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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1854
Page
1
Publication notice details office location and annual rates with terms for arrears and discontinuance. Advertising rates list per insertion, with options for three, six, and twelve month runs, and special charges for business cards and candidate listings. Credits and deductions noted for yearly advertisers.
Public notice lists judge Simeon Nash and probate judge J C Frost along with county officers such as sheriff J L Kessinern clerk C C P and district clerk Joseph M Dane. Also named are auditor Exiakim H Moore treasurer Samari Pickerina recorder William H Barrett prosecuting attorney Samuel S Exowes and others.
A meditation on life’s transience and sorrow. The speaker questions life’s meaning as beauty fades and joy dies, longing for calm repose. The piece depicts changing fortunes under shifting skies, comparing life to a shooting star and a fleeting pageant.
The speaker cherishes youth and love amid natural beauty urging flowers to live freely. They refuse plucking roses and violets, preserving purity and sacredness as life departs among kin in their native place.
A harsh neighbor Miss Stebbins softens after a chance meeting with two weary children. An unseen angel stirs her buried memories of love, prompting water and pie to dissolve her frosty nature. By summer, she becomes a mother to Willy and Mary, and a cousin witnesses a moral conversion.
A somber poem laments lost love and death invoking a graveside vigil. It contrasts a grieving speaker with a forgiving God while imagining heaven’s welcome and the pain of separation. The piece shifts to a school morning vignette showing a boy choosing duty over delay, hinting at compassion and perseverance.
A moral reflection on choosing company. The text contrasts wisdom with folly, urging the reader to surround themselves with the wise and God-fearing to gain lasting wisdom. It warns that friendship with fools leads to ruin and champions self-improvement from a sincere starting point.
A Chicago paper recalls Chicago's dramatic rise from fewer than five thousand white inhabitants in the region between Lake Michigan and the Pacific to a current population between one and two million. It notes rail expansion with 482 miles completed to state limits and over two thousand miles in progress, and a rapid shift in travel time from twelve days for a New York link to two days, with hopes of three hours.
The text contemplates a divine creator who framed celestial and earthly wonders from the sun and stars to flowers and the moon, and who honors both angelic praise and a child's prayer with equal regard.
A fragmented passage recalls Eve in Eden admiring a white rose that turns red from her touch. The tale notes beauty and mortal influence, with the rose acquiring a scarlet tint from a kiss and retaining that mark.
The man who tried to organize a concert with the Land of a hat is identified as the same person who recently deceived a southern lady. The note describes the audacious prank and its recurring pattern among certain individuals.
A collage of proverbs and quotes on youth age and judgment from Felmg Montague Fuller Shakespeare Anacharsia and Aristotle. The fragmentary text juxtaposes reflections on law customs wealth pleasure repentance and genius.
The speech praises Nathan Dane and Manasseh Cutler as early architects of the Northwest Territory settlement and the Ordinance of 1787. It then critiques Ohio State politics, detailing a October 1 bank note clampdown, the currency drain, looming tax levies of ten million dollars, and the danger to local firms amid a shrinking circulating medium. The Ohio Statesman quote defends the tax law as democratic will.
A New York Times report alleges a serious fraud in the Nebraska measure tied to Richardson. The claim states Richardson misrepresented a substitute as the Senate bill without the Clayton proviso while inserting a clause restricting office and voting to US citizens who swear to support certain principles. Additional provisions touch local laws and travel restrictions.
The Plain Dealer and Cleveland Herald discuss bank charters as contracts and argue against perpetual charters. They contend legislatures grant limited terms, deny permanent sovereignty loss, and advocate repeal rights to preserve the contract’s terms.
On May 5 Gen Case of Michigan addressed the Senate arguing for religious rights of Americans abroad and non interference by ministers in government. Archbishop Hughes replied with a long critique. The exchange drew mixed praise and sharp, pointed criticism from both sides as a partisan clash of rhetoric.
In Pennsylvania's nineteenth district comprising Westmoreland Armstrong and Indiana counties Augustus Drum, Democratic Representative, was renominated by direct party vote over Judge Todd on the Nebraska measure. Drum won by fifteen hundred fifty one votes, signaling Democratic strength amid administration weakness on the issue.
An unruly horse bolted and threw its rider, a clergyman, while an insolent scoffer claimed credit for aiding in spreading the gospel. The incident sparked remarks on duty and accountability in a frontier town.
Sir Moses Montefiore urges sympathy for Jews in Judea as reports detail extreme poverty and famine. Fathers in Israel reportedly sell their children to foreigners to spare them death by starvation, described in moving documents attached to his appeal.
A Boston letter reports a strange and beautiful tree discovered in Washington Territory. The plant, not known elsewhere, ranges from one to seven feet in height and has leaves like a pear, with trunks like an orange tree. Leaves secrete gum and a strong fragrance likened to bergamot or ripe fruit. People guessing its scent varied from pear to bergamot and ripe apple. The tree’s scent and beauty are described as notable and distinctive.
A large crowd on Goat Island watched J R Robinson and his son attempt to reach a canal boat in the Rapids. They crossed the current, then leaped over a fall, rode the boat past roots and rocks, and landed to cheers as citizens carried them to shore. About 30 dollars was offered by spectators for the feat.
The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad reports steady progress with regular Chillicothe to Greenfield service and rising passenger and freight receipts. Cincinnati has pledged 150000, with 100000 to 200000 more subscribed locally. The line aims to run from Hamden to Cincinnati by next fall or winter, aided by multiple locomotives from Norris, Philadelphia, and solid credit in Eastern markets.
The piece condemns the imprisonment of citizens in Southern ports for color and recalls Massachusetts sending Samuel Hoar to challenge this under the Constitution. It notes mob violence against him, South Carolina’s resistance, and critiques Southern presses. It laments Boston Atlas comments on moral and religious feelings and the odious law.
A Marietta Intelligencer correspondent describes Washington Furnace opened July 28 1853 and closed March 29 1854 producing 186 tons of metal at about 100 tons daily. It covers a large brick store a frame dwelling cabins coal house 175000 bushels capacity and employs 250 workers. Located seven miles from Olive fourteen from the line of the 8 H V Railroad and thirty from Portsmouth. Owned by John Peters & Co Portsmouth office. It does not operate Sundays and funds a free school and preaching room with Methodist services each Sabbath evening.
A harsh portrait describes ten thousand New York children, including wretched girls and outcast boys, living by beggary and shame as urban poverty persists.
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