Lorain Republican (Newspaper) - July 31, 1844, Elyria, Ohio AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MKV OF WHATEVER STATE Oil PERSUASION It OR VOLUME III NEW SERIES ELY II I A L Q R A I N C O OHIO WEDNESDAY JULY 31 1814 No WHOLE No 89 THE SUNNY SPOTS OF BY LEGGETT Though life's n daik and thorny path Its goal he silent tomb It yet some spots of sunshine hath That smile amidst the gloom The friend who weal and wo partakes Unchanged his lot Wha kindly soothes the heart that aches Is sure a sunny spot The wife who half our burden bears And utters not a moan Whose ready ham wipes off our tears Unheeded al her own i Wba every word Kach harsher one forgot And carols blithely as a bird She's too a sunny spot The child who lifts at morn aud eve In prayer its tiny voice Who grieves its parents grieve And when they rejoice In whose bright eye young genius glows Whose heart without a blot Is fiesh and summer's rose That child's a sunny spot There's yet upon life's weary road One spot of brighter Where half forgets its load And tears no longer flow i Friendship may wither love decline Our child dishonor blot still undimmed that spot will shine Religion lights that spot THE STRENGTH The tyrant's chains are only strong While slaves submit to wear them And wbo could bind them on the throng Determined not to bear them Then clank your chains e'en though the links Were light as The heart which rightly feels and thinks Would cast them altogether The lords of earth are only great While others clothe and feed them Bat what were all their pride and Mate Should labor cease to heed them i The swain is higher than a king Before the laws of Nature The monarch were a useless thing The swain a useful creature We toil we spin we delve the mine Sustaining each his neighbor And who can hold a right divine To rob us of our labor We rush to batile bear our Jot In every ill and danger And who shall make the peaceful cot To homely j i stranger Perish all tyrants for and near Beneath the chains that bind us And perish too that servile fear Which makes the slaves they find us One one claim Oue peal of moral thunder Cue glorious burst in freedom's name And rend our bonds asunder is cell ant A YANKEE IN RUSSIA The following is the substance of a story 03 told by GEORGE M DALLAS al at a pub ic dinner given him at Philadelphia on his return from Russia in 1833 One day a lad apparently about nineteen presented himself before our am at St Ho was a pure specimen of the genus Yankee with sleeves too short for his bony arms way up his knees and playing with coppers and tenpenny in his pocket He introduced himself by saying I have just come here to trade with a few Yankee notions and I want to get sight of the emperor Why do you wish to see him I've brought him a present all the way from Ameriky I respect him considerable and I want to get at him to give it to him with my own hands Mr Dallas smiled as he answered It is a common thing my lad to make crowned heads a present expecting something in return that I'm afraid the emperor will consider this only a Yankee trick What have you a acorn An acorn I what under sun induced you to bring the emperor an 41 Why just before I sailed mother and I went on to Washington to see about a pension and when we was there we we'd just step over to Mount Vernon 1 picked up this acorn there and I to I'd bring it to tho Think says I he must have heard a considerable deal about our General Washington and I expect he must admire our institutions So now you see I've it and I want to get at him My lad it is not an easy mattei for a stranger to approach the emperor and I am afraid be will take no notice of your present You had better keep it I toll you that I want to have a talk with him I expect I can tell him a thing or two about Ameriky I guess he'd like mighty well to hear about our rail roads ar d our free schools and what a big swell our steamers cut And when he hears how well our people are getting on may be it will put him up to doing something The long and short is I shant be til I get a talk with the emperor and I should like to see his wife and children I want to see how such folks bring up a family Well sir since you are so determined upon it I will do what I can but you must expect to be disappointed Though it will be rather an unusual proceeding I would advise you to call on tho and state your wishes he may probably assist vou Well that fa all I want of you will call on you again and let you know how I get on In two or throe days he again appeared and said Well I've seen the emperor and had a talk with him He is a real gentleman I can toll you When 1 give him the he said he would set a great store by il that no character in ancient or modern history ho admired so much as ho did our Washington ho said he'd plant it in his palace garden with his own hand and he did it for 1 see him with my own eyes Ho wanted to ask so much about our schools and railroads and one thing or other thai he invited me to come again and sec his wife for ho said she could speak better English than he could So I went ngain yesterday and she's a fine knowing woman I tell jou and his daughters are nice gals What empress say to you Oh she asked me a sight of questions Don't you think she thought wo had no servants in Ameriky I told her poor folks did their own work but rich folks had plenty of servants But then you call cm servants said she you call em help I guess ma'am you've been reading Trollop said I we had that book aboard our ship The emperor clapped his hands and laughed as if he'd kill himself you're right said he you're right We sent for an English copy and she's been reading it this every morning Then I lold him all I knew about our and he was mightily pleased He wanted to know how long 1 expected to stay in these parts I told him I had snld all the notions 1 had brought over and I guessed 1 should go back in the same ship I bid em good bye all around and went about my business Aint I had a glorious time 1 expect you didn't calculate to see me run such a rigl Oh indeed I did not my lad You may well considered lucky for it's a very uncommon thing for crowned heads to treat a stranger with so much distinction A few days after he called again and said I guess I shull stay a spell longer treated so well Tother day a grand officer came io my room and told me the emperor had sent him to show me all the curiosities and I dressed myself and he took me with him in a mighty fine carriage with foui horses and I've been to the theatre and to see museum and I expect I've seen about all there's to be seen in St Petersburg What do you think of that Mr It seemed so incredible that a poor ungainly lad should be thus with attentions that the embassador scarcely knew to think or say In a time his strange visitor appeared said he I have made up my to go homo so 1 went to the emperor and bid him good bye I I couldn't do no less he'd been so civil Says he is there any thing else you'd like to see before you go back to I told him I should like to get a peep at Moscow for I'd heard about their setting fire to Kremlin and I'd read a deal about Gen but it cost a heap o money to go I wanted Io carry my earnings to my mother So I bid him good-bye and come off Now what do you guess he did next I vow he sent the same man in regimentals to carry me to Moscow in one of his own carriages and being me back again when I've seen all I want to see 1 And we are going to-morrow morning What do you think now And sure enough tho morning the Yankee boy passed the ambassador's house in a splendid coach and four waving his handkerchief shouting good bye good byo Dr Dallas afterwards learned from the emperor that all the particulars related by this adventurous youth wero strictly true Ho again hoard from him at Moscow by tho public officers and treated with as much attention as is usually bestowed on The last tidings of him reported that he was travelling in Circassia and writing a journal which he intended to publish Now who but a Yankee could have done all that GLOSSOLOGY A work is announced in London under the tittle of Glossology or additional means of of disease to be derived from indications and appearances of the by Dr B Ridge The journals say Dr Ridge has made one of the most vitally important discoveries since the days of Hunter That certain appearances in parts of the tongue indicate the presence of certain diseases and that parts correspond with certain organs of tho body The Picayune wishes to if tho Sea Serpent is propelled on tho principle of the or wriggle ST MARY'S COLLEGE BALTIMORE The Commencement exorcises were held on Tuesday Eight young gentlemen received the degree of A B Tho degree of was conferred upon six graduates of the College From ihc Ohio Statesman WHO IS THE FRIEND OF TML REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER TIIK SLANDERERS OWN NET READ PEOPLE OF OHIO AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELVES The Journal of lust evening with its usual recklessness and ignorance o the character of its friends in speaking of Mr Polk asks Whether ho Jid not on fve several occasions vote against bills for tho relief of the surviving and soldiers oj the By a reference to tho Journals of the House of Congress we arc enabled to answer this question which will put tho silly editor the Journal to shame and confusion Where does it put and his clique of bargain and sule friends in the Houso of Where Yes where nro they Can the Journal answer 1 Look at it Read it Friends of the Revolutionary soldier in Ohio can you vote for this Clay coon clique of bargain and salei No No No will resound from every quarter of the State Here are the votes let those who stand blasted by them before public indignation thank the editor of the Journal for dragging to the glare of the mid-day sun MORDECAI BARTLEY when in his seat at all voted solid against the old war beaten soldier of 76 In the House of Representatives Thursday Tho House proceeded to the consideration of the for the relief of the surviving officers of the ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION A motion was then made by Mr Mitchell of Tennesse that the further consideration of the said be postponed until first Monday in July next And the question thereupon being put it was decided in the negative yeas 39 nays 124 John Joseph Samuel F and John C Wright of the Ohio delegation voted with the 39 yeas to defeat the and Mordecai Hartley did not vote at all JAMES K POLK voted with the nays Io sustain the See House Journal 1st scss Congress p 47 In House of Rep's Monday May 1 182G On a motion to amend the above mentioned so as for the widows of officers and soldiers who fell or died in the Revolutionary MORDECAI BARTLEY voted in the negative JAMES K POLK voted in tho affirmative Ibid p 407 On a motion to lay the on the table Sloane Vinton Wright and MORDECAI BARTLEY voted in tho affirmative JAMES K POLK voted in the Ibid p 409 In House of Reps Tuesday May 2 1826 Sloane Vance Wright and MORDECAI BARTLEY again voted to lay the above mentioned on the table JAMES K POLK voted against Ibid page 503 In House of Reps Tuesday Jan 10 1827 Tho for the relief of the surviving officers for the ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION being under consideration JOHN WOODS of the Ohio delegation moved to lay it on the table Sloane Vance Vinton Wright and CAI BARTLEY this motion JAMES K POLK voted it On the same day a motion was made to the consideration of the until the 3d of March which was to defeat it Sloane Vance Wright and BARTLEY voted for this motion JAMES K POLK voted See House Journal 2d sess 19th pp 137 8 In House of Rep Saturday Feb 28 1829 Tho question being on tho passage of a to amend an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR Sloane Vance and John Woods voted against it and MORDECAI BARTLEY did not vote at all JAMES K POLK voted in favor of the See House Journal 2nd sess Congress p 337 In House of Rep Saturday Feb 28 1629 The question being on ordering to a third reading a to compensate Susan Decatur the widow of CAPTAIN STEPHEN DECATUR John Sloane Joseph Vance Samuel 1 Vinton John Woods and John C Wright voted in the negative MORDECAI BARTLEY did not vote at all JAMES K POLK voted in tho affirmative Ibid p 356 But later when most of the above bargainers of Mr Clav were dismissed by the people for their want of honesty and principle in K POLK succeeded in getting the law passed a liberal and just law the one under In old soldiers now receive their reward In House of Rep Tuesday May 1 On a motion to giant PENSIONS to those who defended our frontiers in the INDIAN WARS from 1770 up io treaty of Greenville in 1795 JAMES K POLK voted in the affirmative Sec House Jour Con In House of Rep Thursday May 24 1832 The question being on ordering to u third reading the from the Senate supplementary to the act for tho RELI El1 OF CERTAIN SURVIVING OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION JAMES K POLK voted in the affirmative laid p 792 In House of Hep Thursday May 32 1532 JAMES K POLK voted for question on the passage of tho last mentioned Ibid p 820 Let the editor of the Journal to his coon hole with MORDECAI BARTLEY and tho rest to hide from public rebuke and contempt What a spectacle A CASE IN TOINT Tho other day one of our farmers took his this spring's to the wool purchaser to exchange it for cloth II had so last year and wanted to do so this And how will you exchange asked the farmer of the buyer Oh I don't replied tho latter I guess upon tho same terms as last year I can hardly afford it but I believe I shall have to do it The same terms as last year replied tho farmer in surprise 1 thought wool had risen I expected to got a good deal more cloth for tho same quantity than I did last year What is iho difficulty Why to tell the plain truth Mr said tho speculator though the price of wool has advanced considerably within a year is has not risen us much as cloths have if that is tho responded the farmer I do not see any particular benefit in the whigs make such a fuss about after all Loss OF THE STEAM MANCHESTER AND TWENTY EIGHT LIVES This vessel sailing between Hull and Hamburg has been lost with every soul on board She left Hull under the command of Capt Dudley on the 10th with a miscellaneous cargo and on arriving on the opposite coast struck on tho Marlo Sand on tho coast of about twenty five miles from the shore during a hurricane and became a complete wreck The sands are described as formed of quicksand and are said to bo as formidable to the mariner off that coast as tho Goodwin on tho English shore Tho number of persons who perished by this catastrophe is twenty eight twenty two of whom formed the crew tho remainder being passengers The passengers wero Mrs St Smith Miss Emily Smith hor daughter Mr St George Smith Mr a wool merchant of Leeds Mr Frost of Manchester and one unknown The loss is ascribed by some naval men to want of judgment The value of ship and cargo it is said exceeds ENGLAND WHO WILL BUY NOTHING OF us The cargo of the Virginian Liverpool packet of July 12th consisted of the following American produce bushels Indian corn 150 flour 250 100 bbls.pork 102 cases Yankco clocks and weights 220 bundles hay 72 bates cotton The Montezuma which has sailed since had 3000 of flour in one engagement The Memphis and the Adirondack are both loading with similar cargoes Why is it not as well to sell our produce as to hire people to eat it at home Journal of Com How ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN Many of our readers have no doubt read the panegyric upon Henry Clay written by Whitlier the Quaker poet in his younger days entitled He is not fallen They have regretted too that the poet should have lavished his praise upon a subject so utterly unworthy of of the Muse and those who are acquainted with character will not therefore bo surprised to learn that he has addressed a letter to the Essex Transcript deprecating the further use of tho poem referred to in as much as it does not express tho sentiments nf his heart in to the moral character of Mr Clay The U S is about to sail from Norfolk with tho Hon Wilson R Shannon Minister to Mexico She dropped down to tho naval anchorage on Saturday THE CILLEY DUEL ZS CLAY A Wise I o Mr Clay Feb 25 42 Did you not draw tho form of the challenge which I bore for Mr Graves to Mr Cilley on tho morning of Friday the day of February HENRY A Henry Clay Mr Clay to Mr Wise Washington Feb 42 Upon reading it th challenge Mr Graves had drawn I it closed the door to all accommodation stated objection sketched a dragh in my own hand writing HENRY CLAY Hon Henry A Wise Mr Wise's letter to the public Ho Mr Clay drew tho form of the challenge which was copied by Mr Graves and carried by mo to Mr Cilley A WISE The following letter respecting the above duel from Theodore Frelinghuysen tho whig candidate for Vice President tho ticket with Mr Clay needs no comment It was written in reply to an invitation to attend a public meeting a Newark on the 5th of March for the purpose of making an expression of the public sentiment in reference to the recent shocking death of a member of the House of Representatives of the United States Jonathan Cilley and on the subject of duelling generally N J March 5th 1838 GENTLEMEN On my way to the cars for this place this morning I received your note of invitation to attend a meeting of our fellow citizens at Newark tomorrow evening on tho subject of the late duel at Washington I sincerely regret that my professional duties here will detain me from the meeting for if over an occasion called for an expression of public feeling the lato scene of shocking violence most solemnly demands it Truly the blood of war has been shed in and this in high places and among tho law makers of our country The law of the duelist is an outrage upon every principle of order and humanity It sets the laws of God and the institutions ofa Christian people at defiance and if this murderous spirit be not met and firmly and fearlessly rebuked by tlie frowns of public sentiment on ourselves will abide much of the guilt of murder It can be checked and efficiently repressed whenever the people true to their high duties shall rise in the majesty of public opinion and frown upon the atrocious deeds of violence and tho blood of the murdered the tears of the bereaved and the commands of a righteous God call upon thorn to speak and bear their stern indignant testimony against this Heaven daring sin I hope gentlemen that your meeting and proceedings may a powerful influence and with kindred demonstrations all over tho land prevail to crush this alarming evil Very respectfully TH FRELINGHUYSEN AN IMMENSE STONE Tho Quincy Granite Railway Company quarried yesterday one of the largest stones ever moved at Quincy or probably at any other quarry Average dimensions fifty feet long twenty-five deep making thirty-five thousand cubic feet weight of the stone three thousand one hundred and eightyone tons allowing cloven feet to the ton This huge mass was moved on its bed by gunpowder The blast hole was twenty feet deep and four and a quarter inches in diameter Tho hole was to have been twenty-five feet deep but a piece of the drill broke and prevented going to the proposed depth Four casks of powder were used in the operation For the first blast one cask was used which did not crack the stone The second one and a half casks which cracked the rock the whole length opening a scam an eighth of an inch wide Tho third blast one and a half casks wero put in which opened the seam a full half inch sufficient to cut the stone into dimensions This operation was conducted under tho superintendence of Mr S R Johnson and is unquestionably the best and most valuable stone ever quarried or moved by gunpowder A sample of the stone may be seen in Brazier's Building State street and in the splendid store built for the Hon Abbot Lawrence in Milk street now nearly completed A portion of this stone will be used in tho columns of the hall of tho Horticultural Society to be erected tho p resent season in School street Bast Trans A Shark eight feet long weighing some 200 pounds was captured Rock a watering place three or four miles from New Haven on Wednesday last General Jackson was in good health en the 4th and gave un entertainment to the Nashville Blues an independent company Sorrow holds lie ys of mortal life She ushered us into it sho opens also the passage to another life Tlie seal ling upon our destiny announces in cloir characters our high culling The most gifted arc those to whom the deepest sufferings of the soul are reserved as a And sorrow ought to If inheritance only of a being capable progress The animal nothing worthy name of sorrow for being physical they are bolh and transitory KENTUCKY MAMMOTH CAVE iarge avenues and a third river larger than those previously known it now stated have recently been discovered in Mammoth Cave A of an excellent quality of water has also been found some miles within the nave Boats of suitable construction been built expressly for the rivers PO that visitors desirous of taking a water excursion a dozen or so miles ground can be accommodated The German laborers employed on hill sides near find the power of the sun too powerful for them Five or six of them have led from its within a few days CROPS IN CANADA We regret very much to learn from agricultural that in various localities near Montreal tilt wheat fly has appeared as numerous and as inveterate as ever Should it bo in the District the loss to tho country will be awful as our have all ventured to lay down a consider able breadth in wheat this season Next week will give a belter idea of the prospects ofa harvest Montreal Herald So groat lias been the destruction of by the great western flood in Mississippi it will be required to tho The loss of the corn crop will be severely felt for those who have lost their cotlon will not have the means of purchasing their supplies for the next year even though prices were low But there is every reason to fear from the vast quantity that will be needed that prices will be high beyond all precedent About six miles including the construction of a long bridge remain to bo finished before the Long Island Railroad can be opened for the whole of Jhe Island which will delay the celebration of this important enterprise probably until tin 1st of August An attempt was recently made to assassinate General Well A pistol was fired at him through a window but happily the assassin missed his aim It appears that the battalion of Texas volunteers organizing in Tennessee under tho auspices of the Nashville Union is a not a military organization Texas Volunteers is a name given to those Whigs who go over to tho Democratic ranks on account ol their zeal in behalf of Texas There aro in Ireland 271 parishes without a single Protestant except Iho minister FIT FOR A LAWYER An old lady in these diggins walked into a lawyer's office a few days since where the following conversation took Lady Squire I called to see if you would like to tako this boy and make a lawyer of him Lawyer The boy appears rather young madam How old is he Lady Seven yoars sir Law He is too young decidedly too young Have you no boys older Lady Oh yes sir I have several but we have concluded to make farmers of the others 1 told my man I thought this little feller would make a first rale lawyer and so called to see if you would take him Law No he is too young yet to commence the study of the profession but why do you think this boy so much better calculated for a lawyer limn your other sons Lady Why you see sir he is now ust seven years old to-day when he was only five ho would lie like all when he got to be six he was as sassy and impudent as any critter could be and now he will steal every thing he can lay his hands on Why is it impossible fora butcher to bo a strictly honest man Ans Because iO steals his knives One of our staunch Butch farmers wo understand has written to the Secretary of the County Agricultural Society thus Gentlemen you will have the goodness to enter me on your list of cattle for bull Alb Knic W hen a steamboat gets aground in any of the western rivers she waits till the fever and ague and then shaken herself off
