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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
Common schools i'm Ohio.

We have received the third Annual Re
port of the State Commissioner of Com
missioner of Common Schools, TO the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, fol
the year ending August 81, 1856. 1t j:
a solid pamphlet of one hundred and eight
pages, and contains vast deal of valuable
matter respecting the present condition, the
past history, and the future requirements
of our Common Schools.
From the reports of the County Audi
tors for the year ending Aug. 81, 1856, ii
appears the total number of townships re-
ported by their boards of education was
| 1857.
The total number special and seperate,
school districts reported by the boards of
education of cities, towns and incorporated
villages, was $50.
The total number of sub-districts report
ed was 1888.
Of this number s,311 were each COM
posed of territory lying in one township,
and 675 were '.joint sub-districts," so cal
led from being composed of territory lying
in two or more adjacent townships.
The total number of white and colored
youth in October, 1856, was 826,6S0.-
The number enrolled during the year was
SCI, ,315; the number in average daily at
tendance was a22,643.
The number of teachers employed In
1856 was 17,sI3-males, 9,449; females,
s:364. The average wages, per month,
paid to the teachers was, to males S26 10;
to females, SIS :63.
The whole amount of money paid for
teachers wages in the several cities, town
ships, and Incorporated villages from which
reports have been received, was, to males,
Sl,023,21 10; TO females, S53l, ,194 :95 !;
total 81 ,554, ,407 "a.
The amount oftaxes levied and collected
in the townships, cities, and Incorporated
Villages, for purchasing school-house sites,
building, furnishing, and repairing school
houses, providing fuel, cases for books and
apparatus, and other contingent expenses,
WAS 81 ,066, 1852 %.
The amount received from the State
School tax, sales of section l6, proceed of
different School Funds, licenses, fines, &c,
1889, ,6e1 :55. 7-
The whole number of school-houses in
the State as reported, was 8,l44; total
value of the same s3,27O,69l. The whole
number of school-houses built during the
year, as reported, was 627; totol value Of
the same, SS74,547.
Besides these statistics, the report con-
tains many valuable suggestions and OBJ
servations of the Commissioner, Mr.. Bar
ney, on the operation of the School Law,
needed notifications, dc, of great adyan
tage 10 school directors, examiners, and
teachers.
From a tabular statement of the report
ed condition of schools in this State for
twenty years, as reported, We take the fol-
lowing aggregate Number ofehildren en-
rolled, 4,098,437; number of teachers EN-
ployed, 156,623; amount paid teachers,
sS,S97, ,SSS; number of school-houses built,
9,71s; cost of do, s2,3S5,7O6. Over elev-
en- millions expended on teachers and
school-houses in twenty years Who be-
lieyes it is wasted? In this matter we can
truly say, what We spent we've got
Clereland Leader.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
From California and the 18th.
mma

| AAA0Ys
M NEW YoRx, March 18.
Tne George Law arrived this morning
from Aspinwall, with Caliorn;. dotes e
February goth. She left Asn;nw.I March
9Th, and brings of 81 ,OOo, 900 IN anao;e
The George Law touched at Havana on
the llth inst On the 10th inst. She snoka
off Cape Antonio the steamer Grenada
from Havana for Aspinwall.
The o. S. ship Independence is lying
of Panama.
The, steamer Sierra Nevada left San
Francisco February goth with 700 recruits
for General Walker. FfsF5
News from California unimportaht. Min
ing news rather favorable There had been
l.eavy rains in various parts of the State,
causing much damage.
The markets had been extremely dull.
Flour is quoted at $l1. There had been
no arrivals from Atlantic ports during the
fortnight.
DR.. Bates, State Treasurer, and G. w.
Whitman, Comptroller, for misappropria-
ton of State funds to the amount of $3.50
900 have been impeached by the Califor-
MIA Legislature. DR.. Bates resigned, and
James English, ex-mayor of Sacramento,
succeeded him.
Twelve of band of robbers who re-
Gently murdered Sheriff Barton, have been
hung by the people of San Diego.
An affray has occurred at San Francisco
between F. A. Cohen, banker, and Thomas
King, editor of the Evening Bulletin.-
Cohen was the agressor. He received a
pistol shot through the jaws.
Companies of fillibusters were being or
ganized in the interior for aid of Walker.
A bill to legalize the State debt has
been introduced into the Senate, and will
undoubtedly pass.
Two shocks of an earthquake were felt
at San Francisco on the evening of Feb.
5th Much consternstion ensued, but no
damage was done.
A large lot of fillibusters were bound to
Sonora, to join Gandara.
Advices from Lnpaz, on the Mexican
coast, state that Gen. Blancart had seized
all vessels in the harbor, putting them un-
der embargo, and was to leave in few
days with 700 men for Capital.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

BEAN PoLEs.-Now is the time to cut
them. Let us tell you what to cut an.
how to set them. If possible, cut chestnut
or some other durable timber for your
poles, which should be five or six inches in
diameter at the butt, and eight feet long.
Set these two feet in the ground twenty
feet apart in the rows, and the rows wide
enough to plow between, and stretch No. s
wire from post to post, SIX feet above the
ground, and plant your beans in drill un-
der the wire. A willow, or apple sprout
or some preserved broom-corn stalks, stick
one end in the ground, and the other tied
to the wire, will serve You better than poles
and won't cost half as much. Try it
The same plan will do for hops. We rec
ommend the rows to run north and south.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
Scarlet Fever and Small POx.

DR.. William Fields, of Wilmington,
Delaware, gives publicity to the following
recipe, which, he says, if faithfully carried
out, will cure forty-ive cases out of fifty
without calling on a physician:
SCARLET FEvER.-For adults, give one
tablespoonful of good brewers yeast, in
three table-spoonfuls of sweetened water,
three times day; and if the throat is
much swollen. gurgle with yeast and apply
yeast to the throat as a poultice, mixed
with Indian meal. Use plenty OF catnip
tea, to keep the eruption out of the skin for
several days.
SMALL Pox.-Use the above doses of
yeast three times day, and milk diet
throughout the entire disease. Nearly ev-
cry one can be cured, without leaving
pockmark -
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
The Buffalo Republican, fast evening,

saws:
Mr.. Red6eld, late Superintendent of the
Erie and Ontario Railroad, is also among
the killed. The scene at the wreck is des-
cribed as most appalling. We learn from
MIR. Brayton, the proprietor of the Ameri-
can Hotel at Suspension Bridge, that the
baggage man and three others were saved.
Ofcourse, they being on the front of the
train availcd themselves of the opportunity
of making their escape. These, with the
exception of woman, were all who saved
themselves from going over with the train.
From the best information that Mr..
Brayton could obtain, some seventy per-
sons are killed and drowned by the disaster.
That information is brought to him by a
conductor and baggage man who boarded
with him at Suspension Bridge. The bag
gage mans statement is to the effect that
forty to fifty persons are lost without any
doubt, nearly all of which took place in the
first car.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

E In June, 1855, Mr.. j B. Brecken-
ridge and Mr.. +. Leavenworth, got into a
quarrel at the Shakespeare Club in this
city, and settled their difference only by a
duel at Niagara Falls. Nh. Breckenridge
received ball in the calf of the leg, but
the wound was trihing. His opponent
Jared worse, Breckenridge's bullet passing
through one thigh, breaking the bone, and
imbedding itself deeply in the other. Mr..
Leavenworth has since recovered. Mr..
Breckenridge went to New Orleans and be-
came editorially connected with the Cour-
Ter. On Saturday he fought duel with
Mr.. Nixon, editor of the Crescent, when he
received precisely the same kind of a wound
that he inflicted on Leavenworth, being at
the second fire, shot in both thighs.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

STRYcHNINE IN LIQUoR-In the Senate
of Ohio, a motion has been made to in
struct the Judiciary Committee to inquirs
what Legislation is necessary to prevent The
use of strychnine in distilling. Better in
quire, says the Cleveland Herald, what
Legislation is necessary to prevent distilIine
altogether. If men will drink poison, bet
Ter quick than slow. Put in thes strychnine
the more the better The delirium will be less
protracted-the "snakes in the boots less
horrible. If the piped suckers of the still
worm will drink destruction, the sooner ii
is over with them the better.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

YEAsT-"A Country Cook" writing
upon "the bread question" says she cannot
make good bread because she cannot al
ways get good yeast where she lives, in the
interior of Indiana, and asks the Tribune
to aid her. She says:
"With many thanks for information al
ready received through the columns of the
Tribune, I respectfully ask for this mnch
more. A COUNTRY COOK"
Madam, you shall have there it is !:
Take three ounces of good fresh hops, 81
pounds of rye flour, Z pounds of Indian
corn meal, and one gallon of water. hui
the hops so as 10 separate them. Put
them into boiling water, and boil them
half an hour. Stain the liquor through
a fine seive into an earthen vessel. While
hot, put in the rye flour, stirring the liquor
well and the mess will be stiff dough-
Knead it well, as you would pie-crust; roll
it out to the thickness of about the third
of all inch, and then cut it up in
to cakes with tumbler or something else
and lay the cakes on a clean board or n
tin, and put them to dry in the sun. Turn
them every day; let them receive no wet
and they will become as hard as ship buis
cult. Store them in a bag or box, perfect
ly free from damp. When you bake, take
two cakes and crack and put them into hot
water over night, in vessel near the fire
place, where they will dissolve by morning
and then use them in setting your sponge,
(as it is called as you would use the yeast
of beer; and these yeast cakes may be
kept as long as desired.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
Free-Sfate COnvicts in Kansas.

".
Among the many subjects of political in
terest which stir the pulse at the present
and hang like clouds over the future, we
are apt to overlook and forget the fate OF
the free State convicts, who are still felonS
of the Infamous decree of an infamous par
tisan Court. Gov Geary has not pardoned
them vet. am recalled to these unfortu-
mates by the report from Tecumseh that
the free-State prisoners in that place, who
have not vet been convicted, have all esca-
ped but one. That one-Mr Gates, form
erly of Hancock county, ILL.,, and noble
fellows still in prison there.
Affairs have not run very smoothly with
the prisoners at Tecumseh of late. They
have been compelled to cut their own fire
wood, guarded by soldiers; cook their own
food, and perform other menial Offices
When visited them last they were sad
group for a freeman to contemplate. The
cell is in the basement Of the Court House.
1t was narrow room, bare brick walls, a
cold and bare brick floor, and au air of in
expres.ibIe discomfort. A grated window
left in sufficient of daylight to give it a
sombre aspect. A stove was in the centre,
around which the unfortunate patriots were
huddled, and a soldier was inside, behind
the door, to guard them. The dim ray of
light which struggled through the gate
cleaned on his bayonet, and the insulted
Republican eagle blazoned on his waist
belt. A few blankets, and not too clean,
were stretched on two planks living on the
floor, on which the prisoners could vary the
monctony by reclining.
As these prisoners have not yet been put
OH trial, or at least have been acquitted on
all charges on which they have yet been
tried, they refused, after mature considera-
ton, to cook and do other menial offices,
deciding, very properly, that if they were
to be kept as prisoners, they must be treat
ed as such, and have food provided for
them. In order to coerce them into com
pliance, the Pro- Slavery authorities deter
mined 10 give them neither food nor fuel
till they agreed to cook the former and cut
the latter. For more than tow days the
prisoners held bravely out, suffering the
pangs of hunger and cold. The deliberate
and atrocious crime ON the part of these
Pro-Slavery authorities entities each of
these scoundrels to a halter, and will be
another burning reproaeh to the General
Government until it is punished. The au-
thorities had at last to succumb before the
iron resolution of these noble martyr-priso-
ners. Food was supplied them, but The
attendance thus reluctantly extorted from
Them was not of kind to give much salts
action. The removal of the greater por-
ton of the United States troops at Tecun-
sch to this place, noticed in recent letter,
gave the opportunity, and all save Gates,
who, | learn, was unwell, succeeded in ma
1ing their cscane.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
rr A collision occurred on aha Pan,

H A collision occurred on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, at place called Galit-
zen-says the Pittsburgh Chronicle-ou
wednesday, the llth inst, resulting in the
death of two persons and the injury of FIVE
Others. An emigrant train had Just pass
ed the tunnel and come to a halt. A
freight train came laundering on, following
through the same tunnel, and not seeing
the danger signal at the end of the tunnel,
owing to the smoke and steam intervening.
plunged into tho emigrant train, smashing
through two cars.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

HThe ultra Pro-Slavery faction at
Washington, having succeeded in keeping
Lecompe on the bench, have now taken in
hand the removal of Geary. Accounts
from Washington state that this is warmly
pressed upon the President; and from his
treatment of others who have done him
good service in the Presidential canvass, it
is thought he will throw Geary overheard
and supply his place with some fre-eater.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

GS' An extensive planter who has re-
Gently examined large number of planta-
tions in the Parish of st. Mary's La, as
sures the New Orleans Bee that the pros
pect of the next sugar crop is magnificent.
Never, at this period of the year, he says,
has the appearance of the cane been finer,
or the shoots larger or more succulent.-
Throughout the whole sugar growing re-
gion of louisiana, the prospect is said to be
equally bright.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

SPAIN AND MEx1co-An article appears
in the Paris Patrie, copies of which came
to hand in the Emeu sailing from Havre Oh
the 22d and arriving at New York on
Tuesday last, from which We learn that ac-
tive preparations are going on in Spain for
prosecuting the threatened blockade of
Mexican ports. Some apprehension seems
to be felt in regard to the safety of Cuba,
and its power to protect itself against
American fillibusters is seriously discussed.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

HT The New York Tribune, Times and
Herald are now publishing the full partic-
ulars Of a trial against two scamps, who
grossly abused two emigrant girls, the de-
tails of which arc as vile as words can tell.
No person who would not defile bis parlor
table, should take these papers containing
this report, into his house. There is no
excuse for printing such filthy details.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
FURTHER FROM TORONTO.
TORONTO, March l2-IO:35 p.

TORONTO, March l2-1O:35 p. M.
The cars went over the bridge near Ham
ilton. Locomotive and baggage cars pass
ed over safe. Two rear cars, with 100
passengers, fell through. Between go and
so passengers killed ON the spot.
MIR. Street, of the Falls, the millionaire,
and his sister and mother-in-law, and Tho
mas Z. Macklam, reported killed.
tremendous excitement here about the
accident: Parliament adjourned the mo-
ment 1t heard of it. The passengers were
mostly Canadians, as the train was local
between Toronto and Hamilton; but still
there were several Americans on board
The bridge is partly broken down, and the
cars lie on the top of ca, h other, having
fallen about go feet. Doctors are leavin9
Toronto to attend to the wounded. Moth,
ing has ever occurred in the shape of an
accident here that has created such profound
grief and excitement.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19


RT The Chicago Times, the home or
gan of Senator Douglas, has joined the
Cincinnati Enquirer and the New York
Daily News against the new Washington
Union editor, MIR. Appleton, as the new
administration candidate for the public
printing of theme Congress. This move
ment on the part of the special home Or
gan of MIR. Douglas is another straw show
ing the drift of the wind. Mr.. Douglas, as
far as we can learn, has received from the
new administration only absolute and con-
temptuous neglect, and this movement in
dicates that he appreciates il.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

E~ The Sandusky Register of Tues
day relates the following sharp shooting
incident: The Register says Oscar Smith
was standing on an elevation about twenty
feet obove the level of the Lake, and with
rifle, on which was one of Bays patent
sights, he fired slug ball the distance of
one hundred and twenty rods by actual
measurement, killing two wild geese and
one canvas back duck, which were on the
ice
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
re- A farmer in Illinois on the Grand

ES A farmer in Illinois on the Grand
Prairie, where wood is not to be had and
where coal is worth thirty cents per bushel
and corn the same, got out of fuel while
the roads were so bad that he could not
haul coal, and in the emergency of the case
tried burning corn in the ear, in his stove
in place ofcoal, and found it not only sue
ceeded but that it was actually cheaper to
burn corn than coal, and that it would not
only make hot fire but cleaner fire than
coal.
We were quite aware Of the value of
corn cobs and corn stalks for fuel, but this
is new use of the grain, though we see
no reason TO doubt that an article so full
of oil and alcohol must make good fuel,
and not very expensive.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
The First in Market.

Our friend, CHERRYHoLMEs, determined
to be cup with the times" is already on
hand with his Spring Stock of Merchan-
die, embracing little of everything, and
everything in general. His large store
room is piled full of goods, which are not
likely to last very long though, unless his
friends quit carrying them off at the rate
they are now doing.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

The Pennsylpanian calls the decision of
the Supreme Court of the Dred Scott case,
''the funeral Sermon of Black Republican
ISM" twill prove its effect, like the funer-
alsermon which Mark Anthony pronounced
over the body of the slaughtered Caesar
which might cause the very stones to rise
in mutiny and rage. g
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

NEwsPAPERs.-Dr. johnson, when in
the fullness of years and knowledge, said /:
II never take up newspaper without find
ing something would have deemed it a
loss not to have seer; never without deriv-
ing from it instruction or amusement"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

MASSACHUSETTS Mov1Ne.-The Lower
House of the Massachusetts, Legislature, on
Tuesday, took action with reference to the
recent decision of the United States Court
in the bred Scott case. An order was
adopted with a view to instructing the
members of Congress to propose an amend
ment of the Constitution of the United
States, providing for the election of the
Supreme Court Judges by the people for {
term of years. A committee was alsoap
pointed to consider what measures should
be taken in view of the late decision.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

NMr. Buchanan only said "he had
determined not to become candidate for
reelection" vastly different thing from re-
fusing to aserve" in case anything should
turn up" by which he should be reelected.
His virtue might not be proof against that
contingency.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19


HThe result of the recent township
elections in New York are summed up by
the Albany Journal as follows: In thir-
ty-four counties the Republicans have gain
ed 120 members, the Democrats have lost
26, and the Know Nothings have lost 95 (!
The mgorities of the Democrats and Know
Nothings last year was 12s over the Re
publicans. This year the Republican ma
iority over both the others is 113!!! Where
are the sapient Democratic and K. n. pro
phets who predicted the decline of Repub-
Gcanism in New York after the Presiden.
tial election! The fiat has gone forth, and
bogus Democracy and Know Nothingism
is swept from the Empire State forever.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

A NUr FOR LAwYERs.--The late Joshua
Sears, of Boston, made it boast in his life
time that he had never paid cent to law
yer. The lawyers are now having their re-
renge. They are at is will.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

EThe Indianapolis Journal reports
another case of a man poisoned in that city
on Friday last by eating sausages' 1t Is
supposed the sausages were made from un-
wholesome meat.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

REMovALs.-It seems now to be settled
as the policy of the administration, that re-
-mosals will be made gradually, although
the principle of ''rotation in office" will be
fully carried out.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19

E% Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement of Mr.. BENZ. COIN, in to-day's
paper. His "machine," turns out great
many clothing, which are disposed ofas rap
idly. His Spring stock just coming to hand
is very fine one.