The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-07-05
EPITOME OF THE NEWS.

The next Indiana State Fair is 10 be held
al Fort Wayne
The Congressional election in Kentucky
takes place on the 9Th Of August.
During The month of May 1000 wagons
passed Fort kearney, on their way west
0f lhe Ssi9 substitutes credited to the
State OF Connecticut, only ,552 reached
tho field.
The american Colonization Society has
scut to Liberia $40 omgrnts since the
Grst Of April
The seventeen year locusfs are devour.
ing. everything that is green in some parts
Of New York.
Mostly, the guerrilla; having been par
doued, has opened q law office and settled
III Culpeppcr, Va.
President johnson has been i'll for several
days and is scarely able to attend 10 bust.
ness of any character.
The New York Herald estimates that it's
war correspondence during the past four
years las cost nearly half u million dollars.
There are thre, flowing petroleum wells.
other that yield ], ,j25 barrels Of oil per
day.
German families TO the number of 5000,
now living ut tho Cape OF Good Hope, are
desirous Of coming to America il any ole
will furnish the means for tho journey.
The Canadian crops are reported as
presenting a remarkably promising appear
ance. They hayc had 10 frusts, aud copi.
GUS rains have prevented all fears OF IA
drought.
Accouuts from Texas state the transition
trein Il acondttion of war to ono of peace il
proceeding very quietly and in an orderly
manner Between 20 aud $4,000 bales of
cotton werc awaiting shipment at Houston
IN the beginning of juno.
Mrs. jeff Davis is at present residing at
the city OF Savannah, Ga, aud is in a most
dcstltntc condition. Sno Is wholly without
money aud suilioonoy of necessary cloth.
ing, aud has not u single servant to nurse
or care Tor her young children.
The assassination trials at Washington
are closed, aud tho Commission is delihor
ating with closed doors Its dctcrmina.
ton will lie communicated to the President
through the Secretary Of War: aud the re-
suit will not bo made public for consid-
erabIe time.
During the past week thirty,rour Ma.
tiona Banks have been established with a
total capital of $lOG2S 7Ol The whole
number now in operation is ,334. The
amount Of National Bank currency issued
this week was S2,267 TO- making the pres
ont circulation $ll306I,ST5.
Postmaster Dcnnison has issued a cir.
cnlar TO the PJstumstcrs throughout the
Cutcd States that ii, order, us far as posi-.
bic to carry ont hero6olntions passed by
Congress March B. preference filling va
cancies in clerkships should be given 20
disabled soldiers and sailors
Advices from Mexico, favorable TO the
Republicans, have been received at Wash
ilgt'h The Liberals were steadily gaining
i'll numbers and spirits; while MaximliaI,
was losing il the samo proportion. 1t was
confidently believed the Empire would
break down before the LIST of January.
The Union Convention Of Vermont nom.
mated Hon. raul Dillingham; for Governor.
1t passed resolution in favor of negro suf.
iragc. Negroes have never been denied
Tho right Of voting in that State, and the
people there arc not conscious of any injury
resulting from the existence Of that right.
Tho issue of livo-cent fractional currency
notes has been discontinued by tho Secrt
tary of the Treasury, with view to bring
into circulation tho two aud three cent
uicliles which have been boarded. Further
issues Of the tlree-cent notes were forbid
den by an act passed by the last Congress.
A Texas paper says General Candy in.
formed General Buckner when the latter
arrived in New Orleans to offer to surrender
General Kirby Smiths Mississippi
forces that il he had been ono day later a
formidable national army would have been
in motion for Texas, and in that event the
rebel terms OF surrender would not have
boon accepted.
The WorLfs correspondence from its
special commissioner sent on n Journey
through the South, dated Columbia S. C.,
June 81, details deplorabl3 state Of AT.
fairs as existing in the track of Sherman's
march. Tho destruction of Columbia aion,
lett 200 acres of buildings in ruins. He
says 1t is no figure of speech TO say the
people arc hopeesSly starving. There are
disagreemcnts among the negroes aud their
employers and the pQst coRnandauts, bat
nrnst at the blacks are at work--on what
ter ns thoy do not know, ucithor do their
employers. Though there is no, understand
ing, they are TO have board an clothes.
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