The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-02-21

"h h"'WiNi iVbtu ~ kNcous fuitNNuS
aud inspirits our eareworu pioneers.
Every thing invites the fancy to seek
its luxuriant haunts Of meditation, or
listen to the fcathered songsters
whose melody listlessly vibratcs on
the ear. No wonder our Fort Hall
belligeronts were victimizod by the
charms of these Authorizations, the
inspiration Of their over toilsomo sue
cess. Their milldam is ovcrtlowiug
with water and the mill itself is in
charge ofa veteran sawyer, Afterwards
clothed with the highest official insig.
MIA, our county could confcr; more dig
uified and lucrative Of fcourse; but not
more honorable nor meritorious nor
useful than his present, humble occu-
patton. He logged along, day after
day aud month after month, most
swimmingly and with unspcakablo
cheer to Fort Ball, The very atmos.
phere, il i said, was purified and in
vigoratcd by the hoarse yet tuuofil
vibrations of their mill. The willows
and alders, sycamores and elms along
the river banks above and below il
made graceful obeisance to their own
limbs and pensile tresses in the wa
ter. The herds with tinkling bells
drcw near and broused about il. The
wild gome-deer, bear, turkey and
little chipmunek, all kept within
hearing Of its musical intonations.-
Indeed il was season of cheer to our
Fort Ball bellige ents. The prog
ress oftheir little town is assured. As
among themsel, es, all was harmony
and equality. None INDUCED pri-
yate or personal or political hates, or
factious intrigue or animosity. All
felt confident that their operative ma
chinery on the river would insure
abundant materials for villnge thrift ;
and that this would at no distant day
be instrumental in bringing the coun-
ty seat out Of the murky retreat of
Tifiin into the sunshine of Fort Ball.
Tho locality was claimed to be de.
lightful, and they had laborod at home
and abroad and especially abroad,
without stint to wantonly traduce
their rivals, and thereby bring their
embryo town into disrepute. They
went to work with viii to enlarge
their improvements by clearing up
the land and subjecting il to profita.
bic use aud convenience. Despite
their pressing ayocations, they daily
with the rising sun and next after de-
votional service, made pilgrimage to
the Fort and visited their mill-hus-
bands, wives and little ones and, as
sured that all was right, they return
cd with renewed buoyancy to those
needful occupations demanding their
presence and attention. But the
scene is to change from the sunlight
of joy to the dewy pail Of despair.
At the dawn succeeding tho invis-
ible digging Of the little canal, so bo-
tent yet so unpretentious, our Ft. Ball
bclligeronts, always on the alert, rec
ognized no roar Of waters DER the
milldam, nor the bewitching reverbor-
atoms of the indented saw as usual on
the return of glimmoring morn. This
silence was minous-iearfull omi-
nous; and all hurried to the bank
with aspirations Of comminglcd hope
and fear. There they stood aghast,
looking hither and thither, dumb
confouuded at the phenomenon pre-
scnted to their view. Their miitpoad
is gone and having stealthily played
the truant jilt, is now quietly rem.
dezvoused and luxuriating in the
bosom of Sandusky bay The i'm
perious sovereigns impulsively burst
forth into the utterance of most ter
rife imprccations quickly succeeded
however by mumbled, rustling mar
ticulations as if prompted by instinct
to ascertain the cause of this wonder
ful transformation before venting
sp!enetic imputations which, if un-
founded and unjust, might and most
probably would ultimately recoil up
on themselves. Whether it had been
done by their rivals over the river, or
its own suppleness, or some hidden
process of evanescence peculiar to it.
self, or by enchantment or otherwise,
they could not determine nor divine.
They might suspect that their invid-
ious neighbors had advised OF abet-
ted it, even if they did not personal
ly perform it; yet without evidence,
they could not, in view of sound
moral sentiment, assent TO this hy-
pothesis. Assumption, said they, is no
proof, producing conviction on the
mind and it is dangerous 70 rely up
on it. The doctor and lawyer, for
there was one cf each then and
there and both profound in their
respective professions, and indeed no
less wise in book learning in general
1Ed :lL:c laws OF chemical attrastion
and affinity in particular, were eager.
ly consulted on the occasion; yet they
were sorcly puzzled and finally after
a free intert hange of opinions on the
subject, they were compelled to ad-
NIT (which however they did man
ifestly with a sheepish reluctance)
that they knew Of no chemical pro-
cess whereby they could restore OF
reunite the scattered PARTICLES Of the
motive power on which their invalua-
BILE machinery had depended for ac--
tive service. Our doctor was there
upon appealed to professionally as to
the probability Of relieving the ele-
phantine patient with the lancet OF
by the adoption Of remedial curatives
adopted to his disease and eonstitu-
ton. He had read Hipprocrites, "the
Father of medicine" who raised il
from system of superstitious eere
moBiais Of pagan priests to tho digni,
ty OF learned profession and also
Galen, distinguished alike for his
skill in anatomy and success in prac,
tice, aud as one Of the most accom-
plished scholars ofhis age. And ther
he had studied CheseldoD, the mos