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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
The state soldiers, Homo.

This institution is destined to Ia
one of the greatest blessings to tbo
wounded and debilitated soldiers In
the country. Already has its good in
fluence been felt, and daily are the
manned and wasted veterans seeking
a haven beneath its roof. The Home
is under the superintendent of Can
tain Isaac Boynton, whose memory
will ever live in the hearts of the SOL
dier for his universal kindness whilo
having charge of the Soldiers Home
at Nashville, Tenn. The same kind
heart still pulsates in sympathy for
the soldier, and the same warm hahd
is always extended to welcome hia
worn-out friends in blue. The Medi-
cal Department is under DIR. ]. G.
Denise, gentleman who is ever at-
tentive to the wants of the sick and
wounded. The Matron, Mrs. Ell.
Miller, is most excellent and kind
hearted lady.
An inmate, w. T. Mcdowell, lato
OF the l2lth Ohio Infantry, in a letter
descriptive of the Home saws:
| " 'NS PANcouhlly SlluaIeu, AWQX
on our right meanders along, unhid-
den, the smoothly gliding waters of
SciOto, while upon our left, In close
proximity to our quarters, the ssiron
horse" goes snorting along with light
ming speed, Men are busily engaged
in clearing the forest, in which we
dwell, in order to have a large and
splendid garden in the coming spring.
while the buildings are new, large, and
comfortable, and even now, when the
"melancholy days" are upon us, and
the bleak winds of winter are fast ap-
preaching, good cheer and happiness
prevail amid the war worn veterans
who gather around their warm stoves.
to speak Of their comrades here and
there, and refer to the well remember.
ed spot, where many of them slumber
in death. Could you see for one mo.
ment, the artificial legs and arms
lying under their beds in the morning
you could more vividly protray to
yourself, the sad reality Of this rebel.
lion. Yet, Notwithstanding all this
the world is still gay, and everything
moves more briskly than ever,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
A Good story Sno,Ic5

The Cleveland Plaindealer, of Mon
day, publishes the story of the Colum-
bus, Mississippi, rebel woman baving
decorated the graves of the Union sol,
dlers with flowers some time last
Aprn. The Plaindealer makes this
pleasing incident the subject of touch
ing remarks. We are sorry IN die
turb the amiable editors in their on.
joyment, but the truth of history re-
quires us TO state, that a Columhns
paper has Indignantly denied that
these ladies had any intention of doc
Grating the graves of the hireling in
Vaders. Unfortunately, their graves
were undistinguishable from the rebel
graves bywhich they were surrounded
consequently the women dropped
their flowers with a mental reseryo-
tlon to the effect that if they fell on a
Yankee grave they were not to count
10. S. Journal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
Conundrunls.
Miscellaneous.
Am InlpOrtant Proiect.

We get from Richmond more i'm
portant news than that Davis is to be
tried there. One of the old Virginia
dreams, that somewhere near the
mouth of the James a great city was
sure to spring up, is at last not unlikely
to be realized. 1t is not to be at Nor
folk, however, but at Newport News.
From that harbor to Cincinnati the
distance is shorter by one hundred and
ninety-three miles than from Cincin-
natl to Baltimore, and two hundred
miles shorter than from Cincinnati to
New York. Travel along this line is
not affected by the inclemency of win
ter. Money has been provided by
Northern capitalists, and within three
years the Covington and Ohio Railroad
is to be built, and the chain of commu-
nication completed by short links be-
tween Richmond and Lynchburg and
Richmond and the coast. A French
company deposited 50, 900, 900 with the
State government as security for the
completion of James River and Kama
wha Canal. Thus the new rival of
New York is to be connected with the
great West by the shortest railway and
the best line of water communication /;
and Virginia, which under the old sys-
tenn literally manured the ground
above her iron mines rich with plum
bago ore, in order that tobacco might
be cultivated by slave labor, under a
new system may yet become the great
est of States.-[The Nation.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
Intemperance and Cholera.

Antempcrance ana ChOlera.
A medical writer says on this sub
ject:
In China, in India, in Russia, in
Poland, in France, in England, in our
own country, in every place, in short,
where the disease has been studied, it
has been ascertained that a large pro-
portion of its victims, sometimes FIVE
sixths of the whole, and occasionally
a still larger ratio, has been taken
from the ranks of the intemperate. In
one Russian town of twenty thousand
inhabitants, not solitary drunkard
remained when the scourge had pass
ed. In the Park Hospital of New
York, during the epidemic of 1852,
out of two hundred and four cases,
only six were temperate persons, and
they recovered, whilst of the remain
ing cases at least three out of every
five resulted fatally. In other hOspi-
tails the facts were of similar charac.
ter.
Statistics to an unlimited extent
might be adduced to show that the
popular use of spintuous drinks is one
of the most certain methods of prepar
ing the way for the ravages of the
cholera. And if we have a right tC
insist that other, and less deadly
causes of pestilence shall be removed
from our cities and towns, shall W.
not, by appropriate legislation and it
rigid enforcement, as well as bya more
correct public sentiment, secure the re
moval also of these prolific sources o
contagion, where body and soul ar,
Involved in a common ruin?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

One Of the most gallant soldiers furn-
ished by Tennessee to the army of the
Union was Col. w. B. Stokes, and his
regiment was one of the most useful in
the service. He Is now Representa-
tive elect of that State, but he does not
complain at the course of the Repub-
lican majority Of Congress. Ina speech
at Nashville the other day, he thus ex-
pressed himself:
81 am again on my way to Wash
ington, to help the Union men to re-
store law and order! l am regardless
who deviates to the right or to the left.
If some men choose to go astray, even
if they be high in authority, 1 have
taken no oath to follow any man.
Your friends IN Washington are the
Union men IN Congress. Sometimes
they are termed Radicals. l don't
care what name you call them. l can
be called Radical as easily as 1 was
called Lincolnite and Abolitionist in
1861. The Radicals are your friends,
I repeat. Some of them are little ex-
treme in some of their views, but still
you must remember that these Union
men are the ones who saved our Gov
ernment in 1861, when it required all
the energy and courage ofman to meet
the dreadful crisis. Are they not the
men whom you should trust now with
the reiuS of government ?O
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

Major General Sickles of New York,
commanding the Department of South
Carolina, brings some interesting advl-
ces from his military department. He
speaks in the highest terms of the con-
duct of the colored people, and says
that they are everywhere showing
great industry, and are particularly
assiduous in acquiring the rudiments
of education. Those along the coast
are much better off than those in the
interior. So unprotected were these
latter that they were constantly insult
ed and outraged by guerrilla bands
composed of returned rebels. Secre
tary Stanton warmly approves Gener
al 6ickles' administration of affairs o
his department.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
PRAYER,

Almighty God, the Lord of Life and
of Death, we implore Thy merciful
protection for ourselves and all the
people of this land, against the griev-
GUS pestilence now drawing near. Thy
property is always to have mercy
Thou sparest when we deserve to per-
ish. Spare us, good Lord spare Thy
people and let not this calamity come
upon us. May the hearts of the people
be turned unto Thee in repentance and
prayer, that Thou mayst have compass
sion upon us and deliver us. But if il
please Thee that this visitation over
take us, give us grace to meet Thy will
in the true faith and love, in the prec-
ious hope and consolation, of thy dear
children. May the hearts of the diso-
bedient be turned to the wisdom of the
just and may the affections of Thy
people be the more steadfastly set on
Thy eternal blessedness and glory
May our trust be placed on Thee as our
Refuge and Strengths very present
help in trouble-that we Thy servants,
being hurt by no tribulations, may moi
be afraid for thy terror by night, or fol
the arrow that flieth by day, but may
evermore give thanks unto Thee, the
God of our salvation through Jesu;
Christ our only Saviour, and Redeemer
| Amen.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

The following eloquent and appro-
pirate passage is from the late Rev.
DIR. Chalmers: ....-.. ...... ....
"Death still lays us in the grave,
but it cannot chain us there to ever
lasting fotgetfllness it puts its cold
hand upon every one of us, but pow
er higher than death will lift it off,
and these forms be again terminated
with all the warmth of life and of
sentiment. The churchyard has been
called the land of silence, (and silent
it is indeed to them who occupy it y
the Sabbath bell is no longer heard,
nor yet the tread of the living popu-
lation above them, but though remote
from the hearing of every earthly
thing, yet shall the sound of the last
trumpet enter the loneliness of their
dwelling, and be heard through earth's
remotest caverns."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
A Man of Mark. .

"Talking about contracts" said
Sumner, with whom we were convers-
ing on the street, yesterday, "that was
a rich incident that Lawyer B
relates as coming under his observa.
ton while travelling in an adjoining
county q short time since. B
had occasion to make out a contract,
between planter-one of the "scions
Of chivalry," you know; "landed pro-
prietor," etc.-and a colored laborer.
Having commenced with "Know all
men," and gone through in legal form
to "Hereunto affiX our hands and
SEALS" the lawyer called upon the
parties for their signatures. Planter
seemed confused, hesitated, stammered,
and finally ''reckoned" he would have
to make his mark. Turning to the
freedman, says B "shall mark
for you also?" ono, sab, if you
please, I'se gwine to sign," and he did
"sign," in bold, legible manner, his
name in full.
~ tell you," continued Sumner,
"that planter is man ofmark. What
a depraved, ignorant set these niggers
are"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

A Naturalist says: "Last summer,
while walking in my park, I observed
a green wood-pecker alight on the
ground some fifty PAGES before me-
look around to see if he was observed
then lie down and simulate death by
stretching out himself motionless and
hanging his tongue out rs far as posi-.
ble.--He occasionally pulled in his
bill.-He had selected place near an
ant hill. The ants thinking him dead
would cover his tonge to devour him
when it was black with ants, he would
swallow them and repeat his trick
until his NAV could hold no more"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

st. Mary's Academy and Convent,
at Somerset, Ohio, an institution un-
der the control of the Dominican Sis
ters, was burned on Thursday. The
fire caught in the laundry. The build
ing Wasa four story brick structure,
100 by $50 feet. 1t was occupied by
125 pupils and so sisters. The total
amount of insurance is only $4,000,
several policies having recently expired.
The loss is. about S6O,00O.< n +
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

Boy with ragged trousers and rim
less chip hat runs into DR.. Willard's
store with a dipper in his hand :
"Doctor mother sent me down to the
shottecary pop quicker'n blazes, coz
oub's sick as the dickens with the pipen
chox and she wants a thimbleful of
pollygollic in this Upper, COZ we hadn't
Dot gottle handy, and the kint pups
got the bine Writers int. Got any 2"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

"Did any of you ever see an ele-
plants skin ?" asked the master of an
infant school. "I have % shouted a
six year old at the foot of the class
YWhere?" inquired the teacher, anus
ed by his earnestness. "On the ele-
phant ~ was the reply.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
Poetry.
From the New York Evening Post.1
SCATTER SEED.

SCATTER SEED.
BY GEO. COOPER.
In the furroNs of thy life,
Scatter seed
Small may be thy spirit-feld,
But goody crop twin yield;
Sow the kindly word and deed,
Scatter seed
Sun and shower aid thee now,
Scatter seed
Who can tell where grain may grow1
Winds are blowing to and fro.
Daily good thy simple creed,
Scatter seed
Up the morning flies away,
Scatter seed
Hand Of thine must never tire,
Heart must keep its pure desire
While thy brothers faint and bleed,
Scatter seed
Though thy work should seem to fall,
Scatter seed
Some may fall on stony ground;
Flower and blade are often found
In the clefts we little heed,
Scatter seed
sprlng-tims always dawns for theej
Scatter seed
ope thy spirits golden store,
Stretch thy burrows more and more,
God will give to thee thy moed,
Scatter seed
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

THE ART OF BEING POLITE.-First
and foremost, don't try to be polite =
1t will spoil all. If you keep over
whe!mIng your guests with ostcnta-
tious entreaties to make themselves at
home, they will very soon begin to
wish they were there. Let them find
out that you are happy to see them by
your actions rather than words. AL
ways remember, let bashful people
alone at first. 1t is the only way to
set them at ease. Trying to draw
them out has sometimes the contrary
effect Of driving them out-of the
house! Leading the conversation is
dangerous experiment. Better fol-
low in It's wake, and if you want to
endear yourself to takers, learn to
listen well. Never make a fuss about
anything-nCvcr talk about Yourself
and always preserve your composure,
no matter what solccisms or blundcrs
Others may commit. Remember that
it is Il very foolish proceeding to Ia
ment that you cannot offer to your
guest a better house, or furniture, OF
Viands. 1t is fair to presume that the
visit is to you, and not to these sur.
roundings. Give people a pleasant
impression of themselves, and they
will be pretty sure to go away with a
pleasant impression of your qualities
On just such slender wheels as these
the whole fabric of society turns; it is
your business, then, to keep them in
revolving order.-rEx.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
A Love Episode OF the Rebel
lion. ...

A Columbia, s. C.,. correspondent of
the New York Times, writes:
While here have heard romantic
story that am assured is true, and
which, as it reveals the Inconsistency
of woman and the elastic character of
the feminine heart, / am not disin-
clined to reject. A young woman,
possessed of a fine person and proper
ty, member of one of the oldest and
most fashionable families in the State,
became engaged to young man in her
own grade in life, who was Major
in the rebel service, and to marry him
at the termination of the war, if he
survived. If he did not, she was to
remain ever true to her vows, and,
being q Catholic, had promised to en-
ter convent, and become only the
bride of heaven. They were model
pair of lovers, and all who knew them
believed they were the embodiments
of poetry, tenderness and devotion to
each other; that they lived what
bards have sung, and romances have
described. They We're like two
blossoms on one stem-a planet in its
ray.
As usually happens, fate frowned on
their felicity, and jealous of their love
cut the material cloud of the senti-
mental Majors being at Fort Wagner
Eloisa was mad with grief, and incon.
solable forevermore. Her parents be-
, lieved she would not and could not
live; and that if she did, she must be
bereft of reason.
Months passed. Charleston fell
Columbia was threatened. Eloisa re.
mained. She was anxious to be slair
by the barbarians who had murdered
her lover. The Union forces arrived
but had something else to do than xii
women, and Eloisa survived in spit
of herself.
She heard the regiment was in tow
that had charged upon the battalio
; led by her best beloved, and she re
solved to see the Colonel and denounc
him as the slayer Of her prince ant
. peace. ElOisa saw him, and had
tremendous scene. The Colonel wa
aiAu SStilciAlJ MllCIl III
fair girl thundered, as all her sex d,
at first, and then rained, he wa
touched and interested in the unknown
, woman. He comforted and console
her, realizing the truth of the ide
that the heart is never so susceptibl
to new attachment as when it is r(
: ! covering from an old one.
In four weeks she had learned t
love the Yankee savage, and express
ed her willingness to be his while h
was resigned, as most men are, to b
worshiped by her if she was bent OF
any such folly.
They were married in spite of tn
threatened anathemas of all her rela
tives and friends, and are now in Eu
rope, no doubt renewing on the cont
nent the war that in America ha
ceased, but which in dominions domcs
tic has no end.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

1t was a beautiful expression OF
Burke's upon the death of his son, that
his child in this world would be his
ancestor in the skies. Elder born in
glory,-the Junior Of the household is
the senior in Heaven.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

The Nebraska election took place on
the I'd inst. 1t is believed that the
State Constitution has been adopted by
small majority, and that a Republi-
can corporation and local officers have
been elected
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

AT hotel table at Meridian, Missis-
sippi, a Union soldier rose from his
seat and kindly waited upon a one
armed confederate soldier, who could
not help himself very well. The at.
tention was naturally and delicately
paid and gratefully received, and il
made a decided impression upon the
other guests. The Meridian Messen,
ger, which relates the incident, says
"The spirit of that gray-haired Fed
eral soldier would do more toward
reconciling North and South. than any
spirit which has ever invaded the
room where the Committee of Fifteer
hold their sessions, and pump all sort,
of stories out of all sorts of witnesses ,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

The European markets, whose tone
Is as sensitive to political changes as
the mercury in the thermometer IL TO
heat and cold, plainly show that finnn-
ciers are basing their operations on the
suppOsition that war is imminent. IL
is thought in some quarters that hos
tilities may occur even before the
next Congress in the present month";
Our latest news Is to the 1st Of June.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

"What is that dog barking at p"
asked fop, whose boots were more
polished than his ideas. "Why,"
said a bystander, che sees another
puppy in your bootsp'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21
MIR. Voorhees, Cane.

Mr.. Voorhees, Of Indiana, who, MS
our readers know, Is not to have q seat
in the present House of Representa-
tives, has been consoled for his bad
luck by the Hon. Thomas b. Florence,
(profanely called Tom Florencel, who
has made a speech to Mr.. Voorhees,,
upon which we condole with him, and
has presented to him Ca cane of leath-
er wood, (value, 800 currency,) sur
mounted by a gold head, from chaste
design" upon which we congratulate
him. The speech Of the Hon. Thomas
has only one fault. 1t is just a little
too swelling for the occasion. If Mr..
Florence, on behalf, of "the citizens
(white) of Washington" had presented
to Mr.. Voorhees, a service of silver,
teapot, sugar-basin, creamjug, and
slOp-bowl, he could not more wildly
have abandoned himself to rhetorical
tumefaction. 1t affords new illustra-
ton of the art of sinking, when Mr.
! Florence has to come down to "cane."
Thomas struggles in vain against pre-.
obstinate bathos by calling the "cane''
a ''staff," and then by calling the
'stafF' a "mute, yet eloquent and
beautiful token of regard" and by
affirming that it is "chaste and artis
tically designed and prepared staff OF
cane," the gift (for Thomas is apt tC
indulgein adiectives) of 1st, "devoted"
I'd, "sincere" Sd, "earnest"; and
4th, "fast" friendship. In spite of tht
melancholy conclusions of the poet, w,
aver that friendship like this is some
what more than ga name" Friend
ship, manifested in this generous .anC
auriferous way, is by no means to bt
shifted at. And Mr.. Voorhees,, 70,
once, appears to have been of our opin
ion; for, opening his mouth, thert
flowed therefrom rushing stream o
elOquence, whereof the beginning, tn
middle, and the end was that pronoul
most resembling in shape ga staff O
cane"-the pronoun I. We have no
counted its repetitiOns; but it is a
clear as daylight to US that Mr.. d. W
Voorhees, Daniel Webster VOORHEES,
we take it, does, by no manner 0
means, think small beer of himself
that he thinks d. w. Voorhees, as i'm
portant character as the old, origina
Daniel passing the night with tn,
lions. 81 accept" 81 am content. ,
81, therefore, think" 81 attribute
81 fervently and devoutly thank God
and very handsome it is in Danic
: to do it. 81 can say never betrayed
: a party" 81 entered Congress-" 4"
determined" 81 have lived" And
over and above all, to cheer the dc
spending, and confirm the doubling
and fix the wavering, Daniel w, i
good enough to say, 81 have faith il
the future" This is isdecidcdly reviving
and uncommonly animating. We d.
not know that it settles anything, bu
still it is pleasant to learn that MI
VOORHEES,, with vast deal to max
him unhappy, and just kicked out O
the House of Representatives, can still
checrfully chaunt,
"Checr up, my lively lads,
In spite Of wind and weather"
Tom Florence must have felt dc
cidedly better for this exhibition O
Mr.. Voorhees, hilarity, and have gon
back to his editorial sanctum like
beery giant refreshed.-rN. Y. Tri
huna
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM
PEsTILENcE.-The following prayer
with reference to cholera, has been ap-
pointed to be read in all the congrega-
tions of the Diocese of Ohio, by Bishop
McIlvaine, on every occasion of public
worship, from the Sunday after it shall
have been received, until Whitsunday,
inclusive; and afterward at the discre-
ton of the minister:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-21

Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached: Our ingress in life is naked
and bare; our progress in lifeis troub-
les and care our egress out of it wo
know not where; but doing well here,
we shall do well there; 1 could not
tell more by preaching a year.