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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
The Tower Of Babel.

A few years ago the remains of ancient
Ninevah were discovered, and monuments
Of that long entombed city, were brought
forth to the delight and amazement of the
world. Babylon, also, has opened her gates
to living generations. Thus, in two i'm
portant cases, the truth of biblical history
has been fully established. Now third
discovery has been made, it is supposed,
not second in Importance to either of those
by which the hidden treasures of Nineveh,
and the ancient architecture of Babylon,
once the glory of the Chaldeans, were
brought to light. The Tower of Babel,
erected in the plain of Shinar, by the sons
of Noah, to afford protection, as is sup
posed, against second flood has been dis
covered by Mr.. Place, the French Consul
in Mosul, to which gentleman the world is
indebted for many of the discoveries con-
nccted with the city of Ninevch.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

DREADFUL AccIDENr.-On Thursday the
sth inst, three laborers who occupied a
81 anty near Wormelsdorf, in Burks coun-
ty, were spending the day in the second
loft, smoking. By accident straw bed
took fire, which, being unable to extinguish,
they threw down the stairway. Burning
with great violence, it set fire to the wood
work, and thus cut off the usual means of
egress. The building was soon in flames,
and the party made their escape by jump
ing through window, but not until they
were all dreadfully burned. The most
shocking part of the occurrence remains to
be told. A poor woman, the cook of the
shanty at the time of the breaking out of
the fire, was outside baking. Having a
small sum of money in her chest, she rush
ed in to save il. This was the last seen OF
her alive. Her blackened and distigured
remains, beside which lay few pieces of
gold and silver coin, were found amid the
smouldering cmbers. Blinded and suffo-
Gated by the fire and smoke, she without
doubt became bewildered, and thus met an
untimely and horrible fate.-Readin9
PA. Gazette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
Mr.. MOnroe,s Speech.

The House Of Representatives was crowd
ed yesterday afternoon with members and
spectators, to listen to speech of Mr..
Monroe, the able and popular member from
Lorain county, upon bis bill to amend the
Constitution of the State, by striking there
from the word "white." There are not,
probably, over twenty members in the
House, who will vote for the bill, and yet
we venture to say that there was not a per-
son present who did not receive instruction
from his speech, and who did not entertain
higher respect for the gentleman, after
having heard the speech, than they did be-
fore it was commenced. Mr.. Monroe is one
of the best speakers in the House. There
is a manly honesty and truthfulness about
the gentleman which command the respect
and admiration of the lsteneners. AL
though the bill will not pass, those who op-
pose it, will find it difficult to answer the
arguments of the honorable gentleman.-
Col Journal
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

The Pennsylvaniam, Mr.. FoRNEY's Or
gan, gives eloquent and agonized expression
to the tempest of fury which seems to agi-
tate the bowels Of the defeated pet of Bu-
chanan. He spits venom like toad with
a rock on. his back, and snarles like wolf
with his nose in bear trap. Poor fellow
he feels bad! He and Old Buck had talk
ed the matter over and both concluded he
had sure thing of it. The idea of being
defeated never entered their wise noodles,
and the result was stunning. Hear the
s'critter" howl at Cameron:
The cheek of every true Pennsylvania
will tingle with shame when he reads the
proceedings of yesterday, and bis heart
throb with indignation at the thought that
any party could have been found base
enongh to pander to the ambition of such
man. We look to the United States Sem
ate to rebuke as pointedly and forcibly as
it can, the intrusion of such creature into
their midst. We know that Cameron will
be scorned and despised by every honest
and honorable man in that body, and We
hope that, dead to shame as he is, he may
be made to feel that the basely purchased
and ill-deserved laurels with which he would
deck his brow, are filled with thorns to
goad one who so lily deserves them. Let
him be Stunned as a moral and political
leper, who:e organization is but a complica-
ton of foul diseases and corruptions.-
Let him sit there, as though he were
in pillory, amid the kissing scorn and
contempt of the other occupants of the
chamber. If the .. S. Senators shall at
all permit him TO sit among them, let
it be with the understanding that he is to
be reated throughout as such personifi-
cation of infamy deserves. Simon Came
ron will go to the Senate to serve no hon
est political opinion, to discharge no hon
est political duty. He will 60 there in
quest of plunder, ready to betray friend or
foe to gain his ends. He will 90 there
through the aid of corrupt means to ac-
complish corrupt purposes. He will go
there as ready to sell his own vote and in
fiuence, as he has been to purchase votes
and influence to assist him in securing his
election.
The Pittsburg Gazette says Mr.. Came
ron ought to be proud of the above, and
we think so too.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
Snow i'm the East.

The. stage from New Hartford did not
reach Hartford until five o'clock last even.
ing, after a tedious ride of eleven hours
distance about 30 miles. The Times of
last evening says:
The stages generally, have not performed
their trips since Saturday. The roads are
blocked up, and drifted in places from four
to six feet deep. The Pennington stage
with the mails, got as far as West Hard
forh to-day, and there gave it up.
The South Manchester, Broad Brook,
Tarifville, and Glastonbury mails have ar
rived. The Glastonbury mail was brought
in on horseback. When it left Glasten-
bury, the mail from Portland had not ar
rived there, the snow being very deep
down the river.
The Postmaster of Avon succeeded in
getting into the city to-day with two horses,
after having had a series of ''hair breadth
'scapes" on Taleott Mountain, and going at
times into Snow drifts all over, so that
nothing of the horses could be seen but
their rheads.-Couranf 2OM.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
News.

The Government Registers kept at Os-
wego show the water of Lake Onterio to
be eight inches below low water mark, and
one foot four inches lower than at this pc
riod last year.
at is fact,,' says the Bombay Gazette,
that the entire population Of Hindostan
does not average sixpense year for cloth
ing"
AS many as 1O,s62,2oo eggs were i'm
ported into England in the eleven months
ended the 30th ultimo, and all for 'home
consumption"
1t is stated that common bar soap, rub
bed upon the bark of pear tree until a
good coat is deposited, furnishes perfect
security against blight, and will even re-
store health to trees that have been ut
tackled.
1t is reported that Mr.. Rhoades, of Au-
burn, partner of Senator Seward. is about
to commence libel suit against the New
York Tribune, for comparing him to the
forger Huntington.
Humboldt has received letter from Ro-
bert Schlaginweit, dated from Leh, in
Ladak, Goth of September last, announcing
that he and his brother had succeeded in
crossing the chain of the Luenlun Noun
tains, and reaching Eltshi, the capitol Of
the Khotan, in Central Asia, where no Eu-
ropean had set his foot since the time of the
Benedictine monk Goes, in 1904.
The product of the Ohio Valley exceeds
by one hundred per cent. the entire product
Of England, Ireland and Scotland.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger says that since 1912,
tvo hundred and sirty-one officers of the
army resigned their commissions in conse-
qucncc of the miserable pay allowed them.
1t is asserted that magnets lose almost
their enter power in the vicinity of grave
wards, and electric machines are similarly
affected under the same circumstances.
Copper has risen very suddenly in price
in the London market; the increase in
price being about 500 on a ton.
A Miss Palmer of Pen Yam, N. Y, was
riding in cab, and the horse becoming
frightened, ran. The young lady put her
head out the window just as the cab upset,
and her face striking the ground, she was
dragged till the front part Of her face WIS
torn of, and she was picked up dead.
Several gentlemen = passengers with
Capt. A. d. Perkins, of the Southern r.
r., in August last-haye sen. him q splen-,
did silver pitcher, worth 5000.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

SETTING FIRE TO STEAMBoAT.-Three
lads named Lawrence Pagan, John Mehen
and w. Ryan, were arrested last night up
on charge Of an attempt to set fire to q
new steamboat, lying upon this side of the
river, by the ferry landing. They were ta-
ken to the Hammond street Station House,
where they were locked up. 1t seems that
they had built large fire under the guards
of the boat, and which, but for the active
exertions of the hands, would soon have
been attended with serious consequences.
The boys themselves assert that they had
no evil intent, but only made the fire for
the purpose of warming themselves. The
oldest is apparently not more than l4years
of age.-Cm. Com.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

HEAT AND RAIN.-From a published
table setting forth the temperature and
quantity of rain for the year past, at the
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, we
find that the mean temperature of the year
there, has been 50 degrees which is Il
deg. below the average Of the preceding
80 years. The warmest day of the year
was the 18th of July, the mean which was
ss deg, and the coolest the 9th Of Janua-
ry, the mean tempeature of which was 0
deg. The range of the thermometer was
lO2 deg. VIZ: from deg. below zero to 9s
deg. above. The mean temperature of the
year for 80 years, Wis: from 1925 to 1856
inclusive, is $50 deg. The warmest year
was 1886, 4s deg,
The whole amount of rain for tie last
year, 1892 inches being 10 inches less
than the average amount of the preceding
10 years, and the smallest quantity in any
year since 1925, when only 294 inches fell.
At Trenton there fell 34.43 inches.
The average amount of rain for the 10
last past is 1852 inches. The greatest
amount which fell in any year was in 1s4l,
551 inches and the least in 1856, "a
inches.
1t may surprise many to learn that by
this record it appears that 6,26 inches
more rain fell in the 'dry" year of 1854
than during the one just closed-the com
paratiye quantities being in 1854 40,1s
inches. and in 1856, 1892. The reason
of our escape from the terrible consequen-
ces of that former year is that the drought
in 1856 did not commence until some of
our most important crops were so well ma
tured as to be beyond the reach of danger.
|-Patsburg Gazette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

EE A railroad car was consumed BY
fire few davs since, at Union, among the
ruins of which, the body of man was
found, so much disfgured that it could not
be recognized. The suspicion now is that
the man was murdered in the car before it
was fred. Conductor Mcclure recollects a
man wearing drab coat, who got aboard
the train at Greenville and went to Union,
where he intended to remain for the night.
The only fragment of clothing left uncon-
sumed, is piece of drab cloth, resembling
that Of the passengers coat. The man
has not been heard Of since, and it is
thought he bad money, to possess which
the murder was committed.-Cm. Gas.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

How MUcn SHOULD A Cow EAT?-
Cows, to give milk, require more food than
most farmers imagine. ]. w. johnson,
writing from Munich to the Country Gen
heman, gives an interesting account of
some experiments which have been made
in Bavaria, from which the following is an
extract: "Our trials have confirmed the
view that cows, to give the greatest possi-
Bile quantity Of milk, must daily receive
and consume one thirtieth of their live
weight in hay, or an equivalent therefor
If more food be given, it goes to the form
alton of flesh and fat, without occasioning
a corresponding increase in the yield Of
milk; but if, on the contrary, less food be
furnished. the amount and value of the milk
will be greatly diminished.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

The SroRM.-Our Eastern exchanges are
full of accounts of the terrific snow storm
which buried them all last week. The ex-
press train from New York for Philadel-
phia, left the former city on Sunday night
at 6 o'clock, but did not arrive at its desti-
nation until Tuesday night at s, having
been 4s hours on the way. The train con-
sisting of five passenger ears, besides the
usual baggage cars, was "frozen up" at one
place for IL hours, the persons on board
exposed to wind the most violent and
searching, loaded with fine snow and sleet
which found its way into every crevice and
Granny, and rendered the state Of the trav-
ellers one to be imagined but not described.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

Rn6ianisna in the Legislature.-They
had an exhibition of rufianism in the Le-
gislature of this State, on the 2lst. inst
Mr.. Slough, loco member from Cincinnati
struck Mr.. Caldwell, republican member
from Ashtabula, with his fist in the face,
for some imaginary insult. We hope the
House will promptly vindicate its honor by
the expulsion Of Mr.. s.
We never heard of an exhibition of ruff
fnism in any Legislative body, where the a
eressor was not a locofoco. When corner
ed in debate, the only recourse which they
imagine is left them, is, fight.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

w Resolutions have passed both bran
ches of our State Legislature, nstructing
our Senators and requesting our Represen-
tatives to vote for the repeal of the present
enormous duties on imported sugar. The
Buchanan men in either House, tried to E.
wade the direct vote, by getting up side mo
tions and entangling amendments; the Re
publicans, however, stood firm and pressed
the point witch they at last reached. In
the House, one Of the opposition moved TO
amend by inserting that the only way in
which we could have cheap sugar was to
annex Cuba, another avowed himself in ia
vor of free trade and direct taxation.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

TESTING THEIR STRENGTH.-Our Buck
amer friends were anxious to test their
strength in the Assembly, this morning,
and ascertain, by actual experiment, wheth-
er the newspaper repo; is which have repre-
sented them as in the minority, were actu-
ally true or not Accordingly Frederick
Horn, Esqr,-who was never accustomed
to kicking against the pricks-moved to
proceed at once to the election Of Speak
er. The vote was of course strictly par
ty one. The result was stpenty-nine ayes,
to sirty-tco noes-only little more than
two to one! This satisfied them that the
newspapers had not misrepresentcd the
facts, and the State must have gone Re-
publican last Novembcr.-Madisoa( UIs.
Journal.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
From washington.
WASHINGTON, Jan. rs.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 70. :
In the recent foreign news il was stated
that Santa Anna had given his sanction to
a movement in Spain for establishing q
monarchy in Mexico.
1t is known that an agent for the same
purpose has visited Louis Napoleon with
in the last three months, but found no en-
couragement to the design.
Santa Anna desires the restoration on
any terms, forgetting that this government
could not be passive spectator, should
foreign Intervention be employed.
No official information has been receiv-
ed here giving assurances of Lord Napier's
presenting his credentials during the pres
ent administration.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
re- John Phenix. ESQ. was at tb

~ John Phenix, Esq, was at the Tre-
mont House aday or two ago, and when he
retired to his bed-chamber, left his boots
outside of the door. In the morning he
found them there, with the previous days
dirt upon them. Said John gravely, to q
servant as he passed, "the people in this
house are very honest-my boots have re-
manned there at the door all night, and no
one has touched them" John went to the
theatre once, where Mrs. Smith was adver-
tised to appear in taco pieces. After the
performances he demanded the return of
his money, for he said Mrs. Smith appeared
whole during both performances.-Boston
Post
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

Two GIRLS SuFFocArED BY CHARCOAL.
Two servent girls of c. H. Mann, residing
at Tubby Hook, on the Hudson River, last
night, put kettle of burning charcoal in
their room before going to bed. As they
were not up at the usual hour, the coach
man raped upon the door and called them,
but received no answer. After waiting
some time, he raped again, and still re-
ceivcd no answer, concluded something was
wrong, and entered the room, when he dis
covered that they were both dead.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
GEO Our neighbor of the Farmer thinl

H Our neighbor Of the Farmer thinks
that Raber ershould procure the portrait of the
Editor Of the Republican, for his paper
1t would doubtless help Raber's paper to
have the portrait of both the Millersburg
editors inserted. Instead of full-length
likeness of our neighbor, we suggest that
he have him represented as crawling out Of
''the wee end Of horn," looking after last
years Assessors Blanks" and ''nose-ing"
it around generally, to find out the circula-
tion Of ourpaper, amount of Job Work done
in the office, &c.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

The INDIAN SEcr.-Kaye in his history
of the Indian Empire gives us some views
of various religious sects in that vast land
which Great Britain has brought under her
sway. Among Others he mentions one
called the Khonds of the Hill country of
Goomsar. They are in the habit of offer
ing human sacrifices. Their belief is so
peculiar that it deserves particular notice.
They believe that the Supreme Being, or
God Of Light, the source of all good, crea-
ted for himself consort, the Earth God
dess, who, rebelling against him, became
the source of all evil. Having this much
in common, the Khonds thereafter diverge
into twogreat seets,-one of which believes
that the God of Light utterly oyercame
the Earth-Goddess, and has since held her
IN thrall, employing her as the agent of his
will; whereas the other holds that the
Earth Goddess is still unconquered, and
that whatever of happiness is vouchsafed to
man, is only by the dispensation of bless
ings in her own gift, or BY the withdrawal
of that antagonism which could prevent
their emination from the God of Light
1t was among this latter sect that the Me-
riah sacrifice prevailed, as the only propitia-
ting the evil goddess. The victims swere
furnished by a regular class of procurers,
who either supplied them to order, or rais-
ed them on speculation. They were
bought, perhaps, from their parents in hard
famine times, or they were kidnapped on
the plains; or were, perhaps, the children
Of the procurers themselves. Devoted Of
ten in their childhood to the Earth Goddess,
they were suffered to grow up as ccnsecra-
ted privileged beings, to marry wives to
hold lands. and Aocks and herds, and 9TH
er worldly goods,-cherished and endowed
by the community for whom they were to
die, and in spite Of the tremendous doom
that overshadowed them. leading happy
lives to tho last.-htts. Gazette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

R Pursuant to previous notice, meet
ing of the Stockholders of the Cleveland,
GAINESVILLE and Cincinnati Rail Road Com
pany was held at the office of the Compa-
ny in Akron on the 14th inst, for the pur-
pose of electing officers of the Road for the
ensuing year. SIMON PERKINS, Esq, was
reelected President; M. w. HENRY, ]. D.
CoMM1Ns, E. B. ELLSWORTH, A. w. Bliss,
r. K. ENos and A. MEDRuRY, Directors.
E. MIzE has been appointed Secretary and
Treasurer, and WIN. LAP1us, Road Master.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

HA call was issued some time ago for
q State Temperance Convention to be held
in Columbus on the l4th of January. The
Journal says that at no time were there
more than twenty delegates present. The
truth is, the people are becoming tired of this
everlasting cry for anti-hquor laws, whilst
they see one, which, if fenforced, would reach
the evil complained Of, dead letter upon
our statute books. A few vagabond lectu-
rers, too lazy to work and afraid to steal
are for keeping up the excitement in ordel
to put money into their pockets.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

g We see by the Ravenna Democrat
that Ransom Herman, the bigamist, now
in Jail at Ravenna, had secreted about his
cell, chisels, a knife, wire, DC, which out
siders must have furnished him for the pur-
pose of breaking Jail. These implements
having been taken from him, he, on Satur-
day morning, attempted to hang himself
The outcry of the prisoners brought the
jailor, who found Herman swinging, un-
conscious and black in the face, from bed
post, having used his neck comforter for a
rope. He was brought Cleveland
Herald.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

H Seneca Lake, which never has been
known to freeze up, seems to be coming to
it at last. The Geneva Gazetts says" Ice
has formed to the thickness of two or more
inches across Seneca Lake, and with the
cold state of the atmosphere now prevail
ing, must constantly gather thickness, un-
less soon broken by south wind. The
steamer could mot reach her wharf on
Wednesday, but was obliged to land at
Mile Point.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29
SIS. 400 Walking Of:

The Painesville Telegraph says that on
Friday night last, the 10th, an express
train came through on the Underground
Railroad despite the storm, bringing three
young and vigorous chattels worth at least
$500 each as the article is now selling
They had but slight clothing, but each wore
a six-shooter presented by Quaker near
the Ohio river. These passengers were
warmed and clothed and fed at Painesville,
and provided with tickets for the next sta
ton Cleaeland Herald
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

KASsAs.-A Washington correspondent
Of the N. Y. Tribune, says that party Of
South Carolinians from Kansas had Just
passed through that city returning home
and abandoning that Territory as presen-
ting no hopes TO their political enterprise
or personal fortunes. They and Others from
the South relinquish the experiment as des-
perate and complain of the limited materi-
al aid furnished by their own section.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-29

EIn looking over the proceedings Of
our Legislature the past week, we find moth
ing has been consummated of a general ma
ture. The laws passed thus far are mostly
of local character. A number of impor-
tant Bills are, however, before both Hou-
ses, which will have to bide their time for
the usual amount of wind work to be spent
pro and con, before their fate is fixed.