The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-11-17

TRICE OF A ClTf Ole In ObD DllMbS-ANhN
ARK, N. 1.-The N. Y. Tribune says -" Ol
ticEt Yankees closed bargain with the
Hacknsack Indians for their right TO the
tract of land included in the present city OF
Newark, and the townships of Bloomfield
and Orange, for the very detailed price OF
" fifty double handfuls of powder, one hun
dred bars of lead, twenty axes, twenty coats,
ten guns, twenty pistols, ten kettles, ten
swords, four blankets, foUw barrels Of beer,
ten pairs of breeches, fifty knives, twenty
hoes, eight hundred and fifty fathoms OF
wampuIn, twenty ankers of liquors or some
equivalent, and three troopers coats. The
history of this settlement, as drawn by tn.
able pens of the Rev. DR.. Steans and n. y.
Whitehead, Esq, proves that the people ol
this colony We're unusually select as to char
acter and energy, endeavorng " the carrying
Oh OF spiritual conCernmants, as also OF civil
and town affairs, according to God and god
| ly government" as they said i'll their original
compact. And yet when the Revolution
caMe, one hundred and nine years after the
! first tree was feled Newark Was still a small
! place. Its streets were not compacuy built
, up. 1t was farming community to all in
! tents, with but little sign Of that vast man
ufacturing enterprise which has since given
such Importance to the place. In old times
! cities and towns were slow III their progress
when compared with some founded but yes
terday at the west. In 1880, one hundred
and seventythree years after It's settlement,
\ it had "a population of only ten thousand
nine hundred and fifty, but in the next ten
years it gained two-thirds as much as in all It's
previous existence, and in 1880 it had more
than doubled its population, which then was
n thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and nine
tv- v-Epnr far from fifty tlOIl-
sand.
4 BRIG GEN. ETHAN A. HlrcncocK.
have already announced the resignation of
this distinguished officer. The Springfield
Republican explains the reason of his resig-
nation. 1t seems that he was the officer 10
whom Gen. Scott gave temporary leave OF
absence q short time ago, and respecting
whon the correspondence took place between
the General and the Secretary of War, at the
time publicly referred to. The Secretary OF
| War ordered the officer back to his post
The result is thus described by the Republi-
" can
That officer, who was Brevet Brig. Gen.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, colonel of the second
regiment of infantry, had too much spirit to
. brook so manifest an indignity offered to
! himself and his commander-in-c chief, and
, threw up his commission in disgust. No
= body can DOUBT that the PRESIDENT was m
structed by his Secretary to accept the resig-
nation of an officer whom the latter had SO
:. wantonly insulted. 1t was accepted accor-
;. dinghy Gen. Hitchcock entered the army
e in 1917, since which time his best energies
i have been devoted to his country. He CON-
e menced his career as a third lieutenant. and
o reached almost the highest rank known TO the
4 army, haying been breyeted BrlgadiPr Cen
u eral for gallant and distinguished services in
IS the storlning of Molino del Rey, Mexico
e September s, 1917. In the same battle where
IS he earned his brevet, another officer distIn
e guished himself by faimting on the field.
Passmore Williamson has commenced 0