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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
A Short Clergyman.

A few miles below Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, there lives, and has lived for sever
al years past, worthy clergyman, q
man, however, very short in STATURE
Upon a certain Sunday, about eight
years ago, this clergyman was invited
by pastor of a church in that village
to ill his pulpit for the day. The invi-
tation was accepted, aud Sunday morn
iug saw Mr.. - in the pulpit. Now
it happened that the pulpit was very
high one, and accordingly nearly bid
tho poor clergyman from view. How
ever, the congregation out Of respect,
managed to keep their countenan css,
and with over. pious faces seemed reli-
giously anxious for the text. They
were not. obliged to wait long, for
noise and two little eyes suddenly up.
peared over the top Of the pulpit, and a
squeaking tremulous voice proclaimed
in nasal tones tho text: "Be of good
cheer; it is |, be not afraid"
A general roar of laughter followed
the announcement-the clergyman be.
came confused and turned all sorts of
colors. Many iu the general uproar
left the church; and it was long time
before the minister was enabled to pro
cecd with the sermon so abruptly bro
ken off.
Afternoon came, and the little man,
standing on a footstool, had fair view
of the audience. The text was nnnounc.
ed in due form "a little while ye shall
see me, and again little while and yC
shall not see me-"
In the course Of his sermon he re
peated his text with great earnestness,
and stepping back; lost his elevated foot
ing, and disappeared from his hearers
The effect may be more readily imagin
ed than described.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
A Touching Incident.

A little boy had died. His body had
been laid out in darkened room, wait.
ing to be laid in the lone, cold grave.
His afflicted mother and bereaved little
sister went in to look at the face of the
precious sleeper; for his face was beau
tiful even in death. As they stood
gazing on the face of one SO beloved
and cherished, the little girl asked to
shake his hand. The mother at first
did not think it best, but the child re.
peated the request, and seemed very
anxious about it; she took the cold,
bloodless hand of her sleeping boy and
placed it In that of his weeping sister
The dear child looked at it moment,
caressed it fondly and then looked up
and said: "Mother, this hand never
struck me-"
What could have been more touching
and lOvcly2
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Eight or nine regiments of slave
blacks--O7er. eight thousand men in
all-hsvs been raised for our army in
Maryland, Some of these regimsntS
have been sent down as far as South
Carolina, and others will soon follow
These eight thousand men were nearly
all slaves, and were enlisted voluntarily,
mainly from the plAntHticnS. Very
few of the free negroes Of Maryland
have entered the raukA. Our enlist
ments already must comprise three
fourths Of the able bodied slaves Of the
State. The remainder are enlistiDg as
rapidly as they can hnd opportunity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Ex- President Pierce Another Rebel.
The Biblical Recorder publishes the
foloWing note from Rav. Mr.. Pritch-
ard, of Raleigh, North Carolina;
Last spring a prominent member of
the church of which l was pastor in
Baltimore met, at the St. Nicholas Hn-
tel. in New York, OK President Pierce
Mr.. Pierce manifested tho warmest
sympathy for the South 10 this struggle
for independence, declared that the on
ly hope for freedom on this continent
was in the success of the South; that
old as he wnp, he should have been in
the Confederate army but for the health
Of his wife, and that he desired no higher
earthly honor than to be private in the
ranks Of the Southern army.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Bailey, the Engineer

Lieut..Col Bailey, whose triumph az
an engineer on Red river, Com. Porter
compliments by saying that "the high.
est honor the Government can bestow
on Col. Bailey can never repay him for
the service he has rendered the coun-
try, went into the war as captain Of .
company of lumbermen of Wisconsin,
He is practical lunberman from the
Pineries of that State, aud whose sngi-
neering was learned in navigating shall.
low and crooked streams, in the prosa.
cutiOn Of business. This feat of lum>
herman skill, was the building Of a
dam by which slack water navigation
was attained, and the Feet Coated out
of its peril. Books lay down 40 such
style of engineering, and the schools
have no chair that teaches the science
in the shape it assumed under Col.
Bailey's baCkwoods experience for Ad-
miral Porter says that Col. B. did 10
eight days what undor management of
a private company, would have rcquir-
ed year to accomplish.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

A Dutchman was relating his marvel
GUS escapes from drowning when thir-
teen of his companions we're lost by the
upsetting Of boat, and he alone was
saved.
"And how did you escape their fateF'
asked one Of his hearers. .
u It'd not go IN to pOtc,' was the
BushmAn'o placid reply,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

The Cincinnati Infantry Regiments.
none Of which re.enlisted except the
5th. are returning home, having served
their three years. The sth arrived
May 9th; the 10th arrives about this
time; the 1st and 81 Kentucky, and
the 9Th aud lith OHIO, all had OrdsrS
to leave Gen. Shermsn's army for Gin
cinuati, during the 6rst week in June.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
NOrttu.
For the Highland News
MY SOLDIER BROTHER.

TEor th. Trt,,ht.ad No,v.
..z-s..-.
M oNOt hhn'
BY Kate
Some weary months have passed away
Since brother went to rest,
Since his freed spirit plumed its flight
To mansions OF the blsit.
% sov,,,st,,ha.s.s s'''''"''
rr.,,,nrod a., No.. o.,,,.., A
- -,
II was lovely evening,
just at the close Of day,
Thesun was sinking in the West,
When Joseph passed away,
Int ,ho ti,h, ~ 49,.
yvh.ro ,h.r.a,,.,....
Or ,o,s,vo ,,a,r,a,....
II was the first deop sorrow
hyyoung heart ever knew,
When death removed from my embrace,
That friend so good Snd true,
The light and iov ,f homo
From nv crusbsd b.or, 7 s,rovo to-.
cThy will. @ God bo dopor,
Y..
We pore MN 70 the ehnreh-yard'
"uu '"" '"o s'"'e Vio'eu o0r
'o'"0' 'us"' ""''''S' i@ee'
1u"e We We 'hou'u see no more
"o"i' 'n' spot astricken Oshd'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

The court martial for the Department
of Missouri, sentenced eleven men to
death. The President has interposed
and reduced the death verdicts to i'm
prisonmens of all except one, who viii
in due time be hanged.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Some Indiana soldiers on a scout in
the mountains of Georgia, came upon
house occupied only by an old woman.
"Well, old lady" said the leader,
what are youP secoshH" NO." said
she, "What thsn2" Baptist" said
she, promptly, "And always was"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
LFor the News,
miscellaneous Enigma

Miscellaneous Enigma
Lam composed Of tweuty.three letters.
eTl415 l6 isa Union General
My Ol2 II Ia u small animal .....
My is 20 2 IS II a kind OF drink.
Ny 10 81 le is one OF our Generals.
My 20 10 10 10 is very useful
My, @ 48lsa usetul article,
MyI2i04i a beautiful flower,
My342l lisa liquid.
My IS 8 10 q is used 10y shosmakers.
My whole is the nameofa young gentleman In Faint
township.
Marshall, Ohio. ANNA.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Answer to Enigma Of last week;--JameS Davenport.
Answer 10 Charads Of last week!-Hem, Lock. Answer
to Arithmetieal Problem In last week-First The time
az the gonternhng birth 1896, October a. O'clock,
6I years, calendar months, days, and Il heurs,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Absoutssisw in the United st4'ss
Senate il becoming a positive disgrace.
That body was compelled 70 adjourn for
three successive days, for want OF . quo'
rum to transact busiHsOs.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Niggers, for the Northern people to
support, or bury from starvation, con-
tinue to arrive in great numbers
ECopperhead Paper.
Yes. Two years ago the little Mi
ami Railroad company imported nine
hundred. negroes from the South to
chop wood for them. They took them
to the strong Copperhead section Of
Madison county Ohio. In, short time
the Copperheads seduced most of them
away from the contractor by Offering in
creased wages, aAd the negroes are now
working for them. These identical
Copperheads, although they roared for
Vallandigham as other body.snatehcrst
uniformly report that these negroes are
the best and most profitable hands they
ever had. They could not get other
hands, and they employed negroes, aud
they are so we'll satisfied that they will
take all they can get.-[Dayton Jour
! nal
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Masonic Celebration Postnoned

GNIRCUMsTANCEs beyond their control, have deter.
" mined Highland Lodge No. 80, nifisboro recall
tho notice Invitations 10 celebration in this place
the Gath Of June. Dy order of tho Lodge.
W. NJ. MEEK,
HlllGboro, June LIST, 1864. w NJ
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Of tho resources and increase Of power
to this nation, the asylum of the opprss-
ed of all nations, should be fostered
and encouraged by liberal and just
policy.
9th. Re,olred, That we are in favor
of the speedy construction Of the rail-
road to the Pacific.
9th. Resolved, That the national
faith is pledged for the redemption OF
the public debt, and must be kept In
violate, and that for this purpose we
recommend economy aud rigid responsi-
bility in the public expenditures, and
n vigorous and just system of taxation.
That it is the duty Of every loyal State
to sustain the credit and promote the
use Of the national currency. Ap'
plause.
10th. Resoived, That we approve
the position taken by the Govern meut,
that the people of tho United States can
never regard with indifference the at.
tempt of any European power to over
throw by force, or to supplant by fraud,
the institutions of any republican Gov.
ernment on the Western Continent,
[prolonged applause] and that thoy will
view with extreme jealousy, as mennc-
ing to the peace and independence of
this country, the efforts of any such
power to obtain new footholds for mo.
nnrchial governments, sustained by q
foreign military force, in near prozim
| ity to the United States. Long con-
tinued applause.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

The widow of the late Ex President
John Tyler, has written to President
Lincoln, complaining that Gen. Wild
has arrested n slave owner who had been
fogging his female chattles, ana that
the General had had him tied, and per-
mitted the woman to repay the blows
with interest. Mrs. Tyler is indignant
that Virginia gentleman should have
been thus treated.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

Deacon Potcrr lately took occasion to
administer a reproof for swearing to
Joe Mills, a particularly wild fellow,
but not Intentionally "transgressional." :"
Joe listened attentively to his words,
and seeming to appreciate tho explana-
ton, replied as follows:
"The fact is, deacon, that I swear a
great deal, and you pray great deal,
but neither of us mean anything BY it.
The deacon alludes to Joe as an in
stance of the most total depravity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Notice.

fUNHE undersigned has been duly appointed and quail
n iRed As executor of the last will and testament OF
James II, Powers deceased, late Of Highland county,
Ohio.
SisciIy, o., May 2s, 1854. SIDNEY OGDEN
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

The subscription for tho East Ten.
nessso sufferers, collected at the East,
by Edward EvOrOtt, has reached the
sum Of 100000.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Miscellaneous DpiEi

FoT The NoWs
Miscellaneous DniEma
Am composed Of 2s letters.
MY l254667s0 10 Is military title.
My IL l2 1914 Is Ia river in Virginia.
Ny t6 iTls 10 20 Is part Of wagon.
My 2l 29 z 25 IL a county In Ohio.
MY % "a IS 26 81 ~ 23 often leads TO ruin.
My whole Is the name Of able aud efficient o(doeT
rho Is beloved by all under his command.
Camp hin, May 23d, 1864. 10 -.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

The world stands good chance, il
seems, of coming to an end some lime
during the coming year, In letter
from Melbourne, in an English paper,
occurs the following alarming par,
agraph:
"Professor Newmager, on a three
years scientific visit from Blvaria, tells
us that in 1865 a comet shall como so
close as to endanger this our earth; aud
should it not attach itself Gas one glob
ule Of quicksilver to onOther) nor ami
hilatc us, the sight will be most beauti.
ful to behold. During three nights
we shall have no darkness, hut be bath
ed in the brilliant light of the blazing
train,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Noutb's department.
(For the News,

IFOr the NtWdl
ChArade.
Look at my nrst, aud hundred you'il ses,
Ten times as much IN my second muAt be.
MY thirds vessel that means to oxelaim,
My fourthS any definite period Of time,
Make me out now, whoever can.
And see the name Of a model young man.
Aud now Just ono hint further I'll Eivei
In Liecliy township he does live.
MILO.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16

House for Sale In East Monroe, 0.
A FRAME house As feet long by 90 feet wide, and
~ two story high with hall and stairway In the mid.
die, three rooms below aud four above Also n
falling well OF good water. shop the same lot 10 by
20 feet Tha property sclose to the railroad Depot
For particulars call ON me at HillsbOro, o.
Also will sell $50 acres Of land within seven miles Of
/ he city OF Fort Wayne, Indiana.
june2ml@ J. S. HAMPSHIRE.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Tax Notice.

VWNHE last Instament Of taxes for the year 1868 s
IN due, and required to he paid or before the 20TH
DAY OF JUNE, 1864. penalty Of five per cent will
be added to all hat remain unpaid after that date
or my Deputy, will attend at GREENFIELD on
THURSDAY& FRIDAY May 9th and 9th, for the
purpose Of receiving Taxes and At my onice in Hills.
boro until the goth day OF June, 1861.
q. w. LAWRENCE,
Treasurer Of Highland Co.
Ullsboro, April I2 1861. apl4u
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
Another Copperhead on tho situa.

ton.
The following beautiful passage is ex =
tractcd from the arch -copperhead OF
the North west:
"In Washington, the Chief Mugis.
trate, lank, long and emaciated, calcula
ting the chances Of a re election, or
awakening with quaint jokes roars Of
laughter in a ring of partisan admirers.
In the Treasury, seragliO ablase with
jewels and musical with wanton laugh
ter. In the War Department, a man
engaged in flashing over tho land intel.
ligsnce Of fictitious victories, of false re-
suits, busted in deluding a whole ma
tion with hopes which the next hour
or the next week will crush, leaving the
victims more sorely heart-broken than
they would have been had they been
told all the truth at once"
The author ofthe above is one Of the
most ardent champions Of Mcclellan.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1864-06-16
9oljtital.
National Union Platform.

The report Of the Committee on Gre.
dentisls was then adopted as amended.
Mr.. Raymond, Of New York, from the
Committee on Resolutions, reported tho
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-22

PROM the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 3
IL Is reliably estimated that during the past
week over one hundred Jews, principals of sub
stitutes and Others have come TO Richmond
from the South, put up at the hotels, and dis
appeared by the various underground routes 10 the
North. How they 60 is only known TO them
selves and their agents, but il is true they have
gone, and are still going. Ten Jews left one of
the principal hotels on Sunday morning. They
are mostly OF the wealthy class and ten thou
sand dollars Is frequently rendered for a safe
passage To the Potomac. lt is intimated that
peisonss in the guse OF farmers are their most
successful accOmplices. They come to Rich
mond with marketing or a load of forage and
carry out load Of blockade runners concealed
in their vehicles. making a more profitable spec
ulation OH their outward than their inward trip,
as all pay and pay heavily, too
Numbers have been overhauled their Jour
ney through the lines, by the detectives. and are
now resting in Castle Thunder. but more have
succeeded in escaping IL is limited. with what
amount of truth we know not that the myster
Gus art of the embalmer has been employed IL
some recent cases of disappearance. aud thai
several embalmed Jews neatly incoffned hav,
gone through the lines en- route to bereaved rela
tives in the North Richmond Examiner.
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-22
Iibcrfx of npinion

The Republicans OF Franklin county. At
recent convention held to appoint delegates to
the Union" State Convention. unanimously
adopted the following resolution:
Rssolred. That while we are ~ favor 81 extend
ing 10 every one the greatest liberty Of differing
with Va aud the Administration on questions OF
national policy. yet ~e are as mgt ~ ever op-
posed 70 the dangerous doctrine OF the right Of
secession, and will. during the coming campaign,
~ well At other times. oppose the enemies Of
our country wherever found.
If this is an honest expression OF sentiment,
the Administration party Of franklin county has
displayed more wisdom aud regard for constitu-
tonal liberty than has vet appeared from the.F
political associates elsewhere AT the Democ-
racy ask il the liberty Of differing aud expressing
that difference of opinion. ION questions OF
national policy" and free aud pure ballot box
to record that verdict and give il vitality under
the provisions Of the Constitution The DemOc
racy have purpose but TO maintain a constitu-
tional government, pure and free, securing 10
every citizen those personal rights which the
Constitution guarantees, and the only question
that should be a, issue j. the best way TO main
tain and perpetuate civil and religious liberty
With the Administration party of Franklin coun
~. the Democracy stand ready to oppose the
enemies Of our country wherever found II th'
coming political campaign is conducted in thu
spirit Of the resolution have quoted, it will b'
Invested Of all bitterness and the only effort. 81
far as the Democracy is concerned, will be e
demonstrate the best policy to relieve the couu
try ofits present difficulties and restore the unit!
OF. the nation upon an enduring basis. lie
there Toe a full and free discussion of the i'm
portant issues and questions now before the ma
ton and fair expression at the ballot box. ther
there will he but little, if any. doubt that th'
Ship of State will safely weather the storm which
now threatens TO ensulph her
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-22

at any time. in any State Great God. what
have been their acts. III tell YOU yes.
Assembled on the 18th day Of January. A ID.
leo4, they organized by electing nv enemies TO
all the important Offices. And then and there in
Topeka. the capital OF Kansas, Kansas redeem
ed, converted and baptised by me, Jim Lane,
they entered into a scheme of hellish villainy,
more blackening with "usurpa,ion" and fraud
than any other thing history has ever chronicled;
and after twenty nine DAYS Of accused drunken
ness. hellish debauchery and Infamous bribery
they did there-reaching the climax of cOrrup-
tion-eonsummate amid the widest bowling OF
men, made fends sy the continual effect and in
hnence of the whisky furnished by that pro
slavery grocery keeper. Tom Carney. elect him
Tom Carney, to the United States Senate. Great
God.
The people will bury them beneath the burn-
Ing lava OF their Indignation deeper III n the cor.
rupt city OF Pompei was buried eighteen hun.
dred years ago by the volcano that lowered above
II as the mighty aud irresistible wrath of the PEG
pie towers aloft above this fraud and the mer
that consummated If. GREAT GOD.
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-22
Then and Now

To those among us-and we are ashamed 10
say there MANY OF them-who believe in the
virtue OF New England. in the Puritans and the
Nav Flower, We commend the admoni,on TO he
found IN sveech OF Josiah Quincy the leader
of New EnEiind Feleral'st> opposing the war OF
ISL. de intmated that Monroe was To be Nd
poiuted 10 command the army for the tongues,
OF Canada. and that after three or -four years he
Was To return at the head OF his forces. a canii-
date for the Presidency He added. and who
ever j. the candidate Tor the Presidency. with an
army Of thirty thousand veterans at his heels.
viii not Oe likely 10 be troubled with rivals or
= concern himself about votes. A President,
elected under such auspices. may DE nominallv
President for years; but really. if he pleases.
President Tor life
IL Is, indeed. iaughable TO ind the same party
which NOW has at its back nearly million OF
Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-22
,NiNCegnafiOn.
The winsted Comm Herald of the 9Th con
tains the following:

The Winsted Comm Herald of the 9Th con-
tains the following:
\ negro funeral such Winsted has witnessed
within week. where black and white mex
trcably confused in several of the mourning car
riages. proves that Miscegnation il 10 new thing
with Us, at least practically; and our FIRST Select
man informs that in the course OF official duty
few mornings since, an instance going much fur
ther to set out the progress of the new idea came
directly under his observation. MIS-. Harriet
Beecher Stove, whom we must all revere. gives
her fullest sanction TO the idea. and, a. our read
viii recoect in a recent article suggests that
by and by when art atiains lis highest success
among us-vhen sculptor and thinner are fully
educated up To an apprehension OF the divinity of
manhood-then they will take for their models
and reproduce as their nobest creatiOns-great.
grizzled SamboeS. and oily, blubber- Tipped ID
nah> Verify, Catherine, Queen of the Mis-
cegnes "much learning doth make thee mad"