The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1861-01-24

The Mansfield Herald savs that Rev. J
| X. Burgett a Presby yterian clergyman. for
merly settled in that city, left about a wear
since to take charge of church in Mobile
tie Kept a strict watch over his tongue, but f.
pauy inadvertently said that he would have
voted for Lincoln had he been at the North.
Such language could not be tolerated and
the reverend gentleman was compelled to
start North without delay. He is now in
! Ohio.
The South Carolina ordinance of seces.
soil reclted many grievances The Alabama
ordinance recited but one, the election of Lin
cole and Hamlin. The Mississippi ordinance.
more wisely drawn than either, recites none but
leaves to the imagination of the reader, an
unrestricted play. We have curiosity to
see the ordinance of Llorida. 1t NAV reoite
that tyranical Government has robbed them
by taxes, and eaten out their substan bv
quarIerlng soldlersup IN them in time of peace.
1t is stated that South Catolina's special
tax Tor ZIG per head on the slaves has in
duceed many persons to be taken with sud-
den desire to seek fresh and inexhaustable
cotton lands within the bounds of Arkansas
and Texas. They are familiar with the fact
that less than half of the tax per head will buv
an acre OF first rate cotton land in the great
Southwest
Hon Henry S. Lane has been chosen
United ) ates Senator from Indiana, for six
years from the 4th Of March next. There
VIII be no question this time about his right
10 take seat. lie succeeds Dr. Fitch Hon.
Oliver Morton has been qualified as Gov
ernor' Col. Lane having Immediately resigned
at office.
Bailey, the South Caroline Clerk in the
Otlice of the Interior, no doubt thought, hat.
whist his State was seisng upon the United
states i1etS, arsenals, arms, and revenue cut
ters, he might as well seize $3.50, 600 in mon
ey as his share OF the spos And so he
seized 1t. He is in a state Of rebellion and
revolution.
The Norwalk II dector learns that last
week, a man named David Brumbaugb:
ilVlng IN RLpley, Huron county, came home
in safe Of ntoSication, and for some reason
the family left. During the night the house
was consumed by fire, and the wretched man
persisted in The flames.
The Scott-Toombs case turns out to have
pe'n immensely magnited by letter writer's
grasses. NO ''le' was given. no istcuffs at
tempted, and no duel proposed. Scott ex-
dressed The sentiments of patriot and soldier
and Toombs played the backguard that
was all.
As proof that the financial condition of
south Carolina is & 'ol, a correspondent there
s"yS ''hs specie 10 our Banks is increasing"
mat Is no. very remarkable, when we re-
member that the Banks pay out no specie.
and get in what they can,
A Washington dispatch says that ali
earnest effort will be made In the Senate. to
order the invesiig alton through the judiciary
commltteee into the charge Of a reasonable
plot to establish Southern Confederacy with
iIs seat OF Government at Washingtoti:
1t is reliably stated that considerable
proportion of the 5000 troops now on duty
IN Charleston are of Nor hern birth, who
have been drafted into the corps against their
will, and are consequently far from zealous
for the success of the would-be Republic.
A New York house, short time since,
shipped to private firm in St. Louis via New
Ore. ms, 4 500 kegs of powder, which was
seized at the latter city and taken possession
of by the rebels. Honorable transaGl6n, that!
General Scott is resolved that the Gov
ernment Offices at 81. Louis shall be safe
against attack, and has accordingly stationed
forty soldiers in the Custom House of that
ciy.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald asserts that Commission
er TO the Governments of Europe Is to be sent
from Georgia as sooa as that State shall have
seeded.
The Providence Journal shows up the
folly of the secession dogma by the question,
''lt all he States except Rhode Island secede
from the Union, is she to pay the pubic
debl?"
Col. Rudler the second in command OF
the Walker raid, las been liberated by the
IIondurean Cover nment
We understand that Marshal Johnson
IS about to commence suit against J. w. Gray
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for an alleged
ibel published in that paper.
-Rumor has it that Senator Douglas wifi
esume the practice ofthe law in some South
I'm city, and that Andy johnson, of Tennes-
ee, will come North. A good eSchange for
he Moth.
The Florida sesessionists have seized
'ort BarrancoS and the important Navy Yard
t Pensacola How long are such Outrages
} be endured
The Louisville Journal lis disposed tothink
lat if James Buchanon is permitted 10 die
atural death, hanging should be abolished.
The navy-yard at Washington is very
oorly protected, and could be readily taken
y the secession roughs.