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26 THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL. hold of Paradise, and the golden gates were opened to trie lair, meek girl. Ihere trem bled on her hps a prayer and blessing for Ben Bolt, and her mother, giving radiance to the fair, dead face: and they braided Spring flowers in her wavy brown hair. The church-bell chimed softly to the few vcars earth had claimed the stainless soul of Alice May, as they brought the coffin in the little old church. Ilow beautiful she looked in her white burial robe ; too fair and sweet lor death ; too holy, had there not been a res urrection beyond. Close beside her, stood Jhe friends of her girlhood, gazing on that young face, as if they would fain call her hack to life, and its sweet love. So they laid sweet Alice to sleep in the old church yard, and those who had looked coldly on her, took to their sorrowing hearts a sweet memory of the early dead. There was agony too deep for utterance, vhen the strong, ardent-hearted man, whose guiding star had been the love of that sweet girl, came back to find the cottage home desolate, find Alice sleeping beneath a gray stone in the church-yard. But God and Time are merciful, and as years passed away, he came to think of her as garlanded in the golden fruitage of the Eden-land. This was the memory his friend sang of, as they satin the Summer twilight, years after ward, and talked of the faces that had glim mered and faded in their early pathway; how, of all the glad hearts childhood had clustered together, only they two were left. Some .-lept in the tremulous ocean ; some in the jungle depths ; others in the forest shade, ind beneath the waving prairie grass. Soma there were who slept peacefully in the green old church-yard, and among these, the fair est and best was " sweet Alice." Ah, he could never have forgotten that. He had heard from the lips of that deso late mother, ere she went to sleep beside her darling, how patient and holy Alice had grown ; how she had passed caimly away in her saint-like beauty; leaving messages that ifond, yearning heart only could dictate. 'Down in his heart, deeper than any earthly ihing, had he laid them ; cherishing their , beauty and greenness. Many a time had the spirit-form of sweet Alice risen before his iiyes, in all the beauty of that far-off land he saw but so dimly, and he knew when the thing we call life had merged into immor tality, he should meet her again. Years afterward, they laid Ben Bolt to leep by the side of sweet Alice. Literary Companion. Missouri Speaking. There is a strong feeling in Missouri in favor of the immedi ate organization of Nebraska into a territory, but without the repeal of the Missouri Com promise. In announcing the disposition of Douglas's bill by the House, the St. Louis Democrat says : The result of the vote in the House of representatives upon the Nebraska bill has been decisive of its fate, and gives the mournful tidings that the territories will not be organized until the next session of Con gress. This has been caused solely by tack ing on the bill of the Missouri Compromise, and a new slavery agitation, thus turning the warmest advocates of the immediate or ganization into opponents of the Douglas fraud. That a bill which did net touch the slave- whelming majority in the House, nobody doubts, and and. we shall therefore hold the authors of the attempted infraction of the compromises responsible for the defeat of .this great, measure. The St. Louis Intelligence a leading whig journal, .speaks emphatically on the subject as follows : Thus ends it. See what disaster Douglas has brought on the West! A thousand of his lives would not make amends. The country did not ask him to stir the slavery iiestiqn by striving to repeal the Missouri Compromise. A bill to organize Nebraska and Kausas, without one word of slavery, would have passed long since, and the mighty West would have now two. new stars on her coronet. But Doughs and Pierce hava spoiU our hopes by gratuitous iu.l.lj. PERRYSBURG JOURNAL. MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1854. BINDING. Subscribers who wish to have the first volume of the Perrysburg Journal bound, can have it well done for $1 by leav ing the papers at this office. We can supply missing numbers to a limited extent. Change of Publication Day. Hereafter we will put our paper to press on Friday evening, and publish it on Saturday morning. Advertisements should be sent in by Thursday morning. JMT-Mr. James W. Ross, who had charge temporarily of the Perrysburg Union School for a few months past, has given it up end Mr. Smith, a young gentleman from Cleve land, has taken the place. The warm April showers, with thun der and lightning for ornament, have com menced unusually early this spring and ter minated suddenly with snow ! tr-Putnam's Magazine for April editor's copy is received. " Connecticut Gcorgics" is the only article we have read, and it is redundant with over-wrought " georgics" to be sure. Putnam contains no commnn-nlapp articles ; all is artistic, elegant, finished. Sam Pike, formerly of the Piketonian, Piketon, Pike county, O., subsequently of the Fleming Flag, Maysville Flag, Cov ington Flag, Puducah Pennant, and any number of other papers, has again hoisted his colors at Paris, Ky.. under the name and style of The Kentucky Flag. We have received Leonard Scott & Co.'s reprint of Blackwood's Magazine for March. Its contents are " Disraeli : a Biography: The Quiet Heart.part iv., The Russian Church and the Protectorate in Turkey; The Two Arnolds; Count Sigismund's Will; News irom me arm; Alexander Smith s Poems; The Epidemics of the. Middle Ages ; The Song of Metrodorus ; The New Reform Bill. Price 63 a year Price of Blackwood and any one of the Four Reviews, 85; the four Reviews and Blackwood 810. Wheat in Ohio. By the renort of the. nnrli'nr nf ctatn h-i V 1 . . UbUbU, V see an exhibit of the number of acres of land in each county in the state of Ohio, cultiva ted in wheat during the years 1850 and 1852, together with the number of bushels yielded in each county, and the average yield per acre. Paulding county has the fewest acres, being only 1.401, with a yield of 17,301 bushels, or a little more than 12 bushels to the acre. Muskingum conntv has ihe lr - o y-1 ' " " - ' of acres, haviner 53.740 aeres wiih n of 801,957 bushels, or a little less than 15 i i .i Dusneis to tne acre, Cuyahoga COUIltv onlv renortR .1. 175 nr-rec with a yield of 43290 bushels, or about 15 uusueis 10 ine acre. The largest average vielrl npr nrrf ia in Summit county, having 20,831 acres, yield- iiig'iuu.io Dusneis, Deing 33 bushels to the acre. The smallest aerane viehl is in Hardin county, having 6,153 acres, yielding 36852 bushels, or not quits six bushels to the acre. The total number of acres in the state was 1,624.715. vieldins 22.9G2.77d bushM wirh an average of 14 bushels per acre. , i... luiruing ia uro currtxi estimate lor the year 1852. O. City Express. Wood countv was not. l-ermrtPil i In 1851 the number of acres was 5,580, yield- : no ca i ii . . . mg oo,4 Dusneis, ueing nearly ID bushels per acre. In 1852, ther.i were 5,014 acres, yielding 52,111 bushels, being but little over 10 bushels per acre, or a reduction of one third from the previous y;ar. Later from Havana The Black War rior Affair Settled. New Orleans, March 24. By the arrival at this port of the Empire City, from Havana, we learn that the authorities of Cuba ha Black Warrior, upon the condition of the payment ot a line ol tfb.UOO ; which Capt. iiuuoci; uaci accepted, and would take pos session of his vessel on the 22d, and imme diately sail for New York. Young gentlemen who dress in tight pants and bob tail coats, are called "Shanghais." Lola Montez was severely bitten in the hand by her pet grizzly bear, at Grass Valley, on the 9th of Feb. A man standing near, struck him over the head with a club, and thereby saved her life. lion. Wm. A. Graham, late, whig, candid ate for ihe vice presidency, is a candidate for the U. S. senate, from North Carolina. The population of London, C. W., is now over 10,000, and the inhabitants are about to apply for a city charter. Archbishop Hughes, the Catholic prelate of New York, having visited Havana, is said to have returned chock full of Cuban annex ation sentiments. Recent advices from Rome give a sad ac count of the financial condition of the Pope's temporal dominions. Not only is His Holi ness insolvent, but the affairs of ihe Roman states are in a desperate plight altogether. Politically they have long been in a most critical, not to say hopeless state ; but finan cially their position is now still more alarm ing. There are charges of cruelty, corruption, licentiousness and insubordination among the managers of the Ohio penitentiary, made with great freedom in the legislature. One member said he had been threatened with as sassination if he pushed an investigation. A female convict, after an incarceration of a year or two in the prison, has become the mother of a child there. A negro convict has been inhumanly tortured by severe flog gings with the "cat," ami confinement and freezing in a dungeon, for 15 days, on suspi cion of having stolen, or of knowing who did steal, some money that was missed by one of the officers of the prison. Arrival of the Northern Light. The steamship Northern Light, Captain Churchill, from San Juan del Norte, arrived at New York on Saturday morning, bringing San Francisco dates to the 1st inst. The Northern Light left Jan Juan on the Till willi MSv nnccoiirorc ami Ci 1 Ti f lOO in . .-J specie on ireiglu. She connected with the steamship Sierra Nevada, which left San Francisco on the 17th inst. Gen. Wool arrived out on the 15th Feb- ruary and entered on the duties of his office,! and relieved Gen. Hitchcock as commandant ot the Pacific division, on the 17th. On the 20th, the Council of San Francisco ten dered the freedom of the city to him. ' The late rains had forced thr San Diego river into the new bed, which had its outlet in False Bay. It was thought that the dams' made last summer would prove amply strong. It was expected that the Sacramento Water Works would be in operation about) the 1st of March. The agitation in the north for the forma-1 tion of anew territory out of the Klamath country still continues. Another conven- tion had been called for, to meet at Jackson- ville, O. T., on the 7th of April. On the 24th of February the Assembly) the Senate bill for the removal of the capital from Benicia to Sacramento, and on tho 1st of March the Legislature was to meet! the new capital. The citizens of Beni-fcury were so much exasperated that they would not permit the steamer intended tb the records to he at the wharf with- out paying 600. ? money was very ugut inoan rranciscojij Iti perhaps there never was such a pressure is anticipated that the opening of thi mint, which would take place about the middle of March, would bring relief by furnishing coin. Real estate has fallen considerably since New Year's day. Since the rains, Sacramento river is navi gable and communication regular as high up as Red Bluffs. During the month of February, in San Francisco, there but four marriages and ten divorces. Oregon Territory. We have dates from Portland to the 15th Feb. The Legislative Assembly adjourned the 2d day of February, after a session of 60 days. . A bill was passed ordering a vote to be taken in June, on the question of the forma tion of a Stato government. If there be a majority for the State organization, the Gov ernor will order an election in September, for members of a convention, and in Feb ruary, 1855, the convention will meet. There seems to bj a general inactivity in business matters in Oregon, as well as Cal ifornia. Gold, the circulating medium of the country, is quite scarce, and in conse quence property changes hands at large re ductions from former prices. There seems to be plenty of merchandise on hand to supply the trade. There has been a movement in southern Oregon of some significance, working to the erection of a new State in that quarter. Meetings und conventions have ben held, and memorials will go forward to Washing ton, urging the proposition. During the severe cold weather which pre vailed in Oregon during the latter part of January, the ice formed in places six inches thick ; and opposite Oregon City piled up until the bank was 60 feet high. A largt; quantity was taken out for future us:' at thut place. The weather continued mild and clear up to the 12th of February, when snow fell to the depth of 4 inches. It had, how ever, disappeared by the 15th. Charters have been granted for a railroad from Umpqua to Portland, and for two road around Ciackamas rapids. There are favorable reports from the mint- in the south. The miners about Jackson ville have commenced a canal to bring Ap plegate creek to that town, through u rich mining district. The canal will bj 11 milt long. Washington Territory. Full returns of the late election have not yet been received, but it is conceded that Columbia Lancuster, the democrat, is elected to Congress. It is thought that the whigs will have a majority of one or two in the legislature. I ennu' or- 1 n cfrntiiT mnrfinrr irm.l 1m... r.m ,"' , """"fa a . the ,lorlillpniiL Our dates from Honolulu are to January 21. The Polynesian of the 14th, contains the retail market prices, of which we give a specimen : Beef, 7 to 9c por pound; fresh The weather during the third week in Jan uary, was extremely severe, although the climate in the Sound is unusually mill. For three mornings the thermometer stood at l deg. above zero, and on the 19th between 7 and 8 degrees. The ground was crusted with pork 12c, mutton 15 to 13c, hams 25c, but ter 50 to G2c, lard 25c. flour St 15 to 818 per bbl., fowls, each 50 to 75c, ducks 75c to 1, turkeys 61 to 62, eggs per doa.Mi, 75c to ?Ir wood, per cord, fcdb, onions, per bushel. $0, tea, coffee and sugar, about the same niir-th as with us. I Under the heading of " Winter Weather," I the Polynesian, of January 21, says : "We have had several days of winter j weather during the past wtrk, and the ther mometcr has actually been down to 60 a I degree of cold which attracted thci observn tion of every body, and has elicited as much remark as ten degrees below zeio would have (called forth in cold climates. This temper- at ure has been highly enjoyed by most pto passed pie, and no cases of freezing to death have j as yet come to our knowledge." Downio sixty degrees ! and when the mer in falls that low, it is noticeable as win cia Uer weather in the Sandwich Islands, Whbat Prospects in Illinois. Thj Al remove ton Telegraph says : In this vicinity the prospect of the wheat crop is most nrornis- 0 to ihe snow which l.rm.r.n h rrrnnnrl lbr prp.ntpr nnrt rF ihn u?imf. the ground the greater part of tho winter. the crop was not at all injured by ulter natc thawings and freezings, but was well protected, and already, since the last few days of growing weather, presents a green and velvety appearance. In the neighbor hood of Monticcllo, especially, the wheat fields look most beautiful, and give promise of an abundant yield. Wo have heard no statement of the amount of winter wheat put in, but believe it is above the usual quantity. The Peru Chronicle lately stated that tht appearance of the winter wheat in that re gion indicated a very moderate crop, but that farmers were intending to make up for it by putting in, unusually largo crops of spring wheat. ; '