ,OOO) rather ''steep. "
The two, however, could not agree on
the margin" So the contractor roes
to the ferry company and privarely stip-
ulates to take the boat at $7,000if the
Captain, at the expiration Of ten days,
did not. OF course after that the Cap
tain found it impossible to sell the Goa.
tractor the boat at any price Whom the
ten days were up, the contractors broth
er.in-law bought the boat for 81 900 and
sold her to the contractor himself for
Government use at $4,000 How they
divided the profits ] have not learned,
and am not likely to for some time to
come. But you may perceive from this
how easy it is to ''maks moResi' if You
are only in the cline Of safe precedents Z
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01
Two Women Claiming One Man
1.-Two Men Claiming One WO-
man,

1.-TWO Men Claiming One WO-
man.
A curious matrimonial difficulty oc.
Cured the other day in the Mayors of.
fee in this city. The persons interest.
ed were five in number; but the matri-
monial corps comprised but four, whose
relations were, however, so intimate and
so intricate that two women, who were
of the number, claimed one man as their
husband and the two men made claim
of similar character in regard to one of
the women, namely. that she was their
wife.
1t appears that the persons involved
are Germans; that one of them, man
named Wirth. came to this country elev.
en- years ago; that soon afterward he
married one of the women referred to,
whose name was Louise, and that they
had five children, aud kept lager,beer
saloon. But they parted; Louise kept
the lager.beer saloon, and still keeps it,
at 265 William street. under her old
name, and she has prospered, Wirth
lived for while without any wife, but
he finally took one-a young woman,
who is person of amiable disposition,
and takes care of the children. Re.
Gently Wirth became very poor, and ap.
piled to Louise (his former spouse) for
money. He said if she did not help him
he would be compelled to jump into the
river; and finally she lent him fifteen
dollars, taking as security for its pay.
ment fourteen pawn tickets, of which he
was the poSsessor. Hence the array of
the party at the Mayors Office. Wirth
did not pay. Louise, without authority,
however redeemed some of the pawned
goods and applied to the Mayor for fur.
ther redress. Wirth had her locked up
in prison to prevent her re. appearance
against him, but she was bailed ont
and all of the persons comprising this
somewhat curious matrimonial partner,
ship were finally brought to the Mar
shal's desk of the Mayors office.
All these people were satisfied with
their conjugal relations, but their pecu.
mary interests had brought them into
unpleasant contact. Louise brought
her present husband to prove the facts
against Wirth but when she was charg.
ed with faithleSsly redeeming some of
Wirth's personal goods, she had no de.
Tense but to claim him as her husband
and assert her rights as a wife; where.
upon Mrs. Wirth, the second, Instituted
a wordy conflict. which threatened seri-
GUS consequences, and when it became
necessary for Wirth to defend himself.
he insisted that Louise was bis wife
whereupon her second husband interpos.
ed, and the scene became ludicrouS in
the extreme. The pawnbroker only
maintained his serenity, for there might
be something to gain. Marshal Bronze
and Second Marshal Hinchman, whose
duty it was to adJudicate the difficulty,
called to their aid two Dutch interpre.
ters. At last accounts all The facts were
not fully comprehended even by the in.
terpreterS, but the arbitrators ordered
the case to be settled according to the
original understanding between Wirth
and Louise, which was agreed to by the
persons Immediately concerned, or their
respective sponsors Wirth is fifty years
of age. -Neto York Post. '
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

A strong,isted servant girl in New
York was recently assaulted bya couple
Of scoupdrels named Mile, and she fog.
ged them both, A, miss is always as
good as q mile---in this case it was bet.
ter than two miles.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

' The Provost Marshal of Washington
while breaking up thehouses of ill.fame
in that city, found in one of the very
lowest establishments Colonel. Uncle
Sans brass buttons we're very plenty in
all the dens. l9.. q ar.la. a-l..
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

Y The president Of a debating society
has recently decided that the s'milk og
human kindness was literally milk pupch
with a little nutmeg in Il.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-05-01

"MY wife, ,"said wag the other day,
"canle near calling mehonsy hast night.,'
Tndeed, how was that 2n stWhy. she
called me old beeswax.n