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Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

The number of applications for patent
in this tffi;e in 1855, was greater than
those in the Office of any other country on
earth; having been 4,435, against 1858
in Great Britain, and 4,O56 in France
For the present year, the number of appli-
cations will probably not fall short of five
thousand.
In addition to the business of the Pat
ent Office proper, Congress has resolved
upon the Commissioner of Patents the SUI
pervision of the national Gallery and the
control and disposition of the fund annu-
ally appropriated for agricultural purposes.
The former of these duties is of compara-
lively very small moment---the. latter is of
ScFy grcafand rapidly growing importance.
There seems no natural and immediate
connection between the proper business of
the Patent Office and the subject Of agri-
culture, except in their mutual relation to
the in 'ustrial pursuits of the people. But
the revenues Of the Patent Office being
somewhat in excess in 1889, the Commits
sioner of Patents was authorized to en-
ploy 81 900 for the purpose of procuring
agricultural statistics. For many years
subsequent to that time annual appropri-
atoms were made from the same fund for a
similar purpose. These were increased
from time to time, until they reached the
SUN of $4,000, when they remained
nearly stationary for several years.
Inl854 the appropriation was increased
to $35, 900, and made payable ont of the
general treasury, and the appropriation for
the present year, has been swelled to the
sum of 100000. The objects embraced
in this appropriation are declared to be "the
collection of agricultural statistics, inves-
legations for promoting agriculture and ru-
raj economy, and the procurement and
distribution of cuttings and Seeds"
In pursuance of the designs of Con-
gross, measures have been taken to procure
cuttings and seeds from every quarter of
Tie world where any new product can be
found which is likely to prove useful in
any portion of the United States. Many
new productions of great probable utility,
have thus been already introduced, and
others are being sought for wherever there
is any prospect Of success. Among other
things, vessel has just been sent to South
America to procure fresh supply of cat
tings of the sugar cane, to furnish our
Southern planters with fresh stock to
supply the place Of that which is supposed
to have become deteriorated by being
transferred to a somewhat incongenial eli
mate.
The benefits resulting from, the appr&
priations already made have doubtless been
far more than to Justify the expenditures
incurred. Unless there be some objec-
tions Of political character, the system
is believed to be founded in wisdom. If
the appropriations can be judiciously ap-
piled and restrained within proper limits,
they will prove eminently beneficial, and
their continuance will be clearly expedi-
ent, unless there are counterbalancing rea-
sons resulting from doubts as to the pro-
priety of such undertaking by the FEEDER
al Government, .... ISL.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

WooL.-The Ohio Farmer of late is4
sue says: "There has been steady risen
the price Of wool ever since May, with
no prospect of decline. This should IN
duce farmers to take good care of their
sheep during the winter. The wool Of
Jefferson and Harrison are now selling at
home for from IS to go cents pound,
and fine woods of Washington county.
Penn, are held at IS cents. Goodale u
Go. of Cleveland, have furnished us with
the following; The wool market presents
an upward tendency; our sales amount to
over 200, 900 pounds within the last three
days, al an advance over former prices
We are anticipating still further advance
between this and February, but not owing
to any ability Of the manufacturers to pay
rny higher prices, for it is evident that
wool bears much higher rates in proper
ton than woolen goods. ~
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

How ENGLISH GRocERs ADuLrRRlrE
PEppER.-A new discovery has been made
by the English grocers, who are always
alive to an opportunity of advantage IN
trade. They have discovered that from
ten to twenty per cent. Of hard wood rasp-
ings may be added to quantity of pepper
without danger of discovery, excepting by
chemical analysis; and hard wood being ~
great deal cheaper than the genuine article.
it has come to be extensively used. In
recent police case in London, twas proved
that considerable amount of blownish
colored powder, which has been sold AZ
pepper, consisted in reality, of only fifty
parts of pepper, mingled with forty parts
of rice and ten parts Of wood,--Hunfs
Mo0dgiRe,
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

TRUE LIFE.-The mere lapse of years is
not life. To eat, drink and sleep, to be
exposed to darkness and the light; to pace
round in the mill of habit and turn the
wheel of wealth, to make reason our book
keeper, and turn thought into an imple-
ment Of trade--this is notlife. In all this,
but poor fraction of the consciousness
of humanity is awakened: and the sancti-
ties still slumber which make it most
worth while to be. knowledge, truth,
love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can
give vitality to the mechanism ofexistence
the laugh ofmirth which vibrates through
the heart, the tears that freshen the dry
waste within, the pnyerthat calls the fu-
turs near; the doubtwhich makes us med.
itate, the death that startles us with mys-
terry, the anxiety that ends in tlust-a
trno nouishment Of our natural being.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06
CHURCHES.

Presby bytcrlan-Rcv I. Twembly, Pastor. servcesey-
hry Sabbath morning at II O'Clock. Every Sabbath
evening at O. O'Clock.
Methodist Episcopal-Rcv, A. G. Bycrs, Pastor. Ser
vices ut Wesley Chapel, Pomeroy, and Heath Chapel
ShcHeld on alternate Sabbaths, at l01a O'Clock, A. M
and : p. M-and at the lower Church, Pomeroy, at
o'clock, p NJ. every Sabbath. .# ....
Protestant Episcopal-No services at present.
|, New Jerusalem-No services.
German Mcthodst-Rev. J. Pfctzng, Pastor Ser
Vices every Sabbath morning, at 10 O'Clock.
German Luthepn-Rev. p Held, Pastor. Services
every Sabbath morning. ,r
German Evangelical Presbyterian ION Linn street)
Rev. L. Thesis, Pastor. Services every Sabbath
morning, at 10 O'Clock.
German Presbyterian ION Plum ct.)-Rev. -
-, Pastor. Services every Sabbath morning, at
10 O'Clock.
Roman Catholic-Rcv. John Albrinck, Priest. Ser
vices every Sabbath morning.
Welsh Baptist-Peter Lloyd, Pastor Services ev-
cry Sabbath, at 10 o'clock, A. M. and p. M.
Welsh Presbyterian New School )IRev: John H.
Jones, PASTOR Services every Sabbath at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. and p. NJ. ~. .... - ,,,,
Welsh Presbyterian (od school)-John 7. Williams,
PASTOR Services every Sabbath, at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ
and 6P. NJ .-.. .srs,..-r
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

The Sguater Sover.iga, TIE mouth
piece of Atchison, represents Gov. Geayy
as unfit for Governor of Kansas, andrec-
ommends D. R, Atehison as his successor;
What will It say when it hears that Jeff
reys Lecomptc has been removed by tho
President, and Coy. Geary sustained IA
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

Judge Drummond Of the 1st District
in Utah. has charged the Grand Jmy
against polygamy. 1t clearly comes with
in the provisions of the United States stat
ute against lewdness, and is punishable
with Imprisonment for from ten years dowii
to six months, and ii ne of a thousand
hnllnrs
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06
For the TELEGRAPH.

For the Telegraph.
Lines composed on receiving an AL
'um, by one who has been confined to hi
'ed five years, and never can be any bet
er. Disease: Consumption of the pros
rate gland
MY ALBUM.
My Album Is opened for all;
Not opened its pages to soil:
But 1t is opened to invite
My friends, on Its pages to write.
IT'S opened for thoughts from the mind,
Which truly, will be treasure to mine
In after years, when Il view,
n. then will fsndly think of you.
As these pagcs are pure and white,
So let your thoughts be TRUE and BRIGHT;
For thoughts inscribed, do not nlter,
Nor perish like brick and mortar.
It's pleasant to draw from one's treasure,
Thoughts for others to road at their leisure:
If they are confined to their bed,
Their author will be loved and read
When writing original matter
To friend, bs sure and not fatter;
For nattery conveys to the mind
Nothing that's NOBLE, TRUE or KIND.
But TO PRISONER for LIFE,
Teach him to live above care and strife
To rise on wings Of heavenly love,
To that celestial city above!
MIDDLEPoRT, Dec. 25, 1856. R. BISSEL
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

EgA large meeting of Know Nothings
and Wings assembled at Raleigh n, O.,
on the 9th inst!, and resolved that the at
tacks on Kenneth Rayner were prompted
by malignant motives.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

TRuE.-The Richmond Enqairer, in a
recent review of the message of Gov. Ad.
ans, of South Carolina; in which he adso-
Gated the reopening of tho African Slave
trade, says: lfh
"In logic and morals, Gov. Adams is
perfectly consistent. when he declares that
L the slave trade be i2;r02Si slave property
is pllndcr,"
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

New SrArE.-It'is reported from WASH
ington that the territory of Minnesota,
through her delegate, Mr. Rice, will take
steps during the present session Of Con.
gress for admission into the Union n
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06
VOL, s. NO. !. IA. ii

BUTTER ADULrERATED WITH FLINT
SroNE.-Astounding as..is the announce
ment at the head of this paragraph, says
an English paper, it is nevertheless true.
Butter is adulterated with flint stones -
This heartless and wicked fraud is espe-
cially practiced in the low kinds of butter
usually sold in large manufacturing towns
to the poorer and industrious population.
The flint stones are ground and then
chemically manipulated until they are re-
duced into soluble substance, which is
known by the denomination of "solubls
silics." When the latter preparation ia
dissolved in water, it becomes stiff gela-
tinous body, somewhat resembling strong
Jelly. This jelly is mixed to considers-
bic Eextent with butter of low quality, to
which fresh salt and eoIoring is added,
The product of this villainous combina-
ton is,a compound which resembles very
good looking dairy-made butter. But it
has not the frmness nor bright. appearance
of genuine butter, and is devoid of the
richness and wholesome qualities of the
latter. We have seen this gross adultera-
ton at the laboratories of the Northern
Analytical College, Sheffield, and we arc
credibly informed that Professor Calver, of
Manchester, has detected this fraud re-,
Gently and frequently,-Hunt's Mqgazins.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

How TO SECURE Coop FRUIT CRops.-'
The Agricultural and Horticultural Socie-
ty of Vaucluse recommends that in order
to ensure large crop in fruit trees, the
following plan should be adopted:-A hole
must be dug round the tree to certain
depth in the autumn, but not deep enough
to expose the roots, and must then be filed
up with manure; the manure should be-
left until frozen, and then be covered with
the earth extracted. Thus covered over,
the manure does not thaw until late Pc
riod, and thereby prevents the tree from
budding early, and produces the effect in
tended. The same society further makes
known that it is u well ascertained factthat
trees which yield most fruit are those
whose branches grow horizontally, instead
of vertically, and it therefore recommends
that trees should, so far as possible, be
trained to grow in that direction; it even
declares that by such training, trees that
have never yielded any fruit previously
may be made productive.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06
rowysnlp orrIcERs-sAIlsnuRY.

Trustccs-Amos Dunham, Thos. Radford, A. Barlow
Clofk--IIosmer Branch. VI
Trsasurer-O. Branch.
Justices Of the Peace-S. S. Paine, G. w. Cooper,
Robert Iiysel. ..,..
-donstablcs- Randall Stivers, orcn Jones, o. j.
Wodey. .
ASessor-S. Bradbury.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06

having pUTCnuStud laTpV uHu ucdutiiai "oso'
OF new Job Type we are prepared to execute work Of
all kinds, on short notice, and reasonable terms.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Representative in Congress 9th DistricD-Hon' "
B. Horton, OF Meigs county. I
Senator-State egslaturc-Chauncey u. HaWley,
Of Lawrence county.
Reprssentatve-Alfrcl Thomson, .. ...... ..
COURT AND COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judge o the Court of Common Pleas-IiOn. Simco
Nash, GAllipolis.
Judge Of Probate Court-A. Merrill.
Clerk oflComihon Pleas Court-Rodney Downing
Shcrif-Joseph V. Smith.
Prosecuting Attorncy--N. Simpson
County "A udtor-H. II. Swallow.
County Treasurer-O. Branch
County Recorders. S. Paine.
County SurvcyOr-JOhn G. Golden.
County Commissioners-Wm Ledle, Milo Guthrie,
ThOs. Smith. .ryl... :,
CounH School Ezamincrs-A. A. Keen, George B.
Grow, II. F. Miller. N %
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CORPORATION orFIcEns--poMERoY

NayOr-KandaI StlVcrs.
accOrder-L. S. Nyc.
frustccs-I. s. Horton, A. Murdock, H. B. Smith,
Wtn. II. Remington, ]. c. Cartwright.
hrrcasurer-0. Branch, eX oico.
Marshal-Gaylord Lyman.
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Rates of Advertising.

Business cards, 6 lines or less, oneyear, 50 90
Ono square, thirteen lines or less, three weeks, w
Each subsequent insertion, H} s}R 'f s5
One square three months, w
One square six months, W
One square one year, ...' ...... OU
One fourth column one year, 10 OO
One-half column one year, ~. t ~ w
Three -fourths of a column one year, 25 90
One coinmn one wear, 30 90
.1PCasual or transient advertisements must BIO paid
form advance. I'D.
N-P Advertisements not having the number Of in
sertions marked oncopy, will be continued until for
bid, and charged accordingly.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-01-06
JOE PRINTING,
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

Having purchased large and beautiful assortment
OF new Job Type, prepared to execute work OF
all kinds, on short notice, and reasonable terms.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-08-19
Death ofEx-secretary Dobbtn.

James G. Dobbin of North Carolina,
the Secretary Of the Navy under the late
Administration, is dead. -Four months
have hardly passed since General Pierce's
Government was in the ascendency at
Washington, and yet two of its distin-
guished members-the Secretary of State,
Williom L. Marcy, and the Secretary of
the Navy, James G. Dobbin-are no
more. Death has, indeed, made sad hav-
oc with the members of that Administra.
ton. Mr.. Dobbin was formerly distin-
gaished member of Congress from North
Corolina and prominent member of the
National Convention which nominated
General Pierce for the Presidency. He
received some votes for the Vice Presi-
dency at the Convention which in this
city in June, 1856. He was moderate
and conservative Southern man, warmly
attached to the Union, and was possessed
of considerable talent. His age must have
been about Fifty years. Cincinnati En-
quirer.
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How Much has 1t CostP

How much has "poor bleeding Kansas"
cost Ohio? asks an exchange.
1t has cost her near o million of dol
lars-stolen while the attention OF her
people was directed to Kansas
It has cost her tens of thousands more,
wrung from her, by lazy, worthless dema-
gogues, during the last campaign, under
the pretence Of assisting the needy in that
unfortunate Territory, but which was used
by those villains in their own corrupting
schemes!
1t has cost her long and disgraceful
session of the Legislature 49,
1t has cost hersa two years quarrel
with those who differed with her in her
assumption of the right to take care o1
the affairs of-other people
1t has cost her much of her good tenn
per, and almost oil of her good namel 5.
And, finally, it has filed her Offices with
men distinguished" for mastery inca.
pacity and dishonesty. .''-Sensea Adper.
tiser.
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Again:
& 'fThe exclusion of colored children from
the schools is, in my Judgment, clear IN
fringment of the Constitution and a pal
pable breach of trust"
Again:
'.We feel, therefore, that all legal dis
tinctions between individuals of the same
community, founded on any such clrcum-
stances as color, origin and the like, are
hostile to our institutions, and incompat-
ible with the true theory of American lib
Ierty."
That is entirely too strongly perfumed
for this latitude-especially during this
warm weather. Negroes socially and po'
litically equal to white men! Salmon, ole
Monroe will give you her opinion on tha
question about the Cd Tuesday of Octo
Der.
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Legal Notice.

AEARTHAA A. WRIGHT, wife of Joseph Wright
M of the State of Virginia, will take notice
that on the 18th day of July, A. D. 1857, Joseph
Wright fled in the Office Of the Clerk OF the
Court of Common Pleas, in and for Monroe
County, in the State of Ohio, his petition for
Divorce, which is now pending in said Court.
Causes for Divorce set forth in said petition
gross neglect of duty and wilful absence for
more than three years, on the part Of said
Martha A. Wright.
Said petition will be for hearing at the octo-
Der term of said Court, 1859. The said Martha
A. WRIGHT. will also take notice, that on We'd
nesdsy, the first day of October, 1857, at the
house of Thomas Ferrel in Uniontown, Bel
mont County, Ohio, between the hours Of sis
o'clock, A. NJ. and six o'clock, 7. NJ, the peti
tioner will take the depositie1s OF witnesses z
be read in evidence on the hearing OF said peti
tion. GEO. w. DURKRR,
Atty for Petitioncr.
J,lv % 1887 6w 3
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The Chaseltes in Convention.

The followers OF ChaSe nelu q CoHVeu-
ton yesterday, at Columbus, which went
through the forms of renominating their
Abolition chief, together with candidates
for the other State Offices, according to
the programme which had been prepared
weeks and months ago by the cunning
intriguer, who is so efficiently hoodwink-
ing and deluding the respectable white
people of this State into the support OF
his Abolition and NEGRO equalization ideas
This Convention, from all wecan learn,
was fat failure, there not being half the
number of delegates present that attended
the first Convention which presented Chase
to the people of Ohio two years ago.
The only life and spirit exhibited by it were
exerted by the presence of the venerable
old .monomaniac, Joshua r. Giddings,
who was called, as he declared, to be pres
ent by q special inspiration of God. Old
Gid held forth to the Chaseites in his old
Boanergian style, on the equal rights OF
negroes with whites, and the duty of all
good men to receive them at their fire.
sides, in their pews, in their schools, and
everywhere else. Caleb B. Smith and b.
B. Corwine, aud others of the Hamilton
delegation, exchanged knowing wlnks, and
WINGED somewhat under old Gid's very
broad proposition.
But the stout veteran had some old
grudges against the politicians who were
only riding Abolition as their hobby, and
the way he scored them for thus making
merchandise of the poor images of God in
ebony would have delighted brother Jolliffe
and other true blue, radical, out-and-out
original Liberty men. Then another apos-
tie of freedom, from that region where so
much unrcquited love is lavished upon
"Sambo"-who, gay Lothario as he is,
prefers to hnger in regions where he has
the fewest admirers, rather than trust him
self to the warm embraces of his adoring
friends in enlightened Cheesedom or Chase
dom -Ohio's proud Senator, the Balfoul
Barley of negroism, Wade, blew his sonor'
Gus blast for negro rights.
i With such speeches, and, doubtless, 9
negro song or two from Tom Ford, the
!. shoeless orator and perspiring patriot, and
from Others of this unequaled corps O
Ethiopian performers, the Chaseites re-
llieyed the vexatious business of selecting
from the innumerable horde of hungr.
patriots love not |" Sambo " less
!. : L.but spoik more those who may be mos
, acceptable to the big chief service
5 able in his scheme of sectional agitation
and negro elevation. This being done
the Convention proceeded to adopt Ger
tain resolutions prepared by the Colum
: bus regency -aided by the Third-stree
n lawyers, with wonderful skill at specia
pleading-wish artful evasiveness, ambi
n guilty and deceit, and full of false an
E demagogical appeals to the fanaticisr
]. and other passions Of the mongrel her
# that follow Chase as madly and blindly-
! and to like disastrous results-as tn
e Imonomaniacs of the middle ages pursue
the gaunt form of the more honest, b,
not less reckless and audacious, Peter Il
e Hermit. GIN. Enqusrer.
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The Vote for Representative.

AS our friend Baker of the Noble coun.
ty Democrat, still maintains that Mr.. Van
Meter received more votes according to
the poll books than DR.. Stout, we present
the following evidence which it is hoped
may prove satisfactory:
WooDsF1ELD, O., Aug. 18th 1857.
/ hereby certify that the following is
the result of the vote for Representative
between James M. Stout and William
Van Meter, as shown by the poll books OF
the Conventions:
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ETHIOPIAN CONCERT.
The Black Republican Convention.

At 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, the Convention
assembled at the Theatre, when Mr.. Den
nison, of Columbus, called the body to or
der, and moved that Harrison B. Blake, of
Medina acts as chairman. Mr.. Blake was
not on hand. Gen Spink was theE NOM
mated, but declined, not being delegate.
o. P. Brown, of Portage, was there, but
he was net nominated. G. S. Hamilton,
of Marysville, was on hand, but he had
other fish to fry. ct has been suspected
that Brown was after that balance in the
Treasury, fsmeller's, and Hamilton to pay
back the 81 which he drew for the Sunday
intervening between the close of his du-
ties as .Senator) Several other distin-
guished members Of the late Senate and
House Of Representatives were present,
and
Francis Jobson,. Of Hamilton county,
moved that David Heaton, of Butler coun-
ty, the Senator who undertook the con-
tract to build a monument to the negro
woman who cut her child's throat, but has
not yet completed the task, be appointed
temporary chairman, and he was.
Mr.. Heaton "a nice-looking gentleman
who has recently written letter decli
ming reelection, for an excellent reason
-"doubtsp 'doubts, y took the chair.
For Secretaries, Messrs. John K. Greer
fwho was not nominated to fayorite offie'
by the ethiopians Of Hamilton.) VIM. Ry
der (Piqua Register,) n. T. Brown Q
Athens, and Isaac Hazlett of Stark conn
lty, (who didn't sit down at table with tn
negro.) :.
1 The usual committees were appointed.
Il As there was plenty of time to spar
and delicious dullness seemed to preva
that had tendency to somnolency, it wa
proposed to be eathused by little OF Ber
q IF. Wade's thunder Black Repnbl
J can U. S. Senator He coyorted away for
: considerable period Ion gerthan some Of tn
/ fbrethren wished, and exhausted several thi
bodied gentleman, who made tracksfor th