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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
Three Men Killed by Lightning
..Suicidc for Love.

We take the two items which follow,
from the Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer of
the 22nd:
ave learn from gentleman just arrived
from Marshall Comfy, that on Monday
last, the barn of Mr.. VIM. Henry, on Fish
Creek Hills, near Bolton, was struck by
lightning. Three men were killed, and
the barn and its contents totally destroyed.
The men were engaged in threshing with
a machine inside the barn, when the cleo
tric fluid struck the cylinder of the thresher.
John Neely and Joseph Young were in
stantly killed. There were some half doz-
en- persons in the barn at the time, among
them Mr.. Henry himself, whose injuries by
the shock have resulted in his death. This
unlocked for accident, which deprived the
community of three of its best citizens, has
cast a gloom over the whole neighborhood."
ave are reliably informed that on Mon
day last yourg girl named Earlwine,
whose father resides on Fish Creek Hills,
in Marshall County, committed suicide by
hanging. The cause of this carrying out
of desperate resolve, is disappointment in
love. She obtained permission to 60 to
clearing near her fathers house to gather
bark for kindling- and was observed
10 take rope with her. She remained
out longer than was her custom, and search
being instituted the unfortunate was found
suspended to limb of a tree, lifeless.-
Miss Earlwine was about eighteen years
of age. The superstitious people in the
neig6porhood would not allow her to be
buried in the church yard, and her re-
mains were appropriately inferred at the
Cross Roads, in accordance with heathen-
ish custom and obsolete law"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

SpIRITUAL1sM AND FREE LovE.-A con-
vention of Spiritualists was held at Lud-
low, Vermont, the last Saturday and Sun
day in August. Some 500 people were
present on Saturday, and many more on
Sunday. DR.. Gardner of Boston, DR.. Ma
hew, Miss Sprague, Mrs. Townsend, Mr..
Chase of Wis.,, and other Spiritual cele-
brities took part in the proceedings. By
report of speeches &c. in the Boston 1rau-
eler, it appears that free love was discussed
and had its advocates. DR.. Mahew stated
that he was free love in full, and the cor
respondent of that paper states the pro-
ceedings were but development of views
which lead to in6delity and free love.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
Banks in bad Repute. !.

The paper of the following Banks has
been thrown out of the Eastern Banks,
and they are reported "broke." 1t is alto
gether probable, though, that as soon as
the present panic has subsided little,
that most or all of them will resume busi-
ness again:
Bank of Hallowell, HalIowell, Maine.
Exter Bank, Exter, NJ
South Royalton Bank, South RoyaIton,
Vt.
Rhode Island Central Bank, E. Green.
wich, R. /.
Farmers Bank, Wexford, R. /.
Mount Vernon Bank, Providence, r. l..
TiVerton Bank, Tiverton, R. l.
Wooster Bank, Danbury, CT.
Commercial Bank, Perth Amboy, N. j.
Bergen. County, N. j.
SacEetts Harbor (or Reciprocity) Buffalo
hoillster Bank, Buffalo. ~
Chsmung County Bank, Horsehsads.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
~A few wears ago. our friend JEssR

EA few years ago, our friend JESSE
UHL, had his name announced in both pa
pers of this town as a candidate for Asses
sor. Though good enough democrat, and
one that has done good deal in his way
for the party, he didn't get the office. The
reason they gave for giving Jesse the cold
shoulder, was, that he had had his name
announced in Wing paper. Well, he was
candidate again this fall and took good
care not to give his party the same excuse
for not voting for him that they urged be-
fore-and Jesse was elected-in horn.
Several other friends belonging to the same
party that Jesse does, have Jared no better.
They may as well hang their harps upon
the willow-two willows if they can find
them-as their party has already hung their
political hides upon the fence.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
A Democratic DaguerreOtype of
the Democratic PARTY,

The Madison (Wis) Patriot gives the
following truthful and not overweight
picture Of its party:
"Why is our party to-day on its knees
before the worlds 1t requires no soothsa-
yer or sorcerer to answer that question:
The party has played with edged tools, as
dull as old hoes at that-and has got cut;
it has firted with political cyprians, and
got Tilted; it has slept with pilfering sha-
vers, scoundrels and knaves, and has caught
the BARRIERS itch. 1t has breathed the
peslilential malaria fuming from the lairs
Of old rotten, unprincipled, scurvy-headed,
milk nd-water, broken-down, cast-off lep-
rous pukes, cancerous thieves, superanuat-
ed pick pockets, treasury -plundering, refuse
office-seeking, whisky-soaked, double-dis-
titled buffoons and penitentiary scalliwags
who have preyed and gorged upon the
party and the people, until the substances
of each is almost exhausted, and they look
as lean, lank, thin, savage and cadaverous
as starved hyenas, confined in the Dismal
Swamp of terror and adversely, through a
thousand eternities of snow, sleet. hail, rain,
thunder, lightning, tempests and irretriev-
able famine.
"Such is the foetid malady that has over
taken the Democratic party in Wisconsin.
1t has been laid on thick and fast, with
double coating-shingled, mortared, tarred.
plastered, and rubbed in, until the party
resembles more the ghost of spring colt
dead, deceased and done for, without
skin, flesh or bones-than anything hav-
ing life, longevity, elasticity, vigor, vitality,
or wide awake component parts"
We agree with the Fremont Journal
in thinking that "if the Democratic party
of Ohio had been sitting for its own por-
trait, a more life like picture could not have
been drawn. Sketched by one of their
master, workmen, who is familiar with all
the ways and means used for promotion of
the party's interest, it must be correct"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
How Readest Thou.

Henry B. Payne, in his speech accept
ing the nomination for Governor, before
the Democratic Convention, stated that
the Dred Scott decision decided but one
point, viz: that slave in Missouri, taken
thence by his master into free State, and
again voluntarily returning to Missouri,
must abide the law of Missouri as to his
freedom. This assertion Mr.. Payne is re-
iterating all over the State. Thus he at
tempts to deceive the people as to the in
tended effect of that nefarious decison,
trusting that his Interpretation of that cass
may be good enough law until after elec-
ton, when he hopes Democratic victory
in Ohio will brace up the nerves of the
Democratic members of Congress elect
from this State, to vote in Kansas and
Slavery.
But President Buchanan does not read
the Dred Scott decision thus. His reply
to the Connecticut gentlemen, contains but
one point, and that comes in just now hap
PLY to confound Mr.. Payne's' rendering Of
that case. President Buchanan says:
ought to specify more particularly a
condition of affairs, which 1 have embraced
only in general terms, requiring the pre-
sence of military force in Kansas. The
Congress of the United States had most
wisely declared it to be "the true intent and
meaning of this act (the act organizing the
Territory not to legislate slavery into any
Territory or State, nor to exclude it there
from, but to leave the people thereof per-
fectly free to form and regulate their do
mestic institutions in their own way, sub
ject only to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States" As natural consequence,
Congress has also prescribed by the same
act that when the Territory of Kansas shall
be admitted as State, it "sball be receiv-
ed into the Union without slavery, as their
constitution may prescribe at the time of
their admission"
Slavery eristed at that period, and still
erists, IN Kansas under the Constitution
of the United States. This point has at
last been finally decided By the highest tri.
bunal known to our laws. How it could
ever have been seriously doubted is mys-
terry. Ifa confederation of sovereign States
acquire new Territory at the expense of
their common blood and treasure, surely
one set of the partners can have no right
to exclude the other from its enjoyment by
prohibiting them from taking into 1t ,chat-
soever is recognized to be property By Tie
common Constitution.
The Dred Scott case, therefore, decides
that slavery already has legal existence
in Kansas, and it decides furthermore that
slave owners have perfect right to carry
their slaves into Tinnesota, Oregon, Wash
ington and Nebraska territories, and there
hold them as chattels. Such is the expo
siaion of this case as given by the Presi-
dent of the Democratic party Cleveland
Herald.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

U. S. TEACHERS CoSvENTIoN.-T
United States Teachers Convention was
in session in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The object of the meeting, as stated by the
call, is to form National Teachers Asso-
citation for the promotion alike of the in
terests of the profession. A committee
was appointed to prepare constitution,
which subsequently reported one organic
ing the National Teachers Association,
which was adopted. During the session Of
the Association, views and information up
on the school system Of tho several States
were interchanged by the teachers pres
ent. The convention held an evening ses-
sion, and after listening to the reading Of
an address and the transaction Of some
incidental business adjourned.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

TIE MARKET.-It is sight to pass up
Ontario street from seven to eight O'Clock
market mornings. Both sides are lined
with wagons and stands for about quar-
ter of mile, and the people are in mass
meeting. Vegetables and fruits were nev-
er more abundant, and are beginning to be
sold at eating as well as living prices
There has been no drouth in the Lake
country this season, and though the wealth
er has been more than usually cool, the sum-
mer has been very productive. Fine ap-
pies are selling at from so cents to IS cents
per bushel, and peaches from 81 to 81,
per basket, or 50 to $3.50 per bushel.-
Potatoes from 374 to SO cents per bushel.
Farmers and Gardners complain some of
the rot, and express apprehension that
the great potato crop in the ground will
be lost. There is no end to mcllons, of all
sizes and prices.
The health of the city and country con-
tinues remarkably good, and from the
great quantities of marketing disposed of
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, it is
evident that
"Good digestion waits on appetite.
Shipments of vegetables, fruits, melons,
DC, are constantly made from this to the
Upper Lake ports, particularly to Lake
Superior Cleveland Herald Sept. 9.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
Stacks of Goods.

The addition recently made to his store
room by our friend CHERRYHoLMEs, makes
it one Of the largest retail establishments in
Ohio, and yet it is likely to be full small for
the stack of goods which he is putting in it
this fall. With only half them received, he
Is complaining for want of room. His
Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, would
make about two stores and half, in that
line alone. Then he has pyramids and
stacks Of dry goods. Jacob says, apitch in,"
"here'sthe place to get your money back"
-epop goes the weasel.n
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

ELECTION FRAUDS IN PENNsYLvANIA-
The stupendous frauds practiced in Phila-
delphia by the Democratic leaders in the
last October election, gave the State of
Pennsylvania to the candidates of the DEM
ocratic party, and secured the result of the
Presidential contest. Ballot-boxes were
stuffed, and illegal votes received wherever
the party had possession of the polls. This
has been established by the legal investi-
cations since held, and during the last
month Judge Conrad sentenced one of the
scoundrels, named Rump, to prison for two
years and eight months, for participation
in the frauds by which James Buchanan
was elected to the Presidency. The Pla-
quemine frauds in Louisiana in 1914, were
more than puralleled in Philadelphia in
1855.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
The Odd Fellows, Celebration,

Il uC OUU ICIAO"S| CctCUTdtlOus
Came off, as per announcement, in Mil
lersburg on the 4th inst. The weather
was fine-the turn out and display excel
lent, and everything passed off TO the en-
tire satisfaction of all parties those who
came to participate, as well as those who
came to see. The Wooster Band was here
and enivened the occasion with its fine
music. The singing by the Choir was ex-
cellent, and the Address, by RODNEY Ma
SON, Esq, of Springfield, O., was a most
excellent one. The Grand Master of the
State, with other important dignitaries in
the Order were present and the attendance
of Brethren from neighboring Lodges, was
very fiattering to those in Millersburg.-
The Procession formed in front of the new
Hall from whence it moved to the M. E.
Church, to hear the Addresses, Music &c.
Afterwards it reformed, and after marching
through the principal streets, repaired 10
the large warehouse of A. BAKER, Esq,
where they partook of an excellent supper
prepared by mine host of the Ohio House.
In the evening, the ceremonies of dedi-
eating the new Hall, situate over the store
of MIR. CHERRYHoLMEs, and, which, by the
uau ic pronoupoad 70 ba o1o sc 4Io no,&,.I
in the State, were gone through with, after
which, the days work was declared done,
and all parties retired to their homes, well
satisfied with the doings, so far as they
were allowed to witness them, of the day.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
The Horses I'm rnu.
land.
new YoRK, Aup. d L,

NEW YORK, Aug. ~, 1851.
SIR: Viii you allow me to say a few
words in regard to ssThe American Horses
in England" if the subject is not overaope.
Our racing experience in England seems
neither to have taught us how to win nor
vet how to lose. How is it that We can
not own up that we are beaten ayes bad
ly BEATEN notwithstanding the comph..
mentary tone of the English journals. Has
all magnanimity and gentlemsnly feeling
left usa What lesson might We have
learned from our opponents; they are
beaten as well as we, yet they have. no
small subterfuges; we hear nothing about
"If we had been in better condition" "If
we had not gone on this side instead of
that but they gracefully hand over the
Cup to the winner and do not depreciats
their value of it by declaring it was their
bad running, as be might be tempted to
suppose, that gave him the Cup.
How differently have we acted: we ral-
lied and raved, demanded in the name of
American people, what no one ever thought
of refusing, an exact account of the race;
swear that it was all the fault of the train
er; then that Of the jocky; change them;
and are beaten rather worse than before.
Let US see how badly we are beaten;
Fisherman horse of the same age as Pri-
Dress, gives Is pounds and then beats US;
Tournament and Chevalier, both three
years old, carry the same weight as our
four year old Prioress, and beat her; had
we carried off the Sussex Plate il would
have been nothing to brag about with our
large allowances Of weight. Had Prioress
carried weight for weight with her Eng
lish opponents at Goodwood she would
never have got home at all or boasted of
superiority of bottom over our opponents
high-bred horses seems to be fudge; indeed
the American horses now in England seem
to be cranky lot, forever ailing. Depend
upon it that we have yet to breed the horse
that can 60 in and win in well contested
English race; we have been deceived by
the time test altogether.
Respectfully yours, A LOSER.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
County Fairs i'm Ohio for 1857.
Money Dear and Sugar Cheap.

The Bank Statement this morning shows
an average curtailment in Loans and Dis
counts last week of three and half mil
lion dollars. This process had made mo-
ney suddenly dear. 1t is now called twelve
instead of seven per cent. per amman on
the best names. The Sugar speculators
in Havana and their coadjututors and fac
tors here, it is said, nearly all come under
this classification at bank and in the dis
count offices. We do their credit no harm
therefore in saying that they pay dear for
their whistler sugar, as the case may
be. They crowded our Banks and Trust
Companies, with their paper in June, at 7
per cent, and are now renewing it at IL
per cent. Meanwhile, what with deprecia-
ton in price, wastage of sugar and leakage
in Molases, they find themselves in the
same category with the poor Railway
Shareholders-about 80 or 40 per cent.
worse off in the speculative world Of South
and Wall streets, than at the start. Hav-
ing the advantage, however of high credit,
they can stand so days longer to see the
turn of the great corner in this prime neces-
slty, and no damage done, perhaps, to the
money lender. The consumers all over
the country, quietly looking on, and using
as little "sweetening" as the family can
get along with, wish no other luck than
the bare preservation of their good name
at Bank. The feeling is natural enough,
after what we have seen of dear sugar for
six or eight months past, and the present
probability is, it will be speedily gratified
by further material decline in Cuba Su.
gars, and the incoming ofa large crop from
Lousiana.-N. Y Times.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
The Result.

The Ticket chosen by the Democracy of
this county at their primary elections last
Saturday, is as follows:
For Senotor-DANIELP PERKEE.
Representotive-ELI GLASGO.
Treasurer MFADDEN.
Awditor-G. w. NEWTON.
.SherG-JOHN FRENCH.
erk-ERASTUS BEECHER.
Probate Judge-H. G. SAUNDERS.
Pros. Attorney-WILLIAM REED.
Commiss;oner-DAVID CORNS.
Coroner-WILLIAM SNOW.
The contest for Representative was very
close. A great many donot hesitate to say
that our townsman, W. S. TANNYH1LL, ESQ
was cheated out of the nomination by the
Convention which met on Monday. His
majority dwindled down to minority, very
suddenly and very mysteriously, we think.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
That Aueer.

That bored the hole, in the wall of the
Jail, that let out the men, that stole the
horses, is still about town. The other night
it tored down the Democratic, Jackson,
Buchanan, Hail Columbia, E Pluribus
Unum, Liberty Pole,' standing in the east
end of town. On Saturday last it was
about in another shape among some of the
voters Of that party, and in the evening
they were down, too. Great old auger.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

.. s. TRooPs FOR is stated
that the following troops have been order
ed to Kansas. Ten companies of the 1st
cavalry, under the command Of Colonel
Sumner and Lieutenant Colonel johnson
seven companies of the 9Th infantry under
the same command; ten companies of the
4th artillery, from Florida; two companies
of the I'd artillery, from Fort Monroe; two
companies of the I'd artillery from Fort
Smelling; one light battery company, from
Fort McHenry; which, if the average
strength be sixty, will give force of up
words of two thousand men. Gen. Har-
ney will remain in command in Kansas.
Col. Albert s. johnson, late from Texas,
has been assigned command of the troops
to Utah.-Easterm Paper.
Why are all these forces concentrated in
Kansas The administration presses tell
us that everything is quiet there; that the
whole question is in a fair way of settle
ment; and that Squatter Sovereignty is
peacefully working out its mission. Why,
then is Kansas to be overrun with soldiers
UTAH is in state of actual rebellion; the
United States Judges and other officers
have been driven out, and the authority of
the government set at defiance; yet, al
though the President has had the whole
summer to do it in, not soldier has been
sent there. But, instead of that, the whole
United States army is concentrated in
Kansas. Why's
The answer is plain. 1t is to overawe
and subdue the people in that territory. 1t
is to enable the Border Ruffians of Missouri
to come and finish the work they have be-
gun. 1t is 10 establish and render perma-
nent the institution of Slavery in Kansas,
which the President says already exists
there. 1t is to cram down the throats of
an unwilling people, at the point of the
bayonet, constitution repugnant to their
convictions and which they have had no
voice in framing. This is the purpose and
these the objects to be subserved by the
U. S. army. The national administration
is engaged in the work of extending slave
rp with all the power at its command.
We warned the people of this last year;
but when the voters of Pennsylvania were
told that such would be the case, the de-
mocraiie leaders and presses denied it, and
assured the people that the only way to
bring Kansas in as a Free State was to
elect Buchanan. What have these deceiv-
ers to say nows
We hope to hear no more idle prattle
about "Squatter Sovereignty" These
troops are going to Kansas for the very
purpose of defeating Squatter Sovereignty.
All that the people of Kansas ask for is to
be let alone, and this is just what Mr.. Bu-
chanan will not permit. He is determined
to force slavery upon them. The South
demands it, and he will comply. The
promises of Walker to the people of Kan
sas were mere idle wind. He has already
lied himself out of them, and the party to
which he belongs will do the same.-Pitts-
burgh Gazette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

MURDERER IN CUsToDY.-Wm. Jones,
who shot Cyrus Beebe, policeman, in Co
lumbus, as long ago as April 9th, 1854,
has at last been taken and is in Jail at Co.
lumbus awaiting his trial. He was recent
ly arrested in Wisconsin, and on examina-
tion has been fully identified. He ac
knowledges that he shot the officer, but
did not suppose he killed him, and appears
reckless as to the result of the trial.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

MORE TRUTH THAN PoETRY.-One of
the candidates voted for on Saturday, re-
marked on the evening of that day, that
the democratic party fthis county was get
ting so loaded down with bad whiskey and
honryness generally, that the good men in
it could no longer draw the load, and that
it would have to break.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10

@ Some half century ago, Nicholas
Longworth, practicing law at Cincinnati,
received as fee for defending a horse
thief, two secondhand copper stills
These be traded of for a lot of thirty-three
acres on Western Row, then so called
This transaction formed the basis of an i'm
mense fortune, the naked ground being now
worth over two million of dollars.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
A Rad Sell.

We noticed in our last, the arrival in
Millersburg, of messenger with the news
that the horse thieves who recently broke
jail here, had been arrested and were in the
Columbus Jail awaiting the arrival of our
Sheriff to return with them to Millersburg.
Deputy Sheriff LENNON started after them,
but the men arrested did not happen to be
the right ones. .@Sold again"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-09-10
HIt will be seen that our old frien

EEIt will be seen that our old friend
GLAsGo, has received the nomination by
the Democracy Of this county, for Repre-
sentative. We hope ELI will not be hood
winked into attending any more Rail Road
celebrations at Cleveland, and that he will
be slow to know anything about the hand
writing Of any of his democratic friends
about Millersburg. They'll kill nir if
they can. It's way they have.