Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-12-06
NEWS OF TEsE WEEK.

! TIE Cleveland Branch of the Sanitary
Commission has subscribed s. 5.000 to the
i soldiers Home
Letters from Mexico state lhat the
French have tried and executed over
5000 Mexicsns SIS insurgents since the
war began.
The worl, on the Mount Gems tunnel
! - progressing rapidly IL is to Le seven
miles in length, and over half of II is
completed
San Francisco dispatches report great
disquiet among the merchants there on
on account OF the reputation ol French
debts TO large amount.
On Thursday morning last fire in
Chattanooga broke out III the Bon Ton
saloon, and spreading, destroyed 100000
worth OF property.
After the lst of this month no clerk in
the Quartermaster Generals Department
will receive more than one hundred and
fifty dollars per month, except one or
two experts.
The murderer of General Robert T. Nc
Cook has been arrested by the Govern
ment. 1t will be recollected that he was
lately elevated to office in Alabama.
4 report of the vessels destroyed by
English pirates acting in the interests of
the South. gives the number at 275, with
II tonnage of one millions tons.
A session of the United States District
Court, with either Chief Justice Chase or
Judge Underwood presiding, is ordered
10 meet in Norfolk. 1t Is supposed by
some that it has reference TO the trial of
Davis.
Chief Justice Chase has given decis-
ion sustaining the non liability of for
/ eign holders of American stocks TO de-
ductions from their dividends on account
/ of the income tax.
About a month since wealthy farmer,
named Benjamin Phinney, of Rockport,
Ohio, died suddenly, under suspicious
circums tances. The body was exhumed,
and large quantities of strychnine were
! found in the stomach. A search resulted
in discovering bottle of strychnine in
Mrs. Phinney's possession, and she has
been arrested.
Smuggling from Canada has attained
the perfection of a fine art. The last
| plan discovered is a bogus baby, made OF
Tin, filled with spirits, and then, swad
died in shawls, is carried in a woman's
arms across the line. In u train of cars
recently, detective noticed that out OF
thirty babies, only two cried in a dis
tance of fifteen miles. This awakened
his suspicious, and led to the discovery
of the trick.
The summary of the crops of 1865, !
! published by the Department of Agricul- |
sure, presents several interesting features. |
The wheat crop is very deficient, both IN
quantity and quality, the decrease in |
quantity alone from 1864 being estimated !
at II, l72, 9i4 bushels. On the other hand, |
the corn crop was never surpassed in any
respect. In quantity alone, the excess |
over the crop of 1864 ii more than 49,
200, 0U0 bushels. The quality of other
crops is equal to the general average OF |
former years, and the total excess of 1864
over 1865 is 2l5, ,07I, All bushels.
The official vote of New Jersey for
Governor is as follows: Ward, Union, |
81, ,520; Runyon, Dem 64,63l; Union /
majority, 2,7S9. The total vote last year |
was I2S,747; tbs year it is l32, PSI. The |
Democratic majority last year was Z, 7,30l. |
I'fno-Union gain is 10000. Not only is |
the aggregate vote considerably larger
than that cast for President last year, but |
the returns by counties show that the |
Union gains we're greatest in those where |
the vote was fullest. The two Union |
Representatives in the next Congress are |
triumphantly sustained in their districts, |
while two OF the three Democrats have
been disavowed by their constituents.
The Boston Advertiser says that the |
Concord Bank robbery was committed by |
two persons, who after their Villainousi
exploit, drove rapidly out of town toward |
the south, passing many persons who ht- |
tie suspected the bold feat which they I
had accomplished, and taking by-road |
through the woods were soon out of sight |
of the towns people. 1t is thought by |
some that the robbers proceeded imme- |
diately to New York, and took passage |
in the steamer kangaroo, which left that |
port on the following Wednesday, while |
others are of the opinson that they re- |
mained in the country for some time af- |
terward. The robbers are not only known |
to the detectives and officers of the bank, |
but photographs have been obtained OF
them, and their ingenuity and skill will |
be severely tasked In eVading the meas
sures which have been taken for their ar. |
rest. Should they have reached Germa-
ny, as some suppose, they would have !
probably not found much difficulty in |
disposine of their plunder in that coun-
try, where the securities of the United |
States have obtained quite an extensive |
sale. But it is not presumed that they |
can long remain with safety in any coun-
try with which the United State have an |
extradition law.
1.-THE rel ease of John Michel is not |
ked in England. The London Star, |
which has always been most friendly to |
the Union cause, says: 1--WE feel it to
be an act of unkindness to this country, |
an encouragement to the Fenian distur-
bers of the peace, and a proceeding cal |
culated to make US less confident in the |
interference of the United States Gov
ernment with the fitting out of priva.
teers, or any warlike expedition upon
which these foolish people may embark
to crafty their hostility or their vanity. |
As the openly aVowed object of the or
ganlzation of Irishman which solicited |
Mitehell's release was to promote hostili-
ties against England, the proper course
of chief magistrate of friendly power
was either to refuse to recognize them
at all, or to show his entire disapproba
ton of their organization and its aims
The exigencies of the political situation
may make it desirable to secure the sup
port of the Irish element to the Admin
istration the industriously circulated
story that Mr.. Seward had given the in
formation to the British Government
which led to the arrest of the Fenian pi-
oneers may require to be put down by an
executive act OF different tendency -
but no thoroughly friendly government
would, for objects such as these, run the
risk of offending a great nation by con.
sorting on terms of amity with its bitter
est enemies"
Three million, two hundred and seven
tv-three thousand six hundred and twen-
ty-fve dollars in national currency were |
ISSUED 20 the banks last week. The to-
tai amount now in circulation is $2l7, 1856,
440. The number of National Banks
now in operation is 1912, with q total
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