The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-02-17

ROADS from the MISSISSIPPI 10 the missouri
cross the Desmoines at that place. 1t will
rapidly become an important city o. S.
Journal.
The house of representatives of Michigan,
by vote of 81 to Is, has passed bill pro
|hibiting the use Of the jails and other public
buildings of the state for the confinement of
persons claimed as fugitive slaves.
A dispatch from New Orleans on the 9th
says, portion of an expedition against Gu
ba is understood to have left this and other
southern ports, and some more are soon to
follow. The total enlistment in this enter
prise is said to amount to 10000 men.
Congress has divided Ohio into two Judi
cial districts, and the U. S. district courts
will hereafter be held at Cleveland and Gin
cinnati instead of Columbus. The counties
Iof Belmont. Guernsey. Muskingum, Licking.
franklin, Madison, Champaign, Shelby, and
Mercer, together with all the counties south
of them, compose the southern district, and
all the counties north of these compose the
northern district Judge Loavtt and the
present docket 60 to Cincinnati. Jewett Of
GAINESVILLE is district attorney, and Robinson
of Cincinnati is marshal. Marshal Fitch Of
Cleveland, Attorney Morton of Toledo, and
Wilson of Cleveland for Judge, in northern
district. Ranney wants to be the judge.
INFLUENCE OF NEwsPApERs.-Th Boston
board of trade are endeavoring to extend the
western circulation of Boston newspapers
for the purpose of influencing trade in favor
of that city.
Cuba is experiencing a more severe winter
than for twenty years. An old Spaniard, a
resident Of Florida before it fell into the
possession Of the United States, says that
sit was just so the winter previous to the
visit of one Andrew Jackson to Pensacola ::
and, therefore, although he is infirm, he is
making his arrangements to emGgrate to old
Spain feeling certain that it is q Fremont
tion of annexation.
A young man with ring on his finger,
employed in the Boston post office, Jumped
down from box, and accidentally caught
the ring on hook, and the whole weight Of
his body being suspended by one finger, the
finger was torn from the hand and fell upon
the floor.
We have in the following paragraph from
the Boston Times, capital summary of the
foreign news: " Austria is cheating the al
lies, Prussia is cheating Austria, and Russia
is cheating them ALL"
GENERAL RAILROAD LAW PAssEp.-We see
by the Adrian Watchtower that the general
railroad law has passed both branches of the
Michigan Legislature, and is now the law of
that state.-lToledo Repub.
The sloop Ole Bull, of Milwaukee, schoo-
ner Union, and sloop Lady Ann of Racine,
broke from their moorngs and drifted off
into the lake in the great storm of Jan 2lst.
No one was on board the missing vessels,
nor have they been heard from.
They must have motley population up in
Wisconsin, as the Legislature has ordered the
publication of some 20, 900 copies of public
documents in German, Danish, and Welsh.
The Emma Moore mystery at Rochest
has not been cleared up yet The Union
complains that suitable investigation has not
been made in her behalf, and insists that she
was abducted and murdered.
The number Of drinking establishments in
Cincinnati is 1884.
The Mormon Temple, began at Sal, Lake
City, will be much larger than the temple
built by the Mormons at Nauveo. 1t will
require ten years to complete it, and will
cost seyeral millions Of dollars. -