Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-05-01

character occurred in this city this'mornlng.
growing ou, OF the Maine Law and license
ouss,ion, in which one man was killed aud
s,s q, six wounded. A procession COM
nospd of the Germdn md Irish liquor deal
ers. marched TO- the Cour,.house Square,
where large crowd colleclad The police
in,erlered. and general fight ensued, in
which clubs, knives and pistols were freely
used. The principals in The rio, were ar.
res,ed, and toward afternoon The excitement
had subsidized. s T
THe TIDE OF TRAVEL WEsT.-lss s sub.
lee, OF general remark tba, The East is emp
tying itself in,o tho lnpof the West Every
western bound irain Of cars Is loaded 10 is
extreme capacity mast ol the week, ana
b",x,ras" are constantly in demand on the
I.uke Shore and tho Canada roads 10 keep
the mass Of humanity moving. Six thou
sand four hundred and fifly-one persons
crossed The Grea, Railway Suspension
Bridge, q, Niagara Falls, The last four days
preceding Saturday lasi, And the Toledo
Blade estimates ,he number Of persons who
have passed through ina, place, bound west.
during six DAYS preceding Saturday,. al TEN
rHonsAND. In this ralion Iowa anc Nebras-
ka will suddenly become gren. and poPuIous
States. One thisg Is remarked 10 this EN-
,.Igra,ion.. The migraiors are persons Of IN.
,,slligence, and full Of ,he indomi.ablc spi,i.
Of en.erprise. With such population. our
new Suites promise 10 become gardens ib-
deed We cdn only pray cha, Kunzas may
.,rec.iye sucl, dn addition Of these Northern
fispins as will compel slavery 10 vanish. and
the sounWy 10 become grea, and prosperous
like tho a1ioining free STATES. So mole II be.
-7Sdndusku Register.
~ WEsrw1RD, IIo!-During The past TWO
weeks large number Of cizsns oi 'his
county have left for the Wesi--mossof OF them
expecting to settle in Iowa. Wisconsin. Ne.
,urassa and Miunesoo. Among them are
many of our mos, substantial cilzens--lusl
1he kind Of men and wuInen 10 people and
hfashiun the institutions Of new county,
we regre, 70 lose such ciuz 'ns.--Athens
Mess.
The people OF Indiana seem determined
To enforce their liqm law. The Wabash
Gszp,tc says ihn, Julia Walker received
$475 damages agains, james Diuon "for
causing The death Of her husband BY makir z
him drunk, whereby he rtll in,u the canal
and was drowned. The Wabash Courier
eiyts an necnunt ol anuiher case where
w. ID. Jnhusun went ino n liqnor store.
called Tor drink. and while he bur.keeper' s
hack was Iurned. drank a whole lumblur Of
nrnnJy. aud died in few hunrs. THE bar.
keeper was arrested and n,ulc,rd 10 $500
jamages, or,he b'Etf, Of ltie chill nf the
dfceased.
DErRorr. April 2o.-The Propeller Or
egon, Of Cleveland, exploded her boiler this
morning about four miles above this place.
Zen Of those aboard were instantly killed,
and several wounded.
Among the killed, are W. s. Chapman,
the first engineer; Thos. Donnelly, the sec
ond engineer; Edward McBrodie, William
Reed, and others whose names are unknown.
Capt Stewart had his leg broken, and sew
eral others were more or less injured. The
Propeller was shattered to pieces, and sunk
soon after the explosion.
WASHINGTON, April co. Lieut.. Bcale,
formerly Indian Agent in California, and
whose accounts have just been allowed by
the Treasury Department, inflicted severe
oastigaticA with his fists, on Col. Many
penny, the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs,
at Wizards Hotel, this afternoon. Mr..
Beale attributes the temporary disaow-
ance of his accounts to the hostility of Mr..
Manypenny.
BALTIMORE, April 2i.- BY mail we have
New Orleans papers of last Sunday. The
Delta says Mr.. Marcy had telegraphed to
New Orleans, inquiring about the citizen
ship Of Estrampes, who was recently exc
cuted in Havana. The records show that
he arrived in New Orleans in 1914, and
took the proper steps to acquire the rights
Of citizenship when he would come of age.
3 The Picayune processes to have informa-
ton that the decree issued at Madrid, di-
reefs the Captain General of Cuba, in the
event Of a fillibuster expedition, to arrest all
the Americans on the Island, not excepting
the United States Consuls.
d An alarm Of fire was raised at the ST.
Charles Theatre, New Orleans, Friday
might, and in the rush to escape several
persons were seriously injured.
The Chicago riots arose from the efforts
to enforce the liquor law. The Irish, it j.
said, kept themselves away from the mob
The Germansrwere the ,aggressors. Nfts
Of them are 9jail. At the latest dates al
was quiet
Com. Vanderbilt, Of New York, is sale
totbe q candidate for President of the Uni
ted States. He has written letter to some
tof the.members of the New Jersey Legisla
= ture, declaring himself in favor Of econom,
--an early payment of the public debt, ar
increass,of our Navy to meet the wants o
our extensive commerce. and. in favor Q
extending the time for the naturalization 0
foreigners.
!. Theodore Ten Eyeck, formerly of Alba
ny. was murdered near Marysville, Califor
mia, few weeks since. He had forty
thousand dollars on his person at tLetime 0
the murder.
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