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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-01-15
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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-01-15
STRAYED

~ 18th, small dark bay mare years old last spring.
small white spot in her forehead thin name and tail
and small limbs Any person returning her
viii be literally rewarded.
4. G. MCDONALD.
0ttumwa Jan. 18th, 1851 "a
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-01-15
ST. LOUIS. Jan, 1

Increase, over26 per cent?. ....$4 4i6
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
EATON, O., MAY 81, 1857.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HENRY B. PAYNE,
Of Cleveland.
The Bank Law.

We this week publish on our first and
fourth pages the Bank Law, which is to
be voted for at the next October election,
and we advise all to give it a careful pc
rusal, before deciding to vote "for" or
against it." On our inside page will
be found the Law to preserve the puri-
ty of elections, which should also receive
a careful perusal, and then filed away
for future reference. We intend to oc-
cuPy all tNe-sraee we possibly can in
our paper until we get through with the
Laws, and hope our readers will not
COMPATIBILITY must be published and
might as well be put through on the
''fast line" Most of our contemporaries
adopted this plan from the start, and are
now RECALLING their readers on choice
miscellaneous selections, while we are
about three weeks behind, because all
along we furnished our readers with
from eight to nine columns of other
reading matter, and give the Laws in
small doses. Besides, we want plenty
of "elbow room when the campaign
opens, to keep our readers posted.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
Dccay Of BLACK RepubIIcanIsm.

The Washington Union very truly
remarks Every day brings us addi-
tional evidence of the decay of Black
Republicanism. Like every cause hav-
ing its origin in fraud and deception, or
moral and political error, that of these
political ag%itators must ultimately sink
to rise no more. The people are learn
ing the truth, and their cause is waning
under the ban of the people. City after
city has given its verdict against them.
Connecticut so strongly with them a few
months since has written her condem-
nation of their. principles and practices.
In Michigan thousands have deserted
their standard, and the Democracy will
soon fully triumph in that State. Iowa,
upon the borders of Hbleeding Kansas"
the electors in which must personally
know what has occurred in hat Terri
tory, has abandoned Black Republican
ism, and all other isms, and manfully
wheeled in the Democratic lines again.
The administration there has achieved
a most noble triumph. The Black Re
publicans nowhere increase their vote
or win new majorities. That party rose
upon a false and rotten basis, and must
from necessity fall when the people un-
derstand the foundation upon which it
stands. Decay il legibly written upon
it. Such is ever the fate of error. false
hood and deception. The Black Re
publican leaders feel this and hence are
writhing in agony at their future pros
poets. If Kansas cannot be induced to
commit some suicidal act for their ben
eft, they have no hopes for the future.
We suspect that Kansas has suffered
too much already on their account to
become a willing victim to further polit-
ical operations. Her prosperity has
been sadly retarded, and the happiness
of her people too greatly diminished by
following the counsels of political fanat-
les and .demagogues to readily yield
again to their selfish and bad advice
If Kansas, by self-immolation, does not
supply fresh material for agitation,
Black Republicanism will soon die a
natural death.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

the ground that he is not a resident of
the county, township or ward where he
offers to vote, the Judges, or one of them
shall put the following questions: l.
Have you resided in the county for
thirty days last past? 2. Have you
resided in this township Cor ward) for
twenty days last past? 3. When did
you last come into this country? 4.
When you came into this county, did
you come for n temporary purpose
merely, or for the purpose of making it
your home? 5. did you come into this
county for the purpose of voting i'll this
county, 6. Are you now an actual re-
sident of this township or ward? Fourth
If the person be challenged as IN
qualified on the ground that he is not
twenty-one years of age, the Judges, or
one of them, shall put the following
question Are you twenty-one years of
age, to the best of your knowledge and
belief? The Judges of the election, or
one Of them, shall put all such other
questions to the person challenged, I'M
der the respective heads aforesaid as
may be necessary to test his qualiica-
tons as an ~elector at that election.
cEC- -. hIG SCC. SlAlcSH VI III Z l
| which this is an amendment be so amend
ed as to read as follows: Sec. 16. IF any
person shall refuse to take the oath or
affirmation so rendered, his vote shall
be rejected: Provided, that after such
oath shall have been taken the judges
Observation-Disclosures -PeFHitsaeh-
person to vote, if they shall be satisfied
from record evidence, or the testimony
adduced before them, that he is not a
legal voter; and they are hereby author
lied so administer the necessary oaths
or afirmations to all witnesses brought
before them, to testify to the qualiica-
tons of a person offering to vote.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained
so far as the same relates to the length
or time required of the voter to reside
in the township or ward where he offers
to vote, shall be held, taken or con-
structed to apply to any voter who is
the head of a family, who shall bona tide
remove with his family from one ward
into another within the same county.
SEC. Z. That original sections num-
Der two, four, five, thirteen and sixteen,
of the act to which this is an amendment
and the same is hereby repealed.
N. II. VAN VOORHEES,,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
AnriI TX 1877
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
1921 AN ACT
April II, 1857.

mo. 1927 AN ACT
To provide for keeping accounts in the
several departments of the State Gov
ernment and the Public Institutions.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
That it shall be the duty of the Auditor
of State, the Treasurer of State, the Sc
cretary of State, the Attorney General,
the Commissioner Of the Sinking Fund,
the State Librarian, the Directors Of the
Ohio Penitentiary, the Trustees Of the
several Benevolent Institutions, and the
Board of Public Works, to keep, or
cause to be kept in their respective
Offices, accurate and distinct accounts of
the several transactions in their aspect
i've departments, and report an abstract
thereof to the Governor at the close of
the fiscal year.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
Auditor of State, and the Treasurer of
State, with the aid of such competent
accountant or accountants as they may
call to their assis lance, forthwith to de-
wise and establish Il complete and cor
responding System of accounts in their
offices, with proper checks upon each
and to adopt the same in practice blythe
first day of July next.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
Auditor and Treasurer Of State respect
lively, to make or cause to be made a
weekly statement of the balances of the
several accounts in their respective
Offices, as the same existed at the close
of business on Monday of each week,
and forthwith to compare or cause the
same to be compared, and all errors ap-
pcaring in either of such to be corrected.
SEC. +. 1t shall be the duty of the
Treasurer of State, on the first Monday
of each month, to make or cause to be
made in writing, and recorded in a book
to be provided for that purpose, a state
mcnt showing the kind and character
Of the funds in the treasury, the names
of the several repositories of the public
funds selected by him, with the amount
OF such funds depository and also the
average amount in each depository du-
ring the last preceding month. And it
shall also bo the duty of the Treasurer
to include such statements in his an
nual report.
JOSEPH TRUESDALE,
Sp'ker, protein, of the House of Reps.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
April 16, 1857.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

bGD~ Vermont having utterly refused
to pay oyer her $4,000 to the sufferers
Of bleeding Kansas, the New York Le-
g~islature followed suit, turning the cold
shoulder upon the recommendation of
Governor hing, to appropriate 100000
for the same object, and now the OLD
Bay State pauses. Massachusetts, during
the first days of the session of her
august Legislature went z~ealously to
work on anothcrs1GO, 900 appropriation,
but her Solons have halted and higgled,
adopted and re~-considerod, played pos
sum during the whole winter and spring,
and have at last fallen bnck on a $4,000
fund to be raised for the shriekcrs. But
doubts and inuendoes arc i~nterposcd in
reference to this sum, and the whole
thing is likely to fizzle out. Do not
finch, gentlemen. Toe the mark and
hand over, or else what becomes of the
"sons Of freedom" Oh, Kansas, your
blood we fear has flowed in vain!
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
Platform.

The Ohio Statesman a In Mas
sachusetts they allow negroes to vote;
but the poor white man who can't read
and write must stand back.
This is done by the republicans to
please their allies, the know nothings.
In New York, the Republicans have
called for a similar provision to allow
negroes to vote, but they could'n catch
the K. Ms so easily there-they didn't
try the English reading and writing to
exclude the Germans.
In Connecticut they have tried it on;
but the election don't go fusion after
all.
In Iowa they are trying it on. L
don'twork there either.
In Ohio they tried to abolish "phite'
from the Constitution.
We will see about that too, this fall.
The platform is rank black, odife.
rous abolition. Negro equality =
Down with fancy for declaring negroes
not citizens of the Union! Down with
the Democracy which does not be.
lieve in the white race mixing and mar,
rying in North as it has mixed in South
America! Up with the hybrid, rings
treaked and speckled isnas of Massachu-
sets! Down with the Constitution Of
Washington and Madison! Down with
the Court they made Down with every
thing valuable, unless the negroes come
up into the first rank with the white
man!
This is the real platform of the aboli-
ton republicans No "sugar coating
can hide its deformity or conceal its
progearec!
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
mo. 1887 AN ACT

mo. 143. AN ACT
TO amend an act entitled, san act to re-
gulate the sale of school lands and
the surrender of permanent leases
hereto" passed April 10th, 1852.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Ohio.
That section thirteen of an act entitled
fan act to regulate the sale of school
lands and the surrender of permanent
leases thereto passed April 10th, 1852,
be so amended as to read as follows !:
SEC. ID. Any person wishing to pay
any money under the provisions of this
act in part or full payment of any such
lands whether such money may be due
or not shall first obtain the cetificate of
the Auditor of the amount due or to be
paid with the interest which has there ac-
crued thereon and on the presentation
of the same the Treasurer IS authorized
and required to receive the amount there
in specified and shall give the person
paying the same, a certificate directed
to the Auditor of the payment of said
sum of Sand the Auditor on the
presentation of said certificate shall give
such person a receipt therefor, credit him
with the amount in his books and charge
the Treasurer Herewith.
SEC, 2. That section thirteen of an
act entitled San act to regulate the sale
of school Lands and the surrender of
permanent leases thereto" passed April
16, 1852, is hereby repealed.
N. III. VAN VOORHEES,,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April II, 1857.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
AN ACT
mo. 1897
April 16, 1857,

mo. 1891 AN ACT
To regulate the compensation of sherifs
for keeping and providing for pris-
oners in Jail.
SECTION /. be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
the sheriffs of the syeral counties in the
the State shall hereafter DO allowed such
compensation as the county commission
ers shall from time to time order and al.
low, not exceeding forty cents per day
for keeping and providing for prisoners
in Jail, as required by the eleventh sec.
ton of the act for the regulation of the
county jails, passed March 10, 1913, and
such allowances shall be made to the
sheriff as part of the reasonable and nee.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
AN
mo. 1871

mo. 1871 AN ACT
To amend an act for the punishment of
certain offences therein named, passed
March s, 1881.
SECTION L. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
section thirty five of the act entitled an
act for the punishment of certain often
ces therein named, passed March 8, 1881,
be and the sane is hereby so amended
as to read as follows: Sec. 35. That if
any person shall wilfully or maliciously
set fire to or burn, OF cause to be burned,
any barrack or stack of hay, wheat, rye,
oats, barley, flax, hemp, or fodder, or
grain, of any kind, or any corn-crib, or
wherein corn may be deposited; or any
fence, boards, plank, scantling, rails, tan
bark, or timber, the property of an 9th
er, and of the value of thirty five dollars
or upwards, every person so offending
shall be deemed guilty ola misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be i'm
prisoned in the pcnitentiary, and kept
at hard labor not more than three years
nor less than one year.
SEC. 2. That if any person shall will
fully or maliciously commit any of the
OHenceS enuLnerdUeQ In the proceeding
section ofthis act, but the injury or dam
age therefrom shall be of a less value
than thirty-ive dollars, every person so
offending shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined in any sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, nor less than five dol
lars, or be imprisoned in the county jail
not exceeding thirty days, or both; at
the discretion of the court: Provided,
that nothing in this act shall be so con-
strued as to prevent the party injured
from sustaining a civil suit for damages,
which he may have sustained by either
the aforesaid offences.
SEC, 3. That section thirty-fve of the
act to which this is amendatory, be and
the same is hereby repealed. This act
to take effect from and after its passage
n. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS H.eFORD,
President of the Senate
April 16, 1857.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
April Is, 1857.
mo. 1861 AN ACT

mo. 1867 AN ACT
To prohibit the confinement of fugitivcs
from slavery in the jails of Ohio.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That
it shall be unlawful to confine in prison,
or to detain in the penitentiary of this
State, or in the jails of any county in
this State, or in a calaboosc, lock up,
guard house, or station in this State, any
person or persons charged with simply
being a fugitive from slavery.
SEC. ?. Any officer orperson who shall
violate the provisions of the preceding
section shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof
by Indictment found by the grand jury
Of the proper county, shall be impris-
oned in the Jail of the county not less
than thirty nor more than ninety days,
and be fined in any sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars.
n. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
April 1G, 1857.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

essary expenses of this office, for which
he shall lot be required to account as
fees, costs or perquisites, under the pro-
visions of the act to regulate and limit
the compensation of certain county off
GERS, passed April 8, 1856.
Sec. 2. That the act to provide for
the reduction of the fees now allowed
to sheriffs for keeping and providing for
prisoners in Jail, passed March ID, 1874,
and all acts and parts of acts inconsis-
tant herewith, be and the same are here
by repealed.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on
its passage.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 16, 1857.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
Sensible Talk.

The London Times is very kind to
tell the United States what their duty
is and what their honor requires but
this country has a habit of deciding
these points for itself. The Times thinks
the decision in the Supreme Court, that
negroes are not citizens of the United
States, denies the right of any state to
make them citizens of a state. The Times
does not understand what it is talking
about, evidently, and before it under
takes to shool us about our constitutional
duties, had better learn the difference
between our state and national consti-
t%utions. The Times thinks Mr. Blu
chanan greatly to blame for not volun-
teering to aid English eonquests in
China but the London Chronicle takes
a different view of the matter. 1t says:
1--WE have always argued, that what
ever steps might be taken to obtain
commercial access to that almost I'M
known world, the immense Chinese en-
pire, should be adopted in the name of
the whole civilized nations of the globe.
But we nave no right to call upon other
states to take part in, or to sanction de-
liberate fraud and ruthless massacre.
In arguing on behalf of joint action, it
has always been with a reservation that
we have strictly no right to ask other
nations to render their responsibility a
cloak for orr iniquities. Had the gov
eminent of the United States fallen into
the trap laid for them BY Lord Palmer
ston, they would have given a retro
spective sanction to his proceedings, of
which his parasites would not have been
slow to take advantage. Asi it is, should
President Buchanan persist in with
holding his assent to the proposed go
operation, he will have recorded another
condem nation of the Chinese massacres,
more signal and far reaching than even
the vote of censure passed by the House
of Commons against Lord Palmerston's
policy, upon the motion of Mr.. Golden"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
April 16, 1857.
No. 140.1 AN ACT

No. no. AN ACT
To authorize the foreclosure of mortga-
ges executed by Turnpike, Canal, or
Plank road Companies.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
That in all cases where any turnpike,
canal, or plank road company have exc
cuted or may hereafter execute a mort
gage, or mortgages, upon any part there
of, it shall be lawful for any turnpike,
or plank road MORTGAGE, or the assig-
nee or assignees thereof, at any proper
time after the money secured by said
fnertSage-er~mertSages becomes due, to
foreclose said mortgage or mortgages in
the same manner as if said mortgage or
the sale so made shall be held to pass to
the purchaser or purchasers, the corpor-
ate franchises of such company as fully
as the mortgagor held the same at the
time of executing said en%cumbrance.
All the laws in force relating to the fore
closure of mortgages upon real estate are
hereby made applicable to the forcclos-
ure of mortgages on turnpike, canal, or
plank roads, so far as is necessary to car
ry out the provisions of this act.
SEC. 2. The court shall appoint the
appraisers under this act, and where
any road or canal shall run into or
through more than one county, the
court may order the same to be appraised
and sold entire or in parcels as to the
court may seem eNpedient. That any
purchaser or purchasers of any such
road or canal or part thereof shall be
entitled to exercise all the corporate
f~ranchisers purchased under this act as
fully as they belonged to such corpora
ton before such sale in any name that
may be assumed by such purchases.
This act shall TAKE effect from its pas
sage.
JOSEPH TRUESDALE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 16, 1857.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
EpThe Abolitionists in the O

Ey~The Ab%olitionists in the Ohio
Legislature have excluded negroes from
participating in the Militia Law. Only
achitc male citizens arc permitted to per
form military duty! Where is the Abol-
ition thunder? Why not denounce this
exclusion with the same virulcnce as
they did the decision of the Supreme
Court? Where is that thunder?
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

na- The Marion CO., Republican says
that the men engaged in getting out
gravel for the Bellefontain and Indiana
Railroad Company have exhumed two
hundred and twenty-four Indian skele-
tons. The ornaments and war nipple
ments form quite a museum.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

MURRAY & LANMAN's FLORIDA VA
ITER.-This is a hcalthful, exhilarating
quality III the fragrance of this popular
toilet water. II makes the remembrance
of summers floral incense, as some old
tune might recall tho bygone scenes in
which VIC first heard it. Spiritual and
delicate as the aroma of the original
Cologne, it is perhaps more lasting, and
the odor never changes as is the case
with perfumes derived from volatile oils.
Ladies who suffer from nervous head
ache, prefer it to every other local appli'
cation as a means of relieving the pain /;
and as a perfume for the sick chamber,
it is e~minently refreshing. We refer
solely to Murray & Lanman's Florida
Water" The limitations are worthless.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21
AUDITORS OFFICE,
EATON, May 20, 1857.

I hereby certify that the foregoing
acts arc correctly copied from the origin
al rolls on file in this office.
JAMES ALBERT,
ATDTTOR
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

RG~ The attention of Druggists and
Dealers is invited to "Costar's" adver-
tisement and notice in to-day's paper.
If these remedies are what they purport
to be, our Druggists will find an extern
sive demand for them here.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-05-21

same as directed by resolution hereto
fore passed.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect i'm
m~ediately.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS HI. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 17fh, 1857.