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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
Lynch Law i'm Iowa,

Our telegraph column has already an
nounced the doings of mob at Bellvue in
Iowa. The Dubuque Express says it oc-
Cured at Andrew in the same (Jackson)
county. We got the following from that
paper.-Cley. Herald.
Clifford, who murdered ingalls,, in the
woods near Iron Hill, fourteen miles from
Andrew was in Jail. On Saturday last
twenty-four men from the former place,
mostly neighbors of the murdered man, ap-
peared at the prison door.
The mob was headed by Jacob Lands of
Iron Hill, and on arriving in town proceed
ed at once TO the Jail and assailcd the door
with a heavy sledge. The door was a
strong one, and did not yield until near two
hundred blows had been struck. There
were four other prisoners in the jail, who
with the assistance Of Clifford, barricaded
the door. The prisoner, on finding him
self in the power of the mob, showed much
alarm, and asserted, on being told it was
their intention to hang him, that "J you
hang me, you hang an innocent man.
From the Jail the mob took Clifford to a tree
just south of the school house, between that
building and the cemetery, when a rope was
put around his neck and thrown over a limb
projecting over the pathway.
From 800 to 500 persons witnessed the
hanging. A prayer was offered by a Meth
odist clergyman, Rev. Mr.. Babcock, the
guilty wretch kneeling and crossing himself;
the su rounding crowd standing in respect
full silence. There was no disturbance, no
tumult, and a legal execution could not
have passed off in a more orderly manner
No one attempted to interfere, the people of
the county, it seems, had ONE to the con
%clusion that murderers cannot be punished
ifleft to the due course of the law.
When the last moment arrived, the lead
er of the party tied a handkerchief over the
eyes of Clifford, who remained standing,
and every man of the twenty-four took
hold of the rope. At a signal they pulled
upon the rope together, ~suspendingh him in
the air about eight feet from the ground.
His irons had not been taken off, and his
arms being pinioned, there was but little
struggling as his guilty soul took its flight.
His body was allowed to remain upon the
gibbet-tree for something over an hour,
when it was taken down and placed in a
rough box and inferred in a field belonging
to DIR. Cowden. During the whole of this
time, and until the body was buiiel, the
crowd remained upon the ground silently
witnessing the various occurrences.
The miserable man before the execution
made a full confession of his guilt. He
charged that his uncle, a man named ferret,
and a neighbor, David Mcdonald, were the
instigators of this bloody deed; indeed,
they employed him to do what they dared
not. The quarrel at the bottom of the
whole affair was a common neighborhood
feud. At last accounts the vengers were
after ferret and Mcdonald, determined upon
their death. 1t is a bloody business.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

The Charleston Mercury gives notice of
the formation of Ward Committees in that
city, raised for the purpose Of soliciting aid
and support for the Southern settlers in
Kansas. 1t appears that the final blow
which it hoped will rivit the last liuk in the
| chain which shall bind down Freedom in
Kansas, is about to fall. The Mercury,
which is a paper giving out no idle words,
saws:
1t is the last time that the Southern peo-
pie will be called upon TO contribute to
this cause and their action now will deter
mine whether Kansas will belong to the
South or the North. We have so often
expressed our opinion of the vital import
anee of this question, that we need only
to allude to leading facts at this time
We consider that question of slavery in
Kansas directly involves that of slavery in
Missouri. This great State, probably the
richest in internal resources of any member
of the Confederacy, is bordered on the east,
almost to its southern limit, by the Free
State, Illinois. The greater portion of its
slave population is in the counties of the
West, bordering upon Kansas. By allow
ING this latter to be ~abolitionized, we place
Missouri between two fires. We, in fact,
make her slave properly valueless, and give
her up to the pillage of the Free Soilers.
Thus the Free State men of the North
can see, how important the present contest
is. II not only, in the estimation of the
most shrewed among the slavery propa-
gandist, involves the question of slavery in
Kansas, but in Missouri also-in fact from
the Mis-issippi to the Pacific.
But the Mercury, in all its penetration,
has evidently not anticipated the voice
which ere this has sounded in its ears from
st. Louis. With all its intelligence, that
paper is sadly posted as to the extent of
the Free State sentiment in Missouri. The
Mercury adds:
The great body of the people of Missouri
are heartily with the South. Her slave
population has increased as rapidly as that
of any other State in the South, and their
number is now over one hundred thousand.
1t is believed that in no part ofthe South is
slave labor more profitable than in Missouri;
and we have the testoimony of a multitude
of competent witnesses, that it will be
equally profitable in Kansas. II is not,
therefore a mere barren victory that we aim
at, the acquisition ofthis Territory. We shall
win a great and valuable domain-rich in
mineral treasures, and in the productiveness
of its soil; and in a remarkable degree ia
vorable to health. These considerations
are, it seems to us, enough to excite every
true Carolinian to aid in this final and de-
cisive effort TO secure Kansas for the South.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
A Question of Privilege.

The Ohio Statesman having taken up
on itself to abuse Mr.. Plumb, Of Trumbull
for putting the stamp of falsehood upon
the SANDER which that Journal published
regarding Judge Brayton, Mr.. Plumb, arose
in his place, just before the adjournment
and said:
Mr.. SPEAKER-I rise to a question of
privilege. l have been abused by the
OHIO Statesman. l consider it a great
privilege to be abused by that paper"
Those who know Mr.. Plumb and are ac-
quainted with the Statesman, will pretty
generally agree with the former in think
ing that he has nothing to fear from any
thing which may appear in the columns of
the latter unless it should be Praise.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
From Kansas.

Kansas is a great golgotha, whose plains
are becoming white with the bleached
skulls of Democratic politicians. 1t is a
poisoned valley, through which no politi-
clan can pass and..come out again alive
Reeder met his death there; so did Shan
non; so did Geary; so will Walker
Walker is the next victim. He doubtless
imagines hat aresidence in Mississippi has
qualified him for all sorts of deadly climates
and that he will go through Kansas I'M
scrathed. Vain man! The very batteries
which the Democratic newspapers, as in
duty bound, are heaping upon him, are
portentious of the time when these same
newspapers will be d~enouncing him with a
regular Democratic savageness. When
Reeder passed through St. Louis on his
way to Kansas, all the anti Bentonite Of
ice-holders waited upon him, and We'd with
each other in beaping courtesis on
their brother. When he passed through
St. Louis on his way from Kansas, not an
anti could be found to speak TO him. Yet
he was the same Reeder. But the admin
istration had ostracised him, and of course
the office-holders took the cue, and gave
him a cold shoulder too. So it was with
Shannon, and so it was with Geary. And
when the little servile Democratic organ
here congratulates the people of Kansas
that they are to have an administration of
such cable men" as Walker for Governor,
and Stanton for Secretary of State, we re-
member how similar things were said of the
three preceding victims, and tremble.-
Poor WATERPROOF Stanton-exiled to
Kansas only to be brought home dead men.
st. Louis LnteNigencer.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
respectfully,
PATRICK HENRY"

The EARLY BIRD LOSING THE WORM
We learn that the agriculturists in this Vi
cinity are deploring the loss of the early
potatoes, of which large quantities were al
ready planted, in expectancy of general
weather thenceforth. But, like the tubers
themselves, these hopes have been blasted
in the first place by the recent snow
storm, and next by the continuation ofsuch
dampness that the seed has not germinat-
ed in the ground. This is a serious Loss
Besides having the work to do over again,
the seed is a heavy article of expenditure,
and the whole operation of potatoe plant
ing attended with much labor. Our Jer-
sey and surrounding friends must bluck up
courage and try again.-Pha. ". Amer.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
r1,- The Tea Dealers in L,ondon !,

Eg- The Tea Dealers in London, it is
said, are all for Palmerston. They have
on hand 100, 100000 Tbs of tea, great part
off bought on speculation, in the prospect
ola rise IN the price by continuance of the
war. Peace, at this time would involve
them in ruinous losses; but war would
add two millions sterling to the value of
their stock. Politics and trade are here so
intimately blended that the London tea
dealers will, no doubt, see a great deal of
virtue in gun-powder for the preverseness
OF the Chinese in refusing to allow them
selves, in their internal policy, to be gov
crned BY outsiders.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
Hold Hard..Old. Draught HOr.
Ses Kicking tho Traces.

We noticed a few days since, in one of
our western exchanges, mention of the fact
that the Kalamazoo Gazette, a Democrat
&c paper, had come out in a wrathy article
eondemning the action of the Supreme
Court IN the bred Scott case, and threat
ened to leave the democratic" party to
follow the path of duty in case that party
endorsed the action Of Justice Taney.
Since then the Coldwater Sentinel DEM
ocratic organ for Branch County, Mich,
has given a rebelious kick, and pitched in,
to the "dicision" in a manner which leads MS
to have hopes ofhim. Here is an editori-
al, perbim ct Hteratim::
aHERErIcAL.-Chief Justice fancy in
his decision says:-'The power to acquire
territory carries with it the power to pre-
serve. The form of government necessari-
ly rests on the DISCRETION OF CONGRESS-.
It is their duty to establish the best suited
for the United States, and that must de-
pend on the number of its inhabitants, and
the character and situation of the territory
at the time, to be continued until it shall
become a State
If this be good and Democratic doctrine,
if the form Of g~oSernment for the terrific
ries necessarily rests on the DISCRETION OF
CONGRESS-, we should say that would be a
discreet Congress which would forever pro-
hibit Slavery from the territories. If the
form of government rests on the discretion
of Congress, we shold say by all means,
give it the FOE OF FREEDOM. BUT has it
not been Democratic doctrine for the last
few years, to say the least, that the form
of government rests on the of
of the PEOPLE OF THE T-ERR1ToR1Es in
stead of Congress? Is not this doctrine
of Chief Justice fancy a heresy? What
has become of popular sovereignty under
this rulings As Il party at the North, we
have fought, bled and died for squatter
sovereingty-is it to be wrested from us by
the sole dictum of an antiquated old Octo-
~pepariau JUDGE? %
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

"PooR WHIrEs."-A correspondent of
the London Daily Ners writes after an
extended tour through the States upon the
Gulf the following graphic sketch of the
Poor Whites" of the South:
Through the central portion of the State
of Mississippi, that which lies on each side
of the road from Columbus on I o Jackson,
as soon as one leaves the prairie land TWEEN
ty-ive miles from the former ofthese towns
one is treated with the forest a discretion,
with occasional dashes of swamp by way
of variety. The population is scanty and
the houses, such as they are, for the most
part are inhabited by the most wretched,
most cadaverous, most thinly clad, most
lean, most haggard, most woebegone, for
lorn, helpless, God-forsaken looking por-
ton of the human race-the poor niger
less whites of the Slave States. l have
seen many varieties of the genus homo, and
many varieties of the misery to which he
is at all times liable, but l think l have
never seen men in whom hope, energy and
courage, to all outward appearance, seemed
so utterly extinguished as in these. Their
%attenuated frames, hollow checks, f~ireless,
expressionless eyes, drawing feeble accents,
spiritless movements and CHASTITY complex
ion, spoke either of a race degenerated be-
yond redemption or Of the extremity Of
physical misery. l never met one of them
without going away with the feeling that |
had Just seen a man on whom either fam
inc or fever had done its worst. Their pc
sition is certainly most demoralizing and
disheartning. They are despised alike by
negroes and planters. They manage 10
draw a wretched subsistence from a patch
of Indian corn round their log cabins, but
they will not work for others, as this would
put them on a level with the slaves. Those
who can muster up money enough for the
journey, invaribly make their escape to the
western wilds; but a great number, o course,
are compelled to stand their ground, and
get along as best they can. Society they
have none. There are among them hone
of the hearty enjoyments of existence; none
of the pleasures, frivolities, gaieties Of peas
ant life in all European countries. They
are generally far removed from all neigh
bors of their own rank; they cannot asso-
ciatc with the negroes. They chew, spit,
'loaf," and die, melancholy, %taciturn, surly
and sick. With these passing remarks let
me drop the curtain on them. They are an
unpleasing vision. The world has for
years been ringing with the wrongs and
miseries of the Turkish rayah aud the
Irish peasant. I have seen a good deal of
both. In physical comfort the rayah oc-
eupies a position Of which. "poor whites"
hardly dream; in lightness of heart, in the
joys Of the mind, and the Irish peasant is a
king in comparison.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
From the

NEW YORK, April, Ii.
The steamship Tennessee arrived this
morning from Aspinwalf and San Juan.
CD. Loekridge advanced to Castillo
March 18th, with 400 men on board the
stearers J. N. Scott, and Rescue. He
found the enemy who were 500 strong,
had fortified Nelson's XIII, $50 yards in
the rear of the castle, with strong breast
works, bitches and large guns He re-
turned home without making any attack,
and destroyed all the Notifications below
Castillo, having abandoned all hope of the
river.
He disbanded the battalions of recruits,
and subsequently formed a new one from
those who were willing to go to Walker
by the way of Panama.
Col. Lockridge still remains up the river
with his forces, and is well supplied With
provisions.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
From Kansas.

ST. Louis, April H.
The Lecompton correspondent Of the
Democrat says:
Walkers appointment gives great dis
satisfaction, and is regarded as favorable to
the formation off Slave State.
His instructions to carry out the census
act rouses the general Indignation.
The correspondent also says that a spi-
rt Of violent and reeklessness is beginning
to be exhibited under the appointment Of
the new administration
Mount Vernon Association organized
here last night by a large number of ladies
of this city.
Miss Heron was received in a most en-
thusiastic manner at the st. Louis Theatre
last night.
The Steamer Rescue come in collision
with the Rock Island bridge on the 10th.
Several other steamers have been injured
since the resumption of the navigation.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

The NATIONAL EPIDEMIc.-The Phila-
delphia Ledger learns that an allie paper
on this mysterious sickness has been pre-
pared by an eminent medical gentleman,
and will be read before the National Insti-
tute at its next meeting. 1t is said that
it does not endorse the opinion advanced
by the Board of Health, and we trust it
lead to a discussion of the matter which
will satisfy the public mind. As the mat
ter now stands, the country is flooded with
rumors, some of them limiting at a deliber-
ate attempt to poison the inmates of the
hotel. The Cincinnati Gazette of the 18th
inst. is of the last mentioned opinion, and
says: "For ourselves, we have had no
doubt, for some weeks, that the sickness
which has already killed several persons,
and greatly injured the health of many
Others, originating at the National Hotel,
Washington was really a case of deliberate
poisoning"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

Es There is more open undisguised
rascality in the following advertisement,
cut from the New York Herald, than is of.
ten found in the same space:
merchants embarrassed, in want Of
means, or willing TO suspend with means,
by financiering, can hear of d party who
has just carried parties through to the
amount of $4,000 without prejudice.
Address los, Herald office. Reference
given"
"Willing to suspend with means by inan
ciering"-what a gentle phrase for cheat
ing creditors and pocketing the money of
others. Such sort of "inanciering" ought
to be within the statutes and punishable as
felony.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

There is at Detroit a Society for the
eare of the Refugees from Slavery. The
last report gives an account Of the condi-
ton of the fuginves in Canada. $4,000
were expended last year by the Society in
building schoolhouses. Farms of twenty
five acres are sold at exact cost to deserv-
ing persons. In one settlement the Socie-
ty has five hundred acres, and has already
located twenty families; in another, fifteen
hundred acres, and now has twenty seven
families; in a third, 100 acres, now fully
occupied by four families.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

JAIL DELIvERY.-We understand that
three of the prisoners in the Wooster Jail
made their escape from that "institution"
on Sunday night last. The story goes, that
theyknocked down the Sheriff, two small
boys and toy watch, and then made their
escape over their PROSTATE bodies. We ex-
pect to get the particulars in detail as soon
as our friend ofthe Wayne Comfy Demo
Graf RECEIVERS from the surprise their going
caused him.
I~fre-captured, they ought to shut them
up ia the "Old Court House." and then
push it down. Wooster is a great "inland
city," to be sure.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
E Three great land sales are now az

@ Three great land sales are now ad-
vertised by the U. s. Government. The
first will occur at Iowa Point, in Doniphan
county, Kansas, beginning on the 5th of
May. This sale is for the benefit of the
Iowa tribe. Another will occur al Paoli,
in Lykins county, Kansas, commencing on
the 26th Of May, for the ~confederated bands
of Ka~skaskias, Peorias, Piankes, Haws and
Weas. The third will begin at Osawkee,
IN Kansas, on the 23d of June, for the
Delaware tribe. For the benefit of the
Iowa tribe $4,000 acres will be sold; for
the ~eonfederated bands 2l4,ooo; and for
the Delaware tribe $4,000, making in all,
$4,000 ncres,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

EE Thirty women of Belleville, Rich
land county, were !arraigned for riot, at
Mansfield, a few days since, for spilling the
liquor and breaking the bottles of John
Morton, rumseller. The evidence was con-
elusive, and the defense was a laudable de-
sire to abate a nuisance. The jury render
ed a verdict of not guilty. Morton, the
dealer, was her tried and convicted of sell
ing liquor without license, and was fined
$50, and sent to Jail for 20 days. Served
him right!
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

some OF THE "RoCKs"-A quartz boul-
der weighing 1872 pounds, valued at 49,
900, has been found at Minnesota by the
Juniata Company; $4,000 in gold has
been distracted from it, and the stock re-
naming uncrushed will yield at least So,
900 more-making, in all, $1,000. This,
we believe, is the richest boulder ever dis
covered in this country.
Near its center was found q solid mass
of gold that weighed over two pounds, and
in numerous places small disinteg;ate
veins of gold were found running entirely
through it. Its surface was smooth and
oval, bearing evidence of having been sub
merged.-CaL paper.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
Young Murderer.

The Toronto (Canada) Globe gives a
detailed account of the trial of a boy nam
ed James McGireie, between Is and IA
years old, for the murder of James M'Cull,
a boy 9 years of oge, in October last, in the
township of Carafraxa, Canada. Aceor-
ding to the evidence the murder was DELHI
crate and inhuman. Having had a quarrel
with the boy M'Cull, he enticed him into
the woods to get appeles, and when there
he beat him with a stick, and afterwards
took a piece of broken bottle and cut his
throat with it, and inflicted gashes and
cuts all over his body. He then stripped
the body, hid it between two logs, and with
the clothes tied up in a bundle, left the
scene. When questioned by M'Culrs faith
er he denied the murder, but afterwards
confessed it, giving its horrible details
He escaped the vigilance of the officers
for two weeks, but was subsequently cap
tured.
After the evidence was heard, the Jury
having retired a few minutes, gave a YER
dict of guilty of willfnl murder, with a re-
commodation to mercy. The Judge, be-
fore passing sentence, asker the boy if he
had anything to say why the sentence Of
death should not be passed upon him.
He replied-"I say they've sworn to a lie.
Old Scots says he gaveS5, and he did not"
He then sentenced him to suffer death by
hanging on the 14th of April next stating
that he would lay the whole facts before
the Executive, but expressed the opinion
that there was no hope from that quarter
on accoun: of the horrible nature of his
crime. During the whole trial the prisoner
exhibited no signs of sensibility, and receiv-
ed the sentence with an air of careless in
difference.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

LOCOMOTIVE CROSSING THE ILLINOIS RI
vER.-On Saturday the first train crossed
the new railroad bridge which has been
thrown over the Illinois river, opposite
Peoria. This bridge connects the Peoria
and Oquawka and Eastern Extension Rail-
roads, and is the first bridge that has been
constructed across a navigable river be-
longing to the State. The Illinois Cen
trail crosses above Lasalle, but until that
part of the river is 'locked and damned"
it will not be claimed as navigable.-
The bridge is 600 feet long, with a draw
900 feet in length.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

The Fayette Standard says that the 10
cofoco press ought not TO make SO much
fuss about a charge of adultery against
Kalloch, whom they call "Black Repub-
Gcan Preacher" SO long as Brigham Young
is a member in full standing in their party,
and Bernheisel, hi delegate at Washington,
has his democracy endorsed by being allow
ed to participate in the Inauguration cere-
monies at Washington.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23

re- Gen. Harvey, one of the most i'm
pet1ous, overbearing and ~tyrannical officers
in the army, has been appointed to the
troopsin Kansas. If we mistake not, this
is the same officer whose cruelty to interiors,
particularly to his servants, has been sub
ject ofmuch comment and notice heretofore
in st. Louis.
Verify, Buchanan is bound to make
quick work of poor Kansas.