The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-08-15
MaII and Telegraph News summary

y TIC army worm ts doing considerable
damage to the cotton crops in Texas.
The wheat crop Of Wisconsin is report.
ed better than it has been since 1859.
An anaconda in a museum in Cincinnati
recently gave birth to 80 young reptiles.
The government having ceased to give
\ outrations othc poor whites OF Charleston.
the greatest distress is said to prevail.
There are 1851 fndans residing within
the limits of the State of Michigan. Tho
total number in the United States is estima-
ted at 3l4G2l. lFT J
During the coming fall, both Iowa and
Wisconsin will be called upon TO vote
directly upon extending the right of suf-
irage to cOlOrcd men.
Preliminary steps arc being taken by the
! UtitedStatcs Service Society, of New York.
for u grand public demonstration in behalf
Of the Monroe doctrine.
The largest canal in the world is one in
! China, which passes over two thous md
miles, and TO forty.onc cities it was COM
menoed in the tenth century.
All white troops in South Carolina are to
/ b. relieved and their places filed by
/ clIorcd troops. Three regiments of tho
latter have left Washington for that State.
! The Government pays Il Iont of 81 800
/ per month for FOrd's Theator and reserves
| the right of purchase for 100000 The
| building is to bc used as depositary for
| rebel archives.
serious steamboat disaster occurred on
Lake Huron, on Wednesday last resultiuc
from collision between the Pewabic and
the Meteor. The former sunk Instantly in
seventy feet water About ono hundred
persons were drowned.
Thirty-fvc tuns of mail matter are dailv
received at the Pustollice in New York
City, and an equal amount sent away
making seventy tuns handled every 81
hours. The receipts in six months of 1863
amount to SSj5929 j2
The petriied bones of mammoth animals
have recently been found in large numbers
near Yorktown, in the York River. I'm.
mense ribs, four inches in diameter. arc
among the specimans recently brought to
Fortress Monroe by excursions to the
point mentioned.
Dispatches from San Francisco report
the destruction Of largo number of whal-
ers by the Shenandoah. last month. The
commander was toll of the collapse of the
rebellion, but did not believe it. lie
believed the report of Lincoln's assassna-
uOh, because ne expected it.
The New York SIM shows that 50 10
purchased, in 1860, the same articles for II, q
support of IA family of parents and tour
children, that cost $40 l3 in 1864. and SlI
Al at the present time, and concludes that
the condition of the laboring man now is
more favorable than in 1860
Hon. Horace Maynar in his speaoh nj
Nashville, on the 23l ult., told the poonlc
that continued hostility to the Government
would force the enfranchselnent of fine
negroes, and that if present efforts TO re-
cain the rebeiions population f i the re d.
men Will have the elective franchise.
The military authorities have declared
the late election at Richmond null and void
The Mayor of Norfolk has been arrested by
the military authorities, and it is reported
the President has appointed Governor
Wells Provisional Governor of Louisiana.
Thus the reconstruction experiment col
hpscs.
From the census of manufactures now
in the hands of the printer, it appcars that
there are ten manufactures of linen goods
III the United States, with a capital of SG3g
1913, employing 52S hands, about equally
divided between the sexes, using S327779
worth OF raw material, ahd turning oft
products to the value of S699,570.
The result of the late English vote in H. o
boroughs and counties where the parties
were divided gave to the Liberals an aver.
aye OF l9l,924 votes, and to the Torres | rs
137 votes--the Liberal majority being
l6,lS7. 1t is said that if there had been
party contest in all the boroughs AMI coun !
ties majority woull have been greater hy
$4,000.
Advices received by tho State Depart
mcnt, to-day, from our Consul at Malta.
state that the cholera is spreading there to
an alarming rXent, and that in nSoqurnce
communication with the adjacent islands |
has been suspended. At Uddessa great
apprehension is felt, and the stricteat regu-
lations have been established in conSe. |
quence OF the prevalence of the epidemic |
at Constantnople
It may now be concluded that tho Allan.
tic cable has proved failure One of the |
vesSles of the fleet has arrived at Hearts
Content. She had been left behind by the |
Great Eastern on the 27th ult,. aud lost sighr |
ot the tleet. She subsequently sailed in the |
course laid down for the calle, but saw
nothing OF the Great Eastern. The infer
'9nce u.s. that enterprise proving a failure, the
fleet retained to England
httoThey Nenerai opeed Is preparing an |
opinion on the legality of the m l;tary
tribunal which condemned the Presidents |
assassIns. lie contends that at the time
Mr. Lincoln was murdered the Dis
trct OF Columbia was under martial law I:
that Washington was policed by soIliers
that war was waging between the Gov.
ernment and these who owed allegiance to
1t, and that therefore the trial was regular
and legal
The following estimate NAV serve 10
show the extent of the active industry /
yearly carried on in the depths of the I
Canadian forest: Ia 1868 about % 600 0OO |
cubic feet of timber were cut on the Ottawa
and its tributaries. No less than % 600 |
men are engaged in getting out and manu- /
iacturng this timber io, market. There
are eanruallyconsnmcd 1000 barrels of pork
and 10000 barrels of 1our in the production
OF square timber. The horses devour
6,OOO tons OF hay and 1850 bushels of
oats.
Ow lat2st adyicHs from Mexico speak of
the expectations of the Imperial Govern
ment of an ea'l1 recognition by the United
States tn which end it was reported that
zen Almontc was arranging for trip TO
washington. The present condition of the
country is described, however, as re,
preach TO the new government. The re.
pul ljcan armies are still large and efficient,
ami hold undiSpntod pcssession of a great
portion ct the territory of the interior,