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370 THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL. P E R R Y 8 B tmtU OURN A L . MONDAY, JANUARY 30, : 1853. &We see by our Colu'rnbus papers that the. legislature has been balloting for a Uni ted States Senator in place of Mr. Chase. In 22 ballotings, very little progress appears to have been made towards an election. Allen and Manypenny were, the chief competitors, having about SO. votes each, two or three more or less, while Pugh and Medary follow with about 18 and 12 votes each. Forty eight votes are necessary to a choice. We hare considerable faith that Pugh will be the winner finally. Medary seems to bo too short legged to lead in a race; his forte is in driving, so we see him driving three more aile competitors before him in this race. . .EeWc did not expect to have our doubts of. the President's interference with the Erie rioters, expressed last week, so soon confirm ed by his refusal. We thought he would bhuffie awhile before dodging, but he had an opportunity to dodge, and he has improved the first one that offered. See article headed 'The Erie Mob and the President." Young Hickory. Was not this the name by which our Pierce friends were wont to oxtol and magnify the merits of their candi date for the Presidency a year or two ago? If our memory be rot at fault, we so under stood them. For example, see the Presi dent's proclamation in this paper. Is this after the manner of Old Hickory? When did "the old top ever do the like? On the contrary, during the war of Texas for its in dependence of Mexico; men and munitions ot -.war were freely and openly mustered and nt to Texas from the United States, and no proclamations from 'President Jackson were issued to disturb the "; volunteers " or make them shy. We very well remember tht' a company from Mt; Vernon, Ohio, came to Newark, fully . armed and, equip ped, on their way to Texas. - They stopped mNewark over night, pitched their tents arid" planted their standard of the'-Lone SUttm the public square.'' 'Next ' day.' they, marched away, and no government officer disturbed them. Such things were common thta."" Yet;the United States were just as mtfeh at peace with Mexico then as now. Something i3 wrong, Frank Pierce must bj awhig. What w the matter? fj5" We are indebted to the Hon. John L. Taylor for a copy of the agricultural' report of" the Commissioner of Patents, at Wash ingpn., This is a valuable document.and we arc tspeciaiLy. obliged to Mr. T. for it, as well TiaW-okhet favors. ' ' By the bye, Mr. Taylor is one of the most courteous, gentlemanly and attentive mem bers of congress. We were formerly a con sii'ttieiit'of his, and know from frequent ex perenceof the liberality and courtesies of which, we speak. Add to this the fact that On;! T. -is a gentleman of fine talents, an abfc and eloquent speaker, largo experience in public life, and wc have good reasons and plenty of them why he has no opposition when a candidate for a congressional nomi-natlonl A. W. Jewett will add rc?s the meinbeis of. Fort Meigs Lodge I. 0. 0. F. at tbeiiooin,'on Thursday evening, February lrT'b'clocl;. Th people geijelwll;' ore iuvftcd o attend. ; ' . DREADFUL TORNADO!—HOUSES BLOWN DOWN —BRANDON HALF DEMOLISHED!—MANY PEOPLE INJURED. Wade's line brings an account of a dread ful tornado which occurred Friday P. M., (20lh inst.) in the neighborhood of Mt. Ver non, in this state. It says : Yesterday P. M. our section of country was visited by one of the heaviest storms of wind, thunder and lightning, that We have had since 1523. The tornado was the hea viest about six miles south of us. The town of Brandon was almost entirely destroyed hardly a house is left to mark the site of the place. Dr. Wheaton, of Brandon, was severely if not fatally injured. Our first report was that ha was killed by the falling of a housed A Mrs. Smith, living about four miles from Mt. Vernon, hud her arm broken and her head severely cut by the fulling of her house. She is so severely injured that her life is de spaired of. The tornado was about half a mile wide, tearing up every thing in its track. At Brandon, large two-story houses were moved from their foundation soms ten or twelve feet. The full extent of the damase done has not yet been ascertained. 1 he streams soon overflowed their banks, and in attempting to cross Armstrong Run, in a buggy, a Mr. Eberiezer Jenkins was thrown from the bnggy ami drowned. The stable of Buckingham & Co., of Mt. Vernon, was struck by lightning. ine violence of the tornado was little less than that known there as the Burlinzton, tor nado, in 1828. The lower parts of Mt. Vernon were al most inundated bv the tremendous quantity of rain which fell, and the streets looked more like rivers than common thoroughfares. 03" Ve were an eye-witness to the " tor nado of 1828," as well as a subsequent one, almost as powerful, which occurred we think in May, 1834 or '5, and followed very nearly ill the track of the former. They were both tremendous whirlwinds, twisting off the lar gest trees as though they were but straw, and lifting up the heaviest timbers and even re moving rocks in some places. Houses were torn and shattered, and a few persons were either killed or injured in each case, but a great many very narrowly escaped. The track of the first one was about half a mile in width, in which nearly every tree or oth er prominent object was swept to the earth, for a length of about thirty miles, though it was marked by occasional intervals, where the fury of the winds appeared to be lifted up momentarily into mid-air, but to descend ; l J - again with redoubled violence. The country passed over was generally level, being the' western and northern part of Licking coun ty, Ohio; but when the hilly region of Co shocton county was reached, the force of the ! wmd3 was broken and abated. The rate at which this terrible whirlwind moved was not lees than 75 miles an hour The appearance of the clouds was singular. The weather had been rainy for several days, but the clouds had become light, broken and drifting. A dark cloud, with a perfectly level horizontal base, the upper part rounded and irregular towards the center, came from the west; the wind blew briskly and the cloud moved rap idly, and all the small light clouds in the hori zon seemed to be drawn irresistibly towards the rushing wbMpool and disappeared in it. I was about a mile from the track it travers ed. All the air below the dark cloud was filled with leaves, limbs of trees, &c. Those over whom the tornado passed, said that the air seemed to them to be full of fire, electri city, or something of the kind. The second tornado was much like the first, except that the lifting up of the wind from the earth was regular, , and therefore focarne the sooner broken and exhausted., Both pc- xurrcd on Sunday, 1 J j JZWe learn that all the ditches for drain ing the swamp lands of Wood county, late ly advertised by us, were let out to contract ors during the past week, and the lands se lected in payment for the different jobs were sot off. fhere are some surveys yet to be made, and some further ditching to be con tracted for in the county, but the great and most important part of the work has been let out, and we may expect in two years to see a great change in the appearance and val ue of the lands in Wood county. fXjrWe copy from tins Toledo Republican several notices of the improvements going on there. Some hints may be improved up on by our citizens to the advantage, of Per rysburg. Railroad machine and repair shops must be erected somewhere in this part of the country. Is not Perrysburg just as good a location for them in all respects as any other, and in soma respects a little better? If so, the fact should be made, known, and soma inducements held out to secure them. Our advantages and convenience of position will certainly compare favorably with those of Toledo. Workmen can live, here much cheaper than there. In fact, in every item of economy, this place would be much su perior to that for the location of these shops. Would it not be well to look into this mas ter a little before it is too lute? trOraham's Magazine for February is al ready here, and as usual abounds in good things. It starts off with the first chapter of an illustrated life, of Washington, by J. T. Ileadley. The table of contents of the number is varied and excellent. In addition to the monthly magazine, which wc consider by fur the best of its class, Graham publishes an excellent wekly paper, called the Saturday Evening Mail. It is a large double sheet, full of good reading and bad wood cuts, edited by Geo. R. Gra ham and published by Richard II. See. Price 2 a year, with tho usual reduction toclub- Graham has the liberality to send botli his magazine and paper to his exchanges. The paper is as much ahead of its compe titors as the magazine, and this is saying considerable. Blackwood's Magazine. We have recei ved the December and January numbers of this magazine of world-wide celebrity. We have not had time to examine them much as tof substantial fare ertisement and histor- 1JU t L IlUb IIUU 11 111.. IU V A U 1 1 1 yet, but expect a ricli treat c when we do. See advertise magazines are the cheapest and most instruc ical notice of Leonard Scott & Co.'s re-pub- licatioiio in another part of this paper. These tivc periodicals in the world. ZSrWe arc under obligations to the pub lishers of the New York Tribune for a copy of their Whig Almanac for 1854. This al manac contains Gl pages, and is always the best filled pamphlet to be found. This one contains all the most important state papers of the past year, the election returns, mem bers of congress, railways in the U. States, &c. &c. It is a book that every man should have. Price 12jj cts. single copy, or Si per dozen, or 87 per 100. Our progressive democratic friend of the Cincinnati Enquirer is specially bitter against any Democrat who shall show him self to be so much of an old fogy, a3 to fa vor the proposed usury law in the legisla ture. Judge Burchard and its friends will please consider themselves blown up, ex ploded, annihilated. The law would be " Qutrugcpns" and no credit to 'any man. It is antediluvian, &c. It is surprising how ignorant some old men,' and even ex -judges of that party are, of jhe V. principles of De-;nocjcy.''--0. S. Jout,..,., 4,; Montgomery's Pictorial Tiiiief.'NrY., is a gem the editorial an, J letter-prcsa" ei' pecially. It is a weekly quarto sheet, fcouio thing larger than ours, full of enravin at 1.50 'a year. . , i , ? lorvvarders on the railroads, both east and west ot us, have refused to take frt ft,r this city, in consequence, of which our mer- nTil n ib!c A? RCt l,,eir Rood from Bufiulo, Dunkirk, or Cleveland.-Krie Chron. Matters at Enin.--ThTlier)pl- of Erie last night hud another '-Public Meeting which was addressed by JU;1- Thompson, who advised a cessation of violence and im acquiescence in thr nvbivin ,.t ... ... in accordant; with the orders of the courts. mm i i.moaoiy in accordance with advice Irom Washington and llurri'burzh. Uul the .ml. med out bribery ! '-hooted at rimmpson. and, it is said, threaten d him with violence. It is very clear that tin. : . ' - io imciv Hill of the. control of ill I moderate, couus'els. 1112 people of Lm think th,.ir ,.: v ed over all opposition and that no power ... i .in u.: i) "in to bar which can put them down. Cleve. Il-r. of Thursday. Latmt from Ekik. Th IT vT tvt i is on tin ground at Harbor Creek protecting : " -m cImni i:u track. A large Tore.' ot hands are employed, the em bankment is ramdh- Wm i-..nini..i .u. (lesiroyeil bnd'-es vi soon l.r,.. ,;u c of th. more abandoned of ih,; mob talk t,f destroying it again us soon as the Marshal leaves. A hir' force of workman went down yes terday, from h-re, to rebuild the bridges nt En- Jf not obstructed ti. ..,. ,:n 1 uiiun will soon be closed and the cars ntr:,;,, lhe leading Attorney ot the mob, Tliomp- .-..'.. i.uuiisci.1 iHuj-rcsisinnce ; out it is to be feared that the iiiiL'ovfriviM,. vnc.;.. i and his accomplices rais?d will not down ut their bidding. Li wry and Kins have gone to Wushington.-fCleveland Dem Thf. Next State F.uu. Tim Kf;.trt rt,.i ..... i (ni oj Agriculture lately had a meeting in ibU city, an I resolved to hold the next State I'.ur nt Nnviirk. Licking Cx. on Tuesday. Wedivsdav, Thursday and Friday, th 17th' 18th. 19th and 20th of They (.cidd that the premium list on cat tle should renriin as it was last year. A premium of 25 was offered for the bet hedge of 50 rods. (O. S. Jour. Acciisknt to Mil. Couwiw. Th: Slaf Democrat of this morning says that th Hon. Thomas C-mviti met with'an accident last evening, at Morrow. In stepping from the baggage car, In fell on a piece of timber, cultins his mouth severely, and breaking out his front teeth. He was under th of a physician when our informant, who was on tin train, left. Chillicothf is to be honored with at least a great novelty. A new and beautiful Mo sonic edifice is being erected there, and J. P. Brown, Esq., our Dragoman at Constanti nople, lias procured from the foundations of thj Temple, ot Jerusalem, a piece of marble which he is fully satisfied formed an integral portion of the Temple of Solomon, and ha forwarded it to Judge. Orr of Clullirnthn tn - - ...... V ... be placed in the new hall at that place. This will be an object of great curiosity and interest wnen it arrives. A young man who was committed to jail in Provincetown, N. J., in S"ptember last, eloped a few days since with the jailor's wife, and about -100 in money belonging to tho jailor. Itev. W. P. Strickland, pastor of Union Chapel, M. E. Church. Cincinnati, lately performed a marriage for a couple, and re ceived in return for his services, from the bridegroom the neat sum of 850 in gold; and from the bride, a deed of a city lot val ued at 2.500. r - .'. A singular discovery has been made' in taking' a census of the Island of Trinidad, being that of two encampments of tho oboriginal Indians of the island, belonging to a race perfectly distinct from any hitherto known.