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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March

ASHINGTON, Marcu 20.
There was singular slave case in the
Criminal Court yesterday. A free color
ed man was tried before a jury for harbor-
ing his own son. A couple of months
since the offender was brought before a
common Justice on the above charge, and
a bail of 1000 was required, and it was
given. The colored man has a wife who
is slave, and one by one his children
have been snatched from him at the age of
ten years and sold of. The father keeps
a house to which his wife comes on Satur-
day nights, spending her Sundays at home.
Her master has been very glad to make
use of the fathers affection for bis children
to get them fed and housed till they were
of suitable age for selling, but he has al
ways pounced upon each at certain age,
and sold him of, without allowing the pa
rent dollar for his trouble. In the pres
ent case the boy ran back home and the IA
ther did not turn him out of doors! For
that offence Washington Jury has bro't
him in guilty of barboring slaves, and his
punishment will be severe. ~,
African importations continue at the
South, and evidence is before the govern
ment showing that large amount of cap
ital is invested in the business, and showing
that it is regular business; and the de-
Tenders of the Administration say, MEAS
ures have been taken by the government
10 enforce the laws" whearasthe sim
ple truth is that the government has
not and will not enforce the laws at
Lbe South. 1t will do it by force of arms
in Boston or New Your, but not in single
,lave State.-C Cor. ". Y. Post.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
Specializing in Potatoes.

The partial failure OF the potato crop N
the West, last year, induced numerous ad-
venturous persons 10 make pretty extensive
investments in the article, and to make
shipments to this market, and New Orleans,
in order to take advantage of the conse-
quences of the anticipated scarcity. The
result shows that this is pretty extensive
country, and its agricultural resourcesya-
ried and comprehensive. 1t will be seen;
by referring to the letter of our New Or
leans correspondent, that the potato specu-
lation, as far as New Orleans is concerned,
at least, has turned ont rather unfortunate
for the owners, a fiat boat load having been
sold at S5c per bbl, Just about enough to
pay the freight and charges. y--zTs31
Last Saturday the steamers Lands and
Baird arrived at this port from New Or
leans, and the former bad on board 642
bbls potatoes and the other 1S5 bbls, all
shipped from New Orleans to this place TO
find market. The potatoes having spent
the winter in the sunny South, are sent
back to the North, to give them little of
their native air, we suppose. About 5000
bbls more are on the way from thence to
this market, we understand.-Cin. Price
Cur. -aFees-E ear t.a =ss -l-.s.-r ~t~,s ~
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

EgThe New-York correspondent of
THE Charleston Courier, who is evident
ly one of the friends of Mr.. Sickles, says
that they entertain no fear as to the result
of the trial, and expect soon to see him re-
turn home, acquitted of the murder of Key.
eff acquitted Internationally, be will not
resign his seat in the next Congress; but,
if to his release there is any qualification,
he will send in his resignation at once, and
when the special election occurs, he will
again be candidate, and the power does
not exist i'll New-York to prevent his tri-
umphant return" Another correspondent,
who belongs to the same party, thinks that
the trial will consume nine or ten days.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
Canal Contracts.

The Columbus Statesman, Cincinnati
Enquirer, Stark County Democrat have
often asserted that under the Contract Sys-
tenn to keep Canals in order, the State
saved large sum, as compared with State
arrangement. When this matter was ac-
curately sifted, it is shown that the loss to
the State by the Contract System for 1857
and 1858 as compared with the other, was
s52,211 per year, or s1o4 ,422 for the two
years. The indefinite postponement of a
bill TO reinstate the contract system, by
Loco Senate, after the Sup RENE Court had
declared them void, proves that even Lofo-
cos cannot swallow everything demanded
of them by the party. We regret that
Senator Chapman voted against its post
ponement. i r' 2'f
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
southern DisuuIon Convention.


Another of these periodical displays of
Southern donkeyism has been called to as
semble at Vicksburg, Miss, on the 9th of
May next. 1t will be counterpart of the
one held last year at Montgomery, Ala,
under the thin guise of a Southern Com
mercial Convention. The same nullifers
and disunionist, the same Democratic DEM
agogues will figure in it, and the same
treasons win Be plotted and perehance
hatched. Threats of disunion will be put
forth to frighten Northern doughfaces, and
the loud blusterers will make windy resolves
for Buncombe with their Northern Demo
cratic allies. Messrs. DE Bow Of Louisl-
ana, McRae of Mississippi, Bryan of Tex
as, Yancey of Alabama, Chase of Florida,
leading Democratic politicians of the Gulf
States, are signers of the call for the gath
ering of the modern Hartford Convention
lists. The call is emphatically political,
and one of the monster bug-bears it sets
forth as a terrible outrage on Southern
rights, is the ''recent triumphs of Black
in every Free State of the
North, and its seemingly secured majori-
ties in the Electoral College!" Such is
the anub" of their tribulations. Has the
Dealer no comfort fer its beloved allies 3.
Leader.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
ExtiHsisItment of the Democrat

cy. l-
The defeat of the Democracy at the late
elections in Wisconsin and Michigan, is
pretty much of an extinguisher in those
States. In the State of Wisconsin the
contest for Supreme Judge was entered in
to under discouraging circumstances by the
Republicans, and yet the returns indicate
a round majority of Ten Thousand or more
fer Judge Paine over the Fugitive Slave
Act, bred Scott candidate. Gu: of Mil
waukee, nearly every county has pronounced
emphatically for State Sovereignty and a
backbone Judiciary.
In Michigan the defeat of the doughfaee
Democracy is over whelming. They plan
ted their candidate for Chief Justice upon
an extreme partisan platform. They en-
dorsed what the Democracy of the North
generally scorn to do the National Admin
istration. They endorsed Dred Scott de-
cision aud the principles of the ostend
Manifesto. They denounced the wise and
salutary Registry Law just passed by the
Legislature. The Democracy
went before the intelligent people with
these issues, and ex-Gov. Felch as their ex-
ponent. The indignant people pronounced
an emphatic judgment by giving Judge
Martin some Fifteen Thousand majority |!
.Leader. -.rs.. .4f +e.-,t
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
R The Rochester (Ind.) Gazette

r The Rochester (Ind.) Gazette
states that about five years ago, man
calling himself Alonzo Morgan, accompa-
MED by woman who passed as his wife,
moved to that place, where they purchased
farm, until about year ago, when Nor
gan died. The widow said that he had no
heirs, but herself, and accordingly admins
tered the property. About three months
since she took second husband, and every
thing was apparently going on well, when
there arrived in town two persons in search
of Mr.. Alonzo Green, who had disappear
ed from the State of New York in 1854,
and had not since been heard Of. One of
the strangers claimed to be Green's son,
and stated that bis father had in the above
year eloped with niece of his wife, Miss
Emma Lanfrheir. The newly-married
widow Morgan was at once identified as
the erring Miss L., and the identity of
Alonzo Morgan and Alonzo Green satifac-
rily established. The guilty woman was
willing to make any settlement, and surren-
der notes and other property to the right
fnl claimant. Out Of $4,000 taken by
Green from New York, bis family will re-
cover about 81 200.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
Big Ohio Wagon Train for Utah.

bIs OnlO w aS0n lfslln IOr Utan. |.
The Dealer of the 9th has the following
notice of an expedition TO Utah, which is
being fitted out in this quarter on quite an
extensive scale:
Our enterprising friend, Mr.. L.. ]. Ran
dali, of Chardon, Geauga Co., Ohio, to-day
sent by cars from this city to ST. Louis,
forty new lumber two-horse wagons, as
train for Salt Lake City. At St. Louis
they are to be sent by the Missouri River
to. Omaha City, Nebraska. At Omaha
City the. wagons are to be freighted with
Merchandise for Merchants in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Mr.. Alfred Randall, broth
er who went with the Mormons to Salt
Lake from Nauvoo' and who has lived
there since, returned to Chardon last fall,
and from his information the present Train
was started. Mr.. A. Randall is now in
Iowa buying ESQ head of oxen to COM
plete the Train. The men 10 accompany
the Train 60 from that region and will
leave this city on the 18th inst, for Oma-
ba City, and it is expected the train will
be ready to leave that point on the first of
May. .,..-...
From the representations of the parties,
this will be a money making business, and
with the observation and experience of
Mr.. Alfred Randall, we should Judge that
he was well qualified to conduct and man.
age an enterprise of this character, and the
shrewdness of Mr.. L. ]. Randall would not
permit him to allow such an opportunity
to slip through his fingers.
They calculate their cattle and wagons
will bliug more than original cost after
their arrival at Salt Lake City. Their
freight is already contracted at SIS per
hundred pounds. Each wagon is to carry
1000 TBS. THE wagons are very excellent
lumber wagons, with iron axles. and so diff
ferent from Government wagons general
ly that they will be in demand at Salt Lake
City, while the government wagons, on ac-
count of their great and useless weight, can
be sold only for what the irons on them are
worth. cd a' ,s'1 Hs 70t
Mr.. Bradley Parlin, of Chardon and Mr..
Alfred Randall of Salt Lake City, will
have charge of the Train. H'7 -ls
With ordinary luck they will make a
good thing of it. Success to such enter
prises. o' i..ti Hts-
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
Suicides and Murders by the
Latest Mails.

ANOTHER WrE PoIsoNER.-Dr. VIII
liam Henry King, physician Of high stand
ing, is now on trial at the (Coburg) assizes
for r the murder Of his wife by poison, He
had been, married four years, but did not
live very happily with bis wife: She was
sick for several weeks, and the evidence
leaves no doubt but that during that time
he was numbering her by administering ar
senic. The post mortem examination dis
closed the presence of no less than eleven
grains of arsenic in the stomach; arsenic
was traced also in other parts, even into
the liyer.
The defense is that the poison, if admin
istered, was done after death, to build up q
case for prosecution. Professor Crotfts,
however declared that aarsenic cannot be
put into the liver after death: it must be
taken during life" On the person Of the
prisoner was found miniature of, and sew
eral love letters from young lady. These
seem to furnish clue to the motive which
induced the man to murder his wife. and
her unborn babe,-she taking his medicine
and accepting bis protestations Of love with
undoubting confidence. Great excitement
prevails throughout the district Chsea-
go 1maes. ,o- 70 se b. sd
5a MORE WIFE Po1soNING.-James H.
johnson, of Rappabannock county, Virginia
has recently been convicted of the murder
of his wife, by the administration of strych-
nine. 1t was administered in a glass of
lemonade-lemon juice baing the most eff
fective mode of administering strychnine.
1t was given in the presence of neighbor,
but under curious circumstances. The
prisoner brought into the room where his
wife and visitor were seated two glasses of
Lemonade, handed one to his wife, and re-
tanned the other for himself. She remark
ed to him that it would be more polite to
attend first to his guest, and to that, he
rejoined that his guest could help himself
from the pitcher, but that the lemonade in
her glass contained aloes bitters, which, be
said, the doctor had recommended her,
She tasted the liquid, but objected to its in
tense bitterness. One part of strychnine
will make bitter nearly million pats of
water. He prevailed on her to swallow
the nauseous draught, and then coolly rode
out to accompany his friend home. In an
hour or two the poison did its work.
A young lady named Hutchins commit
ted suicide in Anita, Ga, on Saturday last,
by shooting herself with a pistol, causing
almost instant death. The only reason as
signed for the commission Of the act, is dis
appointed love. The young lady was en-
gagged to be married, when she learned that
the object Of her love hadprored faithless,
and married another. '2';. '. 81 ltH
A man named Andrew Labif; was muir
dered in Memphis on Friday night, sth
inst. The Murderer escaped fsa .soa
On Wednesday morning, 9th inst, Sam
uel Kupp, blacksmith residing opposite
Douglasville, Berks county, Pa, committed
suicide by blowing out his brains. go
Charles A. Appleton, Of Maine, drown
ell himselfin Washington on the 4th. He
was brother of the Assistant Secretary
of State, and had been subject to fits Of
mental arrangement.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

Iaa EE ABritish officer writing from Teher-
an Persia, to the sLondon Times remarks: ::
"a Cathartic Pill manufactured BY an
American Chemist (Dr. ]. c. Aver, of
Lowell, Mass.) has cured the Shah, Of a
liver complaint that threatened his life
The fact, as might be expected, renders the
American immensely popular here, while
we English are overlooked. Doubtless our
own scholars made the discoveries which
he employs, and thus it is in everything We
do the labor, then the mousing Americans
put their mark on it and take the reward.
DIR. Aver is idolizsd by the Court and its
retaiuers here. which will doubtless be re-.
fiectsd to him on gold snuff box, or dia-
mond hilted sword, while not the name
even Of Davy, Christoon or Broodle-ths
great lights by which he shines, is known.
~ j. Sunday paper. =
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
R The Sickles' trial is still dragging its

R The Sickles' trial is still dragging its
slow length along. The testimony for the
prosecution closed on Friday last, and does
not differ materially from that published
at the time the murder took place. The
nature of the defence can be gathered from
an extract from the opening address ofMr.
Graham, counsel for Sickles. He said:
"a few weeks since the body of a hu-
man being was found in the Ihroes of
death in one of the streets of your city.
Itproved to be the body of a confirmed
and habitual adultererer. On a day too
sacred to be proclaimed by worldly toll, in
which be was forbidden to moisten his
brow with the sweat of honest labor.
On "a day when be should have risen
above the grossness of his nature, if on no
;'other day be had sent his aspirations heav-
onward, be should on that day have allow
ed them to pass in that direction, we find
him besieging with the most evil intention,
that castle where for their security and re-
pose, the law had placed the wife and chill
dren of his neighbor. Had he observed
the solemn precept Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy" he might at this
moment have formed one of the living.
The injured father and husband rusbes
on him in the moment Of bis guilt, and un-
der the influence of frenzy, executes on him
a Judgment which was as just as it was
summary. The issue which you are here
to decide is whether this act renders the
author amenable to the laws of the land
In the decision of that issue, gentlemen Of
the jury, you have deep and solemn in.
terest. You are here to fix the price of the
marriage bed.
You are here to say in what estimation
that sacred couch is held by an honest and
intelligent American jury. You are favor
ed citizens, and live in city which con-
stitutes the city of the federal government
ascity consecrated to liberty above all 9th
ers, but not the liberty of the libertine.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

@ The Rochester Union says that
the potato merchants are buying largely in
that vicinity to supply the Western mar
kets. Large quantities of potatoes are COL
lected in the railroad stations, and vessel
at Chastille is loading for Cleveland. The
Pine Plains Herald advertises 5000 bush
els of potatoes, most of them Peach Blows,
deliverable in that village, at 50 cents per
bushel. Send some along this way.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
Kansas and Nebraska Land
. Sales.

Nine and half million of acres of the
Public Lands in Kansas and Nebraska,
which were Withheld from sale last year on
account of the financial revulsion, viii be
put in market in next July, August and
September. The sales will be held as fol-
lows: .H,l at1 -E -t'"
In Kansas, at Lecompton, on the 18th
ofJuly; at Kckapo, on the 18th of August; ;
at Ogden, on the 29th of August.
In Nebraska, at Dacota, July 18th; at
Omaha, July 25th; at Nebraka August
lst; at Brownsville, August sth.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

TENNESSEE BoLTING.-The Democratic
State convention of Tennessee unanimous
ly adopted resolutions denouncing the tar
iff policy Of President Buchanan as a de-
departure from the Democratic creed upon
that subject. @ - s-a -a1
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
w The trial of the "Oherlin Rescuers

@ The trial of the 'Oberlin Rescuers"
was commenced in the U. S.fCourt at
Cleveland, about week ago. There are
about 80 of them, and each individual is
to be tried separately, which, at the rate of
progress already made, will take all sum-
mer. The Jury, though every one politi-
cally against them, is said to be very in
telligent one.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
What the Plaster Work of the
State House Cost. o. f--a

John N. Ridgeway, Esq, County Com
missioner, and George Warren, of this city,
returned from Columbus Saturday evening,
where they had been for the purpose of
measuring the plaster work of the State
House, done by D. T. Dale & Son, in Or
der that the account might be settled be-
tween the contractors and the State. The
following were the amounts allowed in
their report to VIM. A. Pratt, Esq, the
Commissioner of the new State House:
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
A MEDIc1NE CHEsr IN 4 Borr1r.-

n MEDICINE CHEsT IN A BOTTLE
This remark is applicable to Ksnedy's
Medical Discovery; for the stock of no
medicine chest in the world ever cured so
many individuals of such variety of dis
eases as has one bottle of the Medical Dis
covery. The columns Of our paper if they
were increased three-fold, could not con-
tain quarter part of the names of those
who have been cured Of Scrofula, Erysipe-
las, Salt Rheum, and other humors equally
painful and aggravating. ibis is no ex-
statement, as we have seen certifi-
Gates from persons who have been cured OF
all these diseases, and we recommend the
Discovery to the afflicted everywhere.
For sale at the BOOK STORE.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

~J. B. Marshall, of the Columbus
Fact, and reporter to the Senate, proposes
to publish a new weekly paper in Colum-
bus to be called the Peoples Press. Its
to be devoted to Stephen A. Douglas as
its first choice for President n F'.'f
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
N The Republicans hay,

re The Republicans have made clean
sweep of the cities at the recent elections.
Even Cincinnati and St. Louis, heretofore
largely Loco have voted Republican this
Spring, by handsome majorities. Connec-
ticut, too, has just wiped out all traces of
Lecomptonism from her borders and sends
10 Congress an entire Republican delega-
ton.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
~ The storv tbat has been so 'indu

E The story that has been so indus
triously circulated that Mr.. Ten Eyck, the
new Senator from New-Jersy, was slave-
holder by inheritance through his wife, is
so far from being true, that Mr.. Ten Eyck,
ii is now said, absolutely refused to receive
such an inheritance because it would make
him Shareholder.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

The amount of fancy work must be i'm
mense. The moulding Of large centre
piece alone cost 81, Cincinnati Ga
zette.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

Benevolet impulses, where We should
not expect them, in modest privacy, exact
many a scene of beautiful wonder amidst
the plaudits Of angels.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
G9e Replablifall
J. CAsKEY, Editor.
THURSDAY, = :s:::::::::: APRIL IA, 1859.

re- An Albany boy of eighteen has
been sued by an old maid of thirty three,
for leading her from the path Of rectitude.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
AuD1roR's OFFICE, HOLMES Co., O

MMLERsBURG. April IA, 1859.
2 l, G. F. NEWTON, Auditor of Holmes Coun-
ty, Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Laws are correctly copied from the official pa
per. G. F. NEWTON, Auditor.
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SECRETARY OF srarE's oFrrcE, /,

lo - COLUMBUS March II. 1859. Is
III hereby certify that the foregoing acts are
true copies of the original rolls, now on file in
this office. A. P. RUSSELL,
-fsaa Secretary of State.
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March 3, 1859.
AN ACT @
To exempt from Sale and Execution certain
Pronerfv fharpiu named.

AN ACT
To exempt from Sale and Execution certain
zi,s7s- Property therein named;
:. SEcT1cN 1. Be It enacted By the General as
scm5ly of the State Of Ohio, That all fire engines,
hose, hose carriages, hooks, ladders, and fire.
buckets, together with any vehicle, machinery
of any kind, used or kept to be used by any
Incorporated city village, or fire company; for
purpose of extinguishing be and the same are
hereby exempt from execution and sale to satis-
fly any Judgment. decree, or debt arising from
contractor otherwise: provided, that if any in
corporated city, village, or fire company that is
the proper owner of any such properly above
specified, do voluntarily create lien thereon by
bill of sale or mortgage, such lien shall be valid
In law, and not effected by any of the provisions
of this act: provided, however, that the provi-
sions of this act shall not apply to, or in any
way affect the remedy upon any contract now
existing, or Judgment rendered upon any con-
tract in any court of this state.
a Sec. 2. This shall take effect and be in
force from and after the date of its passage.
- ao7ro1 WILLIAM B. WOODS,
% .l Speaker of House of Representatives
MARTIN WELKER.
$50 President of the Sena te.
March 4. 1859. .-s ---. gal