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The plaintiff may demur to one or more
Of the defences set up in the answer, stat
iHg in his demurrer the grounds thereof;
and where the answer contains new mat
ter, the plaintiff may reply to each new
matter, denying generally or specifically,
each allegation controverted by him; and
be may allege in ordinary and concise
language, and without repetition, any
new matter not Inconsistent with the Pc
tition, constituting an answer in law to
such new matter. To this reply the de-
fendant may demur.
SEC. 4. Section 1877 shall be so amen
ded as TO read as follows: Section 1877.
Every material allegation Of the petition
not controyerted by the answer, and eT'
cry material allegation Of new matter in
the answer not controverted by the reply
shall, for the purposes Of the action, be
taken as true, but the allegation Of new
matter in the reply shall be deemed con-
troverted by the adverse panty, as upor
a direct denial or avoidance. Allegations
ofvalue, or Of amount or damage, shall
not be considered as true by failure tC
con.royert them.
n. VAN WORRIES.
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
| President Of the Senate.
April 8, 1857.
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OUR COUNTRY.

The greatest cataract in the world is
the Falls of Niagara, where the waters
accumulated from the great upper lakes.
forming river three quarters of mile
in width, are suddenly contracted and
plunged over the rocks, in two columns,
TO the depth of one hundred and sixty
feet.
The greatest cave in the world is the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where one
can make voyage on the waters of a
subterranean river, and catch fish with
out eyes.
The greatest river in the world is the
Mississippi, four thousand one hundred
miles in length. Its name is derived
from an Indian word, meaning, "The
Father of Waters"
The largest valley in the world is the
valley of the Mississippi. 1t contains
FIVE hundred thousand square miles, and
is one of the most prolific regions on the
globe.
The largest lake in the world is Lake
Superior, four hundred and thirty miles
long.
The largest Natural Bridge in tn
world is that over Cedar Greek in Vir-
ginia. Ii extends across chasm eight y
feet in W idth, and two hundred and fifty
feet deep, at the bottom of which a creek
flows.
The greatest solid mass of Iron in the
world is the Iron Mountain of Missouri.
1t is three hundred and fifty feet high.
and two miles in circuit.
The longest Railroad in the world is
the Central Railroad in Illinois, which is
seven hundred and thirty-one miles long
cost fifteen millions of dollars.
The greatest number of miles of Rail-
road in proportion to IFS surface, of any
country in the world, is in Massachu-
sets, which has over one mile to every
square mile of its area.
The greatest number of clocks manu-
factured in the world, is turned out in
the small State of Connecticut.
The largest number of whale ships in
II
the world are sent out by Nantucket and
New Bedford. t.f...-..
The greatest grain port in the world is
Chicago. ~7 t.r, 49,,
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a BULL FIGHT.


remember once seeing, when lad
at school, fight between two bulls. Al
though l could not have been more than
eight years of age at the time, shall
never forget the spectacle. 1t happened
in this wise. Close by the school house
IA very unpretending edi6ce it was) ran
deep and rapid river. Across it had
been thrown a high wooden bridge, the
handraiing of which time and the winds
and the weather had entirely destroyed.
The land on opposite sides OF the stream
was owned by different persons, and
farmed by them respectively. One
bright summer day, Il remember it as il
it were yesterday J the hour of noon had
arrived, and a frolicsome, fun-seeking
troop Of schoolboys were let loose for an
hours recreation.
All at once. the believing of tive bulls,
that had broken out of their enclosures
on each side of the river, attracted our
attention. The animals were not yet in
sight of each other, but were approach
ing along the high way at rate of speed
which would cause them to meet near
the centre of the high bridge which /
have described, and beneath which, at
some thirty feet, ran the river between
steep banks. The more daring of us gath.
cred near the bridge, lining it, to see the
anticipated fight. We were not dissp-
pointed. Nearer and nearer to each 9th
other approached the proud, paving
combatants. Basham never produced
two brutes of fercer aspect. They lash
ed their sides with their tails; they tore
the ground with their feet. Occasional
ly they knelt down, trying to gore the
earth with their horns. And as yet they
were concealed each from the other, by
the ascent towards the bridge at either
end.
Presently, as they simultaneously as
cended the respective abutments, they
came full in sight of each other. The
roar was mutual and actually tremen.
dous. Every urchin of us sprang int y
the fields and ran. Finding, however,
that we were not pursued, we as hastily
retraced our steps. There they were,
the ferocious duelists, quite as sensibly
as some of their human imita-
tors! Front to front. their horns locked,
every muscle strained, they were fight
ing as only bulls can fight. 1t seemed
an even match. Now one would press
back his opponent q few PAGES. and
presently you would hear quick, sharp.
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and on such sale no bid shall be enter
tanned Tor sum which will not be suffi-
clent to pay all the purchase money due
the state, and all expenses incident to
such sale; and in case said premises can
not be sold for that amount, they shall
revert to the state in trust for said town
ship. The court of common pleas of the
proper county may. on application Of the
trustees, as provided for in section nine
of the act to which this is an amendment,
order re-appraisment of the premises
so forfeited, and the same may be sold
in the manner herein before provided for
in the sale of such lands not under per
manent leases, or leases for ninety nine
years.
SEC. 3. Section fifteen of an act enti-
tied can act to regulate The sale of school
lands, and the surrender of permanent
leases thereto" be, and The same is here
by repealed.
Sec. This act shall take efTec; from
and after its passage.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD.
President of the Senate.
April Sd, 1857.
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ry places of the earth. He climbs the
everlasting mountains; passing beyond
the region of verdure and of dashing
torrents, his feet tread the seas of ame-
thyst and opal. Above him are only
peaks shrouded in mists and eternal
SHOWS. The daring eagle scars not so
high. There are no sounds save the
cracklings of the glaciers. The soul
seems almost to touch the heavens above
There surely the Wandering Jew shall
shall rest? No. A pursuing angel un-
sheathes sword of flaming fire. and 10,
the wanderer beholds once more in the
heavens the drama of the Cruci6xion.-
Tie way from earth to heaven is stud
ded with myriads of celestial beings ra-
diant with light. Before him are all the
martyrs and saints and sages who have
ever lived and died. Fer a moment he
gazes upon the vision, and turns away
chased BY the sword of flame and de-
mons of frightful form. Then he again
wanders over the earth, even with fine
peices of copper in his pocket, even with
the mark of blood upon his forehead
Maddened with the agony of life, he
throws himself into the crater of Ktna,
bat the boiling liquid and sulphurous
flames harm him not. The floods of
lava yomit him forth, for his hour has
not yet come. Embarking upon the
sea, the winds raises its surface into
mountain waves-the vessel divides,
and all perish save the Wandering Jew.
Too light to sink in the ocean, its waves
cast him upon the hated shore. He
plunges into hundred bloody battles
without sword or shield. All in vain
The leaden balls run harmlessly upon
him; battle axes and scimeters glance
from his charmed body. Where mount
ed squadrons fight with the fury of de-
mons, he casts himself under the feet Of
the horsemen, and is unharmed, so riv-
eted are his soul and body together. =
He says 10 Nero, Thou art drunk with
blood" To Christian and Mussulman,
Drunk art thou with blood" They
invent the most horrid tortures for his
punishment, yet injure him not
Leaving, in his vain pursuit of death,
the lands that throb with life and indus
try, the Wandering Jew treads the soli-
tary jungles of the tropics. He walks in
poisoned air, and fierce lions and flat
headed serpents will only sport with him
as he hastens by. And thus he wan
ders:
-"Traversing mountains and seas,
Pausing neither in the cilirs nor the
desert.
Nowhere-not even in the tomb"
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short steps, and his adversary would be
pressed back in return. The struggling
was hard, was long. was savage. For
awhile neither obtained an advantage.
Hitherto they had been pushing each
other lengthwise of the bridge; suddenly
they began to wheel, and, in a moment,
we're facing each other breadthwise.-
Thus they were at right angles with the
length of the bridge, which shook, and
creaked, and rocked again, with their
tramping and their terrible strife. 1t
was the work of single moment-one
of the beasts-I never could tell which
one Of them, however, as if conscious of
his pos ton, made violent, desperate
lunge forward, and pressed his antagon-
ist blackjack there was
but another step of plank behind him.
between him and nothing! The moment
was one of intense interest 10 US juvenile
spectators. Never was the Amphithea-
tre at Rome the scene of me re exciting
combat. Another step backward-yes,
the unfortunate bull has been forced TO
take it! Back he is pressed and over
he goes.
Such sightI never saw,-I probably
shall never see again. Imagine a bull
pitched backward from a bridge, and
flung at least thirty feet, over and orerl
He turned once or twice, probably
thought he turned over fifty times, there
seemed such confusion of horns and
feet, revolving, flying through the airl
But down be vert; the water was deep,
and he disappeared, leaving whirlpool
Of foam behind him, and making the
river undulate far and wide with the con-
cussiOn of his pOnderous bulk.
The other bull did not laugh-merely
because bulls. as l supposed, could not.
But We laughed and shouted our ap-
plause. There stood the victor, looking
directly down into the abyss below. into
which he had hurled his unluckey foe.
He stood, however, but a moment, and
then, as if frightened at The prospect, be-
gan 10 snort and step backward. Back,
back, he retreated, with his head in the
same pugnacious attitude as when in
combat,-back-still another step back
and over be too went on the, opposite
side of the bridge, performing just as
many and ludicrous somersets as his ad-
versary had done moment before.
1t was a scene to remember: and the
performance called forth immense ap-
plause from the group of Juvenile anna
teurs who witnessed il. In about FIVE
minutes both bulls might be seen, well
sobered by their ducking, dripping wet,
scratching up the steep graYelly banks,
each on his own side of the river
"Those bulls will never fight any more,''
said boy behind me. His prediction
turned out correct; for two more peacea-
bly, disposed bulls than they were ever
could not have been found.
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AN ACT

No. 80 AN ACT
Supplementary to can act regulating ap-
peals to the Distric. Court," passed
March %. 1852.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
in all cases where an appeal has been er
shall be taken from the Court OF Common
Pleas to the District Court, and the sure
ty IN the undertaking for the appeal shall
have removed from the State, or for any
cause whatever shall be insufficient. or
if such undertaking shall be insufhciens.
in form or amount, it shall be lawful for
the District Court on motion. TO order a
change or renewal of such undertaking.
or said Count, may order new undertake
ing to be given, with security, to be ap-
proved by said Court. or the Clerk there.
of; and il the said order of the said Court
shall be complied with and obeyed, said
appeal shall not be dismissed, but said
Court shall proceed to hear and dessrm-
inc the cause in the same maDnes- as il
the said order had not been made, but
if the said order of said court shall not
be complied with and obeyed. said ap-
peal, on motion for that purpose, shall
be dismissed. and the judgment or de-
cree in the Cour. below shall be revived.
! NH VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives..
THOMAS II. FORD,
President Of the Senste.
Arril 8, 1857.
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No. 34.l AN ACT
April 8, 1857.

mo. a. AN ACT
To amend the act entitled can act to es-
tablish code of civil procedure.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That
the two hundred and eighty-second Sec
ton of the act entitled can act to estab-
lish a code of civil procedure, shall be
and is hereby amended SO as to read as
follows: When the parties do not con-
sent, the court may upon the application
of either, or of its own motion, direct a
reference in any case in which the parties
are no: entitled by the constitution Of this
Stale TO trial by jury.
SEC. g The original two hundred
and eighty-second section aforesaid is
hereby repealed.
n. H.VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 8, 1857.
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April sIh, 1857.
mo. S8- AN ACT
For the relief of Partners and Joint Debt
Ors
AN ACT

, L
For the relief of Partners and Joint Debt
Ors.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly OF the State Of Ohio, That
whenever any coPartnership firm shall
be dissolved by mutual consent or other
wise. it shall and may be lawful for any
one or mure of the individuals who was
or were embraced in such copartnership
firm, to make separate composition or
compromise with any one or all of the
creditors OF such copartnership firm; and
such composition or compromise shall be
full and efiectual discharge ia the debt
or OF debtors making the same, and to
them only, of and from all and every IL
ability to the creditor or creditors with
whom the same is made or incurred by
reason Of his or their connection with
such copartnership firm, according to the
terms ofsuch compromise.
SEC. g. Every such debtor or debtors
making such composition or compromise,
may take from the creditor or creditors
with whom he may make the same,
note or memorandum in writing. exoner-
ating him or them from all and every in
dividual LIABILITY incurred by reason of
such connection with such copartnership
firm; which note or memorandum may be
given in evidence by s'Ich debtor or deb:-
ors in bar of such creditors right of re-
covery against him or them; and If such
liability shall be by judgement in any
court of record in this State, then on a
production to and fling with the clerk Of
such court, the said note or memorandum
in writing, such clerk shall discharge
such judgment of record so far as the said
compromising debtor or debtors shall be
concerned.
SEC. 8. Such compromise or compost
ton with an individual member Of firm
shall not be so construed as to discharge
the other copartners, nor shall it impair
the right Of the creditor to proceed
against the members Of such coparlner-
ship firm as Lave not been discharged,
And the member or members ofsuch CO. !
partnership firm so proceeded against, |
shall be permitted to set of any demand !
against said creditor OF creditors which !
could have been set off had such suit been
brought against all the individuals COM
posing such firm; nor shall such compro-
mise or discharge Of an individual of a
firm prevent the other members of such
firm from availing themselves of any de-
fence that would haye been available had
not his act been passed, except that they
shall not set up the discharge Of one
Individual as The discharge Of the other
copartners, unless it shall appear that all
were intended TO be dischargedi Provi-
ded, that the discharge of any such CO.
partner shall be deemed payment to the
creditor equal to the propoftionate inter-
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,st of The partner discharged in the part

est of The partner discharged in the part
nership concern.
SEc. 4. That such compromise or
composition of an individual of a 6rm
with creditor Of such firm, shall in no
wise effect the right of the other copart-
ners to call on the individual making such
compromise, for his rateable portion Of
such copartnerslip debt. the same as il
this law had not been passed.
SEC. 5. The above provisions in ref
erence to copartners of firm, shall ex-
tend to joint debtors, who are hereby au-
thorized individually to compound or
compromise for their joint indebtedness.
with the like effect in reference to credi-
tors and to joint debtors of the individual
so compromising, as is above provided IN
reference to copartners.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect i'm
medistely on its passage.
N. H. VAN WORRIES.
Speaker OF the HoKse of Representatives
THOMAS H. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
April 8. 1851.
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mo. eel
AN ACT

-V- d AN AOA
Supplementary to an act entitled Gan act
TO authorize the Judges Of the Court
of Common Pleas of each judicial dis
trict to FIX permanently the times for
holding the Courts Of Common Pleas
and District Courts therein" passed
March 90, 1856.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by tn Gener-
al Assembly Of the State of Ohio. That
whenever the Judge of the pistrict and
Common Pleas Courts have omitted to
change the times Of holding said courts
as fixed by the statutes in force prior TO
the passage of the act to which this act
is supplementary. the said Judges are
hereby authorized to FIX the times Of
holding said courts st any time after the
passage Of this act, sll orders for such
purpose shall be recorded and published
as il is provided in said act. and the or
ders when made shall be subject to the
same conditions as therein prescribed.
SEC. 9. This act shall take effect on its
passage.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of The House Of Representatives.
THOMAS II FORD.
President Of the Senate.
Dated April 8. 1857.
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INo. 8e.1 AN ACT,
April 8. 1851.

NO. oS. AN All,
Relating to Dover, and the mode of fix
ing the value in money of Dover Es-
tates.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gen
ersl Assembly Of The State of Ohio. That
in all actions and proceedings for parti
ton of real estate, when the same cannot
be divided and is ordered to be sold; and
in all cases actions and proceedings for
the sale of real estate by executors, ad
ministratOrs anil guardians. when the
widow OF any decedent being party, has
dover interest therein, it shall De law
full for such widow to file her answer in
such proceeding. and waive the assign
ment of dover by metes and bounds, 10
said real estate, and ask the court to have
such real estate sold free OF dover, and
to allow her in lieu thereof such sum in
money out of the proceeds of sale as the
court may deem the just and reasonable
value of her said dover interest therein.
SEC. 2. That said answer of any such
widow shall have the same force and ef-
feet, and shall be taken and held to be
in all respects as deed of release to the
purchaser of such real estate, ofthe dow
er interest therein. of such widow.
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Nh. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOS. II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 9Th, 1857.
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dQotrg
TO TIE FIRST BLUEBIRD OF
SPRIN

[Tbe following beautiful verses are from tn
gen of Cur old friead, Z D. HowAED, former Ed
itor of this paper, now Of the Cleveland Leoder
-Eus. CHRoSIcrE.l
Sweet proTsset of TIE early spring,
That from the leahess spray,
Or, poised on liglt and fiuttering wing,
Dost posr thy taneful lay,
Like puee blessing on the air,
A voiee.sf here, and love,
So sweet. Z seems this sunny morn
Thy fight Was from above,
love thee, essht and gentle bind,
That Aoa kast, far sxay,
Left scenes Of never-fadiDg bloom,
All be4zaiful to-day.
To sing 6cea yonder lea5ess bOngh,
Ofsumuer joys to me,
And lighe the cold and dreary. North
With Springs sweet prophecy
IT'S better. thus to sing, sweet bird.
To other hearts than thine,
OF coming beauty, than to stay,
Where fullest glOries shine.
Aud thou hast learned, in some far sky,
That sentiment Of heaven,
"'Tis better 10 bestow a bliss,
Than TASTE of blessings given"
How many a eare-worn heart will feel
A thrill of joy to-day,
Touched by thy simple melody,
Which charmeth Care awayi
How many a heavy step grow light,
And sad eye re-illume,
And stern lipsmile, and brow grow bright.
Beguiled of grief and glooml
So sweet the feelings in my breast,
Awoke this balmy morn,
By sky, and earth, and thy blythe note
On gentle breezes borne,
I fain would sing, like thee, song,
That gushes in my heart,
A joyous idyl of the May,
Whose harbinger thou art.
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April 8. 1857.
AN ACT
mo. COL

No. 30 AN ACf
Amendasory Of the act entitled an act to
provide for taxing Banks and Banking
Companies. passed March 93. 1850.
SFcr1oE I. Be it enacted by the Gen.
eral Assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
so many of the branches of the late bank
of Ohio, and independent banks as ac-
cepted and are taxed agreeable to the pro-
visions of the act to provide for the tax
ing of banks and banking companies,
passed March 23, 1850, shall hereafte,
make nut under oath their return, agreea-
bic to the first section ofsaid act. and re-
turn the same TO the auditor of the prop
er county wherein the banks or branches
are located, instead Of to The auditor Of
State; and that she auditor OF the res
pective counties wherein such banks or
branches are located shall place the same
on the grand duplicate of the county to
be taxed, for all purposes. as money st
interest and other capital are, at the place
where such bank or branch is located.
And the taxes arising tnereiron shall be
collected bT the county treasurer, and by
him paid over as all other taxes are for
State. county. township and other pur-
poses, in their respective counties.
SEC. 2. That so much Of the act TO
which this is men,iatory as Is inconsis-
ent with this act, be and the same is here
by repealed.
SEC. 5. This act to take effect on and
after its passage.
NH. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House OF Representatives.
THOMAS FORD,
President Of the Senate.
Columbus. April 8. 1857.