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THE PERItYSBUItG JOURNAL.
PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1854.
The proceedings of the Republican
Mass Meeting, held at Mrs. Munn's on
"Wednesday last, will be found in this paper.
Wc hear that the attendance was quite re
spectable as to numbers, that the business
and nominations were perfected with entire
unanimity, and that the best of feeling pre
vailed among those in attendance. It is
believed by some that the ticket put in
nomination by the meeting can be elected
entire. We think it possible, but believe it
will require some little effort on the part of
the. democratic portion of the Anti-Nebraska
men with their friends to accomplish this
result. The ticket is a first rate one, and;
commends itself to the good favor of the
people of Wood county who spurn alike
party shackles and the propagation of slave
ry.
In another place will be found the
article of Mr. Forterfield, which we copy
from the Hancock Courier. His charges!
against the Steedman influence are bitter and
sweeping, but doubtless in the main just.
The editor of the Hancock Courier reviews
Mr. Porterfield's letter, and, although he
abides the decision of the convention and
supports its nominee, he does not controvert
the truth of Mr. Porterfield's statements,
Tnit argues that Mr. Commager should not
bo held accountable for the sins and short
comings of the Steedman clique. This po
sition is correct had Mr. Commager obtained
the nomination by a fair expression of the
democratic voters of the district; but, un
supported by the " canal influence,'' he could
uot have been nominated, and hence he is
the representative of that clique instead of
.he democracy of the district; and it is
therefore legitimate and right to treat him as
their tool and defeat him if possible that the
blow may fall upon them. This, in fact,
is the only way to reach them. The ques
tion resolves itself into this : will the peo
ple of the 5th congressional district longer
submit to the rule and mastery of James B.
.Steedman or not.
Postpone!) The Wood County Fair till
Oct. 11th and 12th. See notice elsewhere.
Also the Lucas Co. Fair till Oct. 6th&7th.
The Ohio State Fair will be held at New
rk October 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th.
The national Cattle Fair will be held at
Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 25th, 26th and 27th.
The national Horse Fair is to be held at
Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, Oct. 12th,
13th and 14th.
23?There will be preaching at the Uni
rersalist church in Perrysburg to-morrow at
the usual hour.
An arrival at New York from Honduras,
with advices to Aug. 12th, brings intelli
gence that the business part of the town of
Belize, comprising 100 buildings, has been
destroyed by fire, involving a loss of half a
million of dollars.
Well in the Rivf.k. The railroad com
pany have been boring for water in the river
bed at their new depot grounds, and have
struck a beautiful vein of clear soft water,
at the depth of about 60 feet. It boils up
beautifully, and it is thought there will be
more than enough to supply all the wants
ii the , dpot. Toledo Blade.
Dayton and Michigan Railroad. The
directors of the Dayton and Michigan, rail
road met here yesterday, and determined to
move the office of the company from Troy
to Dayton. It was also resolved to build a
warehouse to accommodate business of the
load at this point. Daytoa Gar.
Republican Convention.
PLAIN Tp., Sept. 12, 1854.
Convention organized by the appointment
of Hon. Eber Wilson, chairman, and
Samuel Johnson, Esq., secretary.
On motion of James Murray, Esq., a com
mittee on Resolutions was appointed. The
committee as appointed consisted of James
Murray, Asher Cook, John A. Kelly, W. R.
Peck and Thomas Gorrill.
On motion of John A. Kelly, Esq., a com
mittee was appointed to Teport rules and
regulations tor the government ot tins con
vention. J. S. Norton, John A. Kelly and
Robert Stewart, were appointed that com
mittee. On motion of Asher Cook, Esq., a com
mittee was appointed to present candidates
for the nomination of the convention ; the
committee as appointed consisted of Asher
Cook, Marshall Key, Jr. and Henry Shively.
The convention then took a recess until
half past 1 o'clock P. M.
15 o'clock P. M. Convention re-assembled
James Murray, from the committee on
resolutions, reported the following, which
were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That this convention approve
and adopt the platform adopted by the. State
Republican Convention, of July 13, 1854.
Resolved, That inasmuch as all political
power emanates directly from the people,
therefore we hold our public servants re
sponsible to us for all their acts as such.
Resolved, That whenever the public ser
vants violate the wishes of their constitu
ents, as well as those principles of govern
ment which we believe to be right, we hold
ourselves irrespective of party, authorized
and required by the position we occupy to
dissent from their acts, as well as to call
them to account for such violation of our
wishes.
Resolved, That when we abandon the
position assumed by the last resolution, we
cease to be free and independent citizens of
a republic, and render ourselves the blind
slaves of party dictation.
Resolved, That we are in favor of a just
and economical administration of the finan
cial affairs of the county, and to this end,
we request the auditor of the county to let
to the lowest responsible bidder, the public
printing, after giving due notice, so that all
desiring to do so may have an opportunity
to present their bids.
J. S. Norton, Esq., from the committee
on rules, made a report, allowing to each
township the same number of votes in the
convention that they were entitled to of
jurymen ; declaring the person receiving the
highest number of votes for any office the
nominee of the convention, and prescribing
the order of voting to be, first, for Clerk ;
second, Probate Judge; third, Commission
er ; fourth, Coroner ; and fifth, Sheriff.
On motion of Marshall Key, Esq., the re
port was so amended as to require a majori
ty of all the votes cast, for a nomination,
and the report as amended was adopted.
Asher Cook, Esq., from the committee on
the presentation of the names of candidates
for nomination to the different offices, made
a report referring the whole matter back to
the convention, and the report was adopted.
On motion, the convention proceeded to
ballot for candidates for nomination to the
different offices, and the following persons
having received a majority of all the votes
cast, were declared duly nominated ;
Clerk of the Court,
JOHN WEBB.
Probate Judge,
JOHN A. KELLY.
Commissioner,
H. L. WOOD.
Coroner,
L. S. SERGEANT.
Sheriff,
WILLIAM L. COOK.
On motion, tin following psrsons were
appointed a3 delegates to thj Congressional
Convention, to. be held on the 15th ir.st., at
Defiance : Asher Cook, F. R. Miller, M. Key,
Jr., L. C. Lock, S. Hatch, E. Graham, J. S.
Norton, H. Shively, H. A. Payne, Eber Wil
son, Emilius Wood, H. L. Wood.
It was unanimously resolved that our del
egatio.n to said Convention, be rcquested to
present the name of Asher Cook, Esq., as a
pioper person to be the nominee of said
Convention for Congress.
Th following persons were appointed a
Central Committee : James Murray, E. Gra
ham, Eber Wilson, Geo. W. Baird, J. Ser
geant, John A. Kelly and Emilius Wood.
EBER WILSON, Chm'n.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Sec'ry.
Vermont Election. The election in
Vermont is anollvr "Nebraska Settler."
It, foots up as follows: Whig Stale ticket
chosen by over five thousand majority; an
entire whig delegation in the U. S. House of
Representatives ; an entire anti-Nebraska
state senate, and an overwhelming majority
of the same sort in the lower House, which
ensures the election of a whig United States
senator, who will probably be Mr. Colla
mer, who was Postmaster-General under
General Taylor. It would be a pleasant
event to see Old Zack's Postmaster-General
coming into the Senate from Vermont, and
his second-assistant, Fit Henry Warren,
coming in from Iowa. Who -will say that
the Anti-Nebraska sentiment is not national,
when the extreme east and the extreme west
speak one voice in regard to it.
Indiana Frer Banks. It is stated that
many of the Indiana free banks are returning
their circulation. Within the last few days,
100,000 has been returned, and the bonds
taken up. Every day this is going on. The
total circulation of tli-.i free banks, last week,
was 87,641,977.
Pork and Corn in Indiana. A corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing
from Peru, Ind., S;pt. 9ih, says :
The corn crop through this region is bet
ter than the average, for some years previous,
both in the quantity per acre and the num
ber of acres cultivated. There are a great
many purchasers bargaining for it now, bo
fore it is harvested. They are generally from
the south part of the State and from Ken
tucky. Some are buying for speculation,
and some for fatting pork. They purchase
the hogs in the. southern counties for from
81 to 81.50 per 100 lbs., and get the corn
here from 810 to 822 per acre, according to
the yield per acre, which is estimated at
from 50 to 80 bushels. They drive the hog
here to feed them. The persons engaged in
this operation are generally not connected
with the regular pork-packing business.
This latter class are said to be very silent re
specting the pork busiivss, and nrenot mak
ing any contracts, influenced by two rea
sons first, great amount of old pork
now in market; secon Uy, the uncertainty
of obtaining money.
The monument to Silas Wright stands in
the town of Weybridg-, in the State of Ver
mont, the scene of his childhood. It is sit
uated in the centre of a little hamlet, at the
forks of the highway, and consists of a plain
square shaft of Vermont marble, thirty feet
in height, standing on u granite base. At a
proper height is a likeness of Mr. Wright, in
lias relief, cut out of pure white marble.
Under this are the words ' Silas Wright,"
cut in heavy block letters. The shaft is
elevated upon a mound sixty or eighty feet
in diameter, which is enclosed by a plain,
substantial iron railing.
Spain and the United States. Accord
ing to a London letter in the N. Y. Times.
General Espartero, the head of the new
Spanish government, has had several inter
views with Mr. Soule, and has informed him
that the Spanish tabinet will do its best to
bettle all matters of difference . having a
pecuniary character ; and as to questions of
national honor and dignity, the United
States cannot expect any greater satisfaction
than in the fact that the impeached govern
ment, at whose hands Spanish subjects have,
also suffered injustice, has been driven out
by a popular rising. As to Cuba, in particu
lar, there, is no Africanization in view, but
7io purchase is likely the government being
confident that, with an honest and liberal
pojicy towards the colonists, they will be
come more useful and better satisfied depen
dencies of the mother country than they have
ber-n hitherto.
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The Beginning of Moumonism. Twe.n-ty-cight
years ago, Joe Smith, the founder of
this sect', aud Harris, his convert, applied
to the senior editor of the Journal, then re
siding at Rochester, to print his " Book ot
Mormon," then just transcribed from the
" Golden Bible," which Joe had found in th
cleft of a rock, to which he had been guided
by a vision.
We attempted to read the first chapter,
but it seemed such unintelligible jargon that
it was thrown aside. Joe was a tavern idler
in the village of Palmyra. Harris, wh'
offered to pay for the printing, was a sub
stantial fanner. Disgusted with what we
considered a weak invention of an impos
tor, and not caring to strip Harris of hi
hard earning'?, the. proposition wa.' declined.
The. manuscript was then taken to another
printing oflice, across the street, from
whenee, in due. time, the original " Moruiou
fiibh ' made its advent.
"Tall oaki from little acorns jjrow."
But who would have anticipated from
such a bold, shallow, senseless imposition,
such world-wide consequences ? To reui- m
ber, an I contrast Jo-: Smith with his loiter
look, pretending to read from a minculou
slate-stone placed in his hat, with the Moi
nionism of th; present day, awake thought
alike painful and mortifying. There in no
limit, even in the most enlightened of all
the ages of knowledge, to t hi influence of
imposture and credulity. If knaves, or even
fools, invent creeds, nothing is too monstrous
for b dief. Nor does the fact a fact not V
be disguised that all the Mormon leaders
we rascals as well as impostors, either op--r
the eyes of their dupes or arrest the progret
of the delusion. (Albany Jour.
Two men lately drove up to the door of a
merchant in the vicinity of Cairo, Illinois,
and requested the privilege of depositing a
box they had with them in th;j house for the
night, which was refused, but they wer: al
lowed to place it in the. store. The next
morning th men called for the box, but the
storekeeper had missed a piece of cloth from
his counier, and on further examination he
found that he had been robbed of five hun
dred dollars, aud consequently he refused to
let them have the box. The storekeeper ob
tained assistance, secured the two men an i
opened the box, when lo ! out jumped a man,
and in the box were found the money, good,
etc., which had been stolen.
Emigration to the United States thisyrnr.
it is tho.igiit, will reach four hundred thou
sand. By the con? us of 1850, the popula
tion of tlv United States was over twt-nly-three
millions, of which eighteen millions
were native whites, over two millions were
foreign born, thirty-nine thousand were, of
unknown nativities, and three millions two
hundred thousand were slaves. From 1840
to 1850, 1,509,850 foreigm rs came to our
shores. From 1B20 to 1830, the. average
number was only 20.000 a vear. From
1S30 to 1SU), about 70,000 a year. The Irish
famine and the continental rolutions in
1S47 increased the emigration to 210,000 in
1817, and to 300,000 in 1850. The total
number of emigrants to the United S.aten
since 1790, and living in 1850, together with
descendants, amounted (when the census
was taken) to4,30-l,416. The great number
of deaths among foreigners in the United
States is appalling, and average, it is thought,
at least fifty er cent.
Shamefl'l Dishonesty. As a proof of th
extensive adulteration of liquor in this coun
try, the New York Sun says that more port
wine is drank in the United States in one
year than passes through the custom-houso
in ten ; that more champagne is consumed
!in America alone than the whole cham-
pagne district produces ; that cognac brandy
costs four times as much in France, where
jit is made, as it is retailed for in our grog
shops ; and that tiie tailure ot the whole
grape crop in Madeira produced no apparent
diminution in quantity or increase in tho
price of wine.
It is stated that the election of the Hon,
J. C. Dobbin, us United States Senator from
North Carolina, has been definitely arranged,
end that Mr. Mallory, of Florida will sue'
cced him as head of tho Navy department.