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FIFTH ANNUAL STATE FAIR.

| The State Board of Agriculture have pre-
pared, and will shortly issue their PREMIUM
LIST AND REGULATIONS for the Fifth Annual
Fair, which is to be held at NEWARK, on
Tuesday to Friday inclusive, 10Th and 22d
days of September, 1854. Packages Of these
LISTS will be forwarded in due time, to differ.
ent portions of the State, for distribution to
such as may purpose attending the Fairs.
Few towns in the interior of Ohio are of
more easy access than Newark. 1t is .situa-
ted in the heart of delightful country, and
is the county seat of one OF the Oldest and
most populous counties. The Central Ohio
Railroad passes through the town, and it is
also the present southern terminus Of the
Ssndusky, Mansfield and Newark Ra lroad
The Steubenville and Columbus Railroad
will be in full operation to that place before
the time ofthe Fair. The Ohio Canal, which
passes through Newark, will afford facilities
for the transportation of stock, implements,
or other objects for exhibition, The cities
of Columbus, GAINESVILLE, and Mt. Vernon,
are accessible, by Railroad, in about As min
utes; and the pleasant old town Of Granville,
by private conveyance, in about ihe same
time.
The particular place selected for the "Fair
Grounds" is one of those ancient and mys-
terious Qualifications" for which the vicinity
of Newark is remarkable. II embraces 80
acres, is in one Of the Circular "Forts," and
susceptible Of the greatest establishment,
which we have no question the judgement
and good taste of the Board of Managers will
impart to il. A view Of these stupendous
"Works," the monuments Of lost race Of
men, are we'll worth ajourney Of q thousand
miles, In January, 1918, we walked several
miles through the forests to view them; and
never shall we forget the impression then
made upon our mind, while standing in the
midst OF vast and magnificent primeval for
est, surrounded as we " ere with unmistakable
assurances that the very grounds we were
treading, had been once the theatre of an
enterprising. scientific, teeming population
A people, whose only history is recorded in
the mysterious tumuii around us aud Of whom
it might be well said. rr
-"Tims long since entomd their fate,
"And left no Homer 10 relate
"From whence this ancient people came
nor where they went--or what their name"
The Boa I'd of Agriculture have made ample
and judicious arrangements for the aocommo-
dation Of almsst any number Of people who
may be sxpectedto be in attend ance. %. s.
Journal.
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The Ohio State Journal.

This ably conducted sheet has changed
hands within the past week. Messrs. ..
Follett, Of Sandusky, and A. F. Perry OF
Columbus are the purchasers. The in
imitable, song-snging John Grsinsr is to be
the Editor of the Home Department.
This paper has long been an excellent and
fearless champion in the Wing ranks, and
we trust that the incoming editors will
maintain for it that enviable reputation to
which their successors have exalted it. Mr..
Bascom, the retiring editor will not soon be
forgotten by the "Whigs Of Ohio"-nor by
the Locos, either, we uow, for. the heavy
blows he has dealt them will bs felt for many
n year to come.
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FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN.
m

NEW IOhhp NdTCU 10.
The steamer Franklin arrived this afternoon
bringing Liverpool dates to the 18th. s.
LIVERPOOL MARKErs.-Cotton--a limited
business done at previous rates. the average
daily sales were 1000 bales.
Breadstufis- has declined from IS to
As on the week. Wheat has declined 3D.
Corn unchanged, limited business doing at
previous rates.
Money getting tighter. Consols 9I@9I!.
The news from the manufacturing districts
10 favorable.
The overland mail has arrived at Trieste. -
Shanghae was expected soon to fall into the
hands OF the Imperialists. The exports were
large.
The Canada arrived at Liverpool on the I2th
The Hermann arrived of Cowes on the same
day.
There was no important change in the Eas-
tern question.
II is rumored In Paris that the Gar had
given order for the army to pass the Danube
forthwith.
The first division Of the British feet, under
Sir Charles Napier. sailed on Saturday. His
destination in Wngoe Sound. He will not
at present enter the lRussian waters.
Prussia has sent confidential mission to
Napoleon.
a terrible earthquake occurred at Calsbria,
by which 1000 persons were killed.
McHenry quotes Philadelphia -four at 500
s7s; Baltimore 36s 3D. Ohio 3693s. White
Wheat lis 6d@lIs I0d. White Corn 4a@
45.
Lard STEADY. Provisions unchanged.
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JopN Mirour1I. the Irish patriot. has M

JOHN MITCHELL, the Irish patriot. has ad.
dressed a very important appeal to the Irish
in The United States, in relation to the war
movements Of England, He avows himself
decidedly in favor Of Russia in the coming
struggle. aud asks the curse Of Heaven and
Of man upon any Irishman who will enlist
under the English asg in the war. He says
the success OF Russia would be the salvation
of the people; that Egood, long, laundering
war between the Soverigns of Europe, is the
agency by which the people will be set upon
their feet. He declares that II by the bless.
ing OF Heaven the British dag 10 desecrste
and the ui-color Of Napoleon trsmpled under
foot, then the war will iniallibly roll westward
and new worldwill be born ofits lightenings
aud its thundera The appeal is able and
eloquent. 1t Is said that there are 10000
lrishmen enrolled aud members Of military
companies In New York city, and that an in.
surrection In Canada will be The signal for an
Invasion by the Irish from the States. The
whole movement 10 startling, and may make
difficulty hsreaiter.-- o. 8. Journal.
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The Flushing Resolutions.

On receiving the resolutions from Flush
ing last week we were sorely tempted to give
them an excoration, but forbore from the
fact that they carried their own condsmna-
tion on their very face, in their language
We have since learned that they were passed
az a mere burlesque, by a Literary Society
of young men. We felt confident that the
spirit Of those resolutions was not the voice
Of staunch Flushing township, Wonder if
anybody will claim them as "ths voice Of the
people Of Old Belmont"
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The lMurderer,s Warning.

jewell, aged 29, who was hung at Pitts
burgh on Friday, for the muder Of man he
struck down with knife in the street during
u drunken row on the 9th of July, uttered
the following warning while standing upon
the scaffold. Read it, and heed it, all who
put the maddening bowl to their lips.
My friends this is a solemn scene. You
see man before you condemned to die. am
about to be launched into eternity. feel
that l am prepared to be called before my
God. see many familiar faces and friends
of my youth. And trust that this will be a
warning to you young men to keep out OF
bad company. Let my fate be an example
to you to not touch, taste nor handle intoxicat-
ing liquors, for their use has brought me to
an ignominious death. Had never touched
liquor, would not be where am,--I would
have had my liberty like the rest of you.
feel as if | could talk to you for hours, but it
is no use to mel my time is drawing to a
close.
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1t Fell to Pieces.

The monotony of steamboat disasters OIL
the southwestern waters is broken. Explosion
and burning usually tell the whole story, but
the loss of the J. L, Avery, by which sixty
lives were sacrificed, is attributed to the boat
falling apart. She was very heavily loaded
at New Orleans and bound for Cincinnati.-
She had the tinsel and paint, and the sum-
ptuous table, and was pronounced an elegant
boat.
A passenger on this paste board craft com.
municates full particulars Of her loss to the
Cincinnati Commercial:
"On Thursday, the 10th inst, about 3 o.
clock p M, when at Black Hawk Point,
forty-fve miles below Natchez, while making
good headway against a powerful current
and strong wind, u cracking noise WAS
heard, the boat careened, and in t,oo minutss
the hull went down bow foremost in water,
estimated to have been at least fifty feet
deep.
"Happly the cabin parted from the hull
and floated. When our informant hesrd
the sudden cracking noise, accompanied by
tremor and careening Of the boat, he
walked through state-room upon the guards
and saw the hull going down. One Of the
chimneys fell overheard, and the other up
on the cabin, steadying, it t. some extent.
The cabin, floated on the larbosrd side, and
persons who first gained the deck, knocked
out the windows on the starboard or up
per side, and rescued those inside. The ladies'
were thus saved"
A steamer being not for astcrn met the
floating cabin and rescued those who were
clinginy to it. The steerage was crowded,
and from forty to sixty perished, being sub
merged within ipo minutes from the first
cracking, the hull going down with plunge.
Eigh: or ten cabin passengers were drowned
including the Rev. Mr.. BENSON, of Mt. Yer
non, who attempted to reach the shore on q
and stiff current, caused the hull 10 come to-
pieces.
The Cincinnati Times oflast evening says:
We are happy to state, however. that the
Rev. Mr.. Benson, Of Mt. Vernon, Knox coun-
ty Ohio, who is reported drowned in this
mornings Commercial, is safe. Mr. Guthrie
conversed with him after the accident. and
says he is On his wayup in the steamer Michs
igan.
Fity-,hree passengers were in the cabin.
and large number on deck, and the loss OF
life will amount to at least sirty or seventy,
OF twenty-five fireman. only nine are ac-
counted for and it is certain that the second
mate, the second steward, several of the deck
hands, eight Of the cabin passengers and near
all the deck passengers persisted. OF large
German family on deck, only one, 4 little
boy, was savsd, and the family ofons Of tho
fireman were oil drowned. ''t
A large band Of ofeOunterfeiters were arrested
In N. Y. on Wednesday, who had been aoe.
ding the city with cOunteri cit bills, chiefly on
the CranstoR Bank Of Rhode Island.
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and ran to the room whence the noise pro-
ceeded--and was so much terrified at what
she there bebeld, that she forgot the little
child In the tub, for time--and upon her
return to the room, found the little one drown
edI The husband after few moments re-
viewing the Scene before him--seeing two
of his own children dead--without further
reflection, took down his gun and blew his
own brains out! h CT.
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To our Merchants.

We notice new boxes lying at the doors
Of many Of our merchants; this is generally
considered prima }acie evidence that they
have new goods. But every body cannot see
those new boxes, therefore our advice is that
they tell it to larger circle Of people
through the columns of our paper.
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CLERICAL isrERFEREscE,-In..loo looking over
some portion OF our Revolutionary history we
see that the Massachusetts Provincial Con.
gress in l77s, composed Of such men As War.
rem, and Adams, and Hancock. sent an ad.
dssss to all tbs CisrSymen IN the Prsvins.,
calling upon them, as the friends Of civil and
religious liberty, to do all in their power to
sustain the cause Of freedom. and 50 secure to
the people their rights And the clergy,
from sense of duty to their ellow men aud
to their God, did exert their iufueEcs in favor
Of freedom and against oppression.
What pity 10 10 that there were not At that
jms sons such pious, devoted patriots as the
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At the Township election Messrs. Aler.
Still, Enoch Crawford g. Samuel Clark
(Democrats,) were elected Trustees, III, M.
b. Clayland, (Dem.) Clerk; Henry B, Smith
(Whig) Assessor; VIM, Euans, g. Israel
White, (Whigs) Constables.
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DEEP SNow.--The Portland Advertiser
says the snow storm of Thursday last was
one Of the severest of the "winter storms"
in that region. In some places the snow
fell to the depth of two feet that on Friday
the trains could not travel.
When Democrat appears in opposition
to the Nebraska bill, he is put down by the
Administration papers as ga disappointed
office seeker" 1t is much more in accordance
with truth to say that those who uphold the
swindle are successful Democratic Office
seekers.- Gin, CAT,
NEBRASKA MEErING.--The Springfield
Erpositor announces that meeting OF the
friends of Douglass bill will be held a,
Springfield, Clark county, on April lst-6t
day for the subject.--The meeting will be
addressed by 8. Medary, s. S. Cox, ]. A.
Corwn, and others--ft men for the occasion.
Gin, Gaz.
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New York, March I'D .

An arrival from Baracoa brings the particu.
lars of the loss Of the Spanish war steamer
Pizsara. She struck on reef off Cape Mary
On the morning Of the i2th. She had on
board over 900 troops from the garrison of
Baracoa, beside the crew of 100 men. all Of
whom landed safely. The French war stes.
mer Lsiliep, and the Spanish war brig Pels.
20 were along eide trying to get her Of. but
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0TSeseral careless blunders occurred In
the communication signed "Not w." in
last weeks paper. Although such errors are
provoking to the authoi, we can assure him
that we always feel more mortified about
such errors than sny one else possibly can.
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The Elections.

At the Town election on Monday II. W.
Scouern was elected Mayor, Jno. w. Newport
Clerk, and George Bro,on, Conrad Troll,
Shepard Davis, Enoch Crawford and Joseph
Harris were elected Councilmen.
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RECIPROCITY.

Nothing can be more encouraging to the
peoples Representatives either in Congress
or the Legislature that the fact that they
have a constituency at home who will sup
port them in their advocacy Of certain meas
ares. When the political horizon at Wash
iagton was recently overcast, and every
turn Of the political weathervane betokened
disgrace to our Union--when the cohorts Of
the south were united as one man to break
down the free institutions of the North
when even Freedom herself grew pale with
alright lest her fair fame should be dimmcd,
then was the heart Of Ohio rejoiced that she
had two men in the U. s. Senate who feared
not to raise their voices against the contem-
plated wrong. Threatened, reviled and
hooted by these opponents of Freedom, they
continued firm aud unwavering in their op-
position to the encroachment of slavery
Intimately interviewer with the present fierce
agitation, the names OF Salmon p. Chase, g.
Benz. F. Wade will always appear. And
should the present Nebraska Bill become o
Law, or should it sink beneath the storm Of
virtuous indignation heaped upon it, the men,
ton Of it will always excite in the soul Of
every Christian philantropist feeling of in
expressble horror, osthing, and contempt fol-
its originator and advocates, and gratitude
and admiration for those who dared to dc
right in the teeth of the most implacable
opposition.
A resolution Of the recent meeting in this
place referred to the course Of Messrs. Chase
g. Wade on the repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise: copy of thoss resolutions being
forwarded to those gentlemen, Mr.. Wade
towards the following reply. A repy has
been received from Mr.. Chase, but we have
not copy Of it in our possession. We un-
derstand he expresses strong hope that the
Nebraska bill will be defeated in the House.
God grant it may.
Washington, March 9th, 1854.
J. w. Newport, Esq,
Dear Sir:
Please accept my sincere thanks, and thro'
you permit me to thank the Convention of
which you were the organ, for the kind and
complimentary manner in which they have
alluded TO the course Of Mr.. Chase and my
self in the Senate on the Nebraska abomina-
ton Nothing is SO grateful to q man COM
ing out of hard fight as the approval of his
friends. The kind endorsement Of your con-
venton wonderfully strengthens onc's arm
and nerves him for the fight Backed by such
approval Of free men, who cares for the blus-
tering of southern bullies! Your resolutions
are excellent. Such indignant demonstra-
tons of a free people already begin to make
the traitors turn pale A little more grape
and the day is ours. Let us not cease our
exertions until freedom is triumphant.
Truly g. respectfully yours,
b. F. WADE.
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erWe call attention to the advertisement
of JAMES THOMPSON, in another column. We
have slways noticed that the place 70 get
good bargains 10 from those who advertise
Fscu
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eTWe call the attention of the Stock
holders in the CeAtrsl Ohio Rail Road Com
pany who are in arrears with their Stock. to
the advertisement Of the Company in an
other column. The spirit of ii is to "fork
over"
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OI-The Baker Family gave one of their
Vocal concerts in this place on Monday even-
ory last. They come g. 60 like some migrat-
Ory songbirds, gladdening all hearts while
they tarry, and when they leave custing a
shade over the mnd. Warm hearts will be
found to greet them whersvsr they may
travel, for their melodies compel admiration.
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0JSAMuEL KLINE has come out again in
a large stock of New Goods, and which he
tells us he will sell at the lowest kind Of
prices. See his Advertisement.
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DICKENS HOUSEHOLD WoRD's.-The May
number of this popular periodical commences
a new volume. We know of no periodical
that will SO soon create love for reading in
young as this. Its versatility Of style and
original mode of presenting topics of the
most substantial interest lead the mind on
and on.in the perusal Of its contents, ,and pre-
pares us to admit its propositions. Another
feature which will render it much more at
tractive-C Charles Dickens, the Editor, will
commence new novel in the May number,
to be continued throughout the volume--to
be called "Ha-d Times" To the admirers
of Dickens as a writer of romance-and their
name is Legion--this will be sufficient re-
commentator for the Book
1t is published weekly or in monthly numb
ers, the latter containing all the reading of
the former, at $500 per year.
Messrs. McELRATH g. BAKER,
No. II Spruce Street N. Y.
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Township Assessors.

In accordance with instructions from the
Auditor of State, would hereby inform tho
persons recently elected Assessors, of the
several Townships, Of Belmont County for
the year 1854. That inasmuch as the Legis-
lature, have now under consideration, several
important notifications Of the Tax Law Of
1862 which may not be finally, acted upon
before the last week Of it's session, it will
be imprac,icsble and unexpedient TO CON-
mence the assessment for the present year
until the lst MONDAY in May.
Wherefore, the Assessors are requested tc
meet at the Auditors Office, in st. Clairsville
on the last Saturday, of this present month
(ApriD. For specific reasons we suggest the
propriety of every assessor being present, al
that time, in order that they may adopt Q
common understanding, Of the provisions &
requirements of the law and thus secure un
| iformity, in assessments and otherwise
promote the equality Of taxation which
Justice demands.
d. TRUEMAN, Auditor.
Anil a, 1854
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G-JAcoB HErMAs has got prime lot Of
Clothing on hand, Of the latest styles, and
best quality. Give him call, for he says
he is bound to sell low.
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editors Of the Post to stand forth and tell the
clergy that they were acting out of character,
aud ought at once TO attend to their own pro-
fessiosal BOSTON Atlas.
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on leave Of absence. They all say that meg
do not hnow Mr.. Souie, and confirm what has
been said of the isolation In which he lives.
They state that his challenge to N. Turgot |.
considered bdrbarous, and that his reha5ilita:
lion Is out Of the question:"
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Miser's Heir; or the Young Millionaire.
BY p. Hamilton Myers, author Of Bell
Brandon, Ellen Welles', &c, 7. B. Pc.
terson, Philadelphia. l2mo. PIP 222. Price
80 cents.
The above is a work of thrilling interest
The one thing which should be the prime OBJ.
ject Of all tale writers is here vividly pour.
trayed; that is, the complete triumph of vir'
tue over duplicity and crime. The style o.
the writer is graceful, polished and stroag.-
No straining after effect, bat uniiermly life
like throughout.
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0rEverybody has heard tell of Barnum!
Yes! Well his grand Colossal Museum and
Menagerie will be here on the LIST of May
Fact!
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it was thought she would become total
wreck.
A severe shock of earthquake was fel, at
Baraces On Sunday the 10Th.
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OTWe notice our old friend Jepsoa has
moved back to town once more.
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No. GA Of Litieu's Living Age, being the
end Of Vol. 40, is at hand. The best period.
ical we receive, decidedly.