The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-02-23

noon lor tne same purpose, SO aS 10 eX-
pediate business. The motion was agreed
to.
HoUsE.-Nothing Of interest transac-
ted. Some few petitions were presented,
but pretty much all of local nature
SENATE, Feb. 18.-On motion of Mr..
Jewett, the Senate joint resolution, pro-
posing certain amendments to the constitu-
ton of the State of Ohio, was taken from
the table, and the preamble and resolu-
ton were agreed to. 'g4 sa
The President appointed iMessrs. jew
ett, Lee, Sherman, Smith of Madison, and
Williams of Coshocton, as said committee,
to confer with the committee on the part
of the House, in relation to said proposed
amendments. slJgar5 Is ~.
On motion of Mr. Smith, of Madison,
the Senate resolved itself into committee
of the whole on the orders of the day
Mr.. Smith, Of Madison, in the chair. Af-
ter the consideration Of sundry bills, the
committee rose. ,H q. 9Jroe :=s.l....
Senate adjourned till Monday morning
at 10 O'Clock. =. blsa .yaat5zj s
b HoUsE-Mr Newell offered the follow
ing resolution: 7n 9a4'.r a.,E zln1.
& Whereas, on the 18th day of February,
1854, the following resolution was adop-
ted by the House: 1la H u ID
'tResalved, That committee of five be
appointed to'investigate the acts and do
ings of the Board of Public Works. and
that said committee have power to take tes-
timony and seni for persons and papers,
and report the same to this House as soon
as practicable;'' 81, a-araa< .ga5 4
And whereas, the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, in the appointment of
said committee, has exhibited an entire
disregard Of established parliamentary
practice and usage in all such cases; there
fore, a @ $50 e4z F3l
ResoZued, That the resolution offered
and adopted on the 18th instant, as above
described, be, and the same hereby is
rescinded; and that said committee be dis
charged from the further consideration of
the subject in pursuance of said resolution.
The question was then taken on agree
ing to the resolution, and resulted-yeas
7, nays 42. Soft was lost. -
Terrible Scenes at Shipwreck.
The Liverpool papers furnish full ac-
counts of the dreadful wreck of the
ship Tayleur, on the Irish coast, at the
island of .Lamby, on the 21st of January,
having $50 souls on board, Of whom near
400 were lost. One of the passengers
saved describes the scene:
GA raft was constructed, on which
great numbers embarked, but it was drif-
ted against the rocks and upset, when all
on it perished. Arope was then convey
ed on shore, by one Of the swimmers, and
about one hundred attempted to gain the
rocks by clinging to it, when the vessel
suddenly fell on her side, which slacken
ed one end of the rope and caused the
entire of them to let go their hold. The
whole of them were drowned. The cap
tain, whose name was Noble, was saved,
but the only part of his dress that he land
ed in was a flannel shirt. The surgeon of
the ship, who had his wife and child on
board, attempted to swim to shore with
his child on his back and supporting his
lady with one arm while he swan with the
other; the three, however, unfortunately
.perished. One lady had $4,000 in bank
notes sewed in her stays; she offered e.
900 to any one who would save her life,
but in vain, she also was drowned. A
child of five months old is saved, and both
parents are drowned A German emil
grant rescued the child's life by bearing
it in his teeth from the wreck to the
shore. Only seven women are saved, the
the rest, 1877 in number, are drowned
There are now upward of sixty dead bod
les on the island, and 200 survivors,
Death ofOvid F. Johnson---A Sad Story.
We see it announced in the newspapers
that Ovid F. johnson, formerly Attorney
General of Pennsylvania, and brother,
we believe, of the late Governor of that
State, died a few days ago in Washington,
a most melancholy death. He had been
picked up from the gutter in state of in
toxication and sent to the vagrant depart
ment ofthe work-house, where he ended
his sad career. Lately he was an active
coadjutor; with Caravajal in his filibuster-
ing operations along the Rio Grande, and
conducted for some time manifest des-
tiny" newspaper at Brownsville, in Texas,
opposite Metamoras Attracted to Wash
ington, like thousands of others, by the
chances of making money out Of his party,
he attempted a monthly Democratic Revieao,
the first number of which, full of flisbus-
tering odds and ends, was the last. But
there, among the fatal temptations of
Washington, he remained, a Pennsylvania
no1itician and PanpSvlvapia drunEard 8.