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Year: 1859

yet because he was "Saint" of the Order
Abolition, he escaped, for the present, the Pen


tentiary which he so richly deserved.


AT the time Booth was arrested, he was editor
.of the Milwaukee Free Democrat, rabid Abo.
lition sheet. Every effort has been made tc
screen the lecherous scoundrel from justice
and these efforts were so far successful as to
make the jury disagree and thus to send the
case over for another trial, and, base as was the
crime and clear as was the proof we doubt not
Booth will ultimately escape conviction, for the
State Courts of Wisconsin, being in the hands
of partisan Judges, will deem the sentence of
one OF their Saints to the Penitentiary a
crime, greater evil than the pollution of the
fountain of justice, and he will go free, while
the poor child, whose ruin the arch flend ac-
complished, will go down to the grave ruined
and abandoned woman-a thing COR scorn to
point its finger at,-a polluted and vile thing
because of the crime committed by this man
Booth, who has proven himself more than
brute in human lorm.-Nat. Den
Year: 1859

! 0df exchanges comes to us filled with glow


ing descriptions of what the Fairs of this fall


are going to be- and as remainder, we wish


to say word for Harrison county


The Fairs which have heretofore been held


in this county have been justly held to be a.
mong the first of Agricultural, Horticultural
and Mechanical Exhibitions of any similar dis
play in the State. Harrison county contains
the wealth, the enterprise and the will to make
her fairs maintain that good name they have
heretofore borne, and when we say that the
coming fair will be one Of the best, we saw 50
with the understanding that our word will not
be forfeited by any act of negligence in the
premises by those who have the conduct Of the
affair. The premium lst--already published
docs not show, we admit, as large offers for
faa horses as that of some OF our neighbors: on
the contrary, however, it shows Just apprecia-
ton of the Farming Interests which, by the
way is the interest which shapes and give char
acter to county. In Agriculture rests the
permanent and essential wealth of any and ev-
cry community, situated inland as we are. Fast
and good breeds OF horses are very we'll in their
legitimate sphere, but as far as the prosperity
ola county is concerned, we cannot view high
premiums on such animals as conductive of as
good results as would be made manifest by Civ
ing it to good growth of wheat, corn potatoes,
or to fine production of wool--an article in
which Harrison county stands A. No. J..


We have no hesitancy in asserting that the
Managers of the Fair this Fall will do all with
in their power to make it one of the best con-
Quoted Displays that has ever been had in East
ern Ohio. Those who have control o f the mat
ter are gentlemen conversant with the demands
of such an undertaking.


To the husbandmen of Harrison county we
would urge upon their attention the neces-
sity OF entering into this contest for superiority
with will; as every achievement in Agriculture
or the Mechanics Arts is another and frmer
link prosperity which will have its telling ef
fects upon the character and advancement of the
country abroad Caliz Republican.
Year: 1859

!


Practical Black RcpubIiCanisIm---


A White Woman EIOpins With "a
| Nigger.


One day last week strapping Niger, and
a fine looking we'll dressed white woman, some
twenty-five years Of age, passed through this
place in company, each carrying q carpet sack.
They called at Mr.. Governs, mile or two
south of town for some bread which was given
them. The woman took it and wrapped it up
in copy of the Astabula Sentinel, which she
had with her. Mrs. Cowen made some enquiry
of the woman as to where she was from and
whittier bound but could get no satisfaction
from her


On the next day young man, brother Of
the young lady, came along in search of the
precious couple. We learned from him that
the nigger was a fugitive slave from Tennessee,
and that he arrived in Jefferson, Ashtabula
County, some two years ago. He had been
potted by the Abolition fanatics of that town
and the father of the unfortunate girl had made
his house the home Of the darkev, and had
taught his children the doctrines of the Repub-
lican party Of the Reserve, that no distinction
should be made on account of color, and that
the negro is entitled to all the civil and politi-
cal rights enjoyed by white men. Under these
teachings the girl, who has Heretofore borne
good character, became intimate with the mig
ger and an elopement was the result of that in
tmacy. The young man threatened the life Of
the niger if he should succeed in catching him.
The catching usually comes before the killing.
lie was particularly severe on cuffy, and let
out some pretty big oaths about his always vot-
ing the Republican ticket, and standing up for
black men, and his determination to d--n that
party for the balance of his natural life.


Black Republican teachings will do to talk
about among sickly sentimentalists but the
practical effects of those teaching will cure men
Of their morbid sympathy for negroes. A case
like this elopement, which is not at all unusual,
is so direful in its results upon the prospects for
life, of the deluded girl, so harrassing to the
feelings of her relatives and frends--so demor-
alizng to community and so revolving TO the
better sense of mankind, that a simple nara
tion of the facts are the strongest comments that
can be made upon it. Strange it is that men
of sense will act with a political party that
teaches the equality Of the whites and blacks.


- -
Year: 1859

SSO 4AA0 = B0x0s
The last rays of the setting sun


Were lingering in the West,
stood BY one whose race was run,
And soon she sank to rest.
But ere the spirit took its fight


From this dark world Of care,
To realms Of everlasting light,


She whispered, Meet me there :"
I'd loved her long and loved her true,
And sad at heart was I,
For all were weeping when they knew
That she, yes, she must die.
All listened to her parting words
She was SO good and fair
But all the accents that they heard,
We're Meet, oh, meet me there %
She died as gently as the dew


Falls on the opening flower
And died, as she had lived, as true
As ever graced earth's bower,
wiped the death damp from her brow,
And parted back her hair.
And when kissed her cold, cold cheek.
She murmured Meet me there 70
We laid her in the silent grave
And sadly left her there
To sleep the long. long sleep of death,
Although so good and fair;
And still travel on and seek
A place where free from care
I'll meet my lost one once again
I'll meet, yes, meet her there,
Year: 1859

Tell me, winged winds


That round my pathway roar,
Doye not know some blessed spot


Where hoops are worn no more
Some free and quiet place


In Island. glen or csve.
Where ladies can go abreast


Upon the village pavef
Tell me, in all thy realm,


o, Fashions potent Queen.
Is there a single favored spot


Where spreads no Crinoline.-
Ye powers that be, declare,


Nor drive me to despair
Is there no such elysian spot


For mortal men somewhere
The wind it whistled in my face,
And saickering answered Mary Place.
Year: 1859

Why should we call the path of life,
A bleak and desert spot,
When We ourselves but make it SO?


No, no-believe it not
For though the ills we're doom'd to feel
Are sometimes hard TO bear,
The world we live in teens with good
And kind hearts everywhere.
4 wish TO calm each others grief,


To soothe each others woes,
In every bosom finds place


And this all nature glows.
Men of all climes abroad, at home
His gen'rous feelings share:
The world we live in teens with good
And kind hearts everywhere.
And should misfortune's heavy hand,


On every side prevail,
Or sorrows overwhelming storm


Our happy hours assail,
To grieye is folly, wise men say,


Then why should we despair,
The world We live in teens with good


And kind hearts everywhere.
Year: 1859

LAMB on THE LIvER.-Charles Lamb, tho
not holding physicians credentials has CIV
en- better bit of medical advice on the liver
complaint than is to be found in the whole
range of professional books on the subject
Hear him: "You are too apprehensive of your
complaint. The best way in these cases is TO
keep yourself as ignorant as the world was
before Galen of the entire construction of the
animal man not to be conscious of a midriff;
to hold kidneys to be an agreeable fiction; to
account the circulation of the blood an idle
whim of Harvey's; to acknowledge no me-
chanism not visible. For, once fix the seat
of your disorder, and your fancies flux into it
like bad humers. Above all, take exercise,
and avoid tampering with the hard terms of
art. Desks are not deadly. 1t is the mind,
and not the limbs that taints by long sitting.
Think of the patience of the tailors think
how long the Lord Chancellor sits: think of
the brooding hen.''
Year: 1859

How CAN HENS BEST BE KEPT so AS PRO-
CURE EGGS IN WINTER ?-Build a commodious
hen-house upon some plan, only that there be
a -oosting apartment, place for feeding, with
boxes for nests. A good plan is to build in
the shape of parrellelogram, with the roost-
ing place across one end. The central portion
can be used for feeding, the boxes for nests
being placed around the sides of the building,
with a small place between them and the wall,
that the hens may enter the nests on that side.
Build the house either of stone, wood or 9TH
material, as may be thought best but let
ii be warm and comfortable in the cOldest
weather, and so made that it can be well ven-
tiIated. Procure some of the large Asiatic
breeds, as they will lay in winter when the
common varieties will not, with the same
treatment. But the person who expects his
hens to lay much in summer, after laying all
winter, will be disappointed. Give them as
great variety of food possible, such as
corn, buckwheat, oats, barley, &c, with pure
water daily. Give them fresh meat once or
twice week, oftener, if convenient, with
an occasional feed of boiled potatoes or ap-
pies. In short, make their feed as near as
possible what it is in summer, and don't for
get to give them free supply Of oyster shells
pounded fine, or lime and sand. Mix lime and
sand as for plastering house. let it dry and
place box filled with it in one corner of the
hen-house, and it is surprising how fast il will
disappear. Hens will lay some in winter with
out being to all this trouble; but they must
have good, comfortable quarters. There are
other advantages from having a good hem
house aside from hens laying in winter. Two
or three wagon loads of good homemade gu
ano, every year, will soon pay the expense,
and help to raise corn to feed them. And
then, again, fresh meat cannot always be pro-
cured. They will lay if they have plenty of
corn and as this contains large portion of
oil or fat, it may perhaps be substituted for
meat to some eXteLt.-( or. Genesee Farmer.
Year: 1859

A BALD EAGLE FROZEN TO THE 1cE.-Several
days ago large Bald Eagle caught Wild
Duck in the river Susquehanna, opposite Dun
cannon. carried it to a cake of ice which had
lodged on a rock, and commenced feast. Du-
ring the operation, it is supposed that being
wet, his feet and feathers, from the intense
cold froze fast to the ice; and being unable
to extricate himself, perished.- He was seen
Tapping his wings until dark. There was
desire to capture the great "kmercan, but
he could not be approached on account OF
the great mass of floating ice between him
and the shore.
Year: 1859

A whistling match lately came off at Mo-
keumne hill. Two whistlers commenced at
half past nine O'Clock in the evening, and kept
it up till ten minutes of two the next morn
ing, when one of them caved in, and was fore
ed to stretch his mouth into all sorts of shapes
to get the pucker taken out of it. He allow
ed his lips felt like as if they was the toe of
an old boot with hole it.
Year: 1859

'He is very unfortunate man, said DR..
Spooner, speaking of a gentleman whose i'll
luck is proverbial; Sand l really believe, If
he should fall on his back, that he would break
his nose" Shouldn't wonder if he did.
Year: 1859

ASSUMING Hls PosIroN.-The editor of the
Paulding (Ohio) Eagle was absent for couple
of weeks lately, and his imperial majesty the
devil of the concern, assumed the chair of the
absent one, and declared his intentions:


He will advocate the adoption Of the bloomer
dress among the fcminines down with crinoline.


lie will oppose all public improvements, lie
goes in for keeping things as they are, and will
not favor the disarraugemcnt of the beauties of
nature he win oppose bridging streams as it
has q tendency of destroying the amusement of
the boys in rolling up their trowsers and wading
the streams.


lie will oppose any road that will not 90 near
the forty acres owned by him, the said devil, with
a branch running to each corner of It,


lie is in favor of the girls, and believes them
to be an institution Old maids and widows are
not included in the inventory
Year: 1859

THE YoUNG Men or CMIFoRNrA,- The follow
ing extract IL from an eloquent and able discourse
lately delivered by Rev. MI Boardman in Los
Angeles:


But of young men what an army Not another
like it in the whole world nor ever was Two
hundred and fifty thousand in population Of
only three hundred and fifty thousand in all
Two hundred and fifty thousand young men
And such young men Just such as those who,
under the heroes TAYLOR and Scott, mnde the
conquest Of Mexico, with brillancc and ease so
surprising that, If their deeds shall ever find
Prescott to record them, they will throw the oil.
den conquest fairly into the shade. Many of
them indeed, the very men who in the fields and
fcas Of those memorable campaigns signalizcd
themselves and illustrated the American power
to daring and to doing, and Others just as brave
and good.
Year: 1859

FEARLE5s IN THE CAUSE or RrGHr.--Judge
Cradlebaugb, in summing up the evidence in tho
late murder cases at Provo City, said


You are the tools, the dupos, the instruments
Of tyranjcal church dospotism. The heads of
your church order and direct YOU You are taught
TO obey their orders and commit these horrd
murders Deprived of your liberty Won have
lost your manhood, and become the willing in
strumcuts of bad mon


| say to you it will he my earnest effort while
with you, to knock of your ecclesiastical shack
les aud set you free


Just Mt this point In the Judge remarks an
elderly, gray headed man, who was sitting in the
front scat and who was apparently engr ossed with
what was being said, forgetting whore he was,
sung out in an audible voice. so as 10 bo heard
through the dense audience, Amen
Year: 1859

dinner is now meal taken at supper
time. Formerly it was considered means
Of enjoying society, and therefore was mod
crate in expense and frequent in occurrence;
now, it is given 10 display yourself, not TO
crafty your friends, and is inhospitably rare
because foolishly extravagan..
Year: 1859

ENrERPRIsING-In the office of the
London Times there is bureau that one
must think must be terror to not few
Every man, whose life is. deemed worth
taking, has place in certain pigeon.
hole" wherein the record is constantly
kept written up" to the latest possible
period-a sort of log," to be displayed
the minute lile's voyage is ended Deeds
done and words said in the heat of pas
sion are there acts performed at long
intervals are brought into startling prox-
unity, and all, of necessity, divested OF
the glow and action, the touch of nature,
as it were. that made us regard them in
the living actor with a lenient. if not a
loving eye. Such man dies to-nig ght-
the "pigeon-hole" gives up its dead, and
to morrow morning. even before the SUBJ
ject has begun to lie in state, the leading
acts and incidents of his life are spread
all abroad TO the world. Quick work
they make Of fame.
Year: 1859

CATCHING FIsu.-They have a curious
way Of catching fish down on New river.
The fisherman lies down on the bank.
with his head over the stream. holding
worm in his mouth. The 6sh. attracted
by the spiral workings OF the worm 10
escape, jumps at it. At this moment
the dexterity of the fisherman is evinced.
He suddenly opens bis mouth and catch
es the fish between bis teeth. One old
man we saw down there had worn all
his teeth of catching fish. Fact -
Baton Rouge Sugar.
Year: 1859

From the N. Y Independent, Nov. II.
An Interview with Mrs. Brown.---vis-


it of Lady to Charlestown Jail.


l write this morning, on board a steam
boat, a hasty account of personal in
terview last evening with Mrs. Mary
Brown, wife of Capt. John Brown, now
under sentence of death in Virginia, for
having bravely failed in brave deed.


X


l conversed with her during the en-
tire evening. But only ten minutes ac-
quaintance is enough to show that she
is woman worthy to be the wife of such
man. She is tall, large and muscular,
giving the impression, at first sight, of a
frame capable of great strength and long
endurance. Her face is grave and
thoughtful. wearing, even in this hour
of her trial, an expression of soberness,
rather than of sadness, as if, like her
husband, she had long since learned how
to suffer and be calm. Her manner is
singularly quiet and retiring, although
her natural simplicity and modesty can
not hide the evident force of character,
and strength of will and judgment, which
have fitted her SO long to be counselor
in her husbands enterprises and sup
porter in his trials.


She is native of Whitehall, near Lake
Champlain, and has been the mother of
thirteen children but, Notwithstanding
the cares of her numerous family, and
her many privations and struggles inde-
pendent of household burdens, she still
appears as fresh and hale as if she were
only now in the prime and vigor of life.


NEWSPAPER CORRECTION.


The conversation, of course. was of
the scenes of Harper's Ferry-both of
those which have already been enacted
and those which are shortly to follow.
She alluded, with subdued though evil
dent emotion. to the wounds of her hus-
band, and to the loss of her two sons,
Watson and Oliver, who fell in the strug-
gle. But she made no such remark as
that recently attributed to her in New
England newspaper, four of her sons
had already been slain, and she would be
willing that all the rest Of her family
should be made a sacrifice, if necessary,
to the cause of Freedom" These words,
she said to me. could never possibly have
fallen from her lips for she had already
telt too many griefs to court any fresh
sacrifices; and she could not think, with
pain. of any new death-stroke to her fam
ily. She would not shrink from any nee
essary trial or struggle when the hour
came for it, but she could not look for
ward with composure to any further
lessening Of her family, already too sad
ly broken. She regretted that such a
remark should have been put in her
mouth, for" as she observed, "they
we're unmotherly words"


She said that she had been so long ac-
customed to sorrows, that she had been
trained to bear them. While living in
Ohio, four of her children died with the
dysentery. within eleven DAYS, three Of
whom were carried to the grave together
on the same day She mentioned in this
connection that her husband had always s
been watchful nurse, and the chief
care taker of the children and of her
self, during periods of sickness.


CAPT. BROWNS RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.


Iadverted, in alluding to Capt. Brown Is
religious opinions, to the common repo r,
that be was an Old School PRESBYTERIAN.
She replied that be had been church
Year: 1859

At that moment d 'Herbecourt entered with
an ominous looking case of pistols under his
arm; he was frowning in a most determined
fashion. Aglae was following his footsteps,
and without word spoken she opened the case
and showed him his pamphlet against duelling,
which she had placed in the case in lieu of the
distracted pistols. The blood thirsty d'Her-
becourt looked rather confused, and here Gus
tave stepped forward and solicited the honor of
Jenny's hand in marriage


DHerbecourt, delighted with son-in-law
whom he already esteemed, gladly grasped his
hand, and that evening as Jenny sat at her win
dow looking at the moon, as all young ladies in
love do, she said to herself smiling compla-
Gently: I" When young girl wills any thing ="


The rest was concluded by significant nod
of the head.
Year: 1859

DAYTON MARBLR--Dayton Stone is famous
wherever there are facilities for its trans-
portation and II is justly noted, for a better
quality Of Stone for building purposes, and
for all durable, ornamental stone work is
not to be found in the West Pasco q WEBB
Der, Of this city are we believe, more large
" interested in the trado than any other
irm. An outline Of their business would
be interesting 10 the local and general read"
er, but we have not the necessary data 10
give Il now, IL we had the time and space TO
spare. We will, however, remark that they
have Eve yards in this city where stone from
the quarries in this neighhorhood is depos-.
tied, and from whence they are sent to order
TO almoOt every point in the west by Canal
and Railroad. At three Of these yards a
large number Of hands are employed IN
dressing the stone which is ordered for
buildings in the city and from distant
points. At the yard on jefferson ct, the ma
jor part of the Gne work is done; and the
curious person is struck with astonishmenI
when he b,holds the chiselling which meta
morphoses huge bloCks Of shaggy marble into
the most elegant ornaments Of every possi-
bic style. Indeed IL seems impossible thai
il could be done yet the intelligent and pa
tient workman "brings out" the creations
of the draughtsman, Mr. Pasco into the mos,
attractive shapes and after awhile the rough
block takes the exact proportions which taste
and measurement designed. Some estimate
may be made Of the magnitude Of the trade
of this firm alone when we say that their
expenses average about $3.50 per day.
The fine dressed stone furnished by them
fog the New Lutheran church now in course
of erection will amount to over $4,000, while
that furnished the superb building for Mr.
Phillips on Main, between I'd and Sd ct,
will amount to about the same sum. We
give these two items to afford an idea Of the
extent of orders for stone, which are receiv-
ed by P. & W. from every direction Their
transient work is enormous, and their trade
this season, Notwithstanding the hard times
will reach great many thousand dollars


Other firms here are also largely engaged
in the stone business, but they no not enter
so extensively in the dressing trade.
Year: 1859

HOERrBIE "A woman named Davis, wife of g
dissipated man who resides near Lebanon. on
last Saturday night destroyed her child and
then took her own life The treatment she
received at the hands Of besotted and bruta,
husband decided her to commit the terrible act
The people were with difficulty restrained from
completing the family tragedy by hanging
the brutal cause of it up by the neck. "Whis
key p
Year: 1859

B' The Opposition newspapers are prompt
TO inform the public what certain politicians in
different pArts of the country have to say against
the Little Giant. but they take paine to suppress
anything which may be said in his favor
They don't seem to know that their terrible at
tacks on Little Dug" are making friends fOl
him all over the country. They are respOn.
sibls to great degree for the PrOminsnes he
has before the people. They will make him
Preaident, vet.
Year: 1859

W The publishers Of the Louisville Demo-
crat continue to send US their Weekly. which is
Of no earthly account to Us. II their eOndi-
ton is sneb that they cannot afford TO send the
Daily In exchange, they had better save the
trouble and expense Of the present arrange
manI