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The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
Little Things.

How many beautiful actions are
daily overlooked by us, because they
are so little and common Take, for
instance, the mother who has had
broken slumber, if any at all, with the
nursing babe, whose wants must not
be disrcgarded; she would lie and.
sleep awhile; but when the breakfast
hour comes, patiently and uncom.
plainingly she takes her timely seat
ut the table. Though exhausted and
weary, she serves all with the refresh.
ing cups of coffee or tea before she
sips it herself, and often the cup is
handed back to her 10 be reiilled be.
fore she has had time to taste her
own. oyou hear her complain, this
weary mother, that her breakfast is
cold before she has had time to eat
it? And this is not for one, but cy-
cry morning perhaps through the
year. DO you call this small thing?
Try it and see! Oh, how does wO-
man shame us by her forbearance and
fortitude in what are wrongfully call
ed little things! All, it is these little
things which are the tests OF charac
ter; it is by these little self deniaIs,
borne with such self-forgotten gen
tleness, that the numblest home is
made beautiful TO the eye Of angels,
though we fail to see it, alas, till the
chair is vacant, and the hand which
kept in orderly motion all this do
nestle machinery is powerless and
cold.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
Letter From n Secesh Soldier TO Ills
Better Half.

BELOVED OF MY SoUL.-Your war
worn husband takes his pen III hant
in strange land, on foreign strant
under the command of our mutua
friend, Col. Pluck BuzZard. Of Rain.
water Court House, South Carolina
My pen is pale and / have no ale
My ink is poor and so is my grub
My quarters in camp are passable
but the quarters in my pocket arc
not. Last night ] had a mud-puddlt
for my pillow, and covered myself
with a sheet of water. long fol
more whiskey barrels, and less gun
barrels, more biscuits and less bul,
let's. How wish you were here. -
The further l get away from you the
better like you. So you may know
how we work here in defiance of the
cussed Yankees-I send you a, what
dye call it--a dairy of my daily la
Dor.
Five o'cloch--Called up from roll
in the mud by roll of drums. Nc
prospect OF roll OF bread. Shoul-
der spades.
Half-past five to six, A. MI dig
and throw up the earth. Get sick
and throw up my yesterdays rations
Seven clock.--Another roll OF
drums. Filing off into line and de.
filing my inexpressibles with mud
and other sacred soil, drawing ram.
rods, but no pay. No shelling out by
Government, but a cussed sight too
much shelling out by Grant-its pn-
comfortable.
Nine o'clock, More drilling, but
not of the cotton kind, wherewith to
increase my present supply OF one
shirt.
Ten o 'clock,--More digging. Spad
ular researches into the geological
formation of the earth. Find it to
comprise alternate stratas Of sweat,
sunstroke, swearing and blisters.
Twelve o'clock. .--Evidence of din
ner. Saw Captain Yawslack picking
his teeth with ten penny nail, and
the corporal taking chew Of tobac-
co.
Col. Pluck came very near being
shot in the neck by one of his own
officers. The Colonel had just got
his staff together, and struck his no.
BILE steed with it, when Captain
Swipes leyeled a bottle at him. For
tunately, the contents missed his jug
ular and went down the natural way,
! am reduced to a skeleton, My eyes
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

A scrub head boy having been
brought before the court rs Il wit
ness, the following colloquy ensued :
"Where do you liyeS' said the
Judge.
olive with my mother"
"Where does your mother live Z"
"She lives with father"
"Where does he live z"
"He lives with the old folks"
where do they live?" says the
Judge getting very red, rs an audible
snicker goes round the room.
"They live at home"
"Wherc in thunder's their home p
roars the Judge.
"That's where I'm FROM" says the
boy, sticking his tongue in a corner
of his cheek and slowly closing one
eye on the Judge.
"Here, Mr. Constable" says the
court, stake the witness out and tell
him to travel; lie evidently does not
understand the nature of an oath"
you'd think different" says the
boy, going toward the doorway, "if
was once TO give you a cussin J"
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

solicitude. The questions asked are,
will Mobile fall and can Whining
ton hold out p There is no attempt
to disguise the tact that they will be
in II terrible way il either of these
places should be captured, and re.
marks that "there is no use feeding
on fog it may blind our eyes, but it
cannot strengthen our bodies The
armies of Lee and Hardee are com
pared with those of the great Roman
General, Marius. After two years OF
bloody war, many of his generals de
feated and Rome alarmed, Marius fell
upon the enemy, and victory crowned
his arms. The rebels are fighting for
what the Romans fought, and arc
branches of the same people. "For
while the controlling blood of the
South is Roman, Gallo or Norman,
the North is entirely Germanic in its
origin. The same harsh cultural
sound that astonished the Romans. is
heard to day IN the ranks OF our enc
my, who are so eXultingly pressing
on TO the very border of our land -
A queer Interpretation of the shouts
of Sherman's victorious army. An
appeal is made TO Georgians to re.
spond to the call of Hardee, but fears
that the people do not appreciate his
action, and says, "if there ever was
wisdom in the policy of saving the
lives of your soldiers, when il is very
difficult to supply their places, even
with new recruits, and of only fight
ing when everything pointed to vic
tory, there is wisdom in it now. We
must retreat; then, until victory is
within our reach. Our armies must
be kept together and unsubducd, if
we are reduced to the area Of q SIN
GLE STATE"
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
4 Shrek from RebeIdom.

The Georgia Constitutionalist, one
of the ablest papers of the South, has
very significant and we'll written
editorial on the situation of affairs in
Georgia, from which we extract the
following:
"Great God, what are we coming
to? Is man dying for the lack OF
the common instincts of patriotism ?
Is Sherman to march over us and
trample us beneath his feet as we did
our mcnials ? Wake up, slumberers,
or forever acknowledge the defeat
which will await you. In the Divine
rescript of God to man, it is written
that the thing that has been shall be;
that which has been done shall be
done, and that there is no new thing
under the sun"
The writer trusts that the perlous
situation of affairs ar not so bad as
represented, but has been seeking to
discover the good, and says;
"The present campaign is a great
study it requires thought and re-
Election, not conclusions arrived at
through blind and unthinking hate OF
the partisan or of the fool--not such
conclusions as Governor Joseph Il,
Brown finds--that man of sophomo.
ric but partizan proclamations-but
the calm conclusions and thoughts OF
the good and the brave, the hopeful
and the unwhipped."
The anxiety of the people is de-
picted in glowing language, and the
movements Of Sherman cause painful
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
How Nature Covers up I,a,tIeaeId..

"Did / ever tell you," says u cor
respondent of an Eastern newspaper,
"of the affecting little things one is
always seeing in these battle fields,
how upon the ground on winch the
battle of Bull-Run was fought, saw
pretty, pure, delicate flowers, grow
ing out of the ammunition boxes, and
wild rose thrusting its graceful head
through the top OF broken drum,
which doubtless sounded It's lnst
charge in that battle, and a cunning
scarlet vcrbena peepipg out of frag
ment of a bursted shell, in which
strange pot it was planted. Wasn't
that tpeace growing out of WARP Even
so shall the beautiful and graceful
ever grow out Of the horril adi ter
rible things that transl,irc in this
changing but ever advancing world
of onrs. Nature covers even the bat
tletield with verdure bloom. Peace
and plenty spring up in the track Of
devouring campaigns, and all things
in nature and society shall work out
the progress of mankind.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
A Warming 10 Enchre Players

A young man in Rochester, who is
fond of euchre, and also very fond of
the daughter of pillar of one of the
orthodox churches, was taking tea ut
tue house of his adored o short time
since, and had some fruit cake offered
him. Being somewhat confused on
account of his situation, as the cake
was held out to him, he cried out, 81
pass" The father hearing him, and
having played some in his younger
days, was horrorstruck Mt his infatua.
tion for game, and thought lie would
teach him n lesson. lie spoke blunt.
ly, "Iou pass, do your then order
you up--and there's the door; shall
make q march ~
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
THE DYING CORPORAL.
By HENRY j. HOWARD.

"It was. perhaps, ten days after
the second battle Of Manassas, that
l visited one of the hospitals near
Washington for the purpose of ascer-
tanning # any of the disabled of my
own command had been borne there,
and, of speaking to them a kind and
cheerful word, always SO grateful to
wounded soldier.
"As / was passing through the nu-
merous wards, viewing with feelings
of sympathy and pride those mutilat-
ed, but patient and accomplishing
soldiers, two strangers-a sister and
an aunt of one of the suffering heroes
---accosted me, and asked if / would
be so kind as to come to the couch
Of their relative. and stand 10y his
bedside, while the surgeon should re.
amputate his limb, which they told
me had been amputated the day be-
fore, but on account Of the arteries
having commenced to slough away,
the surgeon had decided upon this as
the only hope OF saving his life. /
followed them to the couch. They
were both weeping, but the wounded
soldier, although suffering intensely,
met me with smile, and saluted me.
/ sat down by his couch and took his
hand in mine.
"He told me that he was corporal
III the Collins Zouaves, of Philadel-
phia, that he was wounded late in the
action, and left upon the field that
he remained where he fell from Satur-
day until the following ednesday,
with no food, save q few crackers
lett in my knapsach, and no water,
except that which God gave me from
Heaven in rain and dew, which
in my blanket The corpo,
raj continued his story, after a mo.
ment's pause, occasioned by his suf-
fering, by saying-'You know, Colo
mel, how God always remembers us
wounded soldiers with rain after the
battle is over, and when our lips are
parched,and our tongues burning with
fever. On Wednesday l was found
by one of our surgeons, who dressed
my wound, and placed me with some
other disabled soldiers in an ambu-
lance, to be sent to Washington. l
arrived here late on Tuesday evening
when my limb was amputated, and l
= The corporal again paused in
his story, and l begged him not to
go on. l noticed that his voice be-
came weaker, and his face moved
pale and deathlike, and moment af-
terward l observed blood trickling
upon the floor from the rubber couch
upon which he lay. l at once called
the surgeon to his bedside. He ex-
the limb, and after consulta.
ton with other surgeons in attend
ance, told me they had decided that
it was impossible to save the corpo-
rails life; that re-amputation would
be useless f; that the soldier was fast
from exhastion and that in all
probability would not survive the
hour; and he desired that l should
make known their decision and ap-
prehensions to the sister and aunt.
with such language as soldier
might command, l informed them
that the corporal must soon rest
Tears filed their eyes, and they Sob
bed bitterly, but their grief was
borne as christian woman alone can
bear such sorrow, for they heard the
voice of their Elder Brother speak
ing to them as 70 Martha j am the
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.

oh, the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below.
over the hOusetops. over the street.
over the heads of the people you meet,
Dancing,
Flirting,
Skimming along.
beautiful snow, IL can do nothing wrong;
Flying to kiss II iair lady's cheek,
Cliugtng TO lips in Il frolicsome freak
beautiful snow. IRON heaven above,
Pure as AN angel, gentle as love.
Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow,
How the fakes gather ard laugh as they 60
Whirling about In its maddening fun,
II plays In It's glee with every one,
Chasing,
Laughing,
IIurrying by,
II lights up the flce and sparkles the eve,
And even he dogs with a lurk ard a bound,
snap at the crystals that eddy around
The town IS active, and its heart in a glow.
TO the welcoming in Uf the beautiful snow.
low the w1d crowd goes swaying along.
Hallng each other with humor and song!
How the gay sedges Ike meteors, fash by,
bright tor moment, thon lost 10 tue eye!
Ringing.
Swinging,
flashing thev 20.
Over tho crust Of the beautfli snow;
snow so pure wien 10 falls, from the sky.
~ ue IdHIieu lIl mud bylut crowd ruSNlnE 10y
To be tritinpied aud tracked by thousands oI
Til it blends with the filth Of the horrible
street.
Once was pure aS the snow-but fell -
Fell like The snoS lakes from heaven 10 hell ;
Fell tc lie trainpled as nth Ia the street;
Fell to be scoiled. TO be spit ON and beat;
Pleading,
Cursing
DreAding TO die,
Selling MY soul TO whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame Tor Il inurSel of 0fead.
Hating the living. and fearing the dead;
Morclful God, have fallen 50 low?
And yet was once Ike the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
with I'll eye Ike Ito crystal, Il heart like it's
glow;
Once was loved for my innocent grace
Flattcl ed aud sought lUr the CHARMS el my face
Father,
Mother,
Sister. ALL
God, and myself have | st by my fall;
lhe vcriest wretch that goes shivering Oy.
VIII take awide sweep, lest Iw4ndcr too uigl; ;
] ar All that is on, or above me, know.
There Is nothing Opure as The beautiful snow.
How strange IL should be that the beautiful
snow
'lVu'u ian WI Nue slilHeS, WIN no WNcre 10 So'
dow strah 50 II shonid be, when night comes
again,
{ the snow and the ice struck my desperate
brain:
Falntng,
Freezing,
Dying alone.
zoo wicked Tor prayer. too weak for n moan
% he heard beyond IN the crazy town.
lone mad IN the joy Of the snow coming down,
To lie and 10 die IN my terrible wpe.
Win bed ana d shroud ol tho beautiful
SNOW.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

resurrection and the life; he that be
lieveth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live,' The sister wiped
away her tears, and taking small
PRAYER book from her pocket, asked
me if would tell her brother that lie
must soon die, and If would read to
him 'the prayer for the dying |
went again to the couch and stood be
side the dying soldier.
Corporal" said l, "we shall halt
soon, we are not going to march much
further to-day"
"Are we going to halt, Colonel ?"--
asked the dying soldier, "and so ear.
! ly in the day, are we going into biv
ouac before nightY"
ayes, Corporal" replied, "the
march is nearly over, the bugle will
sound the halt"
The corporal's mind wandered foI
moment, but my tears interpreted
to him the meaning of my words.
"Ah Colonel" he said, "do you
mean that I am soon to die 2"
"Yes, Corporal, ! replied, "you are
soon to di,."
"Well, Colonel, I am glad am 60
ing to die--I want rest. The march
is not long, but l am weary, / am tir-
ed want TO halt. want to he with
Christi want to be with my Savior"
l read to the soldier 'the prayer
for the dying most of which he re-
peated, and then the sister knelt be-
side the couch Of the dying soldier
brother, and offered up to God such
q prayer, SO earnest, SO full Of love
and faith,as no tongue eau tell, no
pen describe. The life blood of the
dying soldier was trickling down
from the bedside, aud crimsoning her
dress, while she besought the Father
that the robes of her dying brother
might be washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb. The prayer
was finished the dying man said
"AMEN !' We stand again by his
bedside. "Sistcr, aunt, do not grieve
do not weep, for am going to Christ
Il am going to rest in Heaven !"
"Tell my mother, sister, and the
soldier took from his finger u ring,
and kissed it. d" Tell mother, sister,
that this is for her, and that rcmem-
bered her and loved her when l was
dying" and then he took another
ring from his hand, kissed i. and sIid.
"Sister. give this TO her to whom my
heart is pledged, and tell her--tell
her to come to me in Heaven! And,
Colonel" said he, turning to me,
while his face frightened with the
words, "tell my comrades of the Ar
my of the Potomac that I DIED
BRAvELY--DIED FOR THE OLD FLAG
AND MY COUNTRY !"
"Those were the last words of the
dying soldier. His pulse now beat
more and more feeble-the blood
trickled faster and faster down the
bedside--the shadow of death came
and went, and lickering for mo-
ment, at length rested-rested for
ever. The corporal had halted
His bivouac now is in Heaven"
Thus ends little story that was re-
lated by one of the officers of the Ar
my of the Potomac under Mcclellan,
soon after the battle of Bull Run,
and just before the conflict OF Antie-
tam. 1t is strictly true.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

are sunk so far into my head that
can look down my windpipe, clean
through my entire interior. My chin
is so sharp that it shaves itself. am
going on picket duty tonight. Pick.
ct duty is awful hard work. Almost
every night apicket's gun goes OFF and
when we go to look for him, we find
he's gone off too. Ever your dear
husband, BUCKHoRN HANDLE.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

One Of the most singular iacts con.
nccted with the present political con
dition of the North and South is, that
JEFF. Davis and Alexander II. Ste
phens, the bogus President and Vice
President of the so called Southern
Coniederacy, are, rs we are credibly
informed, native horn Connecticut
Yankees: while Abraham Lincoln and
Andrew johnson are both nstives OF
the slave States, and of the down
trodden class of its poor population,
which is denominatcd by the aristo.
cratic planter as the "white trash ol
the South Mr.. Stephens, we are
told, was born at Iladdam in Con
necticut, anl went to Georgia mt an
early age. Mr.. Davis was born at
Killingworth, Connecticut, and emf
grated to Kentucky, where his lather
for some time kept roadside tavern.
And these are the king pins of the
Southern aristocracy, who pretend to
hold their noses when the repudiated
Yankees pass between the wind and
their nobility.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
$50 -~s- 'ss----------"-.--
The wind as "a Musician.

The wind is musician by birth. -
We extend silken thread in ths
crevices of window, and the wind
finds it and sings over it, and goes up
and down the scale upon it, and Pag.
anini must GO somewhere else for
honor, for 10 /. the wind is performing
upon single string. 1t tries almost
everything on earth to see if there Is
music in tit persuades n tune ont
Of the great bell in the town, when
the sexton is ut home asleep; it
makes n mournful harp of the giant
pines, and IL does not disdain To try
what sort of whistle can be made
out OF the humblcst chimney in the
world. How it will play upon tree
until every leaf thrills with note on
it, and the wind up river that runs
at its base in a sort of murmuring sc-
compartment And what melody
it sings when it gives concert with
a full choir of the waves of the sea
and performs an enthem between the
two worlds that goes up, perhaps, to
the stars which love music most and
sung it first. Then, how fondly IT.
haunts old houses; mourning under
caves; singing in the halls, opening
doors without fingers, and singing
Of some sad old song around
the ilreless aid deserted hcartls.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

examinations TO commence AT half past nine
O'Clock, A. NJ.
Teachers viii take notice that the Law. as
now amended, requires each male app icant
for certificate To pay 10 the Examiners n
fee Of hfty cents. and each female applicant
n fee Of thirty Ave cents. None who fail To
comply will be admitted for examination.
All applicants are required o. furnish writ
ten TO stimouials of good moral character,
those who have been engaged rs teachers to
sbtAin these testimonials from their last EN-.
ployers. who will also certify TO their faithful.
ness and success AS teachers; which estimo.
mails Will be kept on he.
No private examinations will be held; no
certificate will be antedatod; no candidate
will be admitted for Ie-ex animation with i'm
three months after a second failure. Appli.
canis are requested to present specimens OF
penmanship.
Those who fail TO comply with the above
acquisitions will not be admitted.
l.. TUSSING, Secretary,
Dec. 20, ca. Board OF Examiners.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

A Connecticut man has invented q
watch which is more simple in its
mechanism than ordinary watches,
and will run three hundred and sew
enty-eight days with once winding.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
TO Teachers,

Unless otherwise arranged. tho Board of
~ School Examiners, of Hancock County,
VIII meet on the following days during the
year 1865, for the examination OF Teachers:
She meetings to be held al the Union School
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
4 he Ladv's Repentance.

a young lady was addressed by
young man, though agreeable to her,
was disliked by her father. or course
he could not consent to their union,
and she determined to elopo. The
next night was fixed, the hour came,
he placed the ladder to the window.
and in few minutes she was in his
arms. They mounted double horse
and were. soon some distance from
the house. After a while she broke
the silence by saying: "Well you
see what proof i hare given you Of
my affection; l hope you will make
me good husband" He was surly
fellow, and grufliy answered, 'pcr-
haps may, and perhaps not"
She made no reply, but after a.
silence of some minutes, she exclaim-
ed, "Oh, what shall I do? left my
money behind me in my room. -
Then" said he ''you must go and
fetch it," They were soon again at
the house, the ladder again placed at
the window, the lady remounted while
the lover waited below. But she de-.
layed to come and so he gently called,
"are you comingf" and she looked
out of the window, and said, "pcr-
haps | may and perhaps not" and
then shut down the window and left
him to return upon his double horse
alone. Was not that happy thought
on. the lady's part--a famous joke.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10
j. & A. Langworthy.
Dr. j. VI. TEAL,
EleCtiC q Botanic Physician,

HAVING permanently located in AREA
IL DiA, Hancock Co. Ohio. rcspectiully
offers his Professional services To the atll ct.
ed OF Arcadia, and vicinity. lie treats al
forms OF diseases. both acute and chronic
male and female IN the best manner known.
Prompt attention paid 10 Ubstetrica and
surgical calls. He viii also draw, dress and
clean teeth. Charges low.
The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1865-02-10

~ IHS iloIe.
Too wicked Tor prayer. too weak for moan
To he heard beyond IN the crazy town.
Gone mad IN the JOY Of the snow coming down,
To lie and 10 dIo IN my terrible wpe.
Win bed ana a shroud Ol the beautiful
SNOW.