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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
The Radical Democracy.

The late Convention of the ar. .dical De
mocracy" of New York, called TO take off
cial action in the present crisis, and which
resolved to abandon Buchanan,a and vote with
the Republicans, causes inquiring abroad
as to the character and position of those
who led the movement, and the probable
effect their secession will have on the vote
this fall, in New York. The New York
Herald thus advises in answer to the in
quiry:
They, (the Radicals) are they cream Of
the Democratic party of this common
wealthAthe very cream of it. Some Of
them were leaders in the same church
when our modern Democratic chieftians-
such as Pierce, Douglas and Toombs-
were lawyers apprentices, and some of them
were Democrats when Mr.. Buchanan was a
Federalist. And they represent body Of
men that will astonish the Cincinnati com
Founders in November. The vote in this
State for Martin Van Buren in ls47, upon
the general issue of hostility to the exten-
tion Of slavery, was 10000, and very like
ly upwards Of fifty thousand of these votes
are now for Fremont. We shall not be
surprised if, on the day of tine election, the
full measure of one hundred thousand Of
the Van Buren, vote of 'is were 10 be cast
for Fremont.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
About Girls, Names.

If YOU are very precise man and wish
to be certain Of what YOU get, never marry
girl named Ann; for We have the author
ity of Lindlcy Murray, and Others, that san
is an indefinite article"
fyou wouM like to have wife who is
zone of thousand" You should marry an
Emily or an Emma, for any printer can
tell YOU that "cm's" are always counted 10y
thousands
If YOU do net wish 10 have busting,
Ay-about wife, YOU should not marry one
named Jenny; for every cotton spinner
knows that jesxi1es are always on the 60
If you marry one named Margaret, you
may confdentially expect that she will
end her days on the gallows; for all the
world knows that 'sdays" were made for
hanging.
The most incessant writer, in the world
is he who is always bound to Alkaline.
You may adore your wife, but you will
be surpassed in love when your wife is a
Dcra
Unless ,you would have tsc evil one for
a fatber-ialaw, you should not marry lady
named Elizabeth. for the devil is the father
of Lize-(ies.)
If YOU wish to succeed in life as aporter,
You should marry Caroline, and treat her
very kindly, for so long as You continue 10
do this, ycu will be good to Garry.
Many men of high moral principles, and
who would not gamble for the world, still
have not refused to take Bet.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
George Law on Fremont.

Now, Sir, of the candidates who are be-
fore the people for the exalted position
of Chief Magistrate, prefer John G. Ere
mont. l prefer him because he is not an
old hackneyed politician, and all sold out.
He is in the prime of oflife-forty three years
old. He has been brought into notice by the
energy and exertion that he has evinced as
a great explorer of the route to the Pacific
Ocean. He first opened up the pathway
thro' the wilderness that others had follow.
ed to the golden fields of California, and
gave the most accurate and extended view to
the American people of all that vast region
ofcountry between the borders of civilization
on the Atlantic slope and the Pacific Ocean.
He took an active part and was foremost in
raising and sustaining the American flag in
California. He commenced first and went
all through that campaign with signal sue
cess, that ended in the acquisition of all that
vast Territory and wealth-that opened up
to American energy such a field as has no
parallel in history-which has advanced this
country 25 years at single bound. Itgave
us the facilities for increasing commerce. 1t
enabled us toextend largely railways and
other internal improvements, and thus has
greatly increased our manufacturing and
agricultural interests, by enlarging the fields
of produce and consumption. 1t has added
hundreds of millions to the nations capital.
By his explorations he opened up the most
central and convenient railroad to California.
He aided in the organization of California
as State, and devoted her institution to
Freedom,and she acknowledged her idebted-
ness TO Faemont by sending him as her first
Senator of the United States. His antece-
dents are American. He rose by his own
energy, his own industry and his own merit.
These are antecedents that will be appreci-
ated by the American people. They are
not promises of to-day of American princi-
pies under the expectation of the suffrages
of the American party, but they are his
tory of his life from his youth upward,
when actuated by no other motives that
true American heart, thoroughly devoted
to the interest of his country.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
Prominent Democrats.

The Portland Advertiser makes mention
of the following prominent Democrats, who
support Buchanan, thus:
David R. Atchison and Gen. Stringfel-
low, who have been straining every nerve for
nearly two years to carry slavery into Kan
sas, and who have hesitated at no rascalitv
and degree of mcanness to accomplish that
end are warm supporters of Buchanan!
Governor Shannon, Marshal Donelson
and Sheriff Jones, and every member of the
Border Ruffian Legislature, all who assisted
in the sacking of Lawrence, and aided in
destroying the Free Papers of Kansas-are
active laborers of James Buchanan.
Jefferson Davis and every other noted
Disunionist of the South, are now busily
plotting and conniving for the election Of
James Buchanan!
Preston s. Brooks, Keitt and Edmondson
the first of whom committed and Others
encouraged the most villainous assault ever
perpetrated upon a public man--arc open
advocates for james Buchanan!
Philemon I. .Herbert, who followed high
handed life in California, with the murder
Of waiter at Washington-was at the
Cincinnati Convention, and endorses the
election Of James Buchanan!
The ballot-box suffers of California are
all active Democrats, and if allowed to vote
will do as Yankee Sullivan would, if he had
not gone .to the land of the hereafter"
that is, cast their votes for Buchanan.
We do not say these are specimen DEM
ocrats-they are merely prominent. 1t is
the misfortune Of the party that they are
within its ranks. Butthey are there-and
every man can reflect urou the fact as his
impulses prompt and his reason guides.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

currenee of the House. Not complaint
has ever been faid before the public by the
| federal officers, nor an intimation that his
accounts were open to exception; but now,
| when he is candidate for the Presidency,
his antagonist chooses to avail himself of
the control which his party has over the
government archives, to institute an inquiri
designed to impeach his official integrity.
1t is cowardly proceeding, and will harm
none but those by whom it is instituted, for
there is nothing required to insure Colonel
Fremont's election but familiarity with his
life, which like a key in ones pocket, grows
brighter the more it is rubbed.
We are surprised that it did not occur to
some of the opposition senators, when
Senator Bigler sat down, to invite a
senatorial inquiry into the use of the seal
of the American legation, during Mr.. Buch-
anan's mission in England, for the dissent
nation of red republican documents through
Europe; and in regard to the issue of free
passes to abandoned women from the same
legation; also, for a copy of the letter
which Mr.. Buchanan, while Secretary of
Stote, wrote to Mr.. Polk recommending
$4,000 to be deposited in Simon Gamer
on's bank, for the purpose of being used to
buy up the Washington Globe, and establish
the Union newspaper in its place. This
latter letter is now on file in the depart
ments at Washington. If contains suffi-
cient evidence, we are credibly informed,
to send its author to state prison, under
the subtreasury law, and was one of the
grossest, if not the grossest case of malfeas-
ance in office which has occurred since the
Sub-Treasury law was passed. Why is
not that letter called for and produced, that
the country may see the kind of man that
is presented and supported for the highest
office in its gift by the whole combined
forces of the general government, and for
whom, yes, By whom, through an ignoble
instrument the character and well-earned
fame OF one of our purest, bravest, and most
useful citizens is wantonly and calumnious-
ly assailed p?
But it is not too late +; let us have that
letter, and let us have it settled, whether a
cabinet minister can lawfully use the funds
of the general government to establish
newspapers with; or whether the penalty |
Of confinement in the state prison follows |
the transgressions of Secretary of State,
as we'll as of other persons in the employ
of the general government. Let us have
the letter at once.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
A bloody Affair..The Result OF
IntemDeranCe.


On Saturday morning terrible affray
occurred in the town Of Lyons, in this
county.
On Friday evening, about dark, Q strap-
ger, who gave his name as Archibald 81.
McLay, came to the house af Mr., Connells,
and obtained permission to stay over night.
He had bundle with him and appeared
to be traveller. During the night McLay
left the house and went to the dwelling Of
Mr.. Denlay, getting into the house through
an open window. Denlay and his son i'm
mediately got up, and McLay begged them
to project him, saying that two men were
after him to shoot him, He appeared
greatly excited, and they gave him some
water to drink, and began to question him
as to his conduct.
Not being satisfied of the fellows good
intentions, young Denlay loaded gun for
his father and then went in search of n
constable to have the stranger arrested, and
while gone the elder Denlay managed to
get McLay out OF the house, and in going
he seized large butcher knife which lay
upon chair on the porch, and started on
a run for the house of Mr.. Brown, which
was near by, Denlay, fearing that McLay
would do some mischief with the knife,
pursued him with the gun, threatening to
shoot him unless he dropped the knife.
As Denlay approached McLay, the latter
turned upon him with the knife, when he
discharged the gun, loaded with common
shot, at McLays head, who staggered back,
and peplay attempted then to seize che
knife,
Failing to get If, a struggle ensued, and
Denlay was stabbed in the breast, and side
five or six times. A younger son, some
ten years old, of Denlay's called for help
MS soon as the fight commenced, and Mr..
Brown came from his house which was
near by, and separated the combatants.
MeLay still held the knife in his hand, and
attempted to escape, but Brown seized
him, took the knife away and tied him fast
with rope.
A surgeon was summoned, who dressed
Denlay's wounds, and the prisoner was
brought to this city and lodged in Jail.
An examination of the matter has been
postponed until Thursday, to await the re-
suit of the injuries to Denlay. It is sup
posed that the accused was laboring under
at the time he went to Den
lays house, as he says he had been drink
ing hard for several days preyious,-CM-
cogo Tribune, IL.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

: "why should all farmers, chickens raises
l. Doest txke:-"I do, spec,
Because for every grain Of maize
Their sure to give PECkr
sswhstle daughter whistle, and you shall have cow
al never wbisted in my life, and l won't whistle now
'whsfie, daughter whistle, and you shall have man
"a never whistled in my fe-but III whistle il canr
ON aATRMoNY.
Tom praised his friend, who changed his state,
For binding fast himself TO Kate
In union divine;
awedlocks the end OF life,' he cried;
sToo true alasr said Jack, and sighed,
twill be the end Of mine"
sIexs or PResYzRIfr.-The following contains as much
truth ~ poetry:
Where spades grow bright and idlc words grow dull;
Where jails arc empty, and where barns are fnll;
Where church paths with frequent feet outworn;
Iav court-yaris weedy, silent and ferlorn;
Where doctors seot IT, and farmers ride;
where age abcunds and youth is multiplied;
Where these signs are they clearly indicate
A happy people and a well governed state
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
THE LABoRING MANS SONG.
AIR-~widow Machree.'

Jenny, Oh Jenny! how altered you've grown
Och honei Jenny Aachree!
In that democrat coat you would hardly be known
Och honei Jenny Machreel
You once swore you'd drain
Every art'ry and vein
If you Thought such a stain
In your Gfzzard could be-
II you thought there did hide
of democracy's tide
One d. .op! Jenny Machree!
Jenny, Oh Jenny! the good days have Hown
Och honei Jenny Nachreei
Since grimmest of Federal whigs, you were known
Och hone! Jenny Machree!
It was then you did say,
You thought @ten cents" day,
Would be ample to pay
As the working mans feel
You may buster and shout,
But you can't rub IL out,
@Ten cents" Jenny Machree,
In your heart f you have one the workmen you hate,
Och honel Jenny Machree!
Though you try tn pretend you have Joined them Of late,
Och hone! Jenny Machree!
'Tis for this you'd explode
2. The Pacific Railroad,
Which wculd sure have bestowed
Work on Millions Of free!
But slave-lsbor to please
Upon Cuba you'd seize
Och honel Jenny Maehree!
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
E The London Da;ly News describe.

re- The London Daily News describes,
or rather negleets TO describe, an improve
ment in the telegraph, recently patented and
tested on line 160 miles long, which is
capable Of sending several messages at once,
in the same direction, on single wire. The
inventor is DIR. Bernstein, of Berlin. The
Nsws' editor has seen it in operation in
connection with the printing telegraph, and
the messages were printed simultaneously
ms fast as delivered. He anticipates revo-
luton in telegraphing, and a cheapening Of
the rates, in consequences Of the invention.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

The Miserable Blear-Eycd Rabbel who
have been transferred, like so many cattle.
to that new country, are now more to be
pitied than blamed.
This is what the Wa h:ngton Union
says of the Northern Emigrants who have
recently gone into Kansas. The friends of
these miserable blear-eyed rabble," will
have something to say IN reply on the 4th
of November.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
E In the Island of Trinidad there is

H In the Island of Trinidad there is a
lake of pitch, or of water covered with pitch,
which is about mile and half in circum-
ference. At the sides the pitch is cold
and hard, but at the middle it Is seen to rise
in boiling state. The material is highly
combustible, but flows through the CRATE
bers and escapes when used in any ordinary
manner for fuel. A patent has recently been
taken out for mixing wood shavings with
the pitch, and thus rendering it manageable.
Hsuch q lake existed among any Of the hills
in New England, we fancy some way would
be found Of making it available.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

DID you everthink of the fact, reader,
that this democratic" Administration is
supporting Polygamy in Utah out of the
US. Treasury. The Marshal, Federal
officer holder under Federal pay, has six
wives, and gets twenty-five hundred dollars
a year from Washington to help support
them.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

EE We see it stated in the Colborne
Transcript, that there were some $4,000
white fish caught by one sein on Presvue
Isle Point, and the night before about
AeO0. The $4,000 were large, fine fish,
y brth about about $4,000 as they were
takea out of the water. A pretty good
nights work for eight or ten men.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

The Know Noihings of st. Louis have
already, through their organ the Inteiii-
gencer, nominated Hon. Luther NJ. Ken
nett, the Know Nothing defeated by Blair,
as a candidate for seal in the Y. S. SEN
ntp
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

A white man was hauled up TO the
whipping-post in Norfolk Virginia, the
other day. and received fifteen l;,shcs for
petty larceny.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

Ew We are informed, says the Du-
buque Express, that there is cavern neal
Decorah, so situated that the water which
falls from its roofs in Winter is frozen, and
ss,ch is the amount Of ice formed that it
serves the citizens Of that place in Summer
with the luxury of ice from natural ice
house.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

The GERMAN SINGERS FOR FREMONT.
At a meeting of the German Song So,
cieties in Pittsburg on Saturday last, avote
was taken, whether they would support
Fremont or Buchanan, the result was
For Fremont ------96
For Buchanan
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
THE FINE OLD FOSSIL BACHELOR.


I'll sing You fine old ballad, made by fine old pate,
OF fine old fossil bacheor-the doughace candidate:
Who in the White House wished to dwell-but be had
no mate,
The people thought for one lone man. the mansion was
too great.
For the fine old fassil bachelor
Who WAS put up too late.
This fine old fossil bachelor to anything would swear,
And if the party told him to- would that round
square;
And If his principles was false and shangefnl the air.
But faitkful to ambition for the Presidential chair.
Like the fine old fossil bachelor,
Who never could get there.
For while the fossil bachelor abode meath other skies
The vsndas of his clique tore down solemn compromise
And built structure black and foul in all the peoples
eyes,
And placed platform on its top that made up Of
lies, t-.--.
Where the fine old fossil bachelor
Might stand and show his size
And the fine old fossil bachelor to the platform led
And they placed the party just underneath his
head,
But the platform galowsdr and yielded to his
tread,
And kicking of his boots he hung politically dead
That fine old fossil bachelor,
From the platform stained blood-red.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
Boiling at Home,

A DR.. JOHNSTON, of BUouANAN's own
country of Lancaster, for twenty years one
of the most prominent Democrats of Penn
sylvania, bolts the Cincinnati platform and
its candidate. Here is his letter
LETTER OF DECLINATI0N,
FREEaAs's VALLEY, Dmmore twp. !
July 81, 1855.
H. B. Sacarr, Esq, Chairman of Rueh-
aaaa Co. Committee
SIR :-For twenty-five years | have
been q voting Democrat. For the last
twenty years have been voter In Lam
caster county, and during that time have
invariably supported the men and measures
of the Jefferson and jackson Democracy-
always maintaining the doctrine of 1.-THE
greatest good to the greatest number
and having sworn, with the great Father
of Democracy, "eternal hostility to every
form of tyranny over the mind of man."
have always approved the letter and
spirit of the Ordinance of 1887. which ex.
cluded Slavery from all the Territory then
belonging to the United States, and the
principle of which has been the settled
policy of the Democratic party since 1898,
and of the federal government down to tho
administration of Franklin Pierce.
The Cincinnati Convention having de-
parted from the great highway of Repub-
lican Liberty, repudiated the Democracy
of Jefferson and Jackson by endorsing the
sectional measures of the administration of
Franklin Pierce, and adopted q platform
destructive in its character to the interests
of the whole country, am confident that
in repudiating that platform, and in Weld
ing hearty support to John C. Fremont
for the Presidency, l do not depart in the
slightest degree from the faith Of the De-
mocratic party. -
As | cannot, therefore, consistently, sup
port the principles embodied in the Gin
cinnati platform, and as Mr.. Buchanan has
lost his personal identity-thus relieving all
who might otherwise have supported him
on the principle of County or State 1pride"
you will much oblige me by selecting
some other person to represent Dumore
township in your committee.
l remain, sirs, yours respectfully.
c. N. JOHNSTON.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
otLuIty'
G.. NJ. JOHNSTON.

DR.. johnson well known as the s.Dru-
more Shoemaker" having stumped the
county with the Buckeye Blacksmith in
lS40 and 1s44.-His Democracy has
never been questioned, and his declination
at this crisis is regarded as ominous for the
faYorite son.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21
News from all Quarters.

4
i
| The grain crop the present year, says
the Boston Transcript, over all the New
England States, is very heavy.
! The Pennsylvania State Fair is to be
held at Pittsburgh, September 3Oth, Octo
Der lst, Sd and Sd.
! The first sweet potatoes of the season ap.
peared in the New York market on Friday,
and commanded high price.
The Texas Railroad Loan Bill has become
a loan. The Roads now in progress in that
State will be completed at an early day.
In Doylestown, Pa. Benz. Leedon had
one arm and one leg cut off by moving
machine. He died in a few hours.
Miss Hannah Penn, great granddaugh-
ter of the celebrated William Penn, died
at Richmond, Surrey, England, on the
10th of last month.
1t is stated that the New Orleans Pr
cayune divided 100000 profits last year,
or $4,000 to each of its five partners.
The sales of land by the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad Company, in July last, reach
ed 1s, 500 acres, for 1901, ,O56, at an av-
erage of about $3.50 per acre.
The steamer Cahawba, which sailed
from New York for Nicaragua on Satur-
dav, had on board one hundred passen-
gers intending to join Walkers army.
Two boys arrested in Cambridge, Mass,
for setting fire to a carpenter shop, confess
to firing rope-walk, a few days since, as
they "wanted have a lunch with the en-
gine companies"
A salt water silver eel was taken from
the dock at Monroe, Mich, few days
since. The creature weighed 6 1-2 lbs,
and was three feet long. He probably
stayed up the st. Lawrence and yelling
Canal, taking advantage of the Reciprocity
Treaty. .s:.
In Maine the potatoe rot has made its
appearance in some fields earlier than usu-
al, but as the vines are still growing vigor-
ously, it is hoped that the crop will not be
generally injured.
The quantity of flour and grain which
has reached tide water in 1856 and 1855,
from the opening of navigation to July 81,
is as follows:
Flour. Wheat. Corn.
1856. 597, ,366 3,2796Ol 1.6s6566
1855. ... 42l ,49O 670,153 4,422,244
A little child of Sylvanus Waters, of
Randolph, was drowned in well on Fri
day the Sth. The well was forty feet deep.
Before aid could be rendered life was ex-
tinct. The child was only two years old.
The Syracuse Standard says:-"Our
daily is now printed on paper made from
rags imported directly from the land of the
Pharoahs, on the banks Of the Nile"
There is firm in Cincinnati which en-
ploys capital of $4,000 in the rather
singular business ofpreparing sausage skins
for European markets.
The number of deaths in Buffalo during
the past mouth, was as follows:-Under
five years of age, l30; over five years, 81.
Total, l91.
An ancient document lately published
states thatin 1926 the Island ofManhattan
On Y. City, as estimated then to contain
$4,000 acres, was purchased of the Indians
fo$24.
A new counterfeit fve on the Merchants
Bank of Burlington, Vt; is in circulation.
Its description has not yet appeared in any
of the detectors. Vignette, aspread eagle
upon shild, with the motto E Pluribus
Unum, train of cars, reapers, and vessels in
the distance. Indian woman at the right
end. Letter B..