The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-12-29
Mail and Telegraph News summary.

RrcuNoND, Virginia, has now eight daily
papers.
THE rebel ram Merrimack has bcenraise
and towcd to Portsmouth, Navy Yard.
NEvs from Liverpool says that TIE Eng
Esh blockade runners arc getting ready TO
salfor Chill.
OS the 9th inst, at Madison Wisconsin,
the weather WAS clear and cold with the
mercury al 90 degrees.
TnE Louisiana seuate las manifested its
loyalty by refusing TO lave the National
hig suspended over The Presidents desk.
Tiny propose to have a new State capitol
at Albany. costing three or four millions OF
dollars 1t will be white marble from Yer
mont quorrics.
Tux Petersburg (Va.) Express Of the 2ist
has leading editorial heldei, "Pres dent
johnson, Secretary Seward and General
Grant against the Radicals, ....
A RIcnMoND letter Gays many leading
rebel officers want foreign war that they
may participate in it and wipe out the
memory and stain OF their recent treason.
CoNrRIBur1oNs are being made in the Cath.
olic churches of Baltimore 10 raise funds TO
supply the waits of The Freedmen of the
South, and especially TO provide for their
! Christian education.
TiE New Orleans papers published the
IrcsidGnt5 Message entire by telegraph
from Washington, the morning after it was
delivered. This is said to be the first feat
Of the kind in that city,,
DuRINd tho war our navy captured / Isl
vessels of all kinds; OF these 2l0 were
steamers, and were rams or ironclads.
Besides these captures 355 neutral or hostile
vessels were destroyed.
Tnr number Of rebel prisoners captured
and parOlcd during the war amounted TO
329,000. The number of Union prisoners
captured Ivy the rebels during the war is
stated to have been l57,000.
MEXICAN news indicates the continued
progress of the Liberals Matters are fever
ish on the Rio Grande. Both sides are
showing their teeth and growing vigor-
onsly, and cench may be the possible
result
GOVERNOR Wells, Of Louisiana, has vetoed
q bill suspending the collection of the
taxes OF the last four years remaining un-
paid by rebels who were absent. lie saws
! the Union men stayed and had to pay their
taxes, and rebels now should do no less.
REBEL Ex Postmaster General Reagan
has been making some important statements
IN speech in Texas. He says the Pres-
dent and Mr. Seward both tol him there
would be no more executions or confsca-
! tons. Tho statement was well received
with many grains of allowance.
In 1864, l9,l47 immigrants arrived in
Canada from Europe. In 1865, up TO week
or two ago, 81 1855 had come in, an increase
OF 2,209 over the former year. The Toronto
/ Leader is rejoiccd at this increase, but be-
| walls the fact that nearly all-ISS73-have
| left the Province for the United States.
A MEETING of planters in Marlboro dis
trict, South Carolina, resolved not to hire
any negro who had not regular discharge
from his former master, not to rent a freed
man any land, or keep him as an employee.
! These detestable traitors will slor .fy he
complaining that the negroes are i lie, shift
less and went work. :
OLD army officers who havo served on
! the plains, and who have heen brought in
contact with the people of SILT Lake City
arc besieging the President with sugges-
tions aud plans for employment of military
force against the Latter Day Saints, in de
fault OF an opportunity for their employ
ment against Maym;ljan.
THE London letter to the Manchester
Guardian, n very influential paper, express
es the opinion that Earl Russell is not
avcrse to n reconsideration Of his decision
Of the United States cllims. or at least he
will not oppose the reopering Of the sub.
! Jet by Lord Clarendon, the new foreign
/ Secretary, who was q syinpathizor with the
North throughout the struggle.