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BIG Observation-Disclosures.

An exchange gives the following au-
photography of low thief, which has a
peculiar significance just at the present
time.
My name is Jim Griggins. I'm low
thief My parents was ignorant folks
and my advantages for getting eddy
cation was limited. l have been to the
penitentiary once afore and sarved out
my time like man. 1 went for prig-
ging a watch. Now I'm locked up again
for stealing two or three ornery overcuLs.
Pm TO stay here three yers. shall al.
ways censure my parents for not eddy
catin me. Had l been eddycatid 1 could,
with my brilliant native talents, have
been big thief believe they call 'em
swindlers. Instead of confnn' myself to
prigging overcuts, watches and sich like,
| could have swindled honest folks out OF
thousands and thousands of dollars and
the law would never tech me. Then, We
see, l could ride in my carriage, live in
a big house with free stun front, drive
fast team, an drink as much gin an sug
ar as 1 wanted to. A investigation
might be made, and the nuespapers would
come down on me heavy, but what the
ID would care about that, Eavin pre-
viously taken precious good care of the
money. Besides my lawyers would swear
stout that l was as innersunt as new
born babe, and a great many good people
would wink very pleasant and say, We'll,
Griggings understands what HE'S bout
He does =
But havin no eddycation, I'm only a
low thiei--astealer of overcuts and watch
es-a ornery cuss any how-and the Law
puts me through without mercy. It's all
right, Is'pose, and yet sometimes think |
it's darned hard TO be shut up here, q |
wearing cbeckered clothes, livin on cold 1
vittles, sleepin on iron bedsIids. a look |
in out upon the world through iron skeet-
er bars, and poundin stun Ike thunder,
day after day, week after week and year
after year, while my brother thieves (for,
tween you and ], there amt no differ
enoe between thief and great swindler
except that the latter is forty times wuss,) |
who have stole thousands of dollars to
my one cent, are walking out there in the
bright sunshine-dressed up to kill, store
clothes on their backs and piles of gold
in their pockets But the Law can't
-ech big swindlers, mot ANY Who was
i that said there wasn't no difference
tween tweedIedum and tweedledee p
He lied in his throat Ike william as he
was l tell ye there is a tremendous
difference Oh /! that l had been liber-
Ally eddycated JIM GRIGGIEs.
Penitentiary, Columbus, March, 1859. j
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s'on Manor the first day. There she re-
maIned all night and received passengers
some of the Livingstone family. The
next morning she proceeded on her jour
hey, and arrived at Albany late in the
afternoon. All the way up the river
the steamer attracted great attention.
People thronged the banks, or pulled
out into the stream to have a closer look
at this new monster. The "Clermont"
made about six miles an hour. On this
first trip the crew consisted of only hall
dozen men, while those whom Capt.
Mex took to be passengers, might num-
Der twenty FIVE or thirty persons.
AT Albany, be says, Fulton went
ashore, telling them to let no one come
on board, and the boat was pushed a
plank's length from the shore. But the
engineer disobeyed as soon as Fulton
was out of sight, and admitted people at
a York shilling head. They came on
board SO fast that in FIVE minutes they
took taCelre dollars So many came at
last that they were compelled TO turn
the tide in the opposite direction, and
ordered them "all ashore" Fulton's
captain. says our hero, was named Hunt,
and on the p' ssage down was bribed $50
Rumor said) by the share own
ers to run the experiment steamboat
ashore. In accomplishing the wish of
the shippers, one of the wheels was
broken, and the "Clermont" was navi-
gated TO New York with one wheel.
Such is the account given BY perhaps
he only surviving ''hand" of the pio-
leer of our river, lake and ocean palaces.
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LADIES SHOULD READ NEWSPAPERS

LADIES SHOULD READ NEwsrAPERs.-
II is great mistake in female education
to keep young lady's time and attention
devoted to only the fashionable literature
of the day. If you would qualify her for
conversation, you must given her some
thing TO talk about-give her education
with this actual world and its transpiring
events. Urge her to read the newspaper
and become familiar with the present
character and improvement of our race.
History is of some importance; but the
past world is dead, and we have nothing
to do with it. Our thoughts and our
concerns should be fer the present world,
10 know what it is and improve the con-
dition of it. Let her have an intelligent
opinion, and be able to sustain an intel
ligent conversation concerning the men,
tai, moral, political and religious i'm
provement of our times. Let the gilded
annals and poems on the centre table be
kept part of the time covered with
weekly and daily journals. Let the
whole family-men, women and children
read the newspapers.
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mo. Ill
AN ACT

lNo. H. AN ACT
10 amend section one Of an act entitled An
act TO regulate Enclosures and TO provide against
Irespassing Animals" passed January 18th,
Section l. Be il enacted Jg the General AZ
sez'6Iy OF the State of Ohio, That whenever a
fence, OF whatsoever materials constructed. and
IN all respect such as a good husbandman ought
to keep, shall hereafter be erected by any person
on the line of his land or that on which be NAV
have lease for one or more years, and the person
owning the land adjoining thereto, or holding 8
lease on the same for three or more years, shall
MAKE or cause 10 be made, or ave an inclosurs
on the opposite side of such fence. so that such
fence may answer the purpose of inclosing his
held, meadow, lot or any other inclosure, each
person shall pay the owner of such fence. al
ready erected, one-hah of the value of so much
thereOi as serves as partition fence, to be ad-
Judged by the township trustees of the township
IN which such fence may be situated; and the
amount SO adjudged, if not paved, NAV be re-
covered IN civil action before any court having,
competent jurisdiction, in the name of, and for
the use of the owner of such fence. with costs of
suit: Provided that nothing in this act con-
tanned shall apply to the inclosure Of lots in
cities and villages.
Sec, ,. That the first section of the act IN
winch this Is an amendment, is hereby repealed.
But all rights accrued and liabilities iucurred
heretofore shall remain in force as if his set
hao not been passed.
Sec. 3. This act to take effect fiorn and attsx
It's passage.
WILLIAM B. WOODS,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
MARTIN WELKER,
February 3. 1859.
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From the New York Herald.
THE FOUR BANK CLERKS
q Tale of Gambling in Brcoklin.

In the winter of 1854 and 1855, par
" of four young men, all bank clerks
engaged TO meet alternately at the resi-
deHce of each, in the city of Brooklyn
and pass the long winter evenings ir
playing euchre. Their reunions were
Of he most pleasant character, no betting
being allowed, and evening after eve
ming passed rapidly away. They inva-
riabiy broke up at ten o'clock and retired
TO their respective homes, satisfied with
themselves and their evenings amuse-
ment. The party consisted of Oscar s.
Field, late teller Of the Atlantic Bank,
Brooklyn; a book keeper in another Brook
lyn Bank clerk in a Bank in Wall
street, and the writer. They were Young
men on whom no word of reproof had
ever fallen from fault finding world
The meeting at the house of Field were
particularly pleasant, for there home
Joys and comforts were mingled with the
pleasures of the game, and each envied
Field in the possession of fond and Low.
ing wife, in whose happiness his whole
being seemed inWrought. Oftentimes
was the quotation applied to them
Two souls with but single thought.
Two hearts that beat as one"
The parties were on account of the
shortened evenings, broken up, to give
way 10 summer amusements. The next
fall an effort was made TO reorganize
them, but from some cause it failed, and
November passed without any meetings.
On Christmas eve of 1855 there was
turkey -raffie advertised to come off at
house in a marble block on Court street.
This house was the residence of man
who had once been tailor, but had late
ly risen from that estate, and at the time
OF which we write he kept an oyster sa-
loon and bar. In the portion of Brook
lyn where he was established there were
but few, if any, of these saloons, and it
was therefore the resort of most of the !
young men of the city. who had no bet
ter place in which to pass their time
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SOMETHING IN NAME.-A general
belief exists that there is nothing IN a
name. Such a view was held by Shak-
speale. But the pscuniary difference be-
tween one name and another exists some
times Al Yale College, at the present
time, the market value of name is $500
per anumn. A gentleman named De
Forrest died several years ago and made
Yale College the trustee of a sum of mon
ey, the interest on which permanent fund
amounts to $500 per year. This $500
derived from that permanent fund is an
nualfy given to any student in Yale Col
lege whose name is De Forrest Gepe-
land Leader.
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AN ACT

mo. HI ANACT
To provide. for Plating and Recording Frse-
tons of land.
Whereas. Sundry sections of land in tb;.
state have become divided into such small nar-
GELS and fractions as TO render the description of
the same ON the tax duplicate indefinite and
doubtful, therefore.
Section l. Bed enacted By tie General As
OF the Slate Of Ohio. That in such cases, the as
SCISSORS of real property in their several districts
may and they are hereby required when apprai.
sled any such section 50 sub-divided as aio-e-
said, to cause the said section Of such partz
thereof, as may be necessary. to be accursteI,,
plated and laid out into such sub-divisions "A
the different titles to the land in the sane MAJ
require and to number the said fraction or sub-
divisions OF said section. or such parts thereof a
may be sub-divided. and shall deliver the SAD
tccNrrSugp on ForEra-r4sE)
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Aoetrpp
From the Ohio Farmer
From the Ohio Farmer.
OHIO. LINES DEDICATED 10 TIE
LIVING MEMB Rs OF THE PIO-
EEERS OF WAsdIHar COUNTY,
OHIO.
BY FRAMES DANA GAGE.

BY FRAMES DANA GAGE
l stand heuesth the roof tree,
tread the spacious halls,
gaze IN 1ashins mirrors.
L mark the giided walls;
Beneath my feet carpets,
Roses twine about my door,
But my mind is with my father,
And the cabin days of gore.
There sits an old man dosingi
He is weary Of his toll.
In the corn-held and the meadow
He still loves the teeming soii.
his hands from youth have lsbored,
And he loves to labor still;
It gives him health and comfort,
As he journeys down life's hill
He's an old mSn now. and thoughtful,
And he tells Us Of the ways
OF his father and his mother,
In the good old early days"
when by :" La Belle Revierre,"
On the Belle Prairie land,
They built the first rude cabins
Meath the forest oaks, so grand
Threescore years and ten are numbered
Since the wOodsman's axe first fell.
Waking echoes from the hill sides,
By he crash adown the dell
In that cabin. rude and homels,
Was that staIwarr old ma horn,
Who to-day hees out the corn.
Then, a rude homo amid the forest,
Filled his mothers heart with fear;
Now, q smiling, golden harvest,
Give the farmers heart good cheer;
Then Ger valley, plain and mountain
Spr cad wilderness unbroken;
Now a mighty State rejoiceth
Into life, and hourly spoken.
IN! monument, the grandest,
Is Ohio, now, ween,
or the power of human progress,
That the world has ever seen;
For the children's feet, that pattered
Der the cabins puncheon foor,
Now walk its marble State House,
With two million sou Is. G more.
Who felled these mighty forests 7
Who has reaped the golden grain
Who has sent the laundering rail car
Thro' the mountain. DER the plain
Who has built the peoples school house,
Till with music. every vale
Ia lille d, where Indian war-whoors
Once found echoes in the gale.
Till from the old Atlantic.
With its ceaseless, sur ing roar
To the gelden bound Pa cifc,
From the east to western shore,
The axe. the pillow. the hammer,
The reaper and the mill.
The schoolhouse and the church-spire
Tell of Progress onward still.
All honor to the heroes,
Who, With hearts SO strong and true.
Conquered forest, beast and wild oman,
In the western wilds. SO new
Not with wicked. vain ambition;
Not with war shrieks. fierce and wild;
But with reaping hook and ploRshare,
Making home for wife and child.
Opening wide to every nation,
Every door TO wealth aE1 fame;
Making tyrznts fear aud trenbIe,
And oppressed ones bless the name
OF the truly good and nozzle.
Who have stayed the oppressor's rod.
And lifted suffering nations
Nearer Truth, and LsYe, and God.
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HOW TO GOVERN TIL CHILDREN.

And we find what we must own is a
most timely and sensible hint in the fol-
lowing caution by 1.-The Mother at
Home -
''lt is at times necessary to censure
and punish. But vesy much more n'sy be
done by encouraging cliidren aOhen they do
aUeH Be, therefore, more careful 10 ex-
press your appreciation of good conduct.
than your disapprobation of bad Moth
ing can more discourage a child than a
spirit of incessant fault-fnding on the
part OF It's parent. And hardly anything
can exert more injurious influence upon
the disposition both of the parent and
the child. There are two great motives
influencing human actions-hope and
fear. Both OF these are at times neces-
sary. But who would not prefer to have
her child influenced to good conduct by
the desire Of pleasing rather than by the
fear of offending. If a mother never
expresses her qualification when her
children do well, and is always censur-
Ing them when she sees anything amiss,
they are discouraged and unhappy
They feel that it is useless to try 10 please
Their dispositions become hardened and
soured by this ceaseless fretting; and at
last, finding that whether they do well or
i'll, they are equally found fault with,
they relinquish all efforts to please, and
become needless of reproaches.
But let a mother approve of her
chiId's conduct whenever she can. Let
her show that his good behavior makes
her sincerely happy. Let her reward
him for his efforts to please by smiles
and affection. In this way she will cher
ish in her chiid's heart some of the no.
blest and most desirable feelings of our
nature. She will cultivate in him an
amiable disposition and cheerful spirit.
Your child has been, during the day,
very pleasant and obedient. Just before
putting him TO sleep for the night, you
take his hand and say, My son, you
have been a very good boy to-day. Ii
makes me very happy to see you so kind
and obedient. God loves children who
are dutiful to their parents, and he prom
ises to make them happy This appro-
baton from his mother is, to him, a great
reward. And when, with d more than
ordinarily afectiOnate tone, you say.
Good night. my dear son. he leaves
the room with his little heart full of feel 6
ing. And when he closes bis eyes for
sleep, he is happy. and resolves tha: be
will always try TO do his duty"
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THE FRENCH HENS NEsrs.--The Hens
of France must be an egg laying breed.
for statistics show that France furnishes
England with nearly goo, ,OOo,O 600 of eggs
annually.
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WHOLE NO. ss17.
OF OHIO:
mo. 81 AN ACT
Published By Alahorify.

[NOsl AN ACT
Making partial appropriations for the year 1859.
Section l. BE it enacted By the Genera! A.
se''l6Ly Of the State Of Ohio, That the following
sum Of money be and the same is hereby an,
ProPriaied out OF any money in the State Treas
ury Tor general revenue purposes, to be paid on
tae 5 order OF the Auditor Of State, for the year
1853. to wit: For the sinking of the artesian
well. to be expended according to the Joint res
olulion of the General Assembly, adopted April
eth. 1857, Or in such other manner as the Ley-
islature may direct. the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars WILLIAM 3. WOOCS,
Speaker Of the House Of representatives.
MARTIN WELKER,
President Of the Senate.
January 2S, 1859.
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The only cure for hopeless affection is
to discard the article for one having a rea-
sonable quantity of hope. Thus, if Sal
ly Jones rejects your tender suit, because
she is in love with the knock -kneed bar
Der opposite, ii will never do to talk
about pistols, arsenic, and coffins. On
the contrary, you must draw on your
Sunday suit, extend your aldermandic
dignity by dinner of corned beef and cab
bage, and 60 right down to Susan Snooks,
who will teach you that there is more
things 'twixt heaven and earth than YOU
have ever seen elsewhere. Take a sam
ple. and see.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-03-30

The gold exports from California for
the past year. amounted to nearly s4S,
600, 900.
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Jas. Howard, the last of the Rhode
Island slaves, died Saturday, at James,
town, R. |. at the age of 100 years
He retained his faculties unimpaired up
to the hour of his death.
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February ;, 1859.
AN ACT

ll3l AN ACT
Frescrlbing the time when the official term of
the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas
shall begin.
Section /. Be u enacted 5y the General AZ.
sez5ly Of tie STATE o Okso, That the official term
Of all Judges Of the Courts Of Common PIeas
elected at the election held on the second Tnes-
day Of October, in the year eighteen hundred
and titty-elght, and of all such Judges who nav
hereafter elected. shall begin on the second Nom
cay OF tebtuary next after election. Provided
that nothing in the Ithis1 act shall effect tbs
term Of Office OF any Judge who NAV hive been
or shall hereafter be elected to I'll vacancy.
See ?. This act shall take effect from its 1as..
age.
WILLIAM B. WOODS.
Speaker Of tae House Of Representatives..
MARTIN WELKER,
President Of Tie Sensis.
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Lieut.. General Scott is still solourning
in New Orleans, as the guest OF G. Fell
lows, Esq, trying the effect of warm
weather on his health.
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Time never site heavily on US but when
badly employed.
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WILLIAM B. WOODS.

MARTIN WELKER,
January ,. 1853
The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-06
L A w 4 e p O r. T.
SUPERIOR COURT.

SLAVE MANUMrssIoN.-A deed of manumission, OK.
ecuted by Jaco6 Coaman, of East Baton Rouge, La,
man, was presented for record in Room No. of this
Court Mr. Gitchel presented the application to the
Judge stOror = Does the deed not include the
The mother hore replied that she did not dosro her
freedom at the present; that she owed her master
three hundred dollars yet, and would return and re-
paid.
Judge storer-very upright and honest. Such con-
duct 10 deserving Of encouragement.
The Judge then directed the children TO be brought
befo him, and remarked that some of them were
One little girl, Adelne, three years of age, had
long, light hair, which flowed in handsome rfnglets
fair rand delicate hue.
Judge Storor-JE;t think of that child being
slave child as white as throe-fourths Of tho pco-
Two little girls, one Younger than this child, aud
years of age, was rather of darker complexion, but
had brown hair and little resemblance to the negro.
and the two eldest children in 1852 for 81, ,2jO.
The certificates of emancipation were made out for
the children and they were declared legally emanci-
:. THE HoMEsTEAD EXEMPTION LAW Peter Riley vs..
Court said that bill had been filed in this case to
compel the specific performance OF contract for the
sle OF mouse ana lot in Cincinnati. The Court had
already decroed in favor of the plaintiff but an appi
cation was now made for new trial.
contract was sufficiently certain as take the case
without the statute Of frauds and peruries 1t was
a
in connection with the defendants answer. there
was enough to authorize the decree which had been
dered
The next question was an important one; ana the
Court, for the first time, called decide it, Te
property was sold for 81 800 and it is avcrred in the
answer that the defendants wife objected to the sale
and she had also filed her answor in which She in
ssts that the sale ought not to be permitted because
under statute passed some time during the session
before the last the Legislature forbade the sale by
husband of any part of his property that was cS-
empted by law from execution This was assuming
very strong prerogative the part of the Legsl
turc and must be construed TO mean nothing more
than the Language of the statute would necessarily
lmpart. Still the law was good one, and the Court
would sustain It for the protection of the wife to the
full extent of the property exempted by law. Upon
recurring TO the statute by which homestead is gX-
emPted, as well as personal property they found that
In either case the amount could not exceed $50.
this case the property was 81 800. The Court would
decree that the title Of the property in the plain
uh but should hold that the proceeds of sale, to the
extent allowed by the exemption law, should be pre-
served for the benefit Of the wife
No entry was made, the motion for new trial ha
been continued until next wee H. on application of Mr.
Cox: MIR. Applegate appeared on the other side.
schooley VS.. Mclaughlin. very heightened charge
delivered by Judge Spencer, to the Jury in this
case. The trial was on nine days.
The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-06
MONETARY
UINcINNAT1. Saturda

CINCINNATI, Saturday, June 4-P. NJ.
Money easv, and has been during the week
Holders Of that acceptable business paper found but
little difficulty IN disposng of it. at l0l2 per cent.
Payments heavy day, It being the 4th OF the
month, but paper was promptly met. A tfteou min
ute sensation was created the street this morning,
by the throwing out of Missouri bank-notes at the
Ohio Valley Bank.
Tho Bankers held meeting this morning at
which they agreed to take and nay out Missouri as
usual, but advance the rate of New York Exchange
to "a premium to customers. Dealers will not Eell
Exchange to outsiders at less than y premium.
Gold in demand at solling.
Eastern Exchange in Selling.
St' .,"....''l
NeN
Very little doing In Uncurrent Money. No change
In the rates.