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THE Ir.P.VSBUno JOTJRNSL.
BY S. CLARK.
"Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures"
$1.50 In Advance.
VOL. 1.
PERHYS13URG, WOOD COUNTY, OHIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1854.
NO. 47.
A Beautiful Picture. The man who
stands upon Ii is own soil, who feels that by
tin; laws of the land in which he lives by
the law of civilized nutions he is the right
ful and exclusive owner of the land he tills,
is by the constitution of our nature under a
wholesome influence not easily imbibed
from any other source. He feels other
things being equal more strongly than an
o'.her, the character of a man as the lord of
on inanimate world. Of this great and
wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the
hand of God, an I upheld by his power, is
rolling through th? heavens, a part is his
his from the c litre to the sky. It is the
space on which the generation before moved
in its round of duties, and he feels himself
connected by a link with those who follow
him, and to whom he is to transmit a home.
Perhaps his farm has come down to him
from his forefathers.
They have. gone, to their last home! but
ha ceu true their footsteps over the scenes
of his daily labors. The roof which shelters
him was rear.-d by those to whom he owes
his being. Some interesting domestic tradi
tion is conni'Cied with every enclosure.
Thu favorite fruit tree was planted by his
father's hand. lie sported in boyhood beside
the brook which still winds through the
meadow. Throue.li the field lies the nath to
the villace school of earlier (lavs. He still !
hears from the window the voice
bath bell which called his father to the
house of God : and neHr at hand is the spot
where his parents laid down to rest, and
where, when his time has come, he shall be
laid by his children. These ore the feelings
of the. owner of the soil. Words cannot
pai nt them ; they How out of the deepest
fountains of the heart, they are the life-spring
of a fresh, healthy and generous national
character. Edward Everett.
" One of the city papers gives the following
condensed description of a fashionable New
York party :
Soirees have tli.nr established "program
me, ami nil our read
lers
will recognize
it
iii.sifwner. rrirueu curus, iwo weeus in
advance, for large parties, written notes for
medium, and verbal invites for small, at in
tervals of from on- to five days' notice;
carriage at eight o'clock ; front room, second
story for gentlemen back room for ladies
(thut the latter have not to pass the former,
which will be kept open, and will smell of
brundy and cigars;) ladies fuming over pin
:ushinns and tight slipp-rs gentlemen ago
nizing with a still" hair brush and intracta
ble gloves, meetings at head of stairs, and
oniering room togeth'r; no bowing to most
intimate friends until hostess is approached
and devotion paid ; chairs and comfort for
wall-flowers ; dancing and small talk for
light hels; old tops in the basement, at
cards; matrons under the windows, com
paring daughters; gabble, gabble, hop, hop,
music and lemonade, for three hours ; slight
odor of fried oysters, and tuning for prom
enade; grand march of victims in party
colored costumes, like the actors in a Span
ish auto-da-fe; rush of g-mllenvim for plates
una lorks ; screams of ladies about dresses;
oysters, salad and sandwiches, followed by
cliampaigue, icc-cr.-am and jelly ; smashing
oi plates and mi mined swearing ot waiters;
destruction of hitr- kids ; alarming volley
of small-talk; incipient dyspepsia, relieved
bv adjournment to dancing rooms for exer
cise ; confusion a la champalgnc ; old tops
high; matrons low with fright ; belles and
!eauxs getting on famously; host yawns;
carriages driving up: shawls and overshoes;
f;mpt.y rooms; smdl of stale food; two
hundred nodding night caps. Finis.
AGoon Joke. The city authorities of Ma
rysville, California, recently passed on ordi
nance for the removal of outside stairs in
that city. While tin; council was in session
a p.v days subsequently, the stairs leading
to the council chamber wer) removed,' and
the dignified members of that body, accord-
a
ing to the Herald, were compelled to "6hin"
down the posts of the buiding.
The World hates Pretence, not Pjety.
It is not true, as this bad writer Dr.
StylesJ is perpetually saying, that the world
hates piety. The modest and unobtrusive
piety which fills the heart with all human
charities, and makes a man gentle to others
and severe to himself, is an object of univer
sal love and veneration. But mankind hate
the lust of power, when it is veiled under
the garb of piety ; they hate canting and hy
pocrisy ; they hate advertisers and quacks in
piety; they do not choose to be insulted;
they love to tear folly and impudence from
the altar, which should only be a sanctuary
for the wretched and the good. Sydney
Smith.
Murray's ' Handbook for South Italy" is
just published, and contains some curious
stories respecting Fra Rocco, the celebrated
Dominican preacher and the spiritual Joe
Miller of Naples. On one occasion, it is
related, he preached on the mole a peniten
tial sermon, and introduced so many illus
trations of terror that he soon brought his
hearers to their knees. While they were
thus showing every sign of contrition, he
cried out, " Now all of you who sincerely
repent ot your sins hold up your hands."
vast multitude immedi
ately stretched out both his hands. "Holy
Archangel Michael, 'exclaimed Rocco, "thou
who with thine adamantine sword standest
at the right of the judgment seat of God,
hew me off every hand which has been rais
ed hypocritically." In an instant every
hand dropped, and Rocco, of course, poured
forth a fresh torrent of eloquent invective
against th At sins and their deceit. He had
a great dislike to tobacco, and when once
preaching to a crowd of Spanish siilors, he
astounded them by telling them that there
were no Spanish saints in heaven. A few,
he said, had teen admitted, but they smoked
so many cigars that they made the holy
Virgin sick, and St. Peter set his wits to
work to get them out. At length he pro
claimed that a bull-fight was to be held
outside the gate of paradise. Thereupon
every Spanish saint, without exception, ran
off to see the fight, and St. Peter immediate
ly closed the gate, and took care never to
admit another Spaniard.
Connecticut now has G69 miles of com
pleted Railroad, costing in the aggregate
more than $24,000,000, unon which cost
the whole annual profit does not exceed
three per cent. There is more railroad to
the. square mile, in this State than in any
other, the average being a mile of railrords
for each six square miles of its area, which
if the railroads were all separated by equal
distances, would make parallel lines only
six miles apart through the State. Massa
chusetts ranks next in the proportionate
length of her railroads, having about one
mile of railroad to every seven square miles
of surface. There is twice as much railroad
to the square, mile in Connecticut as in
England. The whole length of finished
railroad in theUnited States is now greater
than that of all other countries together.
New London (Ct.) Star.
Compensation for an Amputated Leg.--Mr.
John Marvin who was so dreadfully in
jured by the collision on the O. P. railroad,
near Alliance, last fall, has compromised his
damages with the company. They paid his
doctor and nurse bill during his sickness at,
Alliance, gave, his friends free passes to visit
him, and paid him $1,500 in cash, besides
purchasing a cork leg to replace the one
amputated. s He was about 40 years of age,
blacksmith bv trade and in indigent cir-(
cumstances. lU had just lost his wifi, and
was taking his children to his sister's when
the accident befel him. He. suffered terrible j
agony for, a while, but with tha loss of his
leg, he has at least escaped poverty if he is
prudent, Forest City Democrat. 1
The Song of January.
He is gone the year 'i3 1 I am tree !
To revel again in my majesty.
At the bloom of his birth I hastened forth,
From my crystal halls in the gelid north ;
And the sun looksd pale at each frozen gem
On my own imperial diadem :
For he hath small power with me !
And I pranked it rare, for I chilled the skies,
And the crowded hearths of the human styes,
And blistered with kibes both the scholar and sage,
And stopped the thin blood in the veins of age ;
And I pinched the Queen in the chair of state,
And perished a miser by empty grate,
So hungry for riches was he I
And I whipt thro their rags to the couch of the poor,
While they dreamed they were spurned from their
own wretched door,
And I silenced the voice of the choristers all,
Tho ingle-side cricket, and the dog in the hall:
For none shall compete with the glee
Of the double-faced wizzard who deigns to appear,
And swaddle the limbs of the infant year.
He is gone the year ! he is dead t i9 dead I
To the tomb of the past ages gathered ;
I will pile him a carin of drifted snow,
And chain up the waterfall's headlong flow,
While the north flings a thousand rockets up,
And tho wassailers drain the deep cordial enp.
And replenish it merrily. 1
Then revel again ; I will bite the toes
Of the pulpitted priest, and tweak his nose ;
I will blister and gash his hearer's lips,
And bury sharp pangs in the laborer's hips ;
The brooks I will charm and harden the field,
Till the plough-share bright may not burrow con
ceal'd, Though so valiant a knight is he I
I will burn your yule clogs, and with light arabesque
All your windows will furnish ; a nd figures grotesque
1 will hang on yonr eaves ; and your boards shall be
burdened
With all that is choicest, then I shall be guerdoned,
For , w ho half so jolly can be,
As the double-faced wizzard who deigns to appear,
And swaddle the limbs of the infant year?
Signs for Marriageable Lames. "If a
man wipes his feet on the door-mat before
cominS into the room, you may be sue he
will make a good domestic husband. If a
man, in snuffing the candles, snuffs them
out, you may be sure he will make a stupid
husband. If a man puts his handkerchief
on his knees whilst taking his tea, you may
be sure lie will be a prudent husband. In
the same way, always mistrust the man who
will not take the last piece of toast of Sally
Lunn, but prefers waiting for the next warm
batch. It is not unlikely he will make a
greedy, selfish husband, with whom yon will
enjoy no 'brown' at dinner, no crust at tea,
no peace, whatever at home. The man, my
dears, who wears goloshes, and is careful
about wrapping himself up well before
venturing into the night air, not unfrequent
ly makes a good invalid husband that most
ly stops at home, and is easily comforted
with slops. The man who watches the ket
tle and prevents it boiling over will not fail,
my dears, in the married state, in exercising
the same, care in always keeping the pot
boiling. The man who doesn't take tea.
ill-treats the cat, takes snuff, and stands
with his back to the fire is a brute whom I
would not advise you, my dears, to marry up
on any consideration, "either for love or
money, but decidedly not for love. But the
man who, when the tea is over, is discover
ed to have had none, is sure to make the
b?st husband. Patience like his, deserves
being rewarded with the best of wives, and
the b?st of mothers-in-law. My dears, when
you meet with such a man, do your utmost
to marry him. In the severest winter he
would not mind going to bed first. Punch.
Ths principal intelligence from Cuba, is
the fact of the liberation, by the new captain
general, of the negroes generally known as
emancipadoes. This is probably only the be
ginning of a movement, having for its object
the prospective emancipation of the entire
slave population. . ..
There are now wintering in Cleveland, 6.,
GO vessels, of which 4 ,are steamers, .16 pro
pellers, and" the others sail vessels.'..- ,
Sue, Dumas, Lamartine.
We have been looking at the portraits of
these celebrated French authors, as painted
by Mr. Powell, and exhibited with his large
picture of Da Soto, at the academy rooms.
Lamartine is yes, young ladies, positive
ly a prim young man, with a long face, 6hort
grey hair, a slender figure, and a suit of black !
Put a pen behind his ear and he would look
like a confidential clerk. Give his face more
character and he would remind you of Hen
ry Clay. He has a fine head, phrenologically
speaking large and round at the lop, with
a spacious forehead, and a scant allotment of
cheek. Prim is the word, though. There is
nothing in his appearance which is ever bo
remotely suggestive of the romantic. He is
not even pale,and as for a rolling shirt col
lar or a Byronic tie, he is evidently not the
man to think of such things. Romance, in
fact, is the article he lives by, and like other
men he chooses to " sink the shop,'? at least
when he sits for his portrait.
Dumas, on the contrary, is a burly fellow.
His large, red, round cheeks stand out till
they seem to stretch the very skin that cov
ers them, and it looks as smooth as a polish
ed apple. His black, crisped hair is piled
high above his forehead, and stands divided
into two unequal masses, one inclining to
the right and the other to the left. His eyes
are dark and his mouth sensuous, but not to
the degree of vulgarity. His person is large,
and his flowing mantle red. He is the? gen
tleman to lay bare the throat, and look ro
mantic ; not Byroaically so, hut piratically.
Yet he looks good humored and like a man
whose capacity for physical enjoyment of all
kinds is boundless. His negro blood is evi
dent enough to one who knows he has it;
but it would not be , detected by one who
knew it not. . It appears in the peculiar ro
tundity of the man and all his parts.' It
crisped and heaped his hair; it made him
dress up in flowing red to have his picture
taken. But his complexion is only shade,
darker than the average. " .The portrait re
minds us for a moment of the late Thomas
Hamblin, the actor. - : r.r .!
Eugene Sue is neither prim norburly,;He
is a man of large frame, over which a loose,
black coat is carelessly buttoned. Complex
ion light, eyes blue ; hair once black, now
pepper and salt ; whiskers voluminous ; eye
brows black and thick ; good forehead, and
the lower face ample. This conveyed no
better idea of the man's appearance than the
description in a French passport. But the
truth is Sue's countenance and figuru have
none of those peculiarities which . make de
scription possible. He looks, in his portrait,
like a comfortable, careless,; elderly gentle
man, taking his ease in an easy chair and an
easy coat. He does not look like an author.
Authors seldom do. His air is rather that
of a prosperous citizen. Sue is only 45 years
old, but he has lived fast, and looks 55. Lam
artine is 63, and would pass , easily for 53.
Dumas is 50, and could set credit for 38.
N. Y. Times. .
Fatal Duel. We learn that a duel, at
tended with fatal results, was fought near
Pickensville, in this State, a' few days ago,
between two gentlemen from Mississippi
Drs. Fant and Irby. Dr. Irby was shot
through the heart at the first fire. The mis
understanding leading to . this deplorable
affair, is understood to have originated' in
the late canvass for seats in the. Mississippi'
Legislature, from Noxubee county;' where
these two gentlemen were rival candidates.
Dr. Irbv was the member elect. Mobile
Reg., l'Oth.
The Columbus Argus says : The weapons
were duelling pistols, and the distance 13J
paces. Dr. Irby, who was killed, was a most
estimable gentleman, a member elect of the
present, Legislature, and the difficulty arose
out of some misunderstanding' in t"Haf late
canvass between himself and his antagonist,
who was a candidate for the same station.
Both gentlemen were dejnocratsan num
bers of the church. ' r
