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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1859
Page
2
A lyric meditation on a mother's kiss and a guardian spirit hovering over a child. The speaker recalls a motherly image faintly gleaming in memory and asks divinities to bless the child with love, healing, and guidance.
Cor. Boston Journal describes Iron Mountain in Missouri as a vast iron ore mass with seventy one percent purity, covering five hundred acres. It notes a history of sale at one dollar twenty five cents per acre, a 600 dollar total, existing furnaces producing about twenty five tons daily, and three hundred workers. Also mentions nearby Granite Knob and limited lead pockets along the St Louis and Iron Mountain railway. Professor Swallow predicts enormous long term iron production.
The Cincinnati Gazette cites Merchant's Magazine figures showing Ohio can vastly exceed current coal output, with Britain’s total coal production dwarfed by potential Ohio yield. It estimates Britain could be mined in Ohio for 600 years using a single seam, noting Ohio’s 12,000 square miles of coal is only a fraction of a regional coal base across several states.
The piece surveys the 200,000,000 bushel U.S. wheat crop and a consumption near 135,000,000, flagging a possible 65,000,000 bushel surplus. It discusses likely export demand from Britain, Brazil, Spain, Australia, and others, notes French and British production trends, and weighs price implications and seasonal timing for export. It also reports on the next U.S. House composition and Republican prospects, with caveats about potential cross-party votes.
Reports from Butler County and the Tuscarawas Valley predict strong corn yields with averages around forty eight bushels per acre. The Ohio Farmer urges stringent weed destruction laws and criticizes traveling thrashing machines as spreading seeds. A New Jersey oats variant, from Cape Town stock, matures in eleven weeks and could permit two crops per year, winning a state fair prize.
The piece argues that divisions among Pennsylvania New Jersey and Indiana voters in 1856 enabled Buchanans election and that a renewed sectional coalition in two northern states could again determine 1860. It urges opposing factions to unite on core issues, cooperate like in prior battles, and drive the current administration from power, claiming unity preserves principles and speeds victory.
The passage notes Indiana Democrats choosing delegates to the Democratic State Convention under Mr Bright. It hints at Douglas’s influence and quips that Illinoisan support could dim Bright’s prospects, with a poetic line about brightness fading.
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