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THE PERRYSBUM JOURNAL;
VOL. III.
PERRYSBURG, OHIO, SATURDAY. MARCH 1,1860.
N0..42.
[Correspondence Phil. Saturday Eve. Post.]
PERRYSBURG, OHIO, Feb. 8, 1856.
Mr. Editor: In the Post of Ftb. 2d, in the
course of some remarks on a letter from the
postmaster at Nebraska City, you say : " A
great many would like lo know whether there
is any region west of the Allrghanies where
good uiiil cheap land can be found, and al
most if not entirely exempt from chills and
fever." Permit me. to speak of our part of
the country to your readers ; and as you men
tion three dpialilicat ions for land, I will note
each separately. The soil here is heavy lime
stone, clay, almost black, and is known to be
is nearly inexhaustible as uny. What would
some of the farmers on barren hills think of
planting corn tor years together on the same
ground without manuring, and harvesting a
good crop each year? And then, by way of
resting the land, to treat it to a crop or two
of oats, then corn again, and soon, without
thought of wearing out the laud? Any kind
of grain or grass or root grows here luxuri
antly. 1 live on Hull Prairie, Wood county,
Ohio, an I will take pleasure in satisfying
any one of th truth of what I say, if called
on. Our prairie is about ten miles in circuit.
and is surrounded ny oak. hickory, cotton
wood, an 1 other timber of very large growth,
The, first crop planted on prairie sod, yields
fortv bushels of corn an acre, with very lit
t !e labor after planting. As to cheapness,
1 hat depends as much on quality and nearness
io a cash market as on price. We are fifteen
miles from Toledo, one of the best markets
in the. west. Corn in Iowa is worth 25 cents,
here it is 50 cents. Unimproved prairie land
can be had here for from 12 to 20 an acre,
and corn enough can he raised on it the first
year to pay for it. Timber land sells for
i'roiu 5 to $12.' and costs 10 or 12 more
to clear it. As to chills and feer, I am
confident there is less of it here than in any
J. R. RUDOLPH.
Land Ghaih:.vtioi. A report from the
;;"iieral laud oilice, gives the amount of land
with its locution, subject to the act gradua
ting its price, toactuil settlers, passed Aug.
1S51, via: lt class. j,er acre, 18.7(58.659
iicres ; 2 I class-, 75 cents per acre, 13.(551,1-18
acres ; 3d class, 50 cents per acre, 1 1.5 10.920
acres ; 1th das?. 25 cents per ucre, 6,485.827
acres, 5:h class, 12$ cents per acre,25,14-1.333
acres.' The land is in the following states:
Ohio, 70. 195 acres ; Indian i. 158,700 acres ;
Illinois, 1.331. 610 acres; Wisconsin, 1.00G,
717 acres; Michigan, 7.7S5. 690 acres ; Iowa,
595. ISO acres : Missouri, 1 3.850,020 acres;
Arkansas, 11,212,610 acres; Louisiana, 7,
806.3 10 acres ; Mississippi, 7.602,013 acres ;
Alabama, 1 1.039,502 acres : Florida. 6,718,
5(50 acres making in all, 77,501,007 acres.
CounroATKi) Icon. It hash en proved by
recent experiments upon th effects of corru
gation upon plates of iron, that a plate three
inches longund four broad, so thin that, sup
ported only at the ends, it would bend of its
own weight, sustained when corrugated, a
weight of six hundred pounds. This was pro
ved by testing by its side a corrugated plate
of precisely similar weight and dimensions
attached to it by a string. The quartermas
ters department at v aslnnglon is extensive
1 v adopting corrugated iron for camp utensils,
etc., instead of wood, iron and other metals!
prepared in any other way.
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Two little heroes, arrived at Detroit, lasf
from Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, all the
way on foot. Their mother had died, and the
in a diunken frolic had forbid them
a home. Their ages 10 and 12. They came;
Detroit to find a nlative, with no
on, and were about two months on the way,j"
begging their meals and lodgings along. At!
Detroit they found out their relative, had mo-j
Toledo and on they pushed after being
with wurm clothing.
Some Facts About the Value of Lands.
Articles on the value of farm lands ondof
city real estate, fall under our eye in exchan
ges from the west and south. Some facts
which they relate are suggestive.
A farmer in Peoria county, 111., living up
rm a rented farm for which he paid $225 per
annum, did his work himself, kept a team of
horses, paid his rent, supported his family,
and ch ared one thousand dollars last year.
Another farmer in Pike county harvested
3 000 bushels of wheat from a single fi Id.
hir-d every thing done, ami cleared' $2,000.
An acquaintance of this man, residing in
the same county, emigrated to that section a
few years since with nothing save his health
and a pair of willing hands, and last year
sold farm produce to the amount of $17,
000. His pig pen contains 481 fat hogs, av
eraging 350 pounds each.
Another farmer in Morgan county sold
00,000 worth of cattle last year, and clear
ed a pretty penny from the sales.
A Blooming Grove, N. Y., farmer was of
fered his board and a dollar a day, the year
round, to induce him to emigrate to Illinois.
A number of Orange county people have left
New York within a year to seek their fortune
in Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota. Some are
j mechanics, some tanners, and all were do
inn well when last heard from. And the
" shakes" have not yet troubled them,
are very fortunate.
They
Mas. Caroline Lee Hentz, the authoress,
died at Mariana, Florida, on the 11th of Feb
ruary. She was born in Lancaster, Worces
ter county, Mass. Her father was Gen. John
Whiting "of the United States army. She
had two brothers who were also officers in
the army, and one of them. Gen. Henry Whi
ting, was aid-de-camp to Gen. Taylor in the
Mexican war. Miss Whiting, before she had
reach-d her thirteenth year, composed a po
em, a novel, and a tragedy in five acts. She
was married to Prof. N. M. Hentz, and then,
with her husband, removed to Chapel Hill,
North Carolina. After residing at that place
a few years they removed to Ohio and took
charge of a flourishing female academy near
Cincinnati. Afterward she resided near
Florence, Alabama, and thence removed to
Tuscalopsa in the same state. " Da Lara, or
the. Moorish Bride," was the first work which
she published.for which $500 and a gold med
al were awarded to her in Philadelphia as
the author of the best original tragedy. She
has written two other tragedies, " Lamorah,
or the Western World," and " Constance of
Werdenberg'' neither of which, we believe,
was ever published, although the first was ac
ted at Cincinnati. She has written several mi
nor poems; but she is most widely known by
her prose tales and novelettes, which have
been printed in different periodicals. "Aunt
Patty's Scrap-Bag" and the " Mob Cap" ob
tained for her a prize ot &200, and we pre
sume have been very generally read. Beside
these, she wrote. " Aunt Mercv," " The Blind
Girl," "The Peddlar," "The Village An
them," and a novel called " Lovell's Folly."
As an instructress, she. was eminently sue
cessful, and in social intercourse, was easy
and dignified. She was prepossessing in ap-
pparance,and her conversational powers were
of a high order. N. Y. Tribune.
I -
i At the recent anniversary festival of the
Burn? association in Cincinnati, Mr. Kenne
week, dv. of Oxford, Ohio, presented the association
with a shepherd's pipe, once owned by Rob
father ert Bum?. The pipe was a gift from Burns
to Mr. James Kennedy, and on that very in
to coats.struinent the poet oft-times played to his
Sweet Highland Mary." Mr. K. knew
Highland Mary personally, and had often
danced with her. Mr. K. afterwards remov-ved-to
jed to this country, and the. pipe was presen
Mtpplied j ted by a descendant of his. Cleve. Herald.
The California Grapes. Among the pro
ducts of California, which were found there
when it came into the possession of this
country, were the fine grapes which have
since become better known as the Los Ange
los or California Mission grapes. Some of
the earlier settlers, who, it was supposed,
knew something about fruit, stated they were
the old Spanish grapes, probably carried there
after the invasion of the country and its pos
session by the Spaniards. Perhaps it is so,
and that they are only old varieties, but from
the more recent accounts which we have of
them, they appear to grow to a size far sur
passing any that have been raised in Euro
pean collections, for w-e have no knowledge
of any variety producing such immense clus
ters as are reported to have been grown at
Los Angelos. Under the highest culture of
the best English grape growers, no grapes but
the Syrian have ever been raised to the great
weight of fourteen pounds to the bunch ; but
it is no uncommon circumstance to find the
California grapes of that weight, even under
the ordinary vineyard culture.
The Vincennes (Indiana) Gazette, of the
13th inst. says: A shudder of horror raa
through our town yesterday afternoon, caused
by the renort that an Irishman had heen till-
t --
ed at the fourth ward polls, by Win. Miller,
one of the candidates for marshal. The facts
in the case, as near as we could ascertain them
are about tflese: The man who was killed
is said to havebeen a non-resident and not
entitled to vote. It is a nretlv wpII ctnli1ch.
- W , V 4J t ll ,JI1
ed fact, that he voted in three of the wards,
swearing in his vote at each place, and was
about to attempt to vote in the fourth ward
I lf'11 111 1
wnen Miner cnaiienged nis vote. Home angry
words ensued, in which Carney, alias Powers,
gave Miller the lie, thrusting at the same
tima, his fist in the face of the latter, as it
about to strike, when Miller struck him with
a knife in the right side of the abdomen, cut
ting one of the main arteries, and causing his
death in a few moments.
The Weather in California. We clip
the following paragraph from the San. Fran
cisco Sun of the 5th of January:
" The weather during the last six days has
been the most delightful it is possible to con
ceive clear, pure, and balmy, with a degree
of cold just sufficient to make men move with
a quick and vigorous step. The thermometer
for several mornings last week stood as low
as 28 degrees above zero, being four degrees
below the freezing point. Ice formed to the
thickness of half an inch in exposed locali
ties, and many of the more sensitive plants
and flowers were killed by the cold,"
The commissioners appointed to locate
the county seat of Isabella county, have ex
ecuted their trust and placed their stake near
the centre of the county. The Indian title
to the land in this county is not all extin
guished, but there are settlers. The land is
represented as excellent, with the Chippewa
river running through it. It is heavily tim
bered with bach, maple, ash, oak and bass
wood, and much pine. B-sides the land for
the county buildings, 20 acres were secured
by a deed of trust to the governor, for the en
dowment of a union school, for the benefit
of the future inhabitants, The 20 acres to
be cut up into lots, and not sold under 10
years. Mich, paper.
The mortality in Pittsburg, during the past
year, was 101. The most fatal months, were
'January, February, July and August.
Another New State. The inhabitants o;'
New Mexico are again agitating the question
of assuming the responsibilities of a state
government. Judging from the last advice
from Santa Fe, Ujs not improbable that the
territory ' may become a state before the ad
journment of' the present congress.