The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-08-01
Mail and Telegraph News Summary.

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Largo numbers Of. negroes are dying in
TEND about Macon, who are desiitute Of med
teal'aid aud The noccssafies Of life.
IN 1919 at dipner 10 Me. Adams. at
\ }roWu's Hotd, Washington, lIr. Calhoun
/ pronosed thdfollowing senhment: Uni.
e,7Sd'sg0tdgs and RnigerSd etiucafion."
A.. The ground heretofore occupied by Bar.
mum Museum aud the burned district has
been purchased by James. Gordon Bennett.
| The entire purchase amounts to $3.50 600.
Of which BopumreUeives S2f0D00g
Tho'indicalions Of approaching troalIe
betwocW-our. forces IN Texas and the I'm.
pcrialsts arc increasing. 1t is reported
that Cortinas had established his head
quarters on the Texas side Of the river,
aud at the urgent solicitation of Maximil-
iaRs followers on tho other side ho had re-
ccived notice from the American com
mandcr TO leave.
The Government has sent an officer to
Andersonville, Ga. to make a special inyes.
LEGATION into the brutal treatment of Union
prisoners during the war, with tho view of
bringing to trial before n military commits
sion the rebels VINO had charge of our sol
dicrs when tho barbarars treatment was
practccd. Some of th.g guilty parties arc
already in custody.
The Army a,d Nary GoseHe says that
every day adds to the difficulty of speed.
ily adjusting the conflicting interests which
tho war In America between the North and
South have lot loose, and of achieving a
task, which whether it he of restoration or
reconstruction, is one of the greatest that
ever taxed the genius of statesmen or the
resources Of II uation.
General Joe. Il. Johnston has applied for
pardon and it is probable ho will get it,
Among the grounds suggested for making
the exception, is the TACT said to be well
authenticated before the Attorney General,
that Johnson did all in his power to bring
the rebellion TO a close long before it be-
came palpably evident that the thing was
in a collapsed condition.
Harry Leslie crossed the rapids at Mag
ara Falls ona rope, Tuesday. First, hc ran
at full speed, making the crossing in four
minutes, then he crossed in womans dress,
staggering and rcoing IN imitation OF a
drunken man. lie wound up by running
out on one Of the guy ropes without pole
or balance and throwing himself at full
length upon his back. lie beats Blondin
The t. S. Pacific Telegraph Company
have placed twelve hundred miles of their
new line Of telegraph to California Under
contract to be built before the end of the
present season. The wire for the line has
been purchased and the poles for the inte-
rior portion of it will be cut this fall The
whole line from Chicago TO San Francisco
will be completed and in operation in one
year.
The Charleston Courier complains of
riots aud breaches of peace, saying the peo
pie cunnot walk the streets at night with
out fear of being robbed or killed.. nhis
condition of affairs appears to have risen
from the distinction of color maintained
there. The negroes attack white ctizens,
aud white citizens attack the negroes. Tue
white and black soldiers also attack each
other.
The Albany JoWUdl says: President
Johnson's plan of reconstruction is that of
President Lincoln word for word, and lot
ter for letter. Aud yet President Johuson
is severely ccnsured for carrying out what
our noble martyr initiated Those who
never saw anything in President Lincoln
to praise, have right to DO this, but not
those who never saw anything in him to
CenHure. '.'
The little village Of Charleston, where
Governor Wise hung John Brown, is visited
by many Northerners, who have carried
on everything movcablc from ths field in.
GLIDING the stones--in which John Brown
was hung. Harper's Ferry is rising rap
idly from it's ruins Mr.. Amcs. merchant
from New York, has purchased a site for
large store, which will soon be built, and
other buildings will soon go up.
The National Republican Association of
New Orleans held meeting on tho llth
ult. and adopted resolutions in favor of
universal education aud suffrage, distrib-
ution Of the lands of Louisiana into free
homcstcads, with homestead exemption, Ell
couraging Immigration, protesting against
the policy of Governor Wells, and calling
upon the President TO nppoiut q Provision.
al Governor uro" the basia OF universal
freedom aud 6"ilrngc.
Foote'S card ab2nt the Deliberate plan of
jeff Davis aud his infamous man Northrop,
to Siarve our prisoners, affords strong ties.
timony. 1t is understood that the cxrebel
Congressman viii he summoned, or rather
invited for he is beyond the jurisdiction of
our Courts, to appear as witness upon the
trial ofJciI Davis There is no doubt that
he will gladly avail himself of tho privil.
cgc to return to his homo. His disclosures
will certainly bo interesting as we'll as vol
luminous,
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
were born in tho same Congressional dis
trlct OF Kentucky, aud within the same
twclvcmonth. The one was removed to n
free state, aud grew up undor the social sys-
tenn of those states; the other was removed
further south, to Mississippi, and trained
under the influence of tho social system of
the slave states. The singular careers of
these two men read us an instructive lesson
on the effects of the two systems of society
which have prevailed within our Union
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