Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-19

RAIDS sUnion men," True, it is hill
long, wide and high; but it is not one of
sand. have given it a careful geological
examination. Internally, it is huge
? ledge of stratified rocks belonging to vari-
Gus epochs of formation from the Silurian
up to the most recent period, on which Is
superimposed a deep, rich alluvial deposit,
highly productive to everything in the veg
etable kingdom that grows in this climate
Hence, wheat corn, oats, grass, sorghum,
potatoes, garden products of all kinds,
fruits of every description, from may ap-
pie and ground cherry to peach and pound
apple, are most abundant on and about this
hill. Indeed, it seems as if the famous
Amalthea had here emptied her cornuco-
pia. If not, certain am she could easily
fill it here this season. Such beautiful
wheat seldom grows anywhere as now
waves in fields of golden yellow within
this widely extended prospect. These
rectangles alternating with those of green
corn appear without number, giving prom
ise of seed to the sower and bread to the
cater in long time to come. Prosperity
richly crowns the labor of the husband
man'on Sand Hill and vicinity.
Farms, fences, fiocks, houses, orchards,
gardens, groves, forests and lovely shade
trees are seen in all directions. The view
is really grand Could Moses have seen
more or further from Pisgah? Doubtful.
The cultured and rural alternations OF this
profuse panorama seem almost regular as
chess-board's squares, or the diverse col
ors in the mosaics of palace. And the
towns Let us stop moment and count
them. Yonder is Fairview, Salesville. Mill
wood and Barnesville on the east; Antrim,
Elizabeth, Middletown and Bridgewater
on the north; Senecaville, Gottingen, Can
nonsburg and Mt. Ephraim on the south
and Easton, Washington, Centerville and
Cambridge on the west-sixteen towns,
with Sand Hill in the center-a fitting
jewel to such a setting. Towns, too, in
every one of which, we are assured, the
plague of Black Radicalism is abating, the
afflicted rapidly convalescing, the viru-
lence of the disorder being broken. sound
Democratic health again returning to
many poor patients who have been
bed-ridden, wild, raving and furi-
Gus for the last seven yearsi Amt
this good news? Yea, verify. And
brought about, too, by following
the prescriptions of Democratic practition-
ers in this State, in their infallible reme-
dies for, and diagnosis of, this terribly fatal
and loathsome disease, published daily in
The ONO STATESMAN and other health
giving journals in our land. Some say that
the distemper was not so much checked by
the use of these prescriptions as by an aw-
fully drastic dose attempted to be admins
tered by political quack, named Comfy,
whose nostrums are advertised in the
Journal, the principal ingredient of this
bitter potion being "Negro Equality" so
sickened the patients on being named by
the prescriber, that a violent vomiting en-
sued, which so broke the disorder that
hopes are being generally entertained of a
speedy recovery of all the afflicted. Let
all rejoice, and urge this Comfy to go on
and hold his 'stink bottle" to the nose of
as many of those dying with this Black
Plague as possible. If he does, it will be
a blessing to Sand Hill, and to all the re-
gion round about. A region where the
sweet and balmy breezes, and the lovely
prospect pleases (this poetry is merely ac-
cidental, from the inspiration of the occa-
sion), are such that no frog-pond prairie
can with it compare in the thousand advan-
tages of nature and culture.
All, ye Western Suckers, Hoosiers and
Wolverines, from the sublime summit of
Sand Hill look doton upon you all, with
as proud a consciousness of my supe-
rior elevation, as it was ever possible for
Jove to feel, as from his omnific throne on
Mount Olympus, he regarded beneath him
the web-foeted SWANS of the Swamp!
You don't like our hill! Where is your
taste? Here is Arcadia; here the kingdom
of Pan; here are oaks as big as those of
Bashan; poplars tall and taper as ever grew
in poets fancy on the banks of the Po;
wide-spreading beeches, too, of which that
of Titryus in the Eclogue would scarcely
make a sprout; chestnuts, also, in number
and majesty rivaling the cedars of Leba-
non hickories of the genus Jacksoniensis,
equaling the finest specimens still left in
Tennessee; ash, dogwood, juneberry, elm,
linn, maple, sugar, redbud, gum, ironwood,
locust and other varieties are here in great
abundance, and often forming vine-clad
arbors about dells and flowing fountains,
cool and sweet enough for the homes OF
nymphs, the resting place of angels, or the
abode of sylvan sylphs. Oh, the beauty
the paradistic beauty = of these grand
groves of nature. A prairie, indeed A
kingdom of tadpoles and frogs; the birth
place of mosquitoes; the hot-bed of malaria,
disorder and death. Oh, ye Lots, flee from
these Sodoms and come to Zoar. Here
we have the useful as plentiful as the love-
ly. Timber, as you see, in abundance, to
build or to burn. See that steam circular
saw; how it cuts boards almost as fast as
you can count; they have brought the saw
to the timber, instead of taking the timber
to the saw. A number of farmers form a
joint log company. One "puts in" 500, an
other 1000 logs; send for mill; it comes
is ''set" near some big spring where the
logs have all been hauled together. And
here in few days will be sawed as much
poplar lumber as would build small Chi
cago, or as many fencing boards as would
reach in part across continent; and all
the time this is being done, many come
to see; and such as come will talk, and
many say, "We won't go the nigger-that's
carrying the joke little too far. Won't
vote for Hayes, he is no friend of our west
ern interests, has shares in eastern cotton
mills, voted against wool tariff, can't go
him, can't worst it on Thurman, hope to
better it," &c.
The STATESMAN is then pulled out of some
honest, intelligent farmers pocket and |
facts are read on the political status of
affairs, in which the real designs of Shodjy |