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The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-09

NOTICE.
SELLING OFF AT CASH.
1UyIE subscribers offer their stock cht for cash
II the following rates:
Golden syrup ut 80 cents per gallon;
st. Louis ) II MOlasses IS cents per gallon;
Butter at ls cents per Id;
Sugar cured Hams al Is cents per lb
do ID l2l -2 do
Sides, 10 do
Shoulders, 9 do
Rice, 8 do
Good Barley, 10 do
Soap, Candles, Salt, &c.
DRESsLER 4 GEORGII,
March 9Th, 1854. Al Upper Landing
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS.
NOwIS YOUR TINE.
HOE all who intend planting gardens-whO are
IL disposed to 'mnd their PEAS and q's-whO hav:
faith in cnl ba e-(tailOrs not exceptedO who "knOw
beans when bag is opened-wliO acknowledge the
corn" i'm the roasting ear-whO believe in the good time
cOmng-when pOtatO-ses and ripe tOmat O-ses-
enCe rail Cucunlbers and inclined plane squashes will
please the eye and administer to the appettes of The
"toiling Millions"
This special proclamation, greeting: If you want
fresh Garden Seeds, come and get them, at
BOND & KELLOGG'S,
mar Is At the old brown Drug Store.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-09

WAR EAGLE MILLS, C4LENA.
SUPERFlNE EXTRA FLOUR bran, shorts. ant
horse feed, constantly hand, and for sale at low
est cash rates. E. UEMPSTEAD A. co
Gacna, Sept. 2, 1875. 400
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-09

G. B. GIRSoN and \. 4. SAMPLE. Agent. Chicago.
Nav tim. f. II. CASTLE Ticket Agent
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-09

NO. 4, WINSLOW HOUSE,
UPPER TOWN.
w. DOWNER has opened branch Store for the
- . accommodation Of persons living in that part 81
the Town, where will be found his usual good ups y
Of Fresh Groceries.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-09

GEO. FERGUSON,
No. 96 Main Steet, Gnlena, Ei.ois.
~JHOLESALE and retail dealer in Hardware and
w CUTLERY, Cast Steele Nails, Mechanics and Mi
ners' Tools, Rope and Farming Implements.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-09

GREAT BARGAINS OFFERED.
400 bbls Flour, 200 bbls Pork,
100 bbs Dried Apples, just reed on consignment
Ne Wharf Boat, and will be closed off reduced price
Also, and corn meal, oats, Potatoes, bTaA lia
&c, at great bargains.
e 23-tf J. W. BASS co.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31

TIE NEHRAsKA Buzz LAw..-The NebraskD
bill passed the Senate, in the the same shape 4
came back from the House, on the 26th inst, by
ayote Of s5 to ls-a larger vote than that BY
which It originally passed that body. The on
ly change that is made in the bill s, that the Clay
ton Native American amendment is stricken out.
When the bill first passed the Senate the fusion
organs made great ado about that amendment,
and pronounced it gross outrage upon the
principle of popular sovereignty, but no sooner
was the bill returned to that body with that odi-
ous amendment stricken out than the opponents
of the bill united with the Native American inter.
est endeavored to reinstate ithoping thus to make
the bill SO unpalatable to some ofits frendsas to
procure its defeat. The only ground of objection
they can now conjure up against the measure is
that it allows the vhite people of the Territories
to control their own domestic affairs, subject on
ly to the provisions of the Constitution Of the
United States. fs ,.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31

A dispatch received last evening from Mr..
Henry Stanberry, at Washington, announces that
the U. S. Supreme Court have decided the Bank
tax against the State, thus in effect declar-
ing the Constitution Of Ohio unconstitutional.
IL this pronunciamento OF the Federal Court
does not oblterate the last vestge Of state sover-
eighty, and entirely out law the State of Ohio
would it not be we'll for the Governor to convene
the General Assembly in extra session, in order
that such remedial legislation may be had as the
case requires.
For example: the people of Ohio are taxed to
support courts Of justice for trying men who coun-
teriet the notes Of these banks. This is use
less expenditure, and the public interests demand
that the law Furnishing counterfeitng the notes
of the delinquent Banks be repealed. The peo
pie are also taxed to support the administration
of laws which enable them to collect their debts
This is another useless expenditure, and in these
times of complaint about high taxes, it would be
economy to repeal these and all other laws which
afford them protection. The Supreme Court has
decided that the people must get along without
the taxes of the Banks, and the people will pro-
badly decide that the laws atfording protection to
those institutions are useless and expensive, and
should be repealed. Some live issues will spring
out ofths decision which will overshadow all 9TH
ers for season. 1t will do to talk about at an
LIlle.-CthtSSWHU
The Bankers vainly imagine that, under the
decision of this old fogy Court, they have got the
people in eight place." but they may ere long
wake up to find themselves egregiously deceived
A people who have so often declared that the
banks shall not escape their equal share of
the burdens of government are not to be de-
feated in their purposes by any such decision.
The remedy limited at in the above would soon
bring the privileged order to proper sense of
the power of the people and Of their own weak
ness.
There is still another way in Which this matter
may be reached and equal justice meted out to ALL
Let the Legislature pass law, in the nature of a
contract" binding for twenty years, taxing the
farmers, mechanics, merchants and sll other peo-
pie Of the State, sir per cent on their net profits
only. Under this decision of the federal Court
what other constitutional method Of taxation can
be devised! Our constitution provides that al
property in this State shall be taxed By uniform,
rule. The federal Court declares that the rule
by which the property of Banks shall be taxed
shall be sic per cent upon their profits. Then let
the Legislature make the rule uniform as the con.
stution requires. 1t is doubtless true that under
such rule sufficient revenue could not be raised
to defray the expenses Of the government and dis
charge the interest on the public debt, and the
State would be driven TO reputation, state Of
affairs far from desirable, but which bankers and
stock -obbers are far more interested in averting
than the producing masses; and they have no right
to demand that the producers of the State shall
alone bear this burthen.
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wonderful Discovery.

We find the following in the fusion organ oI
last week: a e..
"a PERTINENT QUEsTIoN.-The tax law OF
1852 provides that moneys and credits shall be
taxed under the tenth section. 1t is asked, with
great pertinence, we think, If the 10th section is
declared void or in the language of the State Au-
dor, " no longer portion Of the law" hoao then
can moneys and credits be tared at all under it?''
This is one of the most wonderful discoveries
of the age, and we advise barrister brefess to
take out letters patent for it. The wish that mon
eys and credits might escape taxation altogether
was, doubtless, father to the thought But little
reading of the Law would have shown that the
burthen Of taxation could not be wholly shoul-
dered on the farming and producing classes by
this invention of exempting moneys and credits
from bearing any portion of that burthen, for it is
the fourth and not the tenth section that provides
for taxing moneys and credits, the tenth section
only providing for the manner of making deduc-
tions. The Supreme Court have decided that un-
der the Constitution these deductions cannot be
allowed, and that therefore the tenth section is
void Does this impair the validity of the fourth
seehoh' "nieh PioVL"es iot 'he WahueE VI asses-
sing and taxing this same property! We think
not. And when the Court had decided the 10th
section unconstitutional and void, would they ad-
wise the State Auditor to disregard that decision
and continue to administer and execute an uncon-
sttutional act! Of what use is our judiciary, if
its decisions and DEGREES are thus to be disregard
ed? Where is your restraint upon the legisla-
tive power, when these decisions are unheeded!
and of what manner of use are constitutional
limits and restrctionsi
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31

We cannot remember the time when there has
been such total disregard of legislative enact
ments as the present. Evary mail brings intelli-
gence of some daring villainy against persons or
property. The scoundrels of the country seem to
take counsel of the abolition fanatics, and hold
the laws of the land in utter contempt, and set up
each for himself law. Legislatures enact laws,
and these fanatics denounce them, and advise re-
sstance to them. The Courts make decisions, ,and
they disregard them. Under such tutelage can
we expect any different result than the general
cry of larceny, burglary, the destruction Of life
ant, ,property-the legitimate end of such exam
Piles and instructions. One class of rogues de-
fraud their neghbors by Withholding thier share of
taxes,and compelling them to make up..the deficit.
Another rogue puts his hand into his neighbor's
pocket and steals just as much as the other had
appropriated. Which is the greater villain,-
Men who have been taught the cherished aboli-
ton tenets of 'higher law and resistance to the
State, have carried out their principles and now
are repenting sin sack cloth and ashes" in the
iais and penitentiares of the country. In this
county where this precious doctrine is so strong
ly promulgated, there is any umonnt of vilainy
consumated. In Palmyra within the last two
weeks, two burglaries have been committed, and
horse stolen. In Franklin, some four or five
houses within the last week were entered, and
money and other property stolen. In Shalers-
vile disgraceful riot has just been committed,
with numerous other violations of the law for
which we have not time nor space to enumerate.
So long as disobedience to the laws is taught, so
long it will be practiced.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31
Renfon an Nehrnal-n

Col. Benton, to his speech on Friday last. On
the famous Kansas. and Nebraska Bill. makes
the following remarks
sr believe In the fusility Of ahis bill--iss shso
Lutte futilily to the siaPehoIding States-apd that
not single slave viii ever be held in KaDsus Or
Nebraska under il, (even admitting Il to be pass.
ed.) Though adapted to slave labor in two Of
its staples, (hsmp and tobacco,) I do not believe
that slaves will ever be held there, The popu.
lar vote will expel them. Kansas is contiguous
to middle and southern Missouri, where slaYe la-
Dor is profitable, and slaves held in great nnIn-
ber-a single owner within two hours ride Of the
line holding one hundred more than the Eve hun.
dred Of Randolph, Of Roanoke, and hye thou
sand in his county alone; but elholdsr Of slaves
will have but one vote, and will be beat at the
pools by the many who have none."-
Now, says the Pittsburgh Post, the opinion
Col. Benton on the subject will be received by
the opponents, as well as friends Of the BILL 40
of value. And such is his opinion, clearly and
forcIbly expressed. Slavery can never exist in
Kansas and Nebraska. No southern man OF
common sense will take slaves there, with the
certainty before him of losing them 10 avery
few years, by an act of emancipation. II Mr..
Benton's opinion is correct, all the hubbub, and
hue and cry that has been raised by Whig and
Abolition papers, and political clergymen, is up
on mere abstraction: question OF no practical
Importance SO far as slavery is concerned The
bill is based on the democratic principle OF pop
ular sovereignty; the right of the people of eve-
ay State to regulate their own local affairs. No
true Democrat can repudiate that principle. The
bill does MORE It will exclude from the hnils of
the national legislature that perpetual agai,ation
on the subject Of slavery, of which the people Of
this country are heartily tired.
Two more free territories are thus organized.
that in very short time will contain sufficient
population to entitle them to admission as states
OF the Union. And as free states they will come,
as free us Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, as large and
fruitful, and in no long time as populous and
wealthy.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31
AN ACT
May i, 1854.

fe31 AN ACT
To prevent the adulteration of Alcoholic Liquors.
SEC. /. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Ohio, That If any person shall adul-
terate any spirituous or alcoholic liquors, by mix
Ing the same with any substance of whatever kind,
except rs hereinafter provided or if any person
shall sell or offer to sell any spiruous or alcohol
ic liquors, knowing the same to be thus adultera-
ted, or shall import into this State, any spiruouS
or intoxicating liquors, and sell or offer for sale
such liquors knowing the same to be adulterated,
or shall sell or offer to sell any spiriuous or in
texicating liquors, not inspected as hereinafter
provided he, she or they shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hun
dred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars,
and shall be imprisoned in the Jail of the county
not more than thirty, nor less than ten days.
Sec. 2. The probate judge. in each county in
this State shall appoint competent chemist as
Inspector, whose duty it shall be to inspect all
alcoholic liquors imported into or manufactured
In the county in which he is Inspector, unless the
same shall have the inspectors brand of some
other county in this State. which brand shall be
evidence of the purity Of the article.
Sec. 8. Said inspector shall before entering
upon the duties of his Office, give an undertaking
which shall be approved by the judge Of probate
10 the penal sum OF not less than one hundred.
nor more than one thousand dollars, running to
the county, and shall take and subscribe an oath tc
faithfully discharge the duties Of his Office.
Sec. 4. Said Inspector shall keep an accurate
account Of all liquors by him inspected, and place
bis mark on the casks or barrels, pure if so found
If not, impure; and when he shall find any adul-
terated liquors, be shall give notice to the prose.
cutting attorney of the county, Of the person own
inc and Offering for sale, or offering for sale such
adulterated liquors. who shall forthwith institute
proceedings against such person as hereinafter
provided; and if, upon said trial, he, she, or they
shall be found guilty of violation of any of thu
provisions Of this act said inspector shall forth
with destroy such adulterated liquor. Said in
spectors shall each be entitled to receive for thei
services aforesaid. two dollars per day and meag'
st the rate Of i've cents per mile, for each mil'
hs may nscesssrily BE- required to travel in th'
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31

aal settlement in such township Every indent-
sdseFvant or apprentices legally brought into this
State, shall obtain legal settlementin the town
ship where such servant or apprentice shall serve
his or her master or mistress one year; and every
married woman, during coyerture, or after h, Z
husbands death, shall Be considered legally se'-
tied in the place where be was last legally set
tied but he shall have had no legal settlement,
then she shall be considered settled in the place
where she was last legally settled before marri-
age; Provided, that nothing in this section shall
be 90 construed as to release any township from
Its legal obligations to support any person or per-
sons removing from such township, until such
person or persons shall have gained legal set
Element In the township to which such person or
persons shall have removed; Provided, further,
that ifany person or persons shall become town.
ship charge, before such person or persons shall
have gained legal settlement in any township
70 which any person or persons shall have remo-
we'd, they shall not be considered as having gain
ed legal settlement in such township, during
the time that such person or persons shall re-
main township charge.
SEC g. That the trustees OF each township shall
afford relief or support to any person or persons
within their township, not having legal settle
ment in the same, when such relief or support is
needed; Provided, that whereas the trustees of
any township shall be called upon to afford relief
from the township treasury, in any county having
q county Infrmary, to any person or persons, who
have no legal settlement in this State, or whose
place of residence is unknown, it shall be the du-
ty of the trustees to make out order to the di-
rectors of such county in6rmary, to receive and
provide for such person or persons so long as the
Said trustees may direct; Provided, further, that
whenever the trustees Of any township shall be
called upon to afford relief from the township
treasury, in any county having no county in6rma-
n, to any person or persons, who have no legal
settlement in this State, or whose place of resi-
dence is unknown, it shall be the duty OF such
trustees to keep an accurate account of all mon
sys so expended, and certify such account togeth-
er with the vouchers for the same, to the county
commissioners of the county, who shall cause the
amount so paid, 10 be paid to the township, out of
the county treasury; Provided, further, that in
case any person or persons, becoming chargeable
to any township, as aforesaid, shall have no legal
settlement within this state, the trustees may re-
move such person or persons to the State where
he, she or they have legal settlement; unless
such person or persons shall give sufficient secu-
rity TO indemnify the said township.
SIC. 8. That sections one, three, and seven Of
the act to which this is amendatory, be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
F. C. LEBLCND,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE,
President of the Senate, pro tenn.
May !, 1854.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31
AN ACT
May !, 1854

1851 AN ACT
To extend the jurisdiction ofJustices ofthe Peace
In civil cases, and to amend sections four, FIVE
and seven, of the act entitled "an act of the
jurisdiction and procedure before Justices of the
Peace, and of the duties Of Constabes in civil
cases. passed March fourteenth one thousand
eight hundred and ihy-three.
SEC l. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
Of the State of Ohio, That section four of the act
entitled San act for the jurisdiction and procedure
before Justices Of the peace, and of the duties Of
Constables, in civil cases." passed March four
teenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
three, be so amended as to read as follows: Sec.
4. Under the restrictions and limitations herein
provided, Justices of the Peace shall have exclu-
sive original jurisdiction of any sum not exceed
Ing one hundred dollars, and concurrent jurisdic-
ton with the Court of Common Pleas, in any sum
over one hundred dollars and not exceeding three
hundred dollars.
Sec. Q. That section FIVE of the above mention
ed act, be so amended as to read as follows:
Section 5. When the balance claimed to be due,
on any open or unsettled account, or on any bill,
note, or bond, shall be less than three hundred
dollars, the party by whom such balance shall be
claimed, may commence his action therefor be-
fore Justice of the peace, who shall have power,
and he is hereby authorized 10 hear and deter
mine the matters in controversy, without regard
to the original account or contract, and he may
render judgment for any balance found due not ex
ceeding three hundred dollars; and if any plain
tiff appeal from a judgment entered in his favor
for such balance and shall recover judgment for
a sum greater than three hundred dollars, besides
interest and cost, he shall not recover costs on
such appeal
SEC. 8. That section seven ofthe above named
act, be so amended as to read as follows Sec. Z.
If any debtor shall appear before justice of the
peace, without process, and confess that he is in
debted to another it shall be lawful for such JUS
tice on the application of the CREDITOR to render
judgment on such confession against the debtor
for any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars.
SEC. 5. That the original sections four, six,
and seven, of the act to which this is amendatory,
be, and the same is hereby repealed
F. c. LEBLOND,
Speaker ofthe House Of Representatives.
ROBERT LEE,
President Of the Senate, pro tenn.
May !, 1854.
Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-05-31

0ET The Fusionists claim that the opponents
ofthe Nebraska bill in Congress have not been
fairly dealt with by the majority that the rights
of the minority have not been respected There
were l46 speeches were made upon the question
of which eighty-seuen were made by the opposi-
ton. Besides this, when it was known that the
bill would pass, the minority were permitted to
delay business by their factious opposition for
days, when the majority determined to put the
bill through. And this is what they call disre-
garding the rights of the minority. The regard
which the factionists ask Is that the minority
shall be permitted to rule, and they win be sats6
ed with nothing else. IN
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IeeafIirming their Decision.

The Statesman and Democrat of the Gath, Goa
tains recent decision of the Supreme Court
of this Stcte, re-afirmng and enforcing that made
by them last winter, declaring the 10th section
of tie Tax law unconstitutional. 1t seems the
Court has the power and determination to enforce
its decisions. The true course is to comply with
the instructions Of Of the State Auditor under the
decision of the Court:
"The State of Ohio, &c rel. Attorney General %.
Jerome Woldey, Assessor of the Third Ward.
in Circleville.
"In this case the Court allowed mandamus to
the defendant, commanding him that 'immediate-
ly after the receipt of said writ. he do demand {
all persons in his district, liable and bound to list
their property with him, whether he has hereto
fore received their statement or not. full state.
ment Of all their moneys and credits required to
be listed, without any deduction on account Of in
debtedness of the person listing his moneys and
credits, and that he return the said writ, with his
certificate of having done as thereby commanded.
to this Court, at Columbus, on the first Monday OF
June next" ,aa aa.e
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discharge Of his duties, from the owner Of the
same or the person offering to sell.
SEC. 8. Any person who shall put into barrel,
cask, or other vessel, branded or marked pure. by
any inspector in this State, adulterated liquors,
sell or offer for sale such liquors for the purpose
of deceiving any persons by the sale thereof shall
be deemed guilty ofan attempt to practice fraud
and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned
in the penitentiary not more than twelve months.
SEc. 6. The provisions of this act shall not be
SO construed as to prevent druggists, physicians,
and persons engaged in the mechanical arts,
from adulterating liquors for medical and mechsn-
ical purposes.
SEC. 8. Prosecutions for violations Of the first
section of this act, shall be commenced by inform
ltion, filed in the Probate court of the proper
county, by the prosecuting attorney thereof;
which information may be filed without previ-
Gus examination before magistrate, and the pro-
ceedings after the filing of the information, shall
be the same as in other criminal cases in the pro-
bate court.
F. C. LEBLOND,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.,
ROBERT LEE,
President the Senate, pro tenn.
May l, 1854.
AuDIToR's OFFICE, PORTAGE Co.,l
Ravenna, May 81, 1854.
certify that the foregoing laws are correctly
printed from the authorized copy certified to by the
Secretary of State.
LORENZO FROST,
County Auditor.