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A LIB A V EITURK
Equal Laws Equal Rights, and Equal Burdens The Constitution and its Currency.
VOL V. NO. 23.
KALIDA, PUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1815.
WHOLE NO. 231.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
BEN. METCALF,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
HAVING opened an office in Kalidn, will
give his, attention to the ordinary buisncss
of his profession, and particularly to scttloment
01 claims, payment ot taxes, sc., lor non-reai
dent : Jan. 10th, 1845. 203z
. J. J. ACKERMAN,
Attorney and Counsellor nt Law.
KALIDA, PUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO.
Office on Main street, opposite T. R. McCluro's
Hotel. Kalida, June 20, 1845.
JAMES MACKENZIE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
.v. Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio.
May 23, 1845. 222
RICHARD C. SPEARS,
ATTORN E Y AT LAW,
Van Wert, Vun Wert County, Ohio.
Feb. 1844.
JAMES G. 1IALY,
Attorney and Counsellor nt Law.
. Napoleon, Henry County, O.
May 23, 1845. - 222
DOCTOR SOLOMON M. SHAFFER,
Physician Surgeon,
LATE of Pennsylvania, but more recently from
Rochcster,01iio,haslocnted himsolf at Rock
port, Putnam county, Ohio, and tenders to the
public his professional services. Feb., '44.
DOCTOR P. L. COLE,
Physician Sf Surgeon,
Kalida, Putnam co., Ohio. OHico in the building
formerly occupied by Mr. Thatcher, as the
Americsn Hotel. April 18, 1845.
GEORGE SKINNER,
SADDLE &. HARNESS MAKER, Kalida,
Putnam county, Ohio. Orders promptly exe
tcnad. Saddles, &c, constantly on hnnd.
FASHIONABLE
JOSEPH TINGLE,
RESPECTFULLY Informs the citizens of Knliiln and
tlio surrounding country that lie carries on the busi
ness of TAILORING in nil its hmnrlics. He regularly
roceim nlntes of the LATEST FASIIIOJVS from Phil
ndelphia, and hi prepared to fulfil all orders in his line of
business in a irsieiui nna worKiimniiKe manner.
CUTTING done to order on the shortest notice. Prices
ta siit the times. Shop next house ubove T. Coulter's
tore. Knlida, July 8, 1845. 228.
S. E. IIOLIBAUGII,
Soot and Shoe. MaJcer.
HAS just received a fiy?t rate stock of Leath
er from Cincinnati.
Ready made work constantly on hand.
Kalida, July; 15, 1845. 220cbw
THE LIKE NEVER BEFORE KNOWN!
TIN SHOPJN KALIDA.
RICE Sf BASSETT,
HAVE commenced business and will he rendy to supply
the citizens of this uud the adjoining counties with
every variety of
" Tin, Copper, and Sheet Iron Ware,
st prices as low as can he had in this section of country.
NOW IS THE TIME,
If you want flirt rate articles, and ti e cheapest wl irh can
he had, give us a call and we unsure you that you shall not
go away disnp)ointed.
As soon ns arrnnienients can he mnde, we shall he pre
pared to sell at Wholesale, n"d supply Traders and Mer
chants with nnv quantity that may be wanted. Shop over
O H. Bice's Store. 230zw Kalidn, July 28, 1B45.
RIS LEYS' EXCHANGE.
THE subscribers continue nt the old
stand, in the brick building direct
I ly opposite the Court House, in the town
I of Kalida, Putnam county, Ohio. They
respectfully sol'o't a continuance and in
crease of patronage of the public promising, in
return, to spare no pains on their part, in provi-
.ding every necessary comlort tor tneir guests.
W. RISLEY,
Kalida, May, 1845. G. L. HIGG1NS,
KALIDA HOTEL Kalida, Ohio.
nHE undersigned, having take the
L above establishment, is now pre-
t pared to furnish the traveling comm uni
ty with uccommoduttians not exceeded
puy any omer notei in rins portion "i vjhiu.
m n Hi '" T TT1,E
1. 11. IVlCUljUIVEi.
Kalida February 20, 1845. I57lf
, WESTERN HOTEL, (Gilboa.)
CHRISTIAN HESZ .
Jpwt!& XT AS purchased the well known
Rg-iksfea ri. tavern stand in Gilboa, Put-
IB I
by John E. Creighton,and has fitted
the same up for the accommodation
of the public- He hopes, by a strict
. attention to the wants and convenience of those
who may favor him with their patronage, to merit
a continuance of the Bame. Gilboa, Feb., '44.
PLAIN AND FANCY
ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF PRINTING NEAT
LY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE.
LAW BLANKS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
Placards, Show-Bills,
PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS,
ip , tzKtun it trap
AND ALL KINDS OP LETTER-PRESS PRINTING
.; DONE TO ORDER.
Orders for Printing will be promptly fulfill
ed, at' reasonable prices. We cannot print for
' less than cost," nor at fifty per cent, less than
others.. Such promises have a good deal of the
leaven ot Humbug; but we win aoour wum wen,
and avoid extortion in our charges. Give us a
' trial. Kalida, Julv 8, 1845.
B
LANK SUBPOENAS, for Justices, Just print
ed, tad for sale at this. office- ; ; ; .-
THE DRONES AND T1H3 WORKING CLASS.
In the following selection from SltelK y'i Ciueon Mult, we
have made a slight cnange to give It ap !icntion to tlie con
dition of the liives in our drone-afflicted State :
Those gilded flics
That basking in tlie sunshine of monopoly,
Fatten on its corruption whut ore they?
The drones ofthe community. They feed
On the mechanic's labor ; the starved hind
For them compels the stuhhorn soil to yield
Its unshared harvests ; and yon squalid form,
Leaner than flesh less misery that wastes
A sunless life in the unwholesome mine
Drags out in labor a protracted death,
To glut their grandeur ; many faint with toil
The few may know the cares and wocsof sloth.
Whence think'st thou bankers and parasites aroBe ?
Wnt ii cc tliat uiinutiirnt hive of drones, who heap
Toil and unvuiiijuiisliafilc penury
On those who built their paluccs, and bring
Their daily bread ?
From special privilege and vice, Mack loathsome vice;
From rapine, madness, treachery and wrong ;
From alt that genders misery and makes
Of earth this thorny wilderness ; fi om lust,
Revenge, and murder.
And when reason's voice,
Loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked
The nations, and mankind parcel vo that vice
Is discord, war and misery, that virtue
Is pence and happiness and harmony,
When man's niaturer nature shall disdain
The play things of its childhood kingly glare,
Tlie splendor of successful fraud, the pomp of wealth,
Will lose their power to dazzle their authority
Wiil silently pass nway tlie gorgeous throne
Shall stand unnoticed in the regal hall,
Fast falling to decay, whilst falsehood's trade
Shall be as hateful and unprofitable
As that of truth is now.
THE LAST MOMENTS OF GENERAL
JACKSON.
On the Sabbath day I wo weeks before his
death, there was a communion ofthe Lord's
Supper in the Hermitago Church. Gen.
Jackson was unusually serious and solemn
in his feelings during the morning; and re
gretted exceedingly that he was unable to
accompany his family to the Church. lie
requested his daughter, Mrs. Jackson, to
bring home with her the Rev. Mr. Lnpslcy,
as he was anxious once more to partake of
the sacred feast. As they were leaving for
the Church he took each member of the
family by the hand and invoked upon them
all the blessings of God. After their return
from church, the whole family assembled in
his room; he was very feeble, but conversed
freely on religious topics he was calm and
resigned, and said he was ready to go when
ever his Divine Master thought fit to call
him that he had suffered a great deal of
bodily pain, but tlie Lord's will be done,
lie then partook of the Holy Communion
it was a solemn scene, and rendered still
more so by the confidence with which he
referred to it as the last time he should enjoy
the happy privilege. He spoke of his death
as near at hand, but said that death had no
terrois for him come when he might.
" When I have suffered sufficiently," said
he, "the Lord will then take me to himself
but what are all my sufferings compared
to those of the blessed Savior, who died on
the accursed tree forme mine are nothing.1'
Not a murmur ever escaped him he spent
much of his time during the latter days of
Ins life in secret prayer.
On Thursday evening previous to his
death ho referred to the blessed promises in
the hymn, from which he repeated:
"When through the deep water I call thee to go,
Tlie nvera ol wo shall not tliee overthrow."
He quoted many passages of scripture
and conversed feelingly upon the holy invi
tations given by our Savior for all to come
unto In in.
About 12 o'clock of the same nighi his
daughter was at his bedside, and enquired
how he felt he replied, " pretty comfortable,
but I feel that I cannot bo long with you all
and my request is, when I depart hence
that you will send for my old friends, Maj.
Lewis and Judge Campbell (but I fear, he
said, that Judge Campbell is too feeble to
come) to make arrangements with my son
for my funeral. I wish to be buried in a
plain unostentatious manner, without display
or pomp." He then rested for this night.
The next day he was taken with rather an
excessive diarrhoea, and said to his son that
if it was not checked it must soon take him
off; and yet, he said, it would be dangerous
tospheck it, as it was nature finally giving
way to the disease. During the day he con
versed generally about his farm and business,
and talked much of his beloved country, of
the certainty he felt as to the annexation of
Texas, of the letters be had just received
from our Minister to Texas, of the. stand
taken by his old, early friend and companion
in arms, Gen. Sain. Houston on the subject,
all of which convinced him that "all issafe."
He spoke also of our Oregon difficulty, and
doubted not that the present administration
would do its duly to the country, expressing
the most abiding confidence in President
Polk, but hoping and praying that the diffi
culty would be amicably arranged between
the two governments: but if not, said he,
"let war come there will be patriots enough
in the land to repel foreign aggression, come
from whence it may; to maintain sacredly
our rights and to perpetuate our glorious
Constitution and liberty, and to preserve our
hnppy Union."
In the evening of the same day his mind
was so much engrossed with our foreign
affairs, that ho determined to unbosom him
solf in a letter to his faithful friend. Presi
dent Polk: he wrote to him a long letter m
relation to our foreign relations; it was the
last letter he ever wrote, and breathed, a
degree f affection for tho President, and
confidence in his wisdom, which will make
it an invaluable memento. On the next day
he franked a letter to the Hon. Thos. F.
Marshall, of Kentucky, which was the last
time he signed his name.
During tho first part of this day (Saturday)
he felt comfortable until he was taken with
a cold clammy perspiration; ho regarded
this as another indication that the hand of
death was upon him, but he received the
summons, with resignation and composure.
Ho conversed less than ho had done on the
day previous, but Ulcre was tho same pious
resignation running through Jus remarks
which had characterized all bis conversation
for many days. .Late in the evening Dr.
Esselman arrived alid tried ineffectually to
check the diarrhea.
Early the next morning (Sunday) Dr.
Esselman was called into the room and in a
short time the General fainted away, and it
was supposed at tho moment that he was
dead; but he revived immediately, and called
all his little grand-c'iildien, with the other
members of his family, around him; he took
his grand children by the hand, blessed and
kissed them tenderly, told them that they
had good parents, that they must be obe
dient children, keep holy the sabbath day,
and read the New Testament. His eye sight
had become dimmed his son took him by
tho hand and said, " Father do you feel do
you know me?" Ho answered," Know you?
Yes I would know you all if I could see
bringmy spectacles." He put them on
and said, " Where is my daughter and Marian
God will take care of you for me I am
God's I belong to him I go but a short
time before you, and I want to meet you all
'vhite and black, in heaven." Ho then said,
" What is the matter with my dear children
have I alarmed you? Oh? do not cry be
good children, mid we will all meet in Heav
en." lie then-died away and expired qui
etly and caltrfly 6 o'clock, P. M., on the 8th
day of June, 1M l..
MEN AND GENTLEMEN WOMEN
AND LADIES.
" Men are made in the imago of God."
Gentlemen are manufactured by tailors, bar
bers, and boot blacks. Men are the sous of
God; gentlemen, of the goddess of Fashion,
whose caprices deform be with all soils ot
fantastical airs, shapas, and appearances, and
whose virtues are on her a part of her.
Men are true to the nature whose lord they
are, whose perfections tliey embody; gentle
men are complete distortions and perversions
of that nature, and the more so the greater
gentlemen. Men are men; noble, Godlike;
gentlemen are things, pJay-hngs, for the
ladies to flirt with.
Woman is the last most perfect work of
God; ladies are the productions of silkworms,
milliners, and dressiiisi-maids. Woman is
all nature; ladies all art; and the more ar
tificial in every thought, word and deed, the
greater the lady. Tho woman consists in
her mind, her soul, the inimitable perfection
ot her nature; tho lady is made up ol bus
ties, cotton, ribbons, figured clolhs, flowers,
&c, tied together in fantastic forms, with
needles and thread, and overshadowed with
laces and rouge. To tho women the out
ward adorning matters little, the graces and
the beauties of tho moral being, every thing;
while the perfections of the lady are cover
ed up are completely smothered beneath
those outward adornings which are put on
and off at pleasure. Tho woman consists in
her virtues the lady in her toilet. By as
much as the ethereal spirit ot intellect and
moral purity exceeds gold, silver, precious
stones, and sinning attire, twisted ana piaitca,
now into one form, and anon into another,
by so much does a woman excel tlie lady;
and in so much as the lushest protection of
omnipotence excils tho patched, boggled,
and blackened manufacture ot Human ani
zaiis, by so much docs the man excel the
gentleman, and tho woman the lady.
The preceding was suggested by the fol
lowing from the N. O. Herald.
" Men arc quarried from the living rock
as with a thunderbolt. Gentlemen are
moulded as tho potter's clay by the dainty
figures of fashion. Women are the produc
tion of a warm, rich soil, where the wind
blows freely, and the heart feels visitings of
God's ever changing weather, iuics are
the offspring of a hot-bed, the growths of a
green house, tended and watched, lest the
winds of heaven may visit their faces too
roughly, till they are good for nothing as wo
men, at any rate as wives and mothers."
If theso things be so, to call a female a
lady is a doubtful compliment, if not a posi
tive disgrace; while the appellation of wo
man is the highest compliment that can be
bestowed on the other sex so high that it
should be used but seldom, though ladies
should be, as it is, almost universally applied
to our feminities. Man, too, should be but
.seldom used; while gentlamon areas com
mon as flies in summer. God grant that we
may have as many women as we now have
mushroom ladies, and as few ladies as we
now have women; and that our gentlemen
may be converted into men that, in short,
tho human may take the place of the artifi
cial. '. -
Ladies1 cars are decidedly vulgar, except,
when bound down and covered up by . hair.
Ilonco tho propriety of cropping every femi
nine fisfonablo, bocauso exposed cars, like
the fifth wheel of a coach, make tho head
jook so inferior, besides being always id the
Waa',:.,0i. Wv sillv the prevalent ladies'
fashions of wearing the hair over the ears.
They would hardly look worse if the nose,
tho eyes, or chin, or mouth, were covered
or tucked away out of sight. There are
just features enough on the bead to make it
look well. Nor can any one of them be
hidden without thereby marring, if not de
stroying, the looks. Strange that so silly a
fashion should ever have been conceived,
and stranger still that silly things should be
found to adopt it. Still, tho fooleries of
fashion are beyond ridicule so foolish, that
may we not soon hope to be delivered from
her stulticity? That people should make it
their pride should even take -their chief
pride, and make it their main business to fol
low a goddess whoso phantasmagorias are so
foolish and oftcu so injurious, shows the
weakness of poor human nature. - Oh! when
will men and women place their value in
their person, not attire? Good God deliver
us from the sins and fooleries of fashion.
Phrenological Journal.
ECCENTRIC HOSPITALITY.
During the late American war, a soldier
who had been wounded and honorably dis
charged, (but perhaps not paid.) knocked at
the door of an liish farmer, when the follow
ing dialogue ensued:
Patrick. And who are you, now?
Soldier. My name is John Wilson.
J. Aud where are you going from, John
W.lson? .? - ....
S. From the American army, at Erie, sir;
P. And what do you want here?
B. 1 want shelter to-night. Will you
permit me to spread my blanket on your
lloor and sleep to-night?
P. May the ould Nick take me if I do,
Tri m W i lum. that'll Hal!
S.
-On the kitchen floor, si
r?
V
flat!
-Not I, by the Hill o' Howlh; that's
S'. In your stable, then?
P. I will not do that either; that's flat!
S. I am dying with hunger; give me but
a bone and crust I ask' no more.
P. I will not; that's flat!
S. Givo me some water to quench my
thirst, I beg you.
P Beg and bo hanged; I'll do no such
thing; that's flat!
S. Sir, I have been fighting to secure the
blessings you enjoy; 1 havo contributed to
the glory and welfare of the country which
has so hospitably received you, and will you
so inhospitably reject me from your house?
P. Reject you? Who talked a word
about rejecting vou? May be I am not the
scurvy spalpeen you take ino to be, John
Wilson. Vou asked me to let you lie on my
floor my kitchen floor or in my stable.
Now, by the powers, do you think I'd let a
perfect stranger do that, when I have half a
dozen soft feather beds all empty? No, by
the Hill o' Ilowth, John; that's flat! In the
second place, you were dying with hunger,
and wanted a bone and a crust to eat. Now,
honey, do you think I'd feed a hungry man
on bones and crust, when my yard is full of
fut pullets, and turkeys, and ptgsr No, by
the powers, not I; that's flat! In the third
place, you asked me for some water to
quench your thirst. Now, as my water is
none of the best, I never givo it to a poor
traveler without mixing it with plenty of
wine, brandy, whiskey, or something else
wholesome or cooling. Come into the house,
my boiiey, you shall have tho best supper
and breakfast that my farm can supply,
which, thank heaven, is none of the worst.
You shall drink as much water as you please,
provided you mix it with plenty of wine, and
provided you prefer it. Come, my hearty,
come in, and leel yourself at home. It
shall never be said that Patrick O'Flaherly
treated a man scurvily who has been fighting
for the doar country which gave him protec
tion; that's flat!
War. In the Crusades or Holy (!) War,
continuing 200 years, two millions of men
were butchered, besides women and chil
dren. At the battle of Waterloo, more than fifty
thousand perished.
At the battle of Chalons, the number slain
was 153,000.
The Persian expidition to Greece lost
200,000 men.
At tho battle of Cannae 40,000 Romans
were slain. After the battle, three bushels
of gold rings were found, showing the num
ber of Roman knights who were slam.
By the will of three military despots
Ca:sar, Alexander and Napoleon six mill
ions of human beings were butchered.
The Inquisition of Spain cest that coun
try at least 2,000,000 of lives,
St. Bartholomew's massacre cost 1' ranee
200,000 of her best citizens.
When Wolf was missionary at Jerusalem,
a Turk, noinling to Calvary, said: ' " There,
on the very spot where your Lord poured
jut his blood, the JYlahommedan is obliged
to interfere to prevent you Christians from
shedding the blood of each othor."
Tho Boston Post furnishes the following
epigram on a dundy:
" A dandy is a chap that would
Bo a young lady it' he could; .
But as he can't, docaull ho can
To show tho world he's not a man."
What a glorious woild this would be, if all
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its inhabitants coma say, wuii onuKspumw n
Shepherd; "Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn
what 1 get; get what 1 wear; owe no man
hate; envy no man's happiness, glad with
othor men's good, content with my farm."
Duties of Women to theih Country.
The shelter and protection of a free govern'
ment also demand awakened and grateful
energies. Since its welfare is involved in
the virtue and intelligence of its subjects,
the character and habits of every member of
its great family are of importance. I ima
gine that I hear from the lips of some of the
young sprightly of my sex, the enquiry,
" Why need we concern Ourselves in the af
fairs of politicians? what share have we ill
tho destinies of our country?" The same
share that the rill has in the rivulet, and tho
rivu'et in the sea. Should every little stream'
let tarry at the fountaiu head, where would
bo the river that dispenses the fertility the
ocean, pouring commerce aud wealth upon
ils never ending tide. Woman possesses an
agency which the ancient republics never
discovered. Tho young fountains of the
mind are given in charge to her. She can
tinge them with sweetness or bitterness, ere
they have chosen tho channels where to flow,
or learned to murmur their story to the time
worn pebble. Greece, that disciple and wor-.
shipper of wisdom, neglected to appreciate
the value of the feebler sex, or to believe
.i.- . i. i. - i j .i, r l
uiai uiey wnu uuu uio uiuuiuuig ui ma
whole mass of mind in ils formation, might
help to infuse a principle of permanence in
to national existence. Rome, in her wolf
nursed greatness, in her fierce democracy,
in the corruption of her imperial purple,
despised the moral strength that lay hidden
under physical weakness. But our country
has conceded every thing, the blessings of
education, tho equality of companionship,
the luxury of benevolence, the confidence
of a butler's office to those young buds of
being, in whom is her wealth aud her hope.
What docs she require of our sex in return
fur these courtesies? Has she not a right to
expect that we give our hands fo every cause
of peace aud truth that we nurse the plants
of temperance and purity that we frown
on every inroad of disorder and vice that
we labor in all places where our lot may be
cast, as a gentle teacher of wisdom and cha
rity, and that we hold ourselves, in domestic
privacy, the guardians of those principles
which the sage defends in the halls of legis
lation, and the priests of Jehovah on the
walls of Zion.
From the Daily National Pilot.
OUR " UNQUESTIONABLE RIGHT" PROV
ED TRUTH IN A NUTSHELL.
Some of the more bashful enemies of our
possessing Oregon, modestly tell us we don't
want this: we have too much territory, al
ready as if quantity were the question.
fell such men that Oregon is there, and
will be occupied by somebody: that our claim
to it being clear, we should possess it, first
for the maintenance of our rights, then to
keop out bad neighbors, and for the advanta
ges that this lodgement upon the Pacific
would give us, in future commerce with the
east, and they evince to you, at once, an
inability to appreciate such views. -
Speaking of this forty-ninth degree, and
of the impudent assertion of a New York
paper that we claim nothing north of that,
tho Philadelphia Ledger says:
" Whoever has bestowed even superficial
attention upon the subject, or has read even
one of the numerous books, pamphlets, lec
tures and editorial dissertations in defence
of tho American title to Oregon, which have
found readers in every settlement of the
United States, knows that our government
has claimed the whole territory between lat.
A'i and 53, ever since the purchase of Lou
isiana in 1803, and the whole to lat. 54 40,
ever since the conclusion of the Florida
treaty, in 1819. The assertion that we do
not claim beyond lat. 49 is entirely untrue."
The same New York print avers that,
" from lat. 42 to 54, 40, there exists a joint
title, on the part of England and the United
Slates, which has resolved itself into a joint
occupancy under existing treaties between
the two countries."
To this covert manner of begging the
question, as if for the especial benefit of the
British government, the Ledger well responds :
" We say that no such joint title exists, or
has ever been recognized by our govern
ment; that no British title to it, joint or se
veral, has ever existed, and that if ajointtitlo
has " resolved itself," or has been resolved
by others, into a joint occupancy, it has
ceased to be a title, joint or several, and con
sequently that no joint title exists now, even
if one ever did exist. The legal absurdities
of this are quite as amusing as the audacity
of asserlion. " A joint title exists between
England and tho United States?" England
first, of course. How got the English their
joint title? Not from discovery, having been
anticipated by tho Spaniards, wno never
ceded to them a foot of territory, or a shadow
of jurisdiction on the Northwest coast, but
always, up to their cession of the country to
us, in 1811V protested against any such ces
sion to the English. Not from the French,
who never granted to them an inch ot terri
tory west of the Mississippi, but carefully
i .11 . . e .1- I T.n.li.
koci vuu nil nMi wi iimi invi ...w - - j
of Versailles, in 1703. Not" from us, who
never surrendered our claim to an inch of.
Oregon, between lat. 42 aud 54, 40. "How,
then, got the English this jeint title? Echo
answers, how? They have none, and never
had any. And if tho English have no joint
title, they certainly have no several title ; for
they can show, for a several title, neither
discovery, nor conquest, nor purchase of the
natives, nor cessions from the, Spanish,
French or Americans, , the only people, ex
cepting the natives, who have claimed it sinc