The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-12-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

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coming to America.
A GRAND city mass meeting of all the
trades in New York is proposed to agitate
for the eight hour system.
A RESPITE has been granted the Fenian
prisoners, condemned to doath in Canada,
until the l4th of next March.
THERE appears TO be no present prospect
OF any movement to impeach the President.
What may transpire later in the season re
mains to be seen.
D1spArcREs from Cahdia state that the
insurgents had blown up a convent, and
that two thousand Turks had lost their
lives by the explosion.
THE New York Ddily Ne,Ss (extreme
Copperhead) has been discontinued, aud
will only be published as weekly heresf-
ter. Treason does not appear to pay.
TnE Jackson (O.) Standard says that the
corn crop of jackson County is perhaps the
largest that was ever raised there. 1t is
selling at fifty cents a bushel, delivered.
NUMBER of young women, belonging to
families formerly in afiuent circumstances
in Georgia, are now employed in setting
type in some Of the printing offices of that
State.
0. B. DUKE, cousin Of Basil Duke, has
been arrested at Mount Sterling, Kentucky,
where lie has been, since tho close of the
war, the terror of the town and neighbor-
hood.
A HAVANA letter writer says that the
African slave trade is pretty nearly at an
end in Cuba, chiefly from the determination
Of the planters not to bug any more ian
ported slaves.
EARLY next week Mr.. SHELLABERGER will
move the appointment of committee to in.
vestigate all the circumstances connected
with the removal Of the Baltimore Police
Commissioners.
GENERAL w. D. WHIPPLE, Chief Of Gener.
al Thomas staff, has returned from South
ein inspecting tour, aD1 reports the feeling
5ainst the North and Northerners daily
growing worse.
GENERAL HAILEoK is quoted as having
recently declared that " the action of the
California Legislature in refusing to counte.
nance the adoption of the national currency
has cost that State fifty millions in money
AMI 10000 inha bitants."
The person who informed the Govern
ment of John II. Surratls whereabouts,
says that Surratt told him that the assaS :
sination plot originated at Richmond with
the assent of jeff. Davis. The informant
is on his way to Washington.
PERsoNs are travelling through the South,
buying mp all the railroad iron which was
| damaged during the war. Large quantities
e shipped n nth, where the o d aud rus y
rails, twisted into every co iceivaGle shape
arc rerolled and sent back to re.cquip the
| Southern railroads.
In order to check the violence of rebel
-tlcsperadoes in various parts of Missouri,
! Governor Fletcher has called ont twenty
| four coHapanies Of cavalry and ten Of in
| fantry, who will be stationed in three To-
I caities, from which they can operate Oh
the surrounding districts.
AN important argument will take place in
Washington City, on the 18Th, before the
/ Supreme Court. upon the question whether
the stock in National as well as State banks
| holding United States securities is liable to
| taxation. Eleven cases of New York banks
| and millions of dollars are Involved.
GEORGE BRuMBAoK has sued the City Of
| Louisville for $4,000, alleging that the
| death Of his daughter and wife from cholera
| last summer. was caused by negligence on
! the part of the city in grading Tenth Street
| so that the yards Of houses were overhowed
which overflow, he claims, produced the
| pestilence.
THE London Times fully agrees with the
| pslicy of the President Ci the United States
as set forth in his annua message; frankly
declares that the Alabama claims ought to
be settled promptly and amcably, and ex-
presses deep regret that the whole matter
was not compron i>ed and thus disposed oi
at much earlier date than the present.
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speech in Congress on Thursday, repudia-
ted President Johnson in behslf of the DEM
ocratic party. He said: I'VE have no
disposition to shoulder him. To do that
,oould destroy dny pds'tu in the country
Mr.. LeBlond ought to have added that the
Copperheads will use him, nevertheless.
THE colony of Southern exiIes at Cordova
under the leadership of General Price and
Magruder. is broken up. They are said to
have demanded the grant of extended priv.
| ileges from Maximlian, which he refused
and many who trusted to the fair promises
of these two leaders lost not only their tor.
time, but even their health, and some their
] lives.
N. P. WILLIS. at latest accounts. was APP
] parently drawing near the close of his life.
/ He has been an invalid for year past
| nus WIG WHITES lIOln iuicWlll, uuUeT uaIe
| OF November 20, that he was failing every
day, sleeping most of the time and contin,
ung to lose strength. Mr.. Willis is almost
sixty years old, having been born in Port
land, Maine, in 1907
/ The New York Times has the following
item; The purchase of Lower Californa
has beeu formally confirmed by tho Juare2
Government. and the title is settled beyond
reasonable doubt. ItiS the largest purchase
by private persons in modern times. II
covers 46,S00 square miles. extending from
gulf to ocean, between the parallels of "a
deg. and 20 min., aud 80 deg. of north lati
tude.
GEsERAL REuBEN DAVIS, of Mississippi
in recent speech at Aberdeen, upon the
subject OF the liabilities Of debtors, and il
favor of State Convention to wipe out all
present obligations. said 4" "Ths Yankee
shows liberslty toward our people which
should put our local creditors to shame
The Aberdeen Examiner says it is tru,
every word OF it, aud the Memphis Ava
Idnche adds We are glad to be able tc
heartily indorsc General Davis III this state
ment."
Reliance.