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THE PEHRYS13UKG JOURNAL. t
Seminole, like that of Marius on the hordes
of the Cimbrk" Georgia University Mag
azine.
PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1854.
Universalist Meeting.
There will be preaching at the Universalist
Church in Perrysburg, bv Revs. George R.
Brown and Mr. Sweet, on Saturday and Sun
day, 2'Jth and .jUtti instants.
?rThe latest foreign news seems to ren
der it probable that Austria and Prussia will
join with France and England against Rus
sia. If this should prove true, the Autocrat
will have hot work up in his hyperborean
dominions, as these two nations combined
.are almost a match for him in land forces.
We hope prpsent appearances may not prove
deceptive, but have our doubts... The next
arrival we think likely will see-saw the mat
ter the other way. We would like to see
him severely handled, because we consider
his rule the most despotic and hopeless for
freedom of any in Europe. We do not
therefore wish to see it extended to new prov
inces, but rather crippled, subdued and re
stricted. His regard for " order" is rather
too strong for anything short of abject serf
dom. Sir-Russia has 300,000 men in and near
Turkey, 140,000 at and near St. Petersburgh,
and is now making a new levy of 9 men to
the 1000, by which 400,000 more are soon to
take the field. Russia is truly a giant power.
School Entertainment.
We are requested to say to our readers in
town and vicinity that the Perrysburg Union
School will give an entertainment in the
Court House on Friday evening, May 5, cora-
tnencing at1 o'clock. "They commenced
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i,ue ist ui man u lusi, io mane juservuiiuus
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uirecwuii aim lorce vi me wiuus uepm
of rajn that falls each month, &c, &c, and
to report the same to the Smithsonian Insti
tute at Washington City, at the close
each month. To do this correctly and suc
cessfully they need a Hygrometer, Barometer,
and various other instruments, which they
now lack ; and to purchase these it will re
quire some funds ; and to raise the needful,
they solicit a contribution from every person
who may attend in proportion to their ability
ind liberality. We hope they will not
disappointed in getting the means to carry
out their laudable enterprise, and that
who go, will endeavor to give something.
The project is new in this place, but Jas been
successfully practiced in many of our neigh
boring Union Schools for some time past.
in Sandusky City the school raised, during
the, .winter of 1852 and 1853, in a similar
way, a sum sufficient to purchase a good
Piano-Forte, and last winter soma 8300
different purposes.
(OGraham's Magazine for May is recei
ved. It has some choice articles, especially
ihose of a historical character, and the usu
al supply of pictorial embellishments.
' -zsKThe Ladies' Keepsake for April has
most beautiful engraving of a wedding scene,
with prose and poetical articles to match.
John S. Tavlor, publisher, N. Y. Price $1.
The Washington Union of the 20th says
'The Gadsden treaty was ratified by
enate. It arranges the Mesilla Valley difii
nilty; provides a route for the Pacific
abrogates the second article of
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and recognizes
(he transit granted in 1853 over thoTehuan
tftrc,"for all of which $10,000,000 is to
paid." The Union intimates that the treaty
u-ilHead to peaceful relations between
Uv States anxl Mexico.
How to Raise the Wind. A wealthy
Odessa merchant thought himself very gen
erous when he subscribed 10,000 roubles to
wards the expenses of the war. The empe
ror Nicholas, however, was of" a different
opinion, and gave orders that he shquld fully
equip two cavalry regiments, and maintain
them for two years.
N. P. Willis states in the Home Journal
that his father had three children, viz: Rich
ard Storrs Willis, Fanny Fern (although the
sminkv Fannv dnps not seem to be. nroud of
ihe. relation"! and himself. This statement
puts at rest the relationship of that redoubt-!
able lady.
An old Dutchman, who had recently joi.i-
ed the temperance society, being taken sir.;,
sent to the doctor to prescribe lor Inm, wl o
ordered him to take an ounce of brandy per
day. The old chap overhauled his arithme
tic, and found in the table of apothecaries'
weights, that eight drnhms make an ounce.
' Mine Cot," says the Dutchman, " dat is ter
deinperance for me ; I didn't get but six
drams before, and now 1 gets eight."
City of Brooklyn. The bill consolida
ting Brooklyn and Williamsburg has become
a law. The Tribune says:
The present population of the new city is
probably in the neighborhood of 200.000, and
is rapidly increasing, making it undoubtedly
the third city in the Union. The next step
will be annexation to New York, of which
it is now quite us much a component part
as Westminster is of London; and then N.
York will soon be the largest city in the world
Arr.os Brown of Granville. N. Y., under
took to cure himself of the habit of chewing
tobacco, by using cloves as a substitute. The
experiment succeeded but killed him. The
cloves produced convulsions, of which he died
The Journal de Quebec mentions a report
that the Provincial government is going to
klemand S0.000 a year for the maintenance
or a standing ilrmy in Canada.
t
I On Thursday night of last week the Pro-
oulpeller Princeton, running on the north shore
1oF T.nliP T'.rip wacciinlf ninr P.arpnlnnn Slie
y
I "as luaueu wim merenanmse iur AAuroii mm
. Chicago. Loss $10,000; insurance 87,000
of
be
all
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the
rail
road; the
be
the
Bank Failure. It. is currently reported
that the Bank of Castleton, Vt., has stopped
payment. There is no positive information.
except that its bills are refused at the Suf
folk Bank in Boston. This rumor comes by
telegraph under date of April 20th.
John Randolph once said, " he expected
to live to the time when slaves in Virginia
would advertise for runaway masters; it
took all the corn to feed the hogs all the
hogs to feed the negroes and there was noth
ing left the planters.
Fruit Uninjured. The Newatk Times is
informed by soma of the best horticulturists
that fruit is not at all injured by the late
severe weather and that the frost of Tues
day night was rather a benefit, e ffecting only
the sickly buds, and leaving the vigorous
ones the whole benefit of the nutriment fur
nished by the tree.
The main building of Bloomington Col
lege, indiana, was burned a few days since,
with the library adjoining supposed to
nave neen set on lire. Ihe estimated loss ot
the library is from eight to ten thousand
dollars
still greater.
The loss on the college, building
San Francisco, at the last accounts, was
crowded with idlers, and the. whole State
was experiencing the effects of " hard times."
Wages are remarkably low, men being hired
at from $25 to $50 per month, boarding
themselves at that.
The bill for the abolition of slavery in the
republic of Venezuela has passed the Con
gress of that country, at the suggestion
the President Mono gas. By this measure,
some 16,000 slaves ore set free.
The famous Miss Delia ,Webster, lately
arrested in Kentucky, on suspicion of. aiding-
in the escape of. slaves, has been re
leased. .
Southern Methodist Conference. The
general conference of the Methodist Church,
South, will meet in Columbus Georgia, in
May next, and urnong the most important
business, will be to locate the Methodist book
etsablishmcnt. U will be a fortunate city
that secures the location. We understand
that there will be a meeting of the citizens;
of Memphis, at Exchange Building, on
Thursday night next, upon the subject.
The Legislature of Tennessee passed, at its!
last session, a law to regulate the e.manci-
nation of slaves. It provides for the trans-1
portatian to the western coast of Africa, of
all slaves heretofore or hereafter liberated,
land all free persons of color who fail to give
bond for ood behavior.
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Straw Paper. Ihe 1 Iniadelplua L 'dger
is now printed on proper made principally
of straw. This paper is made by Feinour &.
Nixon, ut their paper mills in Manayuuk.
It is made by what is called Mellier's pro
cess, which has been recently patented, and
by which it is claimed that paper for print
ing can be made from almost any vegetable
fibrous substance. One of the difficulties
with straw paper heretofore has b en to
make it white enough for printing purposes.
This is now done by a process of bleaching,
of which Mr. Mellier is the patentee.
Tun Death of Hoffman. William O.
Hoffman, who was shot with a pistol by the
wife of Win. C. Baker on the afternoon of
the 5lh inst., died from the. eflects of the
wound, at the Sisters' hospital, on Thursday
evening at twenty minutes past eight o'clock
havingsurvived his injuries just eight days
anil six hours. St. Louis D-m., 15th.
Never chew your words. Open the mouth
and let the voice, come out. A student
once asked "Can virchue, for lie hude, grat
ichude or quiechude dwell with a man who
is a stranger to reetichude
Emigration from the East to the West.
Now that' he emigration frow New Eng
land to California and Australia, has in a
degree ceased, the emigration to the West
l- . i-. w.miviiniiniinil it iim'i I K' i t wri'i Llltfl fl In
We learn that during the present spring.
v Worcester
number leaving by the wav
and the Western railroads, is nearly double
that of any previous year. In many cases
whole, families, apparently in comfortable
circumstances, take their departure. A large
portion arc from Maine, with some: from
Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Many
intend to locate in Illinois, and a portion
bound to Wisconsin, and even to the. terri
tories still farther westward. Boston
Traveller.
is
of
Belgian Arms for Russia. Letters from
Berlin state that the rfcent prohibition to
transport arms and munitions of war across
the Prussian territory was rendered necessary
to a state professing neutrality, by the large
orders which the Liege manufacturers have
b?,en manufacturing for the Russian govern
ment, as many as from 15,000 to 16,000
stand having already been forwarded. It
said that the Russian General, Glenke, with
four or five, other officers, has been settled
at Liege during several moiths, in order
superintend the manulaclure and transmis
sion of improved muskets to Russia.
At the Southern Convention, Parson
Brownlow, the eccentric editor of Tennes
see, having been called upon for a speech,
held forth as follows:
" I decline making a speech, and I submit
nothing now for the action of the conven
tion ; but I will say ;i word or two expres
sive of my opinion, and I will come
what I am aiming at, by remarking that
when our Pilgrim Fathers landed
Plymouth Rock, they adopted these resolu
tions : They Resolved first. That the earth
is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; Re
solved, secondly, lhat the carta is in
tended by the. Lord as an inheritance
his saints: Resolved, thirdly, That wu
his saints.' 1 therefore conclude? my re
marks, by Resolving, firstly, That the island
of Cuba is the Lord's and the fullness there
of ; .Resolved, secondly, That he intends
for the saints of jlhe South; and. Resolved,
thirdly, That we are the 6aiuts." Laugh
ter. v '
Preparations ok the Russians to re
ceive Napier. Napier's fluot, at last ac-counts--the
20 th of March was again un
der way, the supposed destination biing to
seize the Island of Aland. Kiogr? Bay i0
named as a rendezvous. Lord Dlootufield,
the British Minister at B'llii), telgranhed
t .s'ir Charles Napier the. declaration of war,
wiui instructions io commence nosiiuiies.
The Russians were making stem prepara
tions for hostilities in the Baltic. It was
supposed that the first collision would occur
at Vesel Island. All the light-houses and
buovs arc removed, and formidable fleets ol
j gun-boats are. collected in shallow water ;
the principal points. Masses of rock are
dragged along the ice to intricate parts of
I the channel, io block it when t tic ic shall
melt. All i:ie nouses m L-roustadt not cana-
,)U. ))f (U.r,nce are ,,.,1UI (1.nvu N,nv blt.
teries were, erecting everywhere, and 200
additional gun boats had been ordered forth
with.
p
Th" Czar and his sons were personal
ly superinU nding the preparations.
ScARCITV OF l'Vlll'.R.ME.N. 'I'll. UDUSIial
demand for seam -n in th.- merchant serv ice,
and the very high wages thai are now paid,
(being for short voyages from 2.) to ?"J."prr
month for ordinary iivn,) 1ms l aiis -d a greut
scarcity of li.-hrrm n. Tli Boston Trail
script sas: "We learn that at Cape Cod
ports, crews cannot be ohiaiii'd in many in
stances for the vessels now ready to sail.-
Our New England hVheiies are now so ex
tensive that gr at numb -is of in n are re
quired. The ll-et at Ghvieester alon- re
quires the services of from 2,50'J to 3,000
men. This numb"r would b; sniheient to
man one hundred ships! For several yearj
past ther; lias h-en no difficulty in .--hipping
crews for liMiing vessels, an I prohaby there.
theof S')n ,krs U) '.urease the numb.-rand urgen-
i ..j.......... .iui. , uui nun
would b; none now, were it not for the gr-'at
wages paid in the merchant service."
O orge Sanders says Ir consid-rs the Con
sulshipat London the most desirable office
in the gift of the Pr-si l nt. It is worth
fifterii thousand dollars a year, and hj hopes
that the "best fellow in America'' may get
it. This enormous exaggeration of th
moluments of the office is probably a trick
is
to
to
at
for
are
it
add to the perplexities and embarrassment
necessarily attendant upon making the ap
pointment. The consul at London receives
2.000 a year and fees." When tin com
pensation was fixed by law, the f -es wen
not sufficient to Fecure th". services of k
competent and proper nun ; so a salary wn
given in addition th'ieto. Probably tin
aggregate, emoluments have nver readied
one-half the. sum named by Sanders. Six
years ago the maximum amount of fees re
ceived in a single year was less than four
thousand dollars. Buff. Coin.
Mr. John Holmes, of Stafford, Conn.,
made last nuturnn, twenty-six barrels of
wine from the grapes that grew spontaneous
ly in and around the swamps of the town ;
and his brother made some half n dozen bar
rels. We venture to say that these twentv
six barrels of wine ure not equal in value io
the same quantity of good cider. Wine
produced lioin the indigenous grape of the
north is ol a harsh, acrid flavor, just about
as palatable as cider vinegar sweetened with
maple molasses. Buff. Com.
The Last from the Sun Glasgow. No
news yet of this steamer, mid the anxiety
has now become intense. She has been out
this is the 55th day -o long that it is
now feared she must have gon: down with
all on hoard. We stated a few days since,
that seamen did not give her up ; but as she
has not come to light, hope of her safety
daily grows fainter. She was of the Liver
pool and Philadelphia steam packet line;
was a large vessel, and had on board onr
hundred and ten passengers, besides officers
and crew. Icebergs were in the sea right
in her course, 48 north latitude, during
last month; and the opinion prevails that
she may have struck one of the bergs und'
gone down.
It is proposed to send out the steamer
Granite State in quest of the Glasgow. Sh
will proceed to the Azores, the Bahamas, and
cruise off the Banks to the North, in hopti
of either falling in with the wreck or of get
ting news of her. --