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BY JAS. c. MCGUIRE, Auotioneer.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
property Pennsylvania
Tuesday afternoon, january at O'Clock, the prem
m by deed Of trust dated November 1854 recorded
b So oios 375, seq, the
Washington county tho subscriber will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, the following described property, viz
beginning intersection street.
and running wcrwardy along the line said
centre wall which divides the house
pow Buildings" from the second the
row. commencing the thereof thence nohwady
along tho centre dividing wall the WALL along the
west the stable said lot TO tho aey thence eastwardy
along said alley said 10th thence souhwardy
10th the place OF beginning
improvements consisting Of excellent thrcesloy brick dwelling
house witt brick stables, &c 4. ag#..5 gb3fsl-I
Terms made known at sale. ,.,.s M
"t.#". .te WM A. MIX, Trustee.
r..'.r #aEa#ats q. JAS c. MCGUIRE,
Dec I'D . ..4 EH.% s.af .} a tEat Auctioneer.
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THE NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL UNITED
stsiea mall sleamers.The ships comprising line arc
Capt. Oliver Eldridgs.
Capt. Jos, Comstock.
Can't. James West.

The Atlantc.., Capt Oliver Hdridgs
me Baltic Observation-Disclosures. Capt Jos, Comstock
The Adraac .4.-...t....... Capt James West p
y ships have been by contract expressly for government
e every has lsen taken <heir construction
mir engines insure stscngth ansecd and their
~ rasssngers nneaualed for elegance and
~ steamers cf this ius improved tight
IA no expense has been spared make them all good
NJ thorough examination given them their mode Of
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Pe q passage New York Liverpool cabin $780,
second cabin, SIS From Liverpool TO New York. 30 and 20
gdnea
IA berth be secured until paid for. ft,s
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%saus,, oaeesmuel Casey, esq., Treasurer, and thirteen
cEks a receives and kee tho noney the United States a
own once and sbs ~ me- ess,e ,ea Inv Inc sc N ,he G Il
August ste and pay out the same pon warrants drawn BY tho
Secretary Of Tho treasury by the rs
By the sixth Auditor and recorded by the Register lie also
pubic moneys advanced by warrant TO dsoursng ana
ossy,s omcsrncy Bigger Register and twenty nine clorks
keeps OF public receipts expendes
gaon Of the United States and receives from the First Comptroller
them and Il charged by law with their safo Keeping VT -
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charge other property assigned
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the same for tho benefit Of the United States t5 4
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NAVY DEPARTMENT.

The Navy Department consists q the Navy Department be
Repair Provisions and Clothing Of Ordnance and
following the duties Of each these Offices and
! Of the force employed therein ' ... -at . .
sordayys ooon Toucey Secretary Of Navy Charles
Navy charge everything with the establish
under the general direction the President Of the United States who
BY the constitution, 81 o @ a ARMY na
vessels all orders of officers commissions Of officers both in tho
orders the enlistment discharge seamen
from the once All the duties Of the different bureaus
considered emaDang from him The general Of
that should be approved by
him. rIs "a a3 n#,3HE. sHa#tEH.# IS itf@ a #T5eA "
bureau Of Say Ydrds Joseph Smith, chief
bureau four clerks civil engineer and daughsman
All navy yards whaves buildings machinery
the o. this bureau also charged with the
management Of the Naval Asylum.
Buoav Construction Equipment, RepaJohn Lentball ESQ.,
bureau eight clerks and draughtsman The
the chief Of the Daniel Martin attached
charge The building and repairs Of all vessels purchase
Of materials and the providing Of all ~ vessels with their equipments
the construction Of all marine steam engines for the and with
the Of the Secretary decides upon plans for their eonsrc
@ Prorsios and ClahinaH Bridge, United
navy chief O and four clerks All provisions for the
nshing the same under the charge Of this bureau
Baeaa 9 Ordnance and HydrepuAy Duncan Ingrshsm
all ordnance and ordnance stores the manufacture
powder shot, shells &C. and the equipment
war everything connected herewith II pro
vdes them with charts chronoetors baromotors &c
gcthe With such books furnished ships The United
Observatory Photographed 0fce Washington
Academy Annapolis also under the general
perintcndcnce OF the chief OF this bureau.
BureauqT Medicine and SupyDr William whelan surgeon
navy chief OF surgeon
navy, and clerks Everything relating medicnes
Of and wounded aud management
hospitals comes within the supcrntendencc Of This bureau
DEPARTMENT, a ;.
B. Floyd, Secretary Of War W Drinkard chief clerk
clerks and four wachmen
following bureaus attached TO this department;
tomondiro Genods O6oThs Office Of which
Lieutenant General Scott, Is at New York.
Adjpo Generals OGocCo Samuel Cooper Adjulant General
Major d. Townsend Brovet williams
Advocate Brevet Major John
p Lee clerks and In this Office kept
the which the OF the
II g here where all military commissions made
Qoori<radse Generals 0oe-Brevo Major T. g. Jeup
quartermaser general AssistantsColone Thomas Captain
Miller and Drevet Major Bcger esseuger
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berth can be secured until paid for.

EDWARD X. COLLINS fIa
. No SO Wall street, N. Y.
BROWN, SIMPLIFY, CO.,
.s.1 BE Liverpool
STEPHEN KESNARD & co.,
No 27 Austin Friars, London
B. @. WAINWRIGHT 4 co.,
....... Pars
The these ships will not be accountable for gold silver
bon jewelry, metals unless bills
ding signed therefor and the value thereof expressed therein
pc. lB-df ' " hr ..v%..r 'a.+ .
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Collectors ONCE,

.... a.. City Hall, November 5, 1857
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who have
IN for the year. and all
previous years that the expiration sixty days
this date thereafter the advertisement be prepared
property which the unpaid will
Used and sold for the the law enjons ar ..rr
ose who wish the heavy expense
he advertisement sale requested 10 in
.a.l a8teaa5 w JAMES Y. HALLIDAY |a5'
Nov 7-oodtJan5 s.4ta .ag 81 ta t t n Collector.
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WINTER ARRANGEMENT AT
a1I O. GAuTIR,s FRENCH RESTAURANT.

WINTER ARRANUEmENT Al
8sE c. GATHERS FRENCH RESTAURANT.
FNHE subscriber, in order to accommodate the pnb
h gives notice that he viii furnish meals weekly
the OF 81 per week.
Bills faro viii be furnished every day
ess every facility will given guests to breakfast
dine and such hours will u tho every pat
tho establishment. "Ns .a. H .5&tf t-'1'H
Breakfastrom till IL O'Clock ..F sas.a f.t
Dinner from till O'Clock. ...... . E.. ,...f
Supper from Till 10 O'Clock. .
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Dec 2-Staw2wl Et1 s. 252 pennsylvana avenue
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I OST LAND WARRANTS .-l60-acre land war
rants issued to Hannah Wax No 81 s53 dated February 2
1901 and Margaret L. A. Cumming 81
have been lost mislaid stolen All hereby
ned not TO purchase them have fled
the Issue Of PATENT and made application for dp
cato eopss Fs5tf itE ~ sEHft NJ SNYDER afg'tS
.. Firm of M Snyder & Son, Bankers, ~ l.,
NOV 2s-eod6w 3SS Penn. avenue, Washington, D. &. n
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IA at the Smithsonian Institution Washington city
day Friday and saturday December 7h 18TH and 1sh
On Thursday evening y o'clock the organize
for ransacne BUSINESS by the appointment Of chairman
retary. ayrg s@ lfrafa.gri nflE sf sts e4set rI.
Al 7Js o'clock, lecture by Prof A. Dmtry Washington city
I Friday, at o. a. m. discussion
AZ 10n tho the statistics Of
the District Of Columbia, with dscussien ,f..sF gs
Az II, lecture by Richard Smith, esq., Alexandria
virginia subiectPublic education politically and socially
sideredn ~ .4 tt- Aa".'e H7t'l 'f'.-F ttf.t = M
l2, p M discussion report statistics continued
MTh lecture by Hon III Barnard OF Connecticut Sub
ject" "Reiormatory education aud schools y.
Saturday, at Q, a. m a discussion. 'a
At H. address by George b. Emerson esq OF Boston
Professors aoho Henry other distinguished friends eduoa
ton viii be present during the sitting Of tho convention
tcipate its deliberations.
school committees and all friends OF education htend
Free will provided
ar ladies' from ~broad, who oonverton. n
BY order Of the Colum. Tea ASS;
cHAs X. YouNG, Secretary ~ i.} .I N'ttIT7T TT
Deo16-5t n .Fettfasf Ni .Hfa fTes 81 ~ .#. u.
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'WTANTED, by man and his wife, having no chill
wv ren, stuaonho practical gardener farmer his
wife good plain cook washer and roner good dairy
both understanding their business perfectly
commended Please address Gardener Georgetown post Office
{ 4 rl
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PHOTOGRAPH OIL PAINTINGS.

A MOTHER immense lot of Paper Dolls, also paper
IA furniture, parts and 3 just received at r. ... -
@ht TAYLOR & MAuRYB
Dec 18-4t Bookstore Penn. av., street
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- md the same is hereby repealed. =
cure, = Saetion s4shall be SO amended as to
pee allows: Sec. "a. The only pleadings
al IsS' The position of the plaintiff;
I'd. The answer or demurrer by the defend
ant
Sd. The demurrer or reply by the plaintiff
attn Ihe demurrer to the reply by the de-
fendant&A A -
CEoss PErrIoN.-Any defendant, who is pro-
perly made a defendant, may claim, in his en-
swer, Ielief touching the matter in question in
the petition, against other defendants ia the
same action.
Sec. 3. Section 10l shall be SO amended Is
to read as follows: Section 10I. The plaintiff
may demur to one or more of the defenses set
up in the answer, stating in his demurrer the
grounds thereof; and where the answer contains
new matter, the plaintiff may reply tosueh new
matter, denying generally or specifically, each
allegation controverted by him; and he may al
lege in ordinary and concise language, and with
out repetition, any new matter not inconsistent
with the petition, constituting an answer in law
to such new matter. To this reply, the defend
ant may demur.
Sec. 4. Section I27 shall be 80 amended as
to read as follows: Section 127. Every meteri-
al allegation OF the petition not eontroyerted by
the answer, and every material allegation of new
matter in the answer not controverted by the
reply. for the purpose of the action. be taken as
true, but the allegation of new matter in the re-
ply shall be deemed controverted by the ad-
verse party, as upon a direct denial or avoid
ance. Allegations of value. or Of amount of
damage, shall not be considered as true by fill
TIRE to controvert them.
- - ~ ~ N. Il. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
ApriI 8, 1857.
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equal to one or more ratios, additional Representatives
shall be apportioned for such ratios among the several
sessions of the decennial period, in the following manner:
If there be only one ratio then a Representative shall be
allotted 70 the tenth session of the dccenuial period
Ii there are two ratios Representatives shall be allotted
to the ninth and teuth sessions; If three to the eighth,
ninth, and tenth sessions; If four to the seventh, eighth,
ninth and tenth sessions; If i've 10 the sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth. If six 10 the fifth, sixth, seventh,
eighth, ninth and tenth; If seven to the fourth, 9Th,
sixth, seventh, eigth, ninth and tenth; Ii eight to the
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and
tenth: If nine to the second, third, foarth, fifth, sixth,
seventh eighth, ninth and tenth sessions of decennial
period respectively.
In determining the number of Senators to which any
senatorial district might be entitled in any decennial pc
rod, by reason of any fraction of n senatorial ratio, the
fraction shall be multiplied by five, and If the result be
equal to one senatorial rstio, an additional Senator shall
be allotted to said district for the ninth and tenth ses-
siors. If it be equal to two such ratios an additional
Senator for the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sessions
shall he allotted to such district. If three then to the
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth.
If four, to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth
ninth and tenth sessions respectively If this amend
ment be adopted by the electors, the counties now emit
tied to more than one member in either or both
branches of the Legislature in the fourth and fifth ses-
sions OF the present decennisl period as now provided, shall
have a ike number of members in each branch thereof for
esch session of the remainder of the present decennial
period.
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
DafaJ i,,;I a. 1897
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Advertisements
Constitution Amendments
M I

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ID ES0LVED BY II ENERAL ASsEMRIy OF THE
III STATE OF OHIO, Three-ffths of the members elect
ed 70 each House concurring therein, That 1t be and
hereby Is proposed to the electors Of this State to vote
on the second Tuesday of October next, upon the approv-
al or rejection Of the following amendment as a sutsti-
tute for the twenty-fhh Section of the second Article of
the Constitution and for the second Section of the same
Article, and for the third Section OF the eleventh
Article, viz; All regular session Of the General Assembly
shall commence on the first Monday of january, annually.
Senators shall be elected biennally, and Representatives
annually, by tho electors of their respective counties or
dictricts on the second Tuesday of October. Their term
o. once shall commence on the first day of January next
atter Their election, and that the Senators shall continue
Two years, and that OF Representatives one year. The Sem
ators elected IN October next shall hold their Offices for
Two years, and the Representatives elected at the same
time shall hold their Offices for one year. Provided that
seventeen OF the Senators elected on the second Tuesday
OF October, 1857, to be assertained by LOT, Us the President
Of the Senate may direct, shall hold their office for only
one year, and their successors shall be elected on the sec
ond Tuesday Of October, one thousand eight hundred and
fty-eight, and biennially thereafter. When any county
shall have q fraction above the rates for Representative
20 large that being multiplied by ten, the result shall be
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AN

AN ACT,
To amend the act entitled Gan act TO establish
a code of civil procedure"
Section. l. BE It caacted By the General As
sezably Of the State Of Ohio, That the two hundred
and eighty second section of the act entitled
"an act to establish a code of civil procedure, -
shall be and is hereby amended so as to read as
follows: When the parties do not consent. the
court may upon the application of either, or oil
its own molten. direct q reference in any case in
which the parties are not entitled by the consti-
tuition of this State to a trial by jury.
Sec. 9. The original two hundred and eigh-
ty-second section aforesaid is hereby repealed
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS b.. FORD,
President of the Senate
April 8, 1857.
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AMENDMENT No. 2.
Dated April 81, 1851

AMENDMENT NC. :.
Rcsolred Jy the General assembly OF the State Of
Ohio. Three-ffths of tie members elected TO
each House coneurring therein, that 1t be. and
hereby is, proposed TO the electors of this State
to vote on the second Tuesday of October next,
upon the approval or rejection of the following
amendment, as q substitute for the fifth and
sixth sections of the fourth article Of the Consti-
triton, viz: SEC. 5. District Courts shall be
held in each county at least once in eaeh year,
by one or more District Judges elected by the
electors of separate districts to be prescribed by
law, who shall hold their office for five wears;
end during their continuance in Office shall re-
side in the district for which they are elected
The provisions of the fourteenth section of this
article shall apply TO District judges. The
General Assembly may by law authorize the
Judges of the District Court, and of the Courts
Of Common Pleas, to fix the times of holding
their respective Courts until District Judges
shall have been elected and qualified. District
Courts shall be held by the Judges of the Su-
preme Court and of the Courts of Common Pleas
as now authorized. Sec. 6. The District
Court shall have such jurisdiction as NAV be
provided by law, and the judges thereof shall
have and exercise such power and jurisdiction
at chambers, and may be required to sit as judg-
es of the Courts of Common Pleas as shall be
directed by law.
N. H.VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.
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AMERICAN OR ITALIAN MARBLE
DR.. w. NJ, KING.

MOULD respectfully announce to the citi.
w liens of Millersburg and vicinity that he
is still doing business at his old stand on Clay
ST., three doors North of the Post Office, where
he is ready attend to all calls he may be favored
with. either
Ml30lSAA OR SURGICAL
Special attention will be given to diseases Of
the Lungs, Bronchitis, Incipient, Tubercle, DC.
Diseases of Females. Chronic diseases of the
Skin, and Special Diseases.
The treatment of the foregoing diseases will
be conducted on the latest and most improved
plans of treatment Of Europe and this country.
All consultations strictly confidential.
Jan. 8, 1S57.-20tf.
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AN
Supplementary to can act regulating appeals t
the District Court" passed March %, 1852,

"a <ASA
Supplementary to can act regulating appeals to
the District Court" passed March %, 1852,
Section 1. Be 1t enacted By The General As
sen6ly of &s State of Ohio, That in all eases
where an appel has or shall be taken from the
Court of Common Pleas to the District Court,
and the surety in the undertaking for the ap-
peal shall have removed from the State, or for
any cause whatever shall be insufficient, or if
such undertaking shall be insufficient 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 Court, may order q
new undertaking to be given, with security, to
be approxed by said Court, or the Clerk thereof;
and if 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 determine the cause in the same
manner as if the said order had not been made,
but if the. said order of said Court shall not be
complied with and obeyed, said appeal, on mo-
ton for thas purpose, shall be dismissed, and the
the judgement or decree in the Courts below,
shall be revived.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
THOMAS u. FORD,
President of the Senate,
Columbus, April 6, 1857.
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~aMESDMENT no. 8.

Rcsolrod By the General assembly Of the Stale o.
Ohio. three-fifths of the members elected to each
branch, concurring therein, that it be and here
by, is proposed to the electors of the State, to
vote on the second Tuesday of October next. to
approve or reject the following amendment as a
substitute for the second and third sections Of
the twelfth article of the Constitution.
All property, personal and real, shall be sub
ject 10 taxation by a uniform rule, at the true
value thereof in money, but such deductions
from credits may be allowed as the General As
sembly may deem expedient; Provided, that
burying grounds. public school houses; and all
other public property, and all institutions of
purely public charity, and all houses used ex-
e@lusively for public worship, shall be exempt
from taxation; and if the total value of the per-
sonal property of any person shall not exceed
fifty dollars, the same may be exempt from
taxation. All property employed in bank
ing shall always bear aburden of taxatiun equal
TO that imposed on the property of individuals.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
Dated April Sd, 1857.