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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

A SHORT SERMON AND GOOD ONE.-
The Rev. DR.. B., of Philadelphia, is
noted for brief sententious sayings in the
pulpit and out of it. As he was coming
down Chestnut street the other day, gen
tleman asked him, "Sir, can you tell me
how to find the Sheriff's office?" ayes
sir" was the reply: "Every time you earn
.6ve dollars spend ten" Saying this, the
Doctor walked on. leaving the questioner
gaping upon the sidewalk. He was a
stranger who had come to town on busi-
ness, and asked for information; but the
more he pondered, the more he was convin-
ced that his unknown informant had an
swered him wisely.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

The NEGRO MURDERER YoUNa.-The
Windsor Herald states that this man must
have been several days digging out of the
Jail at Sandwich. He burnt the hole
through the floor, and then covered it with
his mattress, concealing his work thereby
from the priest who went into his CELL
The jailer is censured for not keeping a
closer watch upon the fellows movements.
He dug distance of not less than four
teen feet, and beneath three walls in order
to effect his escape, and that too, with on-
ly spoon and dish.
Before leaving he left the following letter
to Sheriff McEwan written in pencil:
l6. 1857.
to Mr.. Hy Sheriff
l left you Know Sir have the Spirit of
Blackhawk the Indian Chief who was TAX
en- by the whites few years ago on the H.
linois flats he could not bear the idea of
being condcult (conquered) but sir after
taking him to few of our eastern Citys
he Pined away and Died Sir.
l Sir shall lose the last drop of nv
hearts blood before I shall be condcurt by
this natsion ALFRED YoUNa.
P. s. all Witnesses against me gard
yourselfs with Sharps rifles.
A good cough mixture. A suit of warm
clothing, mixed with an abundance of pure
air and active exercise.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
Conversational.
WASHINGTON, De

The weather here to-day is charming
Dense crowds in the gallaries and other
portions of the Capital, and the greetings
between members and friends are pleasant
and exciting.
SENATE-ffty members were present
when that body. was called to order by the
Secretary, who read a letter from the Vice
President, stating that he would not be
present at the opening of the session.
On motion of Mr.. Benjamin resolution
was adopted, that the oath prescibed by
the constitution be administered to the new
members by Mr.. Bright, the oldest member
present.
Andrew Bell, of. Tennessee, and Daniel
Clark, of Newhampshire, new members,
took ther seats.
A ballot was bad for President pro tenn.
Hon. Benz. Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, was
chosen, and returned thanks for the honor
conferred on him.
The usual resolutions to inform the
President that the Senate was organized,
and in readiness for business, were then
adopted, and the Senate went into execu-
tive session, and confirmed G. W. Bowman,
of the Bedford, Pa, Gazette, as superin-
tendent of public printing.
The Senate then adjourned without
transacting other business.
HoUsE-On the call of the roll at II
o'clock, 222 members answered to their
names, and quorum having thus been as
certained To be present, the House proceed
ed to the election of speaker.
James D. Orr, of s. c., was nominated
by Mr.. Jones, of Tennessee, and Galusha
A. Grow, of Pa, by Mr.. Banks, with the fol-
lowing result-Orr 1913, Grow "a, scatter
ing u. Mr.. Orr was declared elected
The announcement of the result was receiv-
ed with applause.
The clerk appointed Messrs. Stephens
and Banks committee to conduct Mr..
Orr to the chair The oath was aJminis-
tered by Mr.. Giddings.
On assuming it, Mr.. Orr expressed thanks
for the honor conferred on him. Said the
delicate and responsible duties of the Chair
would be comparatively light if he should
| DO 81 as W SCCulC tuC COtuldl W
operation of the House in dispatching the
business and upholding the dignity of the
House.
He promised to administer rules which
may be adopted with firmness and impair
tiality. The great business confded to
them a1monished them to cultivate pa
triotisln as expansive as the confederation
itself. He cherished the hope that busi-
ness would be transacted to promote the
happiness and prosperity of the entire peo-
pie; that the constitution would De main
tanned in its integrity, and that thei.' legis-
lation would quicken the greatness and glo-
ry of our common country.
The members were then sworn, advanc-
ing by delegation for that purpose.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

GREAT WHEAT FIELD.-Morgan, San
canon and Macon counties, in Illinois, are
famous for their wheat fields. John OLD
sley, Esq, of Springfield, Sangamon coun-
ty, has sown one field this fall of twenty
five hundred acres! The whole field is
prairie, which was broken up this season,
spd the wheat put in with drills, dozen or
fnoreaof which were running at once. He
expects to harvest $4,000 bushels from the
single field.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

~ A man named Greenbury Mullenix,
of Putnam county, Indiana, who was tried
and convicted of killing his wife, after being
married only a few weeks, because she
threatened to leave him for communicating
to her loathsome disease, and sentenced
to be hung on the 18th Nov, has had his
sentence respited by Gov. Willard, and the
case is to be carried to the Supreme Court.
On this being known, a mob collected
round the Jail, with the intention of exc
cutting him-but a squad of military ap-
peared, and the mob dispersed. The mis-
cradle wretch had even charged bis mother
and sisters with being women of easy virtue.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
re A Ouakeress. iealous of her bu

~ A Quakeress, jealous of her hus-
hand, wat he'd his movements, and one
morning actually discovered the truant
hugging and kissing the servant girl
Broad-brim saw the face of his wife, as she
peeped through the half opened door, and
rising with all the GOODNESS of general,
thus addressed her: "Betsy, thee had bet
ter quit peeping, or thee will cause dis
turbance in the family"
This is an admirable illustration of the
philosophy of the bogus Democracy to-
wards the Republicans. They perpetrate
all kinds of rascalities, and enormities, and
when they find the Republicans peeping in
on them, they turn round and tell us to
keep quiet, or we shall cause disturbance
in the family, and "destroy the Union" -
Cin. Gaz.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
~ About eighteen months since

H About eighteen months since
Paschal D. Craddock, who resided not far
from Louisville, KY, was found murdered
near his own house. A negro man charg
ed with the murder, was tried and acqitted.
Recently, man named John Miller, who
does not sustain good character went to
the States Attorneys Office, and named
himself and several respectable men as the
murderers of Craddock. Several of the
men thus charged, have been apprehended
and given bail for their appearance to an
swer the charge. No one supposes them
guilty. When Miller was asked what in
duced him to make the development now,
answered that his conscience would not per-
init him longer to keep it secret.-Ohio
Repo STORY.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

~It gives us great pleasure to an
nounce the defeat Of Mayor Wood of New
York, who was candidate for reelection.
A few days before the election he boasted
that there was power on earth that could
beat him. Whisky and money was Law
ishly used by him and his friends, and to
make the thing doubly certain, the Admin
lstration at Washington, issued its ukase
commanding all good democrats in the city
to rally to his support. Mr.. Tiemann was
his opponent, The combination against
Wood was . very formidable one-Amer-
cans, Republicans and Whigs-men who
never before agreed upon any one thing,
united thoroughly and heartily in resisting
MS election; and they were aided by very
actlVe section of the Democrats themselves.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

OFFICE SEEKERS In WAsHINGroN.-A
Washington letter in the Cleveland Plain
dealer says: "Stirring times these, in
Washington, when for every Office in the
gift of Congress there are at least a score
Of candidates from every State in the Union,
and as many from the District as from all
the States combined. Each member has
to be consulted, importuned and bored,
either by every candidate or by their friends,
which furnishes to him an excellent oppor-
tunity for display of some of the chris
tian graces so necessary in his Congression-
al career"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

~ The Washington Union continues
to quote from the Northern Buchanan pa
pers, articles in favor of admitting Kansas
with her Slave Constitution, against the
wishes of two-thirds of the people of the
Territory. The Uuion is getting bolder,
and well it may, for il has nothing to fear
from an opposition such as that made by
the Statesman, Chicago Times DC, which
ignore the moral of the contest, and fight
about tweedle dunn and tweedle dee.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
A Fight In the Water Between
q PickpOcket and a Sheriff.

The Fort Wayne Times of Thursday
the following story of desperate encoun-
ter between convicted pickpocket and a
Sheriff, growing out of an effort of the
former to escape. 1t was certainly very
daring enterprise all around, and the Sher-
iff who finally conquered, must have been
"pluck to the back bone":
On last Friday the Judge of the Allen
circuit court sentenced John Campbell
(alias John Supple, his true name) to the
penitentiary for stealing $40 from passen-
ger on the T. W. & W. R. rand as the
Sheriff was taking him from the court house
to the Jail, he was called by some one from
behind him, and on looking around, either
Supple or his aecomplice who called the
Sheriff, threw handful of ground pepper
into his (the Sherif's) eyes, and while he
was writhing under the pain and blindness
consequent, the accomplice took east to-
ward the City Mills, and Supple west to-
ward Bowser d Story's foundry, but the
Sheriff discovered Supple as he was about
turning toward the St. Marys river, and
made chase, and after few falls from his
partial blindness, found himself near Su-
pie on the bank of the river north of the
Jail.
AT this point Supple took east across the
bottom, but not understanding the geogra-
ply of the river-found himself at the
point where the slough leavs the river and
into which slough the water from the City
Mills discharges itself. Without stopping
he threw off his hat, buttoned his coat
and plunged into the deep water above
the St. Marys Bridge at the north end of
Barr street. The Sheriff took water below,
and made for the opposite shore, as if to
head him, but S. before reaching the shore,
made down stream for the Sheriff and
grappled him, and though getting him un-
der water, yet he (the sheriff. rallied and
submerged S., who soon cried for quarters,
at which the Sheriff took him to the shore,
and though S. was nearly exhausted and
lying on the ground, he grappled the Sher-
if around the legs and gave him tremen-
dous fall and commenced to beat him. At
this point the Sheriff seized a bone which
laid near and having inflicted several blows
on the nose, face, and head of S., brought
him to insensible terms, from which having
recovered he was carried and dragged to
the jail.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
TRAVELLERS Directory,

The following shows the time of departures
and arrivals on the c. q. d C. r. R. at MiIlers-
burg and Cleveland:
Running NoRTH.-The Ezpress leaves Mil
lersburg at 6.l2 A. NJ, and arrives at Cleveland
at I0.43.
The Accommodation leaves Millersburg at 2. Is
p. M, and arrives at Cleveland at $40.
RUNNING SoUrH-Acconunodatio leaves Cleve-
land at 600 A. NJ, and arrives at Millersburg
at 1917.
Ezpre" leaves Cleveland al 4.40 P. NJ, and
arrives at Millersburg at s.46.
"a The E1press train running North con-
meets at Orrvlle with the East and West trains
on the P. Fl. W. and c. R. R.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

A MODEST REqUEsT.-In the Tennes-
see Senate, Mr.. Goodpasture presented a
memorial from citizens of Scott county,
asking to be released from taxation on ac-
count OF the hard times, and that an ap-
preparation Of $4,000 or $4,000 be made
for their benefit.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
NEWSPAPER SUSPENSIONS IN MIME

NEWSPAPER SUSPENSIONS IN MIME
soTA.-The present state of financial affairs
is making sad inroads upon the press thro'-
out Minnesota. The Olmstead Journal,
the Winona argus, the Traverse des Sioux
Register, the Shakopee Advoeate, the
Southern Minnesota Star, the Saltwater
Union, and the Dakotah Journal, have
all suspended publication. The first three
indefnitely-the last three promise to re-
sumo.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

RKansas has been aptly called "the
graveyard Of Governors. Shannon, Reed
er, Geary, and Walker, have all been Gov
ernors of Kansas, and have all failed to
satisfy their slave masters. Three of them
have been killed off and buried. Walkers
turn comes next. His days are numbered,
and his epitaph will soon be written.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

The chestnut trees of Sicily, and partic-
ularly of Mount Etna, measure seventy-fve
to one hundred and fifty feet in circumfer-
ence! There is one in Gloucestershire,
England, AZ feet in circumference, which
is believed to be one thousand years old.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

wThe st. Louis Leader, the chief
Buchanan paper of Missouri, is very indig-
nant at the 'cork legged" Democracy Of
the North for opposing the admission of
Kansas with her bogus Constitution, and
says "the objection TO the Constitution is
purely Jactious, and has no other object in
view than to keep up a mischierous agita-
tion.m
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

RThe "Norwalk Saving Company"
at Norwalk, has suspended payment. The
deposits amounted to about 100000, and
the means to pay this amount, about $780,
600. The loss falls principally on the far
mers, mechanics and laboring men.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

EDr. Bennett, formerly of Tusca-
rawas county, o., has been elected to the
State Senate of Minnesota territory, with
er he emigrated few years ago. The Dr..
formerly represented Tuscarawas county in
the Ohio Senate.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

N In Petersburg, Virginia, they are
making great ado about the introduction
of gas in the city. A writer in the Rich
mond Whig offers to take a contract to
remove the city on rollers to the centre of
the Dismal Swamp and light it with light
ming bugs.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

~ 1t is currently reported that the
entire Democratic" delegation from Ohio,
with the single exception of Senator Pugh,
go with Walker, and against Buchanan, on
the Kansas question, Senator Pugh, it is
said, supports the Administration and the
bugus Convention.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

@We matte attention to the Adver-
tisement of Mr.. Albert G. Richardson. of
No. $50 Broadway, New York, in this
days paper. Orders for Eastern Advertis
ing, Printing Materials, ETC., left with the
proprietor of this paper, will be duly for
warded.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

The Providence Journal thinks if Gen.
William Walker were sent to chastiss the
Mormons, great public bensit would &C.
crue. Then, every wsll-aimed bullet, on
either side, would do service 70 the coun-
try
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

H A steam carraige for common
roads has made its appearance in the streets
OF Pittsburgh. 1t turns corners readily
traverses uneven roads without difficulty,
and runs eight miles an hour with a pres.
sure Of sixty pounds.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

It is generally understood that at the
next session of Congress, bills will be intro'
duced for the organization of two new 'ef-
itories-Arizona nd Sierra Madre.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

THE NEws-The news from Utah be-
gins to possess some interest. Hostiities
between the troops and Mormons have
commenced.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

EDr. KIRK, formerly Senator in the
Ohio Legislature, but for few years past,
a citizen Of Minnesota, is about to return
to Mt. Vernon.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

@ Accounts from the South say, that
the Sugarcane and Cotton crops have been
badly injured by frost. If true, these arti-
cles must rise.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
$154,l27,OS1

A thief broke out of Jail the other day.
Being recaptured, he told the constable he
might have escaped, but he had conscien-
tious scruples about travelling on Sunday!
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

ASee George W. Elliotts advertise
msn' lot agents, headed "a Book for ev-
cry mans Library"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10
Exports of the United States.
In 1857 fiscal year) the United States

SOUTHERN PRODUCTS.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-12-10

CONSTITUTION 10 the popular vote, 10 be
simple assertion of the right of Congress to
force any Constitution upon the territory,
instead Of leaving the people to decide for
themselves.
Can there be any doubt that Walker is
right? If the Constitution of Kansas be
not submitted to the people, but forced up
on them by Congress, is it net clear vio-
latlon of the very principle upon which
this controversy has been carried on by the
Democratic party! But what is the differ
ence between the operation of Congress
lonal interference, by forcing Constitu-
tion on the people of Kansas, and apply
ing the Wilmot Proviso? The most
acute metaphysician can discover no differ
ence in substance. The form is nothing.
But simply exercise the power of Congress
over the Territory, right which we hold
1t has, but which has been solemnly repu-
dated by the whole Democratic party
In this case, however, it goes farther. Con-
gress is to apply its power, not to a terri
tory merely, but to State. For the max
ing and unmaking Constitutions, is a SOW
ereign power. If then the idea of Mr..
Buchanan is to be carried out, it will rein
state the gerry principle against auhich the
Democratic party of1s56 fought. Ifthis
be done, it will not be the least remarka-
ble fact in its history, that it is done at
the dictation and under the lead of old
Whigs-men who never belonged to the
Democratic party, and who utterly repudi-
ate all the primary principles of Democra-
cy. These men are Toombs, Stevens,
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-08-13
GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN WATER PIPE
CHI AIN PUMP TU BIN G.
TNHE subscriber having lately commenced the manufac
IL ture of WATER TUBING, at Wilkes Barre, Pa with

TNHE subscriber having lately commenced the manufac
IL ture of WATER TUBING, at Wilkes Barre, Pa with
wYCKOFF'S PATENT BORING MACHINE,
which produces the article long sought after by Pump
Manufacturers and others would call the attention of Rail
road Superintendents Pump Dealers, Farmers, Village
Corporations and all others in want of cheap and durable
Water Conductors to the Pipes manufactured by this pro-
They made from solid Pine and other scantlng
from to inches square, according to size of bore and
pressure required in sections feet long, with socket
Joint accurately fitted both air and water tight As Wy
chos Machine bores directly through the centre every
me the timber need only be large enough to sustain the
pressure wanted the smaller they the perfect
y they saturated with water and the they
will last when laid in the ground. 1t il a weascertain
ed fact that while the body thick part of pump log is
entirely decayed, the thin sharpened end will be sound
at the time they stop up from impurities of
the water being attened free from rust poison
oxydes lasting about long lead ron at only
One-siNth the cost.
The aforementioned Pipes have been extensively and
thoroughly tested in most of the Northern States for the
past two years and wherever introduced they immediate
ly supersede all other kinds of Pipe Chain Pump Tub
ing. They be made to stand any desirable head of
water and be shipped to any part of the country with
safety and at small expense.
So Orders solicited and filled with despatch Address
f. s. GOODRICH, or
A.LAWTON, Agent
June %, 1857 Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-08-13
farmer's department.
Effects of Clover Hay on Animals.

Some late writer's have taken the position
that clover hay produces most injurious ef-
feet on domestic animals, particularly horses ;
and that to this cause the great increase of dis
eased horses is to be attributed. We lately
heard farmer affirm, that he believed the in
PRODUCTION clover hay into general cultiva-
tion the greatest curse yet inflicted on the
country, and assigned as reason for this SIN
gular opinion, its effects on animals when used
as a fodder. Late English writer's have at
tributed to this kind of hay the prevalence of
heaves in horses, and the great increase of
other diseases that effect the respiratory or
gans This is most important subject, and
Should receive full investigation. Clover is
too important plant to be discarded or con-
demned. except upon the most satisfactory ev-
idence Its value as fertilizer and q prepar-
ative for wheat, TO say nothing Of its use for
pasture and hay, would demand that it should
not be condemned unheard For ourselves,
we have very little belief in the injurious prop
critics assigned to clover We have used it
constantly for pasture and for hay, more than
thirty years and never, to our knowledge, has
an animal suffered from it certainly, no horse.
has been taken with the heaves when fed on it
or while in our possession. AS hay for sheep
have no fears that any of our stock would not
winter well, with supply of we'll of well-cur
ed clover hay.
And here lies we think, the great source of
objection to clover hay. 1t is too often i'm
perfectly cured To save the leaves and the
heads, which are apt to fall in handling or cur
ing the hay is put into the barn while the
large stems are full of moisture or the natural
juices, and the fermentation which ensues the
causes the whole mass to become damp and if
not spoiled wholly, it becomes mouldy, black,
and len used raises such dust, it is no won
der that horses and cattle are chOked or their
lungs destroyed. Our experience shows that
clover may be perfectly cured without losing
any of its valuable parts-cured so that when
fed ont, no more dust will be flying than from
timothy or herdsgrass, and We are slow to be-
lieve that from such hay any injury to animals
ever ensues.-Ohio TaNy Farmer.