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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
Republican Legislature.

As this body is being charged by certain
Locofoco editors with having prolonged its
session to an unusual length, it may be
well enough to remind these gentlemen Of
facts as they appear on record.
1t might be well for them to remember
that the Locofoco Legislature of 1852,
commenced its regular session on the 9Th
day of January of that year, and closed on
the Sd of May following, making a session
of four months, lacking two days! That
this same Locofoco Legislature commenced
its extra session of that year, on the 18th
of November, and closed on the 14th day
of March following, being a session of 4
months, lacking one day. That the next
and last Loeofoco Legislature, being that
of 1854, commenced its session January I'd,
and closed May LIST, making another ses-
sion of four months, Taking one day-while
this outlandish Republican Legislature COM
menced its first session Jan. Z, 1856, and
continued to April 11,a period of only three
months and four days, and commenced its
extra session January, 1857, and continued
to April 18th, a period of only three months
and Is days, or less than three months and
a halt. Thus showing the two sessions of
this Republican Legislature to be the shor-
test of any held in the State, by any Leg
i~slature since the year ls4s, or for the last
nine or ten years. The session Of 1s50-51
continued from December I'd to March 26th,
Just four months lacking seven days. That
of ls4s, from December Sd to March 25th,
Just four months, lacking nine days. That
of 1s49, from December 4th, to March
26th, nearly four months.
The above stubborn facts, we copy from
the Xenia Torchlight. They are a perfect
and complete answeft to the senseless clamor
of the Locofoco press of the State, about
the waste of time, and the length of the
session. We have read every day for q
fortnight in the Statesman railing accuse
tons against the Republican Legislature,
and have been treated to a daily promise
in the same paper, of a scathiug review of
its enormities; but as yet, no bill of partlc-
ulars has been filed. As we said when
the session closed 1--WE would not defend
all that was done, or that was left undoEe
by tho Legislature" yet we are well sssur.
ed that, take the session as a whole, 1t will
be found upon examination, to have been
one of the best Legislatures that has been
in this city for many years; while the moral
tone of the members was such as to- COM
mand the respect of all good memo. s.
Journal.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

The COMET TO STRIKE THE EARTH IN
JUNE.-A writer OIL this subject in the st.
Louis Republican. says:
l. There are astronomical calculations
of the orbit of the coming comet, that war
rant the prediction that it will touch the
earth.
2. Science can calculate the orbit of this
eccentric comet, no matter how long its Pc
Rod, and 1 predict, unhesitatingly, that the
comet now approaching, will come in con-
tact with the earth on the morning of the
10th of June, about 20 minutes after 10
o'clock, and the point of contact will be in
the vicinity ola place called Vide Poche or
Carondelet.
8. The neuclus of this comet is very large,
and composed of the b~isulphuretted carbon
ate of the ~protoxide of manganese. The
tail is chlorine, and although you cannot
see stars through it, they will probably be
seen by many individuals at the time of
the collision.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
From st. Louis

ST.. LOUIS, Nav 2.
The Democrat has advices from Fort
Des Moiaes to the 27th ult., stating that
from 500 to 600 Sioux Indians crossed the
Des Moines River in the neighborhood of
Fort Dodge, Saturday.
Fears are entertained that the fort had
been attacked. Tie force in the fort IS in
sufficient to make a successful resistance:
Companies were organizing to go to their
assistance.
Several families had sought refuge at
Des Moines.
The greatest CONSERVATION previled.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

CENTRAL Ono REAL ESTATE AssocIA-
TIoN.-We invite the attention of the rea-
der to the advertisement and Schedule of
this Association, to be found in this paper,
of the distribution, on the first day of July
next, of over Fifty Thousand Dollars worth
of Real Estate, and of S~eventy-fve Thous-
and Articles of personal property. The
Schedule is a magnificent one, and those
who choose to risk a dollar in this distri-
button, cannot, in any event, loose but q
trife, while they may succeed in obtaining
a handsome fortune.
We can guarantee that every engage
ment or promise made by this Association,
in their advertisement, will be promptly met
and redeemed.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
The state Reform school.

The o. S. Journal gives the following
account of the provisions made for the
State Reform School, and the idea upon
which it is TO be conducted:
The law ~appropriates $4,000 annu-
ally to the city of Cincinnati. for which they
are to keep one hundred boys, being those
of the worst class of juvenile offenders
Five thousand dollars is also appropriat-
ed to the same city for the support and
safe keeping of fifty girls; and five thou
sand dollars is appropriated to the same
city for the erection ola temporary place of
confinement for the fifty girls. These
places are designed for the safe keeping of
the most DEPRIVED and vicious classes of
young persons.
Another provision of the bill appropri-
ates fifteen thousand dollars for the pur-
chase, in some favorable locality, Of one
thousand acres ofland for a Farm, and ten
thousand dollars for the erection of build
ings, the purchase of agricultural imple-
ments, and other necessary articles. 1t is
not proposed to build one large building
upon. this farm, for the accommodation of
the persons sent there, but the plan is TO
build several small houses in which the
persons on the farm shall live in plain dwell
ling house style; the purpose being not to
give it the appearance of a Farm Prison,
but of q good Farm School. This Farm
School is designed for the accommodation of
the better class ofjuvenile offenders. They
are of course, to be under proper discipline,
and will be made to work, and will have
instilled into them the habits of industry
and cleanliness, and the principles of relig-
ion and virtue.
Inducements will be held out to the in
mates of the institutions at Cincinnati, by
which they may be released from their con-
fnement and sent to the farm. All such
as behave themselves will, and give unmis-
takeable evidence of having reformed, will
be promoted to the farm, while those who
are sent to the farm in the first place, and
who continue in their vicious practices, and
become unruly and violate the regulations
of the farm, will be sent to the institution
in Cincinnati. So, by having the two
places of different grades, one will serve as
and incentive to good behavior, and the
other as . terror 70 him who doeth evil.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
A PROMISING Successor TO

A PROMISING SUCCESSOR TO Col.
BRooKs.-A chivalric son of the Old Do
minion, by the name of Lipscomb, who is
ambitious to represent the Third District
of Virginia in Congress, has published an
address to his fellow citizens, in which he
declares himself a progressive Democrat"
and tells his fellow citizens, ifthey will but
send him to Congress, he will cowhide the
first rascal who dares to insult his constitu-
ents by making an offensive speech on the
subject of Slavery" and that che would
like to have the pleasure Of stripping the
back of Burlingame." He promises TO
"treat the Northern bully worse than the
lamented Brooks did his coollegue in the
Senate. old Sumner."- C1e,ryona Herald.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

A PICTURE OF SUNDAY LIFE IN CH1cA-
eo.-Here is a picture Of Sunday life in
Chicago, furnished by the Times. "Here,
in Chicago, on Sunday we have Sc church
es open during the forenoon and evening.
but at the same time there are no less thar
80 ball rooms, in each Of which the band
plays from morning till midnight, and
Waiting goes on without intermission.-
In addition to these festivities we have
two theaters, each with its performers in
tight and very short garments, rivaling
ELLsLER in graceful ev~olutions. Saloons
have their doors closed by. proclamation,
but do a thriving business through side en-
frances"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

AsroN1sHED.-The ST. Louis Meas q
pro-slavery paper, is 'astonished' at the ap-
pearance of matters in the free city of St
Louis, and thus laments over Mr.. Taylor:
Mr.. Taylor is a Southern gentleman, an
eminent citizen and a man of wealth-facts
which it was supposed, clinched him to
anti entonism forever. Judge of the as
constituent and anguish of his old friends
then, at seeing him give a hearty response
to the sentiments of the Mayor, and declare
that Kansas will be a free State, that Mis-
souri, is bound to follow, as her climate and
economy are not adapted to slave labor!
What nexta Anything. Surely the
word .impossibility' ought to be erased from
the vocabulary Of politics, when the Mis-
souri, Republican becomes the confidential
organ of Col. Benton, to defend him against
the designs of the Missouri Democrat and
when the novel spectacle is presented in this
city, ofall the prominent National Demo-
Gratis turning Freesoilers and Emancipation
cists,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

HA few days since, an old German,
in Wheeling, (Va.) of about three score
summers, in company with his young wife,
over whose head not more than twenty
years had passed, applied to q of our Al
dermen for the formation of a divorce bill. It
seems that the arrangement was mutual
between the parties, not that the old man
loved his young "vrow" less. but that he
loved her peace of mind more. He
had asked himself the question, "what can
a lassie do wi an old man." and not receiv-
ing the silent approval of his own heart, he
proposed to release her young spirit from
the cares with which he encountered her,
that she might have the benefit of a moro
happy and congenial union. Such q self
sacrificing disposition is rarely witnessed in
this world of ours.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

EWesee a statement going the rounds
of the opposition press, asserting that Gov.
ROBINSON of Kansas, had agreed with the
Administration that the Free State men
there would all vote ut the coming election.
We should like to know where this maj
ROBINSON gets his right to enter into any
arrangement of this kind with the Pro-
Slavery Administration of BUCHANAN
That he would sell himself and his princi-
pies, if he has any, for a very small con
.sideration, we have not a doubt, but we
think the Free State men of Kansas are
made of better stuff than he, and will not
themselves to be caught in any trap
set for them by him.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
Now YORK Cattle Market.

There was another advance yesterday in
the price of beef cattle at the great weekly
market on East Forty-fourth street, SO that
all bullocks that were really fit for sham
bles, sold at prices equivalent to twelve
cents a pound for meat, not counting the
hide and fat. In fact, many of those sold
at twelve cents would scarcely afford fat
enough for a single feed Of a hungry Es-
quimaux. All the really fat animals read
lily sold for thirteen cents or more per
pound, the supply not being at all equal to
to the demand. The continued advance In
prices of all all kinds of butchers meats, Is
becoming a matter of serious consideration
to those who work to live, and must eat to
work, and whose wages of labor do not ad'
vance with the price of food.-1ri6une,
April %.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
Correspondents of the Chicago Tribune.
Later from the Indian War.
NAMES OF THE KILLED.
Red WING. Minnesota. April 30

RED WING, MlnneSOta, april ~:
Mr.. George C. Granger has Just arrived
from the scene of the Indian massacres.-
The Indians made their appearance 100
miles south of Spirit Lake. They follow
ed up the river, ~plundering and numbering
up to Spirit Lake, and then turned east
in the direction of St. Peter. At Spirit
Lake they murdered forty whites. They
killed James Mattocks and his whole fam
lily, and a Nh. Madison residing with them,
numbering eight persons. Dr.. J. H. Har-
riet, Mr.. Bartamus Snider, F. C. Granger,
Whose parents reside in Michigan) Joseph
Harshman, (late from Indiana,) H. Gard
ncr and family, (all except his daughter of
Is years old taken ~prisoner) were all muir
dered. The Gardner family, which was
destroyed, numbered seven persons, includ-
ing his son-in-law, Mr.. Lewis. Mr.. Marble
of Iowa, was killed, and his wife, after first
being violated by the monsters, before his
eyes, was carried away prisoner. Mr.. How
and family were all killed, except his daugh-
ter of Is years old, who was ravished and
made prisoner. Mr.. Noble, wife and child,
were murdered. Mr.. Thatcher was absent
from home, but his wife was carried away,
and bis child of eight months of old MUIR
dered.
The band of Indians then proceeded to
Sprinield, in Minnesota, and attacked that
settlement containing ten families, who
were all fortified in three houses and one
store-the latter belonging to VIM. and G.
Wood; both were killed during to assault,
and theeontents of their sto ecarried off. At
the house of Mr.. Thomas, a large number
of shots were fired by the Indians, Mr.. rs
son, a lad of Is years of age, was shot
dead at the door. Mr.. IT'S arms was bro
ken BY a shot. David Carver was wound
ed in the side, and not expected to live
Miss Church was wounded in the shoulder
very severely. Four Oh five of the Indians
were killed by those inside.
The house of Mr.. Steers was attacked
and carried by storm, and all the inmates
b~utchered, except a little son of Mr.. S.,
eight years old, who escaped.
About SO shots were fired at Mr.. Smiths
house, containing ten persons, none of whom
were killed. The cattle were all shot down;
the pockets of the killed were rifed-eve-
ry valuable that could be carried off was
taken. After the Indians decamped, the
survivors made their way to Emmett city for
safety. They suffered terribly from cold
and exposure, some were ~barefooted, others
half clad, all destitute of food. They had
to camp out at night, without shelter: and
TO ford streams on the march up to their
necks. 1t was an awful retreat. V.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

@Maj SApP was in town the other day
looking much improved in health. The
people of this District having business to
transact at Washington city will find a ma
terial difference between having the Major
there to attend to those interests for them
promptly and correctly, and having a man
there whose nature and education unfit him
for the place, and who will have to spend
his time in looking up Clerkships for the
"thousand-and-one" applicants from this
District, or ketch jesse at home.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

The @Old Court House" at Wooster
has bsen repaired by planting o hickory
pole in the centre, one end of which p,o-
jects out of the cupola. We suggest that
the Commissioners of Wayne County pro-
cure the green baize which formerly adorned
the door of Jackson's doggery, and suspend
it from this pole as a mark oftheir triumph
over the Woosterites. The brick columns
on the outside, being of no further use might
be worked ur into canes to be presented to
the President, Directors and Stockholders
of the Grafton Branch Rail Roaa. The
dividends declared several years ago, on
the stock of said road, might be sppropria-
ted in extending it to MassiIlon, in which
village they seem to have run out of gas,
though they have Wharton there to boast
of their good "spirits."
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

S~EvAsropoL. - The London Weekly
Dispatch says that the operation of raising
the vessels sunk in the harbor of Sevasto-
pol, has al: eady commenced. Sixteen of
eighty have been recovered. Among
them: a steamer, four transports, one brig
and two schooners. The DispaM does not
mention the parties engaged In the work;
1t will be remembered that the pioneer OF
one expedition sailed several weeks ago
from Boston, and the pioneer Of another
sailed from this port on Tuesday last.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
From Mexico.

NEW ORLEANS, May 2.
Advices from the City of Mexico are to
the 18th ult.
The Archbishop and several priests had
been arrested for attempting to excite an
instruction. The Archbishop will be ban
ished.
Two British war vessels had arrived at
Sacrificious, causing much speculation as to
their object.
They were supposed to have been sent
for the purpose of bullying the Govern
ment, which will probably delay the settle
ment of the English question.
Rumors are rife of flibustering expedi-
tons to Sonora, Lower California.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

R-The Locofoco press in Northern
Ohio, are out pretty generally in favor of
H. B. PAYNE, Esq, of Cleveland, as their
next candidate for Governor. Mr.. PAYNE,
it will be remembered, h~arrangued one of
the meetings had here last fall, and if the
expressions which fell from the lips Of ma
ny of his p~artizans whilst he was speaking
be any indication of his popularity with
the "unwashed and unterrifed democracy
of Holiness" particularly the unwashed,)
why, he amt their choice by a long shot.
They were not saving in their denuncia-
tions of him then, and the complimentary
notice of him through their home organ
now must be understood as looking a long
ways ahead, perhaps to an office, a free
dinner, or something of that sort.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

EThe Petersburg VA Express says:
"our citizens are beginning to observe the
unusual number of slaves that are constant
y passing through Petersburg on their
way South; and to the minds of many the
result appears inevitable that it will need
but the work of ten or twenty years to
clear Virginia completely of that part Of
her population. A company of one hun
dred passed through on Saturday"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

IED1ASA-Owingt TO the failure of the last
Legislature of Indiana to make the necessa-
ry appropriations, the Asylums for the deaf
and dumb, and the blind of Indianapolis
have been closed, and the children returned
to their respective counties. The Indian
apolis Journal says it was a melancholy
sight to witness the appearance of the
children as they were busy in calling each
others attention TO the sights and scenes SO
long familiar, which they have probably
seen for the last time. Gov. Willard has
been urged to call an extra session of the
Legislature, but he does not seem inclined
to do SO. The inconvenience of biennial
sessions is again illustrated in this case.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
Strike on the b. & o. II. r..

The Baltomore and Ohio Railroad freight
conductors are on a general strike. The
Baltimore pvpers are full of it. The Snn
remarks:
The parties engaged in resistance to the
company have proceeded to the extremity
of violence, and a state of open warfare
now exists between the civil authority of
the State, the universal rights of society
and the red hand ofindiscriminate lawless-
ness. There is no alternative now but the
triumph of law and order or the temporary
success of a band of outlaws. We say
temporary" because at the best they can
hope for nothing more Law and order
the authority of the company-must be
sustained. One is identified with the 9TH
er, and the whole affair is inseparable from
the first principles of organized society.
The Baltimore american of Saturday
says;
The more violent of the strikers joined
by outside parties of riotously disposed per-
sons, assaulted, stoned and fired at the bur-
then trains. One train, protected bya res
olute and fully armed body of men succeed
ed in beating off the assailants and forcing
its passage through the blockade. Three
other trains were stopped and forced to re-
turn to the city. The Company will to-
day have such arrangements completed as
must at once effectually suppress the insur-
r~ection, and make those who attempt 10
obstruct the operations of the road suffer
severely for their unlawful proceedings
The Governor of the State is prepared to
act in the promptest manner, bringing, if
necessary, a sufficient military force into re-
QUESTION to crush out every attempt at
riot.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

HrTbe man whose 'frisnds have urged
him TO become q candidate" for q certain
Office. is in town. So are also the men who
aneyer vote for q man that won't treat
As the number of the former increases the
color on the end of the noses Of the latter
will be observed to brighten, and their "de.
mocracy" grow until they will begin TO
staRrs, under the load.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07
From New York.

NEW I DIRK, May z.
This evenings Post says there are sur
misses of an armed resistance by Mayor
Wood to the new Legislative enactments
relative to our city. A hundred muskets
have been placed in the station house of
the 10th Ward.
Democratic members Of the Common
Council will meet in caucus TO consider on
further legal means Of Persistence.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

SMALL SILVER The Psnnsylvanian
says: "One of the interesting features of the
United States coinage operations of late
years is that of the smaller silver coins,
which, by the recent action of Congress,
will hereafter form the principal part Of our
currency, in lieu of the old Spanish coins.
Ofthe new coins, over twenty five millions
in value have been coined during the four
years l~s5S-ls56, and the product of do
nestle silver is now over 100000 annual
ly. The new coins, having a legal value
five to ten per cent below their value As
metal, will not be absorbed or lessened
hereafter for export or for manufacturing
purposes.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

HRev. Christopher Columbus Jones,
M. D., physician and preacher had eloped
from Paris, Texas, with the wife of q res
pec.able citizen. He left a wife and two
children, and his "afinity" left 3 husband
and three children. The explorer had q
great reputation for piety and an extraordi-
nary faculty of getting deeply in debt.
His ermon were proli1, verbose and aro-
giant, but the people could have stood all
that if he had let his neighber's wife alone.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-07

E A large bed of Kidney Iron Orc
has recently been discovered IN the land of
James Kelley, Tuscarawas county, Ohio,
extending through a circuit of six hundred
acres, and being five feet in thickness. 1t
was found in three places, over two thous-
and feet apart, on a tract of 1900; and is
said to be o superior article in comparison
with the iron usually obtained in this State.
Out of such a mine the proprietor will no
doubt realize a greater fortune than IS pos
sessed by a California millionaire. Some
of Ohio's richest mineral resources are as
yet undiscovered and undeveloped.- Cecs.
Leader.