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THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
77
Tallow and Lard. It appears from a
business circular of Sawyer, Wallace &Co.,
N. Y., that the imports of tallow last year
into England from Russia amounted to 95,
000,000 lbs., being 72 per cent, of the entire
imports from all countries, and equivalent to
about 350,000 barrels and tierces of lard. The
present war must of course cut off all trade
between the two belligerent powers, Russia
and England. Tallow has already conse
quently gone up to a very high price, and in
view thereof, lard American lard will have
to be sustituted to a considerable extent, as
it lias been heretofore under the scarcity and
high price of tallow. It would require not
less than 4,000.000 hogs to produce the large
quality of 300,000 barrels and tierces of
lard, and this is nearly double the entire
products of this country for commercial
purposes. It appears that England derives
Iroin Russia 75 per cent, of linseed and
flaxseed for oil purposes; and nearly equal
in quantity to tallow. What is likely to
hi: t he true value of these articles in our
markets in view of these facts, those con
versant with the. trade are best able to
judge.
Another Speck ok War Three Steam
krs Sunk. The inhabitants of villages on
Lake Champlain are now engaged in a quar
iv 1 about railroad and steamboat matters,
which is not likely soon to end. It has al
ready resulted in violence and outrage upon
persons and property. It appears that the
Plattsburg people are building a railroad
from that place to Montreal, a portion of
which was completed. The company own
ing the railroad from Rouse's Point to Mon-
treal. purchased the Montreal end of the
Vlattsburfeh route, and left the people of the!
latter place m a bad fix. Ihe Plattsburg
people owned a steamboat called SuJtus,
which they designed to run in collection
with their road this season. The boat win
tered at Sherburne Bay, and when the pro
prietors were about to move her, they found
i hat a part of her machinery had been stolen.
They attempted to tow her down to Platts
burgh, but the. people of Burlington cut the
lines and took her back. The following
night two old steamers, the Burlington and
Whitehall, wer. drawn beside the Saltus.
and sunk in such a position that the latter
cannot bo. moved. The Plattsburg people
were much exasperated. The captain and
owners of the steamer Saranac were suppos
ed to be concerned in the outrage, and when
that boat came to their village, 400 persons
rushed on board, armed, lashed her wheels,
and threatened to sink her, arrested her cap
tain and pelted him and others with rotten
eggs. So the matter stood at last accounts.
We compile the above statement from the,
Despatch. Roch. Union.
The SrRAwiiE7vQuESTi0N. The sexual!
character of the strawberry has been a pro-':by
theme of discussion for several years.
A committee of the Cincinnati Hortieultu-
ral Society have come to the following con-
elusions
1st. That all strawberries, in their natural
state, have some blossoms, perfect in what:
are termed male and female organs, while
are decidedly pistillate, and others!
' 1
9,1 tw ubn thpv orpin enmft iWrpp
nerfect in both organs, the fruit will be
small and indifferent, except, perhaps, in the
case of " Longworth's Prolific."
3d. That if the 6taminate plants prevail,
there will be but little iruit realized.
4th. That if they be all pistillate, there
will be a like result, and that of au inferior
quality.
5th. That to insure a full crop, whatever
be the theory, it is absolutely necessary that
the pistillate plants predominate; indeed,
that the staminate plants be very sparsely
distributed.
Three dollar gold pieces will be
from the Philadelphia mint shortly,
will be about the size of a dime.
issued
They
John C. Gardiner, brother of Dr. Gardiner,
has forfeited his bail and absconded. It is
supposed he went to Cuba several weeks ago.
He wa3 charged with perjury in the case of
the United States ys. his brother George. His
bail bond.s were fixed at 12,000.
Discontent.
How universal it is. We never knew the
man who would say I am content." Go
where you will among the rich or the poor,
the man of competence or the man who earns
his bread by the daily sweat of his brow,
you hear murmuring and the voice of com
plaint. The other clay we stood by a cooper
who was playing a merry tune with the adze
round a cask. "Ah !" sighed he, " mine is
a hard lot forever trotting round like a dog,
driving away at a hoop."
" Heigho " sighed a blacksmith, one hot
day, as he. wiped away ihe drops of perspi
ration frc m his brow, while his red iron
glowed on the anvil, " this is life with a
vengeano melting and frving one's self
over the lire."
" Oh, that I were a carpenter," ejaculated
a shoemaker, as he bent over hi3 lap-stone.
" Here I e m, day after day, working my soul
away in making soles for others, cooped up
in a seven -by-ni no room. '
" I am sick of this out-door work," ex
claims the carpentei, "boiling and swelter
ing under the sun, or exposed to the inclem
ency of the weather. It I were only a tai
lor !"
" 'Tis too b id," perpetually cries the tailor,
" to be compelled to sit perched up here ply
ing the needl 2 all the while would that
mine were a more active life."
"Last day of grace the banks won't dis
count customers won t pay what shall l
do?'' grumblis the merchant. " 1 had rath
er be a pack-horse, a dog, anything."
" Happy fellows," groans the lawyer, as he
scratches his head over some perplexing case,
or pores over some drv record, "happy lei
lows ! I had .rather hammer stone than cudgel
tion.
And through all the ramifications of soci
ety, all are complaining of their condition,
finding tault with their particular calling
" If I were onlv this, or that, or the other,
I should be. content,' is the universal cry
" Anything, but what I am." So wags the
world, so 1 1 has wagged, so it will wag.
my brains on. this tedious, vexatious ques
Roadside Confab.
" And f ;o Squire, you don't take your coun
ty paper V'
" No, Major, I get the city papers on much
better tei ms ; a nd so I take a couple of them."
"But, Squire, these country papers prove
of great convenience to us. The more we
encourage them, the better the editors can
make them."
" Wl iy I don't know any convenience they
are to i ne."
" Thu farm you sold last fall, was adverti
sed in one of them, and you thereby obtain-
pA a ni'.ctompr rlirl vnn nnt
.. v true,' Major, but I paid three dol
Oglensburgh 'larsforit."
'A,id made much more than three dollars
, Now if your neighbors had not sup
lilic ported that press, and kept it ready for your
ue ? ou v?uld have been without the means
of ad vertising your property. But I think
I saw your daughter's marriage in one ot those
I PaPes- Did ),hat cost J'011 anything?"
" JNo, but , , , , , ,
L " All(l .your brothers death was also pub
some ll-sh with a long obituary notice.
Vpc ve? bu'
: "And the destruction of your neighbor
i
! papers.
" No. no, Squire Grudge, not if all are like
iru Now, 1 tell vou the time will come
when some one win write a very longeuiogy
JJriggs's house by fire. You know how these
things were exaggerated till the authentic
accounts of our newspaper set it right."
,e Oh, true, but"
" And when your cousin Splash was out
for the legislature, you appeared much gratified
at his newspaper defence, which cost
him nothing."
Yes, yes, but these things are news
the readers. They cause people to take the
on your life and character, and the printer
will put it in type, with a heavy black line
over it, and with all your riches this will
done for you as a grave is given to a pauper.
Your wealth, liberality and such things, x
be spoken of, but the printer's boy, as
spells the words in arranging he types
these sayings, will remark of you: ' Pqpr,
mean devil, he is even sponging for an obit-
I uary !' Good morning, Squire."
Pleasures op Contentment. I have a
rich neighbor that is always so busy that he
lias no leisure to laugh ; the whole business
of his life is to get money, more money,
that he may still get more money and more
money. He is still drudging, saying what
Solomon says : " The diligent hand maketh
rich. And it is true, indeed ; but he con
siders not that it is not in the power of
riches to make a man happy ; for it was
wisely said by a man of great observation,
that there be as many miseries bevona ncn-
es as on this side of them." And yet heaven
deliver us from pinching poverty, and grant
that, having a competency, we may be con
tent and thankful. Let us not repine, or 60
much as think the gifts of God unequally
dealt, if we see. another abound in riches,
when, as God knows, the cares that are the
keys that keep those riches hang often so
heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they
clog him with weary days ana restless
nights, even when others sleep quietly. We
see but the outside of the rich man's happi
ness : few consider him to ba like the silk
worm, that when she seems to play, is at
the same time spinning her own bowels, and
consuming herseli. Ana inis many ricii
men do, loading themselves with corroding
cares to keep what they have already got.
Let us, therefore, be thankful for health
and competence, and, above all, for a quiet
conscience. Izaak Walton.
LAWS OF OHIO—Published Officially.
[47] AN ACT
I
To amend the act entitled " an act to pro
vide for draining and reclaiming the swamp
and overflowed lands granted to the state
of Ohio, by act of congress, approved Sep
tember 28, 1S50.
Sec. 1. Ba it enacted by the General As
sembly of the State of Ohio, That the ninth
section of the act to which this is amenda
tory, be so amended as to read as follows :
Section nine. That if, after the said swamp
or overflowed lands of this state, lying with
in any county, be drained and reclaimed as
herein provided, there shall remain any o
the said lands undisposed ot, it shall be the
duty of the county commissioners of such
county to appraise the same, and make re
turn of such appraisal as aforesaid; upon
the filing of such return in his office, the said
county auditor is hereby authorized to sell
the said lands at the appraised value thereof,
to any applicant therefor, who will make an
oath or affirmation that it is his intention to
improve, and make the same a permanent res
idence, or that the same adjoin to and are
necessary to the proper improvement of lands
then owned and improved by such applicant,
which said oath or affirmation, the said coun
ty auditor is hereby authorized to administer;
and in all cases of sales as prescribed in this
section, the said county auditor shall receipt
to the purchaser for the amount of money
received, and describe therein the lands sold
which said receipt, upon presentation and
delivery to the governor, shall entitle the
purchaser to a patent for such lands, to be
executed and recorded as prescribed by sec
tions seven and eight, of the act to which
this is an amendment: Provided, that such
of said swamp or overflowed lands as are in
capable of being drained and reclaimed, may
be sold without the oath or affirmation here
inbefore required.
Sec. 2. That the ninth section of the
I aforesaid act be, and the same is hereby re-
F. C. LEBLOND,
Speaker the House of Representatives.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 25, 1854.
[49] AN ACT
To regulate the fees of Justices of the Peace
and constables.
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to
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General A:
sembly of the State of Qhio, That all justi
ces of the peace of this state shall, for ser
vices rendered, as hereinafter specified,
entitled to the following fees, to wit: For
summons, each person named in the 'writ,
fifteen pents ; for order pf arrest, capias,
of attachment, writ of replevin, or mittimus,
tvyentyrfive cents each ; for every subpoena,
for ope person, fifteen pents ; for each person
in addition, five cents; for venire for
;
be
twenty-five cents ; for issuing execution,
tvrenty-five cents; for warrant in criminal
cases, each person named in the writ, twenty-five
cents ; for every search-warrant, twenty-five
cents; for writ of restitution, twenty-five
cents ; for taking and certifying affi
davit, twenty-five cents; for order on jailor
for prisoner or prisoners, twenty-five cents ;
for entering a discontinuance or satisfaction,
ten cents; for entering into bond or under
taking by either party, twenty-five cents ;
for filing papers necessary to be preserved by
justice, five cents each ; for each recognizance
of bail in civil cases, twenty-five cents ; for
bill of exceptions and copy, ten cents for
each one hundred words ; for certifying the
same, twenty-five cents ; lor transcript from
docket, ten cents per one hundred words ;
for certifying the same, twenty-five cents ;
or appointing guardian lor minor, to prose
cute suit, ten cents; for appointing special
constable or appraisers, twenty-five cents
each : for taking recognizance of a witness,
twenty-five cents ; for each additional wit
ness, ten cents ; for each recognizance of bail
in criminal cases, twenty-five cents ; for ev
ery continuance or adjournment by either
party, ten cents; lor entering a rule ot rel
erence, or copy thereof, ten cents; for swear
ing witnesses or arbitrators, nve cents each;
for entering judgment, twenty-five cents :
for acknowledgment of a deed or other in
strument of writing, with a certificate there
on, twenty-five cents; lor setting in casses
of forcible detainer, seventy-five cents; tor
trying a jury case, seventy-live cents; for
transferring judgment on docket, ten cents;
for taking deposition, ten cents per one hun
dred words; tor certilying the same, twenty
five cents ; for marrying and making return,
one dollar and fifty cents ; for taking and
certifying proof of any account or claim
against the estates of testators or intestates,
fifteen cents ; for each process required by
law, not herein named, twenty-five cents;
for every writing or record, not being provi
ded for, ten cents per hundred words.
Sec. 2. That all constables in this state,
duly elected and qualified, shall, for services
rendered as herein specified, be entitled to
receive the following fees, to wit;. For ser
vice and return of capias, order of arrest,
warrant, attachment, garnishee, writ of re
plevin, or mittimus, twenty-five cents each;
for each person named in the writ, service
and return of summons, fifteen cents: for
each person named in the writ, service and
return ot subpoena, nlteen cents lor one per
son; for service on each additional person
named in subpoena, ten cents ; for service of
execution on goods or body, twenty-five cents;
for all money made on execution, four per
cent.; for every day's attendance before jus
tices of the peace, jury t'rialj seventy-five
cents ; for every day s attendance before jus
tices of the peace, on criminal trial, seventy
five cents ; for every day's attendance before
justice of the peace in forcible detainer,
without jury, fifty cents ; for 'summoning
jury, seventy-five cents; for mileage, ten
cents for the first mile, and live cents per
mile for each additional mile ; for assistants
in criminal cases, one dollar per day each ;
for transporting and sustaining prisoners, al
lowance made by the magistrate, and paid
.vi. r 11 Ai ?i
on nis cerancate ; ior serving au omer writs
or notices not herein named, twenty-five
cents, and mileage as in other oases ; for
copies of all writs, notices, orders, or affida
vits served, fees the same as allowed for is
suing the same ; for summoning and swear
ing appraisers in cases of replevin and at
tachment, one dollar in each case ; adverti
sing property for sale on executions, twenty
five cents ; for taking bond in replevin and
all other cases, fifty cents each ; for every
day's attendance on the grand jury, one dol
lar. Sec. 3. Sections seven and eight of " an
act to regulate the fees of officers in civil
and criminal cases,-' passed March 5, 1831,
and all acts and parts of acts conflicting
with this act, be and they are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after the first day of June,
A. D. 1854.
F. C. LEBLOND,
Speaker the House of Representatives.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April 25, 1854.