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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28

LARGE SPECULATIoNs IN SUGARS n
TEAs.-As it is anticipated the sugar
crop of Cuba will prove a short one, the
agents of Spanish houses in New York, it
is said, received on the l4th instant large
orders to purchase in the latter market
on speculation, and prices Immediately adj
vanced from / to 8 cent per TO-, fully re-
covering the previous depression. Accord
ing to the Herald, on the 18th and 10th
inst. the sales amounted to about 1000
to 5000 hhds. and 5000 bbls. of refined
crushed sugars, Of an aggregate value of
over one million of dollars. The hogs
heads sold weighed about l,4oo Tbs. each,
which, at current rates, averaged about
$3.50 per hogshed. On Saturday last
there vas also a large speculative move
ment in teas in New York at an advance
of S@5c. per fb. for all the lower grades,
while the higher qualities were sold at
very full prices. Prices, it is said have
still an upward tendency.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28

WESTERN LAND SPECULATION AND
SPECULAToRs.-St. Pauls in Minnesota,
is now the centre of vast railroad and land
and town-lot speculations. Kansas is also
thronged with land Spectators. In Chi
cage speculation is run mad. While the
current rate Of interest is forty per cent a
year upon the best mortgages on real es-
tate in the city, and while the real estate
in the city is already under mortgages to
the amount of ninety millions, real estate,
town lots, and suburban lots ure rising high
er than ever. A letter in the last Dubu-
que Herald, written from the Usage Land
Office, Iowa, says:
"There are about two thousand persons
in attendance on the land sales, and great
competition exists between spectators and
the settlers. This competition has been
carried to bidding SOL per acre for the
wild land. The settlers have held a meet
ing, and organized themselves into a club
numbering seven hundred, and have deter
mined that every settler shall have the
privilege of bidding off quarter section of
land, in addition to one quarter covered by
presumption, at government price. At
tempts have been made to settle all diff
culties on this basis by the settlers furnish
ing names of persons who are bidders; but
this had not been done up to the time the
informant left. As a consequence very
few tracts of land were sold"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
ApULruRArEp L1oUoRs.-Dr. Hira,

ADULTURATED L1QUoRs.-Dr. Hiram
Cox, appointed, under the law of Ohio,
Chemical Inspector of Liquors in Cincin-
natl, has published facts that should be
engraved around the rim of every drinking
glass. He states that during two years he
has made 249 inspections of various kinds
~ofliquors, and has found more than nine
tenths of them limitations, and a greater
portion of them poisonous concoctions.-
Of brandy he has not found one gallon Of
pure in n hundred gallons, but limitations
having corn Whisky for basis, and vari-
Gus poisonous acids for the Condiments
Of wines, not q gallon in a thousand
purporting to be Sherry, Port, Sweet, Ma
lage, is pure, but they are made of water,
sulphuric acid, alum, Guinea pepper, horse
radish and many of them without a single
drop of alchoholic spiritr. DR.. Cox war
rants there arc not ten gallons of genuine
Port wine in Cincinnati. He also states
that in his inspections of Whisky he has
found only from seveteen to twenty per
cent. of alcoholic spirit, when it should
have been forty-fve to fifty, and some of it
contains sulphuric acid enough in a quart
to eat q hole through q mans stomach.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Effects of West India Emancf-
patton.

Predictions of commercial decay and of
a relapse into SOCIAL barbarism, have been
freely expressed in regard to the British
West Indies, ever since the Emancipation
Bill was signed. But whatever the proba-
bilities may have been at first, they
grow every year less and less, while com
mercial and social prospects grow every
wear better and better.
At a meetingin London, to take mea-
sures to present an Appropriate testimonial
to DR.. Livingstone, the African traveller,
Mr.. Montgomery Martin made this state
ment.
"He had recently visited the West In
dies to ascertain if the emancipation of the
slaves had produced ruin there. He found
there free, happy and prosperous popula-
%lation, and, speaking commercially, the
West Indies now yield more rum, sugar
and other produce, than they had ever
done during the existencs of slavery
(Hear, hear.) Since the abolition of sla-
very in the West Indies, not a drop Of
blood was shed by popular disturbance,
nor a single crime by mobs was commit
ted, nor was there obstruction of property
throughout the whole of the West In
dies.
A letter received q few days ago in New
York, dated Spanishtown Jamaica, March
Is, 1857, says:
"Let it suffice that, with the high price Of
sugar, the good season with which we have
been so long favored, and other favora-
bic circumstances, our prospects are brighter
than they have been for many years.
Many of the planters are extending their
cultivation to the utmost, and are rapidly
recovering from their late embarrassment
while numbers of laborers have purchased
deserted estates, and are engaged in cult
walton of sugar, and are raising themselves
into that middle class which slavery ami
hilates, and without which no country can
prosper; In every respect there is a deci-
ded, palpable progress. The change from
slavery to freedom, in this country, is as
from darkness to light. The laborers are,
for the most part, orderly, Industrious and
happy. Schools and places of religious
worship are being extended. In fine, eve-
rything augurs a steady advancement to-
wards a permanent and general prosperity"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
The Strong MAN Wept.

A trial against Doct. Biegler, of Roches-
ter, on charge of manslaughter in produc-
ing the death of a young woman, in at
tempts to conceal evidence of previous
criminality with her, has just resulted in a
conviction ut Buffalo. Doct. B. was brought
into court for sentence, but it was postpon-
ed in order to settle a bill of exceptions
The Buffalo Commercial in speaking of
the scene, says:
During these proceedings the family of
DR.. Biegler came into court, consisting of
his wife, a grown-up son and daughter, a
little girl, and a bright little boy, who
laughed with pleasure as he met his father.
That laugh broke down the strong man,
and hardened as he has seemed to be
heretofore, cold and heartless as he was I'M
under the eye of the mother of his victim
the Tears burst from his eyes at the magic
Of that bright, cheerful smile. His wife
sat down and held his hand, weeping quiet
ly as the proceedings went on. Beigler
soon recovered himself, and was again the
unmoved, icy being he has seemed through
out.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Interesting from Mexico.

Our regular Mexico mail, at hand this
morning, brings fuller and later intelligence
than we had last evening-to the 1st inst
from the city of Mexico. The Sonora fill
busters had been completely routed near
the village of Coborco, sixty of whom were
taken prisoners, and among them Capt.
Crabb himself, who was severely wounded.
The engagement, says the Trail d Union,
was severe and bloody. The prisoners
were all to be shot. The Estandarte pub
fishes the following official account brought
by the Extraordinary of the 2lst from
Mazatian:
The first of April, a body of the Ma.
tional Guards, under Capt. Rodriguez, met
at the village of Caborca. the fllibusters
who entered the State o fSonora by way of
Sonoyta. The fllibusters had seized upon
the village. The Guards attacked 1T Wig
o~rously. In the first onset, Capt. Rod
rignez fell MORALLY wounded. Capt. Crabb
also was wounded and eight of his men
killed. The Guards, however, finally sue
ceeded in getting possession of the church,
! which proved an advantageous position.
On the I'd the fllibusters found them
selves in possession of two houses in face
of the church, but surrounded by a force
of 200 to 800 men Things remained in
this condition abount four days, the Sono-
rians meanwhile Strengthening themselves.
On the evening of the 9th n of the
houses in possession of the fllibusters was
fired. The flames communicated rapidly
to the other, and in half an hour both
buildings were in a blaze. An attack was
also made upon the besieged from without,
and, among other things, two barrels Of
powder belonging to the fillibusters explod-
ed, doing dreadful execution. Finally, tho,
surrendered at discretion. The number
OF prisoners was ifty-nine, and among them
Capt. Crabb himself. T~wenty-four rifles
and some amunitions also fell into the hands
of the Sonorians.
This is the substance of the account given
by the Mexican papers, whatever truth
there may be in it. The number of fill
busters is estimated by the same authority
at one hundred and fifty; the Sonorians,
on the 9th, numbered seven hundred.
1t Is said that the prisoners were all to
be shot on the 6th.-N. O. Eve. Pieay-
une May IA.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Improvement in Virginia.

Much has been said recently IN the pub
lie prints relative to the proposed establish
ment of colony of men in Virginia under
the direction of Eli Thayer. His move
ment in that, appears to have directed the
attention of other persons thither. We
learn from ar exchange paper that the
heavy forests of timber, which crown SO
many a mile of Virginia territory is attrac-
ting the ship builders far and near, not
from the United States alone, but also from
England. The exchange before referred
TO says that large amounts of white oak
aro yearly transported to New York, Bos-
ton and even to Maine, from the Potomac,
York and James rivers, for our mercantile
marine. Benjamin T~horingham, Esq, a
native of England, has recently purchased
a heavily timbered tract of land in Fairfax
county, near the village of Dranesville, and
has erected two saw mill, one with circular
saws and the other with agang of twenty
seven perpendicular saws. The same gen.
tleman is about establishing a similar
mill at the Point of Rocks, where he has
secured some of the finest trees, said to
grow in that region. The products of his
several establishments will be shipped to
England. George Page, Esq, well known
as a man of indomitablc energy and enter
prise, is about to establish q mill, also near
Dranesville, to procure ship timber for the
New York market, and it is rumored that
others will locate themselves in the same
country during the coming season.
These efforts on the part of the enter
prising people of our own country and of
Europe, are exciting much indignation
among the editors of the Old Dominion.
Most of the papers we have CHANGED upon
recommend that Thayer & Co. be met
with gun ond bayonet and run into the
"all-devouring sea-" The Louisville Jour
nal remarks that all this is extremely ridicu-
fous. If Virgininns consent to sell their
land to Yankees, of course Yankees have
Alright to buy and settle on them. The
Constitution of the United States guaran-
tees this right, and any forcible opposition
to it is as much notification or rebellion as
forcible opposition in Massachusetts, to tho
execution of the Fugitive Slave Law
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Late from

We have dates from Mexico to the 18th
inst. There is no official information of
the execution of Col. Crabb and his fill
busters, but the former accounts of utter
rout of the invaders are confirmed. Orders
had been issued to bring the prisoners to
Mexico for trial, and it was believed to be
the intention to clear them if possible
Letters say that 500 more fllibusters had
entered Arizona, and were encamped in the
region of Tueston.
Another conspiracy to revolutionize Mex
leo was discovered on the goth ultimo.-
The plan was to seize the person of Presi-
dent Commonfort and then attck the city.
Capt. Noguero, a protege of Commonfort's
was to plunge a dagger into his patrons
breast, and his death was to be the signal
for attack. The ring leaders in this con-
spiracy had all been arrested, and it was
rumored that they would be beheadpd.-
Others had also been arrested, said to be
concerned in the affair. 1t was reported
that ex-Minister Aquilar was also implica-
ted.-N. Y.IriJmne, Aay 23d.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
ssPopuIar souyernty.,,

The popular souvernty' doctrine of the
Democracy is having full swing. We hops
the law-abiding citizens who voted for il
last fall, are satisfied with the way it works
Everywhere the cry of popular seventy
is made the shield of the most atrocious
crime. Bigamy is popular seventy in
Utah-rape is popular seventy" at Salt
Lake City. Arson ~is"popular seventy"
on Station Island. 1t is popular seventy"
to defy the Governor, tho Legislature and
the Courts in New York. 1t is popular
seventy" for q mob to break open a jail and
hang and and burn innocent men in Louis
vile. The United States authorities must
not interfere with them, for that would be
assailing the "inalienable right" of popular
seventy" Such is the reasoning of DEM
ocrtic orators, journals and statesmen
popular severity in France" was the
motto of Robespierre, and the text whereof
the Reign of Terror was the sermon. "Pop-
ular seventy" was the tune to which the
Guillotine beat the time. popular SOW
ernty" viz:-that kind of popular severn.
ty" which casts of tho restraints alike of
Statutes and morality-was the ruin of
France, and is fast leading us onward in the
same licentious and bloody career.-ADa-
ny Journal.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Starvation in Michigan.

The recent account from the furnishing
settlers in the Northern Counties of Mich
igan arc appalling. Several persons in
Gratiot and adjoining counties have already
persisted, and others are perishing, for the
want of food! AT a meeting in Detroit
on Friday to aid the suffering, the id
y~ertiser says that Mr.. Ralph Emerson
stated "that he had just come from Graf
lot county, where he described the suffer
ing as very general, so great that many
of the citizens were dying of starvation
and the afflicted man added ann that with a
trembling voice and eyes suffused with
tears, that he had lost has aoife and three
children from starvation, within o few
weeks past"
Alta public meeting in Lansing, q let
ter from the Presiding Elder of the Metho-
dist Church in the distressed section of the
State, presented the following melancholy
facts:
One poor woman, who with her mothers
devotedness had given to her two little
children all the food she could procure, died
a few days since in Gratiot county of abb
solute starvation, and her children when
found were too weak to be revived and shar-
ed tho moteer's fate. Other citi ems have
painfully struggled into Clinton county on
foot begging for food. Some of them had
lived for a number. of days on leeks alone,
and the stencil of their bodies was almost
insufferable. The whole country in the
new counties is stripped of food, and ever
those in best circumstances can procure
nothing to eat but boiled pumpkins and
molasses, while the poorer classes, where
actual want has not overtaken them, exc
out a miserable subsistence on roots, leeks
and boiled oats.
The people of these new and distressed
districts did not make known their suffer-
ings until compelled by stern necessity
They looked forward to spring for relief,
but its long i~nclemency and delay brought
death to crown the misery Of restitution.
At Lansing relief was sent forward on the
first intelligence, and at Detroit $1,000
were subscribed at the meeting and $4,000
pledged. A committee, provisions, &c,
were despatched at once to the scene of
distress. How blessed is such exercise of
Charity.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Horrible Case in North Caro-.
lima.

The Charlotte, North Carolina, Demo
erat, of the 18th, instant gives the particu-
lars of horrible affair, which has just been
brought to light in the neighboring village
of Concord, in Mechlenberg county. 1t
says.
A guack doctor, known by the name Of
Nugent, applied to a man to assist him in
taking up a child that had been buried a
few days before. The man made the re-
quest known, and intimated that two little
girls, daughters of a very respectable gen.
tleman residing in the vicinity, had been
removed from their graves by this man MI
gent, for the purpose of extracting medical
properties from their flesh and bones. To
ascertain the truth of the rumor, the father
had the graves r~e-opened, and found the
collins and bodies missing. OF course
this created a deep sensation, and we are
informed that it was determined 10 infict
summary punishment upon Nugent; but on
visiting his house he was found very sick
and in a dying condition. One report says
he took poison after learning that his opera
tons were known TO the public-and anoth-
or, that he died from a disease contracted
from frequent handling of decomposcd bo-
dies.
Nugcnt died on Wednesday last. He
made a statement before death that he had
exhumed about sixteen dead bodies in Con-
cord and elsewhere, and after using them
(for making medicine) he burned the flesh,
collins and everything, to prevent detec-
ton. His ash pile was examined and teeth
and bones found therein.
His theory appears to have been that a
medicine could be made by boiling the liver
of a human being that would cure liver
complaint; and so with regard to other
diseases. We learn that Nugent was from
Forsythe county, and had been living in
Concord about two years. He once lived
in this town, we are informed, engaged in
selling peppermint and cinnamon drops
Before he died he gave the names of three
or four of his accomplices, one of whom, a
white man named Bogus, was arrested in
this place last week and committed to
Jail.
What the fellow did with the medicine
he has been making no one knows. He
has agents in Salisbury and Goldsboro',
where one or more of his accomplices re-
side.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
An Father.

Herman ONHara is on trial at Auburn,
charged withproducing the death of his son,
a boy som ffteene years old. The physi-
clans testified to the bruised condition of
the head, arm, side and back of the deceas-
ed, and to some internal injuries; and a
little brother twelve years old, explains how
these injuries happened:
Jefferson O'Hara, sworn-1 had a broth
er Herman once; he died last Winter at
Peter G. Wyckoffs, my cousins; before
Herman went away l recollect of father
kicking him in the back; Herman cried,
but did not fall down; / saw him kick
him once or twice one night when he was
going after potatoes to feed the cows;
when he kicked him he fell down cellar
clear to the bottom; he hit him in the back;
I was just ahead of him; he cried q little
and said he was sore; that was the night
before he went to Wyekoffs; l saw father
kick him three or four days before he went
away; when Herman went to set SONG
grease on the table be split some; father
lay on the trundle bed and asked Herman
what it was; father got up and kicked and
whipped him with q horsewhip; father
wore coarse boots and kicked very hard;
Herman cried and lay down on the floor;
father kicked him twelve OF fifteen times
and struck him with the the horsewhip IS
many times; some of the blows cut through
the cloth; at one time when he bad hmm
down on the floor he sat on him, and when
Herman turned he struck his face, and said
if he didn't Law still he would take his wind;
Herman was trying to keep his face so he
couldn't hit it; before be sat on him he
kicked him and pulled out about n handful
of his hair; he Kicked him behind and on
his side; one evening after be had been TO
Henry Wyckof's, Herman was sitting in
the chair reading, and father came up and
kicked him and whipped him: he fell down
en- the floor; father said he would learn
him how to talk Herman put his hand on
his back and side and cried; he kept him
up that night till 8 O'Clock, and kicked HIM
and whipped him every 10 minutes; l saw
father strike him with 8 boot between 8 and
0 o'clock the morning he went away; he
hit him on the head with the heel; father
was whipping me and ] jumped and hit
Herman and made the MARX on bis temple;
when father struck him he fell aginst the
table and broke some dishes, and while he
was looking at them Herman went away;
he pulled his hair and his ear so that the
the skin was broke; he jerked him round
by his hair; once in q while he jerked his
feet from the floor; he kicked him on his
back above his seat; Herman ran round
the floor and cried.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
Wheat in Kentucky.

Central Kentucky, it is said, will raise
an immense Grain crop this year. Last
year, says the Cincinnati "Gazeae,"-
Cincinnati received about four hun
dred thousand bushels wheat over the
Covington and Lexington railroad alone
In addition to this q large quantity was
shipped down the Kentucky river for Lou
@isvile, Madison and Cincinnati.
The breadth of land planted with wheat
this year is said to be double that of last
year. The growing crop is in excellent
condition. 1t was, apparently, injured by
cold weather, but the indications Of dam
age are rapidly disappearing as vegetation
progresses. The cry of short corps cannot
BIO successfully raised in Kentucky. Moth
ing more certain than this. Our market
will probably receive from Kentucky next
season, by railroad alone, seven hundred
thousand bushels wheat"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-28
from the Newburyport Hera
AFeep at the Comet.

by the assistance Of G. W. Tuttle. Eso.
lato assistant at the Astronomical Obso,vs
tory Of Harvard University nom ,ss;dsnt
of this city, we were able to ses .b;s oomar
on Friday last with Mr.. G~reenouob's aebro.
matte telescope, notwithstanding the bril-
liancy of the full moon and the strono tv;-
light prevailing at the time. 1t was more
satisfactorily seen on Saturday night with
the same instrument. At that time il vas
on the confines of the c~ircumpolaf eousteL
lation Cameleopard, near Urss Major. II
exhibited a round, nebulous mass of light,
slightly concentrated, of about two min
utes of arc in diameter. It's excessive
faintness on both occasions was owing to
the united effects of the full moon and
twilight. There being no known star with
in the reach Of the annular micrometer, its
position could only approximately be de-
termined.
The elements of this comet resemble
those of the comet of 1882 aid 1861, and
if they are identical, then this comet has
continued to r~evolve around the sun once
in every ten years since, unseen by human
eye until the 25th of February, 1856, when
it was discovered by Brorsen. The dimen-
sions of its orbit are now well ascertained.
Its aphelion is beyond the orbit of Jupi-
ter BY more than thirty-six millions of miles.
AT its perihelion it was just within the Or
bit of Venus. The comets geocentric mo-
ton, at this time, is mostly in night ascen-
sion, being upward of fifteen minutes Of
time daily from west to east. On the
23d instant it will be near the bright star
Beta Urse Majors. 1t was nearest the
earth on the 9Th instant, being then about
twenty millions of miles distant. 1t is
po;,s receding from us, and will not be visi-
Bile to the ni:::lted eye during its present ap-
partition. This Is r Genet the Europeans
announced would strike the csrth in June.
Bat in America it has been ~confounded
with the great comet of 1866. which has
not yet appeared.