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True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-02-06
Woolen Factory For Rent.

w OUIVII TaUIUFy EUI N6HJ'
THE subscriber living on Cross Creek
wishes to rent his factory-about five miles
from Steubenvlle on the Railroad either for
money or OH the shares, op reasonable terms
Jan. 3O5tpd. ANDREW EKEY Jr.
Francis Bates, Plaintiff, I Before John Bray
Administrator of the Es. Justice of the Peace
ate of j. r. Reynolds, of Ste benville
deceased Township Jefferson
against county, Ohio.
W. B. Bro wn, defendant.
On the 9th day of December, 1855, said Jus
tice issued an order Of attachment in the above
action, for the sum of $5l 50.
FRANCIS BATES.
Steubenville James Administrator,
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:. Attachment Notice.
WoodWells Furniture and Chairs,

Woodwells Furniture and Chairs,
WHOLESALE and Retail, embracing
w every variety of Furniture, in Rosewood,
Mahogany and Walnut, suitable for Parlors,
Chambers and Dining Rooms, equal to any in
New York or Philadelphia, and atlower prices;
every article made by hand and warented.
D'Cabinet Makers supplied with any guam
tity of Furniture and Chairs on reasonable terms
Hotels and Steamboats, furnished at tie short
est notice.
Warerooms nos II aud 70 Third Street, Pitts
burgh. 4,s n sept 26-ly.
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Sevastopol Not Taken /!

Sevastopol Not Taken!
ENIEST, Market street, has in store an
= excellent assortment Of C0NFECTI0NE-
RIEs, &C., purchased expressly for this market
Raisius by the pound or box; Crackers, choice
brands; Currants; Candies; Dates; Prunes; Lem
ous; Figs; Citron; Gum Drops; Know Nothings
Jenny Lind Drops; Cakes of all kinds; Nuts Of
all kinds; Fruits; Fire Crackers, Torpedoes, DC
Parties furnished with Pound, Fruit, Lady Oak,
and Ice Cream.
Great inducements offered to Country merch
ants and others, who wish to purchase by tn,
uantlty For bargains in Confectioneries, CT
at M. FEIST'S.
Jan LIST Market ST.. Steuben VILE
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THOMPSON HANNA & SONS.
Paper Manufacturers, Steubenville, Ohio
January ! 1855. h vs Ne AKA
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ASSETS

Income bonds,
per cent. semtan. 1900 90 o.. .+ |
20 State ofVa. bonds ...
6 per cent semi
annually $4,000 90
State Of Nc. bonds
6 per cent. semi
annually 5000 00
lO Jersey city water
per cent. semi
annually 10000 10
6 Milwaukee city
10 per cent. SEMI
annually 5000 %
10 Hartford city
bonds 6 per cent.
semi annually 10000 90
l29.60O 90
Money due the COM
pany secured by
mortgage S,O5l W
500 shares Hartford
and New Haven
r. r. Stock $4,000 90
los shares Hartford
and Providence R.
r. stock preferred
and guaranteed III
per cent. 1880 w
lO7 shares Boston
& Worcester R, r.
Stock, $500 90
50shares conn. rv-
er X, r. Stock $4,000 90
-- $4,000 90
80 share conn. co.
Stock 1850 0O
60 shares Stafford --.
bank stock 5,l0O 00
GO shares citizens
bank stock Water,
bury 5,lOO 90
36 sh ares Eagle
bank stock Prov
idenco 1880 90
800 shares Phoenix
bank stock
Hartford $4,000 90
200 shares Farm
ers and Mechan-
les bank stock,
Hartford $4,000 GO
308 shares Ex-
change bank
stock Hartford, 1884 00
1872 shares State
bank stock Hart
ford 24,576 90
100 shares City
bank stock Hart
ford 1l,600 90
rs shares bank of
Hartford Co.
Hartford 1887 SO
$50 shares Conn.
River bank
stock Hartford $3.50 10
244 shares Hart
ford bank stock
Hartford 30,744 %
0,l61
200 shares Mer-
Exchange bank
New Yolk l0,S25 90
200 shares North
River bank New
York l0,l00 90
400 shares Me-
chanics' bank
New York l2,00O OO
100 shares bank of
North America
New York 10000 O0
140 shares bank
America New
York 1880 %
$50 shares bank
Republic New
York 1880 90
100 shares bank
Com monwealth
stock $500 w
4S0 shares Broad
way bapk stock
New York 14,04O 90
400 shares Peoples
bank stock New
York l0,7O0 w
200 shares Union
bank stock New
York ll,750 00
100 shares Hano-
yer bank stock -
New York $500 OO
f 20O shares Ocean
bank stock S,4OO w
$50 shares Metro
politanb'k stock
New York l6,425 00
1863 shares Butch
Y ers' & Drovers'
bank stock New
h York S,516 w
: 200 shares lmpor- .......
> ters' & Traders
bank stock New
York 10000 ZOO
: 100 shares Ameri-
can Exchange
bank stock New
> York 1l,6OO 90
e 81 shares Mer-
n chants bank
y stock 2,l7O w
r 100 shares U. S.
,f Trust Co. stock 1O,4OO 90
100 shares N. Y.
Life Ins. q
J. Trust Co, stock,
W IN. Y. $1,000 w ,o- o,o
5, 227 ,Sl6
l. 100 shares Ohio
'b Lifelns. & Trust
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E~Our thanks are due to Hon. John
A, Bingham, M. c., for valuable papers.
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NOTICE IN ATTACHMENT.--

NOTICE In ATTACHMENT
~ Frederick Camman and F. H. Stone. doing
business under the name of the New York &
Ohio Coal Company, defendants, will take no.
tice that at the instance of Philip F. Geise,
plaintiff, an order of attachment ag ainst the
goods, chattels, &C., of The defendants, was on
the 18Th day of January 1856, issued by
Samuel Paisley, Justice of the Peace, withir
and for Jefferson comfy, Ohio, for the sum OF
$l32,4O jan3O 3t
NOTICE IN ATTACHMENT.
Frederick Camm0n and F. II. Stow, do
ing business under the name of the New
York and Ohio Coal Company, defendants,
will take notice that at the instance of Dun
can Mcdonald, Daniel Mcdonald, jacob
N. McCollough aud Philip L. Geise, part
ners, under the name of Mcdonald, Geise
e. Co.., Plaintiff s an order Of attachment
against the goods, chattels, &c. Of the de-
PENDANTS was on the 18th day Of January
1856, issued by Samuel Paisley, a Justice
of the Peace, within and for Jefferson
county, Ohio for the sum of S2S6,ll.
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$4,000 Bushels Of Wheat Wanted I'm
medistelY. ------

'T'IIE undersigned has taken the steu-
Il benville Steam Flour Mills, and will pay
the highest prices in Cash, for any quantity Of
Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats, &c, delivered at the
Mill or W arehonsc.
A large number of Flour Barrels wanted, for
which The highest market price will be paid.
Proposals for furnishing The Mill in coal FOR
five months, will he received for one week
inom this date. Payment in cash, daily if de.
sired.
NJ GEISELMAN.
REFrnrYcrs.-A. B. Hanson aud John Viii
ilams, President and Cashier of Frederick Co
md Bank; Ex-Gov. Lowe, Nd, james
Whitelold, Com. Mer, Specr's Wharf, Balti
more. Md. Jan7 nlv2t
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Sherif's office, Steubenville, Jan. l6 1856
Valuable Farm for Sale.

TNHE undersigned offers for sale farm
Il containing lO3 acres lying in Cross Greek
Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, situate on
M'Intire's adjoining Sweringen's lower mill.
There are 65 acres cleared and in good repair,
with fine orchard of choice grated fruit.
The above farm is offered very low, and easy
terms Of payment will be given.
Jan. l6-4tpd. ANDREW EKEY Jr
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GoRIGINAJ.
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY.
ITO expire on the Sd day of July, 1861
STATE OF OHIO, AUDITOR OF
STATES OFFICE,

N u ~ Va lSG3
COLUMBUS, Jan. 81. 1856.
WHEREAS, The Etna Insurance Com
pany of Hartford, Conn.,, located at Hart
lord, in the State of Connecticut, has filed
in this Office sworn statement of its con-
dition, as required by the first section of
the "Act to regulate the Agencies of In
surance Companies not incorporated by the
State of Ohio" passed May l, 1854:
And Whereas, said Company has furnish
ed the undersigned, satisfactory evidence
that it is possessed of at least One Hundred
Thousand Dollars of actual Capital invest
ed in stocks of at least par value, or in
bonds or mortgages of unincumbered real
estate worth double the amount for which
the same is mortgaged: ..,..
And Whereas, said Company has filed in
this office written instrument, under its
corporate seal, signed by the President and
Secretary thereof, nominating and appoint
ing John S. Patterson, of Steubenville, its
Agent for the transaction of business Of
insurance, and fully and unreservedly au-
thorizing him to acknowledge service o.
process for and on behalf Of said Company
consenting that service of process upor
him, the said Agent, shall be taken and
held to be as valid as if served upon the
Company, according to the laws of this
State, or of any othor State, and waving
all claim of error by reason ofsuch service
Now, therefore, In pursuance of the first
section of the Act to regulate the Agencie'
of Insurance Companies not incorporated
by the State of Ohio" passed May, |, 1854
I, Francis NJ. Wright, Auditor of saic
State, do hereby certify that the said JOIN
s. Patterson is authorized as an Agent to
the said Company, to transact the busnes
of Insurance in this State, until the thirty
first day tf July, in the year one thousan'
eight hundred and fifty-six, SO far as hi
may be legally empowered so to do by hi
letter of appointment, and the instruction.
which may be giyeDto him by the salt
Company.
In Witness Whereof, have
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CONDITION OF
ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY.
JANUARY l, 1856,

AS presented 20 its Stockholders, and made
out incompetence with State laws of New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, DC. -
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OUAL TUN NAHN.
THE Subscriber has large lot of Goa
that he wishes to sell by the acre, about
two miles west from Steubenville. Also
another farm, the best coal farm on the s.
Il ]. r. R., about eight miles west of SteQ-
benville, and the best chance to ship on
the Railroad, which he offers to sell at q
very low price. Please give him call.
ANDREW EKEY Jr.
Jan. 30-5t pd.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
N, & J. S. DIXIE.

WHOLESALE GROCERS,
At the old stand of M. Andrews e. Son
MARKET STREET,
STEUBENVILLE. OHIO.
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N NOTICE
PROPOSALS. will be received by eth
er of the Directors named below, until
FRIDAY. February 8. 1856,

PROPOSALS. will be received by eth
= er of the Directors named below, until
FRIDAY, February s, 1856.
For psrson to act as Superintendent of the
Jefferson County Infrmary for the year ensu-
ing, from the first day of April next. His du-
ties will be to receive paupers, provide provis-
ions, clothing and fuel, to keep the farm in
repair, and attend to such crops as may be ne
cessary or required by the Directors His
wife must cook, wash, make and mend cloth
ing and bedding for the inmates, and attend to
the household duties generally. 1t will be re,
membered that there is an addition to the farm,
making in all about $50 acres.
Proposals will be received for Physician for
the ensuing year, for the Infrmary proper;
also for Physician during same time, for out
door paupers. The Physician for lnfirmary
proper, to furnish medicines, pay at least two
visits monthly to the Infrmary, and as much
oftener as called upon. The physician for out
door paupers, TO furnish medicines aud to at
tend oall cases in the county where his servi-
ces may be required.
Proposals will also be received for furnishing
Cuflins and rorgh boxes for the said lntirmary
for the ensuing year. Said CoffiDs and rough
boxes to be delivered anywhere in the county
that the Directors may require.
Bonds and security will be required for the
fsithGul performance of the contracts
JOHN HARTFORD,
JOHN LINDUFF,
L. H. McFEELY.
jan233t Directors of jeff. Co. In.
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DTThe following named gentlemen
from Bloomingdale P. O., are credited
Tor one years subscription 10 the True
American:
g DR.. Cole,
John H. Forester,
w. P. McGrail,
@. B. Templeton,
@ ]. Hammond,
Il 8. Upton,
W. S, Blackburn,
Wm. Mansfield,
r. Harry,
Geo. Johnston,
M. Blackburn,
A. Pennel
J. Ferguson,
IS Kinsey Cole,
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.IT Irlle il Allfriirqn. III (:l.iil:l

i5 The C1TizENs BANK still continues to
pay interest on deposits. D. MooDY,
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LEGAL NOTICE.

Eenjamne f. Speaker ~,
VS.. In Partition
cathurine snowden ct al
NOTICE is hereby given TO Samuel
~ Snowden and Catharine Snowden his wife
Of Hooking county Ohio, James I. Snowden,
William Rex, Mathew T. Speaker, Lydia Speak.
er, Isabella Speaker, Samuel G. Speaker and
Hannah Speaker, OF Jefferson county, Ohio,
that on the 18th day of December, A. D. 1856,
the said Benjamin F. Speaker filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Court OF common Pleas
for Jefferson county, Ohio, his petit ion against
them which is now pending, wherein the said
petitioner demands pa tition Of the following
real estate, situate in Jefferson county, Ohio
of which the said William Speaker died seized
TO wit: The north east quarter of section one
in township seycn and range two, and that at
the February term Of the Court of common
Pleas for said county of Jefferson, application
will be made to said Court for an order thai
petition may be made of SAID premises accord
ing to the Statute in such case made and pro
vided. By MOODEY & ELLIOTT,
dec 1876. Attorneys for Petitioner.
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J. G. I'K2E, Proprietor.
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MERCHANT6 HOWE

CORNER OF SECOND AND sMITnfIkLD sTS.s
FITTSCURGH, E9.
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100 shares Ohio
LifeIns. Il Trust
Co. stock Cin'ti
Is shares Mechan-
les & Traders
Jersey City
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In Witness Whereof, I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and caused the seal of my of
[sGAL.] flee to be affixed, this 3lst
day of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-siX.
+, NJ. WRIGHT, Auditor.
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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-28
Sleeping i'm Church.

AS this number will appear in dog days,
the following extract may not be amiss. 1t
is from sermon preached in the Cathedral
Of Dublin, by Swift, but will equally apply
to the conventicle and the chapels anywhere
in this latitude. The text will be found in
Acts 90: 9, "And there sat in the window a
certain young man, named Euty being
fallen into deep sleep, and fell from the
third loft, and was taken up dead" Swift
then proceeds, II have chosen these words
with design, if possible, to disturb some
part of this audience of half an hours sleep,
for the convenience and exercise whereof
this place. at this seuson OF the year, is very
much celebrated. There is indeed, one NOR.
tai disadvantage to which all preaching is
subject, that those who by the wckedness
of their lives stand in the greatest need have
usually the smallest share; for either they
are absent upon account of idleness, or
spleen, or hatred of religion, or in order to
doze away the intemperance Of the week,
or, if they do come. they are sure to employ
their minds any other way than regarding
or attending to the business of the place.
"The accident which happened to the
young man in the text hath not been suff-
cient to discourage his successors: but be-
cause the preachers now in the world, how
ever they do exceed St. Paul in the art of
setting men to sleep, do extremely fall short
ofhim in the working of miracles; there
fore, men are become SO cautious as to
choose more safe and convenient stations
and postures for taking their repose, without
hazard to their persons; and upon the whole
ton to miracle than their sufety."
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A Amusing e.

The following incident we have from a
friend who knew the party:
Deacon c., of Hartford. Conn, is well
known as being provided with an enormous
handle to h:s countenance, in the shape of a
huge nose. On late occasion, when ia
king up collection in the church to which
he belonged, as he passed through the con-
greeation every person to whom he presen.
ted the box. seemed possessed by sudden
and uncomfortable desire to laugh. The
deacon did not know what to make of it
He had often passed it around before, but
no such effects had he witnessed. The dea-
con was fairly puzzled. The secret howev.
er came out. He had been afflicted a day
or two, with sore on his nasal append ge,
and had placed piece of sticking plaster
over it. During the morning Of the day in
question, the plaster dropped off, and the
deacon seeing it, as he supposed, on the
floor, picked itup and stuck it on again
But alas! he picked up instead, one of the
pieces of paper which the manufacturers OF
spool cotton pasted on the end of every spool,
and which read "Warranted to hold oat 200
yprds." Such q sign on such a nose was
enough to upset the gravity Of, any congre.
CATION. a..,
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Stick to One Thing.

81 have found gold mine," said an
old man to his sons, "a gold mine At our
doors, gold mine richer than California"
"Where is it," they asked. at is in these
four Words" he answered; "stick to one
thing" The old man wss right. More
persons are ruined by desparing too SOON
in business, and changing to something
else, than by most any other error in life
One OF the first essentials for success In
any pursuit is to have perfect under
standing of ii. Every year. nay, every day.
adds to ones capacity in this respect, so
that, all things else being equal, he who
has been longest in business is sure to
have the advantage over his rivals. A good
carpenter would make but a sorry mschi-
mist, and first.rate farmer but an indiffer-
ent mechanic. The difference between the
old merchant andthe young beginner is less
in intellectual capacity than in superior ex-
perience. The grey-headed lawyer excels
the new-hedged student in many things, it
is true, but principally in the store of well
digested cases at his command. Yelling
ton won Waterloo in great measure, be-
cause he had served an apprenticeship in
fighting the French, for seven years, in the
Peninsula. To be changing ones calling
frequently is always to be learning a new
alphabet. Keep to one language. Stick
to one thing.
If there is any such thing as luck, per-
severence is sure to win at last, for the
chances cannot forever run against man.
Backgammon players know that it is i'm
possible to throw double aces all the time.
Fortune tires of pesecuting those who bear
up bravely against her assaults. Wash
ington when he discovered the superior
discipline of the royal troops, determined to
carry on the war with the spade-that is,
to act entirely on the defensive until his
soldiers could be trained to manoeuvre in
face of the enemy without falling into dis
order; and to this resolution--to which he
adhered for years, in spite of the clamors
oil the taCtlOns, ana even OF tne auVlCe OF
Congress-we probably owe our indepen-
dence. He chose the Fabian line of poll
cy as best suited to his condition, and, by
steadily following it, triumphed at last
Like him, select your line of policy and
keep it. Stick to one thing. In all ages
and countries the idle waverer has been
considered traitor or a fool. That one
"cannot carry water on both shoulders"
has passed into a proverb. Needlessly to
change friends, party or religion, is to lose
the confidence OF ones fellow men. "Be
sure you are right" as Crockett said "then
90 ahead" Or, as we have phrased it,
"Stick to one thing"
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AnccdOte of CIarran.

A farmer, attending a fair with a hum
dred pounds in his pocket, took the precau-
ton of deposting it in the hands Of the land
lord of the public house at which he stop
ped. Having occasion for it shortly after
wards, he resorted to mine host for payment.
But the landlord, too deep for the country
man, wondered what he meant, and was
quite sure no such sum had ever been depos-
tied in his hands by the astonished rustic
After Intellectual appeals to the recollection,
and finally to the honor of Bardolph, the
farmer applied to Curran for advice.
"Have patience my friend, 'said the eoun-
sci; "speak to the landlord civily-tell him
you have left your money with some other
person. Take friend with you, and lodge
with him another hundred, in the presence
of your friend, and come to me-"
He did so and returned to his legal friend.
"And now can't see how am going to
be the better off for this, if l get my Sec
ond hundred back again-but how is that to
be done"
"Go and ask him for it when he is alone,"
said the counsel.
"Ah, sir, but asking won't do, I'm afraid"
"Never mind, take my ADVICE" said the
counsel; edo as l bid you, and return to
me-"
The farmer returned with his hundred,
glad to find that safely in his possession.
"Now, sir, must be content; but don't
see as am much better off"
"Well then," said the counsel, snow take
your friend with you, and ask the landlord
for the hundred pounds your friend saw you
leave with him."
We need not add that the willy landlord
found he had been taken off his guard while
our honest friend returned to thank his
counsel. exultingly; with both hundreds in
his pocket.
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A Wonderful Mirror.

Among the wonderful curiosities to be
met with in the Paris Exposition is huge
concave mirror, the instrument Of startling
species of optical magic. On standing close
to it, it presents nothing but magnificent
ly monstrous distinction Of your physiogno-
my. On retiring couple of feet, it gives
your own face and figure in true proportion
reversed, the head downwards. But retire
still further and stand at the distance of FIVE
or six feet from the mirror; and behold you
see yourself not refection-but your veri.
table self standing in the middle part be-
tween you and the mirror The effect is
almost appalling, from the idea it suggests
Of something supernatural, so startling in
fact, that men Of the strongest nerves will
shrink involuntariy at the first view. If
you raise your cane to thrust at your other
selfyou will see it pass clear through the
body and appear on the other side, the fig
ure thrusting at the same instant. The ar
tist who first succeeded in fashioning mir
ror of this description, brought it to one Of
the French Klngs-if we recollect Alright, it
was Louis XV.-placed him on the right
ot,and bade him draw his sword, and thrust
it at the figure he saw. The king did so,
but seeing the point Of a sword directed to
his breast, threw down his weapon and ran
away. The practical joke cost the invent.
or the kings patronage and favor; he being
afterwards so ashamed of his own coward
ice, that he would never again look at the
mirror or its owner.