The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-12-22

he crops generally throughout the terrific
ry are good. Good wheat can be bought for
Sl per bushel. Beef cattle are worth z cts.
on foot; good horses are worth from SSl50 to
$500; cows from 1876 to 1850; sheep $7 to
Sl0 per head. LaborS2 per day; mechanics
THE THREATENED WAR WITH ENGLAND
WHAT IT WAS ALL ABoUT-THE BARK MAU-
RY.-One of the most remarkable tragi-com-
Iedies ever enacted in the presence of great
nations, has just reached a most laughable
denouement. A committee, appointed by
the New York Chamber of Commerce, has
published report, giving full and detailed
statement of all the facts connected with
the "Maury, charged by the British Govern
ment with the grave offence of being fitted
out in the port Of New York to act as q
Russian privateer. In one aspect it was a
most lamentabe, and in another most
laughable hoax. 1t has been the cause of
the sending Of large and fully equipped
British fleet, in hot haste, across the Allan
tic ocean, and turns out, on investigation, to
be merely the work of a mschievous wag,
who succeeded in making the British consul
at New York, the British minister at Wash
ington, and British government at London a
set of most precious dupes. A clear and
succinct summary of the principal facts is
thus given by the N. Y. Courier & Enquirer:
''The Maury' was brought round in Sep
tember last to the foot of Stanton street,
East river, and was there given berth by
the dockmaster, policeman Cornell. The
mate of the Maury.' who, it seems, was
practical wag, took the suspicious, but un-
IsuspeCting, dOck-master on board, and by
showing him cannon and muskets, and drop
ping sly ;nuendoes, sold him, out and out;
and he departed, nothing doubling he had
been on n, board a Russian privateer. All
saved from making itself ridiculous, the
British cruisers spared their voyage, the
Chamber of Commerce relieved from the ne
cesSity of asserting the character and posi-
ton of New York merchants, and we regret
to add, her Brittanic Majesty's Consul pre-
vented from placing himself in most unde-
sirable position before a community where
he has for years been respected had not
this gullible dock-master had son, and
had not that son, as the genius of mischief
f would have it, been clerk in the office OF
Charles Edwards, ESQ, counsel to Mr.. Con-
sui Barclay.
But the father told the son, and the SON
f told the counsel, and the counsel told the
consul and thereupon formidable atfidavits
were made under stimulating promises of
good things to be attained thereby and
. the consul HlduS HIS dlllldNIl, anu lue CUuH =
: sci made his the telegraph was set to work
; between New York and Washington, and
: Mr.. Champion renewed to Mr.. Marcy the as
y surances of his distinguished consideration
and the Southern District Of New York was
in a general commotion for about week /;
and al last the result was, that Mr.. Attor-
ney General Cushing demurely wrote to Mr..
Secretary Marcy:-'Under these circumstau-
. cas, it affords me pleasure to enable you to
give assurance that the Cunard Mail Steam
= ers may continue to enter and to leave our
= ports, without apprehension of being cap
:, tured BY the 'Maury,' and converted into
y Russian men-of-war for the prosecution Of
hostjlities in the East Indies.''
t. DURABILITY OF IRON SHIPs.-The iron ship