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The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

stated in a former letter, was opened by
Mr.. Stanbery. He was followed by Mr..
Ewing, on the same side. Mr.. Stanbery
closed the argument to-day. 1t will per-
haps be two weeks before decision is
is pronounced. There is every probabil-
ity that the Church South will be awarded
its share of the proceeds of the Cincinna-
ii Book Concern. Mr.. Stanberry has
defended that side of the question with
an ability which has added much to his
previous high character as LAWYER
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13
Speculative Philosophy.

Ifall mankind could wink at the same
moment, the muscular effort exerted would
be sufficient to jostle the earth out of its
orbit
If all the oaths uttered in the United
States were required to be printed, ii
would employ all the presses in the coun-
try, day and night, to perform the labor;
and if tax was levied on them of one cent
each, one years revenue would be sufi-
cient to transport all the mails, lay dou-
BILE track railroad to the Pacific, and pay
the public debt of every state in the I'm
ion.
The segars consumed throughout the
country in one year, would make worm
fence six feet high around the District OF
Columbia; and the air expelled in smoking
them would drive the Japan squadron
round the world, with enough over to do
the wind work of all the patent medicines.
If all the elected tobacco guilds were
from this time to be dropped on the dome
of the Capitol at Washington, the hail Of
Egypt would be no comparison to the pei
ting storm, and the edifce would be buri-
ed deeper than Nineveh, before the mex
meeting of Congress.
If all the lies told during the last Presi-
dental campaign, could be boiled togeth-
er, they would make soap enough to cover
the face of Nature.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

CHARACTERIZATION OF CHINA.-Plans are
matured for printing 100000 copies of the
Holy Scriptures in China in eighteen
months, dating from the 1st of January,
1854. tits proposed thet another quar-
ter of million should be printed in Lon
don in the same period, for which wooden
blocks will be sent from China. The
Committee of the Bible Society, at their
late sitting, passed a resolution for the
printing of $4,000 copies of the entire BIZ
bic in Chinese at as early period as prac-
ticable. The sum now received by the
London Missionary Society towards the
fund for sending additional missionaries to
China, amounts to f9,897 l4s. 3D., and
the British and Foreign Bible Society have
received towards the fund for one million
Chinese Testaments E15,480 18s., sufi-
cient to pay for 828, ,858 copies.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

THE New STATE HoUsE.-The annual
report of the State House Commissioners,
for the year 1854, shows the amount of
appropriations up to November 18th, to
have been 1851, ,575. There is an unex-
pended balance on hand of ST., 7,6OO.-.
The Commissioners say that they have
prosecuted the work as rapidly toward
completion as the means would justify.
In order to complete the building prior to
the next meeting of the Legislatuse, an
appropriation of 100000 will be requir-
ed for the years 1854 and 1855.-Cler-
mont San.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Gy Public whipping of criminal in
South Carolina is still continued. We
notice that at Charleston, few days ago,
S. A. Gray, white man, was convicted
of larceny, and sentenced to receive 90
lashes in the public market, on the tlrst
Monday in May, and 10 lashes in July
beside imprisonment until August, Three
or four others received similar sentences.
It is time that this barbarous custom was
abolished, and it i. to be hoped that the
people of South Carolina will, at an early
day, conform more to the enlightened and
humane spirit of the age, and substitute
some less revolving and more modern
mode of punishment.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

CAMpHENE.- the New York House
of Representatives, Mr.. Clinton has had
unanimous permission to introduce bill
''to prohibit the use of camphene, spirit
gas, and all preparations of alcohol or
spirits of turpentine, for the purposes of IL
Elimination in stages, omnibuses, railroad
cars and steamboats," Any person or
persons, or Incorporated company, viola
ting the provisions of this act, are to be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

OKGANIzED.--Our new city officers
have organized and will soon go into full
operation. The Mayor informs us, that
he will notrequire men to shave more fire.
quently than usual, and our liberties still
remain in our own hands. We are not
fully posted as to how the new board
stand upon the Nebraska Bill, but expect
to see some resolutions upon this matter
soon. Gentlemen, come out.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

PrERsoN HoUsE.-Mr. Peirson has
again taken this house. and his reputation
as a landlord will render the house very
popular. We have taken meal or two
there since the change, and know that
he feeds well, and Mrs. Pierson will al
ways have the sleeping department in the
cleanest and neatest style possible. Call
and satisfy yourselves that this is the
place to get your money back.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

CALIFoRNIA.-An Illinoisan writing
from California says: "There is more
poverty here than was even dreamed of
in Illinois. There is gold here and no
mistake. There are whales in the Pa
cifc, too, and digging for the one is like
cruising for the other The Miners
Lament was more truthful than fanciful,
when he exclaimed that in 'Ophir alone
was poverty that acas poverty Califor-
MIA has been and still is a fast country.
all things go by steam. To stand still is
prelude to certain ruin. There is no
central point of gravity here in the af-
fairs of men, where things stand STILL
The hill of fortune attracts many; few
there be who find it. The rivers, ken
yons and gulches are worked out, SO that
in there now man can only make aver
age wages. He has but little show for a
big strike except in the hill diggings, and
to prospect hill will cost fortune"
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13
Gov. Lowe on the PardOning Power.

i
The following extract is called from {
highly interesting letter of Gov. Lowe, o
Maryland, sent in reply to a communica
ton from a committee of his persona
friends in Baltimore, accompanying {
service of silver plate presented as mari
of their personal esteem. 1t Itpresents very
eloquently the difficulty in answering
"No!" to the affectionate appeals of 6
father and mother for the extending O.
clemency to an erring son, and the plead
ings of innocent childhood for the pardon
of father--a difficulty in which every
Governor in whom is vested the pardon.
ing power is placed:
You have made allusion; gentlemen, tc
another subject--one which awakens ir
my mind painful "reminiscences. speak
of your reference to the manner in which
I exercised the pardoning power. 1t is
the fulfllment of that, more than every
other duty Of the executive office, which
strips power Of its pride, and fills with
bitterness the cup of pleasure that ambi
ton had invited to its lip! No man who
has heart in him, however familiarized
with human suffering, could for an in
stant weigh the honors of the place, high
as it is, against the signing Of a single
death warrant which crushes a mother
soul, or sends a widow and her orpans
helpless through the world, with the in
fanny of the gallows clinging as a cloud
dark shadow forever to their footsteps
To listen calmy to the appeal of a father
who stands upon the edge of the grave,
asking from mortal like himself, forgiv-
ness for an erring son-the prop of his
venerable age-and to answer "No!"-
to be sued to for the pardon of the faith
er by the lips of unconscious childhood,
and to reply with an inexorable denial
which wrings tears from the little eyes
that look up so confidently into your face
to hear the maniac cry of despair, as
[ have heard it, gentlemen, when un-
yielding justice silenced the pleading of
to feel that your heart must
be laid as holocaust, upon the altar of
a sworn duty-is, assure you, to realiz E
in the full depth of its meaning, the truth
of that profound judgment of the inspired
word, that life with all its pleasures and
distinctions, is but vanity and shadow
A Governor will be incapable of discharg
ing faithfully that single duty of his Office
unless he is prepared to make continual
sacrifice of feeling, for which no political
honors can possibly offer an adequate com
pensation. How careful, therefore, should
not an enlightened and considerate public
ever be not to Judge the executive hastily
and without a full knowledge of all the
by which his decision was
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

RIGHT EVERY TINE. - The Trumbull
Democrat says that the Treasurer Of that
county, demanded the taxes of the Wes-
tern Reserve Bank, for 1853, amounting,
with the poundage and penalty to S.
737, 10. The bank refused to pay the
amount and the Treasurer entered the
vault of the bank and took the sum in
gold.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Come WEsr.-Everything in motion
and the people all moving west. Every
day for the last week or two, teams have
been passing through our town for the
west. When the Homestead Bill passes
the U. S. Senate the western country will
soon be settled.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Ey- At the recent election in New
Orleans, the ballot box containing the
votes of the Seventh Ward, was destroy
ed by the infuriated populace, who pro-
fessed to suspect unfair play in the count
ing Of them.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Re- Punch says that the best bail for
preserving the peace is bale of cotton
He also imprudently adds why is Tenn
pie Bar like lady veil, and scandalous-
ly answers, because it must be removed
to make way for the "bussesi'
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

N- Joseph A. scoville, the private
secretary of the late John G. Calhoun,
and now editor and proprietor of the N.
7. Pick, is announced as sole heir to an
estate valued at $150,OOO to 100000.
The property is left by the late Hon Ma
than Preston, of Litchfeld, Conn, and
uncle Of Mr.. S. on the maternal side.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

BANKINe.-A new bank is about being
started in Canton, Ohio, the place where
a great amount of roguery has been
practiced upon the people. Already sew
eral banks have bursted there and cheated
the people out of thousands of dollars.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

REMovED.-Mr. NOVEL; has removed
his clothing store and tailor shop to the
Pierson Block, No, 6, where he will be
glad to see the people. He has just re-
ceived fine lot of new clothing
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

GRAND CuANGE.-With the new ad
ministration and removals, our town is
becoming quite changed. Several old
residenters left for other parts this week,
others came in to Fill their places.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Irwas a good answer that was once
given by poor woman to a minister, who
asked her-"What is faith?" She repli-
ed, 81 am ignorant; I cannot answer we'll;
but think faiths taking God at his word. !"
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

TEErH.-Dr. H. L. Crider, offers his
service to this community as Dentist
If you have bad teeth get them plugged in
time. He will put in new teeth or fix old
ones to do good service. See his adver-
tisement in to-day's Pioneer, and give him
a call.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

QUINTILLIAN mentions the fact of rich
man, his contemporary, who poisoned the
flowers and herbs in his garden, that his
neighbor's bees might not gather honey
from them.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

@ Green peas are arriving at New
York quite abundantly from Savannah!
Steam is wonderful regulator of the
seasons. Strawberries will not be great
while behind.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

An Albany editor, speaking of the late
storm, says the only reason why his dwell
ing was not blown away on Saturday, was
because there was heavy mortgage omit
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

HAVANA The Havana correspon-
dent of the New Orleans Picayune
writes:
Our new free labor apprenticeship
system has been put in operation with
nine hundred negroes, which have been
seized by the Government out of large
number that have been landed from
Africa lately as slaves. The modus ope-
ra'adiis as follows: Parties applying for
apprentices from the Government pust
pay down s17 per head for each negro.
The contract is then made out that the
negro shall serve as an apprentice under
the regulation of the free labor code Of
the 24th of December last, for the term
of three years: at the end of which time
he is to become absolutely free. During
the service as an apprentice the employ
er is to pay to the negro s4 a month wa
ges, and feed and clothe him; and give
the government 81 month for the ap-
prentice fund.
Among the slave traders all is hope
and gladness. [ learn from them that
twenty-seven expeditions (vessels) are
now looked for to arrive from the coast
with negroes, to be landed either as slaves
or apprentices, as occasion may serve,
from which they look for large profits
The matter stands thus with them and
Gen. Pezuela. If they can run them in
secretly he is to have five ounces ($85)
head; if they cannot do this without
discovery, they are to be landed openly
as apprentices, and the General will get
only the seventeen dollars head for their
registration. My opinion is that very
few will be at present landed as apprenti-
ces. The gain to the Captain General of
sixty-eight dollars head, and to the ira
der of the difference between the price Of
slave for life and an apprentice for few
years, is too great to be given up easily.
GS Card-playlng is hefeatter 10 De maze
an interesting and useful game. D. Nc
Combs, of Memphis, Tennessee, has de-
vised game by which, instead of dollars,
knowledge is gained There are two diff
ferent colored packs, each containing '33
cards. On one pack are questions, and
on the other the answers. The subject is
the science of astronomy. Certain rules
of the game are established, which are
sufficiently complicated to give it an inter-
est; while the mental faculties are kept
''wide awake" to prevent being beaten.
Those who have played the game become
intensely interested in it. But the excel
lence of the invention is, that, while the
game will afford occupation for social
circle for hours, it at the same time i'm
parts and fixes in the memory an amount
knowledge which it would take
months of reading and study to impart
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

EF- The legislative news this week is
dry and unimportant, therefor, the none
appearance of Legislative proceedings
Hope that body will adjourn soon.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

THE PoPE's NUNc1o.-A letter address
sed to the Archbishop of baltimore, by
Mons. Bedini, the Pope's Nuncio, since
his return to Europe, has lately been
made public, in which he refers to his vis-
it to the United States, and deprecates
the conduct of those who participated in
the threatening demonstrations against
him while here. He intimates that the
charges preferred against him were pure
inventions, gotten up by refugees from
Europe, and seems to labor under the
impression that he was not treated by
our government in the manner he was
led to expect. The letter seems to have
already attracted the attention of the
Italian refugees in New York, and, it is
said, they held a meeting on Saturday
last, and resolved to publish reply.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

MI Jetferson's works, now in progress
of publication, under the supervision of
the Congressional library committee, edi-
ted by Mr. Washington, will probably fill
ten volumes,
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Gg The British government have re-
warded Mr.. Low, the inventor of the screw
propeller in use in the naval service of that
power, with the sum of E1O,oOo.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

RKT1REp.-Our friend Mr.. MARSHALL,
has retired from the Pierson House, and
intends seeking quarters elsewhere. We
hope he may find pleasant home.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

1t is easier to still the wave of passion
than to break the dead sea of Indifference.
which, like the Lake Asphaltes, destroys
the energies of all who approach it, until,
like the birds who are said to drop lifeless
on its dull surface, the heart sinks to rise
no more
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

YELLOW CoRNER.-This house is again
filled with goods, as will be seen by
Messrs. Hunt & Co.'S advertisement.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

No. FoUR-We would call attention to
Messrs. French & Co.'S advertisement
He is still in the Pierson Block, NOD.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Letitia Bonaparte, formerly Mrs. Wyse,
a Paris letter says, is about to make the
United States her future residence.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

~ We hope to be able to say some
thing about our improvements in our next
issue.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13
Brurxn T,Nr-In consequence of a

BEHIND TIME.--In consequence of a
very large amount Of job work, we are
behind with our paper, but the people of
this county should not conplain until they
largely increase our subscription list
The job work must be done if the paper
should stand still.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

What have you done to further human
progress?'' asked sententions philosop-
her the other day of Jenkins jenkins
reply was clear and decisive. "I've seven
boys and two girls, SIR The philosopher
departed, and forthe first time in his life
thought.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

FEES OF U. S. MARsHALs.-A Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Eapress states, that it is now discovered
that the fees of the U. S. Marshals, as
fixed by the last Congress are altogether
too low. The travelling fees are not suffi-
cient to pay railroad fare, to say nothing
of other necessary expenses. An increase
of fees will probably be authorized at the
present session.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

ALBANY, April 7.-Hendrickson, the
murderer of his wife, has just been SEN
fenced to be executed May 7.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

~One of the laws recently passed by
our Legislature provides that, in addition
to property now exempt by law from ex-
ecution, each head of a family or house
keeper shall have one hundred bushels of
wheat, and eight hundred pounds ofpork.
We regret to learn, however, that there is
avery lamentable omission in the law, and
newhich will cause deep regret. It does
not provide where the corn, wheat, and
pork that each housekeeper is to have are
tocome rom!-Democretic Mss. Banner
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

DRUGs.-See Mr.. Mecer's advertise
ment.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13
Clippings.

For THE WARrY-Spirits of turpentine'
applied to warts will Danish them.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

@ The Boston Post says: The crop
of tobacco raised in the United States is
considered by many as comprising the
bulk of the consumption of Europe, and
few are aware Of the fact that Hungry,
with all its political embarrassments and
its oppressive policy toward the agricul-
turists, produces nearly double the guam
tity of that sent from the United States to
Germany and Holland.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

HEIGHT OF CHARITY.--Unlacing young
lady's corset to enable her to sneeze.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

The CuoLERA-"Cholera has made
its appearance in Leeds. Out of the first
thirteen cases, six have proved fatal
In Ireland, also, the epidemic had broken
out in very malignant FORM
The above paragraph we copy from a
London paper, received by the last stea-
mer. Its simple statement should awaken
the public authorities to the necessity of
causing the city to be thoroughly cleansed
at once, and kept clean during the ses-
sion. -Bufalo Commercial
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

@ The papers of New York and
other eastern cities call attention to a
comet, which appears in the west just
after dark. 1t has nucleus about the
size of star of the second magnitude;
a very large comma or nebulosity about
the nucleus, and caudal appendage of
some six or eight degrees. 1t is con-
structed after the same model as the one
seen nearly year ago. Has any body
in Columbus seen the stranger?- Ohio
State Democrat.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13
New Music.

The extensive Music publishing hours
of VIM. HALL & Son, New York, has is
sued four new songs of Christy's Min
strels. We think them among the best
of this popular class of music ever pub
lished, and as such recommend them to
our readers
"Yo! Yah! Yo! Strike the Old Banjo, "
Is
cold times come again. 25
"Carry me back to Tennessee" 25
And "Sally Primer" or "Pompey's
Courtship,' 25
The Melodies are all beautiful, flowing
and easily remembered, and the accompa-
niments quite easy. Address VIM. Hall
& Son, 239 Broadway, New York, who
will send them, by mail, to any part of the
country, on receipt of the market prices.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-04-13

Yah! Yo! Strike the Old Banjo -
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-11-08
Election Notice.
Ottawa County Sheriff's Office,

=
NOTICE is hereby given that at the General
IN Election to be held on the Tuesday succeed
ing the first Monday of November next in the
State of Michigan the following officers are to be
elected to wit:
A Governor Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
State Auditor General, State Treasurer, Commits
sioner of the State Land Office, Attorney General
Superintendent of Public Instruction, one mem
Der of the State Board of Education, in place of
Chauncey Joslin, whose term of office will expire
January l, 1885, one other member of the State
Board of Education for the residue of the term of
the Hon. Isaac f. Crary, deceased also Repre-
sentative in Congress for the third Congressional
District of this State, to which the county OF Otta-
wa is attached; also Senator for the twenty
third Senatorial District, consisting of the coun-
ties OF Ottawa, Newaygo, Oceana, Lake, Mason,
Grand Traverse, Wexford, Missaukee Kalcaska,
Omeena, Leelanaw, Antrim and Manistee also
one Representative in the State Legislature, for
the District consisting of the County of Ottawa |;
also the following county officers for the county
Of Ottawa, to wit A Sheriff, County Clerk and
Register of Deeds Treasurer, Prosecuting Attor-
ney, Circuit Court Commissioner, County Survey
Or and two Coroners.
GILBERT G. DURFEE, Acting Sheriff.