Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-08-26

The Republicans OF Nebraska have followed
the example Of Ohio, aud given a formal express
sion of their sympathy with Prussia as a belli-
gSrsnt.
Over goo Germans have handed their names
10 consul ClaHsemens, of the North German Con-
federation at Chicago, siguifying their wish e.
be sent to Germany to enter the German army.
Elections will be held this fall in II the State
ex ;ept Oregon, New Hampshire. Connecticut,
r lode Island, North Carolina aud Kentucky.
Sixteen States are to choose U. 5 Senators, and
fve have already done 81.
Fifteen hundred dollars 10 gold are offered for
substitutes in Paris. This outbids our market
in the darkest days OF the drat, aud offers fine
chance to the gentlemen who opened little Offices
throughout the North during the war, and dealt
IN substitutes for the uusasguinary citizen.
The Long Bridge, for the repair of which Con-
gress was asked an appropriation of Sl5, 900, has
been put in complete order for travel by the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company, at an
expense Of less then 1900. A good commentary
upou the difference Of cost when IN ,ney il IN
come out of private pocket instead Of Uncle
Sans.
OF the Congressional prospect in Oh 'Ne
ylevsland Lsadar SAYS, "Uur summing IN
Eleventh, Fuurteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth /.
Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Districts, ten in all,
pretty surely Republican the First, Fifth,
Twelfth, and Thirteenth pretty surely DOmoerat-
&c; and the Third, Fourth, Ninth, aud Thirteenth
doubtful"
NEw YoEK, August 1s.-Ay the arrival Of the
Schooner Tampieo, Capt. Lombard, from Para
quay, We learn that a cnllision occurred about
July 25th on the Am iznn river, Brazil, between
two steamers. Que sank within half an hour
with two hundred passengers on board. 90
Were lost. She had cargo on board valued az
$3.50 900, wilhsut insurance on vessel or cargo.
The accident occurred at the mouth OF the Me-
dera, tributary vi the Amazon.
The Detroit Free Press gives publicity TO
wonderful stUry concerning DR.. Livingstone. A
Detroit lady writes fIom Syria that she learned
from the British Consul at Dam ascus the reason
why the great traveller has been so long detain-
ed. The Doctors friends have kept the matter
a secret until recently. The report is that he
was persuaded, much against his wish, 10 mar
~ native princess, and that when he wished
10 pursue his explorations his spouse objected,
and her royal father and mother have ia cuust I.
quencs kept bin virtually prisoner.
Il Is a curious fact, of which no really salts
factory explanation has ever been given that
firearms 70 rendered more and more deadly +,
war becomes less and less destructive Of human
is. At BOrudRo the losS was the third Of all
the men engaged. At Waterloo IL was one
fourth. At inksTmann. where was neither a
rhed cannon nor oreeehlOader on the field, tho
English lost ons-third. At Magenta and Solfer-
nn, with vastly better weapons, the casual tics
were ODe-eleventh at Chattanooga, One-thir-
teenth, while at koniggratz, where the terrible
needle gun caused such CONSERVATION. the losses
we're only one-twenty third.
A letter from San Francisco SAYS that Mr..
Richardson, Mr.. Greedy, Mrs. Calhoun, and
Mrs. Mcfarland. and all the other celebrities
Of tie recent trial, have been worked up inIo a
four-aet-drama, with the realististic effects Of
an actual pistol shot, p0lieemen ia uniiorn, and
4 jury Of twelve snpes-the whole intsrspersed
with comic songs and a street fight. The Pa
eitic Theatre has had the play written in order,
and would have Prodneed il several weeks ago !,
bnt were uncertain whether to hang or acquit
the hero. The clsse of the trial furnished ma
teral for the last scene. and Mcfarland Is made
tn clasp a six-fo0t s0n tO his arms, aud eKelaim
"My boy, my boy" and leave the stage amidst
weeping lawyers, sobbing women, green Hre
and tbuniers Of applause.