Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-06-30

OF lever had not been officially declayad
ana nothing was said about it in the iour,
nals.--sT. Louis Neaos. '
DETROIT. June ga mob of fiftv or
sixty persons made an attack upon house
Oh Ill lame on Saturday night, in the up-
FER part OF the city, burning three dwell
liihgs.. and demolishing three, and driving
'he inmates from seventh. A laroe
crowd gathered, and compelled the rioters
70 desist. One person was stabbed. No
arrests were made.
STEPHEN A. DouaLAs.-Tbis oentlenoon
made a speech recently in SprinofieId
illinois, upon the asaI:::is of Kansas the
Dred . Scott decision, and the Mormon
diiilcultles. lie indorsed the Kansas laws,
ana SAID they were admirably adapted''
to carry out the principles of the Kansas
Nebraska act. He indorsed the Dred
Scott decision, and enlarged upon the ma
ttltonaity and glory of It. He said the
Mormons had voluntarily outlawed them
serves. LII what was said of them was
true' he would favor the repeal of the Or
game law of the territory, enact it n dis
trlct under the sole and exclusive iurisdic-
tlon oil the United States, and then bring
In the criminals under the criminal code
OF 1880, try them and punish the guilty,
completely blotting from the earth the ex-
lstence of the territory.
WASHINGTON, June 25-Governor Cum
ming will take his family with him to
Utah, with the intention of making the
territory his permanent home.
Col. Jack Hays, of Texas celebrity, and
now Surveyor General of California, will
PROBABLY be transferred to Utah in a SINH
lar capacity. Brigham Young has never
recognized the United States, but claims
possession of all soil in Utah. Not one of
the inhabitants hold lands derived by Gov
ernment title, and hence even Salt Lake
City itself is open to pre-emption. This
ls one OF the perplexities with which the
federal courts in the Territories will have
70 deal' together with establishing or con-
hrmI,ng titles to lands which may be de-
riVed' pursuant to the United States laws.
L IL is expected that troops and the civil Of
hcers will leave for Utah about the middle
0 81 July, or the first of August. Col
Richardson, having declined the Govern
orshlp OF Nebraska, Governor lizard will
return to the Territory, and resume his du.
lies.
D. IL. Z, Neil has been removed, as Dis
,rlct Attorney of the Southern District of
ohio' and probably Stanley Matthews will
De appointed to his place.
"A. Prencher, of North Carolina, has re-
urned home with the assurance of his an
to the Governorship of New
Mexico, vice Merriwether, who has ten
AnfI L. n
ober
CONCORD, June 23.-The personal lib |
rty bill has been adopted in the House bv
vote OF one hundred and eighty against
ne hundred and fourteen.
"A resolution condemning the bred Scott
eclslon was considered.
ST. LOUIS, June 93.-The Leavenworth
ournal says that twelve regular Demo-
ratlc candidates have been elected in that
ounty by an average vote of 42O.
The independent candidates secured sew
nty-fve votes.
In douglas county the Democratic can
ldates average one hundred and thirty-fve
otes' Independents one hundred.
NEW YoRK, June 19.-Three of the mu-
nee[s OF the brig General Pierce, convic-
a OF mansaughter in killing the CAPTAIN
10 cook OF that vessel, while on the vow
5e TO the coast of Africa, were each SEN
need to Imprisonment for six years, and
pay flne of $4,000 equivalent to i'm
lsonment for life, as the prisoners cannot
" the fine. Smith, convicted of the
urder OF the captain, has been sentenced I
be executed in August next :
CHICAGO, June 19.-Jackson, who was O
nv'cted for numbering Roman Morris,
Lake county, last fall, was executed this p
ornng three miles from this city. He s
messed the murder some DAYS since. 1t p
estimated that there were $4,000 per- p
ms present. The platform was broken ii
ing to the pressure of the crowd, but no O
e was injured. The military were out
strong force. The execution passed off il
ietly. I
ST. LOUIS, June 19-The Democrats y
lndaro correspondent of the 18th inst, r
Us that the Legislature adjourned on the ~ ~
5ht of the 3Oth. u
Acts providing for taking the census, q:
pointing the first Monday in August for II
'S'' NiNNIlOll lOI kOldU6 OIlcerS and
presentatives to Congress, and locating S
seat of government at Topeka, were er
ssed. Also, joint resolution memo in
lIzlng Congress that an admission into de
Union, under the Topeka Constitution h,
uld be constitutional. The census act o,
'vldes for the appointment of five Mar
als, whose deputies will take the census
mediately. The apportionment of the st
We gives the Senate not more than twenty at
mbers, and the House sixty. W
Some OF the Territorial County Judges =,
nounce parts of the census law impera- ST. 81
3. w
It is reported that Gov. Walker has been Jc
'rmed that the Constitution will not be ey
united to the people. izt
IHE COMET IN SIGHr.-The st. Louis an
VS. OF saturday evening, says the comet
n sight ut last: "Thero is no doubt o,,
ut IL, as many of our citizans ,,,lo - y ',