The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-08-29
Mail and Telegraph News summary.

Nearly four thousand soldiers have been
buried at Fortress Monroe, aud movement
is on foot to erect a monument to their
memory. r....
The rise aud fall Of the tide ON the At.
lantic side ot the lstAmus ct Panama is only
about Ii inches, while OF the Pacific side 1t
is % feet. NHI
1t is said that spectators at Richmond
are buying up all the Confederate currency
and bonds they can hnd, in anticipation of
some proposition hereafter in Congress for
their payment
Reports from all parts OF the Northwest,
in regard to the cowmg crops, continue to
improve the prospects Tor u big yiellr The
weather the past week has been most cX-
ccllent for farmers purposes.
Mr.. Gilbert, Of Aloauy. New York, who is
associated with Charles VGonuor aa counsel
for Jch, Davis, publishes leucr from
one Davis showing that neither the Grim.
inal nor his advisers know Wien where, or
how the lermer is to be tried.
The twelfth diamond for magnitude yet
discovered in the world was found hy an
lrishmau digging in Manchester opposite
Richmond, ON James RIVER. The pecUi +
appearance of the stone, even in the
rough attracted his attention, ami after
nearly throwing it away as common crys-
tai, he sold it for som5 five thousand dol
lars.
Tho Calais (Mainc) IdceJ tiSer says that
the rust has struck the potato crop IN that
region more severely this season than 1t has
done for many years past. Many ot the
farmers have commenced digging them up,
! hoping to save some of them. Whole
! fields. which looked finely week ago now
look as black as if fire had run through them.
! The number of battles Fought during the
| late war is 252. OF these the soil OF Nir-
ginia drank the blood of 50, Tennessee wit.
ncssod 81, Missouri 25, Georgia II, South
Carolina 10, North Carolina IL, Alabama I,
Florida 5. Kentucky II, the Indian Territory
and New Mexico / each. Once the wave OF
war rolled into Northern State, and broke
in the great bllow of Gettysburg. OF the
battles enumerated, l6 were naval achieve
ments
The harvest having been concluded in
Canada, tho Toronto Globe says that all ac'
counts concur in giving the uost favorable
view of the products OF the season. In.
stances are giveA of yield Of 30 to 3Gi !,
bushels of wheat per acre. Oats are ar
average crop Barley aud peas were never
better. The Iltx culture of the season has
been highly successful. The yield of fruit
is better than usual. The season has heel
excellent for bees, and Il large yield OF
honey is secured.
General Grant is now at his home il
Galeua, where, it is said he will remain toi
rest and recuperation SOM two or three
weeks. His reception there was perfect
ovation. Among the notices disll .yru
was one with these words: THAT side
walk is finishe l." "a pleasant allusion to =
remark of his when last year he was talke'
of as candidate for President, aud sat
there was but one Office lbs would accept
the Mayoralty of Galcna-and among hi,
first duties would be the co struction OF {
sidewalk between his house aud the dcpo'
His ol neighbnrs took the hint, and ha
the walk completed before the General ar
rived.
correspondent of the New York Wort,
writes from Dovcr Mills, Goochlaud county
Virginia, that, in company with scvera
eminent mineraIogistS, he his Wis ted ovtI
twenty-five different mines in the vicinity
and that every one abouuds in m st pre-
cous ores. 1t io allowed among the miners
that ten cents per huShcl vii, + ray tho eX
pense of crushing rock for gold, but OF th
mines visited by him in Nir mia t'cle were
few that did not yiell easily from one t.
two dollars per buSh'l of ore. One ortlcm
particularly, the helzdra mine, in Gooshl II
county, has yirl led as much as t'meo hun
lrcd dollars a day from one @ ushm
machine only and frequently one hundre
do Lars a day from six ordilay stamps
Nuggets of gol |, worth Fl ON four TO seve
/ 10 lars each have been f. equ ntly peke
up on its surface. The same euormou
mineral wealth is well known to cxis
through that whole region.