Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-16


Shipments of -four are being made from
Oswego to Montreal, at an advantage over
the N. z. Market.
II is estimated that Kansas has increased
her popaIation the present season So'ooU'
and By *inter her population Will reaeh
100000.
M.ss.cuusErr-The Census of all the
St.ie eycept the small town of Tollard,
shows an aggregate of 211 ,432 voters.
TuE Courier de Hayre states that no
f1v will enter a room in which wreath Of
walnut leaves has been hung up. The ex-
pertinent is worth trying. 80
The kingdom Of Hanover, the father
land of English royalty, according to re-
cent census has l,s20,777 inhabitants, d.
yided into S76,s67 families, occupying
206,015 dwellings. ew re-~ ~
Secretary Cobb has refused payment for
books ordered for members of Congress,
unless evidence given that they have been
deposited in some public library, in accord
ance with the act of Congress granting
such books to members.
It is stated that the telegraph now in
operation in the United States consumes
annually about 100000 worth of zinc,
$4,000 worth of nitric acid, and $4,000
worth of mercury, besides other sums of
sulphuric, acid, etc
A dispatch from St. Louis announces
that the Pro-Slavery Democracy of Kan
sas held State Convention at Lecompton
on the Sd inst, at which ex-Gov. Ransom
of Michigan was nominated for Congress,
over Eli Moore. The Convention indors-
ed the policy of Gov. Walker.
No USE FOR BIBLEs.-By the last news
from Utah, we learn that Missionary
named Van Emmon had arrived in the ter
ritory TO distribute the Bible among the
Mormons, but his reception must have been
ahot one, as he published notice annouc-
ing his intention to leave on the 1st of
June.
The Montreal Advertiser, says; ave
are assured on good authority that the Cap
tain of the Montreal took the only life pre-
server on board her to save his own life,
and that be, the mate, and Others of the
crew watched until the drowning of the
passengers would give them an opportnui-
ty to swim off without danger of being laid
hold of by the sinking"
The editors of the New Orleans Pic
ayune have been shown lot of wool from
the prairies in Texas, which is equal in,
quality to best imported Saxony, 1t
comes cansigned to Messrs. A. B. James
. &c Co, who, being largely engaged in the
Texas trade, say that in a few years the
aStar State" will furnish more wool than
any of her sisters.
The death of Governor Marcy appears
to have been occasioned by heart disease.
The Albany Aaas of yesterday states that
he visited Albany on Friday, and then ap-
parently in excellent health and buoyant
spirits. 1t was only within short time
of his death that he became nscious of a
palpitation of the heart, and the symptoms
Of disorder had not been such as TO occa-
sion alarm to himself or his friends.
The cause of Rev. DR.. Ross and his sup
porters in seeding from New School As
sembly at Cleveland, meets the marked dis
appreciation of the majority of the presby-
terian Church in the South. The South
ern Presbyterian, published at Charleston,
as the organ of the Church in the South,
has sharp article article on DR.. Ross, de-
clining to accept his leadership.
The ENGLISH Posr OFFrcE.-47e, ,OO0,-
600 letters passed through the Post Office
in 1855. The number is astounding; but
but it is published by the Duke of Argyle,
Postmaster General, in his Report for last
wear. 1t is an increase of 22,000,O00 over
1855. In 1889, the number of letters was
76,0O0,0O0; and there were certain proph-
cts at that time who foretold that penny
postage would never answer, What do
they say nowi and last year sum of more
than fifty million dollars was sent by Post
Office orders.
A LADY went into store in New York
city, recently to purchase shawl. just as
she was banding the clerk two fifty dollar
bills, she received blow on the facs from
well dressed person. who exclaimed, II for
bade you buying shawl, ,nand snatching the
money from her hand, he eyaporated.-I
The lady tainted, and on recovering, the
merchant expressed surprise that her hus-
band should have acted so ungentlemanly |
but his surprise was greatly increased when
the, lady informed him that it was not her |
husband, and that she had never seen him |
before. The bold thief, however, had made
good his escape.