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Year: 1863




SECTION 1. The People Of the Stale of
Michigan enact, That in all the townships and
wards Of the cities of this State, there shall
be annual y levied and collected the follow ing
tax upon dogs; upon every dog owned or kept
by any one person or family, the sum Of one
dollar.


SEC Q. The assessor of every township
and ward, at the time Of making his annual
assessment, shall inquire and ascertain the
number of dogs liable TO be taxed; aud shall
enter in lists to be made by him the name of
every person in bis respective township or
ward, those owning or keeping any dog sub
ject TO the above tax, the number kept by
such person, and the whole amount of tax to
be paid by him. W cA ~s---'i e-fhA ca


SEC. 8. The assessor Of every township aud
ward shall, on or before lst day of June make
out duplicate of tho lists made by them, as
provided 10 the preceding section, and file the
Same with the treasurer OF their respective
count es. Said taxes as provided for in the
preceding sections Of this act shall be assess I'd
70 aud collected from such persons as shall be
liable for the same, in the same nanner as
other taxes are assessed and coll cted.


SEC 4. The collector to whom such tax
roll shall be delivered, shall proceed and col
ecl the sums Of money therein specified, 10
the same manner and with like authority in
all respects, as in the collection OF taxes i'm.
posed by tho board Of supervisors Of the coun
'ty, and shall pay the same to the county
treasurer, after deductIug the commission al
lowed by this act; and the same remedies to
compel such collection and tue payment over
of the money, may be had against such col
ectors and their sureties, rs in the case OF q
tax levied by tho board of supervisors. ~


SEC. 5. The collectors shall be allowed TO
retain commission Of four per cent, upon all
sums collected by them III pursuance Of this
act. - 81 a q sHF - ga fI


Sro. 9 II any person duly assessed, shall
refuse or-peglect to pay the tax SO assessed /,
for ten days after demand thereof it shall be
lawful for any person to kill the dog so taxed


SEC. 7. The moneys so collected and paid
TO any couHty treasurer, shall be paid into the
county treasury for the use Of the Primary
School fund 10 tho same manner as other
specific taxes.


Sc. 8. Any person may kill any dog
which he shall see chasing, worrying, "
woundng an sheep, unless the sane shall DO
done by the direction Of the owner Of the
sheep, or his servant. as


SEQ. 0 The owner or possessor Of every
dog, to whom notice shall bc given Of any
injury dooc by his dog to any sheep, or Of bis
dog having chased or worried any sheep,
shall, villlin forly-eight hours after such no
Year: 1863

The Journal. or His Excellency, seems to be
very averse to submitting the question to the
right of the State officers to pay the interest upon
the States debt without legislative appropriation,
to the decision of the Courts. The Governor
thinks thai the laws authorize them to do so.
They think otherwise. Who then is to decide
the issue between them? What are the Courts
for, unless to determine conuoverted questionsi
We venture the statement that no man knows
what the opinion of the Supreme Court Judges
may be upon the question. We are willing to
trust their intelligence aud integrity to decide the
question. There is one thing certain. The Con-
sttution and laws of the State clearly prohibit the
State officers from dsbursiug money from the
Treasury, unless in pursuance of appropriations
made by law. And they have 5ust as much re
gard for the hcnor OF the State as the Governor.
They have 70 right 10 assume any responsibility
in the matter. and the object of the legislation
of 1859 aud lS6l was to place such guards around
the public treasury to prevent them from do
ing as their predecessors had done in that regard
This the Governor well understands, and t should
be bis purpose to relieve them from any such
embarrassment


The Governor has a remedy for the difficulty
athis control. His own political friends are at
fault for the Legislature not making all neces-
sary appropriations. The Constitution empowers
him to convene the Gsneral Assembly in special
session whenever the public interests demand il.
That is the best and safest way to get out of the
difficulty In ten days he can have the Legisla-
ture in session. in ample time to make the appro-
priatiOns to meet the interest upon the public
debt and for all other purposes which the welfare
and integrity of the State requires.
Year: 1863

Boy KILLED AT ELYRIA-Last night
Tuesday, a boy, seven years of age, was
killed atEIyria in the following manner; A
couple of empty platform cars were standing
on the side track. The boys were amusing
themselves by unshackling and shackling
them. They would run the cars back, and
then pushing them together again shackle
them in imitation of the railroad men. The
lad who was killed had his head caught be-
tween the cars as they came together, crush
ing it in terrible manner, and killing him
almost instantly. Our informant did not
know the boys name.
Year: 1863

Some nineteen Of the substitutes who
were forwarded from this city to Elmirs,
last Friday, deserted during their journey.
After the train had passed Aurora, the
lights in some Of the cars were put out by
the substitutes, some Of whom jumped
from the train while in motion. It is said
that Eve were killed either by the fall or
the bullets Of the guards.


As one Of the skedaddlers sprsng from
the train one Of the guards sprang after
him, and striking on top Of him knocked
him down. The sub offered half his
money as the price of his liberty, hut the
csptor was one Of the 6 Old Castilian T"
sort and marched him at the point of the
bayonet to the nearest station which was
twelve miles distant-BgfaJO Express.
Year: 1863

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has really
run up the name Of Vallandigham, in very
small type, without a word Of comment
A man with half an eye can see that it is
ashamed Of the act; and it ought to be-
Detroit AdUsrtissr.


Yes, while the COpperhead Plain Dealer
has not honor enough to prevent it from
doing mean act it still has sensibility
enough to be ashamed of It. 5r1E Czg
Year: 1863

The Crowns UnionIsm az the south.


Experience proves that it is not wise "a
receive with grsediness, as veristies all the
statements Of the situation at the South.
But we think the statements, coming up
from the rebel States 50 constantly, and
in such forms to the effect that q great
change is being wrought in Southern sen
timent is entitled to eredence. There is
no doubt that there is & large residuum of
Union sentiment abiding in the South
which swaits only the safe and proper
moment 70 De deve1oped-and there is no
more doubt that large numbers who have
strongly participated in sympathy, or ac-
ton with the rebellion, are now sick Of
the whole thing, and heartily desire re-
turn to the safeguards of the Union
And further, so positive is the change Of
sentiment thatin many places it is already
up to the point of open resistance against
the rule Of the usurpers-snd shortly, if
the heavy hand Of rebel tyranny continues
stOsPress, there will be rebellion within a
rebellion.


We feel certain that substantial reae-
tion has commenced, and viii soon gain a
force and strength that tie insurgent
chiefs cannot resist. aEow, BY ST. Giles
the work goes bravely OnF'
Year: 1863

WHILE LHE PEACE MEN arehowling about a
reconstruction on the basis of the ConstitC-
tion, the traitors are insuring the enthusiasm
of their deluded followers, that no free States
shall be permitted to come into the confeder-
acy. The leaders of the rebellion declare
that there can be no peace without recogni-
tion of the confederacy. Do the Democracy,
who are SO persistent about peace, desire this
recognition This is question which some
of the hypocrites must answer sooner or later.
The malcontents have made all the use they
could Of Northern reneg AIDES, and they would
not associate with them now on any terms.
The most Davis would offer would be CONNER
cial intercourse, on condition that fugitive
slaves would be returned or paid for if they
escape; that is the reward offered to these
traitors for the aid they are giving the rebels
during the war, and past services.
Year: 1863

Alarming stories have been told about peo-
pie beng poisoned with rye coffee; bu, Mrs.
Partiugton suggests that some of them who
use the extract Of old rye in ether fluid forms.
may be subject to quite as much damage as
the rye coffee drinkers.
Year: 1863

IMPORTANT TO JUSTICES OF THE PEAcE.-lt
NAV not be generally known that, by the a.
mended stamp duty act, all transcripts OF
judgements from dockets of Justices OF
the peace will require five cent stamp to
be attached, which must be cancelled by the
Justice giving the transcript. The person or
dering the transcript will, of course, be bound
to pay the duty but it would save time and
trouble for justices to keep supply of stamps
on hand, in order that they may be affixed
when required. A neglect TO comply with
the provisions of this act renders the trans
cript worthless
Year: 1863

A "SwEEPING" ARoUMENT.-We
have often heard strong appeals made
to anti newspaper men to prevail on
them to subscribe for some paper, but
the most Sweeping" argument comes
of the following circumstance. A rich
farmer in one of our rural districts, was
the man Of tho argument. During the
past summer, he produced among other
"shooks and shcaves" large crop of
broom corn. When harvested and
ready for market, purchaser came
along and offered him certain sum
which he declared was the market price
All confidence in men, and no respect
for newspapers, the rustic lord at once
accepted the proposition aud the money
was duly received. A day or SO after
neighbor and a subscriber for the
journal, met him and said, "We'll get
high figures for our broom corn this
fall" "Em |! ha l have just sold mine
for - and think that is little low. "
A little calculation showed that in the
transaction Mr.. Paperless had lost just
5000, enough to pay for daily paper
for twenty-five years.--[Col. Jour.
Year: 1863

ENGLISH SENTIMENT.-An Ameri-
can in London thus writes to a friend
respecting the popular feeling in Eng
land in relation to this country: "The
majority of the people of England are
in favor of the South; the whole Press
and Clergy are doing all they can to
to break us up. tt is amusing to see
the difference in the cloth at this time
and when | was here four years ago
Then it was all abolition; now negroes
are not mentioned except in connection
with their poor oppressed masters
Even Spurgeou now offers his pray
ers for the independence of the South,
when he knows if his prayers are an
swered four millions of the human fam.
ly will continue to he enslaved."
Year: 1863

Gen. Sykes is the only officer of note
that proposed to resign in consequence
Of General McClellan's removal. He is
said to have advised the Regulars to lay
down their arms, but General McGlel-
Ian persuaded him to desist If this is
true. the War Department will, OF
course, promptly relieve General Sykes
Year: 1863

TIE pRO&PEUT8 OF TIE FREED


MEN,


The negroes at Port Royal are likely
to proye'a colony Of apt scholars IN the
fumanities of civilization They have
been set to work upon the land, under
what seems to be a wise supervision, and
they already understand, rs well as white
folks. the difference between working for
nothing and working for pay. Many Of
them are growing cotton, as well as corn
and other staple products Of the soil; and
nota few have what they never knew the
sieht Or value of before, namely, good
pic Of greenbacks, ill their own, to spend
in the comforts as well as the necessaries
of Life. 1t is curious to observe how readl.
" they fall into the habits and customs OF
the whites-and now they are beginning
to set good store by their ebony persons,
and provide themselves with the best Of
every thing, 60 far -as their money. will
purchase it. The ordinary serge clothing
which they used to wear when they did
not belong to themselves, is not half stylish
enough for them now-and they affect good
shoea' and hats, as well as good coats; and
pants. They are learning, also, the mean
ing ana the dignity Of independence; and
refuse 70 allow the Government TO nav
certain little items for them which #
used topay, now that they have money Of
their own.


These are all very encouraging siens
and promise well, both for their own fni.
lure and for ours. People WHO are fond Of
making difficulties where there need be
none, have told Us that tue freed slaves
would be charge upon the nation; where.
as the contrary is the fact. Everywhere,
niAelc tue experiment hss been t1iea, tha
Year: 1863

The time for the discussion Of the terms
of reconstruction will come when the enc
nv is defeated and subdued. "Catch
your hare before you cook it." is maxim
in the culinary art that is not without its
application to this attempt to ''cook up" a
reunion before the rebels are in condition
to ask it. But let us say, in advance, that
whatcycr,the nature Of the dish presented
Tor our acceptance by these political pot
aleWcs; we insist that the poison Of slavery
shall not be in it. 1t may be an umble
pie that NC arc to cat; but let it be that
and nothing else. Anything but re-
introduction cf the virus Of man selling and
women whipping into the body polite!
Year: 1863

How Is THls9-The Southern soldiers and
secessionisls say they will never come
back into the Union, and the Abolition Re-
publicans swear they won't have the Union
is IL tras. How is it possible, then, that The
one class can be any better Union men
than the other!
Year: 1863




War We owE TO LINCOLN When the
tax collectors comes around with his war
rant


When We have to go and buy stamp to
put upon deed, note, &c.


When we have to lake out license 10
buy or sell.


When We go 10 store and pay forty
cents pound for coffee instead of ten.


When we look at onr public debt and
find il sccumuiating at the rate Of over
$4,000 900 per day.


When we look al our sons and brothers
dragged from their homes to fight ina war
for negroes, and


When We look at the vacant chairs, or
new made graves OF those who have died,
lei rs remember that all these we owe to
DIR. Lincoln and the party that supports
him.
Year: 1863

There are few persons who have not heard
of this place so noted in the history of that
celebrated man, Gen. Israel Putnam, one of
the greatest heroes of the Revolution. as be


ing the place where he had acted part so
long tc be remembered. The den is situated
in Pomfret. Conn, on a steep hillside, on the
edge of valley, which is covered by a hea-
w growth of timber. as you approach the
place and get sight of the entrance you al
most think it is the work of art, rather than
of nature, so regular is the entrace, being
three feet wide by two feet high. The pas
sage was originally about fouteen feet long,
but within few years it has closed up lit
is impossible. One who has not seen this
place can form no idea of the amount OF
courage displayed by Putnam in his encoun-
ter with the wolf. The den being situated
as it was in the midst of dense forests, miles
away from any human habitation in the
winter, the close proximity to her ladyship,
made it anything but pleasant. Putnam
was man not frightend by trifes, as was
shown by his signal success. Until g year
the building to which the wolf was carried
after death vas standing, and the nail on
which she hung, was pointed out to visitors.


About one hundred feet to the east of the
den 3 the Celebrated Goat Rock. es it is
called. This rock is large projecting shelf
thirty feet in thickness and weighing one
hundred tons. 1t is said that fifty persons
can stand in shower under the shelf formed
By the 9 old Coat and not get wet. 1t is a
place of great resort by the young of the sur
rounding towns, who 60 there to have pic.
mics, fish fries, &c. A few years ago on the
4th of July, romantic couple were married
on th top of this rock, in the presence of 9
large assembly of relatives and friends.
Year: 1863

SEC. |. The owners or managers of every cir
Gus caravan or mcnagerie hereafter exhibiting OF
performing within the corporate limits of the
town of Auburn shall pay to the said town for
each performance a license tax OF five dollars.
And the owners or managers OF every other pub
lie show, exhibition, theatre or concert. or other
public performance, for which an admission fee
is charged, shall pay to the said town for each
performance within the said limits a license tax
of two dollars and fifty cents: provided, that the
owners or managers of any exhibition before
mentioned, may exhibit or perform for thirty
consecutive days paying therefor license
tax Of fifty dollars. for any consecutive ninety
days paying therefor license tax OF one hun
dred dollars


Sec. 2. The said license tax shall be paid to
the Marshal Of said town, or to the Treasurer
thereof; and the officer to whom the same is paid
, shall give to the per- on paying the same, re-
ceipt therefor, which receipt shall specify the
amount paid, the character of the exhibition, and
the time Of the performance thereby licensed.


Sec. 8. Every person who shall open, or con-
duct or carry on or cause to be opened. conduct
ed or carried on, any Of the performances on
which license tax is imposed by the first section,
or who shall take any part therein as manager or
actor, without the license tax as provided in the
first section having been paid, and the receipt
specified in the second section having been OBJ
tanned therefor, shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof before any
Justice of the Peace. shall be fined for each
offense not less than ten nor more than one hun
dred dollars and may be imprisoned in the coun-
ty Jail until said fine be paid
Year: 1863

When a female is in trouble aifli tied with
disease, and requires medical or surgical assist
ance, the inquiry should be, where is there ply
sician who is fully competent to administer re-
lef-one whose knowledge of the female system
is perfect, who thoroughly understands the ap.
plcation of medicine to disease, whose scientific
attainments in surgery have made him preeminent
in his profession, and whose respectable standing
in society recommends him to the confidence of
the community? Unless these, and many more
questions, can be satisfactorily answered. the
afflicted should pause before consulting any one


DR.. j C. YOUNG, understanding how impera-
lively necessary these requirements are, feels
called upon to interpose, and by calling the at
tenton OF the afflicted TO the fact that he has been
professor of obstetrics and female diseases for
twenty years, and is fully qualified to administer
in all cases, both medically and sur gically. not
in superficial manner, but ia as thorough
manner as years of study and practice--both in
hospitals and private iamlies-can make. to save
them from the hands of the unqualified unscru-
pulous and designing Therefore, families can
rely upon him as upon father. All in aif1iction
can find in him one who can feel and sympathize
with and befriend them in troublesome in whose
secrecy the utmost confidence can be placed. =
Come, all ye that are afflicted and in trouble
and you will be relieved and cured.


Ess-Apartments privately arranged, so as to
preclude the possibility of exposure, and afford
those who wish a home all the advantages of con.
slant attention and unremitting private attend
ance.
Year: 1863

A DUTCHNAN speaking of his sons
misfortune, says: Hans he Bit himself
NIT rattlesnake and was sick six weeks
in the month Of August, and could eat
nothing except stand on his elbow and
eat little tea
Year: 1863

TO commence such rar. BY what reasoning, then,
does IL become less Murder to divert par commenced
for other pw1oMs to that O!ject' How can it be
any lcss criminal 70 proong war commenced for the
assertion Of government power, into war for
tho suppression Of Slavery, which 1t Is agreed
would have been unju.tiiable and sinful II
begun for that purpo'e1 Ifthere were possibility
Of peace and the restoration Of the power OF tho
Government, and instead Of making peace, men
rhouId say "No, we will have no peace TILL we
have destroyed Slavery" and should continue tho
war; the men thus doing would be precisely as guilty
as il they had commenced war for that purpose
only.


We are not talking about the incidental effect OF
war on slaves or Slavery. But ws speak OF the pro-
posal Of some men to mako abolition condition Of
peace. No right exists to add one object to that
for which the war began and the blood OF our brave
men who should be sent into war prolonged Tor
sucL new purposes would rest with fearful s'ain on
the men who prevented peace.
Year: 1863

rFrm the Boston Herald lpemocuucll


IuH Duty oi THE HoUR.-Ir is no time
now iHr mcu to De crumhlng about trile-.
and finding fault about this that and the
other. &c d, n3 time for bainlc-- demaugue-
% spout their -vulathies tor jefferson Davis
and his guerrilla band Il !, n1 time for
men t5 hc c.cruallv finding fault with the
{ Mon army and the way the war Is being
conducted. IL is no time for men % set up
convention. % symlathize with slavery and
the slyc power. for that power is broken.
and broken in consequence of tine folly of the
slave owners. The people should so vote a.
Ia sustain the ui0n cause, and vote for that
uartv or that ticket which will De the mot
likely to break down the rebel leaders and
their scheme for a Southern Confedemcy
founded uuln slavery and a military dcs-
uoti.m. There is no dOdging this question.
The Inst act in this solemn drame is drawing
t. close, and a free people must see % 1t
that they are not cheated out Of the fruits of
their ib1r. They have gone into battle and
sacrificed their lives % maintain the integrity
of the Union and our system Of government.
Millions of treasure have been expended for
the same purpose and now that the prize Is
within our grasp 1t Is important that the ac-
v.ntarcs gained should not be thrown away
in consequence Of any fancied mistake Of
those in power. Let US wait until the rebel
lion Is over. and until the country Is out OF
danger from any interference on the part Of
France or Great Britain and then If men in
high places have abused their trusts the peo-
ple can vote them down. II Will not answer
in this crisis to place men in power whose
svlnrathies are with the rebels. The only
hope left to the rebel leaders Is, that the
North will divide, and that the peace party
at the North may become triumphant. Ii Is
the duty Of the people in the Free States to
see 10 it that the enemy derive no advantages
IN this way. by elevating their friends in the
Free States to power, to aid them in their
dying struggles.