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The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Interesting Bit Of Hi.torv.

In the debate in the Senate. upop the
bill for reviying the grade Of Lieutenant
General, Senator Sherman gave the sub.
joined interesting bit of history concern.
ing the Army of the Potomac:
Gas TO the Army of the Potomac, the
public are dissatisfied. They have been
dissatisfied with every man who has been
at its hesd-with Mcclellan, with Burn
side, with Hooker, and now with Meade.
But the fate Of that Amy, Mr.. President,
proves their updying loyalty and il proves
also their unfincbipg gallantry. From
the lime they were organized up TO the
present time, they have lost in killed and
wounded nearly one hundred thousand
men. and whenever they have met the
enemy upon equal terms, victory has
p rched upon their standard.
"They have failed 10 drive Lees army
from Virginia, failure,in my view ,unac-
couniable, unjusti6able, uncxcusable. 1t
has for some time ounumbered Lees ar.
my. When General Mcclellan conduct.
ed so successfully the campaign which
terminated in the battles Of South Mount
ain and An,ietam, and it was supposed,
and justly supposed, as l think, that the
army OF Lee should have been destroyed,
ii was proposed BY the general in COM
mand here TO leave twenty thousand men
upon the other side of the Potomac, suf-
ficient to meet the whole Of Lees army
if they attempted 10 make an assault upon
the city, and 70 march with Sixty thou.
sand men on the other side OF the river, so
as TO cut Lee off. The advice was mo-.
followed, there was an apprehension,
ieverish apprehension that the city was
not safe, and, in order to place the safety
of the city beyond all possible question,
the movement was rejected, which must
have resulted, or, 10 speak more guard
edly, in all probability would have re-
suited in the capture of the entire of Lees
army.
1.-The fact which I have Just stated,
Mr.. President, ! got from Ma jor. General
in the army-the man who proposed the
movement"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Old Things.

Give me the old songs, those exquisite
bursts Of melody which thrilled the Tyres
oi the inspired poets and mins,reIs OF long
ago. Every note has borne on the air
tale of JOY and rapture-of sorrow and
sadness! They tell OF days gone by,
and time hath given them voice which
speaks TO us of those who once breathed.
these melodes-of what they non are,
and what se soon shall be. My heart
loves those melodies ; may they be mine
TO hear till life shall end, and ,as l "launch
my boat" upon the sea Of eternity, may
their echoes be waited to my ear, to cheer
me on my passage from the scene OF earth
and eertb-land.
Give me old paths, where we have
wandered and culed the flowers Of love
and friendship, in the days of "Auld Lang
Syhe )" Sweeter far the dels whose echoes
have answered to our voices whose turf
Is not stranger to our footsteps, and
whose rills have, in childhood's days, re-
flected back our forms, and those OF our
merry play fellows, from whom we have
parted and meet no more in the old hooks
we loved SO well. May the old paths be
watered by Heavens own dew, and be
green forever in my memory
Give me the old house, upon whose
stairs we seem to hear light footsteps.
and under whose porch merry iaug Ii
seems 70 mingle with the winds that
whistle through the old trees, b -
whose branches lie the graves of tt
who once ,rod the halls and made tn,
chambers ring with glee. And o above
all, give me the old friends-hearts bound
to mine in ile's sunshiny hours, and by a
link so strong that all the storms OF earth
might not break it asunder con
genial, whose hearts through life have
throbbed in unison with our own o,
when death shall still this heart, | would
not ask for aught moro sacred TO hallow
my dust. than the tear of an old friend
May my funeral drge be chanted by the
old friends love SO fondly. who have
not yet passed away to the spirits brigh
| home.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
THE OLD FARM HOUSE.

Az tho foot Of the bill near tho old rcd mill,
In quiet, shady spot,
just pceping through, half bid from view,
Stands a little moss grown cot
And, straying through, at the open door,
The sunbeams play on tho sanded floor.
The easy chair, all patched with care,
Is placed by tho old heartbstone;
With wi,ching grace, in tho old FIRE place,
The evergroons are strewn,
And pictures bang on tho whitened wall.
And the old clock ticks in the cottage hall.
More lovely still, on the window.sill,
Tho dew.eyed flowers rest,
While 'mdst the leaves, on the moss. gro wn
caves,
The martin builds her nest;
And all day long tho summer breeze
10 whispering love to the bending trees.
Over the door, all covered DER
With sack of dark greon baizs,
Lics musket old, whose worth is told
10 tho events of othor days
And tho powder flask and the hunters horn,
Have hung beside it for many a morn.
For years have fod with a noiseloss tread
Like fairy dreams away,
And left in their fight.al shorn Of his might,
A father-old and gray
And the soft wind plays with bis snow. white
hair,
As the old man sleeps in his oasy chair.
In at tho door, on tho sanded floor,
Light fairy footsteps glide,
And maiden fair, with fl,xen hair,
kneels by the old mans side
An old oak, wrecked by the angry storm.
While the ivy clings to it's trembling form.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Take Care Of the Floral Ornaments Of
the Parlor.

Window pets will have TO go out in the
garden before many weeks. II you desre
them to Increase 10 size, plant them out
without pots; =; if as large as you wish them,
keep iD pot {; but By and by sink pot and
all in the ground. Plants in pots, when,
lifted in the fall, suffer much less than those
Without especially if tho pottiug is not done
with careful hands. Therefore some knowl-
edge Of those it is safe to trust is necessary.
All kinds of yerbenas and other bedding
plants should invariably be planted out
They do not do we'll in pots during summer
and are easily taken up in the fall Hard.
wooded plants are tho most difficult to take
up if planted out, and camelias, azaleas,
acacias and similar plants should not be
turned out OF the pots. They are better
kept somewhat in the shade during summer.
But, to preserve uniformity In heat and
moisture to the roots, sink the pots about
tvo-thirds their depth. Take care in sink
ing the pots that NO obstacle is in the way
of perfect drainage through the bottom of
the pot. vi oil plants be careful in this
way, as Heaths and the like, to sink in small
sized pots in the hole first then stand the
pot to be plunged directly over it. This
will also prevent earth-worms from jnfestipg
your plants. Plants that flower only during
winter or spring, exclusive OF those men,
toned above, (except the Acacias.) such as
the Mahernia, Fuscbia, Serratifolia, Abuti-
lon, Cytissus, Fabiana, and the like, should,
if not already done, be cut pretty severely
back into neat shape; do not fear to use
the knife freely but after cutting remember
that plants deprived of so much top will re-
quire but little wator until into rapid growth
again. Although quite hardy, there are no
plants neater for the greenhouse or win
dow, than young, thrifty specimens of Deuizia
Gracillis and Spiraa Reevesii f. pl. They
are best planted out in the open ground.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Hints on Money Matters.

To the wife, and yet more to the wife's
mother. Of a man of business, one who
speaks feelpgly suggests this most valuable
rule;
Beware Of starving the funds or draining
the capital which serves as the very tools
OF your husband's trade, and is. tho yory
liic'b'ooc OF bis business Many a lady,
had she begun in apartments. might have
soon luxuriatod in her own drawing room |;
but, by expecting to begin with complete
establishment, has crippled and crushed her
husband to the ground
Many a man Of business is ruined by thi,
error; and whose fault is il Why, nine
times out Of ten, the fault of the wife's rela-
tiyes. Tho wife bersolf we're the case fairly
put to her, would. many time, say, l Join
my lot to bis. Let us begin in quiet way.
The greater the struggle tho more pleased
shall DO to support and to comfort him.
We will strive together, and l will toll my
friends wo only sink TO rso. ON taking a
course by which shall with far more GER.
'ainty be eventually established as elegant.
ly as my friends would wish. Instead of
which the family expectations are too mt
to betray the husband into o scale of ex-
penditure which drains the strength of his
business, and cuts the very sinews of every
enterprise, till feeble trade, or perhaps
actual insolvency, is the result.
Don't aspire to begin where older persons
were contented to leave off. This ia the
reason so many ladies remain unmarried
Young men feel that they are expected tc
begin with ell tho elegancies whlch middle
life only can realize. limo was when Ia
dies would marry to help their husbands
they now only marry to weigh them down
Half the mad speculations of married mer
arise from this They dread to saw, "We
must reduce business is bad, and we mus,
live on less" So they speculate to make
more; ruin comes, and no one suspects that
the fallen man has been goaded on by the
grand expectations of his wife's relatives,
More than half the squabbles and the mis-.
cry of married life proceed from money
matters. There is one constant tussel be
tween I'VE want" on tho part of the wife
and Il cant afford" On behalf of the hus.
band.
And do we lay the blame on the ladies
Only thus far they ought to arrange for q
certain allowance for certain things, and
keep within it; for, lot man live to the
age of Methuselah, and, while bis expendi.
ture is not limited, he will always find il far
more than he could have calculated -
And the only way to keep within your in.
come is to pay ready money. remembering
the shrewd observation o: Archderon Psly
81 always require my wife and daughters t.
pay ready money. know they only bu,
what they think they want but read,
money checks the Imagination"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Children's Arms and Legs.

A distinguished physician, who died some
years since in Paris, declared
II believe that, during the 20 years tha, /
have practiced my profession in this city,
10000 children have been carried to the
cemeteries, q sacrifice to tho absurd custom
of exposing their arms Naked" On this the
oditor of the Philadelphia Medical and Sur
gicaL Reporter remarks: "Put tho bulb of
a thermometer in baby's mouth, tho mur.
curry rises to 90 degrees. Now carry the
same to its little hand if the arm be bare
and the evening cool, the mercury will sink
to so degrees. Of course all the blood that
flows through these arms must fall from 20
to 40 degrees below tho temperature of the
heart. Need say, when these currents of
blood flow back into the chest, the child's
vitality must bo more or less compromised
And need l add that VIC ought not to be
surprised at it's frequent recurring affections
of the tongue. throat or stomach : have
seen more than ono child with habtual
cough and hoarseness, choking with mucus
entirely and permanently relieved by simply
keeping the hands and arms warm. Every
observing and progressive physician has
daily opportunities of witnessing the. same
cure"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Affairs in Gen. Buffers Department.

A North Carolina colored regiment, says
q dispatch from Baltimore, of the'lst, have
arrived at Point Lookout. and are now
guarding tho rebel prisoners. There was
much jeering, but the majority of the pris-
oners took sensible view of matters, and
remainded quiet, attending quietly to their
own business, and the negro sentineIs to
their orders. General Butler, il is said, in
tends to keep tho negro troops to guard the
rebel prisoners, and can directly inform tho
authorities, if they are not now willing to
exchange a negro, he VIII, at least, be COM
PEELED to have the prisoners guarded 6y the
bright bayonets of tho negroes. s. W.
Wingfeld, OF Portsmouth, Va. rank So
cessionist, who has taken every opportunity
to disseminate treason. and who recently
interrupted 3 congregation while prayer
for the President of the United States was
being offered, has been arrested by order OF
Gen. Butler, and, for a wholesome example
to others. has been put to work at cleaning
the streets of Norfolk for three months.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Rebel Decay,

Mr.. Mansfield, State Statistician, enumer-
ates the following circumstances as evidenc.
es of rebel decay:
lst. Their entire dependence now Is
upon conscription for men and impressment
for provisions. They now take one tenth Of
all produced, by force.
2. The late speech of Howell Cobb, and
jeff. Davis recent mapifestoes. Both of
these documents are the confessions of
criminals. Cobb says they have nothing to
depend upon but the army. The speech of
Davis is still more melancholy. II all the
men up to sixty in the territory occupied
by the rebels can be conscripted, only 1877.
100 will be obtained. Three hundred thou
sand men is their extreme number. Eighty
thousand will be needed to defend Rich
mond fifty thousand for Charleston, Will
mington, North Carolina, Florida and Mo-
bile. Thirty thousand are beyond the Mis-
sissippi. One hundred and forty thousand
remain for Longstreo., Johnston and Polk /,
to defend Georgia, Alabama aud Mississippi.
In March our cfeeiire army will exceed any
thing we have ever had. Three hundred
thousand new troops will soon be ia the
field. The negro troops will soon be sufficient
to garrison all the Southern forts. Sherman
and Grant will soon divide the remainder Of
the Confederacy, latera'ly. The wounded
tiger fights with fierce courage or despair.
but he can spring but few feet either way.
The apengiHg s,1ord is ready TO fall.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Russia in Possession of the Garden of
Eden,

";blical geographers point to the Lake
III i. northern Armenia, and now a
Russian possession. as the spot where once
was situated the paradise lost by the fault
Of Adam and Eve. Indo.European the.
orsts locate the primitive Eden in north.
eru Asia. 1t occupied ell the present
western, and OF the eastern Siberia, ex.
tending from 40 deg. 10 SO deg. latitude,
and from 50 deg. to 100 deg. longitude.
The Artic ocean, at that time as pleasant
as the Mediterranean, with the Urai M.s.
as islands, was the northern boundary.
On the east by the Altai and the Chinese
Blue or Celestial mountains on the south
OF Paropamisus, or Hindoo Koosh and
on the west the Caucasus and the Arrarat
Both the Edens are now Russian pos.
sessions. Besides, Russian influence is
prePonderatiug in Jerusalem and the
spot in Rome assigned by arcbaologists
as the one where Romulus was nursed BY
a she wolf, is Russian property, having
been bought by Nicholas for the sake OF
excavations. By curious coincidence,
Russia owns in this way the places most
sacred ip the history OF our race.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25


WEAKLY CHILDREN OFTEN MAKE STRONG
MEN.-The chief characteristic of DR.. Ly.
man Beocher appears to have been strength
"a rather rugged strength and consequent
force, both of body and mind aud yet we
read as follows in bis autobiography, re-
Gently published.
DIR. Beecber's mother was tall, well-pro-
portioned, dignified in her movements, fair
to look upon, intelligent in conversation,
and in character lovely.
II was her only child. She died of con-
sumption two days after was born. was
a seven months child and, when the wo-
man that attended on her saw what puny
thing was, and that the mother could not
live, she thought it useless to attempt to
keep me alive. l was actually wrapped up
and laid aside. But, after while, one of
the women thought she would look and see
if was living, and, hnding Twas, concluded
to wash and dress me, saying, SITS pity
he hadn't died with his mother
And yet this weak and puny child of o
consumptive mother lived to exercise
through himself and his children, no iucon-
siderable degree Of influence on the desti-
nies of his country.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
CHARDON, ,GEAUGA COUNTY. OHIO FRIDAY MARCH IS 1864

great bulwark of our freedom is assailod. by
foes at homo aud abroad.
Tho Senate yesterday passed an amend =
mont to the National Banking systom,
granting to banks instituted under its pro.
visions the privilege to issue small notes of
the denominations of ono, two aud three
dollars. during the present great scarcity
Of gold, to bo made redeemablo at tho ex.
pira'ion Of that contingency.
H. IL J.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
Perhaps you may" said MIR. Wolfe, and

Perhaps you may" said MIR. Wolfe, and
the strangers departed.
Five months afterward, ns tho mechanic.
whose means were quito limited. sat in his
office, meditating how hard il was to get
business by tho side of such large establish.
mepts as wore bis competitors, the two
strangers entered. He gave them hearty
welcome, handed chairs, and ga. down.
"Wo come" said Mr.. Wolfe, "witb q prop.
osition from the Emperor of Russia"
From the Emperor Impossible!" !"
Here are our credentials"
"Bu', gentlemen" said the now sgitated
mechanic, what docs this mean : How
have l earned such an honor Y
simply by your straightforward courtesy
anc iranknoss, combined with professional
intelligence" said Mr.. Wolfe. "Bocause
wo were strangcrs, you did not think i, nee.
essary to treat us with distrust or coldnoss.
You sa" wo were in earnest in acquaintng
ourselves with your works, and did not ask
before extending to us your cvilities, what
letters Of introduction VIC brought. You
measured us by the spirit we showed, and
not by the dignites We could bavo OK.
hbited."
Tho mechanic visited st. Petersburg. and
soon after removed bis whole establishment,
there. He bad imperial orders for as MANY
locomotive engines as be could construct
He has lately returned to his own country
aud is receiving large roturns from bis Rus
sian workshop. Aud all this prosperit,
grew out Of bis unselfsh civil.y to two
strangers, one of whom was the secret aeen
of the Gar of Russia.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25

JACOB MEDARr has been recognized to
answer before the grand jury of Jefferson
county, Kentucky, on charge of starv-
ing his own father to death. This seems
to be one Of the most outrageous cases
ever put on record. One witness, Mr..
Kirkham, who lives in the house of Me.
dart, states that Medart kept the old man
in his room for som weeks. and after
wards he put him in kind of summer
kitchen, where he kept him locked up
He was kept in that kitchen during the
cold weather, and without any FIRE. He
had only very Thin coverlet over him,
which was sometimes dipping wet.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25

A BEAUTIFUL thought is suggested in
the Koran :-"Anyels, iu the grave. will
not question thee as 10 the amount Of
wealth thou hast left behind thee, but
wha: good deed thou hast done in the
world. to entitle thee TO sea. among the
blessed"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25

LEARN in childhood. If you can, that hap
piness is not outside. bnt inside. A good
heart and clear conscience bring happi-
ness, which no circumstances alone ever do.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25

Do not trust TO weak argument be-
cause you think you have got weak sd-
versary remember. donkey will eat
through his rope il YOU only bind him
with hay band, and be all the stronger
for il.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-03-25
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FIRE INSURANCE.
THE FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE
Insurance Company of che
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they ought to pAtroniza It. -
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