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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04
s SELECT POETRY. ,E'Ii'l,.
I Carrying Home the Sheaves."

"a. List, oh list to the reapers, . -.
This quiet summer eve, 81 ba- asa.rfa g D.
g. Gathering in the harvest, ..-...,.,
Binding up the sheaves.
gHsList to the rush of the sickles frt
Cutting the golden grain, lssfs.--a3 10 -. -
Sinewy hands and hardy 'i"il j. '.ssaar f
Weld them not in vain.
Deep in the valley the sunset 5s.i =
- Flows on the whispering leaves. 40 +
% Shines on thedark-browed maidens
Carrying home the sheaves '-7
Kissed by the breeze and sunshine,
az. Loved blythe flowers and birds,
N Heartin whose wild recesses a - b..e.,
g. Beautiful dreams are stirred, ' a,
Stands the fairest of reapers,
q Red lips slightly apart.
/ Fl Gushes of plaintive music '.ra ii,as
% Flow from her o'er-charged heart. =
Says she, "Oh, life is dreary e,
Here on these summer ewes;
shD grow so weary, weary isiss H.! i,
Carrying home these sheaves.
Thoughts which are brief and painful
Strug gle within my breast,
,l,Life is both sweet and baneful, IL z
dr. am not like the rest. I.ea -.s,5' (
Would could word my longings,
Sunder this weary chain, ~
t u +
And these sheavess OF golden grain. ed y
a9 Life is so very dreary, o,I .7.ierq u 5aa 81
Here on these summer ewes 7" 2iii "l So
Il grow SO weary, weary, -1 j'r5 aTo74'
Carrying home these sheaves.
10 eFor the whirring rush ofthe sickle, g.l
Quivering through my brain,
Strs up a world of fancies,
Never to sleep again. ~. ....,.., ......
dream of courts and castles, ID. ,.da. -
Gateways of gold and pearl, i .nsr
And laurel wreaths proudly resting
On the brow OF the peasant girl ...
-; Life is SO very dreary, .a, Ia Ia. 5---
Here on these summer ewes aHir
Igrow SO weary, weary, ="
Carrying home these sheaves. -
Maiden, thou art not lonely, -. =, ~. IT,.
,44 Many like thee there are;
80 Sitting their aspirations 1R5}5afl ~
81 = Still with their souls at war. 're ...r-
All through this life's great harvest
Wander sorrowing train, -r .sie
a. Knowingfull well their mission, no
rE'i aYetwearing clogging chain.
Many the hearts that are crying,
This pleasant summer eve
''Oh, am weary, weary. - as.a @
Carrying home these sheaves. -5!zl-
Maiden, we all are reapers, ne
Workers through this great life;
Let us not then be seepers,
But on to the spirits strife!
God hears our cry, my sister,
He will gatherthe ripened grain
r, Up IN his broad heav'n garners
ii' Where life shall be free from pain.
Wait, with no thought of sadness,
to- Till on some heavenly eve, ...f...,.,
Come we with songs of gladness,
Carrying home our sheaves.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04
WHOLE NUMBER 905
Rest.

We have never, we believe, seen verses more
true and touching than those which are given
below. They are new and perfect express
ion of world feeling. That nemeless
Soldier had a cultured mind and noble spirit,
and on his poor pallet in the Southern hospital
went out light that might have cheered and p
iliumined many. The world loses, but he has
gained his REST. % The Liuing Age says II
The following lines were found under pillow
ofa soldier who was lying dead in a hospital
near Port Royal South Corolina I'D
sol 'hi Hay me down to sleep ~ la..l0g
aFo.z T With little thought of care 991ssiaa
',s9 Wheather my waking find ef- , ri
Me nere' OF mere 3 tsae OILS ni5. isr
hooE Allowing, burthened head, sdT-ss
G That only asks to rest, j. sE,,s
as Unquestioning, upon. -. -
A loving breast '4.ee--
My good right hand forgets ae ore
- Its cunning now; ,-
To march the weary march
'-AD@a's'e know not how D- 90 El5Ta1
sst I am dot eager, bold, ,.r -
Not strong -alIthat is past; Z
'- I'm ready not todo 90 y61si EIaF
At last, at last. .sasil1o
My half days work is done, 81 20
-"ii - And this is all my part ;97q z r -
a9f1ifq give patient God - iT,Q Isiai'H
sa8 r .a My patient heart ..s-,a f.,-o,,, e VI
And grasp His banner still, 10 z.o8
t.giss Though all the blue be dim; s=s
fiHl6:i.i These stripes no less than stars,
r. ,.s.a Lead after Him. -.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04
A Young Girl Ransomed from Indians.

In one of the raids made by the Ca
manche Indians, some months ago, two
young girls named Metzger were captur-
ed on the outskirts of Fredericksburg,
Texas, a few miles distant Anna, the
youngest, was ransomed, and is now at
her home. Her sister was murdered.
When they were captured both were
mounted on stolen horses and instantly
hurried away. The elder sister told An
ma that they must escape or die that she
would not be carried off alive, and that
she preferred death to the fate that was
evidently in store for them. Twice she
jumped from the horse and endeavored to
reach the chaparrel, but was each time
brought back and placed upon the horse.
Again she attempted to escape, which so
exaspcrated the savages that they sprang
upon her and buried their .tomahawks in
her brain. Half dead with fright and hor-
ror, Anna suffered herself to be carried off
without once attempting to escape. After
two weeks the huts of the Indians were
reached. Here the unfortune girl was
treated horribly. Her hair was cut off,
and several times she was beaten and
lacerated in a terrible manner. At length
she was restored to her friends upon their
payment of the bounty fixed upon by her
qaptors. The other day Bishop Dubois
performed. the rite of confirmation at
Fredericksburg, and Anna Metzger was
one of the first confirmed
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04
The Colonel's Blunders,
some rebel story4tcller narrates the fol

Some rebel storyatcller narrates the fol
I When in winter quarters at Centreville,
it came to pass that one of the drummers,
who was, on account of his conduct, not
a particular favorite ofCol. Seymour, of
the Sixth Louisiana Regiment, beat the
wrong call - The cold man." who, from
his military career, was perfectly at home
in all matters of camp life, rushed out of
his s7tent, and meeting what he supposed
to, be the raseally drummer, at once went
to work to punish him land, having done
so, he returned to his tent, where he found
his orderly, Fred, a German youth of
! quite genteel manners, sitting before the
fire ewith a. broad smile upon his counten-
ance,i evidently suppressing outright
Laughter. >, =, 4,o,b ;; s.f.-r.,;
What is the matter with YOU, my boy ?
quickly inquired the Colonel, who was
still excited from his corporeal exercise.
| After some hesitation and repeated
questions of the Colonel, he said:
That was not the drummer you whip
ped it was Sergeant r;-------, of company
+, who looks so much like him.
+ The Colonel NOW became enraged at
Fred for not apprising him of his mistake
in time, and came near chastising the
Teutohic youth; but his good nature and
heart now, resumed their sway, and forth
he sailed from his tent in search of the
injured individual, to make his reparation.
On turning the second avenue he met
/ the object Of his search and grasped him
by the hand, apologizing in the most sin
cerc manner, and, the weather being cold,
invited him up to the tent and treated
him to an apple toddy., The appeased
individual departed, and Fred was again
seen smiling and ysnickering at the fire.
This time the Colonel waxed warm, and
demanded perenlptorily to be informed
of the cause of his unbecoming behavior
and suspicious merriment when Fred,
bursting out, said: ff
You treated the drummer to apple tod
dy, he looks so much like the Sergeant of
Company F, you whipped awhile ago.
The sequel may be imagined. Fred got
something, but it was not apple toddy.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04

od REPORTED, EXECUTION IN MExIco.--
The official correspondence between Fred
ierieki w. Seward, the Mexican minister
Romero, and Don Lerdi' de Tejada, the
Mexican minister of Foreign relations, IN
reference ito the reported capture and
shooting by the Liberals of the Young
Marquis DE Montholon, son OF the late
Minister of France at Washington, has
been made public. The Mexican Secre-
dissay ows any belief inIthe truth OF
the capture of the young man. sl faa
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04

The Savannah Republican says ac-
EcoIntsn represent the condition Of things
in Camden and Bryan counties as truly
alarming The widest days of st. Do
smingo seem to have been reproduced in
Southern Georgia. In one county two
negroes were sentenced to death for muir
der and three others to the pententiary
A mob oficolored people surrounded the
JAIL, broke open the doors, and allowed
the prisoners to escape. In another com
ty men were found hanging to trees WIN
in short, distance of the pubic ROADS !,
and have. been hanging. there for several
Gays 7o5af .r4tus aI3 Il, go...is4
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04

There i5r, is one topic il forbidden toa to ali we'll
bred, to all rational mortals,, namely, their
distempers. If you have not slept, OF if
you have Slept. or if you have headache,.
or or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunderstroke,
/ beseech you by all the angels hold your
peace, aud not pollute the inofnlng'heal
| to which all the housemates bring pleas
ant thoughts, by corruptions and groas,;s
IIe-zB ssN ss1aisEd 10 e3a..l ---EhfeFsoH.
= ~ NJ EsAGR0 biis vT1s4 is Tsafoo isss
- ti9iIjoa 10 lsia s a99d sysd q bsfsoasIIs
Lfi.ias:@ sissl
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04
sss r. ASHTABULA OHIO, SATURDAY, MAY A. 1867.

.leeved hisself NV the boa constriekter
which wnZ crushin him in his folds. Hap
piness pervades the White House.
% '-aN PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. M. :
WITCH is Postmaster) and likewise Professor nv Bib-
ke Politicks in the Southern Cassike and Military
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04

-sto1.7'1IIt =, q sILLsl.
r-z==...=z=zr1 THROUGH EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY.
EsSsszeEs+ On and after Monday, April 49, 1861 and
until further Notice. Passenger Trains as follows
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04

SENATOR WILSON'S experiment at pub
lie discussion at the South was SO salts
factory to himself that he proposes to re-
new it and Oh an, extended scale: Prob
ably his example will be followed by
other Northern statesmen. 1t is'well for
the Southern people to'be brought into
personal contact with representative men
of the North, particularly Of the Radical
school. 1t is important, however that in
| this intercourse, the Northern men should
avoid even the appearance ofthat haugh-
tiness which always invariably attends
eminent success. The Southern people
feel their defeat bitterly enough without
having their modification intensified by
the arrogant bearing of the conquer
ers. What is desirable is that the two
sections should, come tojpnderstand; each
others feelings and purposes; and in an
especial manner, that the South should
preeeive that which is demanded is not
| degradation butsecurity. ssa9 sisoD 10
i-ni Fgrerg.fgF O. n.-'rIrlff rar4t 4 O., +.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-05-04

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2ief1 20 aoj' .lGeeg0 slii aaEis rlG4oa I'D
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-19
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Returns from Arkansas show that
the State has given majority for a
convention.
The business portion of the town of
Jeffersonton, Camden County, Georgia,
was destroyed by fire, last Monday.
About three hundred freedmen passed
through Augusta, Ca, en- route to
Charleston to take passage on the ship
Golconda for Liberia.
A fire occurred in Houston, Texas, on
Thursday night, destroying a whole
block, including the German Lutheran
Church, an extensive sash factory, sew
eral fine residences, and large quanti-
ty of lumber. Loss $4,000.
Senator Guthrie, of Kentucky, is ex-
pected to take his seat this session.
His friends are getting winter quarters
for him. He wrote last winter to a
Senator that he never expected to be
able to return to Washington.
The citizens of New Orleans anxious.
" await the arrival of General Ham
cock, hoping that he will correct many
abuses ofpower. Financial affairs are
deplorable. Large bills of city Issue
are IL per cent. discount; small bills
only 3. Five dollar bills, which only O
few days ago were per cent. discount
are now Is and IL. The blame is laid
ON the Radical Treasury officials.
The Savannah RepablicaH, of the 9th
inst, says: "Hon. Alexander H. Ste
phens, Hon. Linton Stephens, Hon. B. II
Hill, General Robert Toombs, and ex'
Governor Joseph E. Brown, are in the
city, in attendance upon the sessions OF
the United States Circuit Court. These
gentlemen are all looking exceedingly
well, save Mr.. Stephens, whose mind
was ever more vigorous than his phys
ical nature"
In reference to the death of George
w. Kendall, late editor of the New Or.
leans Pioayane, correspondent of the
San Antonio (Texas) Herald says: "Mr
Kendall was apparently in the enjoy
ment. of his usual robust health till
within O few days of his death. The
indisposition seemed slight at first, but
on the night of Sunday, the Goth, he
was seized with q violent congestive
chill, which proved fatal. He expired
calmly, and in full possession of his
faculties, at four o'clock on Monday
evening, the 2lst of October.
The New Orleans Crescent gives notice
of a .'workmen's Convention to meet
in New Orleans on the 18th of next
month, and to contain delegates from
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas
and Arkansas. The CresceRt says: 'TThe
members of this association are all re-
spectacle colored men, raised in the
South, and of no mean claims to intelli-
gence and information. 1t is their earn
est desire to withdraw the attention OF
their brethren from the mad pursuit OF
office and politics to the more reasona.
BILE, useful and profitable occupation Of
agricultural labor s.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

Secretary Welles is slowly recovering
I The French tax on grain on foreign
vessels has been removed.
Bullion has decreased $4,000 in the
Bank of England since the 7th.
Latest returns from Wisconsin make
Fairchild's majority 5213.
The saints of Salt Lake City felt 6
distinct shock of an earthquake on the
18th.
WChief Justice Chase is opposed tc
negroes holding Office, but demands
universal suffrage. .l
The meteoric shower failed to come
to time in New York, but put in bet.
ter appearance at st. Louis.
All the telegraph lines in Great
Britain are to be placed under the con.
troll of the Postoffice Department.
A new and unknown disease prevails
among the horses in portions of Colo.
RADIO. Many horses are dying.
The returns from all but three coun.
ties in Minnesota give Marshall, Radi.
cal. $500 majority for Governor, and de.
feat negro suffrage by 1000.
Mrs. Stone, sister-in-law of Governor
Stone, took poison, supposing she was
taking cough medicine, and died in an
hour. She resided at Wintersell, Iowa
Terrible boiler explosions" seem to
be epidemic, no less than ten having oc-
Cured in various parts of the United
States within the last two weeks. Each
of these accidents was attended with
more or less loss of life.
Mrs. Cynthia r. Newton, of Worces-
ter, Mass, who was divorced ten years
ago, died Tuesday morning from the ef-
feet of an abortion. A hack driver is
suspected of leading her into this af-
fair, and prominent physician of pro-
ducing the abortion.
Mrs. Fuller, with three children, has
arrived in Philadelphia, having walked
all the way from Lynn, Massachusetts,,
in six weeks, a distance of three hun
dred miles, because she was too poor to
pay for a railroad passage to Norfolk,
Virginia, where the poor woman has
friends.
The final settlement of President Lin
coins estate was made at Springfield,
Illinois, by the executor, on Thursday.
There remains $1,000, after paying all
debts, giving S36,765 each to Mrs. Lin
coin and her two sons. The lady's
share, except $4,000 heretofore drawn, is
subject to her order.
A dastardly attempt to wreck the pas
senger train, on the Toledo, Wabash
aud Western railway, was made last
Tuesday night, near West Lebanon,
Fountain county, Indiana. A large
pile of old ties had been placed in a
cattle-guard, and so wedged, that they
presented an obstruction three feet
above the track. The engine, tend or
and express car went down an embank k
ment, inflicting such enjuries on Mr..
Dodge, the engineer, that his leg was
subsequently amputated. No one else
was seriously injured. The passengers
made up purse Of SOB for the wound
ed man.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-19
Farmers and the weol Bu.ipe.,.

The Detroit Press remarking on the
general disposition among farmers to
thin out their flocks,n in consequence of
the unsatisfactory condition of the wool
market, says: 1--WE believe this is n
mistaken policy. For the last twenty
years we doubt ifan instance can be
cited in which either high prices for
wool or extreme low ones have ruled
more than three years consecutiyely.
In disposing of their sheep on account
of low prices, and enlarging their focks
on account of high. ones, farmers have
therefore worked steadily against their
own interests. By the time they work
themselves into the position of small
producers, prices are almost certain to
be remunerative, and rice rersa. At the
present juncture there is double motive
for retaining possession of sheep, for by
the time the stock of goods that was in
the country at the time of enactment of
the tariff shall have become worked of.
wool growers will begin to reap the ben.
eft of that measure which thsy. conld
not do when the country was liter
ally flooded with goods, part of which
came into the country under the old tar.
III. Improbable as wool growing has
been during the past season, if there Is
any truth in the adage that misery
loves company, our farmers can derive
some consolation from the fact that thew
did better with the wool than those who
invested in it after it left their hands.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-19
as'hesliug Register.
Tuesday Morning,. November I'D
A Malignant Lie.

We find the following miserable Sian
der in the Parkersburg Time. of Satur'
day:
In some of the counties, where tho
election officers are Democrats, q
aaCrant attempt has been made to over
Slanrh and ignore the registration laws
in order 10 force the votes of returned
rebels into the ballot boxes. 1t seems
TO have been a general design, where
aver sympathlzing conservatives"
held any power whatever In the execu-
+ion of any of the laws, to set them at
noppht. or turn them forcible against
I;nion citizens in favor of the rebels and
Democrats.
The above INSCRIPTIONS and out
rsgeous lie is sufficiently villainous to
bsye emanated from one Of BoREMAN's
messages. The Democrats control every
township in Ohio and Wetzel counties,
I'VE name them because of their famil'
srity.) and their course in those coun'
ties stamps the above declaration as a
black and malicious libel. The Cover
nor of this State must be fallen even
lower than his usual degradation, to
inspire and dictate such an infamous
fRlsehDod.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-19
"unckoson Grants Position

"MACK" of the Commercial has come
to FoRSEY'S assistance. He has, to
SOME extent, dispelled the mystery that
hung arOunS GRANTS position. His
presentation of the case is decidedly
superior to that of anybody else, IN that
il gives GRANTS own ipse diLit. Here
tofore We have had assumption and
suppositiUn AMI premise and deduction.
The Vaccinations Of "MACK" have re-
suited in something more tangible. We
give his views below. They are en-
phatically important if true" GRANT
stock, in Radical circles, will hardly
command the premium at which it
has been held of late, if "MACK" is cor
rect in defining the position of the
small smoker. Those three lines OF
italicized copperheadisn, it may be,
will yet prove fatal to the fine Presi-
Dental balloning in which the hero of
Appomattox has lately been engaged.
If so, the Democrats will be half sorry.
Here is "MACK's" story. taken from the
Commercial of yesterday:
Among the witnesses summoned be-
fore the impeachment Committee was
Colonel HilIyer, formerly of General
Grants staff, now q Federal sf1ice- holder
in New York. What he testified to, or
was supposed TO know detrimental to
A. j., | cannot say, but he yesterday
met Mr.. Eldridge, of Wisconsin. "a
member of the Committed on Penn
sylvania avenue, and addressing him,
said he supposed it wouldn't be neces-
sary for him to revise the report of his
testimony. NO." Eldridgc said, "that
would be all right" "Well," said
Hillyer, there's one thing You
might have got out of me if you had
put the question to me, and you came
mighty near doing it when you were
examining me about Grant" What's
that 7" said Eldridge. why" replied
Hillyer, IL heard a conversation be-
tween General Grant and the Prcsi-
dent some time ago-the only time
ever heard them talk politics. Grant
seemed to be very earnest about it, and
bringing his hand down heavily on the
table, said he (GranD Mr.. President,
demGgogues may talk as they please, bpt
this is rkiie mans Government, and
none bui White men should hare a rOice IN
it,"
Now, the above is no fgment of a
Copperhcad imagination. 1t is precise
ly what was related to ME yesterday by
Mr.. Eldridge, with permission to print
it, just after the conversation between
him and Colonel Hillyer. MACK.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-19
I" An Anxiou. Inauirer.n

A Radical journal in this State, which
is rather more pert than prominent,
wants to know whether We entertain
for moment the idea of entrusting the
Government of our country or State to
those very men who have done all in
their power to break the Government
and the country downf Whether it
does not seem natural that the men,
who had their hands in that crime,
should keep quiet, very quiet, and thank
God, that they live in country. where
a magnanimous though terribly out
ragged and insulted people is treating
them with an unhesrd of leniency y
The ground of the above elegant in
quiries is the course of the REGISTER in
denouncing the intoleraHt and proscrip-
tive measures of Radicalism in West
Virginia. Because we have seen fit to
protest, as best we could, against the
injustice done large portion of the
people of this State by the present Reg
istration system, We are held to advo-
cate the delivery of this State and ma
tion to the control of these men who
were connected with the late Confed-
eracy. The author of the above ques-
tions, if in earnest, deserves a straight
jacket much more than q refutation.
Nevertheless, as he is still at large, it
will be charitable to affect a belief in
his sanity. To such shattered remains
of reason as may have survived the re-
cent transfer Of himself to the powers of
darkness as represented by BoREAAN,
We address our reply.
In the first place, men of his kidney
have no right to utter such imperti-
nence. Had nobody done any more
than himself or owner in the way of
personal resistance to the rebellion,
there woulo now be two governments
in full blast on this continent. People
whose patriotism skulked and lodged,
and who brayed their loyalty" behind
other mems bayonets, and vigorously
waited for "the next CALL. have no
title to prate of a rebellion they feared
to face, or to denouace "a crime which,
oral they did to prevent it, would long
since have been contaminated. =,