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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-06-07

@ l am rich enough, and can
afford to give away one hundred
pounds a year. / would not crawl
upon the earth without doing little
for truth. Twill enjoy the pleasure
of what 1 give by giving it alive, and
seeing another enjoylt When l die
/ should be ashamed to leave enough
for a monument, if there was a want
ing friend above ground.-[Pope to
Swift.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-06-07

where is Mr. Jenkins:r inquired
Mr.. Parker ON his return.
''Gone, uncle said Matilda.
''Gone! When did he ge?r
"He onlx stopped a couple ol
days"
"Why, he was to have stopped 8
week. What was the matter with
him?" I
Il think, uncle, he wss disappoin-
ted in me-" said Matilda. demurely.
-Did he leave no message for me?''
Here is a note. uncle"
Mr.. Parker hastily broke open the
missive, and read as follows:
MY Dear Sir:-In order to pre-
vent misunderstanding, l ought to
say that I don't think it will be well
to adhere to the foolish compact
which was entered into some time
since, with regard to my marriage
with your niece. Though O verv
charming yo1ng lady, l don't think
thstonr tastes are at all congenial,
and hereby resign sny professions
l may be supposed to have mad to
her hand. Regretting not to have
had the pleasure Of seeing you, re-
main, very respectfully,
'.STEPHEN JENKINS. -
why, the puppy has had the au-
dseity to resign his pretentions to
your handi" exclaimed the indig-
nant uncle.
'Then can't + be married?n in
quifed Matilda, in comical disap
pointment
"Yes, YOU shall marry the very
first man that offers"
1t was very remarkable that on
the very next day Edward Manly
should have asked Mr. Parker's per
mission TO address his niece-I per
mission which was at once accorded
The marriage took place within a
few weeks; and | don't think he has
ever repented marrying = sroag
minded IromaR
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-06-07

HAVE you seen the new style of Peram-
IL bulatoi Baby Cabs. Callat HAYWARD
4 FULLERS, corner of Third d State Streets.
Nsrch %, 1866.
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Butter! RutteP!!

ISAIAH NJ. VESTS Patent Atmospheric ehurn
i VIII extract in to G minutes an the butter
contained in common sweet milk, and in Is min
utes from milk fresh from the COW.
Everybody should hare one. Price. $500, for
sale BY Z. &. A. HENKING.
April 8. 1se6-tf. 4
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-06-07

ES- The Great Washington Door
for the new capitol at Washington is
heinS finished at the Ames works in
ChicOpee, where two entire years
have been spent upon it. Many of
the panels are already completed.
and the work is progressing as fast
as its peculiar completely will allow
Designed by the lamented Crawford.
just previous to his death, it was his
ehet d0arre. Had he survived, un-
doubtedly the contract for Seastinq
would have gone 10 Munich, like its
predecessor, the Columbus historic
door, such was his prejudice against
his country in this respect.
The massive door has eight panels.
four on side, emblematic respee;
lively of peace and war. On the side
devoted to peace, commencing at
the bottom, isa group OF Washing
ton and his family, representing the
-peacefll eoHElitisa.ofa the -eew4tr-sst
the close of the revolutionary strug-
Gle. Next above is the ovation at
Trenton--then scene representing
the administration of the oath OF
ofiice-aud crowning this section is
the laying of the corner. stone Of the
capitol building.
The war side has first a panel SYM
bolizing the stern ideal of deadly
strife--a British grenadier, fully
armed, attacking 4 peaceful farmer
near 4 rude log cabin, whose sinewy
arm has already sent him reelIng to
the ground, while the stalwart yeo-
mans wife is seen handing her hus-
band his trusty firelocll, in case he
should need it. Above this is the
Bayonet Charge at Trenton-then
the rebuke of Gen. Lee by Wash
ington, at Monmouth-and finally the
Death of Gen. Warren. The panel
representing the reprimand of Gen.
lee is a most striking and life-like
scene. Washington had always, il
seems, suspected Lee of disloyalty,
and on this occasion, found that he
had not only failed utterly to carry
out his express orders, but had ac-
tually ordered and commenced 2
most cowardly retreat Washington
is seen as having ridden rapidly to
where he meets Lee under 4 tree,
and raising in the stirrups of his
saddle, administers 4 rebuke that
droops the traitors head as much as
Lees military salute to his cbieftain
has his sword. II is said that this
was the only instance in which Wash
ington was ever known to use Ian
guage even bordering on profanity.
The singular thing about this par
ticular panel is that jeff Davis was
one of the commissioners TO examine
Crawford's design for this historic
ard conspicuous piece of work ler
the new capitol-the wonder being
that he, or any other southern man,
should have consented TO emblazon
this whitening shame on one of the
most chivalric sons of the South.
Yet so it is-and let the sympathiZ
ers with his fitting representative, in
the person of Robert +. Lee, Temem-
Der the prophecy of the panel, and
its historic verification today.
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A perfect Anudote for all Poisons.

A PLAIN farmer says: ait is now ovei
twenty years since / learned that sweet oil
would curs the bite of a rattlesnake. not
knowing it would cure other kind of poison
Practice observation and experience have
taught me that it would cure poison of any
kind, both on man and beast I think no
farmer should be without bottle of it in his
house. The patient must take a spoonful OF
it internslly, and bathe the wound for a cure
To cure a horse it requires eight times as
much as it does for a man. Here let me say
of one of the most extreme cases of snake
bites in this neighborhood: Eleven Tesrs
ago this summer, where the case has been
thirty days standing, and the patient had
been given up by his physicians, 1 heard Of
it. carried the oil and gave him spoonful,
which affected a cure. It is an sutidOte for
arsenic and strychnine. It viii cure blost in
cattle by eating too freely Of fresh clover; it
will cure the sting of bees, spiders or other
insects; and will cure persons who have beeh
poisoned by low running vines, growing in
the meadows, called ivy
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RBArA OHIO, svvEDH EsDAY, NOVEMBER 90, 1865.

remenls of the chase about him, entered and
took the only vacant seat-a nail keg with
out either head. The current of the preach
er's thoughts led him into description Of
heaven and its inhabitants With Ieat pOw-
or he had drawn picture of the hsbitston of
the blessed, and was assigning each Of the
patriarchs, apostles and prophets each his ap-
propriate place. His Caluanistie tendencies
led him to reserve the Apostle Paul for bis eli
macterie. With his eye fixed upon the high
est point, and with an upward gesture that
seemed to be directed to the loftiest attitude
OF the heavenly places, be said:
And where, my brethren, shall we seat
the great Apostle of the Gentles2 where,
say, shall we place the Apostle Paul2"
Then pausing, to give the imagination time
to reach the elevation designed for the Apos-
tie, be fixed his eyes upon our hero Of the
rife. He, therefore, thinking the address
PERSONAL rose instantly, and replied
AT be can't do no better he can take my
seat"
1t is needless to say that that climax was
never reached.
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Morrissey has been the devotee of a code
of honor which forbade blow beneath
the belt, and degraded the arm that
struck fallen foe. But John Morrissey
proposes now to sit with men whose
motto is, like that of the witches in Mac
Beth: "Foul is fair, and fair is foul T.
and whose bastard blows strike only the
prostratel
Whether John Morrissey shall be de-
graded by his convicted contact with pu-
sillanimity, or whether the Rumpers @ill
be elevated by association with brave
and high minded hero, remains to be
known But We have faith in John. He
doubtless knows by heart the old "mill-
ing" song, and has imbibed its spirit;
4 What Ben, my old hero, is this your renown?
Is this the new go? kick man when he's
down?
By the fist Of my father blush for you, Ben !"
Our trust is in the sterling qualities
of Morrissey. The manliness and honor
of his training; his scorn Of meanness
and poltroonery; his innate megnanimi-
ty of character, inspire the beliefthat he
will, by the contrast Of his noble nature,
sink the Radical Congress lower in public
estimation than plummet ever sounded
In the lowest depths of their infamy they
will find lower deep.
Canting, carping, cheating, praying,
sniveling Puritans hold up their hands
in horror at the thought of sending a
prize-fghter to Congress. Do they for
get that gladiator-one who had fought
with wild beasts in the amphitheater at
Ephesus- yet deemed worthy to be
a Minister of Christ, and the chief
APOSTLE of the Gentiles?
But this great fact, and its lesson, out
of view, what right have these fellows to
carp at John Morrissey, aud condemn
the P. R. as degrading and brutalizingin
its tendencies and developments What
was the war between the North and South,
but a combat between bullies of gigantic
muscle And what we're battle-helds
but an immensely exaggerated prize-ring?
And do not battle browed and bigjawed
fellows who we're wont to applaud, until
the blue welkin rang with their shrieks,
the tidings Of ten thousand deaths and
manglings, with the far-reaching desola-
ton and wein7olved, now draw heightened
faces. and withsomber sanctimony depre-
cate the sin ot sending a prize-fghter to
CONGRESS? -Hdrion Dena5croS.
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First-Class Periodicals,
The HOmaJouraal for lss7.


A New AND MOST PROMISING VOLUME. 1.-THE
Court Journal Of America y Commence "a
twenty-irst year on the second Of January
next, with New Writers, New Features, and
an entire Festure OF new type, cast expressly
for the paper. No fashy stories-no a Ser.
salons." The society oracle
Subscriptions So a year-"A safe and
high-toned literary and family paper" Edi-
ted by N P. Willis and Norris Phillips. as
sisted By a corps Of able writers. talented
contributors and spicy correspondents.
Mr.. Willis, as senior Editor will continue
his faithful devotion to the Home Journal
completely occupied with its intellectual in
terest; while Mr.. Philips, with bis over
sight Of news and the "business'' of the coz
cerp,. with zealcusly perform bis more psac-
tIcal half OF the partnership.
In the first issue Of the new volume viii
be commenced an original American Novel.
entitled Sslome, by Daisy Howard, one OF
the most graceful and natural writers In
America. There viii also appear new sers
les of humorous delineations, entitled Cakes
and Ale at Woodbine, by Barry Gray, whose
reputation in humoristic letters is acknowI-
edged at both ends Of the cable. J. q. EIli-
OF, the poet and essayist will contribute sew
eral OF his original creations, called Idle
Whifs from. the sea-Coast, Filth Avenue
letters; or, Piquant Peneillines Of Fashion
able life, by Francis Gerry Fairfield, will be
a prominent winter feature.
Our foreign correspondence for 1857, WIN
be sustained by Harry. .Harewood Leech, Dr..
]. B. F. Walker, Mrs. Hilliard, { formerly so
much admired as Mrs Edwin Jarnes) Esielle
Anna Lewis and others, residing in Paris,
London, and other foreign cities.
Critics Of the highest metropolitan celebri-
pariment of Letters, OF the Drama, and Of
Art, whose aim viii be to give fair and i'm
partial judgment of all new works of the
day.
Address remitianee, orders, and all COM
municalions to the editors, Mp, WINS &
MoRR1s PHnLIEs, IO7 Fulton-street, New
York.
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Enterprise Of a French Reporter.

ONE day when the Place de Pantheon was
the scene of a riot, Dongelot installed himself
/ in the midst Of a shower of stones and other
missiles, pen in hand, to note the Incidents,
as faithful reporter. Amid the yels and
groans of combatants, and the elatter Of cav
airy over the hard pavement into the ranks OF
the seditious, a friend espying the indefatig-
able reporter, hailed him.
Man are you mad ?" he shrieked run
from there or you will be killed |"
Dongelot, without needing his advice, re-
| tanned his position, watch in one hand and
his pen in the other, recording minute by
minute, the aspect of the conflict.
"Do you not hear me 2" cried the friend
again, "it is certain death to remain there.
Heaven will guard me. But since yoG
are going, oblige me by handing these notes
to my journal You will tell them that I
remain on the spot to record the end Of the
affair"
One hour after the adventurous reporter
was struck by stray ball. He was convey
ed to house, and surgeon hastened to his
relief.
Are you wounded7
4" Yes" replied Dongelot, and seriously /;
for am not able to writing"
" You positively do not think of writing, q"
said the doctor, brusquely; 'ft viii excite
you too much. You must remain quiet"
That is not the most important thing at
present" reioined the journalist, gasping for
breath. Each one to his task mine is TO
chronicle this affair. Give me your assist
ance for one minute. Write for me at the
bottom OF the page this post scriptum:
Three o'clock and twenty inmates P. N,
After discharge of musketry by The SOL
diers, there vEas found among the ranks ol
the people three wounded and one dead l."
How, one dead 2" demanded the sur
geon; who then Is dead p
AL" replied DongelO5, and then expired.
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How to be an Editor .

AN old Editor once said to a young man
who was about to wed the scissors, paste and
pen: my young friend, you are about to
become, I learn, the editor of q newspaper.
Permit an old man to give you this piece Of
advice. If you desire success in that capaci-
ty. You should, in each paper, publish one
column for a sensible man, and two for a
fool .,
It has been truthfully remarked, that old
man has measured we'll the public mind. He
had calculated the capacity of the minds he
had to FIJI, and he knew what each one could
hold. The public have not changed much
While one man reads moral essay, dozen
will drown his voice with laughter over an
absnrditv. A majority OF the people don't
take the babers to learn. they take them to
laugh. i They enjoy the mirth and music Of
a hearty guffaw; they want something to to
DroToLe 9 evoke t, and that something they must
have, or they won't take the paper.
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John Morrissey for Congress.

A HERO Of the Prize Ring will be de-
graded by transference to the Bear Car
den; but if he incline to the change,
none has the right to say nay. Right or
wrong, however, we half deprecate an
ambition thus perverted, and the trite
quotation reeurs: "To what base uses
do we come at last ! " John Morissey
has hitherto associated with brave men !;
he now seeks nominal afiliation with
towards; he has fought his own battles,
and the foe went down before his own
strong hand; but the fellows whose as
sociation be now eovets were craven in
the hour Of conflict, and forced better
men to brave the blows which their
coward souls dared not encounter. John
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Western Simplicity.

WESTERN simplicity-not greenness, but
genuine candor and character-are to be seen
in the following incident, furnished some
time since by a Western correspondent:
In the wild Western neighborhoOd the
sound of a church-going bell had never been
heard; notice was given that the Rev: Mr..
A Distinguished Presbyterian divine,
would preach on a certain day. -
The natives. who consisted mainly OF those
hardy pioneers who have preceded civilization,
came TO hear him. They had an indistinct
idea that "preachin' was something to be
heard. and all attended to liear 1t. =,
After the service had begun, a raw-ooned
hunter, with rifle in hand, and all the aooout-
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UabASA, Oct. IT, 1866
Thanksgiving Dsy,
A Proclamation BY Jacob D. Coz, Gofsnor Of
he State 6f Ohio. ~.- '

4 Proclamation By Jacob D. Cor, Gors7zor Of
he State o. Ohio. -.-
TIE year which Is nearing its close has
been filed with blessings ffom4hea hand Of
GoD. Freedom, peace, prosperity and health
have been given Us, and threatened ils have
been tdtaed away or have only been suffer-
ed to touch US so lightly as 10 quicken our
sense of the happiness OF our lot as a people.
Therefore. in accordance with the good
custom OF our fathers, I do appoint Thursday,
the Twenty-nihth Day of November. inst,
as the annual day Of Thanksgiving and Prsise
to God our Heavenly Father, Tor all the man.
fold nereies and abundant goodness with
which he has crowned the year; and I re-
commend that usual BUSINESS be laid aside up
on that day. and that it be kept throughout
the Stsis with grateful worship qs. holy
feast.
In rEsrf8oSY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set nv hand and fixed the Great-SeRl Of the
State Of Ohio, this fifth day Of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, and Of the Ihdepead-
enee Of the United States Of America The
ninety-htst.- ). d. Cox,
Governor Of Ohio.
By the Governor:
WIN HENRY sxITH, Secretary Of State.
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law OF GEWsPAPERs3

1.SubscriberswhOd do not giveeXpressn office
80 SotheeOntrary, ,arecOnsideredasw wishiDgt ocCn-
tiauetheirsubseriptiOns to thepaper.
9. II subscribers order the ediscOntinuance of
theirperiodicals, the publisher may eontinuetO
send them until all arrearaRes are paid.
3 lf5ubscribersneglecto orqefuse TO tuketheir
periodicals from the object to which they were di-
rected, they areheId responsible till theyhave
settled the bill and ordered them mdiscontinued.
4. 4.Ifsubseribersremove to othcrplaces with
outinforming the publisher, andthe papeFsare
ssentt theformer direction, they arc held re-
spOnsible.
5. The Courts haye decided that refusingto
take periodicalsfrom the Office, ,orremovingand
Heaving them uncalled for, is pTiHad fGete eVi-
'dence OfiatentiOnal fraud.
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Women Judged by the Color Of their Pstti
coats.

The following is from a married man, who
knows whereof be speaks: The way to
Judge OF a womsn's character at first sight is
to ascertain the color of her pettieoat. A
black petticoat indicates low spirits, hatred
of washtubs and activity, and taste for dys-
peptic literature and quietude. A black pet
ticoat could no more read and understand
this paragraph than she could suck up the
Atlantic with three cent syringe. A white
petticoat shows a character Just opposite--an
unsullied mind, and taste for romance. A
woman who takes naturally to white petit
coats and never wears any other, IS an in
stitution to which young gentlemen OF con-
nubial proclivities should lose no time in pay
ing due attention. The red pethcost, how
ever. is something of which mankind should
beware it is the insignia of Xantippe, style
of females who cut their toe nails with their
husbands razors." It may all be true as the
follow SAYS, but the petticoat is something
we never heard of before, and consequently
we plead ignorance of the whole matter.
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.-.,,-- ola Methodist preacher 6f Texas

A oUArrr old Methodist preacher o. Texas
wears ago used to announce his tex[ mus nus =
You will find my text IN. the elghth chSptei !.
of Isaiah, ninth verse. And ef you loI
find it thar, you will find it ef yon hunt he the
book through for Ginnessis to ReveI Iations /;
and ef YOU don't iud 1t then. you will ina 3
great many things which will do you pow
er of good"
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soldiers Monument Fund.

Tui subscribers to-ihe above Fund viii
please call at the Office OF the Association
over Brands grocery, and pay their subscrip-
tions. Major Mcdonnell will receipt for the
same and In his absence his blank receipts
will be filed up BY Col ": R. WarnocE,.
It Is necessary for the success Of the un-
dertaking that the. subscriptions should be
forthwith paid and this arrangement is made
for the convenience of subscribers.
By order of the Association.
J. @. BRAND; Pres't.
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Revenge !

RrvrycEl IF a mans heart Is wicked and
hate and malice ran1les there, lie clings to
he idea that revenge is sweet. But not the
kind Of revenge such a person Will seek The
Radical preSs. the Radical mind all over the
country. is bowling for revenge that burns
cities hangs men, desolate the ield-. parallz-
as industry and starves women and cllidren.
From the outside column Of one Of these
Radical religions papers which in its editorl-
ais advocate the kind of revenge above de-
scribed, we clip the following, to which We
have only TO ask the editorial hypocrlte,
which spirit is the safest to get to heaven
with?
Two men in the south OF Africa swore
eternal hatred to oach other. One OF them
fou1d. one dav, the little daughter Of his
enemy in the wood. He ran quickly TO the
yonng girl cut off two Of her fingers, and
sent her home bleeding whilst he, with
brutal Joy, shouted, 81 have had my re-
venge
Years pnssed. and the little girl was grown
m IN a woman. when, one day, poor grey
headed berGar came to her door, earnestly
henpino. for food. The young woman rec
oonized him Immediately as being the same
horrible man who had cut off her fingers
when she was child. She went into the
coftaye instantly. and desired her servant to
bring him bread and milk, as much as he
wanted. She sat down near him, and watch
ed him while he ate. When he had finished
and was ready to go, she pointed to her hand
and said to him
al. too. have had my revenge r.
The moor man was quiIe perpeZed and
oonfounded AZ this; for he did not know that
little girl had become a Christion, and had
learnt the meaning Of that sweet verse. the
last in the Twelfth chapter Of the Epistle OF
Romano
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VOLUME V. NO. 36.
URBANA UNION
". w. Ok, RHOP'R-

oFFroE:-Champaign National Bank Building,
Z second and third hoOrs,) Westside North Main
street, near the Square,
TERus.-s2 90 per aRnum, invariably in ad-
vance. 81, Is for Six Months.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-11-28

Ma. KEAs BUCHANAN, the eminent trsged;s
an, and his daughter Miss Virginia Buchanan,
win appear at Border Hall, Piqua, on thS
evenings Of Dec. 18th, 14th & 18th
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-11-28

CLEvERLY ToLD.-There was sensation
story sAoat short time ago about man in
Mobile who, in committing suicide. cut of
his head and hid it so effeetually that no one
has ever been able to find it. The circum-
stances excited the envy Of some chap, ont
West. who thus tells of horrible affair that
recently occurred out in his section:
An Indian there who had lived unhappily
with fifty or sixty squaws, determined upon
suicide. Desiring that no one should be able
10 identify any portion Of him, he cut of
both legs and carried them about five miles
into the woods. on foot and alone. He buri-
ed them, and then cut off both his arms.
which he carried some FIVE miles further and
buried Then emitting ont his tongue, that
he might be unable to tell any one he might
meet who he was, heproceeded several miles
further chanting his death song as he went.
He finally cut off lis own head, and after
amusing himself for some time kicking. 1t
about as football, making the woods ring
with his shouts of merriment, he hid 1t IN the
trunk Of tree: and then. digging a grave
with his own hands, he got in, covered HIM
self MP. md planted very handsome tomb
stone at the head of his grave.-WheFe IS
your Mobile man now?