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The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-06
TFor the Ashland UnIon i.

Mr.. EDIroR ALLOW me, through
the columns of your paper, to make g
few suggestions in regard to, and in
stitnte a few Inquiries concerning, the
progress and prospect Of our once favor.
lite Rail Road project, the Franklin
and Warren, more recently known tc
some by the ~cogpomen e Neac York q
Great Hzestern Raj Way.
For some reason, perhaps not entirely
un~accountable, there is a distrust on
the part of many stockholders in regard
to the financial management of the road
in this county. Inquiries are constant
y being made why it is hat almost
eighteen months has elapsed since we
were called upon to pay installments on
our stock, and no exhibit has been made
to is of the receipts and disbursements
of the road What has been done with
the 500 900 or 20, 900 which has passed
through the hands of the collector at
this point? Doubts are expressed as to
whether certain; large stockholders in
the confidence of certain officials have
bona fde, paid any part of their sub
scription if so, howmuch? How much
of the stock subscribed and paid by our
citizens has been expended in grading,
masonry, engineering, &c, in our county;
How has the remainder of the funds been
appropriated, if any? These and like
inquiries are being made daily by parties
interested, and yet they meet with ne
response from those whose duty it is to
know, and impart the necessary infor-
nation when required.
Are the salaries of these gentleman
too meagre to allow. them to devote
their valuable time in making public
their statistics ? If SO, it would be a
matter of public satisfaction at least,
if not economy, to have a committee for
that purpose-or otherwise increase the
pay. Many of us have been informed by
competent authority that measures are
being taken to enforce the collection of
stock by legal process. If we are thus
compelled to pay our money, the price
of "honest toil''-Justice to US de-
mands an impartial and complete exhib-
it of tbs affairs of the company-es-
pecially in our own county-so that, in
the future, we may have some reasona-
BILE assurance that our funds will be
honestly appropriated to the legitimate
purposes of the Road. If this informa-
tion cannot be elected otherwise, I
would suggest that a committee ofstock-
holders be appointed to call formally
On gentlemen the information
required, and by friendly interview
they might be able to obtain some idea
of the management of its affairs. I
give these suggestions hoping to obtain
some light as
A STOGKHOLDER.
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years; and the said council shall have she
power to provide for issuing licences TO
such inspectors, and to regulate the fees
to be paid to them for their services.
SEC. IL. That the origional sections
seyenty-three, eighty-two eighty-four,
and twenty-four, of the act to pro-
vide for the organization of cities and
Incorporated villages" passed May g.
1852, and sections ten and twenty-five,
of the act to amend the " act to provide
for the organization of cities and incor-
porated villages" passed March 18th,
1853, be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
Speaker of the House of Reps.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April %, 1854,
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A HARD ROAD TO Judge
Rogers, an able and clear lawyer, deci-
ded last week, at Xenia, that the pres
ent law regulating the location of roads
was unconstitutional and void and that
there was now no road law in Ohio, or
any law by which a road could be estab-
lished, when it's establishment was resist
ed or damages claimed. The decision
even declare all established since the
passage of the new law in 1853 void
and liable to be closed up at the instance
of parties who may have considered
themselves aggrieved. This leaves us
in a bad condition in wet weather. We
have now only two kinds of legal roads
in Ohio-railroads and the " road to
Jordan THE former dangerous and
the latter " hard to travel !"
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A STOCKHOLDERS.
Democratic Convention.

L".
The Democratic State Convention met
in Stauntion to-day. 1t was moved
that the convention be temporarily or
ganized by the appointment of Mr., Bay
Tor, of Augusta, Chairman, and Robert
W. Hughes, secretary.
A committee ofone from each district
were appointed to nominate permanent
officers. The committee reported Oscar
NJ. Critchfeld, of S~potsylvania, Presi-
dent, thirteen Vice Presidents; and Sec
rotary as above.
Considerable confusion ensued upon
a motion to 90 into a nomination for
Governor. There was a long debate
upon the rules for casting their votes
Mr.. Shackelford moved that the conven-
ton do not make any nomination for
Governor or Lieutenant Governor unless
the candidate receive a vote sufficient to
represent a majority o. the whole Demo-
cratic vote in the State.
Mr.. Garnett offered a substitute to
the effect that it shall require a majority
of all the votes cast to nominate can
didates for Governor, Lieut.. Governor,
and Attorney General. Adopted. This
was considered a triumph for the Wise
party, as being strongest in the conven-
ton.
Exciting times are expected, and ef-
forts will probably be made to further
amend by adopting the t~wo-thirds rule.
The Democratic vote represented in the
convention is 6l,400. The whole DEM
ocratic vote of the State is about TO-
900.
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We often hear ladies expressing
a wish to know by what process the gloss
on new linens, shirt .bosoms, ect., is
produced. II order to crafty them, we
subjoin the following recipe
Take TIVE ounces of, fine white gum
arabic powder-put it in pitcher and
pour on a pint or more of boiling water,
according to the degree of strength you
desire-and then hayi4& covered it.
carefully from the dregs into a clean
bottle, cork it, ard keep it for use. A
tablespoonful of gum water stirred into
a pint of starch made in the usual man.
ner will give to lawn, either white or
printed, a look ~ofnewness, rhen nothing
else can restore them after they have
been washed"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-06

E Nothing in this world is SO fa4
tai to the development of the intellectual
powers of the young, as what are COM
monty called expectations. Take two
boys of the same age, and, as nearly as
may be, of the same capabilities. In
form one that he is the heir to alarge
fortune, which some day or other must
come into his possession, stell the other
that he has not a sixpenee TO depend on,
but must thrive by his own exertion-
and ten years after there will be a mighty
difference between them. You will
find hat one has wrapped up his talent
in a napkin, while the other has laid it
out at interest.
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MILITARY Execution IN MATAMoRAs.
Last night the ringing of the bells
from the churches in Matamoras, an
nounced that two victims were about re-
ceiving their last shrive from priestly
comforters, preparatory for military exc
cutiop. The victims are two soldiers
of the regular army, sentenced to death
for having deserted the ranks at the
first skirmish recently had with the
insurgents. Some say that these unfor-
tunate men were cut off from their COM
panions in the conflict, and thus their
absence from the roll-call was forced,
and not voluntary Brownsville Ie1els)
EL1p. Orf. Il
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HOME ArTRAcTIoN.-S See what a pic
ture is here drawn lin al article ofthe
New YORK Daily Tines of the repulsion
given to this sacred place BY fashionable
life in New York:
i" Why shoulda boy spend his evenings
at home ? What is there to charm him
in that great mansion that pulses with
alternate fever and gloom-one night a
hot, crowded party ~ofrouged women and
silly men the next, a dull, desolate ar
ray of empty chambers, with the tired
master of the house snoring on the sofa
and his untiring lady and daughter up
stairs dressing for another ball? No
fireside comfort to tempt the yonng man
to his home. Every thing is huge, and
splendid and dismal in self-defense he
has to fly"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-06

BANKS IN INSTRUMENTATION
leighty millions of dollars are invested in
the banks and saving institutions in
Observation-Disclosures millione being
in banks, and twenty-six millions in saw
ings institutions. Over one-half of this
vast sum of eighty millions is probably
held by the various institutions in the
city of Boston. Nearly two-thirds of
the entire Banking capital is in Boston
It will thus be seen that the savings
banks, ofwhom business men are almost
of their existence, have nearly
one-half as much capital as the regular
banks.
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Singular Fight:

The latest breach of the peace, oc.
cured in Plymouth township, in this
county, last Tuesday. Miss Harriet
Brown, daughter of james Brown Esq,
had went in the evening before to visit
a neighbor, Mr.. VIM. Castor, and the
next morning as she was retiring hcme
alone, a pet deer, three years old belong
ing to Mr.. Castor, leaped over the high
fence enclosing his territory and pur-
sued her. He overlook her about mid
way between Mr.. Castor's and her
fathers house, and at once attacked
her-he struck her on the side with suf-
ficient froce to cut with his horn through
all of her outer and under clothing and
drew blood. As Miss b. fell, she cour-
~ageously took the deer by the horns and
chung to him, sometimes being dragged
on the ground, and at others regaining
her feet-the animal all the time strik-
ing and cutting her with, his feet. The
deer finding himself foiled by the cour-
age of the brave girl, attempted another
mode of attack, and endeavord to push
her up against trees and thus shake her
from her hold on his horns. But it was
no go-she held-on but in the course
of the struggle the deer dragged Miss
b. near to a fence at a point were there
was a large stag of straw placed against
it on the other side ; the poor girl being
unable to make herself heard in her
cries for help, and finding herself much
weakened from effort ana4oss of blood,
cast about her for SOM source of escape,
and looked upon the straw stack as the
only safe retreat-and maneuvering SO
as to get the deer neal up to the fence,
let go of his horns with her right hand
and tried the 'gouge game putting
her thumb into his eye, gave it a hard
push , This SO hurt and frightened the
beast that as quick as lightning he bound
ed back some fifteen feet from his fright
sufficiently to renew the attack, his fair
antagonist had gained the top of the
fence and from thence to the top of the
stack-completely foiling her ADVERSARY,
From her high position she succeeded
in attracting the attention Of a neigbor
who came to her relief.
The fight lasted near an hour-and
at it's close, Miss Browns clothes were
nearly all tori off her and she was cut
in almost every part of her body by the
hoofs of the animal.
We think this lady has courage and
address enough to take any circumstance
of life +" by the horns" and could share
in the adventures of Crockett
field Shield dnd Banner.
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E1The sale of cattle, Sc, recently
imported by the Kentucky Importing
Company" took place in Fayette Coun-
ty, in that State, on the Goth ultino.
Fifteen COWS and heifers sold at S215 to
$3.50, including one at $500, and five at
over $500 each. Six bulls were also
sold, one at $500. A horse seven
years old, brought sl050. Sheep from
$50 to S287 for bucks, and from $40 to
$50 for ewes /; and ten pure Liverpool
white and seven improved Yorkshire
hoes. AT from SEQ 10 $40 each.
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THE TIMES.


crrrsiufy have NO desire TO wran-
gle with any of our cotemporaries, but
q few lines more IN reply to the cant and
drirel of the Times seems to be neces-
sary. We believe the billio1s DISPOSE
ton of the Editor viii account for his
raising his e still small voice ,, in de-
fence of an institution here, which no
one ever questioned, Hence we think
his gallant and brilliant defence of an
imagined wrong seems quite stupid.
Theldefant toneof our article last week
= seems literally to have frightened our
neighbor cut of the little wit he was
naturally possessed of. After bringing
on the contest by meddling with-our af-
fairs IN which he was nc way concerned,
alphabetically calls out for six nameless
individuals to " hold us !" while he beats
an inglorious retreat from the battle
field as fast as his long legs can carry him,
before even the skirmishing had fairly
commenced. His article last week was
really witty. How could it be other
wise, when it IS known that he is the
"a ehe"e1sea possesSol e"ees@ MI N
seems to net upon CRoMwELL's charge
to his soldiers, to fire Aow ~ No in-
situations intended, re~der. Our neigh
Dor endeayers 90 institute a comparison
between eurseit and sHAEsPEAREs char
aeter OF Falstah. 7 comparison IN
ger the circumstances is SO perfectly IL
Az dleulous, that the Editor can but have
written nlmsen DOWN an ignoramus WIFE
any lntefllgens reaaef.
1t IS customary with this NEsToRIus
efthe American press, to snap and snarI
at everything we write, SO much SO thai
he almost resembles adog with the rabies
He 1abors under the strange delusior
that he is possessed of a large share O
editorial courtesy, which is in keeping
with another Eagary OF hIs mlnd-tha'
of being a satirlst. How much the Ed
noF mas ganeu = 10 ie"aiAs On Us
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BANK OF SALEM, IND1ANA.-The
President of this institution, Mr.. De-
Paw, advertises that every dollar of its
notes will be redeemed in gold or silver
upon presentation. The bills are bank
able at the Ohio and New Albany In
surance Offices in New Albany, and In
dianapolis and Bedford Branches of
State Bank of Indiana.
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ANOTHER DEFALcATIoN-Mr. Gandee
the first teller in the American Exchange
Bank in New Yark, has been exposed
as a defaulter. His cash account shows
a deficit of S138,50 Mr.. Gaudce as a
SaOeet fellow.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-06

Pay OR FIeHr.-It is now current at
Washington that our Government con
templates a naval demonstration in the
ports of Dutch India, first demanding
at the principal seaport an indemnity of
800, 900, on account of the outrage on
Captain Gibson, and upon a refusal to
pay, the town to be bombarded.
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I. r. GooDrEELLow.-By reference
To this gentleman's advertisement it will
bes e he is emphatically can tOsOn /"
with newssupply of Jeweiry ready to
supply the /" ladies fair with just what
they want. :.
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ESThe California Times, in an ar
ticle on the immense capasity of the
trees found in the vicinity of Humboldt,
mentions a spruce pine log twenty-six
feet long, which turned out 1000 feet
clear stuff, without knot or windshakes.
The tree made $1,000 feet clear Jumper.
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nrA S1otrnoLpEn in anot

- SrotKnoLDEn in another col
umn viii be read with interest by those
interested We know nothing concern
ing the matters he speaks of. We hope
for the best. We believe the road ca,,
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.sHH-PREsTDENT-s MESSAGE.

Congress met on the 4th inst The
Presidents Message, as therefore,, will
not be 9 ntp~reviOus to It's being deliver
led, to the different cities in the Union.
1T will eppear in a next weeks issue.
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A NICE ONE.-The Canal Bank at
Cleveland has among its assets $4,000
in stock of the Akron Branch and the
Toledo Commercial Branch. Good as
gold-in the hull of the Yankee Blade
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EEThe world is mongrel; half
spaniel, half wolf. Lash it often, and
when you require it, whistle will bring
it to your feet: show but the slightest
symptom of fear and it will turn upon
and worry you, even unto death.
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THE News BoY.-Printed by j. C.
DEns1, New York We lave had laid
upon our table by Mr.. SrEReEs of Mans
field, this little drama oflife in the city.
1t is evidently written by 6ne who has
passed through all the phases of life
We have read this Book and we will
vouch that all who may read it will ap-
p~reciate it asa highly enteresting Book.
and possessing a good moral. The
work is ar epitome of the News Boys
of New York-life-like pictures of So
Getty &c. The style of the author is
chaste and beautiful. The young win
End a useful lesson in its, pages, and
those efpelaer growth will fndEit re-
freshing We predict those who COM
sacnee reading It win not layit aside
until it is finished. For sale at STuR-
E Book Store, Mansfield Ohio.
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ZEE ~EURoPEAN wan.

- H-ALE
The want o. time prevents us from
giving u readers any opinion relative
80 to the present position of the parties
and tie policy Of France and England.
reOn the first page of to=dayss paper will
be found fullsynopsis of several battles
between the Allies and Russians. His
tory furnishes no better record of bra
very than has been exhibited in this war.
Sebastopol has not yet been taken, and
have our doubts whether it can. The
position we think is too strong; but if
Ttshcaid be, but a single stride will
have been accomplished on the part Of
the allies, and twill be hard to tell
whosean claim the victory. The loss
on both sides Is very great.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-12-06

EESeveral important errors ap-
peared last week in the advertisement
of DR.. HAHN 1t appears this week
corrected.
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q Once set fire to the train of a
mans ambition, and it will never cease to
burn until it reaches the glttering "Ca-
tharin Wheel" by which he has been
dazzled, on failing in that, he schorched
the lnnklaSs niranf ns a Under
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8g GelgrapB.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
AWFUL
THE ALLIES

More Battles. Terrific Slaughter
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William Dairy was hung nthis city
this morning for the murder of his wife.
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George Washington Lafayette is at
present in New York, stopping at the
New York Hotel, He is the son of
Gen. Lafayette, of the American Revo-
lutiop.
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~He who takes his character from
what others say of him, will be ignorant
of his real self, which can only be self
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-13
Whalers,

Ar at Edsntswn All, schr Louisa Tillson from Atlantic
Ocean FROM Pruvinee,own, with 80 bbla blsekssb oil
letter fIom the first officer Of ship Sea Gal Nichols Of
Bedford reports spoke date bark Frsnkn Packard
b. 90 s May a. Of Eton ship Planter PeAse HtnIueks
$50 50 $50 VII in April Ocean Fuller New Bedford. 500 ba
At RaTotonss May 90 ship Navigator Coleman Eantaete
bound and then homes had taken So the
Zealand season
Arr Panama 1sh ult schr. Fame, Mott days fn Gulfo
Dulnee rs bbls VII OIL
AR az Psa Oct Sea Breeze Cushnsn 100 VII 81 sp
Geo Rudsoa Tenks SO sp l2h, Joshua BrssdOH swsn so
So From California Ground, hound TO Toulbez, Peru Star
buck SO 50 th season, John Pster Tsber 80 dol Ca
tawb., Swain 600 do Csselle UPhsm, so do
At Tombez Oct CIfsrd Wayne, Davis 90 THIS season.
Cstsips Hsrnliu 800 do Constitution Winslsw, 80 DO
CT and On at d. Oct Hnslov Eldnsse, $50; lith Nom
ing Star Cleveland, 800 80. 49,
At Gspsgos lsnds In August Mempon, HsusAtsn 100 sp
bo.5 lest three large whals< In eonsequence Of the boat
rettins ove also lost three KsnAk By the Tbs
Csforua Ace. nave averaged about $50 bbs ts sesson
eral ships ID Tonbez expected here ,,, -.
Head from June % bark cs;hervood, oh'er "s@por
spoke Sept. a. st - % NJ lon lso bsrA Arss, Copeland
erpss e BOT nsiec Capt T. Reports hNAs sPoksn tne
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-13

Capt Norden Of the brig Loreo arrived at Philadelphia
Friday tcm s4lts River Ca mends sste Of vessels
bouud Doboy st Andrews Sounds place de-
pendepee upon receiving Pilots outside the respective Bars
uness In sht moderate weather. several dsAsters having
lately occurred On that ace punt.
LIeHrHousE AT TIE sorTH Of PUseorEaeuE CerEx,
EAsrsRS SHORE VIRGINIA: FIXED WHITE LIGHT ILLu-
hINATNe FoURrHs THE HosIzos-This lighthouse
IA pth Of u feet low water the sand spit extending
from the land forming the north point Of the mouth OF Pupso
Greek ard about ms due south nearly OF Watts
Island Lighthouse IL k founded hollow piles,
and eorsts " frame dwelling story hight, elevated
IL feet shove low surmoupted by tower and lantern
so wood both painted white the piles being painted
red The lighting sppastus Of the fifth order Of BresneL
The light ID ffty feet above level, aud
should therefore be ysbe IN coed weather from elevation
often feet shove the distance Of III nautical
statute hs Besides aiding In the navigation Of the Chez
PesLe Bay n, light will guide 70 enter Puugotssrue
Creeh Vessels drawing IL feet arriving In about three and
hall ahon. OF the entrance Of the ehsnoe leading into the
creek should bring the Light TO bear Z. and e.
LEAVING the light this rather than quarter
nile the port hand; and then after passg Tor nearly
like 6tspce haul north TIL the hight bears w w
three ogrhs of mile the mouth of the within
the land. The oxmate latitude and Ion gtude Of
given By survey tracing ist 81 deg SO min 81
N lon. rs deg "a ma sec. w. The light viii be exhibited
the sr time the night Of Nov 1854 and thereafter
tssry biSbt from sunrise until further notice By
oIder Of the Lighthouse Board. HARTMAN BACHE,
Major Top. Engineers. Brevet Major
Warrington, D. C., July Is, lsA