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Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

over toshis successor quiet and peaceable
possession of the penitentiary buildings,
with all the property Of the State in his
possession, together with the convicts;
and it Shall be the duty of such succeed
ing warden to give to his predecessor a
receipt for the property and convicts
aforesaid; the warden whose term of Of
flee shall have expired shall also make
out, under oath, a full and detailed ac-
count of all the receipts and expendi-
lures of the penitentiary since his last
annual report, OF that have not been re-
ported to the auditor Of State at any
time during his term Of office; also a
true inventory, with the contract price
ofall the property in his possession as such
warden, belonging to the State, consist
ing of, raw materials and manufactured
articl medicines, forage, and all kind
of provisions provided for the peniten-
tiary, and shall deliver the same over to
his successor, together with all moneys
on hand, stating in full the sources of
said moneys and the amonnt from each
source; it shall be the duty of the sue
ceeding warden to give to his predecessor
in office his receipt for such property
and moneys as may be scheduled and
| delivered over to him as aforesaid; and
if any such retiring warden shall refuse
or neglect to comply with any of the
provisions of this section, he shall be
held guilty of misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof, shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding one thousand dollars,
and be imprisoned in the county Jail for
any period not less than one month, nor
more than six months, or both, at the
discretion of the court.
Sec. %. That whenever any bond is
required of a contracting party by the
provisions of this act, every such con-
tracing party shall file his said bond
with the said warden and directors at the
time of putting in such proposals or bids
for each contract, which said bond shall
be in such sum as the said warden and
directors shall direct, conditioned that
the party making the proposals or bids,
will accept the contract, if the same
be awarded to said party, and for the
faithful performance of the contract on
the part of such contracting party, and
no bid or proposals shall be received,
unless such bond accompany the same.
Sec. 20. That the act entitled ''an act
providing for the appointment and a
more thorough system of accountability
of officers of the Ohio penitentiary, fix
ing their compensation, prescribing
their duties, and determining, the man
ner of working the convicts,'' passed
April II, 1853, and all laws and parts
of laws inconsistent with the provisions
Of this act are hereby repealed, and the
terms of all persons now holding office
under the provisions of the acts hereby
repealed shall expire upon the appoint
ment and qualification Of the officers,
whose terms of Office are provided for in
this act.
SEC 30-This act To take effect from and
after its passage.
RICHARD C. PARSONS,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
ROBERT c. KIRK,
President of the Senate
Passed March "a, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
DIssoLv1NG THE UNION DODGE.

In his Covingten speech, Cassius NJ.
Clay calls the threat Of dissolving the
Union in case Republican President
dodge-and says:
Let us look at that while-this new
dodge for 1860. If you elect Re pub
lican President, ''we will dissolve the
Union" Who are aoe? Let us look at
that. "We," the shareholders, the
number one, might, under some foolish
prejudices, think that they could do bet
ter by dissolving the Union; but what
are you the twenty men from Kentucky,
going to do? Why dissolve the Union?
Answer me that. We the Republicans,
say that in the free Territories of our
common country there shall be a place
reserved for you and your children, in
case misfortune or slave competition
shall drive you from your homes into
exile, into some new country, as it has
sent millions, where you shall be untram-
meled and undegraded again by labor
ing alongside the unpaid slaves. For
this you are going to dissolve the
Union.
Well, now, that reminds me of an an
ecdote that [ used to hear in old Madi-
son. There was good natured old
grand mother who had all her children
grown up and married off, and little
grand-child used to come and see her
Well, when the child wanted anything
of her grand mother, and she found that
she could not prevail on her good feel
ings, she would exercise ON her fears.
When the old lady refused to give her
anything she wanted, she would go to
the top of the stairs and say, "now,
grand mother, give it to me, or [ will
throw myself down stairs" And the
good woman would be much moved and
would say, "don't, for Gods sake, throw
yourself down stairs!' Is there any man
who is laborer, who does not feel that
this thing of slavery is. degrading to him?
Is there any that does not feel this?-
Have I not felt it? Have not my chill
dren felt it since 1 have been thrown into
this new attitude of non stakeholder, and
now are you going to throw yourselves
down stairs?
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
NUMBER 21
arThe May number of the KnicEsr.

R9The May number of the Knicker-
booker Magazine has the following ex-
tract, from famous Union speech, re-
ported by T. Hubert Underwood:
During the exciting campaign of 1856,
in Illinois, prominent politician, made
a disunion speech at Quincy. After he
was through, and before the crowd had
dispersed, a man who styled himself "The
A toresaid NJ. d." was called for. He
was lifted upon the platform, so ''eleva-
ted" that he could not stand without
holding on to something. He said:
Gentlemen and ladies, you're talkin,
Of dissolvin' the Union; you can't do It'll
Thar's that are flag a-wavin' up thar.
called the Star-Spangled Banner; how
'ye a-goin' to divide that, ha? Are yer
a-goin' to give the stars to the Norf and
the stripes to the Souf? No STREE; the
thing can't be did. Cheers.
And thar's that good old toon that the
bands a-playin' out thar, called Yankee
Doodle; how ye goin'' to divide that,
eh? Are ye a-goin' to give the Yankee
to the Norf and the Doodle to the Souf?,
[ say boldly, the thing can't be did!
| Cheers.
And thar's that stream of water a-run-
MIN down thar, called the "Father-o'-
VOTERS" how are ye a-goin' to divide
that? Are ye a-goin' to dam it up with
Mason and Dixon's line? 1 say ye can't
do that thing! Wal, ye can't! ICheers.1 :
And thar's the railroad layin' out
thar; how ye agoin' to divide that, eh?
are you goin' to tie it up with Mason
and Dixon's line? You can't do It'll
Cheers.
And thar's all the fast hosses standin'
round here; how are ye a-goin' to divide
them? old hosses! Are ye a-goin' to run
'em North, and run EN- South, and run
EN- East, and run 'em West? ECheers. I
And thar's all the handsome winmuiii
round here; how are ye a-goin' to divide
them? Are you goin' to give the old
ones to the Norf, and the young ones to
the Souf? Waal, you don't. IF you 60
to thunder you can't do it! Immense
cheering.
And thar's all the feathered tribe and
other birds a-fyin' about here, and the
chickens and egg's-nests, and the yaller-
legs and the lack-legs; how you goin' to
divide them, eh? Are you goin' to give
the .Pullets to the Norf and the Cocks
to the South? Tremendous cheering
Our reporter could hear no more, for
the roars oflaughter which ensued as the
"Doctor" caved in AMI fell from the plat
form.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

~-"Mine fren, have you seen Won
leetle trunk. vat [ left tomorrow, as L
Will come from re steamboat by re ho-
tel?"
"I did not, monsieur, and expect to do
so the balance of the day"
'sBy gar! if he gets stole, ! will kill re
raskale vat will take him till he choke.
Sacre! Vat countrys!"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
Doftrg.
From the Athens Messenger.
Gypsy YIN G..
BY MABEL ST. CLAIR.

"The days when we went gipsying
Long time ago."
I wonder if I ever went
I'm sure do not know
I know I used to steal away
From school and musty books,
Through 'pussy willow swamps to stray,
Or paddle in the brooks.
And sometimes, remember,
Have made shingle boat,
And waded more than ankle high
To set the craft ahoat;
I know the mud pulled off my shoe,
The snags my stockings tore,
And the willows caught my ''bonnet blue
Down stream q half a mile or more.
I used to hunt for "black-bird's" nests
Among the willow hedge,
Replacing eggs with color'd stones
Found in the waters edge;
1 used to wreathe my tangled curls
Fantastic'ly with flowers,
And ride my fathers untamed colts
Around the fields, for hours.
No bride could boast of, save
A handful Of their name;
And if tumbled in the ditch,
tumbled on again.
And when at length wander'd home
My clothes in SUCH plight,
My mother'd say, "rhere child, you come
A perfect little fright"
And then she'd say was romp;
And that she'd never see
Me such lady as she wished
Her little girl to be.
1 know 1 loved my mother much,
And when she gently laid
Her hand upon the short brown curls
That kinkled round my head
And talked to me as now I know
A watchful mother should,
1 thought I'd try with all my might
In future to be good.
Yet tho am a woman now,
And tho try to be
Lady-like, and dignifed,
When we have company
I'd rather hunt for black-bird's eggs,
Or launch mimic yawl,
Than wear Glow necks" and 'isuch sweet curls
To anybody's ball.
1 wonder what is "gipsying'-
Pm sure do not know
| wonder if I ever went
'Long time ago."
STRING HILL, Ohio.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
No Compromise Between the Northern
and Southern Democracy.

We copy the following from the Wash
ington correspondence of the Philadel-
phia Ledger:
We have more decided evidence of the
fact that the whole South is more de.
termined now than ever to insist, at the
adjourned Baltimore Convention, upon
a plain, and explicit, and unequivocal
declaration that they have an equal
right to go into the Territories with
their property, and that the right shall
be protected, when necessary, by all the
branches of the General Government
There can be no trifing, and, indeed, no
compromise on this subject between the
Southern and Northern Democracy.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
New Wspape ers.

Newspapers.
Many people like newspapers, but few
people preserve them; yet the most in.
teresting reading imaginable is file of
old newspapers. 1t brings up the very
age. with all its hustle and every day al.
fairs, and marks its genius and its spirit
more than the most labored descli ,,ti6h
of the historian. Who can take up Il
paper half century i k, without the
thought that almost every name there
printed is cut upon "a tombstone at the
head of an epitaph?
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
The Largest Printing Prees in the
World,

At the printing house of the Apple
tons, in New York, is press made ex-
pressly for Webster's Spelling Book,
which prints both sides at once. As this
is the only press of its kind in existence,
so Webster's FSpeller" is the only book
requiring press SO rapid, and on which
a single book is being printed without
interruption from January to December:
The sale of Webster's "Speller" amounts
to more than one million per annum,
and more have been sold than there are
people in the United States.-NeD
York Albion.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
I IOSIUOuU z
March 10, 1860.

mo. 38. AN ACT
Regulating the payment of Costs in
prosecutions for Minor ofenses.
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted By the Gen.
eral assembly of the State Of Ohio, That
no costs taxed by any Justice of the
Peace, or Mayor of any city or incorpo-
rated village in the State of Ohio, in
prosecutions hereafter commenced be-
fore them for any ofense, the punish
ment whereof is less than imprison-
ment in the penitentiary, shall be
paid out of the county treasury, unless
an information shall be filed in the
proper court, or a bill of Indictment be
found against the person or persons
charged with such otfense.
Sec. g That sections one and two OF
Tan act to amend and explain the act Of
the 7th of March 1912, concerning the
powers and duties of Justices of the
Peace and Constables in criminal cases,
passed March 9th, 1945, be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act to take effect and be
IN force from and after its passage.
RICHARD G. PARSONS,
Speaker OF the House of Representatives
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
March 10, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
n@ Alexander Dumas had left Pari,

R% Alexander Dumas had left Paris,
at last accounts, for Marsellies, to start
on his voyage in his little steam yacht
Monte Christie. He takes with him five
companions, one a professed photo
grapher, three compositors, preesmai
and a press, so that the records of his
voyages will be printed almost as fast as
they are written. The trip will last
fifteen months, and NJ. Dumas expects
to write and print two volumes per
month.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
More Chivalry.
A North Carolina paper says:

n NOTGH OdTOIIHa paper says:
GA scotchman named Sandy Tate,
having expressed himself rather too
freely upon the slave question and Har-
per's Ferry affair, in the village Of Sails
bury, North Carolina, was recently
seized by mob, and tarred and
feathered, after which he was placed
upon fence-rail and carried to neigh
boring duck pond, where, in the presence
of an immense throng of people, he was
ducked until he recanted. Upon being
released, the poor fellow took to his
| heels, and has never been seen since.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

Should He!
If Teller catch feller carrying off
his wood, should feller whale feller
if feller could?
If "a body spy body creeping round
his lot, should body treat body to
load of shot?
If body catch body stealing his
cold rye," shouldn't body kick body
till body cry?
If body see a body appropriating
his hat, should body lick a body just
for doing that?
If body catch body winking at his
wife, should body with pistol take
body's life? :,
If body love body with body
might, should body kiss body IL
her mama's sight?
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
One of the Games.

One OF the On1neS.
On a strictwestern steamboat the usual
amount of gambling and other expedients
for getting rid of time was resorted to,
and one evening some of the passengers
asked the captain if he had any objec-
tions to their holding a prayer meeting
in the cabin-"None at all, gentlemen"
was his bland reply, "amuse yourselves
in any way you liks; only remember that
it is the rule of the boat that all games
must cease at ten o'clock"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

sa=A German economist proposes I'd
bleed oxen, COWS and sheep once week;
and to use the blood for food.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
The siuvs Trase Erisis

The Key Vest, Key of the Gulf states
that when the barque Wildfre left the
African coast, there were fourteen Amer
lean vessels waiting for cargoes of ne
groes. The barque Williams left eight
days before her, with seven hundred and
fifty on board. Two Spanish armed
steamers were also waiting at the Congo
river, for cargoes of one thousand five
hundred negroes each, bound for Cuba:
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
Cured, Easily,

Cured, Easily.
The habit of drinking can be cured by
giving the drinker all the liquor he
wants to drink, all the time. We know
of two, says an exchange, in our own ex
perience, who were cured in three weeks.
One jumped out of a four story window
and ran a curb stone in his head; tic
other didn't get up one morning, and
has universal curb stone growing out
of his head in the graveyard.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, /
COLUMBUS, Ohio, 9th March, 1860. !
I certify that the foregoing acts are
true copies from the Original Rolls Oh
file in this office.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
ISSibS u VI III
Passed March "a, 1860.
No. 42.7 AN ACT

teen Of an Act entitled IAN Act to eS-
tablish Code of Civil Procedure, ~
passed March II, 1853.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Gen
era1 Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That
section four hundred and seventeen of
the above recited act be so amended as
to read as follows: Section AT. IF a
judgment become dormant, it may be re-
vived in the same manner as is pre-
scribed for reviving actions before judg-
ment; and when the plaintiff to such
dormant judgment, his agent or attorney,
shall make an affidavit that the defend
ant is a nonresident of the State, and
that such judgment remains unsatisfed,
in whole or in part, with statement of
the amount owing thereon, notice may
be published for six consecutive weeks,
as provided by section seventy-two, no.
tifying him to appear at day therein
named, not less than ten days after pub
lication is complete, and show cause why
Judgment shall not be revived against
him; and if sufficient cause be not shown
to the contrary, the judgment shall stand
revived for the amount which the court
shall find to remain due and unsatisfed
upon such judgment; provided, that in
all cases wherein service may be made
by publication, personal service of a copy
of the order may be made out of the
State.
Sec. 2. Original section four hundred
and seventeen is hereby repealed, and
this act to take effect from and after its
passage.
RICHARD G. PARSONS,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
| March 10. 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
A Phenomena in Addition.

There is now in New York, a young
man of slight figure, master of certain
wonderful talent. His name is Hutch
ins, and he is a native of Philadelphia.
This peculiar faculty he discovered only
year since, and it is SO surprising as
to merit notice apart from the fact that
he teaches classes and individuals. He
will take three columns of figures; and
more quickly than an ordinary person
can read them, or instantaneously, give
the sum in addition without fail. The
whole is quick as fash, and appears to
set aside all the ordinary proceedings
of the mind His manner of this, how
ever is convulsive. The figures being
written down on a board, he seizes a
piece of chalk, and as he writes down
the amount, he utters it in loud tone
apparently in an ecstacy. He say this
is not gift, but scientific process,
which he can impart more or less to pu-
pills. The effect appears to be like that
of brain over-wrought by concentra-
tion to a single thing; but he says his
health improves under the practice.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
Important DecisiOn-DemOcracJ
not Bound to be Consistent with Itself

Highly Imp Ortant Dec1S1On-DemOcracy
not Bound to be Consistent with Itself.
Several Democrats at Auburn, n. Y.
subscribed $500 to establish a weekly
Democratic newspaper, the Auburn
Democrat One of the subscribers,
Franklin L. Sheldon, Douglas Demo-
crat, became disgusted with the paper
because it sustained the Administration
against Douglas, and refused to pay the
last hundred dollars of his subscription.
Thereupon Henry M. Stone, the pub
Usher Of the paper, sued Mr.. Sheldon
for the balance of his subscription. Mr..
Sheldon resisted the payment, and plead
that the paper established had not proved
to be Democratic, and that his subscrip-
ton was therefore void.
According to the argument for the
defense, the Auburn paper was of easy
virtue, and went in for everything
labeled Democratic, without any partic-
ular regard to consistency. 1t advoca-
ted Squatter Sovereignty and defended
the efforts Of the Administration to crush
out Squatter Sovereignty in Kansas;
went for slave code for the Territories,
for the establishment of Slavery in
New York as benefcent institution,
and for various other doctrines, which
the defendant in the case swore he be-
lieved to be anti Democratica and immoral.
The justice was evidently Democrat,
without why or wherefore, for heruled
out all the evidence, and directed a ver
dict for the plaintiff for the full amount,
with interest. The case caused great
amusement, and is considered as a
judicial establishment of the fact that
anything is Democratic that goes under
that name, and that Democratic editor
| is not bound to be consistent with him
self
Brains.
An American sloop-of-war had put
into an English port, and the lieutenant
went on shore to reconnoitre. In the
course of his travels, he entered tavern
where number Of British officers were
were carousing. They at once recog-
nized the lieutenants nationality by his
dress. and resolved to amuse themselves
by bullying him.
'"Weil, comrade," says one, "you be.
long to the United States, [ see"
"Right,' was the answer.
'Now, what would yo do to maj
who should say that your navy did no
contain an officer fit for a gunboat?'' con
tinued the Englishman..
"I would blow his brains out!' re
piled the lieutenant, with great cool
ness.
There was silence among her Majesty
servants for a moment; but finally one
of them, more muddled than the rest
managed to stammer out:
"W-well, Yank, say ii"
The American walked to his side, ant
replied, calmly:
"It's lucky for you, shipmate, tina
you have no brains to blow out!''
Fl Struck by the dignity of the answer
the offender at once apologized, and ou
hero was invited to join the mess.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-29
sEHissing Down'-FreedOm of Speech
Sound Democracy and Good Law.

At the late Union saving meeting in
Philadelphia, the following sentiments
were uttered by leading Democratic
politician:
Charles J. Ingersoll, whose Democ
racy is almost as old as the State House,
by way of fine tribute to liberty of
speech, referred to travelling Abolition
lecturers, and particularly to Wendell
Phillips, who ought, he said, ''to be ar
rested as travelidg vagabond. Ap-
plause.] Those who do not concern in
the sentiments of these Abolitionists,
should attend their lectures and hiss
them down He stated, as lawyer, that
it was the right of every man to go to a
publicly advertised lecture and hiss
down the speaker. Cheers and ap-
plause.1 There was leading case in i,
the books that sustained this principle. "