The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-03-01
The Finale of the Pittsburg Conven tion.

The Finale of the PittSburg COnVeM tiOn,
| The following seems to contain the gist of
the proceedings of the Pittsburg convention.
PITTsBURG, Feb. 23.---The committee on
resolutions reported, giving a history of the
slavery question from the commencement of
the government up to the present time, with
the legislative action upon it. A large por-
ton of the report was devoted to Kansas,
and the conduct of the present administra-
lon was severely denounced. The document
is very able, but is to be withheld for the pre-
sent for revision, if found to be necessary
The resolutions were as follows: The first
demands repeal Of all laws relating to the
introduction Of slaves into the U. S. terrific
rles. The second resolution supports, by all
lawful means, our brethren in Kansas, and
gives full weight in favor of the admission of
Kansas into the Union as free state. The
third expresses the belief that the conduct of
the Administration had been weak and high
ly reprehensble in the Kansas question: and
urges the Republicans to use every effort to
overthrow it.
The resolutions, after short debate were
unanimously adopted, with nine cheers.
Mr.. Bond, of Ohio moved that committee
of safety be appointed to meet any emergency
that may arise in case Of a conflict with the
federal troops.
at the request of some of the members. who
urged its imprudence, Mr. Bond withdrew
his motion.
| Mr.. Spaulding, Of Ohio, moved the printing
of all the documents. Carried.
| After vote of thanks to the officers, the
. Convention adjourned sine die
During the last half of 1855 no less than
| four ministers and priests, four lawyers, eight
doctors and two hundred and eightytwo wo
men, were arrested in Chicago.
! Hon. Milard Fillmore was in Rome, TIA
! ly, at last accounts sitting for his bust in
marble to Bartholomew, the celebrated Amer
lean sculptor.
SWALLOWED TowEL.-A girl in Indiana,
the other day, was suspected of having sto-
len napkin. 1t was found in her posses
sion, but she crammed it in her mouth, and
sl0alIOwed ii : Louisville Democrat.
The present population of Rome is said to
be III, 7,46l. This is less than it was two
years ago.
AND YET ANOTHER thirty eighth
planet between Mars and Jupiter has Just
been discovered, at Paris, by NJ. Chacornac
They have not begun to joste each other yet.
The Haytien Emperors army was defeated
by the Mimic rifle. The few Dominicans
were armed with that weapon, and slew two
thousand of Solouque's troops, which was
considerably more than the Dominican army.
1t will be recollected that on the occasion
of Lieut.. Wilkes's visit to the Feejee Islands
in 1910, he took summary vengeance on the
natives for outrages perpetrated on our coun-
trymen, and bound them over to good behav-
ior for time, by the threat that he would
return again in four years to see if they kept
the promises which they had made to him
During the period specified, the Feejecans
seemed to have restrained their brutal pro-
pensites; but after its expiration, finding
that the American squadron did not return,
they RECOMMENDED their former practices
numbering and devouling the crews of all the