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Year: 1859

mo. 81. AN ACT


To authorize Courts to give effect to the intention of
parties and officers by curing defects, omissions
and errors in Instruments and proceedings. t-'
Sec. /. Beit enacted By the General A. assembly OF the
STATE Of Ohio That, in all wherein any officer
or officers, party parties, person or persons or
body corporate or persons intending and undertaking
to become body corporate has heretofore made or
may hereafter, by reason of inadvertenee or other
wise. maks any omission defect er error in any in
strument in wiring, or IN any proceeding whereby
tho same shall be in stricL conformity with the
laws of this State shall be competent Tor the Courts
of this State and they hereby authorized to give
full effect all such instruments and proceedings &C
cerding to the true and manifest mention OF the
parties thereto. 4..fg .f
Sec. 3. That whenever any such error, omission
defect shall have occurred or may hereafter &C.
cur in any instrument proceeding, which IL re
euired to be made matter of record, it shall be
competent for any parties person or persons
body corporate or persons intending and undertaking
to become body corporate having or claiming an
in the correction of such error, omission or
defect to file his her their petition in any Court
of Common Pleas having jurisdiction in the premises
setting forth particularly the error defect or omIs
sion complained Of and ask an order OF such Conrt
for the correction thereof; and in all cases where
such application is made by any body corporate. or
by persons intending and undertaking TO become a
body corporate. such Court upon being satisfied that
notice of such application, specifying the error de-
feet or omission complained of, and of the time and
place of hearing The same has been duly published
for six consecutive weeks in newspapers in



cation may be made, and in all other whenever
the party rparties have been duly brought
before the Court in the manner prescribed by law
for making service in civil actions, and upon being
satisfied that such mistake, error, omission has
been made, shall grant and make order TO correct
the same which order shall be filed in the Office in
which such record is required to be kept and from
and aftor such filing the said record and the order
correcting the shall be received evidence in
all cases. in all Courts the if such error,
omission or defect had existed.


x.1a 4 fhar anrHt tn hoa tad re
in any way connected with any body corporate, the
proceedings mentioned in the last proceeding section
shall be had in the Court of Common Pleas of the
County wherein the principal office of such corpora
ton is located, and in all other tbs shall
be had in the county wherein such record is kept.


Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in full
force from and after its passage.


WILLIAM B. WOODS,


Speaker of the House of Representatives.,


BASSETT LANGDON,


President pro te1s.of the Senate.
Year: 1859




A CARD.-The greater portion Of our custo-
n mers are probably aware that on the first oi
September last We commenced selling goods exclu-
srely for cash offering at the time, as an induce
ment for our very prompt credit customers to pay
cash, that we would make a deduction OF five per
cent. on all purchases amounting to $40 and up
wards, believing, ut the time, that the discount
offered would have been sufficient inducement
but wc find the move to have been very unpopu-
lar one with many Of our most valuable customers
they considering it very great convenience to
have an account where they could send for or pur
chase what they wished; and as we do not feel
that we can afford to loose the patronage Of such
as have always sustained US heretofore, besides de-
prvng ourselves Of the pleasure of doing business
with them, we have determined TO again open our
books to such n have always paid US when their
bills were presented, and hope all such will appre-
ciate this public announcement, We would not
make it, only that publicly declined to continue
any accounts, and as We do not approve oil pub
fishing one thing and doing another, We have
thought it due our prompt customers, IN making
the change, to publish this statement We shall,
however continue to allow the discount on all
purchases Of $40 and upwards If paid for AT the
time of purchase, and would respectfully solicit
all who prefer To buy for cash. 10 examine our
stock, which is now very large, and having pur-
chased most of our good. this season ut the New
York and Philadelphia auction sales, we know
that we have of the largest and cheapest
stocks Of GOODS in the District.


W. NJ. SHUSTER 4 CO.,
No. Is, opposite Centte Market, bet 7th Sth sts.


Washington, oct 2o-llm


TMRROIDERIES-li bargains in Collars
Year: 1859

EAsToN, Pa, June live had a heavy frost in
this region last night and ice to the thickness of
quarter dollar was formed.


PHILADELPHIA, June I1.-There was frost in this
vicinity last night.
Year: 1859

The alarm of fire at ii O clock on Saturday night
was caused by the burning of a transparency in
front of one of the windows of Turner Hall, on
Pratt street, near Eutaw. The flames communicated
with the window frame and was near doing cnnsid-
cradle damage. 1t was extinguished without any
material loss.
Year: 1859

Leigh Hunt, in the Spectator, relates the follow
ing anecdote Of Charles Lamb: alt is surprising
what reserve of dullness and pedantry there is
in the corners of some persons understandings who
are not otherwise without cleverness. A gentle
man of this kind once dilatng superAuously
on the virtues of honesty, in a company in which
Charles Lamb was present, smoking his pipe. At
the close of the harangue, Charles taking the pipe
out OF his mouth, said, with air grave if he
was going to dispute the gentleman's conclusions :
DO you mean to say then, that thief is not good
man p The other, surprised at first at the word
ing of the question, looked nevertheless, as if he
was so bent on seriously maintaining that point,
that it is believed he would actually have done so,
had he not been prevented by an irresistible burst


of laughter from the rest of the persons present.
Year: 1859

The first thing the children heard in the morn
~ was, that their aunt had been very III during
sac night. Sarah had been obliged to 80 out


~ the doctor, and seemed to take 1t amss that
smy and Sidney had slept TRANQUILITY through
I'll the commOtion. At least, this was the only
ground Of complaint Sidney supposed she had
against them, and tho only way he could ac-
count for the displeased face she brought
20 the door whenever Amy knocked at it
with inquiries after their aunts health, and re-
quests TO be allowed to come in and sit with
her. Amy was less surprised at being refused
admittance TO her aunts room. She could not
help acknowledging to herself that the specimen
OF temper she had given on her first visit, was
reason enough for Sarah's being unwilling to ac-
cept help from her; and she thong hit with a sigh,
how completely her plans Of being such great
comfort 70 her aunt seemed likely to fall TO the
ground. The children were left very much alone


Tor Sarah was shut up all day In Mrs. Elice's
room. They felt quite at loss what to do with
themselves. A melancholy quiet reigned
through the house, upstairs and down. Outside
was one incessant downpouring Of rain, which
dripped from the trees on to the black grass In
the smoky garden, and made melancholy look
ing pools on the gravel walk before the door
They generally eongregated together in the par
ior' Amy TUNED over tho books in the little
Year: 1859

ter which had been collected on the broad
and ribbed surface Of the leaf had flowed
down groove or spout on the upper side of
the stalk into this natural reservoir, whence
it supplied nutriment tosthe tree. and re-
freshment to the traveller tn the laborer.


But in Madagascar this. tree might with
propriety be called the builders tree rather
than the travellers tree. Its leaves form
the thatch of all the houses on the eastern
side of the island. The stems of its leaves
form the partitions, and often. sides Of the
houses and the hard outside bark is strips
ped from the inner and soft part, and, hav-
ing been beaten out fat. is laid out for floor
ing and have seen the entire floor, of a
long, and well-built house. covered with its
bark, each piece being at least eighteen in
ches wide and twenty or thirty feet long. -
The leaf. when green, is used as wrapper
for packages; and also keep out the rain
Large quantities are also sold every morn
ing in the markets. as it serves the purpose
of table-clothes, dishes, and plates. at meals;
and folded into certain forms, it is used in
stead of spoons and drinking-yessels.
Year: 1859

The editor of the Sandy Hill Herald says
that on Christmas Eve an expressman de-
livered to him an exceedingly mysterious
box. And after paying the charges-38
cents-being just the amount of money he
by him-he proceeded with nervous hands
to examine it's contents. He says: 1.-The
cover is removed, when our eyes we're glad
dened with the sight of fine turkey. The
next thing brought to light was bottle Of
champagne, and the next and last huge
dimijohn, marked o Tar What in the
world is 0 Tar? It must mean Old Tar
but what in the world induced any one to
send us either old or neD tar? We havn't
got any wagon; and as for the benefit of the
Republicans we are not in the humor -
We have it! We will sell it to the livery
man. Called on him, and he said he did
not use tar, but grease, on his wagons
Brught it back to the Office, in not very
good humor, still wondering why it was
sent to us. Resolved finally to draw the
cork. Did SO. Itwasn't tar. Smelt of it.
Knew by the smell that it wasn't tar. Tasted
of it, and became fully satisfied that it wasn't
tar. Tasted again, and then drew up resolu-
ton declaring, in the most emphatic terms,
that it wasn't tar. Tasted again, and then en-.
tered the resolution among the regular PRO
ceedings, to make it sure that it wasn't tar
Tasted again and felt very happy.


Tasted again, and soon became very rich
and resolved to give our cottage to poor
widow, and purchase the elegant mansion
over the way-to donate our Office to Jabe,
and buy out the New York Ledger. Give
the Devil twenty dollar gold piece for
Christmas, and promised him round hun
dred for New Years. Bought $4,000
pair of nags and sleigh, cushioned with
velvet and decorated with gold and pearls.
Ordered from the South darkey driver and
postman, whose face shone like a glass bot
tie under direct sun ray. Went over to
the Union and. told Fred to send every poor
family in town barrel of Julian Mills
-four, and nameless other articles to render
them comfortable. Bought all the wood in
market, and ordered it to be sent immedi.
ately to the aforesaid families. Gave each
Of the clergymen in town 81 900; adopted
fourteen orphan girls and fifteen orphan
Year: 1859

CHURCH ETIQUETTE. The Home Journal
thinks there is good sense in suggestion
made by an American who thus writes from
London:


"In the churches, whoever comes first,
whether gentleman or lady, takes the furth-
er seat in the slip, and those that follow ell
up the remaining seats, and thus prevent
the awkward disturbance which occurs in
our churches here in the process of filing out
and in by men. in order to isolate women
at the further end of the pew. It is said
the habit so universal among us originated
with the early settlers, who sat near tho
doors of the pews, so that, in case of an at
tack by the Indians, they might be ready
for action. In many instances this march
ing out and in, like parcel of soldiers, is a
perfect nuisance and the custom might well
be Changed"
Year: 1859

WORTH KNOWING. 1t is said that the
laundresses of Holland and Belgium, so pro-
verbally clean, and who get up their linen
SO beautifully white, use refined borax as
washing powder, instead of soda, in the pro-
portion Of large handful. of borax powder,
to about ten gallons of boiling water
They save in soap about one half.
Year: 1859

again; and again is the worship repeated
through all the days Of many golden
years. The pleasant converse of the fire.
side, the simple songs of home. the words
OF encouragement as I bend over my
school tasks, the kiss as lie down to rest,
the patient bearing with the freaks of my
restless nature. the gentle counsels ming
led with the reproots and approvals, the
sympathy that meets and assuages every
sorrow and swee!ens every little success
all these return to ME amid the RESPONSE
blllties which press upon me now, and |
feel as if had once lived in heaven, and,
lstraying, had lost my way. 80.
f~-' Wen, the good man grew old and
weary. and fell asleep at last, with bless
ings en- his lips for me. Some of those
who called him father, lie side by side
with him in the same calm sleep. The
others are scattered, and the old house and
barn and orchard have passed into the
possession of strangers, who have learned,
or are learning, to look back upon them as
] do now. Lost, ruined, forever left be.
hind, that home is mine to-day as truly as
it ever was, for have not broughtit it away
with me and shown it to you? 1t was the
home of my boyhood. In it found my
first mental food, and by it was my young
soul fashioned. To me, through weary
years and many sorrows and dangers, it
has been a perennial fountain of delight
and purifying influences, simply because
it was my home and was and i part of
me. The rose at the gate blooms for me
now. The landscape comes when | call
it, and hear the voices that call to me
from lips which memory makes immortal.


Thus the memory of the past joins
hands with the experience and observation
of to-day 10 illustrate and enforce the phi
losophy which l have propounded. A
man who, in the struggles Of life, has no
home to retire to, in fact or in memory, j,
without life'a best rewards and life's best
defenses. Away from home, shut off from
the income of those influences which feed
his life-from those relations along which
the life of God is accustomed to flow to
him-a man stands exactly where evil will
most readily get the mastery of him. A
man is always nearest to his good when at
home, and farthest from il when away.
Year: 1859

EE- Cato being scurrilously treated by
low and vicious fellow, said to him, "a
contest between us is very unequal, for
thou canst bear i'll language with ease and
return it with pleasure; and to me 1T is
unusual to hear and disagreeable to speak
I.
Year: 1859

w The affections, like the conscience,
are rather TO be led than driven; and it is
to be feared that they who marry where
they do not love, will love where they do
no, marry .--fallsr.
Year: 1859

just here Walter, who had heard the
loud talking walked round TO Willie's side
and there the two stood in front Of the old
gentleman, who was perfectly bewildered
He soon comprehended the whole matter
however, and when he did, he took the
dime back from Willie, and gave them a
half dollar each.
Year: 1859

This the only and certain remedy for this hateful dis
No need again complain of having unless they
have taken this celebrated remedy once they take


OsGooD's CHOLAGoGUE,
A farewell to Chills and Fever forever.
For sale in New Orleans wholesale and retail, by


j. WRIGHT 4 CO.,
Sole agents for the South and whom all orders should be
addressed.
Year: 1859

'oot, ahu 10 HOC grow tall.


-. -


AN AEMENIAN WEpp1Nu.-Wo were
much interested in the pcculiaritics of 3.
wedding ceremony, to which we were cour-
eously invited, at the house of a wealthy
Armenian. Every one may not know that
the selection of a wife, among tho Armenians
is made by the mother for her son, without
consulting either him or tho young Girl
chosen, the chance being generally that
they have never seen each other. They
marry at very early age, and never 90
into society until after marriage. when
the preIimnarics are arranged, and tho
day Tor the wedding appointed, the bctrolhe.l
attended by some faithful matron, goes to
the house other future husband, and there
the ceremony is performed. Tho choice of
the wife Is of the utmost importance 10 her
mother inlaw, with whom she is to abide.
The probability is, that sho will at least he
ofa docile disposition, since she is to be
subjected to the dominion of her new mother,
who is supposed to be weA.acquainted with
her qualifications for the coming years Of
obedience. For the first year the bird is
not allowed to speak above whisper to-
her mother,in-law, neither is she permitted
to go out, not even 10 church; nn'l If her
husband or any gentleman enter the room,
she turns her face from them, and she holds
no intercourse with her own family during
the first three or four weeks. The new
mother has unlimited CONTROL over every
thing, and if the husband die, she turns the
key upon all their affects, even the most
tritling articles Of the wardrobe. Yet,
notwithstanding SO many restrictions. ,bey
are said to bo very happy in their family. -
Year: 1859

aid it moved not more than quarter Of
amile an hour. But it formed grand
sight. Here was stream Of lava rolling
avr the plain, twenty five feet in height
aDd an eighth ofa mile in width, though
is width varied great deal; sometimes
qrrower. 1t was, in fact, = mass Or pile
f red hot stones resembling pile Of


ais on FIRE, bore along BY the liquid
lGsa stream underneath. As it melted
slowly along, large red boulders would
roll down the sides, breaking into .
thousand small stones, crushing and
buniAg the trees which lay in the track.
It is impossible to give true descrip-
tion Of the immense force and power Of
this lava stream, bearing along as it does
an almost inconceivable mass. It re-
minds US almost wildly Of the breaking
up ofthe ice in large river, only the
Imagination must stretch the comparison
and suppose the ice piled up t~ enty five
feet, and thus borne along by the current
beneath, the whole width Of the river
moving at the same time. crushing and
breaking and piling up cones and irrcg-
ular masses on top. But even this com
parison is far below the reality--to be
con nceived it must be seen.


Such, family described, is the eruption
now going on in Hawaii. Our duty as
journalists calls on US to chronicle q
scene beyond the power Of our pen. We
have attempted a sketch oft for those
who cannot leave their business to wit.
ness it, but feel like apologizing to such
as visit the spot and find it Is active as
vaen We left. They will fnd our &C
count very tame compared with what il
before them. And one can hardly turn
from the scene Of such majestic display
of nature, without looking up to Nature
God, and acknowledging Him as the
source Of such grand and omnipoten
power.
Year: 1859

~ A Missouri Legislator, who was
opposed to project for now county,
''came down" upon the locality after
the following fashion 1.-The soil il 30
poor it would not grow pennyroyal.
Sir, you might NOV the country with q
razor, aud rake it with fine tooth comb,
and you wouldnt get enough fodder to
keep sick grasshopper through the
winter. Sir, they plant corn with crow.
bars, and hold the sheep BY the hind
legs while they nibble the grass in the
cracks Of the cliffs"
Year: 1859

Tuesday despatched twenty men to take the freight
ashore, they have probably this time completely
unoaded the Captain Stone left Stonington with
the Plymouth Rock Monday night twelve O'Clock,
and although he was the land all the time the
storm thick that he neither land light till
hafpast ten O'Clock Tuesday morning


The Plymouth Rock disabled in the Storm and the
Empire City had TO tow her in othis city.


II s said that the Vanderbilt had gone ashore few
rods from where she did the loss of life have been
very great. There seventy five passengers and
crew Of fifty men on board of her.
Year: 1859

EooNoMY.-Economy is one of those prac-
teal virtues which arc supposed TO require a
great deal Of self denial. and consequently to
merit a great deal of praise. A man has dug
and delved for a lifetime made himself rich,
died a millionaire, and his admirers demand
for him the homage of all respectable peo-
pie. His chief virtue was economy. for his
natural abilities in the art of foreseeing cal
culating, however worthy of admiration are
scarcely regarded as virtues The defunct
rich man made his fortune by economy, or,
to say the least he could not have made it
without economy.


What does the word mean? Does IL inn
ply that the deceased rich man, having an
income of ten thousand year. spent only
three hundred? Does it mean that he housed
his shriyeled bones in an attic through
which no chimney passed Does it mean
that he fed his body on mush and molasses,
on small potatoes and bull beef? Does it
mean that he wore cast-otf clothes, went to
bed at sundown to save candles, that he let
his own brother die in the poor house, that
he starved his soul as well as his body? Does
it mean that he never married because
wife and children are expensive luXuries
Undoubtedly this has been the meaning of
the word to thousands Of poor rich men.
Year: 1859

By the provisions of the bill convict;on ia


made speedy and almost certain. an fnas


and the net proceeds of the sales of alec
slaves shall be appronruted under direction
OF the Boards of Police To school p1rposes in


the county wherein the indictment was pre-


serred or he sales made.


Another section of the bill provides for


the more speedy and certain administration
of the law in relation to masters permitting
slaves to go at large and hire their own
time.


Taken altogether. it is a verv stringent
law. 1t passed the House with ONLY five
votes against 1t, and we have no doubt but
That 1t Will pass the Senate and meet with
the approval of the Governor, and become
the law OF the State; asd if properly enforced.
as we have no doubt it will be, the evils of
which we have heard such loud complaint
will cease to exist.


As matter of policy there can be no
doubt of It's being Il good law; and, upon
principle, we think such a law absolute Y
necessary in order to place the institution Of
slavery upon proper grounds. We uphold
and defend the institution of slavery as the
normal and happiest condition Tor the Airi-
can race-that slavery is blessing to master
and slave. The laws of our State place the
race III that condition, the federal constitu-
ton spreads its broad shield over it, and the
authority of God sanctions it. Then when
we permit one single African or descendant
Of an African to remain in the State as a
freeman we give the lie to all our professions.
Then let us not only defend the institution
Of slavery in its entirety through the press
and on the stump, but let us uphold it with
the strong arm of legislative power.
Year: 1859

From the Jackson (Miss.) Eagle Of the South.


Nov. Il


The House bill to amend the laws in re-
lation TO free negroes and mulattoes, passed
the House Of Representatives yesterday even
ing, almost unanimously.


The bill provides that it shall be not law
ful for any free negro or mulatto to reside in
this State without the special license of the
Legislature; and if any such free negro shall
be found in the State without such license,
after the first of July next, he or she shall
be apprenended and sold into slavery tor life.
The bill further provides that they shall have
until the lst of July next to select master,
the master to pay two-thirds of the ap-
praised value of the negro, when said
negro shall be the slave of such selected
master for life. 1t provides thata fine ofnot
less than one, nor moro than five thousand
dollars, and Imprisonment in the county
Jail or penltentiary, as the court may direct,
for not less than six months or more than
two years, shall be imposed on any person
who shall hold any free negro in nominal
servitude to evade the provisions of this act.