The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-08-25

er Smith & Co.
By vote of 238 to 57--18l majority-the
town of Toledo has authorized loan Of sS25,
| 900 to erect water works. 1t is proposed to
bore an artesian well, 500 feet deep, as an
experiment.
The Hon. Abbot Lawrence died at Boston
on Saturday the 18Th inst at II M.
! The mob of Missourians who are attempt
ing to legisate for Kansas, have fixed upon
site on the Kansas river, sixty miles from
Westport, for the permanent capital, and
named it Lecompton, from Judge Lecompte,
who probably has something to do with the
land speculations there, but then he is a
southern man and must not be dismissed by
! Pierce on that account.
! L. d. Lecompta and Rush Elmore, two of
| the three Judges for Kansas appointed by
Pierce. and both shareholders, have decided
that the removal of the mob calling itself
the Kansas legislature from the point desig
mated by Gov Reeder, to Westport, is legal,
and in no sense a violation of the law Of
congress. OF course. They are in the plot
with Atchison & Stringfellow, to subjugate
Kansas to slavery, aided by Pierce & Doug
las. Judge Johnson, formerly of Ohio, did
not agree with them, but fully sustained the
position of Gov. Reeder. Wilson Shannon
will probably be the plable tool that Pierce
and Strirgfellow are in pursuit of.
Two German girls with hurdy -gurdy and
tamborine, have netted $4,000 in the short
space of ten months in Australia.
John Dickinson, employed in the Ameri
can Machine Works, at Springfield, swan
two miles and quarter down stream, We'd
nesday evening" in twenty minutes, winning
a wager of So. The swimmer, of course,
had the tide in his favor, but yet he made ex-
celent time, better than that made at the
great swimming match in Hartford some
! time since.
| Mr.. Thomas Knowlton, of Wilmington,
Ct, now in his nineteeth year, hoed seven
eighths of an acre Of potatoes one day last
week.
1t is singular that the name of God should
be spelt with four letters in almost every
language. 1t is in Latin, Deus French, Dieu;
Greek, Zeus; German, Gott; Scandinavian,
Odin; Swedish, Codd Hebrew, Adon Syr-
ian, Adad Persian, Syra Tartarian Idga
Spanish, Dias East Indian, Esgi or Zeul;
Turkish, Addi Egyptian, Aumn or Zuet
japanese, Zain; Peruvian, Liam Wallachi
an. Zene; Etrurian, Chur Tyrrhenian, Eher;
Irish, Dieh; Croatian, Doga Magyaran,
Oese ; Arabian, ALA; Dalmatian, Rogt.
A meeting of the officers of the army and
navy who took part in the war with Mexico
was held at the Astor House on Tuesday
evening, for the purpose of perfecting ar
rangements for the celebration of the ap-
proaching anniversary of the taking of the
city of Mexico, September IT, l847. The
anniversary of that glorious event will be
celebrated with zeal warmed by the illiberal
course of the Administration toward Lieu
tenant General Winfield Scott.
On the 29th ult., Mr. Jas E. Williamson,
the turnkey, entered the jail at Macon, Ga,
and being informed by a white prisoner that
two negroes in one of the cells had knife.
he entered it to make search, but was imme-
diately knocked down by them, and with the
assistance of one or two of the white pris-
oners, he was choked, securely bound, and
his head wrapped in a blanket The keys