The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-05-17

eg, Twenty-Five lives were lost by a terrible
Steamboat disaster on the Mississippi river, last
week.
0~TRichard Rcaf, of John Brown fame. has
joined the Shakers at Union Village. Warren
county, Ohio.
agrho Aresion We'll, is we'll going again
at Columbus. The augur has reached depth
Of 2,3li feet.
u~-Private nlviccs from Japan confirm the
reported drpth of Townsend Harris, U. S. Minis
ter at Yeddo
IRA man named G Kiiger. committed sui
eide on the 9TH inst, at Sindusky, by cutting
his throut with razor.
a,y John J, Piatt la.o editor Of the Mac.
the New Albany Tribune.
ag Some Of the fancy OF New York have
declared they would assassinato Morrissey on
the first opportunity.
aar The Granl Jury Of the United States
Court at Savannah, Gu, has found " true bills "
against .he rescuers Of Capt. Fdrnham.
a5-Sixteen trunks from tho wreck Of the i'll,
raled Iluuga rian arrived at Boston on Tuesday
in Nova Scotia schooner from Port La Tour.
OC'y- Outing the three weeks ending April 80
| $50 men aud 400 wagons passed through
Omaha, Nebraska. on their way to Pixies Peak,
as- A counterreltug den was broken up in
Milwaukee on Saturday. Two females, halls
dozen males, aud quantities of machinery and
bogus coin were ,aken.
no The Chicago papers say that the picture
OF the Republican Wigwam" in Haper's
Weekly, is carcatnre which is a disgrace to
the artist and the paper both.
rD- An arrival at Wilmington, N. c., brings
six OF the sur, ivors OF the wreck of the ship
Robert Stewart, from Mobile, for Liverpool, =,
which WAS sunk ON tn Bottle ult.
HgCopi,al to the amount of more that 90
Northern Lakes mostly thrown out of employ
meme by the completion of railroads.
s2y In the Methodist Episcopal General Com
ference, ON Saturday, the entire subject of the
difficulties in the General Conference was re-
rerrcd to the appropriate Committees,
ayGcorgc Griffin. Esq the Nestor of the
New York bar, died in that city on Sunday, in
his eighty third year, For more than half a
century he hal occupied prominent position
in HIS profession.
as~ Ono item of political gossip is that
Mcssrs, Hickman, lluskin, Forney, and other
Douglas men have said that il the Chicago Con,
vcntion will nominate Hon. b. F, Wade OF
this State they will support him.
ns~ The Directors Of the Great Eastern have
; applied to the New York Pilot Commissioners
to know the capacities of their harbor aud sale
directors have been informed that they coul,
bring her in il she did not draw over 26 ieet o.
water.
&5- The Covole Committee are on the tack
ot the border rutlion tool who carried the lie
compton Cons titution from Washington, th,
Walker is again TO be summoned before the
Committee,
GsV~ A ct;or from Nauvoo Gays that youn,
Joe Smith aud his follows will start for Council
Bluff, Iowa, mex, fall, when Mormon rendcz
, vous will DO established, aud those Salt LAX
Saints who are uusatisfrd with Brigham Young
can Join the new church.
~ About a month ago, the wife of Mr. Jes
II Sc Iarhor, Of Concord township, Champaign
, county presented him with his thirty first child
Mn lIaroor is now in his 73 year, and the pres
# ent is his third wife, Most of his children, ",
O believe, are living aud doing well.
If n9-rhe Seceders' Convention at Charleston
4 lii not adjourn to meet at Washington as ha
been reported, hat adjourned sine die after pas
1t sing resolution calling Southern Convention
&c AT Richmond, Va, on Monday, June llth, A
y invitation was extended to the whole country +
" send delegates to the Richmond Convention,
q 2U>The Constitutional Union Convention a
g Baltimore, May 10th, nominated John Bell, O
II Tennessee, and Edward Everett, OF Massachu
IL sstts for the Presidency and Vice PreSidenc y
g rhe Convention adopted as ils platform, " Tn
a Constitution aud the enforcement of the laws.
g aJ-Tho Democrats Of Missouri fad muc
fault with the action Of their Governor Stewart
= but audbaIe ali his wanderings to conhw
drunkenness. lilo replies that they have n
u right to Gni fault with his intoNication, for h
" was drunk when they nominated him, drunl
' when they iuaugurated him, aud drunk he mean
! to be tili the cad OF his term.
4, &S>rhe Philadelphia papers announce tn
a., death Of the Hon, Thomas Sergeant, which too
:, place in that city on Saturday morning, MI
Sergeant was a son OF the Hon, Jonathan ID Sci
lgeaut, aud brother of the celebrated John Ser
e srau, lie was bora in the year 1891, aud wo
e IN he s,veoYniulh year Of his Hse when h